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by Steve Mitchell
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by Jack Foran
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Zachary Burns
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by Bruce Fisher
Kathy Hochul just won a Congressional district that includes all or parts of seven counties. The district is home to UB, Brockport State, Geneseo, and a few community colleges, but not to any big cities. Orleans, Genesee, Livingston, and Wyoming counties are largely rural, as is the section of Niagara County that’s in the 26th.
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by Anthony Chase
The Artie Awards will take place at the Town Ballroom (681 Main Street) on Monday, June 6, at 8pm. The evening’s hosts are Anthony Chase, Lisa Ludwig, Norm Sham, and Doug Weyand, with musical director Michael Hake. Peggy Farrell will perform, and the evening will feature performances from nominated musicals. The evening is a benefit for Benedict House.
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by Javier
TV and movie star Jim Belushi (pictured above) is back on Broadway starring in the revival of Garson Kanin’s Born Yesterday which will end its limited run on July 31. The production received two Tony nominations for its leading lady and its costume design.
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by Joe Doherty
On a night in the early 1970s, a young keyboardist named George Duke was given as a gift the first synthesizer he would ever own. Duke, a straight-laced jazz-fusion player, was reluctant to accept. But the man, his bandleader, insisted. “Look,” he said. “I’m gonna stick it on your Fender Rhodes and maybe you’ll bump into it and a sound will come out that you like.”
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by Jan Jezioro
The Buffalo Chamber Players have earned a well deserved reputation for programming underplayed, and sometimes completely obscure musical works, and they will be working hard in their season’s final concert on Wednesday, June 8, at 7:30pm in the Buffalo Seminary, to preserve that reputation.
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Gay Pride Month is upon us, and Buffalo’s 20th annual Gay Pride parade—and the attendant parties, or course—takes place next weekend. (If you want a complete rundown of events, visit www.pridecenterwny.org or pick up this paper next week.) It seems a perfect time, then, to tour the city’s vibrant LGBT nightlife, and what better guides than the men and women who mix and pour the drinks?
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
There were plenty of Buffalo Bisons in the lineup this past weekend as the New York Mets entered their “Subway Series” against their crosstown rivals, the New York Yankees.
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by M. Faust
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by George Sax
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by M. Faust
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by M. Faust
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's picks for the week: Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros at Thursday in the Square.
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by Jim Corbran
Well, it’s finally here. For the past few years, the automotive press has been singing the blues over the Ford Focus.
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The NFTA recently held a public meeting on the proposed plan to return vehicle traffic to the 600 block of Main Street (between Tupper and Chippewa). The complicated plan would allow Metro Rail trains and cars to share the same roadway, with the hope of increased patronage to Theater District businesses.
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by Paul Morgan and Mark Nowak
I challenge you, Senator, to name these “members of the gay community” you claim would be satisfied with “civil unions” as a compromise in the civil rights struggle for full marriage equality in New York State! The creation of a “civil union” status might indeed mistakenly satisfy a very few individuals, who are ignorant of the ultimate inequity of any such conciliation.
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by Chuck Shepherd
Rights of women are severely restricted in Pakistan’s tribal areas and among Muslim fundamentalists, but the rights of the country’s estimated 50,000 “transgenders” blossomed in April when the country’s Supreme Court ordered the government to accept a “third sex” designation on official documents (instead of forcing a choice of “male” or “female”).
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by Rob Brezsny
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): My favorite news source, The Onion, recently reported on a “free-thinking cat” that excretes its wastes “outside the box.” As you enjoy your own phase of liberated thinking and uninhibited action, Gemini, I hope that you’re putting the emphasis on generating beauty and blessings “outside the box.”
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I’ve been a happily married man for over 20 years, with a great wife and family. Only one big problem. I fathered a child with a cocktail waitress I met on a business trip two years before I was married. The mother found me on Facebook and let me know about it last week.
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