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We'll Always Have Casablanca: Flashbacks in the Fog

[THEATER] So, here’s the truth: There’s no previewing a theatrical event at Rust Belt Books, that Grant Street oasis. We can tell you what we’re told to tell you about

Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore

These two veterans have a new record together, and they’re coming to Sportsmen’s Tavern to give everyone a taste.

Irish After Dark

Gusto Vinyl Happy Hour: Miles Davis’s “King of Blue”

[MUSIC] Never let it be said we don’t give due credit to our colleagues at the Buffalo News when they do something great. The new monthly Gusto Vinyl Happy Hour series at Sportsmen’s Tavern is definitely great: Each month, Buffalo News music critic Jeff Miers and 97 Rock DJ Anita West pick a classic record, play parts of it, and open the floor to a discussion of the record. Then a group of musicians take the stage to play selections from the record, too.

Richard Lipsitz Memorial

[MEMORIAL] We agree it’s unusual to post a memorial event in a newspaper, but since it’s a public memorial to Richard Lipsitz, Sr., it makes a little more sense. Lipsitz, who succumbed to illness at the age of 97 just months after his wife Rita passed in February, was a legend in Buffalo legal and progressive community.

Jeremy Boyle and Mark Franchino at Hallwalls

You can’t help liking this work. But you can’t quite figure out what it is, either. How it does what it does.

Buffalo Esports Changes With Industry

Esports—competitive video game competition—is a growing industry that, by some measures, already outstrips traditional professional sports.

The News, Etc.: More on Changes at the Daily Paper

FYI, the Buffalo News—having thinned its ranks with voluntary and not-so-voluntary buyouts—is now hiring.

Yvette Granata at Squeaky Wheel

[MEDIA ART] A new exhibition on tap for one of the more adventurous gallery’s in town at Squeaky Wheel is checking all of our boxes: genre-defying, immersive use of new media, and AI devices in communication with each other. Yvette Granata, a PhD candidate at UB’s Media Study program has shown her work all over the globe, including shows in Hong Kong, Amsterdam, and our own Hallwalls and this is an opening not to be missed.

Bloomsday Buffalo

At Artpark, a celebration of a single, rather ordinary date immortalized in 20th-century letters.

Buffalo Living Tour

[REAL ESTATE] The good weather version of Buffalo is awash in quality tours geared towards visitors or those looking to deepen their understanding of local history, but no such tour is quite like the Buffalo Living Tour, a daylong showcase of new upscale apartment locations through the city for prospective tenants, investors, or simply nosy Good Neighbors.

Insane in the Brain

David Suzuki famously compared the context of measuring economic progress by removing the quantifiable impacts on the environment and social justice in economic growth to “brain cancer”. This is a topic that readers of GreenWatch have frequently read. The good news is that I can continue to write about it.

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

[FILM] Born in Jamaica and raised in Syracuse, Grace Jones was a unique icon of the 1980s and 90s, initially as a model and actress but most memorably as a musical performer, with dance club hits like “Warm Leatherette,” “Pull Up to the Bumper”, and “Slave to the Rhythm.” Though she just marked her 7th birthday, she hasn’t slowed down over the years, as charted in her 2015 memoir I’ll Never Write My Memoirs.

The Difference is Guns

Despite the best efforts of the federal government, America is still a first-world country. Just barely.

Collinscare in #NY27

According to an article WGRZ published on Wednesday, some New York health insurers are asking for massive premium increases for 2019.

This isn’t the health insurance solution President Trump promised us, is it?

No one will lose coverage. There will be insurance for everybody. Healthcare will be a “lot less expensive” for everyone — the government, consumers, providers.