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their neighborhood in Love Canal in 1981 only to learn two years ago that its toxic waste had been dug up and buried in a landfill behind their subdivision in North Tonawanda. After insisting for 25 years that the closed landfill posed no significant health threat, state officials changed their minds in December and declared it a Superfund site. But warning signs were evident all along: rusted chemical drums, battery casings stacked waist high. and children getting burns from splashes of orange pond water. The Love Canal waste—enough to fill 80 dump trucks—has since been exhumed and shipped to out-of-state incinerators, but further tests show the landfill remains toxic. Yet the property is not fenced and lacks controls to keep contamination from spreading, which flouts guidance given to the state decades ago. The situation has left current and former residents worried and wondering if any of the health problems they suffer from could have been caused by what was—and still is—buried near their homes. One resident compiled a list of at least 17 people in her immediate neighborhood who have been diagnosed with cancer over the years. “It hurts, it’s devastating,” said a tearful Kraus, who, along with her daughter Sarah, battles a host of health problems. “I don’t want to relive Love Canal, that was such an awful experience, and this brought it all back.” The Krauses live on Forbes Street, where at least 50 homes back up to the landfill, owned by the Town of Wheatfield. They are among 1,600 people who live less than a mile from the landfill, on the border of the Wheatfield and North Tonawanda. An Investigative Post review of more than 800 pages of studies and other public records shows that the state Department of Environmental Conservation did not follow through on minimum recommendations from its own sponsored report to protect the public. “People have been poisoned and families have been wiped out, yet they have glossed over it and they won’t do proper testing,” said Mary DiPota, a neighbor of Kraus on Forbes Street. Wilma Subra, a Louisiana-based Superfund expert who consults with citizens on environmental health issues, said the state did not go far enough to determine what, if any, impacts the contamination may have had on residents. “State health officials should be very interested in this,” she said.

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Residents often complained about odors, exposed waste and unsafe conditions for children, such as holes filled with discolored water, according to Niagara County Health Department records. Homeowners wrote letters to the Town of Wheatfield as early as 1965 asking that the landfill be fenced. Love Canal waste dug up during the construction of the LaSalle Expressway in Niagara Falls in the spring of 1968 eventually found its way to the landfill. A sample analyzed by Hooker Chemical—then owners and operators of the Love Canal property—had an oily residue that “burned like a 4th of July sparkler,” according to internal memos released as part of a 1994 Love Canal federal lawsuit. Nonetheless, Niagara County health officials gave their consent to bury the waste in a trench at the landfill, just about the same time it stopped accepting waste of any kind. No steps were taken to fence the property or limit the migration of contaminants. “They let it just go to nature,” said Town of Wheatfield Supervisor Robert Cliffe. Since then, children have used the landfill as their sanctuary from chores and homework. They play and ride dirt bikes and ATVs there, while adults hike and walk dogs. This activity continues today. “There was nothing ever stopping us from going back there,” Sarah Kraus recalled.

FAILED TO SECURE PROPERTY State authorities launched an emergency investigation after a Niagara Gazette report in 1982 exposed that the Love Canal waste had been buried at the landfill. The notes of investigators from the summer of 1983 confirmed many of the warning signs residents saw for decades: orange water, chemical drums, exposed garbage and tires, and rust-tinted grass.

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LEAD POISONING IN BUFFALO City seems unwilling to address continuing children’s health problem n YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO AS FAR AS FLINT, Michigan, to find a serious lead poisoning problem. There’s one right here in Buffalo, one that City Hall continues to downplay. New data obtained by Investigative Post shows there’s an increase, for the first time in four years, in the number of children in Erie County who tested positive for lead in their blood. In 2015, Erie County reported 295 children who tested positive for lead in their blood. That’s a 14 percent increase from the prior year. The real problem is in Buffalo, however, where 273 children—93 percent of the county total— tested positive for lead last year. That’s a 13 percent increase from the prior year. Even more troubling is the increase in the number of Buffalo children who tested positive for higher amounts of lead that require some form of intervention by health officials. Their numbers totaled 123, or one-third more in 2015 than the year before. That’s almost as many children who tested positive for lead in the entire city of Baltimore last year (129), which is more than double the size of Buffalo. The chief culprit, said Erie County Health Commissioner Gale Burstein, is chipping paint inside and outside of Buffalo’s old housing stock. “It’s a big problem,” she said. It’s a problem, however, that city leaders have yet to fully grasp. In fact, Mayor Byron Brown told Investigative Post last summer that he was unaware the county was having difficulty testing for lead because health officials never reached out for help. The mayor expressed a willingness to talk to the county about working together to address the problem. But he has failed to act in the past seven months. Asked to explain the inaction, the mayor on Monday said the city’s response to the lead problem is demolishing old, uninhabitable homes and partnering in the Green and Healthy Homes initiative. That grant program has addressed lead hazards in just one percent of the city’s total atrisk housing units since its inception in 2009. In short, the mayor on Monday expressed no interest in City Hall working with the county to expand the effort to identify homes with lead paint contamination. Local activist David Hahn Baker, who has more than three decades of experience working on lead prevention programs, said the mayor is not showing leadership on this issue. “It’s Byron’s job to be aware of problems that affect his constituents and it’s really his job to deal with the children, in particular children in the area,” he said. The inaction on the part of the city has serious consequences. Lead in a child’s blood can stunt brain development. Exposure can result in lower reading scores and cause behavioral problems. At higher levels, it can damage internal organs. The fact that Monroe County has seen an 85 percent decrease in the number of children testing positive for lead poisoning over the past decade due to a series of initiatives launched in 2005 seems to have little persuasion on what Buffalo does. Rochester, the largest city in Monroe County, where most of the lead hazards exist, inspects one- and two-family homes on a regular cycle. Buffalo does not. Experts said this difference plays a large role in why Buffalo falls behind. Nonetheless, the mayor said programs in Rochester and Buffalo should not be compared. “It’s apples and oranges. It’s not a direct comparison in any way,” Brown said. Hahn Baker said city leaders can mirror—even improve upon—Rochester’s lead prevention program. Only a lack of political will is preventing city leaders from acting, he said. “The only answer for sure is that these kids and their families both lose,” he said. -DAN TELVOCK Dan Telvock is a reporter for Investigative Post, 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 Yor Side, P WBFO 88.7 FM, and The Capital Pressroom.

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In 2012, the DEC returned to the property for an assessment that prompted the agency last Dec. 15 to reverse its longstanding decision not to remediate the landfill. Recent studies found the soil and groundwater was contaminated in the northeast section of the property. The contamination had spread underground towards Sawyer Creek. The contaminants include a thick, dark-brown mixture of benzene, toluene and chlorinated benzenes that can cause cancer. Other contaminants in the soil and groundwater include pesticides, heavy metals and chemicals that can vaporize in the air. Nearby homeowners have long complained about yards and basements flooding, but authorities never tested homes or installed groundwater wells outside the perimeter of the landfill to check for contamination. That’s a potential problem, said Subra, the Superfund expert, if the chemicals migrated to nearby properties, vaporized and made their way into homes. The DEC in 2014 convinced Glenn Springs Holdings, an affiliate of Occidental Chemical Corporation, to pay for the removal of the Love Canal waste. The state’s studies pointed to other sections of the property west and south of the Love Canal waste that remain toxic, however. For example, there are pesticides and more chemicals that can vaporize in the air. Even worse, one section less than a football field away from Forbes Street has enough PCB contamination to pose a significant threat to health, studies said. There are hazardous amounts of lead in the soil

in two other spots a similar distance from homes. Together, the contaminated soil would fill more than five Olympic-sized swimming pools. This contaminated soil “may lead to exposure to high concentrations of these chemicals,” the report concludes, and “several trails run near or through this part of the site and may present an exposure risk.”

