If you’re going to attend a super creepy Halloween party, then you might as well go to one in a location that’s super haunted. It’s a widely know fact that the Town Ballroom is notorious for sending cold chills down many visitor’s spine. Don’t…

You’ve seen the gardens spring up in your neighborhood. You’ve watched the transformation, as derelict empty lots are converted into community gathering spaces. You’ve been wanting to thank the people behind the effort, but you weren’t sure ex…

The reconstruction of Prime, Lloyd, Perry and Hanover streets at Erie Canal Harbor is complete.  Roads feature cobblestones, exposed aggregate concrete sidewalks, new street lighting, granite curbing, and landscaping work were designed to…

Leave it to an astrophotographer in Buffalo, NY to show the world a different viewpoint of the sun. This incredible shot, and others (see below), are being featured in myriad magazines at the moment, ranging from Wired.com, Discover Magazine a…

Ooh, ooh, ooh… it’s time for the annual Hallowasted Halloween live music and monster bash. This party, has turned out o be one of the ‘funnest’ underground events of the year because it takes all of the elements of spooky Halloween and incor…

By Fun Al:Years ago, in days gone by, when our younger selves could tear it up like no one’s business, there was a party of lore. Tom Slyvan and Jason Mang held a Halloween house party that rivaled none. Huge in scope, laden with debauchery of…

145 Kehr Street is gone.  Final resting spot unknown.  The early 20th Century brick masonry structure was torn down by owner George Rogers.  Rogers operates Kehr-Buffalo Wire Frame and Rogers Industrial Springs, family-owned and…

As we wrote about yesterday, the Buffalo School District spent nearly $9M on cosmetic surgeries for teachers and staff last year.  Given the exorbitance of this expense, this story has been picked up by national news sites including the H…

By Gwen Ito:The year was 1954. Buffalo Seminary, an all-girls high school located on Bidwell Parkway, had just purchased the John D. Larkin Estate on the corner of Forest Avenue and Lincoln Parkway. Within months, the back yard to the 1915 man…

On Saturday, October 30, the Bulger Communication Center at Buffalo State College will be hosting the Buffalo premier of GASLAND, a film by Josh Fox.The film, which won the Special Jury Prize for Best U.S. Documentary Feature at the 2010 Sunda…

Through The Expat Buffalo Network (BEN) Facebook page I was directed to Rustwire.com which is a Cleveland based Midwest -rustbelt city centric blog.  They put out a call for entries called “The Big Urban Photography Project”. The text fro…

Shea’s Performing Arts Center is welcoming all literacy advocates to join them for a “novel” event on Thursday, November 4.The “Cocktails in Character” fundraiser, presented by M&T Bank, will bring together Buffalo’s book lovers to help su…

There’s an important message that needs to be sent to the DEC by the people of Buffalo. To those who would stand to make the big bucks while causing environmental turmoil, and putting people’s health at risk, the message is, “This is NOT accep…

The Good Neighborhood’s inaugural Monster Mashup is set to smoke Nietzsche’s tonight at 8:00pm with two threesomes, one performing and the other benefiting – performing are Critt’s Juke Joint, Lazlo Hollyfeld & Sonny Baker, and DJs Cutler …

It was just this morning that we learned that Merge will be hosting a Rally to Restore Sanity rally in Buffalo, this Saturday, October 30th from 12:00pm – 3:00pm. Until this point a number of readers had sought out information wondering if Buf…