The encampment was cleared from Loomis St. on Thursday after the city received complaints from neighbors about trash and drug activity.
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The realistic grief of ‘Cherry’
The characters in the Russo brothers’ new traumatic drama are people struggling with the all-too-common burdens of PTSD, addiction, and mental illness.
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Pittsford doctor charged with manslaughter in overdose death
The doctor prescribed a mix of opioids and other controlled substances to a patient who struggled with addiction, says NYS AG Letitia James.
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Monroe County addiction services are not reaching people of color, director says
Monroe County’s new addiction services director, Trisha Smith, says outpatient detox treatment for people in crisis is wanting.
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Opioid crisis spares no one
Sometimes, it seems as if drugs have declared a war on us. The United States has gone through a few heroin epidemics since the drug was first synthesized in the closing years of the 19th century. Crack cocaine ripped through cities in the 1980’s and 1990’s. And meth is a modern-day plague in some Southern […]
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Film Review: “Nymphomaniac: Volume II”
In the final moments of Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac: Volume I,” his self-loathing, sex-addicted heroine, Joe (played by Stacy Martin as a young adult, and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a grown woman), had gone sexually numb, discovering that she was suddenly incapable of orgasm just as she had reconnected with her on-again-off-again lover, Jerôme (Shia LaBeouf). […]
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Film Review: “Nymphomaniac: Volume I”
“Nymphomaniac: Volume I,” the latest film from Danish filmmaker and all-around provocateur Lars von Trier, sets out to document the lengthy and varied sexual history of one particularly insatiable woman. Though the film originally made its festival debut early this year in a five-and-a-half hour director’s cut, the decision was made to release a slightly […]
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Guy flick, chick flick, skin flick
Joseph Gordon-Levitt might possibly regard “Don Jon” as his Orson Welles achievement — after all, he wrote, directed, and stars in the movie, a Hollywood trifecta. The picture may perhaps rank somewhat below “Citizen Kane” in quality, but we all know that standards everywhere have declined. Rather than an American epic, it begins as an […]
