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Commented on Restaurant Week Is Upon Us!
Either play ball and go along with our 300-400% markup of wine or stay home!...
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Commented on Selling [ Off ] Buffalo
The guys had a business for 20+ years in the 3rd poorest city in the country and you're gonna tell him how to 'save face?' Maybe he should start by taking his business (and tax receipts) somewhere else...But let's have...
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Commented on Selling [ Off ] Buffalo
As far as I can tell this piece was open for anyone to buy, including Grad 94 and Travelrrr. Not surprisingly, they didn't. However, a local and longtime businessman, recognizing its value, did. Now, because he may sell it to...
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Commented on Vasilis Express
I wonder if Capt Jack's demise had anything to do with the owner chain smoking on the patio while people were trying to eat...Yummy!...
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Commented on Snooty Fox Lounge: Where Dining Meets Nightlife
I'd heard there were alot of meatballs at this joint but i didn't think they meant the eating kind.......
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Commented on Bring the Noise: Public Enemy Comes to Buffalo
Provincialism in Buffalo? Really? Besides, Lester Bangs is from the suburbs. He had a pretty good ear for music....
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Commented on Taste of Buffalo's Right Around the Corner
Some of these gripes are legit. Last year there was a long wait to even purchase tickets and serious bottlenecks throughout the streets. Not to mention the fact that most of the food was prepared hours before and was sitting...
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Commented on Five Projects Get Bonding Authorization
I understand that some businesses need help getting off the ground but between this and last years series in the News about the unpaid BERC loans to area businesses, I'm a bit confused. How does a "developer" need $6 mil...
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Commented on Tally-ho: Miller Mansion For Sale at $2.195M (Slideshow)
it would be great if there was a Doughboy above ground pool in the back...haha...
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Commented on D'Avolio
I wish them all the luck in the world but I seriously wonder how they're gonna cover monthly expenses selling only olive oil and vinegar. And how fast do you go thru these items anyhow? I cook quite a bit...
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Commented on Buffalo Rising: Comments, Anonymity and Civility
weak...edit out the inappropriate or obviously incorrect posts and let the others stand. This guy sounded like a real creep whose personal shortcomings ran the business into the ground. Are you gonna treat Carl Paladino's campaign with the same kid...
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Commented on The Buffalo Scooter Company
Here's an idea: How about a waiver for DUI if you're on a scooter? Not only will it generate business but it will generate funnies on chippewa and Allen at closing time....a win/win for everyone involved...
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Commented on Wine in Grocery Stores: Bad for Small Business?
Maybe a compromise could be selling only New York State wines in the grocery stores? I respect the small business onwers but, at the same time, no industry lasts forever. Growing up, we had milk delivered to our doorstep. Not...
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Commented on NY Style Pizza On The Way
Listen to all this pizza snob talk....Coal vs fire, blah, blah, blah. Milano's is the pizza that ex pats crave. Hands down....
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Commented on Cold Day Remedy: Pho, Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup
No bahn mi? dang. i moved back from cali this year and can't find it anywhere. Anybody know of a place? thanks...
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Commented on Risks of Designer Pet Foods
There's a fancy feast commercial out now for kitty 'appetizers'.....Seabass and Shrimp in a delicate broth? My first reation is 'how ridiculous' then I remembered something a teacher told me years ago. He said that cat and dog food advertising...
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Commented on Mansion Mini-Boom Continues on Lincoln Parkway
The house next to it is owned by Rick's Tally Ho owner...for whatever that's worth....I think I remember "there goes the neighborhood" talk when that happened but apparently his employees haven't turned Nottingham into a Red Light District...Seems to me...
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Commented on The Ice Ball for a Classy New Year's
I'll be selling insurance policies on your $125 investment should a fight break out and shuts down the event.......
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Commented on Veda Yoga Space on Hertel
yowzaa!...
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Commented on Thurman Thomas: In Person and In Wood
http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Mike_Eisner.jpg http://www.carvingsforacause.com/gallery.htm see what i mean?...
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Commented on Thurman Thomas: In Person and In Wood
I know this is for a good cause and all but man, do any of these things look like the actual person?? Have you seen the Tim Russert one? He looks like the cartoon of Mike Eisner that seth macfarlane...
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Commented on Village of Kenmore Receives American Planning Association Award
congrats on having 'Kenmore' and 'progressive' in same sentence for first time in recorded history. yaaaay!...
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Commented on Cool Buffalo Real Estate Listing of the Week
What? No jackass' complaining that this is overpriced? Finally.........
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Commented on Cerza Goes National as Face of Pizza Hut Wings
I don't blame the guy for cashing in but I doubt these are the type of wings most buffaloanians want. I had high hopes for my first wing fest only to be served premade, warmed over, soggy wings....
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Commented on New Survey Shows Support For Red Light Cameras
haven't checked out Panoptica, i went to public school. but i will, thanks....
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Commented on New Survey Shows Support For Red Light Cameras
Engineered consent. BBC has a great doc by adam curtis about this called The Century of the Self. Its based on work of edward bernays, sigmund freud's newphew and father of modern advertising/public relations...I recommend it highly...
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Commented on New Survey Shows Support For Red Light Cameras
I recently moved back here from san diego where they rolled these out a few years ago. They used the same safety issue to get people on board. However, they mainly were installed at interesections that, by design, tended to...
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Commented on Buffalo's Polish Gangsters
He made them an offer they couldn't understand........
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Commented on Predict Bills - Bucs Score, Win a Free Buffalo Rising Print
BUF-24 TAM-10...
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Commented on Cool Buffalo Real Estate Listing of the Week
what's the under/over on the sale price? any guesses?...
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