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by Gerald Mead
Collecting has been a lifelong passion and pursuit of retired lawyer turned collector/philanthropist Charles Rand Penney, so much so that at one point the Buffalo-born Penney had in his possession 100 separate collections of art, collectibles, memorabilia, and antiques.
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by Bruce Fisher
A month ago, the Gallup poll asked Americans if there is too much, too little, or about the right amount of government regulation of business. This week, Gallup asks if government is trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses.
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by Geoff Kelly
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In 1997, Tim Herzog and a handful of friends and investors opened Flying Bison, the first stand-alone brewery in Buffalo since Iroquois Brewing bit the dust in 1972.
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by Jennifer Mogensen
No one is immune to the effects of the current economic crisis, including local restaurateurs. In an effort to boost the sales at some of Western New York’s independent eateries, the New York State Restaurant Association’s local chapter is once again sponsoring Local Restaurant Week. The event runs through September 28.
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by M. Faust
I would never presume to render an opinion on a film if I had only seen a random five or 10 minutes of it. Yet that’s the position I’m in trying to write about the 34th Toronto International Film Festival.
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This week, we’d like to congratulate David Cloyd! He collected the most votes in our online contest this past week, so he proceeds to the live preliminary at Nietzsche’s on Friday, October 16.
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by Anthony Chase
You can only see it through this Sunday, so act quickly if you want to catch the truly sensational tour of the Kander and Ebb musical, Chicago, now at Shea’s.
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by Javier
The fabulous Debra Messing returned to her first love, the stage, a couple of weeks ago to appear in a staged reading of a play that was part of Standing on Ceremony—The Gay Marriage Plays. The one night only event was a benefit for the Human Rights Campaign in LA. Messing is eagerly looking for the right project for her next theatrical venture.
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by Donny Kutzbach
When the Minneapolis bard of blue hearts and willingly unkempt rock and roll achingly pines, “See the ghost on a canvas/Most people don’t see there” on one of his newest tracks, you get an idea who he’s singing about. There’s probably not a better American songwriter in the last 25 years.
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by M. Faust
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by George Sax
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by George Sax
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: Babel Extras: High Tea, British Night at the International Institute, on Friday September 25th.
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by Chuck Shepherd
If society were ever attacked by zombies, we would probably be doomed, and quickly. That was the conclusion of two university researchers in Ottawa, Ontario, who set up mathematical models hypothesizing zombie attacks as infectious diseases with the well-known characteristics of zombie biology from popular fiction.
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by Caroline M. Aungst
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by Sophie Knab
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by Rob Brezsny
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This is an excellent time to celebrate the pleasures of emptiness . . . to extol the virtues of the blank slate . . . to be open to endless possibilities but committed to none . . .
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My boyfriend will only have sex with me at specific times of the week, and at specific times of the day. And even then, he goes through an extremely elaborate ritual of combing his hair and primping in the bathroom for what seems like an hour beforehand.
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