The Buffalo News: Entertainment

Here are some ways to stretch your entertainment dollar to the max: By Mark Sommer - NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 10/06/08 9:33 AM; With the cost of groceries, gasoline and just about everything else squeezing pocketbooks, disposable income for entertainment is shrinking even if the to go out isn’t.; complete story >

Nostalgic fans revel in Village People’s camp: By Jeff Miers NEWS POP MUSIC CRITIC
Updated: 10/06/08 6:31 AM; NIAGARA FALLS — Ah, the ’70s. Disco in the clubs, Fonzie on the tube, “Frampton Comes Alive” on the turntable, a Pinto in the garage, feathered hair on the head, a comb in the back pocket and Farrah’s poster on the wall. Life was so much simpler then.; complete story >

Listening Post: Tina Turner, and other reviews: Updated: 10/05/08 11:59 AM; Tina Turner, “Tina!” (Capitol). As Tina Turner prepares to launch her first North American tour in years, Capitol has assembled “Tina!,” a compilation documenting her development from deep soul diva, to R&B/pop crossover artist, and finally, to mainstream pop-soul grande dame.; complete story >

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BPO runs a rich gamut of Russian emotion: By Herman Trotter NEWS MUSIC CRITIC EMERITUS
Updated: 10/04/08 6:31 AM; With the festivities of opening night a fond memory, JoAnn Falletta is kicking off the meat-and-potatoes part of the new Classics Series season this weekend with an appealing Russian program that traces an emotional journey from casual ethnic folksiness to abject despair.; complete story >

Sports on the Air: Barnaby must leave ‘Enforcers’: By Alan Pergament
Updated: 10/04/08 10:57 AM; Matthew Barnaby’s hiring by ESPN as its National Hockey League analyst means the end of his participation as co-host of “The Enforcers,” the Time Warner Cable show he did with his good friend Rob Ray.; complete story >

Who knew? Feinstein leaves ’em laughing: By Mary Kunz Goldman NEWS CRITIC
Updated: 10/04/08 6:31 AM; We all knew Michael Feinstein could sing. A few of us knew he could play the piano, though before Friday’s concert in UB’s Center for the Arts, I personally didn’t know how good he was.; complete story >

Zucker gives a callous and unfunny ‘Carol’: By Roger Moore - McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Updated: 10/04/08 6:31 AM; One hundred and sixty-five years after Charles Dickens called for civic reform, compassion, humanity and charity to be watchwords in human life with “A Christmas Carol,” Hollywood’s most rabid conservatives have rallied to make “An American Carol,” a comedy that equates dissent with “treason,” that presents Bill O’Reilly as a model of political restraint and offers us Kelsey Grammer as the ghost of Gen. George S. Patton.; complete story >

Dennings made for ‘Nick and Norah’ role: By Rick Bentley - McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Updated: 10/04/08 6:31 AM; Actress Kat Dennings wrote on her blog the feature film “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” is “the movie of my soul.” That’s big praise.; complete story >

Lisa Earle McLeod: Lisa McLeod: Blame the brain for extra bulk; Is your bad brain making you plump? I’m fat again. Well maybe not fat fat. But five pounds has become 10, and once again I’m toddling down the road toward portly.; complete story >