RaChaCha: October 2011 Archives

City October 26, 2011 12:15 AM
A Leap of Art in the 500 Block
I began drafting this article just two doors down from Main Street Studios -- set to open this week -- while watching live video of TEDxBuffalo at the Main Washington Exchange.  In the presence of creative people, creative ideas, in what is poised to become one of Buffalo's most creative blocks, in the middle of one of the most creative and vibrant months in Our Fair City's recent memory.  And, just a few blocks from Occupy Buffalo, where others are calling for a new day, on a smaller, more human scale.  Right here, right now, Buffalo's future seems full of new promise -- and inviting you to take part.

Just a month ago, you read West Coast Perspective's "What's Happening" article on the 500 block of Main Street.  The amazing organic
City October 13, 2011 12:05 AM
Building Community With the South Buffalo C.R.E.W.

You've probably seen some variation of the "How to Build Community" poster (see below).  I first saw one displayed in Allentown, where someone had posted it on the Allentown Association community display board at Elmwood and North.  Although I still lived in Rochester at the time, Doug Levy of the Allentown Association was kind enough to photocopy the poster and mail it to me (at the time I didn't know it could be purchased -- I thought that someone in the neighborhood had created it).  I was

City October 11, 2011 10:15 PM
Community to NFTA: No Fare!

"Buddy, can you spare a quarter?"  "Hey, you got fifty cents?"  How many times have you heard that while out and about in Buffalo, or perhaps waiting at a transit stop?  Well, now the party asking the question isn't the person short of change or down and out.  Instead -- and just a year after rolling out fancy trolley buses to operate primarily on Elmwood Avenue -- it's the relatively well-heeled board and executives of the NFTA who are rattling

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