Aug 2-8, 2006

Aug 2-8, 2006 / Vol. 35 / No. 46

Chicks with picks

You see a young girl with a guitar perched on a stool on a makeshift stage in a dimly lit coffee house, and you just know what’s going to happen next, right? There’ll be some left-wing caterwauling, a litany of boy-bashing rhetoric over three or four well-worn guitar chords, and plenty of overwrought passion and…

Lessons from the ferry

Some lessons from the ferry report The ferry, once the darling of much of this community, is now the object of ridicule. And the reputation of the man who championed the ferry, former Mayor Bill Johnson, has been tainted. Johnson and the ferry had already taken plenty of abuse. But last week’s report from State…

Metro ink – 8.2.06

Suozzi gets in the baseball card trade; Boulder Coffee update; United Way cuts back; ArtPeace teaches kids business skills

Cost of war – 8.2.06

The totals: 2568 US soldiers, 229 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 39,593 to 44,070 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to July 31. 3771 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports. American soldiers killed between July…

2865 St. Paul Blvd.

Stucco and Spanish Tile on St. Paul The stretch of St. Paul Blvd. just north of the City of Rochester, after the Seneca Park Zoo and heading towards Lake Ontario, is replete with examples of unique, extravagant mansions built in the early twentieth century. In this area, many of the structures that were erected took…


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