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The mayor's office announced events in remembrance of the 5/14 racially motivated shooting at Tops on Jefferson Avenue.
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What do you do if a loved one asks to borrow a big sum of money from you? Experts weigh in on when it's OK to fork over the cash — and when you should probably say no.
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The high-stakes legal battle could determine the future of the popular app in the U.S. TikTok's legal filing calls the ban law an unprecedented violation of First Amendment rights.
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- Theater Talk: Final shows before Artie cutoff: I F*CKED YOU IN MY SPACESHIP, OKLAHOMA!, WEDDING BAND, CROSSING DELANCEY
- Theater Talk: In the burbs and downtown, great theater all around - CROWNS, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, THE A.I. AT DELPHI, THE DEATH OF A STREETCAR NAMED VIRGINIA WOOLF, and AIRNESS!
- Theater Talk: Yancey, Loconti-Alcocer shine in WATSON INTELLIGENCE and THE PRICE. SATCHEL PAIGE closes this weekend... so much good theater (see listings)
- Theater Talk: Anthony brings back some Broadway picks
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- BPS students join scholars, anti-violence leaders for gun violence summit
- Driving while Black in Buffalo? You’re over 3x more likely to get stopped by police compared to a white person
- A Buffalo church founded during the Civil Rights Movement is using faith to oppose racism
- What can Buffalo learn from Charleston's experiences since the attack at Mother Emanuel AME?
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From California to North Carolina, students staged chants and walkouts over the weekend in protest of Israel's ongoing military offensive in Gaza.
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Hundreds of Native American tribes are getting money from lawsuit settlements with opioid companies. Some are investing the new funds in traditional healing practices to treat addiction.
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After initiation rites – including circumcision – the boys leave their families to take charge of the herds, driving them high into the mountains. It's a way of life that climate change is testing.
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Playwright Paula Vogel is known not just for her work on Broadway — but for the generations of famous playwrights whose careers she has nurtured. Mother Play is about her own mother.
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After weeks of preparation, crews are scheduled to conduct a controlled demolition to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland.
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Over some five decades, Corman filled America's drive-ins with hundreds of low-budget movies. Many of Hollywood's most respected directors have at least one Corman picture buried in their resumes.
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Israel's military issued new evacuation orders in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, forcing even more Palestinians to relocate on Saturday ahead of a likely expanded ground operation there.
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Open Buffalo is creating a more equitable Buffalo through collaboration and their Race. Power and Privilege program
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The final design of the memorial remembering the victims was unveiled by Governor Kathy Hochul and members of the 5/14 Memorial Commission
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The University at Buffalo crowds have cleared, but questions remain after police arrested 15 people during Wednesday’s pro-Palestine protest on campus.
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Arts & CultureWhat was once an Allen St. car garage is now a commercial art gallery, Rivalry Projects.
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On Wednesday students at the University at Buffalo joined in a wave of encampments and protests across the country calling for divestment from Israel at institutions of higher education.
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Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown delivered his 2024 State of the City Address.
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The Buffalo Common Council voted to amend a local law to allow the city to raise property taxes by more than the 2% limit mandated by the state.
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The fate of a new Musical Fare Theater facility will rest in the hands of Amherst residents, now that a special vote has been approved.
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