Body count
To honor the war dead and fill an information gap in US mass media, City Newspaper will run weekly lists of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians killed during the occupation of Iraq. The totals: 1,139 American soldiers, 146 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 14,284 to 16419 Iraqicivilians have been killed in Iraq (a recent survey published…
The ghosts of past lies
When a drenched young woman, Brigid, steps out of the rain and into The Second Coming pub, her “chance” encounter with owner Niall O’Neill starts the pair on a long strange trip through a dark and stormy night. The torrent that is Key West, playing on Geva’s Nextstage, hits the audience with a barrage of…
Family valued 11.10.04
‘The Incredibles’ We all know that Pixar makes terrific movies. A smaller group knows that Brad Bird’s 1999 adaptation of a Ted Hughes book, The Iron Giant, was the best non-Pixar, non-Miyazaki animated film of the last decade. So, put Brad Bird behind the wheel of a Pixar vehicle and you get the incredible The…
Best of Rochester
Now, before anyone gets upset, let’s just be clear: these are not last year’s Best of Greater Rochester Readers’ Choice Awards. Some of you might be experiencing déjà vu, and that’s understandable. But the people of Greater Rochester are a loyal people. And after years of repetition we at City are finally starting to get…
Best of Rochester
Best chocolate milk Pittsford Farms Dairy You could just say, “best milk,” and leave it at that. Pittsford Farms’ slow, low-heat pasteurization process creates richer-tasting, sweeter milk, and many swear by it. But the chocolate milk is truly a sinful matter. Owner Charlie Corby — or perhaps his father-in-law, Ted Zorno — clearly went down…
Best of Rochester
Some of our favorite weird, funny, or just confused answers from the Readers’ Choice Awards:
Best of Rochester
Note: (Second-place winners are in parentheses.) TIME OUT Live music club: Milestones (Water Street Music Hall) Bar: Lux Lounge (Bug Jar) Nightclub: Tonic (Vertex Club) Gay bar: Muthers (Nasty D’s) Townie bar: Johnny’s Irish Pub (Marge’s Lakeside Inn) Original band: Hi-Risers (White Hots) Musician: Gap Mangione (Chuck Mangione) Place to shoot pool: Six Pockets (Lux…
NHL isn’t going anywhere
I recently bought Duran Duran’s new album, Astronaut, and I feel ripped off. It’s not very good. I should have known better. For the past 22 years, I’ve been buying Duran Duran albums, hoping the music will somehow live up to the band’s 1982 masterpiece, Rio. In 1986, when I was 14, I bought Notorious,…
The return of the husband
From its completely uninformative title and its vague, cryptic beginning to its ambiguous ending, the new movie Birth presents its audiences with a puzzle of a generally preposterous kind, with a most unsatisfying solution. Although it constantly hints at the possibility of crossing the rigid boundaries of suspense into the rich field of horror or…
Party times
These are busy times in Monroe County politics. For starters, longtime GOP boss Steve Minarik has been named as a frontrunner to succeed the retiring New York State Republican Party chair Alexander “Sandy” Treadwell. The state’s Republicans will meet in Albany next week to elect a new chairperson. Minarik told City Newspaper he’d likely be…
After the vote: the shock of the Red and the Blue
Now, one week after the presidential election, reality has set in. And as noticeable as the horror among Kerry supporters is the shock. It’s not so much that we were confident that Kerry would win (not, at least, until the peculiar election-day exit polls said that he would); it’s that we didn’t seem to recognize…
Post-mortem: shock and awe in Ohio
So what happened in Ohio? Why did a 50-50 state that political experts predicted would tip John Kerry’s way swing right and decide the election for George W. Bush? Hindsight and all that, but from my vantage point as a newspaper editor in a small college town in Appalachian Ohio — a blue oasis in…
Solidly and confidently Red in Monroe County
As the results of last week’s presidential election trickled in and Four More Years began materializing, there was an overwhelming sense that many Democrats were getting schooled. It’s one thing to not have your man win the election. It’s another thing entirely to feel blindsided by the results. Sure, wartime incumbents never get booted from…
Suzanne Strauber
City: Describe why you didn’t like Kerry. Strauber: I don’t know that I didn’t like him. I didn’t really care to get to know him. I already had established that I was going to vote for someone who had the same morals and convictions I do. And while I wasn’t sure of what Kerry’s morals…
Dave Bogdan
City:Can you describe why you didn’t vote for Kerry? Bogdan: Boy. Well, there’s no substance there. The guy was saying anything to get elected. He certainly wasn’t connected to the things I believe in. City: What are some of the things you believe in? Bogdan: A strong defense would be one. 9/11 changed a lot…
Elliott Chun
City: Why didn’t you vote for Kerry? Chun: I feel like the top priorities of this country for the next four years should be focused primarily on the war on terrorism and economic growth and relief. And Kerry’s programs, raising taxes for corporations and small businesses, I feel that is going to be detrimental. By…
Reader feedback 11.10.04
Railing against the election
