A powerful vintage poster exhibit at the University of Rochester challenges how we look at HIV.
AIDS
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28 percent of millennials avoid hugging people with HIV
HIV stigma, misinformation prevalent among young Americans
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Living with HIV
Alberta Willingham will be 43 in a few months, but she’s lucky to be alive. A normal T-cell count in a healthy person is somewhere between 500 and 1,500. Several years ago, Willingham’s was down to 5. T-cells are the white blood cells that mount the fight against fungi, bacteria, and viruses that invade the […]
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THEATER REVIEW: JCC CenterStage’s “The Normal Heart”
When it premiered in 1985 at New York City’s Public Theater, Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart” packed a considerable punch as the first successful mainstream play to tackle public attitudes toward the growing AIDS crisis. Time is not always kind to topical or polemical plays, but a recent Broadway revival reminded us that AIDS is […]
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“Dallas Buyers Club”
His recent work in film displays quite an impressive versatility for the very active and generally underrated Matthew McConaughey. In “The Lincoln Lawyer,” “Magic Mike,” and “Killer Joe,” for example, he plays extremely different characters — a slick defense attorney, a sleazy strip club owner, a soft-spoken, polite hetman/deputy sheriff. His latest picture, “Dallas Buyers […]
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“Rent”
As I imagine everybody knows by now, in the early 1990’s the composer-lyricist Jonathan Larson had the inspiration of reimagining Puccini’s “La Bohème” among the boho set in New York’s Alphabet City. The show, titled “Rent,” was a smash hit on Broadway, won every award imaginable (including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama), made a ton […]
