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Looking Backward: Rosie the Riveter

“If we are to maintain our present war production pace, the women of Buffalo and Erie County must be brought to the realization that they are needed in war plants to take the places of men called to the colors.” —Mrs. M. Adolphus Cheek, Jr., Women’s Recruiting Committee, War Manpower Commission, Buffalo Courier Express, December 5, 1942
 
“Employers have found that women have the strength, endurance, and skill to perform war job operations as easily as men.” —Joseph D. Canty, War Manpower Commission, Buffalo Courier Express, April 9, 1944

Seen & Heard: Buffalo March for Science

On Saturday, April 23, a host of Western New Yorkers (local media reports estimated 2,000, organizers estimated as many as 4,000) joined in the March for Science, a nationwide demonstration of support both for funding of scientific research (which the Trump administration seems determined to reduce) and for governmental policies guided by that research (to which the Trump administration seems indifferent). All photos by Alexis Oltmer.

BPO Rocks: The Music of Prince

[TRIBUTE] As part of their BPO Rocks series, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra will take on the music of Prince this Friday, April 28. Winborne Music’s Brent Haven, who has also done The Music of Led Zeppelin and the Music of the Rolling Stones, has arranged the music of the purple one, who’ll get the symphonic treatment on the Kleinhans Music Hall stage—along with a full rock band.

Synthetic Eyes

[EXPERIMENTAL] On Saturday, April 29, dark wave synth band Night Slaves will team up with experimental video artist Brian Milbrand for a unique visual and music show at Revolution Gallery on Hertel. The collaboration will present two shows that night, at 8pm and 9:30pm titled Synthetic Eyes. 

Milbrand is a media artist who has worked with many theater companies around town in addition to his plethora of solo work. He also teaches and works at Buffalo State College in the Communications Department. 

Welcome to Night Vale

[PODCAST] The moody, strange, fictional podcast Welcome to Night Vale—a “community update” program that covers the supernatural events surrounding a small desert town—is one of the most popular podcasts around. The eerie atmosphere created by the simultaneously calming and apprehensive narrator Cecil Palmer, voiced by Cecil Baldwin, is inimitable and it’s become a benchmark for paranormal fiction, especially in the podcast realm. In 2013, the podcast went on tour, presenting live shows across the country.

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