David Bentkowski is the 36-year-old mayor of Seven Hills, Ohio, making him the city’s youngest-ever mayor. Prior to that, he was a 23-year-old council member. In his 2nd term as mayor, he has changed quite a bit of public policy, and brought a fair amount of publicity to the small town of 15,000. He says, “It is the best of both worlds. We have quiet, one-acre lots where major news is if someone knocks over a garbage can, yet we can hop on the highway and be in downtown cleveland in fifteen minutes.” Bentkowski, has written a book called “The Power of the Proclamation”…
Author: Dan Fisher
Danish architecture and planning students, Mia Ann Bruhn and Birgitte Ravn Knop (below) have spent 1 1/2 months in Buffalo for an independent research project involving post-industrial wastelands. Their study will culminate in a 2-day only exhibit at the Grant Street Gallery, 216 Grant Street on November 3rd and 4th. The opening reception will be held from 6:30 to 9PM on Tuesday, November 3rd, and the exhibit will be available for viewing on Wednesday, November 4th from 9AM to 9PM.Below is a Q & A with the duo in regard to their study, their findings, and what they’ll take home with them.…
Quincey Morris opened @Eleven on Minnesota Avenue, just off of Main Street, this past August, and business is going very well. This is a mainly a take-out restaurant, with limited window seating, but @Eleven features a sit-down style menu unlike most other grab-and-go places. In addition, whether you’re waiting for an order or eating at the window bar, @Eleven provides free wi-fi.Quincey and General Manager Monique Cunningham shared the fact that they hope to breaking through the back wall soon to accommodate a dining room. In the meanwhile, you can expect things you’d never expect to see on a menu with…
464 Gallery owner Marcus Wise opened a show at his Amherst Street gallery last week, entitled “Doors Closed,” to open concurrently with the 8th Annual Binational Doors Open Niagara event.The show runs until November 15th and features the works of seven photographers (below), who highlight “scenes of closed down, long abandoned, or already demolished locations.” The description goes further to say that the exhibit “brings you into the realm of the forgotten…the rarely seen decaying architecture and significant industry of the past.”Not so forgotten, perhaps, and not so rarely seen these days. How about Viktoria Ciostek’s exhibit, “Zones of Discard,”…
Jim Kupczyk considers himself to be a lifelong student of energy medicine. His fascination for the power of energy has grown over the years and blossomed into an enchanting form of healing people, and sports enthusiast all over the world partake in it. Since an early age Jim has been a strong believer in the human body’s ability to heal itself. Born and raised in Buffalo, Jim attended the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. Since college, Jim worked in most facets of supply chain management and is currently the senior…
Modern Nostalgia will open at 95 Allen Street this Friday, the joint effort of Nikki Polasik and Brianne Klejdys-Long. The shop will offer women’s clothing, lingerie, accessories and jewelry that will appeal to women of all ages. Any one of the pieces or dresses Modern Nostalgia carries can be dressed up for a night out or paired with jeans for a casual chic look with a little extra personality. Look for lines like Mary Green, Pur and Adriano Goldschmied, bridge line clothing that suits every wallet.Along with a host of fun services and events, Nikki and Bri plan to get to…
Last night’s public hearing at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery played to around 400 attendees, 60 of whom commented after the initial presentation of the Draft Generic Environmental Impact Study (DGEIS) for Canal Side. ECHDC Board Chairman Jordan Levy opened the hearing with the statement that the plan those in attendance were about to see was the culmination of 7 years of work, and he asked that all “keep an open mind.”EE&K Architects Founder Stan Eckstut said that the Erie Canal is where the city began and grew from. “We’re trying to recall it while advancing into the future. Before, it was…
Amanda Giczkowski just opened the VAuLT on Main near West Tupper last month, and she has a big weekend scheduled starting this Friday at 7PM with the grand opening of the “Show Your Bones Halloween Art Exhibit,” featuring many local and regional artists, along with plenty of entertainment and refreshments. This is Giczkowski’s first gallery owning/curating experience, though she’s been exhibiting her photography on a monthly basis and was looking to find more places to exhibit her work. “This opportunity arrived in late August, so by September 11th – Curtain Up! The Vault was introduced to the Buffalo Theaters District,”…
Effective yesterday, October 19th, Michael Gainer was offered, and has accepted, the position of program director for Buffalo ReUse, the not-for-profit agency he founded. The responsibilities of the position were agreed on by the board of directors, and are as follows: -Provide monthly deconstruction and salvage report, and program status. This is to include what jobs have been completed, in-progress, signed and prospects. All jobs discussed are to include estimated costs and revenue expected. -Direct field operations for deconstruction and salvage activities. -Coordinate subcontracted services, such as utility cuts, asbestos surveys, abatements, excavators and other as needed. -Follow up…
As the skeleton for the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino grows darker on the horizon, its exposed steel with a shelf-life of six years oxidizing, ground was broken yesterday for the expansion of the temporary casino at Michigan and Perry Streets. The project is expected to be completed by spring of 2010.Though construction was halted on the $333 million Buffalo Creek last year due to “economic downturn,” according to a Seneca spokesman, the temporary facility continued to operate in the face of a series of lawsuits, upheld by Judge William Skretny, that threatened unsuccessfully to shut them down.The expansion of the…