From Yahoo! Canada News: When Toronto-based author Craig Davidson showed up for a recent interview with a mild shiner and stitches above his left eyebrow, it seemed a more fitting than frightening sight. After all, the 37-year-old is known for writing about brutal bouts in books, including the short story collection “Rust and Bone,” which…
From WKBW Channel 7 in Buffalo: A vacant Niagara Falls building that once housed Moore Business Forms is being eyed as the site of new hotel. That, and another Cataract City hotel is due for a major face lift. Indian Ocean LLC, a company run by local hotelier B.F. Patel, is working with the Niagara…
This was from Friday. I would have liked to have been there but wasn’t able to make it. From ArtVoice.com: Mr. Las Vegas, Mr. Entertainment, whatever you call him, Wayne Newton was born to be a star. After tens of thousands of Vegas shows in a career that has spanned more than 50 years, Newton…
From Niagara This Week: Some 60 years before Nik Wallenda walked a tightrope and focused attention from across the world on Niagara Falls; nearly two decades before the Christopher Reeve’s Superman made his famous flight over the mighty cataract to save a young boy’s life in 1979, Marilyn Monroe brought the bright lights of Hollywood…
From the Toronto Star: Death, taxes, Niagara Falls. In the old days, those were the only certain things in life — or death — according to the river men who patrolled a thunderous Horseshoe Falls before it became somewhat tamed by hydro companies. During the 19th and 20th centuries, thousands of suicide and accident victims…
From Buffalo Business First: Hotel room occupancy rates continued to rise through the first quarter of the year, mirroring other local statistics and economic factors that show the hospitality industry is climbing out of its slump. According to statistics compiled by Smith Travel Research of Nashville, the occupancy rate in… Niagara Falls, hotel occupancy increased…
I heard about this originally this morning on the Buffalo NPR station. From WKBW Channel 7 in Buffalo (includes a video): In Niagara Falls, the term “Cataract City’ takes on new meaning after two sea lions become the first in the area to receive a unique eye surgery. Thousands of guests come to the Aquarium…
From the Tonawanda News: This is, by far, the shortest distance I have ever trekked to do a travel story. Yet even though the Ontario portion of the cataract is only about 70 blocks from where I live, it is pretty much another world. Not to knock the natural beauty of the U.S. side of…
I saw a few people tweet about this yesterday, but didn’t get a chance to retweet or blog about it. From Wired.com: 1848: Niagara Falls stops. No water flows over the great cataract for 30 or 40 hours. People freak out. The falls were already a tourist attraction by 1848, and villages had grown up…
From the Buffalo News: The cataracts at Niagara Falls, normally illuminated at night by floodlights, will go dark from 8:30 to 9:30 Saturday in honor of Earth Hour, a worldwide effort to draw attention to climate change. The event urges individuals, businesses and organizations to turn off all non-essential lights.