November 27, 2012 Rich Products has announced plans to invest $18 million dollars in their Niagara Street headquarters on Buffalo's west side. By making this investment, the company will be able to retain all of the 651 jobs at the facility....and hire
August 15, 2012 Finally!!! I’ve been waiting for this news for a while now. The City of Buffalo is getting a comedy club. Yes, a club dedicated to the art of comedy. The Helium Comedy Club is planning to open up in the Cobblestone district, Mississippi Street to be exact. Opening date is set for December 1st. The club will have seating for
June 11, 2012 The Allentown Art Festival has come and gone. Sunday was the perfect day for walking around the event, but you better have had a good chunk of change on you if you wanted to take home something other than a fried dough. I missed the festival this year, but one thing I remembered about it was that the art was waaaay overpriced. I mean you have to sell off....
April 3, 2012 As I was driving "The Mothership" (my minivan) around at the mall today I came across something that I just had to share with you. I've seen some pretty jaw dropping parking before but this one was pretty amazing. How many door dings do you think came from this park job?
September 14, 2011 I never get tired of reading books recounting the history of Buffalo. We know chicken wings were invented here, but so were windshield wipers, the heart pacemaker, air conditioning, grain mills, non-dairy creamer and even the electric chair
July 14, 2011 Abraham Lincoln funeral train on its journey to Springfield, Illinois (Getty Images)Interesting to look thru the history of Buffalo and find that President Lincoln made two stops in the Queen City. The first was sort of a victory tour after he was elected in 1860. He traveled by train from Springfield, Illinois thru Chicago and Cleveland and on to Buffalo. Along the way the train stopped in Westfield and in Dunkirk where Lincoln made a few remarks to thousands of people who turned out. Then the train arrived at Buffalo’s Exchange Street station in February, 1861 where it was met by tens of thousands of people.
May 11, 2011 We told you about it an earlier post and I was so very impressed with a new, well-done video introduced Tuesday by Visit Buffalo Niagara, formerly the Buffalo Niagara Convention and Visitors Bureau. We've Got A New City Slogan It was the result of a 16-month project to create a new image for the region.
April 25, 2011 We had a chance last Dyngus Day to interview somoe of the guys from the band Those Idiots
Looks like they have been busy in the 'off season" putting together a theme song for today's Dyngus Day parties here in Buffalo.
February 2, 2011 At least here in Western New York the mammoth storm we'd been hearing about kinda fizzled. Depending on what source you were depending on the forecast said we could get anywhere from 8 to 16 inches of snow - maybe more. And with high winds it could create some very dangerous conditions.
January 28, 2011 It was on this day back in 1977 that a wall of black clouds descended on Western New York bringing bitter cold, heavy snow and winds as high as 75 mph in what would come to be known as The Blizzard of '77.
The storm raged for just over 25 hours resulting in 29 deaths.
January 18, 2011 From the “I’ll believe it when I see it” file – I saw an item on the WGRZ-TV 2 website that says progress is being made on synchronizing Buffalo’s traffic signals. As I was reading I kept wondering when I’m going to get to the punchline. Anybody that’s ever tried to get around the city down the major streets knows it’s not unusual to have to stop at every light.
I’ve always said traffic lights don’t control traffic in Buffalo – they’re meant to stop it.
