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BY JIM HEANEY n Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz is claiming a mandate after his two-to-one victory over Republican challenger Ray Walter last week. Not so fast. Three-quarters of registered voters sat out last week’s general election. If it was a football game, we might have called it the Apathy Bowl. So, if we’re going to go by the numbers, Poloncarz got two-thirds of one-quarter of the vote. Which is to say one in six voters felt strongly enough about Poloncarz to actually get off their couch and vote for him. Mandate? Hardly. There are certain elements of the political class that will wring their hands over the turnout, but really this is by design. The two party bosses, Democrat Jeremy Zellner and Republican Nick Langworthy, did their bit by once again cross-endorsing candidates for state Supreme Court judge. Shameful. Furthermore, many incumbents serving on the mostly do-nothing Erie County Legislature and Buffalo Common Council ran without serious opposition in either the primary or general election. While this might be good for the party chairmen, especially Zellner, who has had to devote much energy earlier in his tenure to countering rearguard attacks within his party, it does not make for good democracy. Andy Bailey of Primary Data, a former colleague of mine at the Buffalo News who now does some occasional data work for Investigative Post, crunched some numbers earlier this week. Highlights—or, lowlights, if you will—include: •

Turnout countywide was 24.8 percent.

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Cities and towns with the worst turnouts include Collins (14 percent), Buffalo (14.4 percent), Wales (15.3 percent), Kenmore (16.5 percent) and Concord (17 percent).

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The “best” turnouts were in Grand Island (34.5 percent), North Collins (34.2 percent), City of Tonawanda (34 percent), Marilla (33.6 percent), and Eden (33 percent). Which is to say, even in the most engaged communities, two-thirds of voters couldn’t be bothered.

“Our democracy is wasting away before our eyes,” Bailey wrote in sharing the numbers. Indeed, last week’s anemic turnout is part of a trend. For example, I documented two years ago that voter turnout in Buffalo’s mayoral primaries has been steadily dropping since the 1970s. The turnout in 1977, when Jimmy Griffin and Art Eve squared off, was nearly 60 percent; two years ago, only 20 percent of registered Democrats bothered to vote. How bad was it? Byron Brown was re-elected in a landslide—and won fewer votes (14,433) than did his opponent four years earlier (14,866), who happened to lose in a landslide. Poloncarz, in declaring victory last week, declared: “Tonight, the people of Erie County spoke.” In a word, they said, “Meh.” n UPCOMING EVENTS: A happy hour panel discussion that seeks to answer the question: “Is Buffalo really getting its mojo back?” Tuesday, December 1 at 7pm at Allen Street Hardware, 245 Allen Street. Participants include Newell Nussbaumer, founder and editorial director of Buffalo Rising, and Henry L. Taylor, a professor and founding director of the Center for Urban Studies at the University at Buffalo. Admission is $10—free to Investigative Post members who have purchased a silver, gold or platinum package—and includes free drink. Visit InvestigativePost.org/events for details and to purchase tickets. The Public is the place to find print versions of muckraking reports produced by Investigative Post, P the only news organization in Buffalo and Western

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Above: the leaking ceiling at 353 Bird. Below: a collapsed ceiling at 29 Bryant Street.

At 353 Bird, at least two tenants suffered the same leak from what they believe is a second-floor toilet into the dining room. PHOTO BY CORY PERLA

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STUDENT HOUSING DEVELOPER HAS HISTORY OF COMPLAINTS

Interviews with more than 30 current and former tenants, contractors, employees, and business associates, and a review of hundreds of public records, show that Greenleaf and other entities owned by Swiezy have a checkered business history. Investigative Post found: •

Greenleaf residential properties have been the subject of more than 100 complaints lodged with the city’s “311” call resolution center, 20 prosecutions in Housing Court or code violations, and three complaints filed with the state attorney general. Some of these problems date to the 1990s, but most are within the past decade.

Properties owned by James Swiezy’s companies have a history of complaints from tenants, contractors, and tax collectors. So why is Buffalo State College doing business with him?

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Numerous tenant complaints that Greenleaf failed to make repairs and withheld security deposit refunds. More than 70 former tenants have gone so far as to take Greenleaf to Small Claims Court, usually seeking the return of security deposits.

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City, state, and federal officials over the years have taken action to collect more than $400,000 in unpaid property, income, and payroll taxes owed by Swiezy or his companies.

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At least a dozen contractors filed lawsuits or mechanics liens in an effort to collect more than $300,000 in unpaid bills from Greenleaf companies.

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to build off-campus student housing has a history of renting apartments with leaky ceilings, electrical hazards, and insufficient heat. Take 353 Bird Avenue, for example.

The ceiling in the downstairs dining room has been stained for a couple of years from a leak that tenants believe comes from an upstairs toilet. The ceiling has collapsed on at least two tenants during that time, including Elizabeth Coffie. “It looked like colored rain and the smell was awful,” she said. Rather than fixing the problem, she said, the landlord simply replaced the ceiling tile. The same thing happened to the next

tenant. The apartment now is occupied by yet a third renter, who recently pointed out a stained ceiling tile in the same spot. These tenants aren’t the only ones who have criticized Greenleaf & Company and other entities owned by James Swiezy. Interviews and a review of public records show that Greenleaf companies have a history of not paying bills to contractors or taxes on time to the city, state, and federal government. Nevertheless, Greenleaf has gained the cooperation of Buffalo State College officials and the endorsement of Mayor Byron Brown and Housing Court Judge Patrick Carney for a plan to level much of a city block and build a 308-bed student housing project next to the school.

Swiezy, who would only respond to questions by email, said he is “very proud” of his company and that the “assertions do not accurately portray Greenleaf.” “You are focusing on a very small subset in relation to the total number of tenants we have. With very limited exceptions, Greenleaf ’s vast number of relationships across the board have been without incident or controversy,” he wrote.

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Many former tenants describe Greenleaf in a different light. “The fixtures were hot-glued on the walls, pieces of carpet were peeling up, the bathroom fixtures were falling off the walls,” said Corey Mills, who vacated Greenleaf ’s apartment at 731 Ashland Avenue a year ago. “They don’t fix anything before you move in, and then keep your security deposit when you move out claiming that you caused the damages.”

“All they did was put down cardboard over it and we moved out soon after that,” said Summer Oliver, the former tenant.

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A former tenant of 241 West Utica Street filed a complaint in February with the attorney general seeking a half month of rent restitution due to lack of hot water. The complaint, whose name was redacted, states that Greenleaf used a propane tank with an attached heating element to thaw pipes.

Swiezy entered the real estate business in 1986. He owns more than a dozen limited liability corporations. His wealth has afforded him a redbrick Georgian Colonial house on Lincoln Parkway worth more than $1 million. Greenleaf companies own a quarter-million square feet of commercial space, including the Bosche building at 916 Main Street. In October 2013, the Erie County Industrial Development Agency awarded the Bosche project $255,000 in sales and mortgage tax abatements. Most of Greenleaf ’s properties are apartments, boarded-up houses, and vacant lots. Its approximately 700 rental units range from what Swiezy calls “luxury apartments” at 1040 Delaware Avenue to more modest flats near Buffalo State. Most of Greenleaf ’s properties are in the city’s West Side and Elmwood Village area—locations that attract college students. Consequently, many of Greenleaf ’s tenants are young adults willing to live in basic apartments for the affordable rents. Nevertheless, Greenleaf ’s renters do complain— quite often.

RENTER COMPLAINTS Successive tenants of 353 Bird Avenue said they suffered through plumbing problems that Greenleaf never adequately fixed. What tenants said was toilet water had poured from their dining room ceiling. Both former tenants mentioned other problems, too, such as rodents, insufficient heat and a spongy bathroom floor caused by water damage. But the ceiling leak was the last straw. “That’s where I eat,” said Coffie, who vacated the apartment in the summer of 2014. “They came and just threw cardboard up there, changed the ceiling tile, and that was it.” Terri Bennett, who vacated the apartment in June, added: “We experienced leaks in our ceiling ever since we moved in. Tiles were falling, water was all over the floor from the toilet upstairs, it smelled horrible.” Swiezy characterized the ceiling leaks as a “small drip” that he eventually resolved. “Troubleshooting a plumbing leak can be challenging, especially one that shows up every few months,” he wrote in an email response.

MORE COMPLAINTS Former tenants of other Greenleaf apartments have made a litany of complaints to city inspectors that include holes in the walls and roofs, crumbling ceilings from water damage, birds nesting in the attic, and animals crawling inside walls. A former tenant of 309 Elmwood Avenue complained in 2006 that a ceiling fan shot sparks and sewage that had flooded the basement remained “there for months.”

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A former tenant at 96 Rees Street, who asked not to be named, hired an electrician who told him the apartment “was not ready to be lived in, that it was a fire hazard.”

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Indeed, a June 30 city inspection report cites numerous code violations, such as no working smoke detectors and malfunctioning electrical outlets.

The Buffalo Fire Department told the tenant that “if the propane tank leaked and my furnace had turned on it would only be a matter of time before an explosion,” the complaint stated. Greenleaf responded that “the propane heater used…is something Greenleaf is familiar with and has used numerous times before.”

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At least one child living there was diagnosed with elevated blood-lead levels, according to the report. The report states the tenant wasn’t relocated for almost six months, and that in May the “owner” refused to take care of all the hazards because the house was “to be demolished within 90 days.”

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Swiezy denied having knowledge of the circumstances at 134 Rees, which he had demolished in August. The complaints by tenants go beyond their living conditions.

SECURITY DEPOSIT COMPLAINTS Tenants have a history of security deposit disputes with Greenleaf. Numerous reviews on Yelp and Google and complaints filed with the Better Business Bureau and the state Attorney General illustrate this problem. Jason Parker is a former Greenleaf tenant at 29 Bryant Street who left a negative review several months ago. In an interview, he said his apartment had sporadic heat and his bathroom ceiling started to collapse from a water leak. “It took forever to get repairs taken care of,” he said. Parker said he left his apartment spotless at the conclusion of his lease and has pictures to prove it. But when he moved out this spring, Greenleaf docked him $155, saying he failed to “thoroughly” clean the stove, living room floor, and bathroom. When Parker contested, he said Greenleaf ’s human resources and property manager offered to return the remaining deposit only if he removed his negative online reviews.

