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by Ethan Powers
On October 30, 2014, a packed crowd at Shea’s Performing Arts Center watched Glenn Thomas accept the $1 million grand prize from the “world’s largest business idea competition” organized by 43North. The excitement was palpable as a local company from Tonawanda with a revolutionary metal forming idea beat out almost 7,000 entries from 96 countries and all 50 states.
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by Arthur J. Giacalone
Seventy miles south of Buffalo is a revered meeting place where a multitude of America’s deepest thinkers and political elite have shared their ideas. Its stage has been graced by historic figures such as Booker T. Washington, Susan B. Anthony, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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by Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell
Many hockey fans here in Buffalo were riveted to their TV sets this past Monday, watching the gold medal matchup in the IIHF U20 World Championships.
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by Dave Staba
When the most recent coach of the Buffalo Bills abruptly walked away from the franchise on New Year’s Eve, there were two ways of looking at his decision.
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by Jack Foran
Two artists joined forces Saturday night at the BT&C Gallery in a visual and audio presentation about birds. Augmented further performances are scheduled for January 13 and 29 at the same locale.
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by Anthony Chase
Two shows opening on Buffalo’s stages this week feature venerable astonishingly prolific playwrights, one, not only American but Buffalonian; the other, British.
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by Javier
Stage and screen actor Billy Magnussen (pictured above) seems to have had a lot of fun playing Rapunzel’s Prince in the movie adaptation of Sondheim’s Into the Woods, which was the second highest-grossing film this past weekend.
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by Jan Jezioro
The idea for this column occurred recently, at a venue that shall remain nameless, while eagerly anticipating a solo recital by one of the finest pianists in Western New York. After the first few notes had been played, the person sitting next to me exasperatedly whispered “The piano is out of tune!”
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by Jordan Canahai
For a writer/director with such a remarkably distinct vision, Paul Thomas Anderson sure has created a very diverse body of work throughout his nearly 20 year career. With modern classics like Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, and The Master he has not only established a reputation as one of our best filmmakers, but also chronicler-in-chief of California’s storied history and the damaged souls who populate it.
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Congratulations to the four bands that have won a slot in our live Battle of Original Music: The Nigh, Intent to Sell, Imperial Brown, and our latest winners, Shattered Glass!
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by Mary Faith Bonney, Buffalo
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by Richard Ehlers, Clarence
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by Joanna and Larry Bachman, Buffalo
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by Garrett Collins, Orange City, FL
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by Eric Hafner, Toms River, NJ
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by Emil J. Novak Sr.
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by Joe Tell
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by Emil J. Novak Sr.
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by Chuck Shepherd
Richard Rosario is in year 18 of a 25-to-life sentence for murder, even though 13 alibi witnesses have tried to tell authorities that he was with them—1,000 miles away—at the time of the crime.
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by Rob Brezsny
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Songwriter RB Morris wrote a fanciful poem in which he imagines a smart mockingbird hearing rock and roll music for the first time.
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