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.
On a dark stage, stood a brightly lit tank full of colorful fish and a man dressed in all black. For 10 minutes, the man in black held his breath as he managed to make an eel come out of his mouth, juggle three steel balls, eat a banana and smoke a cigar, before taking a selfie with a lucky UB student. The scene?
Alice Notley talks to the dead. But she isn't a medium. She's a poet. In an audience of curious students and community members, a woman slumped in a chair and cried and one man couldn't contain his laughter.
After being introduced, Dr. Alessandra Renzi turned red. Flustered, the professor slowly approached the microphone and began to speak with a thick Italian accent.
Ten years ago, Bill Cowell received a letter that changed his life. The letter, from acclaimed publicist Dick Delson, outlined Delson's desire to draw attention to Cowell's latest film, The Magic Shoe Project. At first, Cowell had never heard of the famous publicist. Now, the creative duo has been working together and running the annual Buffalo Niagara Film Festival for eight years.
After a long Buffalo winter, it can be easy to forget that sunshine and green grass do in fact exist.
In the lull leading up to Danny Brown's performance, security guards broke up two near fist-fights.
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