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Swiezy is estranged from two former business “It doesn’t sound very ethical at all and I told partners. One of them, Paul Kolkmeyer, filed a them I was not comfortable doing such,” he said. lawsuit against Greenleaf in Erie County Supreme Court in 2012. Swiezy, however, blamed Parker for leaving a “sticky resin on the hardwood floors in the living Kolkmeyer, former chief financial officer of First room” and a lack of “extensive cleaning of appliNiagara, accused Greenleaf and Swiezy of ”maances.” nipulating accounting records” and breaching fiduciary duties by “diverting and misappropriatParker termed Swiezy’s claim “utterly ridicuing funds” from their shared account to businesslous.” es solely owned by Swiezy. A Better Business Bureau complaint filed by a Swiezy responded by affidavit that the allegaformer tenant in May 2014 states Greenleaf tions are “spurious and lack any good faith basis.” withheld all but $65 of her $450 security deposit to clean the apartment and appliances. The adThey settled the lawsuit out of court. Kolkmeyer dress of the apartment in question is redacted by declined to comment. the BBB. “In the business world, it’s not unusual for dis“One of their complaints that carpets where [sic] agreements to occur when some terms are open in need of cleaning and I will say again, there for interpretation or do not specifically address were NO CARPETS IN THAT APARTthe matter at hand,” Swiezy said of the dispute MENT,” the former tenant wrote in the comwith Kolkmeyer. plaint. In addition, since the late 1990s at least a dozen contractors, from building suppliers to roofers to Similarly, Ron Heichman only got $295 of his plumbers, have filed mechanic’s liens, civil law$800 security deposit returned last year from suits, or small claims actions against Greenleaf his apartment at 29 Bryant Street. Some of the charges included $95 to sweep the apartment, companies. Almost all charge that Greenleaf $80 to clean a “very greasy” vent hood, $70 to companies failed to pay for work that ranged clean the refrigerator, $120 to patch a bedroom from $700 to $176,000. and bathroom wall, and $110 to clean the bathtub. POSITIVE RELATIONS However, a video that HeichmanIFrecorded at the YOU APPROVE ERRORS WHICH ARE THIShave PROOF, THE Not all contractors andON tenants had bad exconclusion of his lease appears to show each of periences with Greenleaf. In hisEXAMINE defense,THE Swiezy PUBLIC CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE. PLEASE AD these items to be clean and undamaged. He conInvestigative Post a list of tenants and EVEN IFprovided THE AD IS A PICK-UP. tested the charges, but HeichmanTHOROUGHLY said Greenleaf contractors to contact for positive experiences refused to send him evidence of the damages they with Greenleaf. � CHECK COPY CONTENT say he caused. The dispute remains unresolved. MESSAGE TO ADVERTISER “I think Jim is a very smart and intelligent busiThank you for advertising � CHECK IMPORTANT DATES Swiezy said such disputes are uncommon. nessman and he has always treated me fairly,” withtheir THE PUBLIC. Please “The majority of our tenants receive full sesaid Roger Hoffman, owner of the heating and review your and check � CHECK NAME, ADDRESS, curity deposit back,” he said. “The number thatad cooling company Northeast Mechanical. PHONE #, & WEBSITE forone percent.” any errors. The original ends up being disputed is less than Rob Niemiec, layout instructions have of Niemiec Building Supplies, said � PROOF OK (NO CHANGES) Former tenants, however, have filed least 74 as Swiezy a good customer. beenatfollowed closelyis as Small Claims Court cases against Greenleaf “He has always � paid,” Niemiec said. possible. THE PUBLIC offers PROOF OK (WITH CHANGES) since the late 1990s. Many of the disputes deal design services with tenants two are likewise content. Some with security deposits. But casesproofs involvedatother no charge. THE “They’ve been great to me,” said Jackie Silissues, as well. PUBLIC is not responsible Advertisers verberg, who rents 547 Signature Grant Street with her Consider Lakeisha Grenade’s court award of if not for any error notified husband Thom, who does occasional labor $542 last year for reimbursementwithin of an extermi24 hours for Greenleaf. of receipt. ____________________________ nator at her Delaware Avenue apartment. And department The production Mary Dean, who rents 642 Grant Steet with her Robert Van Valin’s award of $415 last year must havefor a asigned proof in Date: _______________________ husband, said, “I don’t got too many complaints partial refund of his January rentorder “due totoinsuffiprint. Please sign about him whatsoever.” CY / Y15W45 cient heat in the apartment.” and fax this back or approve Issue: _______________________ However, by responding email. the house she rents was cited SeptemYelp, a popular business review website, has alsoto this ber 21 by inspectors for three code violations, taken exception to Swiezy on occasion. haveFOR since been repaired. In addition, forPROOF MAY ONLYwhich BE USED PUBLICATION IN THE PUBLIC. Clearly, Greenleaf is concerned THIS about the negamer tenants at this address filed four complaints tive reviews. since 2011, involving, among other things, mold, Company officials had offered tenants a chance leaky plumbing, and rodents. to win free water and garbage service in exchange Buffalo State and city officials are supporting for positive reviews on Yelp, according to a May Swiezy’s project despite Greenleaf ’s history. 2015 Greenleaf flier that Investigative Post obtained. Subsequently, positive reviews began to LAND SWAP AND ENDORSEMENTS appear on Yelp. Hal Payne, Buffalo State’s vice president of stuYelp representative Kayleigh Winslow said dent affairs, said the college’s Committee on Greenleaf ’s actions were inappropriate. After College and Community Relations has never looking into the situation, she said, “Greenleaf received complaints about Greenleaf. was issued a warning by our user operations team “That doesn’t mean that there aren’t problems, and has seemed to stop the misleading behavior.” because students generally don’t come to us with their concerns about their dealings with offsite TAX TROUBLES landlords,” he said. Since in business, Swiezy and Greenleaf compaUnlike the University at Buffalo, Buffalo State nies, between them, received notices from feddoes not participate in a city program to inspect eral, state, and local governments claiming more off-campus student housing, said James Comerthan $400,000 in unpaid taxes. ford, commissioner of the city’s Permit and Inspections Services department. According to public records: “I think they didn’t feel that the same problems Multiple properties in Kenmore owned by existed in and around their campus,” ComerGreenleaf Partners 1 LLC fell $206,000 in propford said. erty tax arrears in 2002-2005, according to Erie County Clerk records. Michael Levine, Buffalo State’s vice president for finance and management, said, “Over time • In the late 1990s, Swiezy paid $65,000 we have gained some comfort in his ability to do in delinquent property taxes to stave off this project.” the foreclosure of at least five properties So comfortable that the college plans to swap held in his name, city records show. three parcels with Greenleaf that assists Buffalo State’s plans to build an alumni house and visi• In the late 1990s and again in 20052006, the federal government filed a totor center. tal of $107,000 in liens against Greenleaf In addition, Buffalo State will deed Greenleaf companies for unpaid payroll taxes, countwo properties on Hawley Street in exchange ty clerk records show. for asbestos remediation and demolition of two of the properties the college will obtain, Levine • In the late 1990s and again from 2002said. 2005, the state filed almost $29,000 in tax warrants against Greenleaf compaThe city Planning Board in September approved nies for unpaid unemployment insurance, Greenleaf ’s student housing project. The Comfranchise, and income taxes, county clerk mon Council needs to approve a rezoning for the records show. project to move forward, however. About a dozen homes on Rees Street and Grant Swiezy declined to comment directly on his tax Avenue have already been demolished. Two issues but said he is now “current on all property five-story buildings with retail space could be and payroll taxes.” finished by spring 2017.

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Above: Narcissus by Francis Toole. Right: Untitled: Helping Hand by Agnes Robertson.

FANTASY LIVES Agnes Robertson and Francis Toole at Meibohm Fine Arts Gallery

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BY JACK FORAN AGNES ROBERTSON AND FRANCIS TOOLE currently on exhibit at the Meibohm Fine Arts Gal-

lery are very different artists and each quite original, but their works have something in common. Robertson is a painter and her works feature dream-vision strange to alien-looking human and animal figures, comical wraith-like, ghostly. Whereas Toole is a sculptor whose current works are elaborate constructions of heavy-gauge white paper cut and folded and glued usually into rather fantastical figures—animals most often—in a flurry prodigality of cut paper bits and pieces, sometimes tending toward more abstract pattern arrangements. What the two artists have in common is that in both cases their works reflect stories. Seem to reflect stories. Stories more implicit than explicit. In the case of Toole, stories usually based on folk tales. In Robertson’s case, stories based vaguely on old literary models. Possible apocrypha, metamorphoses stories, stories from Dante. Including several stories from each artist with a common—shared between them—theme. A peace and harmony theme. Of mutual help. Or help offered or given. Toole has gone to the length of writing out the stories behind a couple of his pieces. Though it wasn’t necessary. The works tell or suggest the story sufficiently. A piece called Blind Bird depicts a bird sitting on the back of a four-footed creature that turns out in the story to be a dog. The bird can’t see, but is said to have an excellent sense of smell, which this particular dog seems somehow to be lacking, though the dog’s vision is excellent. So that between the two of them—each one supplying what the other one lacked—they are able to find and feed on “seeds, insects, leftover picnic food,” the story relates. A redo—different animals, different circumstances—of various Grimm’s fairy tales. Another piece is called Cat Bird, and the story about mutual help again. A sculpture of a bird and a cat this time, with the bird on the back of the quadruped again, but in a quite different representational style than the bird and dog piece and most of Toole’s other work in the show (with decorative effects a little reminiscent of a Mexican piñata—surface frills and ruffles). Flat surfaces and blocky construction in this case. Or flat embossed—versus aflutter—with paper bits and pieces.

IN GALLERIES NOW = 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. On view through Nov 11. Wed-Fri: 12-6pm, Sat-Sun: 12-4pm, 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): Southwest Six, New Mexico-inspired show with work from Karen Foegen, Eileen Graetz, Carole Kauber, JoAnn Mileham, Susan M. Miller, and Maria Thompson. On view through Dec 31. Thu & Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am4pm. 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, Looking at Tomorrow: Light and Language from The Panza Collection, 1967–1990 on view through Feb 7, 2016. One of a Kind, emerging artists from Autism Services, in Education Wing on view through Nov 22. 10am-10pm free admission. TueSun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays until 10pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): 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 Nov 13. Wed & Thu 11-5pm, Fri 11am-4pm, Sat 11am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY

14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Man of Extremes: A Survey of the Work of Wes Olmsted. On view through Dec 19. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Currently on view: Buffalo Architectural Prints by Dan Galas. On view through Nov 22. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Appetites/Anxieties: multi-disciplinary installation by Liz Lessner. Opening reception Fri Nov 13, 8-11pm. Fri-Sun 12-6pm. BT&C Gallery (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, btandcgallery.com): The Forest Electric, painting and drawings by Amanda Besl, on view through Nov 27. 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 Artspace Gallery (1219 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14209): Let Me Show You What I Saw, 25-year retrospective of Elizabeth Spiro-Carman. Sat & Sun 12-4pm. Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens (2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14218, 827-1584, buffalogardens. com): Mon-Sun 10am-5pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Milestones on Science: Books That Shook the World! 35 rare books from the history of science, on second floor. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6:00pm, Sun 12-5pm. 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. Through These Gates: Buffalo’s First African American Architect, John E. Brent, on view through Mar 27, 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.

