Interview with clothing designer Steven Bales regarding promotion of 'Pandamonium' fashion show, which is to take place at the Buffalo Museum of Science on December 9, from 7:30-10:30pm: 
BRO: What inspires you when it comes to fashion?
Steven: I am inspired by the different types of cultures in the world and different types of lifestyles here in the U.S.A. that have merged together in places like NYC, Chicago and Florida. You see diversity in all the

Fashion Maniac: Keeping tabs on Buffalo's fashion industry, including models, catwalks, retailers, designers, stylists, visual merchandisers and jewelers. 
The Fashion That Was: The Sixties and How it influenced the Fashion World by Phillip Johnson:
While

THE TURN OF THE SCREW by Jeffery Hatcher, Directed by Derek Campbell for ICTC (review based upon a preview performance):
Tis' the season -  for horror!  And in homage to this time of unholy spirits and hauntings, The Irish Classical Theatre Company has delivered a deliciously dark and moody production of THE TURN OF THE SCREW, playwright Jeffery Hatcher's taught take on Henry James' classic ghost story. 
This is the tale of a wealthy Man, who has become the guardian of his young niece and nephew. While the Man

A Buffalo-born campaign that uses music and chocolate to promote social justice is returning to Buffalo this Friday, October 21st. The Chocolate Revolution Tour #2, shares the message that "Fair Trade" Chocolate is a more humane way to celebrate candy-themed holidays.
The local project began in February 2010 as partnership between the NYC music

By Max Crinnin:
This is a call to all boat shoed hipsters lost AT SEA! Voyage to Sugar City tonight (Thursday) for a show that promises to be a great one. AT SEA will headline, with good company in Alex Berkley and Bernice Marie as opening acts. Doors open at 6:30pm and tunes will commence at 7:00pm. Only $5!
Sugar City. Sugar City 19 Wadsworth Street Buffalo, NY 14201
All three acts can be sampled on their

"A very poor family down the block, and the oldest boy, had his bike stolen.
"So I put it on facebook, and within 2 hours, I had 15 responses; Within half in half an hour, he was riding up and down the street on a newly aquired bike."
Then, the man who put out that original call (who asked that his name be left out of the story) thought. "This is what facebook is for." A few clicks later, and The Kindess Project was born.
No politics, no self-promotion, no pretense.

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Staff Review by Patricia Covley:
People have long been fascinated with the Amish, wondering what it would be like to grow up in an isolated world where there are no smart phones, no CNN and (God forbid) no Facebook or Twitter.  In the complicated and always connected world of today, it's tempting to idealize the life of the Amish.  Ira Wagler offers us an inside look at what it was like to grow up Amish and struggle with feelings of not fitting in.  
Rebelling

Second Chance Sheltering Network, Inc. is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit animal rescue group serving the Western New York area.  Their goal is to help place homeless animals while simultaneously helping interested individuals find a new furry companion.  Every Sunday, we run a homeless pet spotlight to help these animals find a good home with a loving family. Please consider adopting an animal... 
OK, so I am a little "pudgy" and am not real happy with other cats being in my space, who isn't?  This is the "tude" that is emitted from this grey and white

Developed and performed by the Brazen Faced VarletsDirected by Lara HarberbergerReviewed by Jeff Wilber
(DISCLAIMER - The reviewer here, me, is married to one of the cast members, Theresa DiMuro-Wilber.  But since most other reviewers in town don't review this scrappy little company of actors, The Brazen Faced Varlets, I've taken upon myself to write about their latest production.  I

OLIVER!  the much loved 1960 musical featuring Charles Dicken's smudgy orphan coping with life in the wicked underworld of Victorian England has been reworked into a presentation by an unlikely acting troupe touring Depression Era America of 1930's. 
The conceit is that of a railroad traveling acting company which pitches its circus style tent on the outskirts of some Dustbowl prairie town to put on their version of Dicken's classic story of economic exploitation and (dare we say?) class warfare. You are the audience sitting in the bleachers, carnival barkers

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Staff Review by Patricia Covley:
It's a rare occurrence, a perfect game.  In the long history of Major League Baseball only twenty men have pitched perfect games, faced twenty-seven batters and gotten them all out.  All the stars have to be aligned perfectly.  It means no hits, no walks and no men reach base on an error.  On June 2, 2010, Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga seemed destined to make his magical mark in the annals of baseball history.  He had retired twenty-six Cleveland Indian

