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Authority Zero

[PUNK] Authority Zero comes to the Studio at the Waiting Room on Tuesday, with support from Counterpunch, Rubedo, Orenthal, and the Barksdales.

[METAL] Nineteen records, 12 members, and 31 years since their formation, industrial metal band KMFDM is still kicking ass. The band, which formed in Paris, France by way of Hamburg, Germany in 1984, is considered to be one of the first bands to bring industrial rock music to mainstream audiences—spawning legions of imitators. KMFDM comes to Buffalo Iron Works on Thursday, August 6 with support from CHANT and Inertia.

GreenWatch: A big legal win for the Public Trust and local action on microbeads

GreenWatch: A lawsuit regarding public access to the Lake Michigan shoreline reinforces public access to the shorelines in Buffalo, and microbead legislation moves ahead in Erie County

GreenWatch: Kites on Buffalo's Outer Harbor

Dedicated to the memory of MaryAnne Coyle, who was working with on this video when she passed away suddenly last week.

Teamwork 2015: Araabmuzik

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] The difference between your favorite drummer and Araabmuzik is that Araabmuzik plays his drum solos with his fingers, not drumsticks. That’s because Araabmuzik, real name Abraham Orellana, perfers to drum on an MPC—a Music Production Center, better known as a drum machine—and he uses all 10 fingers to hammer out groovy hip hop beats and metallic double bass drum frenzies.

NYS Announces Medical Marijuana Licenses

The New York State Department of Health today announced the five companies it will license to grow and produce medical marijuana. Here is the list:

Feature Friday by Rise Collaborative

Editor’s note: Each week Buffalo lifestyle brand

Microbeads Banned in Erie County

Erie County has become the first municipality in the state to pass legislation banning plastic microbeads in cosmetic products.

Kuzma to Refer Goons to D.A.

ICYMI: Read about how two of Mascia’s operatives tried to manufacture a little attention for themselves at Fillmore District Common Councilman David Franczyk’s office earlier this month.

Paladino Beached

I never thought I’d be praising WBEN’s Sandy Beach for aggressively taking on dumb people and racism, but this Joe Mascia thing seems to have brought out the best in him. Late last week, Beach eviscerated Mascia himself, who called in as part of his fauxpology tour.

Fort Drum Aims to Avoid Sequestration

Federal belt-tightening threatens important relationship between Army base and the surrounding community.

The Call for Responsible Banking in Buffalo

Community activists are calling on Buffalo to enact a Responsible Banking Ordinance to address the disparity of lending and home-owning practices.

Mascia and Paladino: BFFs

On Twitter, someone commented that Mascia must have, “missed the thing about integrity is what you do in private.”

Photos: The Public Invitational

Par for the course at the Larkin Links, the new nano-golf course in Larkinville, is 19. When we held our first ever Public Invitational at the nano course on Sunday, the best individual score was 23. Needless to say, it’s a tough course. If hole six doesn’t bust you, hole eight certainly will. Nicole Biondi from the City Dining Cards team took home the individual best score trophy as well as the coveted Larkin Links plaid green jacket.

Making Better Neighborhoods With Participatory Budgeting

Direct resident input on community budgeting issues represents an important step being made to restore democratic principles to local government.

Story: Public's Nano-Golf Tourney

PUBLIC and Hydraulic Hearth held their premier Invitational Golf Tournament, a mini-golf tourney, on Sunday, July 26 at Larkin Links, the city’s nouveau “art/nano-sized golf course.” Located near the epicenter of Larkin Square, home of popular Food Truck Tuesdays, the course of nine “artisan-designed” holes is free and open to the public. There are also two bonus holes.