Past Cover Stories
2010: Volume 9
Breakin' Ball (by Jeremy Lee, January 28, 2010)
Let’s face it, says Shane Fry, better known as B-boy Depree: Over the last 15 years or so, something happened to hip-hop. It wasn’t a good something. Hip-hop lost touch with its roots.A Visit to Pat Farm (by Eric Jackson-Forsberg with Simon Jackson-Forsberg, January 21, 2010)
Pat Farm, Patrick Robideau’s installation at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center’s Useum, brings to mind the Night at the Museum movies of recent years.The Incredible Shrinking Metro (by by Bruce Fisher, January 14, 2010)
There is around $150 million in taxpayer money that has been committed for the Erie Canal Harbor development, on top of more than $46 million in public funds that have already been spent, and the plan is to spend it out over the next few years to build a retail and entertainment district where nobody has shopped for anything but sex and hockey tickets since about 1965.The Aughties (by by Donny Kutzbach & Joe Sweeney, January 7, 2010)
While it was a far from perfect decade on many levels, the Aughts produced some tremendous pop music. AV music editor Donny Kutzbach and frequent contributor Joe Sweeney teamed up to pick 15 records that were top shelf. Call these the Aughtie Awards.
2009: Volume 8
2010: The Future is Ours... (December 23, 2009)
As the turbulent and poorly named aughts draw to a close, Artvoice asked friends and contributors to make sage predictions for the future of the region, the nation, the planet.Last Minute Gift Guide (by Geoff Kelly, December 17, 2009)
The holidays are here. If you haven’t started shopping yet, you may detect that creeping doom that annually overtakes your neglected ambition to please everyone—that paralyzing certainty that it’s too late, that you’ll never find gifts for all the people you’d like to honor, that there’s no sense even in trying.Paint the Town Green (by Bruce Fisher, December 10, 2009)
Next week in Dayton, Ohio, a diverse assemblage of current and former mayors, county leaders, scholars, and think-tank wonks will confer on what the heck to do about Rust Belt cities that keep shrinking even as the rest of America keeps growing.Eyes on the Region (by Geoffrey Anstey, December 3, 2009)
Twice a month an Elder Luncheon is held at the Native American Community Services Center. The event includes homemade food, traditional native prayers, and the favorite pastime of the elderly—bingo. Capturing this jovial scene on camera not long ago was film director Ronald Douglas, who had been assigned by the local film organization, the Squeaky Wheel to make a short documentary for it documentary series, Channels: Stories From the Niagara Frontier.Dance to the Underground (by Craig Reynolds, November 26, 2009)
Tonight is the night—the night before Thanksgiving, widely considered the Buffalo bar scene’s busiest. Tonight, old friends and acquaintances will descend on the city’s watering holes in an orgy of nostalgia.Don't Make the Same Mistake This Year (November 29, 2009)
You can, if you wish, wait until December 22. Okay, December 23. All, right, who are we fooling? You can wait until the evening of December 24, launch yourself into the cold, desperate night, vowing to find a single shop that is still open and will provide you gifts for every person on the list that you made—finally—that very morning over a cup of coffee.Just Looking For a Home (by Buck Quigley, November 12, 2009)
Get Lorraine Chambley and Rodena Perry together, and you’re bound to hear the relaxed sort of conversation that’s typical between old friends. “The way we are now, we’re a family,” Chambley explains. “I live a door and a space from her.”The Public Option: an Interview with Congressman Higgins (by Geoff Kelly, November 5, 2009)
For the past year, Congressman Brian Higgins of South Buffalo has served on the House Ways and Means Committee, one of five committees working on healthcare reform. So on Friday, when Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled the Democrats’ 1,900-page healthcare reform bill, Higgins was one among those Democrats who jumped out front to defend the proposal against relentless Republican opposition.Time To Go, Chris (by Bruce Fisher, October 29, 2009)
