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DIFFERENCES ACROSS CONTRACTS Of the 16 contracts with more than 500 hours worked—the point at which Stephanie Pennington, LPCiminelli’s director of compliance, said she expects the goals to be met—10 are meeting the 15 percent goal and six are not. Of those six, three were contracts performed early on in the project. Compliance with diversity goals is calculated as an average once the project is complete, so falling short in one month, or on one contract, doesn’t matter as long as the goals are met overall. The updated numbers, however, have not mollified those who argue that the project should have retained the 25 percent minority hiring goal agreed on when the city sold the Riverbend site to the state. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office subsequently announced the goal in two press releases. The goal was later lowered to 15 percent in an agreement between the local construction unions and developer LPCiminelli. Empire State Development said in a statement that the 25 percent goal was simply “aspirational.” The change drew fierce criticism from African-American leaders, who in October rallied in protest of the SolarCity work site and have staged a series of community meetings since . Fisher and Grant created a group to advocate for greater diversity in construction jobs and to hold contractors accountable for diversity goals. “There’s billions for Buffalo—but for whom?” Fisher said. “It can’t be just for a small circle of connected people. It’s got to be fair.” Investigative Post is a nonprofit investigative reporting center focused on issues of importance to Buffalo and Western New York. Its partners include The Public, WGRZ TV 2 On Your Side, WBFO P 88.7 FM, and The Capital Pressroom.

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QUICK HITS BY JIM HEANEY n Investigative Post is hosting a panel discussion next week that seeks to answer the question: “Is Buffalo really getting its mojo back?” There’s an inclination to say, PHOTO BY DIANA ROBINSON “Of course we’re getting our mojo back,” and that is no doubt true—to a degree. But employment figures released last week show that we’re hardly the “national success story” that Governor Andrew Cuomo has proclaimed us to be. Our job growth continues to lag behind the rest of the county, and the state, for that matter. Figures released by the state for the past 12 months, through the end of October, show the job count grew by 1.9 percent nationally, 1.8 percent statewide, and 1.4 percent in Erie and Niagara counties. We’re also lagging when you factor out government jobs, which is about the only sector of the economy shedding jobs. Private sector job growth over the past year was 2.2 percent both nationally and statewide, compared with 1.8 percent in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls market. The good news is that we’re adding jobs at a better clip than we have for long stretches in the past. But we’re still not keeping up with the Joneses. That’s not what the political class would have us believe. According to Cuomo and Co., happy days are here again. Cuomo credited the Buffalo Billion for what he described as an “economic boom” in an interview with the Brookings Institution published earlier this year. “This is a seismic shift in the Buffalo and Western New York economy,” the governor proclaimed. Howard Zemsky, the Buffalo civic leader and president of Empire State Development, added: “The governor once described the crane as an endangered species in Buffalo, now they’re all over.” Well, not exactly. When I read that quote this spring I got in my car and drove around the city looking for construction cranes. I counted nine. Eight of them stood over projects that are financed completely by the government or nonprofits reliant on government funding. The other crane loomed over the new headquarters for Delaware North, a privately financed project that is receiving oodles of tax breaks. To put Buffalo’s nine cranes in further perspective, consider that the skyline in neighboring Toronto was peppered last summer with 154 cranes—just for condo projects, according to a story I read at the time in the Toronto Sun. So, suffice to say, my take on the economy differs from Cuomo and Zemsky. I think the late, great Jim Morrison said it—actually, sang it—best when he crooned, “I’ve been down so long that it looks like up to me.” Which leads me back to our event on Tuesday. Is Buffalo really getting its mojo back? Granted, I’m talking about more than just the economy. I’ve got three experts lined up to debate both the larger and smaller points: Newell Nussbaumer, founder and editorial director of Buffalo Rising; Henry L. Taylor, a professor and founding director of the Center for Urban Studies at the University at Buffalo; and Rocco Termini, president of Signature Development. The discussion is set for Tuesday, December 1, at Allen Street Hardware, 259 Allen Street. Admission is $10 and includes a free drink. You can buy tickets at the door or online at P InvestigativePost.org/events.

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in this country since Wounded Knee (on December 29, 1890, the US Seventh Cavalry slaughtered between 200 and 300 Sioux men, women, and children on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in a one-sided battle that resulted in 20 Medal of Honor awards) occurred in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Two white American army veterans, Timothy McVeigh (born in Lockport, New York; Bronze Star in Operation Desert Storm) and Terry Nichols (born in Lapeer, Michigan; hardship discharge after one year of service) set off a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people and injuring another 680. The blast also damaged or destroyed 86 cars and 258 buildings. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection in 2001; Nichols is serving 161 consecutive life terms in ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison. The most significant consequence of their act of domestic terrorism—other than the irreversible damage they did to all those people they killed and injured and their families—is the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, which Congress passed a year later. That act vastly expanded the range of people who might be put to legal death in the US and reduced habeas corpus rights. Which is to say, we responded to McVeigh and Nichols by circumscribing our own civil rights and expanding our ability to put our own citizens to death. In that regard, McVeigh is still with us. The worst act of terrorism in this country since Wounded Knee was, of course, the September 11, 2001 hijacking of four planes, resulting in 2,996 deaths (in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in the planes). That attack was carried out by 19 men, 15 of them from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, and one each from Egypt and Lebanon. That attack also changed our country, and not for the better. Domestic snooping has increased exponentially. We started two wars, one of them on totally trumped-up assumptions, made torture part of our national game plan, and set up a prison on foreign soil (Guantanamo) specifically to avoid giving the people locked up there constitutional protections. Because of those wars, many thousands of people died, the entire region was destabilized, and we spent billions of dollars that might otherwise have gone into education, healthcare, basic research, and infrastructure. To my knowledge, no American politician in the current run-up to the presidential election has mentioned Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, or Lebanon as a threat to the US, nor called for any special legislation blocking immigration from those nations.

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But the politicians are freaking out about Syrian refugees, all of whom are fleeing terrorists at home, which is like police responding to a violent crime by locking up or shooting the victim. There is no record of any refugee admitted to this country ever having been involved in a terrorist event. Coming here as a refugee is a long and laborious process; it can take years. Terrorists are in a hurry: They get a student visa or a travel permit, as the 9/11 killers did, or they are born here, as McVeigh and Nichols were. All the perpetrators of the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris who have been positively identified were European Union nationals. (A Syrian passport was found near the body of one attacker, but it was a fake and no one has confirmed to whom it belonged.)

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Nonetheless, the US House of Representatives voted to clamp down on admission of refugees. More than two dozen governors said the wouldn’t allow Syrian refugees to migrate to their states, though they don’t have the power to ban people from crossing state lines. Just about all the Republican candidates have jumped on the terror train. Donald Trump called for a database for Syrian refugees, surveillance of mosques, and re-introduction of waterboarding as an interrogation advice. “The people that are involved in those mosques,” he said, “they know who the bad ones are and they know who the good ones are, but they don’t talk. We have to surveil the mosques.” It’s not just Syrians on Trump’s villainy list: He has several times said he saw “people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey where you have large Arab populations… as the World Trade Center came down…It did happen. I saw it. It was on television.” It never happened. It was never on television. He is crazy, lying, or both. He’s not the only one making it up as he goes. Ted Cruz (whose father was born in Cuba) said that US national intelligence director James Clapper said that “among those refugees are no doubt a significant number of ISIS terrorists.” Clapper never said any such thing. What Clapper did say was that ISIS was a “huge concern,” which is why we have that long, complex vetting process. According to Amy Davidson (New Yorker, November 16), Cruz told reporters in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina “that we should accept Christians from Syria, and only Christians, because, he said, ‘There is no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror.’ This will come as a profound surprise to the people of Oklahoma City and Charleston, to all parties in Ireland, and to the families of the teen-agers

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 whom Anders Breivik killed in Norway, among many others.” The day before, she wrote, Cruz told Fox News, “Christians who are being targeted for genocide, for persecution Christians who are being beheaded or crucified, we should be providing safe haven to them. But President Obama refuses to do that.” With that Obama remark, Cruz carries the fear and hatred of foreigners one step further than Trump. Why would Obama refuse to help Christians in need? Cruz knows. His Tea Party backers all know. And no so-called birth certificate from Hawaii is going to make them think otherwise. The war on terror makes, for some people, juicy politics. People buy it. If you talk tough about it, it means you’re tough and can do the job. (Remember George W. Bush bragging about being “a wartime president” and posing for cameras on the deck of a carrier wearing a flight suit?) Trump not only calls for the reintroduction of increased surveillance and torture, but promises to send all the Syrians already here back where they came from. Cruz wants us to protect Christians but not anybody else. Racism, demagoguery, and fear-mongering: That is the current political script. Paris wasn’t a horrible event to these guys: It was red meat. The war on terror is a phony war. It always was. Terror isn’t a place, a country, a thing. It is a technique in asymmetrical warfare. The murderers on the four hijacked planes on 9/11 were armed with box cutters. The entire objective of the technique of terrorism is to make an entity with far greater power so uncomfortable it goes away (think of the British leaving Palestine because of the Irgun and Haganah, and Kenya 8

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RACISM, DEMAGOGUERY, AND FEAR-MONGERING: THAT IS THE CURRENT POLITICAL SCRIPT. PARIS WASN’T A HORRIBLE EVENT TO THESE GUYS: IT WAS RED MEAT. because of the Mau-Mau) or so fearful it sets about destroying itself. The greatest damage caused by the technique of terrorism isn’t done by the terrorists, but by everybody else’s reaction to them. One hundred thirty people were killed in France earlier this month and, as a result, Britain and France have increased their military involvement in Syria, and politics in the US have gotten more openly bigoted than ever. A politically savvy friend said the other day he was sure Cruz or Rubio would be the Republican candidate in the next election. “Carson is in free-fall and Trump is a joke.” He’s right. Trump is a joke. Hitler was a joke, too. Until he wasn’t. Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture at UB.

