[MARCH] We don’t have the specifics of the location yet, we just know you should try to be there and stand for religious freedom and American pluralism at this Sunday’s March for Immigrant and Muslim Solidarity. Look for the event details to be posted and shared on Facebook, and make a stand for your neighbors and honor this city’s growing history of religious and cultural diversity.
[FUN] Fun-a-Day is a project developed by Sugar City, a local arts collaborative. The idea is simple; to do something fun every day for the entire month of February and to document it. For many people, that means creating a piece of artwork every day—the artwork being the document of the fun thing you did. The project can be as big and grandious or as simple and easy as you choose. The next step then, starting March 1, is to drop your project off at Sugar City (and they’ll email you an exact time to drop off your project).
[ART] Opening this Friday, February 3 Light as a Feather/Stiff as a Board is a two site exhibit curated by Dana Tyrell, that opens nearly simultaneously at Dreamland and Sugar City. Sugar City hosts Light as a Feather, while Dreamland hosts the counterpart, Stiff as a Board. The two exhibits feature artists Jenna Curran, Michael Degnan, Jacob Kassay, Dana Mcknight, Ann Moody, Tommy Nguyen, Jesse Pace, and Rebecca Wing.
[INDIE] Mister Goodbar welcomes a solid line up of indie rock to the stage on Saturday, February 4. The line up includes The Soft Love, Handsome Jack, and Deadwolf.
[DISCUSSION] As part of their annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, Buffalo State College welcomes activist and writer Michaela Angela Davis to the Burnchfield Penney Art Center on Thursday, February 2. Through her writing, Davis has explored beauty and identity, leading her to adopt the title of “image activist.” Admission is free and open to the public
[HIP HOP] Mohawk Place has a huge hip hop show lined up for Monday, February 6 and it’s free. the show features Savannah, Georgia’s Dope KNife, the rapper, producer, and director of Dope Sandwich Records. The rapper’s debut album, NineteenEightyFour, which was just released last week, features names like Sage Francis. The line up also includes a slew of local talent like Chuckie Campbell & Black Den, Absalute, Rap and Destroy, Frigid Giant, Shuteyes, L Biz, G Premacy, and Mad Dukez.
[PARTY] Dance Days of Buffalo invites everyone to come out and bust a move for a great cause. The organization is hosting a dance party at the Allen St. Hardware Café on Friday, February 3 from 8pm to 11pm. Admission to the party, which will be held in the bar’s back room, is only $5. The proceeds will go towards helping fund this year’s Dance Days of Buffalo, which is the city’s three-day dance festival taking place from August 4-6.
[TRIBUTE] Led Zeppelin tour dates are hard to come by these days, so your next best bet is to grab a spot in front of the stage at a Get the Led Out show. The six-piece Led Zeppelin cover band based out of Philadelphia delivers a two hour set of Zeppelin hits and deep cuts that spans the English hard rock band’s entire career. Get the Led Out comes to the Town Ballroom on Thursday, February 2.
[ROCK] Homesafe is a three-piece rock band formed in Chicago. The band independently released their record Evermore in November of 2016, and have since embarked on an East Coast tour which brings them to Buffalo’s Studio at the Waiting Room on Wednesday, February 8. They’ll be joined by Oklahoma City-based pop punk band Life Lessons, Fort Wayne, Indiana singer/songwriter Chase Huglin, and more.
[METAL] The next edition of Mohawk Place’s new series, Friday Night Heavy, the late night metal, punk, and hardcore showcase, comes this Friday. The event features Buffalo death metal band Nethergrave and grindcore band and fellow Buffalo natives Prepare for the Mindscan.
[COMEDY] Comedian Mike Birbiglia describes is latest hour of stand up as “raw.” After touring dozens of cities on his Thank God for Jokes material, the 38-year-old comedian from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts is trying out some new material, and he wants you to be his guinea pig. “I’ve never been more excited about standup in my whole career,” he says. As rough as it might be, I promise that my heart will be in it and sometimes my writing has to catch up to my heart. That said, they will be fun.
[COMEDY] Australian comedian Jim Jefferies likes to talk shit. In fact, he once ran a podcast with fellow comedian Eddie Ifft called Jim and Eddie Talkin’ Shit. On stage, Jefferies is considered an insult comic, which might be part of the reason that early on in his career he was attacked on stage while performing. Jefferies took it in stride though, even incorporating the incident into his act at the time.
[TRIBUTE] In 2016, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named Johnny Cash a “Music Masters Honoree,” which means the rock institute focused a week on Cash’s brand of genre bending musicianship.
To call the past week “interesting” is a profound misunderestimation of massive proportions.
Buffalo is rising. There have been a number of protests, rallies, and other demonstrations and actions since before the last friday Innauguration of Donald Trump. As documented in the Public, the local march last saturday in support of the Women’s March in Washington DC was one of the biggest protest events in Buffalo since the 1960’s.
Come show your support for locally owned, independent bookstores everywhere by spending a few bucks this Saturday, October 28 at Buffalo’s oldest locally owned, independent bookstore. Talking Leaves has been a haven for book-lovers and free thinkers for more than 40 years, surviving myriad changes in the landscape for booksellers and media creation and consumption.