From Niagara This Week: This year’s Red Bull Crashed Ice Tour will begin and end in Canada — and Niagara Falls will be front and centre. “This is going to appeal to sports fans,” Mayor Jim Diodati said Monday after the energy drink maker revealed the city would be a part of the 2012-13 series….
From the Buffalo News: It seemed like an event that even Niagara Falls couldn’t screw up.The son of a famous wire-walking family wanted to tempt fate at the region’s natural wonder. A national television network agreed to give the city more free advertising than it could buy. And thousands of people were vying to get…
Last week I received the latest newsletter from the Scotiabank Convention Centre Niagara Falls.
I haven’t had a chance yet to see Jay Cochrane walk the wire from the Skylon Tower to the Hilton Fallsview tower. I’ve seen him before and thought it was an excellent show. Apparently there are a couple of great ways to see the walk. The first is to be there in person. You can…
From the Buffalo News: Perhaps more than any other free, outdoor concert series in Western New York, Hard Rock Rocks Old Falls Street is presented as a community event more than just a big concert with basic concessions. Saturday night, the two blocks of Old Falls Street were filled with puppeteers, in-your-face mimes, vendors and…
This isn’t directly related to Niagara Falls, but if you are a technical person, you might be interested to know with what equipment the Nik Wallenda Niagara Falls walk was filmed. From ThomasNet News: Toshiba Imaging (www.toshibacameras.com), a leader in high definition (HD) color video imaging, provided the point-of-view (POV) camera for Nik Wallenda’s successful,…
From the Buffalo News: Nik Wallenda’s wire-walk made history and brought Niagara Falls worldwide publicity, but it also cost the two cities tens of thousands in public safety expenses. Wallenda has paid roughly half the tab on each side of the border, but the cities are taking two different approaches on collecting the remainder of…
A couple of weeks ago I received an email newsletter from the Clifton Hill Resort. I haven’t had a chance to see Jay Cochrane walk yet this year, but I’d like to. You can subscribe to the Clifton Hill Resort Update newsletter by visiting the Clifton Hill Newsletter page.
From the Niagara Falls Review: Canada’s best road hockey team will be crowned in Niagara Falls this September with the nation’s eyes watching. CBC’s Sports Day in Canada will be broadcasted from the top of Clifton Hill beginning Sept. 27 for the Hockey Night in Canada’s Play On! ball hockey national championship tournament. More than…
From the Boston Globe: Some facts and figures about daredevil Nik Wallenda’s Friday night wire-walk over Niagara Falls: Length of wire: 1,800 feet Weight: 7 tons Diameter: 2 inches Material: Steel How it’s installed: Be sure to visit the site to read the rest of the “facts and figures”