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by Jon Moran
Buffalo Police Officer John Cirulli has been suspended without pay after a cell phone video was released last Monday that showed him exercising excessive force against 22-year-old John Willet. Five officers have also been placed on paid administrative leave for not stepping in when Cirulli brutalized a handcuffed, submissive Willet.
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by Bruce Fisher
Although Buffalo is arguably the smallest National Football League market, and despite the good arguments for freeing the community from both the distraction and the financial drain of the Buffalo Bills franchise, the Buffalo Bills will stay here, and will play their games in a new, publicly financed stadium.
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by George Sax
During the lead-up to the Buffalo school board election held this week, news coverage and public attention were often focused on whether superintendent Pamela Brown should be retained in her position.
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by Patricia Pendleton
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by Jack Foran
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by Anthony Chase
“I’ve played many Jewish mothers,” observes actress Tovah Feldshuh, “but I’m very honored to come to Buffalo to play the mother of a state, on Mother’s Day. I’ve never played Buffalo before!”
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by Javier
The musical First Date came and went on Broadway this season but its male lead, Zachary Levi (pictured left), will be the recipient of a Theatre World Award for his performance.
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by Jan Jezioro
There are premieres and then there are world premieres. Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra music director JoAnn Falletta has done an outstanding job in this year’s classical series concert season of introducing for the first time in the orchestra’s long history works that have never been performed at Kleinhans Music Hall.
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Congratulations to Mon-Byrds for winning last week’s contest. They join the Spin Wires and the Heavenly Chillbillies, who previously won spots in the next (and last) semifinal on May 23. This week we offer the final two BOOM contestants for this year’s go-around: Like a Parrot vs. Monday Night Mistake.
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by M. Faust
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by George Sax
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's pick for the week: Mastodon, this Monday, May 12th at the Town Ballroom.
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by Jim Corbran
“The Lincoln Motor Company.” Sounds strange, but that’s what it is these days since the demise of the Mercury brand. And with the divestiture of Jaguar, Land Rover, and Volvo (not to mention a 25 percent stake in Mazda), I imagine it’s pretty lonely these days at Ford’s world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.
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by Chuck Shepherd
The Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications Commission in March reprimanded three pornography broadcast stations—not for excessively erotic fare, but for violating Canada’s protectionist, patriotic rules requiring that at least 35 percent of all content be of Canadian origin.
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by Rob Brezsny
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Free jazz is a type of music that emerged in the 1950s as a rebellion against jazz conventions. Its meter is fluid and its harmonies unfamiliar, sometimes atonal. Song structures may be experimental and unpredictable.
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