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PUT THIS IS YOUR PIPE… 11 Western New York companies vie for medical marijuana licenses BY AARON LOWINGER

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coming to New York, perhaps as soon as January. Forty-three entities applied by the state’s June 5 deadline to gain one of only five licenses to grow marijuana and convert it to a non-smokable form. Each licensed company will be permitted to operate four dispensaries, equating to 20 dispensaries for a state of roughly 20 million people. Eleven of the 43 applicants have interests in Western New York. Observers had expected applicants to number in the hundreds, but the state’s guidelines weeded out the smalltime players and left an odd mixture of shadowy, newly formed LLCs headed by investment bankers, doctors, lawyers, businesspeople, and a few existing large growers of legal products. The companies for which ownership information is available are headed almost exclusively by males. This process is not for the faint of heart or the lightly funded. Applicants had to fork over $10,000 to apply, in addition to a refundable $200,000 registration fee. Applicants also had to provide proof that they own or are leasing property that is suitable for growing marijuana. And the application itself would keep a team of lawyers busy for days, if not weeks. The 66,000-page application from Western New York’s Alternative Medicine Associates, for example, was delivered to Albany last week on a pallet of banker’s boxes. According to SEC filings, one group of wouldbe ganjapreneurs downstate—Advanced Grow Labs New York, LLC—cobbled together more than $13 million in investment to get the cherry burning. It’s a great time to be a lobbyist in the Empire State. Here are the 11 companies with ties to Western New York: Alternative Medicine Associates: This company is a partnership between WNY Immediate Care’s Dr. Greg Daniel and Tanning Bed founder Dan Humiston. Humiston, an avowed abstainer, told Vice.com last year, “Just because I don’t use cannabis doesn’t mean I don’t love the business of it and I don’t see opportunities in it.” Humiston has said he’d like to convert the former Tyson chicken plant in the First Ward for his grow operation.

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Compassionate Care: Formed this past April, the LLC notice lists Blasdell attorney Robert Walsh as the company’s representative. Reached by phone, Mr. Walsh stated he was not ready to discuss his client’s plans. Empire State Compassionate Care: Led by a group with experience launching MMJ business in Colorado and New Jersey, Empire State told the Buffalo News they have plans to repurpose a funeral home on Kensington Avenue in Cheektowaga. Far(m)ed New York: Headed by the Atwal family of eye surgeons who also own farmland in Niagara County, Far(m)ed plans to grow in Wilson and operate dispensaries in Cheektowaga, Henrietta, North Syracuse, and outside Binghamton. Good Green Group Steve Steeneck formed the company in Dutchess County with the goal opening up shops in Manhattan, Long Island, Albany, and Rochester. Great Lakes Medicinals: Little is known about this company outside the fact that they’ve been paying $8,000 per month to an Albany law firm for lobbying services since last July and that the company is based in the Rochester suburb of Webster. Herbal Agriculture: Gary Smith of H2Gro, a hydroponic tomato operation built beside the Modern landfill in Niagara County, has been angling for a license to grow marijuana using landfill-supplied methane gas energy for years, and employed the services of embattled lobbyist Steve Pigeon’s PAPI consulting under a former LLC name, Lewiston Greenhouse. That these landfills exist nearby a sordid collection of Manhattan Project-era radioactive materials should lead to some very creative names for his product, should he succeed. Kinex Supportive Pharmaceuticals: Little is known about this company, but it appears connected to Kinex Pharmaceuticals which is housed inside the New York State Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics on Ellicott Street in Buffalo. Calls to Kinex were not returned. LabCare: This company has a website that offers vague information about plans to service five Western New York counties (Erie, Niagara, Genesee, Monroe, Cattaraugus). Reached by phone, LabCare declined to comment at this time, but plans a press release in the near future. Ross John Enterprises (Good Leaf): Ross John has been described as a “veteran Seneca businessman,” who in 2013 was appointed to the Seneca Nation’s first-ever Economic Development Commission, responsible for cultivating ties with Albany to aid Native businesses. Further plans have not been announced.

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And alongside the 49-year-old unbroken Joel Kurtzman argues, in his new essay “The trend-line of peer-reviewed academic analysis, War Between Optimism & Pessimism,” that which shows that poor kids clustered together the United States is on the eve of a new day achieve poorly together, there have been pracof international economic power, with more intical demonstration projects in Raleigh, North vestible cash sitting in corporate reserves today Carolina, and in northern Virginia, and elsethan our friends the Germans produced in the where in the southeastern United States, where best year their economy ever had. We are, he the outcomes for children have been made says, also sitting pretty atop the technological better by mixing children from low-income and innovation mountains, and we’re the bighouseholds with children from higher-income gest energy producer in the world, and have households. Achievement on standardized IF YOUtoo. APPROVE WHICH ARE ON THIS PROOF, THE the most productive workforce, And weERRORS tests, graduation rates, CANNOT RESPONSIBLE. PLEASEemployment EXAMINE THErates, AD and not only manufacture morePUBLIC than anybody else,BE HELD overall outcomes are better—much better, pheincluding the Chinese, butTHOROUGHLY we also manufacEVEN IF THE AD IS A PICK-UP. nomenally better—and dropout, unemployture more efficiently, and with more savvy, than ment, teen�pregnancy, andCONTENT incarceration rates CHECK COPY them or anybody else. MESSAGE TO ADVERTISER are all lower. Thank you for advertising � CHECK IMPORTANT DATES And anybody who says otherwise is a whinwith THE PUBLIC. But Please here in Buffalo, the region’s leading banker ing naysayer. � many CHECKmillions NAME, ADDRESS, review your ad and has check invested of his own money, A few years ago, Robert Kagan the same PHONE #, staff & WEBSITE for argued any errors. The original and many hours of his ’s time, in a charthing in his book The World America Made. layout instructions terhave school�called Westminster Community PROOF OK (NO CHANGES) (Kurtzman’s new book, Unleashing the Second been followed as closely as where almost all the children are from Charter, American Century, which possible. extends the THEpoints PUBLIClow-income offers � households PROOF OK (WITH with CHANGES) low-educationdesign services with two summarized in his essay, is forthcoming.) al-attainment adults supervising them once proofs at no charge.they THE leave the classroom and return to some of What’s curious, though, is how consistently we PUBLIC is not responsible Advertisers Signature the most challenged neighborhoods in the Bufexperience the gulf between what our wonks for any error if not notified falo-Niagara Falls region. explain we need to do and within what our 24economic hours of receipt. SEAN ____________________________ and political elites actually do. The production department Of the 262 Western New York Schools ranked

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First is the example of the Westminster Community Charter School. Since 1966, when the massive “Equality of Educational Opportunity” study examined outcomes for over 650,000 American students, there has been an endless parade of social scientists testing the findings of this report to see if they are still valid. The so-called Coleman Report has been validated dozens of times. Most recently, two separate MA projects submitted to the Buffalo State Department of Economics and Finance not only reviewed the literature but also looked at data from Buffalo and its suburbs. The conclusion in 2011 and again in 2015, in Buffalo, was the same as the national study from 1966: Household income of students, the household income of the students’ peers, and the educational attainments of the students’ adult guardians matter most. It’s not class size, or per-pu-

Buffalo Public School system to a charter form of governance did not change outcomes.

Yet there is silence about the 49 years of academic validation of the Coleman findings, and silence about the regional schools of Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and even Boston, where children are desegregated by household income. One word: silence. Buffalo is not alone: Only around four million kids in America, out of more than 53 million who are school-age, are in school districts that practice income integration. The practice occurs where there are countywide school districts, and in some urban districts where there are cooperative agreements with adjacent suburbs. It’s an effective policy, whose efficacy tests out.

