Collecting the marks of the modern
There aren’t too many terms that have the ability to disquiet the bourgeois while enlivening the avant-garde, but “modern” or “modernism” can do just that. To be a modern painter can imply both a commitment to formal innovation and a challenge to the status quo. In this way, modernism in art can range from…
Best of Greater Rochester 2003
City Newspaper readers have been voting, our staff has been counting votes, and our writers have been mulling over their personal favorite picks. Yes, it’s that time of year again: time for the Best of Greater Rochester 2003 poll. In our readers’ choices section you will find out which restaurants, people, clubs, community projects, parks,…
Best of Greater Rochester 2003 Readers’ Choice Awards
The readers have spoken. These are the City Newspaper’s readers’ choices for the Best of Rochester 2003.
Best of Greater Rochester 2003 Critics’ Choice Awards
Our writers have been scouring the city — or just wearing grooves in the routes to their favorite spots — and looking inside themselves to choose a small handful of their favorite Rochester-area attractions. You’ve read their work in the weekly paper — Bill Chaisson, Peter Conners, Dave Cross, Erica Curtis, Frank De Blase, Christine…
So long, brown sauce of the suburbs
The Rochester area has plenty of excellent dining options for the adventurous eater. When asked to pick a favorite, I usually mention places in several categories: the Seoul Garden, Food at Fisher’s Station, Ming’s, the Rio, Thali of India, or Le Lemongrass, depending on my mood. But no restaurant has demonstrated consistent excellence like…
Don’t mess with Texas
Devotees of horror recall the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) with that peculiar mixture of terror and delight that distinguishes the genuine student of the form from the mere shudder-seeking dilettante. Though made by virtual unknowns, most of whom, with the exception of its director and co-writer Tobe Hooper, are now forgotten, and on a…
’Tis the (early) season
Pieces of April (opens Friday, November 7, at the Little) has two separate storylines that approach each other like a pair of proverbial math-class trains. Train A is a dumpy apartment on the Lower East Side, home to 21-year-old punk-princess April Burns (Katie Holmes) and her new boyfriend Bobby (Derek Luke). April, who is like…
Sooty skies: all ‘downwinders’ beware
Love it or hate it, this region has its share of hazy, if not lazy days. Credit the “lake effect” in part. But there’s also an atmospheric effect that could be termed “coal comfort.” The Great Lakes region has long been dependent on large coal-fired electric-generating plants. And despite the availability of cleaner technologies, some…
Health scare: So long, school nurses?
It seems exactly backwards: guaranteed medical care for suburban school kids, but none for city kids, where the need is greatest. “Sometimes, they’re [school nurses] the primary health-care provider for our kids,” says city schools spokesperson Barbara Jarzyniecki. The county health department administers the city’s school-nurse program. It has done so since it…
News briefs 11.5.03
Holy spirits A priest, a nun, and a lay person walk into a bar… My Roman Catholic memories are Draconian at best. Though I grew up in the liberal ’70s with nuns flying under radar in lay clothes, the majority of sisters still ominously roamed my impressionable pre-teen earth. Catholicism gave me a firm…
Reader Feedback 11.5.03
The Doyle budget, peace demonstrations, bus pleasures
Mud, blood, and soul
The Mars Volta is punk-rock Rush. Swimming at Water Street Music Hall last week in atmospheric dissonance, the San Antonio prog outfit played a long, six-song set (one tune clocking in at a mere 45 minutes). They accurately portrayed the comatose limbo of their latest album. I’m actually surprised that the young crowd got it.…