SITE REMAINS TOXIC The results prompted the DEC to reclassify the site as a Superfund site last December, which means it poses a significant threat to the public. The reversal perplexed Cliffe, the Wheatfield supervisor. “You get rid of all the Love Canal material and make it worse? It doesn’t make any sense to me. Except for the Love Canal materials, this site is the same as it has been since 1968,” he said. Cliffe said the DEC is attempting to get companies that dumped their industrial waste at the landfill to help pay for the in remediation. In the meantime, he said, “I do caution that everyone stay away from this landfill, especially those on ATVs or motorbikes.” But residents said the caution is not being heeded. Laurie Galbo, who lives in a subdivision west of the dump, said she still sees ATV riders and motorbikers on the property. “You’d see them all covered in mud, you’d see the bikes covered in mud,” she said. “Now that I know what is back there, their lives are in danger.” Dan Telvock is a reporter for Investigative Post, 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 Yor Side, WBFO 88.7 FM, and The Capital P Pressroom.

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THERE’S THE GRUMPY CANADIAN GIRL WHO JUST WANTED SEX, THE TIM HORTON’S PARKING LOT GROPER, THE SOCCER PLAYER WITH A MOM COMPLEX, AND THE MAN WHO WAS INTO LINE DANCING AND HAD A NOTICEABLE TOUPEE… For me it’s a steady stream of guys who think I’m a dominatrix, want me to have three-ways with their wives, or want to lick Nutella off of my crevices. A friend of mine met a new to Buffalo dudebro for coffee and he abandoned her mid-date. He proceeded to blow her phone up about still meeting up for sex. After being denied, he told her she was ugly, fat, old, and had bad teeth. What right does this scumbag have to treat a woman that way? Another horror story: A woman who’d had pretty good experiences with internet dating was about to go out with a new guy. Before the date she was chatting with a friend, who recalled a terrible online date she’d had—the guy assaulted her, even biting her. After some conversation, the friends realized that it was the same guy that the woman was about to go meet. Needless to say, she didn’t go. There’s the woman who made eyes at a guy at the Pink and found a Craigslist missed connection about it the next day. After a couple dates he told her he loved her, but she did not feel the same way. There’s the guy who wanted an instant blow job in the bathroom without even buying the woman a drink—a guy who said he was antiques dealer but was actually a metal scrapper. There’s the grumpy Canadian girl who just wanted sex, the boring fireman with no good life stories, the Tim Horton’s parking lot groper, the soccer player with a mom complex, and the man who was into line dancing and had a noticeable toupee. There’s the man who pooped himself awake while cuddling. My best friend met her current love on Tinder. He’s Canadian. (Ever notice all the hot ones are north of the border?) She told me that she was going to meet him and gave me his address and full name just in case she went missing. He ended up being awesome and now they are engaged, so it’s a happy ending. I detest the idea of instantly swiping someone to one side based on looks alone—the idea of judging a man by the photo on his profile. For true life success you have to let go of harsh criticism and the idea of having a “type”; I have fallen for people who were much shorter, chubbier, or less employed than the lover I see in my dreams. I wasn’t settling, either, just being realistic and open. Give people a chance! You don’t want to be judged by your skin-deep superficial flaws. This instant gratification hook-up culture we live in is scary: It objectifies people, glorifies rape, and spreads diseases. I want to meet my perfect mate while volunteering, marching at a protest, wandering at a music festival, staring teary-eyed at modern art, or reaching for the same feminist book at the library. Love comes when you least expect it. Live life with purpose and you will find your bliss. Cat McCarthy is a visual and performance artist, a burlesque and drag performer with the Stripteasers, part of the Queen City Kings and the Vintage Vaudeville Caberet, founder of the Buffalo Burlesque Collective, visual arts coordinator for the Buffalo Infringement Festival, P and a volunteer for Food Not Bombs.

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PLAYBILL BAD JEWS (play written by Joshua Harmon): Four Gen X-ers share overnight quarters in a cramped Manhattan apartment. They’ve just been to a funeral of a concentration camp escapee grandfather. Old, beloved, a good man, a mensch, a good Jew. Zeyde’s up-and-coming descendants, maybe not so much. In this highly regarded script, Harmon layers infectious laughs and provocative speculation. Daphna, Jonah, Liam, and visiting shiksa girlfriend Molly tally the outward Jewishness—Hebrew names, Passover food, birthright trips to Israel—until they must grasp for the spiritual stuff that makes up a soul. Steve Vaughan directs Arin Lee Dandes, Jamie Nablo, Adam Rath, and Nick Stevens for Jewish Repertory Theatre. The show occupies Maxine and Robert Seller Theatre through 28, 2640 North Forest Road, Getzville. 688-4114 x391, jewishrepertorytheatre.com. CHILDREN OF EDEN (musical based on the book of Genesis, script by John Caird, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz): And yet another musical tapping a biblical source. And yet another such musical offered to us by Stephen Schwartz. Yes, he of Godspell—and Wicked and Pippin, for that matter. The show’s pivotal character is called Father and is a warmer and fuzzier version of the thundering Yahweh of the original testament. This is part of the intrinsic take of the show: The world spins upon the family dynamic of misdeed and forgiveness between parents and children. Begins on February 26 and closes on March 6 at Lancaster Opera House, 21 Central Avenue in Lancaster. 716-683-1776; lancopera.org. CITY OF CONVERSATION (drama by Anthony Giardina): In Washington, DC, there are several different arenas where games of power are played. Earlier this season, Kavinoky Theatre presented Both Your Houses, which showed politicos dueling in the Capitol’s back offices. Now the Kav provides a keyhole view of the genteel homes of well-heeled families that hobnob with the elected, using hospitality to forge political alliances. Like the real-life Pamela Harriman or Perle Mesta, the fictional Hester Ferris is as much a political moderator as she is a society hostess. Dinner parties achieve the intensity of national party conventions. Giardina’s story traces the ebb and flow of politics from the Reagan administration through that of Obama. Running at the Kavinoky from February 26 through March 20, Porter and Prospect, on the D’Youville College campus. 716-829-7668, kavinokytheatre.com. EL HAJJ MALIK (a poetic drama by N. R. Davidson): Lorna C. Hill directs one of Ujima Company’s earliest productions as well as one of its most memorable. But since it has been 30 or so years since this show has appeared in Ujima’s repertory, it is time for a new generation of audience to hear this story and to appreciate Ujima’s unique telling of it. In a variety of poetic rhythms, the life story of Malcolm Little, known to most people as Malcolm X. The play is a search into the history of the events that made the boy into the man, as well as a speculation into the awesome, articulate, provocative legend who, perhaps, can be better understood 50 years after his death. Performances through March 6. Ujima will perform this show Alleyway’s Main Street Cabaret, 672 Main Street. 716-281-0092 or ujimacoinc@me.com. FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN (play written by Will Power): In the 1930s, actor Steppin Fetchit made millions, the first black man to do so on-screen in Hollywood. Decades later Muhammed Ali reached greater heights in the boxing ring. The actor made his way by playing the slower-than-slow fool to white characters. Of course, Ali would never diminish himself. Yet when the old-timer and the newcomer met—and this play is based upon an actual meeting between the two legends—each one discovers wisdom from the other about celebrity, success, and the very nature of being a man. Laverne Clay, who is something of a legend here in Buffalo, directs this production for Paul Robeson Theatre Company with a cast including Johnny Rowe, Joe Giambra, Leon Copeland, and Courtney Turner. Through February 28 at the African American Cultural Center, 350 Masten Avenue. 716-884-2013, aaccbuffalo.org.

