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As you approach the entrance to the gallery, you can hear Law & Order: Crimes Scenes before you can see anything. It is only after you enter the gallery from the hallway that you immediately encounter six television screens, each continuously playing and replaying the teasers for six different episodes. A couple walks down the street,
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Walking into the lobby of HOPE Initiatives' Anson Street offices, there's little to identify the place as home to a religious group. Faux-marble paneling frames a receptionist's window, and off to the side sit a few chairs for visitors. The room's walls are devoid of the symbols that often distinguish religious groups from their
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Georgia on your kid's mind When is Georgia only 60 miles from Rochester? When her paintings are on exhibit at Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Placeruns through May 8. O'Keeffe's landscapes hang next to photographs of the scenes, which makes this exhibit very accessible. Rather than copy desert views, O'Keeffe
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I find the Super Bowl to be an almost sickening celebration of corporate excess and gluttony. And I even covered the game a few months after September 11, 2001, when the festivities were supposed to be more subdued. I didn't see anybody going without. People stuffed their faces at the pre-game Super Bowl brunch, at the post-game
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A decade ago, the news trickled in, accompanied by images of unparalleled savagery, of massacres in a country few people in the West had ever heard of, on a continent few cared about, and involving class, tribal, and ethnic tensions almost nobody comprehended. In the midst of one of those messy and complicated civil
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If I pick up a thank-you note to send to Kevin Bacon, would you guys sign it? It really is the least we can do, seeing as he might be the most underappreciated actor around (now that Johnny Depp has caught Oscar's eye, anyway). His gut-wrenching turn as a prisoner in Murder in the First
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You might have to go back as far as John Coltrane's Stellar Regions (1967) to find an album with as vast a concept as Stefon Harris' TheGrand Unification Theory. Then again, Harris is not what you'd call a one-dimensional musician. Having placed second to vibes legend Bobby Hutcherson (and first in the Rising Star category) in
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I'm way above the fray up here in this SUV. I'm head and shoulders above you and your car and I like the view. You can't mess with me up here. You can't get at my children. What, kids? You felt a bump? That was probably some little car down there, or maybe a pedestrian. The
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Isabel Rosa, Duncan McElroye, and Ebonee Johnson want everyone to get tested. And they can't say it enough. "We want to get them tested," McElroye says. "We can't say what number, but any number. Just to start the ball rolling." The three work at Action Front Center, an HIV/AIDS outreach center on Chestnut Street,
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The totals: 1,423 American soldiers, 171 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 15,612 to 17,842 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to February 1. American soldiers killed from Jan 26-Feb 1: Sergeant Leonard W. Adams, 42; Mooresville, North Carolina | Staff Sergeant Jose C. Rangel, 43; Saratoga, California | Sergeant
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When County Executive Maggie Brooks declared at the outset of her first-ever State of the County Address that "the state of our county has greatly improved," she said she did so "with a clear vision for our future." But what exactly that vision is was unclear: Very little of what Brooks addressed was new. There was, of course,
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BUYING THE NEWS Barely a few weeks after your eye-opening article on the genesis of fascism ("Fascism in America?" December 8), we learn that this administration has misappropriated taxpayer funds to pay journalists to shill for it, and to create three (count them: 3) phony "news" videos designed to bamboozle Americans, one of which was actually
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The jam session at the Rochester International Jazz Festival was just heating up one night last June when a man with a tenor saxophone stepped on stage to join the Bob Sneider Trio on "Stella by Starlight." I was skeptical. He looked more like a businessman than a performer. But when
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There are phrases you almost can't use because their meanings are so particular to the receiver. "God" is like that, or "Scott Norwood." A food writer has to be careful saying "Mexican cuisine." To some, it engenders visions of giant, flour tortillas stuffed full of rice and other fillings. For those who've traveled in Mexico,
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Super Bowl XXXIX featured no fake mooning incidents, no Desperate Housewives and, most important, no wardrobe malfunctions. I didn't see a single gratuitous cheerleader shot. Come to think of it, I barely saw any women, which has prompted me to demand the FCC launch a full-scale investigation into whether the Fox telecast was directed by
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A decade ago, the news trickled in, accompanied by images of unparalleled savagery, of massacres in a country few people in the West had ever heard of, on a continent few cared about, and involving class, tribal, and ethnic tensions almost nobody comprehended. In the midst of one of those messy and complicated civil
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We're all grown-ups here, so I'm going to be blunt: There's really only one reason anyone would go see a controversial film in which a hot French model and Italy's most famous male porn star spend four nights sans clothes at a remote waterfront chateau. Yeah, you could argue with me and claim that
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You shouldn't expect to find so much possibility hidden in a severed human ear. But when that ear's a prop in a David Lynch film, there's nothing stopping it from becoming the key to hell. Much has been made of Lynch's 1986 movie Blue Velvet (Wednesday, February 9, Dryden Theatre, 900 East Avenue,
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In some narrow circles the backbeat has been given a bad rap. It has been misappropriated into some of the worst music ever --- though it shows up in some of the best. It has been frowned upon as lowbrow and pedestrian. Yet the backbeat provides the rhythm for virtually all music. Don't fear
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Jolie Holland escondida Anti Jolie Holland sings songs that sound as if they just got off the train in the big city. Whether it's rooted in Appalachia or somewhere in the Delta, Holland's music moves with an unwavering confidence, wonder, and charm. Her voice is full of honeyed tones and narcotic phrasing that exude haphazard confidence and spooky
