2005 Outdoor Animation Festival
FREE WEEKLY SCREENINGS brought to you by Squeaky Wheel and The Allentown Association Screenings begin at 9:00 PM
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH by Chuck Jones Sat. July 30th - Days Park Milo is a boy who is bored with life. One day he comes home to find a tollbooth in his room. Having nothing better to do, he gets in his toy car and drives through - only to emerge in a world full of adventure.
ANIMATED SHORTS COLLECTION #1 by various artists Sat. August 6th - Days Park Featuring 3D, charcoal, photocopy, stop motion and oil paint animations by Amanda Forbis, Jill Haras, Helen Hill, Tim Miller, Eric Patrick and Dennis Ryan.
THE BOY WHO WANTED TO BE A BEAR by Jannik Hastrup Sat. August 13th - Martin Luther King Park When a boy child is stolen by bears who raise him as their own, his human parents hunt the bears in despair, and the boy is faced with the dilemma of who and what he is.
ANIMATED SHORTS COLLECTION #2 by various artists Sat. August 19th - Martin Luther King Park Featuring puppet, 3D and pencil animations by Martine Chartrand, Claire Helman, Tim Miller, Cilia Sawadogo, Pjotr Sapegin and Jiri Trinka.

ValoreBooks has changed its name to Bucks4Books, and with that change, it continues to bring new and innovative ways to make it easier, less time consuming and more profitable for college students to sell back their text books. The Buffalo based company was founded in 2002 by a group of Western New York college students looking for a better alternative to on-campus bookstores.
Staying true to their slogan “A Refreshing Text Book Experience,” Bucks4Books made it their mission …
Earlier today we took our first walk through the brand new Burchfield-Penney Art Center. By the end of the visit I must say that I was a bit disappointed. Why? Because after walking through the entire complex, I found myself wishing that I had gone to the membership gala the night before. That was when thousands of members/supporters came together to revel in the glory that is The Burchfield-Penney Art Center.
The art center experience certainly lives up to all the hype that has …
This past July, the East Delavan Branch of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library was given a grant of more than $133,000 from the Josephine Goodyear Foundation to help improve literacy rates in the area as part of the Read to Succeed Buffalo Literacy Coalition campaign.
Organized by Good Schools for All, a program of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, the goal of the grant and its resultant programs is to achieve a 100 percent literacy rate in the City of Buffalo …
Almost nothing incites a turf war on Buffalo Rising like The City vs. The Burbs talk (unless, of course, the topic happens to be Classic Art vs. Modern, or Casino vs. No Casino, or anything to do with the Peace Bridge and trolls).
Therefore, we enjoyed this little parody from the Onion that pokes fun at the 'burbs, but at the same time takes a look at what might be a haughty attitude held by city dwellers in respect to the suburbs.
This piece pushes stereotype to the max in a to … 




