Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House was brimming with festivity Saturday, Dec. 3 for its annual Tree of Light free community event—and its inaugural shop local Holiday Market.
M&T Second Friday at Burchfield Penney Art Center on November 11, 2022 celebrated the public opening of LEROI: Living in Color—a powerful retrospective exhibition of renowned Buffalo artist LeRoi Johnson. Curated by Tiffany Gaines, it not only showcased a bold collection of LeRoi's work,…
December’s big holidays play a starring role in Chelsea and Mark Markulis’ love story. The couple, who went to the same high school, didn’t become sweethearts until years later—after a serendipitous run-in at a bar sent sparks flying.
Before Bridget Murphy, Joey Pucciarelli and Soon Ho Sim sat down to write the menu for Extra Extra Pizza, they made a list of everything they were looking for in a restaurant. Funnily, nothing about the food made the list.
There is perhaps no sight more emblematic of January than seeing Christmas trees tossed out to the curb. Let’s Goat Buffalo is herding Western New Yorkers in a different direction.
Renters, this one’s for you. Rachel Eastlack, curator and collector of the vintage Instagram account @athomeonheath, is here to show us what’s possible stylistically, even when you rent your home.
Turning food waste into valuable resources while simultaneously rebuilding soil and growing new life in the Buffalo community—all thanks to worms.
Like many high schoolers, Gretchen Meyers was crafty. She liked to make things, specifically jewelry. But unlike most ’90s adolescents, Gretchen’s teenage pastime eventually became her grownup job.
An entirely NA cocktail menu was the headliner for Flint Kitchen + Bar’s Sober October party on Friday, Oct. 14 in collaboration with Sober One Six.
The Pythagorean theorem. The periodic table. Past participles. Presidential pardons. Important lessons to learn? Yes. But what can history tell us about current events, and how do we help young people make sense of the senseless things they’re seeing?
“When I was 11 years old, my parents bought me a disposable camera for our family vacation to the Grand Canyon. I ended up getting seven more on that trip,” says Jeffrey Czum. “I loved taking tons of photos and not knowing what would come of it until I developed them a week later.”
It’s considered one of the best cities in the world for a reason: Mapped with unique neighborhoods and brimming with independent shops and cool boutiques, Toronto is so much more than its downtown core. Explore the local hidden gems in the west and east ends to get a better view of what my c…
Despite living less than a block from one another in Chicago, Kelley and Kiran didn’t meet until they matched on Hinge. Both physicians, Kiran was in his first few months on the job and Kelley was working through her residency.
To say that when Jacquelyn DiPuccio, founder of the dried floral brand Chamisa Floral, knew the house she was on her way to view after scrolling Zillow was “the one” would be an understatement. When driving up the long, canopied driveway of the midcentury modern home on a hill in Lewiston, a…
The 2022-23 theater season is about to kick off, and everyone is excited—including local theater professionals. To get you the inside scoop, we tapped in a few major players in the Western New York theater world to share some of their most-anticipated shows being staged in the coming months.…
This first-annual event, hosted by local bloggers Kayleigh Martin and Lindsay Riggs at Solé at Woodlawn Beach, was all about bringing Buffalonians together to connect and give back. Proceeds from Beach Bash benefited Imagine for Youth Foundation's work helping financially disadvantaged kids …
It’s peak ice cream season—and vegan flavors are (finally) making its mark on menus. Here’s a taste of what local purveyors are scooping up, sans dairy.
Lizzie and Dan’s story began like many millennials—“we met on Bumble,” the couple laughs. The pair matched five years ago while studying in Cleveland and have been inseparable since.
Like conjuring a list of hopeful future purchases when buying a lottery ticket, summer has a similar effect.
I think it’s fair to say that a decade or so ago, to share you were seeing an astrologer would have been taboo. Yet, now, your sun, moon and rising sign is a common conversation amongst friends and acquaintances.
Katie Loewen of Fluid Katie has lived a life with creativity at its center. Growing up, her father was a musician and her mother a watercolor artist—so it’s fair to say art of every type has always played an outsized role in her life.
The best days always start with a good night’s sleep. The kind of sleep that gifts you a blurry-eyed satisfaction when you look out your window knowing you don’t have to rush to your coffee pot, but you have the luxury of swallowing in the new air from the comfort of your bed for at least a …
Alex Dispence was a fine dining chef. He cooked in some of America’s top resorts, country clubs and golf courses.
To say one is stunned upon walking into James Wisniewski's plant loft is an understatement.
When the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown began, Aaron Bartley, cofounder and former leader of People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH), decided to venture into something new—a brick-and-mortar bookstore.
Does anyone else feel like brunch is an enigma? It’s like a quiet rebellion—a bite that allows us to break away from our everyday life in a socially acceptable way.
Walk into the Pursel home in Buffalo’s Central Park neighborhood, and several things strike you. One, a child is sitting on the kitchen table. Two, the space is both welcoming and eclectic.
Tea is the second-most widely consumed beverage in the world, nestled snuggly between water (No. 1) and beer (No. 3). And like its neighbors in rank, tea can be a particularly refreshing treat in the warm spring and summer months. Even when enjoyed hot, the subtle astringency of the tannins …
Buffalo’s Unapologetic Coffee Co. is only a few months old, but the approach of twin sisters Alicia and Alisa Officer—to provide small batch, ethically sourced roasted quality coffee direct to consumers—has already proven successful.
Cheese, pepperoni and sauce in a crispy wrapper. That’s the entire description on a box of frozen pizza logs. But Buffalonians know. We were practically raised on the no-frills appetizer that is rumored to have gotten its start in Niagara Falls. Many would consider them, like the Falls, a wo…
