Vintage Buffalo: An Architectural Screensaver

Today's cool download is an architectural screensaver with vintage photos of beloved Buffalo buildings and parks. Save your computer monitor and Buffalo architecture at the same time with the new Vintage Buffalo Screensaver. You'll want to slack off at work just to watch the slide show of two dozen Buffalo photographs taken between 1900 and 1910. Your donation of only $5 supports the mission of Buffalo's most successful preservation organization, The Preservation Coalition of Erie County. For Windows machines right now, they'll soon be posting a Mac version. Just click on the donate button, make your secure payment through Paypal and they'll email your screensaver within 24 hours. (A little longer on weekendsOe for some reason the Coalition staff thinks that they should be able to go home sometimes).

Maybe you read about this one last December, or maybe you took the time and looked over this one in April, and perhaps you considered attending this event back in June. Whatever your reasoning for putting it off, there’s no time like the present for Forgotten Buffalo, unless of course it’s the past.
Forgotten Buffalo Tours take participants on a journey into the history of the area, always striving to produce a unique and entertaining outing. Their success has allowed them to …
Last evening was the first time that I have ever attended the event, Party for the Parks held at the Marcy Casino. The parks gala started up just as the Burchfield-Penney showing was winding down, and has happened more than a few times this summer, the non-stop rain kept everyone guessing. By guessing, I mean that every time the band members would even look at their instruments the rain would start to fall. It was a good thing that the upper terrace was covered and the Marcy Casin …
According to Miguel Santos, one of the founders of the Puerto Rican Day Parade of WNY, starting the parade six years ago was a way of “recognizing that Buffalo’s Latino population continues to grow and we decided that it would be a great way to recognize this segment of the population.” Inspired by the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in NYC, Santos, who is a local activist in the Latino community, got a call from Jose Rodriguez, and the rest is history.
Santos says, “We …
For the first time in over a hundred years, Buffalo has unveiled a brand new ($33,000,000, 84,000 sq.’) museum. Yesterday, hundreds of people met at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center to witness, not one, but three, ribbon cuttings. Fans and supporters were greeted by trumpeting didgeridoos as they walked into the vaulting entranceway – a walk that led them past the museum café, the gift shop, the learning center, a conference center, studios, gallery spaces, and more gallery s … 



