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The ground had cracked with the bitter cold of late January in the farm fields of Missouri. Clutching my shiny new burp gun from Christmas only weeks ago, alone, I played Korea…not but two years since the stalemate in Panmunjom. Even in a slight breeze the air stung, made it hard to keep my eyes open, but the will to play Korea with my new gun was stronger than the weather. The resident farm implements became wrecked Russian T-4s. I rolled into a ditch at the imaginary burst of a Chi-Com machinegun.

No, really. Go. 

Buffalo is finally getting geeky with coffee again. While we’ve had our share of caramel macchiatos and double-doubles, the clock has been ticking for the next stage of coffee’s evolution to take hold as it has across most cities.

Virtual reality has been hovering over the tech industry landscape for decades, but it may have finally arrived in the form of Oculus Rift, an imposing headset that fits over the eyes and ears and subsumes the user into a foreign world. That world has primarily been the creative domain of game developers, but artists Jax Deluca and Kyle Marler show that the possibilities for a virtual reality interface is as limitless as the storage capacity of modern terabyte hard drives. 

That the Academy Awards are the greatest promotional device Hollywood has ever devised is unarguable. No reason to limit it to actual winners or even nominees: in the traditionally struggling field of foreign-language imports, the fact that a film was nominated to be a nominee is enough to perk up the interest of distributors. Countries are invited to select the film they want to have considered for the category of Best Foreign Language Film; from these submissions the Academy selects five nominees.

The foot of Ferry Street has been an active fishing and sporting site for generations. This circa 1900 view is looking north from the West Ferry Street Bridge, the Black Rock Harbor on the left, the Erie Canal on the right.