Fresh off a victory in the Meadowlands over the NY Jets, the Bills head to where all-too-many Buffalonians have gone over the past decade – Charlotte, North Carolina – to face the the 2-3 Panthers. Trent Edwards will be sidelined with a concussion giving Ryan Fitzpatrick the start. The Panthers are 7 point favorites over the Bills and the game is yet another 4pm start. As usual, the person who accurately predicts the final score of the Bills game will receiving a free Buffalo Rising Print designed and hand-printed by Hero Design. To enter this…
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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…
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,”…
In a Buffalo News editorial entitled “Council throws a block,” the OpEd piece contends that the landmark designation of 771 Busti “could delay a project important to the city.” That would signal that the News editorial board has the new bridge and the truck plaza mixed up in their minds, while preservationists and Columbus Park-Prospect Hill residents insist that they are two separate projects. One involves a new bridge, the other, a lot of concrete – in a neighborhood that was long-established, and would still be in good condition, had the PBA not purchased several homes, and allowed them to rot for years.…
This week on the Buffalo Rising Roundtable, WBFO News Director Mark Scott and I were in Studio B all on our own to talk about the past week’s events. (The podcast is the entire 20 – 30 minute show as opposed to the 5 minutes WBFO broadcasts, so give it a listen.)On the first three subjects: the landmarking of 771 Busti, the Olmsted Parks Conservancy’s future role in park maintenance, and Buffalo ReUse’s new board of directors, I commented that we could call this the “Up in the Air” segment of Buffalo Rising’s Roundtable because much remains to be seen. Will the…
Take four master’s students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture, one In Rem house bought at auction, and a two-year program that challenges the students to create a living environment, and you have “Quad Space”. The students who created it are Michael-John Bailie, Paul Dudkowski, Ernest Ng and Dan Stripp, and they invite all to attend a viewing on Saturday, October 17th, from 12 to 5 PM. According to Ng, all of the master’s students were split into different groups: sustainable urban environment, inclusive design, situated technologies and material culture. Ng explains that he and his partners, as…
Both the wooden and real life versions of Buffalo Bills great Thurman Thomas will be in Sahlen’s Sports Park in Elma at 5PM this afternoon as the snatched statue makes its way back home.Expect an international, national and local media frenzy as the live versions of NFL, CBS, FOX, ESPN, local stations and 97 Rock will be on hand to see the statue returned after last Sunday’s heist by three Canadian teens.The statue is charred, but whole. The Canadian teens said that someone had vandalized it by setting it on fire after last Sunday’s home loss to the Cleveland Browns, and they…
The City of Buffalo will be holding their In Rem auction on October 26th – 28th, at the Buffalo and Erie County Convention Center. The link above will take you to the City site where you can register as well as upload a list of properties that will be auctioned.As always, the City’s main focus is on helping people to stay in their homes, but often, letters of foreclosure leading up to the auction are ignored, and sometimes the occupant, fearing removal, flees before finding out what resources are available to them to help them keep their homes.Despite the efforts…
Last night marked the opening of an exhibit at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum that showcases artifacts from Corpus Christi Catholic Church, a predominantly Polish-American church on Buffalo’s East Side.Included in the exhibit are photographs from BRO friend Chuck LaChiusa, the man who created the “Buffalo as an Architectural Museum” website* that we refer back to again and again for building pictures and histories. In fact, here is Chuck’s Corpus Christi page, with a very informative history article by Jim Napora. Karpeles? Chuck has a page for both the present and the former location. If there is a building if…
We all know Thurman Thomas is going to be at BECHS tonight, talking football. We also know where his 8 1/2 foot, half-ton sculpture is. It went missing just after its unveiling, following the Buffalo Bills terrible loss to the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. The statue is across the Canadian border in Welland, but getting it back became a problem for the thieves. Thurman went north to Welland, when some rather young, inebriated, very strong…and now very scared Canadian teenagers made off with the statue in the back of their pick-up truck. They even declared it at the Peace Bridge, much…