Earlier this week, people who believe that even the working poor deserve a raise from time to time marched throughout the US in support of a $15/hour minimum wage. #FightFor15 was the largest demonstration by low-wage workers in US history, involving about 60,000 individual demonstrators calling for the federal minimum wage to be raised from an anemic $7.25.
[FASHION] Fashion is in the eye of the beholder, and now that eye is your own. On Saturday, April 25, the SUNY Buffalo State Fashion & Textile Department will host a professional fashion event on campus called Runway, featuring only the best designs from the department’s hard-working students and alumni. Come show support to the local fashion community by attending either the 3pm or 8pm Runway show located in Buffalo State’s Social Hall of the Campbell Student Union.
[CELEBRATION] If you’re an artist or a music producer, you should know what IP means. It means intellectual property, and it refers to anything created using the mind—music, art, writings, or designs.
It’s been tough to come up with stuff to write about lately. It’s an odd time of year, with nothing and everything going on all at once. The stuff I usually write about is quiet — the inside baseball parade of political fumfering and failure. The stuff I generally avoid is really hot — Hillary, Cruz, Rubio, Bush, I can’t care. Not yet. In the meantime, the school budgets are being formulated and that has almost all my free attention as I work with a great team of dedicated volunteers to make sure we do right by schoolkids.
A 2014 Billboard magazine headline read “Vinyl Sales Hit Historic High in 2014.” Take that in for a moment. More vinyl records were sold last year than in any year since 1991, the year Nielsen began tracking vinyl record sales.