Features:
Mayoral Survivor Contest: The BEAST Wants You to Run for Mayor!
Truth is Overrated: Why Does My TV Think Bush Won the Debate? - Al Uthman
Political Snickering: M&M/Mars' Campaign of Terror - Matt Taibbi
Big Brother Knows Best: Blockbuster Rents Bogus Fahrenheit 9/11 DVDs - Paco Alameda
Scary Little Man: Bush's Belligerence -William Rivers Pitt
Kneeling Before George: President Bush is a Serious Stud - Merry Dunce, the Beast's "Fresh Voice"
American Indian Museum Opens in DC, Promptly Stolen by American History Museum -Jake Novak
Reading the Blitz: Election Hacks Score Touchdown in Overtime Frenzy - Matt Taibbi
Freedumb: Zell Miller Echoes Militaristic Fallacy - Mark Golden
The Straight Dope w/ Dr Rotten
Brush with Greatness: I met Gretzky - Seamus Gallivan
Entertainment:
Movies:
Music:
Album Reviews: Tom Waits, De La Soul
Events:
Misfits Roadie's Haunted House -Ken Barnes
Sports:
High Quality Losers: Numbers Game Pays little for Bills -Ronnie Roscoe
Deep Fried - Jason Yungbluth
Bob The Angry Flower - Stephen Notley
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MAYORAL SURVIVOR: A BEAST CONTEST
ATTENTION BEAST READERS! The BEAST needs you to be the next Mayor of our dear city. That's right! We want you, a lowly loyal BEAST reader, to be the next Mayor of the city of Buffalo. WE ARE TOTALLY SERIOUS! We are launching a search for 16 contestants willing to run for the position of Mayor in 2005...
Truth is Overrated Al Uthman
It's been almost a week since the second Presidential debate, and I'm still baffled at the post-debate coverage.
Well, no, that's not really true. I remember turning to a fellow viewer as we watched Bush go to pieces and saying, "watch; they're gonna come on and call it for Bush."
Political Snicker-ing Matt Taibbi
The good folks at M&M/Mars and BBDO New York have combined recently to give the world one of the more uplifting cinema experiences of the year: a series of commercials in which hapless, ambitionless zeroes with terrible haircuts make improbable journeys from their couches to the throne of mankind after eating Snickers bars.
Big Brother Knows Best Paco Alameda
True story: After eagerly awaiting the DVD release of Fahrenheit 9/11, I take a bus to The Hamburg, NY Blockbuster and ask the first friendly clerk I see to point me toward the new releases. He walks me over to the Fahrenheit 9/11 display and being a very helpful chap, takes a DVD, hands it to me and says "Is this what you were looking for?"
Scary Little Man William Rivers Pitt
George W. Bush, still smarting from his embarrassing performance in the Florida debate, decided on Friday night in St. Louis that volume was a good substitute for strength, that yelling would be mistaken for gravitas. The result was an ugly, disturbing, genuinely frightening show.
Kneeling Before George Merry Dunce
Man, It's so cool to have my own column. Now whenever I get mad that my liberal traitor colleagues are smarter than me, I can regurgitate White House talking points all over the region's only major newspaper! No need for boring insight or analysis; after all, I'm a Republican! We hate that brie-eating crap!
Reading the Blitz Matt Taibbi
Since this is a piece of campaign analysis, let's get right to the sports metaphors. As we know, every campaign writer has a designated quota of tired analogies to fill in each story, and I'm going to try to take care of mine right off the bat. I figure I get to rest my starters in the fourth quarter that way - assuming I build a big lead in the meat of the piece.
Pound of Flesh Gets Heavier - We've been screaming about the shitty state of Erie County's fiscal affairs for awhile now and it seems no one's listening. If you were, you'd be out in the streets like a rabid dog, foaming at the mouth for a taste of Joel Giambra's flesh and blood. Maybe you will when he and the legislature raise the county sales tax to 9.25% and you realize a dime of every dollar you spend goes to quite possibly the most fucked up governmental body in a state that's already the most fucked up in the nation.
