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Issue Archive for
Jan 14, 2015

In This Issue:

News

Residents of public housing complain that Buffalo police are targeting them unfairly—and possibly illegally.

News

The dismantlement of the streetcar industry after World War II was an event that took place at the same time in nearly every American city. The International Railway Co.

News

The DPCC claims they represent all Buffalo parents. That’s simply not the case.

News

​Just as this country was trying to dig out from underneath a financial crisis, thousands of debt collection suits were commenced in courtrooms across New York State.

Culture

BuffaBlog’s weekly local album reviews and event picks

Culture

Everything Jeremy Jermaine Jerome does forever alters the course of human history. Technically speaking, this is true of all people. Many of us have probably even felt connected to this principle at some point in our lives.

Culture

Work by Sean Madden and Tara Sasiadek at Hi-Temp Fabrication.

Culture

Growing up in Toronto, John Massier remembers his impression of Buffalo being oddly formed by our three TV networks, legendary TV anchor Irv Weinstein, and long-gone local shows like Rocketship 7.

Culture

The sendoff and memorial for entertainer extraordinaire Lance Diamond would perhaps have both pleased the man for the outpouring of love in the room, and also made him blush a little at all the attention. He was, offstage, a humble man.

Culture

Currently playing Richard the Lionheart in James Goldman’s play The Lion in Winter at the Irish Classical Theatre, Matt Witten is a formidable figure in the Buffalo theater scene.

Culture

Becoming Richard Pryor: A new biography of the groundbreaking comic.

Culture

Sheeba channels the universe for you. January 14-20.

Culture

“Based on a true story.” How I’ve come to dread seeing those words at the start of a film.

Culture

Selma has earned a place among the very few respectable and involving American movie treatments of historical characters, forces, and events.

Visuals

POLICE Buffalo artist Tommy Nguyen’s work is part of the Amid/In WNY show opening at Hallwalls this Friday, January 16.

Visuals

This week’s cover features one of many detailed watercolors of Buffalo’s architecture by Carol Case Siracuse.

Visuals

Resting by Alexander O. Levy, 1930. Read the story here.

News

Bruce Jackson reflects on the events out of Paris and the role Charlie Hebdo.