http://929jackfm.com Playing What We Want Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:27:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://929jackfm.com/the-buffalo-public-library-in-lafayette-square-was-so-pretty-buffalo-then-and-now/ http://929jackfm.com/the-buffalo-public-library-in-lafayette-square-was-so-pretty-buffalo-then-and-now/#comments Sun, 11 Nov 2012 05:01:59 +0000 Angela Stefano http://929jackfm.com/?p=135357 Every day as I walk to and from my car, I pass the Buffalo Public Library's Central Branch, which is just across Lafayette Square from our dumpy little studio. It's clear from the old photo of the Square above that a very pretty, old building used to be where the library stands now -- but what was it?

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]]> http://929jackfm.com/occupy-buffalo-expands-to-lafayette-square-to-protest-something-or-other/feed/ 0 http://929jackfm.com/thursday-at-the-square-grace-potter-and-the-nocturnals/ http://929jackfm.com/thursday-at-the-square-grace-potter-and-the-nocturnals/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:00:29 +0000 Jack FM Staff http://929jackfm.com/?p=18040 This week is the last Thursday at the Square as the free summer concert series will shift venues after this week to the Erie Canal Harbor Central Wharf. The change in venues has had mixed reviews, but the concert this week will surely say goodbye to Lafayette Square in a proper way.

]]> http://929jackfm.com/thursday-at-the-square-grace-potter-and-the-nocturnals/feed/ 0 Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images http://929jackfm.com/thursday-at-the-square-morris-day-and-the-time/ http://929jackfm.com/thursday-at-the-square-morris-day-and-the-time/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:00:46 +0000 Jack FM Staff http://929jackfm.com/?p=16217 This Thursday is the second summer concert at Thursday at the Square in Lafayette Square. The main act is Morris Day and the Time.

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