monday january 29th 2007
Ballet Gift for Buffalo
Nancy J. Parisi
American Ballet Theatre Studio Company performs for three thousand Buffalo Public schoolchildren this morning at Shea's Performing Arts Center, the culmination of planning by filmmaker/UB professor Elliot Caplan via his Center for the Moving Image. UB's Center for the Arts and the Humanities Institute are also producing the ABT residency.
In the image above Elliot Caplan announces the project, which includes master dance classes for area dance students, at a press conference in the grand lobby of Shea's on January 12. Also pictured are (l. to r.): Mayor Byron Brown, Heather Groll, representing Buffalo Public Schools, and Shea's director Anthony Conte.
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Gabrielle Bouliane
The New York Council for the Humanities presents "Reading Between the Lines", a book discussion program for New Yorkers presented at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society. Moderated by Mr. Shane Butterfield, a University of Rochester graduate student tin history, the group is centered around New York State's importance in the 19th Century American frontier. This free program provides participants with four books and allows them to attend four discussion sessions. When the series is complete, the books are returned to the Society.
The current program is entitled: The First Frontier: New York State and the American Expansion, 1775-1890." The first session will cover The Battle for New Y…
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"brutal prog" NYC avant-"rock" band Zs w/ Bflo ambient electronic artist The Beta Cloud. Tonight, Monday, January 29, 9pm, Free/Pay what you can. Zs' music is variously categorized as no-wave, post-jazz, brutal-chamber, brutal-prog, and post minimalist. Angular, repetitive, and very loud or very soft, Zs is often recognized for its dual function as chamber ensemble and rock band. As a result of their cross-over ability Zs has worked with a diverse roster of performers and composers. Zs has worked with Animal Collective, Battles, Gang Gang Dance, Orthrelm, The Flying Luttenbachers, and Big A little a (Aa), as well as Joe Maneri, Christian Wolff, Louis Andriessen, and Petr Kotik.
"(One) of the strongest avant-garde bands in New York. The Zs' songs …
sunday january 28th 2007
BROOKLYN BOY
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The Jewish Repertory Theatre of WNY will present BROOKLYN BOY by Donald Margulies opening Thursday, February 22nd at Alleyway Theatre and running through Sunday, March 18th.
"We presented a reading of BROOKLYN BOY several years ago," states Saul Elkin, Artistic Director of the JRT. "The reading was so well received that we decided to mount a full production it for our fourth season. Donald Margulies is a Pulitzer Prize winning play-write and this is an outstanding contemporary play."
BROOKLYN BOY is a marvelously rich, wonderfully funny and deeply moving new work about a novelist who's finally hit the big time with a bestselling book primed for a Hollywood adaptation. But, when his father's health brings hi…
Gabrielle Bouliane
You probably know that in the last few years, technology had advanced enough that it's possible to achieve near-film quality results for a fraction of the costs of a full production. What you may not know is that there are people in Buffalo turning out full-length feature films written, shot, produced, and finished right here. Emil Novak is one such director operating "under the radar." The CEO of Buffalo Nickel Productions, Emil is running his own independent production company, currently in pre-production for his fourth film, The Banshee. "This one covers the more spooky aspect of things. A banshee is a wispy fairy creature, in this case an angry character living in the Central Term…
Christa Glennie Seychew
Presence on Elmwood carries a large selection of Mary Frances handbags. Favored by celebrities like Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson and Eva Longoria, these hand-embellished designer treasures are fun to carry and are often used as decorative art pieces. Each bag is made in limited number, making each of them all the more valuable.
Gabrielle Bouliane
Talking Leaves...Books is hosting booksigning for Andrew Mowatt, a new author originally from the Western New York Area. Today at 2 PM, area native and Brooklyn resident Andrew Mowatt will be on hand to sign copies of his first novel, Severed Branch, in which a contemporary businessman's job and dreams take him on a strange journey to France and back in time to the trench warfare of the Great War. The book is inspired in part by Mowatt's family history and deep interest in World War One.
The plot of the novel weaves a businessman's "modern warfare" with his growing knowledge of his family's brutal history during the war. Painstakingly researched, the book brings the reader deep into the trenches and air battles of the war…
saturday january 27th 2007
Collaborative Weaving Now Displayed Indoors
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Starlight Studio and Art Gallery will have its collaborative weaving on display in the Erie County Rath Building Lobby through February 15, 2007.
Starlight Studio and Art Gallery, which is a habilitation program for adults with disabilities located in downtown Buffalo, worked with fiber artist Jozef Bajus during the Summer of 2006 to create two outdoor weavings on Delaware Avenue. After this enriching and exhilarating experience the Starlight participants wished to create an indoor weaving that would not be subjected to the whims of nature (the first two came down soon after the October surprise storm).
Gabrielle Bouliane
Mohawk Place, 47 East Mohawk Street, Buffalo, 14203, 716.855.3931 The Mohawk Place is giving you two good reasons to get off the couch tonight -- two of Buffalo's favorite bands will be holding down the stage, Flatbed, and Johnny Nobody. If you want to get an early start on the evening, and like your rock twang-flavored, the sweet sounds of Flatbed (pictured) are sure to please. With the kind of long pedal steel riffs that make you think of driving down back country highways in a pickup truck in a cut-sleeve shirt, jeans and dusty boots, Flatbed has taken home the BMAs Best Americana band in both 2005 and 2006. Throw in a bit of psychedelic guitar, and the lifting vocals of the lovely Joelle, a…
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It's not easy finding Buffalo Sabres' merchandise outside of the arena store or New Era... at least in the city. That's why I was surprised to see that Lu Modern Classics was stocking an old school Sabes shirt (hottie cut) for the girls and broken in caps for the guys. Not only is the popular logo on the products, the worn-in look makes it seem as if the products have already been around for years. That means that they are ready to be worn as soon as they leave the store.
The two items are specialty items, and a fan might have to pay a bit more for the classic, already worn look, but if you have lost your favorite tee or cap in recent days and don't feel like going through the entire break-in process these might be for you. The Retrosport t-sh…
