[ART] As part of the Topspin series, UB graduate student Patrick Foran will present Defacement, recent works on paper and sculpture that tackle the greater issues of war, political unrest and epidemics through portraiture on Sunday, May 10 at the Castellani Art Museum.
[TRIBUTE] If you missed modern jazzist Herbie Hancock when he came UB a couple of years ago, then you missed a living legend who was once handpicked by Miles Davis to perform on albums like Seven Steps to Heaven. For the upcoming Tribute to Herbie Hancock, Thursday, May 7 at Nietzsche’s, Hancock himself couldn’t have picked a more talented group of local musicians to perform.
[HIP HOP] EKL means Equality Knowledge and Light. The Buffalo lifestyle brand is celebrating five years this Saturday, May 9 with a party which will be held at the Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center. The party will feature Kinda Like Dreamin’s Dr. Ooo and Sammy Booms, along with Wza, Short Moscato, Truey V, and Hooizzy. Attendees will grab a free copy of the latest Eklephantz mixtape, an Eklephantz bandana, and drink tickets.
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Cleveland being one of those cities like Baltimore and Pittsburgh that Buffalo looks to for renovation ideas, I’ve been studying the Cleveland International Film Festival for a few years now trying to figure out the secret to its success so that we might perhaps replicate it.
And I think I’ve hit on the key: we need to have started 40 years ago.
If you’re a summer concert goer in Buffalo, this is an announcement you’ve likely been waiting for: Canalside’s free Thursday concert series lineup. The series always has a few gems—this year more than ever.
The only home that is truly next-door neighbor of Albright-Knox Art Gallery is this year’s Junior League Decorator Showhouse, the Edward H. Webster House at 164 Lincoln Parkway on the gallery’s eastern side facing Hoyt Lake. The home, an Arts and Crafts mansion, was designed by architectural firm Esenwein & Johnson and completed in 1908, seven years after the historical Pan-American Exposition that took place nearby.
