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by Cory Perla
To DJ Jake “Brother Bear” Broffman, spinning records is like running. Like a runner, his morning routine starts with a warmup. A session might begin with some music with a lower beat-per-minute ratio, like hip hop, then he’ll work his way up to mid-tempo genres like house or techno and gradually to dubstep or trap, which are typically higher BPM tracks.
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Jack Foran
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Michael I. Niman
Last week President Barack Obama joined Richard Nixon and George W. Bush as the only sitting US presidents to visit Israel. Israel responded to the historic visit by awarding Obama that nation’s highest civilian honor—the Presidential Distinction Award. CNN and other news agencies broke into regular programming to carry the event live.
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by Jack Foran
The American education system, on the whole, doesn’t work very well. We seem to have a great university system. Students from around the world come to study in American colleges and universities. But somehow, whatever it is the colleges and universities are doing right—not to imply that they’re doing it all right—it isn’t getting passed down to the primary and secondary schools.
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by Eric Jackson-Forsberg
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by Jack Foran
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Congratulations to Well Worn Boot for collecting the most votes in our online contest this past week. That wins them a spot in our next live showdown.
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by Jan Jezioro
The venerable Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle wraps up its 2012-13 with two concerts performed by the Bergonzi String Quartet on Thursday, April 4 in Baird Recital Hall, and Friday, April 5 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall on the UB Amherst Campus. Both concerts start at 7:30pm.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
This is becoming the tiresome script that is the Buffalo Sabres. The season begins with high expectations and visions of a deep run into the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Then something happens like an injury or controversy in the locker room or some awful incident on the ice. Things start to unravel.
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by M. Faust
Filmmakers are fond of saying that the most interesting thing about their work is what audiences bring to it and make of it.
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's pick for the week: The Waiting Room Grand Opening, featuring The Polar Bear Club.
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by Barbara Cole
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by Rachelle Toarmino
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by Art Giacalone
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by Barbara Frackiewicz
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by Dan Radwan
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by Chuck Shepherd
In March, Microsoft was fined 561 million euros (about $725 million) by the European Commission after, apparently, a programmer carelessly left out just one line of code in Microsoft’s Service Pack 1 of European versions of Windows 7. That one line would have triggered the system to offer web browsers other than Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer, which Microsoft had agreed to include to settle charges that it was monopolizing the web-browser business.
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by Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I was too lazy to write your horoscope this week, so I went to a website that hawks bumper stickers and copied a few of their slogans to use as your “advice.” Here you go.
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If you read this newspaper regularly, you’ve probably encountered the work of photographer Christina Cooke—her work has enriched a number of feature articles we’ve published, particularly those concerning Occupy Buffalo and the trial of Nate Buckely. Through the weekend, you can see Cooke’s work on exhibit at the Dr. Margaret J. Eschner Bacon Gallery at Buffalo State College, 234 Upton Hall.
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