Preserving the Local Harvest:Tickets are $15 per class/$12 owners. Tomato Canning 101- Sept 12th 10AM till Noon, Sept 14th 6:30 till 8:30PM.Freezer Jammin- Sept 26th 6:30-8:30pmFarm Tours: Feed Your Soul’s Foodie to Farm Tour, Sunday, Sept 13th, 9AM-5PM. For tickets and more info see website.MAP’s Tour de Farms Bicycle Tour, September 26th. For more info see website. More events:’Eat Local’ Pot Luck Picnic, Sept 19th, 1 – 2:30PM at Bidwell Parkway. Bring a dish to share.Buff State Student Locavores Dinner: September 23rd. No details as yet.Local Crops are in at the Co-Op! Check out the latest at their web site.
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Local Restaurant Week is back! This time, the theme is fall harvest. Each participating restaurant will showcase a local wine and a local beer to reinforce the commitment to our local businesses. Over the past year or so, there has been a drastic increase in using locally grown food and locally produced wines and beers. The best dishes come from the freshest ingredients. Buying local is economically beneficial for not only the farmers, wineries and breweries, but also for our local economy and our taste buds! Everyone wins! The September Local Restaurant week will feature specials made with locally…
The elevated sections of Route 5 and the I-190 are thought to be a scar on the city as well as a barrier to the waterfront. The underside of the I-190 downtown is particularly barren, filthy and at best is used for surface parking. And so we were inspired by this blogspot post to show you the Eads Bridge’s flanks, offering an alternative design in St. Louis. The masonry understory of the circa-1874 bridge approaches may be intrusive, but they are aesthetically more appealing than seen in downtown Buffalo. Could a similar design work in Buffalo? If so, where? (Image: Eads Bridge, St.…
By Katie KrawczykHave you ever dreamed of tasting the glamour and excitement that oozes out of Bryant Park in the crisp February air in New York City? Catching a glimpse of the season’s hottest fashions before they hit the streets? Sitting next to fashion icons like Sarah Jessica Parker or Eva Mendes, comparing notes on how to interpret these trends into your own signature look? Maybe it’s just me. But if any of the above fantasies tug at your inner Posh or Becks, you are about to get some great news: in a few short weeks, RPM Entertainment Productions will…
Independent Party hopeful in the Buffalo race for mayor Matthew Ricchiazzi has issued a statement, referring to his quest for the mayor’s seat in the past tense and making promises for the future.The primary will be held one week from today with two Democrats, incumbent Mayor Byron Brown and challenger Councilman Mickey Kearns, on the ballot. There will be a televised debate on Channel 2, WGRZ TV this coming Friday, and speculation is that next Tuesday’s primary will likely point to the winner of the November election if no other candidates make the final ballot. Ricchiazzi’s letter is as follows:…
UB welcomes its most academically talented freshman class in its history based on the average SAT score of the 3,197 new students who began classes last week. With an average SAT score of 1200, up a point from last year’s average score and up 8 points from 2007’s average score. Since 2004, the average SAT score of UB’s freshman class has increased 18 points. “The university is delighted to have enrolled such a talented and accomplished freshman class,” said Michael E. Ryan, UB vice provost for undergraduate education. “Attracting students who are among the best and brightest in the country…
If you know of any Buffalonians living in New York, it’s your duty to tell them about this party now!The third annual BUFFALO TAKES MANHATTAN party, which benefits PUSH Buffalo, is coming up on Saturday, September 19th in Manhattan. This year’s party will be held on the 33rd floor of a Times Square skyscraper bedecked with Buffaloniana like a Wall of Heroes featuring the likes of Irv Weinstein, the French Connection, Commander Tom, Lucille Ball, the Earl of Bud and others as well as photo exhibits of Buffalo neighborhoods and industrial sites by Lesley Horowitz and Whitney Crispell. As in…
National Buffalo Wing Fest, held this past Saturday and Sunday, saw 92,000 attendees (up from 78,000 last year), and the hungry crowd devoured 40 tons of Chicken Wings. The 8th annual Labor Day weekend event set a single day attendance record on Saturday, with 52,000 attendees. Festival surveys found people came from 49 states and 31 countries to enjoy the many contests and other festivities and, of course, eat chicken wings. Oddly enough, the only state not represented at the Wing Fest was Arkansas, home of Tyson Chicken! Sonya Thomas, a petite and pretty Burger King manager from Alexandria, Virginia,…
We’ve had the good fortune of working with Hero Design in the past and, based on that experience, we were anxious to find another opportunity to work together. Well, we found it and we couldn’t be happier with the results. If you’re not familiar with Hero Design, take some time to check out their work. They are hyper-talented young designers the city should be proud to be home to and their work has been lauded in Spin Magazine and elsewhere. We commissioned Hero Design to create, design and print four distinct Buffalo-themed prints. The results are four unique, beautiful, hand-crafted…
Back in 1976, Cat Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, sang a song called “Where Do the Children Play?” on his Earth Tour.In this video, accompanying the lyric, “And you watch the skyscrapers fill the air,” there is a shot of Court Street, facing Buffalo City Hall. A google search didn’t turn up whether or not Stevens was even here as part of that tour, but somehow Buffalo factored into the skyscraper verse, regardless of the fact that we only have one. According to this site, One HSBC Center was completed in 1972, and as the only skyscraper in Buffalo, it is the…