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A GIFT FOR EVERYONE Hear that beeping noise? The holidays are here, you’re in the start gate—get ready to go BY THE PUBLIC STAFF DID YOU NOTICE last weekend that the city’s premier shopping strips on Elmwood and Hertel—as well as burgeoning retail areas on Amherst and Grant, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and a reviving downtown—were suddenly crowded with shoppers, peering in windows? Many, loooking to get a leg up on the competition, were actually carrying bags of purchases.

The sport has begun. The day after this paper hits the streets is Thanksgiving; the day after that commences the headlong, go-for-broke downhill race (hopefully through a beautiful topcoat of fresh new snow) that is the holiday season. The next six weeks will present a twisting, turning course of parties, dinners, outings, and gift exchanges. We’ve got ideas to help you negotiate all of it, and here we provide just a sample of those—a little something to get you through the all-important top part of the course, where you cannot afford to lose time. Check online for more gift ideas, for recipes and entertaining tips, for spotlights on shops and shopping districts in the city and across the region. And check with back us in print too; we’ll coach you right to the bottom of the mountain.

Gifts for Animal Lovers PET PORTRAITS WITH SANTA Animal Outfitters, Inc. 986 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo

If you’re the type that can’t help but dress your schnauzer in a Santa Cap and furry boots, then you’re also probably the type who will want to save that precious memory forever. On Saturday, December 15, bring your dog over to Animal Outfitters on Elmwood Avenue to have him or her photographed with Santa himself. Christmas card, check.

KITTY GIFT BASKET $7.99, Daisy’s Doghouse 1448 Hertel Ave., Buffalo

An all-in-one stocking stuffer for the cat lover in your life. Available at Daisy’s Doghouse on Hertel.

BUFFALO-THEMED LEASHES & COLLARS $18-$20, Elmwood Pet Supplies 706 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo

Even your pooch can rep the 716 in the stylish Buffalo-themed dog leashes and collars available at Elmwood Pet Supplies on Elmwood Avenue.

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HANUKKAH OILS GIFT SET $25, D’Avolio 814 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo

What better way to celebrate the miracle of one day’s supply of candle oil burning for eight nights than with D’Avolio’s gift set of seven flavors of extra virgin olive oil, offering subtle but memorable touches on your salads and light dishes for months to come. And who knows, you might get the miracle of an endless bottle of oil. Christmas-themed sets are also available, but without any chance of miracles, unfortunately.

BLACK FRIDAY BOUTIQUE CRAWL Friday, November 27, Elmwood Village The 5th annual Black Friday Boutique Crawl takes place on Friday, November 27, 9am-noon. According to the Elmwood Village Association, “Shopping from local businesses keeps three times more money in Buffalo.” Keep that in mind while you’re enjoying a nice stroll down Elmwood in search of the perfect gift.

TOMMYROTTER GIN $75-$85 Tommyrotter Distillery 500 Seneca St., Suite 110, Buffalo

The gin made by this new Buffalo-based distillery was a hit at The Public’s one year birthday party. Now Tommyrotter is having a party of their own, this Saturday, November 28, where they’ll be selling a limited quantity of special holiday gift sets.

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Gary Earl Ross and Lissa Redmond, contributors to the recently released book Buffalo Noir, will be signing copies of the short story collection at 6pm on Friday, November 27 at Dog Ears Bookstore. Buffalo Noir is part of Akashic Books Noir series, which have included books like Beirut Noir, Memphis Noir, and Chicago Noir—a great book for lovers of true crime stories.

SCALE Available December 15, 2015

Scale, the first novel by Buffalo boy and Every Time I Die vocalist Keith Buckley, is about a hard-drinking, party-hungry rock star named Ray Goldman who, only through a descent into turmoil, comes to understand the truth about happiness. Scale could be the perfect gift for the punk-rock-loving Charles Bukowski fan in your life. Pre-order at rarebirdbooks. com or look for it when it’s released on December 15 at your favorite locally owned, independent bookstore.

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One of the better concerts coming through town post-Christmas is psychedelic rock band Dr. Dog. The band has played Buffalo a few times and never disappoint. Tickets to see Dr. Dog would be a great gift for a music lover of any age. They come to the Town Ballroom on Wednesday, March 9.

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KNIT SABRES HAT $20, Poster Art, 1055 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo

Represent your team and stay warm in this knit Sabres hat, available at the locally owned Poster Art store on the corner of Elmwood and Bird.

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$29.50, Pasturized Tees, 795 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo

Pasturized Tees on Elmwood Avenue will put anything you want on a T-shirt, but chances are you’ll find something you like on one of their many pre-made shirts. We personally like their print of the Ralph.

$20, Revolver Records 1451 Hertel Ave., Buffalo

This Sesame Street Christmas album came out in 1975 and features songs by all of your favorites including Bert, Ernie, Oscar, and Big Bird. The newly opened Revolver Records on Hertel Avenue is chock-full of rare used vinyl gems like these.

November 28, Asbury Hall at Babeville, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo This is the 18th annual iteration of this arts and crafts fair that celebrates the creativity of women. It runs 10am-5pm and features a wide variety of work by numerous women artists, all of it suitable for gift-giving. There will be musical and dance performances throughout the day, too. Admission is free.

$149, Record Theatre, 3500 Main St., Buffalo

Montage of Heck is not a perfect documentary about Kurt Cobain, but the vinyl box set is damn near perfect if you’re a Nirvana completist. The set includes 31 “home-recorded” tracks, meaning rough drafts, recorded to cassette tape—the way Cobain probably recorded them. It comes complete with a full-color booklet and a jigsaw puzzle so you can literally put the pieces of Cobain’s life back together.

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BONGO DRUMS $59, Allentown Music, 1113 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo

Bongo drums are great for musicians of all experience levels. Beginners can easily learn to keep a beat, and for seasoned musicians the portable instrument is a great addition to any musical arsenal. Allentown Music located on Elmwood Avenue has a pair for only $59.

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If you are among the lucky throng that straps on some platform shoes, bedazzles an old pair of bell-bottoms, opens that wide-collared shirt to the waist, and boogies down to the World’s Largest Disco this Saturday, November 28, remember this: By the time the dust settles on this year’s event, the World’s Largest Disco will have raised well over $4 million for Camp Good Days and Special Times since 1994. That’s the year that Dave Pietrowski and friends staged a revival of the first World’s Largest Disco, held at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center at 1979, with a Guinness-certified attendance of 13,000. It’s been a sold-out nostalgia riot ever since, studded with stars from the 1970s, from Barry Williams to the Hanson Brothers, Leif Garrett to Deney Terrio, Evelyn “Champagne” King to Charlene Tilton. (The list of celebrities is a tightly guarded secret each year; you have to go to know.) The event consumes the entire Buffalo Niagara Convention Center, with multiple stages, bars, and dance floors hosting a crowd that pushes 9,000 people. It has created a mini-economy for local thrift shops that cater to revelers looking to costume themselves. Hundreds fly in from out of town and put themselves up in downtown hotels for the weekend, eat and drink at local establishments, keep taxis busy. Because it’s been happening for so many years, it’s easy to lose sight of what a sprawling success the World’s Largest Disco is, how unique to Buffalo, and what a boon to Camp Good Days and Special Times, which caters to children and families of children suffering from cancer. If you have tickets, congratulate yourself and have a good time this Saturday. If you don’t, well, head downtown anyway and watch the throngs in sequins and faux ’fros streaming into the Convention Center. It’s a sight to see. And then go home and order your tickets for next year.

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Walk into Headin’ to Hertel and you’ll find a gorgeous pipe that costs $1,000. If that happens to be over your budget, the head shop has a huge selection of less expensive glass pieces.

PAX2 VAPORIZOR $279, Pavillion, 3234 Main St., Buffalo

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This plaid shirt will keep you stylish, comfy, and warm this winter.

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Manzella gloves are a comfy fit, with a range of styles for different uses and warmths.

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Several local galleries currently have shows on view that feature local artwork for sale, from Lockport’s Market Street Studios (247 Market Street, Lockport) to North Buffalo’s Buffalo Arts Studio (2495 Main Street, 5th floor, Buffalo), all the way to Allentown’s Artists Group Gallery (1 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo), and online at collectartnow.com. Stay tuned right here for future opportunities to scoop some local art from our Cash Mob series, starting this Saturday at the Westside Bazaar.

