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Buffalo Business First reported about dozens of new restaurants or expansions in development across Western New York, as well as 8 closings and 11 openings. That’s in addition to more than a dozen projects underway and several site expansions or renovations.

Previously a tenant at the West Side Bazaar, Nine & Night Thai Cuisine has reopened inside the Buffalo State University Campbell Student Union in preparation for a permanent site on Amherst Street.

It’s hard to believe that the fall performing arts season is nearly here. So I decided to give Cincinnati Pops Conductor John Morris Russell a call to ask how the season is shaping up. He’d just returned from Kroger, where he is accustomed to being recognized as “the Pops guy.”

“I always say, what concerts did you go to? What was your favorite song? I’m constantly listening to what people have to say, and they’re always just so genuinely nice,” Russell said.

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If you watch “Antiques Roadshow” on PBS, you know an item’s history is often more remarkable than the auction appraisal.

“The Friedlander Collection,” an assemblage of fine art to be auctioned at Caza Sikes Auction House in Oakley on Sept. 14, has fascinating stories along with well-documented provenance. The collection spans two generations of a Cincinnati family and includes some of the most notable artists of the 20th century.

But it represents even more than the rare opportunity…

Wine means different things to different people. But for panelists gathered for this past August’s Bay Area Wine Summit at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, wine means business.

The experts, including three alumni of the Saint Mary’s MBA programs, covered sustainability, climate change, inflation, distribution and branding — hot topics in the wine business, which has been heavily affected by a myriad of events in recent years.

Bay Area wine country, especially, has been pummeled…

Cirque du Soleil ECHO, the entertainment group’s newest big-top creation, will premiere in Atlanta on November 5, 2023. Packed with vibrant characters, music, lights and projections, and never-before-seen acrobatics, ECHO brings audiences on a journey through a universe of color, wonder and infinite possibilities. After opening with a sensational run in Montreal, selling over 280,000 tickets, ECHO had its U.S. premiere in the D.C. area in September. Now, it is Atlantans’ turns to enjoy all the…

A company with roots in Jacksonville's hospitality scene will be running the famed local establishments.

A graduate of the Leeward Community College’s Aina to Makeke Program is using ulu and taro to create healthy baked goods that feature staple crops introduced to Hawaii by the first voyagers to call the Islands home.

Zoning documents filed with the city show 50 visitor accommodations and a sit-down restaurant proposed for the building.