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By Frank Parlato; A lawyer who the New York State Attorney General alleges was extorted by Steven Pigeon has left Buffalo. Edward A. Betz, 30, joined the...
Friday, Feb. 10 – LEMURIA Mohawk Place 7pm -11pm $13 adv /$29 dos Lemuria has a kind of hardcore-punk-pop sound, if there is such a thing. The band...
Long before Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder was a hit Broadway show and Tony Award Best Musical winner, Michael G. Murphy, president of Shea’s loved this...
friday feb 10, 2017 8 PM key center • tickets $117-$240 Touring their new album “The Getaway” the band is busy spreading their signature Red Hot Chili Pepper...
Sat Feb 11, 2017 8 pm The tralf, tickets $24 Steeped in the blues since childhood, the list of collaborators songwriter/guitarist Bramhall has worked with is...
One of the best wind quintets in the world makes its Buffalo debut BY JAN JEZIORO On Tuesday February 14th at 8pm the Buffalo Chamber Music Society will host...
Grand Jury dismiss felony assault case against teenager who ran against Paladino for School Board By Frank Parlato Austin Harig is perhaps best known as the...
By Tony Farina Two of the nine deputies named in a wrongful death civil suit by the family of the inmate who died while in the custody of the Erie County...
By Tony Farina; The war-torn nation of Somalia, located in the Horn of Africa with an estimated population of 12.3 million, has elected a Grand Island man with...
SOPHISTICATED LADIES at MusicalFare The sophisticated ladies themselves: Katy Miner, Annette Christian, Zoe Scruggs, and Cecelia Barron Artistic Director...
Thurs Feb 9, 2017 8pm Iron Works, tickets $27 Hard to find a better crew of happy jammers than Donna The Buffalo. Founders of grassroots festivals and...
Wait, What? — Surgery on a 16-year-old Japanese girl, reported in January by New Scientist, revealed that her ovary contained a miniature skull and brain...
By Jim Ostrowski; I have advocated a free market approach to transportation since 1989. In an article, published in Business First, I proposed allowing...
By Tony Farina; It is truly a David vs. Goliath story playing out in Albany these days as the ride-sharing giant Uber and its smaller competitor, Lyft, inch...
By Harlan Snow; I was called by a pollster last week about the Democratic Party primary for Mayor of Buffalo, but the questioner couldn’t say who...
By Frank Parlato; THE STATE CONTRACT FROM HELL Last week we began the story of Bhavesh H. Kamdar, a civil engineer from western India. This week we continue...
In the US District Court, Western District of New York, a Buffalo woman, Christine Townsend, is suing the City of Buffalo, the Buffalo Police Department...
In the Tradition of the Old-time Pamphleteers, This is An Open Letter to the Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of the State of New York By E.R. Baxter III...
By Tony Farina Less than 24 hours after Bill Yuhnke of Liberty Yellow Cab in Buffalo sent a letter to Uber CEO Travis Kalanick (see letter in Artvoice) urging...
By Tony Farina Acea Mosey, the public administrator running for Erie County surrogate judge, will officially launch her campaign on Thursday at Kleinhans Music...
The following is a list of six of the top Jazz venues offering a selection of some of the best musicians performing jazz in Western New York. GIGI”S CUCINA...
Sára Kovácsi is an actress who has been seen on the stages of Buffalo and Niagara Falls for the past several years. Her most distinguishing characteristic on...
Fallsview Casino Feb 3-4 9pm Grammy Award winning singing group known for their intricate harmonies. Relive some of the favorite hits of the era such as “Up...
Ladies Night returns to the 9th Ward at Babeville featuring four amazingly talented Buffalo singer-songwriters. Each perform some of their own songs before...
GET THE LED OUT Town Ballroom Thurs Feb 2nd 7pm $24/$29 Get The Led Out is a Led Zeppelin tribute band from Philadelphia that delivers that plays Zeppelin ‘s...
Sat Feb 4th 8pm $37/$45 Rockwell Hall Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Keller Williams recently announced the debut of “Shut the Folk Up and Listen”...
Compelling Explanations — In Hong Kong in December, Mr. Lam Chung-kan, 37, pleaded guilty to stealing a bottle of a co-worker’s breast milk at work and...
New NHL venue living up to the hype By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell EDMONTON…At first glance, the structure looks like a giant spaceship has landed and...
