
These neighborhood haunts are a home away from home
Updated: February 8, 2010 1:04 pm
The best thing about winter is how it cries out to be warmed up with good company, drinks of our choosing and maybe some music, too. Buffalo boasts superb hangs — places that may not get the publicity, but are well known to "the locals." Places to go when you don't want to play in the snow or drive the slippery streets.
Jeff Simon review: 'From Paris with Love' is an explosive journey
Updated: February 5, 2010 5:50 pm
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Tell Me: A little Q&A with Victoria Perez
Updated: February 5, 2010 8:38 am
For those who attend the theater with any regularity, it’s practically impossible to avoid VICTORIA PEREZ. The actor, dancer, writer and director has become a familiar presence on Western New York stages, starring in Subversive Theatre Collective’s “Twilight,” O’Connell and Company’s “Four Guys Named Jose and Una Mujer Named Maria” and “The Wiz” and writing and directing a TheatrePlus production of “Inside Out: A Dansical,” all in the past five months. “The Wiz” runs through Feb. 14 in the Administration Building of Erie Community College’s North Campus (6205 Main St., Williamsville) and “Inside Out” runs through Sunday in the Main Street Cabaret (672 Main St.).
CHEAP EATS
Average Joe's: Good bar food
Updated: February 5, 2010 10:57 am
We’ve found good meals in every kind of restaurant—family eateries, diners and cafes. But there is something special about a comfortable bar that has good food coming out of the kitchen, even if it’s just burgers, sandwiches, salads and the like.
DINING REVIEW
Europa Bistro: Little place offers large variety of Mid-European dishes
Updated: February 5, 2010 8:21 am
They seat maybe 30 people at the tables and maybe another 15 at the bar, so the Europa Bistro kept turning away customers one wintry Friday evening. And it’s not hard to see why.
MOVIE REVIEW
‘Dear John’: Hallstrom makes use of pretty cast
Updated: February 5, 2010 10:06 am
There’s a moment — only one — where you’re brought up short by the presence of a very real and very good film director at the helm of “Dear John,” the latest sloshy, big box office movie adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks best-selling romance.
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