When famed author, writer, newspaperman and satirist Mark Twain enjoyed his first "Day at Niagara" in 1869, he encountered signs of frustration just about every place he visited.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Mayor Byron Brown appointed Lindsey Lauren Visser as City of Buffalo historian and Aitina Fareed-Cooke as the city’s new poet laureate Monday. Visser is a graduate of the University of Oxford and a historian specializing in the Western New York region. She serves as the executive director of the Niagara Aerospace […]
Mark Twain liked to draw. He also liked to have illustrations by others for the things he wrote. The combination inspired Twain scholar Thomas J. Reigstad s latest book: "The Illustrated
For 30 years (as of November 2022) Theater Talk has been appointment listening on WBFO, featuring the insights of theater critic and historian, Anthony Chase, who joins Peter Hall for a five-minute weekly broadcast at 6:45 and 8:45 Friday mornings on 88.7 WBFO with a podcast available on wbfo.org. As part of BTPM (Buffalo Toronto Public Media), their beat is primarily Buffalo theater, but Broadway, The Shaw Festival, and The Stratford Festival are covered as other relevant art forms are touched on, including ballet and opera.