Good Morning, Buffalo: A quick look at what's happening today
Now that we've had that little taste of winter, let's return to enjoying the fall. Today should get us back in the mood -- rain stopping, clouds lifting, wind dying down, temperatures rising at least into the lower 40s.
Saturday and Sunday, meanwhile, are looking good, really good. The National Weather Service promises mostly sunny skies with a high in the lower 50s on Saturday, although it will get breezier as the day progresses. There's a slight chance of sprinkles Saturday night and Sunday, but temperatures should continue to be mild. Sunday's high is expected to approach 60. Monday's high could actually top the 60-degree mark. Don't put away those golf clubs yet.
How much of a danger to the elderly are Buffalo's sidewalks? We'll get the answer this morning at a news conference in Shanghai Red's restaurant when members of the Western New York Falls Prevention Consortium, supported by the Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York, present the results from walkability studies conducted back on National Falls Prevention Awareness Day on Sept. 22. A total of 14 sites in and around facilities such as senior centers and apartment complexes across the City of Buffalo and Erie County were studied.
Need to get a shot for the regular flu or pneumonia? The Visiting Nursing Association of Western New York is giving them from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Williamsville Library, 5571 Main St., and from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Hamburg Library, 102 Buffalo St.
Cost for the uninsured is $30 for the flu shot and $45 for the pneumonia shot. The shots are free to people covered by BlueCross BlueShield, Independent Health, Medicare (Part B) or Univera. H1N1 vaccinations are not available.
For the second year, Elmwood Village Association's Mass Appeal fashion event will feature fashions from Elmwood boutiques and local designers in the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 875 Elmwood Ave. Doors open at 7 p.m.
The event is produced by Erin Habes, a fashion instructor at Buffalo State College and former owner of the Elmwood boutique Sweet'n Dirty, with the help of fashion students. The presentation "will be extremely theatrical," Habes promises. VIP seating is $100, general seating is $30 and discount seating is $10. For information, visit www.elmwoodvillage.org.
Author and activist Chris Carlsson will lead a discussion panel with local community organizers Justin Booth of Green Options Buffalo and Kirk Laubenstein of Grassroots Gardens of Buffalo at 7 p.m. in Sugar City, 19 Wadsworth St. Entitled "Seeds of the New Commons: Building the Future in the Present," it's free. Carlsson also will lecture at 1 p.m. in the Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo's North Campus.
In February 2008, folk-rock singer Erin McKeown was the first performer to take the stage in the Ninth Ward at Babeville, 341 Delaware Ave. Now she's back, with her latest CD, "Hundreds of Lions," just released on Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe record label. Show time is 7 p.m. Opening is well-traveled singer-songwriter Jill Sobule. Tickets are $15.
If you're ready for another compelling evening with the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, get your motor running and roll on down to Seneca Allegany Casino and Hotel in Salamanca. It's an 8 p.m. show. Tickets are $45 to $70.
The Rochester Folk Art Guild opens its annual exhibition and sale from 4 to 8 p.m. in a new location, UB's Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus in Amherst. Admission is $2, but you can download a free ticket at www.rfag.org. It continues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The stage adaptation of "The 39 Steps" is as thrilling as the Alfred Hitchcock film and has a fast-paced humor that takes it into another dimension entirely. It opens tonight in the Kavinoky Theatre at D'Youville College on Porter Avenue and runs through Dec. 6. Show time is 8. Tickets are $36.
Gusto at the Gallery offers another feature in the Best of Canadian Cinema series -- Jean-Marc Vallee's 2005 coming-of-age film, "C.R.A.Z.Y." Screening is at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium, pre-film conversation about artists and their families starts at 7. It's free to Albright-Knox Art Gallery members, $5 for everyone else. Admission to the rest of the gallery is free from 3 to 10 p.m. Parking in the gallery lot is $3.
It's fight night at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center in downtown Buffalo. The seven-match card features unbeaten super featherweight Guillermo Sanchez of Buffalo, along with former state Golden Gloves champions Lionell Thompson and Excell Holmes of Buffalo and Niagara Falls super lightweight whiz Nick Casal in the eight-round main event. Sanchez, the 2007 Empire State Games gold medalist, will fight Jose Guzman of Queens for the state title. Doors open at 6:30. Action begins at 7:30. Tickets are $30, $45 and, for ringside, $65.
The Sabres are back on the ice in HSBC Arena against the Philadelphia Flyers. The puck drops at 7:30 p.m. Listen on WGR 550 AM. Watch on the MSG Channel. If you're going to the arena, a donation of $20 to the Buffalo Sabres Foundation gets you a cap autographed by the players. Their wives and girlfriends will be at tables throughout the arena pavilion selling them, starting at 5:30.
Films opening today include Cameron Diaz and Frank Langella in the creepy Twilight Zonish "The Box"; Jim Carrey as Scrooge and various ghosts in the newest remake of "A Christmas Carol"; Audrey Tautou of "Amelie" fame in "Coco Before Chanel," a biopic about the famous fashion designer; Milla Jovovich in "The Fourth Kind," about alien abductions in Alaska; and George Clooney, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges in "The Men Who Stare at Goats," about a program trying to incorporate New Age techniques into war.
The classic movie buffs from the Old Chestnut Film Series have entitled their new season "The Debonairs (Part One)" -- and for good reason. They don't get much classier than tonight's offering -- Cary Grant and Irene Dunne in the 1937 screwball comedy "The Awful Truth," which was nominated for five Academy Awards. It screens at 7:30 in the Community Room of the Phillip Sheridan School, 3200 Elmwood Ave., Town of Tonawanda. Tickets are $6.
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