Shipping Dock’s “This Is How It Goes”
Neil LaBute’s interracial love triangle goes very wrong, very well
“All the King’s Men”
The tragedy of Southern politics Movies In this season of great expectations and diminished achievements, the remake of All the King’s Men may surpass The Black Dahlia as the most disappointing work of them all. In adapting Robert Penn Warren’s well-known novel and updating the original movie, the new film purportedly suggests some contemporary connection…
“The Science of Sleep”
How dreams are prepared Movies Director Michel Gondry is so predictably unpredictable. After making a pair of this young century’s more original movies with screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (2001’s bizarre Human Nature and 2004’s arguably flawless Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Gondry chose to stifle his inventive whimsy in the service of comedian Dave Chappelle…
Gerry Niewood
Wind among the reeds Gerry Niewood casts spells on saxophone and flute Music If there was a turning point in the life of Gerry Niewood, it occurred in a corporate personnel office soon after he had earned a degree in industrial relations from the University of Buffalo. “I went to Xerox for an interview,” says…
I SCENE IT 09-27-06
Ten Years After 40 years later Jonny Lives!bailed on the Wednesday rock ‘n’ roll spectacular with British rockers The Thieves at the Bug Jar. So The Apostles Of The Hidden Son hit the stage rail skinny, with 2/3 of the group under feral canopies of hair that looked more like explosions than ‘dos. They kicked…
How bad can it get?
Urban journal I’m beginning to feel like we’re all on a runaway train, hurtling toward disaster. The latest documentation of how bad things are: a report from the US intelligence community — the intelligence community — saying that our war in Iraq has increased the terrorism threat. The response from the White House and Republican…
Metro ink – 09.27.06
SATURDAY MORNING SALSA For some, Latin music’s polyrhythmic frenzy and joy might be a bit much so early in the morning. Yet for the past three years, Javier Rivera’s “Esencia Latina” has kicked off each morning on Jazz 90.1 WGMC — at 6 a.m. “It’s been fun,” Rivera says rapid-fire through an ever-present smile. He…
Reader feedback – 09.27.06
Developing downtown, helping the city
Batiste Interview
Prepare for a long war A retired general stays on the attack Retired Army Major General John Batiste has lived in Rochester for less than a year, but his outspoken criticism of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has quickly made him one of the area’s most well-known residents. Batiste, who moved to Rochester to join…
Cost of war – 09.27.06
The totals: 2702 US soldiers, 235 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 43,426 to 48,215 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to September 25. 4139 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports. American soldiers killed between September…
Music reviews – 09.27.06
This week: Discs by The Mooney Suzuki, The Melvins, Sarah Chang, Frank Kimbrough
44 Alameda Street
44 Alameda Street, Maplewood Alameda is one great street. Stately early 20th century homes, a tree canopy, neighbors young and old enjoying block parties and projects, and all the benefits of living in Historic Maplewood. The house at 44 Alameda is in the middle of the action, and it is one great house. The property…
Visiting Toronto Youth Theatre
Toronto Youth Theatre A few years back, my son and I sat adrift in a Toronto hotel restaurant, considering our respective breakfasts. He was of an age when our interests did not necessarily intersect. And we were tired — not exactly up for a day at the museum or the zoo. Unaccustomed as I was…
Home grown
JoEllen Martino, the GenevaCentralSchool District’s food-service director, isn’t picky about the size of her broccoli — or apples, pears, or tomatoes, for that matter. “I just got what was left over, which was fine by me because we didn’t care what size it was,” says Martino, referring to a school lunch order she made earlier…
Exhausted possibilities
Kids’ music seems the most marginal of all markets compared to others currently available by the music industry. Once IbrahimAdhem saw a stone on which was written, “Turn me over and read.” On the other side he read, “You do not practice what you know. Why, then, do you seek what you know not?” —…
Alan Singer at Gallery at Bausch & Lomb
Art Two new exhibitions, one currently at the Gallery at Bausch & Lomb Place and an upcoming one at the Mercer Gallery at MCC, feature the work of Alan Singer. Meta/morph at Bausch & Lomb juxtaposes Singer’s watercolor and digital transfer monoprints with Tarrant Clements’ predominately wood, wire, and oil paint constructions. At the Mercer,…
“Star Fox: Command”
“Command” performance The Nintendo DS has been home to some of the weirdest, wackiest, and just plain fun games over its nearly two-year lifespan, and part of its appeal has been the potential behind its touch screen-based controls to create some truly creative gameplay experiences. It’s no surprise, then, that some of Nintendo’s most beloved…
Pilobolus Dance Theater
All the right moves Pilobolus combines dance, acrobatics, acting and more Part dance, part acrobatics, part physics, part theater — and all entertainment — Pilobolus Dance Theater is an icon of unconventionality even in the unconventional world of modern dance. Rochesterians will get their chance to see what all the fuss is about when the…
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
On top of Spaghetti So rarely does pop culture send out tiny, brilliant flares that I want to hide the ball for a moment. So let me begin with this e-mail: “I have recently read your article to the [Kansas] school board. You seem to be arguing that the FSM created the earth. I believe…
