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by Geoff Kelly
Sixty-two years ago, William Gallancy, an associate engineer with New York State’s Department of Public Works, told a standing-room-only crowd at St. James Evangelical and Reformed Church on High Street that the Kensington Expressway was the best solution to East Buffalo’s problems.
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by Bruce Fisher
Out west in gigantic, thriving Chicago, there’s a debate underway between a journalist and an IT consultant over whether regionalism can help the hollowing-out cities of the Rust Belt.
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Zachary Burns
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by Geoff Kelly
Ted Pietrzak will be stepping down from his position as Director of the Burchfield Penney Art Center in October, after 12 years. During his tenure, he oversaw the evolution of the gallery from its location on the third floor of Rockwell Hall on the Buff State Campus to its new 84,000-square-foot home on Elmwood Avenue, next to the college. Here is an excerpt of a recent interview he did with Artvoice.
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by Jack Foran
A recurrent mood in the CEPA members’ photos on display in the Market Arcade is the elegiac. A number of works depict ruins or remnants of the area’s once vibrant commerce and industry. In the process, revealing beauty around us we hadn’t seen because we didn’t look.
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by Anthony Chase
Several shows with African-American themes are playing on Buffalo’s stages this week. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye continues its run in the Paul Robeson Theatre at the African American Cultural Center at 350 Masten Avenue.
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by Jan Jezioro
The premiere performances of a new drama in music by Buffalo composer Roland E. Martin, based on the play Riders to the Sea by the Irish writer J.M. Synge, take place March 11-13 at 7pm in the Performing Arts Center at the Buffalo Seminary.
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Talk about lofty predecessors. When Adam Zyglis became the editorial cartoonist for the Buffalo News in 2004, he stepped into a role once held by not one, but two, Pulitzer Prize winners (Bruce Shanks in 1958 and Tom Toles in 1990). Since then the Buffalo born artist has has worked hard to carve out his own reputation and style and has been rewarded with international syndication and several award nominations for his cartoons.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
It will be a day, and a moment, that will never be matched again in our lifetimes. An entire nation, Canada, reveling in a Winter Olympics on its home soil.
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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: the Artvoice B.O.O.M! Grand Finale show, this Friday March 5 at The Tralf.
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by Jim Corbran
Although Suzuki might have thought itself clever in the naming of its new midsized sedan, careful examination of its English translation might have gotten the Japanese carmakers’ marketing people thinking a bit differently. “Kizashi” roughly translates to “something great is coming.”
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by Chuck Shepherd
Pastor John Renken’s Xtreme Ministries of Memphis, Tenn., is one of a supposedly growing number of churches that use “mixed martial arts” events to recruit wayward young men to the Christian gospel.
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by Julia Hall
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by David Slive
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by Samantha Mcdonnell
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by Allison N. Ritchey & Trudy Cusella
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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
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One of the best new bands of 2009 was the Girls. Spin magazine selected their debut CD Album as the fifth best album of the year. After touring for months and selling scads of records, the band came back home to San Francisco in February to do a sold-out show at the Great American Music Hall.
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My situation is too late. I can’t get over a love relationship 15 months ago and still have the past in me. My current situation is absolutely horrible. I am single, 43, never married and decent, good looking and a good catch.
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