[ROCK] You’re not alone if accepting Axl Rose as AC/DC’s front man proves difficult. Arguably the best of the metal-tinged classic rock bands still in the game, AC/DC always managed to avoid the hackneyed rock pitfalls of excess and deluded egomania that claimed GNR pretty much straight away—making the new arrangement almost unimaginable. Thing is, the reviews have been pretty good.
[FESTIVAL] The annual Music is Art Festival is like a capstone to of the summer in Buffalo. This year, the 14th annual, this Saturday, September 10 at Hoyt Lake behind the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, will feature six stages and more than 100 bands. On the main stages, bands will rotate every 15 minutes, so that can be a lot to take in. There’s no way to catch it all, but here we’ve mapped out our schedule for the day. This is just one route to take through the festival, of course.
Suburban arterials no longer run through farmland, yet the State Department of Transportation still treats them like rural routes. Streets like Sheridan, Transit, Niagara Falls Boulevard, Maple, and others are essentially four-plus-one lane highways, and the safety of pedestrians who have to occasionally cross them are not being adequately addressed.
Earlier this week, a man using a walker was struck by a car and killed while crossing Niagara Falls Boulevard. On Wednesday, Channel 7 posted this to Facebook: