This week Judicial Watch released another 725 pages of State Department documents that include email exchanges in which Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin...
Archive - August 2016
THU AUG 25 CLAYPOOL LENNON DELIRIUM Canalside Thurs August 25th 6pm • Free Primus’ Les Claypool and Sean Lennon (son of John and Yoko) perform songs...
Leading Economic Indicators • Since Bulgaria, on Romania’s southern border, lies close to Romania’s iconic Transylvania region, Bulgarian tourism officials...
English metal lords Def Leppard formed in 1977 as part of the new wave of Heavy Meal. The band deserves a salute for staing with drummer Rick Allen even after...
The freakish 2006 October Ice Storm rushed into the heart of Buffalo and obliterated nearly 60,000 of our most vivacious trees. Thick ice formed on the...
By Frank Parlato; A man whose dog was shot by Buffalo police in late July has taken the first step toward suing the city. His downstairs neighbor is also...
by Tony Farina Jack Quinn’s strong political connections helped land him the job as president of Erie Community College back in 2008 even though he...
By Frank Parlato; Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper will host a fund raising event, September 1st, to aid efforts to clean up Scajaquada Creek. The event will be...
by Mike Hudson Driver crashes cop car An Erie County sheriff’s deputy was driving on Niagara Street near the intersection of Austin Street over the weekend...
by Tony Farina “The 9,500 patients of indicted pain doctor Eugene Gosy are being well treated,” says Joel Daniels, the attorney who represents Gosy who is...
By ANTHONY CHASE Musical theater and opera fans, familiar with the incomparably horrible and unintentionally hilarious singing of Florence Foster Jenkins (1868...
presented by By Mark Rahner (Author) and Jethro Morales (Illustrator) Dynamite Entertainment (Publisher) Review by Joe Tell. Dejah of Mars is an action-packed...
By Paul Tobin (Author) and Colleen Coover (Illustrator) Dark Horse Comics (Publisher) Review by Carolyn Marcille. Bandette is less John Le Carre and more...
by Robin “Moose” Scott Jr. The Lewiston Jazz Festival kicks off its 15th year with a bang. Drawing over 40,000 people annually Lewiston’s Jazz Fest is one of...
presented by SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS BETSY CARMICHAEL’S BINGO PALACE, interactive comedy by Joey Bucheker and Mary Kate O’Connell, presented by Cocktails and...
BY FRANK PARLATO; A recent report conducted by the Hamburg Natural History Society (HNHS) which estimates the economic impact on the local economy of a fossil...
Righteous Babe Records and singer/songwriter/activist Ani DiFranco is announce the inaugural festival “Babefest,” a festival of social activism, comedy and...
Kaleida Health has announced plans to modernize and double the size of DeGraff Memorial Hospital’s emergency department (ED). The plan is to relocate the...
By James Hufnagel; New York State’s reputation as a socialist paradise that takes care of a multitude of free-loaders from cradle to grave, was recently...
By Jim Ostrowski; I am not unsympathetic to the Trump Movement as I too am a populist. That said, Trump is wrong about trade. Trump is the latest and loudest...
By Jeannine Fallon; Artvoice contributor, Jim Ostrowski recently predicted that Donald Trump will win the general election this November, claiming that Trump...
BY ELIZABETH SIEMATKOWSKI; Friday August 26th at 8pm you best get yourself to the first inaugural launching of BabeFest at Babeville, (Asbury Hall, 341...
BY MATT RICCHIAZZI AND FRANK PARLATO; Last year, City Comptroller Mark J. F. Schroeder created an online database called Open Book Buffalo. Updated biweekly...
BY MATT RICCHIAZZI; Buffalo Comptroller Mark Schroeder is being heralded by good government activists for launching Open Book Buffalo, the database that makes...
BY TONY FARINA It appears there will be no bipartisan endorsements for the now two open State Supreme Court seats that will be on the ballot in November in the...
BY TONY FARINA Buffalo City Comptroller Mark Schroeder has not yet fully committed to running for mayor next year, but he is certainly acting like a candidate...
BY ANDREW KULYK AND PETER FERRELL When it was announced that Chris Colabello was returning to the Buffalo Bisons back in mid July, the news offered up hope to...
OPENING BURDEN, Torn Space Theater’s fourth and newest performance installation for Silo City. Aug 18-21, Thu-Sun at 6, 7, 8, & 9 p.m. 20 Childs St. (Silo...
By Tom King (Author) and Mitch Gerads (Illustrator) DC Comics/ Vertigo (Publisher) It’s 2003 in Iraq: Saddam Hussein has fallen, and the U.S. military occupies...
The General Pulaski Association will honor 19 Western New Yorkers of Polish descent who work in the health care field on Sunday, September 11, 2016. The public...
