Author: Schyler Norton Pablo Picasso was a world renowned painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright. He is most known for his paintings and co-founding the Cubist movement, he is also well known for the invention of constructed sculpture, and the co-invention of collage. Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain in 1881, and died in Mougins, France in 1973. 1910 to 1945 was a time of many changes, and development. Artistically speaking, it was during those years when the rise of the avant-garde and birth of Abstract Expressionism took place. Buffalo is lucky enough to have an opportunity…
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Author: Schyler Norton Earl Ketry is a busy guy. Owner of both Pearl Street Grill & Brewery and RiverWorks (among others), he has quite a lot on his plate. Luckily I got a chance to speak with him this week about his newest endeavor – super fun transportation in the downtown area. For years Earl has been trying to “connect the dots” in downtown. After reaching out to the NFTA to no avail, he decided to take matters into his own hands. Earl knew that he wanted something fun, not just a regular shuttle to take people from point A…
Author: Schyler Norton Hertel Liquor Library is the most classy liquor store I have ever been inside. It is more unique than say the new Amherst St Wine and Liquor or Premier, although the two are completely different in nature. The building itself is interesting, all brick except for two large glass windows on either side. The inside is impressive as well, as soon as you walk in there is a large mural of many of the most beautiful buildings and landmarks that Buffalo has to offer. Hertel Liquor Library opened the week of Christmas in 2016. Although they have…
Author: Schyler Norton Charters are a complex subject and can be polarizing, but let’s take a moment to put that aside and to appreciate a place that is providing a good education for children. West Buffalo Charter School was chartered in March of 2010. The school opened its doors in August of 2012 as Kindergarten to second grade and then added third grade in 2013, and fourth grade in 2014. In November of 2015 the school applied to add a middle school, which was approved in February of 2016. This past August they opened to 5th graders and next year…
Author: Schyler Norton Fear not music lovers, Allentown Music is moving, but certainly not closing. Joe Maniaci started Allentown music 15 years ago in a store on Allen. Five years later Allentown Music was given a 30 day notice and had to move to their location on Elmwood, where they stayed for ten years. Now, they’ve been told to move again, but this is the last time. Allentown Music will never be given a notice to move again, because they are now the master of their own domain – they bought a building at 497 Amherst Street. At first Joe wanted…
Author: Schyler Norton I live so close, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually been here, I said to Amanda Calistro when she gave me a tour of the Buffalo Equestrian Center. She gets that a lot. On Monday I spoke to Amanda, who is executive director and head riding instructor at the Buffalo Equestrian Center or BEC. BEC is located on Amherst Street off of Delaware. From the front, it’s clear that it’s a big space, but it’s deceptive, because trust me it’s huge. BEC was originally built in 1922 as “The Buffalo Saddle and Bridle Club” to be…
Author: Richard Young The next time you are wandering the aisles of your local CVS and you happen to come upon the shelves stocked with shaving products, you might give pause to consider that the recent resurgence of Buffalo and the Niagara Frontier that we are currently experiencing has been thought about before. Actually, not just thought about but meticulously planned and designed by a utopian socialist named King Camp Gillette. Gillette, inventor of the safety razor published a book in 1894 titled The Human Drift in which he envisioned a gigantic city that encompassed Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Rochester and…
Author: Joe Kirchmyer Bases Loaded Sports Collectibles will host representatives from Beckett Grading Services and Beckett Authentication Services from noon to 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, at the store, located at 794 French Road, Cheektowaga. Beckett Grading Services provides collectors with the most thorough, consistent and accurate grading efforts available in the industry. Your BGS-graded cards will be returned in a unique, protective cardholder. Beckett uses an easy-to-understand one- to 10-point grading scale to rate sports cards, which are graded on four key categories: Centering, corners, edges and surface. Grades from each…
Author: Schyler Norton VeteransRespond began as a response to a call for help from protesters at Standing Rock, North Dakota. Mark Sanderson, the founder and executive director of VeteransRespond had never been involved in activism until Standing Rock. There, he used the leadership skills that he learned in the army to organize a group of 2,000 Veterans that wanted to provide aid and protection to the protestors. Mark used a military model and built a unit within the protest to do good. While there, the veterans carried food, water, and firewood to the camp. They also established an intelligence service…
Author: R. Reade If Buffalo really wishes to break in to the big leagues of technology, it must to more than just fund new medical technologies — it must invest in game changing technologies and become a world leader. With the advent of another round of Buffalo Billions, it is time to create a Center for Transportation Technology, and at its core, invest in developing something no one else is really focusing on. In my mind, that is high speed cargo trains. We all understand high speed passenger trains, but the major problem is that construction will run into the…