The last of the old thrillers
Because motion pictures require a good deal of time to plan, finance, produce, edit, publicize, and release, The Bourne Identity, a typical espionage thriller dealing with violent international intrigue, lags far behind current events and contemporary awareness. Although calling the picture “a 21st century spy film,” the folks who put the whole complicated, expensive project…
‘Dangerous’ in more ways than you’d think
The Golden Age of Comic Books began back in the ’30s and ended with the adoption of the Comics Code in 1954, but a comics renaissance is taking place right now. Spider-Man is the fifth-highest-grossing movie of all-time, and The Hulk’s trailer is leaving fans salivating for its release next summer, along with Daredevil and…
The rise and fall and rise of the Veins
On a balmy June night, in a dank East Main Street rehearsal space, amidst the grime, beer bottles, and static, The Veins made it. No Grammy. No applause. No fat cats puffin’ cigars with hollow promises and crossed fingers. No glittery glamazons hanging on their arms, just a few girly pictures lost among a sea…
News briefs
Feeding the world Farm work is a demanding job, and without migrant workers, it’s difficult to imagine much of it getting done. To show its appreciation, the Brockport community has held “Bienvenida” for the last 20 years, a day to welcome migrant workers, the vast majority of whom now come from Mexico. “This is a…
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Community voices Thanks and congratulations to City and Ron Netsky for the splendid interviews in “Jump Jim Crow” (June 4, June 11). Both the historical and personal dimensions of these reminiscences are indispensable to our community memory. Voices that I have known over the years came through clearly, which was for me a wonderful bonus.…
Predatory loans: on borrowed time?
In the late 1980s, when Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura teamed up for the film Predator, America was deregulating and otherwise fantasizing its way into economic trouble. Soon enough, ordinary working people spied some monsters among the dollar signs. One was called consumer debt, with credit-card marketers getting top billing. There are stealth predators,…
Big man, small treatment
Geva Theatre continues its adventurous programming into the summer with a work of historical interest in the intimate Nextstage. Even before Indiana Repertory Theatre’s world premiere last fall of James Still’s Looking over the President’s Shoulder, Geva had arranged to give its original production this second presentation anywhere. It now has other productions planned nationwide.…
Nothing but love
It’s obviously Barbara Biddy’s enormous affection for Jonathan Harvey’s sweetly quirky play Beautiful Thing that energized Shipping Dock’s exceptional production. Not an easy assignment, the play about awkward first love between two working-class teenage boys in southeast London carries the added burden of comparison with a film version that has become internationally beloved. Well, Biddy…
Raging Burrito
People are always saying there’s no good Mexican food in Rochester. It’s certainly true that we don’t have the variety you’d find in Texas or California, but the general pronouncement might say more about the taste of the speaker. Besides the chains, we also have Maria’s, Salena’s, and Los Amigos, all of which are good…
