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Breaking the Ships

One of the unfortunate mainstays of Buffalo’s outer waterfront the last bunch of years has been the presence of an old ship that basically got docked here and then forgotten about, as it rusted in its moorings for years and … Continue reading

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Where there’s swill, there’s a way

That may be the worst pun I’ve ever used in a blog post title, but anyway, I just happened across a website called Swillparty.com, which turns out to be a Buffalo/WNY site devoted to social wine tasting. Apparently SWILL is … Continue reading

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A Very Public Service Message

For folks attending A Taste of Buffalo this weekend, two key points: :: Each booth serves, at most, three or four different things, and that’s it. So if you wait in a line for more than, oh, one minute — … Continue reading

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Yeah. Best. And don’t you forget it!

According to Alan, I won something the other night: Buffalo Spree Magazine‘s survey of Best Blogs, or something of that nature. I think it was one of those surveys city publications do to see what their readership thinks are the … Continue reading

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Here’s a recruiting tool for Buffalo!

Via PZ Myers, I see this map, which denotes locations in the United States where singles of one gender significantly outnumber singles on the other: Jobs, schmobs. We’ve got single women. (And you know what? They’re beautiful. I love them … Continue reading

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Yuck….

I know they’re still ironing out details and whatnot, but I really don’t like the way the new WNYMedia site looks. 1. I don’t like the colors. I have no great objection to light text on a dark background; my … Continue reading

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Is this thing on?

Not be mean or anything, but now that it’s been more than a day since they all went into the cyber-weeds, it’s sure a good thing that some of us have held out on the “Hey, let’s get all of … Continue reading

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But for the Grace of God….

On a whim I bought a copy of the Buffalo News this morning — usually I just skim through the website — and found a story that hit me right in the gut, about a family that is currently undergoing … Continue reading

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When “Gotcha” journalism goes awry

So I’m watching Channel 2 news tonight, and they do a story on Buffalo’s waterfront development. It seems that Mayor Byron Brown has just returned from some kind of retail convention thing in Las Vegas where has was reportedly schmoozing … Continue reading

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Denver International Airport??!!

Via MeFi I see FavoriteArchitecture.org, which purports to be “America’s favorite architecture”, in which 150 buildings are listed in a ranking determined by some kind of public polling methodology. There are some very notable buildings here, but some are headscatchers … Continue reading

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