more by Geoff Kelly
[AUTHOR’S TALK] You may not know it, but Western New York’s social service and educational institutions are bracing for an anticipated influx of refugees who are not fleeing, as refugees before them, war or political persecution or ethnic violence (or at least not only those
[LECTURE] The second installment in a new lecture series at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center called “Talk the Talk“—in which an artist delivers a lecture on the work of another artist—is bound to be a popular one: The subject is Adam Zyglis,...
[SCREENING] The creation of the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River, along the border of New York State and Pennsylvania, is another discouraging chapter in the history of the US and its state governments abandoning promises and legal treaties with Native peoples, displacing them with little or no...
[MUSIC] This weekend’s program at the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is a celebration of Americana: some Leonard Bernstein, some Phillip Glass.
[ART] I’m old. And when I say old, I don’t mean what you easy, shit-heeled hipsters say about old. This is not 40. This is pushing 50. I am also vain.
[ART OPENING] Ani Hoover is, unequivocally, on of the region’s coolest and most thoughtful makers of art. Her work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox and the Burchfield Penney. She has exhibited quite nearly everywhere there is a place to exhibit art in this community....
[FUNDRAISER] Here are the top three things about Dining Out for Life, in your humble correspondent’s estimation: 1) You get to—no, you are compelled to—go out to dinner at a place you have wanted to try (or to refresh the pleasures of an old familiar favorite), whether...
[JAZZ] There are moments, most of them arranged by music curator Steve Baczkowski, in which Hallwalls feels like a center of the free jazz universe.