Congressional District 28: Louise Slaughter
The race for the 28th Congressional District pits eight-term Democratic incumbent Louise Slaughter of Fairport, who’s also running on the Working Families Party line, against Henry Wojtaszek, the City Attorney of North Tonawanda, who’s campaigning on the Republican, Independence, and Conservative party tickets. Political and regional concerns will likely determine most District 28 voters’…
Congressional District 29: Rachel Treichler
As rich Republican congressmen go, Amo Houghton’s not such a bad guy. The former CEO of Corning Glass, Inc., has served a sprawling district in the southern tier since 1987. Redistricting has added Pittsford and parts of Perinton and Brighton to his domain, so we wanted to get to know him a little bit. …
The vital center: river talk
Stand beside the Genesee River in the middle of downtown — the several hundred yard stretch from East Main north to Andrews Street — and you feel the impure thoughts welling up. Is this a river or a canal? What’s in that soup of muddy water and driftwood? Is this a living stream or a…
Reader Feedback 10.30.02
The Greens and Nader, the Wegman gift, the Bush Iraq policy
A model for metro
When I moved here in the 1960s, Rochester was a community of promise, with a bustling downtown and great plans for the future. It felt more vibrant, more big-city than the two Southern cities I knew best, my hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Nashville, near which my husband grew up. That’s no longer the…
Degas in 3D
There’s something bewitching about the new exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery. The Degas bronzes, which form the core of the show, are dazzlingly seductive in their beauty. But what lies beneath those gleaming surfaces? The story begins at the end, when Degas died in 1917 after years of failing health and virtual blindness.…
New York State Governor: Stanley Aronowitz
Government in any state is an easy target for citizen criticism. But in New York, the criticism is justified. Run by a handful of political leaders, deliberations and decisions often made in secret, dominated by money and special-interest influence, New York makes a mockery out of democracy. This year, in particular, New Yorkers may…
Another beautiful mind
I think back fondly on an article called “On The Nature Of Mathematical Proof,” published more than 40 years ago by a bright undergraduate math major at Harvard named Joel Cohen. In it, Cohen proved mathematically that “Alexander the Great did not exist and he had an infinite number of limbs.” It follows that…
Fulfilled
Anton and I grew up in a small periwinkle house with the highest house number in America. It was official. In the record books. Men with hats and cameras would come periodically to take our photograph in front of it and ask us what it was like living there, having to address letters and so…
The truth about Marky
If nothing else, Jonathan Demme’s new movie, The Truth About Charlie, demonstrates a familiar and sometimes entertaining combination of the courageous and the foolhardy — topped off, unfortunately, with the worst sort of Hollywoodthink. Both the courage and the foolishness derive from the fact that the picture is a remake of Stanley Donen’s 1963 comedy…
How to get on Santa’s “naughty” list
Paul Schrader’s Auto Focus (opening Friday, November 1, at the Little), a look at the life of Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane, is another by-the-numbers, end-of-the-year biopic that would probably be fairly uninteresting if it weren’t for the deviant subject matter. Apparently Crane, unbeknownst to his millions of fans, was a sick little monkey who…
Home, sweet venue
The new House music
Live fast, die young
New York City madmen/legends Simon And The Bar Sinisters completely blindsided the unsuspecting punk element at Monty’s Krown with an intense set of rockabilly, punk, and frank, Bowery boy self-deprecation. With just drop-tuned guitar and drums, Simon dared the audience to stump the band and boogie. Also in the “we don’t need no stinkin’…
Documented arrogance
On July 18, 1870 — the day before France declared war on Prussia — the First Vatican Council met for a vote on papal “primacy” and infallibility. There were “533 Fathers on hand, and all but two voted placet [yes],” writes Father Robert F. McNamara in his history of the Rochester diocese. Rochester Bishop Bernard…
Desperately seeking Dick
When the candidates for congressional seats representing parts of Monroe County came in for interviews, we barraged them with a stream of tough questions: “Do you support an invasion of Iraq?” “How can the US create peace between Israelis and Palestinians?” “Should Medicare cover prescription drugs?” But the last question was by far the…
Congressional District 25: No endorsement
Politically progressive people in Webster and most parts of Penfield and Irondequoit must be mourning the fact that Congressional redistricting took them out of liberal Democrat Louise Slaughter’s 28th District. They’re now in the dark realm known as conservative Republican James Walsh’s 25th District. Walsh, who’s running for an eighth term this year in…
Congressional District 26: Ayesha Nariman
Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds has plenty of time outside his legislative schedule to schmooze with wealthy donors on the golf course and feast with fat cats at fundraising dinners. The two-term Erie County Congressman, whose new district includes most of Greece and the southern slice of Monroe County, is charging to the front of the…
