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Film Focus for the week of September 20-27

September 20, 2024September 23, 2024 Frank Housh0

Film Focus for the week of September 20-27.

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‘Nickel City Tinseltown’ highlights first Amazing Fantasy Fest

September 8, 2024September 8, 2024 Elmer Ploetz0Tagged Animation, Fantasy, Film Festival, horror, local films

Documentary chronicling history of WNY indie filmpremieres at new film festival By David Tunis-Garcia Western New York has become a Hollywood hub for filming with tax incentives and a burgeoning […]

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Yes, and … Improv House finds a home

September 6, 2024September 8, 2024 Elmer Ploetz0Tagged improv, musical, musical improv

Long and humorous road brings Dan Reitz to new venue By Jason Pomietlasz There are moments that can help define you. For Dan Reitz, one of them would be a […]

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Core Values: Mark Miller still watching hardcore evolve

August 28, 2024August 29, 2024 Frank Housh0Tagged hardcore, punk, Rock

“If it’s violent, it’s violent, and that keeps it not for everyone … I like the expression and the energy of hardcore, the stage dives, the dancing.”

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Review: BPO’s new CD sparkles, but only begins to capture the Lukas Foss legacy

August 18, 2024August 18, 2024 Elmer Ploetz0Tagged BPO, buffalo philharmonic orchestra, classical music, JoAnn Falletta, Lukas Foss, Philharmonic

By Alex Huddleston I try not to judge an album by its cover, but I’m not going to ignore it either with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s recording of four Lukas […]

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Martin Sostre and Jerry Ross: A friendship and a painting

August 15, 2024August 15, 2024 Elmer Ploetz1Tagged Activism, history, Merriweather Library

By Elmer Ploetz Jerry Ross has been in “exile” from Buffalo for roughly 50 years now, but one of his paintings has come home. Ross’ portrait of the late Martin […]

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Art Review: Major Marisol retrospective at the Buffalo AKG shows body of work reflecting unique, sophisticated vision of the world

August 5, 2024August 5, 2024 Elmer Ploetz0Tagged Art review, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Marisol, Marisol Retrospective, pop art

As the Buffalo AKG’s excellent exhibit demonstrates, Marisol was many things. She was an iconoclast who never fit the “Pop Art” label attached to her, a deeply private person who was her own most prolific model, and an celebutante who avoided the spotlight.

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Art Review: 50th Annual Hallwalls Members Exhibition

July 25, 2024July 26, 2024 Elmer Ploetz12Tagged Hallwalls, member exhibition

Curator John Massier delivered on his promise of a 50th Annual Members Exhibit containing “untold interior worlds, imaginings of the mind’s eye, ambition, desire, failure, redemption and fulfillment.”

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Infringe This!

July 24, 2024July 25, 2024 Elmer Ploetz1Tagged Infringement, Infringement Festival

By Ron Ehmke A. Sometime in the late 1980s or early ’90s I was, in my capacity as the performance curator/programmer at Hallwalls, one of maybe half a dozen WNY […]

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You can’t say that in a restaurant review

July 23, 2024July 25, 2024 Elmer Ploetz6Tagged Food Writing, Reviews

At some point, I reasoned, readers might get a kick out of a collection of funny sentences that were horribly wrong for a review.

So on the auspicious occasion of The Buffalo Hive’s public launch, please enjoy some of the meanest sentences I’ve removed from review from consideration over the years.