Kathy Madigan One of the funniest women in America performs at Kleinhans this week Something in the name Kathy generates hilarity. Next to Kathy Griffin, another Kathy has got jokes—Kathleen Madigan. You may have seen her on NBC’s Last Comic Standing as the only female comic to ever go unchallenged. She’s made David Letterman feel [...]

It’s the last day of August and I find myself outbound on Route 33 expressway in rush hour traffic that’s as anxious to rush out of city as I am to get out my car and stop driving. I’ve been driving all day but here I am anyway surrounded by cars under a clear summer [...]

’69 Checker Taxi  from the series “Taxi” From the second episode of the first season of the television series Taxi, dispatcher Louie DePalma (Danny DeVito) crouches under a 1969 Checker Taxi in the garage. These older Checkers seemed to always be around the garage in some state of disrepair, while the newer Checkers — the [...]

This weekend the women of Erie County and surrounding areas are going to pack up their gym gear and head to South Wales to get down and dirty with Mother Earth at the first inaugural Dirty Girl Mud Run on Saturday, September 10. Imagine, if you can, around 3,000 muddy, soaking-wet women tearing through a [...]

Click here to read the recently released New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS). Only a handful of public meetings addressing the SGEIS are being scheduled around the state, and the deadline for written comments will expire at the close of business on Monday, December 12. Better start reading [...]

The Buffalo Bisons 2011 season is in the books… on the field, another dreary and miserable season, their third worst record in the modern era, and the sixth straight year where the team has not made it to the postseason. Despite the lack of success for the team, the 2011 was a fun one in [...]

’86 Olds Cutlass, Niagara Falls USA One of these days I’m going to have to stop one of these guys and ask them to take me for a ride. Looking at the huge wheels and mimimal rubber on this 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass, I just can’t imagine it rides or handles very well. But it sure [...]

WEBR’s ’57 Plymouth Custom Suburban Here (from back in the day) is the WEBR mobile news cruiser, a 1957 Plymouth Custom Suburban, with (as indicated on the front fender) a V-8. Located at 970 on the AM dial, WEBR played popular music and also was a pioneer in the traffic-copter business, with future Amherst Supervisor [...]

There’s a new biography out about legendary labor icon, songwriter, and martyr for the cause of workers and unions, Joe Hill. Click here to read about the new book by William M. Adler. Click here to read more. Today isn’t May Day, when most of the global proletariat takes a day off—but happy Labor Day [...]

1966 Plymouth VIP, Youngstown, N.Y. You didn’t see many of these even when they were new, so it’s an unusual find this week — this 1966 Plymouth VIP four-door hardtop parked in Youngstown. Ford created a new category in 1965 when they introduced the LTD: the luxury “low-price” car for Everyman. Ford was so bold [...]

Go-Leafs-Go So here’s my take on this personalized plate: the Chevy HHR is being driven by a guy named Red, probably in his 50s, and he’s guessing that the Leafs will win their next Stanley Cup when he’s 96. — Jim Corbran, You Auto Know

There are two local websites to which politicians inexplicably prostrate themselves: One is run by Joe Illuzzi, the other by Glenn Gramigna. From time to time, Illuzzi attracts our criticism. Today it’s Gramigna’s turn. Today, under the headline “Diane Wray: Not Recommended But Running for City Court Anyway,” Gramigna writes this: There is no law [...]

Cadillac Ciel concept If you were in Chelsea, New York City the other day, you might have caught a glimpse of the Cadillac Ciel. French for sky, it’s pronounced C-L. (I say when you have to provide a pronunciation guide with your product, your marketing department has failed in its mission.) The Ciel is a [...]

Best known as the human star of Avatar, Sam Worthington co-stars with The Debt as David, one of three Mossad agents who in the early 1960s are sent to Berlin to “retrieve” Dieter Vogel, a doctor known as the Surgeon of Birkenau for his criminal research on prisoners during World War II. On the mission, [...]

End of summer giving you the blues? Cheer up! Next weekend (September 9, 10 & 11), you can catch a slew of hot blues acts in the honeymoon capital of the world, Niagara Falls. The show is free, taking place on an outdoor stage on Old Falls Street. From the press release: Festival founder, organizer [...]