Tokyo Shanghai Bistro opened last Friday at 494 Elmwood Avenue between Hodge and West Utica, and business is booming already.The menu is quite extensive, with Japanese and Chinese options including sushi, and an unlimited buffet that is eat-in ($6.95) or take-out ($5.50/lb). Because there is so much on it, I recommend picking up a take-out menu, which is the same as the eat-in menu, as a sort of study guide – and because it has a a coupon for $5.00 off on a tab of $30 or more until October 31st.The only problem with Tokyo Shanghai is deciding what to…
Author: Hobin73
Buffalo, New York’s unemployment is at 8.9 percent, bringing it from 77th to 35th ranked in a portfolio.com snapshot of the nation’s top 100 labor markets. In a piece that calls the market dismal, one can’t help but notice that some of the hardest-hit post-industrial areas are some of the first places to recover (Rochester, Buffalo, Pittsburgh).On the other hand, cities that were development Meccas before the economic slide (Phoenix, Greensboro, Reno), have fallen drastically on the list. Detroit, still reeling from the most recent car-manufacturing cuts, a fallout of the nationwide economic crisis, stayed at 100, and many towns in Ohio…
Club Diablo, at 517 Washington Street is all you’d expect from Jesse Zuefle, the former owner of Second Skin and one time Continental Nightclub security chief. It’s splashy looking, filled with new and old-style music, and located in the heart of downtown – but off of the main drag.”It’s a fun place,” Zuefle says. “We have all kinds of alt music here like rock, punk metal, African drummers.” He says he gets an 18 and over crowd for most of the music events, but in a crowd of 100 people, 85 to 90 are going to be 20 and 30-somethings.”We’re…
On Wednesday, October 7th, at 5:30PM, members of the Clean Air Coalition of WNY will rally outside the Tonawanda Coke plant on River Road. In response to the plant owner J.D. Crane’s continued refusal to meet with sick and concerned citizens, along with his unresponsiveness to elected officials, residents from Tonawanda, Kenmore, Grand Island and the City of Buffalo will gather across the street from the plant on River Road in Tonawanda to demonstrate against the high levels of benzene pouring out of Tonawanda Coke.The parts of Buffalo hardest hit are Black Rock and Riverside.In June, the NYS Department of…
In this week’s Buffalo Rising Roundtable discussion, we invited Buffalo Olmsted Conservancy Chair Elect Anne Harding Joyce into the WBFO studio to talk about last week’s announcement that Erie County and the City of Buffalo would not renew their agreement in which the County would continue to maintain City parks. Within this agreement, the conservancy oversaw the maintenance of the Olmsted Parks, circles and parkways.The general consensus is that the parks have never looked better than in the last 5 years while this agreement was in place. Joyce is hopeful that the city will allow the conservancy to play a major…
All you Snack Shackers had better take note: The guru of the wrap on Allen, Mark Bauer, has moved his act down the street to a new venue. Snack Shack has melded with Quaker Bonnet Eatery, offering patrons the best of both worlds.”We have a whole new menu,” Bauer says. “We have Liz’s sandwiches, my wraps, some Mexicali, Snack Shack green salads, early dinner and appetizers four nights a week, Sunday brunch…and wifi! Oh, yeah, and Quaker Bonnet has a beer and wine license, so we’ve got that too.” Sounds like a nice marriage of efforts.Bauer says it was hard…
One of our favorite local painters, AJ Fries, will be opening a show of new paintings on Friday, November 6th, at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. On top of his renditions of fast food packaging and sex toys, Fries’ new show comprises a lot of what he does, including land and sky scapes. When asked what the series is about, Fries said it was best described in Hallwalls Visual Arts Curator John Massier’s comment as follows: In a series of new black and white paintings, Buffalo artist AJ Fries delves deep into contemplative and seemingly banal instances in a gesture to distill…
UPDATE: Venue changed to Pearl Street Grill and Brewery.Lenny Revell is just one of the several musicians who will lend their talents to this weekend’s Artists United For Human Rights events aboard the USS Little Rock in the Buffalo Naval & Military Park. The October 4th, noon to 7PM family event will include constant live music, art installations, food, refreshments and is free and open to the public. There will also be free self-guided tours of The Little Rock, The USS Sullivan and The USS Croaker submarine. Held in support of The Citizens Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect, Prevent Child…
Following a joint announcement made by Mayor Byron Brown and County Executive Chris Collins that the City of Buffalo would take control of the City’s six Olmsted Parks by the end of the year, Olmsted Conservancy CEO Thomas Herrera-Mishler fears that care of the parks will be taken out of the conservancy’s hands, and will be holding a press conference at 10AM this morning at the Delaware Park Marcy Casino to garner support. (More in this Buffalo News article.) The City has not come to the table with the Conservancy for negotiation yet, but one of the issues raised in…
We know a stolen bicycle isn’t big news in the big city, and judging by reader reaction to a post we once put up about some cats that were lost and in need of meds in Allentown, we were reluctant to post this plea. But come on, 17 years with the same bike? That’s a long time.And thievery, especially where it concerns someone’s dedication to bicycling, thus reducing their carbon footprint, plainly pisses us off. Plus, wouldn’t it feel good to spot this bike and be the one who helped get it back to its rightful owner? So here goes:…