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Old car dealer dept.

posted July 3, 9:08 pm on Artvoice Daily

So it turns out that that most ironic funeral home name, Amigone (Am I Gone?), wasn’t always just a funeral home name… (more)

The Future of Studio Arena (ask Ethan McSweeny … please!)

posted July 3, 7:49 pm on Artvoice Daily

As a plan for the Studio Arena Theatre building begins to take shape, questions emerge. Who might be best prepared to provide answers?

ZILLYCAKES Wedding Cakes, Cupcakes, & Cookies!

posted July 3, 4:07 pm on Chew on This

Wedding Cakes by Zillycakes There’s always a reason to host a soiree or dinner party that requires culinary ingenuity… Especially when it pertains to the last course! If you’re stumped for creative Dessert ideas or don’t have time to play the role of Betty Crocker, you’re in luck! Zillycakes custom made Cakes, Cupcakes, & Cookies is now open in Elmwood Village… (more)

Studio Arena Deal in the Works

posted July 2, 10:28 pm on Artvoice Daily

Artvoice Theater Editor Anthony Chase reports that a deal is in the making whereby the five banks who are holding Studio debt would forgo repayment and give the Studio Arena building to Shea’s Buffalo in order for it remain a performance space… (more)

Syaed Ali’s Lawsuit

posted July 2, 9:06 am on Artvoice Daily

For the collectors and scandal enthusiasts out there, here’s a copy of Syaed Ali’s lawsuit against the City of Buffalo, New York State AG investigator Michael McCarthy, and BPD detective Anna Mydlarz: STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT : COUNTY OF ERIE SYAED A… (more)

This week in Artvoice, issue v8n27 (Week of Thursday, July 2nd):

Art Feature	A Tales of Two Cities by Geoff Kelly, photos by Clark Dever In March 2006, Clark Dever, a Buffalo-based photojournalist and activist, recruited 65 of his fellow UB undergraduates to travel to New Orleans during their spring break to take part in the ongoing relief effort. He brought his camera and recorded the devastation he encountered there, nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina.
The News, Briefly

	Start Counting Your Chickens
	What Issa Leaves Behind
	Follow That Car!
	Syaed Ali Sues
	The Ties That Bind
News	When the Empire Falls by Bruce Fisher As summer-loving Buffalo heads off for the cottage, the beach, the hammock, or just Freddie Olmsted’s shady glades, we will need something to read—something appropriate to our time, something light and escapist, a good old-fashioned page-turner about a time and place and dramatic occurrences safely removed from real life.
Artshort	Identifying Hedges: Siebren Versteeg at Hallwalls by J. Tim Raymond Cultural attitudes toward photography at the end of the 19th century generally regarded that invention as a child of technology rather than the epitome of realism.
Film Reviews

	Public Enemies
	Food Inc.
	Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
	Whatever Works
Listings

	On The Boards Theater Listings
	Movie Times (Fri. July 3 - Thurs. July 9)
	Film Now Playing
Events	See You There! Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds and The Story of the Heart, on display at the Buffalo Museum of Science, beginning July 9th.
Offbeat News	News of the Weird Peter Singer, the author of a new book on battlefield robotics, told LiveScience.com in May he had seen soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan grow so attached to their bomb-disposal robots that, in one case, the soldier risked 160 feet of enemy machine gun fire to retrieve his little buddy, and in another, a soldier brought his robot in for repairs with tears in his eyes over the “injury” to his beloved “Scooby-Doo.”
You Auto Know	Square the Joys Are by Jim Corbran When I got the e-mail from Chris Kivi, internet sales manager at Mike Barney Nissan, that one of these rounded-off squares was available, I headed on over quickly, as they’re not staying long on the lot.
Letters to Artvoice

	Free Vendors by Lawrence Southwick III
	The Cadillac Controversy by Michael Casullo
	Fight for Healthcare by Cliford Cawthon
Literary Buffalo

	Flash Fiction
	Poetry
Horoscopes	Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny CANCER (June 21-July 22): The ancient Chinese sage Lao Tse said, “People of the highest caliber, upon hearing about Taoism, follow it and practice it immediately.
Advice	Ask Anyone Let me get this straight. Mark Sanford, the Governor of South Carolina who went AWOL over Father’s Day weekend—abandoning his wife and four sons, lying to everyone by saying he was going hiking on the Appalachian Trail, only to instead fly to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to spend several days with his mistress—is intent on saving both his political office and his marriage?

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This week in Artvoice, issue v8n27 (Week of Thursday, July 2nd):

by Geoff Kelly, photos by Clark Dever

by Bruce Fisher

by J. Tim Raymond

by Jim Corbran

by Lawrence Southwick III

by Michael Casullo

by Cliford Cawthon

by Rob Brezsny

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