BURNING BOOKS WINTER OPEN HOUSE December 17, Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo So much to love at Burning Books: alternative histories, biographies of changemakers, guides to meaningful activism, and a host of t-shirts, calendars, patches, and other interesting gift items for the beloved malcontents in your life. At the December 17 open house, 6-9pm, the shop’s radical holiday gifts will be 15 percent off. Make a point to stop by.

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Thinking about what to get that crafty person in your life? This DIY Knit Kit is the pefect gift. Knit a hat in one to two hours with the supplies included in the kit.

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GLOVE.LY TOUCH SCREEN GLOVES $19-$95, Furnishings, 500 Main St., Buffalo

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IN THEATERS THIS DECEMBER BY THE PUBLIC STAFF ANNIE (music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, book by Thomas Meehan): After a gajillion performances over the past 38 years, do you really need a description? Purists will enjoy knowing that this tour (same beloved story, brand new staging) is directed by Martin Charnin, the show’s lyricist, who also staged the original award-winning production on Broadway. Now, everybody sing! “Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow…” And tomorrow starts December 8, continuing through December. 13 at Shea’s Performing Arts Center, 646 Main St. (1-800-745-3000); sheas.org. BOTH YOUR HOUSES (drama by Maxwell Anderson): Deep from the files of Drama 101, Kavinoky Theatre revives this 1933 saga of earnest but inexperienced Alan McNeal, a school teacher elected to the US Senate representing Nevada. Of course, this is a time when Nevada was a dusty electoral territory rather the megastate we know today. The upcoming national election seems a fine time to consider how much—and how little—DC politics have changed. In addition, a large and impressive cast—Chris Evans, Peter Palmisano, Norm Sham, Aleks Malejs, Christian Brandjes, Jessica Wegrzyn, Kevin Craig, Kurt Erb, Anne Gayley, and others—makes this production an appealing prospect. David Lamb directs for Kavinoky Theatre. End of term December 6; at Kavinoky Theatre, Porter and Prospect, on the D’Youville College campus; (716) 829-7668; kavinokytheatre.com. HARVEY (comedy by Mary Chase): The Dowd family are part of a starchy small-town aristocracy. Elwood, the middle-aged scion, upsets the clan with his delusional ways. The delusion is named Harvey and unseen by everybody except Elwood. Harvey and Elwood wreak confusion at home and in town to a point where everyone winds up at the gates of the local insane asylum. Conjecture all you want about sanity, stuffiness, insanity, and love, just sit back and enjoy the laughs in this vintage comedy. Richard Lambert, Tammy Hayes McGovern, David Lundy, Caitlin Coleman, Nicholas Lama, Sharon Strait, Nicholas Lama, Betsy Bittar, Franklin LaVoie, and others appear under the direction of Tom Makar. Fades away on December 20. At New Phoenix Theatre, 31 Johnson Park; (716) 853-1334; newphoenixtheatre.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; enrollment open now 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. 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 play 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. A winning design gives the show a modern, 1950s/1960s sheen. 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 door slams shut on December 6. Adam Mickiewicz Library and Dramatic Circle, 612 Fillmore Ave.; (716) 812-1733; tornspacetheater.com. PEPPA PIG LIVE!: Here is a stage show for the pre-school set starring the Nick, Jr. porcine heroine and a menagerie of her friends. This show has already toured English language countries around the world and is ready to endear itself to US fans. Life-sized puppets, manipulated by the visible puppeteers, replicate the animated action of the television series. Interactive music featuring original songs and familiar music make this a fine way to introduce the wee ones to live theater. December 5 only, at Shea’s Performing Arts Center, 646 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, or 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. Stomp on over through December 6. At African American Cultural Center, 350 Masten Ave.; (716) 884-2013; aaccbuffalo.org.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Dickens favorite adapted for the stage by Neal Radice): From “Marley was dead” to “God bless us, everyone,” Alleyway Theatre’s production is a thorough and economic telling of miserly Scrooge’s reformation on Christmas Eve. The Christmas treat is larded through with holiday song and dance. Besides anchoring Alleyway Theatre for more than 30 years, it is the fifth-longest-produced version of Dickens’s novella in the US. Radice also directs David Mitchell, Joyce Stilson, and carolers Stephanie Bax, Melissa Leventhal, Roger VanDette, and David G. Poole. Opening on December 10 and closing on December 20 at Alleyway Theatre, One Curtain Up! Alley; (716) 852-2600; alleyway.com. A LITTLE HOUSE CHRISTMAS (adapted by James DeVita inspired by the fiction series by Laura Ingalls Wilder): Laura, Ma, Pa, and the neighbors carry through in the manner we have come to love them for. Wonderful plans go awry but adversity is no match for strong wills and good spirits and everything works out well in the end. Music, dancing, and a familiar group of characters are presented to audiences wrapped up with Christmas trimmings. Larry Smith and, Kim Cote are among the residents of Plum Creek. December 4 through 20 at Allendale Theatre, 203 Allen St, Buffalo; (716) 884-4400; theatreofyouth.org. JOSEPH’S GOSPEL (solo show written by John Dowie): A humble carpenter working in Nazareth tells everything that happened on the way to the manger in Bethlehem. His courtship with Mary, those three kings, and more are all related from Joseph’s point of view. This engagement at 710 Theatre is the US premiere of a one-man show, originally known as Jesus, My Boy when it debuted in Britain. Reviewers in Europe, Israel, and Ontario have called it humane and touching. Performing this story is Alan Safier, who has earned his own fans after touring many seasons as George Burns in the solo-show Say Goodnight, Gracie. December 17 through 20 at 710 Main Theatre, 710 Main St.; (1-800-745-3000); sheas. org. THE SANTALAND DIARIES (solo show scripted by Joe Montello, based on the writings of David Sedaris): Bitterly ironic minimum-wage worker takes Christmas gig at Macy’s then lives to kvetch about it. Kevin Kennedy steps into the pointy-toed slippers of an elf named Crumpet for the annual revival of this bile-laced egg nog. Sardonic, Sedaris-style laughter assured. Bring your own cigarettes. Staged by Doug Weyand for Road Less Travelled Productions, premiering December 4 and running through December 13. At the company’s new home 500 Pearl St.; (716) 629-3069; roadlesstraveledproductions.org. TRAILER PARK BOYS “DEAR SANTA TOUR”: Demanding connoisseurs of redneck literature and humor will certainly wish to attend this rollicking, yet poignant, depiction of male friendships in all its bacchanalian wonder. Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles, along with Mr. Lahey and Randy—and an inordinate amount of intoxicants—commence a world crusade on behalf of the true in addition to a pursuit of the real Santa. Fraught with allusion to the great literary quests and quixotic dreams of favorite picaresque characters. This is a one-night-only (December 15) presentation at Shea’s Performing Arts Center, 646 Main St.; (1-800-7453000); sheas.org. UH OH! HERE COMES CHRISTMAS (by Robert Fulghum, Ernest Zulia, and David Caldwell): Robert Fulghum, 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 frantic, 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 Corey Beiber, Tim Goehrig, Edith Grossman, Mary Moebius, and Michael Starzynski for O’Connell & Company. Opens on November 27 and closes on December 20 at Park School Auditorium, 4625 Harlem Rd. (Snyder); (716) 8480800; oconnellandcompany.com.

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[EDUCATIONAL] The Milestones of Science Collection is a humble treasure of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Acquired in the late 1930s, this remarkable collection comprises 197 first and rare editions by world-renowned early scientists, including Robert Boyle (first modern chemist), Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon (credited for introducing the first non-religious account of the earth’s history), and more. Check it out at the Central Library on Wednesday, November 25 through December. -KP

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NORTH COLLINS North Collins (LP) Recommended If You Like: Sufjan Stevens, Mates of State The Rochester husband/wife folk pair released its mature and orchestral debut record earlier this month. The duo plans to tour the US later this fall.

