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by Geoff Kelly
If Bernie Tolbert succeeds this November in being elected Buffalo’s next mayor, one of the first things he says he’ll do is purely symbolic: He’ll get rid of the police officer stationed at the desk in front of the mayor’s second-floor office in City Hall.
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by Buck Quigley
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Buck Quigley
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by Bruce Fisher
The dream of the climate-conscious pro-Buffalo person today goes something like this: We needn’t fret that demographers at Cornell, Penn, the US Census, and elsewhere all concur that the Buffalo-area population will shrink by another 100,000 in the next ten years.
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by Ian Buruma, Project Syndicate
Barring any unexpected new revelations, there is not much to be learned from the Tsarnaev brothers, better known as “the Boston bombers.” We can dig into their family histories in strife-torn Dagestan, or examine, once again, the lethal appeal of Islamist radicalism. But I doubt that this would be enlightening.
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by Paul Wolf, ReinventingGov.org
Newsweek magazine recently ran an article listing the five most innovative mayors in the US. It might not surprise you that none of the mayors from Western New York made the list.
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by Jack Foran
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Anthony Chase
“Surreal!” is the word Bob Gaudio uses to describe the experience of seeing himself depicted in Jersey Boys, the biographical musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons that has returned to Shea’s this week for a 10-day stay. “Of course, I’ve seen dozens of different actors play ‘Bob’ in the show, and I always enjoy it when the actor is especially good looking!”
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by Bill Nehill
Few movements of the rock-and-roll era have proved as vital or influential as the British post-punk scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Congratulations to MayDay! for collecting the most online votes this past week. That wins them a spot in the upcoming BOOM live showdown at the end of this month.
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by Jan Jezioro
On a fine evening late last spring, Bob Berkman welcomed a small group of guests to his West Side home for an impromptu performance of Lithuanian folk music on a pianola, or player piano. The occasion for this recital, held in a private home, as were almost all pianola performances in the instrument’s heyday, was the visit to Buffalo of Professor Darius Kucinskas, a musicologist at the University of Kaunas in Lithuania.
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by Ed Grant
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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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by M. Faust
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's pick for the week: the Best of Buffalo 2013 Awards Ceremony, this Monday, May 13th at the Town Ballroom.
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by Jim Corbran
The year was 1975. The US had its first non-elected president (Ford) and vice-president (Rockefeller) in history. The Cincinnati Reds defeated the Boston Red Sox in the World Series. And Ford introduced its third-generation Econoline van.
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by Chuck Shepherd
Caribou Baby, a Brooklyn, N.Y., “eco-friendly maternity, baby and lifestyle store,” has recently been hosting gatherings at which parents exchange tips on “elimination communication”—the weaning of infants without benefit of diapers (as reported in April by the New York Times). Parents watch for cues, such as a certain “cry or grimace” that supposedly signals that the tot urgently needs to be hoisted onto a potty.
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by Rob Brezsny
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A character in Herman Hesse’s novel Demian says the following: “I live in my dreams. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own.” Whose dreams do you live in, Virgo?
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Buffalo-based storyteller Nathan Peracciny’s newest film project, Volcom Pipe Pro 2013: Sustainable By Design, documents the efforts by organizers of a major surfing competition to run an environmentally sustainable event, from the locally sourced food and the bio-diesel generators to the bokashi system for composting food waste.
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