Culture

Etc. Photos: John Oliver at UB Comedian John Oliver spoke last night at UB Alumni as part of the UB Distinguished Speaker series. Photos by The Public’s Bruce Jackson.	Difficult Night Music Public Picks from BuffaBLOG Our friends at BuffaBLOG present weekly local album reviews and event picks. Find them in print in The Public weekly!
Film Hard Times: Review of 'The Homesman' Tommy Lee Jones (who also directed) and Hilary Swank star in an epic film about the harshness of pioneer life in the mid-19th century.	Music Spotlight: Pam Swarts Pam Swarts loves Buffalo… most of the time.
Etc. "How Buffalo Get a Warhol?" Last week Buffalo lost a cultural pioneer with the passing of Craig Reynolds. Here we reprint Reynolds’s seminal 1997 essay from the first issue of his...	Fergusson by Judy Glantzman. Visual Arts A Body of Work At Nina Freudenheim Gallery, four artists explore the human form.
Literary Tolkien's Beowulf: The Sun in Skiey Robes Ninety years after its completion, Tolkien’s Beowulf is published at last.	Marc Sacco in David Sedaris's story of an embittered department store elf. Theater The Public Questionnaire: Marc Sacco A quick quiz for the star of Road Less Traveled’s SantaLand Diaries.

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