Playwright Gary Earl Ross shares with many playwrights of our time, the influence of television. His scripts reverberate with deliberate echoes of such shows...
Archive - April 2017
Seneca Casino Fri & Sat Apr14th & 15th 8pm $45 Celebrate the music of one of the greatest entertainers of all time, Prince. The band’s front man...
Town Ballroom Sat Apr 15th 7pm • $28/$33 The alternative rock band led by vocalist and songwriter Richard Butler and his bass playing brother Tim won over fans...
Tralf Music Hall Sat Apr 15th 9pm $12 The Deadphish Orchestra is a quartet of Colorado musicians who, above all, are close friends who have played together for...
Hot Club of Buffalo proves that yes, new is sometimes better By Jan Jezioro The Hot Club of Buffalo will host a party celebrating the release of their first CD...
I t’s hard to believe Buffalo has now celebrated ten Dyngus Day parades and is about to embark on its second decade of the springtime ritual known as “Smigus...
UB Center For the Arts Tues Apr 18th 7pm & 8:30pm $29.50 One of the leading bands in Columbia’s new music scene, Monsieur Perine’ won the Latin Grammy...
By Tony Farina Will President Donald Trump be the chief executive to appoint Buffalo’s first female federal court judge, possibly in just a few months? That...
By Tony Farina Erie Community College’s search for a new president to replace retiring Jack Quinn sometime this year is apparently moving forward but...
latest human rights – – Convicted murderer Philip Smith (a veteran criminal serving life for killing the father of a boy Smith had been sexually...
Team looking for first pennant since 2005 By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell Team looking for first pennant since 2005 By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell Imagine...
By Tony Farina Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster says the 10-year contract he has negotiated with the city’s firefighters union is in line with...
By Tony Farina Chris Voccio, the publisher of the Niagara Falls Gazette since he was named to replace Peter Mio in September of 2014, has told his staff that...
New York State Canal Corporation Director Brian Stratton (l) gets the lowdown on the new Niagara Falls train station from Mayor Paul Dyster on Thursday right...
SHOOL’S a BITCH Dear Artvoice, As a teacher in the Buffalo Public Schools for 17 of my 18 year teaching career, I have come to one ineffable conclusion: The...
US Senator Charles Grassley is invited to learn more about BMHA expenditures. In a letter this week, former Buffalo Municipal Housing Commissioner Joe Mascia...
By TONY FARINA Lawyers representing the three former executives of LP Ciminelli charged with wire fraud and bribery in the Solar City Buffalo Billion project...
By TONY FARINA The only winner so far in the nearly four-year-old wrongful termination lawsuit filed against the state by the DiPizio Construction Company on...
BY JAN JEZIORO Cellist Natasha Farny and Pianist Eliran Avni at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church On Sunday April 9 at 2pm, cellist Natasha Farny and pianist...
UB Center For The Arts • $20 Fri&Sat Apr 7th & 8th 7:30pm, Sat & Sun April 8th & 9th 2pm The Department of Theatre and Dance 2016-2017 season...
STEVE RANNAZZISI Helium Comedy Club Thurs Apr 6th 8pm Fri&Sat Apr 7th&8th 7:30&10pm $20/$24 Steve Rannazzasi plays “Kevin”, the league...
Buffalo Iron Works Tues April 11 8pm • $20 Said The Whale is a JUNO Award-winning, radio chart-topping indie rock band from Vancouver. It started out as an...
THE TRIAL OF TRAYVON MARTIN Subversive Theatre Collective Buffalo playwright Gary Earl Ross is fascinated with that place where American jurisprudence meets...
OPENING THE TRIAL OF TRAYVON MARTIN, new drama by Gary Earl Ross presented by Subversive Theatre, directed by Kurt Schneiderman, starring Shawnell Tillery...
Waiting Room Fri Apr 7th 6:30pm $20/$25 Periphery is an American progressive metal band from Washington DC formed in 2005 by guitarist Misha Mansoor...
BILLY CRYSTAL w/special guest Bonnie Hunt Fallsview Casino Wed & Thurs Apr 12th &13th 8:30pm •Tickets start at $95 Award-winning comedian, actor...
THE BEDROOM OF TOMORROW —The company British Condoms is now accepting pre-orders for the iCon Smart Condom, with an app that can track, among other data...
Rapids Theater Wednesday, April 12, 8pm $30 Crazy at it seems, the 80s styled glam-rock metal band Steel Panther currently holds slots for Billboards #1 Comedy...
DEBATE WANTED Hello, I wanted to drop a note and say how happy I was to have read about your editorial changes described in the special section of your Feb...
Over the last couple of years, it’s been hard to ignore the flurry of news reports detailing the fraught atmosphere on many college campuses. Undergraduate...
By Tony Farina State Sen. Robert Ott (R.- North Tonawanda) is keeping up his offensive against State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman this week...
By Tony Farina The developing crisis between the Seneca Nation and the state in the gaming dispute over revenue sharing payments is taking a back seat these...
By Tony Farina It was only a few weeks ago that the state plan to build a “world-class lodge” on Goat Island State Park was swirling in controversy...
Should Americans Trust the Intelligence Community on Russian Hacking? By Frank Parlato The US Intelligence Community has concluded with ‘high confidence’ that...