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by Cory Perla, Jon Wheelock, Leigh Giangreco
An “infringement” is a violation. The word “infringe” also means to break off. Buffalo’s Infringement Festival is a place for artists to go to break off from the mainstream, to do something totally unauthorized, to trespass on preconceived notions. There is no sponsoring authority, no one telling these artists what they can and cannot do. There is no entity looming about to demand a safety net under this high-wire act.
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by Buck Quigley
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Jack Foran
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Bruce Fisher
The Economic Policy Institute reported last week that the heirs to Sam Walton’s Wal-Mart fortune are worth $89.5 billion, which is greater than the household wealth of more than 42 percent of Americans.
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by Paul Wolf, ReinventingGov.org
Perhaps Buffalo’s lack of a strategy, accountability, and performance stems from the failure to follow key aspects of the city’s charter?
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by Jack Foran
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Anthony Chase
In her new play, Fifty Ways, now playing its debut engagement at Chautauqua Theater Company’s Bratton Theater, Kate Fodor explores the potent but ambiguous states of emotion that lie in the balance between loving and not loving, between forgiving and not forgiving, between moral obligation and freedom from obligation.
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by Jan Jezioro
This year, the Music Niagara festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake is commemorating the events of the War of 1812 and the peace that has existed between the United States and Canada following the end of hostilities in that conflict. The festival got off to strong start during its first two weeks, with one of the highlights being the first-ever appearance of the Trinity College Cambridge Choir.
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by M. Faust
The odds are pretty overwhelming that you will like the oddly titled French comedy-drama The Intouchables, about the relationship between a paralyzed rich man and the street-smart thief he hires as his caretaker. It’s already made more than $350 million internationally, and ranks as the second biggest hit in the history of the French film industry.
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's picks for the week: Yeasayer, who will play the Town Ballroom on Wednesday, August 1st.
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by Jim Corbran
Deep in the heart of the city, in a rather nondescript garage, lives the soul of a former Buffalo radio jock. And, as you can probably gather from the fact that I’m the one telling the story, yes, it’s a car.
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by Joe Gardella
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by Joe Gerkin
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by Chuck Shepherd
Two Brazilian firms collaborated recently to test a whimsical device that could perhaps lessen splashing on men’s room floors: a urinal containing a fretboard that makes musical sounds as liquid hits it (if the stream is strong enough).
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by Rob Brezsny
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The state of Maine has a law that prohibits anyone from leaving an airplane while it is flying through the air. This seems like a reasonable restriction until you realize how badly it discriminates against skydivers.
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My boyfriend works for Citicorp, a big bank. I work for a nonprofit consumer advocacy group that is planning a series of grassroots protests against his employer’s policies. He respects my positions on those policies, even agrees with many of them, but he worried that my being part of a demonstration in front of his place of employment is going to harm him. What should I do about that?
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