The Buffalo Chronicle
Buffalo’s Finest
Profiles of Western New York’s most striking, magnetic people, doing what they do and looking great doing it.
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John Rzeznik, the Broadway-Fillmore kid who never lost the shag, brings the Goo Goo Dolls home for FeedMore
Forty years in, the Goo Goo Dolls frontman is a museum exhibit, a 60-year-old who still looks like a rock star, and the headliner of two Town Ballroom benefit shows for FeedMore…
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Jessica Pegula, Buffalo’s own ‘JPEG,’ takes her clean tennis look to the WTA Finals once more
Buffalo-born Jessica Pegula heads to her fifth straight WTA Finals after a 50-win season, with a style she calls “the tennis look” and a hometown cheering her on.
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Wolf Blitzer, the Kenmore kid with the silver beard, brings his Situation Room cool home to Buffalo
The longtime CNN anchor, a Kenmore West and UB graduate, came home to open the Jewish Museum of Buffalo and honor Irv Weinstein, the Channel 7 legend he grew up admiring.
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Natalie Merchant brings Jamestown grit and a cabinet full of wonder to a new generation
The Jamestown native and former 10,000 Maniacs singer is out front again in 2026, this time with Cabinet of Wonder, a free Mother Goose program she calls her legacy. She is the…
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Buffalo’s Finest: Christine Baranski, the Cheektowaga girl who dreamed up sophistication and took it to the West End
She grew up in Polish Cheektowaga dreaming of becoming a sophisticated New York actress. At 74, Christine Baranski is making her West End debut in Noël Coward’s Hay Fever, and she still…
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Buffalo’s Finest: Dion Dawkins, the Shnowman who makes the trenches look good
The Bills’ left tackle wears red cleats, a snowflake face mask and sea-green suits, and he makes the least glamorous job in football look like a fashion statement. Meet the first of…
