Kara Kenney is an urban bicyclist killing Buffalo’s drivers with kindness.
Sporting a lavender-hued pixie cut and a kilowatt smile, Kenney stops by mystified drivers who have rolled down their windows to rubberneck at the 300 bikes passing by them.
“This is called Slow Roll Buffalo,” Kenney says to one of the drivers.
As her bright orange short emblazoned “squad” indicates, Kenney is one of the handful of safety personnel for Slow Roll Buffalo.
The title of artist George Afedzi Hughes’s exhibit now at the Indigo Gallery on Allen Street is Collisions [amp], the “[amp]” for “amplified,” I was told. Collisions with a connotation of violence, but also of connection, or connections, it would seem. As the essence of any artwork. How the images in a work connect to one another, and to us, and we to them. To the story they presumably tell. Hughes’s artwork—full of disparate images—raises question in these regards.
“Alleys, like this section of Booth Alley, may soon be a thing of the past. They once served as thoroughfares but many have been obliterated by parking lots and new buildings.” –Buffalo Courier Express, January 27, 1968
There’s a light at the end of the tunnel as nervous parents, kids, and teachers cross their fingers and hope that school budgets are passed and that good people are elected to school boards throughout western New York’s rural and suburban districts.
Today is Tuesday, and the polls are open.
[DANCE] Buffalo’s Neglia Ballet Artists are presenting the second annual Dancing to Live showcase, an event celebrating life, living, and love of dance for a good cause on Thursday, May 21 from 6-10pm in the Flickinger Theatre at Nichols School.
[PUNK] You may recall, California quartet Face to Face blew up considerably in the mid-1990s with the single “Disconnected,” included on the Tank Girl Soundtrack. Now several years into reuniting after a hiatus—during which front man Trevor Keith played in Legion of Doom and drummer Pete Parada joined the Offspring (he’s now replaced by Uprising’s Danny Thompson)—Face to Face is gearing up to record a new disc this fall.