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[ROCK] You might not know Mike Dillon’s name, but you may have heard his fine percussive talents on discs by Marco Benevento, Ani DiFranco, Les Claypool, Primus, and Garage a Trois. In addition to being a touring member of the bands Hairy Apes BMX, Billy Goat, and Critters Buggin, Dillon finds time to lead his own group, which has released a pair of discs, including last year’s Band of Outsiders. Catch the Mike Dillon Band headlining at Buffalo Iron Works on Wednesday with openers Slyboots Circus. -CJT

7PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $26-$30 [ROCK] We have a tendency to forget that for every movement in contemporary music, there are great bands from other countries that don’t cross over into American consciousness. Toronto’s Lowest of the Low makes for an interesting example, since the band has fans in certain regions of the United States (Buffalo included) but has never broken nationally over here. In Canada, and particularly in Toronto, they’re stars. Formed in 1991, Lowest of the Low is considered a seminal force in the 1990s Canadian alterna-canon, and the edgy jangle-rock of the band’s debut, Shakespeare My Butt, gained near-universal critical accolades while generating quite a bit of radio airplay. The band was heavily shopped by major labels, and they eventually compromised with a distribution deal through A&M for the follow-up, 1994’s Hallucegenia. Since then, they’ve broken up and reunited multiple times. Frontman Ron Hawkins has released solo material along the way, recording additional work with his band the Rusty Nails and collaborating with the Do Good Assassins. Two new LOTL tracks have surfaced this fall—we’ll see if that materializes into a fulllength release. Meanwhile, Lowest of the Low plays Town Ballroom on Wednesday, November 25. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

Thanksgiving Eve Rock ‘n’ Roll Feast 10pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St. $5

[ROCK] Irving Klaws will headline Nietzsche’s Thanksgiving Eve Rock ‘n’ Roll Feast on Wednesday, November 25 with that trademark garagey goodness, and we can say with fair assurance that Harmonica Lewinski and Blue Ribbon Bastards will also play. What we can’t say for sure is that there’ll be much to actually feast on besides awesome local bands and booze, but there’s nothing like a gigantic dose of tryptophan on Thursday to cure your hangover. -CJT

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[COMMUNITY] It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to deck the house in scads of twinkling lights and embrace the spirit of the holiday season. What better way to find inspiration and have fun doing it than to hit up the Hamburg Fairgrounds Festival of Lights. Hailed as the largest winter festival in Western New York, the spectacle is back in town on Friday, November 27 through Friday, December 18, featuring more than 60 lights displays and plenty of holiday fun. -KP

Shane and Tone at Handlebar 9pm Handlebar, 149 Swan St.

[HIP HOP] Veterans of Buffalo’s hip hop scene since the mid 1990s, Shane and Tone (Anthony DiGesare, a.k.a. Tone Atlas) have spent a solid 20 years digging in crates and schlepping around records to test on your ears and feet, specializing in old-school hip hop and instrumental tracks straight off the wax. A good time is all but guaranteed in this weekend’s holiday glow, and Handlebar is a great place to take ex-pat visitors this weekend. -AL

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THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING 9PM–Close at Underground, 274 Delaware Ave.

The tradition continues with a drag show at midnight hosted by Chevon Davis and featuring Akasha Salad, Mary Luchey, Selexus, Nola Unita, and Honey Jazel. DJ Remmz on the tables starting at 11pm. No cover.

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KERRYKATE & CHUCK 7-9:30PM at Daily Planet Coffee, 1862 Hertel Ave.

Kerrykate Abel and Chuck Basil have been entertaining Western New York audiences in piano bars and cabarets for years. Enjoy as they revive the lost art of simple conversation through song and humor.

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An annual observance and day of uniting in the fight against HIV, showing support for those living with HIV, and commemorating those who have died. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day, held for the first time in 1988.

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A free screening of the newly released Radiant Presence, followed by a panel discussion that will provoke conversations about HIV stigma, treatment and access to treatment, the multiple demographics of people living with HIV, and the work of artists impacted by and responding to HIV/AIDS.

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[CASH MOB] What’s a cash mob? It’s like a flash mob but without the singing—and a lot more spending. The idea is to target a local business and send a mob of people there to buy things—in this case, gifts for their loved ones for the holidays. Think of it as a happy hour for shopping. You’ll mingle, you’ll buy, and it all helps boost a locally owned business. Throughout the holiday season, The Public will hold a series of these events, starting with one at the West Side Bazaar on Saturday, November 28, a small business incubator for Buffalo's newly settled communities that features clothing, jewelry, gifts, and food specialties from around the world. -CP

Take Another Look 4pm Buffalo City Hall, 1 Niagara Square $10-15, $5 discount with non-perishable food donation

[CELEBRATION] Call it an open house for Buffalo's City Hall. This Saturday, November 28, the second annual Take Another Look, an event designed to showcase a slice of Buffalo at its best during a weekend when many visitors and former residents are in town, will make the venerable art deco masterpiece the star of the show. In the vaulted lobby food and drink vendors will welcome visitors while docents from Preservation Buffalo Niagara will usher folks through the building on 15-minute tours. Coffee and desserts will be available on the 28th-floor observation deck, which will be open throughout the evening. Buffalo Public School students will perform live music and showcase visual arts; NPR's Story Corps will be on hand to record stories for "The Great Thanksgiving Listen." "Looking Backward" aficionados alert: A "Name the Place" quiz will take over Common Council Chambers in the 13th floor, challenging participants' knowledge of Buffalo's history. Get there early to catch dusk over Buffalo's westerly skies from the 28th floor. -AL

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TRANCEGIVING: COSMIC GATE FRIDAY NOV 27 10PM / LIFT NIGHTCLUB, 257 FRANKLIN ST. / $15 [ELECTRONIC/DANCE] The best way to work off all of those extra Thanksgiving calories is to dance them off. Your best option to do that post-Thanksgiving is Lift Nightclub, because on Friday, November 27, they’ll host the second edition of Trancegiving. Last year, they brought Super8 & Tab. This year they’re doubling down with a special appearance by German trance-brothers Cosmic Gate. Over their 16-year career the duo has played hundreds of shows, including a few in Buffalo. They’ll make their return on the heels of a new compilation, the Wake Your Mind Sessions 001. The compilation features tracks by Cosmic Gate, Super8 & Tab, Azotti, and a bunch of familiar names from the trance music world, which should give you a good feel for what to expect at this live DJ gig. The comp marks a return to form, of sorts. “For both of us it actually started with DJing first, and when we did this for several years, then the idea of writing music started to take over,” the duo told The Public in an interview earlier this year. “For us, trance is simply the most touching music. The music that we feel the most. Trance in our eyes, though, is not only the typical strings kind of tracks. Trance for us is more the feel of a track.” Local DJs Jesse Aaron and Jill Hutch open the show. -CORY PERLA

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[ROCK] It’s Thanksgiving weekend and that means it’s time to truck in the Canadian bands. Canadian rock band Marianas Trench makes their return to Western New York for a show at the Rapids Theatre on Saturday, November 28. The 2011 album Ever After essentially introduced the four-piece pop-punk band to an American audience, winning them tours with bands like Simple Plan and Forever the Sickest Kids. Their latest record, Astoria, was released earlier this year and features the lead single “One Love.” Special guests Secret Someones open the show. -CP

Chris Beard Band 9pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $15

[BLUES] Chris Beard, the son of bluesman Joe Beard, imported his family’s Beale Street roots to Rochester, where he was raised, spreading a little Memphis grit through the Western New York blues scene. Beard’s recently released Eye of the Witch disc goes far to establish his own playing style and uniquely commanding voice while showcasing some new writing collaborations and a pair of great backing bands, one of which will be with him Saturday, November 28 at Buffalo Iron Works. -CJT

Igloo Music Presents: 4 Years of Sexy Music 10pm Gypsy Parlor, 376 Grant St.

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Gypsy Parlor residents Igloo Music celebrate “four years of sexy music” this Saturday, November 28, at the Grant Street bar. The whole crew—Gene Linet, Steve Rufus Gibson Brandon Chase, John Patrick, and Chad Lockrin—will be there dropping those truly sexy deep house, techno, and tech house beats. Like the good guys they are, they’ll donate a portion of the profits to the local SPCA. They’ll also be accepting pet toys, treats, and (unopened) pet food as donations, because pets need some holiday love too. -CP

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THE CONTINENTAL REUNION 3 SATURDAY NOV 28 7PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $10-$20 [REUNION] If you hung out in the 1990s at the Continental, one of Buffalo’s original punk, new wave, and post-punk venues, then you’ll probably be familiar with a few of the acts scheduled to perform at the third Continental Reunion show. The show will be held on Saturday, November 28 at the Town Ballroom, which during the Continental’s reign was known as the Pfeiffer Theater. One of the bands that stretches back the furthest is Bulletproof Claudia, who were just a bunch of punks from Kenmore when they formed in the 1980s. They’ll be joined by the classic local hardcore-leaning punk band the Enemies, the Sinatara Test, a new band lead by David Kane called Night Slaves, the Skeptics, Dollywatchers, and Cowboys of Scotland, featuring the show’s organizer, Bud Redding. The Surfin’ Cadavers will open the show and Armageddon Party will wreak some electronic havoc with their closing set. In true Continental fashion, there’ll be a separate DJ room near the front bar, which will feature DJ Arca Tek, DJ Bud, DJ OldSkool, Philip Blum, Adrian Levesque, Bill Page, Soma, and Daniel Murphy playing both modern and classic jams. -CORY PERLA

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[INDIE] Four-piece post-punk band Orations will celebrate the release of their EP, Incantation, with a show at the Studio at the Waiting Room on Sunday, November 29. They’ve grabbed a supporting spot for Philadelphia punk band Dark Blue. Dark Blue's latest album, Pure Reality, was produced by Jeff Zeigler, known for his work with Kurt Vile and the War on Drugs. Experimental rock band Cages opens the show. -CP

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[POP PUNK] Some may remember Relient K for their eccentric pop-punk tunes like "Sadie Hawkins Dance" and "Be My Escape." You may be wondering how a band like this, formed in 1998, can still exist. Well, Relient K frontman Matt Thiessen has supported his work of passion by writing some well known pop hits over the last decade, including Owl City’s “Good Time” and Kelly Clarkson’s “Long Shot.” To be fair, Relient K has been consistent, releasing nine albums since 2000, including their latest, 2013’s Collabpsible Lung. Relient K comes to the Waiting Room on Sunday, November 29. -CP

BREADHIVE CAFE COMING IN 2016 BreadHive Cafe, 402 Connecticut St. Buffalo

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The talented gals at BreadHive have just announced plans to open up a cafe at 402 Connecticut street in 2016. Thebaking will continue on Baynes but the cafe will allow them to flex their kitchen muscles and team up with their friends at First Light Creamery, Barrel + Brine, and Public Espresso. The cafe will sell sandwiches, soups, and pastries to lunch crowds.

