The current trend toward Cajun foods found on restaurant menus does not appropriately represent Cajun cooking, according to Mitchel Ortego, a resident of Bemus Point who grew up in Southern Louisiana. “I’m a Cajun and we didn’t grow up eating fire hot food,” he says, referring to ...

Mojo’s Music Bar will be the setting for the premiere of a new, original band comprised of familiar faces in the local music scene this weekend. Feverhawk will make its live debut Friday at the 104 E. Second St. music venue, where it will share the stage with the hard-hitting Warren, Pa., ...

BUFFALO — Bernard Aaron Dolecki has never shied away from broadening his creative horizons through the usage of interactive art. This weekend, the Frewsburg native now in pursuit of a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University at Buffalo will continue this trend with the premiere of his ...

On the first and second days of March, after a kind respite in late February, we awoke to a fierce, white world. At 2 a.m., wind howled in from an odd direction, shaking trees, throwing branches, waking us from sleep. Ominous and haunting, the weather seeped into our homes through cracks and ...

By the time Nick Rhinehart last appeared on this page on July 13, 2002, at the age of 14, he had already been telling his family for 11 years that he was going to work in a restaurant. Throughout the years he cooked with his grandmother, Audrey Rhinehart, and by the time he was 8 or 9 years ...

FALCONER — The era of greased hair, poodle skirts and early rock ‘n roll is coming to Falconer’s Jr.-Sr. high school auditorium this weekend, with three performances of “Bye Bye Birdie” scheduled. The school will present its production of the popular stage musical, which ...