Shaw adds three winners
After five previous shows this season at Shaw and twelve at Stratford — all of surprisingly mixed quality — it was reassuring to see this great company hit its stride with three winning productions in a row.
Chasing Amo
Republican Congressman Amo Houghton never wanted to represent Rochester, and according to his critics in Monroe County, he doesn’t.
Rhinos enter Bizarro World
Last time out. Who would have dreamt that the Rhinos (12-4-5, 40 points) would get more points during the Charleston-Richmond road trip (3) than they did in the Charleston-Richmond home stand (2)? Anyone with their hands in the air is a filthy liar. Richmond (10-4-7, 34) still seems to have Rochester’s number, winning in Virginia…
The horse of the Great Depression
Based on a runaway bestseller, and a true story at that, Seabiscuit, if one believes the publicity and the press, will probably win a trifecta of Academy Award nominations.
No aces up his sleeve
Owning Mahowny, the new Philip Seymour Hoffman vehicle, tells the true story of a Toronto banker who stole millions of dollars to support a gambling habit in the early ’80s.
News briefs
Benjamin Miles, a 14-year-old student at East High, thinks the hardest part about glassblowing is “trying not to get burned.”
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Politician on the verge
In a house on Scottsville Road, just over the river from the University of Rochester where many of them first met, 10 young people discuss the plan. But unlike many of their peers, they’re not going on a road trip or to a concert.