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MONDAY NOV 30 The Larkin Square Author Series: Elaine Sciolino 5:30pm Larkin Square, 745 Seneca St. Free

[LIT] On Monday, November 30, Larkinville welcomes Buffalo native Elaine Sciolino—author of the new book, The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs—to the Larkin Square Author Series. After graduating summa cum laude from Canisus College, Sciolino earned a master’s degree in European history from NYU. She began working for the New York Times in 1984, where she has held several distinguished posts, including United Nations bureau chief, Central Intelligence Agency correspondent, culture correspondent, chief diplomatic correspondent (the first woman to hold that position), and Paris bureau chief. Sciolino has resided in France since 2002. She writes the “Letter From France” column for T Magazine and contributes to the food, culture, styles, and Sunday Review sections. Her journalistic pursuits have undeniably propelled Sciolino’s expertise in an array of foreign affairs, and she flexes her world-wise muscles in her literary titles, The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis and Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran. Persian Mirrors was awarded the 2001 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism and the Overseas Press Club Cornelius Ryan Citation for nonfiction. It was also a History Book Club selection and a New York Times Notable Book of 2000. Sciolino will be signing and reading from her latest novel, which will be available for purchase at the event. -KP

TUESDAY DEC 1 Investigative Post: News Flash Happy Hour 7pm Allen Street Hardware Cafe, 245 Allen St.

[HAPPY HOUR] Investigative Post’s Jim Heaney moderates a speaker panel that tackles the question: “Is Buffalo really getting its mojo back?” Tuesday, December 1 at Allen Street Hardware Cafe. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

[ROCK] Nik Turner is one odd dude. Like, Ginger Baker-odd, but maybe not as cantankerous. Tuner led the legendary space-prog outfit Hawkwind through its most celebrated and commercially successful period (often in full makeup and bizarro outfits—think Rick Wakeman with an ethnic bent) before getting axed by front man Dave Brock in 1976. He’d rejoin and get fired again just a few years later. Known for his free-form woodwind playing, Turner, now 75, is touring Hawkwind material to support the release of his new Space Fusion Odyssey project as well as a book, The Spirit of Hawkwind. It’s bound to be a memorable affair at Mohawk Place on Saturday, November 28 with Hedersleben and Handsome Jack. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

TIPICO COFFEE IS ALREADY IMPRESSING LOCALS Tipico, 128 Fargo Ave. Buffalo

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Even though Tipico has been open for less than one week, locals are already raving about their coffee and sharply designed West Side location. The minimalist design paired with some of the most beautiful latte art we've seen locally has been a hit. They've kept the coffee and food menus small and focused. Customers will be able to grab a latte or pour-over but they will also have a quick cup of coffee for people with limited amounts of time. The food features salad, toast (from BreadHive), and sandwiches.

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[POP] Young artists often clamor for our attention with defiance and angst that provides a vicarious thrill. When we’re no longer getting a satisfying fix from their music, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve gone soft. Perhaps it says more about how we see ourselves reflected in that equation. That said, there’s still a very satisfying emotional catharsis to be had from Sarah McLachlan’s latest, Shine On, which won a Juno Award (Adult Contemporary Album of the Year), peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200, and hit #1 on the iTunes Canada Top 10. It features several songs written for her dad, who died in 2010, and one in particular for Malala Yousafzai. It also finds her attempting to expand her musical palette (without breaking the mold) as she tests out some vaguely jazzy textures. McLachlan will bring a good-sized helping of her new material to the Seneca Niagara Casino Events Center in Niagara Falls on Saturday, November 28, but she’ll also reach back to her 1994 breakthrough Fumbling Towards Ecstasy while amply covering the territory in between. If P you’re lucky, she might even play the ukulele.-CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

RJ Marvin's pickle and fermentation factory is up and running, which means that Buffalo's pickle game is getting a lot better. In what once was an industry dominated by shops in the Broadway Market, Marvin is planning on doing some fun new things that we haven't seen locally. Bloody Mary pickles, IPA pickles and horseradish pickles are just a few options that you'll be able to buy. Check their Facebook page for updates on retail hours.

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Sweetness_7 Café was opening. The West Side reminded them of their old neighborhood in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and they decided to buy the closest house to the café. Prish Moran, the owner of Sweetness_7, later became one of their friends. In 2011, Jeanenne and Joe opened their own business, Westside Stories Used Books, at 205 Grant Street. “[Prish] was a part of the encouragement we needed to open [Westside Stories]. She’s so big on the attitude of ‘Why not?’ She’s been a great inspiration in building a business,” Petri says.

It makes sense to open an independently owned business, especially in Buffalo where rent remains somewhat reasonable and local clientele are fiercely loyal. But does opening bookstore make sense? Westside Stories counts book-loving regulars, neighbors, teachers, and non-native English speakers as customers. Even as chain media outlets closing, smaller record shops and bookstores seem to thrive. For Petri this was a no-brainer and relates directly to the area of which West Side Stories is a part. “Interesting neighborhoods deserve a bookstore. In terms of what kind of business you would want to run, a bookstore is one of the coolest and most interesting,” Petri says. And one of the things that makes Grant Street an “interesting neighborhood” is the plethora of women-run businesses and the commitment to collaboration that flourishes there. After being open for four years, Westside Stories is interwoven into the community and Petri has experienced these characteristics firsthand: “It seems like there is a disproportionately high number of women-owned businesses on Grant Street—it’s kind of an interesting thing. This is an incredibly supportive community. I don’t imagine that if we opened up in a strip mall that we would get the same support from fellow business-owners. It seems like everyone goes above and beyond to help out.” One of the major efforts that everyone works together on is reviving Grant Street and its image.

After laying dormant for years, the Grant-Ferry Association has been reformed thanks to Petri and others in the community. The board is now made up of local business-owners, some residents, and representatives from nonprofits in the neighborhood. They have been meeting to discuss how to publicize Grant Street as the retail district that it once was and how it has bounced back in recent years. Petri notes that a strong retail quarter helps to support a walkable neighborhood. The community hopes to catch the attention of people living in Buffalo as well as the “suburban tourists” who occasionally visit Grant Street to get lunch at the West Side Bazaar, check out bookstores such as Westside Stories and Rust Belt Books, shop at Global Villages, and pick up a few things at Guercio’s. Even Grant Street’s long-term residents could probably use an update on how the area has been growing and thriving. “People who live in this neighborhood do have a lot of pride in it— although some might not see what’s happening with this development, especially if they have been here for a while. They may have given up on it,” says Petri. Not only do these community meetings focus on the need to promote a unified neighborhood district, but they also discuss how and why this is an important goal. “Grant Street is actually a small part of the West Side, and we would like people to recognize Grant Street as its own unique thing. We definitely need to brand it. People won’t come for one thing, but they will come for a cumulative thing,” Petri explains. That Buffalo is progressing at a refreshing rate is not news. What is worth noting is a perspective from a non-native Buffalonian like Petri. “Something weird is happening in Buffalo, there definitely seems to be an energy here. The whole time I’ve been here there has been this energy. Everyone has been saying, ‘Buffalo is amazing,’ so I was never here for ‘downtrodden Buffalo.’ We have these really unique and P incredible experiences over here.”