FREUD’S LAST SESSION (drama by Mark St. Germain): God. War. Science. Politics. Psychoanalysis. Atheism. Literature. Enough loaded topics of conversation so that it is not surprising that this session would last longer than the proscribed therapy session. Sigmund Freud, atheist-Jewish father of psychoanalysis, has found refuge in London as World War II ignites on the Continent. Freud, in his 80s and in the final stages of cancer, seeks lively conversation so invites C. S. Lewis, the English novelist turned Catholic and half Freud’s age, for a chat. Katie Mallinson directs Matt Whitten and David Oliver for Road Less Traveled Productions. Through February 14, at the company’s new home at 500 Pearl Street. 716-629-3069, roadlesstraveledproductions.org. I DO! I DO! (musical with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt): The team of Schmidt and Jones seem adamant in the belief in the simplicity of love. They are the team who wrote The Fantasticks, the simplest boy-meets-loses-reclaims-wins-girl musical of all time. I Do! I Do! is based on the charming but rarely performed The Fourposter by Jan De Hartog, which unreels a 50-year marriage in stage time featuring only one actor, one actress, and a bed. Agnes and Michael start as young and unsure, then ensconce themselves in the middle class, accruing a home, children, and social stature. Five decades later, they are still, at the bottom of it, unsure but are buoyed by their own company. Opens at Lancaster Opera House on February 12, continuing through February 21, 21 Central Avenue in Lancaster. 716-683-1776, lancopera.org. KEELY AND DU (drama by Jane Martin): Du is a nurse who is part of an extremist right-to-life group. Keely is pregnant, having conceived by way of a rape. Du and her colleagues have kidnapped Keely (they would say rescued), chaining her to a bed to prevent her from having the abortion she seeks. The irreconcilable stances of “right-to-life” and “right-to-chose” cadres are actively represented in Subversive Theatre’s production. Kelly Beuth and Kate Olena star as the women in conflict under the direction of Toni Smith Wilson. Through February 13 at Manny Fried Theatre, 255 Great Arrow Avenue (third floor; elevator access). 716-408-0499, subversivetheatre.org. LOAD MORE GUYS (new play with music scripted and staged by Todd Warfield): Todd Warfield sets his sights on a certain breed of gay men. His POV is the hyperactive crossroads of social media and real life. Even before meeting live there is a sometimes complicated mating dance. Men hook up there. Political alliances are made there. Sex tips are traded there. Entertainment is exploited there. Catch up with friends there. Guys can be anonymous or intimate there. Swipe these guys left, swipe those guy right. Want some more fresh faces? Press the button marked “Load more guys.” Dramatic pace is prodded along by a musical background, scenes are layered with mini-drag shows. Oh…absolutely no one under 18 will be admitted. The show, running from February 16 through March 19, is presented by Buffalo United Artists. At Alleyway Theatre, One Curtain Up! Alley. 716-886-9239, or BuffaloBUA.com. ORDINARY DAYS (musical by Adam Gwon): Four young New Yorkers…albeit recent arrivals from elsewhere. An exponential number of coincidences amongst them. A dozen or so emotion-driven songs about the city, loneliness, love, and the future. A post-9/11 fable about the internal search for one’s soul and the perpetual search for a soulmate. Reed Bentley, Edith Grossman, Adam Hayes, and Jennel Pruneda appear under the direction of Victoria Perez-Maggiolo for O’Connell & Company. Through February 21 at Park School Auditorium, 4625 Harlem Road in Snyder. 716-8480800, oconnellandcompany.com. RING OF FIRE (musical revue created by Richard Maltby, Jr. and conceived by William Meade): For many, Johnny Cash was the voice of country music. In fact, he was many voices for a variety of songs. In his long, varied career, he dipped into gospel, bluegrass, rockabilly, Christian, and punk. This revue pulls together 30-plus songs which Cash recorded or performed during is career. Musicalfare’s creative team, headed by director-choreographer Michael Walline and musical director Theresa Quinn, aim to make use of the Cash songbook, providing the show with distinctive interpretations, both musical and staged, for each number. Ring of Fire was first developed for

production at Studio Arena in 2006 before a truncated run on Broadway. A year ago, Richard Maltby, Jr., the show’s creator, revised the show and staged it for Milwaukee Rep. Apparently rethinking this revue for to better establish its worth is in the air. Through February 28 at MusicalFare Theatre on Daemen College campus, 4300 Main Street in Snyder. 716-8398540, musicalfare.com. THE SHIPMENT (a play by Young Jean Lee): Playwright Lee has said of her works, “Going out of my comfort zone compels me to challenge my assumptions and find value in unexpected places.” She is also up to challenging the assumptions of audiences, and in The Shipment viewers are asked to consider the validity of pre-existing racial beliefs. The usual black-white dichotomy is explored from the inherent dimension of Lee’s perspective as a Korean American. This script draws from cultural (mis)representations found in entertainments both old and new, featuring stereotypes sourced in theater, dance, and music. This includes minstrel shows, in which black performers imitated white performers imitating black performers. It also includes more recent stand-ups speculating “Why do white people do that, while black people do this?” Lee bottom-lines the whole affair by speculating about why any of us put up with any of the stereotypes, or rather rely upon them, suggesting that the worst part of black-white race relations is nothing but a show. Opens February 19 and runs through March 13. Presented by Torn Space Theater at Adam Mickiewicz Library and Dramatic Circle, 612 Fillmore Avenue. 716-812-5733, tornspacetheater.com. SPEAK NO EVIL (premiere of a script by Sonya Sobieski): This play is the winner of Alleyway Theatre’s 2014 Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition, a nationwide search of scripts awarded with production here in Buffalo. Sobieski knows that the course of true love never runs smooth. Her characters in this play find that the very things they say create the potholes that trip lovers on the way to romantic happiness. In a world where the sweet little nothings on a Valentine need trigger warnings and love stories demand spoiler alerts, Sobieski finds a dystopic humor. David C. Mitchell, Melissa Leventhal, Joey Bucheker, Emily Yancy, Christopher Standart, and James Cichock are directed by Neal Radice. Performances continue through February 13. At Alleyway Theatre, One Curtain Up Alley. 716-852-2600, alleyway.com. TOM SAWYER (play by L. Don Swartz): World premiere of the adaptation of Mark Twain’s novel by Swartz, resident playwright for the Starry Night Theatre company. Swartz also directs; features DJ Swartz as Tom Sawyer, Ben Torres as Huckleberry Finn, and Daniel Arrasjid as Injun Joe. Opening February 11, closing February 21, at the Ghostlight Theatre, 170 Schenck Street, North Tonawanda. 716-743-1614, starrynighttheatre.com. WHY WE HAVE A BODY (drama by Claire Chafee): Still muttering since the holidays how odd your family is? Meet Mary. She is a drifter in the habit of robbing convenience stores. Lili, her sister, is a private investigator whose specialty is digging up evidence for divorce cases. Their mom, Eleanor, has picked up roots and wanders through the rain forest. The lyrical meanderings as each woman tries to find herself—or each other—is the thrust of playwright Chafee’s writing. Presented by Brazen-Faced Varlets under the direction of Elizabeth Oddy and featuring Heather Fangsrud, Jennifer Fitzery, Lara Haberberger, and Jeanne Huich. The show will be performed on Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm through February 14 at Rust Belt Books, 415 Grant Street. 716-598-1585.

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WEDNESDAY FEB 10 Household 6pm Studio at the Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $10-$12 [HARDCORE] Information about Household is scarce. Online press about the hardcore punk band from Minneapolis with a modest, but undeniably loyal following is confusing: There's a trio from Brooklyn of the same name. Touring in support of their late 2015 release, Time Spent, a tight, 30-minute punch to the ear drums, this young group is setting out to make 2016 their biggest year to date, having been named one of the Alternative Press “16 Bands to Watch in 2016.” If their live footage is any indication, this show is certainly going to be loud and raucous—it’s hard to find a clip where someone isn't moshing. It’ll probably be the wildest night you could have in the middle of the week in February. Household comes to the Studio at the Waiting Room on Wednesday, February 10 with Common Guilt, 3 Hour Power Shower, and Good Luck. -EVAN JAMES

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Satirical folk band Folkfaces released their new single, “Institution Blues,” last week. The relaxed tune moseys along with acoustic guitar and banjo through the witty lyrics of frontman Tyler Westcott.

