It’s tough finding an apartment in New York City
Although few horror flicks employ the city for their setting — Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby may be the most famous and most important — New York, especially Manhattan, provides a propitious location for the exploration of various themes and subtexts within the genre. Sooner or later just about every conversation there turns to the subject…
City’s choice: film
Mocking the culture of beauty pageants is almost too easy — frighteningly healthy egos, nauseating answers to asinine questions, and a cheese factor that would make a brick of Velveeta turn green with envy. A woman’s fitness is assessed using a highly scientific method that involves strutting in swimsuits and stilettos? That certainly seems foolproof.…
Bang bang
As soon as TADUYA (don’t ask me what that stands for) took the Bug Jar stage Thursday night, June 30, one thing was clear: Al Beaman’s back, baby. With ex-Al Beaman Band guitarist Eddie Nebula airborne at his side, Beaman dispersed his trademark wry humor and the joys of being contrary. Their extra-cheesy cover of…
Blowback — The unfolding tragedy of DU
The US purportedly went to war in Iraq to remove the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. What’s not very well understood is that we used our own WMDs in the process, and the consequences for both Iraqis and Americans are disastrous. Even worse, this story is being ignored, brushed aside, or covered up…
Issues? What issues?
Well, what qualities do you want in the next mayor of Rochester? If you live in the city, how are you going to decide who to vote for? Political insiders, union leaders, and the like have already made up their minds, for reasons that include vested interest and party politics (and yeah, sure, the…
Soularized
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty charged up for the weekend of July 16 and 17 to roll around. If you haven’t heard about it, you should’ve. I think it’s going to be pretty big. Huge, even. No, I don’t work for the promotions committee of Rochester MusicFest. No, Mayor Bill didn’t slide…
Reader Feedback 7.13.05
Park exposure, clubs and dress codes
Soularized
slowFlow’s jaythreeoh helps us sift MusicFest’s crunk, r&b, and hip-hop
The US wants your kid
As recruitment falls short of its goals, the US military has stepped up its efforts to enlist young people. And recruiters have more access to high-school students than some parents may realize. The federal No Child Left Behind Act requires school districts to give recruiters personal information about students — including their address, telephone number,…
Line up
Nina Sky While we haven’t heard much from these twins since “Move Your Body” was one of 2004’s hottest summer jams, this pair knows how to keep heads bouncin’ and booties shakin’. Nina Sky is best at straight-up club tracks, and if the duo’s debut album was any indication, they love making them. Bring an…
Cost of war 7.13.05
The totals: 1,754 American soldiers, 190 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 22,787 to 25,814 Iraqicivilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to July 10. American soldiers killed from July 3-10: Specialist Rafael A. Carrillo Jr., 21; Boys Ranch, Texas | Sergeant Chad M. Mercer, 25; Waycross, Georgia | Sergeant…
Light the candles
Brian McKnight is not who you think he is.
Family Valued 7.13.05
Loco motion at RMSC Motion Commotion. Sounds like another day in the life with kids. In reality, it’s the name of a new exhibit at the Rochester Museum and Science Center featuring 30 interactive components from San Francisco’s Exploratorium. In summer, my kids’ scientific exploration consists of testing the hypothesis that for every poke, there…
Young soul
There’s a soul consistency to John Legend’s musical brew, but his lyrics run from family man to pimp, from doomed to saved. “I’m certain there’s someone who doesn’t approve of what I’m doing at my church,” he says. “Some want you to go one way or the other, all the way gospel or all the…
Fiz 7.13.05
On writing
Common grounded
Music artist Common says he’s come a long way since “drinking 40 ounces, talking about getting girls — you know, raw hip-hop.” “But, when you go through these experiences as a man,” he says, “you evolve. It’s always new because we evolve everyday.” The Chi-Town native delivered his out-of-breath thoughts on evolution as he walked…
Everyday people
Just your regular superstar everyman: Lyfe Jennings is out of jail and on your radio.
The lowdown
Rochester MusicFest 2005 is Saturday and Sunday, July 16 and 17, in Genesee Valley Park, 1 to 8:30 p.m. both days, rain or shine.
Inbox 7.13.05
Remarkable correspondence from the unremarkable world of email
Making soccer look slow, Gaelic style
A sweatshirt hood drawn over his head, his hands shoved in the sweatshirt’s pockets, Brendan Tunney scans the ragged practice field at Bishop Kearney High School. It’s a cold, gray, windy day in late May as the Rochester Erin’s Isle Gaelic football team takes to the pitch for another practice. Tunney, the squad’s founder, coach,…
What we can learn about acceptance
Now in its fifth year, the Rochester Jewish Film Festival continues its young tradition of combing the globe to present the finest films on the subject of Judaism and the Jewish experience. RJFF screens 17 films — documentaries, features, and shorts — at the Little Theatre and the Dryden Theatre. Highlights of the 2005 installment…
