Last Friday, Brooklyn-based rockers Bear Hands returned to Buffalo to play an intimate show at the Waiting Room in downtown Buffalo.
Growing up, I always felt the need to express myself through the way I dressed. In the eighth grade, I switched schools and thought it was time for a new look. I began to wear Air Jordan sneakers and the reactions I got from my classmates made me feel like an absolute king. I kept buying more and more shoes from Plato’s Closet and one pair of shoes turned into a collection.
Rick Masi was plagued with thoughts of his own mortality four years after graduating college. “I’m going to die one day and what do I have to show for it?” he asked himself. Masi tucked away his love for film and entered the workforce as a sales assistant at a dealership immediately after graduating from UB in 2009 with a communication degree.
These coming weeks are filled with highly anticipated video game releases on many different platforms, including handhelds and consoles. Take a study break and free yourself from the stress of exams and elections with one of these exciting games.
A handful of decent-looking movies – none of which look even remotely as scary as the 2016 Presidential Election – are coming out throughout the rest of November and the beginning of December, ranging from a desperate “Harry Potter” spinoff to an attempt to make Disney inclusive again (they’ll still get a lot of hate no matter how hard they tried).
At roughly 3 a.m. the final cannon sounded, a giant shockwave of anger and disbelief pulsed through the districts; Donald Trump and Mike Pence won the Hunger Games.
Dustin Perez has thought about fleeing to Canada after this year’s presidential election. A senior psychology and business major, Perez favors neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump. He doesn’t feel he would be welcomed in the country if Trump were elected because he is a minority, and doesn’t plan to vote for Clinton because he doesn’t “trust her words.” Whatever the result, Perez is not the only student who’s considered leaving. The idea of fleeing to Canada has been considered a means of coping with either candidate’s win and it is a possible option for UB students.
While many have compared Donald Trump to a cartoon character, they should have said comic book character – in particular, Lex Luthor, supervillain and arch nemesis of Superman who in the comics launches a successful bid for the US presidency despite his past misdeeds.
The 2016 election has been extremely reliant on the media to address candidate platforms as well as campaign slip-ups. From leaked emails showing government cover-ups to scandalous tapes released, each candidate has had his or her campaign and poll popularity affected by the media. Millennials and college students in general make up an important number of voters this year.
This week will not only feature a significant presidential election but loads of musical opportunities.
In the three years since her last solo album, the extravagant Artpop, Lady Gaga has reinvented herself. Along with establishing her acting on television by winning a Golden Globe for her performance in “American Horror Story” – Gaga has been nominated for an Academy Award for her song “Til It Happens to You” and released an album of jazz standards with Tony Bennett.
Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Shea’s Performing Arts Center Music legend Elvis Costello is taking a quick stop through Buffalo. The English singer-songwriter is most famous for new wave albums such as My Aim Is True, This Year’s Model and Armed Forces. His pioneer punk rock/new-wave status not only led to success at award shows but has also led to his worldwide appreciation.
The Haunted Union is a transformation of our everyday space into a spooky, terrifying maze. “It was actually scarier than I thought it would be,” said Austin Nagelhout, a sophomore media study major. “I thought since it was a low-budget school event it wouldn’t be that fun, but I really enjoyed it.”
After working for 32 years and personally bringing in more than two and a half million dollars in grant money, Michael Basinski, curator of UB’s poetry collection, is retiring. UB has one of the largest collections of poetry in the nation, including original manuscripts and unpublished works by some of the world’s most renowned poets.
Tanner Miller was always attracted to women. But he didn’t like the term “lesbian” and didn’t know why. He never felt comfortable with his sexual orientation.
The Undergraduate Society of Feminists, or Undergrad SoFem for short, began meeting weekly at the beginning of the 2016 Fall Semester. They meet at 5:45 p.m. every Thursday to discuss important and often sensitive issues surrounding feminism in our society, including consent, sex education and even religion.
Brooklyn-based indie group Lucius will be playing at Babeville this week. Singers Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, whose lo-fi pop approach is very much compelling, head Lucius. The band is touring to promote their second album Good Grief, which was released in March to moderate acclaim. The album features infectious lyrics and instrumentation on songs like “Born Again Teen” and “Gone Insane.”
Marissa Smith always had a passion for dancing, but because she is a health and human sciences major, she couldn’t take academic dance classes at UB. Academic dance classes at UB are not open to students who are not dance or theater majors.
With Halloween just around the corner, many are eager to celebrate one of the nation’s most popular holidays. Some students go to parties or dress up in costumes, but for those of us who like to celebrate in a more laid-back fashion, here’s a list of great flicks to get spooky with.
For 11 months, Johanan McDowell was in an unmelodious hell of Kanye West’s design. From July 2015 to May 2016, the synth assault that opens West’s 2013 album Yeezus on the song “On Sight” was all that went through the film student’s head.
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