© Cynthia Van Ness

In case you didn't catch them in the Buffalo Gazette the first time out, here are my website review columns, which I posted here after they appeared in print. The sites I reviewed had to have some connection to Buffalo, New York, the most underrated city in America. Unfortunately, the Buffalo Gazette folded in the spring of 2002. My website selection guidelines are reprinted below from my inaugural June 2001 column: Like everyone else, I have my biases. I prefer personal, offbeat, noncommercial, and nonprofit sites and will mention a commercial site only if offers a unique, local public service separate from its money-making function. Take note, local dot.coms--if you want your site noticed, follow these simple instructions: buy an ad. Stereotypical Buffalo subject matter--weather, sports, chicken wings--bores me, so I leave those sites to other reviewers. My goal is to bring attention to more original online material. Likewise, I stick to sites about the city itself, not its suburbs or other nearby locales.

May 2002: Buffalo in Print April 2002: Talking Buffalo February 2002: Black History Month January 2002: No issue published December 2001: War of 1812 November 2001: No issue published October 2001: Back to School September 2001: No issue published August 2001: Keeping Cool July 2001: Anti-Boredom Month June 2001: East Buffalo

Additional online Buffalo Gazette columns: Restaurant Reviews by Mike Niman & Laura McClusky