[ROCK] South Buffalo Night at Larkinville has become a tradition. This year’s edition of South Buffalo Night, Wednesday, August 3 will feature Brian Higgins & the Exchange Street Band, The Stone Bridge Band, and Keith Shuskie featuring John Higgins. It should be a fun one, so don’t miss out.
[ROCK] O.A.R.’s (Of a Revolution) music is a charming blend of easy rock and light reggae that plays in the same vein as modern rock outfits like Matchbox Twenty, The Fray and UB40. However, unlike these contemporaries, the Maryland-based quintet truly rose to fame by garnering a dedicated cult following through relentless concerts and music sharing.
[COMEDY] Carly Aquilino is known for her crimson red mane and her silver-tongued commentary on being a woman—the good, the bad, and the hairy. The New Jersey native came up on the New York Comedy scene before being recruited by MTV’s Girl Code in 2013. Through her short, yet powerful reign on the show, Aquilino’s shamelessly blunt riffs on womanhood have propelled her to modest stardom.
[INFRINGEMENT] As usual, this year’s Infringement Festival line up is massive, with hundreds of shows and even more artists. Here we’ve compiled a list of some of the most notable shows of the week, but we encourage you to do some digging at infringebuffalo.org to find some hidden gems.
An energetic crowd of Bernie Sanders supporters estimated at over 1,000 by the New York Times marched through Philadelphia on the eve of the start of the 2016 Democratic Party National Political Convention. Providence, RI supporter Camille Morrison lays out some of the issues in a linked video.
Last week, thousands of internal emails from the Democratic National Committee were released on Wikileaks. They were the fruit of a targeted hack perpetrated by Russians working for Putin’s KGB successor, the FSB. There is clear direct and circumstantial evidence that this is a targeted attack on Hillary Clinton and the Democrats by Putin’s Russia — a spy agency with nuclear weapons masquerading as a state.
Each week, Buffalo lifestyle blog and brand Rise Collaborative scour Instagram for their favorite locally sourced images and include them in their Feature Friday project. On Friday, we share Rise’s top six selections and once a month, the best of the best will make it into our print edition.
The Infringement Festival, an 11 day-long music, art, poetry, theater, and dance festvial returns to the streets, allyways, bars, and venues of Buffalo for its 12th year this Thursday, July 28 through Sunday, August 7. As of today, the massive Infringement Festival schedule is live, which means it’s time to start parsing through it to find your favorite artists and shows. We’ve only begun to tap the surface of the schedule, but what we did find were some unique, crazy, and colorful visual arts pieces.
Reasons exist to question the “waterfront bona fides” of U.S. Representative Brian Higgins
Democratic candidate for the 143th Assembly District, Kristy Mazurek, filed her campaign financials almost a week too late. Neither she nor her campaign offered a credible excuse for this delay, which is evidence either of design or negligence.
Carl Paladino, a prominent locally reputed racist and backer of neo-fascist nominee Donald Trump, sent this image Thursday to his broad email list.
Here’s a question,
Why “mow the lawn”?
Our man in Cleveland, Marquil from EmpireWire.com, sends us his sketchpad from the last day of the Republican party congress and precatory pogrom.
Senator Ted Cruz’s stage dive into the arms of the NY delegation.
[THEATER] Written by local playwright Marie Hall Mullen, Somebody Done Bombed the 16th Street Church is a play based on the real life story of a church bombing that took place in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama. On September 15, 1963, at the height of the Civl Rights era, four young girls were killed in the blast. The play follows through meetings, protests, movements, and marches that took place as a result of the bombing. Two performances, 12pm and 6pm, will be held on Friday, July 22 at the Montante Cultrual Center on the Canisius College campus.
As far as we can tell, projected protests at the Republican Convention have not materialized—at least not yet. On the first day of the convention, we walked out of the Renaissance Hotel in Cleveland into the new Public Square, and found … nothing. A few groups of three or four people each were scattered around the square, holding signs and talking amongst themselves. There was a stage at one end of the square, and people had signed up to speak from the podium at designated times. We listened for a while to a woman describing the death of her sons in a police shooting.
[PARTY] When Kevin Bell saw a silent disco at Bonnaroo several years ago, he was less than impressed. “I didn’t agree with how they were running it,” Bell says. “It stayed in the back of my head for years.” At 30 years old, Bell is the owner and co-founder of SE2: Silent Disco, a fledgling entertainment company that specializes in putting on a very unique type of show. For the uninitiated: a “silent disco” is a live show where the sounds from the DJs and performing artists are beamed into wireless headphones worn by audience members.
When I first heard that Donald Trump was planning to have most members of his immediate family speak on his behalf at the convention, I took this as further evidence that his campaign was running on a right wing and a prayer.
Day 3 of the RNC Sketchpad courtesy of Marquil from EmpireWire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @empirewireNY
With his candidate’s nomination in the bag, Carl Paladino joins the NY delegation and press for breakfast.