He's from Rochester?: Robert Downey, Jr.
No, he's not. But Downey was here as a 17 year old at Geva , during the 1982-83 season in Alms for the Middle Class . I'm pretty sure he hasn't been here since.
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If You Call Me "Canuck," Should I Be Offended, or Should I Put On Some Tights
Back on February 21, Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle published this letter to the editor by Gary Webb of Victor: A fine moment in Rochester Americans hockey history took place in the ’70s, when ownership ties were severed with the Vancouver Canucks. As a native Canadian, I am greatly offended by the use of the term “Canuck.” Forget about the Washington Redskins (Feb. 17 editorial, “Retire offensive sports mascots”); after all these years, why hasn’t Vancouver been required to change its extremely disrespectful, dehumanizing name? If I didn't know better, I'd say someone on the editorial staff really doesn't like Gary Webb. The hyperbolic tone and false equivalence (there's no way canuck is as offensive as redskins ), the revisionist historical nugget (did the Americans really break it off with its NHL parent in a fit of righteous indignation?), the vague self-identification as a "native Canadian" (born there or First Nations?), the accusatory rheto...
Joe Biden Almost Died in Rochester
As recounted by Richard Ben Cramer in What it Takes , his book on the '88 presidential election, it was in the early morning hours of February 9, after a speech at the University of Rochester followed by four hours of questions, that Joe Biden collapsed in his hotel room out by the airport. Miraculously, he survived the night and made it out of Flour City; back in Wilmington, doctors found evidence of a brain aneurysm and rushed him to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to operate . In May 1988, Biden was operated on for a second aneurysm . Check out this timeline from The New York Times for more.
She's From Rochester?: Julia Nunes
A couple of days after I moved up here, "YouTube's Ukulele Queen" appeared on Conan: Julia Nunes has no record label; what got her onto a national late-night talk show was her success raising well over $75,000 on Kickstarter to fund her new album, Settle Down . Buy it; you'll like it. My favorite songs is "Odd." People have been excited about Nunes for a while. Back in 2008, after seeing her video cover of his song "Gone," Ben Folds invited Nunes to open for him on tour. When she got his e-mail, Nunes "thought it was spam." Nunes is from Fairport, which is close enough to be Rochester, I guess. The Erie Canal runs through it, and it seems like a nice place: View Larger Map