Exploring Buffalo’s AKG
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by Michelle Kearns
13h ago
“Luminous.” “Moving.” “Sublime.” Accolades for Buffalo’s reimagined art museum and campus came in with sparkle, like the gallery’s sheer glass walls that serve as giant windows to the new world inside: a three-story invitation to come explore. Worth every penny! The building itself is a true work of art,” wrote a Trip Advisor reviewer who flew in from North Carolina to see the $195 million expansion and renovation of the former Albright-Knox Art Gallery.  After a three-and-a-half-year construction closure, the modern and contemporary art collection that one critic calls a “national treas ..read more
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Make the eclipse easy on your eyes
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by Michelle Kearns
1w ago
Staring at the sun is never a good idea. Its retina-burning radiation can leave a permanent dark spot in vision. Basic instinct usually keeps people from doing it. The exception: An eclipse! The extraordinary marvel of seeing the moon approach and cover the sun, as will happen in the Buffalo sky on the afternoon of April 8, entices people to look up without protection, said Andrew Reynolds, a University at Buffalo clinical associate ophthalmology professor. “Eclipses are this very rare thing, where for three minutes we’re tempted to look at the sun,” said Reynolds, who is also a pediatric oph ..read more
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716 Transformers: The Bike Expert
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by Nancy J. Parisi
2w ago
GObike Buffalo founder and executive director Justin Booth builds community via bicycles. He’s often seen around town riding his bicycle (“A GT hybrid with a 3-speed internal with a coaster brake”) or working in a downtown coffee shop. GObike, founded in 2008, is headquartered at 313 Broadway where it operates a dedicated retail space selling used and new bikes. GObike also operates a Community Workshop in a former Police precinct building in North Buffalo. Twelve full-time staff, plus part-time consultants, oversee programming: bike master plans for adding miles of bike lanes in Buffalo and ..read more
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716 Transformers: The Park Planner
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by Nancy J. Parisi
2w ago
From her office high in the Seneca One tower in downtown Buffalo Katie Campos has a bird’s eye view of the massive construction project she’s charged with overseeing – the transformation of the 110-acre lakeside parcel once known as LaSalle Park into a state-of-the-art greenspace that will be called Ralph Wilson Park when it opens in 2025. Campos is the Ralph Wilson Park Conservancy’s first executive director, a position she appears to have been destined to take on. Growing up in the Elmwood Village, she spent much of her childhood going to LaSalle Park to play soccer and for other outings ..read more
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716 Transformers: The Radio CEO
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by Nancy J. Parisi
2w ago
As president and owner of WUFO and Vision Multimedia Group since 2013, Sheila Brown broadcasts – via AM and FM – a range of programming serving Buffalo’s African American community. The station showcases local DJ’s, “Soulful Sundays” with different ministries, and what Brown calls, “a blend of R&B and your favorite throwbacks.” She began her WUFO career as “an entry level salesperson at 21 years old,” before becoming sales manager, only leaving when the ownership at that time hired a general manager “who ran the station differently and I knew it was time to leave.” Brown also runs a museu ..read more
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716 Transformers: The Industrial Impresario
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by Nancy J. Parisi
2w ago
The family business — Rigidized Metals Corporation — brought Rick Smith back to Buffalo in 2000. “Engineered metal surfaces,” a sophisticated embossing technique, is how the Rigidized website describes their wares that have applications in architectural, industrial, and transportation projects. Since taking over Rigidized, Smith has added sculpture to that list, collaborating with local and international sculptors working in metals. An interest in the arts – Smith is also a musician – found fuller expression when Smith purchased four grain elevators and a 27 acre parcel adjacent to Rigidized ..read more
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716 Transformers: The Arts Director
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by Nancy J. Parisi
2w ago
Alma Carillo is Executive Director of Buffalo Arts Studio, 20,000 square feet of art gallery, affordable studios for 30 local artists who are in residence (there is a waiting list), and rooms for ongoing arts education classes for various constituencies. Located in a former windshield wiper factory, BAS is renowned for their festive opening receptions and fundraisers. Carillo moved to the Queen City in 2013 and joined BAS one year later. “One of the guiding lights for me and my work is that anyone in the community can come here and see themselves in the space, in any number of ways. People ne ..read more
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716 Transformers: The Indigenous Art Promoter
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by Nancy J. Parisi
2w ago
An impeccably renovated late-Victorian brick building in Buffalo’s Allentown neighborhood is the headquarters of K Art Gallery, one of a handful of galleries in the country dedicated to promoting, exhibiting, and selling contemporary Indigenous artwork by established and rising artists. Founder/owner Dave Kimelberg, who opened K Art in 2020, was born in Western New York and is a member of the Seneca Nation (Bear clan). “K Art fills a niche nationally, not just locally, because there are very few art galleries focusing on Indigenous contemporary art,” he says, sitting in the lounge area on the ..read more
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A Different Kind of Pizza at Pizzeria Florian
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by Christa Glennie
3w ago
Pizza as craft is more than simply loving pizza, though love may be at its root. It is a singular obsession, a driving and indefatigable focus on perfecting techniques and ingredients. Pizza as craft is a place where science and art do more than intersect — they samba.  Jay Langfelder and Amanda Jones may know this better than most. The couple brought Buffalo its first legit Neapolitan-style pizza, beginning with OG Woodfire, a food truck outfitted with a woodfire oven. Next came the launch of Jay’s Artisan Pizza in Kenmore, an international pizza mecca they sold to former staffer Joe Po ..read more
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Celebrating Buffalo’s Black American History
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by Melvin Bankhead III
1M ago
Photo by Stephen Gabris Buffalo, a waterfront city on the border with Canada, has long been a central hub of civil rights history in America. That legacy, long ignored and forgotten, is newly celebrated in the heart of downtown: The Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor, with updated, renovated, and expanded buildings debuting this year, is now a place where civil rights history comes alive. People can visit the church built in 1845 by African Americans who helped people flee enslavement through the Underground Railroad. Walk through the house where the church’s pastor, a founding ..read more
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