Second Chance Sheltering Network, Inc. is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit animal rescue group serving the Western New York area.  Their goal is to help place homeless animals while simultaneously helping interested individuals find a new furry companion.  Every Sunday, we run a homeless pet spotlight to help these animals find a good home with a loving family. Please consider adopting an animal...
Sami is a Siamese mix who has not had a great couple of months.  His owner moved and left him and his friend Tiger to fend for themselves.  A kind neighbor set

Theatre at its best transports an audience. The lights dim, a curtain rises and we are off to another time and place, or at least another place. A wise commentator once said that theatre was the "last act of community" left in our society, and one wonders, in this time of red/blue strife, if indeed a theatre is the last place where we can all sit down together in peace and enjoy a communal experience. 
And when the show is over, and the lights come up, we hope that, together, we have shared a story, an outlook or a pure entertainment which, after all is said

Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute is known throughout the World for discovering medical breakthroughs in genetic research, making it the ideal venue for the 2011 "A Night to Shine", charity gala. The event is hosted by Suneel's Light, a local non-profit foundation with the sole mission of raising funds for genetic research that will lead to the cure of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), while increasing public awareness of the genetic disease.

A Night to Shine, is the Foundation's annual fundraiser and will "shine brightly upon" the

42nd Street by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, Lyrics by Al Dubin, Music by Harry Warren. Directed by Norm Sham for the Kavinoky Theatre.
42nd STREET is bringing them to their feet at the Kav. One of the great American musicals of the 20th Century, this throwback to the glory days of the Great White Way of the Great Depression is a blend of modern staging with terrific, nostalgic music and songs and some irresistible toe-tapping dance. 
Adapted from a 1933 Hollywood film, the story is as old as dirt. Ingenue Peggy Sawyer

Second Chance Sheltering Network, Inc. is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit animal rescue group serving the Western New York area.  Their goal is to help place homeless animals while simultaneously helping interested individuals find a new furry companion.  Every Sunday, we run a homeless pet spotlight to help these animals find a good home with a loving family. Please consider adopting an animal...
These 4 month old siblings got their start as orphans in a trailer park in Alden.  They were at first scared and hesitant to trust anyone, but under the loving care

MARAT/SADE by Peter Weiss, directed for SUBVERSIVE THEATRE by Kurt Schneiderman:
MARAT/SADE is an epic theatre piece. A play within a play, it is based on historical events. The Marquis de Sade (yes, that Marquis de Sade) was a patient at the Insane Asylum of Charenten in 1808, and had been an inmate there for many years. At Charenten, the Marquis produced many plays enacted by the inmates, all allowed in the name of progressive therapy and performed under the watchful eye of the hospital director, Monsieur Etienne Coulmier.
de Sade did actually

Pets are a blessing to many of us.  Lots of them enjoy a life free of anxiety, full of naps and play with the people they love, and we could conclude that they are already blessed.  That said, the Christian church, when it annually remembers St. Francis of Assisi, often pauses to also remember one of his loves: animals.

Lafayette Church would like to invite you to have your pet blessed this Sunday, October 2,

By Marika Woods-Frankenstein:
Anyone who is interesting has a past and Candye Kane is no different. She has defied all odds at every chapter of her life. It's as if she has lived at least 10 lives.  This celebrated Delta Blues Diva has breathed and bled the Blues and we thank her for having endured such heartache. With brains, beauty and a sometimes bawdy nature this singer, songwriter was born and raised in East LA to a verbally abusive mother who taught her to shoplift at an early age. Candye became a Mormon in her teen years, got excommunicated for

Directed by Scott Behrend for Road Less Traveled Productions. 
INTERNAL CONTINUITY is the product of local playwright Shaun McLaughlin's fertile wit and was developed through RLT's Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop.  It represents the 20th world premiere for RTL, an amazing milestone for a relatively young theatre company. 
The play revolves around three single men who have been friends since high school. They are fast approaching middle age but are stuck in their insular fantasy world of Dungeons and Dragons, Star Wars