Venues
Clubs, bars, and other live music venues
Graves’s gravity
There’s no middle ground: You love or hate the Rev. Raymond L. Graves. And you suspect the veteran agitator and prophetic voice prefers it that way. During his 40 years in Rochester — most of that time as pastor of New Bethel C.M.E. Church on Scio Street, overlooking the Inner Loop — Graves has…
Doing the math: the middle-school dilemma
When our son, proud alumnus of the Rochester school district, was a high-school senior in 1988, he and his classmates wore a T-shirt created especially for them. Its wording: “They saved the best till last.” The school was Monroe Junior-Senior High School, of which his (we thought) was the last graduating class. The next…
News Briefs 2.19.03
Garth eyes new home Staying true to his promise to keep his dance company stationed in downtown Rochester, Garth Fagan is considering the northwest corner of Main and Gibbs streets as a site worth developing for the company’s new dance studio and performance space. Commonly referred to as the old Rascal site, the northwest corner…
Reader Feedback 2.19.03
Media cowardice, Iraq, peace, Israel, Palestinians
EC to the rescue
Part one of a two-part series. Should a rape victim be forced to carry the rapist’s baby to term? If a pill, taken shortly after the assault, can prevent pregnancy with minimal side effects (nausea, sometimes vomiting and a headache), and make an abortion unnecessary, should such birth control be made readily available? Morally,…
Low level for Shipping Dock
Maybe it’s me. Clare McIntyre’s Low Level Panic has won respectful attention from English and Polish theater mavens as a potent drama. It also makes some lively and amusing comments on women’s sensibilities as they resist male-dominated society’s efforts to define them in pornographic terms. But I find the play incoherent, annoying, and sometimes tedious.…
Vietnam before our war
Graham Greene’s novel, The Quiet American, published in 1955, has probably aroused more controversy than any of his other many works of fiction. In dealing with the first tentative intervention of the United States in Vietnam, at a time when the French fought their hopeless colonial war, the author displayed both uncanny prescience about the…
Generals is a God awful waste of time
Gods and Generals, the prequel to Gettysburg and the first episode in an epic but non-sequential Civil War trilogy, is only slightly shorter than the war itself. Once you factor in the trailers, the commercials, and the intermission, this will be an over-four-hour movie experience. I wouldn’t even want to make out with Jennifer Garner…
Murder of one
Celebrated for creating and single-handedly keeping rough ‘n’ tumble rock music alive with The Black Crowes, singer Chris Robinson has begun a new chapter without his bluesy, black bird buddies. Robinson recently released New Earth Mud, a laid-back, evocative piece that burns with his trademark, soulful wail, while showcasing slightly deeper lyrical introspection and earthier…
Black Dog
I’m running from something. But when I get to where I’m going, it’s still there, panting, leering, and laughing. Like it or not, you can’t outrun yourself or, as Johnny Cash refers to one’s darker side, “the black dog.” It’s fun trying, though, and you get to see the sights. So this time, I decided…
