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Top Ten May Album Releases to be Excited About
May. 7 | Okay, I’m a little late on this month’s countdown, so bare with me. Luckily, many of the albums on this list won’t be seeing record store shelves for a couple weeks, so the list can stay relevant for a bit. We’re only a week into May, but...
Concert Review and Photos: St. Vincent
May. 6 | Making her first return to WNY since she opened for Andrew Bird at Asbury Hall back in 2009, St. Vincent put on a performance of cataclysmic proportions last night at Town Ballroom. The show was nothing short of stunning; this year’s most powerful...
Tonight: St. Vincent
May. 5 | Last December, art-rocker and best of 2011 lister, St. Vincent, had to cancel her stop in the Nickel City due to “last-minute conflicts.” The backlash was all there with many local fans themselves singing, “I don’t want to be your cheerleader...
Tonight: St. Vincent
May. 5 | Last December, art-rocker and best of 2011 lister, St. Vincent, had to cancel her stop in the Nickel City due to “last-minute conflicts.” The backlash was all there with many local fans themselves singing, “I don’t want to be your cheerleader...
Cheektowaga Term Limits: Councilmember Wozniak Discusses
May. 2 | Will Cheektowaga Enact Term Limits? Last month, Cheektowaga Councilmember Angela Wozniak (R) put forth a motion to hold a public hearing for a proposed law to establish term limits on all elected officials serving in Cheektowaga. You can view the...
Buffalo: For Realz?! Local Fashion Sense
May. 1 | Clothes make the man... When fancy pants magazines like GQ and websites we’ve never heard of cite Buffalo as extremely lacking in fashion sense, they don’t realize the contributions to fashion made right here in the city and surrounding area of...
Grisanti Goes To (Bat For) The Dogs
Apr. 24 | Who wears stripes better? Cold, windy weather didn’t keep away animal lovers and their furry friends this early afternoon at Buffalo’s “Bark Park” in LaSalle Park this Tuesday as a press event was held there for State Senator Mark...
Three Minute History of Dyngus Day for Anderson Cooper
Apr. 11 | Polished them off! Time for another edition of “Buffalo: For Realz?!” by William Van Landingham, chairman of “Keep Buffalo Lame”. This one is a three minute history of Dyngus Day, so that Anderson Cooper can learn that the occasion...
Mayor Brown Proposes “Proactive” Shitlist For Those Likely To Offend Buffalo In Future
Apr. 11 | And that's just for this month... At a hastily put together press conference outside Redlinski Meats today, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown announced a plan to create a “shitlist” of people who already have, or may in the near future, insult...
Buffalo Announces New Recycling Program for Politicians
Apr. 11 | Tons of trashed politicians looking for re-use in Buffalo and WNY Last week, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown announced that Buffalo set a new monthly record in March for recycling more than 1,000 tons of material. Now, Buffalo looks to take recycling to...
Coming Soon! Keith Olbermann Joins Tommunisms (UPDATE)
Apr. 3 | "Chris Collins: Today's Worst Person in the World!" Tommunisms is proud to announce a major shift in the WNY blogging world with the hiring of political pundit Keith Olbermann to the website. Olbermann has been named “Executive Poohbah...
He’s Baaaaack!
Mar. 25 | Truth in Advertising Former Erie County Executive Chris Collins announced he was running for Congress, in the 27th district, he told The Buffalo News today. This means he will be taking on longtime rival (and incumbent) Kathy Hochul (D)...
Beating the Heat
Mar. 21 | Tommunisms Rewind: The following appeared on Tommunisms on July 7th, 2010. It is as ill-advised now as it was then… Feel the heat! Tommunisms returns from it’s holiday hiatus, and is smack dab in the middle of a heat wave gripping the...
Acropolis to Expand to 2nd Floor, Central Terminal, HSBC Tower, Trico Plant & Your House
Mar. 15 | Coming soon to everywhere! Elmwood Village restaurant proprietor Pauly Tsouflidis announced on Twitter that he will be moving forward with plans to expand his popular Acropolis restaurant on the second floor, which has been a heated issue with some fuddy-duddy...
Strike A Pose
Mar. 14 | The face that launched a thousand ships Although the President was never in any real danger, death threats against him must be taken seriously. Even when they give you a mug shot as goofy as the one of Rochester woman Christine Wright-Darrisaw,...
Tommunist Retort: Historic History of the Historic Trico Building
Mar. 13 | Boxy Lady... In keeping with the Tommunisms theme for 2012 of “All Potshots…No Solutions”, the Tommunist Retort podcast returns with a special guest recording by William Van Landingham (the First), the founder of “Keep Buffalo Lame”....
Mzungu Visits Kony Island
Mar. 8 | Rape, multilation, murder and death. Yep! (SNARK MODE ON) As you well know, Tommunisms has for decades pointed out the atrocities occurring in Uganda by Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army, a group of terrorists (or as he says, “freedom...
Semi-Fake News: Local Edition
Feb. 24 | All the news that’s unfit for print: Tommunisms Semi-Fake New Rundown! Maid of the PIssed! DON’T ROCK THE BOAT Hornblower Cruises has been awarded the contract to provide tourist boat rides at the base of Niagara Falls on the Canadian side. This...
Lawmaker Earns “Stupid Grandstanding” Badge
Feb. 21 | "I was thinkin', I'm gonna take me some of these taters home with me...." Republican Representative Bob Morris was the only member of the Indiana House who has refused to sign a resolution that celebrates the Girl Scouts’ 100th...
Semi-Fake Local News (Updated)
Feb. 17 | Design part of the "Buffa-Load" line at The Tommunist Gift Shop! Time for a local news roundup, that’s almost completely true! UNDER THE BUS? A preliminary vote by the NFTA favors a 25 cent fare increase, raising the fare from $1.75 to $2.00,...
Not So LOL Cats at the Wyoming County SPCA
Feb. 16 | Tonight, in a very special episode of Hoarders: this time, the cat hoarding may not be inside a house, but at the very facility expected to take care of them… Nipping at the heels of the recent story of poor care and questionable euthanasia practices...
Rambling Douchebag NYS Senator Wants Grisanti Incident Investigated
Feb. 15 | 'Whatcha gonna do, when my Senatorial powers come down on you?!?! Will we ever know what truly happened last Friday regarding the altercation between New York Republican State Senator, his wife, and a Seneca Nation businessman and his “associates”?...
Mayor Brown: NYS’ 1 Billion to Lure Dinosaur Bar-B-Que to Buffalo
Feb. 15 | How many dinosaurs do you see? Citing his belief that “we should put all our eggs into one basket”, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown announced his intention to use Governor Andrew Cuomo’s pledge of “One Billion Dollars” to lure...
