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MICHAEL R WEEKES: February 2011 Archives

City February 18, 2011 9:19 AM

"Big Buffalo Return" - Bryan and Ashley

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As we sat at Spot on Elmwood on a snowy Saturday morning for this interview, all of us noticed a recent edition of Artvoice with a cover picture taken by their mutual friend Christina Shaw. There were two remarkable aspects to this fact: 1) Christina was there when Bryan and Ashley began dating in NYC and 2) the picture featured Joseph Thomas, Sr. who I would be interviewing weeks later for a Fandemoneum Sports Museum piece. We are truly all connected to each other here!

It was yet another unavoidable piece of objective evidence that Buffalo literally has 1.5 degrees of separation. You barely have to schedule an interview to get a meaningful story here, related to any theme or endeavor.

Bryan is as Buffalonian as they come, with both of his grandfathers having worked all their life at the Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna. After graduating from UB with a BA in communications and interning with WBFO, he moved to the New York Metro

City February 14, 2011 9:55 AM

Repat seeks guidance, ideas and lessons learned on West Side for low carbon footprint home

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I'm Michael Weekes, Buffalo Rising Online contributor, and I want to build an exciting new home on the West Side, turning a vacant lot or two into a metaphor for a new sustainable life in Buffalo.

After researching designs from companies including Flatpak, EcoSteel, Kieren Timberlake, PowerHouse, Blu Homes, Bluesky homes, Method Homes and Kaufmann, it's time to find a site and work on the approval to execute a home that's good for the earth as well as the soul.

If you know of local individuals, organizations or agencies to help take this idea and make it a reality

City February 9, 2011 11:35 AM

Series - Welcome Back to Buffalo Delia - "Somewhere Deep Inside, I knew I would Always Return to Buffalo"

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Delia returned to the Buffalo area after nineteen years in Phoenix, Arizona not long after 9/11. After having children, she thought it would be better to be here, among her family. She knew she would always return.

Extremely proud of her 100% Italian heritage, both Delia's father and paternal grandparents came to America on Christmas Eve, 1929 through Ellis Island. She considers her Italian roots to be a huge part of her identity.

A technical instructor for a Fortune 100 company, Delia was originally destined to follow in her family profession of teaching

City February 2, 2011 1:36 PM

SERIES - Welcome Back to Buffalo Jen & Tyrone - A Place Where Your Kids Can Still Play Outside!

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For Jen, leaving the Buffalo area could not come soon enough after graduating from college. She moved to Florida in 2004 but soon found out that climate was not nearly as important as a sense of community, pace and vitality of life or simply, a change in seasons.

Christmas especially could not be the same without the snow, the neighborhoods, visiting from home to home, decorated with twinkling lights.

She left the sunshine state for Washington, DC where she took a job with the government. There too, over a three year stint, she was not able to find the easy-going