Tagged: Cultural

This week on theater talk -- WBFO'S Eileen Buckley fills in for co-host Jim Santella and joins Anthony Chase for a chat on local theater.

The future of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery will be in the hands of a man with extensive background in international art.  42-year-old Janne Sirén was introduced at a news conference Tuesday.  He serves as the director of Helsinki Art Museum in Finland. 

Some Kenmore East High School students completed a portrait of a 14-year-old Pakistan teen seriously wounded by the Taliban for standing up for freedom. 

South Buffalo native Mike Maccalupo is back on the book store shelves with his new novel Murder at Ravenswood Hall. 

Most of the book is set in North Carolina, but key events take place back here in his home town.  WBFO & AM-970's Mike Desmond had a chance to speak with Maccalupo about his work.

Buffalo's Central Terminal has emerged as the big winner in the National Trust Buffalo Challenge. 

The National Trust for Historic Preservation and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company announced that Buffalo’s Central Terminal has received the most votes winning a $10,000 preservation grant.

The Central Terminal competed against three other local sites -- the Colored Musicians Club, Graycliff, and the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site. 

A vacant library building has been shuttered for six years in Buffalo's Central Park neighborhood.  The Fairfield was closed as part of consolidation.  But Buffalo Spree editor Elizabeth Licata says neighbors are frustrated and the city doesn't seem to be revealing future redevelopment plans.

WBFO'S Eileen Buckley welcomes Licata to our weekly Press Pass interview line-up as they discuss Licata's on-going Buffalo Spree series called "Preservation Ready" that focuses on the Fairfield Library.