Music Reviews 5.10.06
HINKLEY Estate Sale Carbon With the familiar, downtempo strum-strum-strum that opens Estate Sale, it appears as if Hinkley leader and principle songwriter Will Veeder is about to lead the band down the same melancholy path it explored with such lustrous results on the band’s 2004 release, Frail and Poker Faced. Anyone familiar with Veeder’s previous…
Metro ink – 5.10.06
STILL PLANNING THE ‘ZONE’ It’s been almost a year since Rochester’s school superintendent, Manuel Rivera, unveiled his ambitious surround-care plan for the northeast quadrant of the city. Rivera’s concept, which he modeled after the Harlem Children’s Zone, targets the environmental conditions that produce generations of children who enter school unprepared to learn. The northeast area…
Cost of war – 5.10.06
The totals: 2418 US soldiers, 220 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 34,781 to 38,934 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to May 8. 3327 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports. American soldiers killed between April…
Brighton tension: is bigger better?
Close proximity to downtown, charming neighborhoods, good schools: Brighton is the kind of community that real estate agents love to hate. It’s red-hot popular with buyers but short on inventory, especially when it comes to big houses. And a Rochester-area developer has set off a tense discussion over neighborhood character and property rights. Michael Millner…
Of food and felonies
Adam Durand’s palms were sweating. A few minutes before 2 p.m. last Thursday, a Wayne County court clerk addressed the 26-year-old packaging designer from Rochester as “the defendant” and asked him to rise. “When I was asked to stand to hear the verdict, it was an incredible moment,” he recalls. “My heart was racing.” Durand…
1920 Culver Road
A HOME DESIGNED BY THOMAS BOYDE As shown by 1920 Culver Road, architect Thomas Boyde designed houses that people and families could live in with grace and comfort. Designed for attorney Phillip B. Dattilo, Sr. and his wife Mary in 1948, the home is spacious, yet protective, with clean lines and careful details. It bears…
Family valued – 5.10.06
Team-up of the century: Scooby-Doo & Encyclopedia Brown Flying Saucer Drops Nessie Into Bermuda Triangle! Caught on Film by Bigfoot! “She Never Looked More Beautiful Than When She Was in Freefall,” Says Sasquatch. Jinkies! When faced with complete absurdity, what is a parent to do, Velma? After all, your child talks intimately to Elmo and…
Fiz – 5.10.06
Tomb with a view Lara Croft, star of the Tomb Raider series, is one of the most recognizable gaming icons. However, thanks to some stale games, many players have been getting bored with Ms. Croft — her equivalent of a mid-life crisis. Therefore, the recently released Tomb Raider: Legend needed to be a transformation for…
May the Schwartz be with you
Like Frasier with a twist of Reality Bites, The Last Schwartz is a two-hour sitcom, without commercial interruption.The play welcomes its audience into the home of the Schwartz family as they celebrate their papa’s unveiling, the tradition of honoring the dead and unveiling the tombstone. Doesn’t seem like a terribly funny situation, right? But it’s…
The un-lilacs
Enough with the lilacs! We get it: They’re lovely. They’re delicate. They smell wonderful. We have tons of them. Many are the reasons that we have a massive festival dedicated to them every year. But Rochesterain’t called the FlowerCity for nothing. The area features much more than lilacs, especially Highland Park. The 155-acre arboretum designed…
What’s the Mater?
The pia mater is a Saran Wrap-type layer that encases the central nervous system, following all the grooves of the brain
And we don’t care
The musician’s ego is an eggshell: all cracked up and abused and covered with bumper stickers. We need attention. We need to know we count. And no matter how good we know we are, we ain’t legit ’til a crowd roars for us, a DJ spins us, or a hack music writer says so. I’ve…
Another mission, another impossibility
The appearance of Mission: Impossible III, the latest chapter in what looks like yet another franchise series, indicates that global warming even affects the cinema. With the first blockbuster of the season opening the first week in May, summer now begins much earlier than in the past, which means that perhaps eventually Hollywood will create…
The art of being yourself
When the gifted Jerome (Max Minghella, Bee Season) finally arrives at Strathmore, he assumes the Cro-Magnon bullying and unfair social strata of high school to be a thing of the past, the next four years chockablock with creative expression, respect, and open-minded (ahem) women. As Jerome will learn in the course of Art School Confidential,…
Reader feedback – 5.10.06
Reducing violence; dealing with immigration