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Original work, but not uninfluenced by works of other artists, ancient and recent. A statue of an Egyptian cat from seventh century BC and the work of New Yorker cartoonist Saul Steinberg in the bird and cat piece. Burchfield also an influence. Burchfield saw eyes peering from hedgerows of trees in the evening in the distance. Similar eyes peer out of one of the abstract conglomerate works Toole calls Grove. The only humans among the sculptures are Adam and Eve in a piece called Eden. Like a medieval altarpiece diptych, with a flavor of Steinberg again. Robertson’s stories are harder to fathom. Some possibly personal stories. And some that seem derived from or otherwise in reference to a literary model. But maybe taking the model story in a completely different direction. A possible apocrypha source for the piece called Deserters from the Ark, showing two quadruped creatures—unclear as to species—in a little boat and rowing furiously, and above them three flying creatures—not clearly avians even—heading in the same direction. Metamorphoses stories in various works where one thing becomes something else. Trees become people, people become trees. Facilitated by nothing being securely and exclusively one thing or another in the first place. And Dante stories, which are also often metamorphoses stories. Suicides in the Inferno are transformed into twiggy vegetation that is still somehow the suicide. When Dante breaks off a twig from one of the bushes, the bush talks, tells him the break was painful, then tells him something of his life story in the upper world. A Robertson painting not in the Meibohm show, owned by the Burchfield Penney, is of a huddled group of possible humans in a barge-type boat crossing turbulent waters. It’s called On the River Styx. The particular help or mutual help Robertson works include one titled, oddly, Untitled: Helping Hand, and another called Bicycle Rider, showing a big guy helping a little guy ride a bike, learn to ride a bike. The Agnes Robertson and Francis Toole show continues through November 21.

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. E.H. Butler Library Circulation Gallery (Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222): Prismatic Saturation: Textile Works by Emily Beresford. Opening reception Sun Nov 15, 6-8pm. On view through Nov 23. Café Taza (100 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): One of a Kind, emerging artists from Autism Services, satelite exhibition to Albright-Knox. 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. Mon & Wed 10am-3pm, Thu 6-9pm. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Highlights: The Castellani Collection, through January 17, 2016. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. 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. The Neil and Barbara Chur Family Gallery (Roycroft Power House, 31 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052): Clufffalo: Autumn 2015, Charles Clough. One painting, painted on by 59 participants in 27 sessions and completed by Clough. Opening reception Fri Nov 13, 6-9 PM. On view through December 31. 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. Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): Small Work, exhibit by the West Seneca Art Society. On view through Nov 28. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Amid/In WNY Part 5 with

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Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 882-5777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Selections from a Private Collection, work by Gloria Banning, Max Bill, Stanley Boxer, Alexander Calder, Charles Clough, Claude Conover, Susan Crile, Piero Dorazio, David Gilhooly, Friedensreich Hundertwaser, James Kuo, Avra Leodas, Sam Ogden, Jules Olitski, Sally Potenza, Tim Prentice, Christy Rupp, James Suzuki, Graham Sutherland, Victor Vasarely, Martha Visser’t Hooft, and more. On view through Nov 25. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Mon open by appointment only, and closed on Sundays. 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. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse.com): Butterfly Effect, works by Chuck Tingley. On view through Dec 19. See website for events and hours. The Phoenix (269 Amherst Street, Buffalo NY 14207, 447-1100 thephoenixbuffalo.com): Café Series, by Mary Begley. Wed-Sat 5-10pm. Prism (MyBuffaloPride, 224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201): The Amoore Project, works by Ari Moore. Thu & Fri 4-8pm, Sat & Sun 3-7pm. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): “One Last Night in Allentown” at Atrium 124 (124 Elmwood Avenue, Autism Services bldg.) Work by 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. Show then moves to Main Street location. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14051) Buffalo-Niagara Art Association—Fall Exhibition. Wed-Fri 11am-4pm, Sat 11am-5pm. Sports Focus Physical Therapy (531 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202, 332-4838, sportsfocuspt.com): Paintings and Photos by Glenn Kroetsch, on view through Nov 30. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Spot Coffee (1406 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216): Celebrate Buffalo, paintings by Stephen Coppola. On view through Jan 2016. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): STILL/Moving: Works from the Gerald Mead Collection. Work from Cory Arcangel, Colin Beatty, Sylvie Belanger, Michael Bosworth, Lawrence Brose, Diane Bush, Max Collins, Allan D’Arcangelo, Jax Deluca, Marion Faller, Hollis Frampton, Courtney Grim, Tom Holt, Deborah Jack, Cletus Johnson, Douglas Kirkland, Jody LaFond, Barbara Lattanzi,Robert Longo, Esther Neisen, Jonathan Rogers, Cindy Sherman, and Craig Smith. On view through Jan 9, 2016. Tue-Sat 12-5pm. 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 11am3pm Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio.org): 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): 2015 TOY STORE Invitational Exhibit, work by Bruce Adams, Bob Collignon, Linda Collignon, Cynnie Gaasch, Barbara Hart, Ani Hoover, Billy Huggins, Candace Keegan, Bethany Krull, Amy Luraschi, Ruth McCarthy, Gerald Mead, Esther Neisen, Deborah Petronio, Joe Radoccia, Elizabeth Switzer, Richard Tomasello. On view through Dec 24. Tue-Fri 11:30am-3:30pm, Sat 12-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): One For All: Art Exhibiton by Rebecca Gay and IDVJ. On view through Nov 20. Open every Fri 5:30-7:30pm, during all events, and by appointment. TGW@497 Gallery (497 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 981-9415): Altar Paintings and Inscapes, work by Jane Bergenn. On view through Nov 28. Wed-Fri 125pm, Sat 12-3pm. 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. On view through Jan 10, 2016. Re:res: Contemporary Interpretations of the Cravens World Collection; work from Skylar Borgstrom, Caitlin Cass, AJ Fries, Kristine Mifsud, Carl Spartz, Marc Tomko, Kurt Treeby, and Necole Zayatz. Opening reception Thu Nov 12, 5-7pm. On view through Dec 12. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. 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. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 9611833) 4, exhibition with work from Mickey Harmon, Emily Churco, Tom Holt, and Bobby Griffiths. On view through Nov 13. Mon-Fri 8am-8pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Wrafterbuilt Furniture (119 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201, 913-5313, wrafterbuilt.com): Drawings and P sketches by Jaime Schmidt.

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Fried Playhouse; 255 Great Arrow Avenue (third floor); (716) 408-0499; subversivetheatre.org. LEGALLY BLONDE (music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, Book by Heather Hach): Yes, a stage musical based on a movie franchise. California blonde heads east to pursue the preppie she loves. On a whim, she enrolls in Harvard Law, proving law can be cute. The essential question: Elle Wood—chick stereotype for the 21st century or girl power heroine? Presented by SUNY Buffalo Department of Theatre & Dance; opening on November 19 through December 6. Performed at Center for the Arts Drama Theatre, Theater Arts Building, located next to Moot Hall on the Buffalo State College campus; (716) 878-3005; theater.buffalostate.edu. THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH THE HAT (script by Stephen Adly Guirgis): A romantic comedy of sorts about Jackie, junkie and convict who is cleaning up his act and his life for the love of his childhood sweetheart, Veronica. And he does love her and he promises to stay clean, and Jackie is definitely an open-hearted guy. But there is this hat, a man’s hat left behind in Veronica’s room. Love, sobriety, reputation, and life itself are on the line. New faculty member Aaron Moss directs for Casting Hall Productions. Opening on November 10, performances through November 21. Donald Savage Theater of the Theater Arts Building, located next to Moot Hall on the Buffalo State College campus. (716) 8783005; theater.buffalostate.edu. MY NAME IS ASHER LEV (scripted by Aaron Posner from the novel by Chaim Potok): Jewish Rep debuted 12 years ago with a staging of Potok’s The Chosen. The company auspiciously returns to that universe as JRT observes its bar mitzvah season. Our hero, young Asher, pronounces his adulthood and declares himself to be an artist, despite the conflicts this will raise within his faith and within the Lev family. Adam Yellen in the title role with Josie DiVincenzo and Tom Zindle completing Saul Elkin’s cast. Running through November 15 at Maxine and Robert Seller Theatre, 2640 North Forest Road, Getzville; (716) 688-4114 x391; jewishrepertorytheatre.com. NORA (Henrik Ibsen classic adapted by Ingmar Bergman): Theatergoers in the US will likely have a fixed idea About A Doll’s House and its heroine. She is housewife who starts the plays as childishly submissive but transitions through three acts to exit as a door-slamming proto-feminist. However, for this Torn Space production, director Robert Waterhouse uses a script adapted by filmmaker Ingmar Bergman in 1981, about 100 years after Ibsen created the play. By reports, the characters and their respective psychologies are more vivid in the adaptation. True to Bergman, the adaptation sweeps lingering sentimentality out of the story—even more than the dusty emotionality that swept out on Nora’s skirts when Ibsen sent her out the door 140 years ago. The show opens November 12 and the door slams shut on December 6. Adam Mickiewicz Library and Dramatic Circle, 612 Fillmore Ave.; (716) 812-1733; tornspacetheater.com. OUTSIDE MULLINGAR (script by John Patrick Shanley): An absolute truth of romantic

