This sad-looking 1951 Buick Special showed up recently outside of a Niagara Falls wrecking yard — just in time for the “It’s New Year’s Eve; Don’t Drink-and-Drive” warning. And so there it is: my wish for a safe and Happy New Year to all. Don’t let your car be featured here next year! — Jim Corbran, [...]

Looking to get a jump on 2012, revelers, politicos, urban-planning majors, live music fans, and members of the local honky-tonk community are praising a plan hatched by the Sportsmen’s Tavern to start celebrating New Year’s Eve (Saturday, 12/31) nine hours earlier than the rest of the people living on Eastern Standard Time. The landmark Black [...]

We mistakenly printed the wrong answers in issue Vol.10 No.51. Click on the link below to download a PDF of the correct answer grid to the puzzle that appeared in Vol. 10 No. 50. crossword answers v10n51

As we round out 2011, I would usually post a retrospective of the year’s posts here, but most of my 2011 archives are no longer online. So, instead, I’ll leave you with this thought-provoking post from Rochester journalist Rachel Barnhart. In it, Barnhart recounts a discussion she had with a friend about Rochester’s urban core [...]

“A Reflection on Romance” by CamWall www.flickr.com More in Buffalopundit: AV Photo Daily pool

This 1967 VW spent most of the Fall months sitting by the road just outside of downtown Ransomville with a For Sale sign in the window. I guess there were no takers though, as it has since been moved back into the yard where it now resides with a couple of other old Bugs. — [...]

Tom Tomorrow’s Year in Review Part 1 was posted last week, click here if you missed it.

Someone alerted me to this Twitter status, posted by someone with whom I had argued several months ago. I looked to see if anyone following him had anything to say about it, and no one did – neither positive nor negative. On what planet is this sort of thing acceptable? Why do people just let [...]

Photo by Flickr user fixBuffalo www.flickr.com More in Buffalopundit: AV Photo Daily pool

A while back we showed you the big ol’ Dodge station wagon that Jimmy Stewart and his family drove to the beach in the 1962 movie Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation. Well, like any good suburbanite, Mr. Hobbs had a second car that he used for his daily commute into St. Louis. It was this 1962 [...]

Do you want to make a difference in your community? Do you like social media? Are you someone who digs doing cool stuff with cool people? Do you love supporting local small business? Well, welcome to the #BuffCashMob! We’ll be mobbing the next business on Friday, January 6th. I’ve organized several of these events over [...]

Until now, the only hire of which we were aware was Richard Tobe as Deputy County Executive. Today, the Poloncarz transition team announced a second batch of hires: ·         Gale R. Burstein, MD, MPH, FAAP, FSAHM, Commissioner of Health ·         Robert W. Keating, Director of Budget and Management ·         Daniel Neaverth Jr., Commissioner of Emergency [...]

As you watch the hysterical, (as in hysteria, not as in funny), funeral procession of Stalinist lodestar of the 21st century, still-dead Kim Jong-il of North Korea today, take a look at the limo on top of which Kim’s coffin is being carried. It’s a 1975 Lincoln Continental limousine, held over from Kim’s father, the [...]

“Chomping at the Bit” by CamWall   www.flickr.com More in Buffalopundit: AV Photo Daily pool  

Each Buffalo Common Council member is allocated a certain budget to hire staffers. Some have two, others have three. North District Councilman Joe Golombek is leading a charge to limit the number to two, citing the legacy costs for a third staffer. The Council members with three staffers are Kearns, LoCurto, and Rivera, and it’s [...]