friday october 7th 2005
Small Built Works on Massachusetts Avenue
Cynnie Gaasch
University at Buffalo Architecture students joined professor Brad Wales for a walk through of the neighborhood for their next SMALL BUILT WORKS PROJECT last week. The students will work with the West Side Community Collaborativeis Greening Collaborative on architectural elements for Massachusetts Avenue and Rhode Island Street. The students joined area residents Jeff Brennan and Cynnie Gaasch on a tour of a twelve-block loop that will be the focus of the project. The group is talking planters for corners and furniture and light posts for a park on the corner of 18th Street. The University at Buffalo won The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) this year for iWest Side Streetscape/ Small Built Works Project.i We canit wait to see what happens in the spring.
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." How many more mistakes is it going to take in order for Coaches and the General Manager on this football team to be held accountable? Stop pointing the finger at the players and start looking in the mirror. It is not too difficult to figure out that a QB shuffle after four games into the season has trouble written all over it. What IF Holcomb pulls out a victory against the Dolphins? What IF he plays well enough to carry us to another average 8-8 season? WHO CARES?
The Bills are taking another giant step backward and postponing the development of the so called "future of this team". I would think that two home games against division rivals are EXACTLY what Losman n…
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Violinist Chee-Yunis combination of flawless technique, beautiful tone and compelling musical temperament has quickly captured the attention of the music world. Her brilliant artistry has been shared with audiences and praised by critics on five continents.
Career highlights include appearances at the Kennedy Centeris iSalute to Slavai gala honoring its departing Music Director, Mstislav Rostropovich, the Mostly Mozart Festival including the orchestrais tour to Japan, the Pacific Music Festival in a premiere of Lou Harrisonis Suite for Violin and String Orchestra, the inaugural concert at the Danny Kaye Playhouse in New York City and a performance with Michael Tilson Thomas in the inaugural season of Carnegie Hallis Zankel Hall and the US premiere of the Pende…
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Enjoy a night of duos @ Soundlab featuring, Scott Valkwitch & Siew-wai Kok; Michael Hermanson & Steve Baczkowski; Parallel Resolve's Sarah Weaver & Matt Field.
Inset Photo: Siew-wai creats poetry out of the ordinary, offering a refreshing perspective of everyday routine. She creates video within the tradition of performance, but utilizes the camera as an omnipotent source of visual and sonic documentation of emotions, thoughts, and sensations. Her aesthetics draws a sensual and meditative sensibility out of the viewer. Recording with electronic devices becomes an extension of diary writing where the author is the audience. An observer as well as a performer, Siew-wai is simultaneously in front of and behind the camera in most of her work, toying with the refl…
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Come celebrate the 8th anniversary of College Street Gallery this Saturday.
Michael Mulley is the owner of 'College Street', an art gallery situated in the Allentown district of Buffalo. Mike is a freelance photographer who earned a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1991. His photography is focused largely in the area of live musical performances- mostly geared towards rock, jazz and blues. Mike also photographs architecture and urban street s…
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Come celebrate the 8th anniversary of College Street Gallery this Saturday.
Michael Mulley is the owner of 'College Street', an art gallery situated in the Allentown district of Buffalo. Mike is a freelance photographer who earned a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1991. His photography is focused largely in the area of live musical performances- mostly geared towards rock, jazz and blues. Mike also photographs architecture and urban street s…
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Charles E. Burchfield possessed extraordinary powers of observation of the natural world that he translated into timeless artworks. While some serve as historic documents of early to mid-twentieth century American landscapes before the spread of urban and suburban development, others serve as universal confirmation of the awe-inspiring world that surrounds us.
This exhibition features Burchfieldis nature drawings, including some works acquired by the Burchfield-Penney during the past few years that have never been shown before as well as first public display of View from our Front Porch at Salem, Ohio, the jolting vision of a sunburst during a rain and snowstorm painted in 1917. Variations on Burchfieldis Dogwood wallpaper, which he designed for production …
thursday october 6th 2005
Affordable space for artists on Buffalois Main Street
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Artspace Update: Artspace, the nationis leading nonprofit real estate developer for the arts, is planning to develop a 60-unit ilive/worki project at the historic Breitweiser Building at 1219 Main Street. Built in 1914 as an automobile factory, the Breitweiser is one of Buffalois most significant historic buildings.
Now it will live on, renovated and updated as an affordable home for artists and their families. The $16 million project will consist of 36 units in the five-…
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`Smoke" is a beguiling film about words, secrets and tobacco. It takes place among lonely men and a few women who build a little world in the middle of a big city, a world based on sadness, secrets, killing time and enjoying a good smoke. Like a few other recent, brave movies, it places trust in the power of words: These people talk, weaving pipe dreams into what they need to get by.
The center of the film is the Brooklyn Cigar Co., at the corner of Third Street and Eighth Avenue. For Auggie Wren, who owns it, the store is the center of the world - so much so that every single morning, he stands across the street from it and takes a photograph.
He shows his photo albums to Paul (William Hurt), a writer who is a regular customer: "That's my project. What you'…
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In olden times, salt was an essential preservative in all households. It was also an important seasoning and was kept in a variety of containers, the earliest being small wooden tubs.
When, at the end of the eighteenth century, earthenware came to be used, the shape of the container used to store salt was particularly distinctive. It was known as the "salt pig"; a glazed, cylindrical, shouldered jar rising to a small knob for carrying, with a large hooded opening resembling the snout of a pig.
The jars were stored in niches by the cooking range so the salt was always near to hand. Now that's handy. As the saying goes, 'A little pinch'll do ya.'
The Salt Pig (sm. $28.50/lg. $38.50) can be found in a variety of colors at Spoiled Rotten, located at 831 Elmwood Avenue.