comedy is that the two characters in Act One who are least suited to each other will fall— hard—by the final curtain. The grudges tumble between neighboring Irish farmers, Anthony Reilly and Rosemary Muldoon, amidst ambient misty rains, muddy Wellingtons, amazing sweaters, and family noodging. This is the light side of playwright John Patrick Shanley. (Remember Moonlighting?) Fortunato Pezzimenti steers Kate LoConti, Patrick Moltane, Pamela Rose Mangus, and Guy Wagner. Presented by Irish Classical Theatre; through November 22; at Andrews Theatre; 625 Main Street; (716) 853-ICTC; irishclassicaltheatre.com. PAGEANT (brainchild of Robert Longbottom, Albert Evans, Frank Kelly, and Bill Russell): If this show were reality TV show it might be called Testosterone and Tiaras. But it is a musical spoof for the stage so it requires a punchy marquee title. Men in gowns and wigs and such cavort as if they were regional contestants in a national beauty contest. MusicalFare resuscitates this 2001 audience favorite, with many of the belles from that cast. Premiere on November 4, closing December 6; at MusicalFare Theatre on Daemen College; 4300 Main (Snyder); (716) 8398540; musicalfare.com. SEX TIPS FOR STRAIGHT WOMEN FROM A GAY MAN (adapted by Matt Murphy from the book by Dan Anderson and Maggie Berman): This three-character, hour-long bit of frou-frou, based upon a bestselling how-to book, has been running off-Broadway for over a year. Recognition factor, ease of production, and a title which is also the punchline to all the jokes in this show suggest perfect night out for the bachelorette party crowd—and, yes, expect audience participation. If you can guess just what gay men can advise straight women, you just might have some dishy fun. Presented by Shea’s. The fun begins November 10. Last laughs on November 15. Shea’s Smith Theatre, 658 Main St.; 1-800-7453000; sheas.org. STOMPIN’ AT THE SAVOY (written by Ron Stacker Thompson with music from the jazz-swing era): If you crave an evening of swing, you might wander to the Paul Robeson Theatre for this cabaret-style musical, a revival of a buoyant audience favorite from 2003. If your own Savoy is a jumping ballroom in Harlem, a luxe hotel in London, a smart boîte on Elmwood Avenue, this show is a tribute to friends, drinking, and the music you love. Directed by Mary Craig with musical support from Frazier Thomas Smith and choreography by Robin Barker, for Paul Robeson Theatre Company. November 13 through December 6. At African American Cultural Center; 350 Masten Ave.; (716) 884-2013; aaccbuffalo.org. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (comedy by William Shakespeare, but you knew that): Is it love? Is it marriage? Compatibility or co-optation? This text is one of Shakespeare’s most ambiguous, leaving many untied knots at the end. Director Adriano Gatto puts Niagara University theater students through their paces while exploring some of the darker corners of the play, which opens November 5 and closes November 15. Leary Theatre, 16 Vincentian Dr. (Niagara University); (716) 286-8685; theatre.niagara.edu. UH OH! HERE COMES CHRISTMAS (by Robert Fulghum, Ernest Zulia, and David Caldwell): Robert Fulgham, the guy who stopped learning after kindergarten (or whatever), put together a bunch of stories that were adapted for the stage by Messrs. Zulia and Caldwell. If you find the reindeer games of Christmas commercialism to be franctic, the over-scheduled festivities to be manic, the forced jolliness of the season just too much, you will find sympathy in this show. Of course, this adds another holiday obligation to your calendar. Just bite down on the mistletoe and Santa up to the challenge. Joey Bucheker directs for O’Connell & Company. Opens on November 27 and closes on December 20 at Park School Auditorium, 4625 Harlem Rd. (Snyder); (716) 848-0800; oconnellandcompany.com. Playbill is presented by:

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EIN FASTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT (“A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”) by Wes Olmsted, circa 1967, pen and ink and wash on paper. Part of a survey exhibit at the Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue) that runs through December 19.

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Ashley Powell 7pm Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St. [PRESENTATION] In September, Ashley Powell, a graduate student of art at UB made national headlines when she placed “White Only” and “Black Only” signs around campus. “This project, specifically, was a piece created to expose white privilege,” she says in a statement about the project. “Our society still actively maintains racist structures that benefit one group of people, and oppress another. Forty to fifty years ago, these structures were visibly apparent and today these signs may no longer exist, but the system that they once reinforced still does.” On Thursday, November 12, Powell will give a presentation at Burning Books in response to the criticism her piece has received. -CP

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Recommended If You Like: The National, Hold Steady, Silver Jews The buzzing rock revivalists shared the first single and music video from their upcoming self-titled EP, set to drop on Admirable Traits Records. The band will celebrate the release of the GCR-produced album on November 20 at Nietzsche’s.

[FUNK] Funk band Lettuce represents all of their geographical ties musically—the brains from Berklee in Boston, the hustle of New York City, the laid-back swagger of California, and New Orleans’s musical history and appreciation. Over the last few years, they've steadily increased their touring and turned around each of their four releases more quickly. Their latest, Crush, was released on November 6, and the band is in town Wednesday, November 11 at the Tralf with Jem Jaws and DJ Jeff Repeater. For those heading to Dead & Company down the street at the First Niagara Center, Lettuce won’t take the stage until 11pm so head over after the show. This week we got the chance to sit down with trumpeter and the newest member of the group, Eric “Benny” Bloom. What’s the biggest thing that’s changed for Lettuce since the last album release?

The band has grown musically in many different directions and has gained a lot of new fans. Plus, this is the first Lettuce album that I’m actually on! With Lettuce doing more touring of late, what have you personally seen develop within the group over the past year or two?

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One of the coolest things I’ve seen develop over the last couple of years touring with Lettuce is the band’s ability to take songs that they have been playing for a long time and make them sound new by extending sections, re-harmonizing sections, breakdowns, etc. Aside from the trumpet, how did you find yourself contributing so much rhythmically at shows with all the percussion instruments you play? Do you do the same for albums? When I joined the band, the horns

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10am The WASH Project, 417 Massachusetts Ave. free [WORKSHOP] This Wednesday, November 11, to honor the Veteran’s Day holiday, NYSATA art educators will be hosting a workshop at the WASH Project. Students (K-12) from all over Buffalo are invited to come together to make art, and each will go home with a free art kit. The project was conceived by Buffalo Public School visual art teachers: Jan Dylewski, Cassie Lipsitz, Veronica Kruger, and the beloved unofficial member of the department Michelle Schroeder. All participants will take part in a mixed media lesson about community, the importance of place and the ability to change things at the grassroots level. The central subject of the lesson will be the idea of home. Students will be introduced to mixed media techniques that will empower them to take risks with their art. -TPS

Michael Parallax 8pm Dreamland, 387 Franklin St. $5 [ELECTRONIC] Part electronic composer, part wannabe spiritual guru, Parallax mixes his music with a bizarre stage persona that strives to create a sense of communal unity at his gigs—hard to achieve in a world where taking a good selfie at a show is more import-

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our horns. That’s the way Kool & the Gang did it and it’s a great way to create a rhythmically thicker bottom so [drummer] Deitch can be freed up from playing the groove the whole time and can stretch a little. As for who played percussion on the album, it was Deitch. He played all of the percussion. He really is killing. What do you remember about the last time you played Buffalo? The last time we played

there, I think Neal’s parents were there and it really made him play his tail off. There are a lot of great musicians and music fans in Buffalo so it’s always fun for me to play there. -JEREMIAH SHEA

ant than actually listening to the music being played. If it seems a little on the emo side in spirit, maybe that’s because it is, but Parallax is one of a kind and his light show is pretty cool. Our own Hooked on Casiophonics will open with some electro-hip-hop shenanigans of their own. Wednesday, November 11 at Dreamland. -CJT

THURSDAY NOV 12 Black Cross Project 12:15 pm SUNY Buffalo State, 1300 Elmwood Ave. [DISCUSSION] A year after multiple deaths of black men at the hands of law enforcement, ground zero for the national discussion on racial justice has moved on to college campuses. Last week a graduate student at the University of Missouri calling for its president's resignation for his limp response to acts of racial provocaton on campus went on hunger strike; he was supported by the university's football team, all of whose black players vowed to boycott athletic activities. The president and the chancellor of the university resigned. On Tuesday, on the Buffalo State campus, 300 black crosses to honor the 300 unarmed people of color who have died in police custody since 2012 were unveiled. On Thursday, November 12, a panel discussion called "Race, Violence, and the Struggle for Social Justice" will be held at 12:15pm in the Bulg-

[COMEDY] Lavell Crawford is a big teddy bear, which is ironic considering his previous role in Breaking Bad as Saul Goodman’s muscle. Past (fictional) criminal activity aside, Crawford is loved by audiences across the nation, and has built up a solid fan base performing in comedy clubs, theaters and colleges. The Last Comic Standing runner-up, Crawford’s comedy is breezy and gut-busting. He has a childlike demeanor that makes “yo’ mama” jokes and talk of stupid people hilarious. Catch Lavell Crawford at Helium Comedy Club on Thursday, November 12 through Saturday, November 15. -KP

Pleasure Leftists 7pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St. $8 [INDIE] Formed from the embers of 9 Shocks Terror and Homostupids, Cleveland’s Pleasure Leftists is a moody punk outfit with contagious energy to spare. The name is taken from vocalist Haley Morris’s radio show at Cleveland State University, and Morris ends up being the star of The Woods of Heaven, the new full-length that came out this summer. Her naturally gothic, Siouxsie-inspired tone lends a sense of emotional urgency to the quartet’s musical chops, resulting in something artsy that still qualifies as punk. Thursday, November 12 at Sugar City with JOHNS and Worst Gift. -CJT

Team Radio Presents: Ellis

10:45pm North Park Theatre, 1428 Hertel Avenue free or $5 suggested donation [SCREENING] Many people who call Buffalo home are the sons, daughters, grandchildren, or great grandchildren of immigrants who passed through the gateway to America that was Ellis Island. The famous actor Robert De Niro is also the descendant of immigrants—his great-grandparents—who were processed at Ellis Island. For this reason, the star chose to appear in "Ellis," a new short film by director JR, a French street artist known for his art installations on the same subject. The 14-minute film premiered in New York City on October 4, and on Thursday, November 12, it will make its Buffalo premiere at the North Park Theatre. The film will be presented by Team Radio with a suggested donation of $5 to benefit Journey’s End Refugee Service. -CP

FRIDAY NOV 13 Share the Bounty 12pm 810 Meadworks, 113 W Center St Ste 1 [FOOD] The Niagara Wine Trail is hosting Share the Bounty to benefit local food banks, food pantries, and charities this Friday, November 13 through Sunday, November 15 (Friday 12pm-5pm; Saturday 10pm5pm; Sunday 12pm-5pm). The wineries on the trail will be accepting canned food or a small donation. Each winery requires a donation upon entry. All participants must have a valid photo ID. A list of the participating wineries, and who will be receiving their donation, is available online. Guests who will not be drinking may enter each winery for free. -CORINNE MCCARTHY

