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by Anthony Chase
I did something shocking this week. I used electronic social networking to look for the guy who bullied me for being gay in junior high school. I hadn’t seen him or heard a word about him for 40 years.
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Geoff Kelly
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Zachary Burns
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by Bruce Fisher
In the past week, two economists from the Bank of Montreal have been complaining loudly about what a bad idea it is for the government of Canada—and of the USA, too—to further reduce government spending.
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by Jack Foran
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Jack Foran
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Anthony Chase
Once, in the third grade, when future playwright Sarah Ruhl received a hate note from a bully, she took a pen, corrected the grammar, and gave it back. She maintains that bold sense of absurdity and dry awareness of the disconnection between human beings until this day.
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by Javier
The fabulous Bernadette Peters (pictured above) is back on Broadway starring in the revival of Sondheim’s Follies playing Sally Durant (the show has just been extended through January 22). No stranger to Sondheim, Peters was in last season’s revival of A Little Night Music.
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by Jan Jezioro
The Amberg Quartet returns to the Friends of Vienna on Sunday, October 2, at 3:30pm, for a special concert event celebrating the Jewish High Holy Days.
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by Brett Perla
It’s hard to write about a band whose name you’ll get shit for printing. Perhaps that was Fucked Up’s intent during the band’s naming process, or perhaps the name comes from the large trail of destruction they leave after a performance.
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by M. Faust
Last week in this space I discussed seven films that I saw at the recently concluded Toronto International Film Festival. That leaves 29 to go. Unless I want to be doing this every week until November, I guess I’m going to have to pick up the pace some.
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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: Adrian Belew Power Trio with Stickmen, performing at the Tralf Music Hall on Wednesday the 5th.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
As if it’s not enough that the buzz is sky-high, what with the new ownership, the name change on the arena, all the new additions and improvements to the building, the rebranding of the classic Sabres logo, and the addition of several new players who offer hope for a legitimate Stanley Cup run. The team will depart for Germany on Saturday afternoon, settling into their headquarters in Heidelberg, south of Frankfurt-am-Main and immediately adjacent to the industrial city of Mannheim.
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Through her work as a counselor with Child & Family Services—one of western New York’s oldest human service agencies—Julie Fenn has a lot of experience with the complex subject of bullying.
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So…let me see…congressmen and senators make a political football out of disaster relief, with Republicans demanding budgets cuts to offset federal expenditures that would go towards helping victims of the earthquake in Virginia and flooding caused by Hurricane Irene in the Northeast.
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Orlando-area cosmetic surgeon Jeffrey Hartog inaugurated Liquid Gold, a storehouse for patients’ frozen liposuctioned fat, charging $900 to safekeep a coffee-cup-sized portion and $200 per year storage (in case the fat is needed later, as for smoothing facial wrinkles).
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by Rob Brezsny
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “When I was born,” said comedian Gracie Allen, “I was so surprised I didn’t talk for a year and a half.”
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We have a beloved family dog that has developed a rare skin disorder. In fact, the veterinarians still haven’t come to a firm conclusion as to what is wrong. At first, they felt it was allergies, so they told us to try some special food. That didn’t work. Then, they decided to check for cancer.
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