EC to the rescue
Part two of a two-part series on emergency contraception. Part one dealt with state legislative efforts to mandate that EC be provided to rape victims in emergency rooms. It happens. Condoms break, or slip off, during intercourse. Women forget to take their birth control pills. Couples, caught up in a moment of passion, often…
Remote views
As its title suggests, Naomi Iizuka’s 36 Views, currently playing at Geva Theatre Center, is a complex, richly layered drama.Actually, Iizuka’s title comes from the name of the early 19th-century wood-block prints of Mt. Fuji by the Japanese artist Hokusai. And Iizuka segments her play into 36 varying scenes, separated by the sound of striking…
As sure as death and Texas
In his new movie, The Life of David Gale, Alan Parker transforms the now trite and artificial situation of the condemned inmate on death row into a complex work that suggests several different cinematic possibilities and provides a number of twists and surprises. Not surprisingly, the film deals at length with the death penalty,…
Jagger and a dagger
How far would you go to keep a roof over your family’s head and food on their plates? Would you sell a kidney? Would you work at McDonald’s? How about taking experimental medication, or having sex for money? Some of us might resort to extreme measures (just admit it already, Scott Peterson), but not Byron…
News Briefs 2.26.03
Scouting the market The Geneva-based Finger Lakes Council of the Boy Scouts of America has decided to unload a big chunk of land, to the discomfort of some who know it best. The land, totaling 165 acres near the Honeoye Lake inlet, is in an upscale neighborhood — in terms of open space and…
Mayor Norwood?
We still don’t know whether Bill Johnson is going to run for county executive or fill out his term as mayor. But if he jumps ship, one thing is certain: City Councilmember Wade Norwood wants to be mayor. And he thinks he’s got a decent shot. “I will be a successful candidate for mayor…
The Richards factor
Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson still won’t say whether he’ll be a candidate for County Executive in November, but he’s giving every indication that he will. And while several other Democrats hope to run, the nomination seems to be Johnson’s if he wants it. Meanwhile, the political community is awash in reports that Tom Richards,…
Reader Feedback 2.26.03
The Iraq war, people with guns, more Buddhist dialogue
Doors opened
Life is full of contradictions, so the saying goes. Yet art teaches us that what appears certain actually might be contradictory, and what appears contradictory might be resolved through a change of perspective. If life may imitate art as much as art imitates life, let us hope that our world leaders can resolve the contradictions…