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BIG MEAN SOUND MACHINE FRIDAY NOV 13 7PM / THE 9TH WARD, 341 DELAWARE AVE. / $13-$15 [FUNK] Formed in 2009 at a lakehouse in Ithaca, Big Mean Sound Machine has grown into a 12-piece ensemble with a reputation for exuberant and feverish live performances. The collective uses drumsets, synthesizers, trombones, saxophones, guitars, and organs to capture a medley of styles ranging from West African, Latin American, Caribbean, and North American, creating a spectacle of sound that appeals to funk lovers and jazz enthusiasts alike. In addition to a tour schedule that includes around 150 stops per year, BSM has released three full-length albums, Ourosboros (2011), Marauders (2012), and the most recent, Contraband (2014). This year, they’ll be embarking on their most extensive national tour to date, which includes a stop at Babeville’s 9th Ward this Friday, November 13. -JEANNETTE CHIN

Appetites/Anxieties 8pm Big Orbit Gallery, 30 Essex St

[ART] Liz Lessner, a multi-displinary artist and sculptor, uses figurative and abstract installations to explore the mechanisms of human desire and performance—works which are fully brought to life with the viewer's engagement. As her artist statement reveals, "They explore negotiations of power and status, and authenticity and performance, through forms that unsettle and attract preconscious affinities and desires." This Friday, November 13 is an opportunity to join Lessner, a graduate of UB's MFA program, as she unveils her new body of work, Appetites/Anxieties, at Big Orbit gallery. The opening reception will begin at 8pm. -JC

Dark Star Orchestra 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $30

[TRIBUTE] It may not be quite the same thing, but if you weren’t able to make it to Chicago this summer or get tickets to the current run of Dead and Co. shows with John Mayer, Dark Star Orchestra can offer some solace. After all, that band hasn’t stayed busy all these years by doing a lousy job recreating Grateful Dead sets. More than just recreating the tunes, the able seven-piece ensemble projects something akin to the Dead’s communal spirit, something that’s made them a recurring festival favorite. Friday, November 13 at Town Ballroom. -CJT

Tw1tch EP Release Show

7pm Studio at the Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $10-$12

[HIP HOP] Early this month Tw1tch released his new EP, Sk1tzo. In an artist’s statement the MC says the record is “designed to take you through the altered perception of a young

mind lost in the chaos of an ever changing reality.” On Friday, November 13 the young hip hop artist will celebrate the release of the EP with a show at the Studio at the Waiting Room which will also feature Rich$lave and Good Huemans. -CP

SATURDAY NOV 14 WNY Children's Book Expo 10am Kleinhans Music Hall, 3 Symphony Circle

[MARKET] More than 30 authors and illustrators of children’s literature will gather for the WNY Children’s Book Expo on Saturday, November 14. This event is free and designed for children ages 3-12. Children can interact with authors and illustrators while participating in fun activities. Authors present at the event will have displays of their books for purchase and signing. -CM

Poetry at the Mohawk 6pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $2

[POETRY] Something of a novel idea these days: Take poetry readings out of cafés and institutions and put them in a bar, slightly off hours; change up the vibe of the whole thing. That’s what’s going down at the Mohawk Place this Saturday, November 14: Instead of rock and roll there’ll be rockin’ poems from a pair of commuters from Massachusetts—Seth Landman and Ted Powers—joined by local talent Cheryl Quimba, fresh off the release of her lovely new chapbook Scattered Trees Grow in Some Tundra, which may or may not derive inspiration from Buffalo December through March. Come at 6pm for drinks, poems at 7pm. -AL

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REEL QUEER: PURPLE SKIES 7PM at Dreamland, 387 Franklin St.

Now in its third season, Buffalo’s queer film series presents this documentary, which traces the Indian LGBT movement by weaving together the personal stories of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people born and living there. Audience discussion to follow. Pay what you can with a $5 suggested donation.

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BEAR NIGHT: DISCO FEVER 10PM at Preservation Pub, 948 Main St.

The biggest and burliest party in Allentown, hosted by Buffalo Bears, following their monthly meeting. This month’s theme is disco! Admission: $2.

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7pm Curly's Grille, 647 Ridge Rd. $15 for show only, dinner extra [DINNER SHOW] Start spreading the news: Frank Sinatra will be a part of it this weekend. Complementing a city that feels frozen in time, Old Blue Eyes himself—or a crack impersonator of the iconic crooner—will entertain dinner guests this Saturday, November 14 in Lackawanna’s Curly’s Grille. Sinatra’s repertoire, given new life by the great Jack Civiletto, will be aimed to get diners out of their chairs and on to the dance floor. That’s amore. -TPS

Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel 8pm Kleinhans Music Hall, 3 Symphony Circle $43.50-$86.50 [FOLK] The music of Simon & Garfunkel is legendary for its haunting beauty, warm melodies, and tuneful harmonies. Though they haven’t toured together in years, you can quench your thirst with the Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel. A. J. Swearington and Jonathon Beedle recreate Simon & Garfunkel’s euphonic hits backed by a full orchestra, creating a lush sound that’s nostalgic, yet quite original. Catch the Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel on Friday, November 13 at 10:30am and Saturday, November 14 at 8pm at Kleinhans Music Hall. -KP

Hydraulic Hearth First Anniversary Party 9pm Hydraulic Hearth, 716 Swan Street [CELEBRATION] The heart of Larkinville, the Hydraulic Hearth, turns one year old on Saturday, November 14. It’s hard to believe, because it feels like we’ve been playing shuffle board, drinking beers in the beer garden, and enjoying those homemade pizzas for way longer. They’ll celebrate their one-year anniversary with a huge party that will feature half off draft beer from Community Beer Works, who will take over all 12 taps. The Acid Funk Duo will provide the music and the kitchen will be pumping out brick oven pizzas all night long. -CP

Depeche Mode vs New Order Dance Party 10:30pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $5 [NEW WAVE] To pit Depeche Mode against New Order makes sense for a few reasons. The bands never had any actual beef, but both formed in England in the year 1980 and both helped define the darker side of new wave and synthpop. On Saturday, November 14, DJs Aaron Andrews and Bill Page will pit these two bands against each other, at least sonically, as they hold the Depeche Mode vs New Order Dance Party at Mohawk Place. -CP

JONATHAN RICHMAN SATURDAY NOV 14 9PM / NIETZSCHE'S, 248 ALLEN ST. / $15 [ROCK] Most fans know Jonathan Richman as former frontman of American new wave band, the Modern Lovers. The band, which featured members that later went on to join the Talking Heads and the Cars, released only a few albums but quickly became highly influential, inspiring bands as various as the Sex Pistols, Sonic Youth, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and LCD Soundsystem. Richman has stated that his biggest influence was the Velvet Underground—he’d often transpose Lou Reed’s lyrics into the context of his own songs, and even named a song after the band on his 1992 solo album, I, Jonathan. The Modern Lovers may be Richman’s first great contribution to music, but his solo career, which began in 1976—the Modern Lovers lasted just four years—has been just as rich. It started as a continuation of the Modern Lovers’ aesthetic but soon turned to dewey-eyed, often humorous tunes, delivered with a childlike enthusiasm on stage. Richman will bring his intimate live show to Buffalo for a special performance at Nietzsche’s on Saturday, November 14. -CORY PERLA

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BIANCA DEL RIO’S ROLODEX OF HATE 8PM at 710 Main Theatre, 710 Main St.

The season-six winner of RuPaul’s drag race is on tour with a comedy special. This ain’t no drag show, and she ain’t no lady. Tickets: $35-$75, on sale now at ticketmaster.com, with limited VIP meetand-greet tickets available.

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SUNDAY NOV 15 Sunday Soup 430pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St. $5 with a dish to pass or $10 without [POTLUCK] A potluck with purpose: Sugar City's reinvigorated popular Sunday micro-funding ritual is back and available for your creative pitches. It's a social event that transitions into creative collaboration as attendees present ideas for consideration for weekly grants for artists to realize those projects. The pitches are then rated and eliminated until a grand-prize winner is chosen. The previous 14 events have raised over $4,000 to fund local creative projects. On Sunday, November 15, last week's winner, Silo Sessions, will be present to report back on its progress and present some live music. -AL

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7pm Studio at the Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $15-$17 [PUNK] Survivors of both the New York City hardcore scene and a major label contract, H20 carries on with a new disc, Use Your Voice, out last month on Bridge Nine Records. Having lost founding member, guitarist and key musical writer Todd Morse, earlier this year, much of the music on Voice was penned by bassist Adam Blake. It's enough of a change to breathe new spirit into the disc's tone, but not enough to disturb the blend of melody and punk abrasiveness that's kept these guys in business for 20 years. H20 comes to the the Studio at the Waiting Room on Sunday, November 15 with Angel Du$t, Give, and the Barksdales. -CJT

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[ROCK] July Talk serves up a rich brand of blues and rockabilly. The Toronto-based outfit play with a unique style and manner, in the same vein as Jack White and the Black Keys, folding in sounds that harken back to 1950s-era smoky blues. Their self-titled debut is packed with gutsy swagger, breathing new life into the blues and rockabilly genres. Playing in crisp unison, July Talk paints a hazy musical landscape of rolling snares, distorted rockabilly guitars, driving bass, high-tempo drums, killer riffs, and irresistibly indulgent percussion fills, all rounded out by uniquely polarized vocals. The dual vocals of Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay take July Talk’s game up a few pegs. Fay’s cheeky, singsong melodies juxtapose the fiery emotional depth of Dreimanis’ guttural-voiced, high-octane performances. This electrifying energy comes to life on stage as the two cash in on their saucy chemistry, flirtatiously trading verses. Fay’s showmanship is always a force to be reckoned with, from toying with the security guards to crawling on the floor, she lives in the moment and feeds off the improvisational shock value. July Talk is seething with raw talent and a creative zeal that should endure for years to come. Catch July Talk with Little Hurricane and Two Cow Garage at the Town Ballroom on Saturday, November 14. -KELLIE POWELL

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After a couple delays, it appears that chef/owner Richard Hamilton will finally open the doors to his Ellicott Street taqueria this week. The menu will feature classic tacos like al pastor and carne asada and there will be plenty of margaritas to enjoy. Hopefully the cold temperatures will hold off a little longer, because their outdoor patio with string lights looks very cool. Make note, they only take cash and they do not take reservations.

