The Buffalodown, Vol. 2, Issue 32
Stories & Events for Social Connection
- Announcing events with Buffalo Improv House & Investigative Post!
- Musings on Music: Michael Mulley & the Steam Donkeys
- Featured Events: 20 this week, always encouraging submissions!
- Links to the Deep End: I-Post, BTPM, Four Bites, LittleSis & Margaret Sullivan
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While I’m still retooling the Buffalodown event series, I’ve been asked to be part of some events that I’d love for you to attend and either bring or come make friends.
First up is with the Buffalo Improv House, whose mission is “to be the force behind the improv comedy community in Buffalo by offering world-class improv instruction, by producing high-quality improv shows, and by being the pipeline connecting Buffalo with the international improv comedy scene.”
I’ll be the featured guest in their Good Neighbors comedy show next Friday, October 17th, supporting the Partnership for the Public Good, as this is a monthly show in which “we invite a notable guest to tell stories that inspire a hilarious hour of scenes and characters, raising money for a local nonprofit chosen by the guest!”
I’ve been admiring the mission and work of the Improv House and attended one of their intro classes last year to sharpen my stage skills, honored by their invitation to be part of this series and I know the PPG crew is excited to be there, too – the format includes interaction with the audience, please join us!
I’m even more excited by the invitation to join the team at the nonprofit watchdog journalism organization Investigative Post, for which I’m helping revive their events series starting with three upcoming gatherings; we’re so optimistic about this endeavor to expand their base of supporters that I-Post founder Jim Heaney said nice things about me, quite an exclusive club I’ve joined there!
Please save these dates, stay tuned for more details:
- On Wednesday, November 5, at 7 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo (695 Elmwood Ave.), J. Dale Shoemaker will recap his reporting on ICE activity in Western New York, followed by a panel discussion with experts about ICE and immigration. We’ll provide more details as we finalize our lineup of speakers.
- We’re launching a quarterly book club that will kick off on Tuesday, November 18, at 7 p.m. with a discussion on The Death of Truth by Steven Brill. Alternating bookstores will host the talks, starting with our friend Aaron Bartley at his Fitz Books (1462 Main St.). We encourage you to buy the book at Fitz, Talking Leaves … Books, or any other independent bookstore. No Amazon, please.
- On Friday, December 12, at 7 p.m. – Jim Heaney and Geoff Kelly will interview mayor-in-waiting Sean Ryan in the auditorium of the Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Ave.), serving as the centerpiece of the museum’s Second Fridays event series of artistic experiences.
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Musings on Music
Michael Mulley and the Steam Donkeys
No, longtime local photographer and Queen City Gallery owner Michael Mulley is not the new frontman of tenured twang purveyors The Steam Donkeys – that spot is still held by the velvet-voiced wordsmith Buck Quigley.
Arguably the provider of the name for the musical genre Americana through their 1997 album Cosmic Americana and homespun Americanarama festival, The Steam Donkeys have been holding down a Tuesday early eve residence at Nietzsche’s for many years, where nearby resident Michael will be popping up this coming Tuesday with an exhibit and signing for his photography book, Allentown in Black and White.
Buck has long been one of my favorite musical storytellers in town, with court-jester between-song banter to boot – this coming Tuesday, add photography to his weekly promise: “Music. Comedy. Enlightenment. FREE!”
Here’s a heater of a highway song:
Buck with a classic country hook: “She kept the ring, and gave me the finger”
Finally, one I filmed in Larkin Square in 2014 featuring the late John Allen:
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Events in the Week Ahead
Thanks to all who’ve submitted their events! Welcoming submissions with a flyer and link to seamus@reconnecter.org.
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Links to the Deep End
Deeper dives into subjects that matter for social connection
Pushing again for lead inspections in Buffalo – article, Investigative Post – “Activists and tenants seek to overturn ruling that absolved City Hall from more rigorous efforts to inspect rental properties”
Buffalo police to expand public access to traffic stop data – article, BTPM NPR – “The BPD started issuing stop receipts in 2020 as part of Buffalo’s police reform agenda and the initiative is written into local law.”
Phone-friendly Four Bites 2.0 site drops Oct. 14 – article, Four Bites – “At its new home, Four Bites will do even more to make your life in Buffalo better, three times a day. Because everybody’s gotta eat.”
The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine – article, LittleSis – “ICE and its Department of Homeland Security (DHS) parent agency contracts and subcontracts with hundreds of companies. Many of these are obscure and niche businesses, but a good number of these ICE contractors are also name-brand, consumer-facing corporations led by prominent executives and billionaires and powerful oligarchs.”
‘Partisan bickering’ is a media frame that fails the public – article, American Crisis by Margaret Sullivan – “The government shutdown is producing an all-too-familiar barrage of performative neutrality”
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