Why I didn’t have my own giant hunk of grease across ARTVOICE’s recent food issue is beyond me because – besides music – one of my favorite things to debate and talk endlessly about is food here in the Queen City.
There’s nothing like deliberating with friends what joint has got the better wings or wecks, ever trading off favored off the beaten path gin mills and surprise spots of gastronomical treasure in attempting to trump one another.
No stretch of local road rates higher on the great food scale for for me as the mile of Delaware between Hertel and Kenmore Avenues. It’s here where I insist you can buy Buffalo’s best Italian sausage and pork products (Scime’s Rite Price), get chicken wings that put every other in joint in town to shame (Kelly’s Korner) or grab for a great sub, ravioli dinner or custard at host of other choice stops.
So it was fitting that along this part of Delaware – making that all too often stop for the beloved Three Cheese Burrito – I saw this sight: what I decided was a sort of a tap out in a veritable Buffalo fast food Clash of the Titans.
Click on the picture for a closer view.
Smilin’ Fascist Fraczyk Goes After
Buffalo’s Great Villain: Boomin’ Bass
Buffalo Common Council president David Franczyk introduced a plan at yesterday’s Council meeting to ban loud car stereos in the city of Buffalo.
Franczyk’s ridiculous and unconstitutional plan – which apes a new law in Sarasota, Florida – hopes to not only ticket and potentially give jail time to drivers playing music deemed too loud but actually aims to make owning sound systems capable of higher dBs illegal!
In an interview today with WBEN radio today Franczyk was heard spouting some lovely racial profile-speak when he cited that loud car stereos are part of “gangster” lifestyle and that most users of such are probably already involved in criminal activities.
It’s great that in a city with dramatic poverty, failing schools and certainly much bigger crime to chase that the Common Council is really hitting at the hard “quality of life” issues and with a barely-veiled racist tenor.
In Franczyk’s honor, I promise to blast Boogie Down Production’s 1989 classic “Who Protects Us From You?” when I am riding the streets of the Queen City later today… and I do have a subwoofer in my trunk.
The once and always Twin Cities bard of broken bottles and broken hearts is finally set to resurface – essentially for the first time in almost two years – tomorrow.
Details are cloudy but on Saturday, July 19 (a/k/a June 49) the former Replacements frontman and acclaimed singer/songwriter promises to deliver 49minutes of new music for $0.49. Sounds like a good sum for this economy-strapped summer.
Check the semi-official Westerberg page tomorrow and see where one of America’s greatest natural musical resources is taking us next:
Paul’s Page: Man Without Ties
In other Westerberg news, Rhino just announced the final four Replacements albums (Tim, Pleased To Meet Me, Don’t Tell A Soul and All Shook Down) are set to hit the shelves as reissues on September 23, fully remastered and bolstered by bonus tracks.
What can I say?
On both counts: I can’t hardly wait.
To celebrate, here’s an outtake from the Pleased To Meet Me sessions where the Mats beautifully/sloppily cover the Bobby Lewis’ 1961 #1 “Tossin’ & Turnin’”:
Replacements – Tossin and Turnin
