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by George Sax
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Buck Quigley
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Zachary Burns
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by Michael I. Niman
Let me just cry foul here. I’ve always paid my bills. I live within my means, which thanks to decades of good luck, cover my living expenses. I pay my credit cards every month and avoid all sorts of debts. Yet, my credit rating as an American citizen just took a hit from Standard and Poor.
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by Alan Oberst
Last week was the biggest for economic development in Western New York in recent memory. Not for groundbreakings or ribbon-cuttings, but for potential and portent.
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by Andrew Blake
It was September 1991, and Perry Farrell, a skinny Jew from Long Island turned unlikely, heroin-chic icon, stood on a steamy stage at the Aloha Tower in Honolulu. At age 32, Farrell had already put his hands all over a host of hits, helped dismantle hair metal to pave the way for the grunge revolution only a breath away, and had just finished the first run of an unbelievably successful touring festival named Lollapalooza.
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by Cory Perla
A writer for the Washington Post in the 1970s, Richard Coe, coined the phrase “tyranny of genre,” the idea that by working within a genre, the artist stifles his own creativity. It would stand to reason, then, that if an artist attempts successfully to defy a genre, the creative possibilities should be endless. That is just what DJ and producer David Heartbreak has done.
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by Jack Foran
The paintings of Sarafina Brunetto Likoudis currently on exhibit at the C. G. Jung Center, display, in her words, her “progression towards self-actualization” as a person and an artist.
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by Geoff Kelly
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by George Sax
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by M. Faust
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's picks for the week: Reel Big Fish with Streelight Manifesto, playing at the Rapids Theatre in Niagara falls on Friday the 12th.
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The president of the award-winning greeting card company Great Arrow Graphics by day, Friedman really comes alive at his night job. Buffalo’s premiere backyard astronomer and president of the Buffalo Astronomical Association, Friedman is also a highly accomplished photographer. His breathtaking images of the cosmos have been featured across the web and numerous times on the NASA picture of the day website.
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by Kevin R. Kitchen
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by Bob Lovejoy
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by Jim Corbran
The first hybrid cars available in North America, the quirky-looking Honda Insight and the ho-hum-looking Toyota Prius, were, technology notwithstanding, nothing to write home about.
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by Chuck Shepherd
For years, many traditional funerals in Taiwan—especially in rural areas or among working classes—have included pop singers and bikinied dancers, supposedly to entertain the ghosts that will protect the deceased in the afterlife. According to a recent documentary by anthropologist Marc Moskowitz, some of the dancers until 20 years ago were strippers who did lap dances with funeral guests, until the government made such behavior illegal.
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by Rob Brezsny
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): For 34 years, a diligent Californian named Scott Weaver worked on creating a scale model of San Francisco using toothpicks. Meanwhile, Eric Miklos, of New Brunswick, Canada, was assembling a 40-foot-long chain of bottle caps.
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When I was younger, I bought a sailboat. The price was right, I wasn’t married, and I had some good times going out on the lake with it. But it was an old boat when I got it, and after I got married and started a family, it wound up staying out of the water for several seasons. Two summers ago, over a couple beers, a buddy of mine offered to help me do some work on it and get it back in the water. It was a gentleman’s agreement that once we got it fixed up, he could take it out when I wasn’t using it.
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