Family valued – 4.19.06
Classics Illustrated: The Next Generation We here at the Family Valued monochromatic bathhouse, mobile restaurant, and misinformed pressroom have randomly selected a 10-year-old from among the one immediately available. When I was a youth, we had something called Classics Illustrated — comic versions of great literary works. Yeah. Graphic Classics are these books of really…
Fiz – 4.19.06
Plug and play Video games have gotten so advanced — you can practically count the skull shards when you shoot a zombie’s head off in Resident Evil 4. Sometimes we miss the good old days when games were innocent and rendered in eight bits or less. Thank Pong, then, for Power Games. Somewhat-sketchy company Games…
Pictures of a thousand words
French writer Anatole France was asked by someone admiring his library if he had read all the books in his collection. France responded by saying, “Not one-tenth of them. I don’t suppose you use your Sèvres china every day?” Literary critic Walter Benjamin subsequently used the quote in “Unpacking My Library,” an essay in which…
Stop, collaborate, and listen
For 10 years, the Image Movement Sound Festival has featured creative talent from local colleges collaborating in the hopes of creating something different. And on Sunday, April 2, in the first part of this year’s two-part program, that’s exactly what the audience got: Different takes on how to mix and match media, different looks at…
Americana the beautiful
Country music, or anything with a sizeable twang factor, seems a bit out of place in New YorkState. To the outsider, New York is often misinterpreted simply as one big concrete jungle, a never-ending Gotham, when in reality the majority of the EmpireState is green. It’s the same thing up here along the mighty Genesee.…
Souled out
“It’s sold out,” my friend hollered into my cell phone. “They won’t let me in.” I had told her, and countless others, “Nah, don’t get tickets. It’s gonna be a great show but it won’t sell out. Rochesterians are too hung up on cover bands, chain restaurants, and bad TV to venture downtown to dig…
Violence and identity in South Africa
Culture, including popular culture, follows the flag. Just as the British Empire in its greatest hour assured the dominance of English literature in the 19th century, so in our own day has American popular music, dress, and film prevailed in almost every area of the globe. Tom Cruise’s toothy smile beams from posters in Helsinki,…
From the mundane to the thrilling
Filmmaker Nicole Holofcener’s debut feature, Walking and Talking, is a near-perfect movie, one of the most accurate observations of female friendship ever committed to film. Friends with Money, Holofcener’s latest, continues to showcase her gift for portraying real women in realistic situations, from the mundane to the thrilling to the mortifying. And it certainly doesn’t…
Cost of war – 4.19.06
The totals: 2369 US soldiers, 209 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 34,446 to 38,594 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to April 17. 3176 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports. American soldiers killed between April…
What options for a city ‘made for murder’?
Second of an occasional series. Rochester has the highest murder rate in New YorkState — and, for a city its size, one of the highest in the country. Overwhelmingly, the crimes are committed by young, black males. Overwhelmingly, the victims are young black males. How, in a city once known for its strong industries, good…
‘Time is running out for Darfur’
Darfur activist Mohamed Yahya: Touring the country to build support
Reader feedback – 4.19.06
The abortion debate; Vietnam and Iraq
Metro ink – 4.19.06
THE BIG TIME Some people tell big fish stories. Richard Cook tells big tree stories. A landscaper and self-described amateur naturalist, Cook says the Greater Rochester region is home to some of the state’s biggest trees. And he has spent hundreds of hours identifying them for New York’s Big Tree Register — more than anyone…
160 Maybrooke Road
A Mid-Century Modern Gem Designed by architects Highland & Highland and built by Fred R. DeBlase in 1953 as the Carefree House, 160 Maybrooke Road retains a great deal of its original detail, character, and even some original furnishings designed specifically for the house. When it was built, Better Homes and Gardens chose this home…
