Family valued – 3.29.06
Annual holiday event calendar We here at Family Values Central couldn’t help but notice a recent influx of events for this April 1 holiday. Venturing into the City sub-basement, we confronted the Junior Correspondent in Charge of Press Releases and Staff Tattoos. (His desk had to be moved after an unpleasant incident last April involving…
Fiz – 3.29.06
Happy Eskimo Pie Patent Day! This here internet was supposed to be making my life less stressful, with the online shopping, unlimited information of dubious origin, and free porn. Instead, my agitation is compounding because I’ve just learned that Tweed Day is right around the corner (April 3), yet I’m fresh out! And it’s all…
Hyphenated identities, fractured lives
“When you flee your country, you don’t even know where you’re going, what direction you’re going. You say, ‘OK, I need to save my life.'” IsseAbukar pulls out a box of pictures, a postcard of Mogadishu, Somalia, before it was ravaged by civil war, and a business card, frayed and yellow with age. The box,…
‘But I do like a bit of gorgonzola…’
City Food
Notes of triumph
During the Academy Awards telecasts, the moments that have traditionally lent themselves to viewers rustling up some snacks occur when the Oscars for short film are awarded. It’s been difficult for John Q. Moviegoer to care about something he will probably never see, but in recent years the shorts have been packaged up for mass…
A new direction for Spike Lee
A new direction for Spike Lee
Salvation, redemption, and beats
TODD BANGZ
Slick, tight, and snow-white
Dressed in a day-glo blue suit that would’ve made Iceberg Slim proud, Watermelon Slim brought some of the best blues I’ve seen in The Dinosaur BBQ in a long, long time. Last Wednesday night, before a packed house, the man freight-trained the harp, threw periodic tantrums (of the raving Pentecostal variety) on the dance floor…
Music Reviews 3.29.06
Bob Sneider & Joe Locke Film Noir Project Fallen Angel Sons of Sound Records Bob Sneider and Paul Hofmann Escapade Sons of Sound Records The Eastman School of Music’s guitarist extraordinaire Bob Sneider has been a busy man lately, co-headlining two new albums this month. Sneider and vibraphone giant Joe Locke share top billing on…
Appalachian Upstate?
Negative press just doesn’t seem to stick to Eliot Spitzer
The XX Files 3.29.06
I learned at home that you can’t make fun of your parents. I learned at school that you can’t make fun of your teacher. But it was Mad Magazine that taught me the most important lesson of all: you can make fun of the president. In the circumscribed world of a child, there are few…
Metro ink – 3.29.06
ROOKIE SHARKS SURFACE AT THE TOP On Sunday afternoon, Rochester RazorSharks forward James “Mook” Reaves circled the court brandishing the American Basketball Association championship trophy. Dozens of jubilant fans mobbed the court and celebrated alongside the players and coaches. Later, ‘Sharks CEO OrestHrywnak ran amuck, spraying champagne in the champions’ locker room. And pretty much…
Reader feedback – 3.29.06
‘Acting white,’ creating urban trails
130 Dorchester Road
A Classic Colonial in the Browncroft Neighborhood The Browncroft Neighborhood, located on the eastern edge of the city, was the vision of nurseryman C. J. Brown. Created in 1914 when Brown subdivided 300 acres of the Brown Brothers Continental Nursery for residential building, the neighborhood was characterized by wide, well-landscaped parkways, plantings of trees and…
