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The season has been changing rapidly as the sun sets sooner, the leaves change from summer green to harvest yellow and orange, pumpkins appear on porches, and there is an ominous chill in the air. Now is as good a time as any to get those sinister sensations, creepy curiosities, and dark desires out of your system. Luckily there is a full spread of Halloween events to choose from this week.
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by Buck Quigley
As we wind through the peaceful lanes of Buffalo’s Forest Lawn Cemetery, we can look at the many beautiful monuments, mausoleums, and sculptures placed there as memorials to the rich, powerful, and famous among the city’s past inhabitants.
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by Cory Perla
This happened at approximately one o’clock in the morning on October 17. Naturally, the first thing I did was tweet what I had experienced. At 1:05am I tweeted, “I swear I just saw a green orb fall from the sky in Buffalo.”
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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 Bruce Fisher
Consuming more and more, incrementally upgrading our cars, furniture, clothing, electronics, and of course our food, is, yea verily, the way of our people, and very possibly the way of all people, except those who currently look to the Taliban for fashion advice.
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by Jim Heaney, InvestigativePost.org
These are about to be interesting times at the Buffalo News. I say this because for the first time in decades—maybe forever—the paper has gone outside to hire an editor.
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by Jack Foran
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by J. Tim Raymond
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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 Kathy Najimy (pictured) recently starred off-Broadway in the world premiere of A. R. Gurney’s Heresy, one of the playwright’s one-act political plays.
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by Jan Jezioro
Now in his third academic year as the UB Symphony Orchestra’s music director, Daniel Bassin enjoys his hectic schedule of music making. In addition to his duties as the UBSO music director, Bassin has also been conducting some very challenging works on this season’s Slee Sinfonietta series, yet he also somehow manages to find the time to perform often as a trumpeter with jazz ensembles in venues throughout the city.
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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 Witches Ball & Masquerade at the Hotel at the Lafayette on Wednesday, the 21st.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
One hundred thirty-five NHL games have now been cancelled. The NHL and its players would have to have an agreement this week in order to salvage a season comprising of a full 82 games. The NHL Winter Classic, a mammoth annual event which had been scheduled to be played this season in Ann Arbor, Michigan before 110,000 fans, is on the verge of cancellation.
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by Chuck Shepherd
Horse show jumping is a longtime Olympics sport, but for the last 10 years, equestrians have been performing in “horseless” show jumping, in which horse courses are run by “riders” on foot (who, by the way, do not straddle broomsticks).
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by Rob Brezsny
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas,” said French painter Paul Cezanne. Many writers make similar comments about the excruciating joy they feel when first sitting down in front of an empty page.
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