Buffalo News editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis’ job is traditional in many ways—the position of political cartoonist has been an important one for ages, especially during presidential election seasons—but…

Freshman Tim Edwards was a high school All-American at Jamesville-Dewitt High School in Syracuse before joining the Canisius men’s lacrosse program this season.

Griffin writer Brady Phelps sat down with the former Central New York Co-Player of the Year…

I’m not about to go all “Kat Von D” on everyone, but I think tattoos are awesome. Ask my grandma though and she’d curse a lot and say you’re white trash, defacing God’s gift. Oh well Grams, tattoos are not only gaining more attention,…

St. Patrick’s Day, one of the best holiday’s of the year, is slowly encroaching.  Not from Buffalo and don’t know what to do?  The Griffin is here to help.  You are from Buffalo but have never participated in the St. Patty’s…

I walked out of Tom Parrotta’s house on Tuesday while his son Mikey and his friend were shooting hoops in the driveway.

“Are they done interviewing him?” the friend asked.

“Almost. Just finishing up.”

Then the friend…

It’s been a busy week for Tom Parrotta. Last Friday, he paced the sideline at the MassMutual Center while coaching his Canisius Golden Griffins in the opening round of the conference tournament. By Sunday, his athletic director was holding a press conference…

While Buffalo continues to have its weather identity crisis, movie studios are gearing up for their spring releases. The spring movie season in particular gets more crowded each year and as a result, continues to bleed into the earlier months. The box office has…

Tom Parrotta will not return to coach the Canisius men’s basketball team next season, the school announced Sunday night.

Canisius fell to Niagara in the play-in round of the MAAC Tournament on Friday, 80-70, losing to the Purple Eagles for the third…

Without a big budget, a major star or a marquee declaring “Executive Producer Steven Spielberg,” genre fare in the television industry typically has a hard time catching on, although even Spielberg’s Terra Nova isn’t invincible.  Aside…

Art and fashion have a wonderful way of giving beauty eternal life.  Erika Paige Hoerner was an artist, a fashionista and always had a gleaming smile on her face.  On Feb. 5, 2011, at the age of 18, she was ejected from a vehicle during a tragic drunk driving…

It’s Sunday night and closing time for gourmet shops, restaurants and supermarkets in New York City. Dozens of bursting garbage bags are whipped over the dumpster walls like a shot put. The doors close, lights shut off and that’s when people come crawling…

With a whopping 92 percent acceptance rate of Canisius students who apply to health professional schools, no wonder Canisius is one of the top producers of fine doctors-to-be.  Although it may be difficult to point out exactly why so many students at Canisius…

The simplest luxuries are often overlooked, especially at an academic institution where tuition is nearing $30,000 a year, but that can be quickly put in perspective if you consider that around the corner at the Hamlin Park School, where students only have pictures…

A girl stands on stage waiting impatiently to be noticed by the female twin DJs. She grins wildly when one of them steps away from the turntable to embrace her. They sway to the music for a moment while her twin counterpart brings the headphones up to her ear and…

Infamous hacker group (or hacktivist collective), Anonymous, united this past week to get revenge on those responsible for the seizure of file-sharing site MegaUpload.com and the arrest of its CEO, Kim DotCom, and several other key players. 

The group…