Start Your Engines
Saturday nights are glorious in the Niagara Frontier: during the winter, there’s Hockey Night in Canada; during the summer, there’s asphalt circle-track stock car racing (dirt track racing is on Friday...
View ArticleDrag Racing at Dunn Tire Raceway Park in Lancaster
Drag racing is a completely different beast from stock car racing. I would not consider myself a novitiate any longer, but I am still quite new to the experience of drag racing. The Niagara Frontier...
View ArticleThe Earth Shook
Some Pro-Mods, that is, the truly insane drag racers, came out to Dunn Tire Raceway Park. In truth, they weren’t a true “Pro-Modifieds” class, but the class was open to, essentially, crazy cars...
View ArticleThe 12th Annual Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts
Indeed, it was the 12th Annual Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts this weekend. It’s a blowout affair in mid-town Buffalo, the Elmwood village area. Every year the Nachmu family treks down there...
View ArticleThe Buffalo-Niagara Microclimate
Here’s how it works here, just to clear things up: Winter’s the problem; everyone knows that. Winter begins in December, just like it does for everyone else, but it extends through March. Well, one...
View ArticleA Shooting Star And A Thunderbolt
As I told some friends: someone must have hit me on the head to knock me out, slipped me a Mickey, then forced me to promise the Nachmu boys I’d take them tent camping. Either that, or I’m dangerously...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of Momentary Barbarism
Nachmu made his way to the February 8 Buffalo Sabres game against Mordor’s Boston Bruins, bringing Nachmu the Lesser along. We had great seats, six rows up from the ice across from the benches. I think...
View ArticleThai in Tonawanda?
Is it possible to find some delicious Thai food in Tonawanda? Indeed, it is! Welcome to Yummy Thai, a fantastic little find on Webster Street in North Tonawanda.One is more inclined to find a...
View ArticleFirst!
After Christmas every year, the city of Tonawanda floods Ives Pond Park, which is adjacent to the Comfort House, or Nachmu HQ. As soon as the persistent cold of deadly winter is forecast, a very...
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