Buffalo Citybration

06/10/2020

This FB Live event at 6:00 p.m. TONIGHT promises to light up your (very warm ) day! See you there!

We'll be going LIVE in less than an hour (6 p.m. EST, to be specific) with artist Elizabeth Leader to talk about her book Discarded Ancestors!

Tune in to hear the backstory of where she found the family photo album that sparked this gorgeous art book! (Hint: It wasn't in her basement and the folks in the pictures aren't her family!)

Get your copy of Discarded Ancestors: At the Intersection of Art and Ancestry today and receive an AUTOGRAPHED edition!

https://cityoflightpublishing.com/product/discarded-ancestors/

05/24/2020

Kindness - something we are in dire need of these days. Tune in.

04/04/2020

Since were all just watching sports reruns anyway, let’s talk about a nostalgic sports legend: Rick Azar. In Tales From Azar’s Attic, he shares fascinating behind-the-scenes encounters with some of the colorful celebrities he interviewed – people like Howard Cosell, Jack Kemp, Joe Namath, Ted Williams, Gil Perreault, Wayne Gretzky, Floyd Patterson, Ilio DiPaolo, Jack Nicklaus, Dizzy Gillespie, and so many more.

Get your copy here: https://cityoflightpublishing.com/product/tales-from-azars-attic-a-look-inside-a-broadcasting-career/

03/31/2020

A local business encouraging everyone to during these hard times!

Check out https://cityoflightpublishing.com/

09/07/2018

Citybration Top Picks - A decade later, All weekend long -

When I returned unexpectedly to Buffalo in 2006, there was no Canalside. Our waterfront was rubble - literally. There was not a kayak to be seen on the Buffalo River. River Fest Park was still just a glimmer in Peg Overdorf's eye, and Doug Swift was still dedicating himself to the Roycroft Campus. H...

08/18/2018

Citybration Top Picks - Ashford Hollow -

There are so many hidden gems in Western New York. One of my favorites occupies more than 400 acres in Ashford Hollow, between Springville and Ellicottville in Cattaraugus County.

08/10/2018

Citybration Top Picks - The Fair and More -

There are few events more nostalgic and small town than the Erie County Fair. Ginormous 4H hogs lolling in stalls, a properly sleazy midway, the scent of cotton candy, corn dogs and deep-fried everything under the sun. Just walking through the gates makes you feel like you're somewhere in the midwes...

08/04/2018

Citybration Top Picks - Meet Hannah -

If a scattered, entitled young person who sleeps until noon and lives on Snapchat comes to mind, think again. I have had the pleasure of working with Hannah Nathanson this summer. Shortly after graduating from City Honors, Hannah started as an intern for my publishing company, Buffalo Heritage Press...

07/27/2018

Citybration Top Picks - Hot Dog Heaven -

Finally! Buffalo is making headlines for a fare other than wings. USA Today says "Forget wings - Buffalo is a hot dog town."

07/19/2018

Peeking into Backyards -

Backyards are private spaces. They're exterior extensions of our interior living spaces. Like our living rooms and kitchens, they reflect who we are and what we care about in both overt and subtle ways. 

06/15/2018

Citybration Top Picks - An Unusual Gift -
Learning more about yourself through overcoming illness and becoming resilienthttps://mailchi.mp/buffalovibe/citybration-top-picks-an-unusual-gift

06/08/2018

Citybration Top Picks - Go Out and Play -

When I was growing up in Buffalo, Delaware Park was the extent of my outdoors. I discovered the "real" outdoors decades later, while living in Colorado. I came to cherish the immense network of hiking trails that started across the street from my home.

06/02/2018

Citybration Top Picks - The Ride -

For more than a decade I could not do The Ride for Roswell. Not because I was physically unable, but because I was otherwise engaged that weekend--every year. Yep. The Ride takes place on the third weekend in June, the same weekend that Buffalo Old Home Week / Citybration used to be on. 

05/26/2018

Remember to Remember -

The parade of picnics and scent of hot Italian sausage on the grill threatens each year to obscure the meaning of Memorial Day. We've stretched this solemn ceremony into a three day holiday that signifies the start of summer.

