A local purveyor of fake news has taken to Twitter, Facebook, and probably your email inbox—and the email inboxes of my current and former colleagues—to label me a “serial harasser” and to solicit people’s stories about my supposed penchant for “harassment” for his risible publication.
The task for the Lynne Dixon for County Executive team is a Herculean one — take a little-known, unremarkable county legislator and make her seem competitive against a perfectly reasonable two-term County Executive. After the utter fiasco of the Giambra financial meltdown, and the subsequent chaos and malice from the imperial Collins squad, Poloncarz’s calm competence is a welcome change for Erie County residents. A great deal of the dysfunction that plagued County Government during the preceding decade has been remedied and turned around.
Buffalo is a city that takes pride in its spaces that help artists, whether you’re a painter, dancer, poet, or musician, to create art and exhibit it in its various venues. Albright-Knox Art Gallery continues to be one of those places, as they have featured exhibits by groundbreaking artists from all over the world, while also welcoming local artists to share their impressive talents with residents and visitors alike.
With deepest apologies to the Goose’s Roost, who perfected the art, I attempt to recap the risible, juvenile, unprobative Mychajliw/Kearns “report” on the proposed issuance of driver’s licenses to undocumented New York residents.
The Buffalo News, which has taken something of a sharp turn to the right, published an “Another Voice” column penned by a health insurance broker. The conflict negates the opinion, but it deserves a fisking because it is so fundamentally dishonest.
News reporting shouldn’t be a “choose your own adventure,” but the Buffalo News’ Bob McCarthy has a tendency to simply write down what people tell him and report that as fact, without checking. It is lazy horse-race reporting that purports to inform voters about inside-baseball fundraising, but offers zero substance and questionable facts.
I’m not going to lie to you: I was not in a big rush to watch any screener of a movie with the cutesy title of The Biggest Little Farm. I like to eat as much as anyone, probably more, but that doesn’t mean I’m all that interested in knowing where it comes from.
And the opening scenes of the documentary, in which we learn how a rescue dog named Todd was responsible for getting a young California couple—a cameraman and a food blogger—to go for their dream of owning a farm certainly set off my sensitivity alarms.
Lately there seem to be two kinds of movies in theaters: stories that could never really happen because they are physically impossible (gotta keep those CGI guys employed), and movies that claim to be based on real stories. Of course, phrases like “Based on a true story” and “Inspired by actual events” leave a lot of wiggle room, which is why Hollywood employs so many lawyers.
In a series of carefully constructed tableaux, Obsidian Bellis quietly explores questions of identity, gender, and race, and how one might reconcile legacies of familial and generational history with a contemporary world marked by the overabundance of images.
[ROCK] Singer-songwriter Caroline Rose is quite the enigma of the music landscape. She was born in Long Island to visual artist parents and she started writing songs when she was 13. Growing up, she cites the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Chris Isaak, Buddy Guy, and Ace of Base as some of her favorite artists that inspired her to play music. In addition to her love for music, she was also a theater geek, which totally makes sense after watching her music videos—most of which she directed and plays multiple eccentric characters in.
There are some problems with local designating petitions. The lede in the Buffalo News exclaimed,
Five women candidates looking to break the all-male hold on the Common Council charged Tuesday that challenges to their designating petitions stem from “the Erie County political machine” practicing “sexist politics at its worst.”