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(05/14/24 3:18am)
When I was in Nepal visiting family in January, I remember being amazed at how very few people wore headphones while walking. I could count the amount of pedestrians I witnessed listening to music during my month-long trip on one hand. Already feeling removed as a foreigner, I thought this is something I can learn from. I decided that the only way I could fully experience my parents’ home was by committing to the sounds around me.
(05/07/24 12:38am)
They talk too much. They sing too loud. They dance in hallways while everyone else is just trying to walk. Their jubilation is at the expense of all those who have to put up with their unawareness of their surroundings.
(05/06/24 9:21pm)
The social media trend of stopping strangers to ask what they’re listening to has offered us a glimpse into our peers’ music taste. But what are educators on our campuses listening to? What music did they listen to when they were an undergraduate?
(04/23/24 3:25am)
When artist and SUNY Purchase professor Rob Swainston rode his bicycle down the streets of New York City during the first COVID-19 lockdown, he photographed the plywood-covered storefronts, meant to deter protestors.
(04/10/24 12:25am)
With the changing of the seasons, it’s the right time to not only clean your closet but to get rid of all the things holding you back.
(03/26/24 9:29pm)
“Girls take so long to get ready.”
(03/12/24 5:57am)
For most college students, caffeine is integral to survival — unless you rely on pure willpower.
(03/05/24 4:14am)
In 1972, Gerald O’Grady was offered a position that many academics spend their whole lives pursuing. As director of the Educational Communications Center at UB, O’Grady would be responsible for providing creative services to the University’s dozens of departments.
(02/20/24 3:59am)
Vibrant colors adorned the Center for the Arts (CFA) mainstage at this year’s International Fiesta.
(02/06/24 2:11am)
February is Black History Month, and Buffalo has no shortage of opportunities to celebrate Black art and the contributions of Black artists.
(12/07/23 1:30am)
In each edition of Culture Perspectives, The Spectrum will ask UB students seven questions that survey their observations, opinions and beliefs to help us understand our cultural climate. We’ll ask questions about the media students are consuming, where they stand with their own generation and more. One question will always tackle a hot topic in our culture — whether local, national or global.
(11/16/23 6:44pm)
When Fall Fest first began in 1978, it was a two-day festival of “hours of partying and lines of beer, a tradition that would die out a few years after the drinking age increased to 21 in 1984.”
(11/09/23 1:47am)
“Do you want to make your mark?”
(10/26/23 1:33am)
Troye Sivan has withstood the test of time since his origins as a YouTuber in 2010, when he began posting song covers, experiential content and experimental challenges. The release of his first album in 2015, “Blue Neighborhood,” followed his coming-out on the internet two years prior. While Sivan was open enough at age 18 to sing about his struggles with dating someone of the same sex, his new album, “Something to Give Each Other,” invigorates his struggle with heartbreak while retaining his depth.
(10/20/23 1:09am)
What are traits you love about yourself that are integral to your character? Are you sincere? Compassionate? Resilient? Sensitive? Open-minded? Frank?
(10/07/23 9:38pm)
Calling all movie-goers! The Buffalo International Film Festival (BIFF) is running through Oct. 9. The annual fest is packed with a lineup of more than 150 big screen movies .Located in the heart of downtown Buffalo, BIFF takes place at some of Buffalo’s most historic theater venues, such as Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, over the course of four days.
(10/05/23 1:51am)
In the 1970s, young artists took hold of the aerosol can and sought the public canvases of trains and buildings in NYC as an outlet for self-expression. The thrill of the movement helped to alleviate the identity crisis of 15-year-old Leonard McGurr after his mom disclosed to him that was adopted.
(09/29/23 10:43pm)
Surveying an area you have walked in for nearly 10 years may seem monotonous to the average eye, yet for media artist Carl Lee, new discoveries are never a rarity. Since 2014, the daily walk Lee has taken with his dog on Unity Island has lent him an intimate perspective of the quarter-square-mile strip between the Niagara River and Black Rock Canal.
(09/13/23 11:30pm)
It’s a prevailing attitude among many new students, and even some returning students: “There’s nothing to do here in bumf—k Buffalo!”
(09/07/23 6:25am)
Amanda Gorman, the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate of the U.S. and Amy Schneider, the most successful woman on “Jeopardy!,” are among the guests slated to speak at UB as a part of the 2023-24 Distinguished Speakers Series.