Bialkowskis bring Kittinger and quality to the showroom
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The history of the Kittinger Furniture Company of Buffalo
dates back to 1866 with a tradition of manufacturing and marketing the finest traditional mahogany furniture, with high quality styling, finishing, cabinetmaking, and upholstering. Kittinger has created the furniture for boardrooms, embassies, and residential estates across the globe.
Most notably Kittinger has had many pieces of furniture in the White House for decades. The president’s desk and fireside chair, and the presidential cabinet table in the white house are just three examples of how the Kittinger company has made its mark.
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All sides seek change at the Market
It seems everyone at the Broadway Market – management, tenants, patrons and politicians agrees on one thing – the status quo must change.
How to change it and who is capable of changing it, however, is a point of contention that came to the forefront during a public meeting June 26 at the East Side landmark.
[more] Walesa: hero, informer or victim of circumstance?
Robert Strybel ANALYSIS
WARSAW–No stranger to controversy, Lech Wa³êsa, the former shipyard electrician regarded by many as “the man who overthrew communism,” is again at the center of a heated national debate. The allegation that he had been a communist secret police informer code-named Bolek in the 1970s has resurfaced time and again since 1992, when the then president led a parliamentary coup that toppled the government of Jan Olszewski.
When the right-wing government threw open secret-police files showing that the current president and other leading politicians had collaborated with the regime’s security apparatus, Wa³êsa rallied a group of top parliamentarians to vote Olszewski and his cabinet out of office. Among the backers of the plan was future president Aleksander Kwaœniewski and today’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The latest round of the ongoing controversy erupted with the publication of “The Security Service and Lech Wa³êsa” (“SB a Lech Wa³êsa”), a book by two historians attached to the National Remembrance Institute which investigates communist crimes.
[more] Exhibit sheds light on President Hoover's compassion for Poland
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The Karpeles Manuscript Museum will be presenting an exhibition this summer, titled The Spirit of Compassion: Herbert Hoover and America’s Help to Poland in its Hour of Need. “The exhibit will highlight an aspect of President Herbert Hoover not many people are familiar with,” said Michael Zachowicz, above, a board member of the Polish American Congress of WNY, and one of those helping to erect the displays. “One of the examples I like to use to illustrate the work Hoover did is in 1919. He held a $1000 per plate dinner to raise funds for the children of Poland, and the guest received a meal consisting of a cup of cocoa, a slice of bread and some stew, worth around 22 cents, the equivalent of the rations the children in Poland were receiving, just so he could put things in perspective for the people.” The WNY Division of the Polish American Congress, Permanent Chair of Polish Culture at Canisius College, Polish Roman Catholic Union of America, Chopin Singing Society, WNY Chapter of the Kosciuszko Foundation, Polish Cultural Foundation and Polish Union of America in conjunction with Karpeles Museum are sponsoring the exhibit. Exhibit sheds light on President Hoover's compassion for Poland
“The Spirit of Compassion,” a just opened major exhibit at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 453 Porter Ave., Buffalo, illustrates Herbert Hoover’s special relationship with the people of Poland.
Its primary focus is on the extraordinary humanitarian effort Hoover mounted to bring relief to the people of Poland in the wake of World War I. After more than a century of occupation by its three autocratic neighbors and four years of having been a principal WWI battleground, the devastated country had just regained its independence.
The exhibit, originally curated by Dr. Zbigniew Stanczyk of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is open from 11 a.m. through 4 p.m. daily except on Mondays. It features many historic photographs, documents in facsimile, posters and a number of maps. It is scheduled to remain open through Sept. 30, 2008.
[more] Protection for the Curie Medallion
The Polish Arts Club of Buffalo Board member Christine E. Nowak (at right) presented a $150 check to Jean Dickson, curator of the UB Polish Room on June 18. The donation is to be used to obtain a secure cabinet for the Madame Curie stained glass medallion that will be on permanent display in the Polish Room. The medallion had disappeared only to be found on an Ebay auction by WNYer Gregory Witul. The Polish room is located in the Lockwood Library on the University of Buffalo North Campus. Arts Club revisits UB’s Polish Room & its treasures
Ed Wiater The Polish Room and a most impressive library of books in Polish and on Poland caught the interest of 23 people who attended a special information program in the Lockwood Library on the University of Buffalo North Campus last Wednesday arranged by the Polish Arts Club of Buffalo.
The value and extent of using the computer and electronic catalog was the main subject of the presentation by Polish Room curator Jean Dickson. Dickson said she would be always available should anyone need help in using the system.
Polish Arts Club members can check out materials by just showing their membership card and a proper photo ID, said PACB president Stan Nowak.
[more] Monument to Lt. Col. Urban dedicated
 | | THE TOP HERO: Jennie Urban, the wife of Lt. Col. Matt Urban and her daughter, Jennifer Hurford, listen to Taps being performed at the unveiling of the monument to Lt. Col. Urban in front of the Rath Building in downtown Buffalo. |
Glenn Gramigna “I’m really touched,” said Jennie Urban, the wife of Lt. Col. Matt Urban, the most highly decorated combat soldier in U.S. history, during ceremonies to dedicate a monument to the Buffalo native outside of the Rath Building in downtown Buffalo on June 14.
State senators and assemblymen, veterans, and ordinary citizens paid tribute to Lt. Col. Urban that Saturday morning as the monument which celebrates his remarkable World War II valor was unveiled.
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Polish guitarists give world-class performance
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Steven Kroczynski If you give ten world-class guitar players the same basic instrument (a cedar top guitar, ebony fingerboard and six strings), and ask them to play the same piece, you will get ten completely different interpretations of that piece of music, even though they are all playing the same notes, on the same basic instrument. This was the case at the third bi-annual JoAnne Falletta Guitar Concerto Competition held June 9 - 13 at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo. Two of the ten guitarists in this year’s field of competitors were from Poland, Krzysztof Meisinger, and Anna Mnich.
The very definition of the musical term “concerto” means solo instrument played with an orchestra, but for the semifinal rounds of competition, the guitars would be playing with a “piano reduction,” meaning the piano accompaniment would be playing the parts normally played by the orchestra. The finalists were able to play their concertos with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra during the final round of competition on Friday evening but that round did not include the Poles.
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