Niagara Gazette - Features

VIDEO: Making Chicken Bolognese at Caffe Lola
Chef Michael Kraus from Third Street's newest restaurant shares his favorite recipe.
HOCKEY QUEEN: Goalie will compete in pageant
Meet Kelly Rotundo, goalie for the Niagara Catholic hockey club, who is going to compete for the title of Miss New York State.
TUNES4FOOD: Lewiston singer helps effort
Chelsea Pelsone will perform at 7:30 p.m. June 22 during a 24 hour concert in Buffalo's Niagara Square to raise money for the needy.
VIDEO: Step inside the offices of Pine Avenue hypnotherapist
Are you getting sleepy? James Costanzo of Niagara Hypnosis says hypnotherapy can treat physical and mental ailments.
TAKE IT OUTSIDE: Lewiston native's sculpture exhibit opens at Griffis Sculpture Park.
Michael Joseph Hibbard, a Lewiston-born artist is getting well deserved attention.
NIAGARA BUSINESS Q&A: Always a Party
Never a dull moment at Always a Party. From brides to sum wreslters store has party materials to enhance any event.
READY FOR TAKEOFF: Niagara Falls Air Force cadet leads grad class
Cayuga Island resident Jonathan Yates leads 09 Air Force Academy graduating class as Cadet Wing Commander.
GARDEN TIPS: How does your garden grow?
Ladies of the Lewiston Garden Club share tips in anticipation of the GardenFest to be held in Lewiston June 27-28.
ICE PRINCES: Grand Island's Taylor Firth stars in "Ice Castles."
In the movie “Ice Castles,” a young skater is plucked from her small town roots and molded into a skating sensation who must find a way to be true to herself.
Taylor Firth of Grand Island recognizes a bit of her own life in the dramatic plot of the movie...
VIDEO: Barton Hill chef prepares beef filets and lobster ravioli.
Watch as Chef Richard LePree makes a fast, gourmet feast from his kitchen at the Barton Hill Hotel in Lewiston.
NIAGARA BUSINESS Q&A: Dove's Portrait Design creates fairy tale images
The kids are angels over at Doves Studios on Niagara Falls but only because Annie Gresock can give them wings.
LIFESTYLE: Permanent access
The Internet might not yet have killed the TV star, but it has sent the TV star to the hospital.
Along the way, the automobile, radio, DVD player and every other piece of electronic equipment has been served.
BOOK REVIEW: Journalists chronicle hunt for Bike Path Killer
Reading “The Bike Path Killer,” it quickly becomes obvious — if it wasn’t before — that the book was written by two journalists.
DOUBLE TROUBLE: Happy birthday to the ‘baby’
As you’re reading this, maybe the guests are arriving. Or maybe the presents are being opened with much glee, scraps of colorful paper filling the air and Mom and Dad thinking, “Now where are we going to put THAT?”
TECH REVIEW: ON the hunt with new Web browser
Bing, launched June 3, replaces MSN Search as Microsoft’s engine of choice. Upgrades include the same search suggestion list provided by Google, a list of related searches and a “save and share” search history option.
All well and good, but can Microsoft do anything to catch up to the competition?
LIFESTYLE: Why is the Fourth of July such a boom day?
My wife loves fireworks (she calls them magic); I would view them with her and would enjoy spending time with her, but it was hard for me to get as much enjoyment from them as she did; they were more fizzle than bang for me, if you will.
Dads in the wild
Every year on Father’s Day, across the world, dads get their due. Human dads, that is. But what of the animal kingdom?
BOOK REVIEW: Father Baker's life, pursuit of sainthood detailed in 'Code'
The threat by Western New York parents is so famous that it’s spawned its own Facebook group: “I’m going to send you to Father Baker’s.”
But what would a trip to “Father Baker’s” actually entail?
CRIB NOTES: Nothing given to fatherhood, nothing gained
Growing up, I never considered myself daddy material. Not only would no woman want me, I figured, but no guy who stayed up until 4 a.m. every morning playing video games was cut out for fatherhood.
Well, first came love, then came marriage. Then, about three years later, came the baby in the baby carriage.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING: Falls still draws honeymooners
It may no longer have the same luster that it did decades ago as the Honeymoon Capital of the World, but Niagara Falls is still apparently on the minds of at least a few newlyweds-to-be.
LIFESTYLE: Killer Queen
No matter how she fares at this weekend’s Miss New York Pageant, Kelly Rotolo is virtually guaranteed to at least come away with the Best Cross-Check crown.
JUNK MAIL: Father's Day shopping made easy
Going into my second Father’s Day today as a patriarch, I’m glad that so many sectors of society have decided what I like: food, golf, beer and tools.
Phew. I was wasting WAY too much time thinking for myself.
Flag Day flies high
Today is Flag Day. If you didn’t know that, don’t be too upset — Flag Day doesn’t get a lot of publicity.
BBQ RIBS: Jessie Richardson's sidewalk cooking show
Richardson draws customers to his Highland Avenue restaurant with smoke, smell and streetside show
DELUCA: Kissed the sea lion, loved the octopus
Michele DeLuca visits the Niagara Aquarium to test out the special Valentine's Weekend encounters with a sea lion; hugs the sea lion but loves the new octopus.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Making Money’ offers genuinely fun crime read
When the Federal Reserve Bank debuted a redesigned $100 bill in 1996, it was trumpeted as the most high-tech, counterfeit-proof currency to date.
It took Art Williams four months to produce a convincing duplicate of it.
CRIB NOTES: Second-hand doesn't mean second-best
At the risk of increasing the competition on weekends, I feel as though I need to share a piece of advice with readers who still have young kids at home.
Over the past few weekends, my wife and I (or my wife and her mother) have spent Saturday morning perusing area garage sales in order to find goodies for the kids.
Never have we come away from a trek empty-handed.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING: Writer defends U.S. side of falls
A Pennsylvania writer took pains in a recent travel story to defend the American side of Niagara Falls, widely considered inferior to its Canadian counterpart.
LIFESTYLE: Set sail for Albany
When explorer Henry Hudson got as far north as he could go on the waterway that would later bear his name, he didn’t stick around long or wander much beyond the riverbank.

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