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by Geoff Kelly & Louis Ricciuti
A new book says nuclear safety experts have deliberately underplayed the dangers of radioactivity. So what does that mean for Niagara Falls?
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by Bruce Fisher
When President Obama visits Buffalo, the symbolism of his hour-long visit will be conveyed to a worldwide audience. The White House communications team acts much like a permanent version of a campaign, a short-lived entity whose principle function is to arrange backdrops for symbolic utterances.
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by Michael I. Niman
We’re now three weeks into what has become the most environmentally destructive industrial accident in US history, with BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil well leaking nearly a quarter of a million gallons a day into the fragile Gulf of Mexico eco-system.
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by Timothy J. Noonan
The proposed anti-immigration law in Arizona won’t solve the problem it targets. But there is a viable solution.
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by Buck Quigley & Geoff Kelly
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by Zachary Burns
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by Donny Kutzbach
It was news enough when Neil Young—an artist who for some 40 years has stood as one of rock music’s most significant and enduring icons—announced he would embark on a solo acoustic tour of theaters that had him returning to Buffalo’s fabled Shea’s Performing Arts Center. The chance to see ol’ Neil with nothing more than a guitar tearing through one of contemporary music’s most enviable songbooks is a pretty big deal.
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by Jan Jezioro
On Saturday, May 15 at 8pm and Sunday, May 16 at 2:30pm, BPO music director JoAnn Falletta will be on the podium of Kleinhans Music Hall for a program featuring Johannes Brahms’ choral masterpiece A German Requiem (Ein Deutsches Requiem) and a recently composed work, Popule Meus, by the English composer John Tavener.
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by Jack Foran
The art of about 200 Buffalo Public Schools students is currently on display at the downtown branck of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. They include any number of remarkably beautiful and interesting works.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
Those who managed to get down to the ballpark for any of the most recent homestand saw just about a bit of everything: pitching gems by Buffalo’s starters, pitching meltdowns by both opponents leading to a boatload of offense and four-hour baseball games, a stunning come-from-behind victory in extra innings, yet another walkoff victory to put an exclamation point on the week, the professional debut of a visiting Cuban phenom who throws gas.
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by George Sax
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by M. Faust
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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: Peter Wolf, who performs at the Town Ballroom on Tuesday, the 18th.
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Originally from Rochester, Josh has been tattooing for over eight years, seven of those with Buffalo’s Hand of Doom Tattoo (Artvoice winner Best Tattoo five consecutive years). An expert at bringing the customer’s vision to ink, Josh is a self taught artist, a rarity in the industry.
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by Chuck Shepherd
Our Expanding “Rights”: (1) In April, a high official of the European Union called for member-nations to subsidize “vacations” for seniors, the disabled and those too poor to afford one. Said Commissioner (for enterprise and industry) Antonio Tajani, “Traveling for tourism today is a right.”
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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
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I can’t live the button-down life,” says cartoon character Homer Simpson. “I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles.”
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I live in an apartment building next to a very nice family. They are from another country (won’t say which) and they always cook their traditional foods. The problem is, the cooking stinks up the whole floor of our building!
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