Going over to the dark side
Going over to the dark side Please help me. I swear I never meant this to happen. I know they are the enemy, but I’ve done it. But don’t blame me — my son turned me into a Yankees fan. I grew up loving baseball. But (again, help me), I was a Sox fan —…
Knock out
It was a cool July night this past summer as Charles “The Natural” Murray faced his final opponent, gloves up, eyes intent. It wanted to rain. The sky threatened to break as 5,000 boxing fans piled into Frontier Field to see 18 fighters square off in nine pairings, including Murray’s swan song. They call it…
Look at the man behind the fashion statement
Now that he belongs to history, Che Guevara transcends his time and place and the politics that initially propelled him into international celebrity. Like some movie star or rock singer, the handsome face of the Marxist soldier-poet, peripatetic warrior for revolutionary causes, friend and advisor to Fidel Castro, boogeyman to Cuban immigrants, inspiration for countless…
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If you’re easily offended, don’t see Team America: World Police. But if you’re partial to blistering, nonpartisan satire done with puppets who curse, puke, sing, and bring the Kama Sutra to life, it’s your lucky f**king day. The movie follows the exploits of Team America, a group of jingoistic do-gooders who travel the globe hunting…
The pipes are calling
Jim Malcolm, the singer and guitarist with the Scottish band Old Blind Dogs, is going to church before he plays at one of our local watering holes. In his online tour diary, Malcolm describes himself as being too ‘Presbyterianized’ to feel comfortable in the red-light districts of German cities where he plays, but it isn’t…
Maggie got it right
OK, let’s get this off our chests. When Bill Johnson ran for county executive last year, he told the truth: The county would have to raise property taxes. Maggie Brooks insisted that she wouldn’t do that. Bill Johnson lost the election. Maggie Brooks won. Taxes certainly weren’t the only issue in the campaign;…
City endorsements
It is an important, and troubling, election year. Voters’ focus has been principally on the presidential campaign, but there are Senate, Congressional, state, and local offices on the November 2 ballot as well. In nearly all of these races, the campaign season has been starkly different from that of the Bush-Kerry campaign: quiet, with…
Bad dog, bad dog
You can hear the blues blast out of the bowels of RIT’s Student Alumni Union Building every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Just like it’s done for the past 15 years — that’s 105 in dog years — with Gary Reinhard and Jeff Harris, hosts of Bad Dog Blues, 89.7 WITR’s weekly foray…
Reader feedback 10.20.04
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Body count 10.20.2004
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: 1099 American soldiers, 138 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 13,278 to 15,357 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning…
Making design dreams true
What would you do if you could take a magic wand to your neighborhood? Tantalizing as this sounds, it might seem like a futile exercise. After all, how often does the public get to design its own environment? It might come as a surprise, but neighborhood design charrettes like the one that took place last…
The choice is yours, locally and nationally
“I’m not just running against David Koon. He’s a nice fellow, you know, I got nothing bad to say about him,” says Mark Johns. “But he has become weak in the face of the big money and the big power, and he has done a 180-degree turn. He used to criticize it, now he says…
131st Assembly District
In an election year where Albany veterans are under unprecedented fire, popular rage may be channeled locally into a single race. Unlike most state legislature seats, which are gerrymandered into virtually unassailable partisan strongholds, the 131st Assembly District offers a tighter race. Incumbent Democrat Susan John holds an advantage of less than 10,000 among registered…
29th Congressional District
With Republicans enjoying a slim 22-member majority in the 435-member US House of Representatives, both parties are paying close attention to seats around the nation that seem in play. One of those lies on Rochester’s doorstep, with 18-year Republican Congressman Amo Houghton of Corning is retiring, clearing the field for two fresh challengers. Houghton’s former…
Whoever, whatever, whenever
Roomful Of Blues November 12 Montage Grille * new entry KMFDM October 31 Water Street Green Day w/New Found Glory November 5 Blue Cross Arena Donna The Buffalo November 6 Water Street C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band November 6 NOLA’s BBQ Incubus November 6 Blue Cross Arena Tony Bennett November 7 Eastman…
Visit the documentary buffet
With 22 television monitors relaying images at once, More than Moore, a video installation at Visual Studies Workshop, instills a feeling of sensory saturation, even though the TV sets are all silent. (Headphones are provided.) VSW Associate Gallery Director-Acting Gallery Manager Bleu Cease is trying to make independent political documentaries more accessible to the public.…
