The Food and Emerging Media Speaker Series is designed to examine the role of emerging media and new technology on exploration, articulation, and understanding the many aspects of food. Over the last few months, this lecture series has hosted artists, farmers, architects, curators, and historians whose work and research focuses on how media and technology have mediated and influenced our relationship to food. Issues examined include sustainability, social networking, emerging technologies and how each

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With the "help" of a Canisius graduate and longtime supporter, Canisius College's mascot, Petey the Griffin,

To celebrate the Sabres first playoff victory of the season, Celebrate Buffalo is offering FREE SHIPPING on all their merchandise purchased through the Buffalo Rising Store. 
You can pick up the popular I Heart Buffalo Hockey gear including I Heart Buffalo Hockey shirts and I

It has been confirmed that the newly formed Buffalo Scholastic Rowing Association will be constructing a boathouse on Ohio Street, over the Buffalo River. In what appears to be an amicable split from the West Side Rowing Club, schools such as the Buffalo Seminary have made deals to row with the new club, which hopes to be up and running for a 2010 summer program and the coming scholastic season.

The boathouse, which will be named in memory of Patrick Paladino, late son of developer Carl Paladino, has been in the works for over a year. Currently, it exists in the form of a cleared lot

Today, for the eighth year running, the mayors of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and Ft. Erie met in the middle of the Peace Bridge and dropped the big red "boom ball" to kick off the opening of Boom Days.

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When Orlando Perez of Skyview Learning Group first reached out to me regarding the industry, I immediately wondered what I could write about a local telemarketing company that hasn't been written - both the good and the bad. To my surprise, Orlando's new company was designed to not only boost the regional telemarketers by delivering solid employees, it was also designed to deliver a promise of job security to many who have long ago given up on that dream. "When you really look at the local market," Orlando started. "You have a number of different levels of

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Buffalo, a city that has lost much of its population over the last few years should try to find simpler ways to attract people.  Not simply renters, who are transient, temporary dwellers, but actual property buyers, house owners; permanent dwellers.  When I first moved to the city of Buffalo in '99 as one of the many renters, I never thought I would love it here so much that I would want to live here for the rest of my life.  But my heart can't see being happier anywhere else.  Lots of single people, like my former

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library: Staff Review by K. Galvin

Lucky indeed is the adult who gets to share a good picture book with a young reader.  Here are two recent favorites that should appeal to both kids and adults with their winning combination of wit and heart:

Lawn to Lawn by Dan Yaccarino

Young Pearl is excited to share news of their impending move to Ritzy Estates with her beloved lawn ornaments - a deer, flamingo, jockey, even a gnome! But when moving day comes, the ornaments are left behind.  Loyal to Pearl, and

If you're interested in checking out some original artwork and supporting a local entrepreneur at the same time, be sure to attend Blue Eye Creative's Preview Night on Friday, April 16, from 5-9pm at its studio at 2114 Seneca Street in South Buffalo.

The studio, which designs creative solutions for small businesses owners, is hosting this event to honor the unveiling of its new store, which will sell work made by local musicians and artisans. There will be a party with entertainment, door prizes and a chance to both look at up-and-coming artists' works and chat with

University at Buffalo web campus camera is currently providing a Birdseye view, as the camera is capturing life in the falcon's nest on the South Campus. It's a live feed that refreshes every 10 seconds.

Members of the local bird-watching community say the UB "falcon-cam" is important because the Audubon Society camera that was installed in Statler Tower's falcon nest went dark last month.

Last month, staff members from UB Facilities with assistance from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Buffalo Audubon Society installed the web cam

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The Scajaquada Creek Spring Clean-Up is on Saturday April 17th, held  by the Grant Amherst Business Association and Scajaquada Canoe Club in conjunction with Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper. The clean-up meets at the American Legion Post 1041 on Amherst Street at 9AM. The public, block clubs and all our neighbors are welcome to help us in the cleaning up and redevelopment of Scajaquada Creek and Trail.

