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Attorney John Licata finished first in Tuesday’s election for three at-large members of the Buffalo Board of Education, well ahead of incumbent Chris Jacobs, who finished second. Leading the contenders for the third seat is challenger, Bryon McIntyre, who clings to a 51-vote lead over incumbent Catherine Collins and a 58-vote lead over incumbent Florence Johnson.
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by Bruce Fisher
Jack Kemp died last week. He was widely euologized as a sweet and positive man who tried to bring African Americans into the Republican party. Indeed, Kemp (or a ghostwriter) wrote a column in the form of a letter to his grandchildren last November. In it he celebrated Barack Obama’s election to the presidency—and so cemented his reputation as a sweet and positive man.
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by Ellen Przepasniak
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by Lucy Yau
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by Geoff Kelly
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Thank you to all those that made the Artvoice Best of Buffalo party a huge success! For those who missed it, we've got the winners list right here.
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Geoff Anstey
Back when New York rock was obsessed with garage chic and the word the, Longwave emerged with a unique perspective. Instead of tight, focused rock songs flirting with lo-fi, they made expansive, atmospheric rock enamored with shoegaze.
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by Jan Jezioro
The Buffalo Chamber Music Society presents the legendary Guarneri String Quartet in the last program in its 2008-2009 season at 8pm on Tuesday, May 12 in the Mary Seaton Room of Kleinhans Music Hall.
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by Donny Kutzbach
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by Donny Kutzbach
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by Anthony Chase
Sending a touring company of A Chorus Line to Buffalo is a risky proposition. This is the town where the creator of the show, Michael Bennett (DiFiglia), learned to dance and where his Broadway dreams were born.
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: the Artvoice Battle of Original Music Round 4 Quarterfinals at Mowhawk place on Saturday, May 9th.
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by Chuck Shepherd
In April at a New York City gallery, the Australian performance artist Stelarc starred in a video of his surgery in which an ear is implanted into his left forearm (right now, just a prosthesis, but to which stem cells will be added), which will house an Internet-accessed, Bluetooth-capable microphone.
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by Jim Corbran
When I was a kid, people in the neighborhood who had money liked to show it off with the cars they drove. (Okay, nobody in my neighborhood had money, but you get my drift.) Back then they usually drove: a.) Cadillacs; b.) Lincolns; or, if they were eccentric, c.) Mercedes-Benzes.
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by Bryan Whitley-Grassi
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by Kyriakos Zannikos
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by Raymond Flowers
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by Rob Brezsny
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In recent decades, many British people with unfortunate surnames have changed them. There are now 40 percent fewer Shufflebottoms, while the numbers of Cockshotts and Smellies have also declined precipitously.
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A friend asked me to sign a petition against a proposed slaughterhouse on the East Side. The neighborhood there isn’t residential but apparently some nearby businesses are arguing that the city should not license the operation. I kind of think it’s hypocritical to be against a slaughterhouse if I eat meat, which I do.
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