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arCity, which Investigative Post dissected a year ago. The Times story noted SolarCity’s financial losses and sagging stock price. Of particular interest: Close to half of its stock is now held by short-sellers, who are betting that the value of the company’s stock will drop. Bloomberg News, meanwhile, recently put nanotech guru Alain Kaloyeros, the Buffalo Billion’s quarterback, under the microscope. It wasn’t particularly pretty, although gentle compared to the coverage he’s received from several downstate news websites. A profile by the Gothamist, for example, took him to task for, among other things, his Facebook postings, and concluded that Kaloyeros “is an immature, Ferrari-obsessed narcissist who has serious issues with women.” Kaloyeros stripped his Facebook page of most of its content after the story published. Meanwhile, the federal probe continues, with Kaloyeros a “person of interest,” so to speak. n After Investigative Post reported that a goal for hiring minorities for construction work on SolarCity’s factory, two African-American leaders decided to take matters into their own hands. Charley Fisher III, president of BUILD of Buffalo, and Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant have formed a new group they’re calling the Contract Compliance Review Committee, to monitor diversity on construction sites more closely.

Diversity goals on publicly funded construction projects—which can cover both the companies that get work and the makeup of the workforce itself—aim to ensure that minorities and women get a fair share of the work. This might seem straightforward, but the goals are governed by a hodgepodge of city, county, and state rules, each with their own nuances. There’s little consistency—even across various state agencies, for example—and even less transparency. And New York State law offers little help when it comes to pushing for a more diverse workforce on construction sites. The state cannot enforce workforce goals: Contractors who fail, or even refuse, to meet the goals cannot be punished. The 2010 study that provides evidence for racial disparities in contracting—underpinning the state’s MWBE program—doesn’t cover workforce disparities. But an updated study, due to be published next year, will, which could pave the way for the state to give workforce goals some teeth. n Investigative Post’s event season continues Wednesday, November 4, when Heaney interviews Buffalo Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash at a luncheon that starts at 12 noon at Osteria 166, 166 Franklin Street. Tickets are $25 and include lunch. Tickets can be purchased online at InvestigativePost.org/ events. The cost is $10 for those who have purchased a silver, gold or platinum membership package with Investigative Post. Other upcoming events include: • Trivia Night, featuring Maryalice Demler as quiz master, on Tuesday, November 10. Festivities begin at 7pm at Brawler’s Deli, in the basement of Pearl Street Grill, 76 Pearl Street. • A happy hour panel discussion that seeks to answer the question: “Is Buffalo really getting its mojo back?” Allen Street Hardware, 245 Allen Street, will host the discussion on Tuesday, December 1 at 7pm. Admission includes a free drink.

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BY GEOFF KELLY WHEN ORTHODONTIST PETER ROUFF, a Republican, is asked why he decided to run for Buffalo’s Common Council—in the Delaware District, where Democrats outnumber Republicans four to one, in a city that has not elected a Republican to its legislature in 35 years—he says it’s about offering a choice to voters who were shut out of the process when it came time to replace outgoing Councilman Mike LoCurto this summer.

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LOOKING BACKWARD: FEYL’S SALOON, 1892 It was a family affair when this photograph was taken on a wintry day in 1892. The saloon of Sigismund Feyl stood at 112 Pearl Street, southwest corner of Swan Street. Feyl’s Saloon opened in 1889, and when this photograph was snapped was one of 1,660 saloons in Buffalo. Change was on the horizon in 1892, with Buffalo’s population booming, the steel skeleton and passenger elevator creating new architectural possibilities, and an electric streetcar system facilitating land use intensification in the central city. Starting in the mid-1890s, the first steel-framed skyscrapers started to overtake the small-scale homes, stores, and churches in what would soon become “downtown.” This handsome Second Empire-style building at 112 Pearl Street was among the first to be replaced. Feyl’s Saloon, as well as Susan Barnes’s restaurant next door at 110 Pearl Street, was demolished by 1894 to make way for the 10-story Dun Building, the city’s first high-rise. The Dun Building, designed by Green & Wicks and completed in 1895, still P stands today. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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LoCurto served nine years in the Delaware District seat, then resigned the post to take a job with the Erie County Department of Environment and Planning.

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LoCurto’s departure was orchestrated to occur after the petition process for candidates had closed; that left his designated committee on vacancies to name a replacement candidate. Because LoCurto was the only candidate on the ballot, that committee—essentially an extension of Erie County Democratic Party headquarters—was empowered to choose the next councilman, with no input from voters. Their choice was Joel Feroleto, LoCurto’s cousin and the scion of a politically connected North Buffalo family. (His mother is State Supreme Court Justice Paula Feroleto.) Feroleto, who served on LoCurto’s staff and on the staff of former State Senator Antoine Thompson, was subsequently appointed by the Common Council to fill the vacant seat. He is expected to win the seat on Tuesday. Feroleto is by most accounts a decent guy who has been seeking elected office for years. But Rouff is aggravated by the manner in which he obtained the seat. “I felt like democracy was being taken away from the residents of the Delaware District,” Rouff says. “We live in a democracy, not an aristocracy. You’ve got to give the voter a say.” In truth, Rouff began considering a run before LoCurto dropped out, when Buffalo school board member Jay McCarthy was threatening a primary challenge to LoCurto, for whom Rouff has high regard. (“I’d put Mike up on a pedestal for helping constituents and being responsive,” Rouff says.) Worried that McCarthy might win the primary and enter the general election unopposed, Rouff discussed the possibility of running with local GOP leadership. When McCarthy dropped out, Rouff stepped back. When LoCurto resigned and Feroleto was anointed by party leaders, he threw his hat back in the ring. Rouff is a self-funding and new to politics. Erie County GOP chairman Nick Langworthy is supportive but offering no material support; the city GOP is helping with get-out-the-vote work. Republican operative Chris Grant, late of Congressman Chris Collins’s staff, is churning out mailers, most of them hit pieces. Many have been criticized as unfair and even race-baiting: Grant’s mailers relentlessly tie Feroleto to the African-American Thompson, an unpopular figure in the district, which helped to oust him from the Senate in 2010. A recent mailer urges voters to “stop the Feroleto-Thompson machine.” (For his part, Feroleto hardly embraces the association: His literature notes that he served as “Deputy Chief of Staff for New York State Senator” but leaves off Thompson’s name.) In classic attack ad style, Feroleto’s skin is darkened, his face cast in shadows. Walking door to door, Rouff keeps it positive: Like most Council candidates, he focuses on the importance of helping residents to navigate city government. He is critical of concessions being made to the developer of the former hospital site at Gates Circle. He’d like the city to mow lawns and plow sidewalks attached to abandoned properties at a punitive cost to their owners, generating liens that eventually might result in new revenue streams for the city. He thinks that city tax bills, and even city parking tickets, should offer check boxes that would allow bill-payers to contribute directly to arts and cultural funding. He emphasizes the opportunity his candidacy presents to elect a legislator who is beholden to nobody—not to his own party, not to the mayor’s office, not the Democratic Party bosses. “I only have to respond to the voters. I don’t have any leadership. My big joke when asked, ‘What are you going to do when you win,’ is to say, ‘I P hope to be elected minority leader.’” —GEOFF KELLY

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SIX REELS OF FILM AND VIDEO—each with a dozen or so offerings to pick and choose among from touch-screen menus—in the Squeaky Wheel 30th anniversary exhibit at the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

Works in categories reflecting the diversity of Squeaky Wheel’s mission and variety of its programs and projects. Youth media program products, activist group activities documentations, Squeaky resident artist productions, Axlegrease/Artgrease made for public access TV productions, and works by Squeaky founders and former and current staff members.

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Experimental artwork by and large. Some of it funny and imaginative, some in a range from puzzling to baffling, some important inasmuch as telling stories that need to be told, and nobody else is telling them, particularly the mainstream media.

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Among the activist organization documentaries is a piece on the Clean Air Coalition and affected community members’ efforts to limit Tonawanda Coke Corporation pollution. Another on conspicuously non-violent demonstrations of a vaguely political nature at Artpark and other state parks around the time of the Vietnam War and general police paranoia about social and political ferment, resulting in numerous arrests and fines of demonstrators on a variety of dubious charges. Another piece about Prisoners Are People, Too. Axlegrease comprised works for public access TV when public access TV was new and exciting. It is no more, and in an effort to redefine and repurpose the category, the name was later changed to Artgrease, but the repurposing is ongoing. The Axlegrease/Artgrease work on show includes a deadpan comical street interviews segment by Ron Ehmke and Richard Wicka. Another piece on animal migrations. Another about two men with beards. Squeaky Wheel started up in 1985 to fill a void when Gerald O’Grady’s pioneering Center for Media Study suddenly closed shop and the substantial and vibrant Buffalo media arts community was left without a home base or access to equipment. Film and video works by the artists who got Squeaky Wheel going and kept it going are on the founders’ reel and the former and current staff reel. A range of journeyman experimental work. None of it more to the point of Squeaky Wheel’s core inspirational and motivational concept than a work by Jody Lafond twitting the pomposity and inanity of the mainstream media. Unofficial video of some official activities of Channel 2 News personalities Ed Kilgore and Barry Lillis. The piece ends with a phone call from someone at Channel 2 telling Lafond in a stern and threatening tone to cease and desist. Could this exhibit be improved? Maybe if all the films and videos listed on the touch menus—and the touch menu connections to call them up—worked. The Squeaky anniversary exhibit continues P through January 24, 2016.

