Wing King Drew Cerza’s Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival is a perfect opportunity for restaurants to market themselves and promote new sauces.  70,000+ wing-lovers will converge on Coca-Cola Field this weekend (Saturday noon to 9 p.m., Sunday noon to 7 p.m.), eager to brave the hottest sauce or taste-test new wing sauces.  Still, due to the sheer…

Chuck Alaimo bopped down to Mohawk Place to shoot photos of the Sam Roberts Salute, featuring The Tins & The Albrights.

The Black Widow devours her prey at a furious pace, scooping up morsels and swallowing them whole before gulping down fluids and repeating the act.  Winner of the Buffalo Chicken Wing Eating Competition the last four years, Sonya Thomas has hands so fast that her performance mirrors a whirring machine, ripe with efficient repetition. 

Housing…

If you can’t make the Sam Roberts Band concert tomorrow night at Artpark, there’s still a chance to catch a glimpse of his music performed by local musicians.  Rising stars The Tins and The Albrights—both favorites of our pals over at BuffaBlog—join opener Troop 556 on the bill tonight at Mohawk Place (9 p.m., $5).  All three bands will pay…

Style takes work, especially in a city dependent on parkas and fleece-lined boots during a good portion of the year.

But that’s no excuse to dress slovenly, Buffalo, especially when we’ve been blessed with designers ready to dress Buffalonians to the nines! Get to know some of the world’s hottest up-and-coming creative style minds at one of many…

The Wing King has molded an unbeatable international event over the last decade.  Drew Cerza, Buffalo’s chicken wing ambassador, hosts the Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival this weekend at Coca-Cola Field, complete with television stars and 50 tons of wings.  The most impressive part, perhaps, is Buffalo’s place as “chicken wing Mecca,”…

Joey Chestnut returns to Buffalo for one thing—victory—one that would taste a little like butter and hot sauce.  Can the hot dog eating king of the world dethrone Sonya “the Black Widow” Thomas, who’s won four consecutive Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival Eating Contest titles?  In 2010, Thomas slammed 4.86 pounds of wings (181 total) in 12…

If you’re like me, you pace around your living quarters during the cold months thinking, “I can’t wait until baseball season so I can go to a Bisons game and eat mountains of those french fries in a cup.”

Then, the season slips away faster than the summer sunshine, and you realize in late August that you haven’t taken advantage of Buffalo’s…

During these rough economic times, we all know this familiar story: down-on-his luck theatrical composer with a shady past must step into the spotlight to star in his own production, only to be revealed as the son of a millionaire who was really just hiding from his old man because dad didn’t approve of the lowlifes in the entertainment…

Kristen Becker’s not about to hit 35 years on earth with some lame excuse for a birthday party. Instead of the average cake-and-ice-cream celebration, Becker’s inviting the public for a night of entertainment.

There will be laughing—Becker will regale the audience with her standup comedy, just as she’s been doing for 10 years now;…

First off, everything you thought you knew about graffiti is probably wrong.

Mark Hall, a local videographer who followed one Buffalo street art crew for a documentary, learned quickly that there’s more to graffiti—and graffiti artists—than what meets the eye. In his documentary, “On Your Mind,” Hall captures and delivers to the world what is an…

(Edit: Washington Nationals’ MLB.com writer Bill Ladson tweeted on Sunday that Strasburg would start in Buffalo, but now the details are murky.  Official announcement will come later today.)

Vivid memories endure from Stephen Strasburg’s last outing in Buffalo.  On June 3, 2010, MLB’s most hyped prospect in history befuddled the Bisons with an…

Steak & Cake Records hosted the first Bidwell Indie 500, highlighting the talents of Buffalo's indie scene. Chuck Alaimo snapped photos.

Don Nieman navigated the renovated Statler building on Sunday at the Buffalo Irish Festival and took a solid array of photos.

Nate Benson released his inner Canadian Saturday, shooting photos of Great Big Sea at the Canal Harbor Wharf.