Artpark Wed August 3rd 6:30pm $37/$45 American Jam Band OAR bring a riveting live show to Artpark to the delight of fans. The band is celebrating its 20th...
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Old Fort Niagara Sun July 31st 8pm $25 The BPO concludes its summer season with an outdoor concert featuring classic patriotic favorites. A fireworks show and...
COLORED MUSICIANS CLUB FRI JULY 29TH 5PM & SAT JULY 30TH ALL DAY FREE TO $25 Headlining the 99th annual CMC Jazz Festival is saxman James Brandon Lewis. ...
ARTPARK SAT AUGUST 2ND 6:30 PM $12 TO $27 Quintessential prog rockers Yes will perform their at Artpark on Saturday. When Yes hit the scene in the early 70s...
■ FASHION CHALLENGES Beautician Sarah Bryan, 28, of Wakefield, England, who garnered worldwide notoriety last year when she introduced a wearable dress made of...
Canalside Sat July 23 rd 1pm $35 general admission Kerfuffle is a huge concert of Alternative Rock at Canalside featuring nine different bands performing. The...
Artpark Sun July 24 th 3pm Indoor tickets from $29 to $49 Lawn seating $19 Joann Faletta brings the BPO to Lewiston to celebrate arguably the greatest and most...
Artpark Tues July 26 th 6:30pm $17 to $112 Husband and Wife Classic Rock Superstars Pat Benatar and Neil Geraldo bring their exciting stage show to Artpark...
Seneca Niagara Casino Sat July 23 rd 8pm Tickets start at $45 Olivia Newton-John has sold more than 100 million records, starred in hit movies and continues to...
Darien Lake Arts Center Tues July 26 th 7:30pm Tickets range from$15 to $281 Josh Groban is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. His first four solo...
Darien Lake Center Wed July 27 th 6:30pm Tickets start at $19 Heart is an American rock band formed by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. Ann is the lead singer and...
Helium Comedy Club Fri/Sat July22 & 23 – 7:30 &10pm • $30 With more than 20 years experience under his belt, Jim Breuer is one of stand-up...
Sportsmen Tavern Sat July 23rd 8pm • $20 The Alexis P. Suter Band is a powerful and unique five-piece ensemble who artfully blends the line between Blues, Soul...
Artpark Wed July 27th 6:30 pm • $17 and up Slighty Stoopid is a band from San Diego whose music is a combination of folk, rock, hip-hop, funk, metal and punk...
Pausa Art House Sat July 23 rd 8pm • $7 Carina and the Six String Preacher are a husband and wife team who perform a spicy combination of pre 1960’s jazz, surf...
Pausa Art House Fri July 22nd 8pm • $7 Latin Clave is formed by a group of dedicated musicians from Roanoke, Virginia. The band plays Upbeat Salsa, Cumbia and...
Waiting Room July 21st 7pm • $10 Each Summer, the School of Rock All Stars embark on a tour and give multiple shows around the country. They are some of the...
OPENING IT’S ONLY A PLAY, comedy by Terrence McNally presented by Buffalo United Artists, directed by Drew McCabe, starring Anthony Alcocer, Anthony Chase...
By Andrew Kulyk BASEBALL’S BELLY BUSTERS Buffalo Bisons bucking the trend for outlandish concessions fare Grabbing that hot dog, and a watered down brew–and...
By Darwyn Cooke (Author) and Darwyn Cooke and J. Bone (Illustrators) DC Comics (Publisher) Review by Michael Hoffert Jr. In the history of comics, few works...
SENSO DI VOCE AT SILO CITY Vocalist Esin Gündüz and oboist Megan Kyle create an otherworldly soundscape By Jan Jezioro photo: Maryam Muliaee Some of the...
By Anthony Chase As a critic and commentator on the dramatic arts for over 30 years, I am highly experienced at watching. I have enjoyed a theatrical...
By Anthony Chase The MusicalFare production of Evita, the 1978 Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is a highly satisfying affair. Michele Marie Roberts gives...
By Mike Hudson One of Buffalo’s hidden treasures is the Karpele’s Manuscript Museum, part of a nationwide group that claims ownership of the largest...
By Mike Hudson Some things just fall in the category of “no brainers” and looking at the upcoming week’s concert schedule, Heart, Cheap Trick and Joan Jett...
By Frank Parlato Here’s something different. On Saturday evening, July 30, starting at 7:30, the Penn Dixie Paleontological & Outdoor Education Center will...
By Tony Farina Flynn Shows Momentum in DA’s Race, Gets PBA Endorsement Tonawanda Town Attorney John Flynn, who is the endorsed Democratic, Conservative, and...