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[PROG ROCK] We need to talk about TAUK. Like a black hole lined with flavorful, textured sounds, their music sucks you in and swallows you whole. Armed with strong, versatile musicianship, the Long Island natives dish out heavy instrumental jams that propel their unique style. Seamlessly blending a medley of genres ranging from gritty funk, fusion, and jazz to Middle Eastern, ambient, and classic rock, they create a sound so rich it’s almost palpable. The lithe fills of AC Carter’s colorful keys, Matt Jalbert’s soaring guitar, Charlie Dolan’s buoyant bass lines, and Isaac Teel’s ultrasonic drumming all come together in impeccable harmony, spewing melodies that are as enticing as they are explosive. Their fourth release and first live album, Headroom, dropped in September 2015 and further solidified TAUK’s reputation as one of the most captivating progressive rock bands on the scene today. Mixed by Grammy-winning producer Robert Carranza, Headroom captures the lively energy of TAUK, boasting their flair for getting hot and heavy in the live arena. From the jazzy-funk cuts like “The Chemist” to a synth-laden, electrified cover of Nirvana’s “In Bloom,” no one can resist grooving along to the beat, and TAUK dares you to try. Catch TAUK with After Funk at Buffalo Iron Works on Wednesday, February 10. -KELLIE POWELL

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With bombastic beats, reverberating vocals, and soft synths, this driving track by Space Cubs (a.k.a. Suzanne Bonifacio) is matched to blurred-out, trailing geometric images of director Frenchpressley. “A Tired Sky” appears on the full-length The Fire and Things Forgotten, released earlier this year on Unspeakable Records.

Happy Hour: Buffalo’s Sputtering Democracy 7pm Allen Street Hardware Cafe, 245 Allen St., $10 for non-members [HAPPY HOUR] What to do about Buffalo and Western New York’s apathetic voters and disengaged citizens? And what can we learn from vital community organizations that are making a difference? Investigative Post has assembled a panel of speakers who will attempt to shed some light on these questions this Wednesday, February 10 at Hardware. Speakers include include Jeremy Zellner, chairman of the Erie County Democratic Party; Rebecca Newberry, executive director of the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York; and John Washington, community organizer with PUSH Buffalo. Admission includes a free drink. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

THURSDAY FEB 11 Metro Station 6pm The Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $14-$16 [POP] The synth pop duo responsible for the song “Shake It” eight or so years ago roll into the Waiting Room this Thursday, in what should be a fun show. The band, which consists of Miley Cyrus’s brother, Trace Cyrus, and the brother of one of her Hannah Montana co-stars, Mason Musso, are touring in support of their new album Savior. Waterparks, Winski, Thundercloud Kid, and Arrow Trail perform in support. -EJ

Choise of Valentines 8pm Patchwork Theatre, 1201 Pine Ave, Ste 104 $15-$25 [DANCE] Looking to have a spicier Valentine’s Day than usual? Choise of Valentines, a burlesque cabaret, will be at the Patchwork Theatre in Niagara Falls all weekend, Thursday, February 11 through Sunday, February 14. Based on an erotic poem by Thomas Nashe published in 1592 London, this performance was conceived by star Elliot Fox and choreographed by Vanessa Oswald, with lighting by Corina DeFabbio. Suggested for ature audiences only. Tickets to this show are $15 or two for $25. -EJ

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[METAL] Gothenburg, Sweden quartet Graveyard‘s brand of metal is a reminder of the genre’s roots in hard-edged blues, a la Black Sabbath and Judas Priest. Over the course of four consistent albums, they’ve straddled the lines between campy swagger and doom-laden bombast without ever giving in to either, which has kept them from becoming a laughable caricature. With last fall’s Innocence and Decadence, they firmly established a lasting, left-of-center musical personality by mining the depths of their quirky otherness even further, paying homage to elements of pop, soul, prog, and Americana along the way. Flourishes of harmony and gospel send-ups appear out of nowhere on the new set, cementing the idea that Graveyard isn’t nearly as concerned about fitting into one of metal’s sub-genres as they are in making music that captivates and surprises. The overarching theme of the new material remains true to the album title, while the melodies are as immediate and engaging as ever. Vocalist/front man Joakim Nilsson keeps it real with his hoarse pipes that ooze weathered soul like well-worn vintage boots. Often, it feels like Graveyard isn’t a metal band at all, but one listen to the title track of 2011’s Hisingen Blues—which sounds like it could’ve been cut in 1970—is all the confirmation you’ll ever need. Graveyard come to the Town Ballroom on Thursday, February 11. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

Stoner jam-rockers Bold Folly dropped “Sweet Like Aspartame” last week. The track is a meandering acid-jam that paints a Venn diagram overlapping grunge on one side and psychedelic rock on the other.

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8pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $15-$33 [COMEDY] Sarah Colonna, New York Times bestselling author of Has Anyone Seen My Pants and Life as I Blow It, is witty, unruffled, and one of the finest joke soldiers you could go to war with. She was a writer and regular roundtable guest on Chelsea Lately and went on to produce, write, and star in Chelsea’s spinoff scripted series, After Lately. Catch Sarah Colonna at Helium Comedy Club on Thursday, February 11 through Sunday, February 14. -KP

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8pm Pausa Art House, 19 Wadsworth St. $7 [JAZZ] Why Not? deliver what is essentially a crash course in jazz music. The band—Tim Clarke on trumpet, Alex McArthur on vocals, composer and pianist Kevin Doyle, bassist Brian DeJesus, and drummer Dave Phillips—will perform pieces by Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, and Charles Mingus, along with some original music on Thursday, February 11 at Pausa Art House. -CP

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5:30PM / BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER, 1300 ELMWOOD AVE. / FREE, $10 FOR MUSICAL FEAST [ART] Every second Friday of the month, the Burchfield Penney Art Center opens the doors and pulls out all the stops, transforming the act of gallery-browsing into one of active participation with multiple sensorial sign posts. February’s installment offers a panoply of music, storytelling, and provoking visual art. Beginning at 5:30pm, Sharon Jordan Holley, a renowned storyteller steeped in the African-American oral tradition, will be present her work. Also starting at 5:30pm, the Pappy Martin Legacy Jazz Society presents the Herbie Small Quartet, who will play two sets of jazz standards. Running alongside the storytelling and music, there will also be a drop-in art-making workshop lead by docents and volunteers. Three new shows will be on exhibit, including the work of Icelandic video artist Steina Vasulka as well as the late Buffalo fixture Jack Drummer's stretched and dyed rubber pieces. Finishing the evening at 8pm will be music by A Musical Feast, with compositions by J. S. Bach, Robert Schumann, Martin Bresnick, and Buffalo native Amy Williams, who will perform with the ensemble. -AARON LOWINGER

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The four-piece folk fusion projects throws a fundraiser performance for CD production on its upcoming demo, “Fallen Fruits,” to be released in March at Ambush. Admission: $3.

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SILVER PRIDE COFFEE HOUR 10 - 11:30AM at Daily Planet Coffee, 1862 Hertel Ave.

A meet-and-greet coffee social for LGBT seniors, open to everyone. Mostly informal with special guests each month and a discussion of upcoming events and opportunities to socialize.

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VALENTINE’S DAY DINNER & DANCE 7PM - 12AM at The Foundry Suites, 1738 Elmwood Ave.

Includes a premium open bar, threecourse dinner, entertainment with MC Veronica Lace, and music by VJ Ben Hirsch. Dinner served at 8pm, dance until 12am. Tickets: $65/person or $125/ couple, available at eventbrite.com or at the Foundry.

