(Preview) Prior to the arrival of THE MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, I spoke with CODY SLAUGHTER, who plays ELVIS PRESLEY in the National Tour.  Mr. Slaughter provides some wonderful insight about the show, his role and the reactions and im…

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Buffalo Urban Development Corporation, the City of Buffalo and Erie County this past week celebrated the completion of Ship Canal Commons, a 22-acre waterfront park. The ne…

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Staff Review by Patricia Covley:For those of us of a certain age, Irv, Rick and Tom (especially Irv) WERE the news.  Irv! tells the story of Buffalo’s long-standing Channel 7 “Eyewitness News”…

By David Torke:In the struggle to save this city, housing court is where the rubber meets the road. It’s where good intentions are separated from bad; where irresponsible property owners are taken to task and those who are doing&nbsp…

By Bill Zimmermann:The essence of musical education and tapping Buffalo’s history — in the making!What would you have been doing 113 years ago this Sunday afternoon? If you were in Buffalo, you likely might have been enjoying an afternoon per…

Toronto’s familiar streetcars will soon be on their way out.  The fleet of Canadian Light Rail Vehicles is being replaced starting in 2013 by a sleeker, lower and modern light rail vehicle to be built by Bombardier.  The new LRVs wil…

By Sarah Bishop – Buffalo First:Today is Buffalo Bank Transfer Day – a day designed to Encourage Buffalonians to Divest from Wall Street, and Reinvest in Main Street.”It’s time for me to put my money into a local credit union that benefits the…

One by one, we’re going to get writers and photographers who double as food lovers, historians, park aficionados, art geeks, urban explorers and architecture nuts to visit this city so that they may share its treasures with their readers and v…

As we see the rest of our city pulling together, there is one part of Buffalo that could take years to see any significant turnaround. Of course there are pockets of the East Side that are percolating – areas around the Medical Campus, Broadwa…

Ever wanted to look closely at someone’s transitional move from the Big Apple to the Queen City on the Lake? I’m not talking about an expat moving home (which is also nice), I’m talking about a gal from The Bronx who found herself in school in…

For the last two years I have been hearing about a pretty neat development project that looked like it might take hold along the Buffalo River. A number of interested parties were talking about purchasing a historically significant Erie Canal-…

If you’ve never been tailgating, then you probably aren’t from Buffalo. I jest of course, but not really. Buffalo NY is synonymous with tailgating. We’ve seen it all and have done it all, at one point or another, at the infamous lot. Or at tha…

Alice Davis looks up at St. Matthew’s Church across the street from her home with bittersweet emotions. She is a long-time resident of Moselle Street and was a parishioner before its closing in 1998. Davis has witnessed the building’s fall fro…

After what seemed to be a lifetime, the wrought iron fence surrounding the fountain at Days Park has been replaced. Last winter a car careened into a light standard and the fountain’s fence, mangling a good section of it (yes, even fountains a…

Blue Hill Kitchen and Home has opened on Hertel (see back story), and with it the neighborhood now has something that is found nowhere else in the city. Gone are the days of small boutique kitchen stores, for the most part. Instead we find our…