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...
Author - Frank Parlato
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 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...
Call Me Cunning by Josh Smith I poke hornets’ nests. I run toward the bright light of a fire. I drill holes in the ice that supports me. Call it...
BY FRANK PARLATO Former Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority (BMHA) Commissioner, Joe Mascia, 71, who was removed by Mayor Byron Brown from office in May, is...
BY TONY FARINA The battle for the key 60th District State Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Marc Panepinto after one term, is now a hotbed for charges of...
BY TONY FARINA The battle for the job of Erie County district attorney is turning into a war of words between Acting DA Michael Flaherty and his opponent in...
The Buffalo Police Department reported their Narcotics Division executed a series of search warrants during the week of July 25-29, arresting several...
BY KELSEY SANDRA ABLES After a rejuvenating retreat to the Adirondack Mountains, environmentalist David Kowalski came back to reality: a severe drought in...
BY FRANK PARLATO Former Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) featherweight champion, Michael Thomas “Mike” Brown will conduct a seminar on Thursday, Aug. 11...
BY ANDREW KULYK & PETER FARRELL June 30 was a happy day at Coca Cola Field as the Buffalo Bisons were unpacking their things after returning from a perfect...
BY GABRIEL ALLANDRO As a Black man, I often am filled with mind-blanking rage at the depths of racism in our society – depths that very few people in power...
BY JIM OSTROWSKI This is an excerpt from the brand new book, The Impeachment of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for High Crimes in Syria and Libya, by...
“Big Porn” Gives BacK ■ (1) In June, the online mega-website Pornhub announced a program to help blind pornography consumers by adding 50 “described...
THE FALL OF TROY The Waiting Room, Tuesday, August 9th at 7:30 pm Tickets range, $20 to $25 American post-hardcore trio Fall of Troy come to us from the state...
DRUMS ALONG THE WATERFRONT TOUR Ralph Wilson Stadium, Sunday, August 7th at 7:00 pm Tickets starting at $51 Drums Along The Waterfront, Sanctioned by Drum...
CHEVELLE WITH BLACK MAP Rapids Theatre, Sunday, August 7th at 8pm $25 advance, $30 at the door American rock trio Chevelle, based out of Chicago, formed in...
THE SHUFFLING MADNESS Sportsmen Tavern Friday, August 5th at 9:30pm $10 p/ person The Shuffling Madness re-creates the music of Jethro Tull with astonishing...
PRINZE GEORGE The Leopard Lounge at Town Ballroom Friday, August 5th at 10PM Up and coming Indie band from Maryland writes sparse but deftly played songs that...
MIKE MARINACCIO AND FRIENDS Pausa Art House Thursday, August 4th at 8:00 pm $7 p/person Keyboardist/Vocalist Mark Marinaccio brings his nine-piece horn band to...
BRUCE BRUCE — Helium Comedy Club Friday, August 5th 7:30 pm & 10:00 pm Saturday, August 6th 7:00 pm & 9:30 pm Sunday, August 7th 7:30pm Stand-up...
ONGOING THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, comedy by William Shakespeare presented by Shakespeare in Delaware Park, directed by Steve Vaughan, starring Bonnie Jean...
Everyone had at least one brush with Pigeon By Frank Parlato A POLITICAL QUESTION The question of whether politics was a motive for New York State...
WEIRD NUMBERS MAKING THE NEWS RECENTLY ■ The Transportation Security Administration announced in May that it had collected $765,000 in loose change left behind...
By Jim Ostrowski This week, my brother Mike and I published “The Impeachment of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for High Crimes in Syria and Libya.” Here is...
By Frank Parlato The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) agreed last week to spend an unspecified sum of taxpayer money on a full and formal...
In an attempt to eradicate the invasive aquatic plant hydrilla in the Erie Canal, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, will be treating the...
By W. Dalton Weir Why not Buffalo? Why can’t we have a comic convention in the Nickel City?” That was the question that rang out in the minds of John Grimaldi...
By Tony Farina Flaherty Camp Slams Dem Party Boss for ‘Hypocrisy’ The race for Erie County District Attorney is a real political donnybrook as we all...
By Mike Hudson Matt Damon is a fine actor and the fifth installment of his Bourne film series, “Jason Bourne,” is a two-hour plus, nonstop series of...
OPENING BUFFALO CAR PLAYS 2016, world premiere short plays by Donna Hoke, Bella Poynton, Darryl Schneider, Winifred Storms & Jon Elston, presented by...
By Tony Farina Political operative and former Erie County Democratic Chairman Steve Pigeon faces nine felony counts in a state prosecution involving former...
By Tony Farina The Empire State Development Agency (ESD) is the umbrella organization for New York’s two principal economic development entities, the Urban...
By Frank Parlato The Penn Dixie Paleontological & Outdoor Education Center in Blasdell, a 54 acre fossil park featuring fossils from the Devonian Period...
By Brian K. Vaughn (Author) and Tony Harris (Illustrator) DC Comics/Vertigo (Publisher) Review by Carolyn Marcille. If Alan Moore’s Watchmen changed the tenor...
Neil Gaiman (Author) Gabriel Ba, Fabio Moon (Artist) Dark Horse Comics (Publisher) Review by Joe Tell Don’t be confused by the title of this graphic novel...
Nietzsches Thurs July 28th to Aug 7th 8pm FREE (donation suggested) A broad range of eclectic, independent, experimental and controversial art of all forms...
TOWN BALLROOM FRIDAY JULY 29TH 7PM $12/$14 Indie/country singer/songwriter Rayland Baxter will be featuring songs from his new album, “Imaginary Man.” Baxter...
Buffalo Iron Works Saturday July 30th 8pm $10-$15 The Town Pants performs their own brand of celtic, roots, rock, and rebel styles with a combination of...
Sportsmen Tavern Sun July 31st 5pm $10 The Way Down Wanderers, a five-piece modern folk Americana act, draws listeners in with their fast-paced soulful sounds...
Buffalo Museum of Science Lawm Sun July 31st 3pm Free The “Pappy” Martin Jazz Festival continues for its second week featuring trumpeter extraordinaire Jeremy...