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The other disconnect we experience in Buffalo, and in most of the USA, is in land use. Where the Canadians and most of western Europe practice intensification around their urban centers, the US pattern since the Depression has been to sprawl. Centuries of observation about the economic power of agglomeration or clustering have been honored by students and even by policy-makers. But except in the couple of dozen US metros that have sufficient remaining population density to maintain public transit systems, the national pattern is to ignore the potential benefits of urbanization—especially specialization, labor-market pooling (which makes labor smarter and workers better able to bargain, too), and import substitution. In Buffalo, we see the impact of 70 years of anti-city land use: Today, when there is more positive media about the urban core than there has been in decades, when the consumer preferences of the young, the mobile, and those with discretionary disposable income are most decidedly pro-urban, we continue to see population decline in the urban core. The rehabbed housing coming on-line is adding to a radically depressed assessment base, even while the sprawl machine produces many more units in both near and far suburbs, even while the regional population languishes below what it was in 2010, 2000, 1990, 1980, or 1970. So what are the triumphalists seeing that we’re not seeing here? One phrase, coined by two University of Pennsylvania economists a decade ago: Superstar cities are not the same as your old hometown. These are the places that have such strong cores that they’ve been able to withstand the American sprawl dynamic. They’re either permanently strong in the middle—because of the clustering of institutions, the unbreakable intensification of their population, and their functionality as market centers—or, like Pitts-

burgh, they’ve rescued themselves by becoming the crossroads of the economic forces of technological innovation and intellectual energy that optimists and pessimists alike worship. What the new infrastructure inputs in the intensification-focused Golden Horseshoe show is that superstar city Toronto remains such a vital center of innovation, and such a strong market crossroads, that it is driving innovation and even population growth along an urban corridor that stretches 40 miles toward Buffalo. Many credit the strength of the University of Toronto, which ranks within the top 20 of all the world’s 3,000 universities based on academic reputation, student-faculty ratio, the rate at which its research is cited, and its mix of native and international students. (This annual survey ranks the top 750, and leaves the other 2,250 unranked; UB is unranked.) It seems that there’s a close correlation between the triumphant America Kurzman and Kagan describe and the list of superstar cities, most of which have globally top-ranking universities. What we’re going to have to figure out in Buffalo is whether to keep the leaders who refuse to connect the wonks’ advice about schools or land-use or many other issues to how public resources are spent. We should also figure out how to get a top-ranking university or two, preferably in the core of our region, at our commercial crossroads, so that the real estate industry will do here what it’s doing for Hamilton since the announcement two weeks ago: bidding up the price of land, housing, and commercial real estate right where the trains will run. Those trains will be a part of the intensification agenda, which will also facilitate Hamilton’s newest wonky project: integrating schoolkids by household income. Bruce Fisher is visiting professor of economics at SUNY Buffalo State and director of the P Center for Economic and Policy Studies.

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LOOKING BACKWARD: BROADWAY & FILLMORE, 1949 This photograph of Broadway, taken for the International Railway Co., looks west from Fillmore Avenue toward downtown Buffalo. The year is 1949—Harry Truman is in the White House, Bernard Dowd is in the mayor’s office, and Buffalo is one year from clocking in at 580,132 residents, the city’s highest ever recorded population. On the right, pedestrians peer into the windows of Sears, which opened that year at 950 Broadway, an art moderne structure built in 1940. Behind it, on the north side of Broadway, the signs for the Erie County Savings Bank, Krasner’s women’s clothing, Ruszkiewicz’s liquor, and Factor’s jewelry store are visible. On the south side of Broadway, signs for the Liberty Bank, Barmon Brothers women’s clothing, E. Wagner optometrist, Waldorf cafeteria, Lou-Etta bridal shop, Liberty Shoes, Meisel’s furniture and appliances, and Shea’s Roosevelt Theatre— built in 1927 with a seating capacity of 2,000—are visible. In the distance are the steeples of St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church and Christ Lutheran Church. In the foreground, the streetcar tracks of the Broadway and Hertel-Fillmore lines are still intact and in use. P -THE PUBLIC STAFF DAILYPUBLIC.COM / JUNE 17, 2015 / THE PUBLIC

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IN THIS CORNER… Local boxing history exhibit at Karpeles North Hall BY JACK FORAN

A LOCAL SPORTS HISTORY TRIVIA QUESTION: How many

Buffalo boxers won world championship titles?

I counted six among the commemorative plaques and photos and memorabilia and verbal information on display at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum at Elmwood and North. And a couple more you could get an argument on. Fighters who might have won it in the ring but lost it in the judging. Jimmy Slattery, of course, the light heavyweight champion in 1927 when he outpointed the perennial Maxie Rosenbloom. He lost the title the same year to Tommy Loughran, but then won it again in 1930, defeating fellow Buffalonian Lou Scozza in one of the great matches and great fights ever. The pride of the Irish First Ward against the joy of the Italian West Side. Toward the end of the 13th round, Scozza had Slattery on the ropes and the referee had to step in, but then bell rang, ending the round, saving Slattery from a technical knockout. Slattery recovered in his corner, hung in, and won the 15-round decision. The description says merely “boxing fans still debate the outcome.” Scozza had another near miss of the title in 1932 in a fight against Rosenbloom. In the 14th round, Scozza knocked Rosenbloom to the canvas, but he recovered and retained the title by decision. Scozza never became world champion, but in 110 pro fights was never knocked out, but he did knock out Jimmy Braddock. The only other fighter ever to knock out Braddock was Joe Louis, for the heavyweight world championship. After retiring in 1934, Scozza worked with youth organizations as a boxing instructor, and as a boxing and wrestling referee, and refereed many bouts in Memorial Auditorium in the 1950s and 1960s. Slattery drank hard and died young. Other Buffalo boxing world champions included: Frank Erne, lightweight champ from 1899 to 1902. Erne won the title by decision in a fight against George “Kid” Lavigne, and lost it to Joe Gans in a fight that lasted just 100 seconds. Gans knocked Erne out with a single punch, described by a newspaper writer as “a right hook, to the jaw, delivered with lightning speed and exact precision, after exactly a minute and a half of fiddling.” Jimmy Goodrich (real name James Moran) lightweight champ, 1925. Goodrich won the title in July by knocking out Stanislaus Loayza of Chile, and lost it in December by decision to fellow Buffalonian Rocky Kansas (real name Rocco Tozzo). It was described by a writer as “the hardest battle of [Goodrich’s] career… Goodrich fought desperately, and along about the middle of fight it looked as if [Kansas] was wavering, but he rallied and renewed his attack with added fierceness, punishing Goodrich severely.” Kansas lost the title the next year to Sammy Mandell in a decision.

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George Nichols, light-heavyweight champ, 1932. Nichols won an elimination series for an officially vacated title, on the way to which he beat Scozza by decision, and after which Scozza beat him, once by decision, once by knockout, in non-title bouts. Apparently Nichols had suffered a knee injury and was unable to defend his title, whereupon it passed from him. And Tommy Paul (real name Gaetano Papa), featherweight champion, 1932 to 1933. Paul won the title by beating Johnny Peña by decision, and lost it to Freddie Miller, also by decision. Many of the fights were in Buffalo. The Erne-Lavigne fight, at the Hawthorne Club Arena in Cheektowaga (site of the present Forks Hotel, Broadway and Union Road); The Slattery-Scozza fight, in the old Broadway Auditorium (now the city garage, Broadway near Michigan); the Goodrich-Kansas fight, also in the Broadway Auditorium; and all the Nichols-Scozza fights subsequent to Nichols taking the title. And several Rosenbloom fights. Other outstanding figures among the Buffalo boxing veterans include numerous veterans in the military sense. Matt Urban, a boxer and track runner at Cornell who for his military service in World War II was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, as well as the French Croix de Guerre, Belgian Croix de Guerre, Purple Heart, Silver Combat Star, Bronze Combat Star, et al. In presenting him with the Medal of Honor, Presi-

dent Jimmy Carter called him “The greatest soldier in all of American History.” He never boxed professionally, but later coached boxing at West Point and was a coach for the 1960 American Olympics boxing squad, featuring Cassius Clay. Tommy Stenhouse, who had a 28-7-1 pro record, a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. Lester McGowan, New York State Golden Gloves Champion, 1941, killed in action at Iwo Jima, 1945, age 20. Joe Muscato, a World War II veteran who was awarded the Medal for Bravery as well as a Purple Heart. Muscato’s pro fighting nickname was “Sergeant,” and his pro record was 31-11-1. Joey Giambra, a top middleweight from the late 1940s to early 1960s, who somehow never attained the world title many think he deserved (even in an era dense with outstanding middleweights, the likes of Sugar Ray Robinson, Bobo Olson, Gene Fullmer, Rocky Graziano, Rocky Castellani, Joey Giardello, Ralph “Tiger” Jones, and Randy Turpin, to list a few of them). Giambra is shown in an Army uniform in a 1955 newspaper wirephoto, the caption of which calls him “the pride of the Fourth Armored Division.” The exhibit is a presentation of the Buffalo Veteran Boxers Association. (Thanks also to Chuck LaChiusa’s excellent Buffalo Architecture and History website—a work in progress in the litP eral and best sense—for additional information herein.)

