Author: George Johnson

Buffalo Rising Co-Founder. Designer (Product, Graphic, Motion). Geek.

iSecrets of Allentowni, the annual tour of historic homes and other significant architectural properties will be held Saturday, September 16, from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM. This year, for the first time ever, the event moves from Sunday to Saturday based on the results of surveying past attendees. Secrets of Allentown, the Allentown Associationis premier event of the year showcases the best of Buffalo with a look inside houses in the Preservation District. Organizers have chosen the landmark Birge Mansion to serve as the starting point for this yearis tour. The Birge Mansion, on Symphony Circle across from Kleinhans Music…

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Each new theatre season, theatergoers find excitement promised by a fresh list of productions from each theatre company. This year, Road Less Traveled Productions offers audiences in Buffalo a unique development when it opens a brand new stage, the first professional playhouse to open in the Theater District on Main Street in over five years. The company will inaugurate Road Less Traveled Theater in September 2006 when RLTP begins its 2006 – 2007, the companyis third season of professional production. Road Less Traveled Theater is housed within Buffalois Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre (MAFAC) at 639 Main Street, between…

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Alleyway Theatre will begin itis 2006-07 season with UNHOLY TRINITY, scenes and songs by Eric Bentley, arranged by Maxim Mazumdar and directed by Neal Radice. UNHOLY TRINITY will open Thursday, September 14, 2006 as part of the companyis 27th season dedicated to developing and producing new theatre works. UNHOLY TRINITY is a riveting and topical revue given only four performances in its U.S. premiere at Alleyway Theatre in 1986. Now, twenty years later, it is as current, compelling and clever as ever… it still sizzles!

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August 25, 2006: Italian Night 5 7 p.m. An Art Activity for Every Friday: Mosaic Tiles 6 7 p.m. Music in the Gallery: Roaming Opera with soprano Andrea Todaro 6 p.m. Lecture: Good Wine Better Art? A Selection of Italy s Greatest Hits – For hundreds of years, Italy was the center of the art world, and for many artists, all roads led to Rome. Curator of Education Mariann Smith will introduce the masterworks of Italian art, and discuss the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, and other masters of the…

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Wednesday, August 23, 9pm, pay what you can ($6 suggested) ***EXTRA LIFE (Charlie Looker)*** + Nat Baldwin (of the Dirty Projectors) Charlie Looker (b. 1980, New York City) has been active since high school as a composer, electric guitarist and vocalist in and in between the worlds of avant rock, contemporary classical music, improvisation, jazz, punk and metal. He attended Wesleyan University (B.A. Music, 2003), studying composition with Anthony Braxton, Alvin Lucier and Neely Bruce. He has done private studies in composition and counterpoint with Dr. J Mark Stambaugh (Manhattan School of Music), and has attended master classes with Louis…

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The South Buffalo Art & Antique Festival is being planned for the weekend of September 16 and 17, 2006, from 11:00-5:00pm. at the historic Lodge Auction House. This yearis show will include the work of Roycrofters, artisans acknowledged worldwide for their extraordinary craftsmanship. The Roycroft Campus is in East Aurora and was founded by the writer and philosopher Elbert Hubbard. iWeill have an eclectic mix of fine art, photography, jewelry, pottery, glass and metal works, as well as antiques and unique gifts,i said Lisa Eoannou, one of the proprietors of The Lodge Auction House, which hosted the inaugural art show…

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Gallery 164 presents an encore performance of the Infringement show, Temporary Dream, on Friday August 25 @ 9pm @ Gallery 164 @ 164 Allen Street. I caught this show on its second and final night at Gallery 164. (Ah, if only it had had a longer run!) Given how impressed I was by the last event I’d seen in this space by the same folks, Story of a Girl back in April, there was no way I was going to miss this one.

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On Sunday, September 10, 2006, the NFBC will be hosting a two-country scenic ride designed to showcase Buffalo, New York and the Niagara Frontier on both sides of the border, including the Niagara River and Niagara Falls. We are inviting cyclists from New York State & Ontario, of course, but we hope to lure cyclists from more distant places in the U.S. and Canada to spend time visiting Western New York, especially the city of Buffalo and its green places. The Can-Am Bicycle Tour will include supported rides of 100 miles, 100 kilometers, and 35 miles, all of which will…

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For the past several years, the Buffalo chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute has held an essay contest for youth, partnering with the Buffalo schools and granting awards to students based on their research and writing on the life of A. Philip Randolph. In order to keep the event fresh, and to increase interaction between the students and union activists, the Institute has modified the contest into the first ever A. Philip Randolph Youth Poetry Slam.

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