Buffalo Reading Invasion to Storm the City Again This Summer
By Seamus Gallivan/photos from Buffalo Reading Invasion
Buffalo Reading Invasion was a nice new complement to Buffalo’s bustle last summer, a bit of organized quiet time amid the excitement of outdoor activity. Organizers chose welcoming open spaces such as Bidwell Park and Larkin Square to “promote Buffalo’s love of reading through large public action” – effectively, to gather for an hour and simply read, en masse.
BRI is back this summer and searching for sites – see below to get hip, and stay tuned here as well as locations are announced. Read more
BuffaLoveFest Vendor Profile – KegWorks
By Seamus Gallivan
Since it’s no secret that Buffalonians enjoy “the fine art of liquid culture,” it should come as no surprise that a Buffalo-based business dedicated to drinking is thriving.
As part of our inaugural BuffaLoveFest on Friday, May 31st, a benefit for The Buffalo Zoo presented in partnership with the zoo and B-Incorporated, we’re profiling many of the wide selection of vendors that will be set all around the zoo’s grounds offering their unique interpretations of Buffalove. Other vendors are profiled here; below, meet KegWorks (1460 Military Rd, Kenmore).
How do you embody “BuffaLove?” Read more
Good Neighbors Support The Good Hood
Slyboots School Ghana Trip Fundraiser Today at Main(ST)udios
Today at Main(ST)udios (515 Main St, Buffalo, 3-6pm) is a fundraiser for the fourth annual sojourn to Ghana, West Africa, by the School of Music. The event will feature members of one of the premier resident ensembles at the Slyboots School of Music, Art and Dance – The Slyboots Circus – offering drumming, dance, acrobatics, aerialists, hula hoops, art, face painting, food and more.
By Griffin Brady, founder, Slyboots School of Music, Art & Dance
“In Ghana, your feet must do the seeing…” Read more
Sunday Sermon – The Many and the One
Although The Good Neighborhood does not endorse any single religion, we appreciate any message dedicated to the greater good as well as the lifetime of contributions to community and writing of Monsignor David M. Gallivan, Pastor of Holy Cross Church on Buffalo’s Lower West Side (345 Seventh St), who offers us a weekly Sunday Sermon.
By Msgr. David M. Gallivan, Pastor, Holy Cross Church/photo by Esmeralda Sierra
I’ll never forget when I felt as lonely as I ever could be. I was a young priest in Peru. Mario Huaquira was a poor blind fishmonger, the father of several children. The youngest, a six year old, Juan, died in the hospital. As we prepared for his funeral, I transported his body in Read more
Good Neighbors Support The Good Hood
Song of the Day – The Steam Donkeys, “Can’t Finda Place”
By Seamus Gallivan
One could assert that our freedom to roam around America is thanks in great part to the servicemen and women who led us to prevail in World War II, roaming across both the oceans that border our country to keep it at peace.
The decades that followed WWII saw the American highway boom, enabling those with a heightened sense of adventure to hit the road – traveling bands of musicians who’ve provided such classic songs as the Grateful Dead’s “Truckin’,” Willie Nelson’s “One the Road Again,” and The Steam Donkeys’ “Can’t Finda Place.”
These days, the Donkeys have settled down and found a place to stay in Buffalo, where their monthly third Saturday residence at the Sportsmens Tavern returns with a special installment tonight (326 Amherst St, 8pm, $5), the encore of our Honor Thy Country concert series supporting Honor Flight Buffalo. Read more
Meet the Buffalovebirds: Lance Diamond, The Most Interesting Man in Buffalo [VIDEO]
By Seamus Gallivan
The Buffalovebirds, the six-piece band built to be the centerpiece – besides the animals, of course – of our inaugural BuffaLoveFest benefiting The Buffalo Zoo on Friday, May 31st, is built around the Buffalover proclaimed in this video to be “The Most Interesting Man in Buffalo” – Lance Diamond. The video that follows finds him laying his love on the line while leading the Goo Goo Dolls in a Rolling Stones cover heard ’round the world through the 1993 charity compilation album No Alternative. Read more
Song of the Day – Lance Diamond, “Wild About the Erie County Fair”
By Seamus Gallivan
Given that Lance Diamond is on public record as being wild about so many of Buffalo’s assets – the animals at the Erie County Fair and the ladies, to name two – “The Most Interesting Man in Buffalo” was an obvious choice to front a band of Buffalovers for the benefit of The Buffalo Zoo at our inaugural BuffaLoveFest.
Enjoy this 2012 jingle for the Erie County Fair by Lance Diamond and his 24 Karat Gold band – Mike Slomowicz, Denny Pelczynski, Erik Abretske, Billy Brandau – recorded at Black Rock Entertainment and engineered and mixed by Dwane Hall, and join us at the zoo on Friday, May 31st, to see Lance lead the debut of the Buffalovebirds to kickoff BuffaLoveFest! Read more
Young Audiences at Canalside – “I Went Down to the River to Play…”
By Nancy Sterman, Director of Education, Young Audiences of Western New York
When I was a child, Canalside served as a landmark to guide my Dad to the best parking spot for a Sabres game at the Aud. I remember looking longingly through the crisp, winter air at that giant ship moored like a foreign object or artifact left over from a far away time when things here happened on the water. Flash forward many years later and the ice has melted to reveal that life indeed does exist on the waterfront, and as last year proved, an overwhelming number of organizations are banding together to bring throngs of people, starved for a reason – to come down and support life down by the water. Read more
