Polarsun Century Police Car Who couldn’t like a car company with the motto: “Show yourself, live a wonderful Life.” No, it’s not Exhibitionist Motors; it’s the Chinese manufacturer Polarsun Motor Holdings Ltd., makers of such vehicles as the Polarsun Century, Polarsun SUV, and the Polarsun MPV. You can see for yourself Polarsun’s “…chariness and sincereness [...]

’62 Mercury Monterey, Town of Niagara, N.Y. Looking for something unusual to park in your driveway? They don’t come too much more unusual than this 1962 Mercury Monterey, parked and for sale in a restaurant lot just off Niagara Falls Boulevard in the Town of Niagara. Perhaps a ding or two here and there, but [...]

Queensryche Friday, August 12th Metal: a solid, typically shiny material with good electrical conductivity. Heavy metal: highly distorted, callous sounding rock music with amplifier volume knobs twisted past eleven. How do the two relate? Characteristics of each definition surface in 20 plus year prog-metal veterans Queensryche, who blast ear-pulsating heavy metal with stellar conduction to [...]

Chatsworth’s Fiat 500 Jolly It’s not often you’d see a car on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. But here’s rich kid Chatsworth Osborne Jr. driving into the park in his Fiat 500 Ghia Jolly in a 1962 episode of the popular sitcom. Not often seen on the street (or in the park!), the Jolly [...]

Breaking Laces Saturday, August 13 Three-piece acoustic rock band out of Brooklyn, Breaking Laces, is bringing their irreverently indelible tunes and power pop/rock sensibilities (with a dash of acoustic) to The Lovin’ Cup for a free show on Saturday (Aug 13) in support of their new album, When You Find Out (released May 17th).  More [...]

Despite Erie County’s cuts, Shakespeare in Delaware Park (SDP) has kept on keeping on with their Shakespeare festival. In order to continue the presentation of the second largest outdoor Shakespeare Festival, they need your support. The As You Help Us Campaign was formed after a Family Foundation (that wishes to remain anonymous) authorized a challenge [...]

’60 Olds Super 88, Ramsomville, N.Y. Dig those fender skirts, side pipes, and spinner hubcaps; not to mention the scalloped paint job and dummy spotlight. Looks like one of my old AMT model kits with all the trimmings, but it’s an actual 1960 Oldsmobile Super 88 Holiday Scenicoupe, parked in a Ransomville driveway. According to [...]

2012 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150 Since 1999 Ford has sold over 10,000 specially designed Harley-Davidson-themed pickups. Yesterday they unveiled the 2012 Harley-Davidson F-150, for the first time available in white as well as the traditional black. You can read the full press release here. — Jim Corbran, You Auto Know

Tonight, 7-9pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church (695 Elmwood Avenue), David Cobb of the activist group Move to Amend will discuss the US Suprme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United case, which further opened the floodgates on corporate spending in an election system already awash in cash. Cobb is an attorney and a former Green [...]

’88 Toyota Supra, Grand Island, N.Y. The September issue of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car has an article about “cheap” GT cars for at little as four grand. Among those in the up-to-ten-grand category is the 1986 1/2-1992 Toyota Supra. And darned if I don’t spot one a couple of days ago on Grand Island [...]

End your summer with a poppy, upbeat, burst of energy by catching singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat in concert at the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts on September 13, 7:30pm. The multi-platinum selling artist has won two Grammy Awards for her collaborations with Taylor Swift and Jason Mraz. Caillat’s third album, All of You, was [...]

K-Holes with Call of the Wild, Fatal Figures, and Utah Jazz Monday, August 8 It’s been a while since a band has come along with a name that so rightly suits their sound. Brooklyn’s K-Holes push a brand of art-infused swampy garage-rock that is just as capable of making you achieve an out-of-body hallucinatory dirge [...]

Today, at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society (25 Nottingham Court), there will be celebration of the United Nations Indigenous Peoples Day, with appearances by Native American activist Dennis Banks and film producer Masaou Yamamoto. Banks co-founded the American Indian Movement in 1968 and took part in the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee at [...]

’67 Imperial, Niagara Falls, N.Y. Today, it’s all about the cupholders. But, back when the brochure for this 1967 Imperial four-door sedan was printed, the headline at the top of page 16 proudly proclaimed: “The new Imperial sedan has a glove compartment in each door.” brochure art Well, ya sold me! The pillared sedan was [...]