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Screen time
The second annual High Falls Film Festival returns to Rochester with the best cinema has to offer…
High Falls Festival Films
Wednesday, October 30 Frida Julie Taymor, US, 120 minutes Dryden Theatre, 7 p.m. Based on Hayden Herrera’s book, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, and cooked up by at least four different screenwriters, Frida begins in true biopic fashion by showing Kahlo (Salma Hayek) on the verge of checking out before it flashes back to…
Eat these shorts
The feature films get most of the attention at High Falls and pretty much every other festival in the world. But that doesn’t mean you should ignore the short films. Look at it this way: The packaging might be smaller, but the quality is just as good. Look at John Stockton, or Napoleon, or even…
For the kids
With films about huffing gas, Bloody Sunday, and capital punishment, you might think the High Falls Film Festival would be the last place you’d want to take your kids (well, almost the last place — there’s also that family vacation down I-95). Think again. This year’s festival offers not one, but two special programs designed…
The schedule
Wednesday, October 30 Frida, 7 p.m., Dryden Theatre Chaos, 7:15 p.m., Little Theatre #1 Lift, 7:30 p.m., Little Theatre #2 Take Care of My Cat, 9:30 p.m., Little Theatre #1 Black Chicks Talking, 9:30 p.m., Little Theatre #2 Thursday, October 31 How I Killed My Father, 5 p.m., Dryden Theatre Sister Helen, 6 p.m., Little…
Mourning and huffing
An interview with Gordy Hoffman
Go ahead and have a cow, man
An interview with Nancy Cartwright
All she wanted was a free breakfast…
An interview with Lainie Kazan
Like flies on sherbet
I first heard the buzz about Barfly from a bartender at Lola, the bistro on Monroe Avenue. It had opened the night before, he said, and a swarm had formed for the occasion. That’ll happen when a hip hangout drops on the scene, especially at East and Alexander. Lola and Barfly are both owned…
Killed by television
The hardiest of all the cinema perennials, as its history through the 20th century demonstrates, the horror film thrives in just about any climate or conditions. From its beginnings in the days of the silents through the present time, it has survived even the shocking, very real horrors of a turbulent history: world wars, genocide,…
Superduty moves your booty
“It’s totally a history lesson,” says DJ superDimensional, dressed today as Tony Bacchiocchi, a customer at a local record store in search of vinyl. He looks more like the associate art director at Kodak who pays his bills than one-half of Rochester’s Framers of Funk, Superduty. Describing Superduty’s upcoming show (October 25, at The Bug…
Endorsements
Given the mess that is New York’s state government, voters might wonder whether there’s any point in voting in state races on November 5. A representative democracy this is not. Republicans have a stronghold on the Senate, the Democrats on the Assembly, and leaders of both are not only content to keep things that…
News briefs 10.23.02
Ferry’s leaps and bounds Amid political currents — never mind the economy and the state budget — the Rochester-Toronto fast ferry project’s compass spins wildly. In just the past week, local media have run big headlines on some twists and turns: • The project ran aground because of holdups in promised state funding; shipbuilder…
Getting fiscal: municipalities beat each other
This being election season, real issues are as scarce as hen’s dentures. Sound bites degrade to dum-dum bullets: “I’ll create jobs,” “I’ll fight crime.” Meanwhile, the manifest wounds lie open. Society has fallen on barbed wire; every small movement causes another cut. And the issue that cuts most deeply on the domestic front — economic…
Voters’ guide 2002
Welcome to City’s 2002 voters’ guide. In this issue, we meet most of the candidates for seats representing Rochester and its surrounding suburbs in the New York State Senate and Assembly. Next week, we’ll see what Congressional candidates vying to represent parts of Monroe County have to say for themselves, and make more fun of…
