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Admissions
From the Archives: The ‘Fuji-UR-Kodak Affair,’ revisited
Larry Maushard wrote in a seething letter to the CT, “I […] would feel like an academic prostitute if I was part of the school’s current administration.” Read More
Eastman
Marsalis inspires at Kodak Hall
One of my favorite ways to hype up Rochester is by complimenting its live music scene. It’s fantastic on the small scale — the Bug Jar and other local venues host terrific local musicians and amazing student groups — but there’s no reminder quite like a concert at Kodak Hall that you, UR student, have […]
Halloween
The peristeronic postmodernism of Halloween
“Who are you supposed to be?” That’s a bit loaded, isn’t it? Aren’t we all trying to figure out what we’re supposed to be? Read More
dmv
You want better drivers? Test them
Driver’s licenses should have to be renewed every few years. The test should be repeated to ensure a driver is still safe to be on the road. Read More
Nine Trey Bloods
Seligman indicted for affiliation with Nine Trey Bloods
The University President is the latest to be linked to the infamous gang by rapper 6ix9ine, also known as David Hernandez, also known as "Snitch." Read More
existential horror
New Starbucks is the shrine to nihilism we need right now
New Starbucks is a two-way mirror between coffee and despair, a mobius strip where you can while away your days getting people’s names wrong and fussing over weird terms for different beverage sizes. Read More
lizard
CT Recommends: “Rango”
In 2011, Pixar was in the middle of a golden age, and with Dreamworks contenders like “How to Train Your Dragon” and “Kung Fu Panda,” even if you hadn’t fully tapped into the uncritical joy that comes from being a young moviegoer, you were mostly guaranteed fun with any new big names in animation. But, […]
avengers
“Endgame” matters, whether you like it or not (I did)
“Avengers: Endgame” succeeds as a “Marvel movie” more than as a “movie” in the general sense. I don’t mean to say by this that I thought it was poorly made. But that’s not why I saw “Endgame,” and if you’ve already watched it yourself, that’s not why you saw “Endgame,” either. 21 films into the […]
bookstores
Browsing through Rochester’s used bookstores
There are few things like a used bookstore. There’s the distinctive smell, probably a cat slinking around, old records in the corner, or maybe a weird sculpture. Piles of books are scattered or spilling off the shelves, the atmosphere is nearly always subdued and warm, with most likely an aging owner presiding over their domain […]
French film
Agnès Varda continues to live in cinema
Few people have ever embodied an art movement more than Agnès Varda did the French New Wave. Her first film, “La Pointe Courte” (1954), is considered by many to be the birth of the genre and her last, “Faces Places” (2017), came half a century after its heyday, but Varda’s entire career represented its naturalistic, […]
