‘Dracula’ amuses
Just after I started writing about the beautiful drive down to Naples, New York, where the Bristol Valley Theater presents light summer fare in a charming theater, I looked at my review from last summer and found that I said all that. I was kindly trying not to emphasize that show’s amateurism. In the show…
‘Forever Plaid’ again
Since its world premiere in Rochester at the old Downstairs Cabaret in the 1980s, Stuart Ross’ Forever Plaid played across the country and around the world, and is still playing. An endearing new production is now at Downstairs Cabaret Theatre Center, one of four venues where our busiest little professional theater currently operates. It’s really…
The way we were
Harry’s Bar & Grill Keywords: Pittsford Farms Dairy|milk Caption: A place for lost treasures, dreams: Pittsford Farms Dairy. Text: Like many, I have a love-hate relationship with Wegmans. On the one hand, it’s great to have the World’s Greatest Supermarket 10 minutes away; fantastic to be able to get everything from organic turnips to homeopathic…
English of the English
In recent years, a number of small, modest, mostly comic works, many of them dealing with the lives of working-class people in dreary provincial towns, typify the current minor renaissance in British cinema. Within their narrative process and despite their humorous treatment, films like The Full Monty, Little Voice, Brassed Off, and even Trainspotting address…
Reversal of fortune
There isn’t a warning strong enough to prepare you for Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible (screens Saturday, July 26, at the Dryden). But it’s not only because of the now-infamous graphic violence or brutal rape scene, which had people fleeing, presumably with their hands either up in the air or over their eyes, from its Cannes premiere…
News Briefs
Jack on the go? County Exec Jack Doyle has drawn news attention and speculation ever since he took office, and that didn’t end with his announcement that he’s retiring. Among the predictions about his future: that he’ll run for Congress, seeking the seat currently held by Amo Houghton of Corning. If he does, the…
Fun with numbers
The Rochester Broadway Theatre League has gotten the government funding it needs to buy the Auditorium Theatre, but how’s it going to pay for $2.5 million in renovations? The RBTL thinks it has found a solution. But that solution may be less certain than RBTL hopes. Because of low interest rates, RBTL President…
Pricing the Farash gift
At first glance, news that a big-time local developer wants to donate high-profile downtown property to the County of Monroe sounds good. But Max Farash has handed county legislators a dilemma: Is it wise to accept the gift — even if it will cost the cash-strapped county and city money for at least a…
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Time bomb
There is a time bomb waiting to blow up in our faces — in Rochester, in Pittsford, in Hamlin, in Webster, in Gates, in Mendon…. The time bomb is the county’s financial situation, severe now, and growing worse. Last year and this year, the county faced major budget deficits. It covered them by, among…
Hard truths
Part two of a two-part article. When the revered novelist Chester Himes read The Man Who Cried I Am by relative newcomer John A. Williams in 1969, he could not contain himself. In a letter to Williams dated June 13, he wrote: “But for my money, The Man Who Cried I Am is the…
