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The Parade is Coming: Labor Day Interview with Richard Lipsitz

In advance of the Labor Day and the annual parade down Abbott Road from the Irish Center to Cazenovia Park, Western New York Area Labor Federation President Richard Lipsitz Jr. sat down with the Public to discuss what Labor Day means and to highlight current labor struggles.

Labor seems like one of those rare things you can talk about where the local issues mirror global issues. As you reflect on the challenges and progress of the labor movement, what are its largest obstacles?

Budding Tree Yoga Festival

[YOGA] Budding Tree Yoga is bringing together different styles of yoga and meditation to Canalside for an all-day yoga festival on Sunday, September 13. The classes are free so try different styles of yoga such as Hatha Yoga, Power Yoga, and Kirpalu Yoga as you enjoy the scenery of Buffalo’s waterfront.

Hamburg Oktoberfest

[FOOD] Hamburg brings their interpretation of the German festival Oktoberfest to the heart of the Southtowns on Saturday, September 12.

The Iron Event 2015

[FOOD] The Iron Event is a local cook-off set to take place at Hotel Lafayette benefitting ALS this Monday.

Open to the Public at Hot Mama's Canteen

[HAPPY HOUR] If you’re looking for a good meeting spot this week, Hot Mama’s is your place.

Music is Art: 5 Questions with Robby Takac

The 13th edition of Music is Art might be the most challenging yet for the organizers. Their biggest problem could be to figure out where all of the people will go. That’s because for only the second time in MiA’s history, the Goo Goo Dolls, lead by Music is Art’s president Robby Takac, will perform at the free festival alongside hundreds of local artists this Saturday, September 12 at Hoyt Lake in Delaware Park.

Party for the People Fundraiser

[FUNDRAISER] Party for the People 2015, a.k.a. the Friends of Night People Fundraiser, features local music along with raffles, food and drinks at Buffalo Iron Works on Tuesday.

Murder by Death

[INDIE] Murder by Death is a band hell-bent on progression. Check them out with locals Sonny Baker and the Leones opening at the Waiting Room this Wednesday.

'80s Dance Party

[DANCE PARTY] Spray up that hair and Miami Vice-style and come shake those cheeks to some 1980s dance-pop tunes. Whether you end up ahead of your time (and stuck in Saturday morning detention) or in-step with the mainstream, there’ll be plenty of recognizable tunes from the era everyone loves to remember. Go West? Synth-era Scritti Politti? Wang Chung? Howard Jones?

Circuit Des Yeux

[INDIE] Thrill Jockey artist Circuit Des Yeaux comes to Dreamland this Friday with support from enigmatic locals Cages.

Sophistafunk with Lucid

[FUNK] Formed in 2007, Syracuse’s Sophistafunk is comprised of Adam Gold, Jack Brown, and Emanuel Washington, who collectively present a groove-based amalgam of funky goodness. Spoken word passages get set to ass-shaking rhythms in an old-school hip hop motif that traverses genres and never fails to engage. Plattsburgh-based Lucid will open, delivering something slightly more bluesy, complete with sax, harmonica, and live percussion.

Skateland Mural Raising Party

[SKATE] Not your granddad’s skate party to say the least, the latest installment of Buffalo rollerskating events, this Sunday, September 13 will feature a collaborative finishing of Chuck Tingley’s in-progress mural on the building’s outside wall. Visitors will be able to stencil and draw into Tingley’s kinetic work using the trademark Skateland colors and the Ferry Street Corridor Project will be in full effect collecting stories and photos on all things Skateland or Ferry Street.

Corey Holcomb

[COMEDY] Corey Holcomb’s bold brand of comedy may offend his female audience, but it’s hard not to laugh at appalling statements like, “These new domestic abuse laws are making it very difficult to discipline your woman.” The self-proclaimed “ghetto Dr.

Jim Breuer

[COMEDY] Jim Breuer may look permanently stoned—which is apparently how he landed a role in the cult classic Half Baked—but he is actually plagued by, as he calls it, “The Breuer Look.” Breuer’s spastically animated delivery is powered by his clever one-liners and pop culture riffs.

Edgefest

[ROCK] This Saturday, September 12 Edgefest, presented by 103.3 the Edge, will rock the Buffalo Outer Harbor.

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony

The Toronto Blue Jays are in first place, N.W.A. is relevant, and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are touring in support of E. 1999 Eternal. We didn’t time travel back to the 1990s, but it sure does feel like it. This Friday, September 11, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony will make a stop in Niagara Falls at the Rapids Theatre to perform E. 1999 Eternal, their best-selling album from 1995, in its entirety.

Family Court Candidate Toes Ethical Line with Commercial

Michele Brown took the unusual and perhaps unethical step of using her actual Family Court clients in a commercial for elected office.

Of Montreal

[INDIE] A little history: Of Montreal (which is actually stylized with a lowercase ‘o’ if we let the band have its way) evolved from being part of the Elephant 6 Collective (a Colorado-based family of bands formed in the 1990s that shared a reverence for 1960s influences) to its current five-piece incarnation over the course of 13 albums in almost 20 years and about as many lineup shifts. Now on Polyvinyl (with label mates Deerhoof), they’re touring in support of Aureate Gloom, out late last winter, which exudes a strong whiff of 1970s Lower Manhattan.

Night Lights Fall Music Festival

[FESTIVAL] The annual Night Lights Fall Music Festival returns this year for another three-day sensory spectacle this Thursday.

Chon

[ROCK] Chon tours with all of your favorite bands from the mid 2000s. The four-piece indie-prog band from San Diego just wrapped up tour dates with the Fall of Troy, and the Dear Hunter, and earlier this year Circa Survive. Maybe their type of mathy post-hardcore indie rock isn’t as trendy as it used to be, but the young band—who just released their debut full length album, Grow, in March—certainly has the chops to merit a spot next to their veteran tour mates.

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