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[VALENTINE] Are you and your significant other looking to have a great time this upcoming weekend? Well, look no further: We’ve gone ahead and picked some of our favorite Valentine’s Day spots in Buffalo: VALENTINE’S DAY DINNER Salvatore’s Italian Gardens, 6461 Transit Rd. Fri-Sun, February 12-14

Every entrée includes an appetizer, a soup or salad, and a dessert in this four-course Valentine’s Day special. Choose from appetizers such as escargot and shrimp cocktail, entrées like surf and turf and seafood ravioli, and desserts such as chocolate-covered strawberries and Snickers-flavored martinis. FIVE-COURSE BEER/WINE/CHEESE/CHOCOLATE PAIRING Rusty Nickel Brewing Co., 4350 Seneca St. Sun, February 14

A five-course beer/wine/cheese/chocolate pairing featuring RNBC Beers, Sweet Jenny’s Chocolates, Midgard Winery Wines, and custom cheeses.

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The biggest and burliest party in Allentown, hosted by the Buffalo Bears following their monthly meeting. This month’s theme: Nuts and Bolts (Construction Night). Admission: $2.

7pm Studio at the Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $12-$14 [PUNK] PUP brings fresh energy from Toronto's punk scene, fusing the rawness the genre has always celebrated and the modern "melodic hardcore" sound with a nerdy, underdog mentality. The resulting riotous din landed the four-piece a deal with the Side One Dummy label and they've just finished recording a second full-length, due for release later this year. Listen for some new tunes when they play at the Studio at The Waiting Room on Thursday, February 11. -CJT

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A Valentine’s Day four-course menu, including an amuse-bouche, appetizer, salad, entrée, and dessert. LGBT VALENTINE’S DAY DINNER & DANCE The Foundry Suites Hotel, 1738 Elmwood Ave. Sat, February 13

The first LGBT Valentine’s Day Dinner & Dance at the Foundry Suites Hotel will include an open bar and three-course dinner. Dinner will be served at 8pm and includes salad; choice of petite filet mignon, pan-seared salmon, or stuffed breast of chicken and dessert with coffee service, as well as entertainment and music. VALENTINE’S DAY DINNER FOR TWO Acropolis, 708 Elmwood Ave. Fri-Sun, February 12-14

Dinner for two includes appetizer to share, salad or soup, two entrees, and dessert. Add a bottle of wine for $20. STARRY NIGHT VALENTINE’S DAY HIKE

Tifft Nature Preserve, 1200 Fuhrmann Blvd. Sat, February 13, 6pm

A romantic hike through Tifft Nature Preserve. Ends at the visitors center with hot chocolate by the fireplace. $6, preregistration required.

and even bigger ones to actually land a career doing it. Collectively, the Felice Brothers must be hangin' low since that's exactly what they did back in 2006 when Palenville, New York, brothers Ian and James Felice—along with a few friends—began busking in the New York City subways. Now their eccentric blend of rootsy Americana gets them invited back to festivals every year, despite a stage demeanor that's been described as gratuitously flat. Something tells me there's some ironic humor at play. You decide, Friday, February 12 at the Tralf Music Hall. -CJT

Wolf 7pm Studio at the Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $10-$12 [ROCK] On her 2014 EP Gold & Dirt, Wolf—the brainchild of Buffalo musician Chelsea O’Donnell—proved that all O'Donnell needs to make a striking impact is her acoustic guitar and raw vocals. Wolf’s latest single, “Spark,” takes a slight turn as O’Donnell’s commanding contralto plays over a backdrop of rock instrumentals

Casablanca is one of the greatest Hollywood films of all time, and now you’ll have chance to see it on the big screen! Two lovers are briefly united amidst the chaos of war. Includes two glasses of champagne plus a basket of popcorn. BRUNCH & BEATS Hot Mama’s Canteen, 12 Military Rd. Sat, Feb 13 / Noon

Jules and the Vibratones will serenade diners with some jazz at this special Valentine’s Day edition of Brunch & Beats at Hot Mama’s Canteen. They’ve also broadened the idea of brunch, as it will be served from noon until midnight. SINGLES SOIRÉE Providence Social, 490 Rhode Island St.

Ok, so maybe you don't have a date. Maybe you're flying solo this Valentine's Day. In that case, Providence Social is your spot because on Sunday they're holding a special Social Singles Soirée. The bar will stay open after brunch for special holiday hours. Dinner, which starts at 6pm will consist of seven small plates and a special menu of cocktails to choose from. -NATHANIEL SWEETMAN

from guitarist Brian Siklinski, bassist TJ Luckman, and drummer Madison Rich. Catch Wolf’s new lineup with Hundred Plus Club, Mom Said No, and Airfare to Delaware at the Studio at the Waiting Room on Friday, February 12. -KP

SATURDAY FEB 13 Wanyama 8pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St. $5 [FUNK] The sounds of funk, hip-hop, and reggae have all been mashed together to form this electrifying band known as Wanyama. The band, hailing from Cleveland, consists of five musicians who blend all these genres of music into one invigorating sound that you won't forget. Their entertaining songs use a number of different instruments and lyrical sounds that'll blow the roof off the building when they come to Nietzsche's on Saturday, February 13. Peace Bridge and Larkin Plan open the show. -NS

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10pm The Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. free [ELECTRONIC/DANCE] PUMPDABEAT will host a dance party at the Waiting Room in Buffalo this Saturday night. The DJ, who hails from Philadelphia, is going to bring a night of awesome vogue, ballroom, and dance songs. As long as PUMPDABEAT is in the building, you're never going to stop dancing. And it's free. -NS

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10pm Allen Street Hardware Cafe, 245 Allen St. $5 [ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Hot off of their appearance at the electronic dance music festival Holy Ship, Buffalo duo Eyes Everywhere return to Buffalo along with Chad Lock, Alex Morrison, and Bangin’ Chains for their special event, Cool Dad Presents Rave Matthews Band. The crew will be spinning techno and house all night long in the back room of Allen Street Hardware Cafe at this Valentine’s Day eve party, Saturday, February 13. -CP

SUNDAY FEB 14 Commander Cody and His Modern Day Airmen 6pm Sportsmen's Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $20 [ROCK] For anyone familiar with the Bay Area bands that provided the late 1960s countercultural soundtrack, Commander Cody, a.k.a. George Frayne, is an institution. Lending a jump blues stamp and a bit of boogie-woogie to some already twangy rock and roll keeps

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THE CURRENT EXHIBIT AT THE CARNEGIE ART CENTER, North Tonawanda, is about past, present, and future. A new body of work by veteran area artist and teacher Vena DiBernardo—now 82 years old and for whom the ill-understood anomaly physical condition called essential tremor is an issue—and sculptor and metalworker Robert Then, whose recent work has involved excavating artifacts of the area industrial past and remaking them into artworks. In addition, the exhibit introduces a joint project and proposal of the artists to construct a monumental public sculpture that harks back to Roman mythology in epitomizing the widely noted economic renaissance now occurring in Buffalo and the region. Last Saturday, both artists talked briefly at the gallery about the proposed project and their work in general on exhibit. The proposed sculpture is an abstract representation of the Roman god Janus. The god with two faces, looking in two directions, toward the past and toward the future. And in that way, “how relevant to what’s going on now in Buffalo,” DiBernardo’s daughter Luanne said in introducing her father at the Saturday event. A city with a past, and now it seems—it hadn’t always seemed—with a future. The completed version of the DiBernardo sculpture would be in stainless steel and stand about fourteen feet high. A smaller maquette version of the work and slide show on the project are part of the current show. Someone in the audience asked Then how he got involved in the project. “Simple,” he said. “Vena called me and said, ‘Come on over, I want to show you something.’” Then would oversee construction of the sculpture. He talked about some of the hurdles to be surmounted to make the project a reality. Above all, he said, financing and site selection. Not necessarily in that order. “Getting everybody to agree on where to put it, that’s the biggest challenge of all,” he said. There seemed something of a consensus that the work should be located in or near the new medical corridor. But another suggestion was the waterfront. When someone asked about the financing—how best to go about securing it—DiBernardo said, “Talk to all the doctors in the medical complex. The doctors have the money.”

