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by Bruce Fisher
In Bad Money, Phillips shows how the George W. Bush formula of governing with huge deficits, tax relief for the highest-income and wealthiest Americans and an anti-regulatory environment—all features of Reaganism—have probably doomed the United States to becoming a second-class power.
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by Lauren N. Maynard
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by Peter Koch
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by Chuck Shepard
China’s societal self-improvement in preparation for the 2008 Olympics continues. The Beijing Tourism Bureau ordered hotels to re-translate English signs, hoping to avoid such notorious past gaffes as “Racist Park,” which is now “Park of Ethnic Minorities,” and a cafe’s attempt to salute Western visitors with “Welcome, big nose friends.”
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by Paula Paradise
This spring I am going to crusade for the faint of color. That’s right, I’m going pink. As the monotonous drumbeats of winter—gray sky, damp wind, and unrelenting cold recede, I long to fill my brain with sunshine and my glass with rosé.
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by Lucy Yau
Diedie Weng's Mosuo Song Journey @ Squeaky Wheel
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by Javier
Movie star Steve Guttenberg was not so lucky in the popular TV show Dancing with the Stars, where he was eliminated in the second round. Guttenberg made his Broadway debut as a replacement cast in the original 1990 production of Prelude to a Kiss. His first film as director/producer/co-screenwriter/star was the adaptation of James Kirkwood’s play P.S. Your Cat Is Dead. Theater fans should now probably root for Marissa Jaret Winokur, who remains a contestant in the popular TV show.
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by Joe Sweeney
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by Mike Shanley
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by Jan Jezioro
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by Jim Corbran
Although I always enjoy the annual Buffalo auto show, once you’ve been to a real auto show (Detroit, New York, Frankfort…), the local show pales in comparison. Heck, it pales even if you’ve never been to another show.
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by George Sax
In a couple of scenes in Noam Murro’s Smart People, Dennis Quaid’s face becomes a malleable mask of sickly, embarrassed insincerity and passive-resistant condescension. It’s a lot to convey in one brief take, but Quaid manages it.
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by Edward Batchelder
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by Donny Kutzbach
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by Peter Koch
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by Anthony Chase
For the record, artistic director Kathleen Gaffney ran a very tight ship at Studio Arena Theatre this year. This was the first and only season that she selected and oversaw entirely herself, and at the time they closed the doors, she was running a season surplus of over $100,000.
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by Readers Like You
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by Carly Christiansen
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by Forrest Roth
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by Just Buffalo
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by Rob Brezsny
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Normally you’re inclined to massage problems until they relax, not bash problems until they break. Your preference is to paint fuzzy, impressionistic pictures rather than creating crisp snapshots. Nevertheless, the astrological omens indicate that in the next two weeks, you should take an approach recommended by Winston Churchill: “If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time—a tremendous whack.”
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My partner and I have moved back to Buffalo after years living in bigger, faster cities like DC and New York. I came back for a job—a really good one that I love. My partner moved back to be with me, and she’s not so happy about it. She doesn’t complain, but I know she’d rather be elsewhere.
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