In the best of times, Buffalo is a hard sell. We’re a little city in the cold part of fly-over country, an inconvenient eight-hour drive from Manhattan, Boston, Washington, or Chicago—the big cities where America’s political, cultural, financial, scientific, educational, and entrepreneurial leaders live.An Engine Of Satan: The murder of William Morgan by Freemasons (by Buck Quigley, October 22, 2009)
Early on the morning of September 11, 1826, Lucinda Morgan began to feel that something was terribly wrong. Her husband hadn’t returned, and breakfast was getting cold.Road Vultures and Rumbles (by Sal Viglietta, October 15, 2009)
For the cover of My True Story, an autobiographical anthology of his work, cartoonist Manuel “Spain” Rodriguez used one of his many illustrations of a barroom brawl. This one is a real beauty, the royal rumble of bar fights. Bikers, truckers, a blonde frozen in mid-scream—everyone is either pummeling or about to get pummeled.The Big Picture (by M. Faust, October 8, 2009)
Putting together a film festival is not the easiest thing in the world to do, especially if you want one in the truest sense of the words. But that’s just what Edward Summer, president and founder of the Buffalo International Film Festival, whose first edition opens this weekend, has done.Midnight Ramblers (by Ann Marie Awad, October 1, 2009)
The corner of College and Allen is overcome with a small horde of people and bikes, both in all shapes and sizes. College kids sipping beers, adults chatting, repair-savvy men and women alike squatting in front of tires pumping air—all of this packed onto the sidewalk and slightly overflowing into the street and the gated parking lot.The Vault Opens (by Gerald Mead, September 24, 2009)
Collecting has been a lifelong passion and pursuit of retired lawyer turned collector/philanthropist Charles Rand Penney, so much so that at one point the Buffalo-born Penney had in his possession 100 separate collections of art, collectibles, memorabilia, and antiques.Film Feature: Matt Damon is Alive and Well (by M. Faust, September 17, 2009)
The Toronto Film Festival has had its share of coups in its 34 years, but this one has to be the greatest ever: The late Matt Damon has risen from the grave to do a press conference!Democratic Primaries: The Race is On (by Geoff Kelly, September 10, 2009)
On Tuesday, Mayor Byron Brown suffered an uncharacteristic breakdown of his normally placid, nearly soporific demeanor.Fall Guide: Visual Arts 10 Must-See Exhibits (by Gerald Mead, September 2, 2009)
While summer winds down, the art season winds up with new exhibitions opening up all over town in the coming months. The following are some upcoming presentations I’d recommend seeing as well as a few that you still have time (and ought) to see.Lost and Found (by Charlotte Hsu, August 27, 2009)
On the road to Koiyom in Southern Sudan, they must have seemed an unlikely pair—this gray-haired Catholic priest from Western New York and the 31-year-old Sudanese man he calls his son. But there they were, traveling together—Father Ronald Sajdak, the gregarious pastor of an East Side church, a man whose eyes seem to brim with laughter, and Fidele Diing Dhan, six-foot-six, amiable but reserved, a war survivor who grew up in refugee camps before moving to America in 2001.Getting Off Our Backs (by Lindsay Berman, August 20, 2009)
The director of Buffalo Midwifery Services and a certified nurse midwife, Stewart is one of many midwives across the country trying to demystify the public’s image of midwifery, including the notion that it is an old-world holdout whose method of choice is liquor. Stewart says her mission is to help women understand their birthing options, their bodies, and their rights.Featured Film: Time & Again (by M. Faust, August 12, 2009)
The writer and director of The Time Traveler's Wife talk about love stories and late starts.AV Interview: Mickey Drops His Gloves (by Geoff Kelly & Matthew Quinn, August 6, 2009)
It took a flurry of scandals to get mayoral candidate Mickey Kearns in the news. Now he’s trying to make the most of the moment.Art Feature: Bid High, Bid Often (by Geoff Kelly, July 30, 2009)
The last time Hallwalls held an art auction, in 1992, executive director Ed Cardoni wrote this in his introduction to the catalogue: “This auction of art works by artists associated with Hallwalls from its founding in 1974 to the present once again demonstrates that in lean, hard times like these, it is the artists themselves—and those who care about art—on whom the existence of organizations like Hallwalls must ultimately depend.”AV Interview: Preserving the Future (by Buck Quigley, July 23, 2009)
