Allentown News

For months, passers-by have gazed at the big windows of the restaurant at the corner of Allen Street and Elmwood Avenue, trying to peer through the brown paper that covered them.

Most Monday nights, the tiny Alt Theatre in the great big Great Arrow Building on Elmwood Avenue is dark, its stage in temporary sleep mode between weekend performances and rehearsals.

There's nothing easy about advancing a stand-up comedy career in Buffalo - just ask local comics Chet Wild and Dan Fisher.

Rue Franklin 4 stars 341 Franklin St. . Western New York doesn't have very many French restaurants, so when the news broke that this long-lived Gallic depot had been sold, worries abounded.