Doc… doc… doc… goose!
The biggest edge-of-your-seat summer thrill ride isn’t The Matrix Reloaded, Charlie’s Angels 2: Full Throttle, or even the sex-change drama From Justin to Kelly. It’s a little documentary called Spellbound (opens Friday, June 13, at the Little) that follows eight children to the national finals of the Scripps-Howard Spelling Bee in Washington, DC. That’s…
A la wah-wah
It was Hell’s house band playing the Dinosaur last Wednesday. All that’s good and decent didn’t stand a chance as San Diego Diablo Eric Sardinas played some of the raunchiest, dirtiest blues you’ll ever hear, while wearing some of the tightest pants you’ll ever see. Women who looked like they were more up on Destiny’s…
News Briefs 6.11.03
National Forest watch To walk the Finger Lakes National Forest — a 16,000-acre complex of federal lands near Trumansburg — is to love it. But there are, as they say, competing interests for this forest’s attentions. On June 5, the US Forest Service, which oversees the FLNF, held a public meeting to discuss possible…
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The School Board primary, pesticides on lawns, Doyle taxes
The bridge at the edge of town
Going west from Kodak Park these days, you’ve got your work cut out for you. Traffic on Ridge Road, now in the destruction phase of a multi-million-dollar rebuilding project, moves fitfully. Within the city limits, a shallow trench runs down the south side of a rocky road. Across the way, debris and dust throw down…
Overdue
Overdue The county’s laissez-faire approach to the library by Chris Busby It’s no big deal to have an overdue library book or two. Almost everyone has done this at one time or another. And most folks return the books in short order and pay the small fine, mildly rebuking themselves for their absent-mindedness. Monroe County’s…
These shoes are made for nailing
The Nextstage at Geva Theatre Center is offering the fully staged, world premiere production of September Shoes,by Jose Cruz González — a work Geva helped develop as part of its 2002 Hibernatus Interruptus Festival. A very accomplished Hispanic director and cast give this mysterious, passionate play a vibrant, affecting performance. But though it ends in…
Rumble in the Roc
In the ring, two young hopefuls are thrashing each other around. A powerbomb is followed by a suplex. Pile driver, D.D.T., arm drag, suicide dive — the moves come fast and fluid. Outside the ropes, another dozen or two are yelling, joking, kibitzing, and making small talk. Pre-show practice at Roc City Wrestling is…
The Finnish comedy
The actor-director Maximilian Schell once suggested that a country needs a population of at least 50 million to generate a genuine national film industry. Whatever the accuracy of Schell’s theory, history demonstrates that a comparatively limited number of citizens has not necessarily precluded the making of motion pictures in, say, Cuba, Sweden, or New Zealand.…
