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by Ed Cardoni
Jerome has made millions running Sparkle, a soap company in Buffalo, but his loving wife’s dreams trouble him, and his relatives are plotting to wrest the company away. A community activist fights the expansion of a business on Elmwood Avenue, while a champion of the expansion plots a devious long game.
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by George Sax
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by Zachary Burns
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by Bruce Fisher
There is a new reality in urban America: Electric streetcars and electric light rail are back in in a big, big way. The growing cities of Portland and Seattle are using their wealth to help amplify their density with a surface transportation system that attracts riders and spurs development.
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by Michael I. Niman
Fidel Castro dubbed this year’s Republican primary as the “greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance the world has ever seen.” We as a nation gave him that line by allowing our political culture to surrealistically descend to the level of a reality television show where angry kindergarten bullies magically sprout middle-aged bodies, stuff them into bad suits, and get to run for president of the United States.
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by Jim Heaney, InvestigativePost.org
One billion dollars opens the door to all sorts of possibilities. Consider the Central Terminal. Despite its scars, the Central Terminal might be the neatest space in Buffalo. The city’s proverbial diamond in the rough, even if the emphasis is on “rough.”
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In 1938, when he was just 24 years old, James Vullo’s first exhibition opened at the Albright Art Gallery. Vullo began drawing around the age of eight. He loved the city, especially its waterfront, which is evident in his unique rendering of Buffalo’s cityscapes.
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by Anthony Chase
When word began to circulate through the theater community on Wednesday, February 22, that Neil Garvey had died, the reaction was a combination of grief and disbelief.
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by Cory Perla
The universe is a cycle. There’s an endless repetition of good, bad, life, death, destruction, and creation. On their latest album, Ex Lives, Buffalo’s hardcore kings Every Time I Die have completed a circle, shedding their former “party rock” lives and reinventing their style with the life lessons learned along the way. They made an album for themselves again.
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by Donny Kutzbach
There’s a dividing line that runs through Bruce Springsteen’s catalog, and it falls right at 1984’s Born in the USA. That was the point where Springsteen went from being the revered singer/songwriter/bandleader with a dynamic live show, qualified classic albums like Born to Run and Darkness at the Edge of Town, and an enviable, fanatical following, into something much bigger.
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by M. Faust
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by M. Faust
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by George Sax
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's picks for the week: Being B.I.G. — A Benefit for the Fight Against Leukemia & Lymphoma, this Friday the 9th at Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar.
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Congratulations to Sleepless City for winning this week’s online vote. With that win, they secure a spot in the next BOOM Live Showdown, coming up on April 7 at Nietzsche’s.
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After a taking some time off for a winter break, the Friends of Vienna will present their first concert of the spring season, this Sunday, March 11 at 3:30pm, in the Unity Church (1243 Delaware Avenue). The program by cellist Amelie Fradette and pianist Susan Schuman features works by Bach, Schubert, and Brahms.
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by Chuck Shepherd
The royal family of Qatar, apparently striving for art-world credibility, purchased a Paul Cezanne painting (“The Card Players”) last year for the equivalent of about $250 million, which is twice as much as the previous most-expensive painting sold for.
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by Rob Brezsny
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Shunryu Suzuki was a Zen master whose books helped popularize Zen Buddhism in America. A student once asked him, “How much ego do you need?” His austere reply was “Just enough so that you don’t step in front of a bus.”
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I’m an almost 41-year-old male who suffers from a form of autism called Asperger’s syndrome, and also a virgin. I feel my “affliction” has impaired me from the quality of life I know would make me satisfied. I feel I’ve never had a decent relationship with a woman.
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