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 [...]

Here’s some food for thought as the practice of hydro-fracking for natural gas looms ever-closer for the Southern Tier.

Time to gear up for Infringe Buffalo 2010: Eleven Days of Art Under the Radar with Quest for Friends, Jupiter Jefferson, Spider Goat, Robots Are Thieves, Guest Speaker, Lara Buckley, and more. The bash starts at 10pm on Friday (April 9) at Nietzsche’s. This year’s Infringement Festival will take place July [...]

On Friday (April 9), Timber Timbre will bring some spooky blues-folk down from Canada to perform at the Ninth Ward at Babeville. Timber Timbre is the stage name of singer/songwriter Taylor Kirk, who creates music that sounds a lot older than it is, something like a face in an old sepia [...]

Undoubtedly one of the biggest breakout bands of the year, dance rock duo Sleigh Bells stops in at Mohawk Place this Friday. They turned a lot of heads at this year’s CMJ Music Marathon, and the success is continuing to snowball with exposure from the likes of Pitchfork and The [...]

I mentioned this flyer in this week’s “7 Days” column and thought I’d better post it here for reference. Staffers for State Senator Antoine Thompson passed this out at a Dyngus Day luncheon at Corpus Christi Church:

Boilerplate history of Dyngus Day. Handed out to a Polish crowd in a church social hall on Dyngus Day. [...]

After a harried morning of phone calls and emails between City of Buffalo officials and preservationists, a compromise has been reached to delay what had seemed to be the imminent demolition of St. Mary’s on the Hill, the church at the corner of Niagara and Vermont whose New York City owners had allowed the [...]

Tue., Apr. 13, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
Buffalo Veterans For Peace presents
Stop Loss
Admission by donation
A screening of the 2008 film drama Stop Loss (2008, 112 min.) will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Vietnam War Resister Bruce Byers; NYCLU Western Regional Office Director and disabled combat veteran of the first Gulf [...]

How did I miss this? According to Google Maps, Bass Pro is already in Buffalo! It’s right over there on Clinton near Pine. Click here to see where it is. Apparently, if enough people simply talk about something for enough years, it takes on a kind of reality in the wacky world of the [...]

There were horns honking outside in the warm Buffalo spring night. Jubilation in the arena. The players assembling at center ice and giving a salute to their adoring fans following the game.
At HSBC Arena, the Buffalo Sabres dispatched the New York Rangers 5-2, to claim the Northeast Division title, only the sixth such distinction in [...]

This year it’s going to be different. Really it is.
The 2010 edition of the Buffalo Bisons made their first visit to Coca Cola Field this afternoon, after breaking spring camp down in Port St. Lucie, Florida, and enroute to their regular season opener in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this Thursday.
So what is noticeably different about this year’s squad? [...]

Not exactly in the grass, but on the pavement, this 1973 Mustang convertible
was recently spotted sitting behind an Elma, N.Y. collision shop. Didn’t look like it needed anything other than getting the stock wheels and tires back on, so maybe it’s in for some restoration work (I know when I was 35 years old I [...]

Attention Socially Conscious Thespians!
Subversive Theatre is holding auditions for upcoming production of sUBVERsIVE sHORTs 2010.
On Saturday, May 1st from 10am-2pm and on Sunday, May 2nd from Noon-4pm, Subversive Theatre will be holding auditions for the newest installment of the annual sUBVERsIVE sHORTs Showcase featuring new political plays by American playwrights on every subject under the [...]