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Feature Friday by Rise Collaborative

Each week Buffalo lifestyle brand Rise Collaborative scour Instagram for their favorite locally sourced images. To submit your Instagram photo use the hashtag #FFRisePublic.

Film review: HOW TO SAVE US

How to Save Us is a psychological drama masquerading as a science fiction thriller. Or maybe it’s the other way around; either way, it’s an independent movie that relishes genre without chaining itself to its expectations.

On the Sixth Day of Preetsmas

Pigeoning: pi·geon·ing \ˈpi-jən-iŋ\: (n) the action of using money and influence, oftentimes pushing the election law envelope, to actively sabotage and undermine the Erie County Democratic Committee

Paving Olmsted

How a needless tragedy has focused attention on some disastrous bits of planning—and created an opportunity to make them right again.

The Story of Preetsmas

The accidental story of how they got caught, and how 2013 was different for Pigeon.

On the Fifth Day of Preetsmas

My true love gave to me; five CPAs

Story: Cones, Ubiquitous Cones

Glowing in their distinctive, retina-searing orange or yellow, sometimes with additional reflective white strips at top, safety cones are suddenly cropping up on the Buffalo landscape like scattering, PVC dandelions. They appear solo or in passels, amid public green spaces, private residences, and along everyone’s causeways.

Support Our Writers and Artists

A message from the editors: The Public launches a Patreon campaign for our contributors.

Dyke March: Taking It to the Streets

Reconfigured and revitalized, Buffalo’s Dyke March prepares to step off on Saturday, June 6.

The Transformation of the (Drag) Queen City

Bebe Bvlgari dishes on everything from the importance of Pride to the state of gay culture in Buffalo and the potential jeopardy the gayborhood faces as the city continues its rapid renaissance.

The Public Record: Schneiderman, Sedita, Pigeon

Schneiderman on Sedita: “I don’t know where Frank is today”: On Tuesday afternoon, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman came to Buffalo to drum up support for the ethics reform legislation he has proposed, which would prohibit outside income for legislators, increase legislators’ terms from two to four years, lower contribution limits, close the loophole that allows LLCs to flood campaign with donations, and permit public funding of campaigns, among other provisions.

Lilt: Kyle Butler at Nina Freudenheim Gallery

The current work is about structure, but more about surface, with tactile values ranging from glossy to gritty—and frequently beautiful imagery.

Grumpy Ghey: Pride—In the Name of Love?

I’ve had one great Pride experience—since then I’ve found my pride elsewhere.

Trans 101: A Conversation with Michelle Wolf of Spectrum

A conversation with Michelle Wolf of Spectrum.

Nebraska Senate Kills Its Death Penalty

The only thing capital punishment accomplishes is it forces ordinary people to be complicit in the same kind of act capital punishment advocates want to punish: the killing of another human being.

Caption: New Guardrails for Express/Park-Way

In reflective safety vests and bright orange helmets, a trio of Department of Transportation employees walked along Route 198/Scajaquada Expressway in Buffalo on June 2 along the shoulder of the roadway, working. John Wentz, Brian Dankert, and Norman Scherer were out “Collecting data so that they can decide what to do,” Scherer says, regarding replacement or enhancement of guardrails along the route following the tragic and fatal crash in Delaware Park (adjacent to Route 198, in part) on Saturday, May 30.