Talker of the Town

In Memorium: In search of Talker at the Grand Light Torch Tour

The last time I saw Talker alive was last summer. That June day — full of reckless vainglory — Talker had attempted to scale the the falls in the Lower Falls Gorge: to out patch Sam

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Cultural Life Talker of the Town

Athesia in the City

Rebecca Rafferty’s October 12-18th CITY article Emerging Artists: Generating beauty from busy lives includes a profile of Athesia Benjamin (SOTA, RIT, Professor at MCC). You met Athesia

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Talker of the Town

Happy First Birthday! Distinguished poet Bill Pruitt offers “Ode to the Talker”

In Talker invited to the University of Rochester to talk about Talker, we wrote: Here in the University of Rochester’s Rettner Computer Lab, late last September on a cool Fall evening while

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Cultural Life Talker of the Town

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism to reprint “Imperium in Imperio: Sutton Griggs’s Imagined War of 1898”

Today, I received unexpected and good news (see at end). Unaccustomed to such requests as a non-tenure track faculty member at Keuka College, I was more than pleased that Twentieth Century

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Talker of the Town

One of the largest LGBTQ libraries in the nation receives historic donation from EUGENE Kramer

In Thanks, Dad!, we praised EUGENE Kramer for his sterling work as the elder statesman on staff. We also suggested he has a regrettable streak of insubordination. EUGENE knew full well next week

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Talker of the Town

Talker invited to the University of Rochester to talk about Talker

Today was a sentimental journey back to Talker’s roots. Here in the University of Rochester’s Rettner Computer Lab, late last September on a cool Fall evening while magazine designer

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Cultural Life Talker of the Town

Brighton-Pittsford Post prints “Garden blooms at local 7 Eleven”

As seen in Talker gets some Little League love from the Brighton-Pittsford Post, from the beginning, our courtship with the Brighton-Pittsford Post has been a happy one. Last century, we —

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Human Interest Talker of the Town

Paying ahead, the Good Luck Restaurant, and news from Shadi

A couple of months ago, walking in Brighton near Monroe Avenue, on the curbside grass, I found a New York State Benefit Identification Card, leaving it there to be hopefully retrieved by its

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Talker of the Town

For you, Talker buys the D & C digital archives. And Noam Chomsky

We didn’t actually buy all of the D & C’s digital archives in their entirety. But for you, dear readers, for $30 we purchased six months of access. In 45 years ago when President

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