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by Alan Oberst
After a year filled with self-esteem shots in the arm for Buffalo, something extraordinary happened that many likely overlooked, especially among the ever-increasing numbers (see recent Pew Poll) of those who tune out all things religious.
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by Jordan Canahai
2016 is here, and one can only hope it’s as good a year for film as 2015. For discerning viewers, the past year saw the release of one cinematic gem after another. Listed below are my completely subjective and indisputably personal choices for the best new films to play in Buffalo in 2015.
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by Dave Staba
The 2015 Buffalo Bills were far from the worst bunch to wear the franchise’s various uniforms during its extended exile from the National Football League’s annual postseason tournament.
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by Frank Parlato
Every December more than a billion people celebrate the birth of Christ, a child born of immaculate conception who would change the world – whose true father was said to be God, and whose earthly father was an Israeli carpenter named Joseph.
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by Tony Farina
Acting Erie County District Attorney Michael Flaherty has hit the ground running, and it is clear that he would like to take "acting" out of his title and win a full term on his own in November.
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by Tony Farina
The long-awaited state comptroller’s audit of financially troubled Erie Community College (ECC) is expected to be released very shortly, possibly as early as Friday (Jan. 8) but more likely early next week.
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by Tony Farina
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ast week the notorious conman Shmuel Shmueli was evicted from a Niagara Falls luxury condo at the Parkway Condominiums on Buffalo Ave.––but not until after he stayed in the condo for free for a year. Artvoice previously identified 25 lawyers that Shmueli conned out of legal services. We’ve now discovered a new class of Shmueli dupes: landlords.
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by Brian Campbell
2015 has come and gone, and for beer fans it was one hell of a year. Breweries around the area concocted many delicious adult libations for our drinking pleasure and there were no shortage of events to enjoy said concoctions. Not only did 2015 mark the second year for the Farm To Pint Fete and Buffalo Brewers Festival, there was also the sixth annual Buffalo Beer Week, the annual 10-day celebration of all things local beer related.
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by Brian Campbell and Chris Groves
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put Humpty together again,” and so the old nursery rhyme goes, though clearly they were not referring to this All the King’s Men, which is part local craft beer, part local craft cider from the collective minds of Resurgence Brewing Company and Cider Creek Hard Cider.
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by Jack Foran
There’s much food for thought in the Albright-Knox Looking at Tomorrow show of Conceptualist art. And served up succinct, because Minimalist art as well.
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by Jan Jezioro
For the last five years, Nickel City Opera has presented multiple holiday performances of the Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti’s one act opera Amahl and the Night Visitors at the Riviera Theatre in North Tonawanda on the weekend following Thanksgiving.
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by Anthony Chase
In End of the Rainbow by Peter Quilter, opening this weekend at the Kavinoky Theatre, actress Natasha Drena will portray the great Judy Garland. She’s played the role twice before, in Atlanta and in Highlands, North Carolina, and has also taken on the Garland persona in another stage play, Beyond the Rainbow.
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by Javier
The fabulous Jessie Mueller (pictured above) who won the 2014 Tony Award for playing Carole King in the musical Beautiful: The Carole King Story, will be back on Broadway this season starring in the new musical Waitress.
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by Heather Cook
A Hard and Heavy Thing is a debut novel by Matt Hefti, told in the form of a suicide letter that a soldier, Levi, writes to his wounded best friend, Nick. After the September 11th attacks occur, the two young men enlist in the Iraq War impulsively, intoxicated and naive.
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by Gabriel Allandro
Natalia “Natasha” Romanova is one of those characters who can be very easily underestimated. As the Black Widow, she was introduced as a Russian spy who eventually turned from serving her country to serving the world as a member of the Avengers.
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by Chuck Shepherd
In December, Canada’s supportive organization The Transgender Project released a biographical video of the former Paul Wolscht, 46 and the father of seven children with his ex-wife, Marie, describing his new life as not only a female but a 6-year-old female, Stephoknee Wolscht.
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by Rob Brezsny
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In her poem “Tree,” California poet Jane Hirshfield speaks of a young redwood tree that’s positioned next to a house. Watch out! It grows fast—as much as three feet per year.
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