Not sure what you want to eat this Tuesday? Well, why not let Larkin Square help you to decide. All you have to do is show up, and choose from a multitude of food trucks. Throughout the 2024 Food Truck Tuesdays season, there will be over 40 food trucks participating. Each week, visitors will be presented with a ton of menu items to peruse, including – new this year – Chef Darian’s Jerk Hut in Larkin Square. Food Truck Tuesdays has never looked so appetizing, with live music, a healthy menu choice from each truck (at least one, if not more), free admission, free parking, and an ever-rolling men ..read more

The Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village (BNHV) is getting ready for summer, and is offering some incredible events this June, including a needle felting workshop, a natural dye workshop, a youth gardening workshop, and another evening in their News & Brews Series.   The BNHV’s museum’s mission is to educate the community about the region’s history and heritage with a focus on agriculture and everything that goes along with it. BNHV hosts a variety of exhibits and programs that showcase the region’s cultural heritage, from its early Native American inhabitants to its industrial heyd ..read more

Buffalo is known for its fresh water, its architecture, its and park system. But did you know that it’s also becoming known as a stained glass hub? That’s right. The reason is partially due to the world-class historic churches that are adorned with stained glass by the likes of Louis C. Tiffany and John LaFarge. That fact alone, is partially why the Stained Glass Association of America (SGAA) now calls Buffalo home. Now, The Downtown Family of Parishes and Explore Buffalo are preparing to show the public exactly what Buffalo means to the world of stained glass. On Sunday, June 9, the community ..read more

The Ground and Sky Poetry Series – a program of the not for profit Education Training Center – has been held in both Buffalo and Rochester since 2015. According to founder and executive director, Joel David Lesses, the series is based on Maj Ragain, northeast Ohio’s poetic giant, and his ‘no mic, no list, no podium’ format. Joel David Lesses As part of the series, a book launch is being planned for the release of Journeys of Sacred Community: A Collection Anthology of Ground and Sky Poetry, which features the works of thirteen poets – five poets are from Buffalo, five are from Rochester, one i ..read more

50 Tudor Place is on the market with an asking price of $4.25 million.  If it sells at that price, it would break the record for the highest price home sold in the city. The 8,695 sq.ft home sits on a 0.8 acre lot and has six bedrooms, 5.5 baths and a three-car garage. Kristan Anderson of Gurney Becker & Bourne has the listing: Rarely does an opportunity present itself to own a mansion of this caliber in the City of Buffalo. Built in 1927 with the finest materials and methods, this home has been returned to its former glory with great care, energy, and expense. Grand and elegant, yet ..read more

Runtime: 90 minutes This is a review of the June 1st performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, known popularly as “The Resurrection Symphony” (not Mahler’s title).  It is a work that in its development, met with some resistance. But let me start with Beethoven, in particular his three Opus 59 quartets, not appreciated by his contemporaries in 1806, prompting Beethoven to remark: “They are not for you but for a later age!”  That age may have come along, for Beethoven, perhaps 100 to 200 years later.  How’s that?  Recently BPO cellist Robbie Hausmann told the Buffalo Chamb ..read more

A former executive at Delaware North – Chris Harter – is in the process of opening Johnny D’s in the famed E.B. Green’s Steakhouse location, inside Hyatt Regency Buffalo. Harter, who told me that he’s from nowhere and anywhere [laughing], was coaxed back to Buffalo from Atlanta by Douglas Jemal of Douglas Development (owner of the building), who told him, “Get back to Buffalo and get this restaurant open!” Until that point in time, Jemal and Harter could not come to agreeable terms, but eventually Jemal realized that Harter was the only guy that could make the operation work. Really work. Prev ..read more

On Sunday, June 2 from 3:30 – 5:30 pm at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, a panel discussion featuring a host of entrepreneurs (and Buffalo natives) will get underway. Panel members include Janna Willoughby-Lohr of Papercraft Miracles, Erich Reich of Campus Labs, Dave Horesh of Oxford Pennant, and Julia Journay-Silverberg of Bravery Beats. The event will be moderated by Dan Miner of StartUp NY. The discussion will revolve around a mutual love for Buffalo, and what it’s like to be an entrepreneur in this city. What’s it like to have roots in Buffalo? What are the advantages? How does one get e ..read more

The Buffalo Niagara Freedom Station Coalition, owners of the Michigan Street Baptist Church, have announced the continuation of its excavation project with the University at Buffalo Archaeological Survey. This excavation project began in 2021 as a series of community archeological digs, held in partnership with the University at Buffalo’s Archaeological Survey Department of Anthropology and the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor. At the time, Lillie Wiley-Upshaw, Chair of the Buffalo Niagara Freedom Station Coalition, said, “The history of Michigan Ave is so impo ..read more

The annual Gigantic Kenmore Garage Sale is fast approaching. This year, there will be a whopping 120 participating sales, which can be readily identified with a handy dandy Map, published by the Kenmore Village Improvement Society (KVIS). The gigantic Garage Sale is set to take place from 9 am to 3 pm on Saturday June 1. This year’s sales map includes a Treasure Hunt, featuring a number of riddles for people to solve. Cleverly, the treasure is hidden at the various sales within the designated 1.44 square miles of Kenmore. People that solve the riddles, and find the five pieces of treasure, can ..read more