Babel Presents Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This week’s Babel speaker, novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has grown into the role of public intellectual.
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Centerfold: Support
SUPPORT by Fotini Galanes. This graphite on clayboard drawing is included in an exhibition titled These Are a Few of my Favorite Things in the Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery at SUNY Fredonia through April 8.
Photo Gallery: 6th Annual Tweed Ride
Sunday, March 22: The Buffalo Lazy Randonneur’s annual Tweed Ride.
Photos by Rashard Cunningham
Cover Art: Ground II
JOAN LINDER is a professor at UB. Her solo exhibition of drawings, Ground, opened at the Nina Freudenheim Gallery last weekend.
Ground II, 2015 by Joan Linder
Ink on Paper, 41 ⅜ x 43”
Kool Daddy-O Revisited: An Interview with David Kane
Them Jazzbeards’ David Kane reflects on the 25 years of music since the group’s 1989 cassette-only debut.
Community Control over Public Dollar$: Participatory Budgeting
In essence, it’s about restoring democratic principles to community members separate from municipal elections. If money is spent locally, citizens should be engaged in that process instead of giving elected officials carte blanche approval around election time. The mission of Participatory Budgeting is to empower communities to have direct influence over how their tax dollars are spent.
Richard Stamps at El Museo
We have preconceived notions of how things are in the third world. Photographer Richards Stamps breaks them down.
Spotlight: Allen Farmelo
Recordmaker Allen Farmelo talks about the future of audio at the Hallwalls Science & Art Cabaret on Wednesday, March 25.
Keith Olbermann Calls People of Lancaster Worst People In The World
ESPN2 talk show host Keith Olbermann called the people of Lancaster “The Worst Persons In The Sports World.”
Public School #MarchRadness: 5 Tracks To Ball To
The third edition of our monthly dance party, Public School features the fast-rising DJ duo Eyes Everywhere (check out their latest release, No Wifey, out now on Main Course) along with their Cool Dad Records squad in the back room of Allen Street Hardware Cafe, as well as hip hop and trap DJ, Natron, in the front room.
The Public Questionnaire: Patrick Moltane
Meet Patrick Moltane, currently appearing in Torn Space Theater’s production of The Hairy Ape.
Honest Life: An Interview with Mary Gauthier
Singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier is much more focused on the art of making music than she is on anything happening in the music industry. After all, it’s never been clearer that the art and the business of music are two distinctly different things.
The Buffalo Schools Gong Show
When it comes to the Buffalo Public Schools, we have clearly entered a period of severe and acute self-parody.
Butter Block: A Pop-up Bakery
The secret to Butter Block’s delicious pastries is right in the operation’s name.
JOHNS Record Release Show
[ROCK] This Saturday, collective art-space Sugar City will be hosting a release party for JOHNS in celebration of their highly anticipated debut album, Grift Marks (Peterwalkee Records).
Lovefest 2015
[CELEBRATION] In 2012 Kali Korzelius succumbed to brain cancer. Young adults with cancer face unique challenges, but in her short time here, Kali not only battled her own cancer, but she became a fierce advocate in the war against cancer in general.
Public Picks from buffaBLOG
BuffaBlog’s weekly local album reviews and event picks.
As Summer Dies
[METAL] Buffalo hardcore metal band As Summer Dies is returning with a new album this spring and they want to show off some their new material ASAP.
Reel Injun Film Screening
[SCREENING] This Thursday evening, indigenous and non-indigenous ally organization Nekanehsakt will be hosting a film screening of Reel Injun at Burning Books, a local bookstore exclusively devoted to socially conscious literature. The documentary, directed by Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, explores the portrayal of Native Americans within the history of western cinema, chronicling the common stereotypes which follow Native roles.
buffaBLOG's 5th Birthday Party
[PARTY] Did you know that buffaBLOG’s very first post (March 28, 2010) covered a Passion Pit concert at the Rapids Theatre? Or that the founding writers are all graduates of Amherst High School?