Life on the edge
Edith clearly remembers the night she was reunited with her ex-husband. After having no contact for 10 years, he discovered where she lived and traveled a few hundred miles to let her know how he still felt about her. “I didn’t know he had shown up at my house,” she says, “and then, ‘pop, pop,…
FOUND Magazine visit
FOUND Magazine, the voyeur’s treasure-trove of love letters, shopping lists, Polaroids, sketches, and anything else found on the street, is on tour. Publisher Davy Rothbart and his brother Peter were in Providence, Rhode Island, at the end of April, and in December will end their 50-state Slapdance Across America Tour on the West Coast, after…
At least you’ll always have the memories
The motion picture projector not only unreels that famous ribbon of dreams, it also frequently unravels the tangled web of memory. The flashback, one of the most common and ancient devices of film narrative, after all, suggests the easy and immediate power of the cinema to reflect the process of recollection. A number of movies,…
City’s choice: movies
Vincent Gallo has attracted plenty of attention with his new film, The Brown Bunny, the follow-up to Buffalo ’66. Not one to leave his vision up to fate (or collaboration) — Gallo wrote, starred in, directed, edited, and composed the music for Bunny. It tells the story of Bud Clay (Gallo), a motorcycle racer riding…
Curious music in the great outdoors
There’s a new way to enjoy the outdoors in upstate New York. Composer Robert Morris is showing us the way through his own artistic genre, which amounts to a new form of recreation: park-music. Morris, professor and chair of the Eastman School’s Composition Department, composed for the outdoors before. Eastman’s student-run New Music ensemble, Ossia,…
Body count 9.29.04
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: 1043 American soldiers, 135 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 12,943 to 14,997 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning…
Latino Rx
The prescribing doctor’s name should have been at the bottom of the prescription. Instead were the cryptic words Vestibulo de Arena. Hallway of sand. Eventually, someone was able to trace the source of the mystery physician — to a Dr. Sandy Hall. That story got a few laughs when Luisa E. Baars of MAS Translation…
Finding a city oasis
Not many people living outside the 19th Ward can understand why people choose to live there. Then there are the 19th-Warders themselves, a group that has adopted the slogan “Urban by Choice.” Many of these folks are fiercely loyal to their corner of the city. And they sing the praises of its diversity. Barbara and…
Playing ‘political piñata’
City Councilman Tim Mains often jokes that he’s spent the past two years serving as City Hall’s resident political piñata. And it’s an experience that Mains says forced a hard lesson: that “political friends,” as he says, “are sometimes better defined by the adjective than by the noun.” Over the past two years, Mains, a…
Reader feedback 9.29.04
Suburban sprawl, the Bush-Kerry race, city investments
Family vauled 9.29.04
Hum a few bars Okay, I admit it. I’m a sheet-music junkie. For years I’ve purchased it. All kinds. Jazz, show tunes, classical pieces, sacred music, and popular tunes alike. I am particularly fond of vocal scores that allow the contralto in me to break out with attitude. Over the past few years, however, more…