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to carry hundreds of thousands of other stories with it. There are three great waves of emigration from Ireland. There’s the one that resulted form the famine in the 19th century, one in the middle part of this century from the 1940s, and one in the 1980s. When Ireland got its independence [in 1922], there was a protectionist economic policy under [President Éamon] de Valera, which was ruinous for the country. The idea that there would be Irish goods for Irish people. The scandal of it was that the single biggest export from the country was young people, and the single biggest source of money coming into the country was from those young people. But nobody ever talked about it—there was a degree of shame. And if you emigrated you were considered to be a failure, when in reality it was the country that was failing. Stories about Irish immigrants to America usually concern the struggle they have here, without any looking back. What’s brilliant about the novel that we tried to capture in the film is that the choice that Eilis has to make between the two countries and the two men is representative of the split that happens in exile. People rarely want to emigrate unless they have to. Because wherever you go to, you’ve never actually from that country. But nor any longer from the country you left. You become a third thing, an exile. When she comes back—there’s a mythic aspect of a young person who leaves on a quest to bring back the golden fleece, the boon to make the country well. The spin on this is that the country can’t take her gifts. What I thought was interesting and true to life about the stoy is that it suggests that the heart is capable of being loyal to more than one person. It’s a difficult thing to achieve as a storyteller, to ask an audience to invest the better part of an hour in a film to believe in her story, her loneliness, and her happiness when she finds one person in the world for herself—and then to park all that while you develop another love affair without making the audience want to cry foul. Was it hard to research a woman’s perspective on emigration? The only reference I’ve come across of a first person female narrative is in Heinrich Boll’s The Irish Notebook. On the train leaving Ireland, he overheard a conversation between a young woman and a priest that he copies down. It’s extraordinary because she’s berating the priest, hammering their hypocrisy toward all the women who had to leave and were no longer allowed to be part of their moral code It’s one of the thing that Colm Tóibín does so well in the novel, is to inhabit a young female voice. And to delicately trace a character who at the star—I don’t want to say she’s blank exactly, but she doesn’t have a lot of cultural references. She just knows that there has to be another life than the one she’s living. An extended version (with spoilers) along with interviews with Brooklyn’s co-stars Saoirse Ronan and Emory Cohen will be posted at P dailypublic.com.

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Helen Mirren and Bryan Cranston in Trumbo.

BY GEORGE SAX PLAYWRIGHT AND SCREENWRITER Lillian

Hellman called it “Scoundrel Time,” the name of her mid-1950s memoir of her experience with America’s 1940-1950s pandemic of anti-communist hysteria and witch-hunting, especially her confrontation with the congressional House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Hellman, briefly a party member in the 1930s, was an “unfriendly witness” before the committee who declined to “name names” of former party comrades. She largely got away with it, perhaps because of her prominence and influential friends, but a great many others, in and out of Hollywood, didn’t get off so easily. Jay Roach’s Trumbo is about screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and the Hollywood 10, leftist writers who suffered greatly during the witch hunts and criminal prosecutions of those times. The 10 were all unfriendly witnesses before HUAC, refusing to say whether they’d ever been Communists, and trying to read statements espousing constitutionally protected rights over the gravel banging of Chairman J. Thomas Parnell (later a convicted felon). All were held in contempt and jailed. Director Billy Wilder’s much-repeated remark—“Only one of them was talented. The rest were just unfriendly”— may or may not have referred to Trumbo (under a necessary alias he wrote Roman Holiday), but it hardly reflected the critically serious nature of the era’s orgy of reckless accusatory agitation, bad faith, repression, and fear. My gosh, even I Love Lucy’s beloved star had to pay extorted money and

publicly apologize because of her statements in support of free speech and some leftist skeletons in her closet. Lucy! Trumbo makes an obvious effort to redress the historical ledger, but its success is, regretfully, only partial. To some extent, it’s self-handicapped. The movie is a combination of earnest striving for accuracy and honesty up against some muddled, fact-challenged recreations and too much drab narrative. The movie opens in 1947 as Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) is at the apex of his success, signing a new beaut of a studio contract and living high on the Hollywood hog. But the storm clouds are gathering. The Hollywood right, led by such stalwarts as the draft-dodging John Wayne and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren in a broad, crude, ballsy impersonation) are out for blood, trying to have presumed reds and other leftists fired and jailed. Trumbo and his fellows caucus and plan their fight, financed in part by movie tough guy Edward G. Robinson (Michael Stuhlberg). Much of the movie follows Trumbo’s post-prison career as a blacklisted, secret author of scripts for a producer of grindhouse schlock ( John Goodman, freewheeling, funny, and typical), who doesn’t care if Trumbo was Joe Stalin’s boyfriend as long as he supplies scripts for his rubbishy movies. Eventually, Trumbo is vindicated and publically identified as the writer of major

films (Exodus, Spartacus). In this telling, it’s director Otto Preminger, as much as or more than the widely credited Kirk Douglas, who helped end the blacklist. A lot of this is reasonably well told and dramatized, but too much is bogged down in the domestic particulars of Trumbo’s threatened and damaged family life. His personal life is undermined, it seems, by the incessant need to pound out trash for a living. Maybe it really was, but the writing (by John McNamara) and direction are too pedestrian. Roach is not the director to goose or tart things up. And, curiously, some of the film is historically questionable. Trumbo is the only one of the 10 to receive any treatment (the others aren’t even entirely named) and the movie produces a fictitious member of the group, Arlen Hird (Louis C.K.), as Trumbo’s skeptical and misfortunate pal. Roach and McNamara also unwisely make Robinson into a significantly treacherous, name-giving semi-heavy, an unwarrantedly exaggerated portrayal of the liberal stalwart and supporter of many of the same causes favored by the left. Cranston is suitably amusing as the rakish, self-indulgent but courageous Trumbo and the movie has tackled a sharply pertinent history lesson and human story—I’ll skip over its contemporary relevance. One only wishes it was a P little better.

A WORLD IN MINIATURE & EXPANSE OF IMAGINATION ROOM

Jacob Tremblay and Brie Larson in Room.

BY GEORGE SAX IN THE FIRST FIVE TO 10 MINUTES of Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, as we

watch some seemingly mundane, yet increasingly odd domestic activities of a young woman and a small child, a sense of unease develops. The woman is the boy’s mother, it very soon transpires as they cook, clean, wash-up, and bake a little birthday cake. It’s for the boy, Jack ( Jacob Tremblay), whose fifth birthday it is. He complains there are no candles. His mother, Joy (Brie Larson), tells him they have none because “he” has brought them necessities, not frivolous items like candles. But, she assures him, this doesn’t make it less of a birthday cake. All this takes place in a single small space. It’s soon obvious that Jack and Joy have been confined to this one room, perhaps 10 by 10 feet. “He” is old Nick, their jailor (Sean Bridgers), and the one who brings them supplies. He shows up regularly for sex with Joy. He’s also Jack’s father, of course. Seven years ago he captured the teenaged Joy, raped her, and confined her to this little room. When he comes to sleep with Joy, Jack is put to bed in a slat-doored wardrobe, but he can see and hear much of what’s happening, even if uncomprehendingly. There’s a lot Jack doesn’t comprehend, including the fact of his imprisonment and the existence of a world outside. Room is what he has named their prison cell; Joy has assiduously inculcated in him that this space is their world and reality is what’s there. This is Room’s difficult but compelling conceit. A crucial part of the movie’s impressive achievement is to render this situation persuasive. We increasingly experience it from the little boy’s

perspective. There’s a TV in the room, but Jack thinks its images are a shadow world of fantasy. (“Dogs and squirrels are TV,” i.e., imaginary.) Room was adapted by Irish writer Emma Donoghue from her own novel. It’s easier to pull off this kind of thing in literature than with the objectifying glare of movies, but Room somewhat improbably succeeds in conveying the receptive suggestibility of a small child and his construction of a little world. The tension in this imprisonment setting rises until it reaches a climactic mid-movie pitch and the film begins to resemble a more conventional suspenser. It then upends all that’s happened and seems to descend toward a flatter interpersonal drama. Some viewers may find what follows a bit of a let down. A reviewer is confronted with some difficulty in discussing this without revealing what should be experienced. At least this reviewer does. But if Room’s second half lacks the dramatic urgency of the first, it never really loses its focus on Jack’s odyssey from one world to another. A lot of the skill that’s in evidence in portraying that journey is obviously Abrahamson and Donoghue’s, but what they’ve done would not have been possible without the acutely sensitive and sometimes riveting performances of Larson and young Tremblay. The kid is utterly convincing and uncannily fascinating. Room is largely about Jack’s almost surreally impacted changing consciousness. It’s also about the changing primal bond of the mother and child. Room slowly builds toward a resolution that’s somehow both satisfying and P a little jarring.

