Buffalo Fashion Week 2025 culminated in Disruption, its annual fashion show, on May 3. Photographer Pat Cray captured images for Buffalo Magazine.

For Aleeshia Wark, the Niagara River has always been part of her life. From childhood fun on her family’s boat to a summer job as a teen at a local boating company, her career path was laid out early.

The recent opening of BestCellar Book Bar in Clarence hammered home a point that has been rattling around my brain for months: Western New York is home to quite a few establishments that offer two ...

As we all know, the answer varies from person to person—the unique combination of jokes, comedians, TV shows, movies and stand-up sets that make you laugh could be wildly different from that of your ...

Buffalo is an ice cream town. We’ll go out in a blizzard to get a (Dairy Queen) Blizzard—or our local favorite’s equivalent. We’ll wait in long lines on hot sidewalks for an ice cream cone that starts ...

What do vintage outfits and outrageous desserts have in common? For Michael Mararian, known to his nearly 4,000 Instagram followers as @PolyesterBakes, the answer is not a whole lot—but he’s set out ...

This solo exhibition by Karle Norman features leather paintings/sculptures that make a feeling into a physical object to either empower or disempower their effect in the long term.

Here’s the truth: I’ve never taken an in-person cooking class, despite loving food and cooking daily for the past 15 years. Crazy, right? Like many food lovers, I’ve learned most of my kitchen skills ...

Julian Dell’Oso’s love of all things culinary began long before he opened his cut-to-order cheese shop, Amabel Provisions, last August. “My aunt had an Italian cookie business she ran out of her house ...

Mercedes and Tom had a whirlwind romance—literally. The two met while working to assess storm damage for a local utility company. “I noticed he was cute, and I guess I wouldn’t let him go so, then it ...

The Mercurio family’s traditional North Buffalo double has lived many lives—even over the past 16 years alone. At first it housed only Rob Mercurio, a Buffalo police officer, who purchased it in 2009.

Think back to the first months of the pandemic in 2020. Fear, uncertainty and doubt that things would ever feel “normal” ran rampant. Many of us were staying at home trying to discover a new hobby to ...