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by Michael I. Niman
There’s a growing, media-generated consensus that, for better or for worse, the Tea Party is enjoying a meteoric ascendancy and is on the path to taking over the country.
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by Rebecca Bowe
Each year, Project Censored—a nonprofit investigative journalism and media criticism project—compiles a list of the year’s most important and underreported (or self-censored by the media) stories. The 2009-2010 list was released earlier this month. Here are the top 10:
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by Bruce Fisher
Tumors that are the result of pollution afflict more than one-third of the largemouth bass in the Buffalo River, which is the body of water on which the proposed Bass Pro shop was to have been built.
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by Geoff Kelly & Buck Quigley
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by Zachary Burns
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by Jill Greenberg
Get ready to chow down. Local Restaurant Week is back, October 4-10.
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by Anthony Chase
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by Anthony Chase
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by Anthony Chase
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by Anthony Chase
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by Jack Foran
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by Jack Foran
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by Jan Jezioro
The Buffalo Chamber Players launch their fourth season on Wednesday, October 6 at 7:30pm at their home in the Buffalo Seminary on Bidwell Parkway with a gala opening concert, featuring both the Quartet for the End of Time and a new cycle of paintings by the noted Buffalo artist Catherine Parker, inspired by the work and created especially for this event.
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by M. Faust
The second edition of the Buffalo International Film Festival unofficially began last week, with a screening of the newly complete restoration of Metropolis. But this week is when it kicks into gear, with 40 screenings and events scheduled over the next 10 days, along with the possibility of some last minute surprises.
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by M. Faust
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by George Sax
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by George Sax
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by Geoff Kelly
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by M. Faust
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by M. Faust
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's pick for the week: Japanese pop-punk band Shonen Knife, performing at Mohawk Place on Saturday the 2nd.
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by Jim Corbran
I can tell you one thing for sure: If the King were still alive, he’d own at least one CTS coupe. Perhaps it would be pink with some outlandish custom upholstery, but it’d be there in Graceland’s garage.
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Tim Tielman is the executive director of the Campaign for Greater Buffalo, and principal of The Neighborhood Workshop, LLC., a new urban design consultancy. For years he has been involved with urban planning issues in Buffalo, and he is—depending on which side of the fence you happen to be standing—either beloved as a preservationist or bemoaned as an obstructionist. Which means he must be doing something right.
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by Geoff Schutte
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by James P. Neimeir
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by Chuck Shepherd
Ingrid Paulicivic filed a lawsuit in September against Laguna Beach, Calif., gynecologist Red Alinsod over leg burns she bafflingly acquired during her 2009 hysterectomy—a procedure that was topped off by the doctor’s nearly gratuitous name-”branding” of her uterus with his electrocautery tool.
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by Jill Greenberg
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by Roxane Gay
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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
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Everything is dreamed first,” wrote French poet Gilbert Trolliet. French philosopher Gaston Bachelard agreed, adding, “Creative reverie animates the nerves of the future.”
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I have just noticed that my neighbor has a political sign in his yard supporting a candidate I find appalling. Is it ever all right to vandalize the signs?
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