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by Ted P. Schmidt
The wizards of Wall Street have figured out that it’s a lot easier to make a buck off of basic needs—commodities—than corporate paper, and they are fueling another commodities bubble that is pushing millions of people around the globe into poverty and despair. Not content with destroying America’s housing market, they are now forcing us to pay higher prices for gas and groceries.
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by Bruce Fisher
There’s a new study just out about a transformative public works project for Greater Buffalo that could put hundreds of people to work at every skill level for the next several years.
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It’s been two months since we started the Give for Greatness, a campaign to raise money for Buffalo’s arts institutions left out of Erie County’s budget. The campaign kicked off on Mardi Gras, when we paraded down the streets of Buffalo and partied in our favorite bars. Now we’re down to our last week and our last five events.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
Apart from adding a series-clinching win for the Buffalo Sabres, could anyone have written a better script to this first-round series?
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by Jennifer Mogensen
Debbie Clark, owner of Delish (802 Elmwood Avenue), didn’t plan on cooking or baking. She didn’t plan on owning a wildly successful pastry shop. But sometimes the best-laid plans go awry. In Clark’s case, the path she was about to follow was quite sweet indeed.
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by Elle Goode
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by Jack Foran
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by Anthony Chase
This is an extraordinary week for theater in Buffalo. Last week’s opening of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at Road Less Traveled Theater is being joined by the openings of similarly thrilling scripts at four other theaters. The range of plays speaks to the diversity of the theater scene here and to the robust health of the producing theaters.
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by Javier
Most famous for his year-round tan, TV and movie star George Hamilton (pictured) will play Georges in the national tour of La Cage Aux Folles, which kicks off in the fall. The show’s second revival on Broadway will close on Sunday. Hamilton made his Broadway debut a few years ago in the revival of Chicago.
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by Jan Jezioro
On Saturday, April 30 at 8pm, and on Sunday, May 1, at 2:30pm, Falletta will lead the orchestra in the US premiere of Marcel Tyberg’s Symphony No. 2 in F minor.
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by M. Faust
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by M. Faust
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by M. Faust
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by Jim Corbran
Well, this certainly isn’t your old psychology professor’s Volvo. You remember him: pipe, corduroy jacket, and his car—a very square-shaped forest green Volvo 244 with seats the color of a basketball.
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's picks for the week: Twin Shadow, who performs at Mohawk Place on Sunday, May 1.
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Mark Supples, the proprietor of Mothers Restaurant on Virginia Place in Allentown, is more than a successful businessman. He’s also one of the more opinionated observers of local issues, and a fun guy to have a beer with. We caught up with him recently to hear his take on waterfront development and the Peace Bridge expansion project.
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by Lucy Kogler
Once again it is April, the month to nationally celebratepoetry, to internationally commemorate the six recognized genocides, and to accept the work of preventing others.
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by Chuck Shepherd
The longstanding springtime culinary tradition of urine-soaked eggs endures, in Dongyang, China, according to a March CNN dispatch. Prepubescent boys contribute their urine (apparently without inhibition) by filling containers at schools, and the eggs are boiled according to recipe and sold for the equivalent of about 23 cents each.
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by Rob Brezsny
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Many artists want “to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye,” says Brian Eno, a Taurus genius renowned for his innovative music. He prefers a different approach.
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I’m not very good at remembering names (or faces, for that matter). Sometimes I have known people for two years or more without ever being able to remember their names. What, exactly, are the rules about asking for someone’s name?
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