Around Town: Buffalo culture edition
For the past year and a half I’ve perused calendar listings, reviews, flyers and websites looking for the most interesting ways for you to spend your weeks in the Queen City.
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For the past year and a half I’ve perused calendar listings, reviews, flyers and websites looking for the most interesting ways for you to spend your weeks in the Queen City.
For me, college has been four years of trial and error and a whole lot of self-discovery.
For the past three years, UB students have been assaulted on Holocaust Remembrance Day with grotesque images of aborted fetuses blown up into massive photos on displays outside of the Student Union – the major center of campus where thousands of students pass through each day.
Thursday morning I gathered with about 400 other undergraduate students as we tacked posters to just-unstable-enough-to-be-nerve-wracking display boards. Men in dark suits and colorful ties and women in heels, dresses and pantsuits crowded into the Center for the Arts Atrium, mingling and asking questions about each other’s posters.
Jacqueline Conroy and Caitlin Cole-Conroy regularly leave their home in Tonawanda, New York at 8:30 a.m. – an hour and a half before their first class.
UB English department – I love you, but let’s be honest. These new requirements?
On the corner of my street, there’s a European-styled café with floor-to-ceiling glass windows that has sat empty since before it was remodeled.
Being snowbound in Buffalo doesn’t mean you can’t have a brilliant spring break. There’s enough new art exhibitions in the city, sports games, plays and even tropical cocktails at the Botanical Gardens to keep you busy every glorious day of break.
This weekend Buffalo is home to a wide range of outings, from birding to boxing to hula hooping on Elmwood. Instead of resorting to typical weekend activities like a dinner and a movie, step outside of the box and maybe you’ll find a new hobby.
Despite below freezing temperatures and wind chills hitting negative 20 degrees, Buffalo is alive and well this weekend. Bundle up and head downtown for shows, lectures or some yoga and art.
My fingers fumbled around my friend’s fingers as her relatively steady hand grasped the round bottom of what must’ve been a clear glass water bottle, dangerously filled with sparkling water. I reached out my right hand and waited for the impact of palm on glass. I was able to surround the bottle’s opening with a couple of fingers and then slowly pull it out from the grip of the somewhat trusted pair of hands. I shifted the bottle to one hand and reached out in front of me towards the table. I felt around my place area for an empty spot to set the bottle down on. A loud clink reverberated off the table and my hands dashed towards my pants, making sure I didn’t dump water all over my lap.
Two blonde women took cover under the backside of the Brandenburger Tor as freezing rain blanketed the beige sidewalks of Berlin’s showplace street, Unter den Linden. One of the women held a large camera as the other twirled and looked piercingly into the lens. Their light pink, white and black outfits were perfectly coordinated and as they switched places to take more photos, a line gathered across the street outside a white temporary structure with the sign, “Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Berlin.” Young girls in long black parkas with fur-lined hoods looked anxiously toward the entrance ramp to see who was getting out of the black BMW’s pulling up to the steps.
Maybe you forgot. Maybe the restaurant was booked solid. Maybe you just got a date. Maybe your wallet is slimmer than your date hoped. Maybe you hate the holiday and want nothing to do with the normal cheesy stuff you’re forced into doing.
Kadriye Tekin, a sophomore health and human services major has never kissed anyone.
Us poor college students can only handle so much campus food and it’s likely you’ve already reached your saturation point. Luckily, whether you’re at North, South or City campus, you’re just a few minutes away from a delicious, inexpensive meal. Sometimes, the best part of eating out is discovering a new area of the city, so here’s a list of tasty eats broken down by area.
Hopefully your first week doesn’t leave you feeling like you already need some serious me-time, but if you do, there’s enough going on in Buffalo this weekend to de-stress.
I’m sure many a card writer at Hallmark has sought to use that quote to capture book nerds and quote junkies at Valentine’s Day and while the following lines, “Give me the excess of it; that surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken, and so die,” negate the happy tone most people associate with it, the first message certainly has meaning and truth.
When she was a freshman, Emily Malkowski, a sophomore communication major, didn’t find it unusual to pay her professor $40 in cash for her statistics textbooks.
Meteorologists are predicting that temperatures are going to rise this weekend, but with feet of snow piled up all over the Western New York area, it is likely that you won’t be going out and about this weekend – especially not to the city.
Christine Schaefer remembers “stomping around the tree farm for hours” with her family on the hunt for the perfect Christmas tree. Her father would stand next to a selected tree, reach his hand up and announce whether or not it was the right size.