Bruno Freschi, former Dean of UB’s School of Architecture, is perhaps best known as the chief architect for Expo 86 in Vancouver, British Columbia—an overall design that changed the face of that city. He was in town last week to visit with some old friends. His trip coincided with the announcement of a $3 million grant from New York State for continued work on the rehabilitation of the Darwin D. Martin House, the local gem designed by architectural titan Frank Lloyd Wright.New Feature: Our Rock and our Mountain (by Bruce Fisher, July 16, 2009)
The Nobel Prize-winning essayist Albert Camus wrote a compelling little book about Sisyphus, the ancient Greek king of Corinth. Sisyphus is the perfect “absurd hero,” the guy who offended the gods by attempting to subvert their power over life and death, but who was overpowered by them, and then punished with an eternal command—to forever roll a rock up a hill, only to watch it roll back down again.When the Empire Falls (by Bruce Fisher, July 2, 2009)
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.Retakes By The Lakes (by Geoffry Antsey & Ellen Przepasniak, June 25, 2009)
Last week, a summit called Great Lakes Metros and the New Opportunity aimed to answer the perpetual Rust Belt question: How can Great Lakes cities reinvent themselves?Valerian Ruminski Takes on a New Role: The Impresario (by Jan Jezioro, june 18, 2009)
Many concertgoers arriving at a Buffalo Philharmonic concert a few weeks back might have recognized vaguely the man with the deep voice giving out handbills for an upcoming production of The Barber of Seville, at the Riviera Theatre in North Tonawanda, without actually placing him. After all, it is not often that you encounter a star of the Metropolitan Opera passing out flyers on the street in Buffalo.Here Comes Everybody (by Mark Shechner, june 11, 2009)
Everybody knows, do they not, that Lake Erie is mentioned in James Joyce’s 1939 book of puzzles, puns, and language under extreme duress, Finnegans Wake. (Printer, don’t add an apostrophe there.) “Bring about it to be brought about and it will be, loke, our lake lemanted, that greyt lack, the citye of Is is issuant (atlanst !), urban and orbal, through seep froms umber under wasseres of Erie.”The Summer Guide (June 4, 2009)
WNY Book Arts Collaborative Celebrates its Grand Opening (by Geoff Anstey, May 21, 2009)
The term “book arts” must be confusing to a lot of people. In this day and age, a book, magazine, or newspaper is nothing more than a machine-made vessel for information and ideas, and a term for the virtue of art’s messenger seems as inane as saying “money-finance.”Windows on the World (by M. Faust & George Sax, May 14, 2009)
Forgive me for resurrecting a hoary old cliché, but it’s true: You don’t have to be Jewish to love the Jewish Film Festival. Now in its 24th year, it is the area’s most reliable annual presentation of quality world cinema.Meet the New Guy (May 7, 2009)
Attorney John Licata finished first in Tuesday’s election for three at-large members of the Buffalo Board of Education, well ahead of incumbent Chris Jacobs, who finished second. Leading the contenders for the third seat is challenger, Bryon McIntyre, who clings to a 51-vote lead over incumbent Catherine Collins and a 58-vote lead over incumbent Florence Johnson.Gold Standard (by Mike Pflanz, April 30, 2009)
Samy Badrio waded exhausted in waterlogged gumboots up from the mine’s dark entrance and raised his hand to shield his eyes against the brightness of the noon-high Equatorial sunBest of Buffalo (by Mike Pflanz, April 23, 2009)
Catching That Train (by Justin Sondel, April 16, 2009)
Obama has decided to spend billions on high-speed rail. Will New York State reap some of that investment? How about Buffalo's Old Central Terminal?The News, Briefly (by Justin Sondel, April 9, 2009)
Block Grant Blues (by Geoff Kelly, March 26, 2009)
HUD’s new report on the city’s community development block grant pogram describes missing paperwork, deficiencies in management, questionable use of funds, and wasted opportunities.Barack's Gift to Erie County (by Bruce Fisher, March 18, 2009)
