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Just Buffalo Receives $41K Grant

Just Buffalo Literary Center is celebrating its 40th year with the news that they will realize a long-sought dream: installing permanent poems in public places throughout the city. For years, the center has sought the funding to establish a public art program around the city’s rich literary history, and Monday’s announcement that they have been granted $41,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts/2015 Regional Economic Development Council to establish a public art program called LIT CITY. 

The Nutcracker and Clara's Tea Party

[BALLET] A holiday tradition since mid-19th century Russia, Buffalo City Ballet will perform its rendition of The Nutcracker this Saturday and Sunday in the gorgeous auditorium in the Buffalo Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts. Known for its work in dance education for both children and adults, Buffalo City Ballet boasts the most multicultural staging of the Christmas classic in Western New York.

Keith Buckley Signs Scale

[LIT] If you didn’t get your tickets to one of the three Every Time I Die holiday shows coming up this weekend, well then you’re out of luck because they’re completely sold out and they’re usually the best shows of the year. But, whether you got tickets or not, you can still meet Every Time I Die frontman, columnist, and now, author, Keith Buckley, when he does a special signing of his new book, Scale, at Talking Leaves on Monday, December 21 from 4pm to 6pm.

Workingman's Dead

[TRIBUTE] There’s ‘nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile’ as our local Grateful Dead experts beat it on down the line for their final high time of the year at Buffalo Iron Works this Saturday, December 19. Surely to result in the greatest story ever told, Workingman’s Dead brings the holiday cheer with a toy drive (toys should be new/unwrapped/still in packaging) that’ll have some needy kids dancing in the streets on Christmas day.

Comfy

[INDIE] Utica youngsters Comfy is somewhat of a collective based around the musical ideas of Connor Benincasa. Call it lo-fi, buzz-pop with some dry sarcasm and self-deprecating fun. It’s both geeky and snarky, which comes across clearly on their side of the split cassette they shared with Rochester’s Skirts, and will likely (hopefully?) continue on the new full-length that Benincasa and company are readying for 2016.

Cheap Girls

[ROCK] Lansing, Michigan trio Cheap Girls has made a point of playing regularly here in WNY and it’s paid off: our local music scene knows who they are. As a post-punk power trio of sorts, the band cobbles their sound from earnest rock-and-roll drive: there’s not a lot of fluff and filler on their albums, which now number four.

Delbert McClinton

[BLUES] As the story goes, this is the guy that helped John Lennon fine-tune his blues-harp skills. An accomplished, multi-instrumental blues institution, Delbert McClinton is now 75, but that hasn’t stopped him from making the rounds on tour when he’s not busy planning the latest in his recurring series of Sandy Beach Cruises. Sandy Beach blues cruises are like none other (with consistently amazing lineups), and McClinton’s been overseeing them since 1995. Cruise #22 departs from Ft. Lauderdale for St.

Parade Chic

[INDIE] Recently voted Best New Band in that other weekly paper’s annual Best of Buffalo shenanigans, Parade Chic will be celebrating the release of their first full length effort, One & Only Secret Dream, at Mohawk Place on Thursday, December 17.

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