Metro ink – 3.1.06
MORE THAN MEDICINE Dr. Allen Power, Associate Director of St. John’s Nursing Home, has never been able to keep music out of his life. Even as a pre-med student at the University of Rochester in the early ’70s, Power flirted with the idea of jumping tracks and pursuing music. Nonetheless, he decided on gerontology. “I…
Cost of war – 3.1.06
The totals: 2283 US soldiers, 206 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 28,535 to 32,153 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to February 22. 2901 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports. 16,653 US military have been…
Reader feedback – 3.1.06
‘Acting white,’ rescuing the ferry
14 Weldon Street
A Classic American Foursquare with Bonuses Were it not for a move precipitated by career advancement, the current owner of 14 Weldon Street wouldn’t give up this solidly constructed, gracious home. Built in 1923, this 1,570 square foot American Foursquare still features numerous original embellishments and shines with quality. As the name suggests, American Foursquares…
Family valued – 3.1.06
Naked trolls and near-death We here at the Family Valued executive washroom, microwave kitchen, and unified pressroom have randomly selected a 10-year-old from among the one immediately available. So, what have you been reading lately? Thud!. What is that? It’s the latest book written by Terry Pratchett. It’s funny fantasy. He is a very good…
Fiz – 3.1.06
They make this look good There’s so much pride in our local celebrities lately, it’s heartwarming. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Teddy Geiger, and, of course, Dancing with Rochester’s “Stars” [quotes added]. But here’s a news flash. If he wins, Hoffman probably isn’t going to let everyone in Rochester take his Oscar home for a night like…
The incomplete revolution
She’s been dead 100 years. She belonged to a time of petticoats and whalebone, stagecoaches, “women of a certain age,” the Abolitionist and Temperance movements, our Civil War. But Susan B. Anthony refuses to go away. She was a radical, with radical ideas, even by today’s standards. She was full of fire. To her critics:…
You’re gonna need that first aid kit, Crowe
Thanks to filmdom’s less-than-inspired offerings last year, I truthfully wasn’t looking forward to the Daynas, the awards named after me, voted on by me, and traditionally intended to spotlight those slighted by Oscar. But I couldn’t not hold them, due to the fact that a Dayna now carries such astonishing clout, plus celebrities really seem…
Maybe they’ll actually deserve that statue
Two great American public occasions annually illuminate the dark days and frozen nights of winter with the bright lights of hype and the torrential flow of gush. Though celebrating entirely different endeavors, both events mount elaborate ceremonies that, through assiduous cultivation of the media and enormous expenditure of money on publicity, command the attention of…
“I am not an animal!”
Picturing a morph from ape into man into cross, the art on Geva’s program for Inherit the Wind speaks volumes about the raging debate over evolution. The play is loosely based on the1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, which took place in rural Dayton, Tennessee. The state’s Butler Act forbade public schools from teaching any theory denying…
The Rump coup
There was a time when people complained that business leaders called all the shots in Rochester. Then businesses started consolidating and relocating corporate offices. Big-business commitment and leadership disappeared. And we started longing for the old days. Well, you may have noticed that in City Hall, the old days are back. Last November, Rochester elected…
