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Bars, costumes and booze: The Halloween Boo'zin Bar Crawl 2025
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Boos and Booze: a review

Bars, costumes and booze. You simply can’t get more Halloween than that. This past Saturday, bars on Chippewa Street in the heart of Downtown Buffalo banded together to host the seventh annual “Halloween Boo’zin Bar Crawl,” sponsored by Eventage. 


Rappers Lil Keed and Lil Uzi Vert.
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Rap isn’t dead, you’re just not tapped in

Everything has its cycles; rap music is no different. Over the past few years, sales in mainstream rap music have taken a dip, as artists struggle to strike gold on the Billboard charts. Though mainstream rap is dying, the art of rap isn’t. 


What makes for the best concert?
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What makes for the best concert?

Everyone remembers their favorite concert, the one that stood out amongst the rest. That core memory that solidified in your mind, “this is the best concert ever!” What determines that? What makes that one so much better than the rest?


Headshot of Izabella Ducato.
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ACL tears: The overlooked research gap

For a long time, women have faced struggles being taken seriously in both the medical world and the sports world, and as much as we have made progress, this intersection is a prime example of somewhere we continue to lack. 


Delaney McCourt, staff writer 
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Why did Shedeur Sanders slide in the 2025 NFL Draft?

There’s no doubt that Shedeur Sanders, the 2025 draft prospect, is a talented quarterback. He had an impressive career, setting multiple records at Colorado in 2024 – including passing yards, completions, attempts, touchdowns, completion percentage, and quarterback rating. Heading into the draft, he was projected as a first round pick in most mock drafts.


A headshot of staff writer Jacob Wojtowicz.
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The Democrats’ Darwin problem

There’s a quote often misattributed to Charles Darwin, the famed evolutionary biologist, that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: “It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.”



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