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by M. Faust
Now in its sixth year, the Buffalo International Film Festival is undergoing some growing pains. In order to focus attention on its best offerings, it has been scaled back from the 10 days it ran last year to two consecutive weekends. On the basis of the films I have previewed, the quality looks to be better than recent years, with fewer of the marginal titles that seemed to be padding out those extra days.
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by Geoff Kelly and Louis Ricciuti
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by Jack Foran
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Buck Quigley
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by Jim Heaney, InvestigativePost.org
Kevin Connor is a research provocateur and one of the leading intellects in Buffalo’s burgeoning activist community. The Boston native and 2005 graduate of Harvard University moved to Buffalo five years ago. Since then, he has launched two watchdog research organizations, the Public Accountability Initiative and Little Sis.
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by Michael I. Niman
Wearing an Occupy t-shirt in the summer of 2012 seemed old school—like wearing a Grateful Dead tie-dye. Occupy is so 51 weeks ago.
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by Bruce Fisher
Thirty profitable American-based corporations that paid a negative income tax rate between 2008 and 2011 also paid less than zero federal income taxes in 2011.
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by Anthony Chase
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by Anthony Chase
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Jack Foran
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by Jack Foran
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by Jan Jezioro
Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall on the UB Amherst campus will be the venue for a pair of very different but equally anticipated concerts next week.
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by M. Faust
Film director Paul Thomas Anderson talks about his new film, the era it seeks to capture, and working with Joaquin Phoenix
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by George Sax
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by George Sax
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's pick for the week: Working in Time: a celebration of the arts in honor of Bruce Jackson, this Friday the 21st at Slee Hall, UB North Campus.
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by Paul Wofl
The fact that Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has $1 million dollars in his campaign war chest is good news for the mayor but bad news for the citizens of Buffalo. It means there will not be a real election for mayor of Buffalo next year. No challenger will be able to compete in a significant way against $1 million and the power of incumbency.
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by Jim Corbran
You’d almost think that Chevy knew gas would be topping four dollars a gallon, as their new mini car, the Spark, just recently went on sale. An EPA rating at 28/37 miles per gallon city/highway certainly won’t hurt sales.
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by Chuck Shepherd
Among the students featured in Popular Science’s September list of young inventors was Fabian Fernandez-Han, 14, of Conroe, Texas, who invented a bicycle that, when pedaled, also desalinates seawater (via reverse osmosis) from replaceable 15-gallon canisters.
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by Rob Brezsny
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Want to submit a letter to the editor of a major newspaper? The odds of you getting published in the influential Washington Post are almost three times as great as in the super-influential New York Times.
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