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by Craig Reynolds
Tonight is the night—the night before Thanksgiving, widely considered the Buffalo bar scene’s busiest. Tonight, old friends and acquaintances will descend on the city’s watering holes in an orgy of nostalgia.
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by Bruce Fisher
Before Hong Kong became a part of China again, it was a city-state that enjoyed fabulous prosperity, creativity, and freedom. In the good old days, many a resident of New York City fantasized about how sweet the liberation would be if only Gotham could shed the dead weight of its Upstate country cousins.
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by Michael I. Niman
A federal district court in Eastern Louisiana just confirmed what we reported in this column 10 days after New Orleans was laid to waste by floodwaters in 2005—that the flooding of much of New Orleans was a human-made disaster.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
Our Ultimate Sports Road Trip tour through Texas had us sailing by the site of the old Reunion Arena in Dallas. Last week demolition crews pulled down the hulking roof of the arena in dramatic fashion, and over the next few months the rest of the rubble will be cleared from the site and the land will be turned into greenspace.
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Amy Kedron is executive director of Buffalo First, a young organization dedicated to preaching the gospel of supporting local, independently owned businesses.
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by Anthony Chase
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by Anthony Chase
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by M. Faust
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by M. Faust
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: the Artvoice B.O.O.M. Bash, happening at Nietzsche's this Friday the 27th.
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by Chuck Shepherd
The first line of “defense” at the 400 Iraqi police checkpoints in Baghdad are small wands with antennas that supposedly detect explosives, but which U.S. officials say are about as useful as Ouija boards.
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I was privileged to be one of the thousands of volunteers working with “Extreme Demolition: Peace Bridge Edition” to transform a community into a massive trucking zone. It was an absolutely amazing experience working side by side with people from all over Western New York pitching in to help demolish blocks of historic homes and displace hundreds of our fellow citizens.
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Buffalo has a large and diverse gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community. For further information about its numerous organizations and activities, visit Gaywatch at Artvoice.com, call the Western New York Pride Center (852-7743), or email WinterDanny@AOL.com.
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by Rob Brezsny
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The surest way to beat the system, my dear, is to elude it and erect your own system. The strategy most likely to leave your competitors babbling in the mirror, sweetheart, is to go completely over their heads.
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My wife and my mother are both excellent cooks, and they both take pride in it. In fact, though neither will admit it, they’re a little competitive about it. That’s why Thanksgiving dinner at my parent’s house is a living hell, year after year.
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