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AV Hit List: Top Event Picks for This Week

WED 11/25 LAZLO HOLLYFELD & FRIENDS PLAY THE TALKING HEADS

McGarret’s, 9pm, $5

And you may ask yourself, do I want to see awesome Buffalo band, Lazlo Hollyfeld, play some sweet Talking Heads covers on the biggest drinking night of the year? And the answer is yes. Yes, you do. Get on over to McGarret’s and check them out.

Fri 11/27 MYTHBUSTERS: ADAM & JAMIE UNLEASHED

UB Center For Performing Arts, 8pm, $45-$65

From the wildly popular and long-running Discovery Channel show, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage come to Buffalo for a live, stage version of myth busting fun.

11/27 & 11/29 AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS

The Riviera Theatre, 7pm & 3pm, $22, $20, $12

Nickel City Opera presents two performances of the Christmas classic Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti.

11/28 - 11/29 the nutcracker

Shea’s Performing Arts Center, 7pm & 2 pm, $26-$72

Neglia Ballet, with live accompaniment by the BPO, performs Tchaikovsky’s famous Nutcracker ballet this weekend only.

SAT 11/28 MARIANIS TRENCH

The Rapids Theatre, 6 pm, $28-$125

Popular (and multi-award nominated) Canadian pop punk band Marianis Trench will take to the stage on Saturday night with special guests Secret Someones.

SAT 11/28 CONTINENTAL REUNION

Town Ballroom, 7:30 pm, $10-$20

Bulletproof Claudia, The Surfin’ Cadavers, Armageddon Party, the Enemies, the Sinatra Test, and Dollywatchers are a few of the bands performing this Saturday night at the third reunion for the former Continental, a Punk/New Wave nightspot from the days of Buffalo yesteryear.

WED 12/2 The dreamers

The Waiting Room, 6pm, $10

Brooklyn indie rock trio, Dreamers, are in Buffalo to promote their new album This Album Does Not Exist, (hahaha) and will bring their own brand of psychedelic tinged grunge rock to the Waiting Room next Wednesday.