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In the fall of 1969, Queen City Bookstore, one of America’s first comic book shops, opened in Buffalo. The three generation family owned and operated business is the city’s oldest running bookstore and its owner Emil Novak would surely bleed comic book ink if you cut him.
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by Jim Heany, Investigative Post
Enough with the hype. Let’s talk facts about Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement last week that the state will spend $750 million to bring SolarCity to Buffalo to build the hemisphere’s largest solar panel manufacturing plant.
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by Erik Wollschlager
This summer Buffalo became synonymous with two things: growth and great beer, the kind of beer that makes a place a destination. Our local brewery explosion has drawn the attention of craft beer lovers and craft beer writers.
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by Patricia Pendleton
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by Jack Foran
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Anthony Chase
A brief roundup of current stage productions
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by Jan Jezorio
The Montante Center on Main Street at Canisius College will host the first of a pair of concerts consisting of recent works by James Piorkowski, a SUNY distinguished professor at Fredonia State College, which will appear on a soon-to-be released CD titled NINE Live on the Centaur record label.
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by Cory Perla
When Mike Herrera started MxPx in high school he never thought his band would still be together 22 years later. That’s not for a lack of hard work, and that’s not to say the 37-year old musician hasn’t considered ending the band.
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by M. Faust
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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 pick for the week: the Tokimonsta, performing at The Waiting Room on Monday, October 6.
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by Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell
The marketing and sales pitch is pretty explicit—the Buffalo Sabres’ front office has truncated the word “suffering” and replaced it with the word “blueprint.”
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by Michele F. Marconi
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by Frank Kolbmann
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by Chuck Shepherd
Dutch inventors Bart Jansen and Arjen Beltman struck again recently when Pepeijn Bruins, 13, called on them to help him grieve over his pet rat, Ratjetoe, who had to be put down because of cancer. Having heard of the inventors’ work, Pepeijn asked if they could please have Ratjetoe stuffed and turned into a radio-controlled drone.
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by Rob Brezsny
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When Jimmy Fallon was a senior in high school, he received a weird graduation gift: a troll doll, one of those plastic figurines with frizzy, brightly colored hair.
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