Family Valued 7.06.05
Spirit of road trips yet to come Need a fresh idea for a kid-friendly summer road trip? One that doesn’t involve killer whales with killer admission fees? Consider Lily Dale, an hour south of Buffalo. Sure, we got charming Victorian villages that aren’t two hours away. But none of them are home to the…
Fiz 7.06.05
Fantastic Kirby “Co-created by” is such an awkward phrase. It accurately describes that middle-school science project on which your parents “absolutely, positively did not” provide any assistance. It correctly describes Captain America, who was co-created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Both wrote. Both drew. A few years later, the pair co-created the unbelievable genre…
Comic Genesis
Imagine this: Two emergency relief workers, a man and a woman, are busily assessing the damage from a disaster. “Deborah, I’ve found no survivors,” the man tells his colleague. He points to a nearby scene. “Especially not over there.” “No, Frank. Not now,” the woman replies, frowning. But it’s too late. Looking over their shoulders,…
Feeling blue (and white, and gray, and green) in Buffalo
Glass activism Private Visions, Utopian Ideals: The Art of Howard Ben Tré is an ambitious exhibition including sculptures, works on paper, and a selection of drawings, models, and photographs of Ben Tré’s public art projects. And although the exhibition space is relatively small, the work, for the most part, is not. Patrons of the Buffalo…
Close encounters of the worst kind
Steven Spielberg’s new, heavily publicized version of H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds seems, in a great many ways, a virtually inevitable event in the director’s career. His work displays a professional and personal fascination with the subjects of those Wells novels that have inspired so much exciting cinema, including such classics as The Shape…
Never the same as it was the day before
Welcome to Filmmaking 101! Today’s guest lecturer, director David LaChapelle, will show us how opening your movie with a title card that reads “The footage in this film has not been sped up in any way” is tantamount to — yet less labor intensive than — stapling each audience member to his or her chair.…
More lies, more deceit
Well, it’s going to be a long three and a half years. Some Bush critics take comfort in the president’s falling poll numbers. I don’t. I figure they’ll strengthen his resolve, not temper it. He and Rumsfeld and Cheney will ramp up the push for their radical agenda, to get it in place before Bush…
Reader Feedback 7.06.05
About those public displays…
Say What?
Heading up the local chapter of a major civil rights organization wasn’t something Joe Brown ever set out to do. But when Rev. Norvel Goff Sr., the most recent president of the Greater Rochester Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, abruptly departed for South Carolina in November to care for…
Rivera’s big vision
Rochester’s northeast quadrant is known for many things. Children living here see more homicides and violence than children in any other Rochester neighborhood. The area is home to about 4,300 students, and more than 97 percent of them are eligible for free or reduced-cost lunches. Most of them will move to a new home at…
Cost of War 7.06.05
The totals: 1,743 American soldiers, 189 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 22,774 to 25,796 Iraqicivilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to July 1. American soldiers killed from June 22-July 1: Specialist Christopher L. Hoskins, 21; Danielson, Connecticut | Specialist Brian A. Vaughn, 23; Pell City, Alabama | Specialist…
Green plans
It’s surprisingly tough to find full-time environmentalists in Rochester. National advocacy groups tend to gravitate toward centers of media or government like New York or Albany, and even statewide and regional groups pass our city by. At recent hearings for the 48-hour pesticide neighborhood notification bill you could have bumped into the paid staffers of…
The power of Cotton
Flash forward from the music that exploded in the late 1940s and you’ll be swimming in a sea of white. Black is beautiful, but today, it’s rarely considered rock ‘n’ roll. “I think it is,” says New York City rocker Danielia Cotton. “Blacks were instrumental in rock ‘n’ roll coming into play. No one gives…
