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Wicked sweet cupcakes

For some reason, when the colder months come drawing in, our sweet tooth starts getting needy. No, this isn't statistically proven, but I'm pretty sure it's true.


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Gene the Dancing Machine

He greets guests and visitors at his front door with his 20-year-old Parakeet, Baby, sitting on his left shoulder. Eugene Piwko, 78, starts his day with smooth jazz and a freshly brewed pot of coffee.


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Faltering to break ground: Beyond Two Souls game review

Platform: Playstation 3 exclusive Released: Oct. 8 Developer: Quantic Dream Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Grade: B The first few minutes of Beyond Two Souls are proof that David Cage has finally created the opus he has always talked about - making a video game seem like an interactive movie.


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Sardonic Wit

The audience was shocked when David Sedaris stood in front of them and read some of his unfinished and unpublished material. The story was about seventh grade.


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Move on up a little higher

The audience was pleasantly surprised when David Sedaris stood in front of them and read from a handful of newly written and unpublished works. The first story of the evening, "Move On Up a Little Higher," was about being a gay teenager in the seventh grade.


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The unrecognized

Behind the Fall Fest crowd, on a stage of his own, stood Josh Azoulay. The senior theater and design and technology major bobbed his head and tapped his foot in tune with the music.


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A$AP reigns over UB

On Sunday night, UB mobbed with A$AP, putting in work through heavy rain and several delays for a show that seemed like it might not even happen from the start.


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Around Town: Mad as hell

Howard Beale, a longtime television anchor played by Peter Finch, has a meltdown on the air. He screams, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore," in the most famous scene from Sidney Lumet's 1976 film, Network, which professors Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian will be showing Tuesday night through the Buffalo Film Seminars at Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre. And though that phrase is what has managed to enter its way into our language, what the film really deals with is what has spread even more widely into culture.


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Taking Back Sunday takes Buffalo back in time

Crowd surfers bounced across a sea of people, mosh pits emerged and a lone fan jumped off a ledge into the pit below. Taking Back Sunday's show at the Town Ballroom Saturday night was full of intensity. The sold-out show, which took place on the second day of the veteran rockers' Fall 2013 tour, was everything fans anticipated. 21-year-old Samantha Boyce traveled three hours from Toronto, Canada, to see her favorite band for the seventh time. "No amount of money can keep me from seeing Taking Back Sunday," said Boyce, who forgot her ticket at home and had to buy another.


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Keeping it fresh

As the lights dimmed, the vibrant audience grew quiet with anticipation. Within a few moments, drummer Vinnie Colaiuta appeared on stage and began hammering away on his drums.


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Return of The Walking Dead

Editor's Note: This preview contains plot details and information about the show from previous seasons. AMC's long-awaited horror adventure, The Walking Dead, is set to return this Sunday night for its fourth season. Last season ended with former deputy Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln, Made in Dagenham) overcoming his fear of outsiders and bringing the remaining Woodbury survivors into his fiercely protected prison. The trailer for the upcoming season showed a much larger group attempting to rebuild civilization with the undead prowling on the other side of the fence.


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The astounding Albright-Knox

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is more than just a Queen City jewel; it is well respected on a national and international level for its permanent collection of modern and contemporary art, as well as its propensity for bringing in an ever-changing, impressive rotation of original and/or highly sought-after exhibitions. The Ken Price exhibition Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Works On Paper, 1962-2010 is currently on display at the gallery until Jan.


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Three shades of cinema

There are theaters all over Buffalo geared toward different breeds of moviegoers. In addition to a host of mainstream options for big blockbuster releases in shopping malls or sprawling Amherst plazas, there are also lesser-known, alternative options for students interested in film genres that range from popular independent films to obscure foreign productions.


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7th heaven

Some days, nothing will suffice but a proper knife-and-fork meal. Not a burger, not chicken wings - nothing that involves getting your hands greasy or going through a drive-in.


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