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There is no idea too small or too far-out for Buffalo’s Infringement Festival, an 11-day celebration of boundary-pushing art, which will be held July 25 through August 4 in the heart of Buffalo. The Infringement Festival reveals art in every corner of the Allentown district and beyond.
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by George Sax
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by Buck Quigley
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by Bruce Fisher
In 2007, durable-goods manufacturing in the Detroit metro area was worth $35 billion of the region’s $195 billion gross output. By the end of 2009, manufacturing dropped to $15.5 billion, and the regional Detroit GDP fell to $161 billion—a more than $34 billion drop.
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by Jim Heaney, InvestigativePost.org
City Hall’s belated effort to collect $22 million in unpaid Housing Court fines is coming up empty.
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by Dan Telvock, InvestigativePost.org
The 650-foot smokestack at the Somerset coal-fired power plant in Niagara County billows plumes of smoke carrying greenhouse gases that can be seen on a clear day all the way across Lake Ontario in Toronto.
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Jack Foran
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by Bill Nehill
Punishing, menacing, melancholic, beautiful: all words that describe the aesthetic of Swans, a band that not only exemplifies but embrace such extreme descriptions.
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by M. Faust
It’s not a new story. A young man guilty of no crime is killed, not by a criminal seeking to rob him but by an armed man tasked to guard the public welfare. The young man is black; his killer is white. And the question of what really happened is quickly obfuscated by those who are more concerned with ensuring the story fits their own agendas.
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's pick for the week: Grizzly Bear, who will take the stage at the Rapids Theatre on Thursday, August 1st.
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by Jim Corbran
It’s never not been fun driving a MINI, but I have to admit I was a little nervous this time around. I’d only seen the new MINI Paceman in photographs, and that roofline looked just too low for a six-foot-tall guy to comfortably get into without chiropractic help.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
One of the most perplexing stories coming out of the Buffalo Bisons clubhouse this season is that of outfielder Anthony Gose. The Toronto Blue Jays have listed him as one of their top minor league prospects, and he has seen playing time in the big leagues. This season the Bisons were hoping to headline Gose as one of their top players and leaders.
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by Nadia Shahram
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by David Buczek
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by Harrison Bergeron
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by Chuck Shepherd
The gourmet lollipop company Lollyphile announced its latest flavor in June: Breast Milk Lollipops (four for $10). Owner Jason Darling said it “slowly dawned on” him that his friends were “producing milk so delicious it could turn a screaming, furious child into a docile, contented one. I knew I had to capture that flavor.”
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by Rob Brezsny
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.” So said the Leo science fiction writer Greg Egan in his story “Learning to Be Me.” Let’s pretend that you, too, have a small dark jewel inside your skull that’s learning to be you.
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