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by Charlotte Hsu
Cheyenne Ketter-Franklin is valedictorian of Bennett High, one of Buffalo’s worst-performing schools. It’s the type of institution whose problems people sum up using terms like “urban” and “inner city.” In 2010, the state slapped the school with the label PLA: “Persistently Lowest-Achieving.” Privately, many local residents will skip the euphemisms and admit to thinking of Bennett as some kind of hellhole.
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Geoff Kelly & Louis Ricciuti
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Bruce Fisher
The Urban Institute’s most recent profile of Cleveland reads like a devoted fan’s defense of the Chicago Cubs, a baseball team which has been “rebuilding,” as the saying goes, for about a hundred years. The entire Cleveland metropolitan region has been stagnating, and the economy of the region isn’t growing, either. The City of Cleveland, like the City of Buffalo and the City of Detroit, has been shrinking drastically.
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by Kemal Dervis
Around the world nowadays, persistent unemployment, skill mismatches, and retirement frameworks have become central to fiscal policy—and to the often-fierce political debates that surround it.
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Another year of art under the radar passes; another Infringement Festival comes to a close. Even on the final day of the Infringement Festival, there is still a ton to do: from an outdoor concert by avant folk band Shubbalulium outside of Coming Home Buffalo, to an interactive comedy show by Brainless Improv at Main (St)udios, and even a live-action game of Pac Man in Days Park. The official end of Infringement Festival 2013 happens at the festival’s unofficial headquarters though: Nietzsche’s.
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by Jack Foran
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Jan Jezioro
One of the highlight’s of last spring’s classical music season was the well received, long overdue Buffalo area premiere of Witold Lutosławski’s 1970 Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by the UB Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of its innovative music director, Daniel Bassin.
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by Anthony Chase
With Anton Chekhov’s 1899 masterwork, Uncle Vanya, Torn Space Theater—Buffalo’s foremost non-realist theater—once again lunges unflinchingly into the realm of theatrical realism. Last season they took an expressionistic view of Tennessee Williams’s postwar realist play, A Streetcar Named Desire, but with Chekhov, they mine the mother lode, taking on the man who, with Ibsen and Strindberg, arguably invented Modern Drama.
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by George Sax
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by M. Faust
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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: Chalkfest, going on this Saturday & Sunday on the 500 block of Main Street.
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by Mason Winfield
The summer of 1813 was a hot one on the west side of the Big River. Since late May the Americans had held Fort George and a perimeter around it in today’s Niagara-on-the-Lake. But Canadian guerrillas, British paramilitaries, and the Empire’s Native allies drove them crazy. The informal war-inside-the-war may be the most neglected side of the Niagara conflict.
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by Arthur J. Giacalone
The Peace Bridge Authority and its governmental allies have spent more than 20 years in pursuit of two goals.
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by Chuck Shepherd
Dewayne Eddy, 54, was charged in Yuba County, Calif., in May with beating his adult daughter with folding lawn chairs and a can of beans after discovering that a bolt was missing in the chicken coop in his yard.
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by Rob Brezsny
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Since 1948, the chemical known as warfarin has been used as a pesticide to poison rats. Beginning in 1954, it also became a medicine prescribed to treat thrombosis and other blood ailments in humans. Is there anything in your own life that resembles warfarin?
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