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Urinetown | through August 6 | Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Avenue, 461-2000 ext. 235 | $15-$18 | www.jccrochester.org. Urine for a surprise With a title like Urinetown,it has to be good. And the "urine" in Urinetown can be taken literally. In a future where drought prevails, H2O has become a precious commodity. In an
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You see a young girl with a guitar perched on a stool on a makeshift stage in a dimly lit coffee house, and you just know what's going to happen next, right? There'll be some left-wing caterwauling, a litany of boy-bashing rhetoric over three or four well-worn guitar chords, and plenty of overwrought passion and
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Balloon boon "Airigami: the art of folding air in specially prepared latex containers." I love anyone who can raise whimsy to the level of art. I love Larry Moss. He has made the world safe for balloon sculpture. At www.airigami.com, you can see the fantastic flying octopus (almost 20,000 balloons, 10,000 cubic feet of helium)
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Make a stand kneeling On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will yield protection from the greatest fear. Those who follow this path, Arjuna, who resolve deep within themselves to seek Me alone, attain singleness of purpose. For those who lack this
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There's no place like Chrome One surefire way to capture a gamer's attention is to use mech, or giant robots, the combat of which has long been a staple of many a video game. However, as of late, there has been one subset of mech fighting that has been startlingly absent in the gaming world,
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Arrested developments Americans love their famous people. And we love it even more when they screw up. A little celebrity schadenfreude helps make the day go by, and that's why we've bookmarked The Smoking Gun's collection of police mug shots of the rich and famous --- or sometimes just infamous --- at www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/index.html. They're all
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Tricia Donovan, like many officials in the Women's Professional Football League, pulls double duty to help the league survive. Not only is she the owner of a new WPFL franchise, the New England Intensity, but she also helps the league with public relations. That's because the WPFL, which is entering its eighth year of existence,
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Lady in the Water, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is now playing at Culver Ridge 16, Pittsford Cinemas, Henrietta 18, Webster 12, Tinseltown, Greece Ridge 12, and Eastview 13. Wet, weird, and absurd Whatever else they may accomplish, the films of M. Night Shyamalan exhibit an odd and often original imagination. They explore
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The Proposition (R), directed by John Hillcoat, opens Friday, August 4, at Little Theatres and Movies 10 | Who Killed the Electric Car?(PG), directed by Chris Paine, opens Friday, August 4, at Little Theatres and Pittsford Cinema. Operating within and without the law A dusty and violent 19th century frontier; the encroachment of the modern
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Some lessons from the ferry report The ferry, once the darling of much of this community, is now the object of ridicule. And the reputation of the man who championed the ferry, former Mayor Bill Johnson, has been tainted. Johnson and the ferry had already taken plenty of abuse. But last week's report from State
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THE SUICIDE SQUEEZE [image-2] Ah, baseball cards. There's nothing quite like the youthful thrill of tearing back that wrapper, tossing that brittle stick of gum aside and rifling through a dozen new acquisitions to see which of the cards you've picked up are gems and which are duds. For a moment, the possibilities
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KEEP THE ART! Imagine this breakfast conversation somewhere is middle America: "Hi, honey; good to have you home. How was your business trip?" "Not bad; I was in Rochester for a couple of days. While waiting for my flight, I saw this great business center by an anonymous business-center designer. Have you heard of
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The totals: 2568 US soldiers, 229 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 39,593 to 44,070 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to July 31. 3771 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports. American soldiers killed between July 22
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Stucco and Spanish Tile on St. Paul The stretch of St. Paul Blvd. just north of the City of Rochester, after the Seneca Park Zoo and heading towards Lake Ontario, is replete with examples of unique, extravagant mansions built in the early twentieth century. In this area, many of the structures
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Follicularly challenged Hair, an example of bodily detritus like flakes of old, dry skin or finger and toe nail clippings, has been used as a conceptual vehicle or "jumping off" point for a number of artists for a number of years now. Indeed, the body itself, as well as bodily fluids and the everyday physicality of
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As sure as Shaw, pt. 2 The best of the rest at the 2006 Shaw Festival Unless you're crazy for ice wine or hours of biking, there isn't much to do between shows in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Once the shops along the main drag have been explored, one must be resourceful in occupying time. May I suggest "Spot-the-Actor
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Daysean Smith misses his grandmother. He'd like to visit her, but she's too far away. She'll be coming home soon, and he can't wait to see her again, although he wonders if she'll be the same. "I'm not supposed to talk about her," he says in a soft voice. Until a few years ago,
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Love to love you, baby You don't have to be a character in a Tennessee Williams play to rely on the kindness of strangers. At some point in our lives, we all need a little help. Baby Love is a new project of the Greater Rochester Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees) that provides Rochester-area families
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Everybody has one. It may be reduced to a worn, smelly scrap of cloth by now. Maybe all that remains is the bunny's ear. Perhaps you are lucky enough to have the whole, threadbare stuffed animal or most of the blanket, except where the satin binding has been rubbed away by years of soothing.
