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Saturday, March 20, 2010

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Rogers showcases his hits

Updated: 03/20/10 10:18 AM
NIAGARA FALLS — Friday night’s Kenny Rogers concert in the Seneca Niagara Events Center showcased Kenny Rogers’ career, drawing from his 50-year catalog of hits.

New Phoenix fights off curse

Updated: 03/20/10 11:01 AM
It’s a matter of grave importance among superstitious Shakespearean actors and adepts that one must never refer to the play “Macbeth” or its title character by name inside a theater. According to lore, uttering the word outside of rehearsing or performing the script will open your production up to all manner of bad luck and trouble.

'Mary Poppins,' 'Shrek' onboard for 2010-11 Shea's season

Updated: 03/19/10 10:45 AM
For its 2010-11 Broadway season, Shea's Performing Arts Center is turning its attention more than ever to the under-12 set with a lineup of musicals aimed at the hearts and spending power of the young and young-at-heart.

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Jazz master: Wynton Marsalis has never compromised

Updated: 03/19/10 4:38 PM
It wouldn't work quite as well these days. But not too long ago, here is a game that could be played at any jazz event — nightclub appearance, concert, you name it.

Read my Lips: You, too, should try for tickets to local summer concerts

Updated: 03/19/10 8:02 AM
In July, U2 will plunder its way into Toronto.

Composer Ted Nash on his inspiration for ‘Seven Shades’

Updated: 03/19/10 8:07 AM
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.

‘Bounty Hunter’: Butler, Aniston pretty up a dopey rom-com

Updated: 03/19/10 8:42 AM
“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.)

‘Wimpy Kid’: Tween’s middle-school nightmare is gross, good fun

Updated: 03/19/10 8:33 AM
Why “Diary of a Wimpy Kid?” Because you’re never too old for a good booger joke.

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Duplicate Bridge: March 20

The Bridge Center of Buffalo hosts the third annual Slam Zone pairs game, a Unit-rated game awarding extra masterpoints at 5 p.m. Sunday, March 21. Many hands will be potential slams and hand records are provided. Pizza, beer and soft drinks are $3 per player. Every BCB game next week is a charity game with triple points.

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