Tourist Traps: Niagara Falls’ Clifton Hill

    Jaunted bills itself as The Pop Culture Travel Guide. This week a short blog post with a video was posted of Clifton Hill talking about how it is a trap. Even thought this was just posted, the video is from a couple of years ago. The Niagara Falls tag on the Jaunted site also has…

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    Niagara Falls drops below 50,000 for first time since World War I

    From WKBW Channel 7 in Buffalo: Niagara Falls has passed a population milestone, though in the wrong way. The U.S. Census Bureau is reporting that the population of Niagara Falls has fallen below 50,000. The city had an estimated 49,722 residents as of last July, according to new figures released this morning. Niagara Falls peaked…

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    Pacino at the casino: ‘Cool … very cool’

    From the Niagara Falls Review: It wasn’t a concert. It wasn’t a comedy show. It wasn’t really a performance. No, it was exactly what the posters promised: An evening with Al Pacino at the casino. And for a thousand-or-so of the film legend’s fans, that was all they needed Thursday night. “Cool … very cool,”…

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      MyNiagaraVisit.com

      Philip DiMartino, the operator of the former Niagara Frontier Info site and then the NiagaraIsWonder.com site now has another site, MyNiagaraVisit.com. It has much of the same information as the other sites, but in my opinion has a better domain name. I don’t know Philip at all, but I certainly give him credit from trying…

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      Twitter updates for 2009-09-02

      At D&B and GCM, the Deal or No Deal games always seem to be busy. # @Hilton_Niagara – Some other time for sure. For my birthday, I'll stick with what I know, and love to eat. Canyon Creek Chophouse is great! # http://twitpic.com/g7no6 – There was a fire truck and an ambulance at the AAAA…

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      Xtreme Caffeine Expresso Bar

      Another mobile food/drink truck… this time on Fallsview Blvd across from the Doubletree Resort Lodge & Spa and beside the Old Stone Inn (actually in a run-down side lot of the inn). It’s called Xtreme Caffeine Expresso Bar.

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      Chan rallies NPC staff

      From the Niagara Falls Review: The public has “high expectations” of the Niagara Parks Commission and its employees want to live up to them, Ontario Minister Tourism Michael Chan said in a visit to Niagara Falls Friday intended to rally the employees of the beleaguered government agency. “They want to do their job. They want…

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      Jet Boat season starts early

      From Niagara This Week: It’s not only the plants and flowers that are getting a head start on the season. A mild winter and even balmier spring means an early start to the season for the Whirlpool Jet Boat Tours. The boats are scheduled to take to the water on April 19, one of the…

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        Weekend ice storm

        Last weekend there was a small ice storm. I guess it wasn’t that small since there was a fair amount of damage from the storm. Everything was covered with a thin layer of ice. In some cases there was enough ice to cause branches to break, or even entire trees to fall. Yesterday when I…

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