A promise of post-partum diversity
Group shows are rarely just about the artwork. They’re mostly about some overarching idea that the work helps to illustrate. Of course, the work itself plays a role as viewers decide what they like or what they don’t like. There is also the matter of how objects work together as a cohesive whole. Is…
City Ballet surviving strong
Forget those disgusting “reality” shows: our impressive Survivor, Rochester City Ballet, completed its spring season continuing to dance splendidly. Artistic Director Jamey Leverett choreographed two new works: Gershwin in the Park and Pedestal: For Tim, both danced beautifully. Pedestal, a tribute to RCB founder Tim Draper, proved that Leverett has maintained Draper’s high standards. In…
‘Born to a no-parent family’
“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.” Edmund Burke, 1775 Baby Bobbijean was born in March 2003 at HighlandHospital. Within days, the Monroe County Department of Health and Human Services filed a petition classifying her as neglected. The newborn…
Olympics don’t belong in universe
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games open August 13 in Athens, Greece, and frankly, who cares? The Olympics are so pre-21st-century, they’re like record players. Among the things keeping this archaic athletic competition alive are the fortunes spent on corporate sponsorship, TV broadcast rights, and International Olympic Committee members, whose penchant for personal financial gain…
Hollywood gets inspired by the classics
With a coincidence that even Hollywood rarely permits itself, two of the most heavily promoted and generally extreme motion pictures of the year derive from two richly ambiguous incidents in the ancient past that permanently influence Western civilization. The political uprising in an obscure corner of the Middle East, culminating in the Crucifixion, and…
Thirty years apart, 30 days of fast food
The must-see film of the moment is playing for one night at the Dryden this Friday. Walkabout (1971)is director and cinematographer Nicolas Roeg’s finest hour, a perfect jewel of a movie. A boy and his older sister are stranded in the Australian outback when their father, seemingly an emblem of staid society driven mindless by…
The man behind the Masque
Some people are lucky: They experience a moment where they realize rock ‘n’ roll can save their lives. You can sit down with a lot of music fans and let them tell you the time they first heard this band, or how their older sibling got them into that band, and the nutty things they’ve…
Old punks never die
“Punk rock should be and has always been, to me, about stirring things up,” says D.O.A. founder and frontman Joey Shithead Keithley. “The same way rock ‘n’ roll was when it started up in the mid ’50s. It was about being a troublemaker and changing things and being a rebel.” The man still burns.…
Heartland regathers the folkies
Last year Ralph Hunt and Judy Gradford spent a lot of time talking on the phone with Glenn Drinkwater, one of the organizers of the former 12 Corners Coffeehouse. For years it brought A-list folk music acts to the Twelve Corners Presbyterian Church. After moving briefly to RIT, it disappeared. Hunt and Gradford were…
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The Iraq problems, Green energy, more Nader debate
Op-ed
Speaking as a resident of Main Street near the SibleyBuilding, I found “The State of Main” (April 14) thoughtful regarding pedestrian traffic. Its scope, however, was woefully shortsighted. It neglected the West Main corridor from the Cascade District to Bulls Head. With the fast ferry, enclosed BroadStreetBridge-ErieCanal tribute walkway, Susan B. Anthony House preservation,…
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: 785 American soldiers, 111 “Coalition” soldiers, and approximately 9,000 Iraqi soldiers and 10,750 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq…
Book drop
After thinking a lot about its library, trustees of the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School decided on Friday to remove almost all of its books. A substantial portion of the Ambrose Swasey Library — about 250,000 of its 300,000 volumes — will be moved in the coming months to the University of Rochester’s Rush Rhees…
Just press ‘play’
For 10 years, Dorian Hall has spun hip-hop records on a radio show called “The Hot Spot” on WRUR (88.5 FM), the University of Rochester’s student-run radio station. And call-ins by students and community members have been the lifeblood of the show, which is broadcast live Thursday evenings from 6 to 8 o’clock. While…
Family valued
Corning Museum of Glass Glassmaking is the perfect topic of inquiry for families. It has it all. It’s an art. It’s a science. What’s more, glass itself is cool. It’s a solid. It’s a liquid. Take your pick. A day trip to the Corning Museum of Glass is the best way to learn about,…
