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POEMS: Andrew Rippeon

from Porches

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jelly-throated with no ship as
supports by warble-clot; those silent
birds upon lines their eyes upon
the loves of my life—at
the end of whose line I
now lie, hanging—black-mouth song
courses through the natural gates and
alleys of a body pocked and
stopped with warble-thought; thin jelly
left where once was quick worm
in the throat bird on the
line little boy left in the
forest on the shore—alone—dancing

 

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Big League Wrap-Up: To Hell With the Dodgers

It was the Tigers beating the piss out of the Twins last night in exciting action from a stadium named after a financial services company in Detroit. Lead-off man Anthony Gose notched three safeties and drove in three and Ian Kinsler added two hits and 4 RBI to back Anibal Sanchez who went 6.2 scoreless innings before yielding to a mysterious 240-pound Venezuelan reliever named “Nesbitt.” Ah, the Detroit bullpen.

La Femme B2B

[SMALL BUSINESS] Let’s talk small business. In partnership with Buffalo Magazine, La Femme B2B wants to provide small business owners the opportunity to network, build new business relationships, and improve their business models, on Thursday, April 9 at the Buffalo Niagara Marriott. La Femme, the third annual expo, reated to “empower, educate, and inspire” local women will feature vendors including salons and spas, health and cooking, fitness, and clothing related business.

From the Vaults: Director Denny Tedesco remembers his father and the rest of THE WRECKING CREW

A reprint of my 2013 interview with Denny Tedesco, director of the music documentary The Wrecking Crew, which will be shown tonight at the North Park theater. After years of clearing the music rights, the film will appear on DVD and Blu-ray this June in a two-disk edition, presumably using more of the numerous interviews Tedesco filmed over the years. It has been a work in progress, so if you saw it during any of its previous Buffalo screenings the new version is likely to have added footage.

A Lesson in Censorship

Let’s agree that April Fools’ Day has always been awful, but the age of social media has rendered it insufferable. Of the myriad nonsensical and obvious jokes that get churned out by the amateur comedians in every marketing department, ever, there are but one or two gems. Parody and satire are, to me, funnier and more effective than pranks. 

The Public Questionnaire: Charmagne Chi

Quick-witted character actress Charmagne Chi has racked up an impressive roster of memorable performances in town. A lot of them have been at MusicalFare, including Kitty, the sassy gal who dates the producer in The Drowsy Chaperone; Christmas Eve, the sassy gal married to the unemployed comic in Avenue Q; and Jacqueline, the sassy gal who owns the restaurant in La Cage aux Folles.

Spotlight: Smart House

Smart House’s Brian Gorman tells me that electronic music excites him because it’s limitless.

“There’s nowhere you can’t go,” says Gorman. “I feel like it gets a bad reputation now because it seems like everyone’s doing the same thing. But the actual potential of it is infinite.”

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