Allentown News

The Resource Center and Heritage Centers in Erie County have received financial support from The John R. Oishei Foiundation for an employment initiative aimed at increasing manufacturing and work opportunities in Buffalo and Western New York.

Nothnagle Realtors , one of the preeminent real estate firms in Rochester, is preparing to open its first-ever Buffalo offices.

The Powell family is getting a new home from "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" - and Buffalo ReUse is getting most of their old home.

In his work as a photojournalist in Africa, Brendan Bannon tries to coax stories of meaning and promise out of dire and desperate circumstances.

If cold weather sharpens the mind, this could be the right time to take the American Mensa Admission Test, Mensa being the nonpolitical international organization for people who score at or above the 98th percentile on this IQ test.

On Oct. 31, after 76 years of continuous operation, Buffalo's oldest commercial art gallery will close its doors.

October 05, 2009, 6:47 AM / The facade of a severely threatened Main Street building in the Allentown Historic Preservation District is to be preserved by the city, with state funds maintaining a 19th century red-brick street-scape. The four-story Summit Building, at 918-920 Main, also known as the Bosche Building, will be braced with steel using ...

The shape of sound It's interesting, at the very least, to note that the Beatles are the most popular band in the world right now.

Lagniappes 244 Allen St. . There's seating for about 15 people in this funky Cajun place in the heart of Allentown.

Happy to be moving to Allentown are the folks from Folkloric Productions Dance Co., who are in residence at El Museo, 91 Allen St., starting today.

If you're in the habit of reading our restaurant box before you get to the review, you already know that Lagniappes is small.

Joseph Suppa has seen homebuyers flocking to an area just west of Richmond Avenue, so they can live in close proximity to the shops and restaurants of Elmwood Village.

Elmwood Avenue's commercial district has long been considered one of Buffalo's biggest success stories.

Fiddle Heads, right smack on the corner of Allen and Franklin streets, has been serving innovative contemporary cuisine for many years and keeps on a-rolling. Sleek in decor with large storefront windows, it offers a prime seat for watching the to-ing and fro-ing on a street where something always seems be going on.

Fiddle Heads, right smack on the corner of Allen and Franklin streets, has been serving innovative contemporary cuisine for many years and keeps on a-rolling. Sleek in decor with large storefront windows, it offers a prime seat for watching the to-ing and fro-ing on a street where something always seems be going on.

Fiddle Heads, right smack on the corner of Allen and Franklin streets, has been serving innovative contemporary cuisine for many years and keeps on a-rolling. Sleek in decor with large storefront windows, it offers a prime seat for watching the to-ing and fro-ing on a street where something always seems be going on.

Fiddle Heads, right smack on the corner of Allen and Franklin streets, has been serving innovative contemporary cuisine for many years and keeps on a-rolling. Sleek in decor with large storefront windows, it offers a prime seat for watching the to-ing and fro-ing on a street where something always seems be going on.

Fiddle Heads, right smack on the corner of Allen and Franklin streets, has been serving innovative contemporary cuisine for many years and keeps on a-rolling. Sleek in decor with large storefront windows, it offers a prime seat for watching the to-ing and fro-ing on a street where something always seems be going on.

July 26, 2009, 7:16 AM / The Allentown gallery scene has reached critical mass. Clip out this map and take it along to guide your explorations through the neighborhood's growing variety of arts spaces.

BLOWN GALLERY DISTRICT, AND SOME PREDICT A NEIGHBORHOOD RENAISSANCE WILL FOLLOW By Col in Da bkowski ANEWS ARTS WRITER Updated: July 26, 2009, 7:28 AM / llentown has always been jampacked with artists.