Reba McEntire is one of the undisputed queens of modern country music. She’s been churning out hits since the late 1980’s and she’s still going strong. You’ve probably heard her version of the prostitution classic “Fancy,” her amazing duet about a cheating spouse “Does He Love You,” or the moving “Somebody.” And those are just […]
Eric Rezsnyak
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“True Blood” Season 6: Unpacking the finale
Season 6 of “True Blood” ended last night, and like the season overall it was a bizarre mix of highs and lows. I had serious problems with the show for the first quarter of the season, but then it seemed to get its act together for the middle portion before sinking to arguably series lows […]
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REVIEW: The Amazing Acro-Cats at MuCCC (through 8/11)
Let’s just get this out of the way: the Amazing Acro-Cats show, now at MuCCC through Sunday, August 11, is completely and utterly ridiculous. How could it not be? It’s a dozen or so cats (plus two chickens, a trio of low-energy rats, and a woodchuck) performing a variety of stunts when and if they […]
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“America’s Next Top Model” Season 20, Episode 1: Bring on the boys
It has been nearly a year since Tyra Banks has been on our television screens. But she is never far from our hearts (I say that both ironically and unironically), and so I was excited to welcome her back Friday night for a whole new season of ridiculousness. And the two-hour season premiere did not […]
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THEATER: ‘MoM: A Rock Concert Musical’
“MoM: A Rock Concert Musical” is the second and final show in Geva’s summer 2013 season. Along with the previous show, “Big Pants & Botox,” it’s fairly light, female-leaning fare. (Geva did have a more serious piece, a Robert Forster-starring Ronald Reagan play, initially on the summer schedule, but it was cancelled.) The thing about […]
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SPECIAL EVENT | “Arrested Development” Quiz
If you know where there is always money (the Banana Stand). If you know who has a low center of gravity (it’s Ann/Egg). If you know the name of Tobias’ book (“The Man Inside Me”). If you have started “The Final Countdown,” have spent the past months cornholing without Buster, and would take second place […]
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“True Blood” Season 6, Episode 4: Baby vamps make poor fairy sitters
Sunday’s episode of “True Blood” was easily the best of the season, and possibly of the last few years of the show. It felt like the new showrunners finally got a feel for the characters and the tone of the show, and I saw flashes of the sleazy, campy show I used to love – […]
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JAZZ FEST 2013, Day 7: Eric reviews Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and Mingo Fishtrap
Maybe I’m too invested in broad cultural stereotypes, or maybe I’m just a sucker for a great pair of legs. Either way I totally expected the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra to come out wearing kilts when they played the Xerox Auditorium Thursday night. I even wondered if they’d have bagpipes. But no; this is no […]
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THEATER REVIEW: “The Lesson” & “The Bald Soprano”
Thank goodness for MuCCC. The Neighborhood of the Arts-based theater has been around almost five years and continues to stage the kinds of works that most local theater groups wouldn’t dream of touching. Take, for instance, “The Bald Soprano” and “The Lesson,” the Eugene Ionesco double-bill currently being staged at MuCCC by John W. Borek […]
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“True Blood” Season 6, Episode 2: This little light of mine
While watching last night’s episode of “True Blood” I was struck by the following thought: “When did this show become ‘Charmed’?” Two episodes into Season 6 I’m finding myself increasingly concerned about the tone of this show. It takes itself SO seriously now. There’s nothing fun, or slutty, or gritty, or subversive about it anymore. […]
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Fringe reveals 2013 headliners
On Monday the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival unveiled the headlining acts for the second year of the event, which will run September 19 to 28 in multiple venues in Downtown Rochester. Aerial dance troupe Bandaloop will return after its crowd-pleasing kickoff performances at the first Rochester Fringe, which reportedly drew more than 10,000 spectators. […]
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Rochester Fringe Festival reveals 2013 headliners
Today the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival unveiled the headlining acts for the second year of the event, which will run September 19 to 28 in multiple venues in Downtown Rochester. Aerial dance troupe Bandaloop will return after its crowd-pleasing kickoff performances at the first Rochester Fringe, which reportedly drew more than 10,000 spectators. Bandaloop […]
