The Buffalo News: Entertainment

Thursday at the Square: Ranking this year's lineup: BY JEFF MIERS -- News Pop Music Critic
Updated: 05/16/08 11:48 AM; Before the start of the 2007-08 National Hockey League season, Sports Illustrated offered its picks for the final Stanley Cup playoff series. At various points throughout the ensuing season, one wondered if perhaps the experts at the magazine had imbibed too many martinis at lunch the day they penned their predictions. But guess what? At this point, it appears they were right.; complete story >

Theater review: Actress' talent shines through in 'Vamping': BY COLIN DABKOWSKI -- News Arts Writer
Updated: 05/16/08 2:56 PM; Conventional wisdom would say that there's nothing particularly funny about the ravages of Alzheimer's disease.; complete story >

‘Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian’: Patience is a virtue with this fantasy sequel: BY JEFF SIMON -- Arts Editor
Updated: 05/16/08 12:00 PM; To steal a current presidential candidate’s imagery, here is the word from the Straight Talk Express: “Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” is tedious far too much of the time. Or, as the 12-year-old boy exiting the theater in front of me said — after politely reassuring an inquisitor with a clipboard that it was good — “long, long, long, long.” He was talking to his father when they were out of her earshot, so I’m assuming he was no longer being polite.; complete story >

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'My Blueberry Nights': Mood takes lead role over action, story: BY CHRISTOPHER SCHOBERT -- News Contributing Reviewer
Updated: 05/16/08 10:50 AM; Wong Kar Wai is the world’s greatest living director, period.; complete story >

Art review: Lofty ideals at Artspace: BY COLIN DABKOWSKI -- News Arts Writer
Updated: 05/16/08 11:59 AM; In the gleaming, white-walled lobby of the Artspace lofts on Main Street, the $16.9 million project that provides 60 units of affordable housing to Buffalo artists, there’s a note scrawled in chicken-scratch and taped to a glass door.; complete story >

'My Brother Is an Only Child': Italian family copes with upheaval: BY JEAN WESTMOORE -- News Staff Reviewer
Updated: 05/16/08 10:50 AM; Two brothers with opposite political leanings create turbulence in their working-class household in “My Brother Is an Only Child,” a compelling period piece of 1960s Italy from director Daniele Luchetti.; complete story >

Complete Thursday at the Square lineup unveiled: BY JEFF MIERS -- News Pop Music Critic
Updated: 05/15/08 8:20 PM; Buffalo Place has unveiled the lineup for this year's Thursday at the Square series, as well as the acts playing the two-day Buffalo Place Rocks the Harbor event.; complete story >

‘Young @ Heart’: Senior citizen choir rocks in inspiring documentary: By Jeff Miers - NEWS POP MUSIC CRITIC
Updated: 05/15/08 9:03 AM; Music can capture the imagination and urge it to flourish during youth.; complete story >

Susan Martin: Susan Martin: Want my tables? Get in line; It’s been awhile since I needed to borrow a cup of flour from a neighbor. But May, to me, is the launch of lending-and-borrowing season.; complete story >