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Aptly, the title of Nadine Labaki’s Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film means something like “chaos“ in both Hebrew and Arabic.

I Love You, I Hate You Burlesque Show

[VALENTINE] It’s Valentines Day and the emotions are running hot. I Love You, I Hate You Burlesque Show is a great place to explore those hot feelings. Burlesque dancers SugaTush, Sapphire SeaQueen, Fiona Fatal, Juicy Lucy, Cat Sinclair, and Kerry Fey will be dancing to songs about love and hate, and all of the feelings in between. Catch this steamy burlesque show at Milkie’s on Saturday, February 16. 

Buffalo Common Council 101

[POLITICS] This could be a pivotal year for Buffalo’s Common Council: The Lovejoy and Fillmore district councilmen are both stepping down, and there are candidates considering challenging incumbents in each of the other seven district as well. Among those candidates are many who have never engaged the political process before, which makes their candidacies both promising (for city government) and daunting (for them and those who would support them).

Buffalo Common Council 101

[POLITICS] This could be a pivotal year for Buffalo’s Common Council: The Lovejoy and Fillmore district councilmen are both stepping down, and there are candidates considering challenging incumbents in each of the other seven district as well. Among those candidates are many who have never engaged the political process before, which makes their candidacies both promising (for city government) and daunting (for them and those who would support them).

Bad Bad Hats

[INDIE] A Minneapolis-born group, Bad Bad Hats (amusingly, named after a character in the Madeline series of children’s books) makes indie pop that’s built around Kerry Alexander’s breathy warble. The band has proven it’s capable of more than the generic sound of its debut, It Hurts, in the five years since it was released on the MN-based Afternoon label.

Brian McKnight

[R&B] Since the Grammys seem to often be an artistic kiss of death, perhaps it’s a backward compliment that celebrated R&B crooner Brian McKnight has been nominated 16 times and never once won. A Buffalo native on the cusp of turning 50, McKnight was inspired by his brother’s success with the pop-gospel group, Take 6, and proceeded to shop his demos until he scored a deal with Mercury at the age of 19. A subsequent deal with Motown in 1997 brought him into the limelight with string of platinum albums.

Marsha Ambrosius

[POP] Remember Floetry? The Brit duo of Natalie Stewart and Marsha Ambrosius caused a stir in the late 1990s, building up to a signing with Dreamworks and the release of three albums, Floetic (2002), Floacism (2003) and Flo’Ology (2005).

SHAED

[POP] D.C.-based electro-pop trio SHAED (as in, like, “throwing shade”) have been acquainted since high school when lead vocalist Chelsea Lee began dating Spencer Ernst who, along with his twin brother Max, now arrange Lee’s instrumental backdrop. Lee signed a solo deal with Atlantic in 2009, fresh out of high school, while the Ernst twins shopped their music around for a record deal (but eventually ended up going to college instead).

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