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by Buck Quigley
The year was 1973, when a 29-year-old singer from Austin, Texas, named Kinky Friedman led his band, the Texas Jewboys, into one of their signature songs at a performance before a crowd of college students in Buffalo. It was the height of the women’s liberation movement, and the satirical nature of his song, “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed,” was lost on some of those in attendance.
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by Jack Foran
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by Rebecca Bratek
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Zachary Burns
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by Jim Heaney, InvestigativePost.org
Kevin Gaughan is challenging Sean Ryan for the 149th Assembly seat. Good. I mean this as no disrespect towards Ryan.
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by Bruce Fisher
The moral clarity that the Occupy movement provided in 2011 was gone by early 2012, as the inherent elitism of the people who filter our news reasserted itself.
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by Woody Brown
On April 16, 2012, the University of North Carolina Press and Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies published Jackson’s and Christian’s In This Timeless Time, a stunningly beautiful hardcover book of photographs and essays that follows up on the fates of the condemned men they met on cellblock J in Ellis Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections, Death Row.
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by Anthony Chase
Short works festivals are a great way for theaters to advance their missions. In a single evening, a theater can give its audience exposure to multiple viewpoints on a theme, while simultaneously giving opportunities to numerous playwrights. This week, Buffalo United Artists and Subversive Theatre Collective open evenings of short works with just those purposes in mind.
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by Jack Foran
A documentary photo exhibit on the Cuban syncretic cult called Santeria is currently on display at El Museo Francisco Omer y Diego Rivera.
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by Jan Jezioro
Baird Hall and Slee Hall on the UB Amherst Campus will again be the location for an intensive summer string workshop from Saturday, June 23, through Thursday, June 28, with sessions running from 9am to 9pm.
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by M. Faust
The 27th edition of the Buffalo International Jewish Film Festival continues this week with Bride Flight, the most expensive film in the history of Dutch cinema. It is based on the story of women who in 1952 moved from Holland to New Zealand in search of better lives, which at the time meant husbands.
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by M. Faust
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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 picks for the week: Shakespeare in Delaware Park's season opening presentation of The Tragedy of Richard III, starting Thursday, June 21st.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
Baseball is the kind of game that can be appreciated from a variety of angles: There is the serious fan, who pays close attention to the balls and strikes, and understands the nuances that occur in the “game within the game.” Then there is the casual fan, who catches a game for the social experience and the entertainment, food, and people-watching.
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by Peterjoe Certo, Buffalo
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by John Duke, Buffalo
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by Chuck Shepherd
Chinese media reported that on May 4th, at the Xiaogan Middle School in Hubei province, high school students studying for the all-important national college entrance exam worked through the evening while hooked up to intravenous drips of amino acids to fight fatigue.
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by Rob Brezsny
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Dear Rob: In one of your recent horoscopes, you implied that I should consider the possibility of asking for more than I’ve ever asked for before. You didn’t actually use those words, but I’m pretty sure that’s what you meant.
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I can’t stand it when people ask me for advice. I always feel like I’m being put on the spot. I mean, how should I know what somebody else should do in a given situation? I’m not that person, right? What if I suggest something and it ultimately winds up making the situation worse?
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