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in Buffalo, consider Tony Rials, beverage director of Bourbon and Butter, a key player. With more than 10 years of experience under his belt and a certificate from the court of master sommeliers, Rials approaches his craft like a chef—or a mad scientist. Whether it be pairing wines, concocting original creations, or nailing classic cocktail recipes, the hefty amount of labor and fierce attention to detail is aimed at one rather simple objective: to exhilarate the palate of the consumer and achieve that moment when, in his own words, “really awesome flavors come together.” In this interview, the beverage savant talks about his inspirations, the ever-evolving bar scene in Buffalo, and summer takeaways. Who or what are your influences? They always change. At certain points in time it was people. Very specific people, the first restaurant job, the first crazy chef I worked for, the first manager that spent time with me teaching me about wine and making sure I got to taste along with him. Then it became experiences—going to a four-star restaurant in New York City or San Francisco and hanging out there. That became a key thing, experiencing the whole restaurant and what they do and how they help their guests experience the event. That became important

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to learn from. The last time I went to San Fran, I was checking out cocktail bars that were just unreal and watching what they do and how they do it, how they set up their back bars. Not only are these guys artists at what they do, they are dedicated. Every day it is just them working as hard as possible. I get a lot of inspiration from great chefs; they’re conscientious of farms and of the restaurant as a whole picture, how it fits into the environment and people’s lives. You can pull little bits and pieces from all these intensely talented people and learn from their example. What’s your view on the cocktail scene in Buffalo? It’s really neat to see it progressing. There are so many people who are really doing it very well. That’s nice to see from five years ago to three years ago, when I first moved here. The number of places we have, even if someone is not calling it a cocktail bar, they’re doing very well balanced and classic drinks. It’s also cool to see everyone’s palates changing—whether it’s the bartender, the owner, or our guests. Everyone is becoming more educated and it leads to us being able to be more creative and give them better products.The difference between a $5 cocktail and a $10 cocktail is pretty drastic. As far as just the whole scene in Buffalo goes, it’s on the rise and finally drawing attention, and I think there are a lot of very

What are some of your favorite summer flavor profiles? That’s kind of the fun thing around here. New York is known for its agriculture so we have really incredible fruit and produce to work with. I like really ripe, big flavors during the summer that could be paired with things that are really refreshing as well. We’re working on a lot of non-alcoholic things this summer: For instance, I used the liquid from pickled strawberries and added soda water to it. Clean and fresh flavors are what we’re going for for the summer, things that aren’t cloyingly sweet or really heavy on your palate. Raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries, and currants you can play around with. We’re lucky to be working with Full Moon Farms. Flowers are cool to work with in the summer—anise hyssop for instance. We’re going to do a lot with tonics; they’re rich and herbal but also refreshing and clean. We’re doing stuff with watermelon. Is it tough to work bourbon into a summery drink? The easiest way is to add citrus to it, that really brightens and lightens it. Citrus is good in that way, to make everything more tart. It also makes your palate water and cools you off. Also I like to mix bourbon with teas—herbal tea is a great way to do it. Tea adds obviously water but also that herbal component, and that lightens the spirit and makes it more refreshing and more interesting—deep as well. What’s your ideal summer poolside cocktail? Negronis are pretty great; that’s my go-to drink. It’s old school and traditional, equal parts gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth, with some bitters added to it. Also, gin and tonic with a strawberry tonic would be a perfect cocktail for summer. The tonic we made used tree bark from a cinchona tree. We shaved that up and steeped that in the water with other herbs, flowers, and citrus. It was the perfect soda water. Lastly, what are some of your favorite summer wines? Rosé, from from the Loire valley, like Muscadet. Also Spanish wines, like Alboriño. Chablis is really fun as well, super minerally driven, like kind of chalky. But that makes it incredibly lively on P the palate. And champagne, always champagne.

Special Film Screening Thurs June 25 | 7pm —9pm You are invited to view the screening of Academy Award-winning documentary Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1. Directors

CRISIS HOTLINE :

VETERANS

PRESS 1

Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry spotlight the traumas endured by America’s veterans, as seen through the work of Veterans Crisis Line responders. Ellen will be at the Burchfield Penney to speak. Free with gallery admission.

For more information, visit www.BurchfieldPenney.org

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SLEEPY HAHAS “Deep River” (Song) Recommended If You Like: of Montreal, MGMT

The ever-evolving group had its new industrial-psyche single, and the track’s warped accompanying music video, premiere early last week via Performer Mag. The song will be included on the band’s forthcoming album, From the Bottom of a Warm Lake, set to drop later this summer.

CHAUNCEY TAILS “Otra” (Song)

BUFFABLOG PRESENTS HERD FEST THURSDAY JUNE 18 7PM / VARIOUS LOCATIONS / $5 PER EVENT, OR $20 ALL ADMISSION BRACELET [FESTIVAL] This weekend there is no excuse for you not to revel in some of the most exciting names in local music. BuffaBLOG’s Herd Fest launches this Thursday night and is coming to a venue near you. Like last year, buffaBLOG has collaborated with diverse representatives of Buffalo's music scene (collectives, production companies, record labels, etc.), inviting each to put on a showcase at their venue of choice. This year, the participants include Steak & Cake Records, Deep Thinka Records, Cool Dad Records, Silo Sessions, Wax Museum Radio, Quiet Country Audio, Harvest Sum Records, Black Dots, ESI Events, and Sugar City. Each showcase is $5 at the door, or you can purchase an all access bracelet for $20 at the opening ceremony at Mohawk Place (listed below). The four-night, citywide music takeover begins this Thursday night and we’ve compiled a list of seven shows for you to check out. The full itinerary can be found on buffaBLOG’s Facebook page and herdfest.com.

THURSDAY, JUNE 18

SATURDAY, JUNE 20

HERDFEST OPENING CEREMONY

SUGAR CITY SHOWCASE

11PM / HARDWARE, 245 ALLEN ST.

7PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST.

6PM / SUGAR CITY, 1239 NIAGARA ST.

The opening ceremony of Herd Fest will take place this Thursday evening. Kicking off the festivities will be the mesmerizing Rochester-based shoegaze outfit Pleistocine, alongside Buffalo’s favorite jangle-rockers Bryan Johnson and Family, and last but not least Rochester lo-fi folk outfit Attic Abasement.

In conjunction with Herd Fest, Buffalo art-collective Sugar City will be hosting the opening reception of People That Rock, photographs by Michael Mulley—a dynamic collection of shots amassed from over 25 years of shooting live bands and musicians, from the famous to the unknown.

Digitally streaming, electronic radio collective Wax Museum Radio brings you an evening of dance—from deep house to trap—which will feature an assortment of radio regulars spinning in both the front and backroom of Hardware. DJ’s include Heezy, Stonez, Pizza Pizza, Josh Yourmoms, Concur, Jolly Wailer, and DJ Medison with Buzz Trillington. -JEANNETTE CHIN

STEAK & CAKE RECORDS

FRIDAY, JUNE 19

RIYL: Lykke Li, the xx, Niki and the Dove

HARVESTSUM SHOWCASE

The genre-bending producer released his latest track, a melancholy cut of electronic R&B, last week. “Otra” features the haunting vocals of NYC’s Ultra Doux.

10PM / NIETZSCHES, 248 ALLEN ST.

Orchard Park-based, lo-fi label Harvestsum will hold their showcase at Nietszche’s and the lineup will be filled with talent from their label. Set to grace the stage are alternative rockers Johnny Nobody, down-tempo electronic outfit, Strange Acres, gritty roots rocker Roger Bryan, indie pop rock band Applenium, and, finally, college-rock trio Bearhunter.

DEEP THINKA RECORDS SHOWCASE 10PM / DUKE'S, 253 ALLEN ST.

Hip hop label Deep Thinka Records will host an installment of live hip hop at DBGBs featuring performances by some of the city’s most unique rap artists. Taking the stage will be Prime Example, Dr.Oooo, and Truey V with Mad Dukez and Short Moscato.

