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E-suds to Render Laundry Day a Pleasure

New technology being introduced to college campuses nationwide could ease the pain of doing laundry in the residence halls.E-suds, a collaboration between International Business Machines and USA Technology, will web-enable washing machines and clothes dryers, allowing students to check machine availability, dispense detergent and fabric softener, and receive notification when their clothes are ready to be picked up.Nine thousand machines are being installed on forty campuses, mainly in the Midwest.


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Great Performances for Wilde's Witty 'Windermere'

The Irish Classical Theatre Company (ICTC) has done it again with their excellent performance of Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan." This witty, satirical play opened for Curtain Up!, the Theater District's annual celebration of the stage, to a packed house Thursday evening.


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Playing Life's Game

"Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway." ~ Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915).Some people take the above quotation too literally; some need to adhere to it more often.


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Around the MAC

The Wisconsin Badgers have not looked pretty to this point but have managed to stay perfect at 4-0 and maintain their No.


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MediaForce Cracks Down on Students' File-Sharing on UB Network

UB students who feel that illegally downloading copyrighted material from the Internet is a victimless crime may soon find themselves dealing with the companies who will treat them as criminals.Companies that own the rights to copyrighted materials - including record companies and movie studios - hire MediaForce Inc. to monitor the Internet for instances of file-sharing involving their products.According to Richard H.


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Nuts at the Kavinoky Theater

In Dale Wasserman's stage adaptation of Ken Kesey's powerful novel "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," now showing at the Kavinoky Theater through October 13th, the idea that our own mental and emotional state could be used against us is as chilling and resonant today as it was when introduced in 1962.Milos Forman's 1975 film starring Jack Nicholson as the headstrong Randle Patrick McMurphy went on to earn the top five Academy Awards (film, actor, actress, director and screenplay), and has been the standard of every institutional drama since.


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NYFD Captain Presents Ground Zero Flag to UB

The 26th Annual Newman Convocation and Liturgy of the Holy Spirit took place at St. Joseph's University Church on Sunday, honoring a faculty member as well as the UB alumni, family and members of the Catholic Church who perished on Sept.


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Incubus Plays Stellar Sunday Show

When you've seen a band before they were famous, the nagging thought of "this is going to be so different" is probably in your head just as the band hits the stage amidst their newfound popularity.While the crowd was different last Sunday at Darien Lakes Performing Arts Center, Incubus remained the same for the most part, and asserted itself as one of the best acts in rock today.Lead singer Brandon Boyd looked as if he walked straight out of his latest video, sporting a black button down shirt, striped tie, below knee-length shorts and black ankle socks.


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Sidelines

Women's SoccerThe Bulls opened up their MAC schedule with a split this past weekend. Buffalo kicked it off by eking out a win over Northern Illinois, 1-0.


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A Streetcar Named Desire

"A Streetcar Named Desire," the final installment of Studio Arena Theatre's Tennessee Williams retrospective, is nothing short of exhilarating.Although the production stalls at some points due to choices made in the lighting (for example, having the theater bathed in full darkness every few scenes makes it difficult to keep one's mind on the production) and one or two scenes that seem out of place (such as Blanche's (Susan Wands) attempt to seduce a young messenger boy), this piece is one of Studio Arena's best productions ever.


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Letter To The Editor

Regarding Ms. Brody's Sept. 13 column: If she is so concerned with the welfare of the city's less fortunate, as she so states numerous times throughout her article, why didn't she donate her dumpster "finds" to a worthy charity?


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Fall Theater Season Preview

Say what you will about our chicken wings, state university and sports teams. There's another reason to come to Buffalo: one of the best theater seasons this side of the Hudson.



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