The Public Record: Animal Killings Continue to Dog the Buffalo Police
The Buffalo Police Department has a long, sordid history with dogs beyond their K-9 unit.
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So-Called Traffic Safety Checkpoints Don't Target Traffic Safety Issues
The city’s effort to re-brand daily police checkpoints as a traffic safety measure isn’t adding up.
Animal Killings Continue to Dog the Buffalo Police
Between 2011 and 2014, the BPD killed 85 dogs until media reports revealed the practice. Since then, BPD has kept the practice quiet.
Last Flag Flying, Lady Bird
If you were of age during the Vietnam War, your objection to it could largely be boiled down into a simple phrase: It was a stupid war, and who would want to lay down their life for that?
Imagine what it might be like for a veteran of that era to see an even stupider war come along to demand the lives of your children. That’s at the core of Last Flag Flying, set in 2005, in which three Vietnam vets who haven’t seen each other since their service ended reunite when one of them loses a son in Iraq.
Election 2017: Takeaways
Who won, who lost, and what it all means.
This Week's Agenda from LOOP Magazine
Stay in the Loop with LGBT happenings in Western New York presented by Loop Magazine!
Centerfold: Kyle Butler
CONFLICTS IN PERSPECTIVE by Kyle Butler. Courtesy of the Gerald Mead Collection. See more of Butler’s work at kylewilliambutler.com.
Color Me White Launch Party
Color Me White, by Kevin Thurston & Mickey Harmon
These days we hardly need another book comprised of a straight white male’s thoughts, but when that book is overtly self-conscious of this normativity—when that is in fact what the book is all about—it’s a delightful, if cringe-worthy ride. Each poem or entry in the book has a gorgeous original illustration by artist Mickey Harmon, a perfect whimsical, often humorous complement to the book’s wry tone.
Looking Backward: George Urban Milling Company, 1910
The George Urban Milling Company was synonymous with Buffalo’s milling industry.
Icons: Makers and Moments of Buffalo Sports
At the Buffalo History Museum, an exhibit that links city’s sports and fans.
This Week's Public Picks: Camouflage Monk
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Records: Side A and Side B by Camoflauge Monk Recommended if you like: Ka, Westside Gunn, Madlib |
Peach Picks: Four Poems and a Novel
Literary news and recommendations written by the editors of Peach Mag.
Body Buzz: Lockhouse Distillery
Lockhouse Distillery reaps the rewards of risk-taking, one batch at a time.
The Grumpy Ghey: H is for Harassment
Let’s stop parsing apologies and condemning individuals and instead examine the culture that produces the behavior.
Nickel City Opera: The Music Shop
I happened to have seen The Music Shop by Richard Wargo down in Philadelphia at the Academy of Vocal Arts, although it has been well over 18 years by now. Nickel City Opera is presenting this very special show on Sunday, November 19 at 4pm at the Nichols School’s Flickinger Performing Arts Center.
The Infamous Stringdusters
[BLUEGRASS] The Infamous Stringdusters are not your typical bluegrass band, unless the bluegrass bands you listen to tend to dress in rainbow colored basketball uniforms. The five piece band do, like your typical bluegrass band, play fiddles and banjos, but never do they try to fit into a certain mold. Their latest album, Laws of Gravity, is the result of a full team effort and the band has perfected the art of delivering their soaring, solo-filled songs on the live stage.
Mariah Carey
[POP] Mariah Carey fans are serious about their devotion. It’s not casual. They are more than willing to overlook the nonsense, the strangeness, the grandiosity, the cancellations—willing to overlook all of it—to hear her nail a few notes.
Radarada, Dr. Ooo, Short, Tone, Goodman Brown
[HIP HOP] One of the hottest hip hop line ups we’ve seen for a while is on display at Mohawk Place this Thursday, November 16. Full band Radarada takes the top slot for a bill that also features Dr. Ooo, Billie E$$co, Camoflauge Monk & Toneyboi, Short Moscato, Goodman Brown, Chronic Collective, and DJ Jett. Hosted by Jordan Hood Koolie, this line up of high quality Buffalo-based hip hop talent should be enough to get you out the door on a Thursday night.
Mike Swells
[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] From Brooklyn via Boston, DJ Mike Swells delivers the kind of hot, sweltering techno you’d expect to find at a club in Berlin. He was behind the popular Rise after-hours club in Boston—it was the only after hours club in Boston when it was open, and despite not serving alcohol, it maintained a crowd for 15 years by booking some of the highest quality house and techno out there. Though his sets are usually techno-based Swells will dive into deep house, tech house, electronica, and anything along the spectrum of electronic music.
Last Waltz
[ROCK] When rootsy Canadian-American quintet The Band organized their farewell show for Thanksgiving Day, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom, few would have imagined the concert’s enduring legacy. After all, while The Band were highly respected among musician peers, they were not the stuff of huge album sales and media events.