Real Deal Article on Buffalo’s Real Estate Market
I’ve got a piece in this month’s insert to The Real Deal, a New York City-based magazine that covers real estate news, about how Buffalo managed to escape the recent credit and housing downturns....
View ArticleBuffalo Architectural Wallpapers
Nine things to like about the Nickel City So the New York Times gave Buffalo’s architectural treasures the feature treatment on Sunday, detailing our city’s beautiful contradictions and breathtaking...
View ArticleIron & Wine at Asbury Hall
Sarah and Samuel Beam, on-stage at Asbury Hall/Babeville, Nov. 12, 2008. Photo by LibraRonin. Iron & Wine is one of the very few music acts the wife and I have Absolute Agreement on, so we snapped...
View Article5 Things That Changed Since My Last Post
What is happening? Since the last time I dropped some HTML here (2008!), quite a bit has changed for the Purdman. Here’s the traffic-friendly listicle version: Moved to Rochester: I started at the...
View ArticleBarCamp Buffalo Presentation: Writing Faster and Smarter
Thanks to Kevin Lim for shooting and posting, and to BarCamp Buffalo for letting me try out an alpha-level presentation on the late-night crowd. I’d intended to run through three areas early-morning...
View ArticleThe Western New York Playlist at Mixtape.me
Want to help me round this out? I’m not a Buffalo/Rochester native, but a (nearly) 10-year veteran; this is just a quick thumbnail I dashed off. Leave your track suggestions in the comments, and I’ll...
View ArticleInfrequent Update: The Moving Back to Buffalo Edition
Maybe the vegetarian meal on Ajira Airlways is some kind of curry dish? That’d be sweet. Personal blogging is hard when you’re updating another blog at least five times per day, and often more. As I...
View ArticleRemember When It Used To Be Warm?
A single ShackBurger, crinkle-cut fries, and a glass of their own ale. This was a great moment to have a G1 camera handy. I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya. Long time, like, since...
View ArticleWhat I Learned from Organizing TEDxBuffalo 2011
This post was originally published at the TEDx blog/Tumblr. It was written quickly, and at least one fellow English major shook his head in dismay after seeing the first draft. But it was written very...
View ArticleA Post About Wings in Buffalo
Photo via Buffalo Eats, who eats and shoots for all of us. A reader (or maybe In Beta listener) wrote me an email recently, asking, as politely as possible for an out-of-the blue request, if the only...
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