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IN GALLERIES NOW BY FRANCES BOOTS = ART OPENING 464 Gallery (464 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14207, 464gallery.com): Monster 5.0: Invasion. A group show with work from Mary Begley, Lily Booth, Tricia Butski, Daniel Chadwick, Sara Dauer, Courtney Denk, Patrick Foran, Jessica Gadra, Caitlin Krumm, Chace Lobely, Justin Mages, Alicia Malik, Paul Massaro, Thomas Matyas, Ryan Mis, Cole Pawlowski, David Pierro, Nia Puccio, William Rich, Emma Roberts, Jaime Schmidt, Dana Tyrell, and Thomas Webb. Opening party Fri Oct 30 6-11pm. On view through Nov 11. Wed-Fri: 12-6, SatSun: 12-4, by event or appointment. 1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts (1045 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-228-1855, photographics2.com/ store/welcome-to-our-studio-1045-gallery-store): Art Tales, mixed media show by Nicole Catalano-Ritchey. On view through Oct 31. Thu & Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11-4pm. Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Ecologies of Drama, moving image installations on view through Jan 3 2016, Artist to Artist, photogrpahs of artists taken by other artists, on view through Nov 8. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays until 10pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251): Industrial Studies and Watercolors, inks and watercolors by Louis Vastola. On display through Nov 13. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag. com): 24th Annual Juried Regional Artists Exhibition. On view through Fri Nov 13. Wed & Thu 11-5pm, Fri 11-4pm, Sat 11-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Currently on view, works by: Charles Burchfield, George Renouard & Tony Sisti. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Currently on view: Chicken Little, drawings by Matt Duquette. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Community Supported Art, CSA group exhibition with work by Joel Brenden, Kyle Butler, Marshall Scheuttle, Fotini Galanes, Megan Metté Anne Muntges, Stacey Robinson, virocode. FriSun 12-6pm. Box Gallery (667 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14203): Grounded, work by Bruce Bitmead and Karen Buchner. MonFri 5-8pm. BT&C Gallery (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, btandcgallery.com): The Forest Electric, painting and drawings by Amanda Besl. Fri 12-5pm or by appointment. ¡Buen Vivir! (148 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, 14201 buenvivirgallery.org): The End of the Game–The Last Word from Paradise Revisited; photos by Orin Langelle. TueFri 1-4pm, Fri 6-8pm, Sat 1-3 pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2496 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Anima Mundi, sculptures by Marissa Lehner; Fools Paradise drawings by Elizabeth Gemperlein both on view through Nov 6. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens (2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14218, 827-1584, buffalogardens. com): Mon-Sun 10am-5pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Squeaky Wheel: 30th Anniversary Exhibition, on view through Jan 24, 2016. Mystic North: Burchfield, Sibelius & Nature and Fluidity In Form: Selections From The Dean Spong Collection, The Artist’s Legacy, on view through Dec 4; Inquisitive Lens: Richard Kegler/P22 Type Foundry: Charles E. Burchfield (The Font Project), on view through Jan 10; Body Norms, selections from the Spong collection; Artists Seen: photographs of contemporary artists by David Moog; Charles E. Burchfield’s Gardenville Studio. Tue, Wed, Fri (Second Fridays until 8pm), Sat 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5$10, children 10 and under free. Burchfield Nature and Art Center (2001 Union Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 677-4843, burchfieldnac.org): See site for upcoming classes and events. Mon-Fri 10am4pm, Sun 1-4pm. Casa de Arte (141 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo NY 14201, 716227-0271, casadeartegallery.com): El Dia de los Muertos sculptures and mixed media works from Mexican and local artists, including Mara Odette and Bill Jungels. Opening reception Sun Nov 1 2-6pm. Mon & Wed 10am-3pm, Thu 6-9pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org) Gregory Halpern, Ahndraya Parlato, and Nicholas Mueller. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (417 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com) Fine art and antiques of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. WedFri 10:30-5, Sat 10:30am-4pm. Dolce Valvo Art Center (NCCC 3111 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, NY 14132, 614-5975): Of Niagara: Works from the Gerald Mead Collection. On view through Nov 20. El Buen Amigo (114 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201, 885-6343, elbuenamigo.org): Hispanic Christian folk art exhibit. Mon-Sat 11am-7pm, Sun 11am-5pm. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Annual community celebration with month-long exhibition through Nov 2 of ofrendas (altars) for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) concluding with costume party on Oct 31. Tue-Sat 125pm. Fargo House Gallery (287 Fargo Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14213, thefargohouse.com, visit website for appointment): Currently on view, Caitlin Cass: Benjamin Rathburn Builds Buffalo. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 8541694, hallwalls.org): Amid/In Western New York, Part 4, includes work by Liz Bayan, Benjamin Entner, Dorothy Fitzgerald, Richard Huntington, Liz Lessner, and Jason Seeley. On view through Oct 30. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm.

Hi-Temp (79 Perry Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 852-5656, 10am-4pm Mon-Fri, call for appointment): Color, Frequency & Flow, abstract paintings by Robyn Gallick. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Trickster, ceramic works by Bill Stewart, on view through Nov 14. Wed & Fri 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): Robert Fulton and the United States Navy, on view through Dec 31. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. TueSun 11am-4pm. Kenan Center House Gallery (433 Locust Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 433-2617 kenancenter.org/arts/gallery. asp): Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society: Fall 2015 Watermedia show. On view through Nov 15. Mon-Fri 125pm, Sun 2-5pm. Lockside Art Center (21 Main Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 478-0239, locksideartcenter.com): Group exhibition from members of the Niagara Arts Guild. Fri-Sun 124pm and by appointment. Manuel Barreto Furniture (430 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 867-8937, manuelbarreto.com): Robert and Sylvia Coles Private Contemporary Art Collection. Market Street Art Studios (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 478-0248, marketstreetstudios.com): Whalen: A Legacy, paintings by Joseph Whalen on view through Nov 14. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Fantasy Worlds, work by Agnes Robinson and Francis Toole. On view through Nov 21. Tue-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm. Native American Museum of Art at Smokin’ Joe’s (2293 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, NY 14123, 2619251) Open year round and free. Exhibits Iroquois artists work. 7am-9pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 282-7530, thenacc.org): Stick, Stone, and Steel, works by Richard Rockford, Robert Then, Jay Carrier, Brian Nacov, Victor Marwin, and Dennis Fulton-Sears. On view through Nov 12. Mon-Fri 9am5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm. The Phoenix (269 Amherst Street, Buffalo NY 14207, 4471100 thephoenixbuffalo.com): Café Series, by Mary Begley. Wed-Sat 5pm-10pm. Prism (MyBuffaloPride, 224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201): Spectra, group show with work from Nicholas Blazer, Dana Tyrell, Mickey Harmon, Dana McKnight, Steve Ambrusko, Steve Ardo, Pierce McCleary, Scott Kristopher Morrella, Michael Berdine, Stephanie Dubin, and John Carossi. Thu & Fri 4-8pm, Sat & Sun 3-7pm. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): Group show with work from Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, John Farallo, Chris McGee, Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Joshua Nickerson, Susan Redenbach, Barbara Lynch Johnt, Michael Mulley. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. Ro Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): New work by Chantal Calato on view through Oct 31. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14051) Buffalo-Niagara Art Association—Fall Exhibition. Wed-Fri 11am-4pm, Sat 11am- 5pm. Spot Coffee (406 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216): Celebrate Buffalo, paintings by Stephen Coppola. Stangler Fine Art (6429 West Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127, 870-1129, stanglerart.com): The Fine Arts League’s 62nd Annual Fall Member’s Exhibition. On view through Nov 7. Open Wed-Fri 12-5pm Sat 113pm Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio.org): big: Mutation of an Oil Painter, paintings by Richard Stamps. On view through Nov 13. Studio Hart (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 5368337, studiohart.com): Portraits: Works on Paper by Joe Radoccia, on view through Oct 31. Tue-Fri 11:30am3:30pm, Sat 12-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Please Cross The Line, an interactive fiber installation by Aimee Buyea. On view through Nov 3. Open every Fri 5:30-7:30, during all events, and by appointment. TGW@497 Gallery (497 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 981-9415): Forgotten Faces, collages by Russell Ram. On view through Oct 31. Wed-Fri 12-5pm, Sat 123pm. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries.org): Industrial Buffalo, paintings and drawings by Barbara Insalaco through Nov 8. Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic, on view through Dec 31, 2016. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Gallery (Center for the Arts, North Campus, Amherst, NY 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Splitting Light, work from Shiva Aliabadi, Anna Betbeze, Amanda Browder, Erin Curtis, Gabriel Dawe, Sam Falls, Nathan Green, John Knuth, David Benjamin Sherry, and Hap Tivey. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Amherst, NY 14260, 6456913, art.buffalo.edu/resources/lower-gallery): Cradle to Grave III: Re-Appropriation, Obsolescence and the Arts, group exhibition. On view through Nov 7. UB Libraries Poetry and Rare Book Room (420 Capen Hall, Amherst, NY 14260, (716) 645-2918, library.buffalo. edu/specialcollections): Artifact, works from the UB Libraries Special Collections, on view through Jan 15. Mon-Fri 9am-4pm. 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Popular among ghosthunters and thrill-seekers, Perrysburg’s J. N. Adam Memorial Hospital was once a place of peace and beauty

