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by Amanda Ferreira
Buffalo Pride Festival Mistress of Ceremonies and self-proclaimed ‘clown in a dress’ Bianca Del Rio holds the distinction of being one of the fiercest drag queens in reality TV history.
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by Artvoice Staff
The annual Buffalo & WNY Pride Parade has a new route this year. For the first time the colorful and fun parade, featuring floats and performances from dozens of different organizations, will begin at the foot of Elmwood Avenue at Forest Avenue.
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by Sarah Barry
Evergreen Association’s Justin Azzarella, Associate Vice President for Community Development and Theresa Woehrel, Association Director of PR
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by Artvoice Staff
GObike Buffalo is hosting a unique event to wrap up Bike Month in the form of the First Annual SkyRide—which will give cyclists the opportunity to pedal over one of the most auto-centric and controversial stretches of roadway in western New York: the Skyway.
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by Anthony Chase
The Arties, hosted by Anthony Chase, Charmagne Chi, and Alan Trinca will be held on Monday, June 2nd at the Town Ballroom at 8 p.m. The Red Carpet with Jimmy Janowski begins at 7 p.m. Michael Hake is the music director. Admission is $10, and the event benefits Immunodeficiency Services at ECMC.
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by Cory Perla
For the sixth installment of their “Being” tribute series, a benefit for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS), promoters Damon Bodine of Live For A Cure and Tony Caferro of Deep Thinka Records are bringing it back around with Being Beastie, Volume 2.
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Jack Foran
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by Jan Jezioro
June in Buffalo is a unique music festival that is recognized worldwide for its focus on contemporary composers. Established composers assemble every year on the UB Amherst campus for a week of musical activity that includes creative interactions with young emerging composers.
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by Jessica Kelly
Sunday brunch brings many Buffalonians together for a morning food, fun, and fresh cocktails. The two front runners for brunch beverages are Mimosas and Bloody Marys. As delicious as Mimosas are, it takes a skilled bartender to make a perfectly seasoned Bloody Mary from scratch, and adding a fun garnish.
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by George Sax
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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 BuffaLoveFest, this Friday, May 30th at the Buffalo Zoo.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
Don’t look now, but the Toronto Blue Jays, the parent club of the Buffalo Bisons, are red hot right about now. Check that. White hot.
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by Salvatore Bordonaro
The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library “the people’s university” is being pulverized before our very own eyes. This once proud library system which numbered 52 branches at its pinnacle now has downsized to 37 branches since the red and green budget of 2005.
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A week before the National Football League held its 2014 Draft Day in May, a large contingent of junior and senior boys staged their own draft day at Corona del Mar High School in Newport Beach, Calif., “dividing up” the available girls to ask to the upcoming prom. As in the NFL, the drafters “scout” the draftees, and a “rule book” notes the draft’s boundaries (e.g., this year, sophomore girls are eligible).
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I suspect that some night soon you will have a dream of being naked as you stand on stage in front of a big audience. Or maybe not completely naked.
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