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Feb 11, 2015

In This Issue:

News

It’s Cuomo versus the teachers unions, says the press. In fact, it’s Cuomo versus the entire education establishment.

News

Only 25 percent of the homicides in 2014 resulted in arrest. Other cities, including Rochester, do a much better job. Why?

News

“It is putting it mildly to say that the first sight of ‘Pekin’ will cause thrills of amazement, admiration, and delight.” —Buffalo Courier, October 3, 1915

News

This Sunday, February 15, friends, family, and community will gather at the Unitarian Universalist Church to honor Frank Goldberg, who disappeared 14 months ago.

Culture

BuffaBLOG’s weekly local album reviews and event picks. 

Culture
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I’m on the fifth floor of the Tri-Main building, surrounded by Tommy Nyugen’s interactive installation for “Me Plush You Long Time.” Artist Sean Louis, upon greeting me, picks up one of the colorful plush creations and hurls it at my face.

Culture

Drawings by Katherine Sehr at Western New York Book Arts Center.

Culture

Works by Lukia Costello, Patti Ambrogi, and Valerie Kasinki at CEPA Gallery.

Culture

Adam Yellen is a naturalistic actor with boyish good looks who excels in character roles.

Culture

The two-time Booker Award winner’s new novel is predictably difficult, postmodern, and cold.

Culture

If Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the veteran Belgian filmmaking brothers, thought that casting Marion Cotillard, the Oscar-winning French actress (for her portrayal of Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose), would enhance their prospects for a for

Culture

You probably first heard the term in discussions of settlements made to the families of those killed in the September 11 attacks.

Visuals

PSYCHO LOVE by Buffalo artist Michael Mararian, part of an anti-Valentine’s show called Dream in Plastic in Beacon, New York.

Visuals

TOGETHER WE ARE by Valerie Kasinski

Visuals

Buffalo’s Young Preservationists and friends spent last weekend giving some much-needed love and attention to buildings around Buffalo that are at risk of being lost.

News

Memory is not a hard drive or a book. It is active, ever in flux, ever reconfiguring bits of information that seemed irrelevant at the time.

Culture

“Y’all coming to the comedy show tonight?”