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by George Sax
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by Buck Quigley
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by Jack Foran
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by Bruce Fisher
When the late Wayne Chambless came to Buffalo in 1960 to study English literature, he was leaving the segregated South for one of the triumphantly progressive places of America. Buffalo was then the home of a great new public university. The already-renowned art gallery was being expanded. The great public library system—home to the most significant Mark Twain manuscripts, especially Chambless’s favorite, Huckleberry Finn—was just opening its new downtown headquarters.
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by Michael I. Niman
Republican elected officials will continue to soil themselves and expect the rest of us to clean up after their messes. Republican governors and Republican-controlled statehouses will distinguish themselves with crackpot legislation mostly targeting the rights of women, wage-earners, the sick, the poor, and the weak, all while their states go to hell.
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by Jack Foran
A major exhibit of Carl Chiarenza’s photographs at the UB Anderson Gallery reveals how his work progressed from initially pictorial semi-abstract to full-scope abstract, then back to semi-abstract, but of a much more specifically photographic character than the original pictorial work.
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by Anthony Chase
The New Year assessment of the Old Year can make little sense in Buffalo. Unlike New York City, where a successful show from 2012 is still likely to be running in 2013 and even beyond, Buffalo theaters operate on a September-to-August calendar, with few shows lasting more than their scheduled three-to-five-week run—no matter how successful.
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by Jan Jezioro
The Buffalo Chamber Players and friends will honor the memory and celebrate the life of artist Catherine Parker, on Saturday, January 5 at 11am, at St. Joseph University Church (3269 Main Street) in Buffalo.
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Congratulations to Super Killer Robots for collecting the most online votes last week. With that win, they join Randle and the Late Night Scandals in the live showcase scheduled for January 26 at Nietzsche’s.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
It’s that time of year again… time to look back on the past 12 months and pick out our favorite sports stories from the headlines.
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by George Sax
If Hyde Park on Hudson proves nothing else, it does show that Bill Murray is no Ralph Bellamy. After years as a motion picture supporting-actor and B-movie lead, Bellamy began an adjunct career portraying Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's pick for the week: Jeff Mangum, who performs at Asbury Hall on Wednesday, January 9th, with opening acts Tall Firs and Briars of North America.
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by Jim Corbran
This week we’re doing this a little different. I got a call a while back from old friend and Riverside resident Fran Bushardt, telling me he’d just ordered a new Ford Fusion, and we decided that when it came in we’d take it for a YAK test drive. Well, as things often go in the real world, there was a long delivery delay, and Fran’s Fusion just arrived a couple of weeks ago.
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by Matthew Crehan Higgins
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by Joe Gerken
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by Joseph Ciarlo
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by Steve Breslin
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by Dan Hoffman
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by Chuck Shepherd
A cosmetics company in Gaza recently began selling a fragrance dedicated to victory over Israel and named after the signature M-75 missile that Hamas has been firing across the border. “The fragrance is pleasant and attractive,” said the company owner, “like the missiles of the Palestinian resistance,” and comes in masculine and feminine varieties, at premium prices (over, presumably, the prices of ordinary Gazan fragrances).
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by Rob Brezsny
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In Tom Robbins’ book Skinny Legs and All, one of the characters, Ellen Cherry, has a conversation with a voice in her head. The voice gives her a piece of advice: “The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can’t see the ball.”
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I’m so tired of coming up with New Year’s resolutions for myself, and then breaking them, that I’ve decided to start making resolutions for other people instead. This way, when those resolutions go unfulfilled, I can hate other people instead of myself.
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