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• Commented on Western New York Adaptive Water Sports
  This is a GREAT organization. We are fortunate to have Tony Anderson and his many dedicated colleagues and helpers providing these valuable services to our less able community. Come out to watch and lend a hand this summer -- it's...
• Commented on Buffalo Touring Company
  Great idea! We'd love to list the tours you have scheduled for June 21-24 on the Buffalo Citybration program. Check out Citybration.com and let me know if you're interested. Good luck, guys!...
• Commented on Local Chef Releases Saint Joseph's Day Cookbook
  Rand503 - there are more than 100 recipes in this beautiful book, available at www.BuffaloHeritage.com. Pasta con sarde, sfinge, fried cardoons... It's terrific, as was the launch party and tasting table this evening....
• Commented on QR Coded Scavenger Hunt Comes to the Waterfront
  This event is so cool. Remember -- each team of four needs just one smart phone. And the top prize is $400!! There is room for just a few more teams. Better register now on the Citybration facebook page....
• Commented on "Pride of Buffalo" Celebrates 75 Years
  The BPO is one of our greatest cultural treasures, housed in one of our finest architectural treasures. Does it get better than this? For the stories behind the BPO which, like Kleinhans, started as a WPA project during the Great...
• Commented on are there any buffalo themed cookbooks?
  How about a book featuring the best Buffalo chefs, using awesome local ingredients from our many area farms? That's the Nickel City Chef book & DVD, available for pre-sale now ($14.95)and scheduled to ship in September. In area bookstores on...
• Commented on The Kids Are All Right. Tick... tick... BOOM! By Jonathan Larson
  These kids are incredibly talented and highly motivated. I just love their initiative. But I can also guarantee a quality experience. Daniel Henderson and Vanessa Elder performed an excerpt of the musical at Boom Days - the Cultural Half at...
• Commented on The Roaming Buffalo: More than a meal - a message!
  Chris, I am so glad that this great concept is coming to fruition -- and just in time for Citybration. Hey...can we premiere the Roaming Buffalo at Citybration? You could pull up on the Outer Harbor and serve up great...
• Commented on George Thomas Returns Home
  Welcome home, GT!! We will be so glad to have your dynamic energy back in our midst. You are the 2010 Buffalo Citybration poster boy, you know. I plan to blog about you on www.Citybration.com tonight, and will link to...
• Commented on Buffalo: The City of Good Neighbors. And Good Weather.
  What a timely post, Todd! Coincidentally, there is a brand new book out called Frozen Assets: The Beautiful Truth About Western New York's Fourth Season, by Dr. Mark Donnelly, that addresses Buffalo's winter weather head on. Page through it at...
• Commented on Where's the Campaign?
  Thanks for calling for a true debate, Elena, one that is well-run, open to the public and which invites hard questions from the audience and demands honest answers from the candidates. I attended the Auburn Ave. soiree Monday night, and...
• Commented on IHeartBuffalo.com: Show Your Love
  What a great idea! Shall we ask our Buffalo Homecoming Citybration attendees to weigh in? We can also invite all of the Greater Buffalo e-newsletter recipients to tell what they love about Buffalo... Lots of ways to work together. It's...
• Commented on Part One: The Big 'WHY?'
  Welcome home! You are precisely the kind of expats we with Buffalo Homecoming Citybration have been searching for and reaching out to for the past four years as we celebrate Buffalo's successes and showcase its assets. It's the people and...
• Posted Happy To Be Here Hour to Buffalo Rising Events
  We are joining forces with the BPO and the Buffalo Music Fall of Fame to celebrate Buffalo this month at the Concert From the Heart at Kleinhans on Tuesday, March 17 at 7:00 p.m. You do not want to miss...
• Commented on Great Expectations
  Have you actually seen the book? It just disappeared, leaving many contributors hanging. I have a wonderful new possible electronic/on-demand print solution... I will contact Steven Abu Nab today. Buffalo Heritage was the intended publisher....
• Posted Buffalo Homecoming 2009 Citybration meeting to Buffalo Rising Events
  Do you love Buffalo? Want to show it? The organizers of Buffalo Homecoming 2009 Citybration will meet at: Merge (439 Delaware Ave, between Virginia & Edward)on Wednesday, March 4 at 5:30-7:00 p.m. Stop by if you wish to join a working...
• Commented on Buffalo: Nationally Known for its Lush, Green Gardens
  Our GardenWalk is one of the positive forces at work in the community. That it is attracting national attention is both appropriate and extraordinarily valuable as we seek to shift the perception of Buffalo from negative to positive by simply...
• Posted Happy To Be Here Hour to Buffalo Rising Events
  The February Happy To Be Here Hour will take place on Tuesday, February 17 at (it's Valentine's week, so where else?) Chow Chocolat! If you love Buffalo, come by this lovely venue at 731 Main Street for a real treat,...
• Posted Buffalo Freelance Writers Collaborative to Buffalo Rising Events
  Are you a writer? Please join us at the January meeting of the Buffalo Freelance Writers Collaborative from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Sweetness_7 Cafe on Grant at the corner of Lafayette on Thursday, January 29. Meet fellow freelance writers,...
• Commented on Comment of the Day: New Event Suggestion
  What a fabulous idea. I would like to incorporate it into Buffalo Homecoming Citybration (June 25-28, 2009). We have been tossing around the idea of hosting a photography event, something along the lines of "Buffalo's Hidden Treasures" and/or "A Day...