“The Simpsons”“So ambitious, intimate, classical, experimental, hip, corny and altogether free in its conviction that the imagination should go where it wants, that to even begin to explain all the things ‘The Simpsons’ is, and all the things it does, you need an immense Venn diagram drawn on a football field,... Read More

JAZZDave Stryker, “Eight Track II” (Strikezone). Back in 2014, Dave Stryker, tongue firmly in cheek, reported a “groovy” idea – ‘70’s pop favorites played by his blue collar jazz trio with a guest vibraphonist. It was nothing if not popular with music buyers and what’s left of jazz radio. Since one good... Read More

These are in no particular order, except No. 1.“The Tonight Show” (from Steve Allen through Johnny Carson); Steve Allen’s early ’60’s “Westinghouse Talk Show”; “Late Night with David Letterman” on NBC; “The Dick Cavett Show” on ABC; the first two seasons of “Saturday Night Live.” Except for Ernie... Read More

A wide array of German food from local vendors, a German car show and a kids area were among the highlights at Hamburg's Oktoberfest on Saturday, Sept. 10,... Read More

This weekend, Summit Center rolled back the decades with its Town Ballroom fundraiser. Best-selling musicians of the '80s? Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson were a start. Here's a look at the... Read More

Says Michael Farrell: Music Is Art is about hosting artistic expression in all forms, and then celebrating its necessity in our lives and community. Here's a look at Saturday's... Read More

You can take the playwright out of Buffalo. You can even try to take Buffalo out of the playwright. But the results, at least judging by Tom Dudzick’s play, “Don’t Talk to the Actors,” won’t be pretty. That goes for the characters in this... Read More

Donald Margulies hit a home run, and a Pulitzer Prize, with his 1998 play “Dinner with Friends.” It’s a simple play, about everyday people, dealing with the consequences of infidelity. It’s not melodramatic. It’s not poetic. Like its four... Read More

CLASSICAL Michael Daugherty, “Tales of Hemingway,” “American Gothic” and “Once Upon a Castle” with cellist Zuill Bailey, organist Paul Jacobs and the Nashville Symphony conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero (Naxos). Here are some cultural... Read More

The West Seneca West Indians defeated the Sweet Home Panthers, 13-6, Friday night Sept. 9, 2016. The contest was the first night football game at Bob Barczak Stadium, now replete with lights, a new artificial surface and a press... Read More