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[FOLK] It can be difficult keeping it fresh 35 years into a musical career on the folky fringes of pop music, and Indigo Girls have never been ones to dawdle longer than two or three years between releases. Mitchell Froom produced 2009’s stunning Poseidon and the Bitter Bug, the duo’s first release on their own imprint (distributed via Vanguard) and a creative high point in their post-millennium catalogue. But 2011’s Beauty Queen Sister felt considerably less inspired. To recharge their mojo and throw a curveball at recurring (hackneyed?) production choices, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers enlisted the talents of producer Jordan Brooke Hamlin after having been mutually impressed with her work on Lucy Wainwright Roche’s latest. It’s a gamble that paid off, making One Lost Day, out late this past spring, the most musically innovative record the Indigos have released since the late 1990s. Longtime fans can rejoice that the core sound isn’t lost in the mix, but Hamlin’s game-changing style brought in a new series of engineers and players for the Girls to work with. Hamlin’s taste for oddball instrumentation results in surprisingly placed horns, strings, and pockets of unexpected percussion. Lyrically, One Lost Day revels in the bittersweet acknowledgement of wisdom gained from growing older, but there’s a youthful punch to the tracks balancing that out, making it one of the duo’s most memorable collections. Indigo Girls arrive in Buffalo this Saturday, November 14 for a gig at Babeville’s Asbury Hall with A Fragile Tomorrow that’ll feature a sizeable chunk of the new songs amid crowd-pleasing classics like “Get Out the Map” and “Power of Two.” -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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While we love what Chef Brad Rowell has done at Elm Street Bakery for their dinner service, we are excited to see what he will do with his new project. Just last week it was announced that Brad and his wife Caryn will take over the former Tina's in the Village of Hamburg and turn it into the Grange Community Kitchen. Expect excellent food using seasonal and local ingredients and, if we know Brad, really good beer too. If everything goes right, look for a spring 2016 opening.

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[ART] A visit by local legend media scholar Dr. Gerald O’Grady, the founder of Media Study/ Buffalo and instrumental in establishment of the UB Center for Media Study in the 1970s, is the centerpiece of the Burchfield Penney Art Center fall launch festival this weekend, running Thursday, November 12 to Sunday, November 15. On Saturday, O’Grady will be interviewed on stage by John Minkowski, media critic and former curator of video at Media Study/Buffalo, and Anthony Bannon, executive director of the Burchfield Penney center and a former curator of photography for Media Study/Buffalo. The interviews will take place from 10am to noon, and 1:30pm to 4:30pm. Another O’Grady event Saturday evening, starting at 7pm. Screening of a new documentary film by Francois Miron on Paul Sharits, and films or video by Hollis Frampton, James Blue, Peter Weibel, and Woody and Stein Vasulka, and audience discussion led by O’Grady. And on Sunday, beginning at 1:30pm, screenings of independent films selected by O’Grady as significant to the development of media culture in Buffalo. The festival opens Thursday evening at 7pm with a performance by the Lehrer Dance Company, featuring a new dance and video work. And on Friday at 8pm, a concert by Musical Feast and friends, featuring a piece called Water, arranged by and performed on guzheng—a kind of Chinese zither—by virtuoso on that instrument Zhongbei (Daisy) Wu, accompanied by a video by Robert John Holland entitled The Way of Clinton Brook. Other music with and without video accompaniment by composers from Mozart and Handel to Ruth Wiesenfeld, Coleen Marie, Joshua Smith, P and John Bacon. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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interested in what you think of her. And that’s probably just as well. It allows her to dish out the vitriol that’s made her current show, Rolodex of Hate, such a success. It’s also what earned her a mighty flattering comparison to the late Joan Rivers in a 2014 New York Times profile. Del Rio’s plenty abrasive, all right, but what sets the season six winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race apart is her deliciously dismissive delivery: You get a very real sense that she’s not completely kidding when she’s up on that stage, reading everyone the riot act. No doubt, her equal opportunity mud-slinging will be on full display when Rolodex of Hate pulls into 710 Main Theatre on Monday, November 16. Born as Roy Haylock and raised in Louisiana, Del Rio, now 40, comes from a generation that got started without an online image to build or witty tweets to hassle over. Her age became more of an asset than a liability on Drag Race and, in the end, she believes it’s a large part of why she won. That, and her trademark over-the-top look, something she has humorously described as “erotic clown.” “In many ways, the set of Drag Race was the most comfortable place for me to be,” she said, calling from her new Los Angeles digs on a rare day off. She’s barely been able to spend an accumulated two weeks in LA since relocating there in June, thanks to a rigorous performance schedule. “I had no cell phone, no computer, and nothing else to focus on except what was right in front of me. My work was cut out. Some of the younger ones probably had a harder time, since I think a lot of their daily routines revolved around social media. But prior to the show, it wasn’t that much a part of mine. I never felt for a second like I was missing anything.”

Apparently, she still doesn’t. She says nothing should be off limits in comedy, and she’s quick to assert that our world has become hypersensitive and entirely too PC, something reflected in her unabashedly harsh (and uproariously funny) performances. “Most people seem threatened that I can take or leave social media, and maybe that’s because they have too much of themselves invested in it,” she said. “I mean, it’s great to have the access, but it ends up being way too much information. You got up today? That’s news? Actually, it’d be more interesting news if you didn’t get up today. Then you hear from these people that find you offensive and want to give you a hard time about it. Who fucking cares? Don’t like me? Don’t watch. I don’t like the Kardashians, so I don’t watch. I don’t like football—same thing. The bottom line is that not everyone is going to like you, and I couldn’t give shit. I find inner peace knowing they’re all going to die one day.” One thing she refuses to harp on, however, is her success. At the end of the day, Bianca Del Rio knows she ”landed the golden ticket,” and you won’t catch her complaining about the rigors of her current schedule. The $100,000 she won from Drag Race (which she’s joked amounts to only $4 after taxes) sits in the bank gathering interest. She seems content to continue forging forward with the earnest work ethic that’s gotten her this far and claims not to have grandiose designs on life. “I will not complain about how much work I’m getting,” she said. “I’m not looking for love at this time, but I’m not bitter or angry that I’m too busy for it, either. I mean, I miss my dogs when I’m away…they don’t talk back. But it’s a

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FILM FEATURE Anne-Marie Duff, Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter in Suffragette.

MORE TRUE STORIES SUFFRAGETTE / THE 33 BY M. FAUST IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, I’ve spent a lot of time complaining about movies based on true events that played fast and loose with those events, ignoring facts that don’t fit into the dramatic structure or inventing characters and incidents. Of course, there’s a reason why filmmakers do that: They’re trying to make the movie more interesting. Whether pleasing an audience is worth what some might call lying to them is an open debate, but there’s no denying that audiences are much more likely to come see a movie if you pump up the entertainment factor. And that this isn’t as easy to do as it sounds is demonstrated by two more new movies based on true stories.

Hearkening as it does to a time and place when a substantial portion of a country’s population risked their liberty to fight for the right to vote, Suffragette arrives in theaters at a most ironic time, a week after an election in which approximately one quarter of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls in Erie County. But in London of 1912, women were persuaded that the vote mattered, and that it was a way to improve their lot in life, which if you weren’t upper class was pretty dismal. Decades of peaceful campaigning have come to naught, so women’s groups began to take to civil disobedience, breaking store windows and blowing up postal boxes.

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PREMIERES OPENING FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13 BY THE SEA—Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie pretend they’re in a 1970s European drama. With Melanie Laurent, Melvil Poupaud, Niels Arestrup, and Richard Bohringer. Directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt. Area theaters LOVE THE COOPERS—Difficult family re-bonds on Christmas Eve. Everyone out there who thinks it’s time to start watching Christmas movies raise their hand. Anyone? That’s what I thought. Starring Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Marisa Tomei, Ed Helms, and June Squibb as “Aunt Fishy.” Directed by Jessie Miller (I Am Sam). Area theaters MY ALL AMERICAN—Sports drama. Starring Finn Wittrock, Sarah Bolger, and Robin Tunney. Directed by Angelo Pizzo. Area theaters SUFFRAGETTE—Docudrama following women working the get the vote in early 20th century London who turn to civil disobedience after decades of peaceful campaigning get them nowhere. Starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Meryl Streep, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson. Directed by Sarah Gavron. Reviewed this issue. Amherst (Dipson), Eastern Hills (Dipson) THEEB—In the Ottoman Empire just before World War I, a Bedouin boy guides a British officer through the desert on a dangerous mission. Directed by Naji Abu Nowar. North Park THE 33—Drama based on the 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Chile, in which 33 men were trapped underground with little hope of rescue. Starring Antonio Bandaras, Rodrigo Santoro, Lou Diamond

At the center of the story is Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan), a working- class wife and mother who has been toiling in a laundry since she was 12. Initially uninterested in suffrage, she is drawn into the movement after she witnesses police brutally beating woman at a demonstration. If she thought he life was bad before, it’s only going to get much worse. Maud is fictional, but Suffragette includes a variety of real characters, including Helena Bonham Carter as a pharmacist who uses her knowledge of chemistry to make bombs and Meryl Streep in a cameo appearance as the leader-in-hiding Emmeline Pankhurst. Perhaps it’s a good thing that the issue of whether women should have the right to vote is so settled, at least in Western countries, that the film has trouble making an impact. On the other hand, it’s almost certainly a bad thing that modern viewers watching this history lesson are unlikely to share these activists’ conviction that the right to vote will enable them to improve things for oppressed workers: It’s a nexus writer Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady) relentlessly implies but never establishes. *** It has only been five years since the Copiapó mining accident in Chile, in which 33 men were trapped 2,400 feet underground after a 120-year-old mine collapsed. The fact that many viewers

Phillips, Gabriel Byrne, and Juliette Binoche. Directed by Patricia Riggen (Under the Same Moon). Reviewed this issue. Area theaters THE WONDERS—Life on a Tuscan farm, where a young girl who expects to take over her father’s beekeeping business is threatened when he hires a boy as a farm hand. Starring Maria Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louwyck, and Alba Rohrwacher. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. North Park

