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Issue Archive for
Feb 18, 2015

In This Issue:

News

Erie County first blamed its own workers for the five-year-old’s death, now must argue that those workers did nothing wrong.

News

The foot of Ferry Street has been an active fishing and sporting site for generations. This circa 1900 view is looking north from the West Ferry Street Bridge, the Black Rock Harbor on the left, the Erie Canal on the right.

News

Interim superintendent Don Ogilvie scores an unlikely 9-0 vote during contentious Board of Education meeting.

News

Will SCOTUS protect your right to rant on Facebook?

Culture

Celebrated cellist Amit Peled joins the BPO this weekend in a program full of stories.

Culture

BuffaBLOG’s weekly local album reviews and event picks.

Culture

Most fans in Buffalo probably know them as DJ Dstar and Biacco, but to the rest of the country Don Skotnicki and Matt McGurn are known as Solidisco.

Culture

​Beverly Semmes’s art currently on exhibit at the Nina Freudenheim Gallery is part of what the artist calls her Feminist Responsibility Project.

Culture

Virtual reality has been hovering over the tech industry landscape for decades, but it may have finally arrived in the form of Oculus Rift, an imposing headset that fits over the eyes and ears and subsumes the user into a foreign world.

Culture

On Donald Antrim’s new book of short stories.

Culture

That the Academy Awards are the greatest promotional device Hollywood has ever devised is unarguable.

Food & Drink

The team behind the Black Market Food Truck are ready to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the Genesee Gateway project.

Visuals

This week’s cover art: Boy with Scarf from the series Inside Voices by Julie Molloy.

Visuals

BRENDAN BANNON is a Western New York native who makes his home in Buffalo and Angola, as well as in Nairobi, Kenya from time to time. This is a photograph taken from the shores of Lake Erie.

News

Lies, hallucinations, apologists, and Brian Williams.

News

Where the money that keeps Western New York flush comes from.