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DiBernardo’s other work in the show consists of paintings and drawings—or often paintings/drawings—on a wide variety of subject matters, from still lifes to nature studies to vaguely mythological reference works evoking a variety of ancient cultures, from Near Eastern and Egyptian to Mesoamerican. A work called Night of the Bull shows two aspects of such a creature with precisely lunar crescent set of horns. While one called Graffiti has a distinctly Mesoamerican Indian look. In Praise of Wisdom features an owl and an Egyptian figure. A work called Dante looks not so much like the poet as one of the sufferers he happens upon in his journey through Hell. On his back, on coils of yellow fire. One of Then’s works on show is his whimsical Art Bench conversational piece in several senses. “For conversations about art,” he explains. Other works are found iron or steel or brass, refurbished and reworked to a greater or lesser extent as required by eye and sensibility of the artist and mounted as sculptural pieces. Such as World Lab, an arc portion of heavy iron casting handsomely embossed with that enigmatic legend—word and part of a word, it looks like. Or Damage, an inch-thick segment of sheet iron betokening violence in the demolition of whatever structure or apparatus it was originally part of. Or The Whisper, consisting of two conglomerate masses of remnant dollops of what was molten iron at the time of discard, mounted in a way suggesting an intimate conversation. All in all a little analogous in spirit and sense to the spirit and sense of the Art Bench. Nor does this artist disdain puns or other playfulness in titling his works. A work called Basic Kneeds suggests two lower leg portions, ankles to just below the knees. The Vena DiBernardo and Robert Then exhibit runs until February 20.

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Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716885-2251, wnyag.com): Members show on view through Feb 12. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Captured Travels, water media paintings by Carol Case Siracuse. On view through Mar 20. Tue-Thu, 8am9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Man of Extremes: A Survey of the Work of Wes Olmsted. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Box Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main

IN GALLERIES NOW ARTS Street, Buffalo, NY 14203): Chromatics! Featuring work all from Starlight Studio artists. BT&C Gallery (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, btandcgallery.com): Fresh, young Buffalo artists: Dylan England, Sarah Fonzi, Christina Laing, Justin Mages, Alicia Malik. On view through Feb 27. Fri 12-5pm or by appointment. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Auto-Cannibalism by Mark Snyder; DopeDupe by Peter Sowiski on view through Mar 4. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays until 8pm. 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): Fluidity in Form: Selections from the Dean Spong Collection, on veiw through Aug 21.Through These Gates: Buffalo’s First African American Architect, John E. Brent, on view through Mar 27, 2016. Body Norms, selections from the Spong collection on view through Mar 11; Artists Seen: photographs of contemporary artists by David Moog; A Few of Our Favorite Things: Recent Acquisitions 2013-2015, on view through Apr 11. A-Z, an historical survey of women artists, on view through Mar 27. Roycroft from the Collection, on view through Jun 24. The Effects of Time, paintings by John E. (Jack) Drummer, on view through Jun 12. Borealis, mixed media installation by Steina Vasulka on view through Apr 3. Finding Aid: Making Sense of the Charles E. Burchfield Archives on view through Jun 19. Second Friday: Feb 12, 5:30-10pm storyteller Sharon Jordan Holley, music from the Herbie Small Quartet and “Musical Feast”: Works by J. S Bach, Robert Schumann, Martin Bresnick, and Amy Williams. Tue, Wed, Fri (Second Fridays until 8pm), Sat 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5$10, children 10 and under free. Café Taza (100 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Dislocated, new work by Robert Fleming, through Mar 3. Open daily. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter.org): Facing Janus, Vena DiBernardo and Robert Then. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Paintings in Progress, paintings by Robert Harris. On view through April 24. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. The CG Jung Center (408 Franklin Street, Side

Entrance, Buffalo, NY 14202, apswny.com): The Omega Point Project: The Noosphere, 2012 and Beyond, graphite drawings by Lory Pollina. Artist talk Tue, Feb 23, 7:30pm. Collect Art Now (Virtual gallery, collectartnow. com): Featured artists: Rita Argen Auerbach, Emily Churco, A.J. Fries, Evan Hawkins, Mark Lavatelli, Polly Little, Esther Neisen, Maria Pabico LaRotonda, and Jason Seeley. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (417 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts. com): The Old and the New: 180 Years of Painting and the Arts. Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am4pm. Dreamland (387 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, facebook.com/dreamlandarts.buffalo/timeline): Bodily Echo featuring the work of Tricia Butski, Ashley Powell, and Jaime Schmidt. On view through Feb 24. Open by event and by appointment. El Buen Amigo (114 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201, 885-6343, elbuenamigo.org): Hispanic Christian folk art exhibit. Mon-Sat 11am-7pm, Sun 11am-5pm. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 4644692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Matterz of the Fact, work by John Jennings. Tue-Sat 12-5pm. Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): Creative Courage, West Seneca East High School student show, on view through Feb 27. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm. Glow Gallery (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201):Revealed, male nudes by Paul Rybarczyk. Thu & Fri 4-8pm, Sat & Sun 3-7pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Amid/In WNY Part 6 installation works by Caitlin Cass and David Mitchell, paintings by Jay Carrier, drawings by Nicholas Ruth, Joan Linder, and Todd Lesmeister, book sculptures by Scott McCarney, and photographic diptychs by Charles Clough. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm, Closed on Sundays & Mondays. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Recent work by Bryan Hopkins and Kathryn Vajda, on view Feb 5-28. Wed & Fri 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): Great Moments in Medical History, on view through Apr 28. Tue-Sun 11am4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm.

Lockside Art Center (21 Main Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 478-0239, locksideartcenter.com): Landscapes, painting and photographs from Joe Bucolo, Karen Carlton, Cynthia Cotten, Dan Curr, Maggie Eaton, Phil Eaton, Thomas Fitzrandolph, Kristine Gazzo, Don Little, Paul Martin, Manning McCandlish, Nona McQuay, Doug Mess, Mike Miller, Joan Shaw, Dennis Scherer, Mark Tollner, and Mike Weber. On view through Mar 19. Fri-Sun 124pm. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Winter Feature: New & Rediscovered on view through Feb 13. Tue-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm. Native American Museum of Art at Smokin’ Joe’s (2293 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, NY 14123, 261-9251) Open year round and free. Exhibits Iroquois artists work. 7am-9pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 282-7530, thenacc.org): ”I Can See Canaan Land”: Artists of Color exhibition inspired by African-American experience: Betty Pitts Foster, Cheryl Gorski, Cornelia Dohse-Peck, Dejuan Hunt, George Pagano, Michael Beam, Michelle Costa, Phyllis L. Thompson, Richmond Futch Jr., Tim Maloney, Youssou Lo, Jessica Thorpe, and Ray Robertson. On view through Feb 21. MonFri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm. Niagara County Community College Dolce Valvo Art Center (3111 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, NY 14132, 614-5975): Give Up the Ghost work by Denton Crawford. On view through Feb 24, 2016. Mon & Tue 12-5pm, Wed & Thu 12-7pm, Fri 12-3pm, Sat 11-3pm, closed Sundays. Nichols School Gallery at the Glenn & Audrey Flickinger Performing Arts Center (1250 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14216, 332-6300, nicholsschool.org/ artshows?rc=0): Seeing Through Nature: new mandalas by Jody Hanson, on view through Mar 16. Mon-Fri 8am-4pm, Closed Sat & Sun. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse.com): The Abstract Tableau, paitings by Mary Begley. On view through Feb 27. Live Music Thu-Sat. See website for more info. Prism (MyBuffaloPride, 224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201): Mantasy: Form and Function of the Male Body, work by James Estep. Opening reception Fri Feb 5, 6-9pm. Thu & Fri 4-8pm, Sat & Sun 3-7pm. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod. com): 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, Kristopher Whatever, Michael Mulley. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment.

