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by Stephanie Berberick
A multimedia sensory explosion is yours for the taking next Wednesday, December 8. At 8pm, Babeville’s Asbury Hall (341 Delaware Avenue) will play host to a slew of Western New York’s most creative artists, presenting their audience with an infusion of video, dance, and sound.
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by Bruce Fisher
Earlier this week, ECHDC’s board voted on some proposals that activists, demonstrators, preservationists, and others have been shouting, whispering, and nudging about for years.
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by Michael I. Niman
Okay, here we go again. In a culture dominated by retro products and movie remakes, hitting the replay button on the same old wars seems as natural as driving a 2011 Mustang.
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by Stephanie Berberick
There’s a bumber sticker that pictures a beat up, disheveled US military man; the caption beneath the illustration reads “The more gas your SUV uses, the more foreigners I have to kill.”
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Zachary Burns
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by George Sax
Tuesday morning, several hours before the Erie County Legislature was scheduled to convene, Buffalo legislator Betty Jean Grant expressed an upbeat state of mind about the prospects for restoring millions in funding to public departments and programs, and to many private nonprofit organizations.
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by Anthony Chase
Going to the theater during the days leading up to the December holidays is a great tradition in the English-speaking world.
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by Javier
Now you see her, now you don’t. The fabulous Jennifer Coolidge (pictured above) returned to Broadway, briefly, in the American premiere of Elling. The play, which also starred Brendan Fraser, officially opened on November 23 and closed November 28 after playing 22 previews and nine regular performances.
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Congratulations to The Etchings! They collected the most votes in our first live Quarterfinal at Nietzsche’s this past Saturday. That victory wins them a slot in the BOOM Grand Finale, coming up this spring.
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by Donny Kutzbach
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by Cory Perla
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by Jan Jezioro
Okay: We all know that the classical Christmas music season has just gotten off to a great start this past weekend.
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by M. Faust
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by M. Faust
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's pick for the week: The Downtown Christmas Tree Lighting & Magical Memories on Main Street at the Rotary Rink this Saturday the 4th.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
With the Buffalo Sabres enjoying an unusual one-week respite in their game schedule, perhaps this is a good time not only to heal bumps and bruises but also for the front office and coaching staff to provide some reflection on the status and future of their “core players.”
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by Jack Foran
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by J. Tim Raymond
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It’s built on a simple premise: you buy a shirt and someone who needs a shirt, gets a shirt. Gigante, co-founder of the Elma web services company Clevermethod, recently sold his stake in that company and launched his online t-shirt venture You and Who
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by Lynn A. Higgins
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by Margaret Pascale
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The collapse of the economy in 2008 might have reached the far corners of Earth, but evidently not to Planet Calypso, the make-believe asteroid containing make-believe real estate in the multiplayer online game Entropia Universe, where resort entrepreneur Jon Jacobs recently cashed out his properties for $635,000—in real (not make-believe) U.S. dollars.
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by Rob Brezsny
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a book called Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is. I’d love it if in the next few weeks you would think a lot about how you are on your way to becoming what you were born to be.
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A lot of people will be traveling by plane this holiday season, and we’re all going to have to make a choice: body scan or pat down. I want to know what all of you experts would choose, and why.
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