SIXTIES FUTURE “Sugar” (Song) RIYL: The National, the Gaslight Anthem, Silver Jews

Prior to making its debut performance this past Saturday, the buzzing local act released the urgent and high-energy “Sugar” to further tease the band’s set. The track was recorded with go-to producer, Jay Zubricky, at GCR Studios.

LOCAL SHOW PICK OF THE WEEK MARION WALKER w/ SAINT OPAL DREAMLAND / 387 FRANKLIN ST WED, JUNE 17 / 7PM / $5

WEDNESDAY JUNE 17 Three Days Grace 6:30 pm Artpark, 450 South 4th St. $12-$27

[ROCK] When Matt Walst replaced former Three Days Grace vocalist Adam Gontier, many wondered if Walst would bring the same fiery delivery as Gontier did on booming cuts like “Animal I Have Become” or “I Hate Everything About You.” Their latest release, Human, settled these concerns. Walst bears strikingly similar vocal qualities—his voice is rich, passionate, and mildly guttural—to his predecessor. With catchy yet simple guitar and bass work, backed by strong, powerful drums, Human is undeniably a Three Days Grace album—from “Landmine” to “Nothing’s Fair in Love and War.” Catch Three Days Grace with Young Guns at Artpark on Wednesday, June 17. -KELLIE POWELL

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WAX MUSEUM RADIO SHOWCASE

12PM / RECORD THEATRE, 3500 MAIN ST.

Indie-rock label Steak & Cake Records will hold their showcase in the early afternoon at Record Theatre on Main Street. Their lineup includes a fiery array of local music projects including electro-pop stuntperson Lesionread, gritty surf rockers Locals Only, post punk channelers Red Heat, pop-punk trio Zealot, and melodymakers Welk’s Mice.

SILO SESSIONS 10PM / NIETZSCHE’S, 248 ALLEN ST.

The people behind the acoustic music series Silo Sessions have rallied together an eclectic mix of melodic folk and indie artists to perform Saturday night at Nietzsche’s—Helen, Lara Buckley, Alex Berkley with Sonny Baker, and Pam Swarts will captivate the front of the venue, while Bourbon and Coffee, Andy Pothier, Viking Moses, and Aircraft take the back stage.

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

7pm Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St.

[SCREENING] For those who don’t know, WikiLeaks—a journalistic organization that publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous sources—is responsible for the coverage of the Icelandic financial collapse, the release of the “Collateral Murder” video, and the liberation of hundreds of thousands of classified documents. Screening at Burning Books on Wednesday, June 17, Academy Award winning director Alex Gibney’s documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is, according to the director, “not about WikiLeaks, it’s about transparency—who gets to control information.” Presented by the Buffalo Committee Against State Repression. -GRACEANNE BROWN

THURSDAY JUNE 18 Everclear with Fuel and American Hi Fi 6pm Canalside, 44 Prime St. free

[ROCK] The 1990s were a great time for anyone who grew up in them—the television, the rise of the internet, movies, and, most importantly, the music. This Thursday, June 18, we all get to take a trip back down memory lane and relive some of the bands that helped shape the sound of that decade. Three alternative rock stalwarts will make their way downtown to the free Thursday Concert Series at Canalside. Kicking off the evening will be American Hi-Fi, followed by Fuel. Headlining the night will be none other than Everclear, a band that rode two chords to stardom and glory. -JEREMIAH SHEA

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Fall Out Boy with Wiz Khalifa 7pm Darien Lake, 9993 S Alleghany Rd. $25-$255

[ROCK] From Take This to Your Grave (2003) to Save Rock & Roll (2013), Fall Out Boy pushed their boundaries, expanding the limitations of traditional rock music. Branded by Patrick Stump’s earnest falsetto, and the sharp, emotive lyrics of bassist, Pete Wentz, the emo survivors seamlessly ventured into striking, pop-centric territory in their latest release, American Beauty/American Psycho —a remarkable union of disco-punk, electro stomp, 1970s glitter rock, anthemic rockers, and a confident swagger. Their sensationally awesome turn in the key of wildly bold pop (seriously, “Uma Thurman” samples the theme song to the 1964 television series, The Munsters, and references Pulp Fiction) continues as they pair up with Wiz Khalifa and Hoodie Allen for the Boys of Zummer Tour, which comes to Darien Lake on Thursday, June 18. From Show and Prove to Blacc Hollywood, it’s fair to speculate that by the end of his career, Wiz Khalifa will have released more songs about smoking, buying, and selling marijuana than Cypress Hill, Snoop Dogg, and Bob Marley combined. But people don’t turn to the Wiz to plunder the mysteries of the heart—they come for (often) eurodance-influenced tunes rounded out by smooth, steady beats, icy synths, and a chilled-out rapper who is comfortable in his own skin. -KP

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4pm North Fork Music Park, 4952 Quarry Rd. $40-$85

[FESTIVAL] With daily activities like yoga, disc golf, and swimming on a private beach–paired with a killer lineup that includes regionally known groups like Aqueous, Funktional Flow, Dopapod, Kung Fu, and more—what’s not to (buffa)love about Buffalive’s Buffalove Music Festival? Plus, free camping. All ages (but no dogs) are welcome to join the party Thursday through Saturday, June 18-21 at North Fork Music Park. -GB

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7:30pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $22-$30

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[COMEDY] MTV gave birth to many stars in film, music, television, and radio. If you were a fan of the network in their peak through the 1990s, you'll notice that many young faces transitioned to new fame. One such act is former VJ, Bill Bellamy, who parlayed his MTV stardom into an acting and stand-up comedy career. This Friday through Sunday, June 19-21, Bill Bellamy will be performing multiple sets at Helium Comedy Club. His stay will include two shows on Friday and Saturday and one on Sunday. -JS

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8pm Seneca Niagara Bear's Den, 310 4th St $45

[JAZZ] Al Di Meola is a guitar legend. Some may not be as familiar with Di Meola as they are with the Claptons and Pages of the world, but that doesn’t discount what he has accomplished. Di Meola is one of the biggest innovators and contributors to jazz, applying a fusion lens and bringing a Latin flair into the mix. The guitar phenom comes to the Seneca Niagara Casino at the Bear’s Den Showroom this Friday, June 19. -JS

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7th Annual BBQ & Blues Bash 5pm Cobblestone District, $25

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[FOOD] Usher in the summer season this Friday, June 19, with a four-hour outdoor blues bash to benefit Gateway-Longview, which provides social services for at-risk children. Randle & the Late Night Scandals, the Hayden Fogle Band, the Jony James Band, and Dive House Union will provide the live blues music along the Illinois Street cobblestones while Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, Big Belly BarBeQue and Fat Bob's Smokehouse serve up some of the area's best finger-licking food. Desserts from Fairy Cakes Cupcakery and Melody’s Gelato sweeten the deal, as well as beverages from Labatt's and Barefoot Wine. Arrive early with your own chair for lawn seating, park on the First Niagara ramp and continue the party afterwards at Buffalo Iron Works. -CJT

Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit OUT FOR BUSINESS 5PM - 7PM at Handlebar, 149 Swan St.

Network with other LGBT professionals at a different local restaurant every month. Hors d'oeuvres and raffles; first 50 get a drink on the house. Presented by Pride Center of WNY, sponsored this month by Mark Peszko, attorney at law.

THURSDAY JUNE 18

8pm Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Ave FREE ($10-$20 suggested donation)

[JAZZ] It’s what Big Band transforms into through the looking glass, Norway’s Paul Nilssen-Love is bringing his Large Unit band of 11 merrymakers to the Burchfield Penney Art Center this Friday for an evening of innovative jazz. Described as “one hell of a monolithic jazz colossus,” Nilssen leads his troupe on percussion, building walls of discordant melodies powerful enough to make you forget where you are for a moment, if not more. -AARON LOWINGER

Canalside Battle of the Bands 5:30pm Canalside, 44 Prime St.

PURGE 10PM - 4AM at Club Marcella, 622 Main St.

Six DJs pump the hottest electro/ house/dubstep/trap beats all night long, featuring Charles Masters and XOTEC with drink specials until close. Cover: $3, >21 or with college ID; $5, <21.

