Spotlight: Rishone Todd
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On the Market: The BRIC Nations
What the fall of commodity prices means for Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
The Public Record: Games People Play
Here’s a chain of events that political observers are chatting about, more or less in temporal narrative order…
This Week's Public Picks
The Public’s weekly local music reviews and previews.
Cover Art: Heaven Knows
Rachel Ostrow’s Heaven Knows is part of the artist’s solo show on exhibit at the Kenan Center in Lockport through March 25.
The Grumpy Ghey: Trump Card
With Donald Trump, we’re on the cusp of becoming the laughingstock of the Western world.
This Week's Agenda from Loop Magazine
Stay in the Loop with this week’s LGBT happenings in Western New York presented by Loop Magazine!
International Buffalo: Michelle Bonn of Guideline Medical
Michelle Bonn Guideline Medical founder helps medical device manufacturers navigate government regulations.
Centerfold: The Oft-Forgotten Effie Stevens
The Oft-Forgotten Effie Etevens by Caitlin Cass. Parts one and two in a five-part series about an uncelebrated life.
Marijuana Decriminalization Bill Headed for Common Council
The Buffalo Common Council will hear the merits of a bill that would make possession under two ounces allowable.
The Wake: A Party to Die For
[FUNDRAISER] On March 4, theater patrons will turn out in great numbers not to praise Bartholomew McCorpse, but to bury him. (Among the fictitious Barry’s pallbearers? Why, his equally fictitious brother Cary, of course.) It’s the Irish Classical Theatre’s annual fundraiser The Wake: A Party to Die For, which takes place this Friday, March 4 at Darcy McGee’s Irish Pub.
The Black Stag and the Blood Glamor
[EXPERIMENTAL] Two local artists, Colin Maccubbin and Florian Ayala Fauna, will present their uniquely disarming visual artwork at Sugar City on Friday, March 4 as part of their joint show titled Black Stag and the Blood Glamor. The more extreme artist, Florian Ayala Fauna’s artwork is based on personal visions, religious experiences, encounters with beings from alternative planes, and traditional mysticism, according to an artists statement.
Selma Selman: Me postojisarav - Postojim - I exist
[ART] Selma Selman walks into a room and she’s regular. She’s wearing a dress over winter-knit tights and her heavy thick hair is only partially gathered by a scrunchie in a tail atop her head. Her eyes are green and her teeth are European—and when she laughs her body folds in on itself, as if in containment. I recognize her in that moment; the social gagging of the partially assimilated. The strained softening of those whose bloodlines hearken over centuries of forced diaspora. Our laughter is too wild.
Jauz
[EDM] Factory Night Life and MNM Presents are teaming up to bring the young gun, Jauz to the Town Ballroom on Thursday.
House of Cards Happy Hour
[HAPPY HOUR] A little beer, a little pizza, a little chit-chat and then the first episode of season four.
Investigative Post Luncheon
[DISCUSSION] Investigative Post continues their luncheon series this Wednesday, March 9 at Osteria 166 when editor Jim Heaney interviews Congressman Brian Higgins. The two will discuss local and national issues.
Some Kinda Love: Birthday Tribute to Lou Reed
[TRIBUTE] Departed rock god Lou Reed once said “I don’t like nostalgia unless it’s mine.”
Buffalo, Books, and Beer: Castner, Buckley, and Shubaly
[LIT] Mishka Shubaly joins local authors Keith Buckley and Brian Castner in a book release event.
the Wonder Years
[POP PUNK] After a debilitating bout of writer’s block, the Wonder Years front man Dan Campbell finally got his creative juices flowing well enough to make the new No Closer to Heaven, which came out on the Hopeless label last fall. The Pennsylvania-born punk-pop mainstays push at the confines of their template a bit on the new disc, at times going for a less abrasive alt-rock feel.
The Moth and The Flame
[ROCK] Now on their own label, Robot Farming Records, Los Angeles by way of Utah art-rock quartet TMTF has just released the new full length they’ve been working on the last few years with producers Peter Katis (Interpol, The National), Tony Hoffer (M83, Beck), and Nate Pyfer (Parlor Hawk, Fictionist), as well as string arranger Rob Moose (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens).