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Letters to the Editor
Going too farThe not-so-comic "Homotheism" by Joan Flaschen has overstepped its boundaries and frankly is quite sickening. The mocking of Catholic beliefs - Immaculate Conception and the Holy Eucharist - is extremely incendiary and insulting. There is not one redeeming, humorous or insightful element in this author's commentary. I would hope the editorial staff would […]
UR's Great Beirut Battle
Baseball has its World Series, the NFL has its Super bowl, and now UR can enter the upper echelon of competitive sports competitions with the very first Rochester Beirut Championship. That's right, on Friday, Dec. 12 at 4 p.m., there will be a Beirut Tournament held in Wilson Commons which will determine once and for […]
Explore the complexity of 'Cremaster Cycle'
Matthew Barney's "Cremaster Cycle" is full of elements that one would never connect in a standard movie. In the five films, we are carried from Boise to Budapest, and along the way we encounter such diverse themes as bees, fetal development, Masonic rituals, Gary Gilmore, Celtic mythology, Harry Houdini, motorcycle and horse races and, of […]
Horoscope
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) - Don't trust everything you read. For instance, the mercator projection map might lead you to believe that Greenland is roughly the size of Africa. It is, in fact, several times larger.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Due to my lack of creativity, you do not get your own horoscope this week. […]
Word' lacks plot, talent, honor
If overdone, morally-anemic movies in a far-from-realistic military setting turn you on, definitely catch TNT's "Word of Honor." However, if you in any way value your intelligence, do not watch this movie."Word of Honor" shows a deceivingly large amount of promise during the initial scenes of the dying Vietnam veteran relieving his overburdened conscience by […]
Animation' offers new perspective at GEH
In "The End of the Show," a popcorn-shaped character boldly declares that animation is not merely to be enjoyed by young children or people with mental handicaps. Animation allows the filmmaker an opportunity to explore the purity of the medium - "Robots!" another similarly-shaped figure interrupts.All of the films that comprise animators Mike Judge's - […]
From the Pressboc
You don't have to believe me, it's fine, when I tell you that ESPN burgled my idea, those bastards. Sure enough, two weeks ago I was going to pen a PressBox about how baseball has recaptured the throne as national sport of preference. Then I got lazy, ate a few Fruit Roll-Ups and postponed it. […]
Jumping into Activism
Some campus jobs are awful. Sitting in the same chair, bored, for hours, or flipping burgers, or making smoothies, or moving chairs, all make their fair share of students want to bash their heads against the wall. Yes,some campus jobs are awful - but then there's Jumpstart.Imagine a campus job where you get to come […]
Whore' excellent, innovative
Incest - the only universally held taboo, and the subject of UR's International Theatre's play "'Tis Pity She's a Whore."Tradition is thrown to the winds, both in the forbidden loves within the play and its unique set design. "'Tis Pity" takes place not so much on a stage, but rather within a series of rooms. […]
Eastman alumni quartet 'So' performs
When the fellas from So Percussion were looking for a name - before they were So Percussion, that is - they were informed by a friend that in Japanese, the word "So" means "to play." However, that succinct definition didn't specify exactly what is to be played, so the members of So, a percussion quartet […]