Writing the lead law, stopping the violence,
finding the ‘best’
Rochester violence
The XX Files 10.26.05
“Can I wear fake gunshot wounds for Halloween?” my 9-year-old said. At a party store, he had seen a kit that contained theatrical glue and a scrap of rubber shaped into a dark bubble of blood — where the bullet went in — surrounded by torn-up rubber skin. I suddenly felt like vomiting. Does he […]
Metro Ink 10.26.05
Send me a postcard The image is about 20 years old, but the distribution method is much newer. | About a month ago, Professor Andrew Davidhazy, chair of RIT’s imaging and photographic technology department, decided to make a postcard out of a distorted, nude photograph he took in the ’80s. He had been putting his […]
Reader Feedback 10.26.05
So we have another under-18 victim of a senseless crime, the sixth or seventh for the year (who is counting?)
โWhat would a safe community look like?โ
For starters, here’s what a safe community wouldn’t look like: a 12-year-old gunned down walking home from a friend’s house; a 2-year-old hospitalized after an illegal handgun went off unexpectedly in her home; a troubled 13-year-old nearly killed by a police officer she charged with a kitchen knife. But this summer, these have been the […]
The beat goes strong
The beat goes strong “I can’t say I was interested before. I’d never really experienced it before,” says Aaron Taylor. “But once I got to actually hear it, like close-to-close, one-on-one, I was very interested.” The recently graduated Taylor took to the drums when he joined John Marshall High School’s pan-drum band. In his […]