Before the end of 2011, Erie County will receive a $74.2 million windfall of unrestricted, unanticipated revenue from President Barack Obama’s Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
2008: Volume 7
2008: The Year, Briefly (by Geoff Kelly, Artvoice v7n52, December 24, 2008)
A sampling of stories we covered in 2008 and their (lack of) impactSpecial Issue: Last Minute Gift Guide (Artvoice v7n51, December 18, 2008)
Artvoice's annual last minute holidy gift guide.The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder (by Cy Alessi & Dr. Susan Feneck, Artvoice v7n50, December 18, 2008)
There are plenty of folks who are looking forward to the beginning of George W. Bush’s career as an ex-president. Vincent Bugliosi is among those eager to see an end to the Bush administration, but for reasons more sanguine than most: He hopes an indictment for murder awaits Bush as soon as he leaves the protection of his office.Patterson's Choice (by Bruce Fisher, Artvoice v7n49, December 4, 2008)
New York State just lost another major employer last week when another Wall Street titan was laid low. The state comptroller has a new report out that suggests that the current recession will see more than 200,000 jobs lost in New York City alone.Retreat! (by Buck Quigley, Artvoice v7n48, November 27, 2008)
Robert Gioia tells a lie, health executives have a secret party, and one doctor throws up his hands and asks where all the money for hospital consolidation has goneSpecial Issue: Artvoice Gift Guide (Artvoice v7n47, November 20, 2008)
Artvoice's annual holiday gift guide.Interview with Jon Stewart on the end of the Bush Administration (by Adam Bulger, Artvoice v7n46, November 13, 2008)
It’s official. According to a 2007 Pew poll, Jon Stewart is one of the five most-respected broadcast journalists in America. It doesn’t seem to matter that he began his career not as a sleeves-rolled-up, coffee-swilling print journalist but as a comedian whose resume includes residency at Manhattan’s Comedy Cellar, a cameo in the film Half Baked, and three short-lived MTV shows.The President for Cities (by Bruce Fisher, Artvoice v7n45, November 6, 2008)
If he is bold enough, the politician known as the president of the United States can influence social and economic history for decades to come.The New Wild West: Interview With Guy Ritchie (by M. Faust, Artvoice v7n44, October 30, 2008)
Timing, as you may have heard, is everything. While I would never imply that a married couple would get divorced simply to publicize a movie, it can’t hurt the box office potential of Guy Ritchie’s new RocknRolla to be mentioned in every one of the far too numerous tabloid stories about his recently announced breakup with his unimonikered wife.The Halloween Issue (by various, Artvoice v7n43, 23, 2008)
Special Issue: The story of Halloween at Murder Creek, Revisiting the Eerie Haunts of Our Youth, and interview with Gregory Lamberson: The Halloween KingFederman at 80 (by Buck Quigley, Artvoice v7n42, October 16, 2008)
This weekend friends and colleagues celebrate former UB professor Raymond Federman's 80th year.Trans-Evolution: Examining Bio Art at CEPA Gallery (by Lucy Yau, Artvoice v7n41, October 9, 2008)
Bio art is the fusing of contemporary biochemical and medical research with visual art. Though it may seem like a new conceptual fad, bio art has a long tradition. Over the centuries the division between the arts and sciences has grown wider, where once they were tied closely together, as in the artwork and scientific discoveries of Renaissance luminary Leonardo da Vinci.Crude (by Jed Morey, Artvoice v7n40, October 2, 2008)
Or, How Wall Street investment banks manipulated oil prices to try to save their hides, screwing American consumers and the rest of the world and breaking the economy anyway.The Shpere (by Geoff Kelly & Louis Ricciuti, Artvoice v7n39, September 25, 2008)
This is going to seem complicated and take a long way to get where it’s going. So here’s the gist, right upfront: Possibly, in Lewiston, are buried the remnants of an experimental nuclear reactor dating from the 1940s. This reactor would have been part of a secret program to weaponize poisonous materials—a program with roots in the study of poison gases in the First World War and whose culmination is found today in the use of depleted uranium munitions around the world.Comedy Rules & Posture Lessons from Ricky Gervais (by M. Faust, Artvoice v7n38, September 18, 2008)
