Be There - November 2009

November 2009

02/08/10

A bloody good Valentine from the Roller Girls

On February 13, recent Spree cover gals the Queen City Roller Girls are hosting “My Bloody Valentine” at Rainbow Roller Rink, 104 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, all to benefit Planned Parenthood. And this is not your run of the mill mush-fest—no champagne and roses here, folks.

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10/23/09

Kids film the darndest things

At the end of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse, the truly warts-and-all documentary about the cosmically rancorous making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, the maestro contemplates the future of cinema (this was 1992). “To me, the great hope is that … people who normally wouldn’t make movies are going to be making them, and suddenly some little fat girl in Ohio is going be the new Mozart … and for once the so-called professionalism of movies will be destroyed forever, and it will really become an art form.”

In addition to seemingly predicting the advent of Youtube, Coppola was also pondering the ability of anyone, especially kids, to pick up a camera and make art. Best example of this locally? The...

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