The future of cinema?
Your mission this Memorial Day Weekend — should you choose to accept it — is to postpone seeing the latest big-budget lobotomathon and instead get an advance peek at the future of cinema. On Sunday, May 28, the School of Film and Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology is presenting their annual Honors Show, with…
Another grail quest, in codes and ciphers
Like the book it is based on, The Da Vinci Code opens with a sequence showing the curator of the Louvre running through the museum, pursued by an albino assassin in a monk’s robe. As absurd as it sounds, that sequence, intercut with another of Professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) lecturing an attentive audience on…
Reader feedback – 5.24.06
The shinking comics; the Wegmans trial
Family valued – 5.24.06
If I’m not mistaken, Bruce Springsteen recently released a children’s CD.
Fiz – 5.24.06
Last week some coworkers were having a lousy, stressful afternoon, so I offered them one of my Cosmic Brownies. No, not one of those “cosmic” brownies.
Cost of war – 5.24.06
The totals: 2453 US soldiers, 222 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 37,813 to 42,180 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to May 22. 3394 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports. American soldiers killed between May…
Emptied out
Eleven percent of Rochester’s houses are vacant. The reason: the city’s housing stock was built for 300,000 people; Rochester’s population is now less than 220,000.
Jailing a cage-free activist
Six months.That’s 180 days, and it’s how long Adam Durand will have to mull over his decision to enter Wegmans’ hen house while he sits in the WayneCounty jail.
Music review – 5.24.06
I Object, Jolie Holland, Pearl Jam and more..
94 Bellevue Drive
Style and Flexibility in Ellwanger Barry Architect C. Storrs Barrows designed the 1927 Stucco Tudor for Dr. John R. Slater, a University of Rochester Professor. The three-bedroom house and two-car, detached garage are situated on a small, scrupulously landscaped lot. The rear yard features a new, custom stone patio. However, many of the details, slate…
Steeeeee-rike!
For Brian Kennedy, it all comes down to respect — or the lack of it. From his place on the board of directors of the Association of Minor League Umpires, Kennedy says the members of the AMLU are striking this year because their employer, Minor League Baseball, treats them like Rodney Dangerfield. So earlier this…
Staunch on the unbroken cord
Like his father, Fred, Steve Wayne is a graduate of the Cornell School of Hotel Management, and he’s been in and around restaurants almost his entire life. Fred Wayne ran the WayneHotel in Lyons — named for the county, not the family — when Steve was a boy. But for 45 years, the Wayne family…
The XX Files – 5.24.06
The Jazzorcist
Metro ink – 5.24.06
What began in the 90’s as routine taping of meetings and workshops has evolved into “Students First,” a Rochester School District television show.
New Horizons’ ageless symphony
It’s an extremely bright Tuesday morning outside the First Unitarian Church on South Winton. A symphony of lawnmowers hums in the distance. Birds chirp loudly and kids being dropped off for daycare from an endless convoy of mini-vans chirp even louder. It ain’t Peer Gynt, but it’s beautiful. And over this springtime cacophony, the sound…
Out there, dad
Thing and I were commiserating outside the Bug Jar last Tuesday night trying to make sense out of the racket within. He copped to the Captain. “It’s music from the other side of the fence,” he said. “Opaque melodies that bug most people.” The Blood And Bone Orchestra was on stage playing music on the…