This spring we will focus on cleaning up the winter trash and getting graffiti off of the

North District Council Member Joseph Golombek has an interesting idea. He has proposed zoning legislation that would create a Pan American Exposition District, which would encompass the area bounded by Delaware, Elmwood, Great Arrow and the Scajaquada Expressway.

If done properly, this would certainly help a district that has never been able to establish much of an identity. At the same time, it plays on the importance (or tragedy depending on how you look at it) of an event that could have done so much more for our city if it had not been blemished by such tragedy. The zoning legislation,

If there's one thing that has captivated the attention of Western New Yorkers the past couple days, it's been Carl Paladino's emails.  Oh, and the Buffalo Sabres playoff series which starts tomorrow night at HSBC Arena. 

The Sabres, the #3 seed in the Eastern Conference, play a best-of-seven series against the #6 seed Boston Bruins.  While the Sabres are favorites in the series, Las Vegas has them as the least favorite higher seeded team of any of the 8 playoff matchups.  Perhaps

To walk through the doors of the red brick house at 318 Breckenridge Street on Buffalo's West Side for the first time is to experience a certain level of culture shock. Women and men of varying ethnicities-- Burmese, Somali, Burundi, Congolese, Sudanese, Cuban, Ethiopian and Iraqi, to name a few-- crowd into the bay window and the former dining room of this once residential house and wait for assistance from one of case workers.

Several women have sleeping babies slung on their backs, others shush children or stand alone and quietly wait their turn. Many are chatting to each other in

Sunday May 16, from 11am- 4:30pm at 96 Jewett Parkway, the Parkside Community Association (PCA) presents their 12th Annual Tour of Homes, Visitors are promised a fascinating look inside historical residences in Parkside Buffalo.

Come absorb the historical residences in Buffalo's beautiful Historic District of Parkside. Many of the homes show a reflection of their 19th century origin in architectural style along with interiors and furnishings. Others present an exciting contemporary approach to city living.

The PCA is

"The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman; if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world." -Walt Whitman

I'm a sucker for a good Whitman quote. Perhaps it was the short stint teaching American Literature to high-school Juniors; puzzling them with his sometimes ethereal strings of words and then making sense of them together. But one thing Whitman was never unclear about was his desire to understand the common man, the culture around him and how it interacted solely and then together; about the strength of the common human experience.

A while back, I was given the privilege to tour this historic building downtown. While walking through, we were shown many rooms and spaces that have been closed to the public for some time.  Although the building is shutting down completely, Rocco Termini is aiming to take on a major redevelopment of the historic hotel, 60 to 90 days after the State's historic tax credit fixes have been signed into law.
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This past Saturday, Green Option Buffalo teamed up with Hope Refugee Services to help give away 50 bicycles to refugee families on Buffalo's West Side.

"We are so pleased to share this wonderful effort with HOPE so that people who do not now have access to bicycles will," said Justin Booth, executive director of GO Buffalo.

Volunteers of GO Buffalo's Community Workshop helped to restore and refurbished 50 donated bicycles, that were distributed by HOPE volunteers to refugee families in need. Also helmets were provided with the bicycles as well as brief instruction on bicycle

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The Burchfield Penney Art Center opened a new show this past Friday called War Ongoing Project.  The premise of the project is to get visitors to think about the emotional toll war takes on everyone involved.

"I proposed to fill the Media room with thousands of small black bags hung from individual filaments at different heights from a foot above ground level toward the ceiling. In every bag would be the names of the war dead, from the present wars to past wars. The bags are metaphor for the life unlived," said Perrone of his exhibit.
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By Timm Otterson, DVM, PEF President, NFVS Board Member:

Ever notice how people often look like their pets? The tall, skinny couple with the Greyhounds? The stocky guy with the English Bulldog? The stylish lady with the well-groomed Bishon Frise? Unfortunately, as people in our society have gotten heavier and started to suffer the associated health effects, so have pets. Veterinarians know this, and that's why the American Veterinary Medical Association has designated the theme of this year's National Pet Week as "People and Pets Healthy