It’s probable that words like “metaphysics” and “ontology” made your brain throb in college, but fortunately, 464 won’t expect you to recall definitions, write a four-page paper on the nature of “being” or probe deeply…

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Elmwood Village is a bustling place to begin with, but this weekend there’s a little more structure to the bustle.

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The title of the Emerging Leaders of the Arts Buffalo’s event is “Speakeasy: ELAB Big-Ass Party.” Judging from its Prohibition-era theme, however, maybe “secretively bad-ass” would be a more apt description.

In order to appreciate…

Michael Canfield
Associate News Editor

When Alice Benishyaka fled war-torn Rwanda for the Ivory Coast in 1994, she couldn’t have imagined living in Buffalo 17 years later, selling handmade wares from her home country. That’s exactly what…

Day two of one of Buffalo's biggest events -- the Allentown Art Festival -- was in full swing Sunday. Don Nieman snapped photos.

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Emerging Leaders in the Arts Buffalo, abbreviated as ELAB, hosted a party at A.J. Fries' studio on Seneca Street. Here are Buffalo.com photographer Chuck Alaimo's photos.

For more info about the event, look back at the preview here:

http://home.buffalo.com/entertainment/blog/big-ass-elab-party/

Artists spend hours concentrating, mulling over ideas and stressing over small yet crucial details.  At the end of the day, though, all that harbored anxiety must be released (or they’ll undoubtedly go crazy).  Beware a stressed artist.

ELAB,…