Category: concerts
11/28/08 09:33 - 34ºF - ID#46877
ani concert tomorrow?
doors open at 7pm and i think it's general admission so we might need to be there earlier than that (anyone know?)
use that little envelope icon below my avatar to send me an email.
:-)
(this is my 50th post!!)
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: museum
11/24/08 08:58 - 36ºF - ID#46823
Your New Burchfield Penney!
A recreation of Charles Burchfield's studio:
"Unhinged" by Ani Hoover
"Executive Hopscotch"
"#13 Coming Wave" by Jozef Bajus (made out of tarpaper!!!)
"Underground Railroad"
neat yellow sculpture detail
Closed exhibit, Flower Blobs
Pretty flowers
Large gallery space. There are lots of neat spaces.
The sculpture to the right of the guitarist from A Hotel Nourishing is called "Planetary Array" by Marvin Bjurlin.
Another view of "Planetary Array"
There were performances in three spaces - the auditorium, the project space and the reception area. This is the project space.
Look up!
Admission prices & times (5 and under free, 6-18 & seniors $4, adults $7. Buff State faculty, staff, students free.)
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: museum
11/23/08 01:47 - 24ºF - ID#46803
burchfield-penny opening
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: work
11/19/08 04:43 - 29ºF - ID#46759
***bounce***
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: movie
11/18/08 03:58 - 29ºF - ID#46746
Wed. night movie: The Forgotten City
- Movie: The Forgotten City ***
The Forgotten City is a soul-stirring documentary taking place in Buffalo, New York, exploring race relations, segregation, crime, and politics. A discussion about race and poverty in the City of Buffalo to follow, lead by Carl Nightingale, Associate Professor of American Studies, and Jim Anderson, Chair of Citizen Action of WNY.
Pizza and pop will be served.
From Millersport Highway northbound, take the Flint entrance to UB North. Take the first left onto Flint Rd., then park in the parking lot right before the loop. Don't park in spots marked "clinic."
For more info:
(map point C: )
All welcome. Hope to see you there!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
11/15/08 12:49 - 49ºF - ID#46695
what a neat day
His assistant, Matt Z., invited us all to an "after party" at the Ukrainian Cultural Center DNIPRO
and only three students took him up on it, so here's a picture of the "after party"
There was kielbasa, pirogi, the yummy cabbage & noodle stuff, pigs in a blanket (the proper cabbage kind), sauerkraut. (Sorry, no specific food pix.) In the middle of it, he got out a pen and a piece of paper and started scribbling. Then he handed to me and said I needed to read this book:
A view of the ballroom of the Ukrainian Cultural Center with my friend Alisha checking it out.
Like I hadn't already been wishing I had my camera, I went to the Mass Appeal fashion show (see (e:drew,46663)) and wanted it very badly... to take pictures of a very hot (e:janelle), then to take pix of some jaw-droppingly goregous dresses and cute butts and one guy with some fantastic abs. Oh my. It was fun. The two pix I took with the Centro-cam are just blurry.
And then (e:tinypliny) equated Rahm Emanuel with Chanakya too funny! As if my little mind needed more expanding today :-)
Tomorrow I'm going to the Women's Gifts art/craft show at Babeville. (School? I'm in school? huh.)
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: movie
11/12/08 07:54 - 45ºF - ID#46667
The Forgotten City - moving showing
THE FORGOTTEN CITY
Wednesday, November 19th
6 p.m
O'Brian 108, UB North Campus (by Flint Loop)
A discussion about race and poverty in the City of Buffalo to follow, lead by Carl Nightingale, Associated Professor of American Studies, and Jim Anderson, Chair of Citizen Action of WNY.
Pizza and pop will be served.
The Forgotten City is a soul stirring documentary taking place in Buffalo, New York, exploring race relations, segregation, crime, and politics.
This film is a personal journey of two young filmmakers who forged an unlikely partnership following a 2001 murder; one a friend of the victim and the other a friend of the murderer. Instead of waging war, they embarked on a documentary film project that would take them into the heart of Buffalo's most dispossessed communities and crime ridden streets. The result of their exploration is a documentary film with a raw, hard-hitting, and unblinking first-hand look at the way some live in America. This film brings to light the racial turmoil and economic hardships that have become the lifestyle of so many living in Buffalo's inner city.
The Forgotten City, however, is not simply a film about the problems that plague Buffalo's inner city; it can easily be the story of any American city and is a film that everyone should see.
- All are welcome! ***
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: school
11/11/08 06:19 - 41ºF - ID#46650
Hypotheticals
In the notes that follow the case in my book, this hypothetical is posed:
If three cancer researchers were adrift on a lifeboat with a skid-row drunk, would the researchers be justified in killing the drunk to advance social utility?
I had mentioned the hypothetical in the chatter partly because so many of you are or work with cancer researchers. I talked with (e:janelle) about it later that day and she wanted to know what the class discussion was like. I went to class the next day and the discussion was bizarre... one person said that the utilitarian would say to kill the drunk, a retributivist would say that's infringing on drunk's rights. Someone else said that it depends on who is assigning the values of the various people's lives ... what if it's nazis? what if it's the common US jury? many have suggested that in a survival situation that laws no longer apply.
Somehow an alternate hypothetical comes up - what if you're in the boat with Albert Einstein? Someone responds, "I'm vegetarian, but on this boat, I might be the first one to eat Albert Einstein because I'm so hungry!"
- blink*
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Location: Buffalo, NY
11/06/08 01:51 - 68ºF - ID#46573
Scientific holidays?
As a longtime atheist, I get uncomfortable celebrating the traditional set of holidays because of their religious significance. (I still participate in some of them, but it always feels weird, ya know?) So I have my own:
Solstices & equinoxes
3/14
4/20
Memorial Day weekend
my birthday
Labor Day weekend
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: politics
11/05/08 09:07 - ID#46565
** Loving **
Why don't we put it to vote whether whites and blacks should marry? *hypothetical* This is really not acceptable and neither is anti-gay marriage referendums.
Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii to an interracial couple but his parents' marriage was not legally recognized in 16 states. In those states it was illegal for a white person and a person of color* to marry or live together as husband and wife. It was a felony punishable by jail time of one to five years. In Loving v. Virginia in 1967, the Supreme Court held that anti-miscegenation laws could no longer be enforced.
In some senses, this has happened before and will happen again.
Remember Romer v. Evans? Colorado voters had passed a state constitutional amendment that prohibited its jurisdictions from passing any ordinances or laws that gave equal protection rights to gays (nondiscrimination in housing, work, etc.). The Supreme Court tossed it. That was 1996.
In Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), the court upheld the constitutionality of sodomy laws but overturned that decision in 2003 with Lawrence v. Texas. That's pretty damned recent. There are still sex-toy bans on the books in some southern states and two federal appeals courts have had different rulings on challenges to those bans, so look for that to be an issue eventually.
Things are changing and will keep changing. Yes, I'm very disappointed in the California Prop 8 ban and sad for my high school friend Jess who got married there last week, but I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years it gets knocked down, either by another proposition or a by a Supreme Court ruling. I think and hope that NYS will be the first to have legislatively enacted marriage rights for same-sex couples, which will provide a solid basis for legal challenges to other things. Eventually the federal Defense of Marriage Act will be knocked down, hopefully on an equal protection basis. The sodomy and sex-toy rulings have been on a right to privacy basis (like Roe v. Wade).
- In some states, it was just blacks, in others it was Blacks and certain other racial groups, in some it was all nonwhites.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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my cuz is there.