It is Spring in Buffalo. The Boom is out, the Edward M. Cotter is in the water and fireworks are in the air. To celebrate the going of winter and the coming of the green of spring and summer, Rigidized Metals sponsored Boom Days 2013 and threw a huge party amidst the…

The Blizzard of ‘77 is legendary among Western New Yorkers, many of whom remember digging out neighbors and frantically locating loved ones stranded in roadways.

The storm started exactly 36 years ago today, and it continued burying the Buffalo-Niagara…

Take a visual stroll into the Delaware Park through…

Over the past few years, UB archaeologists have conducted digs along what was the Erie Canal in downtown Buffalo, hoping to get a better piece of Buffalo’s culturally significant history.

According to UB,

During…

Buffalo's bygone era of wealth and prestige is one hard to imagine for those of us who lived through a lifetime of recession and Super Bowl losses. But imagine no more.

The videos below are from the Library…

Party goers joined together to celebrate the style of our beautiful Central Terminal landmark at the annual swing, blues, big band, & rockabilly music festival.

Here's the thing: I do not like Journey. Never did. They've always seemed a little too bubble gum-y for my taste. In my formative years in the late 1980s, when I was learning about hard rock from bands like…

Once upon a time, I was a rabid hockey fan. Thank God for tetanus shots! Seriously, though, I used live and die with the Buffalo Sabres.  And this wasn’t any bandwagon nonsense—my first favorite player was

Simplifying history is a tough pursuit, even if it’s just chronologically.  In an attempt to give modern American history linear coherence (and to give students a reason not to start drinking at noon), Niagara University assistant professor