Isotopocity
For most people, there’s just so much family you can take before you explode. So ’twas a packed Xmas night at the Bug Jar for the debut of The Isotopes’A Very Special Isotopes Christmas Special: How The Isotopes Saved Christmas. This was a low-budget, low-fidelity nugget of nerd-centric hilarity. Similar in acting quality and tone…
A new cowboy in the new West
Among all the usual blockbusters depending for their success on the latest in technology, monsters, and publicity, the movie generating the loudest buzz this season, surprisingly, is a relatively small and decidedly unspectacular story of an extended love affair between two cowboys. Most of the commentary surrounding Brokeback Mountain predictably focuses on the fact of…
Only kidding about the roses
Maybe aloof simplicity isn’t such a bad idea: Cillian Murphy in “Breakfast on Pluto.”
Hope, fear, and politics
For millions of people suffering with debilitating injuries and serious diseases like diabetes and Parkinson’s, stem cell research offers hope. But as promising as the research is, it is also polarizing. And the Bush administration has taken a non-scientific view of stem cell research and turned it into public policy. At the University of Rochester,…
A moment in time
Photographer Ahron R. Foster
Inbox 1.04.06
The following email reminds me of an essay I once wrote for second-year French class. The essay was returned to me with a rash of red markings and a single frowny face in the upper right corner. This email comes in on the opposite side of translation, from France to the United States. Pay particular…
Not waiting for his ship to come in
After the fire: Wayne Luong recently reopened his Golden Port and House of Sushi restaurants
Duffy’s strong words
DUFFY POINTS:
Reader feedback – 1.04.06
When I started reading Mayor Johnson’ frustrations with the incoming mayor that was reported in your last issue (troubling transition at city hall
Cost of War – 1.04.06
The totals: 2178 US soldiers, 201 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 27,707 to 31,232 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to January 1. 15,955 American soldiers have been wounded in action between March 2003 and December 2005. www.icasualties.org estimates that 2590 Iraqi police and military were killed…
Safety first at the mall
Thanks to the feds, you’ll be safe from terrorists at Marketplace.
For some city schools: major upgrades sought
Most of Rochester’s schools — like MonroeHigh School, above — are more than 50 years old. (The school district has not released the list of school improvements it wants.) The number of children attending Rochester schools is dropping, a trend that appears likely to continue through the decade. Given that fact, the district will need…
Metro Ink – 1.4.06
After a few false starts, a coalition of Northeast states has taken the lead in curbing greenhouse gas emissions
Fiz 1.04.06
Where, oh, where did people get the idea that animals can sing
Family Valued 1.04.06
Kids love Chinese food. They’re amused by the zodiac. Strengthen their appreciation for Chinese culture by visiting The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art at Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Gallery and the University at Buffalo’s two ArtGalleries. Before we visited the Albright-Knox, Pink Floyd’s was the only wall with which my kids were familiar. After standing in a…
Wake-up call
Chris Beard plays the blues as if his pants were on fire. His fleet fretwork is deadly, often reducing his guitar to five, four, and sometimes three strings before the song is through. His blues have plenty of soul and sweat and show no signs of letting up. Beard is equally relentless. But this past…