[BATTLE] On Friday, June 19, the Canalside Battle of the Bands, presented by The Public continues. This week’s series will feature four local classic soul groups vying for the paid job of opening for the Buffalo Philharmonic, who will perform their Buffalo All-Star Tribute to Stevie Wonder on July 16. It’s not too late to sign up for the next week’s June 26 battle: four rock bands will try to prove they have what it takes to open for Badfish on July 23. -DAN ALMASI

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS FRIDAY JUNE 19 8PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. / $13-$15 [INDIE] “If you fuck with me, you’re gonna burn,” growls A Place to Bury Strangers frontman Oliver Ackerman on the slow-grinding “Deeper” off Transfixation, released earlier this year. “Deeper, deeper, deeper still/ Deeper than the deepest well,” he continues, reinforcing the into-the-black motif that’s defined the Brooklyn noisemaking trio’s output from the start. APTBS is more about vibe than lyrics, however, and Transfixation continues that trend—the main difference being that the tracks were recorded quickly (mostly in 2013) and the band refrained from fussing with them the way they have on their three prior full lengths. Buried in the sonic rubble, a few hooks can even be discerned, but don’t let that fool you into thinking the APTBS has gone soft: Transfixation is an impenetrable wall of guitar-based skronk moving at a slug’s shoegazing pace in near-total darkness. It’s just what people look for from this band and will no doubt get two earfuls of on Friday, June 19 at Mohawk Place with Sannhet and Alpha Hooper. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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SATURDAY JUNE 20

SATURDAY JUNE 20 Revelation Party 11am 464 Gallery, 464 Amherst St. free

716 RUST BELT KINGS 10PM - 2AM at Ohm Ultra Lounge, 948 Main St.

Buffalo, we have a drag king show again! Hosted every month by Jayme Coxx and featuring Justin Tyme and Trixi Firecracker. DJ Deb on the mixer.

TUESDAY JUNE 23

[ART] As part of the Discover Amherst Street Festival, 464 Gallery will have its doors open all day and night long and host an array of art and music. Starting at noon there will be a parade on the street while DJs and performers Curiosity’s End, Richard Narx, and BastardBastardBastard mix it up throughout the day. The second-floor studios will have their doors open to the work of Christian Laing, Ashley Johnson, Ryan Mix, CJ Szatkowski, and Alicia Maik. The artists will be present for discussion of their work, too. Or if you would like to get involved directly in the process, you can create a mural with artists Chuck Tingley, Thom Webb, Dave Tarsa, and others. Other highlights of the all-day party include an interactive photo booth, an outdoor movie screening, and a live drawing auction. -TINA DILLMAN

David Gray with Amos Lee STONEWALL DEMOCRATS OF WNY 7PM - 9PM at El Museo, 91 Allen St.

Monthly meeting for LGBT Democrats interested in creating change in local politics. Learn more about local politics, and where politicians stand on LGBT issues. Voice your thoughts and concerns directly to them, and lobby for change.

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7pm Artpark, 450 South 4th St. $35-$60

[POP] David Gray and Amos Lee probably don't share a ton of mutual fans, but perhaps they'll win some over from one another during this package tour. Gray, now 47, remains a bigger star in the UK despite having hits here with "Babylon" and "Please Forgive Me," circa 1999. Last year's Mutineers presents him in familiar folkie territory with programmed electronic fringes. Lee, meanwhile, is an acoustic soul man from Philadelphia that dabbles in Americana. A string of well-received albums on Blue Note and relentless touring has resulted in a solid fan base that pushed 2011's Mission Bell to debut to #1 on the Billboard 200. Lee's latest, Live

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REAL ESTATE SATURDAY JUNE 20 7PM / TRALF MUSIC HALL, 622 MAIN ST. / $20-$23 [INDIE ROCK] I imagine the perfect setting to listen to a Real Estate record as a shag-carpeted den; maybe the carpet is green or yellow and the walls are wood-paneled. I’m sitting in an Eames lounge chair in the middle of the den, more like a home library, listening to their latest album, Atlas, while reading something like Retromania by Simon Reynolds. This is a band that makes comfort music. Though it is music rooted in the past—they specifically note another New Jersey-based rock band, the Feelies (most active between the mid 1970s and early 1990s) as a primary influence and they often borrow photography or art from the 1960s for their album covers—the music also has a timeless, universal feel. Their latest, 2014’s Atlas, is a moody, yet catchy jangle pop masterpiece— the first of the band’s three full-lengths that steps out of the comfort zone they’ve flourished in. Guitarist Matt Mondanile still weaves in shimmering, instantly classic melodies but on this record singer Martin Courtney aches publicly for the first time on themes like emptiness and lost time. This only adds another layer of lyrical substance to the band’s already heavily instrumentally layered music. Real Estate comes to the Tralf Music Hall on Saturday, June 20 with William Tyler and Damian. The first 30 people to show up to the show wearing a buffaBLOG Herd Fest bracelet get in for free. -CORY PERLA

CALENDAR EVENTS at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony, comes out this week. They'll split the stage at Artpark Saturday, June 20 with Rachel Yamagata. -CJT

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Mariachi El Bronx 9pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $10-$15

[MARIACHI] LA hardcore five-piece the Bronx's mariachi-music-making alter ego is hilarious only in concept: If you've never heard them play as Mariachi El Bronx (for which they usually expand to seven pieces), you won't believe how well they pull it off. Similar themes of disillusion and dissatisfaction remain, but it's all delivered with oldtimey Mexican flair. The band takes a break from performing between segments on El Rey Network's wrestling program Lucha Underground to play at Buffalo Iron Works on Saturday, June 20 in support of a third Mariachi El Bronx disc out last year. -CJT

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[ART] For the first time in more than 30 years, CEPA Gallery and Dean Brownrout Modern/ Contemporary will present a comprehensive survey of the pioneering filmmaker, writer, and photographer Hollis Frampton. From 1973 to his death in 1984, Frampton was a faculty member of the Media Study Department at SUNY Buffalo, a department he co-founded with other avant-garde filmmakers including current faculty Tony Conrad. Many of the works on view have never been seen in a gallery setting. Other highlights for the evening will include the playing of Buffalo Chamber Players and a talk by Frampton scholar Michael Zryd of York University. A companion exhibition of work by Hollis Frampton will open the same night at Squeaky Wheel, featuring screenings of his films and rare photographs. If you have any interest in film or photography, the Market Arcade will be the place to be on Saturday night. -TD

9PM FREE

Cosmic Shakedown Wicked Inquisition (Minnesota) 9PM $5

Hollis Frampton: Exhibition and Sale 7pm CEPA Gallery, 700 Main St free

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FRIDAY

THE KOOKS TUESDAY JUNE 23

JUNE 19

6PM / RAPIDS THEATRE, 1711 MAIN ST. / $25-$30 [ROCK] Despite their airy, lighthearted approach, British rock band the Kooks have steadily become more serious about their subject matter since their formation in 2004. Their latest record, Listen, delves into police brutality, death, and destruction through the lens of pop-rock, but like any good rock record, still examines interpersonal relationships. The actual sound of the record is further developed too, as the band ditched longtime producer Tony Hoffer (Beck, Phoenix, Air, Beck again) for the production work of frontman Luke Pritchard (with some help from producer Fraser T Smith, known for his work with mostly hip hop and pop acts). The result is a diversified sound which trades their familiar touches of Bowie and the Kinks for a dash of Roy Ayers-inspired funk. The Kooks come to the Rapids Theatre on Tuesday, June 23 with emerging Rochester-based stars Joywave and Young Rising Suns. -CORY PERLA

Happy Hour: Shaky Stage 6PM FREE

HARVEST SUM HERD FEST SHOWCASE FEAT: ROGER BRYAN / APPLENNIUM JOHNNY NOBODY / STRANGE ACRES / BEARHUNTER 10PM

HERD FEST

SATURDAY

JUNE 20

WEDNESDAY

JUNE 24

BOURBON AND COFFEE ANDY POTHEIR / HELEN ALEX BERKELY & SONNY BAKER LARA BUCKLEY / VIKING MOSES / PAM SWARTS/ AIRCRAFT 9PM

Adam Bronstien’s Freehand Band 9PM FREE

PUBLIC APPROVED THURSDAY

SUNDAY JUNE 21

JUNE

9PM $5

Catch 22 with Dinkus 9 6pm The Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $17-$20

