inside traffic east
fiction: fuller’s tavern
Fuller thought he saw Henry Stearns smile cruelly at Mary Jane’s screeching…
laying the groundwork: dr. elisa rodriguez
In just a couple of conversations with Elisa, you get a sense of the type of person she is…
too young to marry but not too young to die
Their eyes were open in the perfect lucidity of death…
opening doors
Creative solutions are necessary in a region where an estimated 164,830 people live with food insecurity…
poetry: the wilting season
Ashia Ajani (they/them) is an award winning Black storyteller soulchild hailing from Denver…
ray zylinski
Lying on the couch, many years removed from the November day in 1988 when doctors pronounced the glow in his eye a sign of the cancer that would blind him, Ray Zylinski brooded…
inflection point: dr. igor puzanov
I met Dr. Igor Puzanov over a video call in the spring of 2022. He sat in front of a bookcase in his Williamsville, New York, home…
arts & sciences: dr. fransisco hernandez ilizaliturri
For Paco, medicine and the arts, though separate in so many ways, do share common threads…
december storm
Considered to be one of Charles E. Burchfield’s most important paintings, December Storm depicts sunlight bursting through storm clouds…
gerard place
For over 100 years, St. Gerard’s Parish was the center of Buffalo’s Bailey Delavan neighborhood…
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…
