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"Can I be a good person and spend that much money on overpriced consumer goods? I don't know. But I do know this: I'd be no good without them." - How to Be Good, by Nick Hornby
Do you cry when baby seals are killed? Rebecca does, and quite frankly, it doesn't seem to be helping her job hunt.
Ranging from $10 to $20 - though one might pay more for a double-disk set - CDs are a perfect gift item for college students on a restricted budget. For those reluctant to support big-name labels and question the talent of their acts, CDs are available featuring more obscure bands from independent labels.
Turning tradition on its head, Studio Arena strayed from their usual fare, Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," in favor of Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap."
Central Station Dinner Theater, located next door to Williamsville's Red Mill Inn, provides laughs and a meal at "Graves in Toyland" - the Mobile Theater Company's seasonal offering.
Federal statistics at http://www.fedstats.gov show American birth rates declining while our total population increases. Despite birth rates in first-world nations being in decline, rates in third-world nations (whose economies cannot support larger family sizes) are disturbingly high.
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The Irish Classical Theatre Company is typically known for its high-quality productions. Although "The Island," by Athol Fugard, is not the most inspirational or captivating script to grace the stage at the Andrews Theatre, the quality of each individual component of the performance is singular in its meticulous devotion to recreating the atmosphere of a South African prison during apartheid.
For the self-proclaimed "most boring rock star in history," Jewel has been pretty busy the last few years. There's her latest album, "This Way," a title-track video, her continued acting efforts and a project especially important to the singer/songwriter, the online community Soul City Café.
Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis" is widely regarded as one of the Irish writer's best works and was written while he was in prison serving time as a sodomist. The work is full of rage and poetry as Wilde rails against the conditions that have put him in prison, as well as at his unfaithful lover Lord Alfred Douglas, all the while thanking those friends who had stayed by his side during his trial and subsequent infamy.
When I was 17 and seeking out a college at which to spend my four years of undergraduate Hell, my first choice was over 400 miles from where I'd grown up - the second, though ultimately I didn't apply to it, was over 3,000. At the time, the decision to stay in Buffalo instead of jaunting off to New York was the practical one to make in terms of money and academics.
Ever notice back in grade school how a disproportionate number of the kids who constantly had their noses stuck in a book generally wound up being pretty darn intelligent?
We live in a world where children - barely more than babies, really - are becoming sexually active at a disturbingly (by our modern-day, first-world standards) young age. However, it seems there is a distressing tendency to gloss over the experiences of others which might enlighten children as to the realities of sexual activity. Keeping children ignorant of the "official" word on sex until they are in fifth grade, as they were in my school district, merely ensures that the first pieces of information they receive will be skewed either by the media, older children they come into contact with, or their peers.
Opening the season at the Alleyway Theatre downtown is Michael Bettencourt's two-hour drama "A Question Of Color." While the acting, direction, and design are superb, the script at times leaves the audience wondering.
"A Streetcar Named Desire," the final installment of Studio Arena Theatre's Tennessee Williams retrospective, is nothing short of exhilarating.
Although Buffalo is known as the "City of Good Neighbors," you certainly wouldn't know it to look in the dumpsters frequented by students here at Hadley Village.
We live in a visual culture, and although we are used to the notion that anyone can spend a couple hundred dollars and acquire a consumer-grade video camera, the real creative power of the people still lies in the simple image: the unobtrusive photograph.
Along with bereaved parents JoJo and Ben Floss (played by Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman, respectively), Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal) is trying to cope with the death of Diana (Careena Melia)-their daughter, his fianc?(c). While Moonlight Mile contains a weak subplot dealing with the trial of Diana's murderer, most of the film centers on how these characters try to move past their pain and go on with their lives.
I amazed my dad the other day by commenting that I wasn't going to start saving for my children's college educations at the behest of a mailed solicitation from Key Bank. This, despite knowing that if I want my hypothetical children to have a decent college education without having to jump through the financial hoops that plague my friends, now would probably be the time to start saving.
On their self-titled album, The Used display an acute talent for spoiling resonant music and a serviceable singing voice with their tendency toward vocal-chord-straining, ear-popping screams.