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OPENING WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 BROOKLYN—Saoirse Ronan as an Irish girl who emigrates to the US in the 1950s, only to find that the auld sod still has a pull on her. Co-starring Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, and Julie Walters. Directed by John Crowley (Closed Circuit). Reviewed this issue. Eastern Hills (Dipson), North Park CREED—Sylvester Stallone hands the Rocky reins over to writer-director Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) of this spinoff/sequel in which Rocky trains the son (Michael B. Jordan) of his late rival Apollo Creed. With Tessa Thompson and Phylicia Rashad. Reviewed this issue. Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE GOOD DINOSAUR—Reviewed below. Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria ROOM—Critically acclaimed drama about a woman trying to raise her young son in a room where they have been held captive for all of his life. Starring Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, and William H. Macy. Directed by Lenny Abrahamson (Frank). Reviewed this issue. Eastern Hills (Dipson) TRUMBO—Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo, who wrote some of Hollywood’s greatest scripts even while he was blacklisted in the 1950s. With Michael Stuhlbarg, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, and Louis C.K. Directed by Jay Roach (HBO’s The Brink). Reviewed this issue. Amherst (Dipson), Eastern Hills (Dipson) VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN—The usual monster-making, this time from the POV of Igor, who is played by Daniel Radcliffe. Seriously. (I couldn’t make something like that up.) With James McAvoy, Andrew Scott, and Jessica Brown Findlay. Directed by Paul McGuigan (Gangster No. 1). Flix (Dipson), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA THE AMAZING NINA SIMONE—One of two recent documentaries (the other is What Happened Miss Simone) about the Juilliard -trained pianist who fashioned a career as a singer-performer of unique power and range in the 1960s before beign sidelined by mental health issues. Sat 5pm. Screening Room BUFFALO DREAMS SCI-FANTASY HOLIDAY BLAST—The recently ended festival returns for an evening with encore screenings of the fan film Star Trek, New Voyages: Mind Sifter and the short fantasy The Muse, The Oracle And Baby J. Sat 9:45pm. Screening Room ELF (2003)—Will Ferrell as a foundling raised as an elf who goes in search of his real father (James Caan) after he gets too big for Santa’s Workshop. Any film that has Edward Asner as Santa Claus and Bob Newhart as his head elf can’t be all bad, and a pre-TV Zooey Deschanel brightens up things considerably as the requisite love interest. Directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man). Sat 11am. Aurora EXPERIMENTER— Peter Sarsgaard as social psychologist Stanley Milgram, whose 1961 experiments shocked the world in proving how easy it was to provoke ordinary people into torturing test subjects, as long as an authority figure commanded them to do so. With Winona Ryder, Anton Yelchin, John Leguizamo, Anthony Edwards, Dennis Haysbert, Lori Singer, Vondie Curtis-Hall and Jim Gaffigan. Directed by Michael Almereyda (Nadja). Sat, Sun, Wed 7:30. Screening Room HUSH…HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964)—Southern gothic with an emphasis on the Southern in director Robert Aldrich’s follow-up to Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, with Olivia de Haviland taking over for Joan Crawford as a foil for Bette Davis. Co-starring Joseph Cotton, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Buono, Mary Astor, and Bruce Dern. Fri 7:30pm. Screening Room IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)—Jimmy Stewart gets to see what life for his friends and community would have been like had he never lived in Frank Capra’s holiday classic. Co-starring Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Frank Faylen, Ward Bond, Gloria Grahame, H.B. Warner, Frank Albertson, Sheldon Leonard, and Charles Lane. Fri noon. Riviera; Sat-Sun 11:30am. North Park MEET THE PATELS—Comedian Aziz Ansari is getting a lot of press lately for bonding with his Indian émigré parents by casting them on his Netflix show Master of None, but actor Ravi Patel beat him to the punch with this documentary about his parents’ attempt to find him a bride in America using traditional Indian methods. Along the way we learn a lot about why the tradition of arranged marriage endures, how it operates in 21st century (yes, the internet is used), and about the traditions that Ravi clings to even though he’s as American as can be. It’s a warm-hearted and very entertaining film. Wed 7:30pm. Screening Room THE POLAR EXPRESS (2004)—As a holiday movie, this is more appropriate for Halloween than Christmas—it’s more likely to scare kids than charm them. Director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) spent an estimated $150 million for a computerized animation technique resulting in characters that look less realistic than the marionettes in Team America. There are moments of great visual beauty, but they’re so cold and intimidating that they wouldn’t be out of place in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. Tom Hanks provided most of the voices, a stunt that only adds another level of discomfiture. Sat 11am. Hamburg Palace THE TURIN HORSE (Hungary, 2011)—The films of Béla Tarr (including Satantango and Werckmeister Harmonies) are known for their austerity, their formal rigor, and their length. In this nearly wordless film about two people living on a farm, almost nothing happens except that things get worse. Some—maybe most—viewers will find it excruciating to sit through (did I mention that it’s in black and white?) But if you have the nerve to face it you will never forget it. When it was presented at TIFF, I asked him after the screening why he had announced his retirement from filmmaking. He pointed at the screen and said, “Did you see this movie?” Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Amherst (Dipson) WHAT’S UP, TIGER LILY? (1966)—Back in the days when

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ROCKY’S CREED CREED BY GREGORY LAMBERSON THE SUCCESS OF ROCKY, written by and starring a then-unknown Sylvester

Stallone, and George Lucas’s Star Wars, launched within a year of each other in the mid-late seventies, steered American cinema away from nihilistic character pieces to the escapist entertainment that continues to dominate the global box office today. Both films launched five sequels spanning four decades, and now have seventh chapters arriving within a month of each other, Creed on Thanksgiving and The Force Awakens on December 16.

The last time Stallone put on a pair of boxing gloves was in 2013’s Grudge Match, a silly comedy that let him poke fun at his iconic Italian Stallion persona. He probably felt safe lampooning the character that made him famous because the bittersweet final image of Rocky Balboa in 2006 suggested the death of his alter ego and the end of the long running boxing saga. Continuation seemed unthinkable. Enter Ryan Coogler, the young African-American filmmaker who scored an indie success and critical kudos for Fruitvale Station in 2013. Coogler dreamed up a Rocky spinoff about the illegitimate son of Balboa’s charismatic opponent Apollo Creed while still in film school. He approached Stallone, who wrote all six of the previous films, for his blessing, and eventually received it. The result is Creed, a crowd-pleaser which Coogler directed and co-wrote with Aaron Covinton. The film stars Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Johnson, Donny to his friends, a young man grappling with both his secret heritage and his father’s legacy. Stallone returns as Rocky, this time filling the trainer role essayed by Burgess Meredith in the original. (At 69, Stallone is the same age Meredith was then.) With the baggage of all those sequels, Creed is as much an underdog as Stallone’s original seemed, and appears to be as much of a labor of love. The last two Rocky films were steeped in nostalgia, and in that respect Creed is no different, paying affectionate tribute to memorable locations and charac-

he still prized sheer silliness, Woody Allen took a cheesy Japanese spy movie and dubbed it with all new dialogue (probably not bothering to find out what the original plot was about). Best enjoyed with a few friends and an alcoholic beverage or two. Tue 7:30pm. Screening Room WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954)—It’s hasn’t aged terribly well, the mawkishness of the plot is mitigated only by the film’s failure to pay much attention to it (though more than it would have with either Fred Astaire or Donald O’Connor, the first two choices, playing opposite Bing Crosby instead of Danny Kaye), and the title song (which first appeared over a decade earlier in Holiday Inn) is framed with the reverence of a visit from the pope. But who am I to argue with nostalgia at Christmas time? Co-staring Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, and Dean Jagger; look for George Chakiris as a dancer. Directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca). Sat noon. Riviera

Sylvester Stallone and Michael B. Jordan in Creed.

ters from previous entries. But the screenplay follows a different structure while adhering to Stallone’s formula. At 133 minutes, it’s the longest of the bunch, and wisely spends time building the relationships between Adonis and Rocky, and between Adonis and his love interest, an aspiring R&B singer played by Tessa Thompson. Jordan proves himself fit for the leading role, a man with deep emotions percolating beneath the surface. Stallone delivers one of the best performances of his career: The hulk with a heart of gold has attained wisdom and weariness in his golden years, and Stallone conveys as much with his sagging eyes and battered body as he does with the character’s trademark speech pattern. These films have always traded on sentimentality, and the notes struck by the cast here are honest, even if the challenge faced by Rocky feels contrived. Coogler and Jordan are as adept in the ring as they are with the human drama. The boxing sequences, captured in thrilling detail by cinematographer Maryse Alberti, rank with the best of the series; an early match covered in a single take is especially energetic. Alberti also does a masterful job portraying the streets of Philadelphia, making the city a real character in the story for the first time since Rocky. If the film comes up short anywhere, it’s with the champion Adonis must square off against in the climactic bout. Real life boxer Tony Bellew is game to snarl, but isn’t given the screen time to establish the character as a true villain for P Adonis to take down. We’ll have to wait for the sequel for that.

