Sometimes launching a great idea is as simple as taking the first step.
A birthday cake can be more than just a treat. Decorated in a favorite color or theme, they can bring extra excitement and joy to a childâs celebration, especially if extras are in short supply. Thatâs exactly what the nonprofit For Goodness Cakes (FGC) exists to do.
The wind outside my new Buffalo apartment didnât just whip; it sighed, it smirked, it threw its head back and laughed, shaking the windows like a tachycardic pulse. The sky was a sheet of wet sidewalk, and I was alone.
When 5-year-old Jack Kaplewicz climbs into his bed at night, he imagines heâs a construction worker about to start digging with an excavator. Thatâs because his bed was intentionally built to look like just that, complete with a shovel full of pillow ârocks.â
Bessie Coleman. Langston Hughes. George Fletcher.
While many are aware the pacemaker is a WNY innovation, not everyone knows the kazoo has a local origin. The instrument just about anyone can learn to play has been manufactured in Eden since 1916.
Everybody eats. Everybody gives. Everybody matters.
Eighty-Six Reasons for Asylum Admission | University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Anderson Gallery | On view through Feb. 28, 2026