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Classical Music Pianist Rohan De Silva flies to Rochester this week with violinist Itzhak Perlman to perform a benefit concert for Lifetime Assistance. One of his generation's great collaborators, the Sri Lankan native has partnered with violinists Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham, and Midori. He spoke with Brenda Tremblay about successful partnerships and Vulcan mind melds.
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Art The current exhibition at George Eastman House comes to us in the form of a question --- Why Look at Animals? As it is posed by an internationally renowned museum we can presume the answer is already known, and visitors will leave with a clear understanding. But with any show that spans eras, styles,
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"Tomorrow," today Leapin' Lizards! Annie is back in town, brought to you by TYKEs (Theatre Young Kids Enjoy). Who doesn't love rooting for everyone's favorite red-headed orphan? Ten-year-old Sierra Braden effortlessly captures Annie's plucky determination to escape her bleak existence and reunite with her long-lost parents. "I love the songs!" enthuses my 10-year-old daughter. "Especially 'You're Never Fully Dressed Without
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Get thee to the gully When I was a boy, I used to play in "the gully," a wooded area near my Greece home. It was a sacred space where I saw my first Playboy, played with matches, and jumped bikes over a creek like EvelKnievel. I remember those things fondly, but the gully
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The prestigious Nikola Tesla Tesla is a rock band. Tesla is an electric car company. Tesla is the unit of measure for the strength of a magnetic field. And it all springs from Nikola Tesla (1856-1953): inventor, Edisonian clay pigeon, and dead guy. Now, David Bowie, naturally, portrays Tesla as a steampunk scientist in the
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Not so long ago, only two breeds of gamers existed: the hardcore and the casual. Hardcore gamer dedicated their lives to power-leveling their Night Elf druids in Azeroth. And casual gamers...well, they didn't. But times are changing. Marketing research firm Parks Associates recently conducted a survey of more than 2,000 online gamers, and they concluded
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Girls on film Your guide to the 2006 High Falls Film Festival It's rather hard to believe that the High Falls Film Festival is set to unspool its sixth installment already. As HFFF furthers its mission of highlighting the accomplishments of women in the film industry, it continues to bring to Rochester features, documentaries, and short
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Magic, science, and illusion Movies That two movies about magicians at the turn of the 20th-century should appear within months of each other seems most unusual; just the sort of phenomenon that, as they say, could only happen in Hollywood. The appearance of The Prestige so soon after The Illusionist, however, does not imply the
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Kiss kiss, bang bang: The boysfrom "Shortbus." Reaching for the climax Movies If you go into John Cameron Mitchell's much-talked-about Shortbus expecting to see oodles of actual on-screen sex, you won't be disappointed. But this isn't the sterile, voyeuristic porn action that's all too aware of its audience; this is the alternately vulnerable, awkward, and silly
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Under the influence of no influence Hip-hop/rockers Gym Class Heroes spring from the nothingness of Geneva to the somethingness of success Geneva's Gym Class Heroes are going big time. The band just finished headlining a tour, spent the whole summer playing one of the Warped Tour main stages, and has a new album getting
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Metal/glam teeter-totter Throughout his almost 40-year history, shock-rocker Alice Cooper has remained atop the genre he created, with all its horror and theatrical splendor. And the beauty is that even if you dug the guillotines, the necromania, and the androgynous creep factor, you knew it was really about the music. Sure Alice made parents cringe, but it
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Untitled Document [image-1] Pixies Live at the Paradise in Boston Eagle Rock
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Post-election plan: look for Utopia Though the stakes aren't as high as they were in 2000 and 2004, I won't be able to handle bad news on Election Day. Do you remember when Kerry lost? Do you remember the sick, crawling-around-the-kitchen-floor, not-answering-the-phone horror of it all? I might have a flashback if we don't dump
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BLEEDING BEECH TREES [image-1] The grand historic homes built in the 1800's by prominent Rochester families make East Avenue one of the city's most alluring streets. And some of that attraction is due to the old trees that span the lawns of these grand homes. Among the most beautiful is the European beech (fagaceae sylvatica), but its
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The mail MEN, WOMEN, AND ABUSE Harold Jewell accuses radical feminists of moaning and groaning "endlessly" about the mistreatment of women (The Mail, October 11). Meanwhile, he states, the abuse of men is largely ignored. It would be easier to give Mr. Jewell's portrait of anti-male discrimination more credence if he didn't distort some of the
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Say what? Hugo Chavez, the charismatic president of oil-rich Venezuela, is one of those polarizing figures whom people either adore or detest. And it's not hard to guess where many in the US stand. When a coup briefly ousted Chavez, the US was quick to recognize the resulting government. Last summer televangelist Pat Robertson suggested that
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Election 2006 It's a strange feeling. Here in Upstate New York, we've watched two hotly-contested presidential races unfold elsewhere. By the time we hold our primaries, deep into the national season, the race is usually all but won. And in the general election, Downstate's overwhelming Democratic enrollment advantage means no one bothers to come courting. So we've
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The totals: 2811 US soldiers, 239 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 44,803 to 49,760 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to October 26. 4370 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports. American soldiers killed between October 17-26: Staff
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City readers, consider yourselves oracles. Back in the day --- and we mean back in the day --- when someone wanted direction in his life, he would consult an oracle. An oracle would use its connection to the divine (the supernatural, the godly, whatever) to offer some key advice. That's what you folks who participated
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Burgerclops: God of Food & Drink [image-1] Fear not the gruesome Burgerclops; though his deformed visage suggests a hideous monster, in truth he is a kindly giant seeking only to bring sustenance to the masses. He befriended the mighty dinosaur, assisted Sinbad and Aladdin on their journeys, and helped to merge the