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ON MY WAY BACK, I noticed that someone had plopped a

World War II memorial on Transit Road near Wehrle. I cannot think of a place further from where a Word War II memorial belongs. It’s a reminder that brave men died so that we can have steaks and strip malls: “Hey, kids, let’s visit the World War II memorial on Transit Road, grab an $80 steak, then hit up Target for lettuce, a yoga mat, Cheez-Its, and a curling iron.” But that was on my way back. On the way there, traveling down US Route 62, like my grandfather had almost 70 years before me, I was hunting for a real piece of history, not a manufactured one. I went to Perrysburg, New York to meet with town historian Jody Lee Shaw who, regarding J. N. Adam Memorial Hospital, told me that, “It was a fabulous place of community where people learned to care for each other. There are love stories, life stories, all kinds of great stories that happened there.” I am wont to listen to my grandfather, Joseph Vizzi, Sr., tell stories, and on Christmas day last year one particular story stuck with me for months after. He mentioned that he was in a tuberculosis sanitarium for a number of years and he talked about how it changed the trajectory of his life. I was taken aback. I knew he had been sick but never really grasped the magnitude of his situation. He said, “I was at a hospital in Perrysburg, but I can’t remember the name of the place. Something Adam.” I did what any good researcher would do: Googled it while he talked. J. N. Adam Memorial Hospital was the name of the place. The images that appeared with the search were enough to draw anyone in. You can find much written about the striking architecture and the compound ’s rich history, about paranormal thrill seekers

and horror stories. You can find photos taken by professionals probing for the picturesque or teenagers looking for a scare. Each photo offers a glimpse of the grounds’ former grandeur.

ing in this country: 194 died for every 100,000 people. By 1947, deaths per 100,000 had diminished to a still frightening 33. In 1947, 48,064 people died. In 1948, 43,833 people died.

My grandfather was born June 7, 1931. He was raised on the East Side of Buffalo near Oak and Tupper. He often talks about the Hippodrome pool hall being his favorite haunt; there he honed skills he would later use at J. N. Adam Memorial Hospital. He loved growing up on that side of town but, in his early teen years his father opened a store at 75 Hudson Street on the West Side, Vizzi’s Market. Moving was tough, he said: All his friends were on the other side of town, and it took him a couple of buses to get over to see them. He loved it so much that he remained enrolled at Burgard High School on the East Side after they moved. At some point. in either 1946 or 1947, my grandfather wanted to start making some money. He was sick of working in the family store for nothing. So he used a family connection to get himself a job at M. Wile downtown. They let him start the job under the condition that he obtained working papers right away. For the working papers he needed a physical. As part of the physical, he was given a chest x-ray. The x-ray showed a spot on one of his lungs, which warranted a sputum test. The sputum test was positive for tuberculosis.

My grandfather was a statistic in the 1940s; luckily for me he was not a mortality statistic. I can’t figure out exactly when he went in, or how long he was there. I do know that he was released in 1950, a fact which I will discuss later on.

The country was in the midst of a tuberculosis epidemic. It is an infectious disease that travels through the air after someone infected coughs or sneezes. It can show up in bones, organs, but it mainly affects the lungs. Just as Ebola is a real concern for countries in Africa now (but not for Americans), tuberculosis was a real issue in America in the first half of the 20th century. More than 11,000 people died of Ebola in Africa between March 2014 and June 2015, while one died here. In 1900, the death rate for tuberculosis was frighten-

He was admitted at the end of 1946, 1947, or, most likely, 1948. I visited Perrysburg’s town history museum, where they have some patient records, but not for those years.) After he found out he was positive for TB, he was told he would be sent by the county to J. N. Adam Memorial Hospital. The hospital was trying new drugs, new treatments; for instance, my grandfather was an early guinea pig for a new drug called streptomycin and artificial pneumothorax therapy. Mainly the hospital practiced the Swiss form of TB therapy. Some Swiss doctors had positive results with, as Shaw explained it to me, “Rest, fresh air, sunshine, and good food.” On the drive to Perrysburg, you realize how secluded it is, even to this day. You can see how restful and peaceful it would be and why it was the perfect place to build a hospital that was meant to be a respite. As the road snakes toward Perrysburg the elevation rises, further compounding the separation. I came to the crest of a hilly road and, based upon my memories of road trips through New York and Pennsylvania, expected an intersection to appear with a county store or a gas station, but intersections never appeared: The horizon just kept going on and on. If seclusion, rest, and fresh air were the requisite treatment, then Perrysburg was the perfect place to provide these things. Shaw said that sanitarium was built specifically to house Buffalo’s growing number of TB sufferers; the location was chosen not only for its remoteness but also because doctors had some luck early in the 20th century with the Swiss cure in a nearby cottage. The cottage was called Tipperary and was located in Perrysburg. A woman, Bula Lincoln, was the first treated at Tipperary and was cured.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 Architect John H. Coxhead was hired to build the magnificent new facility, which opened in 1912. To really understand its scope, the best view is an aerial shot; there are a number of such photos at the museum that show all the buildings and the farms, naturally fenced by forest. There are dozens of photos of doctors, nurses, and patients—adults and children. There are photos of singers brought in to put on a live show and of children outside in beds in loincloths with multiple feet of snow on the ground. There is a guest book featuring a signature from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There is a set of snapshots donated by a family: The family’s patriarch and matriarch met in the hospital, the father was a patient and the mother was a nurse. The way Shaw tells it, these stories were commonplace. Often, as in the case of this family, people would stay in Perrysburg because they became accustomed to the way of life there. The hospital worked wonders for the local economy: Hotels, motels, diners, and bars all made money. Shaw brought a bodyguard on our tour, Don, in case I turned out to be some maniac looking for ghost stories. “Everyone worked at that hospital,” he told me. “My grandmother worked there.” “Local people worked the grounds, worked on the farms,” Shaw said. “The hospital made hay for cows, milk, butter. Institutions back then didn’t have trucks coming in. They had their own canning and food production. And their own electricity.” If you ask Shaw, the crown jewel of the museum’s collection is the beautiful model of the original hospital grounds. It almost fills an entire room in the basement of the museum. The model offers an understanding of the extent of the facility—not just how large it actually was but how self-contained and self-sustaining. It even had its own radio station and stage for 10 THE PUBLIC / OCTOBER 28, 2015 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM

concerts. On one side of the model she pointed to a tall smoke-stacked building, and behind it you can see where the coal was kept. And behind that, you can see where the railroad used to run. Coal would be dropped right there and they would pump that coal into the facilities almost directly from the train. From Perrysburg’s Main Street, Route 39, the nondescript Airview Drive leads to the massive grounds, which are surrounded on all sides by forest, and now by barbwire fences–it’s unsafe up there due to overgrowth of plant life, rotting buildings filled with asbestos, and, allegedly, ghosts. The grounds are closed; there is a problem with thrill-seekers breaking in. On my way to meet Shaw at the Perrysburg Historical Museum, I passed the hospital to my left. I was awestruck by its grandeur. That my grandfather spent many of his formative years there was a lot to take in. Looking directly at the remarkable balconies (in the photo of him above, he is the one in the middle in his robe) I recalled our earlier conversations. My grandfather drove into Perrysburg on a similar route, he was sure, he said, because, “even if the 90 was around, my father was old school and would never drive on a thruway.” He said that on his initial approach to the hospital, he was spellbound. He came on a weekend and was dropped off by his folks. He had no idea what to expect; all he knew about sanatoriums was what he’d heard in popular culture. The pic

FEATURE HALLOWEEN tures at the museum depict rooms with rows of beds and dozens of patients lying down. Richard Yates, in his short story, “No Pain Whatsoever,” described a similar scene: “There were thirty-six beds in the center ward, divided half by wide aisle and subdivided by shoulder-high partitions into open cubicles of six beds each. All the sheets and the hospital pajamas were died yellow, to distinguish them from uncontaminated linen in the hospital laundry.” I asked my grandfather if he was scared of the disease, if he was scared to be away from his family. “I was more nervous than anything, not really scared—unsure of what to think,” he said. “My first night, I was in a room with this old man and he died. Now that shocked me. I was so young I wasn’t sure what was happening. It was like I was absorbing everything.” The old man was up all night coughing and he, like my grandfather, had TB of the lung, which is by far the most dangerous and mortal type of TB. But, being a teen, my grandfather was resilient. He wasn’t very sick, just skinny. The rest helped. He became used to the way of life and enjoyed the fact he was not at school—nor did he have to log tons of hours at the family store. He made friends and had a crew of kids around his age. “Once I was acclimated, there were times we had a ball,” he told me. “You couldn’t play baseball or anything like that, but sure as hell we could shoot pool. I got to be a pretty good pool shark. I held my own against some older black guys that were well experienced and respected me. I won a lot of cigarettes there. That’s where I learned poker, pinochle too.”

