Bennett Dropped from Regents, Buffalo News Wrings Hands
Today’s Buffalo News editorial on education comes down along familiar racial lines.
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Words and Music: Beckett at the Burchfield
A Musical Feast’s upcoming program at the Burchfield Penney includes a rare staging of Samuel Beckett’s play for three characters.
Get Your Green On: Five Local Craft Beer Destinations for St. Patty’s
Everyone loves a beer on St. Patrick’s Day—why not love a good beer?
7-11 Workers Demand Safety
A group of convenience store workers has banded together over issues of workplace safety.
Pothole Politics
Jacobs is kicking the tires on his probable campaign for County Executive.
The War on Diplomacy
Congressional Republican hatred of the President outweighs love of country.
Ken-Ton Challenges Cuomo on Testing
Ken-Ton looking at a district-wide opt-out from state mandated testing in grades 3-8.
Public Picks from buffaBLOG
BuffaBLOG’s weekly local album reviews and event picks.
Buffalo Boxers: A Cultural Celebration
[ARTS] Woven tightly into the fabric of Buffalo’s industrial past was the sport of choice for many of its workers: boxing. In synergy with the St. Patrick’s Day, Dyngus Day, and St.
Ron Hawkins and the Do Good Assassins
[ROCK] Ron Hawkins first made waves in the early 1990s as part of the Canadian alternative rock group Lowest of the Low. Hawkins is an exceptional songwriter and he is now lending his proficiency to a project he started just a few years back. Ron Hawkins and the Do Good Assassins will make their way to The Tralf this Friday, March 13. The show will be a special one, as it will be the U.S.
Chris Barron
[ROCK] The Spin Doctors were perhaps the most 1990s band of the 1990s, with music videos full of colorful tints, tilted camera angles, jean shorts, and tank tops.
Superstition: Punk & Hip Hop
[PUNK/HIP HOP] Punk and hip hop (especially alternative hip hop) aren’t so different. Of course they’re sonically different, but both genres—born in the 1970s, coming to maturity in the underground in the 1980s, and mainstream in the 1990s—have shared similar attitudes; alienation and frustration, self-enlightenment and rebellion.
Zepparella
[TRIBTUE] The guys from Led Zeppelin may not be reuniting anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean you won’t get your fill. Just like the original four, but with maybe slightly more makeup, Zepparella is an all-female foursome who recreates the magic of Led Zeppelin on a nightly basis. The group has been around now for a few years and they don’t fall short in any regard.
Kalin and Myles
[PARTY POP] Don’t judge them by this fact, but party rappers Kalin and Myles met at the premier of the Justin Bieber documentary Never Say Never in 2011.
Gray Hair Reading Series
[LITERARY] The Earth’s Daughters Gray Hair series will be presenting Lorna Hill and Trudy Stern at Hallwalls on Wednesday, March 11. Hill is a poet, playwright, teacher, and actress in addition to being the founder and Artistic Director of the Ujima Theatre Company. Hill also produced and hosted for WNED’s Uncrowned Queens: Voices of African American Women documentary comprised of three portraits of African American women community builders. Her solo performance appearances are rare and should not be missed.
Kaleidotropes: Liquid Sky Film Screening
[SCREENING] If there’s a common thread among the handful of genuine cult movies made in the 1980s—it’s that they present contemporary life as it might appear to an alien from another world.
Lloyd Cole
[ROCK] Though many might know him from his 1980s band Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, the english singer/songwriter has enjoyed more success as a solo act, especially in recent years.
Second Fridays & The Burchfield
[ART] Take advantage of this opportunity and visit the Burchfield Penney Art Center for free on Friday. The museum will be free all day from 10am-8pm, so you can take your time and enjoy the multiple exhibits currently on view. There is also a wonderful café with homemade delicious lunch specials, and they serve a nice variety of beer and wine. Festivities begin at 5:30pm with live music by Barbara Levy Daniels. You can also stop into their Art Making Workshop in the studio classroom.
Fun-A-Day
[ART] Come out this Thursday, March 12 for the inaugural show at Sugar City’s new space on Niagara. Fun-A-Day is a large group show consisting of over 30 local artists, who each made a creative project everyday in the month of February. Organized by Curtis Guy, here is a short list of participating artists: Dana Saylor, Mickey Harmon, Ryan Crowley, Suzanne Eberhardt, Alana Kelley, Gerald Mead, Ani Hoover, Emily Churco and Matthew Clinton Sekellick. This is just the tip of the iceberg for this stellar list of creatives.
Wax Museum Radio presents: BOOMBOX
[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Alternative radio collective, Wax Museum Radio, will be hosting the first installment of Boombox this Friday, March 13 at Hardware Cafe; a series in which the daily music broadcast will bring their on-air goodness to a live setting.