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by Buck Quigley
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Jim Heaney, InvestigativePost.org
Why do the Buffalo Common Council and the Erie County Legislature do so little?
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by Bruce Fisher
In another month or so, an international gathering of very smart, very positive, very influential urbanists will come to Buffalo to enjoy our architecture, our parks, our weather, our water, and our prospects. The Congress for the New Urbanism will bring big thinkers, enthusiasts, and city-fix-it gurus from all over the place.
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Meet 10 local music acts you must hear… and if you like what you hear, we’ve got more for you.
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by Jamie Moses
There are dozens of live music venues in WNY. Some clubs, however, have gone beyond simply having bands play. We’re talking about the clubs who have made a serious investment in a house PA system, lighting and a building stage that is well placed for everyone in the room to enjoy the music.
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by Geoff Kelly
A couple weeks back, Jon Nelson—a trumpeter on the music faculty at UB who, with his wife Lazara, runs Pausa Art House on Wadsworth, just around the bend from the west end of Allen—saw a guy wandering up the street, a CD in his hand, looking lost.
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Congratulations to the Heavenly Chillbillies for winning last week’s contest. This week we offer Queen City Catastrophe vs. Mon-Byrds. Visit boom.artvoice.com to check out both acts and vote for the band you prefer. Online votes are due by the end of Tuesday, April 29.
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by Jack Foran
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by Jack Foran
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by Anthony Chase
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by Anthony Chase
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by Anthony Chase
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by Jan Jezioro
No, of course not—but, if you ever want to conjure up an aural representation of the Other Side, you can’t go wrong using a theremin, or a theremin cello, in this case, to get an audience into the kind of mental state where they may well start imaging spectral manifestations.
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by George Sax
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by Ed Grant
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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: Shlohmo, this Sunday the 4th at The Waiting Room.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
Think about the NBA Buffalo Braves, who for close to a decade captivated hoops fans here in Western New York; who made some amazing playoff runs and came within a hair’s breadth of greatness; who were beset with attendance problems and ownership chaos; and who were eventually sold and brutally ripped away from the community, which deserved better.
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by Chuck Shepherd
First-term U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida is already among the House’s most conservative members, but his Republican primary challenger claims to be even more so—but with a quixotic, longtime hobby as a costumed, role-playing “gamer.”
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by Rob Brezsny
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “My personal philosophy is not to undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” So said Taurus-born Edwin Land, the man who invented the Polaroid camera.
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