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by Talking Leaves Staff
Who better to know what worthwhile things have been recently published than the good folks who run and work at Buffalo’s most stalwart independent bookstore? Here, the staff of Talking Leaves...Books hips us to works we may have missed, in a wide variety of genres.
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by Jamie Moses
A million years ago I worked at Record Theatre for $2 an hour putting stickers on vinyl 45 singles. While the money barely paid for my Budweiser addiction, it was one of the best jobs I ever had because I was able to explore more music than I could ever afford to buy.
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by Buck Quigley
Our friends Leslie James Pickering and Theresa Baker-Pickering at Burning Books (420 Connecticut St./burningbooksbuffalo.com) have offered us a list of titles sure to appeal to those progressive friends on your shopping list—those that can’t see an ad for holiday diamonds without clenching their teeth in disgust at how those diamonds were likely obtained. Without further ado, here are some gift ideas for designed to shine a bright light throughout the holiday season...
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Buffalo Noir, ed. Brigid Hughes and Ed Park (Akashic Books)--our fair city finally lands its volume in the acclaimed City Noir series from Brookyn’s Akashic Books, and it’s a dandy--twelve stories from writers born or otherwise attached here, with a stunning cover taken from a photo by area writer and chef Joe George.
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by Dave Staba
The Buffalo Bills beat the crap out of Tom Brady on Monday night.
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by Frank Parlato
This is another installment of a series where I am a journalist covering my own federal indictment on 19 criminal counts.
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by Tony Farina
Long-time businessman Frank Parlato, 60, joined the Fourth Estate later in life but he has definitely made his mark in his relatively brief time as a newspaper publisher, editor, and reporter.
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by Scott Russel
Poised aside Tonawanda Creek on Transit Road just north of the county line is a colossal two story brick new build that seemingly leapt from the pages of a gothic comic. The 17,000 square foot gastropub, taproom and brewery is home to New York Beer Project, western New York’s latest entrant to the ever growing local craft brewing scene.
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by Willard Brooks and Chris Groves
It’s well-known that “IPA”—or India Pale Ale—is a beer style invented by 19th century British brewers with high hop levels in order to prevent spoilage in beers needing to survive the long warm journey from London to India. What is less known is that Dutch brewers were shipping hoppy high-alcohol beers to the Dutch East Indies (now known as Indonesia) long before this supposedly British invention.
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by Jordan Canahai
It’s not an exaggeration to say that Joshua Oppenheimer is one of the most important filmmakers in the world right now. The director’s Oscar-nominated The Act of Killing addressed the Indonesian Genocide of the 1960s from the point of view of the perpetrators, giving audiences one of the most acclaimed documentary films of the 21st century while starting a long-overdue dialogue in Indonesia about those awful events and their impact on the country’s present.
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by Jack Foran
Steve Powell, a filmmaker who doesn’t think of himself as particularly knowledgeable about art—“I like what I like,” he says—is making a film—series of short films, really—about local art and artists.
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by Jan Jezioro
Buffalo lovers of classical chamber music are getting their first and probably their best Christmas present a little early this year, just after Thanksgiving. Over the course of three days, the convention-breaking cellist Matt Haimovitz, and pianist Christopher O’Riley, who has arguably done more than any other individual to encourage young, classical musicians in America, are coming to town to present what will be a unique concert-going experience, when they perform all the works composed by Ludwig van Beethoven for piano and cello during the course of two evenings, the first at the Mary Seaton Room in Kleinhans Music Hall on Tuesday December 1 at 8pm and the second on Thursday December 3 at 7:30pm in Slee Hall on the UB Amherst Campus.
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by Anthony Chase
Actor/writer Peter Michael Marino has a talent to invent and then reinvent himself. When his musical stage version of Desperately Seeking Susan flopped on London’s West End, he picked himself up and recounted the whole sad saga in a one man show, Desperately Seeking the Exit, which toured the world for over two years.
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by Heather Cook
I recently read an article by Olivia Snaije, stating that Paris would prefer the hashtag #ParisIsAboutLife over #PrayForParis. The article also included a cartoon drawing that read, “Our faith goes to music! Kisses! Life! Champagne and Joy!”
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by Joe Tell
The Sandman: Overture is the long-awaited prequel to the original Sandman series that Neil Gaiman spearheaded back in the late 1980s. The story sets the scene for the first volume of Sandman and sheds new light on the Endless family of characters.
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by Jim Corbran
If you hear the name Volvo and think “squarish-shaped über safe car driven by non-tenured college professors wearing elbow-patched sport coats that reek of, ahem, herbal stimulants,” well then, I guess we grew up in the same era.
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by Chuck Shepherd
Professional patients now help train would-be doctors, especially in the most delicate and dreaded of exams (gynecological and prostate), where a becalming technique improves outcomes. One “teaching associate” of Eastern Virginia Medical School told The Washington Post in September that the helpers act as “enthusiastic surgical dummies” to 65 medical colleges, guiding rookie fingers through the trainer’s own private parts.
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by Chuck Shepherd
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): From the dawn of civilization until 1995, humans cataloged about 900 comets in our solar system. But since then, we have expanded that tally by over 3,000. Most of the recent discoveries have been made not by professional astronomers, but by laypersons, including two 13-year-olds.
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