Want to spice up your love life? Sick of the generic dinner and a movie outings? Why not try something new, like Date Night at Hand to Heart Yoga, Friday April 30th, where newer couples can get to know each other better and those who are in relationships can reconnect. Erin Cook, owner of Hand to Heart Yoga, says the yoga she offers isn’t the normal stretch class you’ve heard about in the past: it’s much more. Since the opening of her studio in January, she has held monthly workshops combining yoga with other fun and exciting activities and ideas,…
Author: Elena Cala Buscarino
Drive By Press was created to educate and share the contemporary practice of printmaking with students and art audiences across America. DBP has visited well over 100! Universities, Colleges,and public schools, traveling over 100,000 miles!Today they are at the Buffalo State College printmaking department in Upton Hall demonstrating printmaking techniques. Visitors are welcome to drop by.Following a week-long residency at the WNY Book Arts Center Printshop, Drive by Press will display a special one-day exhibit of highlights from their traveling collection and the work created during their week at WNYBAC!The special one-day exhibit/reception with printing demos and lots of art is Friday April…
The Buffalo Small Press Book Fair is an annual rite of Spring on Porter Avenue at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum. With three fairs under his belt and counting, Chris Fritton, the organizer of the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, is bringing together another event not to be missed: A free event with lots of handmade and self published books and art. The 4th annual Buffalo Small Press Book Fair takes place on Saturday March 27, 2010. In keeping with the popular format change from last year, the fair will host a number of free workshops that take place concurrent with…
This past Friday, I arrived at WBFO’s Studio B to tape my final Buffalo Rising Roundtable with News Director Mark Scott (who I will miss terribly).Flanked by my old boss, Buffalo Rising founder Newell Nussbaumer, and my new boss, Superintendent of Buffalo Public Schools Dr. James A. Williams, we talked about what we always talk about in a way – Buffalo’s efforts to rise.I don’t see my new duties for the schools (title: Special Assistant to the Superintendent for Community Relations) as being much of a departure from what I did for Buffalo Rising these 3+ years. I will continue…
Planning on cooking an intimate candlelight dinner for you and your sweetie for Valentine’s Day, but you don’t have any candlesticks to set the mood? No reason to fear, Buffalo ReUse is here!Tonight from 4 to 5PM, Buffalo ReUse is hosting a candlestick-making workshop at 158 Eaton Street. Create your own romantic candlesticks out of spindles from old staircases to give as a gift or simply to light any room to enchant your special someone on Valentine’s Day. Nothing is better than surprising your honey with something homemade that’s straight from the heart. Buffalo ReUse is asking for people to bring…
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is giving away free tickets for the Thursday February 11th BPO INFORMance performance. Joseph Young, the League of American Orchestras Conducting Fellow, will lead the night of classical masterpieces while giving an informative and informal presentation about the compositions and instruments being utilized by the musicians. In order to win, the first five Buffalo Rising readers to answer the following three questions correctly, receives two complimentary tickets. Logging on to Buffalo Niagara 360 and The Partnership will help you uncover the answers. 1) The Buffalo Niagara 360 young professionals program was created by what local business organization? 2) Name two of the social networking websites where you can…
According to Kathleen Lynch, Esq., of the WNY Law Center, legislation passed on December 15th by Governor David Paterson holds great provisions, including expanding court-based settlement conferences to all home loans. This, says Lynch, enables homeowners to face banks in court and work out a modification under court supervision.Lynch goes on to say that the other huge victory for cities all over, and especially Buffalo, is the foreclosure maintenance provision. As of April 15th, any foreclosing plaintiff that goes as far as getting a judgment of foreclosure on a property, must assume responsibility for the maintenance of the property. “If lenders…
Early last December, Buffalo Rising contributor John Straubinger brought you this story about HomeFront, Inc’s 19th Street rehabs. This past week, HomeFront, a not-for-profit community development corporation based out of the City of Buffalo, announced it has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the M&T Charitable Foundation. HomeFront is currently rehabilitating six homes on one city block, in order to subsequently sell those homes to low and moderate-income first-time homebuyers. HomeFront has designated this year’s funding for use in its housing redevelopment initiative, the 19th Street Acquisition, Rehabilitation, and Resale Program. “Redevelopment of once abandoned homes not only contributes to the…
This morning, Buffalo Rising learned of the death of one of our own from the not-so-distant past, Gabrielle Bouliane. Gabrielle was a poet and videographer with a tremendous life force. She was a force – a no-nonsense, shoot-from-the-hip, tell-it-like-it-is, real life woman – all wrapped in a sensitive understanding of the human condition. Yeah, Gabrielle saw life for what it was, sometimes with a cynics eye, but she made it beautiful for others through her artistic talents.Gabrielle was the champion of all poets and people, a worker of words. May she rest well and never be forgotten.The following video, from…
Watts Architecture & Engineering, PC, recently submitted to a Cleveland, Ohio design competition, and the concept – of a design competition – is one that could benefit Buffalo.Architect Marie Carone part of a team of nine at Watts, led by Kirk Miller, Rebecca Bortolin and Stephanie Koch, who answered the call for designs for a downtown mall in Cleveland that would create a connection between the downtown core and the Lake Erie waterfront. Sound familiar?Just like Buffalo, Cleveland is a city whose waterways served as their economic growth engine, but that connection was lost as industry changed and railways and…