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	<title>Artvoice Daily &#187; Good Ideas</title>
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		<title>Tonight: The Lebowski Festival @ Voelker&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/14/tonight-the-lebowski-festival-voelkers/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/14/tonight-the-lebowski-festival-voelkers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight is the second annual celebration of  all things Lebowski at Voelker Lanes (corner of Elmwood and Amherst, across from Joe&#8217;s Garage). Thirty dollars  (a portion of which benefits the local chapter of the American Cancer Society) buys you unlimited bowling and shoe rental, some local comedians, live music, and an open bar from 11pm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday: City Kitty Fundraiser @ Nietzsche&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/07/sunday-city-kitty-fundraiser-nietzsches/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/07/sunday-city-kitty-fundraiser-nietzsches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allentown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It may not be “kitten season” yet, but it’s definitely time for last season’s batch of cuties to get spayed or neutered, in order to ward off an even bigger kitty explosion come spring. This semi-annual fundraiser helps “build the kitty for the kitties,” meaning proceeds benefit City Kitty, basically a one-woman cat rescue mission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday: The Scorpio Ball</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/06/saturday-the-scorpio-ball/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/06/saturday-the-scorpio-ball/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday night, the Coalition for Economic Justice is hosting the second ever Scorpio Ball, celebrating Scorpios and the Halloween season, the end of the year&#8217;s elections, and another year of promoting workers rights, a living wage, accountable economic development, health are for all, and justice in general.  (CEJ&#8217;s Micaela Shapiro-Shellaby writes: &#8220;Years back, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working With What&#8217;s There</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/03/working-with-whats-there/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/03/working-with-whats-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skyway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walkway Over the Hudson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like those backward downstate New Yorkers are at it again. First, there was the successful High Line that reused a defunct Manhattan rail line as a public park, and now the Walkway Over the Hudson, the newest NYS park, which opened to the public on October 3. They even got Empire State Development grant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday: Greg Klyma @ Allen Hall</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/03/wednesday-greg-klyma-allen-hall/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/03/wednesday-greg-klyma-allen-hall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WBFO’s Wednesday night concert series continues at Allen Hall on UB&#8217;s South Campus with Buffalo-born folk troubadour Greg Klyma. Although Klyma now spends most of his time on the road touring, and he did relocate to Austin, Texas in 2004, Klyma is still considered a hometowner by his fans and the local media (he continues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LoCurto on Discount Drug Cards</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/27/locurto-on-discount-drug-cards/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/27/locurto-on-discount-drug-cards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A good idea for a poor city: Tomorrow evening, Buffalo Councilman Mike LoCurto is introducing a program that provides free prescription drug discount cards, sponsored by the National League of Cities. LoCurto will explain the program at 5pm at the North Buffalo Community Center (203 Sanders Road).  The discount cards offer average savings of 20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday: K Records Showcase at Sugar City</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/25/monday-k-records-showcase-at-sugar-city/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/25/monday-k-records-showcase-at-sugar-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Influential indie label K Records (former home of Modest Mouse, Built to Spill) is coming through town on Monday (Oct. 26) with a cast of underground innovators hand-plucked from the rich musical landscape of the Pacific Northwest. A new find—ear candy out of Olympia, Washington—called LAKE will be serving up songs from all over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday: 10,000 Maniacs @ Essex Street</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/23/saturday-10000-maniacs-essex-street/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/23/saturday-10000-maniacs-essex-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems as though a year cannot pass in WNY without the weather claiming some victims. Back in August, the first victim of the season was Griffis Sculpture Park. Due to a series of heavy wind storms the park suffered approximately $50,000 in damage; many of their trails either destroyed or  rendered a danger to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up With the Locals</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/26/up-with-the-locals/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/26/up-with-the-locals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone in this community has some opinion on our local businesses. Some of us do everything in our power to support them. To these people, local businesses might as well be a part of the family. So for these people, Yuichiro Yamada, a documentary filmmaker and graduate student at UB, made two documentaries to follow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama in Gum Wrappers: Seeking the Artist</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/30/obama-in-gum-wrappers-seeking-the-artist/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/30/obama-in-gum-wrappers-seeking-the-artist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We can&#8217;t seem to locate Arseno, the artist who made this gum wrapper portrait of Barack Obama:

The Wrigley people want to get a hold of you. Hopefully to make you some money, not to sue you. To be safe, het a hold of us here at Artvoice: editorial@artvoice.com.


Related posts (automatically generated):Gum Wrapper Obama]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine the Best Disinfectant</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/01/sunshine-the-best-disinfectant/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/01/sunshine-the-best-disinfectant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BERC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BURA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fontana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franczyk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kearns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LoCurto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rivera]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Got this press release today from the Common Council, concerning a resolution demanding more transparency from the city&#8217;s semi-autonomous agencies and boards:
Council Members Kearns and LoCurto and their co-sponsors, Council Members Rivera, Fontana, and Franczyk, are introducing two resolutions for consideration by the Full Common Council, that would increase the transparency of operations of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday: Green Expo</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/07/saturday-green-expo/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/07/saturday-green-expo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 20:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antoine Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Expo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heather Zeisz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had hoped to put something about this in today&#8217;s print edition, because it sounds pretty cool to me: This Saturday at the Main Place Mall is the first Buffalo Niagara Green Expo. The event kicks off Buffalo Green Week, which ends next weekend with the American Solar Energy Society Conference at the Convention Center.
Essentially, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dispatch: IDA Reform Protest</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/04/16/dispatch-ida-reform-protest/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/04/16/dispatch-ida-reform-protest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antoine Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carl paladino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition for Economic Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDA reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Hoyt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AV&#8217;s roving reporter Ellen Przepasniak sent in this dispatch from yesterday afternoon&#8217;s IDA reform protest, organized by the Coalition for Economic Justice:
While protestors in period costume held a tea party outside City Hall on Wednesday to protect unfair taxation, the Coalition for Economic Justice held a smaller, calmer rally a few blocks away at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosa Gibson: Community Action Information Center</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/04/10/rosa-gibson-community-action-information-center/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/04/10/rosa-gibson-community-action-information-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Action Information Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Bank of WNY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosda Gibson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago I talked with Rosa Gibson, one of this city&#8217;s great community activists, and I was reminded of this short piece we did on her and her Community Action Information Center last year. Seemed worth pulling out of the archives:



Related posts (automatically generated):Remembering Rosa GibsonGREAT LAKES HEALTH TO HOLD COMMUNITY FORUM TOMORROW, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting Tonight: Reusing School #36</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/03/30/meeting-tomorrow-reusing-school-36/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/03/30/meeting-tomorrow-reusing-school-36/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allentown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elmwood Village Charter Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School # 36]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight at 7pm, there&#8217;s a meeting at the Allendale Theatre (203 Allen Street) concerning a possible reuse for Buffalo Public School #36, which sits on the northwest corner of Days Park in Allentown and fronts on Hudson Street as well. At the meeting, the Elmwood Village Charter School (124 Elmwood Avenue) will make a pitch [...]]]></description>
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