edge. And the armchair survivalist will be engrossed by at least the first half of this adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel starring Matt Damon as the can-do science guy stuck on Mars. But scripter Drew Goddard, who has given us such logically wobbly films as The Cabin in the Woods and World War Z, is less interested in illustrating Weir’s problem-solving than the more familiar stuff about NASA mounting a rescue operation. The overall result would be more enjoyable on a popcorn level if the first half hadn’t put you in a logical mode that the second half abandons. (The disco music is particularly idiotic—as if a mission to Mars in even the near future couldn’t come equipped with at least as much music as you or I could fit on a thumb drive right now.) With Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Pena, Sean Bean. 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As the pivotal character, Chiwetel Ejiofor lo’s father is killed in typical Disney fashion and a storm makes good use of his gift for expressive empathy; Nicasts Arlo far away, he makes a perilous journey home. cole Kidman and Julia Roberts, by contrast, hold their Sam Elliott won me over as the voice of a grizzled T-Rex cards in closer. It’s an unwieldy story with a lot of red cowboy, but the overly familiar plot points are fossils. I herrings and an ending you probably won’t be expectpreferred “Sanjay’s Super Team,” the preceding short. ing: You may not find it satisfying, but it’s not boring. Directed by Peter Sohn. –Greg Lamberson With Dean Norris and Alfred Molina. Directed by Billy Ray (Shattered Glass). –MF Regal Elmwood, Regal NiagTHE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY—PART 2—Teen dystopian ara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galsequel. 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sonalities, opinion pushers and bombastic bloggers who have given modern journalism a bad name. Recounting the efforts of an investigative unit at the Boston Globe to uncover decades of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests and the diocese’s cover-up, the film isn’t overburdened by seriousness. Focusing on the team that worked the story, this is a film about people; with an ensemble of performances that work individually and together. It keeps a humane focus even as it generates drama. Starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, and Stanley Tucci. Directed by Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent). –GS Amherst (Dipson) STEVE JOBS—Whether or not this depiction of Apple’s founder and public face is inaccurate, as many have charged, isn’t important, at least to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who dismisses complaints about liberties P he and director Danny Boyle took by saying that they weren’t trying to make a conventional biopic, but rather something truer, more “impressionistic.” Structured in three sequences centered on the launching of three game-changing Apple products, the movie shows Jobs (Michael Fassbender) battling last-minute glitches and personal problems to launch his particular vision of each product. While Sorkin and Boyle want to show Jobs’ mellowing and self-examination over the years, it’s the younger, more monstrous genius that remains their most persuasive portrait. With Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels, and Seth Rogan. –GS McKinley (Dipson) 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. It’s about as accurate as any other historical drama out there these days, but perhaps because there so much more pertinent tension in 2015, this British drama fails to work up audiences the way it ought to; it seems almost quaint that the abused laborers here put so much faith in the vote as a way to improve their lives, especially to audiences who can barely bother to go to the polls at all. Starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Meryl Streep, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson. Directed by Sarah Gavron. –MF Amherst (Dipson) THE 33—Drama based on the 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Chile, in which 33 men were trapped underground with little hope of rescue. The fact that the incident is so recent robs it of a lot of the tension it might have had for audiences who remember the outcome. 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. What’s left is a movie that’s somewhat less compelling than the Wikipedia entry on the same disaster, featuring the risible spectacle of otherwise able actors cast as Chileans speaking English with thick Mexican accents. Starring Antonio Bandaras, Rodrigo Santoro, Lou Diamond Phillips, Gabriel Byrne, and Juliette Binoche. Directed by Patricia Riggen (Under the Same Moon). –MF Regal Elmwood THE VISIT—Two city kids armed with home movie cameras spend a week in rural Pennsylvania with the grandparents they’re never met. After a string of high-profile disasters, M. Night Shyamalan’s modestly conceived & REVIEWS >> mixes a 1970s story with a and budgeted horror thriller “found footage” shooting style that costs the film more in distraction than it adds in effect. The same goes for the lightweight satire of film students as our fifteen year old heroine obsesses over her mise en scene: it only seems to be filling time on the way to the finale. Staring Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, and Kathryn Hahn. –MF Four Seasons, McKinley (Dipson) P

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THE FIGHT FOR FULL-TIME Raising the minimum wage is great, but providing wage-workers more hours might help them even more BY ARI GOLDFARB ANDREW CUOMO MADE NEW YORK the first state to raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour. The

plan is to gradually raise the pay of the state’s work force by the end of 2018. According to CNN Money, “an estimated 135,000 to 200,000 fast food workers and cashiers” will be affected by this legislation. But was the minimum wage issue the entire problem or just a symptom of an overarching question dealing with employment in high-turnover industries? More than 75 million workers in the United States have an hourly paid job. Most of these employees work in retail, fast food, and hospitality, which account for some of the highest employment turnover rates: “Average turnover can range from more than 50% for line-level hotel and motel employees, to 104% for specialty stores, to more than 200% annually in fast-food chains.” The high turnover rates for these industries are often caused by the same reasons: It could be from minimal training, few incentives, poor leadership, mundane tasks, or not enough hours. One of the more compelling reasons listed is the complaint of an employee not receiving enough hours. One could dismiss the other points by stating minimum wage jobs are hardly glamorous, but it’s difficult to fault someone for wanting to work more hours in order to earn a higher paycheck. The problem is that most establishments require employees to work a certain amount of time at a certain level before they offer their workers full-time hours or a salaried position; and since the turnover rate for these jobs is so high, many employees do not remain at an establishment long enough to receive full-time hours. So even with an increase to $15 per hour in New York State, a minimum-wage worker will not earn much more than $20,000 per year. So again, the question is how much does wage increase help compared to hours worked. Over a year ago CNN reported a story on a woman named Naquasia LeGrand. LeGrand earned $6,000 per year working at KFC in New York City. At the time the minimum wage in New York State was $8.75, which means if LeGrand had been granted full-time employment, she would have earned just shy of $20,000. Though some may argue that is too high or low an income for a fast food worker, it is still around the same as what an employee working part-time at $15 per hour will earn.

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Should these industries continue hiring large numbers of hourly employees and adding them to a scheduled rotation that could give them as few as 10 hours per week, like LeGrand? One of the problems with a rotation pool of hourly employees is that these workers do not have fixed schedules; therefore, if they are working too few hours and need to find another job, it is difficult to let a potential employer know their availability because it is inconsistent. If the high turnover employment rates and hourly worker process continues, then the minimum wage hike in New York was necessary. But perhaps a fight for more full-time should be investigated. How could it be controversial to support a person fighting to work more hours in order to earn a larger paycheck and the insurance benefits their colleagues enjoy? The information has been obtained from sources considered to be reliable, but we do not guarantee that the foregoing material is accurate or complete. Any opinions are those of Goldfarb Financial and not necessarily those of RJFS or Raymond James. This material is being provided for information purposes P only and is not a complete description.

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THANK YOU! To everyone who came to our party. (And donated 305 pounds of goods to the Food Bank of WNY.) To those who supplied food, drink, art, music, and sundry diversions. To those who offered us a terrific venue. To all our contributors—almost 200 of you—and to our editorial partners. To the advertisers who make this publication possible. To everyone who has encouraged us, fed us ideas, collaborated on events, and welcomed us into the fabric of Western New York’s cultural life. To all our readers. Thank you for a terrific first year. We’re looking forward to next year’s party already. But hell, we’ll see you sooner than that. –THE PUBLIC STAFF

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DEAR KEITH: High school was without a doubt the worst four years of my life. I hated who I was and it seemed most other people did too, as I was bullied relentlessly. In the years that have passed I have grown into a confident, outgoing, even (some would say) attractive person but, surprisingly, terror ran over me when I got an invite to my 20-year reunion. Do you think I should avoid this one like I avoided my 10-year? —LEAST LIKELY TO SUCCEED LEAST LIKELY TO SUCCEED: I get a

lot of submissions regarding the fear associated with high school reunions and I typically ignore them because I don’t like to be seen consorting with cowards or virgins, but if you’re telling me that you’ve denounced your unpopular former-self and have officially blossomed into a fully functioning dreamboat without telling me your gender, then there’s a chance you could be either Stefan Urquelle or Cinderella—and it’s really a coin toss as to who I grew up thinking about more. Cinderella for obvious reasons (her gorgeous feet were phallic surrogates that appealed to a fledgling castration complex, they reflected a dominant posture of the woman in sexual-social relationships which I found exhilarating, she hung out with rodents) and Stefan for the more subtle qualities, like his cool blazers. Imagine my secret, shameful elation then, when in season six of Family Matters, Stefan proposed to Laura Winslow in front of Cinderella’s Castle at Disney World. It was like ordering a 10-piece McNugget and finding some stowaway french fries in the box—momentary proof that God lives for you and not the other way around. However, if I am to provide you with even a modicum of sufficient advice, I’ll need some time to thoroughly imagine the impossible: me not being cool. Please excuse me for a moment [Steps away from the computer for like a billion fucking years.] Okay, I think I was finally able to get a basic understanding of what it must feel like to not be popular. Let’s give this a whirl.

your tormentors have had over two decades to compile the distractions of maturity in front of the mental image they had of you as their prey. Adulthood significantly weakens our desire to bully others because we’re typically too busy dealing with the adult problems that are bullying us. Plus, when it comes to what people consider acceptably fashionable, 20 years might as well be a geological era particularly when in reference to fickle high-schoolers, so it seems preposterous to assume that what people considered “unlikeable” traits still offend the sensibilities of your old classmates. I mean, you know what was likable to my peers 20 years ago? It’s absurd: Air Jordans, NWA, tapered stone wash jeans, fanny packs, gaudy jewelry, skateboarding, and—okay, I just wrote a list of things Pharrell Williams would put as his interests on a Tinder profile. Ignore those examples, they’re anomalies. What I’m saying is that to assume that anyone in 2015 would still be holding onto 20-year-old values or approaching the world with the same appetites they had in 1995 is like imagining that fully grown men and women would get super excited about a modernized Full House being available soon on Netflix, or that responsible parents would voluntarily hire a babysitter in order to go downtown to watch a cover band play songs like “Lump” by Presidents of the United States, and, as we all know that is just, well…god damn it…I suggest you keep your fingers crossed and pray that the more problematic classmates are dead.

Honestly, this isn’t the quandary you’re making it out to be. The only effect your old fears are having on the present circumstance is to give the idea of a reunion a terrifying form that is radically disproportionate to the feeble truth that sits at the heart of it, and I say feeble because

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