It’s the first weekend of the Toronto Film Festival, and everything is in full swing. Celebrities are being ushered in and out of rooms, each containing a new handful of caffeine-sated journalists praying that the batteries in their tape recorders will make it through the rest of the afternoon. By the time comedian Ricky Gervais, creator and star of the hit Britcoms The Office and Extras, makes it to my room, everyone is a bit on the giddy side.The Aftermath (by Geoff Kelly, Artvoice v7n37, September 11, 2008)
Tuesday’s primary in brief: Hoyt wins, Lenihan stays, Brown/Casey’s committee races fail—and everything stays pretty much the same.Artvoice Fall Guide (various, Artvoice v7n36, September 4, 2008)
Special Issue: All the best in film, food, music, theater, and more to keep an eye out for this fall.100 Things I Tried To Do This Summer (by Matt Chandler, Artvoice v7n35, August 28, 2008)
The Summer of 74: One man's quest to tackle the Artvoice 100Dreams of Obama (by Tom Hayden, Artvoice v7n34, August 21, 2008)
Barack Obama, it is true, is a transformational leader. But he needs a transformational movement to become a transformational president.Eight Days in Guantanamo (by Julia Hall, Artvoice v7n33, August 14, 2008)
A Buffalonian observes the trial of Salim Hamdan and the degradation of American justiceLa Nova's Special Delivery (by Lucy Yau, Artvoice v7n32, August 7, 2008)
Last month, in a rarely seen bit of political maneuvering, the Common Council voted 7-2 in favor of a transfer of property from the city to La Nova Pizzeria. In doing so, the Council voted against Niagara District Councilman David Rivera, and against the wishes of members of his community who had advocated for the parcel to be converted into a neighborhood garden and park space for local children.Empty Parcels, Emptying Cities (by Bruce Fisher, Artvoice v7n31, July 31, 2008)
The scariest story in Buffalo originates in Omaha, Nebraska. That’s where Buffalo News owner Warren Buffet lives. That’s where Buffalo News publisher Stan Lipsey hails from. The scary news for Buffalo is that Omaha, Nebraska, is thriving as a regional economic hub city in part because Omaha has a regional government.Infringe Yourself (by Anthony Chase & AV Editorial, Artvoice v7n30, July 24, 2008)
With 11 days and over 300 events, the Buffalo Infringement Festival may seem difficult to navigate, but it’s not. Basically, there are two ways to do it—with a meticulous plan or haphazardly. Each method offers rewards.The Food Issue (by AV Editorial, Artvoice v7n29, July 17, 2008)
Special Issue: Artvoice takes a look at what's hot in local eats.WNYBAC: A New Chapter (by Mark Norris, Artvoice v7n28, July 10, 2008)
The past few weeks have been a particularly busy time for Rich Kegler and Carima El-Behairy, founders of the nonprofit Western New York Book Arts Collaborative (WNYBAC). Along with running their business, P22 Type Foundry—an internationally known, locally based computer font company—and raising two children, Rich and Carima have accepted the daunting challenge of renovating a downtown building and bringing a major conference to the area.Iowa Dispatch: After the Flood (by Victor Verney, Artvoice v7n27, July 3, 2008)
It goes without saying that these floods are double-edged swords, as seen recently in Iowa. But unlike, say, wildfires that destroy houses in California or tornadoes that level mobile homes in Arkansas, there are compelling reasons why Buffalonians—and everybody else—should take an interest in last month’s Iowa floods.What The Market Will Bear (by Geoff Kelly, Artvoice v7n26, June 26, 2008)
Noon on a Tuesday at the Broadway Market. Outside a man is hawking athletic socks, while another challenges passersby to a chess game in the scant shade of a maple tree in a concrete planter. About a half dozen people stand in line at a hot dog stand. The corner is a meeting place, alive with action and conversation. Traffic is brisk, on the street and on the sidewalk.Karen Finley Talks About Eliot Spitzer & the Cult of Apology (by Caitlin Crowell, Artvoice v7n25, June 19, 2008)
It must be at least a bit satisfying for Karen Finley to have so many politicians apologizing. About sex. At the very least, it has provided her with a treasure trove of source material.M&T Boss Wilmers Named New York State Economic Czar (by John McMahon, Artvoice v7n24, June 12, 2008)
