Investigative Post: Promoting Diversity in Labor Unions
Construction is booming, while labor and training programs struggle to diversify union membership.
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Nando Alvarez-Perez at CEPA Gallery
How photography complicates the matter of two-dimensional and three-dimensional in the history of art.
Investigative Post: Fencing Toxic Wheatfield Landfill
A state senator lashed out Monday at the Department of Environmental Conservation for its failure to protect residents living by a landfill in Wheatfield that was recently declared a Superfund site.
Artists Seen: Jax Deluca
Photographer David Moog’s portrait of the multidisciplinary artist, late of Squeaky Wheel and now with the NEA.
Syracuse Thinks Metro Government
A 20-year, citizen-led effort to regionalize government in Syracuse has new momentum.
Spotlight: 200 Kids Outside Keep it 200
The cloud-rap duo prepare for a year full of music releases and gigs… once they turn 21.
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!
Looking Backward: Main & Chippewa, 1925
Main Street from Huron to Tupper streets—the center of the city’s theater life—could have been called Buffalo’s Great White Way.
Need to Know: Son of Saul
If I’ve ever heard a more chilling line of dialogue in a film than this one, I can’t think what it was: “Hurry up or the soup will get cold!”
Of course context is everything. The line is yelled by a guard to a bunch of arrivals being processed. They think that they are going to be put to work as they are rushed along, parted from whatever possessions they have, stripped and sent to showers for delousing. That hot soup awaits them when they get out, the guard assures them.
Arm Candy Presents Groove Salad
[HIP HOP] Groove Salad returns to Epic this Saturday.
Blackness Project Releases Vlog Preview
Kayla Hodges explores the racial—and often racist—associations around hair and physical beauty that she encounters.
Scalia's Law
Why it is okay, even necessary, to speak ill of the dead.
Mecozzi and Harris Challenge for School Board
What’s shaping up to be the most contentious school board race in memory got a shot in the arm Monday.
Free Screening: ALMOST HOLY
Hoover knows how to balance his story, alternating between the grim realities of life in this strife-ridden country and the strength emanating from Mokhnenko’s sense of purpose.
Sugar City Record Fair
[RECORD FAIR] Sugar City will hold their next Record Fair on Saturday at Sugar City headquarters.
The Blackness Project
[FIlM] A chance to get caught up on the film’s progress and engage its central question.
Cold Wave at the Cat Cave
[FUN] On Saturday night, Mohawk Place will transform into the Cat Cave for the second time, replete with a mix of music and local visual art.
NPR Tiny Desk Contest Local Entrants Showcase
[INDIE] Buffalo groups vie for shot to record a Tiny Desk Concert.
Note to Self: The Psychosexual Films of Nazlı Dinçel
[FILM] This event is being billed as an evening of “visceral and provacative” films, and if you’re familiar with the work of Nazlı Dinçel then you’ll probably agree that it is both. Dinçel makes miniature abstract films that focus on subjects such as overconsumption, the intimate exploration of her body (and her partner’s), and the Oedipal complex as critiqued from a feminist perspective.
Snapcase
[HARDCORE] A belated 25th anniversary show for the Buffalo hardcore kings.