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- Boom times for Artpark
The cold winter months at Artpark — the summertime entertainment venue perched on the edge of the Niagara Gorge in Lewiston — are usually fairly sedate. But last year, even as the leaves began to fall, Artpark President George Osborne was making frequent trips to Buffalo for talks with the failing Studio Arena Theatre.
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- TELL ME: Talking to Leanne Schmidt
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Updated: 05/09/08 8:45 AM Presenting dance that is vulnerable, human and accessible is what Buffalo native Leanne Schmidt says her Brooklyn-based modern dance company, LEANNE SCHMIDT AND DANCERS, is all about. The 27-year-old Schmidt, who trained at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts before earning degrees in dance from Brockport State and Arizona State University, returns to Buffalo with her company to present her evening-length dance theater work “Wonderland” at 8 p. m. Thursday through May 17 in the Alt Theatre (255 Great Arrow Ave., Third Floor). Tickets are $15 and available by calling 868-6847.
- CRITICS’ PICKS
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Updated: 05/09/08 6:33 AM TODAY, MAY 9 • Infringement Festival Fundraiser. 10 p. m. Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St.
- Cheap Eats: Baker Boys Pasta, breakfast all day at Daisies Cafe
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Updated: 05/09/08 8:49 AM Daisies used to be on the very corner of Ridge Road and South Park Avenue, kitty-corner from the Basilica, but a while ago the owners opened a second place two doors away. For a while, they split their hours, with one cafe open in the morning and the other in the evening, but now there’s just one Daisies again, with plenty of room for the crowd that descends after early Masses across the street.
- In ‘Vegas’ role, Buff State student gets a kiss from Diaz
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BY EMMA D. SAPONG
- News Staff Reporter
Updated: 05/09/08 9:14 AM When Cameron Diaz looks to prove her ex-fiance wrong about her lack of spontaneity in the movie “What Happens in Vegas,” she randomly plants one on Buffalo native Blair Braunstein.
- ‘What Happens in Vegas,’ Bad bet for Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher
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BY MOLLY HIRSCHBECK
Updated: 05/09/08 8:58 AM Mistakes can be so bad — and yet so good.
- ‘The Life Before Her Eyes’: Drama about school shooting has a trick ending
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BY JEAN WESTMOORE
- News Staff Reviewer
Updated: 05/09/08 9:04 AM Centering a movie around a school massacre, as “The Life Before Her Eyes” does, is a risky business.
- 'Where in the World is Osama bin Laden': Morgan Spurlock's adventure in Asia
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BY JAN SANDBERG
Updated: 05/09/08 1:14 PM I haven’t quite been able to bring myself to watch more than a few clips of Morgan Spurlock acquiring increasingly poor health in “Super Size Me,” the Oscar-nominated 2004 film in which he documented his 30 days on an all-McDonald’s diet.
- ‘Redbelt’: David Mamet’s new martial-arts movie is ridiculous but fun
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BY JEFF SIMON
Updated: 05/09/08 6:55 AM Here, in a delightfully cynical book called “Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business,” is playwright/ filmmaker David Mamet explaining why it’s “reassuring” that “big and bad films, summer films, [and] blockbusters have . . . become the laugh track to our national experiment.”
- Movies: Capsule Reviews
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Updated: 05/09/08 10:29 AM BABY MAMA. Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Greg Kinnear star in a comedy about a single and successful career woman who hires a surrogate mother. It's familiar territory, with even the story twists obvious. But in the comic hands of a solid cast of secondary characters led by Steve Martin, "Baby Mama' will leave you in stitches even if too many scenes are nothing more than a comedy sketch. 96 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and a drug reference.) 2 and a half stars (Toni Ruberto)
- New on DVD: Nice movies for Mom
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BY TONI RUBERTO
Updated: 05/09/08 7:01 AM Looking for a nice movie to wrap up for Mother’s Day? There are plenty of new releases to help you out.
- Korean kitsch
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BY COLIN DABKOWSKI
News Arts Writer
Updated: 05/09/08 6:33 AM Communist propaganda films, to those of us viewing them from afar, can often appear comically harmless. Shots of farmers harvesting wheat in Stalinist Russia while singing about the fatherland don’t hold the same kind of frightening connotations they might have 50 years ago.
- True to the Bard
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BY STEVE SUCATO
- Special to The News
Updated: 05/09/08 6:33 AM Of ballet’s great storybook ballet productions, perhaps none has captured more the attention of choreographers than William Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy “Romeo and Juliet.” The very familiar tale of two star-crossed lovers has had numerous ballet incarnations. Some take liberties with Shakespeare’s story (Angelin Preljocaj’s 1990 version employs the setting of a police state), while others have remained true to Shakespeare’s original. Neglia Ballet Artists artistic director Sergio Neglia’s new production will favor the latter course.
- Haunted? Lecture will focus on strange activity at Wales cemetery
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BY CHARITY VOGEL
- News Staff Reporter
Updated: 05/09/08 9:09 AM It’s spooky. It’s historic. It’s the stuff of lore and legend. Goodleberg Cemetery in the Town of Wales has it all — plus, it looks like a scene right out of a horror movie.
- Behind the Scenes
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Updated: 05/09/08 6:33 AM Auditions
- Kali Quinn aims to move audiences with ‘Vamping,’
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BY COLIN DABKOWSKI
- News Arts Writer
Updated: 05/09/08 9:13 AM For Hamburg native Kali Quinn, the quickest way to the theatergoer’s heart is through the gut.