FRIDAY

JUNE

10PM

SATURDAY

JUNE

10PM

EVERY SUNDAY FREE

Zach Deputy

6PM. ANN PHILLIPONE 8PM . DR JAZZ & THE JAZZ BUGS

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

[ROCK] Classic rock has a special place in the hearts of many Buffalonians, and this Tuesday, June 23, Artpark will be the place to catch two huge names in that space. With a slew of hits between them, Peter Frampton and Cheap Trick should be showcasing all of the classics that helped define each of their respective careers. Both bands have lead wildly successful careers and should bring a healthy gathering to recreate what many remember from each over the years. -JS

Buffalive Presents:

Blue Moon Soup WEEKLY EVENTS

TUESDAY JUNE 23

6:30pm Artpark, 450 South 4th St. $12

6PM FREE

Pasadena / Whiskey Reverb

Peter Frampton with Cheap Trick

Happy Hour: the fibs

[SKA] Armed with a fiery stage presence and a unique ska-punk sound, Catch 22 came out strong in their 1998 major label debut, Keasbey Nights. Laden with sick basslines and a brass section that won’t quit, the album boasted a jazzy, power-punk sound from a group of Jersey boys with impeccable musicianship. Twenty-two years and five ass-kicking albums later, and their reputation for an insane live show remains unshakable. Don’t miss Catch 22 at the Waiting Room on Sunday, June 21 with Dinkus 9, Mrs. Skannotto, and Seven Thirty Seven. -KP

[INDIE] A one-man band can be construed as a novelty, something that a person should save for the corner or a bar and expect some tips for the value. When you witness the capabilities of Zach Deputy though, you will quickly change your tune. Armed with just an acoustic guitar and some pedals, Zach can pull off a full band’s sound on his own. This Tuesday, June 23, Zach Deputy will take the stage at Buffalo Iron Works with support from the Goods. -JS

Tough Old Bird Jon Herr / Bold Folly

(EXCEPT FIRST SUNDAYS)

EVERY MONDAY FREE

8PM. SONGWRITER SHOWCASE 9PM. OPEN MIC W. JOSH GAGE

EVERY TUESDAY

8PM. RUSTBELT COMEDY 10PM. JOE DONOHUE 11PM. THE STRIPTEASERS

EVERY WEDNESDAY FREE

THE PUBLIC PICNIC WEDNESDAY JUNE 24

6PM. TYLER WESTCOTT

6PM / SILO CITY, 120 CHILDS ST. / FREE [DISCUSSION] The Public Picnic is a very old idea. People have gathered to discuss the topics of the day in specific locations throughout history. In recent times, humans have created technology that puts us in touch with one another at incredible speeds, measuring the distance of the earth itself. But how often do we find ourselves searching for a place where connectivity is the goal? Where ideas are exchanged in real time, face-to-face, rather than through a screen? Fostering an exchange of stories that can change the way an individual person views the world can over time change the intellectual climate of a geographical location. The Public Picnic is a project that is centered on the idea of coming together to discuss ideas in a public forum. Please join us Wednesday June 24 at 6pm underneath the aspen tree at the Silo City site. Our first subject will be race; check dailypublic.com for details. Bring your own ideas and picnic essentials. After the picnic there will be musical performances by Damian, and P Julie Byrne, as well as readings by Dana Mcknight. -KEVIN O’BRIEN CAIN

EVERY THURSDAY FREE

5PM. AFTERNOON TRIO w/ JOHN, PAUL, & BILL

EVERY SATURDAY FREE

4:30-7:30PM. CELTIC SEISIUNS (TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY)

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DRINKS BEER

BEER WITH A SENSE OF PLACE BY STEPHEN BEAUMONT

THE WEEK IN BEER SECOND ANNUAL BUFFALO BREWERS FESTIVAL LIKE WINE, A GOOD BEER can be defined by both its origin and

the place you enjoy it.

If there is one romantic attribute wine has always held over beer, it is its undeniable sense of place. As oenologists and aficionados never tire of reminding us, wine is born of the soil, what they call terroir, which encompasses everything from the clay content of the earth to the trade winds that rustle the leaves of the vinestock to the climate of the growing season and even, if you believe the biodynamists, the phase of the moon during harvest. Beer? Well, beer has barley malt, but a brewer can work with the same stuff whether she is in Atlanta or Alsace, and while hops have a definite terroir of their own—check the differences between Cascade hops grown in Washington state, New Zealand, and northern Argentina if you have any doubt—you needn’t live near the hops to gain access to them. Which leaves us with water, I suppose, except that water profiles can be so easily manipulated these days that so-called “Burtonized” water can bring English Midlands minerality to anywhere in the world. All of which is why I have long maintained that beer’s sense of place resides not in the making, but in the drinking. A kölsch poured from the barrel in the shadow of the Cologne cathedral, for instance, or a sulphurous cask-conditioned pale ale supped in a time-worn pub in Burton-on-Trent, or a one-liter Maß β of otherwise unexceptional helles lager enjoyed on a sultry summer day in Munich’s famed Englischer Garten. All these experiences, and many more besides, help connect the drinker to the drink, and definitely further the understanding of the beer. Having spent the last half-decade traveling the world while researching The World Atlas of Beer and two editions of The Pocket Beer Guide, however, I’m beginning to doubt my once strongly held conviction. With craft beer now having taken hold almost anywhere brewing is permitted by law, and brewers in countries as diverse as Canada and South Korea, Italy and New Zealand, struggling to put their own nationalistic marks on their respective brews, perhaps there is more to beer’s place than I originally thought. The notion first dawned on me about a decade ago in Italy, when craft brewing there was still in its relative infancy. A nation defined far more by its wine than its beer, Italy was breeding 18 THE PUBLIC / JUNE 17, 2015 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM

I LONG MAINTAINED THAT BEER’S SENSE OF PLACE RESIDES NOT IN THE MAKING, BUT IN THE DRINKING… NOW I BEGIN TO DOUBT THAT. brewers interested in working not only with what raw materials they could get on the global market—the country boasts neither an abundance of local barley nor a hop crop of any significance— but also local flavoring agents. Over time, this inclination has led to outstanding Italian ales and lagers flavored with all manner of spices and herbs, even a salt beer conceived before gose took off as a popular fringe style, and even better beers made using the detritus of the wine industry, from used barrels to left-over grape lees. What began as an isolated glimmer of a notion turned to a theory when I made visits to Brazil and New Zealand. In the former, the largest craft brewing land in Latin America, brewers had embraced the figurative and literal fruits of the Amazon, from woods typically used in the aging of cachaça, such as the cinnamony amburana, to fruits entirely unfamiliar to North Americans, like jaboticaba and taperebá. Their efforts were tentative at first, and in fact still form a small segment of an only modest market, but have grown bolder and more impressive with each passing year. New Zealanders, meanwhile, have embraced Nelson-grown hops as their global calling card, and despite what you may have tasted in terms of domestic beers juiced with Nelson Sauvin or Motueka hops, are doing it far better than is anyone else. From the refinement of the New Zealand pilsner as pioneered by Richard Emerson of the now-Kirin-owned Emerson’s Brewing to the tropical fruit blast of a Tuatara Aotearoa Pale Ale, Kiwi brewers simply know how to use their own hops better because they have been doing it for longer. Much like Americans have for years been with US-grown Cascades and Centennials and Amarillos.

JUNE 20, 3-7PM The Buffalo Niagara Brewers Association’s second annual Buffalo Brewers Festival will be held at Canalside this Saturday, rain or shine. The only regional festival held for and by local brewers, it features more than 30 New York State breweries, as well as the products of local farmers and chefs, food trucks, and live entertainment by the Skiffle Minstrels, Steve Johnson and Corey Kertzie (of Big Leg Emma), Flatbed, and the Steam Donkeys. Tickets are $45-$70 and include food and drink.

