By Giovanni CenturioneLooking for something fun to do this winter? Maybe you need a new place to bring the family, your school group, a date, or hold a birthday party. Or, you may be looking for a way to relax and burn calories on your lunch break. And the free, above-ground portion of the subway is right there!Know that if you bring your own ice skates to Rotary Rink at Fountain Plaza, you can skate for free, but even the rental costs are dirt cheap. Only $3 for adults and $2 for children. Open now till March 14th, weather dependent, Rotary Rink is downtown Buffalo’s…
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We don’t know what it is either, but if it doesn’t involve a certain aunt and uncle at the Christmas dinner table, we don’t care. We’re in!Squeaky Wheel has too much Christmas fun planned, including a live magic show with real white doves and bunnies, by local magicians Mike Baron & Annie. Next, generate the ultimate Christmas disaster (with none of those pesky life-changing side effects) using the Christmas Disaster Generator by Jason Nelson. After that, watch a short screening of holiday inspired videos and performances from local media artists (Carolyn Tennant & J.T. Rinker, Kyle Butler & Scott Reis, Neil Terry &…
WNED invites Western New Yorkers to share memories and memorabilia related to the area’s once thriving steel industry for an upcoming WNED-TV local documentary, Voices of Steel. The goal is to document steelworkers’ reflections about the experience of working in the mills as well as their way of life. Taking a broad perspective, the documentary also will explore the powerful impact of the steel industry and its demise on employees, families and neighborhoods. “If you were a steelworker or know someone who was, we would like to find out more about your experiences,” says John Grant, WNED’s Chief Program and…
By Giovanni Centurione A longtime business owner with over 37 years of experience expanded to the Ellicott Square Building this past September. Chayban Chayban of Chayban’s Custom Tailoring has been tailoring since the age of 11 in Tripoli, Lebanon. Mr. Chayban moved to the U.S. in 1973 to Buffalo with only $50 in his pocket. Within two weeks, he got his first job on Elmwood Avenue as a tailor. In 1978, he and his wife opened their first Chayban’s Custom Tailor Shop on Elmwood. Since then, great sales has spread through word of mouth, and the stores have also spread…
There will be a public scoping meeting with the Richardson Center Corporation board members on Thursday, December 17th, 6PM, at Buffalo State College’s Rockwell Hall. Work on the draft Master Plan is complete. In order to move ahead with implementation the next step is for the Richardson Center Corporation (RCC) to assess the potential environmental effects through preparation of a Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS). The Public Scoping Meeting is an opportunity to obtain comments on the proposed scope of analyses for the Draft GEIS, which is outlined in the Draft Scoping Report. The reports may be downloaded from…
We are now just 10 days away from Christmas. And if you include shipping time, the time to order any last-minute online gifts is TODAY. To help you find the best gifts for your favorite Buffalonian, we’ve been featuring some of the cooler items from the Buffalo Rising Store. In today’s segment, we’re highlighting Buffalo Sports Tees. This upstart t-shirt company has produced some great designs including their nostalgic Remember the Aud shirt. If you missed out on purchasing some of the old blue seats, this t-shirt is the next best thing. Given Sabres fever is now sweeping WNY, you…
As we all know, Ralph Wilson works in mysterious ways. He gave Dick Jauron a 3 year contract extension after the Bills stared the 2008 season 5-2. This, of course, was after Jauron went 7-9 in his previous two seasons as the Bills head coach. Since signing his contract extension, Jauron’s Bills went 5-13. Wilson finally woke up to the reality that Jauron had no business serving as a head coach in the NFL and promptly fired him after the bye week. Of course, most NFL teams make in-season coaching changes before the bye week to give the new coach…
Look, we’ve all wanted to give Dick Jauron the bird. Heck, most Buffalonians have wanted to give the entire Bills franchise the finger for their decade-long run of misery and mediocrity. But that’s different. We can give our own team the bird. We can’t have some 86 year old oil man with a history of moving football franchises give our Bills the finger. So we thank NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for fining Titans owner Bud Adams $250,000 for his remarkably inappropriate behavior at yesterday’s Bills-Titans game. In case you missed it, Titans owner Bud Adams was caught flipping the bird…
Work is winding down at the $2 million Allentown Lofts conversion project on Virginia Street between Elmwood and Delaware avenues. The ten-unit project by Kissling Interests will offer both living and working space. Six of the units are pre-leased with occupancy scheduled to begin February 1. “The building will be an incubator of sorts,” said Kissling’s Executive Vice President Scott LaCasse. “It will offer live-work space for start-up and small businesses. If the business outgrows the space, they can take other space downtown.” Eight of the units are single-level and two are duplexes. The one and two-bedroom units will average…
The T.J. Dulski Center in the Lovejoy neighborhood has a new rain garden. It is another example of the low impact developments that have been implemented throughout the city. The Dulski Community Center, operated by the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center of WNY, is located at 129 Lewis Street. Rain gardens are landscaped areas planted with wild flowers and other native vegetation that soak up rain water, mainly from a parking lot, the roof of a residence or other building. The rain garden fills with a few inches of water after a storm and the water slowly filters into…