By John Duke While watching my favorite political shows on Sunday, Deface the Nation and Meet the Depressed, I decided there was no way I could vote for...
Archive - October 2016
BY BUCK QUICKLEY Down along the cold creek bed, the lanterns cast dim shadows against the steep, dark banks. It was a pitch-black night. The trees had dropped...
Sabres General Manager inks new deal to stay with team By ANDREW KULYK and PETER FARRELL Opening Night last week didn’t turn out the way a general manager...
By Frank Parlato Freedom of Information law request made by Artvoice to the Assigned Counsel Program for Erie County has been denied by the...
The 1920s come back to life in Buffalo later this month with the opening at 26 Virginia Place of The Twilight Room, a new bar and restaurant highlighting the...
Rock star drummer Stewart Copeland shows his classical composing chops BY JAN JEZIORO Stewart Copeland gained international fame as the drummer for The Police...
Compelling Explanations • In September, Charles Lawrence III, 60, was sentenced to eight years in prison for attempted sexual assault despite his claim that it...
The Tralf Monday October 31, 8pm $15 Advance / $18 Day Of Show Son of Greg Allman of the Allman Bros. Devon carved out a strong career of his own as a powerful...
Quinn Pushes for Raise for His ECC Staff By Tony Farina Last year’s scathing state audit report that, among other things, found that Erie...
By Tony Farina With a nearly two-to-one Democratic advantage in Erie County, it would appear that Tonawanda Town Attorney John Flynn, who defeated Acting DA...
By Frank Parlato In the past few weeks The Niagara Falls Reporter and its sister publication Artvoice have published a series of stories about how police...
By Frank W. Dux (Editor’s note: Frank Dux is the legendary martial artist, teacher, author, fight choreographer, stunt coordinator, film writer, consultant...
OPENING GIVE ‘EM HELL, HARRY!, one-man play by Samuel Gallu starring David Lundy. Oct 20-29, Thu-Fri at 8. New Phoenix Theatre, 95 Johnson Park (853-1334). www...
The fabulous Deborah Cox (pictured above) is getting ready to star in the national tour of the new musical The Bodyguard, which is based on the film of the...
Christmas in July A New Play by Matthew Crehan Higgins Buffalo United Artists at the Alleyway complex Playwright and cast member Matthew Crehan Higgins with...
By Tony Farina When William Hochul Jr. announced earlier this month that he was resigning as U. S. Attorney for the Western District of New York effectiveOct...
Sportsmen’s Tavern Mon Oct 24th 7pm $12 Country singer/songwriter from Monkey’s Eyebrow, Kentucky, Kelsey moved to Nashville after high school to hone her...
ROBERT WATERHOUSE REMEMBERS KAREN NEMETH By ANTHONY CHASE Karen Nemeth, who died the weekend before last, was a consummate stage manager during a Golden Age in...
Nathan Winograd is considered to be the father of the No Kill movement. His Facebook comments to his national animal rights audience about the Artvoice Oct. 13...
By Tony Farina Is former State Senator George Maziarz out of the woods nearly two years after he left office under the cloud of a federal investigation? ...
THE DARK & BLOODY By Shawn Aldridge (Author) and Scott Godlewski (Illustrator) DC Comics/Vertigo (Publisher) Review by Gabriel Allandro. How far would you...
BY JAN JEZIORO The focus of the local classical music scene shifts to Slee Hall on the UB Amherst Campus starting on Friday, October 21 at 7:30pm when New York...
ROD PICOTT WS/ WILLIE SCHOELLKOPF Sportsmen’s Tavern Thurs Oct 20 7pm $10 adv/$12 at the door Americana singer/songwriter Rod Picott comes into town performing...
Fine Points of the Law ν Compelling Explanation: Senate bill 1342, passed in the Idaho legislature earlier in 2016, authorizes schools to use the Bible as a...
By Tony Farina The family of a 35-year-old man who died after being held briefly at the Erie County Holding Center has already commenced a wrongful death...
Lawsuit may hinge on necropsies of Damian and Gotham by FRANK PARLATO Buffalo NY – Necropsies by the Erie County SPCA on a pair of pit bulls shot and...