05/23/2018

Calling All Young Artists -

05/18/2018

Citybration Top Picks - Courtyards and Patios -

The lilacs are in bloom, the sun is bright, and it's not dark until nearly 9:00pm. Why in the world would you eat indoors? My dining preferences from now until well after Labor Day are all al fresco.

05/11/2018

Citybration Top Picks - Mother Love -

She had suffered mutliple strokes and was confined to a wheelchair and a nursing home. She was eating very little, wasting away before my eyes. She had been deaf for years. I struggled with how to make Mother's Day special for her. 

04/27/2018

Citybration Top Picks - It's finally spring! -

Known as sakura, cherry blossoms are a symbol of spring in Japan, where celebrations include attending a hanami, or flower viewing, with family and friends. In a city known for winter, the Buffalo Cherry Blossom Festival is important. 

04/21/2018

Citybration Top Picks - Earth Day. Every Day -

The earth is huge. Climate change is dauntingly complex. It's easy to feel overwhelmed, to throw your arms up in despair. To do nothing. 

04/13/2018

Citybration Top Picks - Create Community -

As World War I raged in Europe, Ernest Hemingway became an ambulance driver in Italy for the Red Cross. After being wounded and a period of recuperation, he became a foreign correspondent, which profoundly impacted his literary style. He moved to Paris and joined a group of expatriate writers. He...

04/06/2018

Citybration Top Picks - From Farm to Fork to Fine Cuisine -

Most folks answer wings, but I'm a 'weck girl. Wings were not yet on every menu when I departed in 1974, but beef on 'weck is something I found nowhere in my three decades of globe-trotting. Thinly sliced, rare beef, topped with killer horseradish on a fresh Costanzo's kimmelweck roll. Now that's wh...

03/29/2018

Citybration Top Picks - Trimania! -

What spans 2 blocks, 6 floors, and more than 520,000 square feet? When is this vast, historically significant building filled with hundreds of artists making art, musicians making music, dancers shaking their booties, and thousands of revelers taking it all in?

03/23/2018

Citybration Top Picks - Who Knew? -

If you, too, labor under misperceptions like these, join me in reconsidering these interesting (and healthful) options. 

03/15/2018

Citybration Top Picks - A Different Saint's Day to Celebrate -

Buffalo is bedecked in kelly green at this time of year. The scent of corned beef and stale beer permeate the air. There are parties and parades where everyone is Irish, and since I am (Irish), I soak it in. Buffalo is, after all, the fourth best city in the nation to get silly on St. Patrick's Day.

03/09/2018

Citybration Top Picks - Beyond the Oscars -

If you're still riding that Oscars high and can't wait to see your next flick, you're in luck. Not one but two stellar film festivals are taking place in Buffalo this week. Why not get past the big money productions and check out some under-the-radar gems?

03/02/2018

Citybration Top Picks - The Oscars! -

Hollywood is all about glitz and glamour, and there are few spectacles as glitzy and as glamorous as the Oscars. It's so much fun to tune in to see which celebrities capture those prized statuettes--and nearly as much fun to see what they're wearing... 

02/22/2018

Citybration Top Picks - What's Your Story? -

That's the role that I see publishing playing. And that's why I publish beautiful books about Buffalo and by Buffalo and Western New York authors and artists through Buffalo Heritage Press, part of a new, hybrid approach to publishing. 

02/15/2018

Citybration Top Picks - Better than Fish Fry -

Fat Tuesday is behind us. Lent looms before us. Instead of just giving up meat on Fridays for 40 days and indulging in fish fries, or--heaven forefend--foregoing chocolate, consider getting truly lean.

02/09/2018

Citybration Top Picks - A Tale of Two Borders -

It is snowing in Buffalo. The streets are slick and we huddle inside our down jackets and in front of radiators and heat vents. Half a nation away, however, it is hot, starkly beautiful, and can be dangerous if your skin is brown. A Buffalo woman has one foot on the Canadian border and the other on...