By Tom King (Author) and Gabriel Hernandez Walta (Illustrator) Marvel Comics (Publisher) In a Washington, D.C., suburb lives a family like any other: A...
Cataract Surgeons, Dr. Kenneth D. Anthone, Dr. Amar Atwal and Dr. Ephraim Atwal, will provide cataract surgery at “no charge on Friday, October 7, to people of...
BY RUBY ANDERSON When did we bring back the pompadour? These men are all growing from the roots Leaning over bar counters and flexing through cotton sausage...
The Rival Sons from Long Beach, California formed in 2009. The band is often compared to British blues-rock bands like Cream, led Zeppelin, and Free. Their...
BY JACOB JAY The Buffalo jazz ensemble, Star People will perform the music of trumpeter Miles Davis at PAUSA Art House on Wadsworth Street this Friday from 8...
BY CHUCK SHEPARD DESIGNER LEATHER The late fashion designer Alexander McQueen (who dabbled in macabre collections, himself), might appreciate the work of...
Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs issued a press release this week announcing he saved county taxpayers $45,000 in pens. He reports that after becoming County...
BY TONY FARINA The 60th District State Senate race has it all: what appears to be a serious GOP primary challenge from Kevin Stocker to the endorsed...
BY MATT RICCHIAZZI In the days after Artvoice and The Buffalo Chronicle published a story detailing the rampant open-air drug trade and prostitution economy...
Barely four years after winning a landslide election as Pennsylvania’s first female Attorney General, Kathleen Kane was convicted Monday of perjury...
John Ciampoli is the Nassau County Attorney who signed off on the Ab Tech deal that was designed to enrich Adam Skelos, the son of the former Senate Majority...
BY MATT RICCHIAZZI The retired State Senator and widely respected elder statesman of local politics, Al Coppola is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for...
By Mike Hudson Can summer really be almost over? One look at the movies being released this week and it’s apparent that, for Hollywood at least, it’s already...
By Frank Parlato Last week Artvoice reported on claims that The Narcotics Division of the Buffalo Police Department shot two pit bulls while conducting...
by Kelsey Sandra Ables It’s easy to assume lawyers spend their nights flipping through pale yellow legal pads, filing cabinets and manila folders packed with...
BY MATT RICCHIAZZI City Comptroller Mark Schroeder said if he is elected mayor in 2017, he will reverse the controversial new Hertel Avenue metered parking...
By Tony Farina I wrote a story in this space last week that reported I had received nine responses from the state’s Empire State Development Agency, none...
By Matt Ricchiazzi Upper West Side residents are complaining of drug sales and rampant prostitution near the corner of Breckenridge and Grant Streets, a...
Leading Economic Indicators ■ Ronnie Music Jr., 45, won a scratch-off lottery prize last year of $3 million in Waycross, Georgia, and must surely have thought...
It didn’t turn out the way he planned it. David Dole, 34, of Buffalo recently applied for a Sheriff’s Deputy position within the Jail Management Division and...
OPENING THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, comedy by William Shakespeare presented by Chautauqua Theater Company, directed by Andrew Borba. Aug 12-19. Bratton Theater...
By Tony Farina Even as the date approaches for the long-delayed groundbreaking of the STEM building at the Erie Community College North campus, now scheduled...
By Tony Farina The Democratic primary for Erie County district attorney won’t be decided until voters cast their ballots on Sept. 13, but the campaign of...
plutona By Jeff Lemire (Author) and Emi Lenox (Illustrator) Image Comics (Publisher) Review by Maia Bankhead. Ever since The Death of Superman arc gave comic...
BY JIM OSTROWSKI My election predictions are not primarily based on the polls. When I picked John Kerry to win the Democratic nomination in 2004, he was I...
JEFF DUNHAM; Tue; 8/16; 7:30 pm Hamburg Fairgrounds Gen adm $40/ Reserved $50 Jeff Dunham is arguably the greatest ventriloquist of all time (with...
Drake and Future Fri 8/12; 6:30 pm First Niagara Center Tickets start at $120 Canadian superstar Drake will be coming to Buffalo fresh off four sold out...
ROB THOMAS & COUNTING CROWS Seneca Niagara Casino Tickets Start at $36 SAT 8/13 6:45pm Alternative Rock bands The Counting Crows and Rob Thomas are in the...
Tue. 8/16; 6:30pm STYX w/Special guests Tim Montana & The Sherdnecks Artpark • tickets $12 Artpark offers 70’s/80’s progressive rock band Styx as part of...
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL Sportsmens Tavern $45 adv/$50 at door Nine-time Grammy Award winner and voted Best Country and Western Band by Rolling Stone Magazine...