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		<title>Remember New London!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/17/remember-new-london/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pfizer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wyeth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember New London, Connecticut? In 2005, the struggling city won a Supreme Court case to bulldoze the homes of many residents, citing eminent domain, to make way for a huge expansion for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. The city threw in crazy tax breaks to lure the company there, in an effort to revitalize the city. The company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Samaritan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/27/the-good-samaritan/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/27/the-good-samaritan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AV street correspondent John Duke send in this story:
The Express Mart on the corner of Colvin and Highland Streets in the Town of Tonawanda is just a little bit different from the everyday gas station.  You can stop in for unusual items, from a hot Sicilian wrap to a Jones Pure Cane Soda (subtitled &#8220;M. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Obstacle to Jail Expansion Unearthed</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/09/old-obstacle-to-jail-expansion-unearthed/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/09/old-obstacle-to-jail-expansion-unearthed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E.B. Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erie County Holding Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[County Executive Chris Collins&#8217;s proposal to build a new lockup at 120-134 W. Eagle Street is not a new idea, according to this 1998 Buffalo News Article.
The original section of the Erie County Holding Center was designed by renowned architect E.B. Green, who also designed the Albright Knox Art Gallery, the First Presbyterian Church and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffalo International Film Festival 2009 Ticket Giveaway</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/07/buffalo-international-film-festival-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/07/buffalo-international-film-festival-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buffalo international film festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charlie chaplin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free tickets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[giveaway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[it came from outer space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ray bradbury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Buffalo International Film Festival 2009 kicks off this Friday, October 9th.  Artvoice and BIFF will be giving out tickets throughout the month-long festival. We&#8217;ve got a pair of tickets for each event, and in addition we&#8217;ll have some extras for opening night featuring Charlie Chaplin&#8217;s Lost Outtakes and for the Saturday October 17th Ray [...]]]></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>Sponsor a Buffalonian: Nicole</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/25/sponsor-a-buffalonian-nicole/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/25/sponsor-a-buffalonian-nicole/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In response to our (clearly satirical) &#8220;Sponsor a Buffalonian&#8221; feature in this week&#8217;s paper, we received this very real solicitation for sponsorship from a real live Buffalonian. Contact editorial@artvoice.com if you&#8217;d like to make a donation, or of you&#8217;d like to solicit sponsorship for yourself.
Name: Nicole
Age: 27
Home: Allentown
Lives off: Commission and tips
This is Nicole. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simpson Speechifies</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/23/simpson-speechifies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Babeville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UB President John Simpson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you couldn&#8217;t get into your usual parking space at the Buffalo Club this morning, blame it on UB President John Simpson, who held his annual community address across the street at Babeville. I think I was the only sucker who put a quarter in a meter on the street. And I&#8217;m lucky I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meanwhile, In Other News&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/14/meanwhile-in-other-news/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/14/meanwhile-in-other-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
AV street correspondent John Duke sent in this photo of fans Kate Feroleto and her cousin Leah Feroleto with Keanu Reeves. Reeves was in town yesterday to get a feel for Buffalo’s City Court building, where filming for Henry’s Crime will take place.
Congratulations to Buffalo Niagara Film Commissioner Tim Clark for bringing the production to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer&#8217;s Last Barbecue</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/11/simmers-last-barbeque/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/11/simmers-last-barbeque/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AV street correspondent John Duke sent in this invitation to come see two of his favorite local musicians:

There are people that barbecue and then there are “Barbecue People.” Some of WNY’s best barbecue talent will be showcasing their ability to produce succulent, slow smoked ribs at Dunn Tire Raceway’s First Annual Rib Bash on Saturday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blank, Void, and Scattering</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/10/blank-void-and-scattering/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/10/blank-void-and-scattering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While writing today&#8217;s story about next week&#8217;s Democratic primary, I noticed that in the 2005 Democratic primary for mayor, 2,420 ballots out of 30,308 were discarded for being &#8220;blank,&#8221; &#8220;void,&#8221; and &#8220;scattering.&#8221; That&#8217;s nearly 8% of the vote. In the 2001 Democratic mayoral primary, the number of discounted ballots was 3,920 out of 32,888—almost 12%.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oishei on Buffalo ReUse</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/25/oihsei-on-buffalo-reuse/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/25/oihsei-on-buffalo-reuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve heard what Michael Gainer has to say about being fired from Buffalo ReUse, the organization he co-founded and led. You&#8217;ve read statements by the board and Harvey Garrett, the interim executive director who let him go. And you&#8217;ve learned that some members have called a special meeting at which they intend to oust the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Motivated, And Get Out</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/19/get-motivated-and-get-out/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/19/get-motivated-and-get-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AV correspondent Ellen Przepasniak on yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;Get Motivated&#8221; seminar at HSBC Arena:
Picture this. The emcee of Tuesday&#8217;s “Get Motivated” seminar is standing on a stage in the middle of a sold-out HSBC Arena. The pristine blonde woman in four-inch gold pumps roars, elongating every  vowel, “Laaaadiiiiieeees aaaand geeeentleeemeeeen, Miiiisteeer Steeeeveeee Foooooorbeeeees!”  The PA system begins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dale Volker&#8217;s Tea Party</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/19/dale-volkers-tea-party/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/19/dale-volkers-tea-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AV correspondent Geoffrey Anstey reports on last night&#8217;s fundraiser for State Senator Dale Volker:
On Tuesday, two separate groups gathered at the usually quiet Erie Basin Marina: one dressed in suits and ties armed with checkbooks, and the other dressed in t-shirts and slacks armed with angry signs. Both made it to the harbor on account [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See a Free Preview Screening of &#8220;Adam&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/17/see-a-free-preview-screening-of-adam/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/17/see-a-free-preview-screening-of-adam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Movie Passes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preview screening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Artvoice is giving away free tickets to see Adam, before it officially opens to the public.  Tickets will be available tomorrow, Tuesday August 18th starting at 10AM at the Artvoice office. Tickets are first come first serve, and will be available through 5PM or while supplies last.  The screening is Tuesday evening at 7:30PM.

Romance can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another One Bites the Dust</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/17/another-one-bites-the-dust/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/17/another-one-bites-the-dust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christopher byrd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polish village]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shadracks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Byrd has posted the latest sad tale of a local landmark crushed to oblivion.
Visit Broadway Fillmore Alive to see which familiar old nightclub is no more.
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