The Vatican Jumps From Sex Scandals to Sex Documents
Last week, the Vatican gave its most aggressive response to date to the molestation scandals that rocked Catholic dioceses across the country. It strengthened its opposition to homosexuality and banned gays from joining the priesthood. Ending months of rumors and leaks, the Vatican released a document saying that homosexual priests are a detriment to the…
Cost of war 12.07.05
2124 US soldiers, 201 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 27,354 to 30,863 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to December 1. American soldiers killed between November 22 and December 1: Staff Sergeant Aram J. Bass, 25; Niagara Falls, New York | Sergeant William B. Meeuwsen, 24; Kingwood,…
Metro Ink – 12.07.05
Duffy starts his move The Duffy administration is starting to take shape — by deletion, more than by addition, at this point. Five senior City Hall administrators have been told that they won’t have a job when the new mayor takes over in January: • Community Development Commissioner Linda Stango; • Economic Development Commissioner Fashun…
Family valued – 12.07.05
The Buddha machine A remarkably clever gadget that has been causing a tiny sensation worldwide, The Buddha Machine, a small soundbox made in China, is magic in your pocket. It comes with a tiny integrated speaker, a volume control, a mini 1/8-inch jack output (for headphone or big-shot musician options), and a switch to choose…
Choose your weapons
Last seen making the audience extremely uncomfortable during her bit in The Aristocrats, Sarah Silverman’s one-woman show gets
‘Twas the noir before Christmas
Although it may not attain anything like a complete artistic success, The Ice Harvest provides a valuable antidote to the usual malaise of holiday entertainment. We suffer the endless cacophony of those stirring ballads about Frosty and Rudolph, the sentimental made-for-TV movies about the horribly dysfunctional family reuniting for Christmas after years of separation and…
Next urban comeback: at Lyell and State?
When you think about the area around Lyell Avenue and State Street, you probably don’t envision a thriving international district with Wi-Fi coffeehouses and loft-style apartments. But that’s exactly the vision that animates Mitch Rowe. A veteran City Hall employee, Rowe took his first plunge into commercial real estate about two years ago when, along…
Urban journal – 12.07.05
Time for us to go It’s taken me a while to reach this point, but I’ve stopped wrestling with myself: I’m with Congressman John Murtha. It’s time to start leaving Iraq. We shouldn’t have attacked Iraq. Many of us knew that, and argued against the war plan. Once in, though, there didn’t seem a logical…
Awakenings
A middle-aged woman looks directly into the camera and matter-of-factly says: “There’s been a hit put on me.” She explains that a man at her gym, whom she believes to be the head of the “gay mafia,” ordered the hit. The woman, Elida — the central subject of Rochester native and independent filmmaker Katie Adamides’…
Cocaine blues
Yeah there’s plenty of primo talent here, but it’s nice to get out and see how the rest of ’em get down from time to time. So-Cal roots-rock troubadour Tom Russell’s only area appearance was at Castaways in Ithaca last Friday. And I’ve always loved his Southwest-Mexacali-big-sky-screw-Nashville music. Musically Russell can bring you to tears;…
Reader Feedback – 12.07.05
Supporting gay students, debating war and peace
