Buffalo, N.Y.: Digestible Architecture
Buffalo has long given America good architecture. Tucked within Victorian homes and mansions are the designs of starchitects Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, H.H. Richardson, and Frederick Law Olmstead. Millions are now dedicated toward restoring and reviving these structures and the city's heritage. Wright's Darwin Mart House scored a $50 million restoration. Historic Canal side waterfront district is undergoing a $295 million development project, and currently hosting over 400 summer events. The National Garden Festival
, a 1,000-garden party (June 23-July 29) symbolizes Buffalo's community building and urban rebirth.
STAY: The Hotel @ The Lafayette, a mixed-use project designed by America's first female architect opened this summer, along with Mike A's Steakhouse inside.
ART: Small galleries and artist-run spaces abound in Sugar City and Allentown, an artsy hipster-without-pretense neighborhood. July 26 to August 5 is the massive Infringement Festival. Currently on display at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is "Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-Garde in the 1970s." Babeville, a converted church that houses the artist-run Hallwalls, was saved from demolishment by Buffalo's Ani DiFranco. GooGoo Dolls' Robby Taka started the annual Music is Art festival. The Western New York Book Arts Center offers letter pressing, screen-printing, paper making and bookbinding classes.
EAT: The surrounding fertile farmlands supply Buffalo's successful farm-to-table movement. To date, there are 400 independently-owned restaurants from Polish to Mexican, Burmese to Iraqi. Farmers markets are aplenty; food trucks on the rise, and artisanal food producers like White Cow Dairy and Five Points Bakery leave chain restaurant struggling to survive. Filling Station in the Larkin District (a suddenly hotspot for business and entertainment) is garnering insta-buzz. The Blue Monk and Village Beer Merchant are growler go-tos for microbrews aficionados. ["These aren't] the mundane openings of everyday restaurants, [they're] significant milestones for the city," says BuffaloRising's Newell Nussbaumer. "There's no more yellow haze over the city from the steel plants. Our water is getting clean. The cost of living is low, and there's no traffic."
Photos: Visit Buffalo Niagara, KC Kratt, John Paget
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/07/30/post-industrial-cities/#ixzz228HfkzJD
So, Ms. Levine thought she could get to Buffalo's underbelly by telephone? That's some great investigative journalism.
Can anyone tell me what Digestible Architecture is supposed to mean?
digestable meaning delicious food for bulldozers (at least as far as city hall is concerned)
FOX doesn't do "journalism", too much work, there is no money in it, and facts keep getting in the way of their message. :)
lol, for real "journalism" ABC's objective unbiased Brian Ross can Google about Buffalo and convey conclusions to his colleague unbiased Clinton chief-of-staff George Stephy while on air - that's the way left-approved-network real journalism is done.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/24/jon-stewart-rips-brian-ross-daily-show-video_n_1697796.html
George & Brian can give a clinic about how to not let facts getting in the way of messages! Then again, when they lose Jon Stewart...
Have you ever watched Fox? It is like having a panel of right wing dbags sitting in a room with an echo...no counterpoint here...just same bs repeated over and over until mental lightweights believe it.
STill, I like the positive press on this one.
Have you ever watched or read: NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, Reuters, AP, NYTIMES, Buffalo News or 99% of the media outlets in this country, it’s just like having a panel of left wing d'bags sitting in a room with an echo. Love all the hate for Fox News because there is one media source that isn't blatantly liberal and reports the conservative viewpoint once and a while.
I think the BBC, what's left of NPR, and some Canadian stuff are the best we have, the rest are all corporate media. Fox is little more than the propaganda wing of the right, few would argue the network is "fair and balanced", even their followers know the network champions the agenda of the Republicans, Conservatives, and Tea Party. The endless attacks on President Obama are blatantly partisan, usually not factual and meant only to influence public opinion. Fox is the only network with this reputation, the others are way closer to the center and lack the ruthless nature and willingness to distort the truth. Fox has no real credibility, they excel only at telling conservative voters what they want to hear.
