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BuffaLoveFest

[FUN] Don’t get this BuffaLoveFest confused with the BuffaLove Music Festival which happens in Franklinville, New York and features a bunch of jam bands. No, this BuffaLoveFest happens at the Buffalo Zoo and features more lions, tigers, and bears than jam bands, of which there are none. Instead, there’ll be a line up of food trucks, artisans, and booze. The event, which typically attracts thousands of people to the Zoo right outside of Delaware Park, is a fundraiser with much of the proceeds from the festival going toward the care of the zoo animals.

Brian Freeman and Friends Part V

[JAZZ] Since 1987, trumpet player Brian Freeman has been integral to the brass end of Taylor Made, a jazz-tinged R&B outfit from Western New York that’s toured extensively over the last 30 years. Freeman began this “…and friends” series early last year and then stopped with Part 4 almost one year ago to the day. He returns to the Tralf to continue the tradition with a surprise cast of characters on Friday, May 26.

Norman

The title character of Joseph Cedar’s surprisingly entertaining and poignant film calls himself “a consultant” at one point. This isn’t so much a lie as a misleading statement. Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere) is really an operator, a promoter of sometimes dubious financial or political deals, an arranger. One prominent reviewer has called him a macher—a big shot in Yiddish—but this is something of an exaggeration. He’s more a wanna-be macher.

The Wall, David Lynch: The Art Life

Iraq, 2007. The war is over—President Bush has declared victory and rebuilding is underway. This is not much comfort to Staff Sergeant Matthews (John Cena) and Sergeant Isaac (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) as we meet them, exhausted after having spent 20 hours in hiding at a construction site. Their mission is to wait for the sniper responsible for the corpses littering the area to come out so they can capture or kill him.

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