Legend has it that the weather always rocks for the Allentown Art Festival, and this year is no exception. Although I enjoyed the whole festival, the part I enjoy the most is West of Elmwood (Allen West), what used to be part of the underground Allentown festival. The focus here is not on the out-of-towners coming to Buffalo and selling their wares, but more local artists, musicians and entrepreneurs. It made me think of the upcoming Tenth Annual Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts in August. Some of the vendors that I enjoyed: Lake Effect Ice Cream has interesting Buffalo-style…
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Stanford Lipsey’s career goes further than newspapers; the publisher of The Buffalo News will have his artwork exhibited in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The exhibition, Affinity of Form: Photographs by Stanford Lipsey, is a collection of 27 of Lipsey’s large-scale photographs, all of which were taken throughout the past several years. The works can also be found in his recently published book, Affinity of Form, along with a wide array of additional images.The exhibition opens in the Albright’s Collectors Gallery starting on Friday, June 26th, and will continue until Sunday, August 16th. On the opening day of the exhibition, Lipsey will present an illustrated…
The Town Pants, originally from Vancouver, will begin their summer tour tomorrow night at the Buffalo Irish Center at 9pm. If you’re not familiar with The Town Pants, you can listen to some of their stuff here. The group combines aspects of Irish traditional, acoustic pop, roots Americana, even Australian and Mexican influences to create their own brand of West Coast Celtic. Lively and energetic, The Town Pants mix traditional and contemporary Celtic-influenced tunes to create a fun show for the entire audience. If you love Great Big Sea (as most Buffalonians do), you’ll dig The Town Pants. Doors open…
This Saturday, Buffalo First is featuring two events, back to back. The first is a lecture by author David Hess at Hallwalls at 2PM, followed by Buffalo First’s premier networking event for local and independent businesses this Saturday at 4PM. Hess will speak about his new book on local economies here in Buffalo, and Buffalo First, the regional advocate for a local, green and fair economy, is teaming up with Talking Leaves…Books, Buffalo’s oldest independent bookstore, along with Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Scholar and university professor Hess will discuss Localist Movements in a Global Economy: Sustainability, Justice and Urban Development in…
By Nancy J. ParisiThe YWCA of Western New York, Inc.’s Institute for Public Leadership (IPL) is back on the political scene. After a few years’ absence, WNY-YWCA celebrates the revival of IPL on Thursday, June 18th, with a free reception/reunion at YWCA headquarters on Grant Street. Dubbed a revival by event programmers, this is a reintroduction to the IPL workshop training program which empowers women and potential women politicians by learning how to run successful political campaigns, manage campaigns, and engage in lobbying activities. IPL also trains women in three interrelated initiatives: “I Vote” addresses voter education; “I Speak Out”…
After being closed for repairs for quite some time, The Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site is set to reopen to the public and the staff is fine tuning the new guided tour experience. There are several special preview tours scheduled this week, at 1PM and 3PM on Thursday, June 18 and Friday, June 19. The price is right as the tours are complimentary, but they are by reservation only, so call and sign up now. Please contact the TR Site at 884-0095 if you are interested in participating.Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site 641 Delaware Avenue Buffalo, NY 14202
From the looks of the BR poll this week, we have a lot of art festival fans out there. Here’s a taste of last weekend’s Allentown Art Festival from the lens of photographer Glenn E. Murray, Esq., with the slideshow magic of BR’s Dan Fisher.Glenn never fails to get in the thick of things with his trusty camera, and being a tall man, he sees a lot that many of those of shorter stature miss. We guess you could say Glenn has a bird’s eye view.Enjoy the show, set to the music of local band Off the Cuff, playing Ginger…
It’s time for the periodic Buffalo Rising traffic update. . . From March 1, 2009 through May 31, 2009, BuffaloRising.com has received 574,485 visits from 214,185 unique visitors. Compared to the same time period last year, visitors have increased 18% and unique visitors are up 34%. In our last report, we mentioned that February was our largest month ever with 71,956 unique visitors – well every month since then has eclipsed that record and March is our new all-time high with 81,419 unique visitors. It’s now clear that our former print readers have joined us online and we…
[Editor’s note: The following commentary is a thoughtful, well-formed opinion that takes a look at priorities, regulations, and the root of fair business practices and representation. We found this piece to be a good and perhaps unrepresented part of an ongoing dialogue.] By Paul Morgan Ah, the exuberance, and injustice of youth, and inexperience. James the “Ice Creamcycle Dude” is a greening entrepreneur, someone Buffalo sorely needs, and should be able to ‘go where the people are’, and sell his inexpensive treats, wherever he likes, right? Or should he? The problem with these knee-jerk reactions to seemingly ‘innocent victims’ of…
Mayor Byron W. Brown today announced the kickoff of Buffalo’s 34th Annual Juneteenth Festival, to be held in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park this upcoming Saturday and Sunday. “The Juneteenth Festival is a great summer activity that I encourage all of our city residents to come out and enjoy,” said Mayor Brown. “Because of such strong community support and participation, our local festival has grown to become one of the largest in the nation. This is a great opportunity for our residents to celebrate African American culture and commemorate the struggles of past generations.” Juneteenth is the oldest known…