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by Jordan Canahai
The Cultivate Cinema Circle (CCC), an emerging screening series that aims to help foster a healthy, fervent film culture in the Buffalo area, is set to commence its Fall 2015 series this week, with a showing of Agnes Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7 at the Canisius College Science Hall Wednesday evening.
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by Peter Soscia
The City of Buffalo and the Hispanic Heritage Council of Western New York began Hispanic Heritage Month with a kickoff celebration at the Downtown Library on September 15. The event featured live music, performances from bi-lingual public school children, as well as speeches and proclamation from local politicians. 2015 is the sixth year the city and the Hispanic Heritage Council has celebrated the honorary period from September 15 through October 15.
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by Dave Staba
Now we know what Rex Ryan’s Bills can do when just about everything goes their way.
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by Buck Quigley
In 1992, Javier Bustillos launched Buffalo United Artists (BUA) with a production of the musical A...My Name is Alice. Ever since, BUA has distinguished itself as a trailblazing and self-supporting theater collective presenting provocative and relevant work that examines the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer experience.
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by Erik Wollschlager
If you’ve ever elbowed up to the oak and ordered an IPA, chances are, somewhere, sometime, you’ve had to have the “craft beer bubble” conversation. In fact, I’d bet a good amount of money that you’ve heard the “craft beer bubble” conversation more often than you’ve heard Journey at any of the local watering holes.
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by Willard Brooks, Chris Groves
Buffalo’s relatively young beer scene deserves some applause for almost immediately recognizing the importance of the Farm to Pint movement. This crisp, golden beer was brewed with pilsner malt from Western New York’s own New York Craft Malt and lightly hopped with crystal hops from the northwest.
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by E. Ladd
Originally debuting at the 71st Venice International Film Festival, where it won four awards including Best European Film, Ivano De Matteo’s Italian drama The Dinner (I Nostri Ragazzi) opens this weekend at Buffalo’s North Park Theatre.
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by Jack Foran
Adele Becker’s paintings hover between abstract and representational. Some veer more in the one direction, some more in the other. But her work as a whole—as well as many or most of the individual works—has and have one foot in each camp.
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by Jan Jezioro
It is a pretty safe bet that the members of the Miró Quartet enjoy performing before Buffalo audiences.
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by Anthony Chase
To begin, it should be apparent that all shows pull together and become tighter after running for a few performances in front of audiences. In Buffalo, where a play is typically only rehearsed for about four weeks, it is a miracle that any theatrical production hits the ground running on opening night.
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by Heather Cook
One word at a time, Shelley Jackson has been publishing one of her short stories on the skin of 2,095 volunteers. She’s also working on an Instagram-based, environmental fiction project called Snow (instagram.com/snowshelleyjackson), wherein she writes and photographs her story, one or two words at a time, on lightly snow-dusted surfaces across a city of her choice, “weather permitting.” Snow is scheduled to stretch across Buffalo this February (pun intended).
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by Javier
Broadway and TV star Cheyenne Jackson (pictured above) will be appearing with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra on Saturday September 26th at 8 p.m. in Music of the Mad Men Era, a concert he performed to a sold out house at Carnegie Hall in 2011. The show features music of the late 1950s and 60s.
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by Joe Tell & Carolyn Marcille
Pixu (pronounced pee-shu) is a little graphic novel full of big scares. The art and story are a collaborative effort by the Eisner Award-winning team of Gabriel Ba, Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos and Fabio Moon, best known for 5 and The Umbrella Academy.
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by Jim Corbran
Yes, 4-Door Sports Car® (4DSC) is actually a thing, as you can see by the “®”. Nissan has been using the term to describe the Maxima since the late 1980s, and it still fits.
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by Chuck Shepherd
The streets of Jackson, Mississippi, apparently have potholes that rival the worst in the country, but without adequate budget to fix them, according to Mayor Tony Yarber. His remedy, offered earnestly to constituents in August: prayer. “I believe we can pray potholes away.”
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by Rob Brezsny
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Some people express pride in gross ways. When you hear their overbearing brags, you know it’s a sign that they are not really confident in themselves.
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