I agree with this statement. The partisan bias and misinformation in Fox's news reporting (not opinion/analysis shows) is unparalleled. It really has no credibility. Few are willing to say it out loud out of fear of the liberal-media label but its a widely held view.
If one is to be biased or slanted, I'd say better to be upfront and open about it like some on Fox (Hannity, etc) than to apply heavy slanting while pretending to be neutral (ABC's Stephanopolis & Ross, NBC's Brian Williams, NPR in general, etc).
You saying 'only' in the following makes me wonder if you're familiar with MSNBC...
BRL>"...blatantly partisan, usually not factual and meant only to influence public opinion. Fox is the only network with this reputation,"
Regarding reputations - if anybody really thinks MSNBC's reputation is at all one of objectivity and lack of blatant partisanship - the network who chooses Al Sharpton as 6-7pm daily host, and Ed Shultz also daily, and Keith Olbermann for so many years, etc - then I'd say that should reflect on the reputation of people who interpret reputations.
Two separate issues - quality and neutrality. For example NPR is of higher quality than ABC-CBS-(MS)NBC all of whom have had big problems getting caught with reporting inaccuracies they have to retract which - by accident I'm sure, lol - usually seem favoring left sides of issues - ABC's recent Colorado fiasco I mentioned before, NBC's indefensible doctoring of the Zimmerman 911 tape, etc. NPR hasn't had any recent quality scandals like those.
But even NPR executives have started in recent years to publicly admit its left-leaningness, although they claim it doesn't affect reporting accuracy. My only beefs with NPR are that they accept taxpayer $ and they don't more openly admit left bias directly on broadcasts. Their opinion-oriented shows (such as 'On Point', and 'Left, Right, and Center') are good quality but again they clearly have more emphasis on left views. For example, the latter for a long time regularly has had on Ariana Huffington and Bob Scheer, both of whom self-identify as being on the left, plus one self-identified centrist (former Clinton aide Matt Miller) plus one person right of center. That's their definition of balance - 2, 1, 1. Still, it's well done.
One last thought re Fox is they do regularly every day have quite a few self-identified pro-Obama lefties on such as Juan Williams, Bob Beckel, and others - and give them time to state their views. So it isn't at all 100% anti-Obama, and when it is they're usually pretty open about it especially compared to how ABC-NBC-CBS-NPR-CNN are on balance anti-Romney or anti-Tea Party without just openly admitting it. At least some hosts on MSNBC admit it, to their credit, but then that's partisan bias your comment implied that one doesn't have.
This right-left thing is what makes Fox News, and its loyal viewers different. News organizations should not be organized around the idea that there is a righty-worldview and a lefty-worldview and that a news organization must choose one (or hire one righty for every liberal). I think that Fox adopts the idea that conservatives are victims who are shut out of mainstream culture by "the left". So this Right-Left split is central to its identity. I don't doubt that NPR has many liberals on its staff but their personal views must take a back seat to the facts.
MSNBC does make me uncomfortable at times (Ed Show especially) but the network still isn't the lefty version of Fox because of NBC News which must uphold basic standards of good journalism. Also, at the end of the day MSNBC is still owned by a corporation.
Well, it seems to me Fox gives more time regularly to rebuttals from the left (Bob Beckel, Juan Williams, etc on Hannity) than does MSNBC for rebuttals from the to their hosts like Ed Shultz, Al Sharpton, etc.
I wouldn't claim I can prove it, but just saying that's what it seems.
As for the parent NBC, they also seem very biased - sometimes blatantly like when they got caught doctoring the 911 tape and had to apologize, and sometimes a little more subtly like when Brian Williams gives hero worshiping interviews of Obama and prosecutorial interrogations of Romney. I think the latter is fine for him to grill Romney, but over the years when talking to Obama it's often the journalistic equivalent of what Lewinsky gave Clinton.
Tim Russert although a lifelong Dem official before entering journalism was unusually even handed by comparison to NBC's current "stars".
What does any of your totally biased nonsense have to do with this story?
Can anyone tell me what Digestible Architecture is supposed to mean?
a gingerbread house?
Digestible Architecture....what....you have never heard of Hansel unt Gretel? The wicked witch and the edible house!