From the Niagara Falls Review: New Brunswick’s Bernie Houle was cold, tired and a little bit wet. He should have been miserable. Instead, eyes to the sky, he couldn’t stop grinning. “Seventeen hours of driving to come fly a kite,” he said, yanking the string to his gnarly, nylon creation called Shady. Standing next to…
From the Niagara Falls Review: George Stathakis was one strange individual. Born in Greece, he arrived in the United States in 1910 at the age of 26. Working as a short-order cook, he lived in St. Louis for a time before moving to Niagara Falls, N.Y., then Buffalo. Stathakis was much more than a cook…
The Buffalo News had a nice write-up about Wayne Newton’s performance at the Fallsview Casino: You can thank Wayne Newton for Cirque du Soleil. You can thank him for the Celine Dion extravaganza and the Elton John blockbuster. For the Blue Man Group, the theme park explosion and the nightclub and restaurant boom in the…