Matthew Friday, local artist and member of the national antagonistic group the Society for the Representation of Society, has for a long time feared the marginalization of art. So eight years ago Friday, then a student and now an art professor at SUNY Oswego, and various other art, theater, and music students thought they’d cause […]
poor people united
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To the streets: scenes from the protests
Anyone physically close to the Rochester crew that marched through New York City last week knows how determination smells — musty and rank, like a high-school locker room. While many of the 5,000 delegates to the Republican convention stayed in swanky hotels, ate at posh buffets, and saw a Broadway show, many more people […]
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Homeless
The first car is just a warning, but the cop means business. The garage-employee vehicle cruised by, blasted a rude reveille, and moved on — a signal to the sleeping men that it’s time to hit the road. The men rise slowly from the garage floor — a concrete bed feathered with free […]
