[BENEFIT] On Sunday, March 22, teamCure will hold a special, onetime event, Bowl Over Bladder Cancer, a benefit for Roswell Park Cancer Institute at Transit Lanes in Williamsville. The event will be held in memory of the 10 year anniversary of the passing of Paul Perna, Vice President of Supermarket Management of Tops Markets, who lost his fight against bladder cancer at the age of 50.
[METAL] In the last 20 years guitarist Steve Brooks has created a sludge-metal franchise out of Miami, Florida, flip flopping between his two creations, Floor and Torche. In 1992 he formed the doomy metal band, Floor, which existed off and on—gaining a cult following after a couple of releases on No Idea records—before disbanding in 2003.
If the pathways to a career as an opera singer were as fraught with nearly crippling difficulty and heartache as the one that lays before the subject of the appealing and entertaining biopic One Chance, the state of grand opera would be even more uncertain than it already is, particularly in this country. As David Frankel’s movie relates, in what one assumes is more or less accurate fashion, Paul Potts, born into the Welsh working class, experienced and had to surmount the kind of obstacles that would stop, and maybe crush, a lesser, and less lucky, man.
BRUCE JACKSON is SUNY Distinguished Professor & James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo and an editor at large for The Public. This is one of a recent series of photographs Jackson made in the Chihuahuan desert.
Read the full story about Alixandra Martin’s paintings on display at Canisius College.