Okay, it’s official. Finding Neverland has been heavily reworked and is a far more efficient and engaging show than you would have seen on Broadway. As you may...
UB Center for the Arts Fri Oct 14th 7pm $33.50/$14.50 Students Recognized as one of the “25 for the future” by the jazz bible Downbeat Magazine, Skonberg is...
BY RAVEN SATTERFIELD For the past two years there’s been a growing recognition that Buffalo is finally starting to make progress. Cheerleaders are...
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra concludes the Tchaikovsky’ Festival of Hits with a concert that features The Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and Cello master...
Grizzly Shark Ryan Ottley (Author & Artist) Image Comics (Publisher) Review by Joe Tell Hot on the heels of the popular Sharknado film series, GrizzlyShark...
9th Ward at Babeville • Tues Oct 18th 8pm $15 Steve Albini, Todd Trainer and Bob Weston are the post-hardcore rock trio Shellac from Chicago formed in 1992...
CLASSIXX W/ HARRIET BROWN Waiting Room Tues Oct 18th 8:30pm $22/$25 Dance Gavin Dance is an experimental/post hardcore band from Sacramento. They will be...
Perspective ν In a dozen YouTube videos recently released, Syria’s Tourism Ministry praised the country’s sandy, fun-filled beaches as ideal...
opening THE BIRDS THAT STAY, thriller written and directed by L. Don Swartz, starring Haleigh Feth, DJ Swartz, Ben Torres, Ryan Walters, Madsion Swartz, Daniel...
BY JAN JEZIORO A Musical Feast, the Friends of Vienna, the Buffalo Chamber Music Society and the Camerata di Sant’Antonio each offer a concert over the span of...
by Tony Farina Acting District Attorney Michael Flaherty may have lost the Democratic primary last month to Tonawanda Town Attorney John Flynn, but he’s still...
BY ANDY KULYK and PETER FARRELL Downtown arena marks special anniversary. It was first called the Crossroads Arena project, a transformative development to...
by Peter A. Reese – posted 10:36 pm, October 10, 2016 After attending a meeting of pro-Parkway partisans on Thursday night, taking a few drives...
by Tony Farina There will be some very big shoes to fill at Erie Community College’s three campuses come January with the retirement of Tony Nesci...
by Frank Parlato Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster and Senior Planner Tom DeSantis are expected to headline a discussion hosted by Citizens for Regional Transit...
By Jim Ostrowski This is an excerpt from the new book, The Impeachment of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for High Crimes in Syria and Libya, by Michael...
BLACK MAGICK, VOL. 1: AWAKENING By Greg Rucka (Author) and Nicola Scott (Illustrator) Image Comics (Publisher) Review by Gabriel Allandro. “Eight words the...
Are prosecutors abusing the assigned counsel program? by Frank Parlato Artvoice has filed a Freedom of Information Law request with the Erie County Assigned...
By Paul Wolf, Esq. In a 2015 Buffalo News article about high earning government employees, Amherst Town Supervisor Barry Weinstein stated that “It is unseemly...
OPENING CHUCKY’S UNIVERSE, musical written and directed by Sam Fadel, presented by Western Door Playhouse, starring Cade Mongielo, Dawn Ansel, George...
RAPIDS THEATRE Friday Oct 14, 2016 Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 8:00 PM All Ages$32 in advance, $35 day of show It’s been just over 20 years since Gerry Garcia and the...
By ANTHONY CHASE Cover photo by CHERYL GORSKI In August, the Board of Trustees of Shea’s Performing Arts Center announced that they had finally hired a new...
BY ANTHONY CHASE A year ago, it wouldn’t have seemed possible that Diane Paulus, the Tony Award winning director who has staged Broadway revivals of Pippin...
By chuck shepherd Awkward ν A paramedic with the St. Louis Fire Department discovered on Aug. 4 that his car, in the station’s parking lot, had been...
Broadway and TV star Jesse Tyler Ferguson (pictured above), best known for his role in TV’s Modern Family, spent his summer back on Broadway starring in the...
By Matt Cole; The long awaited, highly anticipated, arrival of the unstoppable juggernaut that is the Ultimate Fighting Championship is finally here! After...