GM gives the village of Honeoye Falls some vehicular zip.
It’s no insult to say the village of Honeoye Falls is “off the beaten path.” In fact, that’s the phrase Mayor Steve Gustin uses to describe his hometown. A quick look at the map confirms the description. The village — well known for Victorian homes, businesses, and restored mills along Honeoye Creek — has profited…
Slapping the hands that feed us
There’s a beauty and grace to picking cabbage. On a Brockport farm on a sunny June morning, men and machine move synchronously to harvest the crop. The pickers, three men ranging in age from early 30s to mid-40s, are bent over, slowly walking backward as a tractor continually pushes a large crate toward them.…
Reader Feedback 6.4.03
The Aqueduct’s future, Elmwood’s widening, warnings for pesticides
King of the world
Are you paying attention? Now it’s Iran that is harboring terrorists. And building nuclear weapons. And developing biological and chemical weapons. And, says the Bush administration, Iran is stirring up trouble in Iraq. The drumbeat is quickening: Iran needs a regime change. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that “hard-liners” in the…
The Shaw Fest turns 42
Under new artistic director Jackie Maxwell, the Shaw Festival opened its 42nd season with what looked like a typical line-up of five plays — typical, that is, of recent seasons, but hardly traditional. Their world-class ensemble again brings dazzling aplomb to a Broadway musical of questionable value. Once more, a resident director re-interprets a…
New Traditionalist diner
Perhaps the old cliché about Greeks running diners is going to be replaced by one about it being the Vietnamese. There’s Tam Van Tran, owner of the South Wedge Diner, and my neighbor, Tai Le, manages the Highland Park Diner. Now we have the Central Park Family Diner, which is run by Ben Tran and…
Crime, isolation, and redemption
The customary patterns in contemporary independent filmmaking involve a constellation of familiar elements, forming an inspiring saga that regularly enlivens the goosed-up press releases that pass for entertainment journalism. The stories follow a familiar model of aspiration and struggle, detailing the adventures of impoverished film school graduates with grand dreams. They beg loans from affluent…
Two ‘Freedom’ films at the Little
The cool kids all dig John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, and Wong Kar-Wai, and those filmmakers all love Jean-Pierre Melville. Thusly, the laws of syllogism dictate that the cool kids will also adore Melville, whose Bob le Flambeur was just remade into The Good Thief. They’ll get a chance to fall in love with…
Music Review 6.4.03
Miles Davis In Person at the Blackhawk, San Francisco Sony Legacy In April, 1961, Miles Davis and his band took the stage for a two-night gig at the packed Blackhawk Club in San Francisco. At the time it might have seemed like a routine performance for the band, but in retrospect the seven sets recorded…
Develop this!
The dead center of downtown Rochester could thrive with life again, if only county Republicans would get out of the way. That’s what Democratic city officials are saying, and though they do their fair share of useless political sniping, in this case, I happen to believe them. If you care what happens to the…
News Briefs 6.4.03
Borrowing time Like an ex-smoker who breaks down and buys a pack of Camels in a moment of stress, Monroe County Executive Jack Doyle wants to dip into the county’s tobacco settlement money to pay for general operating expenses this year and cover last year’s deficit. In 2000, Doyle sold the rights to the…
