[COMEDY] Carly Aquilino has hair like the Little Mermaid, but her hilarious riffs on the struggles of modern womanhood are far from the Disney Princess experience. After cutting her teeth on the New York City comedy scene, Aquilino began starring in MTV’s Girl Code in 2013 where her zany one-liners and flair for dishing out dating advice alongside other funny ladies like Jessimae Peluso and Alice Wetterlund.
[METAL] Nineteen records, 12 members, and 31 years since their formation, industrial metal band KMFDM is still kicking ass. The band, which formed in Paris, France by way of Hamburg, Germany in 1984, is considered to be one of the first bands to bring industrial rock music to mainstream audiences—spawning legions of imitators. KMFDM comes to Buffalo Iron Works on Thursday, August 6 with support from CHANT and Inertia.
[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] The difference between your favorite drummer and Araabmuzik is that Araabmuzik plays his drum solos with his fingers, not drumsticks. That’s because Araabmuzik, real name Abraham Orellana, perfers to drum on an MPC—a Music Production Center, better known as a drum machine—and he uses all 10 fingers to hammer out groovy hip hop beats and metallic double bass drum frenzies.
The New York State Department of Health today announced the five companies it will license to grow and produce medical marijuana. Here is the list:
I never thought I’d be praising WBEN’s Sandy Beach for aggressively taking on dumb people and racism, but this Joe Mascia thing seems to have brought out the best in him. Late last week, Beach eviscerated Mascia himself, who called in as part of his fauxpology tour.
On Twitter, someone commented that Mascia must have, “missed the thing about integrity is what you do in private.”
Par for the course at the Larkin Links, the new nano-golf course in Larkinville, is 19. When we held our first ever Public Invitational at the nano course on Sunday, the best individual score was 23. Needless to say, it’s a tough course. If hole six doesn’t bust you, hole eight certainly will. Nicole Biondi from the City Dining Cards team took home the individual best score trophy as well as the coveted Larkin Links plaid green jacket.
PUBLIC and Hydraulic Hearth held their premier Invitational Golf Tournament, a mini-golf tourney, on Sunday, July 26 at Larkin Links, the city’s nouveau “art/nano-sized golf course.” Located near the epicenter of Larkin Square, home of popular Food Truck Tuesdays, the course of nine “artisan-designed” holes is free and open to the public. There are also two bonus holes.
It bears repeating that the endorsed Democratic candidate for Family Court is Kelly Brinkworth, and she’s not able to self-fund to the degree that her Democratic rival, Michele Brown, can and has.