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Mural series ‘Her Voice Carries’ lifts local women
Rochester-based artist Sarah Rutherford is in the midst of a new series of murals that spotlight local women who work to lift up the voices of others.
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Cherie Currie
In 1975 an all-teenage-girl band was basically unheard of. Sure, there were female artists kicking around. But for the most part they were plugged into bands with dudes. Enter The Runaways: brash, ballsy, raw, rocking, and all female. The band was formed by drummer Sandy West and guitarist Joan Jett after producer and rock ‘n’ […]
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“The Heat”
The buddy-cop genre has always been an almost exclusively male club. The plots of these films typically follow a strict formula revolving around two law-enforcement types whose personalities clash upon first meeting, but who must find a way to work together to bring down a big bad, violating the civil rights of every suspect they […]
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THEATER REVIEW: “Steel Magnolias”
Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias” has remained consistently popular since making its stage debut in 1987. Bolstered by a successful, star-studded film adaptation a few years later, the play continues to be staged at numerous theaters across the country and just last year was adapted again for a made-for-TV movie featuring an all-African-American cast. The play’s […]
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THEATER REVIEW: “Venus in Fur”
“Venus in Furs” is not pornography. We are told this several times by Thomas, the playwright appearing in the play “Venus in Fur” (note the singular), now playing on the Geva Theatre Nextstage. In Geva’s “Venus,” Thomas is the writer and director of a theatrical adaptation of the controversial 1870 novel “Venus in Furs” by […]
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The XX Files
The woman on the line sounded liked she was in her late 50s. She seemed nice, maybe a little tired. I’d later learn why. She said she was conducting a poll about health care for New York State. I know people are chosen at random for polls. But it doesn’t feel random. Especially since […]
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The XX Files
I confess to feeling more than just a little freaked out by all these stories lately about violence against women. I’m not alone; a recent poll shows that the top priority of women, over abortion and equal pay, is finding a solution to domestic violence. When they’re not abducting or raping, men seem to […]
