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by Jamie Moses
After Bass Pro announced last Friday that they were not coming to Buffalo, Artvoice contacted Larry Quinn, one of the prime architects of the waterfront development plan, for his reaction to the news.
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by Kevin Connor and Andrew Stecker
The Bass Pro taxpayer-ripoff scheme is out of the picture at long last, and the vast majority of Erie County residents are relieved. But the conditions that allowed a sporting goods retail company to hold Buffalo’s waterfront hostage for the past nine years persist in ways that we must begin to reckon with as a community.
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by Geoff Kelly and Buck Quigley
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by Zachary Burns
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by Anthony Chase
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by Anthony Chase
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by Donny Kutzbach
It’s hard to believe it was 28 years ago that it all began at Adelphi University’s WBAU radio station on Long Island. That’s where Public Enemy, a force that helped make rap music a worldwide phenomenon, first started.
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by M. Faust
Wiseau is the writer/producer/executive producer, and of course star of The Room, the first true cult movie to emerge from the Hollywood fringe in years. In the seven years since it began to play in Los Angeles, it has acquired a Rocky Horror-ish cult, with audiences dressed up as characters from the film and armed with essential props like plastic spoons and footballs.
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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: singer/songwriter, Frank Turner, who performs at Mohawk Place on Friday the 6th.
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by Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrel
The calendar has turned to August, and for the first time in years, the Bisons have a shot—perhaps a long shot, but a shot nonetheless—at being one of the four teams left standing in this year’s Governors Cup playoffs.
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In only their second year of operation, the Buffalo Flash women’s soccer team capped off a dominant, unbeaten season on July 31 with a victory in the W-League championship game.
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by Chuck Shepherd
The Outer Frontiers of U.S. Immigration Policy: The $125 million Jay Peak ski resort in Vermont, with 120-room hotel, ice arena, golf course and the Northeast’s largest water park, is just months away from completion, thanks to half-million-dollar investments from each of 250 foreign nationals from 43 countries who, as part of the deal, were given conditional U.S. “green cards” (for permanent residency).
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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
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): For a special episode of her TV talk show, Oprah Winfrey wanted a stage set that was fabricated out of chocolate. It took workers 1,400 hours to construct it.
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I have a friend who recently split up with his wife. She is just awful and has put him through so much. They have two great kids that he has taken full charge of, since she can’t seem to stay sober or interested for too long.
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