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Yes, they smoked and gambled for cigarettes as they suffered from a lung disease. According to my grandfather there were levels of health; the doctors rated you based upon how sick you were; the healthier you were, the more rights you had. You could smoke, you could move around the grounds, and some were even able to leave and head to Gowanda for the day. Some guys would sneak out against orders to booze and meet girls. As my grandfather’s health got better, he was given more opportunity to move about the grounds, and he was given a nicer room with a balcony that he shared with another young fellow whose name he couldn’t recall. All in all, he remembers his stay fondly. And after the first night things calmed down and he didn’t see many people die. For a few years after his release, he wrote to some of the guys he met, but gradually they fell out of contact. Now he can’t remember any names. He does remember when he was released because he was “pushing nineteen, early in 1950.” He went in a boy, a high school student—he never did return to school—and came out a young man whose life had been paused by illness. He was separated from his friends and family when he went in. When he came out, the Korean war separated him from his friends yet again. “I had to go register,” he said. “I wanted to join because all of my buddies were…well, I came out of where I was and they were all already gone, in the service.” Naturally, he was deemed, unfit to serve. As soon as I left Perrysburg, I drove out to visit my grandfather. He was ecstatic that I’d been there. It isn’t too easy for him to travel these days, but I showed him the pictures that I took. When he saw a photo of the building with its balcony, he paused, looked off in the distance for a moment, and then he looked back at the photo. He can’t quite remember when he entered the hospital. He said it was after World War II for sure—he would remember being there during those years. When considering Hollywood’s glamorized 1940s and 1950s, I realize that history almost missed my grandfather: He was too young for World War II, too sick for the Korean War. But history doesn’t miss anyone. You fit into a statistic someplace and, more importantly, you fit into a story. If you have any family members who were in J. N. Adam Hospital, I highly recommend heading to see Jody Shaw—or go anyway. The Perrysburg Historical Museum is open 10am-12pm on the last Saturday of every month. There are books of documents and pictures and that amazing model to help give perspective. Who knows, maybe someone you know is in those P books or photos.

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RIYL: Youth Lagoon, Marine Biologist The intriguing Rochester experimental pop trio released its melancholic and disorientating debut album earlier this month. Artism trades conventional structure for texture and atmosphere.

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WEDNESDAY OCT 28 UB Poetry Collection: Artifact 6pm Poetry and Rare Books Room SUNY at Buffalo, Capen Hall

[ART] One of Buffalo’s many little-known secrets is UB’s Poetry and Rare Book Collection, an absolute trove of 20th-century publishing. Though it has many accessions from earler periods, few libraries in the world match UB’s collection of modernist texts, and an exhibit of some of its most unique pieces is being launched. Whether it’s a napkin, a shoe, or a roll of toilet paper with each sheet imprinted with Cindy Sherman’s lipstick, a curious history of bookmaking will be on display at the collection’s opening reception on Wednesday, October 29, 6-8pm. The show will stay on view through January 15. -AARON LOWINGER

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8pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $5-$8

[ROCK] Saratoga Springs’s Wild Adriatic emulates the edgy British blues rock of bands like Humble Pie and Free, and they’re good enough at it that they earned themselves a six-week residency in Austin earlier this year, leading up to SXSW, where they played no fewer than 11 sets. Promoting a new five-song EP entitled, Never Enough, the hardworking power trio pulls into Buffalo Iron Works with special guests the Grace Strumberg Band on Thursday, October 29. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

Bruce Wojick and the Struggle 8pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave. $15-$18

Big Jay Oakerson 8pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $15-$28

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THURSDAY OCT 29 [COMEDY] The master of penis jokes, Big Jay Oakerson has become a titan on the standup circuit, spewing sexual remarks and hilariously imaginative tales. Hailing from Philadelphia, Oakerson has performed at Just for Laughs Comedy Festival and the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival. He has made several television appearances, including on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and Louie. Catch Big Jay Oakerson at Helium Comedy Club on Thursday, October 29 through Saturday, October 31. -KELLIE POWELL

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FRIDAY OCT 30 Freaky Friday Costume Party 6pm The Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $20

[HALLOWEEN] The Studio at the Waiting Room is hosting a Freaky Friday Costume Party on Friday, October 30 to benefit the Teens Living with Cancer Program at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. There will be live music, silent auctions, a 50/50 raffle, and a costume contest, so come dressed to impress. You must be 16 or older to enter this event without a parent or guardian. Tickets are available online on the Waiting Room website. Each ticket is $20 and includes one complimentary drink (21+), and 10 tickets for the Chinese auction. -CORINNE MCCARTHY

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[ROCK] From the embers of the regionally celebrated bands Gods Children and Klear, Bruce Wojick emerged as a solo artist in 2009, bringing with him the reputation of being one of Western New York’s most skilled guitarists (not to mention a set of soulful pipes). Now leading his own band, the Struggle, the nimble-fingered Wojick released his second full-length, Rock-N-Roll Music With an American Heart, in January, which he’ll surely feature at the 9th Ward, downstairs at Babeville, this Thursday, October 29. -CJT

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[FILM] Do you like your Halloween movies spoofy or scary? That’s the choice as local independent theaters give you an opportunity to dress up and get out of the house this holiday weekend. Heading the spoof list is the inevitable Rocky Horror Picture Show, now celebrating its 40th anniversary. Bring your grandparents so they can relive their youths doing the Time Warp. It will be at the Aurora (Friday, 11pm), Riviera (Friday at midnight, pre-show party at 10pm), Hamburg Palace (Saturday, midnight), and Lockport Palace (Friday and Saturday, midnight). Sticking with monster comedies, the North Park will screen The Monster Squad (Thursday, 9:30pm) and Shaun of the Dead (Friday-Saturday, 7pm). The Screening Room presents Young Frankenstein (Thursday and Sunday 7:30pm). If you like your horror straight up, the Riviera gets the weekend off to an early start with The Exorcist (Thursday, 7:30pm). Your classiest option is Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, with live accompaniment by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (Kleinhans, Saturday, 8pm). The North Park has The Evil Dead (Friday-Saturday, 9:30pm), and at the Screening Room will unspool Night of the Living Dead (Friday-Saturday, 7:30pm) and Halloween (Friday-Saturday, 9:30pm.) All are the originals, of course—no crappy remakes. Somewhere in between is an evening of low-budget horrors at the Angola Screening Room, including Colony (a.k.a. Colony of the Dark and Colony Mutation) and three features from Southtowns producers DefTone Pictures: Holland, A Grim Becoming, and Not Human (aka Ombis: Alien Invasion), 6pm-1am. -M. FAUST

[REGGAE] Earlier this year, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad released a new album entitled Bright Days. A swampy bluegrass-Americana blend, it continues in the same vein as their 2012 release, Country, and further proves that GPGDS’s genre identity is as obscure and awesome as their name. Hailing from Rochester, GPGDS has gained a considerable East Coast following since their 2004 inception by way of nonstop touring. They come bearing a fresh brand of reggae, decorated in jam-band aesthetics and sprinkled with psychedelic gems, and deliver mind-blowing live sets that explode with impeccable musicianship and skin-tight harmonies. With an uncanny ability to hop on a beat and ride it to perfection, GPGDS’s raw talent allows them to expand their horizons and serve up an incredibly lively sound on their recordings. From their reggae-soaked albums to their country tinge, their style is boundless and their sound has a visceral quality—their songs don’t sound recorded, but rather captured. In their 12-year run, GPGDS may not have attained national recognition (yet), but they’re sure as hell making a searing impression on the reggae genre. Catch Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad with the Simpkin Project and Band of Peace at the Tralf Music Hall on Thursday, October 29. -KP

8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $10

[TRIBUTE] For those of us into our 40s, it's almost hard to believe that 1990s tribute bands are now "a thing," but they are, and Buffalo is home to one with a particularly impressive pedigree. Soul Patch features our very own advice columnist Keith Buckley on vocals and bassist Steve Micciche from Every Time I Die, alongside members of Quintana, for an avalanche of 1990s nostalgia with a heavy edge. Expect tunes by Nirvana, the Pixies, Silverchair, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, and more on Friday, October 30 at Mohawk Place with Sixties Future at 8pm. Presented by our friends at buffaBLOG. -CJT

Robert DeLong 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $17-$20

[HOUSE] Robert DeLong is a drummer, producer, programmer, and singer-songwriter with a penchant for gadgets and poetic self-expression. From “Long Way Down” to “Don’t Wait Up,” he boasts a funky fusion of introspective, club-ready beats. Folding in genuine instruments with MIDI interfaces, keyboards, drum pads, laptops, and even gaming controllers—his showmanship is nothing short of ambitious. His bedrock force is his production prowess and multitasking proficiency. Catch Robert Delong with French Horn Rebellion at the Town Ballroom on Friday, October 30. -KP

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THE PUBLIC PRESENTS: DEVIL'S NIGHT FRIDAY OCT 30 10PM / NIETZSCHE'S, 248 ALLEN ST. / $5 [HALLOWEEN] I’ll be honest, the spookiest thing about our upcoming edition of The Public Presents is not that it’s on Devil’s Night or how great costumes one is likely to see are, but how scary-good our lineup of bands is. Headlining the night are Buffalo three-piece grunge band the Naturalists, who will debut their new record Home Honey, I’m Hi. Pop-rock band Lovey will make their debut sandwiched in between sets by Johnny Nobody, the Soft Love, and Handsome Jack. Since this is Devil’s Night, we’re encouraging attendees to dress up as their favorite horror movie characters. Fred Cimato of Lovey, Travis Perno of the Naturalists, and Jeremy Franklin of the Soft Love took some time to make their costume recommendations. -CORY PERLA

Fred Cimato: MICHAEL MYERS “Halloween is one of my all-time favorite movies. [Michael Myers] is just void of emotion and that blank white face is iconic. If I were a serial killer, I’d love to be just like him.”

