Gusto
- Comedy group scores some laughs
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By the time Randy Reese had entered his 32nd straight hour of improv comedy at North Tonawanda’s Riviera Theatre, he was just about ready to collapse.
(Updated: 11/28/08 11:26 AM )- complete story >
- Dining review: Delicious excess at new steakhouse in Walden Galleria
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It’s so over-the-top, it’s almost impossible to get a real handle on this place. The Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse, part of an Ohio-based chain and newly opened in the Walden Galleria, thrives on superlatives.
(Updated: 11/28/08 11:28 AM )- complete story >
EVENT LISTINGS FROM GUSTO
- 'Sound Check': Rolling Stone list is fun but omits some great voices
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News Pop Music Critic
Updated: 11/28/08 11:29 AM “If a singer is not singing from the soul, I do not even want to listen to it — it’s not for me.”
- 'Synecdoche, New York': A one-of-a-kind fantasy
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Arts Editor
Updated: 11/28/08 11:26 AM You look up at the screen in slack-jawed awe — not at Spielbergian dinosaurs or what screenwriter Jenny Lumet (“Rachel Getting Married”) wittily called an “exploding planet movie.”
- 'The Alphabet Killer': Thriller depicts Rochester slayings, toll on detective
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News Staff Reviewer
Updated: 11/28/08 11:21 AM Horror-meister Rob Schmidt previously directed Eliza Dushku in 2003 slasher movie “Wrong Turn.”
- 'One Day You'll Understand': Lawyer pursues the fate of relatives in the Holocaust
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News Staff Reviewer
Updated: 11/28/08 11:22 AM As the trial of Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie plays on television, calling out old ghosts in 1987, a French lawyer pursues an obsession with what happened to his mother’s parents during World War II — a subject she does not wish to discuss with him — in “One Day You’ll Understand,” a quiet but powerful film from Israeli writer-director Amos Gitai.
- On DVD: ‘Hancock’ is a different type of lifesaver
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News Staff Reviewer
Updated: 11/28/08 12:01 PM He’s drunk, belligerent and a superhero who does more harm than good when he’s out saving the world. Will Smith plays the mysterious title character in “Hancock” (Sony Pictures, available now), a cranky superhero with no memory of his past and a really bad public image.
- American Repertory Theater offers playful tale of cranky guest
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News Arts Writer
Updated: 11/28/08 11:25 AM A long time ago in a media landscape far, far away, newspaper columnists and radio personalities were some of the world’s reigning celebrities. And during those fleeting days, which came to an abrupt end with the advent of television in the 1950s, nobody was better known or more polarizing than Alexander Woolcott.
- Dropped by label, Eric Hutchinson's career is on the rise
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Special to The News
Updated: 11/28/08 11:56 AM In the not-so-ancient past, major record labels could play God — if they decided to dump some young singer/songwriter, for instance, his or her career was toast. Luckily for aspiring musicians and their fans, those days are deader than the Chrysalis imprint.
- Club Chatter: Boris at Soundlab, benefit for Jeff Mayne and a busy holiday lineup
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News Pop Music Critic
Updated: 11/28/08 11:57 AM Behind the wall of sleep
- Guns N' Roses' 'Chinese Democracy' is a mess of a record
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News Pop Music Critic
Updated: 11/28/08 11:44 AM If you’re going to spend 15 years and 13 million bucks making one album, it really should come out sounding as brilliant as Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” — or at least the rock music equivalent of it. Even if you’re a halfway washed-up hair-metal casualty from Los Angeles. There really can be no excuse for this sort of protracted navel-gazing. Narcissus, remember, stared at his own reflection for so long, he fell in love with it, only realizing it was not real when he tried to kiss it. Geez. The guy should’ve gotten out of the house a little more often.
- Disc is testament to Peter Delano's physical renaissance
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Arts Editor
Updated: 11/28/08 11:48 AM There are two heart-rending stories behind this disc, which was recorded in 1996 but never released until this year.
- Sparks fly on Jimmy Hughes album
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News Pop Music Critic
Updated: 11/28/08 11:46 AM You’re forgiven if you’ve never heard of Jimmy Hughes. The former gospel singer-turned-R&B progenitor had the first hit for Fame records with “Steal Away,” back in 1964, thereby putting the Muscle Shoals sound on the map. Within a few short years, the Fame studios at Muscle Shoals would be hosting the likes of Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett, and the “Memphis sound” would become de rigueur.
- Back in Babeville
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Updated: 11/28/08 6:48 AM Ani DiFranco has been so many things to so many people over the years since she first emerged from the weekly “open mic” nights inside Allentown’s Nietzsche’s. Killer guitarist, folkie with a punk attitude, activist, poet ... the list goes on. But it is only recently that one might add the descriptives “playful” and “optimistic” to that list. Calm down, though — it’s not like “Red Letter Year,” DiFranco’s rather brilliant new album, is full of misty-eyed reveries on the joys of marriage and the unending bounties of motherhood. Ani’s still Ani — still edgy, still searching, still suspicious of accepted fact and conventional wisdom. She has gotten better at writing about it, that’s all.
- FUN FOR ONE
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Updated: 11/28/08 6:47 AM Go single–or bring a friend
