Spotlight: The Pink
For 35 years, 223 Allen Street—universally known as the Pink—has been a haven for freaks, geeks, artists, and music fanatics.
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Steve Trevino
[COMEDY] Comedian Steve Treviño is becoming a household name after two comedy specials—one for Showtime and the other for Netflix. Treviño, though a talented stand up comic, is a writer first and foremost, having worked on comedy shows such as Mind of Mencia with Carlos Mencia. He’s billed as “the new voice for the 21st century Mexican American,” and he brings that voice to Helium Comedy Club for five shows, this Thursday, February 8 through Saturday, February 10.
Sugar City Soul Night
[SOUL] Sugar City’s regular soul music dance party, Soul Night, returns to Milkie’s on Elmwood this Friday, February 9. DJs Handsome Dan, DJ Haüsfly, DJ Reazon, and Steve Soulson will be on hand with a bunch of dusty record crates, digging through their extensive collections of soul soul classics from the 1950s and 1960s.
Parsonsfield
[FOLK] Though they’re a five-piece band, sometimes they feel like a whole orchestra—an Appalachian bluegrass orchestra, that is.
Donna the Buffalo
[AMERICANA] Great Blue Heron regulars, Donna The Buffalo, return to Buffalo for a show at the Tralf Music Hall on Friday, February 9. The Ithaca-based band is coming up on three decades as a group and continue to deliver a blend of folk, Americana, and roots rock.
The Science of Attraction
[SCIENCE TALK] The Buffalo Museum of Science’s first in a new series of events featuring knowledge, science, and drinks takes place this Thursday in a run-up to Valentine’s Day next week, with a talk on the science of attraction. UP professor Dr. Lance Rintamaki will break down the science of sex communication and the dynamics of social attraction, including birds of paradise and the jumping spider courtship dance. And there’ll also be live animal heart dissections to really set the mood.
Atomic
[JAZZ] Five-piece Scandinavian jazz band, Atomic, makes cosed-eye jazz music designed to transport you to another place in innerspace. Chaotic, unpredictable, and at times overwhelming, Atomic’s music, as the band likes to point out, is far from the romanticized piano jazz that the term “Scandanavian jazz” might evoke. There is plenty of beauty that emerges from the chaos however, usually in the form of Fredrik Ljungkvist’s wandering clarinet solos or pianist Håvard Wiik’s calculated stream of consciousness crescendos.
GreenWatch Sunday: Our Outer Harbor
The Our Outer Harbor coaltion, a group representing public voices regarding appropriate development on the Outer Harbor has released a Newsletter detailing issues and progress on Outer Harbor development planning and project initiatives.
Body Buzz: The Phenomenology of Leather-bound Books
By giving my mind a beautiful object to touch, see, and smell, my experience of reading is inflected in positive ways.
LittleSis: Who Are Nick Sinatra's Investors?
In recent years, developer Nick Sinatra has emerged as a driving force behind Buffalo’s real estate boom (or bubble?). Where does the money come from?
About That New American Moment
I watched Celebrity State of the Union and lived to tell the tale.
Letter: New York Should Stop Supporting Torture
An inside look at the advocacy movement to reform solitary confinement in New York State.
This Week's Agenda from Loop Magazine
Stay in the loop with this week’s LGBT happenings, brought to you by LOOP Magazine!
Centerfold: Bob Fleming at WNYBAC
The exhibition will include an artist’s talk and workshop on February 3rd.
Pariah at Hallwalls
Buffalonians have a chance to see the debut feature of Mudbound writer-director Dee Rees Thursday at Hallwalls.
Looking Backward: Seneca & Swan, circa 1932
Here, in a photograph dated circa 1932, is a view of Seneca Street looking northeast toward the intersection with Swan Street.
Ups and Downs, Week of January 31
Kudos to Fruit Belt residents and Sean Ryan; boos for Phil Rumore, Byron Brown, and Bob McCarthy.
"The Precision Jack-Hammer Attack": A Hunter S. Thompson Super Bowl Reader
Thanks to the wonder of modern technology, you can learn more about Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup between widely loathed New England and the scrappy underdogs from Philadelphia whom the Patriots will disembowel Sunday night in Minneapolis.
(NOTE: Since a prediction is required of every media type even mentioning the contest, We Want Marangi’s analytics department has crunched the numbers and come up with New England 41, Philadelphia 23. And not just because we have squares one and three in a pool.)
This Week's Public Picks: Jolly Wailer + Al Polanski
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Single: “I’m the President” by Jolly Wailer Recommended if you like: Max Graef, Session Victim, Romare |
Spotlight: Different Strokes
For almost a decade now, the influence of the Strokes has been in question. Some bloggers have called the New York City-based band the most influential American band of the 2000s so far, who ripped the attention away from cringeworthy nu-metal bands early in the decade. Some beg to differ, calling into question their “indie-ness” or staying power.