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by Charlotte Hsu
Meet Ed Wang, left tackle for the Buffalo Bills and the NFL's first player of full Chinese descent.
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Zachary Burns
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by Michael I. Niman
Things aren’t looking too good on the tolerance front lately. In a move darkly reminiscent of the European pogroms of the 1930s, France’s beleaguered right-wing president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is ordering mass deportations of ethnic Roma.
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by Jack Foran
The downtown library has a terrific show of flower illustrations and related materials from its Rare Books collection. The items date from the Renaissance to the present, but particularly flower books from the 18th and 19th centuries, when the art of flower painting took off.
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by Vanessa Oswald
This year the Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts—two art-filled days of fun happening on Saturday, August 28, and Sunday August 29—is introducing a compelling dance lineup.
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by Jan Jezioro
Martin J. Wimmer was awarded first prize recently in the Vincent Brown Silliman Choral Anthem Competition, held in Madison, Wisconsin. His composition, entitled Peace, beat out nearly ninety other entrants to win the “Easy Anthem” category in the nationwide competition sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network.
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by Cory Perla
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by Donny Kutzbach
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by M. Faust
Since he capped his glory decade of the 1970s with Apocalypse Now and The Great Santini, Robert Duvall has averaged one iconic starring performance per decade, shoehorned in among supporting roles in films of wildly varying quality.
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: Fang Island, playing at Soundlab on Friday the 27th.
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by Jim Corbran
Just as I sat down to write this week’s column, the latest issue of the British magazine Car arrived in my mailbox. As I don’t imagine that Car is something a lot of you pick up each month, I thought I’d use this space to let you know about some efficient cars being reported on across the pond which we in North America may, or may not, ever see.
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A political newcomer, Allen is one of three candidates running in the Sept. 14 Democratic primary for the State Senate’s 60th district—which covers most of Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
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by Arthur J. Giacalone
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by Joshua Curry-Bascome
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by Katie Campos
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by Chuck Shepherd
The Yaohnanen tribe on the South Pacific island of Tanna believe their true ancestral god is Britain’s Prince Philip (based on photographs of him with the queen during a 1974 visit to Tanna’s mother nation of Vanuatu) and believe he promised he would return for good on his 89th birthday (June 10, 2010).
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Buffalo has a large and diverse gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community. For further information about its numerous organizations and activities, visit Gaywatch at Artvoice.com, call the Western New York Pride Center (852-7743), or email WinterDanny@AOL.com.
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by Rob Brezsny
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Our sun doesn’t really have a name. The word “sun” is a generic term that can refer to any of trillions of stars. So I’d like to propose that you come up with a name for it.
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I live in the country, and, like a bunch of my neighbors, I keep chickens. There’s a guy who lives about two miles down the road who has a big old Australian shepherd who, like most dogs in the area, runs loose.
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