City
May 31, 2011 2:40 PM
By Green Options Buffalo:
In our series, 30 Days of Bicycle Benefits, you will be introduced to 30 new businesses that will offer you great discounts for riding your bike and wearing your helmet. Thirty businesses that want to say, "Thank you," for choosing not to drive your car.
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra - 1/2 off or Buy One Get One Admission
There is icing on this cake. Bicycle Benefits gives you one more day and one more magnificent example of a community coming together to support sustainability.
There are few institutions quite as iconic to Buffalo as the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO). This world renowned symphony orchestra has garnered critical acclaim throughout their history and continues to impress the world at large. Brilliant conductors have graced the stage of Kleinhans to lead this magnificent orchestra and that tradition continues today with JoAnne Falletta. The first female conductor in the history of
City
May 31, 2011 12:36 PM
By Thea Hassan:
Portions of the parks within the Buffalo Olmsted Conservancy are getting a sustainable makeover. The park management group aims to convert at least 20 percent of each park to maintained meadow areas. These areas will contain native plants only, and mowed once or twice per year.
"Managing and maintaining a man made landscape, which all public parks are, is anything but natural," wrote Steven Nagowski, of the Buffalo Olmsted Conservancy, in an email. "We have to cut the lawns, fertilize the trees, water the plants and occasionally spray for diseases
City
May 31, 2011 10:27 AM
By Rebecca Bratek:
The Buffalo Renaissance Foundation, a non-profit, businessmen's organization founded in 1981 that is committed to bettering the City of Buffalo, has announced its newest project--a Sculptural Art Initiative entitled the "Spirit of Buffalo." This initiative will bring five outdoor art pieces to various locations across the city and surrounding areas over the next five years.
"The Renaissance Foundation wanted to do something in the area of the arts," said Jake Schneider, president
City
May 31, 2011 9:02 AM
Michael Vick. For some people his name is equated with an awesome football player. For many others, however, it conjures up images of illegal dog fights with innocent dogs used as live bait. The latter scenario does not paint a pretty picture for the lives of countless pit bulls and "bully" breeds.
One such little soul bears the name Zelda. Zelda is a stocky pit bull mix who was used for breeding. When her breeding years were over she was used as live bait in the fighting ring right here
City
May 30, 2011 6:30 PM
By Green Options Buffalo:
In our series, 30 Days of Bicycle Benefits, you will be introduced to 30 new businesses that will offer you great discounts for riding your bike and wearing your helmet. Thirty businesses that want to say, "Thank you," for choosing not to drive your car.
The Burchfield Penney - 1/2 off or Buy One Get One Admission
There is a painting of Charles Burchfield's entitled "For the Beauty of the Earth" where the trees burst forth as if they grew simultaneously with the rising sun. Everything is charged with the light of morning as
City
May 30, 2011 10:24 AM
Reposted from BRO on Memorial Day 2005. I'm back from Forest Lawn with an updated photo, which I will do each Memorial Day:
While driving down Main Street earlier today, a couple of I couldn't help but notice the thousands of little American flags adorning the grave markers at Forest Lawn Cemetery. I remembered that when I was younger a friend of mine's job was to plant all of those little flags. I never thought too much about it other than they were an awesome sight to behold.
Today was different. There was a beautiful light shining on the motionless flags. And Main
City
May 29, 2011 11:32 AM
By Green Options Buffalo:
In our series, 30 Days of Bicycle Benefits, you will be introduced to 30 new businesses that will offer you great discounts for riding your bike and wearing your helmet. Thirty businesses that want to say, "Thank you," for choosing not to drive your car.
The Buffalo Chamber Music Society - Buy One Get One or 1/2 off tickets
Bicycle Benefits gets even better with the addition of some of the finest cultural institutions in the country, including the second oldest chamber music society in the world: The Buffalo Chamber Music
City
May 28, 2011 5:50 PM
I always wondered why this large parking lot in Allentown at the corner of Arlington and Wadsworth was always empty. Especially since it's so hard to find a parking spot in Allentown. Not that I'm a big fan of frontage parking lots to begin with, but if they exist already then they should be used. Even the mini marts in Allentown charge for parking.
Apparently Mark Goldman, owner of Allentown Hardware, had the same idea - he and three other businesses are renting the lot in order to alleviate parking in the neighborhood. "We're going to stripe it this week... we're going to keep it
City
May 28, 2011 12:40 PM
By Hannya Boulos - new director of Buffalo ReformED:
The Buffalo Public Schools are at a crucial juncture: 3 months remain until the 7 lowest achieving schools in the district must be turned around under new management. 52 million dollars and thousands of students' futures are hanging in the balance. With so much at stake, there should be more concrete answers or at least effective plans in place. Unfortunately, t
The turnaround plans are just part of the puzzle of confusion, as administrative absences, chronic miscommunication, and unanswered questions continue
City
May 28, 2011 10:02 AM
By Green Options Buffalo:
In our series, 30 Days of Bicycle Benefits, you will be introduced to 30 new businesses that will offer you great discounts for riding your bike and wearing your helmet. Thirty businesses that want to say, "Thank you," for choosing not to drive your car.
Squeaky Wheel - $2 off any show over $5
Media literacy is just one of the ways that Squeaky Wheel empowers people of all ages. Teaching kids how to analyze the sometimes misleading messages of the media world empowers them to make more informed choices. Teaching those same
City
May 27, 2011 1:53 PM
By Amanda Kilmer:
There is no need for a treasure map to find a gem hidden away in the Larkin District. Riding down Exchange Street, it starts to feel like time is in reverse--crumbled brick buildings, abandoned trains in stations, and massive industrial-sized buildings. It almost looks like a city left behind and you begin to wonder if the rapture happened just a few days late.
But then you hear the sounds of steel being cut and you realize there are others around. Breathe.
Don't let this neighborhood fool you, though. It is getting a makeover, going through
City
May 27, 2011 11:48 AM
By Green Options Buffalo:
In our series, 30 Days of Bicycle Benefits, you will be introduced to 30 new businesses that will offer you great discounts for riding your bike and wearing your helmet. Thirty businesses that want to say, "Thank you," for choosing not to drive your car.
Theatre of Youth (TOY) - $5 off your ticket
The Theatre of Youth (TOY) is part past, part future and all Buffalo. The historic Allendale Theatre has been saved and revived by a company that sets its mission on nurturing the next generation of knowledgeable, engaged youth.
City
May 26, 2011 4:30 PM
There's a new café in town, though not one that you can readily track down. Why? Because it's on wheels, which gives this mobile café the ability to seek out those who thirst for coffees, teas, gourmet hot chocolate espresso drinks and iced mochaccinos. It's called Rolling Joe Café*, and its owner Rich Spears has struck up an agreement with Olmsted Parks to deliver a variety of hot and cold drinks to a clientele that might not expect to encounter a café in a non-commercial district. That's kinda the beauty of the operation - when I first encountered the coffee camper I noticed a bunch of prospective
City
May 26, 2011 11:30 AM
By Nancy Cardillo:
Interested in Civil War history? Want to learn more about the many connections Buffalo has to what some believe was the most important conflict in our country's history? Then stop by Forest Lawn, 1411 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo on Sunday, May 29 between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm for the second annual Muster In The Meadow, a day-long, family-friendly educational and entertaining event. Admission is FREE and there's FREE parking and shuttle service from Canisius College.
More than 300 re-enactors from across the U.S. and Canada will be
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