http://artvoice.com Western New York's smartest news, arts and entertainment. This feed contains weekly features. en-us Copyright 2008, Artvoice. All rights reserved. Access to this RSS feed is for individual and non-commercial use only. Please contact webmaster.com for more info on commercial use syndication. editorial@artvoice.com (Artvoice Editorial) webmaster@artvoice.com (Artvoice Webmaster) Sat, Jul EDT 4 EST Hackers on Steroids http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/a_tale_of_two_cities http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/a_tale_of_two_cities 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. Thu, Jul EDT 9 EST Art Feature Geoff Kelly, photos by Clark Dever http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/news_briefs http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/news_briefs The News, Briefly: Start Counting Your Chickens, What Issa Leaves Behind, Follow That Car!, Syaed Ali Sues, The Ties That Bind Thu, Jul EDT 9 EST The News, Briefly n/a http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/when_the_empire_falls http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/when_the_empire_falls 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. Thu, Jul EDT 9 EST News Bruce Fisher http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/artshort http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/artshort 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. Thu, Jul EDT 9 EST Artshort J. Tim Raymond http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/flim_reviews http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/flim_reviews Film Reviews: Public Enemies, Food Inc., Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Whatever Works Thu, Jul EDT 9 EST Film Reviews n/a http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/listings http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/listings Listings: On The Boards Theater Listings, Movie Times (Fri. July 3 - Thurs. July 9), Film Now Playing Thu, Jul EDT 9 EST Listings n/a http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/syt http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/syt 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. Thu, Jul EDT 9 EST Events n/a http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/weird http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/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.” Thu, Jul EDT 9 EST Offbeat News n/a http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/yak http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/yak 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. Thu, Jul EDT 9 EST You Auto Know Jim Corbran http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/letters http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/letters Letters to Artvoice: Free Vendors, The Cadillac Controversy, Fight for Healthcare Thu, Jul EDT 9 EST Letters to Artvoice n/a http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/literary_buffalo http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/literary_buffalo Literary Buffalo: Flash Fiction, Poetry Thu, Jul EDT 9 EST Literary Buffalo n/a http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/free_will_astrology http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/free_will_astrology 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. Thu, Jul EDT 9 EST Horoscopes Rob Brezsny http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/advice http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n27/advice 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? Thu, Jul EDT 9 EST Advice n/a