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by Jack Foran
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by Jack Foran
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Aaron Lowinger
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Zachary Burns
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by Bruce Fisher
As a regional economy that is far away from Wall Street and even farther from Washington, the Buffalo metro area greets the new year hopeful, as ever, that if we get our own house in better order, we’ll have a better chance of living through whatever new calamities Wall Street and its Washington handservants engineer. Fortunately, the new Erie County executive has a strong electoral mandate.
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by Michael I. Niman
While members of the 99 percent made New Year’s resolutions to shave a few bucks off the grocery bill, turn the heat down, or maybe donate a few dollars to a local food bank, the titans of finance are throwing around some of their newfound booty to game the system even more in their favor.
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Congratulations to the four bands that have won a slot in our live Battle of Original Music: The Tins, Mr. Boneless, Contagious Woo, and our most recent Week 4 winners, Third Realm!
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by Javier
Movie and TV star Jerry O’Connell (pictured left) is currently making his Broadway debut in Theresa Rebeck’s new play Seminar, which also stars Harry Potter’s Alan Rickman.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
Back in 1974, the Buffalo Sabres tried something new, showing select home games on cable television. Two local companies, Cablescope in Buffalo and International Cable in the suburbs, were racing to wire streets and neighborhoods, offering what was then an unheard-of service: 12 channels of crystal-clear television, a station offering uncut movies without commercials, and access to white-hot popular Sabres home broadcasts, in an era where obtaining tickets to the games was an almost impossible task.
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by Jim Corbran
If I had a nickel for every automotive journalist who called the Toyota Camry “boring,” I could retire comfortably from this lucrative job. Many car wags think if a car doesn’t look “sexy” it’s not worth looking at.
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by George Sax
There’s a sequence of short scenes very early in Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy that catches and holds our interest as it slowly builds in suspenseful intensity toward a suddenly explosive climax. These brief, close-ordered scenes set up the movie’s central narrative and evoke its theme and milieu: the dicey practices of international espionage and the strange, obscured, and morally queasy world in which it operates.
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's picks for the week: Herculaneum, who play at Hallwalls on Friday, January 6th.
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by Chuck Shepherd
Researcher Maria Jose Albo of Denmark’s Aarhus University told Live Science in November that the spiders typically obtain sex by making valuable “gifts” to females (usually, high-nutrition insects wrapped in silk), but if lacking resources, a male cleverly packages a fake gift (usually a piece of flower) also in silk but confoundingly wound so as to distract her as she unwraps it—and then mounts her before she discovers the hoax.
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by Rob Brezsny
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Last summer, before the football season started, sportswriter Eric Branch wrote about a rookie running back that San Francisco 49er fans were becoming increasingly excited about. The newbie had made some big plays in exhibition games.
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I have a friend who makes a long list of resolutions every New Year. Without fail, she screws up every one of them by the beginning of February. That’s when the depression sets in. Just when winter is at its coldest and bleakest, she starts beating herself up about this and starts drinking more, smoking more, eating too much, and sinking into her couch at home.
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