Guides
Matt Klein on August 29th, 2007
Learning a second language can broaden your horizons. It also makes you more marketable when looking for jobs, and telling people you're bilingual impresses them at parties. Really though, studying another language ranks high on the list of rewarding academic experiences, allowing you to think and communicate in an entirely
Guides
Matt Klein on August 21st, 2007
Perhaps you don't need a job to pay for college. Maybe Mommy and Daddy put everything on their AmEx black card, including a generous stipend to cover all-night Indian buffets and Prada-related shopping emergencies. Maybe you're really, really smart and the College Fairy magically made all your bills disappear with
Guides
Matt Klein on August 21st, 2007
Studying is hard, dorms are noisy, and sometimes, for sanity-related reasons, you can't hole yourself up in the library indefinitely. Thus, cafés are often an attractive option, offering the popular central nervous system stimulant caffeine, frequently with some modicum of peace and quiet and a 512 kbps wireless internet connection.
Pop Culture
Matt Klein on July 25th, 2007
Wes Peden, 17, is leaving home to join the circus. Specifically, he's going to study at one of the world's premier circus schools, in Sweden, and he has his parents' blessing. But it's still a pretty bold move.Peden is a world-class juggler and Rochester resident. He leaves in August for
Choice Concerts
Matt Klein on July 18th, 2007
New York quartet Interpol, along with The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, didn't so much emerge from the city's early 2000s punk/art rock/new new wave community as it shoved the scene in the rest of the world's face. Since forming in 1998, Interpol has brought that updated '80s-influenced sound back
Pop Culture
Matt Klein on July 2nd, 2007
No matter what people say about the importance of social networking or e-commerce, the Internet's true forte will always be in finding creative ways to waste time and bringing them to the masses. One of the more popular new distractions on the web is known as lolcats ("lol" as in
News Articles
Matt Klein on June 26th, 2007
On Tuesday afternoon, with temperatures over 90 degrees, a crowd of about 100 gathered to march against the anti-gay hate crime that allegedly took place earlier this month on South Goodman Street. Chanting "Sexist, racist, anti-gay / You can't take our rights away" and "Police abuse / no excuse," the
News Articles
Matt Klein on June 26th, 2007
For years, the George Eastman House's Dryden Theatre has used projectors from 1951 and a sound system from 1988. Although the theater is part of a film and photography museum, people still watch movies there in the here and now, and the venue is long overdue for an equipment upgrade.
Choice Events
Matt Klein on June 5th, 2007
This weekend the 2007 Rochester International Jazz Festival starts swinging, with more acts than you can possibly ever see. With hundreds of live shows at venues around town, the experience can be overwhelming June 8-16. If you're one of those whose jazz appetites are hearty but who need a
Guides
Matt Klein on June 5th, 2007
This weekend the 2007 Rochester International Jazz Festival starts swinging, with more acts than you can possibly ever see. With hundreds of live shows at venues around town, the experience can be overwhelming June 8-16. If you're one of those whose jazz appetites are hearty but who need a break
Entertainment Blog
Matt Klein on August 15th, 2007
I thought, for a moment, that I saw a glimmer of hope for Bonnie in the Hell's Kitchen season finale on Monday night. Judging by the way the season had been going though, she really didn't have much of a chance and, as expected, Rock won despite his comparatively poor
Entertainment Blog
Matt Klein on August 9th, 2007
Erik von Markovik, who calls himself "Mystery," is a decent-looking 6'5" beanstalk who has a Canadian accent, dresses like a peacock (a furry top hat and goggles), and calls himself the world's best Pickup Artist (of women, that is).He's also the star of a new reality show on vh1 called
Music Blog
Matt Klein on July 26th, 2007
Interpol's concert last week at the Harro Ballroom was the first show for the band since the release of its new album, Our Love to Admire, but the band still played incredibly tight on both the new and the old songs. Really it's had plenty of practice with the new material; it has been in
Entertainment Blog
Matt Klein on July 26th, 2007
With only five chefs left Gordon Ramsay had fewer targets to spew venom on, so he made sure to cover everyone completely. Really the most spectacular moment was when he tossed a comatose Josh out of the kitchen and off the show partway through dinner service. Describing it wouldn't do it
Entertainment Blog
Matt Klein on July 18th, 2007
We can now say for certain that chef Gordon Ramsay is both a ferocious hunter and an excellent marksman. He demonstrated Monday night, when he took the boys to play paintball after they won the first challenge, a leftovers cookoff. Lone wolf Ramsay managed to take out Josh, Brad, and Rock without suffering
Entertainment Blog
Matt Klein on July 11th, 2007
Having seen neither "Animal House," the quintessential college film, nor "Undeclared," the sort-of-quintessential college television series, I fear I may be lacking perspective on the new series "Greek," a fraternity/sorority dramedy that premiered this week on ABC Family. However, I am a college student, and, though not a Greek-er myself, I know
Entertainment Blog
Matt Klein on July 11th, 2007
Chef reached a new level of dominance over his minions Monday night: Josh actually bowed to him at the show's end. Though Ramsay must be intolerable, there was no mutiny last night, only the usual tempest of anger from Ramsay, this time accompanied by decent outbursts from Rock after the guys
Entertainment Blog
Matt Klein on June 26th, 2007
It was a little harder to take the drama of "Hell's Kitchen" seriously last night, after recent accusations that chef Gordon Ramsay exaggerated the squalor of a restaurant for his soon-to-premiere new show, "Kitchen Nightmares." I mean, everything that can go wrong on "HK" tends to, and it wouldn't be
Matt Klein on June 26th, 2007
The amateur filmmaking scene has changed dramatically since the dawn of the YouTube age; now a lone person with a camera can reach millions of viewers. But there's still strength in numbers, and here in Rochester, Stan Main has put out a casting call for all area "movie makers" -
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