March 2010

Restaurant sessions:

This year’s restaurant issue covers the breadth of WNY eateries, from mom-and-pops to cream-of-the-crops. To parse the wide array of local edibles—what does it all mean?—we’ve empaneled a...

Jana Eisenberg; photos by kc kratt

Summer Baltzer: this year’s Home Show celebrity

“When I first started out, I resigned myself to screw up—and I was okay with it. I feel powerful having a concept. If you don’t know how to hang pictures, or sew pillows, you can hire people....

Jana Eisenberg

Here come the garden shows

Elizabeth Licata

ART PREVIEW

From a local perspective, it’s easy to assume that Buffalo’s favorite watercolorist Charles Burchfield is as well known everywhere as he is here. Not so.

Bruce Adams

Here come the garden shows

Elizabeth Licata

GARDENING

In the prosperous, technology-focused ’90s we would never have dreamed how many new gardeners would start growing vegetables at home, or even how huge the passion for flower gardening would become.

Sally Cunningham

COOL STUFF

Tis a good month to be Irish. But there’s so much more. Take a gander at some of the other special events around ethnicities this month.

Christopher Schobert

SPREE INSIDER

Shrug out of your winter coat, ditch the hat and gloves, and dig out that Hawaiian shirt that’s been taunting you month after frigid month. It’s time to heat things up with some Spree-sponsored...

Chris Musial

Summer Baltzer: this year’s Home Show celebrity

“When I first started out, I resigned myself to screw up—and I was okay with it. I feel powerful having a concept. If you don’t know how to hang pictures, or sew pillows, you can hire people....

Jana Eisenberg

Restaurant sessions:

This year’s restaurant issue covers the breadth of WNY eateries, from mom-and-pops to cream-of-the-crops. To parse the wide array of local edibles—what does it all mean?—we’ve empaneled a...

Jana Eisenberg; photos by kc kratt

Restaurants we love

Prepare yourself for barbecue and baba ghanouj, beef on weck and hot fudge, bars and bistros, delis and diners. Yes, these are the restaurants we adore in WNY, and you’re about to get hungry....

Alan Bedenko, Kevin Purdy, and Joe Sweeney