After posting on quality of life issues last week, and featuring a tree surrounded by asphalt at the Evans National Bank driveway at Delavan, I received an inspiring email earlier today. Even though it was City property, Mike Lucchino, owner o…

Maria Merlino spent an inordinate amount of time in the Chippewa bar district in her early twenties. She was not your typical overzealous patron; Maria spent her Buff State years running some of Buffalo’s premiere party spots.  She helped…

After sitting exposed to the elements for a better part of the summer (see post), the windows on Our Lady of Lourdes Church have been boarded up. Thankfully, after sending emails and placing phone calls to Councilman Curtis Haynes, he stepped …

There is another bike group hitting the roads these days. It’s not Critical Mass, or the Midnight Madness gang, or the Lazy Randonneur Club. It’s The Angry Bees, a group of cyclists that departs from Allentown every Wednesday at 7pm. They meet…

When you live in a city that was once known as The City of Trees, you shouldn’t feel bad when someone calls you a tree hugger. It can be tough to watch concrete being poured over tree beds, or a crew of hacks taking down branches on your stree…

By: Tony WilsonI tried to write an article that extolled the virtues of catching a band like Shellac. But I couldn’t. It turns out it just didn’t feel right to try and sugar coat something that was created with the idea that life is not covere…

What happens when you mix two people who are good with kids and like to fix bicycles?  An environmentally focused art program that engages kids in the creation of bicycle sculptures! The results of which will be on display at the Grant St…

This year’s Mass Appeal fashion show is taking on a different twist. Designers and fashion boutiques are being asked to dress it down for once – the concept is based on a timely favorite… wearable art. That means that fashion gawkers will re…

Here’s a stretch of road that could use some real help. West Delavan Avenue, from Main Street to Delaware Avenue could, and should, be altered to become pedestrian and bike friendly. If you think about it, this is the connection between Canisi…

Update on 120 South Park from Tim Tielman:”By next Wednesday an engineer and an architect will have gone through the building. An engineer already has done exterior survey, and submitted an affidavit that the building is in no danger of collap…

Sushi joints are spreading through WNY like wild fire. In the Elmwood Village, independent restaurants are popping up left and right, while in the suburbs Wasabis and Fuji Grills are taking over, one strip mall at a time. It once felt as thoug…

Although the Hydraulics neighborhood continued to thrive into the twentieth-century, by the mid-1900s, the area faced increasing economic difficulties.  Like the city of Buffalo as a whole, job loss, declining population and the aging of …

A Flock of Seagulls, The Romantics, Dramarama, When in Rome, Animotion and Gene Loves Jezebel… that’s the line-up for the Hello Yesterday concert being presented at LaSalle Park on September 18th. Not a bad line-up for LaSalle Park, the city…

Upstate economic development received a much needed boost when Governor David A. Paterson signed into law legislation sponsored by Assemblymember Sam Hoyt (A10839/S7556) amending the current Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit law to allow bank…

Rarely have I seen so much garbage strewn about than at the corner of Hertel and Delaware. It was so bad in fact that I hopped off my bike and began to look around to see what could be done. Stuff was everywhere – Tim Hortons and Dunkin’ Donut…