When you think “staycation,” it might bring to mind a little hotel within city limits, some local attractions, maybe a dinner ...

When Margie Richmond of Williamsville embarked on a renovation to her 1990s-era kitchen, she called Jennifer Hutton to recommend an interior designer. The response from Jennifer, who redesigned Margie ...

West Falls native Erin Long is an artist who has been selling her paintings throughout Western New York and beyond for nearly 10 years. However, her canvas recently expanded—by a few hundred feet. “I ...

Katie Gamb lives and paints in a small, cozy corner of Milwaukee, Wis. Her love of narrative and the natural world informs her art, which is influenced by the stories she immersed herself in as a shy, ...

Can a dating app be serendipitous? The universe can throw us delightful surprises now and again—these little moments of fortune and good luck. So, it's not hard to believe that a single right swipe ...

As springtime summons a familiar desire to refresh a space (or two) in your home, does paralysis by analysis sound familiar? Many of us are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of options available. For ...

About a month after moving to Buffalo, Sebah Ghannam was ready to explore beyond pizza and wings. “I made a lot of Buffalonian friends, and I went to all their recommendations,” Sebah explains. “I was ...

When I asked Ashley Meyer Howe about her favorite memories of growing up on a farm, she started to cry (and soon did I) as she fondly recalled moments of cutting bales of hay in the summer and tending ...

Pine warbler. Chickadee. Common merganser. Sandpiper. These bird names are fun to say, but for local birders, they’re even more exciting to catch sight of in the wild. Birding, the more active, ...

It’s hard to imagine a world without Popeye, Betty Boop and Superman. These characters are fixtures in our culture. We see them on umbrellas, coffee mugs, bumper stickers and even on arms and legs, as ...

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