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Summer Guide 2008


100 Things You Must Do This Summer

by Artvoice Staff

If the season begins the day you pick up this paper, and if the good weather holds into September—as it often does in these parts—then we figure summer lasts about 100 days. Bracketed by changeable spring weather and bleak winter, those days are luxuries to be well and carefully spent.


Summer Events Guide

by Artvoice Staff

Artvoice's Summer Guide calendar of events includes a complete directory of Fairs & Festivals, Family Fun events, and Summer Music Series listings.


Day Tripping

From Woodlawn Beach to Clifton Springs, With Bites to Eat Along the Way

by Patricia Watson

Living about half a mile from one of the Great Lakes is great: From the window of my downtown office, I can see Lake Erie sparkling. But on a hot summer day when I am covered with dirt from the garden, sometimes I just want to be able to run to the beach, take a quick dip, relax for a while, and come home.

Griffis Sculpture Park

Natural Formations: An Annual Must-Do

by Lucy Yau

Griffis Sculpture Park in Cattaraugus County is one of the nation’s largest sculpture parks. Inspired by a family trip to Hadrian’s Village in Italy, Larry Griffis Jr. returned to Western New York and established a sculpture park in 1966 so that other families could commune with art and nature.

Music

A Playlist For Sunny Weather

by Donny Kutzbach

Ah, 2008! One of the wonders of living in this year of the iPod age is music’s ubiquity. You can have just about any song you could ever want to hear at your fingertips all the time. With that in mind, here are some suitable picks for various purposes and destinations under the bright skies and in the warm breezes.

Movies

Roll The Summer Movie Previews

by M. Faust

Practically everything rolling out of Hollywood this summer comes so pre-sold that for 90 percent of these films all you need to hear is the title to know what it’s about and whether or not you want to see it. Still, just for the record, here’s what will be lurking in wait to you should you let someone lead you to the multiplex blindfolded and kick you into a random auditorium.