inside traffic east
boulud’s paradox
When Daniel Boulud was 14 years old, he didn’t like school and didn’t want to work on his family’s farm, so his parents got him a job in a restaurant…
maendeleo!
This is the scene at day one of the Maendeleo soccer camp organized by Rick Smith and Gabriel Shalamba for Buffalo’s migrant and refugee boys…
pay it forward
Born in Orchard Park in 1955, Scott Bieler was the model of an industrious eldest child…
the many lives of carl morrison
Dr. Carl Morrison has been at various points in his time on earth a farmer’s son, a college football player, a cattle rancher, a large animal veterinarian, and a businessman…
life, death: doctor amy case
That’s the way Amy Case talks to people–like she already knows them, and they her. Her naked honesty pulls you in so you can’t help but feel at ease in your back-and-forth with her…
inside spine surgery
Dr. Lindsey Clark is an orthopedic surgeon with offices and patients throughout Western New York…
losing the perfect game
It’s easy to describe the sport to noninitiates as racquetball without a racquet, but it would be historically accurate to say the reverse, that racquetball is handball with a racquet…
poetry: OLV centennial
OLV National Shrine & Basilica welcomes approximately 40,000 visitors and friends from around the world each year…
how the world works
Dr. Andrei Gudkov is in pursuit of a pure and complete understanding of life itself…
the good mind of rodney haring
Rodney Haring’s roots in the cultures of the Seneca Nation of Indians and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy inform everything he does…
seeing is believing: spots of time revisited
Mine is just another human story that will, I hope, resonate with you and call to your attention what it means to live in your own skin…
headlights: the first death
It is possible that my wandering outside at night has begun in reaction to my grandfather’s death. For this is the first death…