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by Geoff Kelly
The holidays are here. If you haven’t started shopping yet, you may detect that creeping doom that annually overtakes your neglected ambition to please everyone—that paralyzing certainty that it’s too late, that you’ll never find gifts for all the people you’d like to honor, that there’s no sense even in trying.
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by Gerald Mead
The holidays bring scores of opportunities for buying art, and Allentown continues to be a suitable locus for that purpose.
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by Jonathan Welch
Stumped for holiday gifts? Head to your local independent bookseller and look for these titles by local authors.
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by M. Faust
When time runs short and you need gifts, you've got a friend in supermarket DVDs - if you know what to look for.
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by Katherine O'Day
There’s only one fruitcake in the entire world, right? The original re-gift, this proverbial fruitcake keeps getting passed along year after year because nobody wants it.
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by Jim Corbran
You auto know by now that if I’m involved with the gift guide, there’ll be some wheels in there somewhere. And this time around, some of them are real, some are not.
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Buck Quigley
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Zachary Burns
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by Michael I. Niman
Much of the world focused this week on Copenhagen, where global leaders met to discuss plans to contend with catastrophic global warming. Americans, however, were more focused on golf star Tiger Woods’s marital infidelity. We have our priorities.
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by Bruce Fisher
The Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority, or ECFSA, otherwise known as the Control Board, will soon be revealed as either a complete political fraud or as the stern, sane fiscal watchdog that will keep at least some local politicians honest. If the ECFSA goes “hard” again, chances are that Chris Collins’s candidacy for governor is dead.
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by Jennifer Mogensen
David Simpson, owner of Dolci Bakery and Gelateria, has packed more into his 35 years than most of us will even try to accomplish in a lifetime. His boyish charm, coy smile, and black apron covered in cake flour belie his intense drive and passion.
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by Dean Brownrout
In the early 1910s, artist Kathleen McEnery was a rising presence in the New York City art community. She exhibited alongside contemporaries George Bellows, Stuart Davis, and Edward Hopper. By the time of her death in 1971, in Rochester, New York, she was almost completely forgotten as an artist outside of the region.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Leon and the Forklifts for collecting the most online votes this past week. With that, they secure a spot in our next B.O.O.M. live showdown, scheduled for Friday, January 15, 2010 at Nietzsche’s.
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by M. Faust
The director and star of The Road discuss the bright side of the apocalypse.
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by M. Faust
The dream team of Nicolas Cage and Werner Herzog talk about Bad Lietenant: Port of Call—New Orleans
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by George Sax
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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: Miles Davis' On The Corner, performed by a collective of Buffalo musicians this Friday at the Town Ballroom.
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Joey Stern, David Zakalik, and Josh Finkelstein (pictured, left to right) comprise the Jewish Cultural Awareness Club, or JCAC, at the Nichols School. Each week, by means of educational skits, they teach their fellow upper school students a couple phrases in Yiddish and a little bit about Jewish culture.
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by Chuck Shepherd
In September, engaging in a 300-year tradition of the Dussera holiday in India’s Tamil Nadu state, Hindu priests ritually whipped 2,000 young women and girls over a five-hour period as penance for a range of sins, from insufficient studying to moral impurity.
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by Carl Mrozek
Last week ABC announced that the Extreme Makeover Home Edition episode shot in Buffalo in November will air on January 24 as a rare two-hour special featuring the massive grassroots mobilization which began the transformation of a drug-riddled, low-income West Side neighborhood, starting with the home of PUSH activist Dolores Powell.
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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): I hope you will get more sleep in 2010. And eat better food, too. And embark on some regimen like meditation that will reduce your stress levels. In general, Sagittarius, I hope you will learn a lot more about what makes your body function at optimum levels, and I hope you will diligently apply what you learn.
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I am so broke this Christmas, I am entertaining a plan to ensure I get through the day.
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