Travis Perno: JAWS “I’m going with Jaws as my favorite horror movie character. To this day I think twice about going in the water, or whether I need a bigger boat.”

Jeremy Franklin: IT “When I was little I used to dress up in a clown costume I had and scare the crap out of my aunt Marie, because she hates clowns.”

Pucker Up 8pm Dreamland, 387 Franklin St.

[NOISE PUNK] More melodic than the genre suggests, Pucker Up from Boston has a sound that has been described as "distorted vocals sing bizarre tales of loneliness and going to sleep crying to Michael Hurley." Fronted by long-distance walker Nathan Ventura, the group carries the following tags on its Bandcamp: experimental bad noise sad sex weird Boston. Sounds pretty good to us. Local support will be provided by Circular Logic, Jamie and the Debt, and Different Planets this Friday night at 8pm at Dreamland. -AL

Halloween with Aqueous & Funktional Flow

8pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $10-$15

[JAM] Aqueous is one of the must-see improvisation bands on tour nowadays. With a sharp sense of harmony, the four-piece jumps from beat to beat, shifting from hardfought coordination to all-out duels that seethe with red-hot energy. Funktional Flow serves up freaky funky jams and killer covers. Both bands hail from Buffalo and both are scary-good on stage. Catch Aqueous and Funktional Flow at Buffalo Iron Works on Friday, October 30 and Saturday, October 31. -KP

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Monster 5.0: Invasion 6pm 464 Gallery, 464 Amherst St. free

[ART] This year's edition of Monster, the annual Halloween party held at 464 Gallery, takes place this Friday, October 30. This year's theme is "Invasion," which means it's time to welcome our alien overlords. Or maybe, just maybe, it's your mind that's being invaded… The art-centric Halloween party will feature work by a slew of artists including Mary Begley, Lily Booth, Tricia Butski, Daniel Chadwick, Sara Dauer, Courtney Denk (pictured), Patrick Foran, Jessica Gadra, Caitlin Krumm, Chace Lobely, Justin Mages, Alicia Malik, Paul Massaro, Thomas Matyas, Ryan Mis, Cole Pawlowski, David Pierro, Nia Puccio, William Rich, Emma Roberts, Jaime Schmidt, Dana Tyrell, and Thomas Webb. Live music will be provided by, Projex, Armageddon Party, Cthulord, and Denzel. If you can't make the party, don't worry, the exhibit will be on display through November 11. -CP

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SATURDAY OCT 31 Haunted History Ghost Walk: Buffalo Theater District 7pm Various Locations, $15

[TOUR] Michael Shea died nine years after building Shea’s Theater in 1925. Legend has it that Shea’s ghost still haunts the theater. Some of the most brutal battles of the War of 1812 happened on Buffalo soil. Do the casualties’ ghostly remains still linger? Theater superstitions, War of 1812 hauntings, speakeasy-era spooks, and more will come to life on Mason Winfield’s Haunted History Ghost Walk through the Buffalo Theater District, which meets at Spot Coffee on Saturday, October 31. -KP

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Kim Simmonds & Savoy Brown 8pm Sportsmen's Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $25-$30

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE PARTY 10PM at Riviera Theater, 67 Webster St, North Tonawanda

The Ladies of Illusion with Jayme Coxx and the sensations from Eye Candy Burlesque throw the pre-show extravaganza, followed by a costume contest. At midnight the cast of the Francis Bacon Experiment perform with the film in front of the screen. Pre-sale, $17; at the door, $20; movie only, $5.

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COSTUME CONTEST 11PM at Q, 44 Allen St.

Jess and Eric serve up the spirits, while Chevon Davis hosts the annual Halloween costume contest, not to be missed. The audience picks the winner by applause. Prizes and giveaways all night long! We're told Grumpy Cat will make an appearance.

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[HALLOWEEN] Buffalo will be celebrating Halloween in full force this weekend, with parties at at a every major venue in town and most of the smaller bars too. On Friday, October 30—which some refer to as Beggar’s Night and others know as Devil’s night—options include The Public Presents at Nietzsche’s, featuring The Naturalists and more; Cowboys of Scotland Beggars night at Milkie’s; Radiation at The Underground Nightclub; DJ Sandro Silva at Lift Nightlclub; CO Jones Beggars Night at Duke’s; Murder at the Disco at the Pearl Street Grill; and Hellbound at Cole’s, which will feature some industrial music, cage dancers, a light show and a costume contest. Then on Halloween, Saturday, October 31 major parties include the Witches Ball, a masquerade party at the Hotel at The Lafayette, which will feature multiple bands and DJs, a costume party, a freak show and much more. Robby Takac will MC the party which will have a “Buffalo Horror Story” theme. Meanwhile, The Town Ballroom will host a Halloween Bash featuring a Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime, the Mohawk Place hosts a Halloween party, which will feature tributes to Joy Division and more; The Lodge has a Zombie Ball; Club Marcella serves up a Halloween Blood Feast, and Nietzsche’s hosts their Halloween Extravaganza with the Irving Klaws and the Stripteasers. For something a little more low key, there’s the Hot Mama's Canteen Halloween Bash featuring a costume contest (free entry), Halloween Party Time at Exchange; the Halloween Monster Ball at Duke’s; Tap House or Halloween at the Gypsy Parlor, and Saturday will be your last chance to take the Creepy Cobblestone Paranormal Walk which begins at 9:30pm at Buffalo Iron Works. Choose wisely, friends. -CORY PERLA

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[BLUES] Born from the same British blues scene that eventually yielded the Peter Green version of Fleetwood Mac and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Savoy Brown and bandleader Kim Simmonds (vocals, harmonica, guitars) are celebrating a huge milestone: 50 years of music together. That's 50 years of continuous output, yielding 44 albums, including The Devil to Pay—the release of which is the other cause for celebration that brings the band, now a trio, to Sportsmen's Tavern on Saturday, October 31. Doors are at 8pm, two sets of music start at 9:30pm. -CJT

TUESDAY NOV 3 Strange Talk 7pm The Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $10-$12

[POP] The Aussie duo Strange Talk, comprising former Australia Youth Orchestra violinist Stephen Docker and DJ/Producer Gerard Sidhu, expands to a quartet on the road—useful assistance in recreating the sophisticated textures of 2014's debut fulllength, Cast Away, and the brand new EP, E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N. Similar in tone to Foster the People, Strange Talk generates anthems that have one foot firmly planted in electronica while the other touches toes with numerous pop hybrids, resulting in widespread appeal. It's what landed their catchy single "Climbing Walls" in the #1 position on Billboard's Uncharted chart. Strange Talk comes to the Waiting Room on Tuesday, November 3 with Intergalactix. -CJT

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BLOOD FEAST 11PM-2AM at Club Marcella, 622 Main Street

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Celebrate Halloween with the original party monster, superstar DJ Keoki. Drag show at 11:30pm. Costume contest with more that $1,000 in cash and prizes at 1am (before the time change). VIP, $3; >21, $10; <21, $15.

5pm Canalside, 44 Prime St.

[FUN] The historic grain elevators of Buffalo will light up Canalside starting Wednesday, November 4. This event will feature live music and live theatrical performances before the lights turn on. For the adults, beer and wine will be available during the viewing, as well as an “Illuminated Prosecco” cocktail to celebrate the evening. There will be a photo contest for a season pass to the Ice at Canalside; enter the contest by tweeting the hashtag #CityofLight to the Canalside page. Spectators can either enjoy the view from Canalside or from the patio of the Liberty Hound. -CM

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MURDER IN THE DISCO FRIDAY OCT 30 9PM / PEARL STREET GRILL & BREWERY, 76 PEARL ST. / $15

[PARTY] MNM Presents will take over Pearl Street Grill and Brewery once again this Halloween weekend for the second annual Murder in the Disco on Friday, October 30. All three floors of the Buffalo establishment will be filled with live music and techno from 9pm until 2:30am. The mood will be set in typical Halloween fashion with art installations by Jeremiah DECO, decor, special lighting, and custom sound by Dan Neveau, and a costume contest to keep things spooky. Be sure to check out three curated rooms: the Bazoinker room, the Igloo Music room, and the Portal. The list of artists performing each room is extensive, so check the Murder in the Disco Facebook event page for full details. -ALICIA GRECO

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[INDIE] Combining raw backwoods sincerity with exquisite chambers of distortion and feedback and a seamless sense of melody, Athens's Futurebirds have comfortably found a niche in the realm of psychedelic-country-indie rock. On Wednesday, November 4 they'll be stopping at Mohawk Place in support of their most recent LP, Hotel Parties, a dynamic collection of songs whose moods range from the sun dazed bliss of "Deadbeat Hits" to the intimate, twangy lament of "Hard as You Like." Vermont's Waylon Speed and Buffalo's folk threesome, Hokan, are set to open. -JC

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For years, Sarah Walley has been Buffalo's premier macaroon baker. She has a regular job, so her baking schedule has fluctuated over time, but lately she's been on a roll. Her most recent round of flavors that she dropped off at Nickel City Cheese include Pumpkin Spice, Nutella with Snickers filling, Chocolate Custard, and Salted Caramel with toffee filling. You need these in your life.

