How ’bout this 1979 Chevy Camaro Sport Coupe in Medium Green Metallic? It even has the optional white sidewall tires and Rally wheels. Chevy sold over 111,000 of this base model Camaro for 1979, which may sound like a lot until you realize that number was more than 23,000 fewer than the year before. And [...]

’54 Chevy pickup, Niagara Falls USA Some days the Car Pic is a Truck Pic — like today’s 1954 Chevy pickup. It’s from back in the day when pickups were driven mostly by farmers or tradesmen; you didn’t see too many in the parking lot of Salvatore’s! This one’s been sitting in a lot in [...]

’58 Cadillac Sedan de Ville, Model City, N.Y. Okay, so I usually frown against taking pictures through chain-link fences, but how many 1958 Cadillac Sedan de Villes does one run across these days? This one can be spotted daily (at least, I’d assume, as long as good weather continues) in a workplace parking lot in the [...]

Yesterday afternoon, 200 copies of Artvoice were dropped off at Erie County’s Rath Building. Today, we received word that every single copy was gone. AV’s wild popularity notwithstanding, the last time such a run on the paper at the county building occurred was when we published a Bruce Fisher article critical of County Executive Chris [...]

This week Douglas J. Curella, political aficionado, and all around nice guy, passed the NYS Bar Exam. Did he sign a one page contract with Old Scratch? He works with him.  Will he be careful of what he asks for? He should be careful; he just might get it. It opens New Windows: “Cause the [...]

In his column today, Buffalo News political reporter Bob McCarthy wrote that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s endorsement of Mark Poloncarz was a “small gift” because it is not attended by campaign cash. In fact, just yesterday the Poloncarz campaign acknowledged three donations in one day totaling almost $50,000, all from downstate: the statewide political action fun [...]

Seeing that we’re in the midst of a celebration of 100 Years of Chevrolet, I thought we’d spend the next few Fridays highlighting some of my favorites from over the years. Feel free to chime in with your favorite Bow-Tie. First up is the 1955 Bel Air. A complete restyle from the rather dowdy 1954s, [...]

Last night, we received this letter from East Side political activist Clarence Lott, formerly of the Grassroots political club (to which both Brown and Miller-Williams belong) and now of the East Side Political Network (which is supporting Tim Hogues over Miller-Williams for the District 1 seat on the Erie County Legislature): Byron W. Brown has [...]

While NY Governor Andrew Cuomo and US Senator Chuck Schumer are arriving in town tomorrow to endorse Erie County Comptroller Mark Poloncarz in his bid for County Executive, the Erie County Rodent League is swarming to support incumbent Republican Chris Collins. “Under previous administrations we were shunned from society, considered undesirable pests,” according to League [...]

Toxics Targeting, an environmental advocacy group, has sent a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo asking that he withdraw the Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement released by the state DEC for permitting hydrofracking the state’s Marcellus Shale for natural gas. And they’re asking others to sign an online, collective letter to Cuomo making the [...]

Yesterday, the Albany Times-Union reported that the Port Authority PBA, way down in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, recorded a $20,000 donation to Mark Poloncarz’s campaign for Erie County executive on November 1. (TU‘s Jimmy Vielkind writes, “…there is only one possible reason I can think of that they would give the Buffalo Democrat money: Gov. [...]

’76 Buick Skylark, Cambria, NY Spotted this 1976 Buick Skylark in a church parking lot in Cambria last week. Perhaps the owner was praying for another 35 years of service. This body style was shared by every GM car division (Chevy Nova, Olds Omega, and Pontiac Ventura) except Cadillac . Some looked better than others; [...]

2012 Toyota Sienna LE Go east, young van! Announced yesterday was the news that the 2012 Toyota Sienna minivan, which is produced at the Japanese carmaker’s plant in Princeton, Indiana, will be exported to South Korea beginning this month. Initial numbers are 600 units per month — which doesn’t sound like much until you consider [...]

Nickel City Smiler November 4-6 Here in Buffalo, most notably on the West Side, there is a diverse community of refugees from all over the world. People come here from places like Somalia, Burma, Iraq, and other developing countries for a better life. With the help of Buffalo Public Schools, Resettlement Agencies, and caring members [...]