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Thursday, October 16

Community Interest

Ben Garelick Jewelers

- midnight: Ladies Night Out with Pink Champagne and Diamonds. Benifit for breast cancer. $45 donation.

Buffalo City Hall

- noon-2pm: City Hall Docent Training with Buffalo Tours. Three sessions (Oct. 16, 23, & 30). $10/all included. Registration required, contact info@BuffaloTours.org

Cheektowaga Senior Center

- 3pm: Motivating Moves. Somatic movement therapist Janet Hamburg presents a program designed to help elders improve mobility and as a unique approach to Parkinson’s disease.

- 5:30-8:30pm: Buffalo Niagara 360 Launch Party. Sponsored by the Buffalo Niagara Partnership to propel the next generation of regional business leadership. Visit www.buffaloniagara360.org for more info or http://www.thepartnership.org/Home/HomeLinks/events to register

Larkin at Exchange Building

- 5:30pm: “Buffalo On Board: The Train For Change.” Fundraiser for Obama with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, & special guest senator Malcolm Smith. $250. Contact 860-3601 or nicoleschuman@hotmail.com

St John’s Grace Church

- 7pm: Proposal for a public park surrounding the Richardson Building.

St martin de porres R.C Church

- 7pm: Visions for a Just Community. VOICE-Buffalo will discuss housing, comprehensive regional planning, transportation, community policing, and Neighborhood revitalization

United Way

- 10am: Networking meeting for the Parachute Group, for outplaced employees and career changers. Call 276-1117 for more info

Lectures

Asbury Hall at Babeville

- 6:30-9:30pm: Niagara By Design Speaker Series (part of Doors Open Niagara): “The Preservation and ReUse of Asbury Church,” by Scot Fisher & Ed Cardoni. $35 includes reception, wine, hors d’oeuvres, & site tour. Visit www.doorsopenniagara.com

Center for Inquiry

- 7:30pm: Secularism in India. Dr. Paul Kurtz and Dr. Innaiah Narisetti.

Gilda’s Club

- 6pm: “A Team Approach to Prostate Cancer.” Free presentation by Valerie Burkhard, MD

Graycliff Estate

- 7pm:

The Woman is the Client: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Women Patrons Lecture Series. Mary Jane Hamilton, author of four books on Frank Lloyd Wright, will speak on Wright’s first commission the Hillside School (Versions I (1887) and II (1903) and the Romeo and Juliet Tower (1896.)

Jewish Center Greater Buffalo

- 10:30-11:30am: “More Secrets of Buffalo” Lecture Series. This week: Preview of the 42nd Annual Jewish Community Book Fair and Cultural Arts Festival

UB Alumni Arena

- 8pm: UB Distinguished Speaker Series presents Khaled Hosseini (author of “The Kite Runner” & “A Thousand Splendid Suns”). $14-$76. Visit www.specialevents.buffalo.edu

UB Crosby Hall

- 6:30-9:30pm, South Campus: Niagara by Design Speaker Series (part of Doors Open Niagara): “Ani Di Franco’s Preservation Vision & the Partners Involved.” Visit doorsopenniagara.btapartners.com

UB Farber Hall (South Campus)

- 7-9pm: 2008 Mini-Vet School presented by UB School of Medicine & the Niagara Frontier Veterinary Society. This week: “Under the Knife: Surgery” and “Comfortably Sleeping Through It: Anesthesia”

Literary

Jewish Center Greater Buffalo

- 10:30-11:30am: “More Secrets of Buffalo” Lecture Series. This week: Preview of the 42nd Annual Jewish Community Book Fair and Cultural Arts Festival

Rust Belt Books

- 7pm: Just Buffalo/Small Press Poetry presents a reading by Kim Rosenfeld and Marie Buck

UB Green Library

- 7-8pm: UB Green Book Club Meeting. Discuss “Blessed Unrest” by Paul Walker. Call 829.3535 for more info

Magic

Root Five

- 6-9pm: Magic with Garrett Thomas

Recreation

Shoppe on Main

- 4-6pm, Rte 78: Crochet classes with fiber artist Lisa McCausland (beginner to advanced). $5

Seasonal Event

Erie County Fairgrounds

- 6:30-10pm: Scare at the Fair & Dark Raven Manor (Oct. 2-Nov. 1). $20 for all five houses; $3 for the R-Rated House.

Special Event

Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society

- 6pm: Red Jacket Awards Dinner & Ceremony honoring Edwin T. Bean, Jr. and JoAnn Falletta. $150/person or $275/couple. Call 873-9644 for reservations

Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall)

- 5:30-8pm: Grassroots Gardens 2nd Annual Harvest Celebration Fundraiser. Contact 851-4647 or www.grassrootsgardens.org for details

Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort

- World Poker Tour® (WPT) North American Poker Championship (Oct. 10-16). Contact 866-5-POKER-5 or www.fallsviewcasinoresort.com for schedule, registration info.

University of Buffalo North Campus

- UB True Blue Homecoming Weekend (Oct. 16-19). Bulls vs. Army football, Distinguished Speaker Series, Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony, art and technology tours, various on-campus performances, & more. Visit http://www.alumni.buffalo.edu/homecoming

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