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Cover Story	The Wizard of Gore by M. Faust I thought they’d discovered a new planet or something,” was Herschell Gordon Lewis’s initial reaction to people asking him if he’d seen Juno. To the contrary, he soon started getting a lot more comments from people who saw the popular Oscar-nominated film with its scenes in which Juno and the guy looking to adopt her baby bond over Lewis’s 1970 film The Wizard of Gore.
Artvoice Video	Tom Christy Talks About Being Ousted at LCTV by Geoff Kelly Last week Lockport's public access cable TV channel, LCTV, bowed to political pressure and canceled Legislative Journal, the public affairs talk show hosted for the last 10 years by Tom Christy. Legislative Journal was the only television talk show in the region that focused on local politics and governance.
News	The Muddled Candidates by Bruce Fisher Welcome to the bravery season.
Getting a Grip	The Harder They Come, The Harder They Fall by Michael I. Niman To put the Spitzer prostitution scandal into perspective, let me go back two decades to when I first started teaching college—back when Eliot Spitzer was a young upstart district attorney. I was teaching an alternative media course to, I always suspected, a class that included a number of potheads.
The News, Briefly

	Prelude to a Kiss-Off by Geoff Kelly
	Schools for Scandal by Buck Quigley
	Common Council Report by Geoff Kelly
	We've Got a Ticket to Ride by Peter Koch
	Never Say Die by Peter Koch
News	News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd Dakota Abbott, 16, edged Samantha Phillips, 17, to become Miss Outdoors 2008 in February in Maryland’s Eastern Shore region’s annual beauty-contest-and-muskrat-skinning festival.
Puck Stop	Please Don't Quit On Us! by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell Most desperate teams will win playoff prize: Will it be the Buffalo Sabres? Is this team for real or are they just a tease?
Film Reviews	Taxi To The Dark Side by George Sax Two letters appeared in the Buffalo News the week I saw Taxi to the Dark Side. Both correspondents charged those who complain about the American government’s alleged authorization of torture in the interrogations of terror suspects and prisoners of war with naiveté and lack of patriotic feeling.
Music	SXSW 2008: Day One by Donny Kutzbach People always ask what the experience is like, to which I respond, “Imagine what might be about lifetime of concerts and live gigs crammed into a week.”
Food	Lent is Over, Feed Me Now by Patricia Watson A Guide to Eating Well on Dyngus Day
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	AV Pick: Dyngus Daze Are Here Again by Eddy Dobosiewicz
	Queen City Gallery 1st Anniversary Party by Lucy Yau
	"Five Years Too Many" March by Geoff Kelly
	Enter The Haggis by Lara Reden
Lit Feature	Introducing Flarf by Kaplan P. Harris The Flarf poets are coming to town. They are reading together on Good Friday.
In The Margins
	The Buffalo Small Press Book Fair Returns
	Poetry
	Book Review: My First Year in Purgatory
	Lit City
Artshorts

	Cause and Effect by Albert Chao
	The Art of The Novel
Free Will Astrology	by Rob Brezsny SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): On the morning of May 4, 2004, film producer Rielle Hunter woke up to find herself, by her own admission, fully enlightened. Soon she had become “addicted to higher consciousness,” and was unable to get involved with anything unless it expanded her awareness. If such a sequence of events were ever going to occur for you, Sagittarius, it would start soon.
Ask Anyone	I have a friend who works on a security detail at a casino. My friend has problems with both drugs and gambling. I feel like someone needs to know about this, because it seems likely he’s going to get himself and his employer in big trouble. What do I do?