Culture
 Experience Required American Animals |
Maggie Cheung in Irma Vep, which is screening at Halwalls on Thursday, June 21.
Our contributor Ed Grant talks to director Olivier Assayas about his celebrated satire of modern filmmaking. |
 You can’t help liking this work. But you can’t quite figure out what it is, either. How it does what it does. |
Left to righ: Evan McPhaden, Rob Houk, Mike Gantzer, and David Loss of Aqueous. Photo by Nick Sonricker.
Buffalo-based jam band, Aqueous, prepare for a two set headlining slot at this summer’s Cobblestone Live! music festival. |
 In this film adaptation, Chekhov’s subtleties and singular mix of ambiguity and pointedness are often flattened by technique |
 Buffalo-based hard rock band releases new record this weekend with a show at the River Pub in Niagara Falls. |
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Ethan Hawke in First Reformed.
Paul Schrader’s new picture seems very personal, carefully and even painfully achieved for much of its length. |