Does Buffalo need another downtown hotel?  This is the question many asked when Uniland announced their downtown mixed-use conversion project, Avant.  And Uniland Development Company answered not with just another “downtown hote…

BRO submission by Ben Perrone:Our current school system is broken and attempts to make it work have never been successful. We have a continual battle between the school board, parents and unions that produce small increments of change and impr…

Two shows recently opened both set in the 1930s. Kavinoky Theater regifts audiences with another staging of Noel Coward’s Present Laughter, repeating successful previous mountings of 1991 and 2001. By contrast to Cabaret, Present Laughter is a…

Two shows recently opened both set in the 1930s. MusicalFare offers Cabaret, a musical classic, based on Christopher Isherwood’s remarkable Berlin Diaries, a collection of fictionalized reminiscences of the giddy, mad, bad days of the early 19…

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Staff Review by Ann Kling:It is Britain, near the end of the War of the Roses. The Tudors and the Yorks have engaged in constant battles and conspiracies for the throne of England. Lady Margaret is of t…

Today, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., the Unitarian Universalist Church on Elmwood Avenue at West Ferry will be hosting Le Franco Festibal du Beau-Fleuve in celebration of Buffalo’s French-speaking cultures.The event will highlight music, dance, games…

Road Less Travel Productions publicized its production of Shakespeare’s Antony And Cleopatra as the first in this region in over fifty years. In those intervening decades, A&C has been an important vehicle on the English speaking stage. Th…

By Joe Doherty:For most people, the concert experience is a brief release from the tedium of daily life. But for those of us who approach live music with religious zeal, it can open a portal to the Godhead. Any ardent fan of improvised music h…

Statler City LLC’s phased approach to redeveloping the Statler has State backing- to the tune of $5 million.  That according to this morning’s The Buffalo News.  Funding from the NYS Economic Development Corporation is contingent on …

With news and opinions furiously swirling around the potential future of the Buffalo Statler Hotel I thought I would resurrect this story first published by BRO in 2006.  That was several months before the Issa debacle and the current gri…

This Saturday and Sunday, a group of athletes from Canisius College, Buffalo State College, Daemen College and the University at Buffalo will be competing in a very unique kind of championship tournament: the Quidditch World Cup.The competitio…

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By Exchange:It’s a great time to be a planner – professional or amateur. As the once-theoretical notion of sustainability continues to take root in communities across the globe, we’ve begun to see innovative and very useful tools emerge into t…

The former Penn/Lamar Advertising property at the corner of West Avenue and Maryland Street could see a two-building, 83-unit apartment project constructed under a proposal by developer Anthony Lorusso.  Lorusso’s firm, APL Properties, ow…

By Mark Williams:It is disheartening that I find myself writing to eulogize a building that has been unnecessarily allowed to become a victim of neglect; especially one in a much sought-after location such as Johnson Park. I am, of course, mak…