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This weekend’s Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts will celebrate various art forms with a packed two-day schedule of professional dance performances, musical acts and artists.
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To include bands such as Saliva and Klear in the Thursday at the Square lineup is what makes it a concert series. Everyone at some point this summer has a chance to come downtown, grab a front-row spot and sing along to a band that appeals to them. Thursday night it was the headbangers’ turn.
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EVENT LISTINGS FROM GUSTO
- 'Death Race': A sick society embraces (surprise!) a reality show
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BY JOSEPH POPIOLKOWSKINews Contributing Reviewer
Updated: 08/22/08 10:35 AM If “Death Race,” from director Paul W. S. Anderson, feels like a video game, that’s because it is.
- 'The House Bunny': Anna Faris adds a touch of class to misfit sorority
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BY STEPHANIE EVE BOONENews Contributing Reviewer
Updated: 08/22/08 10:36 AM Shelley Darlingson (Anna Faris) is not particularly bright. She lacks Juno Mac-Guff’s quick wit, and unlike Elle Woods has no brilliant legal mind beneath her well-coiffed hair. But she’s plucky, patient and bighearted, a charming outlier to the recent crop of smart-girl protagonists in film.
- 'The Last Mistress': French film delves into unchecked carnal desires
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BY MARK SOMMERNews Staff Reviewer
Updated: 08/22/08 10:38 AM Provocative director Catherine Breillat delves into female sexuality with “The Last Mistress” (“Une Vielle Maitresse”), an exploration into carnal desire seen through turbulent societal outcast Vellini (Asia Argento) and ladies man Ryno (Fu’ad Ait Aattou), set in early-19th century Paris.
- 'The Longshots': The girl is the hero in this upbeat Pop Warner film
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BY ROGER MOORE
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Updated: 08/22/08 10:37 AM “The Longshots” is a certifiable crowd pleaser, an agreeable variation on the kid sports movie formula whose family-friendly messages outweigh its corny overfamiliarity.
- Samurai offers good Asian food in a nice setting
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BY JANICE OKUNNews Restaurant Reviewer
Updated: 08/22/08 10:44 AM I don’t know if you’ve noticed it yet, but Western New York has been undergoing a sort of Asian invasion of late. There’s been lots of Far Eastern activity. Asian/fusion/sushi bars — whatever you want to call these places — are opening or enlarging all over the place. If this keeps up, there may soon be as many Asian places as Italian dining spots around here.
- Great specials, amusing menu at Train Stop Family Restaurant
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BY ANNE NEVILLE -- News Staff Reporter
Updated: 08/22/08 10:46 AM John and I were amused at the decor in the Train Stop Family Restaurant on the Saturday we stopped in for dinner. It was trains, trains everywhere — from tiny models perched on narrow ledges to the woo-woo train whistle emitted by the clock when it hit the hour.
- Saw Doctors bring an edge to this year’s Irish Festival
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BY ANNE NEVILLENews Staff Reporter
Updated: 08/22/08 11:57 AM The Saw Doctors plan to put on a big show for Western New York when the band headlines the Irish Festival on Sunday, but it won’t come close to the show we put on for them in 2006.
- Several polka parties make it a week to get on board the Polish bandwagon
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BY MARY KUNZ GOLDMANNews Critic
Updated: 08/22/08 10:43 AM If everyone is Irish for St. Patrick’s Day, surely everyone is Polish for the last week in August. Because this is the week that polka music and Polish culture take over Buffalo.
- Art review: Two exhibitions worth seeing are winding down
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BY COLIN DABKOWSKI -- News Arts Writer
Updated: 08/22/08 11:42 AM In the swirling, nonstop bonanza of outdoor festivals and activities that is Buffalo’s summer arts season, some of the more low-key indoor arts exhibitions around town can tend to be overshadowed. Take, for example, these two perfectly worthy shows whose closing dates are approaching even faster than autumn:
- Roger Bryan and company mark release of new disc this weekend
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BY JEFF MIERS -- News Pop Music Critic
Updated: 08/22/08 11:33 AM Man, you think you know people. I’d comfortably pegged Roger Bryan as our city’s own version of Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, an alt-country songwriter and performer with a neo-traditionalist streak a mile wide, and the perpetual seven-day facial hair growth to prove it.
- Disc review: The Verve
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BY JEFF MIERS -- News Pop Music Critic
Updated: 08/22/08 11:35 AM Rock: The Verve
- Reign of Kindo makes its next move
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By Jana Eisenberg -- Special to The News
Updated: 08/22/08 11:30 AM Buffalo-based Reign of Kindo, together since early last year, is making its next move in getting its in-die/ jazz/ambient/rock sound out there. The band — Joe Secchiaroli, Mike Carroll, Kelly Sciandra, Steve Padin and Jeff Jarvis — will play tonight in Babeville, 341 Delaware Ave., to celebrate the new CD “Rhythm, Chord & Melody” (111 Records). Doors open at 6 p. m.; tickets are $12 at the door.
- Hannah Montana release tops week of tween treats on DVD
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BY TONI RUBERTONews Staff Reviewer
Updated: 08/22/08 11:39 AM Say the names Miley, Hannah or the Jonas Brothers, and the nearest tween is certain to start screaming.
