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From head to toe, I give you my guidelines for the perfect summer concert wardrobe... Read more...

Here are some tips for conquering your first race.... Read more...

Canisius College, Niagara University and RIT aren’t the only Western New York representatives in the NCAA’s Atlantic Hockey conference. Area natives grace the rosters of five other teams – Bentley, Holy Cross, Mercyhurst, Sacred Heart and UCONN.... Read more...

Your “Donald Trump For President” and “The Donald 2012″ campaign signs are useless — the two-billion-dollar man apparently already controls the entire United States of America, our president included. In other words, We. Are. Screwed. According to Trump, Americans are more or less indebted to him,... Read more...

Social media is hurting standards of common decency. Just as adults have decided that it’s perfectly fine to say horrid, awful things on message boards and in newspaper comment sections, tween- and teenagers are hiding behind the relative anonymity of the Internet, pretending... Read more...

Staind lead singer Aaron Lewis is an occasional solo artist whose infamous shows are great YouTube fodder. His recent show at Turning Stone Casino in Verona, NY, did not disappoint.... Read more...

Forget semesters abroad during college, some former Purple Eagles are spending time playing in European hockey leagues from Italy and Germany to Switzerland and Britain.... Read more...

Country music exploded in popularity in the ‘90s. Historians (and by that, I mean Wikipedia and me) have traced the beginning of this Southern revolution — the horribly humiliating and embarrassing linedancing-in-gym-class Southern revolution — to March 23, 1992. And its leader had... Read more...

The Roku is much less expensive than buying an Internet-ready TV but is still just as awesome. Once hooked up to your wireless network and connected to your accounts, it’s your gateway to everything from Netflix and Pandora to an exercise channel and... Read more...

This past February, I did not spend my Valentine’s Day at a nice restaurant, staring longingly at my boyfriend over a candlelit table. I didn’t spend the night out with my friends at a bar in protest. I didn’t even spend it alone... Read more...

Schools measure their success by test scores and college acceptances or job offers. Businesses measure their success by the amount of profit they make. Making money and getting an education don’t really go hand-in-hand, in that sense. Generally, the achievement of one comes... Read more...

When she participates in her sport, Mary Veith doesn’t always see spectators cheering her on. Her playing field is varied – Delaware Park one day, a Buffalo bike paths the next. Her biggest adversary isn’t other participants or a ticking stopwatch, but the... Read more...

A few years ago, Aussie T, a Buffalo-based t-shirt company, created a shirt that reads “Buffalo: Wide Right.No Goal. Forward Lateral. Phantom Goal. Screwed Again.” Oh, but that’s just the beginning. After losing the NBA’s Buffalo Bravesto San Diego and the National Professional Soccer League’s Buffalo Blizzard to, well, a... Read more...

If the United States were a person, he’d simply be un-dateable. “Mer,” (short for “America,” duh!) I’d say, after he shyly asked me to dinner, “I’m just not interested in being anything more than friends. Between the poverty, the economic crisis, global warming,... Read more...

The piano is a stuffy, decidedly un-rock instrument. Look at those little, shiny, white keys, just daring you not to smudge them up with your dirty little fingers. Check out that uncomfortable wooden bench – if playing entails sitting on that, no song’s lasting more... Read more...

It’s no wonder the music industry is full of one-hit wonders and forgotten bands from decades past. Their memorable lyrics, can’t-get-it-out-of-your-head choruses and hum-a-long melodies strike a chord (pun intended) with a general audience at a particular time. But when the 15 minutes of... Read more...

This was going to be a story about how working at Google would be awesome. I was going to tout the free food and the ridiculously amazing offices, because who doesn’t dream of eating a gourmet-chef-made omelet at your desk or using a twisty slide or... Read more...

I’ve always wondered why my sister and I have the relationship that we do – contentious at best, pure dislike at the worst. Was I really that spoiled little brat who couldn’t deal with another sibling in the picture? Did I just want... Read more...

In a 2007 New York Times article, Chuck Klosterman wrote one of the simplest, most dead-on (and one of my favorite) descriptions of professional sports locker rooms. “It’s an uncomfortable situation; people are tired, people are naked and people are tall,” Klosterman explained.... Read more...

Wow, that was a really cheesy headline. Sorry. But seriously, Music is Art’s name doesn’t even begin to cover everything the festival has. Yesterday’s acts ranged from interpretive dance to escape artists and everything in between — children’s performances, hair (temporary) coloring, orchestral... Read more...