The Faust Project conjures up a new version of Goethe’s Romantic Era masterpiece In a first for this series, ‘A Musical Feast’ will offer two performances of...
IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU at O’Connell & Company Sara Kovacsi who stars in the show about a wedding gone haywire with attorney Len London of the Alleyway Theatre...
ONGOING Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, drama by Tennessee Williams presented by The Niagara Regional Theatre Guild, directed by Fran Newton, starring Sarah Potozniak...
Dear Mr. Kalanick, Many have condemned your efforts to try and profit from the temporary work stoppage at JFK Airport called by the New York Taxi...
There was a time when husbands and wives did it frequently. Lovers thought it was incredibly romantic to do over and over again. Sometimes they did it all...
Rajiv Joseph is a playwright whose work has invited every superlative. The author of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Guards at the Taj, and Gruesome...
While calls of victims keep coming in…. By Frank Parlato (This article was revised on Jan. 29, 2017) This week, instead of an in-depth story of another...
OPENING Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, drama by Tennessee Williams presented by The Niagara Regional Thetre Guild, directed by Fran Newton, starring Sarah Potozniak, M...
CENTRAL TERMINAL: THE CITY OF BUFFALO’S FIRST BIG & PIVOTAL DECISION OF THE 21ST CENTURY When the state announced it was providing $25 million...
By Tony Farina Citing a conflict because an assistant in his office is related to a potential target of the investigation, Erie County District Attorney...
By Austin Harig Former Candidate for Buffalo School Board In May 2016, I ran for the Buffalo School Board against Carl Paladino. I lost (by 2% of the vote)...
BY JAN JEZIORO Soprano Tiffany DuMouchelle was appointed director of the voice program at the University at Buffalo in 2015. Her appointment followed the...
BY Gerry Ralston, seller of exquisite custom made buttons Who needs a button? I make buttons for a living. Not the buttons that keep your shirt on but lapel...
If you have always wanted to line your walls with breathtaking photographs that are truly pieces of art, you knew you were going to have to spend a good amount...
By Tony Farina “It is taking care of people who can’t do it for themselves,” is the way Public Administrator Acea Mosey describes her role in...
By Frank Parlato; Last week we wrote about an apparent miscarriage of justice perpetrated by former Assistant US Attorney Anthony M. Bruce as he prosecuted 20...
Recently Artvoice received an email alleging that a prominent, local elected official (LEO) had child porn on her Twitter page. Calling her a...
It’s a golden anniversary for the leader of the Texas Hot business BUFFALO, N.Y. – Since opening its doors in 1967, Louie’s Texas Red Hots has proudly been...
By Tony Farina To those of you protesting Artvoice’s “What Do We Want for 2017” list, which included Carl Paladino’s much-criticized...
by ANTHONY CHASE The Aleks Malejs phenomenon just seemed to sneak up on us. Suddenly there was a beautiful and confident leading lady in town who disappeared...
The Irish Classical Theatre Company presents Amadeus at Kleinhans BY JAN JEZIORO Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra music director JoAnn Falletta is excited about...
Wed Jan 25th 7pm $20 Sportsmens Adam Rafferty is an acoustic guitar master who has performed all over the world. He is also a guitar teacher and students have...
BY ANTHONY CHASE From time to time a theater will ask me to recommend an actor for a particular role. When my own husband, Javier Bustillos, asked me if one...
OPENING AMADEUS, play by Peter Shaffer presented by Irish Classical Theatre Company, directed by Fortunato Pezzimenti, starring Vincent O’Neill, PJ Tighe, with...
Sat Jan 21st 8pm Seneca Casino tickets start at $45 UNPLUGGED: SONGS AND STORIES After 30 years and over 2000 performances, 54-40 continues to redefine their...
Thurs Jan 19th 8pm $30 Town Ballroom Troy Beetles launched Datsik in 2007 and began dabbling with original hip-hop and dubstep in British Columbia. In 2008...
They are a lottery team, not a playoff contender By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell That was a nice head fake wasn’t it? Got our hearts beating just a bit. The...
Leading Economic Indicator The salary the Golden State Warriors pay to basketball whiz Stephen Curry may be a bargain at $12 million a year, but the...
The organizers of the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival (BNFF) are l ooking for talented individuals to fill a number of unique volunteer and paid positions in the...