Eventually, I’m convinced, nations the world over will be touting their unique, indigenous approaches to beer. Japanese brewers are already doing it with various varieties of rice and saké yeasts, just as the northern French pioneered the use of chestnuts in beer—later taken up and improved upon by Italian brewers— and Mexicans have been developing the molé-inspired Mexican Imperial stout as their signature style. Next up? Perhaps the Galaxy hop will lead to a definitive Australian beer, or Thai brewers will embrace various uses of green papaya and lemongrass, or Russian or Polish brewers will find some way to link their efforts with those of the country’s famed vodka producers. Whether one of these or something else entirely, you can be sure that it will draw us that much closer to beer having at last its own undeniable sense of place. Stephen Beaumont has written, co-written, or contributed to a dozen books, including The Pocket Beer Guide and The World Atlas of Beer, both co-written with Tim Webb. The Public’s beer column is a collaboration with the Buffalo Niagara Brewers Association. P

READINGS BOOKS

THE SILO CITY READING SERIES Poetry, art, and music in an inspiring setting BY ROBIN JORDAN JUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER’S Silo City Reading Series is more than just a reading series. And the series is not just for poets, although poets are drawn to it like moths and are best at putting the experience of a Silo City Reading into words. Local poet Joe Hall (author of Devotional Poems and Pigafetta Is My Wife) says the Silo City series is for anyone who finds beauty in “making something new out of Buffalo’s industrial decay (other than condos).” “It’s a community gathering that brings together artists of all types to create one stunning evening, the implications of which resonate in lasting ways, well beyond the silo walls,” writes founder and editor of H_NGM_N literary journal Nate Pritts. Or, as Philip Metres, winner of the Arab American Book Award, eloquently describes, it’s “the gentle ghost-grain future rising out of the rude concrete brutalism of the past.” Started in the summer of 2013 by Just Buffalo Literary Center’s education director Noah Falck, the Silo City Reading Series features musical acts and visual art installations alongside the most dynamic poets from Buffalo and beyond. This season’s national touring lineup brings the Portland, Oregon-based “sincere surrealist” Zachary Schomburg (author of four books of poems including, most recently, The Book of Joshua) who the Huffington Post has said will possibly be “the man who will save poetry for all of those readers who are about to give up on the genre.”

Described as “a wholly original poet roaming a tired and broken countryside,” poet and Miami University of Ohio professor of creative writing Catherine Wagner’s work will resonate perfectly within the event’s cavernous setting. The second poet in the summer lineup, her newest collection, Nervous Device, was said to be “about performance and sound and the way that things move.” Bianca Stone is yet another poet reading at Silo City who has found innovative ways to invite new readers into the genre. Ending the season’s series, this Brooklyn-based poet and poetry comic artist is author of Someone Else’s Wedding Vows; Antigonick—a hybrid collaboration with Anne Carson; and the forthcoming Selected Poetry Comics of Bianca Stone.

SILO CITY READING SERIES

What makes the series so inviting, though, is Falck’s careful pairing of these groundbreaking out-of-towners with poets breaking ground right here in Buffalo (Alana Kelley, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Emily Anderson), alongside the best of the region’s visual artists (Nick Torsell, NP, Flatsitter) and musicians (Small House and HELEN).

JUNE 20 / JULY 17 / AUGUST 29 / ALL READINGS BEGING @ 7PM

And, of course, it is the series’ physical backdrop, an abandoned grain silo at sunset, which engrains these events into your being and turns them into something more like an experience, inspiring Zach Savich, winner of the Colorado Prize and the Iowa Poetry Prize, to proclaim that Buffalo’s Silo City is “one of the three best poetry reading locations in America.”

JUNE 20

JULY 17

AUGUST 29

Zachary Schomburg

Catherine Wagner

Bianca Stone

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Emily Anderson

SILO CITY / OHIO ST @ CHILDS ST

2015 SILO CITY READING SERIES SCHEDULE

Alana Kelley Music by Small Houses Art installation by Nick Torsell

Music and installation by Flatsitter

Music by HELEN Installation by NP

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FILM REVIEW Of course, an efficiently functioning system isn’t very dramatic. As the de facto leader of the emotions, Joy senses a breakdown when Sadness starts to infect some of Riley’s memories. Her attempts to correct this send both her and Sadness into the inner workings of Riley’s being. To the filmmaker’s credit, this plays better than it sounds. But not so well that children are going to be able to figure out what’s going on. (The sounds of bored toddlers near the end of the screening I attended were building to a fever pitch by the time Inside Out came to an end.) Docter and del Carmen work too hard to make all of this plausible, which is impossible, and the result is that you find yourself trying to interpret every action by the allegorical calculus they’ve provided. What are we to expect when the Train of Thought falls off its track and tumbles into the Memory Dump? Nothing—they didn’t think it through that much. Some viewers will probably be impressed that Inside Out contains a sequence that dramatizes the four stages of abstraction. But that doesn’t make it a better movie, no more than a shoehorned reference to Chinatown or a reference to the kind of bears that aren’t found in children’s stories (remember that this is set in San Francisco). It’s all just extra sparkles on a wildly out of control film. Children over the age of six may sit through it simply because, in standard modern animation style, it is fast and bright and has nearly constant movement all through the frame. But in a season when they also released the equally abstruse Tomorrowland, you gotta believe that the management at Disney is going to start pulling in the reins on its creative staff.

Inside Out’s voice cast stars Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling, Bill Hader, Phyllis Smith, and Lewis Black.

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WORKING THE AUDIENCE ALOFT/ INSIDE OUT BY M. FAUST ON THE SURFACE they couldn’t be any more different: one an an-

imated fantasy about an unhappy little girl that the marketing department at Walt Disney has every right to expect to pack theaters this weekend, the other a dour arthouse drama that is probably on few must-see lists. Yet Aloft and Inside Out share a determination to test standards of storytelling beyond what audiences are used to, and perhaps past what they’re willing to accept.

The latest Pixar production, Inside Out borrows a premise from the 1970s Woody Allen comedy Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex and the 1990s sitcom Herman’s Head: The main character’s emotions are made into characters, who are seen struggling to maintain equilibrium. In this case they belong to Riley, an 11-year-old girl who is stressed out when her parents move her from Minnesota to San Francisco because of Dad’s new job.

IN CINEMAS NOW BY M. FAUST & GEORGE SAX

PREMIERES ALOFT—Jennifer Connelly as a woman torn between her two young sons and a growing awareness that she has a gift for faith healing. Co-starring Cillian Murphy, Mélanie Laurent, and Oona Chaplin. Directed by Claudia Llosa. Reviewed this issue. Amherst THE CONNECTION—A continuation of the story told in The French Connection from the French point of view, as a police magistrate (Jean Dujardin) devotes his career to battling a powerful drug ring. With Gilles Lellouche and Céline Sallette. Directed by Cédric Jimenez. Reviewed this issue.. Eastern Hills, North Park INSIDE OUT—The new Pixar film follows the emotions in the head of a young girl who is having difficulty adjusting after her family moves. Directed by Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen. Reviewed this issue. Area theaters

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA

THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)—Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider in the Oscar winning crime drama, playing in conjunction with the new version of the same story,The Connection. Directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist). North Park IN SEARCH OF A NATION—Drama set in a Nepali refugee camp where Bhutanese who have been stripped of their citizenship after fleeing their homeland live in a limbo without identity or a homeland. Directed by Prakash Angdembe and Samten Bhutia. Sun 11am. North Park PATHER PANCHALI (India, 1955]—Satyajit Ray’s first film and the beginning of his Apu Trilogy follows Apu as a boy in a small village where his idealistic father struggles to provide for his family. Thu June 18 9:30pm. North Park RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)—Steven Spielberg’s original tribute to the Saturday matinees of his youth. Starring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Denholm Elliott and Alfred Molina. Fri-Sun, Tue 8pm. Screening Room

Color-coded as if there was any chance we were going to confuse them, the five emotions are Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Disgust (Mindy Kaling), Anger (who else but Lewis Black?), and Joy (Amy Poehler, playing her part as if the character’s real name was Caffeine Overload). Right off the bat, some of you may say, “Only five? How about frustration, or pity, or pride, or love?” My advice to you is not to go down that route: Be happy that they narrowed it down as much as they did. Because what’s to come plays like something written by a sophomore psychology major the week after he learned about the black box theory of consciousness (and maybe saw Christopher Nolan’s Inception). Writer-directors Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen set about to concoct an entire interior world, visualizing Riley’s every conscious and subconscious trait as a physical item, carefully organized and utilized.

