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"'Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat.' 'We smoked the last one an hour ago.' So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine." - Simon and Garfunkel
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"'Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat.' 'We smoked the last one an hour ago.' So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine." - Simon and Garfunkel
At times experimental, at others emotional, and still others intentionally perverse, "The Best of American Poetry 2001" anthology delves deep into the most contemporary and relevant poetry to date. An annual series, the collection of 75 poems features a new guest editor every year. Scribner Poetry Press features Robert Hass as this year's star judge.
"My poor generation / we're on for the ride / an ocean of choices / pulled out on the tide. / We're handed a beach ball, / and told to pick a side. / Drowned in information."
"Desiderio," Bruno Freschi's 40 intaglios on display at UB's Center for the Arts through Oct. 6, is one of the many local artistic events celebrating the city of Buffalo during the Pan-Am Expo's one-hundredth anniversary. But unlike most others, Freschi's show does not depict the region's past lives. Instead, "Desiderio" illustrates Freschi's projections of how Buffalo and the shores of Lake Erie will change over the next 100 years.
"Different students react differently. All of them have no idea what this means. We're talking literally about kids who have had no contact with war," Rabbi Shay Mintz of the Hillel Center said Tuesday, just hours after the news of the terrorist acts reached UB.
Even though Picasso might be turning over in his grave, the art world is undeniably and forever altered from the introduction of the computer. Since photographers and painters alike can create works of art without traditional media, such as paint and paper, with the help of computer programs, digital artwork is becoming an important subset of modern art.
Buffalo's culinary landmark, the Anchor Bar, off Main Street, seems to still be an excellent choice for a nice, after-work meal or a lively weekend gathering as the food compliments a very pleasant, classic Buffalonian setting. A longtime Western New York favorite, frequented by locals and celebrities alike, the Anchor Bar is mildly nostalgic, and offers a great plate of wings, just as it always has been.
One thousand pieces of memorabilia from Buffalo's 1901 Pan-American Exposition, on loan from antiques collectors from across the country, will decorate UB's University Art Gallery, located in the Center for the Arts, through the end of September.
Elmwood Avenue hosted its annual festival for the arts last weekend, featuring an array of western New York artisans, musicians and dancers in a creative setting for local residents and families.