SUFJAN STEVENS FRIDAY OCT 30 8PM / UB CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 103 CENTER FOR THE ARTS / $43.50 [INDIE] Composer Sufjan Stevens has been revered by many as one of the greatest living American composers. At a recent concert, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra performed selections from Stevens’s record, Enjoy Your Rabbit, and conductor Stefan Sanders referred to him as a “singular” entity in American songwriting—a composer who is able to write delicate banjo music and exotic electronic music and incorporate these divergent styles within one record. Stevens has been remarkably consistent since releasing his 2000 debut, A Sun Came, releasing a string of records over the past 15 years that have excelled in theme, songwriting, and composition. Early in his career, Stevens hyperbolically announced his intention to write an album for each state in the union, which resulted in two of his most intriguing records, 2003’s Michigan and 2005’s Illinois. That’s as far as he went with that concept before releasing a pair of Christmas records and moving into the more electronic-leaning and critically acclaimed album The Age of Adz. Earlier this year, he released what many are calling his most intimate and decidedly stripped-back album, Carrie & Lowell, the subject matter of which—a mix of memories and fictional narrative—was prompted by the death of his mother. All of Stevens’s work has mixed not only varying musical styles, but a wealth of historical, mythological, geographical, and biblical references that fuse to create modern day folk fables in song. His upcoming performance in Buffalo will mark his first trip back since performing at Babeville’s Asbury Hall in 2013, where he donned a mishmash of costumes and surrounded himself on stage by a barricade of musical instruments. Sufjan Stevens comes to the UB Center For The Arts on Friday, October 30. -CORY PERLA

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TRUTHINESS TRUTH / OUR BRAND IS CRISIS / BURNT THE PROPHET / ALL THINGS MUST PASS BY M. FAUST WHEN YOU’RE SITTING AT THE BEGINNING OF A MOVIE, and the titles announcing the various productions companies end with “Mythology Entertainment” just before the title of the flick—Truth—you have to wonder if someone out there in Hollywood is pulling your leg.

Based on the memoir by former 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes, Truth recreates the events that led up to her firing and the forced resignation of CBS news anchor Dan Rather in 2008. After receiving information regarding the military record of President George W. Bush, who at the time was running for a second term in office, Mapes (Cate Blanchett) put together a team to investigate. A story was run questioning how Bush got into the Texas National Guard, widely viewed as an outpost where young men of privilege could avoid Vietnam, and whether he even fulfilled his obligations there. After the story ran, critics began to pick at the reporting, and the network appointed a panel which concluded that the evidence was not conclusive enough to justify the story. So what was the truth? It seems likely that what Mapes and her team reported was accurate, but just as likely that it fell short of the standard that should be required by a respectable news organization—and as Rather (played with a minimum of makeup and more dignity than you might expect by Robert Redford) notes, in the news business, “60 Minutes is the gold standard.” But the movie assumes that you don’t doubt that. Awash in manipulative music and emotional confrontations, Truth offers its own most damning criticism when Rather says, “People want to talk about conspiracy theories because that’s what they do these days, and the truth gets lost in the scrum.” Debuting scripter-director James Vanderbilt films his story as a conspiracy theory, but with all of the paranoid attitude and few facts. The closest we get to any explanation as to why someone might have either fed Mapes false information and/or orchestrated her removal is a monologue delivered by stressed-out reporter Topher Grace about CBS owner Viacom’s political ties to the administration, which is delivered as if Vanderbilt is mostly concerned about deniability. The possibility that Mapes pissed off the wrong people when she broke the story about Abu Ghraib seems likely, but there’s no proof. And in Mapes’s climactic confrontation with her accusers, Blanchett’s icy indignation doesn’t answer the fact that most of the questions she is being asked are, well, reasonable. As the real Rather said at an audience Q&A at TIFF, “Journalism is not an exact science.” That goes double for movies. *** You may remember the title Our Brand Is Crisis—it is a memorable phrase—as a documentary from a decade ago about American political operatives running the campaign of a candidate for president in Bolivia. There’s a new film by the same title, which claims to have been “suggested by” the documentary. If you’ve seen them both, you might be hard-pressed to make the connection. Developed by George Clooney and his partner Grant Heslov, this new Crisis takes a lot of dramatic license (and adds some unnec-

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PREMIERES OPENING FRIDAY OCTOBER 30 ALL THINGS MUST PASS—Documentary about the rise and fall of Tower Records, the California chain whose stores were nirvana to record geeks across the country. Directed by Colin Hanks. Reviewed this issue. Eastern Hills BURNT—Bradley Cooper as a once-famous chef trying to rebuild his career with a new London restaurant. Co-starring Sienna Miller, Daniel Bruhl, and Emma Thompson. Directed by John Wells (August: Osage County). Reviewed this issue. Flix (Dipson), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria LABYRINTH OF LIES—Drama based on the efforts of public prosecutors in Germany in the late 1950s to initiate proceedings against former SS personnel who worked at Auschwitz, a topic the country was eager to forget about. Starring Alexander Fehling, Andre Szymanski ,and Friederike Becht. Directed by Giulio Ricciarelli. A review will be posted to dailypublic.com. Eastern Hills OUR BRAND IS CRISIS—Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton as American political consultants bringing their methods to a war-torn South American country in this fictionalized version of the 2005 documentary by Rachel Boynton. Directed by David Gordon Green (Manglehorn). Reviewed this issue. Area theaters

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essary slapstick) in what appears to be an attempt to show viewers that political campaigning is a dirty business, run by slick consultants who don’t care who they work for so long as they get paid. Is this news to anyone? Can I see some hands? No, I didn’t think so. Starring Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton as consultants on opposite sides for whom the race is a surrogate to battle each other, Crisis was primed to be a satirical comedy along the lines of Thank You for Smoking or Used Cars. It has its moments, like Bullock tricking the opposing candidate into quoting Goebbels at a rally. But they’re few and far between. So is hard information about the horrors visited on third-world economies by the IMF, which is only alluded to here. When Bullock does an about-face to do the right thing at the film’s conclusion, it packs no punch: We know she’s doing it not because her character has learned anything but simply because she’s the hero of the film and that’s what heroes do. *** The cliché of the martinet chef may be ubiquitous lately—thanks, Gordon Ramsay—but it’s one that audiences have loved for years. Ramsay is credited as an executive producer (one of many) on Burnt, starring Bradley Cooper as a character whose similarities to Ramsay are too numerous to catalogue in this short space. Three years after self-immolating his successful career in Paris, Cooper’s Adam Jones returns to London from his self-imposed penance (shucking a million oysters in New Orleans) clean and sober but still arrogant as he sets his sights on that third Michelin star. (Don’t worry if you don’t know what that means—scripter Steven Knight has a Star Wars analogy ready to explain it.) Burnt may be awash in enough images of gastronomic delight to satisfy any foodie, but dramatically it’s as familiar and predictable as macaroni and cheese. It may not be a challenging movie, but knowing where the plot is heading at every turn means there’s less to distract you from fantasizing about building a new kitchen so that you could cook like this. (Of such self-delusions are the movies made.) *** Do young people still discover Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet the way they did in the 1960s and 1970s? Some must—the book, which was first published in 1923, has never been out of print in the US.

