January/February 2010

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Cage match: BPAC celebrates the local legacy of an avant-garde giant

Burchfield Penney celebrates John Cage.

Ron Ehmke

Elevating the elemental: Mangold at the Albright-Knox

“The more stuff in it, the busier the work of art, the worse it is. More is less. Less is more. The eye is a menace to clear sight. The laying bare of oneself is obscene. Art begins with the...

Bruce Adams

Up the ladder to the roof

Owning a thirty-two-foot extension ladder is like owning a pickup truck. Possession of either is the equivalent of declaring to your social set that you are available to assist with a wide array of...

“Ambrose”

A seasonal celebration: homegrown and beautiful

While many brides imagine their wedding day right down to the flavor of cake and type of bouquet, the only thing Alison Zero Jones knew she wanted was to have her event in a barn.

Julie Wesolowski

WNY Americorps helps make over a neighborhood

“If you don’t know about Americorps after Extreme Makeover, you’ll never know,” laughs Joshua Randle, chief operating officer for Western New York Americorps, one of the largest local...

Donna Hoke Kahwaty

Safetox and Head Spa Massager

It is patented, it is of Italian design, and it incorporates Japanese engineering. Individually, these are all good things, but here the synergy may be its undoing.

William C. Altreuter and Catherine Berlin

Entourage style

Here’s one final recommendation: you, the bride, are the fashion designer and your bridesmaids are your runway models.

Catherine Berlin

RESTAURANTS WE LOVE—We have a winner!

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Top cakes, the WNY way

Nickel City Chef "Buffalo Wedding" cake contest.

Christopher Schobert

A qualified bravo! for Encore

Restaurant review of downtown's Encore. 492 Pearl St., 931-5001, encorebuffalo.com

Kevin Purdy

Meat of the matter: WNY’s farm-to-chef movement is going gangbusters, nose to tail

“It used to be tricky, finding the right amounts of beef with the quality I was looking for,” said Curtin, the irrepressible owner of the Steer, Lake Effect Diner, and Dug’s Dive. “I used...

Lauren Newkirk Maynard