In 2008, Ted Nash, a jazz composer and saxophonist with the elite Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, received a dream assignment from his boss. Wynton Marsalis, the eminent trumpeter and artistic director of the orchestra, asked Nash to compose a long-form jazz composition based on a subject of Nash’s choosing. He quickly settled on the theme of visual art and eventually produced “Portrait in Seven Shades,” a suite of compositions based on the lives and works of seven important painters: Claude Monet, Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Marc Chagall and Jackson Pollock.
“The Bounty Hunter” is total junk. But as total junk goes, it’s certainly amiable, which is, at the very least, what a movie should be when it stars Gerard Butler (“300’s” Mr. Six Pack abs) and Jennifer Aniston who, according to Publicity World, hooked up while it was being made. For all we know, they have yet to unhook, according to the movie publicist’s playbook. (I haven’t checked yet this morning.)
Why “Diary of a Wimpy Kid?” Because you’re never too old for a good booger joke.
When it comes to bars and restaurants, I’ve heard of a hole in the wall but never a hole in the table. That’s the unique premise of Hucklebuckets, the formerORestaurant and Lounge, in the Northtown Plaza in Amherst. WhileO was trendy and swanky in its time, Hucklebuckets is down-home and fun, featuring a casual atmosphere and a lively bar with attentive help.
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If Buffalo native Bennett Graebner's life had gone according to his script, he would have followed in the footsteps of film director Cameron Crowe of "Jerry Maguire" fame.
