Mixed signals
If you are used to tuning in to the non-stop line-up of African-American programming on Friday or Sunday evenings on WRUR 88.5 FM, you might find yourself scratching your head this summer. Car Talk? What station is this anyway? Over the past several weeks, WRUR, the radio station run by the University of Rochester, has…
Rhinos beat themselves
Last time out.The Score won an autographed ball in the Perinton Youth Hockey raffle during Friday’s 3-2 home overtime loss against Montreal, but that trinket wasn’t enough to dissuade us from seriously considering a leap off the Court Street Bridge on the way home. The Rhinos watched a 2-0 lead evaporate with 10 minutes left…
Big and green and mad as hell
Now and then a motion picture comes along that actually deserves all those superlatives that clog the daily prose of most reviewers, that sends them digging through their thesauruses for bouquets of compliments, that inspires them to deploy all the artillery in their sadly depleted arsenals of praise. The Hulk, alas and alack, is undoubtedly…
Knee deep in Euro pudding
L’Auberge Espagnole, which either means The Spanish Hotel or Euro Pudding (depending on who you listen to), is way closer to being a Real World movie than The Real Cancun was. Actually, if you were able to mate MTV’s groundbreaking reality show with Lukas Moodysson’s Swedish communal comedy Together, you’d end up with something a…
Shut up, yuppie scum
I initially got into jazz because, frankly, it didn’t always make a lot of sense to me. And I liked that. It was a soulful respite from the day-in day-out cacophony of rock ‘n’ roll. It soothed, it swung, it eluded. The second annual Rochester International Jazz Fest offered more than I could eat, but…
Concentrated dilution
As if one “Powell Doctrine” weren’t enough: On June 2, the prevaricating Secretary of State’s son Michael, joined by two other Republicans on the five-member board of the Federal Communications Commission, dropped the Big One on media diversity. Michael Powell, the FCC chair, never left any doubt of his intentions. In interviews and speeches…
Thanks for nothing
It’s easy to become jaded while observing local politics, especially as it pertains to education. Contrary to some folks’ naïve notions, “education is a political process,” as city school board member Bolgen Vargas said at the board’s June 19 meeting. Indeed, politics was on everyone’s mind that night. The board had convened to pick…
News Briefs 6.25.03
Your health in question The typical health care “consumer” has no lack of concerns about the future — how high health insurance premiums will climb, how much employers will contribute (and whether one’s job will exist), how many hospitals will survive, how many people will have to fend for themselves. So a new publication from…
Reader feedback 6.25.03
‘No’ to the bus terminal Many thanks to Mary Anna Towler for not jumping on the RGRTA bandwagon like every other local public commentator (“Buses to the Rescue?,” June 18). While it is premature to say what the best approach is to solving Rochester’s transit and downtown development needs, it is clear that to proceed…
Debating the county exec debates
This year’s candidates for Monroe County Executive haven’t yet faced off in a public debate. But behind the scenes, the debate between their respective campaigns over what form those public debates will take, and how many there will be, is raging. Democrat Bill Johnson’s campaign manager, Travis Heider, says his candidate is willing to…
