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by M. Faust
Best-Selling crime novelist and Buffalo Native Lawrence Block takes a stab at the movies.
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by Buck Quigley
Last week I wrote a news brief about ResulTech, the Maryland-based company that is up for a $1.7 million service contract extension from the Buffalo Schools to “continue on-going technical support at Academy School 44.” A school board vote was scheduled for last Wednesday to approve the contract that had already been composed, approved by legal counsel, signed by the district and the vendor, and notarized.
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by Bruce Fisher
Since 1970, Erie County’s population has shrunk slightly, from a high of 1.1 million to today’s 925,000. Yet this shrinking population has spread out over 75 percent more land area. Cornell planning professor Rolf Pendall, among others, has documented the widespread phenomenon in New York State of sprawl without growth.
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by Chuck Shepherd
Progressive Mullahs: The Iranian government, treating addicts as people who need help rather than as criminals, agreed in April to install vending machines offering inexpensive syringes (at about 5 cents each) in five city welfare shelters in order to keep addicts from sharing needles and spreading AIDS and hepatitis. Iran blames its festering drug problem on its common border with opium-producing Afghanistan.
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by Lucy Yau
This year Hallwalls’ annual Artists and Models party returns to the Central Terminal. In the past Hallwalls has moved the party around—to the convention center, abandoned warehouses, factories, roller rinks, and department stores.
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Artvoice will present Buffalo’s local theater awards, the ARTIES, at the Town Ballroom on Monday, evening, June 2, 2008. The event will be a benefit for Benedict House, which provides residential and support services for individuals living with AIDS. To be eligible for an Artie, an artist must live and work in the Buffalo area, a theater must produce work locally, primarily with local artists.
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by Jan Jezioro
Next week should prove to be special for fans of chamber music in Buffalo, as two of the finest local chamber music groups wind up their seasons.
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by Paula Paradise
Lurking in the shadows of specialty wine stores, a bookish-type of wine geek methodically marks an “X” over each conquest on De Long’s table of 184 wine grape varietals. Some students of the vine have made a passion out of collecting obscure drinking experiences—Romorantin anyone?
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by Joe Sweeny
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by Donny Kutzbach
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by Matt Quinn
Artvoice recently visited the Jennifer Steinkamp exhibit currently on display at the Albright-Knox.
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by George Sax
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by M. Faust
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by George Sax
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by M. Faust
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by Jim Corbran
It’s that time of year again... almost. Even though I’ve seen convertibles driving around town with their tops down on and off for weeks now, most of those instances were during freakishly warm weather pockets. After living in Western New York just about all of my life, I realize true convertible season doesn’t usually start until around Memorial Day. Which makes it time for my (sort-of) yearly look at my favorite drop-tops.
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by Alessandro Porc
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by Just Buffalo
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by Bryan Whitley-Grassi
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by Joseph L. Gerken
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by David Slive
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by Rob Brezsny
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Giuseppe Rebaudi and Silvie Basain started dating in 1952. This year they finally decided to take the next step. After a 56-year courtship, the 101-year-old Italian man wed his 98-year-old girlfriend. I predict that a comparable event will bless your love life in the second half of 2008, Gemini. Some romantic development that has been in the works for a long time will finally ripen into its full expression. Expect news about this soon.
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I live in an up-and-coming West Side neighborhood. Two weeks ago a guy who has been rehabbing rental properties on my block cut down three trees in front of his houses, arguing that they were obstructing the view onto the front porches, which were therefore being used by junkies and other ne’er-do-wells.
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