Buyer beware: art on the internet
Two weeks ago, William Yager, owner of Roselawn Galleries in Pittsford, was arrested and charged with selling counterfeit art online. I was instantly curious, of course, about the details. What kind of counterfeit are we talking about? Fakes? Copies? Is there a difference? At least in principle, a work of art has always been…
Mega mediasaurus
To grasp bigness, sometimes you have to take out the magnifying glass. That’s what media observers are doing retrospectively with a story that came out of Minot, North Dakota, in January 2002. The small town was hit with a rail-car leak of anhydrous ammonia, an irritant that can cause serious injuries. The story…
Movies within a movie: Italy’s current cinema
For a long time a major force and a powerful influence in international cinema, Italian film currently languishes in a general state of mediocrity, occasionally enlivened by some works of genuine excellence. The decline of film in Italy is part of a general condition in the once great industries of Europe. Aside from the…
Meet me at the fun maze tonight
Finally. But first: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind begins disappointingly enough. Jim Carrey plays Joel, an uptight square who decides to ditch his job and head for the beach on a cold winter day. Intrusive, mostly unnecessary voiceover covers all of this. There he meets, against his will, bohemian-looking Clementine (Kate Winslet),…
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“You’re a cog, boy! A cog in an organ!” Thus begins the journey of Performance protagonist Chas, bloodstained thug on the run. Directed by Nicholas Roeg and Donald Cammell in 1970, Performance (Wednesday, March 17, Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House, 8 p.m.)opens with a fighter jet rocketing across the sky before quickly cutting…
The big fish in local Irish dance
Eddie Murphy joins me at Jim’s Diner looking typically rumpled, saying he was up late making kilts. “I eat here a lot,” he says, “because it’s fast, I’m always in a rush, the food is good, the coffee is good, and it fits my budget.” Jim’s is nicer than I remember it, with new-looking booths,…
Rochester gives Australia its Jordan
There were just two-and-a-half minutes remaining. Australia’s 1992 National Basketball League championship was at stake. The South-East Melbourne Magic trailed the Melbourne Tigers by three before a demanding, delirious home crowd of 15,000. Rob Rose, a 1982 Cardinal Mooney graduate, helped lead the Magic. The 27-year-old, 6’5″, 212-pound guard was an in-season Continental Basketball…
Now is the time
I don’t know. Maybe the blues just ain’t fair. It’s not like anyone with a harmonica or a guitar and a dream was ever promised a fair shake. But it just seems sometimes the cream doesn’t rise to the top. Cream like British blues legend John Mayall. Mayall has been playing the blues for…
Lost treasures of Lake Ontario?
During the warmer months, my family and I are frequent beachcombers on the shores of Lake Ontario. Occasionally we’ll walk away from the shore with some smooth worn glass and a nice pebble or two, but the lake holds real intrigue for some and genuine treasure for others. The bottom of Lake Ontario holds…
Reader feedback 3.17.04
The Fest change City’s February 18 edition features an article entitled “RBTL Gets Dogged.” The headline represents an unfair and inaccurate characterization of the change in the producer for the Rochester MusicFest from the Broadway Theater League to LeadDog Marketing Group. I am hard-pressed to understand how the fact that the city conducted an…
Body count
To honor the war dead and fill an information gap in US mass media, City Newspaper will run weekly lists of American/”Coalition” soldiers and Iraqi citizens killed during the ongoing occupation of Iraq. The totals: 558 Americans, 101 “Coalition” soldiers, and approximately 10,000 Iraqi soldiers and 10,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since…
More money = better schools?
How much will it take? And who gets it? Those two questions are essentially at the heart of deliberations taking place in Albany following a landmark court decision over school funding. New York City schoolchildren, the court ruled last year, have been denied their constitutional right to a “sound, basic education.” The governor…
Family valued
Meet the family Most of the parents I know practice what I call “intentional parenting.” They make careful, deliberate decisions about what they do with and for their children, and what they allow them to do (or don’t allow them to do). For intentional parents, information is everything. We want to make good decisions for…
