Next Thursday, April 22, from 5 until 10 pm there will be a $10 fundraiser at the Polish Cadets on Grant and Amherst Streets. Steven Balesteri will bring his band to be joined by rocker David Nolf along with 103.3 The Edge radio personalities Shredd and Ragan. Many other special guests will be on hand [...]

The Steam Donkeys welcome back fiddler extraordinaire Doug Moody for one show only—this Saturday, 9:30pm, at the Sportsmen’s Tavern.
Moody, the Fishin’ Musician, has been a resident of the Adirondack Park for several years, where he hand-crafts top of the line bamboo fly rods in a highly classified secret location. Before that, he spent over a [...]

At least until the last decade or so, the most important job in the movie business was trailer cutting. Sell the sizzle, not the steak: the trailer was what persuaded people to pay for a ticket, and if the actual movie turned out to be a dog, well, there are no refunds. [...]

Click here to see today’s report from the Erie County Comptroller’s office, detailing the hoops that cultural organizations have been made to jump through under his leadership. The text of the report explains the situation, while Appendix D (last page) gives you the bottom line as of April 9, 2010.
Of the 55 organizations listed for [...]

Pawtucket Manager Torey Lovullo and Bisons Manager Ken Oberkfell exchange greetings at home plate
A sundrenched ballpark, a great crowd, all the pageantry of a new season. Olympics champion Steve Mesler was on hand to throw out a ceremonial first pitch, which landed right over the plate in strike territory.
It was all good at Coca [...]

The Buffalo Sabres are reporting that playoff tickets available for all four potential home games of the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs are down to single seats. Sabres spokesman Mike Gilbert stated that the visiting Boston Bruins have not returned any of their ticket allotment.
Yet a ticket search this morning for Game 1 [...]

The Ellicott Square Building was briefly evacuated this afternoon, allegedly due to a death threat made against state gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino. I got the tip at 1pm, but by 1:30pm, when I got there, everything seemed back to normal. Nice weather for a walk though, and faster than the subway.

Springtime in Buffalo might not cause many residents to jump on their surf boards and try to catch a wave on the Niagara River, but sunny alternative rock band, Surfer Blood might encourage some to take the plunge. The band will make their way up the east coast for a stop [...]

What you’e looking at is a 1956 Ford Tudor.
Now, it’s either a Customline or a Mainline; according to all of my sources, a Mainline’s side trim would end just behind the front door, while the Customline’s trim would carry on to the tip of the front fender, just short of the headlight. This car, spotted [...]

There was a big Tea Party thing down by the commercial slip this morning. Three tour buses, and lots of angry white people. If you missed it, you missed your chance to get neato T-shirts and stickers that can proclaim your anger to everyone, even when you finally get tired of shooting your mouth off.

“Alcohol, [...]

Buffalo’s own favorite foam headed freaks are making their way back home! Green Jelly will perform their wildly outrageous rock show this Sunday (April 11) at Club Diablo. This show was supposed to happen last Halloween, but unforeseen circumstances forced the band to postpone their tour until spring. Their US tour [...]

Two underground titans of song, for one night—and on one couch! It’s a Texas-Vermont connection as Denton/Austin man Will Johnson and Burlington-based Anders Parker team up to criss-cross the country for a tour that puts them in the living rooms, lofts and sometimes even kitchens of fans’ homes for intimate acoustic [...]

To read that the reclusive Scottish filmmaker Bill Forsyth will be appearing at the Eastman House in Rochester this weekend was only slightly less astonishing than hearing that J. D. Salinger would be signing books at Talking Leaves. Forsyth was the writer and director of the 1983 movie that is a [...]

I Was The Scarecrow, the musical mask of singer/songwriter (and Artvoice intern) Peter Vullo, mixes the eloquent with the ugly, pretty girls and hard drugs, death, dogs and rag dolls. Each song is filled with intimate flashes of memory, like scenes from the cutting room floor of an old love [...]