Buffalo Homecoming Weekend is sure to be busy for everyone in Buffalo. With a ton of different events going on, it may be hard to schedule what you’re going to do. If you would like to take a trip off the beaten path, you may want to check out the Market Arcade Theater. For a movie? Well, kind of. The Buffalo Arts Council will be putting on the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 11:30pm on Friday June 27th and twice on Saturday June 28th, once at 10am and then a traditional midnight showing. It may seem a little early to…
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Greg Johnson, a teacher at Buffalo Public School #17, is on the committee for the Tour de Cure for the American Diabetes Association (ADA). In an effort to help the ADA and donate to the Tour de Cure, he managed to get nine Buffalo Public Schools and Niagara County schools to take part in a coin drive. “I faxed letters to all the schools in Buffalo and Niagara County. Next year we’re hoping more people partake and make this even better,” says Johnson. The schools managed to raise more than $4,000 for the ADA. Johnson’s school came in first for…
Back in April, some of you might remember that the Binational Tourism Alliance (BTA) held a summit in the Adam’s Mark Hotel. The summit centered on discussions of how to eliminate the barriers to cross-border tourism development. The BTA is going to be holding one of the first of several roundtable discussions this summer. The first is tomorrow, May 6th, at the Edgewaters Tap & Grill in Queen Victoria Park in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The Binational Transportation Roundtable will cover an array of topics with a variety of speakers. Topics planned are on the existing transportation plans, alternative transit methods,…
Back in 2002, Joy Rose was living in Westchester, NY looking for a venue to play her music. Rose wanted to create a venue for herself to play music but that would also feature people like her. That little thought turned into a concert, dubbed “Mamapalooza.” It featured a one night event on the lower East Side of NYC with just ten bands. It was a concert that spawned a global movement featuring women artists and artists who are mothers. Annette Daniels Taylor had just moved to Buffalo with her husband. Her husband was originally from Buffalo, but Davis was…
Though Aurora Waldorf School is in West Falls, NY, they have early childhood programs at the Unity Church at 1243 Delaware Avenue. The school runs a satellite program in the furnished basement of the church, taught by Judy Frizland. The program brings parents and children together in a play group, giving children activities and a chance to learn in a Waldorf environment. Waldorf education is a style of teaching that emphasizes the role of the natural rhythm of life. It is definitely not your normal public education style of learning. Frizland describes the program as breathing, there is an in-breath…
Is it possible Buffalonians have less to complain about? The Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority (BFSA) was created in July 2003, and as part of their statute they have certain requirements to get the budget out. They have to do it in ten days and they have to have a public forum accessible to as many people as possible, amongst others requirements. The first time they had the public forum was in September 6, 2003. The BFSA held it in the Buffalo Convention Center and around 250 people were present. It was an all day event, and 54 people voiced their…
According to Marty Biniasz, Forgotten Buffalo wasn’t originally meant for tours. “It started off as a website that I founded five years ago,” he says. However, it wound up being a host of different themed tours that takes Buffalonians all across the region to places that have been lost over the ages. The next tour is soon, May 8th, and space, as always, is limited. This is the second and last tour of the theme “Secret Societies & Clubs.” Biniasz discovers these places around Buffalo through his own research, which includes work he is doing on a book. His website,…
People on the West Side and the Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP) are keeping their fingers crossed as Tuesday, April 29th approaches. That night will be when the 21st Century Fund picks among four finalists the recipient of $100,000 grant at the Buffalo Academy of Visual and Performing Arts. Though MAP is hoping to get the biannual award to jumpstart a program initiative, according to Erin Sharkey, the Growing Green outreach Coordinator for MAP, “We think we have a good shot, but there’s great projects in the final four.” MAP would use the award to fund a project that Sharkey says…
If you’re interested in seeing the future of playwriting, be sure to head to Shea’s Smith Theatre for the annual Write To Be Heard competition. Now in its tenth year, this event showcases the winner and two runner-ups by performing their plays. The participants are high school students from grades 8-12 and a select committee of high school students, called a dramaturgy, chooses the winners. This event is coordinated and headed by Margo Davis, who is the founder of the competition. “My whole purpose in doing this is giving high schoolers a reason to write to be heard,” says Davis.…
20 years ago, Anita Williams was sick of seeing her neighborhood travel downhill, so she decided to take action and hold an event and called it “Takin’ It To The Streets.” She could have never imagined that this year would mark the 20th annual Takin’ It To The Streets this August 16th and 17th in Martin Luther King, Jr. Park. The weekend long event will have a number of special things to commemorate its 20th year, including a souvenir journal. “It’s going to be phenomenal this year,” says Williams. To help take donations for the event, Mark Weber of buffalochristian.com…