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BATMAN (1989)—Michael Keaton, Tim Burton, Jack Nicholson, Prince, you know this one. Sat-Sun 11:30am. North Park FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (Japan, 1969)—A masterpiece of the Japanese New Wave and an influence on Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange, Toshio Matsumoto’s feature loosely re-stages Oedipus Rex in Tokyo’s gay underworld. In the unrestrained avant garde style of the time, Matsumoto punctuates his story with comic book graphics and interviews with real transvestites. The film’s cross-dressing star Peter later went on to international fame as the Fool in Kurosawa’s King Lear adaptation Ran. A feature of the Kaleidotropes film series. Weds Nov. 18, 7 pm. Squeaky Wheel THE GLEANERS AND I (France, 2000)—Agnes Varda’s documentary about people who subsist by finding value in what others have thrown away or abandoned. Free and open to the public. Wed Nov 18, 7pm. Canisius College Science Hall Atrium JAMES WHITE—Drama about a callow Manhattan twentysomething forced into maturity by his mother’s illness. This New York Film Critics presentation will be followed by a video interview with director Josh Mond and stars Christopher Abbott and Cynthia Nixon. Tue 7:30pm. North Park JEWELS—From the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, a performance choreographed by George Balanchine celebrating the cities of Manhattan, Paris and St. Petersburg. Sun 12:55pm. Amherst (Dipson)

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will remember the outcome of that incident robs The 33 of much of the tension it might have had. Nor does it help that the men who came out of that mine agreed to keep secret certain difficult moments some of them had at the worst parts of their ordeal: laudable, of course, but it makes the movie awfully bland. We have little idea of what they do to pass their time while waiting for a rescue. Obviously there wasn’t much they could do, trapped in a small space with little food, but that’s an inherently dramatic situation that the film inexplicably skirts. Even reading the Wikipedia account of the accident and its resolution suggests a lot more drama than is onscreen here. An international co-production, The 33 peppers its cast with recognizable faces from around the globe, including Antonio Bandaras, Rodrigo Santoro, Lou Diamond Phillips, Gabriel Byrne, and Juliette Binoche. But what makes this English-language film more than a bit ridiculous is that it insists on having all of these characters speak English with thick Latin American accents. I guess the filmmakers were afraid that we’d forget they were Chilean if they didn’t all sound like banditos in a spaghetti P Western.

KILLER RACK—Local movie maven (and occasional The Public contributor) Gregory Lamberson’s new horror comedy, about a woman who gets breast implants to help her career but makes the mistake of getting them from a mad doctor (Debbie Rochon) with an H. P. Lovecraft fixation. Did I mention that it’s a musical, with songs by Armand John Petrie and Joe Rozler? (Full disclosure: I’m an investor in it.) Sat 9:45pm. Screening Room LOOKING FOR TROUBLE (1933)— Early Spencer Tracey action comedy about a pair of phone company troubleshooters getting into various scrapes with their ex-boss. Very rare—it’s not on DVD and seldom (if ever) is shown on TCM. With Jack Oakie and Constance Cummings. Directed by William Wellman (The Public Enemy). Fri 7:30pm. The Old Chestnut Film Society, Philip Sheridan School, 3200 Elmwood (836-4757) PARADISE IS THERE—Documentary about Jamestown’s Natalie Merchant and her latest album, a re-recording of her 1995 album “Tigerlily.” Tue 7:30 pm, Wed 5:30pm. Screening Room POLISH FILM FESTIVAL—Ninth edition of the annual series presented by Canisius College. See the feature this issue. PROJECT 22—Road documentary about two ex-soldiers travelling the country trying to raise awareness of the high rate of suicide among combat veterans—22 per day. Directed by Daniel J. Egbert and Doc King. Wed Nov 11, 7:30pm. Screening Room PSYCHO (1960)—Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles and Martin Balsam in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller that ranks pretty high on the list of movies that you don’t need me to tell you anything about. Tue, Fri-Sat 7:30pm. Screening Room PURPLE SKIES (India, 2014)—Documentary about the struggles of LGBT people to live openly in India despite severe pressures from family, custom, and the law. Directed by Sridhar Rangayan. Thu 7pm. Dreamland, 387 Franklin St

THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE (1990)—From PBS’s Frontline, a study of the American Indian Movement and the case of Leonard Peltier. Wed Nov 18, 7pm. Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Street THE TIME THAT REMAINS (Palestine, 2009)—Director Elia Suleiman’s followup to his first international hit, the comic Divine Intervention, is a personal look at the institution of the Israeli state as experienced by his parents. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Amherst (Dipson)

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THEATER INFORMATION IS VALID THROUGH THURSDAY, NOV 12 BRIDGE OF SPIES—Steven Spielberg isn’t the most intellectually or aesthetically penetrating director of the last three decades—not nearly—but given good, exploitable material, he can expertly tell a story, and does so here. Tom Hanks stars as James Donovan, a New York lawyer of the 1950s who takes a pro bono case to defend a Russian man accused of spying against the United States. Because of this he is enlisted to negotiate with the Soviets for the release of captured American spy-plane pilot Francis Gary Powers. Scripted by Joel and Ethan Coen with Matt Charman, this is a big, large-spirited movie that relies on small scenes of human interaction. With Mark Rylance, Scott Shepherd, Amy Ryan, and Alan Alda. –GS Amherst (Dipson) , Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria BURNT—Gordon Ramsay co-produced this familiar story starring Bradley Cooper as a chef who resembles the famously grumpy Ramsay in everything but name. Down on his luck, he seeks to regain his former glories (and a third Michelin star) by taking over a London restaurant, if he can keep from

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SOME OF THE BEST of recent Polish cinema can be seen this weekend as part of the ninth annual Polish Film Festival, presented by the Permanent Chair of Polish Culture at Canisius College. All films are in Polish with English subtitles and will be shown at the Montante Cultural Center, 2001 Main Street, or the ICEA Screening Room at the Tri-Main Building (Suite 530), 2495 Main Street.

The series opens Thursday evening with Fotograf (The Photographer), a thriller about Russian police tracking a serial killer who has fled to Poland in search of the sister his mother put up for adoption at birth. Like most movies involving serial killers, this crowd-pleaser is borderline ridiculous (the killer developed an ability during childhood to perfectly mimic the voices of other people), but played with energy that overrides the implausibility. The overstuffed plot and damaged heroine put me in mind of the recent wave of “Nordic Noir” TV series like The Killing and The Bridge. (You may be more familiar with their American adaptations.) Thu 7pm, Montante Cultural Center. For his performance in Bogowie (Gods), Tomasz Kot (who also has a supporting part in Fotograf) was named Best Actor at last year’s Polish Film Awards. He stars as Zbigniew Religa, the first Polish surgeon to perform a heart transplant in 1985, after years of fighting the Communist bureaucracy to set up a cardiac clinic. The film is less an inspirational biopic than a dry comedy with Kot a most unlikely hero—tall, stooped, given to chain smoking and excessive drinking. Sun 3:30pm, ICEA Screening Room. Agata Kulesza of the Oscar winner Ida stars in Moje Córki Krowy (These Daughters of Mine), a comedy-drama about two sisters who have to iron out their substantial differences when they are confronted with the impending deaths of their parents. The screening will be presented by the director Kinga Debska and producer Zbigniew Domagalski. Sat 6:30pm, Montante Cultural Center.

The Buffalo International Jewish Film Festival and the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo co-sponsors the moving documentary Dotkniecie Aniola (The Touch of an Angel), in which elderly Henryk Schoenker recounts his family’s experience as Jews living in the Silesian city of Oswiecim, which the occupying Nazis renamed Auschwitz. According to his story, his father was a respected elder enlisted to gather Polish Jews in Oswiecim for deportation, a plan that failed because no countries would take them. Sun 2pm, ICEA Screening Room. Friday’s presentation is a restored print of the 1929 silent film Mocny Czlowiek (Strong Man). Adapted from the novel by Stanislaw Przybyszewski, the film stars Gregori Chmara as a second-rate journalist obsessed with becoming famous. He seems on his way after he encourages a friend to commit suicide so that he can pass off his unpublished novel as his own, but his immoral ways eventually catch up with him. Director Henryk Szaro demonstrated the influence of both Russian cinema in his montage and German cinema with his expressionistic sets. The film will be shown with live music performed by composer Marcin Pukaluk. The animated short P Greed will also be shown. Fri 7pm, Montante Cultural Center.

