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  • 2 months ago | nymisojo.com | Mark Sommer

    Suneel Ram’s needs gradually became greater after he was diagnosed at age 3 with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a muscle-wasting genetic disorder that afflicts one in 5,000 boys. Today, Ram, 28, requires physical and occupational therapies, help with personal hygiene and special food preparation, and depends on accessible spaces, a motorized wheelchair and specially equipped van.

  • 2 months ago | buffalonews.com | Mark Sommer

    Suneel Ram’s needs gradually became greater after he was diagnosed at age 3 with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a muscle-wasting genetic disorder that afflicts one in 5,000 boys. Today, Ram, 28, requires physical and occupational therapies, help with personal hygiene and special food preparation, and depends on accessible spaces, a motorized wheelchair and specially equipped van.

  • 2 months ago | buffalonews.com | Mark Sommer

    Suneel Ram is a spiritual seeker, sings in a band and was the subject of a comic novel two years ago about living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare genetic disorder that afflicts one in 5,000 boys. Ram isn’t defined by the disease, but it poses a seemingly unending multitude of challenges. He hasn’t grown in 20 years. He can no longer walk or raise his arms.

  • Mar 27, 2025 | buffalonews.com | Mark Sommer

    The UB Center for the Arts, now in its 30th season, is the heartbeat for arts and culture for over 30,000 students enrolled at the University at Buffalo. The center’s three floors frequently hum with students performing dance and theater, and creating art in the building’s four theaters, classroom, studio and gallery spaces and the light-infused atrium that can double as a performance space. But the center is also home to a variety of professional shows.

  • Mar 21, 2025 | buffalonews.com | Mark Sommer

    Ten years. That is how long it could take the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra to get back to where it was when Covid-19 caused the venerable arts organization to shut down in March 2020, according to Daniel Hart, BPO’s president and executive director. The BPO is hardly alone. Local theater companies, movie theaters, music clubs and literary arts organizations continue to feel the decline in revenue and attendance and changes in peoples’ entertainment habits that came in with the pandemic.

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