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by Monique Watts
You might be surprised to know that you can fight crime, hunger, and childhood obesity, promote social inclusion and anti-racism, lessen your global footprint, make an impact on climate change and promote recycling and water preservation all by participating in just one activity.
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by Ann Marie Awad
The apples (from Tom Tower Farm) retain their juicy flavor in the same mouthful with creamy goat cheese (from Lively Run Goat Dairy) and spritely onions (from Weiss Farms).
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by Patricia Watson
Who is Dave Majewski? Whirlwind, dynamo, Type A++++ personality? Urban visionary? Pied Piper of the environment?
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by Andrew Blake
Jason Briner has been at the University at Buffalo since 2005 and is currently an assistant professor in the department of geology.
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by Patricia Watson
No longer are vacant lots simply a symbol of urban blight in Buffalo. Creative and entrepreneurial souls are reclaiming them as gardens, farms, and anthems to a green awakening.
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by Ann Marie Awad
Dorian Gaskin operates the Outsource Center at 1649 Fillmore Avenue, which provides job training in construction fields, especially those skill sets needed for so-called “green jobs”—weatherization, solar panel installation, etc.—which will be in great demand in years to come.
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by Andrew Blake
Sarah Buckley, a nurse at Millard Gates, and her husband, Scott Redding, who owns a tree service company called Above and Beyond, met while working in refugee camps in Thailand. When they decided to make their home in East Aurora, where Sarah grew up, they decided that their commitment to a sustainable lifestyle had to be manifest in the way they built their house.
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by Peter Vullo
Adam Hovey is at science teacher at South Park High School. He is the leader of the school’s Green Team, in which students and teachers work together to keep the community green.
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by Ann Marie Awad
Started as a small neighborhood bakery nearly a year ago, Five Points Bakery has evolved into a general store of sorts, offering fresh and local everything, processed and imported nothing.
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by Geoff Kelly & Buck Quigley
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by Zachary Burns
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by Bruce Fisher
If you’re feeling blessed as the stock market rises again, go buy the book No One Would Listen by Harry Markopolos, the guy who blew the whistle on Bernard Madoff’s $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
Can you feel the buzz and excitement in the air? The Stanley Cup playoffs are back in Buffalo! And while there might be some up in Toronto who think that the playoff experience is overrated, here in Buffalo we know how to party it up with best of them.
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by Jack Foran
Documents on display at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum, North Hall, on the New Deal and the Republican response to it, evoke a kind of reverse déjà vu.
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by Donny Kutzbach
I have an ongoing love affair with record stores. As a kid growing up in Western New York, I would save for weeks in anticipation of a trip to Record Theater’s old “basement” location at University Plaza.
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by Jan Jezioro
On Tuesday, April 20, at 8pm, the Takács Quartet takes the stage at the Mary Seaton Room of Kleinhans Music Hall for the penultimate concert in the Buffalo Chamber Music Society’s 2009-2010 season.
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by Anthony Chase
When Des McAnuff was first asked to direct Jersey Boys, he said, “No thanks.” The original treatment was a fictionalized story that sentimentalized the lives of Frankie Valli and the New Jersey-based singing group, the Four Seasons.
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by M. Faust
Mid-spring and mid-autumn are often the busiest browsing periods for Western New York filmgoers, but this month brings a particularly overstuffed selection as Buffalo offers two overlapping film festivals.
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by George Sax
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by M. Faust
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: Israeli punk band Monotonix, playing at Mohawk Place on Sunday the 18th.
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A vegetarian/vegan restaurant might seem like an alien concept to many Western New Yorkers. But for all the skeptics, the Schneider sisters—owners of Merge (mergebuffalo.com) — want you to know about the benefits - from going green to eating local.
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by Joshua Curry-Bascome
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by Paul Wieland
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by Chuck Shepherd
A new sports center in Mexico City will be devoted to the revival of ancient Aztec- and Mayan-created games that are rarely played in Mexico because they are dangerous, including a field-hockey-like competition played with a fireball.
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Buffalo has a large and diverse gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community. For further information about its numerous organizations and activities, visit Gaywatch at Artvoice.com, call the Western New York Pride Center (852-7743), or email WinterDanny@AOL.com.
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by Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Although obstacles and difficulties frighten ordinary people,” wrote French painter Théodore Géricault, “they are the necessary food of genius. They cause it to mature, and raise it up...
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I read somewhere—a long time ago—that recycling had hit its peak in the 1990s and had really reached a critical mass where it could go no further, and that continued recycling efforts are in vain, and that the whole recycling movement has basically just become a money-making scam perpetrated on taxpayers.
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