SCOUTS GUIDE TO THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE—Remember when zombie movies were scary? I know, I know, it’s been awhile. With Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, and Sarah Dumont. Directed by Christopher Landon (the last Paranormal Activity movie). Area theaters THE PROPHET—Kahlil Gibran’s book brought to the screen by a team of animators contributing separate segments, including Bill Plympton, Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues), and Tomm Moore (Secret of Kells). Reviewed this issue. North Park TRUTH—Robert Redford as CBS news anchor Dan Rather in a docudrama about the incident that caused his resignation, a 60 Minutes report about George W. Bush’s spotty military record that was attacked for poor reporting. With Cate Blanchett, Topher Grace, and Dennis Quaid. Directed by James Vanderbilt. Reviewed this issue. Amherst

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It’s surprising that it took until now for a film to be made of it; perhaps the 1973 adaptation of Jonathan Livingston Seagull was to blame. As with all inspirational literature, it’s easy to mock the uplifting platitudes of Gibran’s book, but there’s a reason it has been so popular for so long: His thoughts on topics from birth to death and everything in between are genuinely, well, inspirational. The film features the work of nine renowned animators, including Bill Plympton, Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues), and Tomm Moore (Secret of Kells), illustrating particular chapters, set into a frame story by Roger Allers, who supervised Disney’s The Lion King. The Disney influence is most apparent in the characters, which have been expanded to include a silent little girl and her mother who accompany the prophet Mustapha on his journey. But the backgrounds lack the usual Disney ostentation, which keeps the sights from overpowering the words. And you couldn’t ask for a better reader than Liam Neeson. It opens Friday at the North Park. *** If you grew up in California in the 1960s and 1970s and had any interest in music, you probably shopped at Tower Records, because if it was recorded, Tower had it. On the evidence of Colin Hanks’s documentary All Things Must Pass, it was apparently a swell place to work at as well: Owner Russell Solomon maintained a family atmosphere among employees through the chain’s international expansion and up through its collapse a decade ago; more than one former executive chokes up as they talk to the camera about those final days. But if there wasn’t a Tower in your part of the country—Western New York never had one—the movie may leave you a bit less misty-eyed. Hanks only passingly offers commentary on the greed that consumed the record industry in the 1990s and doesn’t seem to recognize how many independent stores were put out of business by Tower’s expansion. The movie might have been more entertaining for otherwise uninterested viewers if it served up more sleazy stories from the days when LA was the music capital of the world and every rocker haunted Tower; those stories are undoubtedly there, but only hinted at here. It opens Friday at the P Eastern Hills.

imitators it inspired, it looks like a small masterpiece of focused independent filmmaking in the wake of so many recent big studio remakes of 1970s horror movies. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, and P.J. Soles. Fri-Sat 9:30pm. Screening Room MISSISSIPPI MASALA (1991)—An Indian family displaced from Uganda by Idi Amin and re-located to the United States is thrown into turmoil when the daughter fallsin love with a black man. Starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, and Charles S. Dutton. Directed by Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay). Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Amherst (Dipson) NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)—The shocking no-budget verisimilitude of George Romero’s original zombie film remains as effective as it was when it first leaked into drive-ins a half century ago, as long as you can see it with an audience not intent on making a joke of it. Fri-Sat 7:30pm Screening Room OKLAHOMA! (1955)—Sixtieth anniversary edition of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, featuring an introduction by Kristin Chenoweth performing songs from the score. Starring Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, ShirleyJones, and Rod Steiger. Directed by Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity). Sun, 2pm, 7pm. Eastern Hills, Flix PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1959)—Ed Wood’s best-remembered film is hardly the “worst movie ever made,” but it is one of the most entertaining bad ones. The fun lies not in the story about aliens intent on destroying Earth but from the cardboard sets, stock footage, and overripe acting from an assortment of Hollywood wannabes (padded out with a few minutes of left-over footage of Bela Lugosi, shot just before his death). Wed Nov 28 6pm. Screening Room

PSYCHO (1960)—Presented with live musical accompaniment by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. See the preview this issue. Sat 8pm. Kleinhans Music Hall THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975)—Because it just wouldn’t be Halloween without Dr. Frank N. Furter prancing about somewhere. Do the Time Warp again! Fri 11pm, Aurora; Fri midnight (pre-show party at 10pm), Riviera; Fri-Sat midnight, Lockport Palace; Sat midnight, Hamburg Palace THE SCORPIONS: FOREVER AND A DAY—Just when you thought hurricane season was over, along comes this documentary about the veteran German hard rock band on what was supposed to be their farewell tour. Wed Nov 28 8pm. Screening Room SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)—Widely regarded as one of the funniest movies ever made, Billy Wilder’s drag farce is a comedy that stands up to repeated viewings; every time you see it, you appreciate how well crafted another aspect is. And if you’ve never seen it with a crowd, don’t miss this chance: laughter really is contagious. With Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, and Joe E. Brown delivering the best closing line in the history of movies. Mon 7:30pm. North Park YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)—Mel Brooks’s best film. Some of the parody of classic Universal monster movies is forced, but if you can’t laugh at Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) and his monster (Peter Boyle) doing a soft-shoe to “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” there’s no hope for you. With Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars, and Gene Hackman. Thurs, Sun 7:30pm. Screening Room

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of his books as possible: A movie that might attract even a small fraction of the readers who have bought an estimated 400 million copies of his books is clearly a gold mine. On the other hand, he’s written about 420 THEATER INFORMATION IS VALID THROUGH books. Jack Black stars as a reclusive writer named R. L. Stine who must help when hundreds of monsters escape THURSDAY, OCT 29 from the printed page to terrorize a small Connecticut BLACK MASS—The life of Boston gangster James “Whitey” town. Stine had no hand in the script, and adapters Scott Bulger, brutal, sociopathic, and darkly entrepreneurial, is Alexander and Larry Karaszewski cram in endless refa prime vehicle to reflect upon the American character, erences to other horror favorites (mostly Gremlins and maybe too much so for the filmmakers here sufficientJumanji)). The result is a balancing act that won’t wholly ly to contend with. Focusing on his deal with the FBI, satisfy either parents who grew up on Stine’s books or which agreed to take a tolerant attitude toward the acmodern kids, but will probably be acceptable to all for tivities of Bulger’s gang in return for information about family Halloween entertainment. With Dylan Minnette, the Boston Mafia, the film neglects other aspects of his Odeya Rush, Amy Ryan, and Ken Marino. Directed by criminal career, including his relationship with his brothRob Letterman (Gulliver’s Travels). –MF Flix (Dipson), er, a respectable politician, and the support he received Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, from the Irish-American community. Johnny Depp plays Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, SunBulger with a variable Boston accent, but the film’s best set Drive-In, Transit Drive-In performance comes from Joel Edgerton as his FBI handler. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, KevHOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2—Animated sequel from the Adam in Bacon, and Peter Sarsgaard. Directed by Scott Cooper Sandler production line. Directed by Genndy Tarta(Crazy Heart). -GS Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, Regal kovsky. Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal ElmQuaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria wood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In BRIDGE OF SPIES—Steven Spielberg isn’t the most intellectually or aesthetically penetrating director of the last THE INTERN—Robert De Niro puts little of himself into his three decades—not nearly—but given good, exploitable enervated performance here as a harmless sweetheart, material, he can expertly tell a story, and does so here. a quietly avuncular retiree aiding a stressed corporate Tom Hanks stars as James Donovan, a New York lawyer executive (Anne Hathaway in a tense, ill-conceived perof the 1950s who takes a pro bono case to defend a Rusformance) through personal and professional difficulsian man accused of spying against the United States. ties. A comedy with pretentions with social commentary Because of this he is enlisted to negotiate with the Sovithat it doesn’t earn. Nancy Meyers’s soggy, uninventive ets for the release of captured American spy-plane pilot film is old-fashioned in the worst senses of the word, Francis Gary Powers. Scripted by Joel and Ethan Coen ditching its odd couple premise to become a sentiwith Matt Charman, this is a big, large-spirited movie ment-coated domestic-crisis dramedy built on small, that relies on small scenes of human interaction. With easily-surmounted problem situations. Co-starring Rene Mark Rylance, Scott Shepherd, Amy Ryan, and Alan Russo and Anders Holm. –GS Aurora, Flix (Dipson), ReAlda. –GS Amherst (Dipson), Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge gal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal QuakTransit, Regal Walden Galleria er, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS—Live-action version of the CRIMSON PEAK—The first third of Guillermo del Toro’s new 1980s cartoon series. Starring Aubrey Peeples, Aurora movie is set in Buffalo at the turn of the 19th century, Perrineau, Stefanie Scott, and Juliette Lewis. Directed when it was the model of up-and-coming America. He by Jon M. Chu (GI Joe: Retaliation). Flix (Dipson), Regal didn’t actually shoot here, making do with some digitalElmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Tranly-incorporated photos of local landmarks, but it’s still sit, Regal Walden Galleria nice to see the Queen City reflected in its first glory days. Aside from that, Crimson Peak is less of a horTHE LAST WITCH HUNTER—There’s something to be said ror movie than a Victorian melodrama with some CGI for low expectations: I enjoyed this supernatural thriller ghosts and an absurdly violent finale. As always with del more than I expected to, because I wasn’t expecting to Toro, the production design is spectacular, which does enjoy it at all. As an unwillingly immortal witch hunter a lot (thought not enough) to distract you from how now based in Manhattan (he’s employed by a church cathreadbare the story is. Starring Mia Wasikowska, Tom bal of anti-witch activists) Vin Diesel is not entirely lackHiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, and Jessica Chastain, who ing in charisma. But the flashes of wit in the script are should have been allowed to go the full Dame Judith buried under an undistinguished story and endless digiAnderson with her sinister character. –MF Flix (Dipson), tal effects. With Julie Engelbrecht, Michael Caine, Elijah Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Wood, and Isaach De Bankolé. Directed by Breck Eisner Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Tran(The Crazies). -MF Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), sit Drive-In Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In EVEREST—Based on the story recounted in Jon Krakauer’s book, Into Thin Air, about climbers on Mt. Everest THE MARTIAN—It makes sense to update science fiction who are trapped by a severe snow storm. Starring Josh variants on the Robinson Crusoe story every so often to Brolin, Jason Clarke, and Thomas M. Wright. Directed by take advantage of both new technology and new knowlBaltasar Kormákur (2 Guns). Aurora, Four Seasons, ReVISIT DAILYPUBLIC.COM FOR MORE FILM LISTINGS & REVIEWS >> by edge. And the armchair survivalist will be engrossed gal Quaker, Regal Transit at least the first half of this adaptation of Andy Weir’s GOODNIGHT MOMMY—This Austrian import has been getnovel starring Matt Damon as the can-do science guy ting rave reviews, apparently from viewers with stronger stuck on Mars. But scripter Drew Goddard, who has givstomachs than mine. In a secluded house on the edge en us such logically wobbly films as The Cabin in the of a forest, nine-year-old twins amuse themselves as Woods and World War Z, is less interested in illustrattheir mother recovers from surgery. Because her face is ing Weir’s problem-solving than the more familiar stuff bandaged, they start to wonder: is this really their mothabout NASA mounting a rescue operation. The overall er? Though the story is annoyingly parsimonious about result would be more enjoyable on a popcorn level if details, it nonetheless gives away its big surprise early the first half hadn’t put you in a logical mode that the on to anyone paying attention. And the last half hour is second half abandons. (The disco music is particularly VISIT DAILYPUBLIC.COM MORE FILM LISTINGS given to a protracted sequence involving torture that is idiotic—as if FOR a mission to Mars in even the near future difficult to watch even by the standards of torture porn: couldn’t come equipped with at least as much music as not my idea of an edifying night at the movies. Directed you or I could fit on a thumb drive right now.) With Jessiby Severin Fialo and Veronika Franz. -MF. North Park ca Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, (ENDS THURS), Eastern Hills Michael Pena, and Sean Bean. 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MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS—Teen dystopian sequel. Starring Dylan O’Brien, Ki Hong Lee, and Kaya Scodelario. Directed by Wes Ball (Beginners). Four Seasons, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria PAN—Hugh Jackman’s elegantly honed emoting—call it hamming, if you want—as a pirate king brings panache and camp to this bombastic attempt to provide a backstory to the characters in J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. The dense, barely clarified tale begins with Peter as an orphan in London who is whisked away during the Battle of Britain. Director Joe Wright (Intonement) takes the story’s convolutions too seriously, under the assumption that modern kids prefer that to the twee sentimentality of the original. Starring Levi Miller, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara, and Amanda Seyfried. -GS Flix (Dipson), New Angola, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSION—Horror sequel. Starring Chris J. Miller, Brittany Shaw, and Olivia Taylor Dudley. Directed by Gregory Plotkin, graduating from editor of the previous entries. Hamburg Palace, Maple Ridge (AMC), Transit Drive-In ROCK THE KASBAH—Inexcusable. Just as it seemed that Bill Murray had finally learned his lesson about starring in lousy comedies, he comes out with what might be the worst one of his entire career. He looks old and weary as a washed-up concert promoter stuck in Afghanistan after a failed USO tour. He discovers a new singer, a Pashtun girl who must defy her warlord father to appear on Afghan Star, that country’s answer to American Idol. It shows less understanding of international relations than you would find in an old Bob Hope Road movie, though at least those were funny. Tied with Aloha as the worst movie of the year, for all the same reasons. I would tell you who else stars in it, but why should I get your hopes up? Directed by Barry Levinson (Tin Men). -MF Flix (Dipson), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria SICARIO—Emily Blunt as an idealistic FBI agent assigned to keep drugs from coming over the US-Mexican border. Co-starring Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, and Victor Garber. Directed by Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners), so expect violence. Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Transit Drive-In STEVE JOBS—Whether or not this depiction of Apple’s founder and public face is inaccurate, as many have charged, isn’t important, at least to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who dismisses complaints about liberties he and director Danny Boyle took by saying that they weren’t trying to make a conventional biopic, but rather something truer, more “impressionistic.” Structured in three sequences centered on the launching of three game-changing Apple products, the movie shows Jobs (Michael Fassbender) battling last-minute glitches and personal problems to launch his particular vision of each product. While Sorkin and Boyle want to show Jobs’ mellowing and self-examination over the years, it’s the younger, more monstrous genius that remains their most persuasive portrait. With Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels, and Seth Rogan. –GS Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE VISIT—Two city kids armed with home movie cameras spend a week in rural Pennsylvania with the grandparents they’re never met. After a string of high-profile disasters, M. Night Shyamalan’s modestly conceived and budgeted horror thriller mixes a 1970s story with a “found footage” shooting style that costs the film more & REVIEWS in distraction than it >> adds in effect. The same goes for the lightweight satire of film students as our 15-year-old heroine obsesses over her mise en scene: It only seems to be filling time on the way to the finale. Staring Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, and Kathryn Hahn. –MF Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In P