Last week New York Governor David Paterson, a liberal Democrat, named Robert G. Wilmers, chairman of M&T; Bank and prominent anti-union activist, as his pick to run the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC), the state’s main economic development arm.Summer Guide 2008 (by Artvoice Staff, Artvoice v7n23, June 6, 2008)
Special Issue: Summer Guide 2008! Check out our staff suggestions for 100 things to do this summer. You'll also find the most comprehensive listing of area events, festivals, fairs, concerts anywhere. We've also got previews of all the summer blockbusters, some summertime music recommendations, and a special feature on the Griffis Sculpture Park.Are Lunatics Running The Asylum? And the Buffalo Public Schools, too? (by Jamie Moses, Artvoice v7n22, May 29, 2008)
With great fanfare, Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent James A. Williams withdrew his name two weeks ago from consideration for the job of Memphis school superintendent. He had been a finalist for the position. “I need to stay here and continue…to offer the children of Buffalo the best education possible.”Grandmaster Block (by M. Faust, Artvoice v7n21, May 22, 2008)
Best-Selling crime novelist and Buffalo Native Lawrence Block takes a stab at the movies.Dig The Tomato Man (by Peter Koch, Artvoice v7n20, May 15, 2008)
Richard Price could be known for many things. Among other things, he’s a talented singer; an accomplished portrait photographer; a home brewer of beers, ciders, and wines; an experienced electrotechnologist in genetics; a green thumb; a do-it-yourselfer and traditionalist.Blockheads (by Peter Koch, Artvoice v7n19, May 8, 2008)
The city continues to abuse its community development block grant—HUD is fed up.Who Shrank the Peace Bridge? (by Bruce Jackson, Artvoice v7n18, May 1, 2008)
How a bird-brained notion has put us in the weeds again.The CPO Club Needs Saving From Demolition and Itself (by Peter Koch, Artvoice v7n17, April 24, 2008)
On a recent Friday evening, several other Artvoice staffers and I enjoyed a delicious, cheap, sit-down meal on Buffalo’s waterfront. Such a thing does still exist. Our table, directly adjacent to a large bank of windows, was bathed in the warm pink and orange light of the setting sun as we tucked into generous portions of beer-battered fish accompanied by heaping piles of macaroni salad, french fries, and cole slaw.Best of Buffalo 2008: We Have Our Winners! (by AV Editorial, Artvoice v7n16, April 17, 2008)
It was an affair to remember, no question. On Monday night, thousands of Artvoice readers converged on the Town Ballroom to celebrate the region’s best—the best restaurants, the best shops, the best music, the best artists. The best of everything.Best of Buffalo 2008: The Nominees (by AV Editorial, Artvoice v7n15, April 10, 2008)
Special Issue: See the full list of top-5 vote getters in each of the Best of Buffalo 2008 categories.Saving Sankofa (by Geoff Kelly, Artvoice v7n14, April 3, 2008)
A once faltering charter school is staging a dramatic turnaround. Now it needs a chance to keep that turnaround going.Govindan's Brave New World (by Buck Quigley, Artvoice v7n13, March 27, 2008)
Technology makes music free, but at what cost?The Wizard of Gore (by M. Faust, Artvoice v7n12, March 20, 2008)
I thought they’d discovered a new planet or something,” was Herschell Gordon Lewis’s initial reaction to people asking him if he’d seen Juno. To the contrary, he soon started getting a lot more comments from people who saw the popular Oscar-nominated film with its scenes in which Juno and the guy looking to adopt her baby bond over Lewis’s 1970 film The Wizard of Gore.Unity Force (by Geoff Kelly, Artvoice v7n11, March 13, 2008)
Public Enemy’s Professor Griff comes to Buffalo next week to lecture at the Freedom Film Festival.Food Not Bombs (by Peter Koch, Artvoice v7n10, March 6, 2008)
Tucked away in the shiny, industrial kitchen at the back of Elmwood’s Unitarian Universalist Church, three volunteers—Megan, Amanda and Dave—are clanging and banging away, preparing a moveable feast. This particular feast—a steaming vat holding five pounds of spaghetti, several loaves of garlic bread, roasted potatoes, baked apples, fruit salad and piping hot tea—was considered trash only last night.Shadows & Fog (by Lucy Yau, Artvoice v7n9, February 28, 2008)
