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Local Restaurant Week begins October 15, offering great dining deals and shining a light on our region’s food culture. Of course, we all eat 52 weeks in a year, and Western New York’s great wealth of locally owned and operated restaurants deserve steady appreciation and patronage. You spend a dollar at these places, and by and large that dollar stays here, rattling around our local economy; this is especially true at the growing number of restaurants whose chefs try assiduously to source their produce from local farmers and artisans.
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by Geoff Kelly
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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 Bruce Fisher
Buffalo Common Councilman Mike LoCurto wants to end the City of Buffalo’s contract with the Seneca Gaming Corporation, which operates a gambling casino in a blue metal pre-fab hut next to a housing project near downtown.
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by Jack Foran
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by Gerald Mead
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Anthony Chase & Javier Bustillos
Seeing Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland’s autobiographical play, From the Mississippi Delta, was an emotional experience for Artvoice columnist Javier Bustillos and me. We knew Endesha well, and we played a significant role in the play’s history. In fact, I daresay there isn’t a play that has ever been written that I know better than From the Mississippi Delta.
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by Anthony Chase
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by Anthony Chase
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by Anthony Chase
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by Anthony Chase
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by Javier
The fabulous Melanie Griffith (pictured above), who turned 55 last month, will guest star in the season premiere of the TV show Raising Hope, which will air October 2 on Fox. Griffith and her real-life movie star mom, the legendary Tippi Hedren, will play mother and grandmother of one of the characters.
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by Jan Jezioro
The Buffalo Chamber Music Society opens its 89th season on Tuesday, October 2 at 8pm in the Mary Seaton Room of Kleinhans Music Hall, with a performance by the American Chamber Players.
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by M. Faust
The sixth edition of the Buffalo International Film Festival kicks into high gear this weekend with 25 presentations.
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by M. Faust
Unless you’re a trade publication like Variety or the Hollywood Reporter that can send a staff of writers to cover it, you just can’t make conclusive comments about the Toronto International Film Festival. Like the five blind men encountering an elephant for the first time, all you can do is report on the particular corner of it to which you happened to be exposed.
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's pick for the week: Langhorne Slim, who performs at The Tralf Music Hall on Saturday the 29th.
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by Bruce Adams
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by Joe Gerken
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by Dan Hoffman
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by Gene Grabiner
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by Anonymous
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by Chuck Shepherd
At a conference in August, researchers from North Carolina State University demonstrated their latest technological advance in aiding “first responders” to peacetime and wartime disasters: cockroaches.
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by Rob Brezsny
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The German poet and philosopher Friedrich von Schiller liked to have rotting apples in his desk drawer as he worked; the scent inspired him. Agatha Christie testified that many of her best ideas came to her while she was washing dishes.
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