River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051): Medium Mix Up, an exhibition juried by Russell Ram. On view Feb 3-27. Wed-Fri 11am-4pm Sat 11am-5pm. RO (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Recent work by Irene Haupt. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Sports Focus Physical Therapy (531 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202, 332-4838, sportsfocuspt. com): Prints by Jane Marinsky. On view through Feb 28. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio.org): Trevor Grabill with Larell Potter. On view through Feb 26. Mon-Fri 9-4pm. Studio Hart (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 536-8337, studiohart.com): Everything is Beautiful, and Nothing Hurts: Craig LaRotonda and Maria Pabico LaRotonda. On view through Feb 27. Tue-Fri 11:30am-3:30pm, Sat 12-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Cut From the Same Cloth: fiber arts by Another Lopez, Megan Luongo, and Lindsay Tripp. On view through Feb 27. Open every Fri 5:30-7:30pm and by event. TGW@497 Gallery (497 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 981-9415): 3 Months, new paintings by David Vitrano. Wed-Fri 12-5pm, Sat 12-3pm. Tri-Main Center (2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 5th floor, 697-2599): Magnified Alleviation, mixed media by Jamie Schmidt. Temporary gallery space. Private appointments possible, call or email jamieschmidtart@gmail.com. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries.org): A Tribute to David K. Anderson, on view through Mar 6. Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic, on view through Dec 31, 2016. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Graphic Design Program Student Exhibit, Feb 5-15. Mon-Fri 8am-8pm, Sat 10am -5pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 438-1430, wnybookarts.org): The Log Lines: Jill Kambs and Timothy Frerichs. On view through Mar 4. WedSat 12-6pm. To add your gallery’s information to the list, please P contact us at info@dailypublic.com.

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). Water Lilies, 1908. Oil on canvas, 31½ inches (80 cm) in diameter. Collection Dallas Museum of Art, Gift of the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated. Image courtesy Dallas Museum of Art.

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mantic movies: “See it with someone you love.” Exactly the opposite might be the best advice for the Oscar nominated 45 Years, which opens Friday at the Amherst and Eastern Hills cinemas: Couples still getting to know one another should be okay with it, but those who have been together for any length of time may find it prompting uncomfortable conversations. The title refers to the duration of the marriage between Kate and Geoff Mercer (Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay). Childless and retired from their jobs as a school teacher and a factory manager, they live a sedate life in a bucolic English village. We observe them in the week leading up to a party celebrating their anniversary. (They missed having one for their 40th because of Geoff ’s heart surgery.) The Monday mail brings a letter for Geoff from Switzerland. The body of a woman has been found after 50 years in a crevasse, brought out now by global warming. The authorities believe it to be Katya, his girlfriend at the time, who fell during a hiking trip. Kate vaguely knew of this, but she and Geoff never talked about it. They chat some about it now, bringing up a few details she had never known. Funny, they both muse, how two people can now each other so long and still have hidden parts of their past. But as the week goes on and she continues to prepare for their celebration, Kate becomes consumed by doubt. What did this woman really mean to her husband? And do his secrets change the nature of their marriage as she has understood it for so many years? Adapted from David Constantine’s short story by writer-director Andrew Haigh (the HBO series Looking), 45 Years is reminiscent of James Joyce’s classic “The Dead.” It’s spare material in which much goes unsaid and you have to watch carefully for revealing details. But as acted by two performers whose careers extend back to the glory days of British cinema in the 1960s, it builds to a devastating conclusion. Rampling, who is nominated for Best Actress, has the showier part, but Courtenay is

AT THE MOVIES A selective guide to what’s opening and what’s playing in local moviehouses and other venues

BY M. FAUST & GEORGE SAX

OPENING THIS WEEK 45 YEARS—Tom Courtenay and Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling as a long married couple whose relationship is called into question by news of the death of an old lover of his. Directed by Andrew Haigh (HBO’s Looking.) Reviewed this issue. Amherst (Dipson), Eastern Hills (Dipson) THE LADY IN THE VAN—Based on the true story of a homeless woman (Maggie Smith) who spent the last decade of her life living in a decrepit van parked in the London driveway of playwright Alan Bennett (Alex Jennings). Directed by Nicolas Hytner (The History Boys). Reviewed this issue. Eastern Hills (Dipson), North Park WHERE TO INVADE NEXT—A new documentary buy Michael Moore in which he stages mock “invasions” of other developed nations to see what we can learn from them. Reviewed this issue. Amherst (Dipson)

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS (1940)—Raymond Massey’s Oscar-nominated performance as the small-town lawyer earning the respect of his neighbors before he embarks on a political career. With Gene Lockhart and Ruth Gordon. Directed by John Cromwell (Anna and the King of Siam). Sun 11:30am North Park

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equally strong. Couples should be warned that, along with leaving the theater wondering about your partner’s life prior to meeting you (and whether you want to know any of it), you may find yourselves on opposite sides as to who most deserves your sympathy. *** SOMEWHAT LESS REWARDING but much safer for a Valentine’s Day date is The Lady in the Van. This “mostly true story” gives Maggie Smith fans plenty of opportunity to watch her in the kind of effortlessly arch and eccentric performance that made her dowager countess of Grantham the highlight of any episode of Downton Abbey. Granted, on the surface her character here could hardly be more different: Miss Shepherd, which may or may not be her real name, is a homeless woman who spent most of the 1970s and 1980s in the London neighborhood of Camden. She resided in a ramshackle van, painted a color that can only be found in cans labeled “primer,” which was operational only enough to keep her ahead of parking regulations. As much a nuisance for her tart tongue as her malodorousness, Miss Shepherd was tolerated by the locals, nouveau riche whose liberal guilt prevented them from having her carted away. Chief among these was Alan Bennett, the playwright and all-around British institution on whose memoir the film is based. (The director is Nicolas Hytner, who previously filmed Bennett’s The History Boys and The Madness of King George.) Retiring by general nature as much as by being gay at a time when homosexuality had only just been decriminalized, Bennett found himself her barely willing sponsor, letting her move her van into his driveway when the authorities insisted that she get off the street. The story is tricked up with melodramatic revelations and the gimmick of having two Bennett’s (both played by Alex Jennings) to represent barely discernible sides of the author’s character; there’s even a finale lifted from a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Forget all that—it’s Dame Maggie’s show all the way, and she throws herself into it with the kind of gusto the British use to freshen up a character you’ve seen them do before. That she didn’t get an Oscar nomination for this role is a rare example of the Academy restraining its sentimentality. It opens Friday at the North Park and P Eastern Hills Cinemas.

THE BETTER ANGELS (2014)—Independent film about the young childhood of Abraham Lincoln in the harsh rural environment of 1817 Indiana. Starring Jason Clarke, Diane Kruger, and Brit Marling. Directed by A. J. Edwards. Sat 11:30am. North Park BLEAK STREET—Arturo Ripstein’s black-and-white feature peering into the lives of sex workers, beggars, and other marginalized people in urban Mexico. A review will be posted at dailypublic. com. Presented by the Kaleidotropes film series. Wed Feb 17 7pm. Squeaky Wheel CASABLANCA (1943)—No one involved in its making expected it to be anything extraordinary; the story had been making the studio rounds for awhile, various actors had been cast and rejected for the leads, with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman settling into the roles through no particular piece of casting inspiration. The ending was up in the air until after shooting was finished, and Bogart’s last line was written and dubbed in during post-production. Call it a miracle of studio craftsmanship, a whole that exceeds the sum of its parts, and an almost mythological example of why we love movies so much. Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Paul Heinreid, Claude Rains, and Peter Lorre. Thu 7:30pm. Riviera; also Fri-Sat 7:30pm. Screening Room ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (2013)—Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as vampires despairing of the modern world. Co-starring John Hurt, Anton Yelchin, Mia Wasikowska, and Jeffrey Wright. Directed by Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers). Presented by the Roycroft Film Society. Sun 4pm. Parkdale School Auditorium, 141 Girard Ave., East Aurora. roycroftcampuscorporation.com PATHER PANCHALI (India, 1955)—The first film in what would become director Satyajit Ray’s epic Apu trilogy follows his father as he leaves his rural Bengal village in order to find a better life for his family. Presented as part of the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Amherst (Dipson) YOSEMITE—James Franco co-stars in this adaptation of three short stories from his collection Palo Alto, about his experiences grow-

