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Fitz Books and Waffles
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The power of the human heart

This past Wednesday, Sept. 24, Fitz Books and Waffles was host to a poetry reading night featuring bilingual poets sharing poems in both English and their native language. 


Starlight Exhibit in the Center for the Arts.
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Starlight collection review

Across two floors in the Center for the Arts (CFA) Gallery, over one hundred pieces of art are displayed every year. The most notable was the second floor containing six artists from Starlight Studio and Art Gallery, which is located in downtown Buffalo.  


Michael Mitri’s passion for photography paved the way for his company, BuffaLoveBus, to provide this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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BuffaLoveBus

When was the last time you held a cherished memory in your own hands? Step inside one of just 200 analog photo booths left in the country, pull the curtains shut, and smile - make a memory that will last forever. 


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Fitz on Main St.

Tucked away down Main Street is Fitz Books, a local bookstore still chugging away. The store is settled in an old building with its address splayed out in old type script.  


The Buffalo AKG Art Museum.
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Top five artsy spots to kick off summer

It's time for freedom, fun, and maybe a bit of degeneracy. We’ve got to make the most of it, so if you’re hanging around town, here’s a list of local spots that’ll help you soak it all in. 


Thousands gathered around the periphery of the Buffalo History Museum for the annual Buffalo Cherry Blossom Festival.
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Buffalo in bloom

On the weekend of April 26-27, thousands gathered around the periphery of the Buffalo History Museum for the annual Buffalo Cherry Blossom Festival. Celebrating its 12th year, the festival surrounds a garden of cherry trees behind the museum and exists to promote the history museum and its Japanese-themed garden. 


The logo of the play, The Pajama Game.
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‘The Pajama Game’ - a labor of love and loungewear

UB Theatre and Dance unveiled its 2025 rendition of “The Pajama Game” with its opening night on Friday, April 25, at the UB Center for the Arts. As the lights in the glamorous Drama Theatre dimmed, Vernon Hines, played by sophomore musical theatre major Ty Burgess, wasted no time breaking into a musical number, introducing the audience to the world of Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory and rambling about his obsession with time efficiency.


The Poetry Collection in the Lockwood Library
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Pride in poetry: Celebrating queer counterculture

This past Thursday, The Poetry Collection hosted a pride event to celebrate Pride Week. The event featured The Poetry Collection’s exhibit, The Language of Magic: Queer Occult Poetics, highlighting important poets, writers and activists from the San Franciscan Renaissance 


Photo from the poetry reading at he Tri-Main Center.
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A poet's voice is powerful

This past Saturday at Squeaky Wheel, an artist nonprofit organization that provides equipment, resources and education for those interested in the arts as well as for artists themselves, held a poetry reading for Carolina Ebeid and Joel Park downtown at the Tri-Main Center.


The set for Dorian, with an entire side of the room blocked off.
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ICTC theater production review: “Dorian”

While Buffalo’s Irish Classical Theater is normally a theater-in-the-round setting, one side of the auditorium has been blocked off to transform the stage into a set that combines elements of disco with chandeliers, to merge Victorian London with queer club culture.


Anne Hathaway, Matthew McConaughey & Jessica Chastain at the ‘Interstellar’ European premiere.
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Movie Review: Interstellar’s beyond-stellar exploration of the existential & the theoretical

The 2014 film, directed by Christopher Nolan, tells a heart-wrenching story of family, humanity and risk, mixed with a healthy dose of theoretical science. Set on a decaying Earth in the year 2067, the human population is dwindling under a second Dust Bowl. In response, a group of scientists unified under NASA attempt to find a different planet to facilitate human life. 


The logo for the 2025 film, "Snow White."
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‘Snow White’ review: Was the hate campaign the unfairest of them all?

This writer was among the skeptics when news of this film’s release began circulating. It turns out, all these fears were completely unwarranted. In the first ten minutes of the film, the viewer is greeted with images of CGI animals, several minutes of exposition, and a random musical number. What viewer doesn’t enjoy each of those things?



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