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World leaders from more than 190 countries will convene in Paris during the first two weeks of December for the long-awaited United Nations Climate Change Conference.
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by Frank Parlato
Clare and Sara Bronfman, heirs to the Seagram’s liquor fortune, and purported cult members, filed a complaint against me with the FBI claiming I defrauded them out of $1 million.
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by Frank Parlato
Part II of a series where I am the journalist covering a federal investigation in which I am also the investigation’s target. A companion series about the Bronfman sisters and cult leader Keith Raniere are also in this issue. Both are connected to the federal investigation. The series on Shmuel Shmeili details how he defrauded more than two dozen lawyers in Buffalo and elsewhere.
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by Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell
Is there any better way to settle playoff games than the way they do it in the National Hockey League?
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by David Staba
I’m sitting in a sports bar in downtown Las Vegas (the gambling mecca’s smaller, seedier, much cooler tourist district, relative to the more popularly gaudy Strip), watching the Buffalo Bills take on the dreaded New England Patriots in a Sunday-night game with my brother-in-law.
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by Brian Campbell
The Buffalo Niagara Brewers Association (BNBA), a collection of Buffalo craft beer brewers and industry professionals, promotes the growth of the craft beer industry in the entire Buffalo-Niagara region.
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by Paul Marko and Chris Groves
Adambier. Yes, this is a beer style and not just the pint left at the bar by your buddy Adam. Granted, Adambier is rare, with only a handful of examples on sites like RateBeer or Untappd. It’s an old, largely forgotten style originally from Dortmund, Germany—an intense, dark, complex ale (yes, an ale, not a lager) aged in oak barrels, which is sometimes soured.
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by Jordan Canahai
The Look of Silence is filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer’s essential companion piece to his critically-lauded The Act of Killing. That 2013 documentary, which focused on a handful of celebrated death-squad leaders responsible for perpetrating the 1965 Indonesian genocide of suspected communists, while challenging them to re-enact their mass-killings in cinematic terms, was an absolute knockout; a tour de force that stands as one of the great films, non-fiction or otherwise, of the decade.
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by Jack Foran
Some spectacular artworks in the Splitting Light show—about color—at the UB Center for the Arts. The trouble is color gets all the credit. Materials, texture, tactile values, these get short shrift.
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by Jan Jezioro
While her previous appearances have featured composers such as Mozart, Chopin, Schumann and Debussy, her recital on Sunday November 22 at 3:30pm will be the first devoted to the works of Franz Schubert.
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by Jan Jezioro
Opera Sacra will stage its final production ever this Friday and Saturday at 8pm, at St. Joseph’s University Church, 3269 Main Street, with performances of Joan of Arc at the Stake (Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher) an oratorio composed in 1935 by Arthur Honegger, to a libretto by the controversial French poet and dramatist Paul Claudel.
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by Anthony Chase
The need to catch up with shows that are about to disappear into the ether of time prompted a recent trip to New York City. I was rewarded with some indelible theater memories.
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by Heather Cook
Manipulating words and storytelling is gratifying, but being able to do so through oral poetry is not an easy task. Spoken word poetry is originally written on a page, but only thrives when it’s lifted to the stage.
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by Chuck Shepherd
The Blackhead Whisperer: Upland, California, dermatologist Sandra Lee is a social media cult figure with a massive audience on YouTube, where her cyst- and pimple-popping videos (charmingly, soothingly narrated) have garnered 170 million views.
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by Rob Brezsny
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some athletes think it’s unwise to have sex before a big game. They believe it diminishes the raw physical power they need to excel. For them, abstinence is crucial for victory.
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