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CONTINUING THE BIG SHORT—If you want to learn about the deep and complex causes of the 2008 banking crisis that nearly brought down the American economy, you’d be better off watching a documentary on the subject (especially Charles Ferguson’s Oscar-winning Inside Job). On the other hand, you can’t argue that a fictionalized movie starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling, directed and co-written by Will Ferrell partner Adam McKay, is likely to reach a lot more people. Working from the book by former Wall Street insider Michael Lewis, the film whirls around several unconnected characters who all came to the conclusion that money could be made by using the market to bet on it’s own inevitable failure. Its explanations can be confusing, though McKay makes that part of the story—the narration notes that the financial world is designed to make outsiders feel stupid. Co-starring Marisa Tomei, Rafe Spall, and Melissa Leo. –MF Amherst (Dipson) ENDS THURS 2/11, Four Seasons, Regal Transit 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 McKinley (Dipson)

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BY GEORGE SAX IN 1989, WHEN MICHAEL MOORE burst on the documentary film scene with his unprecedentedly successful film Roger and Me, the late film critic Pauline Kael was not among those acclaiming his debut. The titular Roger was Roger Smith, then chief executive of General Motors, and Moore’s comic conceit was that his film documented his efforts to get an opportunity to interview Smith about his company’s closing of a plant in Flint, Michigan (yes, that Flint, Michigan) and the consequential loss of thousands of jobs.

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As the movie follows Moore on his obviously doomed-to-fail attempts to speak to Smith, the filmmaker encounters various Flint residents and elicits their clueless or clumsy responses to the closure. (Flint is Moore’s hometown.) It’s really a faux-documentary; Moore is a prankster and provocateur, but he recognized the serious nature of the underlying problem: the disappearance of manufacturing jobs and the collapse of American industry. Moore was provocative and funny, not so much in spite of as because of his all too thinly disguised and happy indifference to accuracy, not to mention fairness.

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Kael called the movie “shallow and facetious” and “gonzo demagoguery.” Moore, she wrote, was “using his leftism as a superior attitude,” and said the movie made her “feel cheap for laughing.” She pointed out, among other journalistic crimes and misdemeanors, his falsification of chronology and context. (The jobs were lost over 12 years, not all at once, and GM closed plants in four states, not just in Flint.) Moore, she noted, interjected a clip of Ronald Reagan making a classically insensitive remark in 1980, implying it addressed plant closings years later. And then there was the sneaky, snarky way Moore treated guileless interviewees, gulling them into making foolish, befuddled comments, people like the older women he confronts on a city golf course.

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on behalf of America’s armed forces leaders in order to find solutions to this country’s military defeats—is flat and flimsy, and even he seems to have trouble maintaining the pretense. Essentially, the movie amounts to an omnibus grab bag in which Moore visits eight European countries and one North African country to cherry-pick social programs that put America’s negligence and more primitive arrangements to shame. This isn’t hard to do. In Italy he supposedly discovers that workers have vacation and parental-leave benefits far better than Americans get (although Moore seems to have trouble keeping track of whether annual vacation rights are for four or eight weeks). In France he marvels at the leisurely, luxurious, and nutritious public school lunches. Moore mingles with apparently racially and ethnically harmonious French children in their school. (He might have had a different experience in one of the poorer suburban neighborhoods of Paris in which France’s Muslim youth live in often resentful suspicion.) In Portugal he pretends to be amazed that the authorities have decriminalized drug possession and abolished the death penalty. (In fact, almost all Western nations have no capital punishment.) And so it goes.

I understood and shared Kael’s discomfort and annoyance, and the sense of guilty enjoyment Moore engendered. His saucy approach and attitude sometimes seem to slip over into arrogant superiority. For over a quarter-century, Moore’s frowsy and wide-beamed form has periodically been shambling through his movies. These are frequently amusing, sometimes slyly well-aimed polemics against the usual liberal banes and bêtes noires, not always demonstrating a scrupulous regard for accuracy and fairness. Writing about Moore, the late New York Times critic Vincent Canby said, “Playing fair is for college football,” his assumption about collegiate sports perhaps belonging to a more innocent era.

Much of this nation-hopping reveals crucially wholesome social and economic programs that Americans must suffer without. This should not be a surprise, but the current Republican presidential campaign indicates how insulated from social realities this country is. But Moore glosses and glides over some other aspects of reality. Italy’s employment-union members have superior benefits but their country is a giant morass of private and public corruption. France has a much higher unemployment rate than this country, and French capitalists have begun pushing back against the costs of the public sector. Indeed, the entire European Union can, from one viewpoint, be seen as a tentative, transnational move toward restricting the continent’s national working classes.

Moore’s latest, Where to Invade Next, is rather less aggressive and spoofy, but his adherence to the conventions of evidence-based argument is not much greater. The tricked-up premise—that Moore is “invading” other nations

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DEAR HH: If you’re looking to “honor” the “legacy” of “Saint” Valentine, the “Roman priest” imprisoned for “ministering to persecuted Christians” but have no desire to “partake” in the “marginalization” of the “mostly European” folk “traditions” “ass”ociated with him, “I” have a “simple” suggestion: Get a damn clue! All this bunkum about a martyred healer is just plain malarkey, and what isn’t malarkey is probably, uh—[looks around for Mark before consulting a ragged, dust-covered thesaurus pulled from the shelf of the Bodleian Library at Oxford]—claptrap. Nobody really knows anything about this alleged saint, since all contemporary records were destroyed in the Great Persecution of the early fourth century, which was drastically different from the Great Persecution of today, which is what I call my ceaseless online battle with the growing legion of internet trolls who refuse to apologize for sharing the video of me shitting my pants during a breakdancing routine in front of the Broadway Market two Easter’s ago.

your desire to find a way to express pure love in non-materialistic terms, you’re missing a very important point: With no facts about him in existence, it’s a logically sound assumption that Saint Valentine fully endorsed the exchange of meaningless chachkies from the mall! Let this non-disprovable untruth free you from the confines of your consumerist guilt! Put on that “Pink” jumpsuit you got from Victoria’s Secret and apply just a spritz of Sophia Vergara’s Eau De Parfum,* because tonight you’re going to Longhorn Steakhouse where your boyfriend is waiting for you with a rose he got from Tops on his way over there and an oversized card from 7-Eleven inside of which is scrawled some bullshit poem he kind of remembered from high school and found in its entirety by typing a few key phrases into Google followed by “old poem.” And no matter how soulless you feel this “holiday” has become, just remember that even at their emptiest, each gesture of love is more real than St. Valentine himself.

And while numerous legends exist to this day concerning either a miracle performed bringing sight to a blind woman or overseeing clandestine marriage rituals for soldiers forbidden to wed, even the feast day of Saint Valentine on February 14 has been removed from the General Roman Calendar because the Church admittedly has no idea what this guy was about. They have opted to wash their hands of this mythos rather than spread misinformation, which is a noble deed considering this same institution knowingly covers up allegations of child abuse and intentionally misconstrues the Gospel in order to oppress homosexuals and women. So, while I respect your distaste for the acquisitiveness that has dominated our Western culture and

* Five-second Iris Out, pausing just briefly to highlight the rash developing on your neck where you applied the perfume.

HAVE A QUESTION FOR KEITH? ADVICE@DAILYPUBLIC.COM Editor’s note: As front man of Every Time I Die, Keith Buckley has traveled the world gaining insights about the universe. In this biweekly column he’ll use those insights to guide our readers with heartfelt and brutally honest advice. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / FEBRUARY 10 - 16, 2016 / THE PUBLIC 23