Buffalo Rising

Recently, I’ve been thinking about how much I miss the Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts, and I know that I’m not alone. That said, I am happy to say that one of the festival’s original co-founders, Stephanie Robb – owner of Turnstyle on Lexington Avenue – has done a wonderful job of retaining the spirit of the festival through the creation of Lex Fest. She, along with her ...

This unique multimedia event transforms the historic grain silos into a giant projection screen, illuminating the era when Buffalo was a rough-and-tumble crossroads of the Erie Canal and the Great Lakes. The production is adapted from the new graphic novel, You Should Have Seen Us Howling: When Buffalo Ruled the Inland Seas, written by Jeff Z. Klein and illustrated b...

The rails to trails concept is nothing new to Buffalo. That said, there’s a bold new plan that has been proposed that would see an abandoned stretch of rail in Black Rock and Riverside converted into a 5.12-mile walking and cycling path. The path would not only further unify Black Rock and Riverside, it would extend to local parks, the waterfront, and the Empire State Trail. ...

Buffalo doesn’t get enough credit as a sandwich town – I mean, maybe we do as locals, but as someone who came from the outside… I had NO idea that Buffalo has so many delicious sandwiches to offer.

We talk wings, we talk beef on weck (okay, that one’s a sandwich too that I love), we talk pizza. But the truth is, some of the best eating in this city happens between t...

Every once in a while a neighborhood concept comes along that is almost too good to believe. For me, that’s the case with the Utica Fields project, which is being floated around by neighbors and villagers along Elmwood Avenue and West Utica.

The idea is for the community to reclaim an abandoned stretch of West Utica Street that has been sitting idly by for the last...