Why the secrecy?
CountyExecutive Maggie Brooks: Can she fulfill her campaign promises? File photo You can feel it in the air: Even people who supported Bill Johnson for county executive are embracing Maggie Brooks. They like her warmth. They like her promise of cooperation. I like them, too. And I’m fighting my cynicism. I’d like to believe…
Queer eye for the single guy (or gal)
Hurry up. They keep telling me speed dating is the answer. And though the six-minute courtship vignettes cut out a lot of the aggravation (by creeps) and rejection (if you’re a creep), there’s still nothing like the thrill of the hunt: that sense of slow seduction. But more and more folks have less and less…
Readers Feedback 1.21.04
the city’s landlords I’m not an absentee landlord, but I used to be, and I know a lot who are and belong to the New York State Property and Business Owners Coalition. I take exception to Councilman Ben Douglas’ statement blaming the “high concentration of poverty mostly on absentee landlords” (“Busting Up the Ghetto,” January…
King, death, regression
Just after Abraham Lincoln was killed in Washington in April 1865, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton said the famous words, “Now he belongs to the ages.” Lincoln’s birthday became a national day of commemoration, and he became an icon for Americans of all races and ethnicities. Stanton faded away, though his defense of Reconstruction, which…
Culture club
Would it surprise you to hear that the cultural district downtown does not include the Rochester Museum & Science Center, Strong Museum, Memorial Art Gallery, or Geva Theatre? “We’re going to be forming a committee to look at that whole issue, whether it makes sense for us to expand the boundaries more,” says City…
Burger patrol
Maybe Don’s Original says all that needs saying. Don’s, you might know, is “where quality predominates” and where “there will be no compromise with quality.” These are both pretty funny. “Predominate” means, roughly, “prevail,” but that implies a struggle. With what, I wonder, does quality struggle at Don’s? And does it (the foe) ever get…
The bohemian and the insurance man
Judging by the slender but still depressing evidence of the endless series of coming attractions that precede the two new comedies, Chasing Liberty and Along Came Polly, and the movies themselves, the American film industry apparently decided upon January as Moron Month. The trailers provide much more than a simple glimpse of the pictures…
Monster party at the theater
All you really need to know about Monster (opens Friday, January 23, at the Little), the new biopic about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, is that Charlize Theron’s gut is this year’s version of Nicole Kidman’s nose. They were both highly publicized alterations to ordinarily extraordinary-looking women in an attempt to bury them deep within the…
