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Issue Archive for
Nov 19, 2014

In This Issue:

News

The book on charter schools, warns Haimson, is in: They suck up public funds, while keeping their own records private; they are relentlessly focused on testing to the detriment of traditional learning models.

News

The 10-story, 600,000-square-foot Larkin Terminal Warehouse, designed by Lockwood, Greene, & Co., was completed in under one year from 1911 to 1912.

News

How (and perhaps why) the Jacobs family gave so generously to Andrew Cuomo’s re-election campaign.

News

Ten percent of former prisoners report being sexually assaulted in prison. What’s being done about it?

Culture

Pop-punk is a genre that has always come in different stages since its earliest days in the 1990s. We saw rises back then, then again in the mid 2000’s, and now a new wave of pop-punk is rising.

Culture

Indie/folk rock band the Decemberists, hailing for Portland, Oregon will once again make their way back to Buffalo to play a show at the UB Center For The Arts on Wednesday, Apr

Culture

BuffaBlog’s weekly local album reviews and event picks

Culture

“Tango is a music of love, passion, and hatred,” says Moshe Shulman, in a thick Russian accent. Shulman usually performs tango music in Buffalo as the Director of the Buffalo Tango

Culture

Photojournalist Orin Langelle’s exhibit at his new ¡Buen Vivir! gallery at 148 Elmwood in Allentown takes on world climate change and the official media’s so-called “objectivity.”

Culture

It all comes back to Duchamp.

Culture

There are two major thematic currents working their way through Arthur Miller’s landmark mid-twentieth-century play Death of a Salesman, the playwright’s

Culture

MusicalFare presents playwright Eric Simonson’s astute and inspiring modern tragedy.

Culture

A recollection of a season spent with Pulitzer-winning poet John Berryman.

Culture

Inspired by the November 16th broadcast of This Day in History, a daily WBFO feature spoken by Mark Wozniak, stating that the day marked the 118th anniversary of electricity reaching the city of Buffalo,

Culture

A quick guide to what’s at the movies this week.

Culture

The Stanley Kubrick exhibition now running in Toronto through January 25 is also the largest ever to grace this space, filling 7,000 square feet on two floors with nearly 1,000 artifacts.

Food & Drink

Last week’s Big Fuss farm fundraiser had local chefs showing off their best. Here are a few things to get excited about on Buffalo-area menus in the coming season.

Visuals

Mickey Harmon is a local illustrator and graphic designer. His work reflects the environment in which he lives, Buffalo, New York.

Visuals

The Public: Issue No. 2Biggest Little City in the World, 2014, acrylic and oil on 24x36” canvas by Chuck Tingley

News

Why we always believe things are worse than ever—and must find someone and something to blame.