Mayor: New Year’s show needs $2M in tourism support

From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati wants to avoid last year’s mess with the New Year’s Eve show, but once again “the challenge is money.” He needs to convince the city’s tourism partners to help pay about $2 million to get the concert back on a national broadcaster, which is much…

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Bette Midler a Fallsview Casino sellout

From the Buffalo News: Bette Midler has always been quotable. Often she’s been definitive. Back when she was only a recent emigrant from New York’s Continental baths, the Divine Miss M observed about Karen Carpenter that there was nothing wrong with her singing, “it’s her drumming that sucks.” When she met Queen Elizabeth after a…

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