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by Geoff Kelly
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by Alan Bedenko
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by Bruce Fisher
Smokin’ Joe’s Trading Post sells gas, tax-free cigarettes, some groceries, and also the kind of clothing motorcyclists like, including boots, leather jackets, and sweatshirts with various Native American themes and messages. Especially popular are the shirts with representations of the famous wampum belts that solemnized 17th- and 18th-century covenants between the Iroquois and the British Empire and its various colonies.
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by Anthony Chase
Carl Kowalkowski, an uncommonly talented character actor with a quick sardonic wit, a generous spirit, and a gnome-like demeanor, died on November 24 after a heart attack. He was 68 years old.
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by Anthony Chase
Brother Augustine Towey, C. M., a titan of Western New York theater and an inspiration to generations of Niagara University students, died on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2012, after a long illness. The outpouring of grief was immediate, widespread, and effusive within a community that found itself brimming with words that seemed profoundly inadequate.
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by Jack Foran
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Jan Jezioro
Key in the words “rebel” and “music” in a Google search and the top result will most likely be the reggae song “Rebel Music” by Bob Marley and the Wailers. It’s pretty safe to say, however, that Bob Marley will not be on the program this Friday evening, November 30 at 7:30pm, when the Baroque music ensemble known as Rebel returns to the stage at Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall on the UB Amherst Campus, as the third concert in this year’s Slee Visiting Artists Series.
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by George Sax
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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 Dollywatchers with The Sleepy Hahas, performing on Saturday the 1st at Mohawk Place.
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by Mason Winfield
While a minor dustup in world history, the October 1812 Battle of Queenston Heights was a gripping, seesaw adventure that threw remarkable personalities and situations into relief.
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by Jim Corbran
The car once touted in its advertising as “the standard of the world” still thinks pretty highly of itself. Only now the competition isn’t cushy Lincoln Continentals and Chrysler Imperials. No, the new 2013 Cadillac ATS has one car in particular in its gunsights: the BMW 3 Series.
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by Kevin F. Yost
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by Lloyd A. Marshall, Jr.
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by Chuck Shepherd
If an asteroid is ever on a collision course with Earth, it is feasible that the planet could be saved by firing paintballs at it, according to an MIT graduate student whose detailed plan won this year’s prize in a United Nations space council competition, announced in October.
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by Rob Brezsny
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you say “rabbit rabbit rabbit” as soon as you wake up on the first day of the month, you will have good luck for the next 30 to 31 days. At least that’s how reality works according to a British superstition.
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I live in a pretty nice neighborhood, but there are a couple of derelict properties. There is a block club, and as a group we have tried to make complaints through the Department of Citizen’s Services—so far this has not worked. I know that my neighborhood is not the only area in the city dealing with abandoned housing, but do you have any ideas on how to get some sort of action from the city?
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