ioned in the worst senses of the word, ditching its alienating all of his staff along the way. It’s awash in images of gastronomic delight, but dramatically odd couple premise to become a sentiment-coated it’s as predictable as macaroni and cheese. Which domestic-crisis dramedy built on small, easily-surmeans there’s nothing in the story to distract you mounted problem situations. Co-starring Rene Rusfrom fantasizing about building a new kitchen, the so and Anders Holm. –GS Regal Elmwood, Regal only possible point of the movie. Co-starring Sienna Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Miller, Daniel Bruhl, and Emma Thompson. DirectWalden Galleria ed by John Wells (August: Osage County). -MF Flix THE LAST WITCH HUNTER—There’s something to be (Dipson), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal said for low expectations: I enjoyed this supernatuQuaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria ral thriller more than I expected to, because I wasn’t CRIMSON PEAK—The first third of Guillermo del Toro’s expecting to enjoy it at all. As an unwillingly imnew movie is set in Buffalo at the turn of the 19th mortal witch hunter now based in Manhattan (he’s century, when it was the model of up and coming employed by a church cabal of anti-witch activists) America. He didn’t actually shoot here, making do Vin Diesel is not entirely lacking in charisma. But the with some digitally-incorporated photos of local flashes of wit in the script are buried under an unlandmarks, but it’s still nice to see the Queen City redistinguished story and endless digital effects. With flected in its first glory days. Aside from that, CrimJulie Engelbrecht, Michael Caine, Elijah Wood, and son Peak is less of a horror movie than a Victorian Isaach De Bankolé. Directed by Breck Eisner (The melodrama with some CGI ghosts and an absurdly Crazies). -MF Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, violent finale. As always with del Toro, the producRegal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Retion design is spectacular, which does a lot (thought gal Walden Galleria not enough) to distract you from how threadbare the story is. Starring Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, THE MARTIAN—It makes sense to update science ficCharlie Hunnam, and Jessica Chastain, who should tion variants on the Robinson Crusoe story every so have been allowed to go the full Dame Judith Anderoften to take advantage of both new technology and son with her sinister character. –MF Four Seasons, new knowledge. And the armchair survivalist will be Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal engrossed by at least the first half of this adaptaWalden Galleria tion of Andy Weir’s novel starring Matt Damon as the can-do science guy stuck on Mars. But scripter Drew GOOSEBUMPS—You can’t blame the producers of this Goddard, who has given us such logically wobbly light horror fantasy based on the work of children’s films as The Cabin in the Woods and World War Z, is author R. L. Stine for trying to cram in references to less interested in illustrating Weir’s problem-solving as many of his books as possible: A movie that might attract even a small fraction of the readers who have than the more familiar stuff about NASA mounting a bought an estimated 400 million copies of his books rescue operation. The overall result would be more is clearly a gold mine. On the other hand, he’s writenjoyable on a popcorn level if the first half hadn’t ten about 420 books. Jack Black stars as a recluput you in a logical mode that the second half abansive writer named R. L. Stine who must help when dons. (The disco music is particularly idiotic—as if hundreds of monsters escape from the printed page a mission to Mars in even the near future couldn’t to terrorize a small Connecticut town. Stine had no come equipped with at least as much music as you hand in the script, and adapters Scott Alexander and or I could fit on a thumb drive right now.) With JessiLarry Karaszewski cram in endless references to ca Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejioother horror favorites (mostly Gremlins and Jumanfor, Michael Pena, and Sean Bean. Directed by Ridley ji)). 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any of the dirty tricks on display here. Directed by David Gordon Green (Manglehorn). -MF Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE PEANUTS MOVIE—Charles Schultz’s beloved comic strip characters in a 3D animated feature scripted by his son and grandson. It’s as faithful as can be to the spirt of the original comic strip and TV carP toons, so adults who grew up with it won’t find a fond childhood memory assaulted. Directed by Steve Martino (Horton Hears a Who). Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Hamburg Palace, New Angola, 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. Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker SPECTRE—The 24th official James Bond movie is a letdown after Skyfall, though still better than any of the Bonds of the 1980s and 1990s. (A low bar, that.) Concluding his term as 007 in a series that essentially rebooted the franchise, Daniel Craig makes his reported unhappiness with the character part of his performance. But the script struggles to weave the previous Craig films into a common storyline, while preparing for a future that will feature bigger roles for team Bond—M (Ralph Fiennes), Q (Ben Whishaw), and Moneypenny (Naomie Harris). With Christoph Waltz as the villain of the piece, Léa Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, and Jesper Christensen. Directed by Sam Mendes (Skyfall). -MF Aurora, Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood , Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria TRUTH—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. The issue was a story casting doubt on the military record of President George W. Bush, at the time running for re-election. The film plausibly demonstrates that the story was accurate, even if the facts marshaled were not up to 60 Minutes’ standards. But in trying to find someone to blame for feeding the team false evidence or pressuring CBS owner Viacom to censor them, debuting scripter-director James Vanderbilt founders, falling into the very trap that Rather complains about: “People want to talk about conspiracy theories because that’s what they do these days, and the truth gets lost in the scrum.” Starring Cate Blanchett as Mapes and Robert Redford as a dignified Rather; with Topher Grace, Dennis Quaid, and Stacey Keach. -MF & REVIEWS >>Amherst (Dipson), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Transit VICTORIA—Late one Berlin night, a girl meets a quartet of young men who involve her in a criminal plan in this film that was shot as a single camera take. Starring Laia Costa, Frederick Lau and Franz Rogowski. Directed by Sebastian Schipper. Reviewed this issue. Eastern Hills, North Park ENDS THURS 11/12 P

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ON CHINA’S SLOWING ECONOMY China is still growing, but not as quickly as it has been. What does that mean for the rest of the world? BY ARI GOLDFARB SINCE 2009 CHINA HAS HAD THE SECOND-LARGEST gross domestic product (GDP) in the

world. While some economists question the reliance on GDP numbers to measure the strength of a country’s economy, it is one of the best tools we have at the moment; it is a general calculation used to identify the health of a country’s economy, the same way that measuring body mass index is used to identify obesity-related risks. In order for its economy to thrive, a country needs to offer products and services. The GDP is the total dollar value of those products and services. That value can be measured by accounting for every citizen’s income, or by adding up everyone’s expenses, which is the more common approach. Every year after 2009, China’s GDP has increased by around $1 trillion, usually a little more, and has come within $7 trillion of the United States’s GDP every year since 2013. 2015 has been a different story for China. Its economy grew by just 6.9 percent last quarter, the lowest growth since 2009. That number may be misleading. Of China’s 31 provinces, 23 have reported growth higher than the 6.9 percent average, with two provinces, Chongqing and Guizhou, posting double digit percentage increases. The problem the country faces is that two of its largest economic hubs, Shanghai and Beijing, are reporting growth below the 6.9 percent overall growth. China’s President Xi Jinping said on Xinhua News that the country’s growth “should be no less than 6.5 percent in the next five years to realize the goal to double 2010 gross domestic product and per capita income by 2020.” Bloomberg reports that this will be the first time the country faces less than seven percent growth since the late 1970s. This is not the first challenge China’s economy has faced in recent years but it may be the first time they failed to exercise alternative options in order to create growth. From 2011 to 2014 the government cut rates to help stimulate the market and the economy; during that time, they also lowered reserve requirements for their banks, which gave them more money to lend in an effort to increase spending. This time the problems may be more difficult to solve given China’s recent policy change from one child per family to two.

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Because China has the second-largest and one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, many fear that China’s troubles will negatively impact the global market. Though only 13 percent of America’s GDP comes from foreign trade, around 40 percent of S&P 500 companies’ revenue comes from overseas. Another concern: The US currently owes the Chinese government around $1.3 trillion. This is more money than the US owes any other individual nation, but is still far from the leading cause of our country’s $18 trillion debt. Though the US has a large debt, its projected GDP almost matches it by the dollar. According to Value Walk, which used a debt-to-GDP ratio, the US could pay off its national debt in just over a year if it applied its entire GDP. (According to Value Walk, 5-10 percent of a nation’s GDP is usually allocated to paying debt.) By comparison, Japan has a debt that accounts for 230 percent of its GDP. Our debt is high, but we can still manage it. Many are wary of China’s financial slowdown, but at this point in time it appears there is no true panic. While the potential for global repercussions is real, CNN reports that, because the Chinese government owns most of the country’s banks, the country’s current economic struggles may have only a “limited spillover effect to other countries and investors.” Any opinions are those of Ari Goldfarb and not necessarily those of RJFS or Raymond James. Expressions of opinion are as of this date and are subject to change without notice. Links are being provided for information purposes only. Raymond James is not affiliated with and does not endorse, authorize or sponsor any of the listed websites or their respective sponsors. Raymond James is not responsible for the content of any website or the collection or use of information regarding any website’s users and/ or members. The information has been obtained from sources considered to be reliable, but we do not guarantee that the foregoing material is accurate or complete. This information is not intended as a solicitation or an offer to buy or sell any security referred to herein. Any information is not a complete summary or statement of all available data necessary for making an investment decision and does not P constitute a recommendation.

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DEAR KEITH: I love my boyfriend. He is absolutely everything to me. But I’m honestly considering breaking off our relationship because of his refusal to partake in any sort of “manscaping.” It is an enormous obstacle to overcome when performing oral sex, which I typically enjoy as much as he. How do I get him to change his ways for the benefit of our love life? —MAD ABOUT PUBE

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MAD ABOUT PUBE: For the record, I take

umbrage with the word “manscaping.” I understand that the terminology is too ingrained to undo now but how did we as a society chock full of clever millennials completely overlook the option of “ladscaping”? It’s a far superior pun for numerous reasons. First and foremost, it’s the simplest modification of the word serving as the basis of the joke (“landscaping”) as it opts for removal of only one character rather than the removal of one and substitution of another (D and L, respectively). A genderspecific colloquialism is already present! On grounds of efficiency alone, my pun should have been the one granted permanent fixture in our vernacular, but these damn online kids don’t ever think to ask for my opinion about anything anymore. Also, “land” and “man” are slant rhymes. They share the same vowel sound. Big whoop. Would any poet in her right mind ever end lines with “giraffe” and “soulpatch” when penning a T. S. Eliot Prizeworthy masterpiece? Probably not, because the reoccurrence of a short “A” does not a rhyme make, though it seems like it would be a really cool poem that a lot of interesting people could relate to and possibly be moved to tears. In my opinion, the only rhyme lazier than man/land is when Beyonce said, “I could have another you in a minute/Matter fact he’ll be here in a minute.”

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Okay, now to the topic at hand, or, more specifically, at mons pubis. So you’re disgusted by your boyfriend’s ample tuft and wish he would dial it back a little bit? It’s here that I find myself repeating something I say quite often: I really wish I had more information about this man’s genitals. Is it an offensive odor or something and he won’t accommodate your desire for him to be more hygienic? If so, the solution is simple: You murder him in his sleep. That is completely insolent. He’s on some “I am man, hear me roar” trip? Unacceptable. Of course, if no weapons are available or you’re not the Snapped type, you could just plug your nose like you were taking a spoonful of mineral oil and keep loudly repeating “p.u.” throughout the tryst. Shaming is key, since I get the impression that his inconsideration for you is some childish power move. If done correctly, he’ll eventually feel so

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embarrassed that he takes the initiative and attends to his cleanliness immediately and I’ll have saved yet another insanely dysfunctional relationship. But if this is purely an issue of aesthetics, then let me ask you a question: “Why?” Why in god’s name would you require more visibility of this man’s wretched ornamentation? They’re called private parts for a good reason—have you ever seen it up close? There’s some really vile stuff going on down there. Like a turkey wattle full of toothpaste dangling off a baby mole rat wrapped up tight in a piece of dirty, lukewarm rice paper. Hell, the very thought of my own groin makes me gag incessantly and I’ve only ever seen it from a distance. I can’t imagine possessing the desire to have such a clear view that I would be willing to end a relationship if I couldn’t sit front row. But, human sexuality is a mystery that has baffled virgins like that shithead over at Game Stop who won’t honor my expired Groupon for centuries, so I certainly would never judge people for their preferences. Love is a beautiful thing, even if the pieces we use to physically express it are ghastly abominations. If you truly care for each other, you really need to come to a compromise here. Is he that emotionally attached to his own pubic hair that he simply will not forfeit even an inch of them? Does he understand that hair grows back or is he under the impression that it’s a cluster of rhino horns down there? Am I actually at a point in my life where those questions and their accompanying imagery legitimately crossed my mind for one single second? Can anyone else in this cold abyss even hear me scream?

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