Best of Buffalo 2008 |
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Arts & Letters |
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The Places You Eat |
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The Music You Hear |
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The People You Know |
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Those Places You Go |
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Where You Buy Things |
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The Place We Live |
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News |
Bad, Bad Money: Buying Your Vote in 2008by Bruce FisherIn Bad Money, Phillips shows how the George W. Bush formula of governing with huge deficits, tax relief for the highest-income and wealthiest Americans and an anti-regulatory environment—all features of Reaganism—have probably doomed the United States to becoming a second-class power. |
The News, Briefly |
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Fresh and Localby Lauren N. Maynard |
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Things Fall Apartby Peter Koch |
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News |
News of the Weirdby Chuck ShepardChina’s societal self-improvement in preparation for the 2008 Olympics continues. The Beijing Tourism Bureau ordered hotels to re-translate English signs, hoping to avoid such notorious past gaffes as “Racist Park,” which is now “Park of Ethnic Minorities,” and a cafe’s attempt to salute Western visitors with “Welcome, big nose friends.” |
VineByLine |
Pinko: A Lighter Shade of Redby Paula ParadiseThis spring I am going to crusade for the faint of color. That’s right, I’m going pink. As the monotonous drumbeats of winter—gray sky, damp wind, and unrelenting cold recede, I long to fill my brain with sunshine and my glass with rosé. |
Artshort |
A Change of Tuneby Lucy YauDiedie Weng's Mosuo Song Journey @ Squeaky Wheel |
Theater |
Stagefrightby JavierMovie star Steve Guttenberg was not so lucky in the popular TV show Dancing with the Stars, where he was eliminated in the second round. Guttenberg made his Broadway debut as a replacement cast in the original 1990 production of Prelude to a Kiss. His first film as director/producer/co-screenwriter/star was the adaptation of James Kirkwood’s play P.S. Your Cat Is Dead. Theater fans should now probably root for Marissa Jaret Winokur, who remains a contestant in the popular TV show. |
Music |
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American Music Club Comes to Buffaloby Joe Sweeney |
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Jazz Pianist Marilyn Crispell Plays Asbury Hallby Mike Shanley |
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Winston Choi: Enter the Canadianby Jan Jezioro |
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Left of the Dial |
by Donny Kutzbach |
Van Morrison - Keep It Simple |
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The Found - Self Titled |
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You Auto Know |
Way Off Broadway: The 2008 New York Auto Showby Jim CorbranAlthough I always enjoy the annual Buffalo auto show, once you’ve been to a real auto show (Detroit, New York, Frankfort…), the local show pales in comparison. Heck, it pales even if you’ve never been to another show. |
Film Reviews |
Droll Dysfunctionby George SaxIn a couple of scenes in Noam Murro’s Smart People, Dennis Quaid’s face becomes a malleable mask of sickly, embarrassed insincerity and passive-resistant condescension. It’s a lot to convey in one brief take, but Quaid manages it. |
Film Clips |
by M. Faust |
Under the Same Moon |
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Snow Angels |
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Street Kings |
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Listings |
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Movie Times (April 11-17) |
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Film Now Playing |
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On The Boards |
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Calendar Spotlight |
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Steam Donkeys (April 11) |
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Dodos (April 11) |
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Jesse Malin (April 15) |
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Islands (April 16) |
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Looking Ahead... |
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See You There |
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AV Pick: Best Of Buffalo Party (April 14) |
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Haale & Friends (April 11)by Edward Batchelder |
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Ben Jelen w/Standard of Living & Alura (April 12)by Donny Kutzbach |
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The Weakerthans (April 13)by Peter Koch |
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Theaterweek |
Funding Theaterby Anthony ChaseFor the record, artistic director Kathleen Gaffney ran a very tight ship at Studio Arena Theatre this year. This was the first and only season that she selected and oversaw entirely herself, and at the time they closed the doors, she was running a season surplus of over $100,000. |
In The Margins |
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Open Source Fictionby Readers Like You |
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Poetryby Carly Christiansen |
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Review: Bear Stories by J'Lyn Chapmanby Forrest Roth |
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Literary Buffalo Listingsby Just Buffalo |
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Horoscopes |
Free Will Astrologyby Rob BrezsnyCANCER (June 21-July 22): Normally you’re inclined to massage problems until they relax, not bash problems until they break. Your preference is to paint fuzzy, impressionistic pictures rather than creating crisp snapshots. Nevertheless, the astrological omens indicate that in the next two weeks, you should take an approach recommended by Winston Churchill: “If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time—a tremendous whack.” |
Advice |
Ask AnyoneMy partner and I have moved back to Buffalo after years living in bigger, faster cities like DC and New York. I came back for a job—a really good one that I love. My partner moved back to be with me, and she’s not so happy about it. She doesn’t complain, but I know she’d rather be elsewhere. |