|
by George Sax
The scene in the small conference room on the second floor of the Buffalo and Erie County Central Library one afternoon late last week was calm and, for the most part, there was a friendly, business-as-usual tone as the county library system’s board of trustees met.
|
|
by Bruce Fisher
Erie Canal Harbor wouldn’t exist if it hadn’t been for a couple of hundred volunteers showing up one spring morning with snow shovels, rakes, garden spades, and fearsome-looking red and yellow plastic sandbox tools to demand that an appointed state board restore the original Commercial Slip, which is the actual terminus of the Erie Canal, instead of a fake, “replica” canal-like structure with a bit of water and no reality.
|
|
by Anthony Chase
It is impossible for any obituary, or even for a book length biography to contain the sum of a man. That is certainly true of Horace “Hank” Mann, who died this week, less than a month short of his 89th birthday.
|
|
|
|
|
by Geoff Kelly
|
by Zachary Burns
|
|
You’ve got one month before Christmas. Hannukah will be upon you even sooner. Not religious? As if that will help you decide what gifts to buy for whom this year.
|
|
by Jennifer Mogensen
In this world of increasingly impersonal communication, perhaps it’s time to reach out this season and make a very personal connection. This year, eschew the big-box stores with their mass produced and generally generic fare and opt for art instead.
|
|
by Vanessa Oswald
Everyone starts to sweat when they realize it’s the day after Thanksgiving and they haven’t even begun to make a dent in their shopping list. This year, sweep those worries away by simply spending a few bucks and getting a little creative.
|
|
by Jill Greenberg
It takes a certain level of selfishness to concoct a gift that you can enjoy just as much as the recipient will. Lucky for you egocentrics out there, we’ve done the conniving for you!
|
|
by Jennifer Mogensen
When it comes to gift-giving this holiday season, many ideas may take root but not enough of them—fruitcake aside—involve food. Picking the perfect present is not as easy task.
|
|
by Brian Pietrus
What can I make you? What will you eat?” These questions commonly get passed around the dinner table when a family member mentions that they’ve decided to stop eating meat.
|
|
by Jennifer Mogensen
Ice wine, or eiswein, as it is called in Germany, its birthplace, has been around for centuries. Germany has a long and somewhat mysterious love affair with the sweet wine.
|
|
by Donny Kutzbach
Thanksgiving is a holiday that means at least one day off work, feasting on a massive banquet, and being subjected to the high-pressure situation of holiday shopping. In other words: What you need to go along with this is a drink, or possibly many.
|
|
by M. Faust
It can be hard to buy gifts for a movie buff. He wants a copy of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, or maybe the Chet Baker documentary Let’s Get Lost. She’s a big Eddie Izzard fan and would love his new live DVD, and she’s been wanting to own a copy of the original Sleuth for years. Yet all the brick and mortar stores seem to sell are Family Guy and Harry Potter sets.
|
|
by Jan Jezioro
There are many pleasures associated with the holiday season, and one of them is the annual opportunity to see and hear a wide variety of Christmas music performed by favorite artists.
|
|
by Cory Perla
The age of the Internet and the app may mean the end of wrapping paper as we know it. Sooner or later every Christmas gift will just be beamed straight into your brain. It hasn’t come to that yet, but this year, you might find far fewer physical gifts under the tree and many more awesome, virtual gifts to download, upload, and reload on Christmas morning.
|
|
by Jack Foran
For those of us who only know him as the area’s chief philistine, it may come as a surprise to learn that Erie County Executive Chris Collins, when he isn’t cutting life supports to struggling arts organizations, is a collector of local origin historical fine china.
|
|
by Anthony Chase
As I speak to playwright Gary Earl Ross, he is transporting a dead body to the theater, driving his car on a rainy night. Not to worry, he assures me. “It’s a hands-free phone.”
|
|
by M. Faust
Do I really want to watch this?” I asked myself as the lights went down in one of the spiffy theaters in the Bell Lightbox, new home to the Toronto International Film Festival. It was the height of this year’s TIFF and I was about to watch 127 Hours, one of the most anticipated movies of the year.
|
|
by M. Faust
Was anyone out there still holding any hope for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s future as a movie star? Between third-rate action movies and lame family comedies parodying his image (how much can they possibly have paid him to star in The Tooth Fairy?), it seemed like it was only a matter of time before the charismatic but ill-managed former pro wrestler would be back in Vince McMahon land.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's pick for the week: The first Artvoice B.O.O.M! Quarterfinal show, featuring The Etchings, Autopunch, Lower Town Trio, and Social Scientists, at Nietzsche's this Saturday the 27th.
|
|
by Jim Corbran
Well, maybe the new Grand Cherokee isn’t really a wolf in the Little Red Riding Hood sense—although, upon spying the 20-inchers stuffed under the fenders of the new Overland model, you might just find yourself saying: “My, what big wheels you have!”
|
|
Dennis Delano was booted from his job as a cold case detective for the Buffalo Police Department after he’d won national attention for his role in securing the releases of Lynn DeJac and Anthony Capozzi, both wrongfully convicted of murder.
|
|
|
|
|
by Raymond C. Vaughan
|
by Ben Perrone
|
|
by Chuck Shepherd
Librarian Graham Barker, 45, of Perth, Australia, casually revealed to a reporter in October that his hobby of 26 years—harvesting his own navel lint daily, just before he showers—has now won acclaim in the Guinness Book of World Records.
|
|
by Rob Brezsny
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s Experiment with Your Self-Image Week—a time when it would be invigorating to shift and play with your identity. During this reinvention phase, you might find you can change yourself on the inside simply by rearranging yourself on the outside.
|
|
The night before Thanksgiving is supposed to be the biggest bar night in Buffalo. I’ve lived here all my life, but a lot of my friends have moved away. Still a lot of them come back every year for Thanksgiving. This year, I’m getting a bunch of Facebook messages from them, saying they have plans to go out Wednesday night, but at several different bars.
|