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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.”
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…
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?
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.
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."
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.
lizard
CT Recommends: “Rango”
In 2011, Pixar was in the middle of a golden age, and with Dreamworks contenders like “How to Train Your…
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…
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…
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,…