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by Geoff Kelly
This Friday, the Burchfield-Penney Art Center will switch on a new, permanent installation that will forever alter the building’s profile and the streetscape: At dusk, a community street party will culminate in the activation of a three-screen video projection and audio system that will run in perpetuity, featuring work by local and international media artists.
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by Buck Quigley
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Bruce Fisher
Meanwhile, back home, away from the threat of a self-inflicted economic Armageddon that suburban Congressman Christopher Collins and his fellow Republicans like the sound of, we enjoy an eerie continuity—featuring a governor breaking ground on the new city campus of the medical school, a county executive releasing his status-quo budget, and a mayoral race between a Republican challenger and a Democratic incumbent that is about as competitive as the contest between Bambi and Godzilla.
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by Jim Heaney, InvestigativePost.org
A month and a half ago, Governor Andrew Cuomo declared his intent to open Gallagher Beach near the South Buffalo-Lackawanna border for public swimming. Congressman Brian Higgins is pushing to open the beach as soon as next summer.
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by Ted P. Schmidt
Metropolitan regions across the US are in the midst of a dynamic and growing regional food movement. Not only are we seeing small steps like community gardens, small urban farms, and field-to-fork experiences, but farm shares and urban farmers’ markets are becoming a key source of revenue that is helping to sustain local family-owned farms.
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by Patricia Pendleton
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by Jack Foran
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by AV Staff
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by Anthony Chase
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by Anthony Chase
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by Adrienne C. Hill
The band Lovers parlays their passion for vintage sequencers into a sound that pays tribute to the late 1980s and early 1990s, but resists nostalgia—or worse, faux-nostalgic hipster irony. Musicians Kerby Harris and Emily Kingan create compressed electronic soundscapes that form a backdrop to the subtle variations in lead singer and lyricist Carolyn Berk’s girlish alto.
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by Jan Jezioro
While the feast day of St. Cecilia is traditionally celebrated on November 22, the Freudig Singers of Western New York will start the celebrations early this year, when they present their “Let There Be Light” concert on Saturday, October 26 at 7:30pm, at St. Joseph’s University Church (3269 Main Street).
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by M. Faust
Cinegael, the annual festival of Irish cinema, celebrates its 10th anniversary this weekend by expanding to two days for “Hidden Ireland,” a program of documentaries.
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by Geoff Kelly
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by M. Faust
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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: Minus The Bear, who play the Rapids Theatre on Saturday the 19th.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
As if suffering Buffalo Sabres fans needed yet another reminder of just how awful things have become around these parts.
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by Barbara Cole
Just Buffalo Literary Center will kick off the new season of BABEL with poet Richard Blanco, on Tuesday, October 22, at Kleinhans Music Hall.
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by Arthur J. Giacalone
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by Ken Gibson
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by Chuck Shepherd
A 61-year-old Texas man admitted to a hospital not long ago appearing to be falling-down-drunk, even though denying having had even a single drink, was discovered to be unintentionally manufacturing beer in his stomach. With “auto-brewery syndrome,” stomach-based yeast automatically ferments all starches (even vegetables or grains) passing through, converting them into ethanol.
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by Rob Brezsny
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The door to the invisible must be visible,” wrote the surrealist spiritual author Rene Daumal. This describes an opportunity that is on the verge of becoming available to you.
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On Saturday evening, October 12, the arts collective Sugar City took over the city’s light-rail system, turning it into a traveling art and performance show.
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