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Born to be a fiddler - Review By ANNE NEVILLE - 3/4/2007
Natalie MacMaster is home in Lakefield, Ont., on a break from a tour that started Feb. 11 and will go until the end of March. While there, she's working on a PBS special to be released in the fall and enjoying home life with husband Donnell Leahy and nearly 15-month-old Mary Frances Rose. |
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Toll on undercover cop's family is best part of tale - Review By DAN HERBECK - 3/4/2007
Make no mistake about this. Joe Pistone is a genuine police hero, a former FBI agent who risked his life to infiltrate and bring down a Mafia family in New York City. |
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And you thought Victorian women were repressed? - Review By KAREN BRADY - 3/4/2007
Rachel Cusk's sixth novel, "Arlington Park," is a cerebral "Desperate Housewives" - without a whit of action. But the thought and talk are plenteous, and often brilliant, in this tale of five young mothers living in the tony London suburb of Arlington Park. |
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Colm Toibin's masterful stories echo a youthful James Joyce - Review By MARK SHECHNER - 3/4/2007
Having recently published his tour-de-force of a novel about Henry James, "The Master," Irish writer Colm Toibin now sets out to show us mastery of a different kind: mastery over the short story. If the young James Joyce could have been flash frozen just after finishing the stories in "Dubliners" (that would have been 1909) and later thawed out after almost a century to write about modern Ireland, his stories might well sound like those in Toibin's "Mothers and Sons." |
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Workplace intrigue wears a bit thin - Review By CHARITY VOGEL - 3/4/2007
Wickedly fun stories can emerge from the workplace. Especially when the workplace skews corporate. Think back to Douglas Coupland's early, engaging books. |
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WILD HOGS - - 3/4/2007
Starring John Travolta, right, Tim Allen, center, Martin Lawrence, left, plus William H. Macy and Ray Liotta. Four middle-aged pals try to escape their humdrum lives on a cross-country motorcycle trip. |
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BLACK SNAKE MOAN - - 3/4/2007
Samuel L. Jackson, above, Christina Ricci and Justin Timberlake in Craig Brewer's tale of a retired blues singer in the backwoods who converts the town tramp to righteousness. |
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Theater - - 3/4/2007
ADAM MICKIEWICZ DRAMATIC CIRCLE. "Endgame." Opens Friday and runs through March 31. Drama presented by Torn Space Theater. Show times: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 612 Fillmore Ave. 847-0839. www.tornspacetheater.com. |
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Listening Post - - 3/4/2007
Rock Ron Franklin, "City Lights" (Memphis International). It came from Memphis, this gorgeous, understated gem of a record, made by a guy you've probably never heard of for reasons that have nothing to do with fame, publicity, ambition. |
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Violent memories impel, impale - Review By COLIN DABKOWSKI - 3/4/2007
There might be nothing sadder than a group of men bound by destructive memories. In "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme," a unit of Northern Irish soldiers becomes so assaulted by memories of their violent past that they eagerly volunteer to rush headlong to their deaths. |
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Corigliano recasts Dylan's spell - Review By HERMAN TROTTER - 3/4/2007
This is a big weekend for the Buffalo Philharmonic, with two concerts featuring the regional premiere of John Corigliano's "Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan," followed by a Monday recording to be released on the prestigious Naxos label. |
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Lang breaks out in soul-stirring show - Review By JEFF MIERS - 3/3/2007
NIAGARA FALLS - Occasionally in this line of work, you happen upon an artist you thought you were familiar with, thought you had pretty much figured out. |
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Southern morality tale raunchy, yet entertaining - Review By JEFF SIMON - 3/1/2007
You know right off she's the town slut. You don't even have to hear the sneer of the convenience store lady as Christina Ricci approaches, coughing: "Cough drops or condoms?" |
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'An Unreasonable Man' dissects Nader's 2000 run - Review By ANN HORNADAY - 2/28/2007
The title of "An Unreasonable Man," an improbably riveting portrait of Ralph Nader, is from George Bernard Shaw, who wrote: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." |
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EPIC MOVIE - - 2/26/2007
Jayma Mays, left, and Kal Penn, right, in a comedy in the spirit of "Scary Movie" and "Date Movie" that spoofs a number of recent big-budget megablockbuster films. |
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'Wild' show is solid blues primer - Review By TED HADLEY - 2/26/2007
The legendary Ma Rainey - the mentor of the "empress" of blues, Bessie Smith - once noted that "white folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there." |
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Quartet worthy of upper echelon - Review By HERMAN TROTTER - 2/26/2007
We are living in an age when the music world arguably offers listeners more superb string quartets than at any time in this critic's memory. And based on Sunday's performances of Beethoven's Quartet in A, Op. 18 No. 5 and Quartet in B-Flat, Op. 130, I'm ready to rank the Alexander String Quartet in the top echelon. |
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Fine portrait of an American sports icon - Review By JERRY SULLIVAN - 2/25/2007
We all wanted to be Pete Maravich back then. If you came of age in the late 1960s and early '70s, obsessed by basketball, you got yourself a pair of floppy socks and practiced throwing passes between your legs and firing up shots from impossible distances and angles. |
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A trio of post-9/11 novels - Review By MICHAEL D. LANGAN - 2/25/2007
If you can't tell a book by its cover, can you tell anything by the picture of the author on the book slip? Let's give it a try. Richard A. Clarke, who writes "Breakpoint," was counterterrorism czar for Presidents Clinton and George W. |
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AMAZING GRACE - - 2/25/2007
Ioan Gruffudd, above, stars in this drama about William Wilberforce, the British abolitionist and member of Parliament who led the decades-long battle to outlaw the slave trade in England. |
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