EXPLORING THE NIAGARA FRONTIER: False hellebore – the giant toxin of WNY
Every May, Western New York hikers are caught off guard by a rather gigantic flowering plant that is unlike any other to be found this time of year. With its…
HELEN BACH: Here’s your Mother’s Day weekend to-do list
If you cannot find something to do in Buffalo this weekend, you are ACTIVELY trying to be bored. It is the first weekend of the month, bringing with it the…
LITERALLY THE BEST REVIEWS: The Bones Will Speak
The Bones Will Speak — Carrie Stuart Parks Thomas Nelson Publishers 331 Pages Just over one year ago, I reviewed the first book in the Gwen Marcy series, A Cry…
LOOKING AT MOVIES: ‘Team America’ (2004)
What?? Team America: World Police?? A classic movie? Why, this is an outrage! I am calling my congressional representative! I am calling the real police! Rabble rabble rabble rabble!! Calm…
NORMAL CHEF: Asian Ginger Pork Chops
Pork, the other white meat? Yes it is because it is so adaptable to any recipe. I know that in today’s standards, you can eat pork cooked medium because of…
EXPLORING THE NIAGARA FRONTIER: Spring beauty – the little potato of the spring woods
If you are out and about in the rich-soiled woodlots of Western New York this weekend you will come across a dainty little wildflower called the spring beauty. It is…
NIAGARA’S HISTORY: Traces of Clinton’s Ditch
One of the most intriguing man-made features of Niagara County is the Erie Canal. The waterway crosses the entire county, from Middleport all the way to North Tonawanda. Most of…
LITERALLY THE BEST REVIEWS: Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Lay Down Your Weary Tune — W.B. Belcher Other Press 384 Pages Once in awhile when skimming the New Books shelves at the Lockport Library, I run across a book…
LOOKING AT MOVIES: ‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War’ (2016)
Snow White and the Huntsman came out in 2012, four years ago, and I saw it once. The Huntsman: Winter’s War committed the cardinal sin of sequels in that you…
LEFFLER: The system actually is rigged
Much ado has been made in recent days about the electoral process in the state of New York. Starting with complaints from Donald Trump’s children that they were unable to…