[ELECTRONIC] A visit by electronic rock band Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker, better known as USS, to the Rapids Theatre has become an annual custom. The Toronto-based band returns on Saturday, January 14 for a show in support of their new record, New World Alphabet, which drops the day before the show.
[SCREENING] If you were a Buffalo kid in the early 1970s, chances are you rushed through dinner on weeknights so as to get to the TV in time for Ultraman, a presentation of the then-new channel 29.
[SCREENING] It’s not often that you get to see a Doris Wishman film on the big screen, or for that matter in public. Those of you who have encountered her work—Deadly Weapons, Bad Girls Go to Hell, and Let Me Die a Woman might be the best-known titles—might not feel that this is a bad thing, but you have to give her this: After seeing a few of her movies, you’ll never look at conventional cinema in quite the same way. Whether or not she intended to, Wishman subverted the dominant paradigm like nobody’s business.
What do you call it when a sitting member of Congress drafts legislation, which passes and then results in a direct personal financial gain? I call it “Corruption 101” and it’s the stuff that 3rd world kleptocracies are made of.