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Standup for Planned Parenthood

Do you stand with Planned Parenthood? These folks do, and they’re asking you to come out for a night of hilarious local standup while supporting that great cause at a time when it could really use the help.

The Falling Birds

[INDIE] The Falling Birds teeter on the thin wire between gritty electric blues and garage punk.

USS

[ELECTRONIC] A visit by electronic rock band Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker, better known as USS, to the Rapids Theatre has become an annual custom. The Toronto-based band returns on Saturday, January 14 for a show in support of their new record, New World Alphabet, which drops the day before the show.

Ultraman X: The Movie

[SCREENING] If you were a Buffalo kid in the early 1970s, chances are you rushed through dinner on weeknights so as to get to the TV in time for Ultraman, a presentation of the then-new channel 29.

At the Burchfield Penney: Here

An exhibit aims to look backward at 50 years of touchstones in Western New York culture.

Artists Seen: Patti Ambrogi

David Moog’s portrait of the photographer and RIT professor.

The Singular Doris WIshman

[SCREENING] It’s not often that you get to see a Doris Wishman film on the big screen, or for that matter in public. Those of you who have encountered her work—Deadly Weapons, Bad Girls Go to Hell, and Let Me Die a Woman might be the best-known titles—might not feel that this is a bad thing, but you have to give her this: After seeing a few of her movies, you’ll never look at conventional cinema in quite the same way. Whether or not she intended to, Wishman subverted the dominant paradigm like nobody’s business.

Brassband, Dixieland, Americana, & Burlesque IV

[BURLESQUE] Live music and dance is an age old tradition, it is the heartbeat of humanity, the voice of the people in sweet revelry.

Peach Picks: What to Read This Week

The editors of Peach Mag offer the week’s literary highlights.

Vermin Supreme

[PERFORMANCE ART] “A perennial joke candidate who wears a boot on his head has received more votes in the New Hampshire primary than former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore.”

Collins: Draft Legislation, Profit

What do you call it when a sitting member of Congress drafts legislation, which passes and then results in a direct personal financial gain? I call it “Corruption 101” and it’s the stuff that 3rd world kleptocracies are made of.