sunday january 28th 2007
Handbags With Presence
Christa Glennie Seychew
Presence on Elmwood carries a large selection of Mary Frances handbags. Favored by celebrities like Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson and Eva Longoria, these hand-embellished designer treasures are fun to carry and are often used as decorative art pieces. Each bag is made in limited number, making each of them all the more valuable.
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Gabrielle Bouliane
Talking Leaves...Books is hosting booksigning for Andrew Mowatt, a new author originally from the Western New York Area. Today at 2 PM, area native and Brooklyn resident Andrew Mowatt will be on hand to sign copies of his first novel, Severed Branch, in which a contemporary businessman's job and dreams take him on a strange journey to France and back in time to the trench warfare of the Great War. The book is inspired in part by Mowatt's family history and deep interest in World War One.
The plot of the novel weaves a businessman's "modern warfare" with his growing knowledge of his family's brutal history during the war. Painstakingly researched, the book brings the reader deep into the trenches and air battles of the war…
saturday january 27th 2007
Collaborative Weaving Now Displayed Indoors
buffalorising
Starlight Studio and Art Gallery will have its collaborative weaving on display in the Erie County Rath Building Lobby through February 15, 2007.
Starlight Studio and Art Gallery, which is a habilitation program for adults with disabilities located in downtown Buffalo, worked with fiber artist Jozef Bajus during the Summer of 2006 to create two outdoor weavings on Delaware Avenue. After this enriching and exhilarating experience the Starlight participants wished to create an indoor weaving that would not be subjected to the whims of nature (the first two came down soon after the October surprise storm).
Gabrielle Bouliane
Mohawk Place, 47 East Mohawk Street, Buffalo, 14203, 716.855.3931 The Mohawk Place is giving you two good reasons to get off the couch tonight -- two of Buffalo's favorite bands will be holding down the stage, Flatbed, and Johnny Nobody. If you want to get an early start on the evening, and like your rock twang-flavored, the sweet sounds of Flatbed (pictured) are sure to please. With the kind of long pedal steel riffs that make you think of driving down back country highways in a pickup truck in a cut-sleeve shirt, jeans and dusty boots, Flatbed has taken home the BMAs Best Americana band in both 2005 and 2006. Throw in a bit of psychedelic guitar, and the lifting vocals of the lovely Joelle, a…
queenseyes
It's not easy finding Buffalo Sabres' merchandise outside of the arena store or New Era... at least in the city. That's why I was surprised to see that Lu Modern Classics was stocking an old school Sabes shirt (hottie cut) for the girls and broken in caps for the guys. Not only is the popular logo on the products, the worn-in look makes it seem as if the products have already been around for years. That means that they are ready to be worn as soon as they leave the store.
The two items are specialty items, and a fan might have to pay a bit more for the classic, already worn look, but if you have lost your favorite tee or cap in recent days and don't feel like going through the entire break-in process these might be for you. The Retrosport t-sh…
friday january 26th 2007
Design a WBFO Coffee Mug
buffalorising
WBFO 88.7 FM, the region's most listened to NPR station, has just announced the First Annual Listener Design a Mug contest. Entries must be submitted via email to jwilson@wbfo.org no later than Wednesday, February 28th, 2007.
Listeners are invited to come up with a design incorporating the letters W-B-F-O and submit it for all listeners to review. After listeners pick the most popular design, it will be imprinted onto ceramic mugs and offered as a thank you gift during the spring pledge drive in March.
The selected designer will receive 10 ten of their "signature mugs," and WBFO merchandise. Second and third place designers will receive WBFO gift baskets.
Anna Miller
The sky shines a brilliant blue reserved for the most wholly alive days of the year, the normally white concrete glows yellow in the midday sun, and the red letters seem to jump out of the print. This photo brings the normally mundane Elmwood Avenue building to life. It embraces the beauty and vibrancy that exists in even the most ordinary aspects of life.
Tammy Wetzel's photo of the Regal on Elmwood is part of an exhibit at Gallery141B that encourages its audience to see life through a moment trapped in time. Her images on display at the gallery celebrate the life and energy that pours out of the simplest things - fallen leaves strewn on a lawn, a boat in port, the stoop of an old home.
thursday january 25th 2007
CEPA Hosts Multiple Exhibit Openings, Saturday Night
Gabrielle Bouliane
CEPA Gallery's annual Members' Exhibition opens with a reception Saturday, January 27, 2007 from 7 PM - 10 PM at their gallery in the Market Arcade Complex. The Member's Reception takes place in the Underground Gallery. This year's juror is Robert Hirsch. CEPA will continue its new tradition of awarding an Exhibition Award, recognizing those artists who demonstrate an elevated level of artistic maturity and skill in their work. The winner will receive a solo exhibit of their work in the 2007/08 exhibition year. Other awards including "Best In Show" will also be awarded.
Also opening is a solo exhibition by Tricia Zigmund (pictured), which will be exhibited in the Flux Gallery, entited "Portals of Science and Suffering". She is cur…
Christa Glennie Seychew
You may be shocked to find that many of the retail stores in the area shipped out all of their winter goods weeks ago, making room for bikinis and rollerblades. Madison Avenue may be chugging out its spring lines, but here in Buffalo we are fully ensconced in a winter wonderland.
In the last few days we have seen Delaware Park's Shakespeare Hill transform from a muddy mess into a sparkling white landscape speckled with wind-burned kids wrapped in brightly colored Polartec. There is no denying that winter has finally arrived,Aei and the kids aren't complaining.
Tom Dooney
Theater Plus, the woman's theater company under the Alleyway Theater umbrella, will be pretty darn busy over the next few weeks. So busy, in fact, that the T+ programming spills into just about every available space in the building...Alleyway's mainstage, its cabaret space and its gallery will all be deployed to showcase arts, performed and presented, by women.
Theatre Plus is the new name for the company originally named Pandora's Box. The new name reflects a new administration but the woman focused performances and programming tradition continue as in the same vein. In the coming weeks, Kim Piazza, artistic director of Theater Plus, pulls together three different theater bills.
