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Issue Archive for
May 27, 2015

In This Issue:

News

In 1941, as this photograph illustrates, Broadway was still a vital commercial artery.

News

Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes’s push for mayoral control of Buffalo schools meets resistance in her own district.

News

As his store in Allentown celebrates its 25th year, Santiago Masferrer reflects on his time as a political prisoner in Pinochet’s Chile.

Culture

BuffaBlog’s weekly local album reviews and event picks.

Culture

Jillian McDonald’s video at Squeaky Wheel unleashes your inner shaman.

Culture

Where did actress Maria Droz come from? Sometimes it seems as if she landed from another planet or emerged from a magic lamp.

Culture

Sarah Haykel is charting a map for personal growth through dance, yoga, life coaching, and community service.

Culture

Historian Elizabeth R. Varon examines the end of the Civil War and how it influenced what followed and reverberates today.

Culture

At the very beginning of Felix Herngren’s whimsical, genially mordant comedy, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson) seems

Culture

If ever a movie demanded the disclaimer, “Kids, don’t try this at home,” this is the one.

Food & Drink

Your trusty pint glass is great—but there there are other types of glassware designed to unlock to beauty of different beers.

Visuals

FAME & PAPARAZZI / GEORGE AFEDZI HUGHES’s current exhibit at Indigo Art Gallery, Collisions [amp], continues through May 30.

Visuals

BARBARA BUCKMAN, Mercury, part of her exhibit at Buffalo Arts Studio

News

Last week the Buffalo News made a big deal of newly released Attica documents—but there was no news in them. So why pretend there was?

Culture

Dear Keith, though I’m philosophically opposed to the idea, I’m thinking of enlisting in the military.