FALL GUIDE ’11: Movie preview
By now you know how Hollywood works, saving its finest films for year’s end, with a couple of non-prestige (read: fun) offerings counterprogrammed against all that Oscar bait. You’ve probably also noticed that the studios tend to cluster their most promising submissions around a holiday. This means that you might find yourself stuck with some…
FALL GUIDE ’11: Special events
BY ALEXANDRA CARMICHAEL AND ERIC REZSNYAK While the new fall arts and cultural seasons are exciting, you shouldn’t spend all your time inside. Fall in Rochester is incredibly beautiful and the days and nights are filled with a variety of special events, festivals, and other activities. The list below includes many of the biggest events…
FALL GUIDE ’11: Theater preview
By Michael Lasser Anybody who can’t find something to see in the five pages of single-spaced listings I perused for the 2011-2012 theater season must be bloody hard to please. They include performances by some 30-odd companies from GevaTheatreCenter and the Rochester Broadway Theater League to Black Sheep Theatre Coalition and Method Machine. You’ll find…
FALL GUIDE ’11: Nature
BY KATHERINE STATHIS There’s something about the strong, silent type. Perhaps it’s the air of mystery, or maybe it’s the reassuring calm. When autumn air gets crisp and lasting daylight more elusive, seeking what endures may even satisfy a primal urge. For that, we need look no further than our remarkable trees. Given the acreage…
Enigmatic cool
Many bands try to work for that perfect goal of marketability: a defined sound, a defined style, and defined licks. Music that people expect, easily squished into some category or another. Not so for Rochester’s Polar Bear Club, which intentionally shoots for ambiguity. The band plays what it wants to play, sounds how it wants…
FALL GUIDE ’11: Art Preview
I crush on autumn so hard. You must understand, my fellow art enthusiasts, that besides being the moody, cozy-layering, tea-drinking time that it is, fall is also when my desk fills up with previews for exhibits taking place now through the springtime. There’s so much to be excited about in the coming year — interesting…
FALL GUIDE ’11: Classical music preview
If the 2010-2011 season was the best classical programming Rochester has seen in 20 years — anchored by the grand finale season of Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor and Music Director Christopher Seaman — the 2011-2012 season will be the year of the GPS. Classical music fans: start your engines, because we are going to be…
FALL GUIDE ’11: Introduction
When will smart people finally perfect cloning? This is what I wonder while scanning the upcoming arts and cultural events listed in this year’s Fall Guide. As I write this I’m trying to figure out how I can be three places at once since not one, not two, but THREE interesting stage shows all open…
