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by Jamie Moses
On January 5, the Buffalo News reported that the Buffalo School Board was questioning LP Ciminelli’s profits during the billion-dollar schools construction project. That’s not surprising, considering in the last phase of the “billion dollar” project $28 million was vaguely listed as “incidental costs” and $41 million was simply unaccounted for.
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by Paul Wolf, Esq.
Debates between candidates competing for public office are an important part of democracy. In 1858 Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as candidates to represent Illinois in the U.S. Senate held a series of seven debates across the state. The first televised general election debate for U.S. President was held in 1960 between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
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by Arthur J. Giacalone
The timing was perfect, given Western New York’s short-term and long-term needs. The report evaluating potential locations for a future stadium for the Buffalo Bills surfaced just when local sports fans desperately required a distraction from weeks of playoff games without our home team on the field, and from our hockey team’s unprecedented losing streak.
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by Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell
Just a few days before Dominik Hasek night here in Buffalo, Anaheim enshrined Teemu Selanne into their rafters with a ceremony extravaganza which was almost over the top.
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by Michael I. Niman
People like new things. I get it. That’s what shopping malls are all about. Within this culture, it’s to be expected that the conventional wisdom says we need to replace a 74,000 seat football stadium that cost $22 million to build in 1973, with a sparkly new one that will seat about 74,000 people and cost upwards of $800 million.
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by Willard Brooks and Chris Groves
Gorden Biesch fully embraces authentic German lagers in a way that very few breweries in the USA do. Schwarzbier—which literally translates as Black Beer—is black in color and has a pleasant roasted malt quality—sort of a lager version of a stout.
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by Jack Foran
Works of three artists on a common theme of Buffalo as a work in progress are currently on view at Studio Hart, 65 Allen Street. The artists are painter and preservationist Sara M. Zak, photographer and urbanist Chris Hawley, and retired architect and planner Carol Case Siracuse, showing pen and ink drawings and watercolors.
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by Javier
Stage and TV star John O’Hurley (pictured above) will be playing Billy Flynn when the touring production of the musical Chicago plays Shea’s, once again, February 17th—22nd. O’Hurley is best known to TV audiences for playing J. Peterman on Seinfeld and as the former host of Family Feud.
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Welcome to the ninth installment of Artvoice’s Battle of Original Music—a contest we call BOOM, for short. Visit boom.artvoice.com to listen to our contestants, The Proles and American Stories.
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by Jan Jezioro
The musicians of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra have a long tradition of celebrating the January 27 birthday anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In years past, BPO musicians held an annual birthday concert of Mozart’s chamber music at the Lancaster Opera House. In recent years, the celebration has been moved to Kleinhans, where guest conductor David Alan Miller will lead a pair of concerts this Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2:30pm.
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by Jordan Canahai
Buffalo filmmakers Matt Lord and Joe Giambra of Mighty Niagara Productions, in association with Jiang Hu Cinema, are excited to debut their new short film, Return of the Hill Kings, within the coming weeks.
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by E. Ladd
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by Jordan Canahai
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by Liana Vardi, Professor of History at UB specializing in the history of France
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by Donald A. Moskowitz, Londonberry, NH
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by Carolyn Marcille
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by Diana Guild
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by Diana Guild
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by Chuck Shepherd
Ms. Connie Lay passed away in Aurora, Indiana, in November, leaving a last will and testament that calls for her German shepherd, Bela, to be promptly buried with her—even though Bela is still alive and peppy.
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by Rob Brezsny
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my analysis of the long-term astrological omens, 2015 is the year you can get totally serious about doing what you were born to do. You will be given the chance to slough off all that’s fake and irrelevant and delusory.
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