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Extreme art is supreme When I was a kid, going to art galleries just wasn't a good time. There was nothing to look at but stiffly posed figures wearing funny clothes. And the art was boring, too. Visit Extreme Materials at the MemorialArtGallery through April 9, and you'll see those days are long gone. Orange peels are
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Inbox Remarkable correspondence from the consistently unremarkable world of email Ian Rowland is, by his own definition, a "mind reader and a mind-motivator." Essentially, he is an entertainer who does magic and motivational speaking. However, he describes his performances as "psychic-flavored" on his website, which has attracted an unbelievable variety of emails. Ian does not claim to
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I am watching Ukrainian MTV on a large screen in the back of the room. My server and cook, Roman Kshysyak, is having a running conversation with me throughout the meal. Every few minutes, an impossibly stylish woman who looks as if she walked out of Connery Bond flick strides by. Table settings include
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In the early 1960s, Nile perch were introduced into Lake Victoria in an effort to restock depleted waters, a lucrative move that brought fishing jobs to Tanzania and lined the pockets of enterprising exporters satiating European hunger for the one of the biggest freshwater fish around. What probably seemed like a good idea at the
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Once asked why he had forsaken sportswriting, the novelist and playwright Paul Gallico replied, succinctly, "February." Although the response dates from the olden times, when hockey entertained a scant few fans, the steady tom-tom of basketballs echoed in only a few arenas, before the Super Bowl, before fabricated sports like arena football and
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Though Trip Throttle's techno-pop isn't nearly as angular or regimented as say, German synth-pop pioneers Kraftwerk, keyboardist and percussion programmer Brian "B Rob" Robinson cites that band as a major influence. He also credits what he calls "Miami-type freestyle music." This somehow embarrasses him. "Cause it sucks," Robinson says. Well, whether Robinson and guitarist Shawn "Trip" Mott like
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For a lot of singers, maintaining adequate pitch on one note or tone is challenging enough. Each one of the Tuvan throat singers in Huun-Huur-Tu emits three distinct tones --- not including incidental harmonics --- and they sound like human bagpipes or caribou in heat. During its sold out Tuesday night Kilbourn Hall show, the quartet
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[image-1]Amy LaVere This World Is Not My Home New Archer Legendary Memphis producer Jim Dickinson, who lends his piano talents to much of this album, says that singer-bassist Amy LaVere "can triple-slap an upright bass like Willie Dixon on steroids." That's a hell of an endorsement, and it may be true (LaVere played in a punk band as a teenager
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Salt and water, flying bodies and ghostly texts... Deborah Jack's installation currently on view at Rochester Contemporary transforms the exhibition space into a spectral environment. Three large projections illuminate the space, while, almost as if floating by, a running stream of ambiguous, poetic text is printed on the walls. The wall text is a combination of highly
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[image-1]For 15 years, cell biologist Susan Wood worked as a Washington insider fighting for the inclusion of women in clinical trials, rallying the support of women in Congress, and tackling public policy obstacles. In 2000, she became the director of the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Women's Health --- a prestigious post from
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The next Congressional election is only nine months away, and this year, Western New York just might matter. With Republicans in the House of Representatives in disarray, the president's poll numbers stalling, and the DeLay-Cunningham-Abramoff scandals making the news, some Democrats smell an opening. It's probably overly optimistic for the Dems to think they'll seize control
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[image-1] A colorful religion A burst of color greets you when you step across the threshold at the Amitabha Foundation. From the thankas and paintings that adorn the walls to the figures and candles on the altar, vibrant colors are everywhere. | While most people may go to this Tibetan Buddhist center to find a way
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NOW WHAT? Iraq is on its way to fracturing. This has nothing to do with how smart, or educated, or worldly, or "equal to us" portions of the Iraqi population are. It has nothing to do with mothballed generals or America bashing. It has everything to do with the polarized belief systems, cultural history, tribal
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The totals: 2240 US soldiers, 203 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 28,287 to 31,891 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to January 28. 16,420 US soldiers were wounded in action between March 2003 and January 2006, according to DoD reports. American soldiers killed between January 17 and 28: Staff Sergeant Rickey Scott, 30; Columbus,
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The Rochester School Board is still one member short. At a special meeting on January 24, the board's six current members couldn't agree on a replacement for Darryl Porter, who has joined the Duffy administration. If they can't select a new board member by February 4, under state law board president Domingo Garcia has
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Rochester's Oldest Residential Neighborhood Located on a tree-lined street in the heart of Corn Hill, this attractive brick home sits just beyond a charming wrought iron fence. Corn Hill or the Third Ward as it was called, is Rochester's oldest residential neighborhood. Here pioneer settlers built attractive homes of diverse architectural
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For most musicians the worlds of classical and pop music move in different orbits, if not galaxies. But when he sits down Tuesday at the Steinway piano in Kilbourn Hall, Christopher O'Riley will bring these spheres together. [image-1] O'Riley is best known as the host of From theTop(5 p.m. Sundays, WXXI FM 91.5). The program, showcasing
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Brooklyn's The Giraffes bailed on their Tuesday night Bug Jar show so The Teenage Junkies and The Expired picked up the slack. The new-on-the-scene Expired plays old-school (for lack of a better term) punk rock with minimal frills and gang vocals. You know, the good stuff, the real stuff. I look forward to hearing
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[image-1]It's such a loaded term. Our first reaction is that it's just a sad case of internal racism, black kids being peer-pressured into performing badly in school. But, like most issues involving race or class, it's more complicated than that. University of Rochester Professor Signithia Fordham, who has spent a portion of her
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It's probably about time you met Andrew Bujalski, but I'll dish a little before he shows up so it's not a totally blind date. The Boston-based filmmaker has crafted two low-budget, 16mm affairs that have made quiet yet deep splashes in the world of independent cinema and earned him comparisons to mortal gods with names
