Before there was the Amazon gift card, there was the Media Play gift certificate, writes Steve Cichon.

Called “Buffalo’s zany philosopher king” by News reporter Margaret Sullivan in 1980, Shane Brother Shane – the Cosmic Cowboy – spun records and waxed philosophical on Buffalo's radio stations.

More than four decades removed from the time he left office, there aren’t many Buffalonians who can claim to be a better representation of what it means to be a Buffalonian than Stan Makowski.

Whether you call it a slime dog, scum dog or “some kind” of a canoe, the “Texas hot” is a Western New York institution and one of those tastes you just can’t find outside of the 716.