The Erie County Sheriff’s Department needs your help in locating a Town of Boston woman that has been missing since Monday.
Detectives say Sandra M. Biggerstaff, 50, failed to show up to work Monday morning.  She was last seen by family members at 7:45am.  She was later seen on videotape purchasing gasoline at a gas station [...]

Boston based hip-hop artist Jeffrey Haynes, also known as Mr. Lif, is ready to tell you what he thinks about the government, no matter who is in charge. On the title track of his newest album, I Heard It Today (2009), which he released on his own record label, Bloodbot Tactical Enterprises, he makes references to the housing [...]

When this Buffalo Evening News ad ran in the November 4, 1963 editions, Brost Motors Inc. was a Dodge and Simca dealer (Simca was a French division of the Chrysler Corp.). In 1965 Brost became a Ford dealer at the same 1285 Main St.
address in Buffalo. By 1970 they had moved to Broadway in Alden. [...]

The beads have been tossed, the drinks have been drunk, and sadly, the party is over…
Artvoice and Southern Comfort still have a trip for two to New Orleans to give away. The prize goes to the best of the eligible floats in this year’s parade – and YOU are the judge. Please take a moment [...]

Hi all,
As many of you may or may not know I am the former board President of the Black Rock Assumption Boys and Girls Club. I loved this club with my heart and soul. I put all my energies into helping this club because I believed and still believe in the good it can provide [...]

The invitations to this year’s State of the City speech look a little different than last year’s. Last year, you recall, there was all the hubbub about the Mayor using the seal of the City of Buffalo on the invite, and charging everyone $35 for the privilege of listening to hizzonor. At the last minute, [...]

After much deliberations, we’ve settled on our favorite three stories in this week’s Open Your Hearts contest. It was strong field, in our opinion, and so we’re not going to bother ranking these three. Each is terrific in its own right.
We’re leaving out the names of the authors, as we did with all the stories, [...]

On February 12, 1988, Canadien and American Scientists hatched a plan so secretive that the television program X-Files was forbidden to allude to its specifics in an episode planned for broadcast on December 21, 2012—some 10 1.2 years after the series’ last episode aired on May 19, 2002.
At the time, in 1988, now missing investigators [...]

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On Thursday (Feb. 11), Tom Wilson and his musical outfit Lee Harvey Osmond will bring their brand of “acid folk” to the Sportsmen’s Tavern. The Hamilton, Ontario band plays desert border music, recalling late-career Dylan mixed with Nick Cave and a sprinkle of Johnny Cash, with steamy saxophones and wailing harmonica [...]

Comedian Kristen Becker, in addition to “Doin’ Time” at the weekly Tuesday night comedy series at Nietzsche’s, for the past three years has been driving her Dykes of Hazard (DOH) comedy tour all over the country gathering audiences from Buffalo to Berkeley and everywhere in between. From big theaters to small [...]

The 14th edition of the International Women’s Film Festival opens in fine form next Thursday (Feb. 11) with a revival of Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash’s lovely, lyrical tone poem about an extended African-American family on one day in 1903. Descendants of slaves, they have lived for many years on [...]

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake struck at 4am this morning outside of Chicago. The USGS initially reported a stronger 4.3 quake, but has since readjusted its assessment.
No injuries have been reported thus far.
Still, it may only be a matter of time until Pat Robertson pins the cause of the quake on the pact with the devil [...]

If, indeed, the South will rise again, let it be musically and in the spirit of this biracial Ol’ Miss blues duo (born and raised in Mississippi and Missouri, respectively). Now based inf Mississippi, the Juke Joint Duo consists of drummer/vocalist Cedric Burnside, grandson of the late, great R.L Burnside, and [...]