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Weekend Warriors: Sights and sounds from the Section VI football championships

It was a busy weekend at Ralph Wilson Stadium where local high schools competed in the Section VI championships. News photographer Mark Mulville was there to capture the games in this audio slideshow. (Updated: 11/08/09 10:52 PM )

The girl who grew up not needing a prince

A baby left in the forest, a shape-shifting sorceress, a lovestruck prince —the familiar fairy-tale ingredients are there, starting with “Once Upon a Time.” (Updated: 11/08/09 10:09 AM )

Painted into a corner, Arts Council has no easy way out

From its modest ground-floor offices at 700 Main St., the Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie County has operated as a fixture on Western New York's arts scene for more than 36 years. (Updated: 11/07/09 3:59 PM )

CHATTANOOGA’S NEW LOOK

Strapped into a harness and lying only a couple of inches from the soft, dew-wet grass airstrip at Lookout Mountain Flight Park in Georgia, I close my eyes, swallow hard, and then say a little prayer. OK, scratch that. A big prayer. (Updated: 11/08/09 8:29 AM )

Colonial Williamsburg brings realities of slavery to life

It’s your personal property. Name it anything you like. Give it as a birthday gift or throw it on the ground when you get angry or frustrated. (Updated: 11/08/09 8:29 AM )

‘Museum of Innocence’ an exploration of obsession

Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk turns anthropologist of experience in his new work, “The Museum of Innocence.” He does this by encapsulating the world’s beauty, childhood and happiness with a master writer’s control of an obsessive personality. (Updated: 11/08/09 8:29 AM )

How Herblock ruled Washington with a pen

Herbert Lawrence Block is the reason Tom Toles no longer draws editorial cartoons just outside my office, although when I peer over the top of my computer I can still see his old drawing table and the signature drawing lamp he depicts in the lower corner of his cartoons. (Updated: 11/08/09 8:29 AM )

Listening Post /Brief reviews of select releases

Her peers consider Dolly Parton to be among the best songwriters around and a singer in the company of legends Mother Maybelle Carter and Kitty Wells. (Updated: 11/08/09 11:34 AM )

Miss Manners: To tell or not to tell?

Dear Miss Manners: A guest, who, like me, is a middle-aged bachelor (well, I am perhaps a tad beyond middle age, but never mind that) returned this summer—essentially homeless after many years out of the country—to undergo surgeries from which he is now recovering. He does not require in-home medical assistance, but is under doctor’s orders to avoid his usual athletic activities for a while, and he cannot drive now. (Updated: 11/08/09 10:05 AM )

Bruins spoil debut of Sabres' Enroth

BOSTON — The easy way out for the Buffalo Sabres would have been to blame the kid for their second straight loss. Rookie goaltender Jhonas Enroth gave up a goal on the first shot he faced in the NHL. He allowed three on his first 13 shots and spent most of his debut scrambling around the crease. (Updated: 11/08/09 10:53 PM )

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