You’re not the boss of me
The Rochester School Board wants a chance to get its own house in order before City Hall calls in maid service. City Council has proposed changing the city charter to dictate, some school board members say, the format the school budget will take. Council needs to make certain requirements, explains Councilman Benjamin Douglas, because…
Family Valued
My daughter likes to remind me, “this is the 21st century.” That’s fine. I just don’t want to be limited to this century. Right now I’m crazy about this guy from the 19th: Mark Twain.
Tax watchdog
Part one of a two-part series. by Ron Netsky You’re having trouble making ends meet, so how come it seems like the rich are getting richer? It seems that way because it’s true, far more than you ever imagined. David Cay Johnston’s new book, Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign To Rig Our Tax System To…
When sports journalism goes bad
Veteran Sports Illustrated pro football writer Paul Zimmerman, known as Dr. Z, once caused a problem for the Bills’ media relations staff during training camp at St. John Fisher. He ventured from the media-designated sideline to watch a drill on the opposite sideline, which was empty enough to have comfortably fit the state of Rhode…
Between the living and the dead
One of the strange coincidences in the distribution and marketing of contemporary cinema reveals an irony too bizarre to be invented. The first movie to displace The Passion of the Christ from the top spot in the box office grosses, though somewhat bloodier than Mel Gibson’s work and determinedly secular, also confronts the subject of…
Deep in the cultural heart of Texas
What makes a town cool? Austin, Texas, is consistently ranked as one of the more culturally advanced mid-sized cities in America along with such places as Athens, Georgia, and Seattle, Washington. One reason could be location. There isn’t another cool town within 500 miles of Austin. No offense, Dallas and San Antonio. That’s what I…
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When Susan Sontag set out define camp in 1964, she differentiated between pure camp, which is innocently bad, and the deliberate variety, which is ultimately a simulation of naiveté. The latter, she rightly noted, is less likely to be as satisfying. Squarely in the former category is a piece of ’60s Hollywood pulp…
Cowboys and cowgirls
Ol’ gravel throat himself, Bryan Adams, sounds a lot better live than he ever did on the radio. His show at the Auditorium Theatre on March 9 brought out more stonewashed jeans and mullets than there were in the summer of ’69 (sorry, I couldn’t resist — cuts like a knife, doesn’t it?) Adams looked…
Pennies on the sidewalk
Monroe County legislators have sure taken a pounding over the school nurse fiasco, and they probably deserve it. But those who accuse them of politicizing the problem miss the fact that it was — at birth — a political issue. When then-County Executive Jack Doyle announced late last year that he was slashing the…
Sweet inspiration
Sweet inspiration Sally Wood Winslow, director of the Center at High Falls Fine Art Gallery, didn’t care that Ben Schamberger brought his candy table in past the recent Text and Texture exhibit’s deadline. “We looked at it and said ‘we have to have it,'” she says. The table looks like something out of 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: 570 Americans, 101 “Coalition” soldiers, and approximately 10,000 Iraqi soldiers and 10,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since…
As the windmill turns: residents doubt the power
Upstate New York has been boasting about wind-power development the last few years. Wind farms — clusters of high-tech windmills 200 feet or more tall — have become tourist and business-booster attractions in Wyoming County and Madison County. The Wyoming County wind farm, on one otherwise vacant hilltop in the town of Wethersfield, sports…
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