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The Pink Floyd Experience

[ROCK] When Pink Floyd hit the stage in San Diego on their final tour in 1994, the Division Bell Tour, Tom Quinn devised the Pink Floyd Experience (PFX). The first Floyd tribute band on the West Coast, PFX won several San Diego Music Awards, before Annerin Productions approached them in 2003. Recognizing the musicality and passion of each PFX player, the Canadian-based producers supplied state-of-the-art special effects, aiming to drive PFX shows even closer to Floydian authenticity.

You Blew It

[EMO] Orlando-based emo quintet, You Blew It recently released a new EP, Pioneer of Nothing, and it picks up right where their 2014 sophomore album Keep Doing What You’re Doing left off.

Tig Notaro

[COMEDY] Finding yourself naked and alone on stage is the classic premise of an anxiety dream, but for Tig Notaro it’s a challenge, and the objective is to refocus the audience with her moseying delivery and dry punchlines for the remaining 20 minutes. She went topless onstage in 2012 after undergoing a double mastectomy without any reconstructive surgery. Comedians often show their scars, but never quite so literally, and that’s the hallmark of Tig Notaro – she’s a revelation in the (male and female) comedy industry.

The BPS and its Shiny New Police State

The underlying goal isn’t unique to the Buffalo School District. Throughout New York State, tea party reactionaries have aligned themselves with the state government to bring about a simple equation. 

1. De-fund the schools; 

2. Cut electives and programs; fire teachers;

3. Break the teachers’ union;

4. Label schools as “low performing”;

5. Create “charter” schools;

6. Segregate better students into charters; exclude troubled, poor, and special education students; 

Spotlight: Lesionread

I’m on the fifth floor of the Tri-Main building, surrounded by Tommy Nyugen’s interactive installation for “Me Plush You Long Time.” Artist Sean Louis, upon greeting me, picks up one of the colorful plush creations and hurls it at my face. A brief plush fight breaks out—bright designs and tentacles flying through the air. This is what it’s like being in the orbit of Lesionread.

Five Minutes: Open Mic At Milkie's is a Drunken Good Time

“Y’all coming to the comedy show tonight?”

Ten minutes to showtime and Tyrone Maclin is, in his words, trying to “carny people in” as they pass by Milkie’s on Elmwood. With a drink in one hand, a cigarette in the other, wearing a forest green “Cosby sweater,” Maclin is all loungey charm. But he wouldn’t be outside in the cold yelling at strangers if he weren’t a little worried. He had a full house last week. Tonight is comparatively light.

Fox Terror Network

Every time the so-called “Islamic State” releases a gory, vicious, inhuman snuff film, normal, civilized people who use social media call on everyone to not share the video or its images. Why? Lots of reasons. Snuff films aren’t exactly high art, worthy of sharing. Watching someone being murdered shouldn’t be reduced to rubbernecking or entertainment. It adds insult to the fatal, abhorrent injury — that is a person who had a family, love, hopes, and dreams.

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