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by Jack Foran
Maps and beds are the polar motifs in a huge retrospective of mainly paintings by Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca currently at the Albright-Knox. The show is entitled Everything, and the title is only a bit of a hyperbole.
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by James A. Gardner
For five days in June 1967, the City of Buffalo was convulsed by riots. The disturbances began on the West Side on the evening of Monday, June 26, when a police attempt to break up a fight at the Lakeview Projects escalated into a confrontation between a crowd of several hundred increasingly agitated onlookers and a police contingent that grew ultimately to several dozen. The following afternoon, the East Side blew up. Groups of angry residents took to the streets.
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by Buck Quigley
In response to Governor David Paterson’s plan to save New York State $6.5 million by cutting funding to state parks, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy said this week that corporate sponsorships could be the answer.
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Zachary Burns
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by Anthony Chase
Martin McDonagh is famed for his ability to spin a yarn. This week, the Irish Classical Theatre Company opens The Lonesome West, his 1997 tale of two brothers squabbling and brawling in the aftermath of the possibly accidental shooting death of their father.
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by Javier
After a long absence from the stage, film and TV star Martin Sheen is starring as the patriarch of the family in The Subject Was Roses, now playing at the newly renovated Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Sheen earned a Tony nomination for portraying the son in the original Broadway production back in 1964.
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Did you know they have hip hop in New Zealand? Artvoice didn’t either. Even more surprising is that a Buffalonian produced one of New Zealand’s biggest hip-hop albums—Smashproof’s The Weekend in 2009. After living in New York City for 10 years and working with major names in the hip-hop industry (Bad Boy Entertainment, Akon), music producer Jeremy “Cochise” Ball returned to Buffalo to bring his experience to the local music scene (cochisebeats.com).
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by George Sax
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by M. Faust
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by M. Faust
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: the Artvoice B.O.O.M! Round 4 Quarterfinal Show, to be held this Friday the 26th at Nietzsche's.
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by Corinne Lanphear
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by Bob Lovejoy
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by Chuck Shepherd
First, farmer Dick Kleis of Zwingle in eastern Iowa, composing a birthday note to his wife, arranged more than 60 tons of manure in a pasture to spell out “Happy Birthday, Love You” in shorthand. Then, for Valentine’s Day, farmer Bruce Andersland created a half-mile-wide, arrow-pierced heart from plowed manure at his farm near the town of Albert Lea, Minn.
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by Robin Brox
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by Lydia Copeland
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by Rob Brezsny
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you were going to launch a career as a rap artist any time soon, I’d suggest that maybe you use the alias “Big Try” as your stage name. If you were planning to convert to an exotic religious path and get a new spiritual name, I’d recommend something like “Bringit Harder” or “Pushit Stronger.”
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I recently adopted a young dog from the City of Buffalo Animal shelter. He is very friendly, gets along well with my two cats. The problem is, I think he is either very dumb or very stubborn.
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