Courtesy of Taste of Buffalo Continuous sunshine in Buffalo often means many things: grilled food, parties, trips to the beach, bonfires, festivals and local Queen City traditions.
The Transit Drive-In, located on South Transit Road in Lockport, brings retro movies and the summer's biggest blockbusters to life with four large projection screens and plenty of parking space to enjoy the show from the comfort of your car.
Raquel Sosnovich, center, enjoys singing with the friends she made after joining The Royal Pitches. The Royal Pitches, an on-campus all-girls a capella group, provides Sosnovich, as well as many other girls, an opportunity to pursue their passion for singing.
From an early age Athira Unni loved to read and write. She has known she wanted to be a writer since the seventh grade and can often be found in a library, reading books, composing poetry or taking out books for research on her thesis paper.
The overpowering ringing noise radiating from people's smartphones might make you think you're inside a casino. With a touch of your finger, you slide a two square to connect to another two to make a four square.
It's 1982 - a year after the communist government in Poland instituted martial law, censoring the arts and forcing many playwrights, directors, artists and intellectuals to begin working illegally through a cultural underground. Fifty people are crammed into the living room of a Polish home.
Summing up a college career in a single song is near impossible. That's four years of someone's life - the time when you turn from a youth to an adult.
Before Gloriana took the stage as the main opener for Spring Fest Saturday evening, The Spectrum'sJoe Konze Jr sat down with band members Tom Gossin, Mike Gossin and Rachel Reinert to talk about their music career and what it's like playing in Buffalo. The Spectrum: Is this your first time playing in Buffalo? Tom Gossin: The weather is a little bit chilly.
The Band Perry headlined the University at Buffalo's 2014 Spring Fest Friday, May 2. The Spectrum's Joe Konze Jr.
Album: Pop Psychology Artist: Neon Trees Label: Mercury, Island Def Jam Release Date: April 22, 2014 Grade: C+ Neon lights burn bright when you first plug them in.
For the past few weeks, AnnMarie Agness has been sitting in the basement of UB's Center For the Arts with a paintbrush in hand and a white wall in front of her. To the untrained eye, the wall painting that is beginning to materialize may look like little more than jagged lines breaking apart the whiteness of the wall.
May has arrived, and that means we're honing in on the last couple of days of classes, papers and exams. It also means that this Friday night is First Friday at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, and the First Friday gallery walk in Allentown. Next week, be sure to celebrate the last day of classes by paying a to visit the Burchfield Penney Art Center for Second Friday. The galleries are free and open to the public.
Aziz Ansari made it clear Monday that 2014 is no place to be single. He said the world now - as opposed to years ago - is filled with awful people.
Network. It's the most important piece of advice Danielle Marmel, who graduated from UB in 2013, gives to this year's graduating class.
As the end of this academic year approaches, with graduation right around the corner for us seniors, we are inevitably going to be filled with emotions.
On Saturday evening at Alumni Arena, senior industrial engineering major Peter Morgis took a selfie with world-renowned magician David Blaine, fulfilling a lifelong dream of meeting one of his favorite celebrities. The Spectrum sat down with Morgis to talk about his experience. The Spectrum: How were you selected? Peter Morgis: When I saw he was coming, I immediately went to Sam McMahon [the Student Association President] and I'm always in there, too, because I'm the president of the UB men's tennis club.
Book:Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness Author:George Saunders Release Date:April 22, 2014 Publisher:Random House As commencement approaches, grads-to-be often find themselves caught between anxieties for the future and nostalgia for the past.
Zoe Tchapraste grew up in a family of performers in New York City and has been singing since she was 8 years old. "Theater is in my blood," Tchapraste said.
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