Study Reveals Bias in Buffalo News Education Reporting
A Buffalo State professor’s study on the Buffalo News’s education coverage reveals what many public education supporters have long suspected: a clear editorial bias against public schools.
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Looking Backward: East Ferry and Wohlers, 1958
A cluster of small businesses developed at the intersection of East Ferry Street and Wohlers Avenue, the southern gateway into Hamlin Park and, after 1895, a streetcar stop for the 13-Kensington. When this photograph was taken in 1958, 14 businesses—five delicatessens and a meat shop, fish market, restaurant, print shop, confectioner, pharmacy, laundromat, barber, and beauty parlor—occupied this corner.
Cover Art: There is No Post Colonial
STACEY ROBINSON creates multimedia art works as resistance to Black oppression in colonial America. Opening reception at Buffalo Arts Studio next Friday, March 27, 5-8pm.
Centerfold: First Light
FIRST LIGHT by Craig LaRotonda, a Buffalo-based artist whose work is currently part of two group shows: Floating Intersections at Pink Zeppelin Gallery in Berlin, Germany, and Laluzapalooza at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Hollywood, California.
The Public Record: Welcome to Sunshine Week
Cuomo’s calling for transparency while directing his staff to delete all emails after 90 days. Plus: the buzz around Buffalo Common Council races.
Millie Chen at BT&C Gallery
Artist Millie Chen explores the mortality of memory.
Did You Know The Human Genome Project Started In Buffalo?
Genome Day is a partnership between the UB, SUNY Buffalo State, Erie Community College, the State University of New York (SUNY) and Roswell Park with the City of Buffalo and Buffalo Public Schools as part of STEM Experiences and the second annual Science Week.
The Importance of Being Earnest
The traditional knock on critics is that they themselves couldn’t do the stuff they so readily pronounce on when others try their hand at it. This is usually very true. Not in the case of The Public’s own Anthony Chase.
The Song of Songs: Jacob Paul's New Novel
Few writers are as open to formal experimentation as Jacob Paul is in his newest novel, A Song of Ilan.
Spotlight: Alicia Marván
UB grad student Alicia Marván has an active international career, collaborating with artists from a variety of disciplines worldwide. She directs Mexico’s Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology, and is an associated artist with Lower Left Performance Collective.
On Ignorance
The Lancaster school board voted last night to end the use of its team mascot name, effective immediately.
No more Lancaster Dumbpolaks. No more Lancaster Ginzos. No more Lancaster Moneylenders. No more Lancaster Bogtrotters or Krauts or Coloreds. No more Lancaster Redskins.
Music Is Art Benefit featuring Menew
[BENEFIT] Cambridge, Ontario, indie rock band, Menew, will come to the Town Ballroom on Saturday, March 21 for a special performance to benefit Music is Art. Last year, the three-piece band released their second full length record, Mother Nature, the follow-up to 2012’s Wide Awake Hello.
Talking Common Core, Part 1 with Shirley Verrico
Education reporter Shane Meyer gathers dissenting viewpoints on New York State’s Common Core curriculum.
Ladies Night
[PARTY] Ladies Night is back at Allen Street Hardware this Friday, March 20, with DJ Lulu in the back room and CROPTOP in the front room. Cover charge is $5 but ladies get in free before midnight. A new monthly event at Hardware that features strictly female DJs, Ladies Night has in the past featured GLDN GIRLS and DJ YAMA. Attendees can expect to hear a healthy mix of dance music, hip hop classics, and ladies night anthems.
Buffalo Soup-Fest
[FOOD] On Sunday, March 22, for the fourth consecutive year, Buffalo Soup-Fest is preparing to pack the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center with thousands of hungry attendees, 30 participating local restaurants, and more than 75 different soups. Local celebrity judges will decide the best soups in a series of categories including best stew, vegetarian, seafood, and most unique soup. Gluten-free and vegan soups will be available.
Al Stewart
[ROCK] The description “living legend” seems to be thrown around a lot these days. While there is no doubt that many older musicians today have tales to tell and songwriting ability, 69-year-old Scottish singer/songwriter Al Stewart is truly worthy of the title.
Amid/In WNY (Part Two)
[ART] All of Buffalo’s hot young artists will be out this evening, as Hallwalls exhibits part two of five of Amid/In WNY 2015, a survey of local artists. This round includes the works of Bobby Griffiths, Adele Henderson, Billy Huggins, George Hughes, Kevin Kline, Benjamin Minter, Rodney Taylor, and Necole Zayatz. Forty years ago Hallwalls was started by a group of talented artists that included Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, and Charles Clough.
A Happening
[ART] There is no other day than Sunday to go and take an adventure up north. This HAPPENING is an opening reception for Artists View the Falls: 300 Years of Niagara Falls, which includes presentations by HYDRO (Happening, Youthful & Driven, Reinventing Our Niagara Falls) and artists Bruce Adams and Augustina Droze. The Castellani Art Museum, located on the Niagara University campus, houses more than 5,500 pieces of modern and contemporary art work.
Michael Joyce & Karen Tei Yamashita
[FICTION] Since composing perhaps the first serious stab at hypertext literature in 1987, Michael Joyce has restlessly explored the landscape of strongly narrative yet conceptually innovative fiction. His latest book, Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden, published by Buffalo’s Starcherone Press, is an imagined string of letters written by French philosopher and literary critic Michel Foucault balancing a crumbling long-distance relationship.
You Are in Nearly Every Future
[MULTIMEDIA] Coinciding with the most anticipated spring equinox in Buffalo history, poet and JustBuffalo Education Director Noah Falck is launching his eponymous book-length poem with a hybrid performance assault.