By Susan Martin | News Home & Style Editor

on April 24, 2014 - 4:32 PM

Looking for home restoration ideas? A new color palette, perhaps? Table-setting tips for a summer brunch? Several local home tours are coming up fast.

Think of these weekend outings as something fun to do while waiting for all those regional garden walks and tours to kick off in June. And theyll give you yet another good excuse for postponing cleaning out your garage.

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Historic Linwood Tour of Homes

This years tour along Linwood Avenue takes place from noon to 5 p.m. May 4 with the theme Streetscape of Buffalo History.

The architecture from one end of the street to the other exemplifies the gradual change in styles and design during the heyday of Buffalos grand era. The southern part of the street has grander homes; as you travel north the homes become smaller to reflect the change in social structure in Buffalo at the time, said chairman James Mack, whose 121-year-old Queen Anne is on the tour.

Other architectural styles include a Second Empire, Richardson Romanesque and Federal, as well as a home designed by noted architects Silsbee and Marling.

Visitors will come across all the architectural features one admires in old homes: handcrafted woodwork, elaborate staircases, leaded and stained-glass windows. These homes were built generally between 1860 and 1920.

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Gangstagrass, 8 p.m. April 25 in The Tralf

You remember that night when you watched talented hip-hop artists exhale street-corner poetry, then turned to your friend and said, These rhymes would be much better with a backing fiddle track? OK, maybe this never happened. But with its unique blend of beats and banjo licks, the Brooklyn-based outfit has spun their compatible love of Willie Nelson and RUN-DMC into intense urban twangand an Emmy nomination for Long Hard Times To Come, the theme song for F/X drama, Justifiedfor those curious. http://www.tralfmusichall.com

Back Beat 64, 7 p.m. April 26 at the Buffalo Irish Center

Still celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beatles Ed Sullivan Show appearance? So is Fab Four tribute band BackBeat 64, which will be turning Buffalos Irish Center into its own Cavern Club as part of Dog Ears Bookstores sixth annual fundraising gala. Alongside offerings from more than 20 local restaurants, the faux Liverpudlians will tour through the classics, with all proceeds going to Dog Ears community-based reading and writing operations. http://www.dogearsbookstore.org

The Whigs, 7 p.m. April 27 in The Waiting Room

If youre looking for one more Fender-aided kick to the teeth before the working week, find this Athens, Ga.-based power trios show for its brand of Southern-tinged audio upheaval. The band has toured with the likes of Drive-By Truckers, The Killers and Franz Ferdinand, with tracks like Right Hand On My Heart and Waiting setting the table. On Sunday night, the Whigs bring these accessible chords to Delaware Avenue. http://www.waitingroombuffalo.com

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An Alden woman who collected more than $36,000 in welfare benefits for more than five years, at the same time she was receiving unemployment benefits even though she had a job and was stealing from her employer, pleaded guilty Thursday to third-degree welfare fraud.

Crystal Adkinson, 43, of Bush Gardens, admitted in Erie County Court that she falsely claimed she had no income and that she collected $36,465 from the Erie County Department of Social Services from May 1, 2007 to Nov. 30, 2012, according to District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III.

In fact, Sedita said, she had two sources of income: state jobless benefits and her job at Ryerson Steel, where she was stealing from her employer.

Adkinson had pleaded guilty in 2012 in Erie County Court to attempted offering a false instrument for filing for receiving state jobless benefits while working at Ryerson and attempted fourth-degree grand larceny for stealing from Ryerson. She was placed on three years probation in those two cases.

Besides those two convictions, she has a criminal record dating back to 1991 that includes five other theft offenses, prosecutors said.

In the welfare fraud case, Adkinson faces a maximum prison term of 28 months to seven years when she is sentenced July 8 by Judge Michael F. Pietruszka.

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Cape May, NJ (PRWEB) April 23, 2014

Since Dennis Spilker took ownership of the Spilker Funeral Home three years ago, he restored the 1882 building back to its original beauty. The building boasts original stained glass windows, original hardware on three sets of pocket doors, unique antiques, as well as unique woodworking and tile throughout. We are very proud of the complete restoration. We want to offer the best for our families, said owner, Dennis J. Spilker.

In addition, Mr. Spilker renovated the exterior, with a recent installation of a large one-of-a-kind antique gas lamp. He said, I want people to see we are a home where memorials and funerals take place. This building was a home first built in 1882 and converted to a funeral home in 1928.

The Spilker Funeral Home offers funeral and memorial services year round in Cape May, a beautiful backdrop. Their funeral services incorporate Seashell Tributes and Uniqueness of Our Handprints Tributes two types of creative offerings well-received by the families served. In addition, the funeral processions make a slow pass by the Atlantic Ocean and beachfront, which can be calming for families grieving.

Dennis Spilker has been in funeral service since the age of fifteen and was licensed in New Jersey and Pennsylvania over twenty-one years ago. He is a first generation funeral home owner having worked for the former owners of Spilker Funeral Home. Over all of these years, the Victorian home has been owned and operated by first generation funeral directors and their families, preserving the home and operating at the highest level of service.

We take great pride in being the small town funeral home that offers all the latest the industry can provide while being creative and progressive with our own ideas to create something meaningful and lasting at such an important life event, said Mr. Spilker.

Spilker Funeral Home is located at 815 Washington Street in Cape May, NJ 08204. For more information, please visit http://www.spilkerfuneralhome.com or call 609.884.3793.

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San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) April 16, 2014

While Trilogy Restoration has been involved with some major water and fire damage restoration projects in the San Antonio area over the years, Trilogy now has an office and staff located in San Antonio to serve the entire San Antonio metropolitan area. To help with the expansion effort, Trilogy has already hired several experienced water and fire damage experts to assist with restoration projects already underway in San Antonio.

Over the years, Trilogy has built a strong reputation for being one of the most skilled and reliable restoration companies in the Austin area, and their recent expansion to San Antonio is part of Trilogys long-term goal of eventually offering their professional fire and water damage restoration services to every major Texas metropolitan area. Our expansion into the San Antonio market has been in the works for quite some time now, and were excited to finally have an official presence in San Antonio now. Having a staff actually in San Antonio now will allow us to respond quickly and provide the high level of service our clients deserve, says Nolan Wright the Director of Sales and Marketing at Trilogy Restoration.

There is an increasing need for good experienced restoration companies in San Antonio to help properly restore all the water and fire damaged homes in the area. The need is in part due to the fact that San Antonio is home to a lot of older residences with leaky pipes, old water heaters, and faulty electrical wiring. These sorts of problems always pose a greater risk for fire and water damage to a home. Like Austin, San Antonio also has a lot of homes located in FEMA flood zones, and these flood zones are prone to flooding and water damage when the area is hit by major thunderstorms. Such was the case with the Onion Creek Flood of 2013 in which Trilogy Restoration played a vital role in helping Onion Creek residents recover from major water damage to their homes.

Trilogy Restoration of San Antonio offers the same comprehensive restoration services as their Austin location including fire damage repair, water damage repair, wind damage repair as well as other related services such as emergency board-up, debris removal, contents restoration, mold remediation, and home remodeling. Trilogy's new office is located at 18756 Stone Oak Pkwy #221, San Antonio, TX 78258. For the highest quality restoration repair services in the San Antonio area, call Trilogy Restoration of San Antonio at (210) 641-3650.

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