By Mike Hudson Swedish Director David F. Sandberg struck Hollywood gold when he released a three-minute short film called “Lights Out” directly on the internet...
By Tony Farina Carrie Cohen was a big-time prosecutor with corruption-fighting U. S. Attorney Preet Bharara in the Southern District of New York and before...
By Paul Wolf, Esq. New York State law requires that public hearings scheduled by governmental bodies be done with at least five days notice. More notice can be...
By Jim Ostrowski “War is the health of the state,” said Randolph Bourne. “War is hell,” said General Sherman. The war criminal Sherman was an expert in the...
What did Michalek and Pigeon get from each other? By Frank Parlato A lot has been written about political operative and attorney G. Steven Pigeon, 55, after a...
When the assistant manager arrived early on June 26 (2012) to open up the Rent-A-Center in Brockton, Massachusetts, he encountered a man on the ground with his...
(1) Australian lawyer William Ray was killed on May 22 when he was thrown from his all-terrain “quad bike” in rural Victoria state and pinned...
Recidivist Jesse Johnson, 20, was charged again in June (for suspicion of disturbing the peace) after he had crawled underneath a woman’s car at an Aldi...
A Woman at the Top of Her Game: In Nashville, Tennessee, in June, sex worker Jonisia Morris, 25, was charged with robbing her client by (according to the...
Brigham Young University professor Jason Hansen apologized in May after coaxing a student (for extra credit) to drink a small vial of his urine in class. The...
— Quixotic Malaysian designer Moto Guo made a splash at Milan’s fashion week in June when he sent model after model to the runway with facial...
A team of researchers is following about 30 tabbies, calicos, and others, recording their moves and sounds, to somehow learn whether housecats have dialects in...
(1) Insurance agent John Wright filed a lawsuit in Will County, Illinois, in June over teenagers playing “ding dong ditch,” in which kids ring a...
— (1) In June, District Attorney Jerry Jones in Monroe, Louisiana, dropped drug and gun charges against college football players Cam Robinson and Hootie...
A leading Chinese orthopedic surgeon continues to believe that “full-body” transplants are the next big thing in medicine, despite worldwide...
More and more churches (“hundreds,” according to a June Christianity Today report) offer hesitant parishioners a “money-back guarantee”...
By James Hufnagel As the sultry summer weather settles in, investigations into alleged corrupt activities of the Cuomo administration are also heating up...
By Mike Hudson Remaking a classic American movie can be a dangerous business. Even when you’ve got everything going for it. Just ask Leo DiCaprio and everyone...
Dog Beater Gets His Day Acting Erie County District Attorney Michael J. Flaherty announced last week that 54-year-old Santiago Morales of 53 Arkansas St...
By W. Dalton Weir After years of debate and an avalanche of scientific data, most Americans today will tell you they’re concerned about climate change, and...
By Jim Ostrowski We live in perilous times. We do not know what is going to happen on any given day. I am pretty good at predicting the future. After all...
By Mike Hudson Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “Buffalo Billion” project, now under investigation by both the U.S. Justice Department and state Attorney General Eric...
Keith Capodicasa, 43, of Orchard Park, has pleaded guilty before State Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia to Insurance Fraud in the Fifth Degree for...
By Tony Farina Every once in a while in life, we find a perfect match. It may be a golf club, a pet, a career, or a partner. There is something that tells us...
BITCH PLANET, VOLUME 1: EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE By Kelly Sue DeConnick (Author) and Valentine De Landro (Illustrator) Image Comics (Publisher) Review by Carolyn...
By Tony Farina Gov. Andrew Cuomo came to Niagara Falls on Tuesday to officially break ground on the long-awaited Hamister hotel project in downtown...
By Tony Farina Financial Filings Due Friday The political season is getting into full swing locally, and Friday (July 15) is the first financial filing...
By Frank Parlato As everyone knows, there is often a difference between “the law” and justice. After all laws are made by elected officials under...
Bisons extravaganza set later this month It started out as just another date on a busy baseball promotional calendar – Star Wars Night. Another reason...
■ Recurring Theme Peaks In May, an apparently devout woman named Katy Vasquez of Winter Park, Florida, posted a sincerely written entry on Facebook (and told...
OPENING EVITA, musical by Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber, directed by Randall Kramer, starring Michele Marie Roberts, John Fredo, Marc Sacco, Paschal...
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THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS: THE LAST CRUSADE By Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello (Authors) and John Romita Jr. (Illustrator) DC Comics (Publisher) Review by Joe...