CHRIS HAWLEY’s Telescope Cottage No. 7 is part of Buffalo’s Back Yard, a pop-up exhibit comprising urban photography by 12 artists. It takes place at the Lyth Cottage (16 Harwood Place) on Friday, September 7, 6-10pm. Read more here.
[SCAVENGER HUNT] Charge your phones, dust off your Instagram: This Saturday, September 8, Squeaky Wheels hosts its latest social media scavenger hunt, titled Squeaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure. Teams report to Squeaky Wheel at 9am Saturday morning to get the list of rules and objectives, then set off around town to collect photos and videos, which they publish and tag #squeakyadventure. The scavenger hunt ends at 5:30pm with a party at EXPO Market, where winner will be judged.
[COMEDY] Creative swiss army knife and general impresario Mary Houlihan is making a special appearance at Sugar City this Friday. A frequent guest on The Best Show With Tom Scharpling, Houlihan has appeared on The Chris Gethard Show, Difficult People, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Billy on the Street and Harmontown. Her comedy writing has been featured in the New Yorker and Reductress. She created, wrote, animated, and starred in the Comedy Central web series Learn To Paint! With Mary Houlihan.
[PLANTING] Buffalo soil can be a fickle place for fruit lovers to put down good roots: abundance in one corner’s plum trees, failure in another’s stand blueberries. A Planting and Maintaining Fruit Trees workshop in the Broadway-Fillmore’s garden belt aims to inform and equip intrepid planters on what to plant, where to plant, and how to maintain quality fruit trees and plants. There will be a combination of lectures and hands on activities, with focus on establishing healthy trees requiring minimal maintenance using organic and biological controls.
[ROCK] Folk rock band Mt Joy comes to Buffalo for a show at the Tralf Music Hall on Tuesday, September 11. Earlier this year, the five-piece band released their latest album, a 13-track self titled record that moves through poppy, folk rock on songs like their single, “Astrovan.” The song made a splash after being featured on a Spotify-curated playlist, demonstrating once again the power of the playlist.
[POP] What do you do when you’re barely 22 with a net worth of over $40 million bucks and the boy band you sing in goes on hiatus? You launch a solo career, of course. And for Ireland’s Niall Horan, also a member of One Direction, it seems to be paying off.
[COMEDY] The latest installment in this ongoing series at Hertel Avenue’s Revolution Gallery features headliner Matt Bergmen. A celebrated comic from the D.C. area, Bergman put his criminal justice degree aside in order to pursue his standup career and has sincebecome a college-circuit favorite. Along the way, he’s released an album and a DVD with some help from Goo Goo Doll Robby Takacs and fellow comic James Kurdziel.
[ROCK] A perfect example of how hard work can pay off, Greg Kihn spent the height of his career—in the early-mid 1980’s—as an opening act for Journey, the Rolling Stones and even the Grateful Dead.
[FOLK] Though Peter Mulvey is based in Milwaukee, his career is often associated with the neo-folk singer/songwriter revival experienced in Boston during the mid-1990s. His brand of acoustic wit and activist wisdom, combined with a tuneful rasp and a knack for percussive guitar playing, put him on the map at a time when some of the more pop-leaning folkies were having chart success. And while that might not be part of his story, it was a good time to be a rising coffeehouse favorite.
[HIP HOP] Buffalo native and Shady Records artist Conway will return to his hometown for a concert this weekend. The Griselda Records founder and his brother, rapper Westside Gunn, were signed to Shady Records—the record label founded by Eminem in 1999 with backing from Interscope—in early 2017 in the wake of Westside Gunn’s successful debut album Flygod on which Conway was featured alongside artists like Danny Brown and Action Bronson.
[COMEDY] Fans will recognize TJ Miller from the hit HBO show Silicon Valley, but those who don’t watch the show will probably still recognize Miller from his many public controversies. The 37-year-old comedian is currently under investigation for falsely reporting a bomb threat on an Amtrack train earlier this year, and earlier this summer he was accused by former Silicon Valley co-star Alice Wetterlund of bullying her while on the set of the show. Miller left Silicon Valley after four seasons.