Publishers’ Letter
Letters to the Editor

FEATURES
LIVING LARGE:
BUFFALO’S HIGH-END
HOUSING TAKES OFF
by Anna Geronimo Hausmann
The “for sale” signs are slowly diminishing as the market improves,
but in the executive market, there’s
already a real shortage. A look at
the new Buffalo market and the
priciest houses sold in 1999.

SEVENTH HEAVEN:
THE SHIMMERING WORLD
OF WATER GARDENS
by Susan and Wayne Johnson
Watery backyard wonderlands
are incredibly popular now. Sure,
you can have a pond—or you can
have a beautiful water garden.

WALTER SIMPSON:
ENERGY ACTIVIST
by Elizabeth Licata
and Cynthia Farrington
The mature crowd likes to
party with panache.

LOVE AT FIRST SOUND BITE: JOHN MURPHY AND
MARY TRAVERS
by Irene Ligouri
From the entire University at Buffalo campus to his own heating bills,
Walter Simpson is a dynamo
of energy conservation.

DEPARTMENTS:

INFO@SPREE
Buffalo news briefs and more.

ARTS
ART
High Society at the Albright-Knox
by Elizabeth Licata

LITERATURE
Valuable Sleaze: A Treasure
Trove of Pulp Fiction
by Brian Lampkin

ARCHITECTURE
A Towering Masterpiece:
Richardson’s Buffalo State Hospital
by Francis R. Kowsky

PROFILE
Theodore Lownie:
The Wright Architect
by Linda Levine

SPREE RECOMMENDS
Mini-reviews of books, music,
exhibitions, and more.
by Robert Boardman
and Elizabeth Licata