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Archive - March 2016
Come join the Chamber of Commerce of Tonawandas for “A Day of Pampering” at the Tonawanda Castle, 69 Delaware Street, Tonawanda on Saturday, April...
Every year, WNY Book Arts Center invites artists, foodies, and book-lovers to design and display books intended to be consumed. Each presentation is to...
MALCOLM X (1992)- Spike Lee’s biopic starring Denzel Washington explores the life and legacy of the controversial civil rights activist and...
What do you think of when you add an unwitting, red-headed engine of destruction, a love triangle and Pop Tate’s? If you know your comics, then you know...
In Brooklyn, a xNew York Police Department officer puts her firearm to her temple and says “All of the men are dead.” This is the final panel...
By Anthony Chase The Wizard of Oz is universally hailed as one of the greatest movie musicals of all time. Its remarkable score, by Buffalonian Harold...
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By Javier Actor/playwright/humorist Jesse Eisenberg (pictured above) is playing Lex Luthor in the current movie hit Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which...
OPENING CASH ON DELIVERY, farce by Michael Cooney presented by Towne Players, directed by Mark DiPasquale, starring Mike Beiter, Karen Cash, Bob Aquila. Apr 1...
BPO program highlights works from the 1930’s relevant to today By Jan Jezioro Associate BPO conductor Stefan Sanders will be on the podium at Kleinhans...
Glenn Cortese will be on two different podiums this weekend, when he leads his Western New York Chamber Orchestra in a pair of concerts featuring the music of...
By Matthew Ricchiazzi Buffalo Comptroller Mark Schroeder issued a letter to the Buffalo Common Council disputing the Buffalo Municipal Housing...
Two years ago this month, The Niagara Falls Reporter exposed what appeared to be a blatant case of bid-rigging perpetrated by the Saratoga Springs, NY-based LA...
Following our publication of the picture of “Peg, the witch,” last week, a purportedly ghostly presence which appeared against the backdrop of a...
By Tony Farina Erie Community College is facing a bleak financial future for many reasons, not the least of which is the unauthorized pay increases and bonuses...
The adverse weather on Dyngus Day went largely unnoticed by both those marching in the parade and those watching. One lucky crew (below) had a bird’s eye...
The Buffalo Comic-Con Special One-Day Spring Garage Sale Show is set to take place this Sunday, April 3rd at the Marriot Niagara on Millersport Highway. For...
ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to my astrological analysis, you would benefit profoundly from taking a ride in a jet fighter plane 70,000 feet above the...
From Wild Friendship Beer (Brasserie Cantillon, Allagash Brewing, Russian River Brewing) and Saison du Buff (Dogfish Head, Victory, Stone Brewing) to Sierra...
Murders are being committed over hair weaves, reported WMC-TV (Memphis, Tennessee) in March, with one likely explanation being a belief that a person who...
5 Tips for the Road to Recovery Heroin is one of the hardest drugs to quit using mainly because of the extreme pain abusers feel when they stop using it...
Long time friends and photographers, Cheryl Gorski and David Seide began their careers together at Varden Studios in 1988. Today, David specializes as a...
On Monday, March 28, Buffalo celebrates its Polish heritage with the annual Dyngus Day Parade and all the merriment that follows it. Now it in its 10th year...
Photos by Christina Cooke
Photos By Christina Cooke
Another year has come gone: It’s time once again for , AV’s ANNUAL BEST OF BUFFALO readers survey of all that is strange and wonderful (and ...
Gene Dolan was looking for a unique and surprising way to express his love and propose marriage to Terri Lynnn Fisher. The couple, who live out of town, were...
This year marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. He is said to have died on the same date he was born: 23 April. ...
It was an auspicious debut. The credits on page one of Daredevil #158 read, “From time to time a truly great new artist will explode upon the Marvel...
When Orville and Wilbur Wright were kids, their father gave them a toy helicopter powered by a rubber band. The year was 1878. Twenty-five years later, the...
An extraordinary young talent whose experimental films frequently defy classification, filmmaker Jessica Oreck will be in town this week for the Buffalo...
An urban symphony in six movements, Knight of Cups is a dizzying odyssey into the nature of perception, love, and the dual nature of the self. By turns...
Interesting films playing in the Buffalo area this week.
Terrence McNally, four-time Tony Award-winning playwright, will visit Buffalo on April 1 and 2, 2016 as a guest of Buffalo United Artists (BUA), the Dramatists...
The annual evening of one-act plays features world premieres of recent finalists and one-act winners of the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition. Alleyway...
On The Boards is presented by the Irish Classical Theatre Company
Part of the impetus behind Joyce Hill’s mostly artist’s books exhibit at Canisius College is her sense that we don’t read as much as we used...
Aeschylus wrote his play Agamemnon more than 2400 years ago, and the powerful tragedy still resonates strongly, both with modern audiences and contemporary...
Last Monday a special meeting of the Common Council’s Finance Committee was held to investigate a $3.4 million Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority debt...
A family living in the historic Oliver Street District in North Tonawanda submitted to Artvoice a photograph of their almost two-year-old daughter sitting...
The Buffalo Zoo is inviting people to vote online for one of three names for an infant male gorilla born on Sunday, January 10 to mother, 18-year-old...
It may be bloody and highly controversial, but mixed martial arts will be coming to New York in the not too distant future, and the popular sport will then...
It could be more than an office scandal and financial pressures that drove State Sen. Marc Panepinto’s decision two weeks ago not to seek a second-term...
Jimmy Kemp, son of legendary Buffalo Bills Quarterback Jack Kemp, will be the guest speaker at the Conservative Party of Erie County Conservative Forum’s...
It was in the Sept. 3, 2013 editions of the Niagara Falls Reporter that I broke the story that one of the top prosecutors in the Niagara County District...
Award-winning veteran journalist Brian Meyer, who has served as news director at WBFO in Buffalo since 2014, has been promoted to the position of senior...
The Brewers Invitational will bring together the very best beer and cider the Buffalo-Niagara region has to offer from nearly two dozen area breweries and...
1970. That was the last time that Canada was shutout from the NHL postseason. Back then it was a 12 team league, Buffalo and Vancouver would be the expansion...
Trying to put (as a critic charged) “lipstick on a pig,” Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder boasted in March that the lead-in-the-water crisis plaguing the...
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Many misconceptions exist about the art world, with the starving artist at the forefront. Art is often viewed as impractical, and the artist as tragically...
Check out some great shots from this past weekend's parade from photographer Glenn Murray. You can see his full album at .
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