News Briefs 11.13.02
A new county name? There’s a movement afoot to change the name of Monroe County. A small group of local folks is dead serious that it’s time for a new name. Michael Argaman, an activist and financial advisor, is leading the effort. “President James Monroe doesn’t deserve to have the county named after him,”…
To the barricades!
So how depressed are you? The media had predicted that last week’s election would be a cliffhanger. What a hoot. But we should have seen this rout coming. The Democrats caved on Iraq so they could focus on the economy — and then had no message. No plan. No conviction. No fire. Meantime, the…
On the record with The Asylum Street Spankers
It’s Dixieland. It’s Tin Pan Alley jazz and it’s the blues. It’s lonesome, Dylan-esque, ragtime wallowing in the bluegrass. It’s Sunday morning redemption from Saturday night’s temptation. It’s truly inspired and lyrically insane. Listen: “I’ll read Bukowski in the gutter With a hooker on each arm And a wine bottle up my…
Love For Sale
My darlin’ on the wrong coast was sweet enough to hold her cell phone to the speakers as The Blasters played “Shakin'” live in L.A. Reach out and rock someone. The Blasters are back, baby. It was all classic corduroy and sideburns as Thee Shams, from Cincinnati, wailed a la The Kinks at the…
Reader feedback 11.13.02
The county clerk’s letter, Green candidates, Doyle and the United Way
De Palma’s Femme Fatale just a ittle tease
Brian De Palma’s new film, Femme Fatale, begins in darkness, with the muffled but gradually recognizable voices of Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck speaking on the sound track. As light filters by degrees into the frame, the audience sees a television screen showing the climactic scene between the two lovers in Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity.…
Guns kill people, but so do women
[Cue Chandler Bing voice.] Could Michael Moore’s Bowling For Columbine (opening Friday, November 15, at the Little) be released at a more appropriate time? [End Chandler Bing voice.] We’re still finding victims of the Beltway Snipers, who were apparently picking people off from a distance with the impunity of Mark McKinney’s Head Crusher from The…
The Best of Greater Rochester 2002
In this issue, City Newspaper unveils the winners of the 2002 Best of Greater Rochester poll. Over the past few months, City readers have sent in their ballots, voting for the restaurants, stores, people, places and things that they think make this region a great place to live, and it’s time to announce the winners.…
Cobbs Hill diaries
I hit the snooze button on an early spring morning, prop myself up on one elbow, and dial 974-1616 on the bedside phone: “The time is… five… forty… nine… A…. M. The local temperature is… forty… five… degrees.”
As I rise, it’s still dark. I’m on my way to keep an appointment with Rochester’s…
Math or myth?
Modigliani was a noisy drunkard, a passionate womanizer, a hashish eater, a lousy singer, a boisterous poet. He died tragically young, aged 35, an impoverished and unrecognized artist. Such is the legend. Kenneth Wayne, the curator of Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse at Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery and author of the accompanying catalogue, seeks…
…same as the old boss
After a contentious redistricting process and an election notable mostly for its lack of contention, Monroe County voters sent the same crew of state senators and assembly members back to Albany. No incumbent state legislator from the area lost his or her job, despite widespread frustration over the lack of progress our representatives have made…
