Talent and tech make Zodiaque’s 49th season a success
By MAILI NOVAK | Mar. 11Whirling colors and rhythmic movement took to the UB Drama Theatre Stage from Feb. 29 to March 2 as the Zodiaque Dance Company put on its 49th annual spring performance.
Whirling colors and rhythmic movement took to the UB Drama Theatre Stage from Feb. 29 to March 2 as the Zodiaque Dance Company put on its 49th annual spring performance.
In 1972, Gerald O’Grady was offered a position that many academics spend their whole lives pursuing: director of the Educational Communications Center at UB. O’Grady told administrators he would accept the job — as long as UB created its own Center for Media Study and named him as its director. It was one of the first media studies departments in the nation.
Thompson's exhibition ran from Jan. 26 to March 2 at the Buffalo Arts Studio and showcased the whimsical and creative interpretations of her life and family.
This year’s Black Explosion, the Black Student Union’s annual fashion show, kept with tradition in showcasing Black culture and diversity, while marking a comeback for the organization.
A senior media studies major at UB, Sydney King often writes poetry to socially process the world and implicitly express her emotions. Her first publicly displayed poem, “Eulogy for the Bathroom Graffiti in Student Union,” can be found in many bathroom stalls around campus.
Within the interweaving questions and responses, Linder’s “Belly” exhibit takes a unique perspective on how women are viewed in society by turning the stereotypes onto men, the gender often in power.
Selfish Act have been making a lot of noise in the Buffalo scene and beyond. With their clear passion for the community and a bold take on hardcore, the band has established themselves as a group to keep an eye on.
Beyoncé first dipped her toes in the genre with the track “Daddy Lessons” off her 2016 album “Lemonade.” Now, nearly eight years later, she’s released two new country singles and has a whole album slated for release next month.
Vibrant colors adorned the Center for the Arts (CFA) mainstage at this year’s International Fiesta. But where do these colorful garments come from, and what do they mean?
The Indian Student Association (ISA) took home first prize at this Saturday’s International Fiesta with a bold, exciting dance in homage to India’s struggles to free itself from British colonizers. The Filipino American Student Association (FASA) cemented second place while the Bengali Student Association (BSA) achieved third.
Singing, dancing, confetti and excited guests filled Shea’s Buffalo Theater for days as the Broadway musical “Funny Girl” touched down in Buffalo from Feb. 13-18.
UB’s recent musical choices have varied greatly in recent years, but Sondheim has been absent from its line-up for over a decade — until now.
Winter in Buffalo can get dreary, but there's no better way to get over lousy weather than to indulge in local art with these events happening around town.
To the artists featured in the “Food for Thought” exhibit, it’s not the food itself that is meaningful, rather it’s the events, places and the people that the food is connected to.
‘Miller’s Girl’ ruins any potential for success when it implies that female high school seniors are alluring, seductive sirens that capture the hearts of unsuspecting, innocent men.
If your situationships have ever left you at a loss for words, this album is for you.
Most people don’t even know it’s there. The KCT serves as a creative outpost, an incubator for new ideas squirreled away within the winding hallways of Ellicott. The theater, like its namesake, is a hidden gem.
With covers of well-loved pop songs, the Royal Pitches — UB’s only treble a cappella group — never fails to cause goosebumps with its members’ fierce voices in “Visions of Sugarplums,” hosted in the SU Theater last Saturday.
Repetition of the words “clitoris” and “vagina” are — surprisingly — not the most eyebrow-raising aspects of the 2023 feminist documentary, “The Disappearance of Shere Hite.” Instead, it’s that the 30th-best-selling book of all time, “The Hite Report,” seems to have been forgotten.
All the 2024 Grammy nominees are talented, but some of them deserve the trophy more than the others. Here’s who I’ll be rooting for this year and who I think will win...