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by Jamie Moses
This week marks the 20th anniversary of Artvoice. I hope you enjoy flipping through the pages and the memories as much as we enjoyed creating the paper all these years.
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Think you recognize all the faces on this week’s cover? Connect each clue to a face, and email us you answers—including the names—to contest@artvoice.com. Entries must be received by 5pm on Monday, June 7. Correct entries will be entered into a drawing for fabulous prizes.
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by Nancy J. Parisi
This is a narrative I’ve told in part many times over the past two decades, yet never committed to page: the story of the creation and evolution of my column, “What Has Happened,” which ran in Artvoice from 1990 to 2003.
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by Kevin J. Hosey
In June 1990, if you were a fan of Buffalo original music, you could go to the Continental several nights a week to hear lots of bands, and buy some of that music, in cassette and vinyl form, at Home of the Hits or New World Record on Elmwood Avenue. Now that it’s June 2010, you can’t do any of that.
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by K. O'Day
When Artvoice began in the early 1990s, it was the heyday of a dining establishment called Just Pasta, located on the corner of Ashland and Bryant, where Trattoria Aroma exists now.
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by Anthony Chase
Twenty years of Artvoice theater coverage—from “Stagefright” to “Private Lives”—will be featured in September during Curtain Up!, Buffalo’s annual celebration of live theater. On Monday, June 7, however, Artvoice will celebrate 20 years of the Artie Awards at the Town Ballroom.
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by Elizabeth Licata
Somewhere in my house, a scary closet is filled with photocopied articles from a time when I wrote about art for the Buffalo News (1987-94), and then Artvoice (1996-99).
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Artvoice's front covers are often as bold, diverse, colorful as the city it serves. Take a trip back through twenty years worth of these attention grabbing works of art; browse through this collection of over 120 hand-picked favorites.
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by Buck Quigley
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by Zachary Burns
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by Jack Foran
Extraordinary Forms II, a craft show currently in the Kenan House—not to be confused with the annual 100 American Craftsmen show being held this weekend at the Kenan Center—consists of works of past jury members of the Lockport annual event.
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by Javier
TV star Kelsey Grammer (pictured) is nominated for a Tony Award this year in the leading actor in a musical category for his performance in the revival of La Cage aux Folles. Also nominated in the same category is his co-star, British actor Douglas Hodge, who is playing Albin/Zaza, a part he also played in London to great acclaim.
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by Jan Jezioro
The Roycroft Chamber Music Festival has been held at St. Matthias’ Episcopal Church on Main Street in East Aurora since 1994, but for the first time last year one of the four concerts that make up the festival was held across the street at Baker Memorial Methodist Church.
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by Lizzie Finnegan
Retro-Spectacle, screening this Saturday at 8pm at Squeaky Wheel, spans almost 20 years of work from one of Western New York’s most talented video artists.
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by George Sax
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by M. Faust
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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: The Greater Allentown First Friday's Gallery Tour summer kick-off.
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by Jim Corbran
When I got notice that Artvoice was celebrating its 20th anniversary, my first thought was—and that makes me how old now? Yikes.
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A 19-year-old vocalist and business administration student at Hilbert College, Pierino is the reigning Miss Buffalo—a title she won last September at the National Buffalo Wing Festival. The native of Chaffee is seeking to be the first Miss Buffalo to be crowned Miss New York since Channel 2’s own Mary Alice Demler in 1989. If victorious at the state pageant in Albany, June 24-26, Pierino will then have the honor of competing for Miss America.
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by Kevin F. Yost
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by Ron Rienas
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by Chuck Shepherd
Betty Lou Lynn, 83, was mugged and had her wallet stolen in her new hometown of Mount Airy, N.C., in April. Lynn is the actress who played Barney Fife’s best girl, Thelma Lou, in the Andy Griffith TV show and had lived in Los Angeles until she became alarmed at the city’s crime rate.
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by Cory Perla
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by Rob Brezsny
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): As they orbit the planet, astronauts witness as many as 15 sunrises and sunsets each day. Time isn’t really sped up for them, but it seems like it.
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I’ve been reading Artvoice since the very first issue. It strikes me that many of the young artists, actors, and musicians working in town today were either not yet in school—or not even born—when the first issue hit the street.
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