The Irish Classical Theatre Company of Buffalo teams up with local restaurants to bring locals and visitors a spin on the old “dinner and a show”. The Theatre offers discounted tickets for their featured show and combine them with brunch and all you can drink mimosas and bloody marys for a truly unique entertainment experience.
Porch Watch is a collection of poetry by Ansie Baird.
Porch Watch--with its implication of constant vigil--is full of warm appreciations of friends, of elegies that compose the broken heart into a right ritual of mourning: into, indeed, a style of blessing, each one scattered where she wants all her friends’ ashes to be scattered "in the fields of praise."
- Eamon Grennan
I Know You Know marks the first reunion (on paper) of Crinnin and Temes since the poets studied under Milton Kessler at Binghamton University in the 80s. Designed to be read inward from either cover, the book is a collision of poetry spanning the full length of these poets’ storied careers, which saw them take up teaching and writing positions on opposite sides of the country. Separately and together, the poets bear witness to births and deaths, marriages and friendships, wars and subtler struggles. The book includes a collection of color and black-and-white photographs of both poets through the years.
In the first installment of the two-volume collection Where The Streets Are Paved With Rust, journalist and former Obama and Clinton campaign advisor Bruce Fisher explores wealth, poverty, hopes, and illusions in America’s struggling north. In these essays about Rust Belt communities, Fisher carefully but vigorously challenges. He tackles real-estate developers; knocks liberals who won’t embrace metro government; excoriates conservatives for their racist code-words; nudges us to revisit the debate between Heidegger and Cassirer; and explains the brilliance of streetcars and urban wildlife, the persistence of black male workforce exclusion, the centrality of water quality, and many other issues that shape cities. Fisher takes deep dives into data, scholarship, and history — as he does nearly weekly for The Public, Western New York’s leading independent weekly newspaper.
Fisher’s scope is broad, he wears his erudition lightly, and his work is ever about crossing boundaries — in celebration of what’s to be found across the line.