Artvoice - Buffalo's #1 NewsweeklyWestern New York's smartest news, arts and entertainment. This feed contains weekly features.In The Aftermath- September 17, 2008 Tuesdays primary in brief: Hoyt wins, Lenihan stays, BrownCaseys committee races failand everything stays pretty much the samehttp://artvoice.com/issues/v7n37/cover_story Where the $&!% is Jackson Pollock's Convergence- September 17, 2008 One of the most well known and important paintings in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery collection is Jackson Pollocks Convergence (1952). And gallery visitors with that awareness may have noticed recently that the painting is nowhere to be seen.http://artvoice.com/issues/v7n37/framed The Drill Ticket- September 17, 2008 Whats surprising about Alaska politics is just how little of the oil companies money it took to make the whole political system into a very corrupt place.http://artvoice.com/issues/v7n37/the_drill_ticket Free Will Astrology- September 17, 2008 SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Its Let It Go Week, Scorpioalso known as Just Drop It Week. This is a fertile moment in your astrological cycle, a time when youll be rewarded with a creative influx if you surrender your tight grip, give up your obsessive hold, and stop clinging to your hardened expectations.http://artvoice.com/issues/v7n37/free_will_astrology Four More Years of "Change"- September 17, 2008 More and more, every election season, when we tune into the media it seems like someone keeps hitting the replay button. Take this years Republican coronation of John McCain. Weve seen this dog-and-pony show before. Specifically, we saw it in 2000, when George W. Bush ran for presidentthe same slogans, same promises, and same candidate packaging.http://artvoice.com/issues/v7n37/grip Listings- September 17, 2008 Listings: Movie Times (Friday the 12th thru Thursday the 18th), Film Now Playing, On The Boards Theater Listingshttp://artvoice.com/issues/v7n37/listings The News, Briefly- September 17, 2008 The News, Briefly: A dispatch from a journalist arrested during the RNC protests, Kevin Kegler turn his West Side garden into a galleryhttp://artvoice.com/issues/v7n37/news_briefs Love Hurts It Shouldn't- September 17, 2008 He has endured severe physical abuse by his intimate partner. His face and body left bruised and swollen from relentless beatings. After years of abuse, he decides to seek help. But, when he calls the police, they reply, This is only a roommate argument, why did you bother calling ushttp://artvoice.com/issues/v7n37/gaywatch News of the Weird- September 17, 2008 Kevin Hansen filed a lawsuit in West Bend, Wis., in August, claiming that spotting a clump of hair in a steak he sliced into from a Texas Roadhouse restaurant caused severe and permanent injuries, pain, suffering and disability, requiring extensive medical treatment. In fact, said his lawyer Ryan Hetzel to Milwaukees Journal Sentinel, Its bothered the heck out of him.http://artvoice.com/issues/v7n37/news_of_the_weird Ask Anyone- September 17, 2008 Every presidential election its always the same. A bunch of lame-ass candidates from both major parties offering bold promises that will never be fulfilled. Why is it that every four years otherwise intelligent people get sucked into this b.s. and steer every pleasant conversation toward politics They invariably want to know for whom Im going to vote. I tell them I believe in the secret ballot. They look at me like Im a terrorist.http://artvoice.com/issues/v7n37/advice |