The Elmwood Village, recently designated as one of the Ten Best Neighborhoods in America by the American Planning Association, is located in the upper West Side of the City of Buffalo. Over the course of this series, our video camera will follow Elmwood Village Association’s Executive Director, Justin Azzarella, through a series of Elmwood Village locations. Each week we’ll focus on one of the four different colored banner districts along Elmwood Avenue. The districts are designated by blue, green, yellow and red banners, from north to south, beginning at Forest Avenue. In our third installment, we focus on the Yellow…
Author: Cassandra
Saturday night, March 8th, the Nickel City will be administered a heavy dose of soulful garage punk rock insanity, courtesy of Atlanta’s infamous Black Lips. The group made a name for themselves with their freakout performances—one should expect vomiting, fireworks and/or live chickens, and just about anything inbetween. Musically, Black Lips are a bizarre cross-breeding of garage punk, doo wop, soul, blues, and country. They’re the exact opposite of a retro-60’s-throwback garage band. This isn’t another rehashing of the Rolling Stones— Black Lips take that cliché sound and make it explode. Musically, it’s like a tiger on angel dust. Opening…
The Elmwood Village, recently designated as one of the Ten Best Neighborhoods in America by the American Planning Association, is located on the upper West Side of the City of Buffalo. Over the course of the next four weeks, our video camera will follow Elmwood Village Association’s Executive Director, Justin Azzarella, through a series of Elmwood Village locations. Each week we’ll focus on one of the four colored-coded banner districts along Elmwood Avenue. The districts are designated by blue, green, yellow and red banners, from north to south, beginning at Forest Avenue. This week we’ll focus on the Blue Banner…