Listen: Stories from Chef Adam Goetz
“Buffalo is not behind the times.” You don’t have to get too deep into this week’s Grain of Salt podcast to understand that Chef Adam Goetz tells it how it is.
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Igloo Music: Best Club Tracks of 2014
If there is one group of DJs in Buffalo who are working on truly innovative house tunes, it’s Igloo Music. The DJ crew is also working on their second annual New Year’s Eve party, Reanimate. Last year the party was held in a secret location, and this year will be no different.
Free Screening of 'Joyeux Noel' on Friday Night
Seldom have I ever been moved by a film as I was by Joyeux Noel, a 2008 nominee for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. It certainly deserved to win more than the South African film that did take the prize, Tsotsi.
Choke Hold on Justice: How Prosecutors Enable Police Brutality
Hot on the heels of widespread public outrage over a grand jury’s failure to indict a policeman for shooting Michael Brown to death in Ferguson, MO, we have another such failure in Staten Island regarding the death of Eric Garner. Only this case seems even more blatantly unjust than the last.
Photos: John Oliver at UB
Comedian John Oliver spoke last night at UB Alumni as part of the UB Distinguished Speaker series. Photos by The Public’s Bruce Jackson.
Watch: Food So Good Looking You Won't Want to Eat It
Chef Niki Nakayama prepares her signature dishes that are more like works of art.
Candy Coated Darkness
[ARTS] New works by Tanya Chutko, Darlene Garcia Torres, and Ashley Smith will be on exhibit in the expansive first floor of Artspace this Friday, December 5. These three art educators are revisiting the chops that launched their careers. Chutko is a teaches at Olmsted #156, Smith at Elmwood Village Charter School, and Garcia Torres a doctoral education student at UB. All three have backgrounds in multimedia, so expect a crushed-peppermint kind of visual experience to perhaps declare the underside of the holiday season.
"How Buffalo Get a Warhol?"
Last week Buffalo lost a cultural pioneer with the passing of Craig Reynolds. Here we reprint Reynolds’s seminal 1997 essay from the first issue of his zine, Basta!
A Body of Work
At Nina Freudenheim Gallery, four artists explore the human form.
The Teacher Wars
Dana Goldstein’s book charts the history of America’s “most embattled profession.”
Tolkien's Beowulf: The Sun in Skiey Robes
Ninety years after its completion, Tolkien’s Beowulf is published at last.
Vibrations
Comparing frequencies with the late Herbert Hauptman.
Centerfold: Rathbun Takes Niagara Falls
Benjamin Rathbun wanted to build a city, but there was only one problem.
Cover Art: Stephanie Dubin
The cover art for The Public: Issue No. 4. Photograph by Stephanie Dubin.
Power and the Public: Six Degrees of John Koelmel
Last year First Niagara ousted its CEO, John Koelmel, who had overseen the bank’s rapid expansion and, subsequently, the rapid decline of its stock price. Koelmel, according to a post-mortem of his banking career published in the Buffalo News, was just too engaged in the civic life of the region to do a decent job of managing the bank. The article suggested that “the hallmark of Koelmel’s hubris” was his decision to buy the naming rights for HSBC Arena at a cost of over $1 million a year.
The Public Questionnaire: Marc Sacco
A quick quiz for the star of Road Less Traveled’s SantaLand Diaries.
Heritage Insights: Allendale Theater
How demolition of a community treasure was averted and the Theatre of Youth found a new home.
Story: Charity Boogie Oogie Oogie
Quoting the immortal—and authoritative—1970s lyrics of disco ensemble A Taste of Honey: “Everybody here tonight must boogie, let me tell ya, you are no exception to the rule.” Thousands of mostly-costumed revelers converged at Buffalo Niagara Convention Center to boogie at the raucous annual World’s Largest Disco on November 29, two days after Thanksgiving.
Today's Labor Movements
As local workers take to the picket lines this Thursday, some thoughts on the “Fight for Fifteen,” the struggle against impoverishment, movement building, and the program of the WNYALF.
Cannibal Corpse Legally Banned From Russia
Sons of Buffalo, Cannibal Corpse, have been legally banned from Russia, according to NME. The band’s music and lyrics have been said to “damage the mental health of children.” The city of Ufa, Russia (the capital city of the Republic of Bashkortostan, largest export: chemicals.