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The fight to keep one of the airport sculptures in its original location is over. Construction on the new business center where Nancy Jurs' "Triad" once stood is proceeding, and Jurs says she was notified last month that her sculpture had been removed and stored. The notification came after she
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The United States Congress does it. So does the New York State Senate. And the Assembly. But don't expect Monroe County Legislature to put proposed legislation online anytime soon. At a legislature committee meeting on Monday, Republicans voted down a Democratic plan to put the proposals on the county's website.
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Remember that second audit of the Monroe County Water Authority? The one in which State Comptroller Alan Hevesi was going to address "the authority's policies and procedures to address conflict of interest issues in authority contracting"? The one that was going to be released by this fall? It's not.A spokeswoman
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As the daily newspaper industry continues to have problems, and some of the biggest names are put up for sale, the locally-grown Gannett chain has been considering expanding. It's been named as a possible buyer for the Chicago Tribune.Commented media critic Michael Miner, writing in the alt-weekly Chicago Reader: "Handing
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In September 1920, the Rochester media eagerly awaited the debut of the city's fully professional football team, the Jeffersons. Owned and managed by Leo Lyons, the Jeffs were charter members of the American Professional Football Association, which was renamed the National Football League two years later. "Some of the best teams
Letters
I'll have to disagree with Gil French's statement that members of the arts community ignorantly agreed to build a 2800-seat theater for RBTL ("The Theatre We Should Have," November 15). I, along with members of the arts and business community, served on Tom Mooney's planning committee. And yes, we swore
Letters
Analyzing the Renaissance Square project, one must be troubled by decisions regarding the Performing Arts Center. Why is the community building another large venue for Broadway shows when the Auditorium Theater already has been upgraded to accommodate such shows?Why is the small theater being downsized in quality and size and
Letters
The planned five-story parking garage on the west side of South Avenue between Manor Parkway and Linden Street is simply all wrong for the area and the era ("Garage Opener," November 8).Given that 220 employees who park at the former Rochester Psychiatric Center will need to stop using that lot,
Letters
I read the debate among your readers on atheism (The Mail, November 8) and want to add my two cents worth.Take the newspaper you're holding in your hands right now. If I told someone that nobody wrote it --- that there was a big explosion, and when the dust settled
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This week's calls to citizenship include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) The Rochester Women's Community Chorus is presenting "Peace for Piece," a musical appeal for peace at 8 p.m. Saturday, December 2, at the Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 North
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The totals:2871 US soldiers, 247 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 48,775 to 54,134 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to November 24.4486 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports. American
Opinion
Some urban educators and conservatives had a lot to be thankful for last week when it became legal for public school districts to offer single-sex classes and schools. For the first time since Title IX, the landmark anti-discrimination law of 1972, schools have wide leeway to create separate learning environments
Profiles
First of two articles. In military conflicts, including the current ones, the US has relied on thousands of foreign soldiers and contract workers. Drivers, nurses, cooks, construction workers, translators: all have supported US troops in combat. When the conflict is over, most US military personnel leave. But for many of
Pop Culture
Amongst stealth-based action games --- often a hit-or-miss bunch --- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series has been a high watermark, combining just the right mix of stealth and action with cinematic flair. The latest game in the Splinter Cell series, Double Agent, is no exception, improving upon the formula while
Pop Culture
Between Adam Weishaupt and Dan Brown at the conspiracy banquet table sits Robert Anton Wilson (www.rawilson.com), keeping the conversation lively. (He and Umberto Eco provide the best banter all night long.) In the wake of the Da Vinci Code, you might think that a few of the conspiracy classics could
Music Articles
The Margaret Explosion's music is infinite, eternally elegant, and mystical. It is a musical journey with no end --- or beginning, for that matter. The Margaret Explosion is slow-motion psychedelia that conjures images and colors. It will awaken things in your head. You will see. The lyric-free lilt the
CD Reviews
Lonesome SpursLonesome SpursCleopatraStripped-down often equates to raw. The Lonesome Spurs' debut, self-titled disc is anything but. Somehow this duo lays it on lush with little more than a coupla guitars and a Samsonite suitcase for a kick drum. Guitarist Danny B.Harvey (ex-Rockats, ex-13 Cats) plays slick and clean rockabilly guitar
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Mark EganAs We Speak Wavetone As a bassist, Mark Egan is used to playing second fiddle. But the hundreds of projects he's been part of since the1970s attest to his stature in the field. From his involvement with the fusion group Elements through his stint with the Pat Metheny Group,
Art
We should consider ourselves quite fortunate that Kim Jones, an artist internationally recognized for his performance art, installations, sculpture, and drawings, is having his first full retrospective practically right in our own backyard. The California-born Jones came of age as a young man, as an artist, during the crucial coalescence of
Stage
Kids and the Ku Klux Klan make for an unsettling mix. When author Karen Hesse confronts this conflict in her young adult novel Witness, it makes for a powerful story filled with tension and fear. It's 1924 in small-town Vermont. Leanora Sutter, a young African-American, and Esther Hirsh, a Jewish
