Take aktion
Somewhere among the heap of silly rock ‘n’ roll clichés sits “the rider”: that list of odd accoutrements touring artists require of their venues. Things like dry ice, sparkling water, pretzels, groupies, etc… Next Friday, March 25, at the A\V Space, the rider is being taken to a whole new level. “I have new requirements…
Take aktion
Somewhere among the heap of silly rock ‘n’ roll clichés sits “the rider”: that list of odd accoutrements touring artists require of their venues. Things like dry ice, sparkling water, pretzels, groupies, etc… Next Friday, March 25, at the A\V Space, the rider is being taken to a whole new level. “I have new requirements…
Take aktion
Somewhere among the heap of silly rock ‘n’ roll clichés sits “the rider”: that list of odd accoutrements touring artists require of their venues. Things like dry ice, sparkling water, pretzels, groupies, etc… Next Friday, March 25, at the A\V Space, the rider is being taken to a whole new level. “I have new requirements…
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Sign language has always been a means to an end for me. The first time I learned it I was 10, and I used it to advance my goal of total domination of my little brother. One March morning I woke up with laryngitis. At the time I had no idea it would last a…
Eager feet
“Dancing is that thing where you connect with the music and your partner,” says Rochester Swing Dance Network’s Esther Brill. “It’s a tremendous amount of fun. It brings out the best in people.” Back in 1995, Brill and RSDN co-founder Richard Newman (both pictured) figured they could’ve earned master degrees in all the time they…
Place your bets
It’s still being called “a dream,” but a California real-estate developer continues to look into the possibility of turning roughly 1,000 acres of Henrietta wetlands into a casino resort. Back in December, Tower Investments spent $3.5 million to acquire the Riverwood Campus, a former training and office facility for the Eastman Kodak Company. Riverwood is…
Campaign opener: scenes from the forum
It was a pretty typical election-campaign event, but the size of the audience was anything but typical. People packed City Hall’s spacious Council Chambers March 8 to hear three candidates for Rochester mayor — and one possible candidate — discuss campaign issues. There were people sitting on the floor, people standing several deep at the…
For the next mayor: big, tough problems
“Immense and perhaps intractable”: That’s how, in his recent State of the City address, Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson described his successor’s challenges. He could have as easily used the words “overwhelming and perhaps impossible.” Johnson is an optimist, though; and perhaps he wanted to provide a bit of hope for the candidates in this…
Reader feedback 3.16.05
The missing ‘left,’ Social Security myths
Body count 3.16.05
The totals: 1,516 American soldiers, 176 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 16,389 to 18,670 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to March 15. American soldiers killed from Mar 8-15: Specialist Adriana N. Salem, 21; Elk Grove Village, Illinois | Sergeant Andrew L. Bossert, 24; Fountain City, Wisconsin…
Family valued 3.16.05
This ‘James’ is a peach Feeling overwhelmed? C’mon down to the Nazareth College Arts Center this weekend for James and the Giant Peach and let the Rochester Children’s Theatre show you how to take it like an earthworm. In this Roald Dahl classic, James finds life with two evil aunts so insufferable that escaping in…
Clearing the air
Talk about pressure. Less than a week after he was tapped by President Bush to head the Environmental Protection Agency, the administration’s faltering clean-air policy forced Acting EPA Administrator Steve Johnson into the spotlight. On March 9, the president’s Clear Skies legislation stalled in the Senate Environment and Public Works committee. Time for plan B.…
A tale of two landscape artists
Of two artists on display at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, one is very popular and well known; the other is hardly known at all. When you hear the name Georgia O’Keeffe, you tend to immediately think of the wrinkle-faced old painter who lived in the desert and painted flowers. But when you hear the…
A show of hands
I know what you’re thinking. Does this town really need another film festival? If it’s the Deaf Rochester Film Festival, then the answer might be yes. This city’s rich tradition in the moving image coupled with its sizeable deaf population — the largest per capita in the United States — make it the ideal location…
Bracketology: Take this job and shove it
You can do it on the Internet; in your office; in the high school halls; in the shopping malls; have you filled out your bracket yet? It seems like everybody — including people who think the NCAA was one of Roosevelt’s alphabet agencies — fills out a men’s basketball bracket. You can win a million…
One life-changing summer in the desert
Now and then, despite the blockbusters that thunder through the megaplexes and their accompanying bluster and ballyhoo, amid the hype and hypocrisy of the advertisers and reviewers (sometimes the same entities), a solid, modest, little motion picture threads its way through the thickets of hyperbole and navigates the rivers of gush to arrive at a…
Also playing…
American director Jules Dassin’s 1955 French gangster flick Rififi (Thursday, March 17, Dryden Theatre, 8 p.m., 271-4090) is one of those movies that inspired film geeks, or what the French call geeques du cinema (no, they don’t), long before anyone ever heard of one. Its influence is apparent in films by contemporaries like Jean-Pierre Melville,…
