By Green Options Buffalo:In our series, 30 Days of Bicycle Benefits, you will be introduced to 30 new businesses that will offer you great discounts for riding your bike and wearing your helmet. Thirty businesses that want to say, “Thank you,”…
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GO-Buffalo’s 30 Days of Bicycle Benefits: Massachusetts Avenue Project
on Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Termini Purchases Lafayette Hotel
on Saturday, May 21st, 2011
The Lafayette Hotel is back in local hands. Signature Development has taken title to the property and will soon kick-off renovations to the venerable downtown Buffalo landmark. Signature paid $500,000 for the property. New Yo…
Demo of Blacksmith Shop Blocked, for Now
on Friday, May 20th, 2011
As courtroom observes expected, Erie County Court Judge Michael L. D’Amico has overturned the demolition order on the blacksmith shop located at 118 South Park Avenue. D’Amico heard arguments on May 4 and released the decision on Wednesd…
Tonight: Patrick Willett @ Queen City Gallery
on Friday, May 20th, 2011
Tonight, Queen City Gallery will host the opening reception for local artist Patrick Willett’s latest show “Patrick Willett, Recent Work”. This exhibition features a selection of Willett’s work mainly from the last two years. Willett, a self-t…
GO-Buffalo’s 30 Days of Bicycle Benefits: Rick’s Cycle Shop
on Friday, May 20th, 2011
By Green Options Buffalo:In our series, 30 Days of Bicycle Benefits, you will be introduced to 30 new businesses that will offer you great discounts for riding your bike and wearing your helmet. Thirty businesses that want to say, “Thank you,”…
Reminder: Making Neighborhoods Matter Forum is Tomorrow (Saturday Morning)
on Friday, May 20th, 2011
The Making Neighborhoods Matter forum is a fantastic day long seminar on preservation and neighborhoods which will be held tomorrow with events starting at 8:00 am and running through 4:30pm at Buffalo’s giant Central Terminal. You shoul…
The Buffalo Marathon Gains Ground
on Friday, May 20th, 2011
This year’s Buffalo Marathon is anticipating around a 20 percent increase in participation over the previous five years that saw more than 6,000 runners hit the streets. On Sunday, May 29 runners will line up for the marathon’s full and half m…
Need for Coalition Instead of Division
on Friday, May 20th, 2011
By Chris Catanzaro:A common theme that has seemed to plague Buffalo’s progress in several arenas has been the division of those involved. Instead of coming together and utilizing many great ideas to address issues, various groups and ind…
Preservation Award Winner: Patrick Kavanagh
on Friday, May 20th, 2011
Certain people go about their day quietly working and doing what they love. They go out of their way to assist others with projects, research and events. And they do it never expecting anything in return for all their hard work or …
Theological Thursdays: Is it over? For our schools?
on Thursday, May 19th, 2011
If Harold Camping is right, this will be my last submission to Buffalo Rising.Now, I have no problem with going on record in saying ahead of time that Camping is not only wrong in his date (I know–risky, right?) but in his whole understanding…
The English Pork Pie Company
on Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Tucked away amongst the industrial parks and railroad tracks making up Broadway Street just inside the Cheektowaga border, sits The English Pork Pie Company, literally the best British shop in the world. The small but growing company has made …
Queen City Ferry Debuts at Commercial Slip
on Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Today Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation (ECHDC) Chairman Jordan Levy joined with members of the ECHDC Board of Directors, Congressman Brian Higgins, Erie County Executive Chris Collins and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown to greet the Queen C…
Q&A – Artists & Models: Rapture/Rupture @ The Yard
on Thursday, May 19th, 2011
By Joanna Gillespie (Hallwalls board member and A&M committee member):For followers of the California-based Family Radio network, this Saturday, May 21st is Judgment Day. For Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, it’s an excuse to part…
GO-Buffalo’s 30 Days of Bicycle Benefits: Himalayan Institute
on Thursday, May 19th, 2011
By Green Options Buffalo:In our series, 30 Days of Bicycle Benefits, you will be introduced to 30 new businesses that will offer you great discounts for riding your bike and wearing your helmet. Thirty businesses that want to say, “Thank you,”…
Buffalo River Clean Water Canoe Paddle
on Thursday, May 19th, 2011
The nonprofit organization Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe will be sponsoring the Buffalo River Canoe Paddle and Cultural Presentations along the Buffalo River on May 21st, 2011.The event kicks off at 10:00 a.m. with registration in Father Conway Par…