Twenty-somethings to the rescue
Kelly Tiberio has fond memories of the childhood years she spent living in Rochester with her grandmother. The 27-year-old freelance writer and editor currently lives in Fairport, where she graduated from high school, but from 1982 to 1988, she lived off Lake Avenue, not far from downtown, in what she describes as a “beautiful, old,…
News Briefs 1.15.03
The acoustic blues is alright Way, way too often, the blues is reduced to a cliché. Too many folks think if it ain’t old and black, or at least Southern, then it ain’t no good. Ride, Sally, ride… again and again and again. Cats like acoustic picker and grinner Keith Harden lose those shackles…
Reader Feedback 1.15.03
Snowbound As a City of Rochester resident and year-round walker, I increasingly dread the onset of winter, mainly because of the thick snowy blanket or icy veneer that often coats the sidewalks. At least once every winter, I manage to fall on the sidewalk, so far avoiding serious injury to my already impaired body.…
Crime: the means and the ends
A bullet has a life of its own. Sometimes even enough to drive journalists to lyricism. Take this word-portrait by Los Angeles Times reporter Paul Dean: “The bullet left the heart, went into the left lung and exited… [The] slug stretched and displaced for milliseconds the heart muscles, valves, and chambers, forming what trauma…
Nostalgia with a giggle at Geva
Neil Simon’s 1983 Brighton Beach Memoirsis an immensely pleasing balancing act. Our most popular playwright’s first major drama of serious autobiographical content, it deepens Simon’s previous 22 years of hit gag-fests, yet more than equals their charm and humor. In these memoirs of the summer when Simon’s extended family shared a beach bungalow, we get…
The analog kid
It was a simple mechanical failure that made me late for Digital Rochester’s monthly meet, mingle, and monopolize event at Tonic on East Avenue. I’d gone there to research this week’s cover story, “Twenty-somethings to the rescue” (see page 6). Both the Rochester-Area 20-Somethings (R.A.T.S.) and Rochester Young Professionals, a splinter group, were encouraging their…
Don’t be afraid of Virginia Woolf
In Virginia Woolf’s first book, The Voyage Out, a character expresses the desire to write a novel about all the things that people don’t say, an ambition that the author herself fulfilled in a later book entitled The Waves. Steadfastly devoted to that interior life and those unspoken thoughts and feelings, inclined to close observation…
The rebirth of cool
On the surface, Narc sounds like the kind of flick that should be going straight to either video or cable. I had never heard of the director (Joe Carnahan), and the two leads (Jason Patric and Ray Liotta) are hardly the stuff of dreams. So what am I missing here? Why the hell is this…
Walk. Run.
He kept coming home sweaty. That was the first clue that something was amiss. But Melanie knew the way it worked: They don’t come home sweaty from the tarts, they come home too soapy clean and groomed for the end of the day. That wasn’t Donald. His Oxfords were soaked through. His slacks wet at…
