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Fight the power

After watching the Buffalo Bills lose to the Miami Dolphins Sunday on CBS, I looked back at last week's crazy game versus the San Diego Chargers.


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Pride filled with prejudice

Pride and Glory is yet another film that milks the all-too-familiar good cop/bad cop cliche. The only thing that sets it apart from others in its genre is the blatant prejudice that comes out of its overt and offensive stereotypes.


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An all-around tragedy

A 26-year-old black rookie officer of the Buffalo Police Department fired five shots from his service weapon at a mentally disturbed 15-year-old black youth who was trying to rob him with a replica-style BB gun in the early hours of Friday morning on the East Side of Buffalo.


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"Stop, collaborate and 'Chicken'"

Providing yet another hit of stop-motion hilarity for the drug-addled ADHD set, Cartoon Network's shining star, the Emmy award-winning show Robot Chicken, has nursed its third season to fruition on DVD.


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Cat Venom bears their fangs with a message

With the current presidential election drawing near, the government has become a hot topic. Last Friday at the Center For Inquiry (CFI), crowds were treated to a politically charged comedy show from the improvisational group Cat Venom.


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Second base souvenirs

Had an unsuspecting student wandered up to Goodyear X Saturday night, he or she might have stumbled upon a room full of women performing breast exams on themselves.


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Hooray xenophobia

Buffalo's zoning board has rejected, in a 4-0 vote, a proposal by the group Cephas to build a halfway house on Buffalo's East Side.


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"Finally, porn with substance"

Right after Jay and Silent Bob struck back, Kevin Smith's proverbial balls fell off. Seeing the biggest, sloppiest and most blatantly vulgar fanboy director in our View Askewniverse write and direct Jersey Girl, act in the cringe worthy estro-fest that was Catch and Release and force out the relatively unfulfilling Clerks II was disheartening, to say the least.



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