Graham on July 30th, 2011

I'm here with 10 kids… Yikes! (@ Zooz) http://4sq.com/nBNKe5 # Here with 10 kids. Yikes (@ Safari Niagara) http://4sq.com/oJQRPc #

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Graham on July 29th, 2011

David Whysall International Fireworks is a company that does the fireworks in Niagara Falls. I’m not sure whether they are the only one, or even if they still do it. I just know that they’ve done “thousands of shows at Niagara Falls”. The web site has some nice (but small) pictures of shows they’ve put [...]

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Graham on July 28th, 2011

This isn’t directly Niagara Falls-related, but it is still interesting. I’m sure some (or all) of the local operations use TripAdvisor and may try to cheat the system. From The Times Online: A row has broken out over the reliability of the hotel-review website TripAdvisor, with hoteliers alleging that the market-leading giant is no longer [...]

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Graham on July 28th, 2011

From the Niagara Gazette: The Stanley Cup sure gets around. It has been in strip clubs, bedrooms, showers, the bottom of swimming pools and on television shows such as Letterman, Leno and Howard Stern, but on Wednesday it was in Niagara Falls playing tourist by taking a ride on the world-famous Maid of the Mist [...]

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Graham on July 25th, 2011

From the Niagara Falls Review: It was another bitter pill for local theatre buffs to swallow this week with the closure of ’100 Years of Broadway.’ The lavish musical, which gathered several high-profile Broadway stars to sing their signature songs, closed at the Scotiabank Convention Centre Niagara last Sunday after just 12 performances. It was [...]

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From The Walton Sun (Santa Rosa Beach, Florida): Steve Trotter is an intelligent, well-spoken and charismatic individual who happens to have barreled over Niagara Falls, twice. And, he’s about to do it again. When he was 22 years old, the Freeport man was the youngest person ever to ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel. [...]

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