MUSIC-January + February 2012 By Sarah Braunstein Photographs by Michael Winters House of Wonder: The Enchanted Nostalgia of Phantom Buffalo In an era characterized by flux, fragmentation, and tireless self-promotion, when musicians invent and reinvent themselves with astonishing speed, Phantom Buffalo has
PROFILE-January + February 2012 By Sarah Braunstein Photographs by Jarrod McCabe Both Sides Now: The Passion of Margaret Minister OKeefe As a child, I had a pretty simplistic idea about how the art world worked. There were artists—those
PROFILE-January + February 2012 By Sarah Stebbins Photographs by Mark Yaggie On Friday nights when most of us are packing it in, the guys on the DOORMATS hockey team, a group of buddies in their 40s and 50s, are getting
Posted on December 8, 2011 by Joe Ricchio A few weeks ago at Flask, beleaguered and famished from performing karaoke at an ear-bleeding volume to Pat Benatar’s “Love is a Battlefield,” I find myself in dire need of solid nourishment
Posted on November 30, 2011 by Joe Ricchio When Pai Men Miyake opened for business in the fall of 2010, chef/owner Masa Miyake explained to me that it would take at least a year for the restaurant to become what
Posted on October 27, 2011by Joe Ricchio After enjoying an outstanding meal at a new restaurant, my first inclination is to regard it as a fluke. After having my hopes raised and then mercilessly smashed to the ground so many
FEATURE-November + December 2011 By Isaac Kestenbaum Illustrations by Alex Eben Meyer Working toward my Peak at the height of the holiday season. United Parcel Service workers refer to the annual holiday-driven freight increase as simply “Peak.” They talk
Posted on October 19, 2011by Joe Ricchio Up until a few years ago, the world of Greek wines remained completely foreign to me. I, like most at the time, associated the entire country’s viticulture with the astringent, piney elixir known
SEE-November + December 2011 By Lauren Fensterstock A Curator’s Perspective: Shirah Neumann’s Untitled 2011, oil on panel, 48” x 48” Shirah Neumann was born in Los Angeles, spent her childhood in Buffalo, and has since lived in Brooklyn, in
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