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by Gregory Lamberson
If you created a list of qualities that come to mind when thinking of the Buffalo Niagara region, film production would probably not rate very high on it. We have our sports teams, our fine arts, our natural wonder of the world, but we don’t have any major motion pictures congesting our streets or movie stars idling along our sidewalks.
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by Buck Quigley
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by Alan Bedenko
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by Jack Foran
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by Rebecca Bratek
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by Bruce Fisher
On the second Saturday in September, a group from Hamilton, Ontario will come to spend the day in Buffalo to explore “success and failure in city-building.”
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by Edward A. Benoit
It’s time to dig out your ghilles and press your Sunday best, Buffalo, as the 31st Annual Buffalo Irish Festival is already upon us. A Queen City institution (especially for those of you from the south), this year’s festivities look as good as they ever have.
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by Eric Jackson-Forsberg
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by Jack Foran
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by Nikolai Evreinov
One of the most attractive things about Russian literature is that it is generally, for lack of a better word, nuts.
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by George Sax
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by M. Faust
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by M. Faust
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by M. Faust
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by M. Faust
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's pick for the week: the Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts, taking place this Saturday and Sunday.
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by Jim Corbran
Since its introduction in 1997, there’s been one thing you could always say about the Toyota Prius Hybrid: Handsomeness was never its burden to bear. Not that all Priuses are downright ugly, but there’s just something of the “It has a nice personality” about them.
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by Chuck Shepherd
The Associated Press, reporting in August from Jerusalem, noted that the ultra-Orthodox community’s “modesty patrols” were selling eyeglasses with “special blur-inducing stickers” that fuzz up distant images so that offended men will not inadvertently spot immodestly dressed women.
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by Rob Brezsny
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A guy I know was invited to hang one of his paintings in a New York gallery—on one condition. It had to be a piece he created on the spot, in the gallery, on the day the show opened.
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Should I worry about Paul Ryan becoming vice president? I read the New Yorker profile on him, and that made him seem pretty human, in both good and bad ways.
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