Snowshoeing
More modern than you think, snowshoeing provides perfect winter workouts
“The Underpants”
Geva’s new comedy will get you knickers in a twist
Historic Maplewood
196 Alameda Street
Witness
An extraordinary arts series confronts us with war and genocide
The Chet Gecko series
This lizard makes a great spy — and a better read
“Curse of the Golden Flower”; “Fanfan La Tulipe”
Chow Yun-Fat returns; the French classic unspools anew
Parenting without Annette
Knowing the constant gives perspective. — Tao Te Ching As a parent, I love the commercial media. Every nasty, morally bankrupt minute is a Godsend. Cable is even better. My folks started a family with Donna Reed and Father Knows Best as their standard. Wally and the Beaver were good, wholesome kids, and mouse-eared Annette…
“Children of Men”
The human race is dying. Can Clive Owen save it?
The King goes digital
Looking at Burger King’s Xbox 360 games
Lemuria
Buffalo band makes its own success
Awaiting the surge
“Picture the person you love most in the world,” wrote David Brooks at the start of his Sunday Times column
Metro ink – 1-10-07
PUCCINI WITH POPCORN If you’ve longed to hear the soaring arias at New York’s Metropolitan Opera but couldn’t find the time or money, now’s your chance. Through a partnership with three of the country’s biggest movie chains, some of the Met’s biggest stars are coming to a big screen near you. Late last month, the…
Reader feedback – 01-10-07
Keeping young talent, questioning Miller’s sleaze
Cost of war – 1-10-07
The totals: 3000 US soldiers, 250 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 52,853 to 58,454 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to January 7. 4648 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports. American soldiers killed between December…
From the new governor: fighting words
Politics Details, details, details. All campaign long, reporters badgered Eliot Spitzer to be more specific about his policy agenda, especially about government reform. Last week, in Spitzer’s first State of the State address, they finally got those details — or at least more than he had offered previously. And while his speech was as platitude-riddled…
Critics caution Spitzer on civil confinement
State legislators may not like Governor Eliot Spitzer’ call for an end to gerrymandering, but they sure like his insistence on a civil-confinement law. The law would let the state send some sex offenders to psychiatric facilities after they serve their prison sentence. And when Spitzer endorsed it in his State of the State address…
Winter arts & culture forecast
What’s coming up in art, music, stage, festivals, and more
Board games
Get through those lousy winter afternoons with board games for your kids
Winter Photo Contest 2007
Our second annual winter photo contest yielded some fantastic results, with local photogs sending in some stunning shots capturing Rochester’s coldest months. Waterfronts were popular subjects, as was Highland Park, with one particular shot of the Vietnam War memorial that particularly caught our eyes. Alas, the judging was difficult, and not all of our favorites…
Western New York ski guide
The scope on our area slopes
