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• Sidewalk Food Club open daily, extra fun on Wednesday nights!Musings on Music: Shinyribs’ debut in Buffalo
• Featured Events: 25 this issue, always encouraging submissions!
• Links to the Deep End: Investigative Post, Buffalo Muckracker, American Crisis

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Sidewalk Food Club is here for your hunger! Please come hungry to this new gathering of food trucks at the former Sun Cuisines at 1989 Niagara Street in Black Rock, open daily with a Wednesday night social featuring music and additional trucks, led by Burmese immigrants and inspired by Sun co-owner Kevin Lin’s travels to Portland, Oregon, where he saw food truck parks providing casual dining at lower costs to both customers and startup restauranteurs. 

While Zin’s Kitchen (Thai) and G&T Tasty Wheels (Asian/American) are open daily, Migdalia’s Kitchen (Puerto Rican) has increased to five days a week:

𝐙𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐊𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧
Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri & Sat: 12 PM–9 PM
Tue & Sun: 4 PM–9 PM

𝐆&𝐓 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬
Mon – Fri: 8 AM – 4 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 11 AM – 8 PM

𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐊𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧
Tue – Sat: 12 PM – 8 PM
Tonight they’ll be joined by Sun Roll (Asian fusion) along with DJ Low spinning tunes and serving up karaoke (likely inside at Niagara and Austin from 5-8pm, join us! 
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Musings on Music
Shinyribs to debut in Buffalo

When the faraway corporate-owned music club Electric City opened in the former Tralf nearly three years ago, I said that while I stand in solidarity with the locally-owned clubs threatened by Electric City’s capacity to overpay for touring acts in attempt to put their beloved competitors out of business, like most of us I’ll eventually go when they book one of our favorite acts; that time has finally come for me, as Austin-based Shinyribs is finally coming to Buffalo, more than 20 years since I was first wowed by frontman Kevin Russell soon after moving to Austin, and told him that Buffalonians would love him if he ever made a tour stop here. 

The bayou-born “Pavarotti of the Pineywoods” will roll in this coming Tuesday, August 25th, and I’d love to see a full house to welcome his wonderfulness. Truly unique in his sound and stage presence, Russell is the total package of singing, songwriting, guitar and ukulele slinging, and holding a crowd’s attention from ballads to bops – he’s able to bring folks to tears both comedically and through his heartfelt songs, just a bundle of joy with soul-stirring depth to boot. 

Shinyribs’ bio reads: “Shinyribs defies genres as a sonic melting pot of Texas Blues, New Orleans R&B funk, horn-driven Memphis Soul, country twang, border music, big band swing, and roots-rock. The Austin-based nine-piece (sometimes 10-piece) supergroup is led by Kevin Russell, the charismatic frontman with colorful suits and extravagant shoes who continuously swaps out an electric guitar for a ukulele and never falls short of creating a cinematic experience with on-stage antics that often include him donning a light-up cloak or leading a conga line through the crowd.”

  Please let me know if you’re planning to go!

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Links to the Deep End

Among the latest from Investigative Post: Buffalo’s charter revision effort comes up short & Eleven charter changes advance to Buffalo voters; Buffalo police union wants parking commissioner axed; “Alarming” toxins test results for Niagara Falls couple; and AG drops criminal probe into refugee death.I recommend subscribing to their two weekly newsletters for these and much more. 

Buffalo Muckracker Charlie Specht highlights “some great Buffalo journalism” from this summer including BTPM NPR, The Buffalo News, WIVB TV, and Investigative Post.

Margaret Sullivan writes, “Get outraged, and active, about the Trump-toadying FCC.”

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