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by Geoff Kelly and Louis Ricciuti
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by Jack Foran
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by Aaron Lowinger
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by Buck Quigley
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by Jim Heaney, InvestigativePost.org
Byron Brown’s track record of hiring African-American administrators—he doesn’t, for the most part—is surprising until you put it in a larger context.
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by Bruce Fisher
It’s not just the anti-Semitic Glen Beck stirring up the fringe. Buffalo-born Richard Hofstadter long ago wrote The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and more recent historian Richard Perlstein estimates that since the Depression about 20 percent of American voters have been moved by wacky conspiracy theories that somehow always revolve around Jews, banks, and secret plans for socialism. Something new has happened: The loonies have taken over the House of Representatives.
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by Joe George
Three years ago it was the rabbits. They ate nearly everything, or at least everything they liked. Which was a lot.
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by Jill Greenberg
Step away from your oven and avoid the stove. These recipes have fewer than 10 ingredients and will keep you nourished and cool. Once you have cooked with fresh ingredients, it will be hard to go back to cans and frozen options. Let these recipes inspire you to plant a garden of your own; perhaps start small with an herb garden.
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by Jill Greenberg
This summer, avoid the burnout of restaurant-going as you hop from patio to patio and new restaurant to new restaurant. To be sure that you are treating yourself to the most seasonal culinary delights this summer, make an experience out of it and attend a food event. There you are sure to please your palate and keep things fresh before you snuggle back into your restaurant routine come winter.
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by Jack Foran
What is most interesting about James Vullo is how he takes from all directions, but makes what he takes his own, and gradually transitions over the course of a lifetime from blatantly imitative artist to unique artistic personality. All on show at the current Vullo exhibit, entitled Deconstructing Urbania, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center.
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by Anthony Chase
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by Anthony Chase
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by Keith Buckley
When your set time is late in the day, and there have been upwards of 10 bands beating the same path onto the stage over the course of the seven hours that have passed since doors were opened, and two of them dress like vampires (not the sexy, Twilight kind), you never know if the drops of blood you see on the monitor are real or just colored syrup that burst out of a pill during a guitar solo.
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by George Sax
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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: Buffalo's first ChalkFest, featuring 3D artist Michael Macauley, this Saturday and Sunday on the 500 block of Main Street.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
Travel to Pittsburgh and visit the University of Pittsburgh campus, and you will have to search hard. Really hard. But then you’ll find it, right across from the main library: a brick wall with a stenciled marker on it, all covered with ivy and brush. That is the outfield wall of the old Forbes Field, the hallowed home of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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by Jim Corbran
FPH of course, being “fun per horsepower.” And more than 900,000 buyers can’t be wrong since 1989.
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by Chuck Shepherd
Fern Cooper, 65, and 13 other cataract-surgery patients arrived at Ontario’s Oakville Trafalgar Hospital on June 25 to learn that they would not receive the usual anesthesia because the hospital had decided to schedule an “experimental day” to evaluate how unsedated patients responded.
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by Rob Brezsny
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When Tchaikovsky wrote the musical score for his famous 1812 Overture, it included 16 cannon shots. Literally. These blasts weren’t supposed to be made by, say, a sledgehammer pounded against a wooden mallet, but rather by the detonation of an actual cannon.
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My son, who is a senior in high school this year, has just informed me that he doesn’t intend to go to college next year. Instead, he and a friend will get an apartment together here in Buffalo, find menial jobs, and take a year off—maybe a couple years, who knows?—before considering whether and where to apply.
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