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St. Phillip's Escalator plays Thursday, September 21, at The Penny Arcade, 4758 Lake Avenue, 621-ROCK, at 7 p.m. www.stphillipsescalator.com. Get on St. Phillip's Escalator, Rochester's garage-busting rock trio With a sonic level that could be rivaled only on an airport runway, St. Phillip's Escalator is not only loud, but huge. The band churns out heavy blues-tinged rock
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Art In exchange for the warmth of companionship, relationships ask a certain debt of sacrifice, whether it is greater reliance on someone else, or a change of our individual identity. Beyond the normal demands of togetherness lies the sting and confusion of a failed relationship, or worse, the realization that our partner is unfaithful. These wrenching
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You gotta love Rochester. Summer's pretty much over, but the family fun goes on and on. Celebrate National Grandparents Day on Sunday, September 10, at Rock Ventures from 3 to 6 p.m. Grandparents climb for free when accompanied by grandchildren, who pay $10 or $15 depending on whether they rent shoes. Owner Kent Winchester says,
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The eternal scrapbook Several years ago in California my wife and I drove past a store called Scrapbook World. We had quite a laugh over that one. Who in their right mind, would open a business selling scrapbook supplies? Surely they'd be out of business in a year, right? Well, the joke was on us,
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Still boldly going On September 8, 1966, the starship U.S.S. Enterprise launched its maiden voyage into viewers' homes as the original Star Trek series debuted on NBC. Featuring a fresh-faced crew led by a young William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, the series would struggle in the ratings (it never climbed higher than No.
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Shop 'til you drop some zombies On the box of the Xbox 360 game Dead Rising, there is a disclaimer that reads "this game was not developed, approved, or licensed by the owners or creators of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead." On the surface, the basic concept of both the game Dead Rising
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What's with all the empty seats at PAETECPark? Rochester Rhinos midfielder John Ball gradually made his way down the line of young fans clamoring for an autograph after the Rhinos' August 26 game against Puerto Rico. Signing every T-shirt, ball, and cleat presented to him, Ball came to one particularly small youngster and lifted him
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The anthropology of horror A new version of the1973 British film, The Wicker Man suggests some solutions to the familiar cinematic problem of remaking a previous movie without simply duplicating the action, characters, and situation and placing them all in a recognizable contemporary context (see Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Superman Returns, etc.). While the picture
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Skirmishes on the homefront The opening scene of Ryan Fleck's genre-busting character study Half Nelson is quite ugly, featuring a strung-out wreck of a man trying to pull it together and leave his slightly squalid Brooklyn flat to go...somewhere. Methadone clinic?Rehab?Opium den? Nope. Turns out Dan Dunne, as played by Ryan Gosling (last seen in
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Double your swing Twin brothers Francois and Louis Moutin are in sync with jazz Reaching one of the leaders of the hot international jazz quartet Moutin Reunion is not particularly difficult, it's just a bit confusing. The group's manager told me that the drummer, Louis, pronounces his name the French way: Louie. Then he gave me
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Call me a heretic. Call me a heathen. But I've never been a huge Bob Dylan fan. (I'm not wild about The Beatles either, but that's another battle.) I have always admired him lyrically and actually consider a couple of his tunes in my list of all-time favorites ("Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat," "Sweetheart Like
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It's getting so a little girl puppet wearing pink can't flit around the set of Sesame Street without everyone plotzing. From a 3-year-old Muppet fairy named Abby Cadabby (the show's newest character) to the FDA's recent decision allowing over-the-counter access to Plan B, women can't escape the endless critiques and wrangling: How we should
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OLYMPIC ARTISTS Mark and Diane Weisbeck are competing in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China --- as artists. Chinese Olympic officials, says the Honeoye couple, recently requested artists across the globe to submit model sculptures. At least three of those pieces will be constructed at the site of the ceremonies. The Weisbecks, who were among more than
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A BETTER CHOICE: TASINI Wake up, Democrats! September 12 is our primary, and we can take back our party from the enablers of the right-wing Bush agenda by voting for someone who truly represents us: Jonathan Tasini for US Senate. If you still haven't heard of Tasini, the courageous and articulate challenger of Senator Hillary
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The totals: 2642 US soldiers, 230 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 41,041 to 45,613 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to September 1. 4016 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports. American soldiers killed between August 26
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A mid-sized theater is no longer part of the mix at Renaissance Square. This according to both the project architect, Moshe Safdie, and the project manager, Mark Ballerstein. Renaissance Square --- the downtown project combining a bus terminal, an MCC campus, and a performing arts center, was originally supposed to include three theaters. There was to be
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What it feels like to entertain the market The speakers make a slight crackle and a woman's voice says, "Attention shoppers, attention shoppers." It's a distinct voice, a little raspy, a bit nasal --- and the announcement that follows is usually delivered with a liberal dose of dry humor. Whether she's warning that someone is
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Untitled Document [image-1] New York Dolls One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even
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The eternal scrapbook Several years ago in California my wife and I drove past a store called Scrapbook World. We had quite a laugh over that one. Who in their right mind, would open a business selling scrapbook supplies? Surely they'd be out of business in a year, right? Well, the joke was on us,
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The eternal scrapbook Several years ago in California my wife and I drove past a store called Scrapbook World. We had quite a laugh over that one. Who in their right mind, would open a business selling scrapbook supplies? Surely they'd be out of business in a year, right? Well, the joke was on us,
