A cluster of small businesses developed at the intersection of East Ferry Street and Wohlers Avenue, the southern gateway into Hamlin Park and, after 1895, a streetcar stop for the 13-Kensington. When this photograph was taken in 1958, 14 businesses—five delicatessens and a meat shop, fish market, restaurant, print shop, confectioner, pharmacy, laundromat, barber, and beauty parlor—occupied this corner.
STACEY ROBINSON creates multimedia art works as resistance to Black oppression in colonial America. Opening reception at Buffalo Arts Studio next Friday, March 27, 5-8pm.
FIRST LIGHT by Craig LaRotonda, a Buffalo-based artist whose work is currently part of two group shows: Floating Intersections at Pink Zeppelin Gallery in Berlin, Germany, and Laluzapalooza at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Hollywood, California.
The Lancaster school board voted last night to end the use of its team mascot name, effective immediately.
No more Lancaster Dumbpolaks. No more Lancaster Ginzos. No more Lancaster Moneylenders. No more Lancaster Bogtrotters or Krauts or Coloreds. No more Lancaster Redskins.
[BENEFIT] Cambridge, Ontario, indie rock band, Menew, will come to the Town Ballroom on Saturday, March 21 for a special performance to benefit Music is Art. Last year, the three-piece band released their second full length record, Mother Nature, the follow-up to 2012’s Wide Awake Hello.
[PARTY] Ladies Night is back at Allen Street Hardware this Friday, March 20, with DJ Lulu in the back room and CROPTOP in the front room. Cover charge is $5 but ladies get in free before midnight. A new monthly event at Hardware that features strictly female DJs, Ladies Night has in the past featured GLDN GIRLS and DJ YAMA. Attendees can expect to hear a healthy mix of dance music, hip hop classics, and ladies night anthems.
[FOOD] On Sunday, March 22, for the fourth consecutive year, Buffalo Soup-Fest is preparing to pack the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center with thousands of hungry attendees, 30 participating local restaurants, and more than 75 different soups. Local celebrity judges will decide the best soups in a series of categories including best stew, vegetarian, seafood, and most unique soup. Gluten-free and vegan soups will be available.
[ROCK] The description “living legend” seems to be thrown around a lot these days. While there is no doubt that many older musicians today have tales to tell and songwriting ability, 69-year-old Scottish singer/songwriter Al Stewart is truly worthy of the title.
[ART] All of Buffalo’s hot young artists will be out this evening, as Hallwalls exhibits part two of five of Amid/In WNY 2015, a survey of local artists. This round includes the works of Bobby Griffiths, Adele Henderson, Billy Huggins, George Hughes, Kevin Kline, Benjamin Minter, Rodney Taylor, and Necole Zayatz. Forty years ago Hallwalls was started by a group of talented artists that included Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, and Charles Clough.
[ART] There is no other day than Sunday to go and take an adventure up north. This HAPPENING is an opening reception for Artists View the Falls: 300 Years of Niagara Falls, which includes presentations by HYDRO (Happening, Youthful & Driven, Reinventing Our Niagara Falls) and artists Bruce Adams and Augustina Droze. The Castellani Art Museum, located on the Niagara University campus, houses more than 5,500 pieces of modern and contemporary art work.
[FICTION] Since composing perhaps the first serious stab at hypertext literature in 1987, Michael Joyce has restlessly explored the landscape of strongly narrative yet conceptually innovative fiction. His latest book, Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden, published by Buffalo’s Starcherone Press, is an imagined string of letters written by French philosopher and literary critic Michel Foucault balancing a crumbling long-distance relationship.
[JAM] Despite (or perhaps because of) the flood of music provided by the internet, it can be a struggle to find substance. TAUK is an instrumental band from Oyster Bay whose sound often gets lumped into the jam scene, but if it’s substance you’re looking for, this band provides it with their mentally stimulating jams. While that may imply endless noodling, these guys actually have a tight focus.