The first thing you’ll notice about Christina West’s sculptures is that they feel a little off-kilter. Although they are sculpted realistically, their color and size will immediately put you off balance.FOILed Again (by Geoff Kelly, Artvoice v7n8, February 21, 2008)
In late November, Artvoice associate editor Peter Koch wanted to review the minutes of several meetings of the City of Buffalo’s Preservation Board. So Koch visited the Preservation Board’s Web site, where the minutes are generally available online. But the links to the minutes were broken.This Is Not Your Grandmother's Bingo (by Marcus L. Wise, Artvoice v7n7, February 14, 2008)
Despite 30-degree weather, 285 people brave the winter wind to stand on line to play bingo. Only 225 make it in. Finding a good seat within earshot of your friends is chaos, but a good seat is key to enjoying the cabaret show that unfolds at Buffalo Gay Bingo.The L Word (by AV Editorial, Artvoice v7n6, February 7, 2008)
A simple “I love you” is never trite or tired, but come Valentine’s Day more individual and evocative expressions of affection seem required.Artvoice 13th Annual Mardi Gras Event (by Geoff Kelly, Artvoice v7n5, January 31, 2008)
The Artvoice Mardi Gras is one of the largest philanthropic Mardi Gras events in the country—and growing.Artshorts (by Geoff Kelly & Lucy Yau, Artvoice v7n4, January 24, 2008)
Happenings at the Albright Knox Art Gallery and Hallwalls.Weekend Rush (by Lucy Yau, Artvoice v7n3, January 17, 2008)
There is a sensual if ethereal quality to Sharon Kalstek’s photographs. They are staged with a theatrical flourish. A theme of concealment underlies her dreamy portraiture.The Nature of Nature (by Gerald Mead, Artvoice v7n2, January 10, 2008)
Art professors take pride in the accomplishments of their former students and, conversely, artists frequently acknowledge a teacher who significantly influenced or inspired them.
2007: Volume 6
Strange Investigation (by Dorothea Braemer, Artvoice v6n52, December 27, 2007)
At a hearing on December 18 in the Federal Courthouse in downtown Buffalo, US District Judge Richard Arcara postponed legal arguments in the more than three-and-a-half-year-old case against UB professor and internationally acclaimed artist Steve Kurtz because the prosecution lacked a key piece of evidence.The Age of the Loan Drones (by Ken Ilgunas, Artvoice v6n51, December 20, 2007)
At first glance, recent college graduate Dave Antonelli has it all. Nested in a cozy hamlet of rural-suburban Wheatfield, Antonelli, 23, and his fiancé Liz Baker, 28, live in a country home, cheerily stocked with symbols of the American dream.Last Minute Holiday Gift Guide (by Artvoice Staff, Artvoice v6n50, December 13, 2007)
At press time, Christmas was two weeks from yesterday. And that means you’re too late.You're Getting Warmer (by Bill McKibben, Artvoice v6n49, December 6, 2007)
I remember so well the final morning hours of the Kyoto conference. The negotiations had gone on long past their scheduled evening close, and the convention-center management was frantic—a trade show for children’s clothing was about to begin, and every corner of the vast hall still was littered with the carcasses of the sleeping diplomats who had gathered in Japan to draw up a first-ever global treaty to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.Dylan Times Seven (by M. Faust, Artvoice v6n48, November 29, 2007)
The standard career path for serious young filmmakers is to make an attention-getting short or, if they can raise the money, an independent feature; parley that into some big studio assignments; and then use their acquired clout to get back into making the kind of films that interest them. Especially in the last two decades we’ve seen lots of talent go through the first two parts of that formula, only to find that part three isn’t as easy as it seems.Lackawanna Soccer Blues (by Barry Zellen, Artvoice v6n47, November 21, 2007)
Abdulsalam Noman is the coach and director of the Lackawanna Yemen Soccer Club, a not-for-profit community organization founded in 1975 to serve the community’s youth through sports, dedicated to providing “a safe, healthy environment in which children can learn teamwork and sportsmanship.”