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The terms 99 percent and one percent became vernacular. Though the movement has since fizzled, its message still rings true today: Fortune reported earlier this year that 80 percent of the global population shares just 5.5 percent of the global wealth. What kind of impact can a middle-class professional have on the policies of Fortune 500 companies worth billions of dollars? After the Great Depression, the US government passed the Investment Company Act of 1940, to help regulate the activities of publicly traded companies, and protect their shareholders from possible fraudulent activity. One of the powers granted to shareholders by this act was the requirement of management contracts to be submitted to shareholders for approval. These acts were standard in post Great Depression policy-making, and it is because of these policies that perhaps the most successful way for the middle class to voice their concerns to the one percent is through the stock market. Despite one’s personal or professional feelings towards the stock market, it is difficult to question the market’s efficiency. Rob Berridge, of the Guardian, wrote back in April 2013 that the New York Stock Exchange “processes more than 28,000 trades every second.” Approximately 2 billion trades occur daily on NASDAQ. It has never been easier to get involved in the stock market as an investor. Shareholder activism is not a new practice but has harnessed a new energy from the success of individuals like Carl Icahn. Icahn took on Time Warner management in 2006 after their failed merger with AOL. His shareholder group won a number of concessions, including the replacement of the company’s board. From the outside looking in, the chances of implementing change seem slim to none. However, purchasing stock offers an individual the ability to advocate for the change he or she wishes to see in a publicly traded organization; some are given a line of communication with top-level executives that people outside of the market could never achieve. Investors are able to use their shares to vote on management and attempt to steer the company in whatever direction they see fit. With enough support amongst the shareholders, change can occur. According to Green America, 2015 set a record for number of shareholder resolutions on “social and environmental issues,” with a total of 468 resolutions filed. Some strategies practiced by the activists include exercising their proxy vote, attending annual meetings, corresponding with management and submitting resolutions. A company’s board cannot afford to ignore the requests and resolutions of their shareholders because their jobs are possibly at stake.

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DEAR KEITH: My best friend has begun brewing his own beer and it’s terrible. How do I break the news to him? —SCOTT WITH TROTS

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SCOTT WITH TROTS: To be honest, up until

last month I thought a “microbrew” was a very rare kind of beer made in a lab by knowledgeable scientists who were experimenting with flavor combinations on a molecular level, and that “craft” meant that its production was so remarkable that it was akin to witchery. Imagine my dismay when I found out both terms could justifiably be used to describe a small amount of undrinkable yeast juice that had been sitting on a card table in my dyslexic cousin’s basement.

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Since this earth-shattering revelation, I have been suspicious of impressive words. Descriptors such as “farm to table” or “locally sourced” or “adult” now give me pause where once I may have eagerly leapt to indulge, because the requirements necessary to earn these titles have become purposefully duplicitous in order to appeal to an ever-growing populace obsessed with health and supporting small business. For example, any item at Chipotle described as “local” means it has come from somewhere within 350 miles. In that broad stroke, it is possible that the chicken in the burrito you got on Walden Avenue was hatched in the Atlantic Ocean or, even worse, Quebec. And that “organic” bag of kale chips you’ve been eating instead of your once-beloved Lays? Well, that probably has worm cum in it.

subpar product. He’s not an eight-yearold who hands you a macaroni necklace that you have to pretend you’ll wear when you know damn well it’s the biggest piece of shit excuse for jewelry you’ve ever seen and you want nothing more than to throttle your obese son for bringing shame to your legacy. He’s an adult who makes crummy alcohol, and a verbal thrashing from you may inspire him to tweak variables and work harder in order to improve himself—like the kid from Whiplash who owed his perfect final performance to J. K. Simmons’s character, or how Mary Jo Buttafuoco owes her career as a motivational speaker to Amy Fisher. Not being honest with your friend in the early stages of his new endeavor may send him the wrong way down a one-way street. Only after it’s way too late will he realize that he is not only bereft of any passion he may have had at the outset, but ill-equipped and bewildered in the presence of those following their true calling. If you don’t believe me, just imagine how much better the art world would be if someone had been honest with Hitler after he finished his first self-portrait. “Scott With Trots,” don’t be the man who tells Hitler he’s “onto something.” Throw your friend’s “craft beer” in the toilet where it belongs and meet me at the Pink.

I definitely don’t have a point, but if I had to pretend I did, I guess it would be that your friend’s newest endeavor to make something with his own hands doesn’t necessarily mean that he has put his entire heart and soul into it. Therefore I don’t think you have any obligation to act impressed with a genuinely

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