IN BRIEF

THEATER INFORMATION IS VALID THROUGH THURSDAY JUNE 11 ALOHA—Billy Wilder died early in 2002. His acolyte Cameron Crowe hasn’t made a decent film since. Coincidence? I don’t know, but Aloha is almost unrecognizable as the work of the writer-director behind Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire. What’s on screen is such a jagged mess that it seems likely that the studio took it away from Crowe and recut it, though it’s hard to see where more of it would make it any better. There are some nice scenes of Hawaiian locales and a few scenes that play well, but you really have to dig to find anything to like about this one. Starring Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, and Danny McBride. -MF Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON—The latest and most elaborate special effects extravaganza from Disney-owned Marvel Studios is the weakest of that company’s interconnected crowd pleasers, neither as smart as Captain America: The Winter Soldier nor as fun as Guardians of the Galaxy. Of the overstuffed cast reprising their roles from other superhero movies, only Scarlett Johansen and Mark Ruffalo are called upon to do much more than provide action for

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If Inside Out stumbles by pushing its concept too hard, Aloft is more likely to disappoint audiences by giving them too little. In a desolate rural environment (the film was shot in northern Manitoba), Nana ( Jennifer Connelly) seeks the aid of a faith healer to cure her young son. This possibility is spoiled by the interference of a falcon owned by her other son, who is a few years older. In the process, however, Nana learns that she may also have the gift of healing. From here the story breaks into two parts. One follows this small family as farm worker Nana comes to grips with her gift while estranging Ivan; the other looks at Ivan as an adult, making living as a falconer but bitter about his past. When a filmmaker hoping to make a movie about his reclusive mother comes looking for his help, he tags along with her, in the hope of putting his past to rest. I’ve given away as much of the plot as half the film’s viewing time would provide you, for which I may own you an apology. But Aloft is more about mood and insinuation than story. When the film is over, the story seems rather less interesting than it might have been had it played out more conventionally, though it also seems unfinished. This version is between 15 and 20 minutes shorter than the one shown at film festivals two years ago, where it was not well received; whether writer-director Claudia Llosa approved those cuts I do not know. And yet the unanswered questions here stick in my mind more than the overworked hurly-burly of Inside Out, which in the end has nothing more to say than that joy and sadness P go hand in hand.

green screen technicians and stunt doubles to enhance. So many characters and subplots have been crammed into this film that there is little opportunity for characterization or suspense. Starring Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, James Spader, Jeremy Renner, and Samuel L. Jackson. Directed by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). –Gregory Lamberson. Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), New Angola, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria ENTOURAGE—Were there really enough fans of the HBO series to justify this theatrical followup? The story is simple enough to follow if you never watched the show—the Hollywood adventures a movie star, his buds and his agent—but if you’re not already a fan nothing in view here is likely to make you care about any of these characters. It’s pretty thin stuff, with a sense of humor and attitude toward women that seems directed at audiences well shy of the legal drinking age. Jeremy Piven is fun to watch as superagent-turned-studio head, Kevin Dillon is intensely annoying as the star’s wanna-be actor brother, and the others barely register. An endless string of (mostly Z-list) celebrity cameos doesn’t do much for the minimal entertainment value. With Adrian Grenier, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Connolly, Emmanuelle Chriqui and about 487 thin blonde women in skimpy bikinis. Directed by Doug Ellin. -MF Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD—Handsome adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 19th-century rural novel about an independent young woman (Carey Mulligan) who inherits her uncle’s farm and encounters three very different suitors (Matthias Schoenaerts, Tom Sturridge, Michael Sheen). Like red wine, Hardy’s novels have to be allowed to breathe, and longform television is probably the only real way to do him justice: compressed into the length of a film, the heroine’s behavior feels unduly arbitrary, and the climax feels both rushed and uncertain. But the production values are strong, which matters in a story about country life, and the leads are wellcast. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration). -MF Amherst (Dipson), Eastern Hills (Dipson), Hamburg Palace I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS—A star vehicle, and one long overdue after 50 years as an actress, for Blythe Danner: Could you need more reason to see this? She plays a SoCal widow dipping her toes back into the social world after the death of her dog. It’s not a story big on plot, but moment by moment

it’s wonderful. The terrific ensemble cast includes Rhea Perlman, Mary Kay Place, and June Squibb as the friends she plays cards with, Sam Elliott as a love interest, and Martin Starr, toned down from the arrogantly snarky nerds he usually plays, as a younger loner with whom the widow discovers she has a lot in common. But it’s Danner’s movie, and she makes the most of every moment. With Malin Akerman and Max Gail. Directed by Brett Haley (The New Year). –MF Eastern Hills INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3—Horror sequel. Starring Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, and Angus Sampson. The directing debut of Saw scripter Leigh Whannell. Flix (Dipson), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In JURASSIC WORLD— Unlike last year’s dreary Godzilla, there is plenty of giant reptile action in this sequel/reboot of the 1994 Steven Spielberg film (from Michael Crichton’s novel) about a theme park populated by cloned dinosaurs. It’s a well-designed Hollywood blockbuster filled with first-rate computer imagery and the type of Spielbergian thrills that resulted in the creation of the PG-13 rating. In between dino attacks, the script provides sly jabs at its own cynical merchandising. Chris Pratt makes for a capable hero, but the leading female role (played by Bryce Dallas Howard) sets onscreen feminism back a decade or two: She’s no Laura Dern. With Irrfan Khan and Vincent D’Onofrio. Directed by Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed). –Gregory Lamberson LOVE AND MERCY—Exemplary biopic of Brian Wilson, who as the songwriter and architect of the Beach Boys found new uses for the recording studio in creating intricate pastries of sound. The film inevitably focuses on his mental problems (misdiagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia for decades) that may have been part and parcel with his creative gifts. He is played as a young man beginning to come apart at the seams by Paul Dano, and as a middle aged lost soul by John Cusack: both performances are excellent, even if Cusack doesn’t look much like the real Wilson. The scenes of Wilson in the studio devising tracks for the Pet Sounds album alone are worth the price of a ticket. With Paul Giamatti as Wilson’s controlling therapast Eugene Landy and Elizabeth Banks as Melinda Ledbetter, who got him out of Landy’s clutches. Directed by Bill Pohlad. -MF Amherst (Dipson), Eastern Hills (Dipson) MAD MAX: FURY ROAD—It took 30 years for George Miller to get the fourth installment of his post-apocalyptic series fof the ground, but his persistence

REVIEW FILM

LOCAL THEATERS

Jean Dujardin in The Connection.

AMHERST THEATRE (DIPSON) 3500 Main St., Buffalo / 834-7655 amherst.dipsontheatres.com AURORA THEATRE 673 Main St., East Aurora / 652-1660 theauroratheatre.com EASTERN HILLS CINEMA (DIPSON) 4545 Transit Rd., / Eastern Hills Mall Williamsville / 632-1080 easternhills.dipsontheatres.com FLIX STADIUM 10 (DIPSON) 4901 Transit Rd., Lancaster / 668-FLIX flix10.dipsontheatres.com FOUR SEASONS CINEMA 6 2429 Military Rd. (behind Big Lots), Niagara Falls / 297-1951 fourseasonscinema.com HALLWALLS 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo / 854-1694 hallwalls.org HAMBURG PALACE 31 Buffalo St., Hamburg / 649-2295 hamburgpalace.com LOCKPORT PALACE 2 East Ave., Lockport / 438-1130 lockportpalacetheatre.org MAPLE RIDGE 8 (AMC) 4276 Maple Rd., Amherst / 833-9545 amctheatres.com MCKINLEY 6 THEATRES (DIPSON) 3701 McKinley Pkwy. / McKinley Mall Hamburg / 824-3479 mckinley.dipsontheatres.com NEW ANGOLA THEATER 72 North Main St., Angola / 549-4866 newangolatheater.com NORTH PARK THEATRE 1428 Hertel Ave., Buffalo / 836-7411 northparktheatre.org REGAL ELMWOOD CENTER 16 2001 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo / 871–0722 regmovies.com REGAL NIAGARA FALLS STADIUM 12 720 Builders Way, Niagara Falls 236–0146 regmovies.com REGAL QUAKER CROSSING 18 3450 Amelia Dr., Orchard Park / 827–1109 regmovies.com REGAL TRANSIT CENTER 18 Transit and Wehrle, Lancaster / 633–0859 regmovies.com REGAL WALDEN GALLERIA STADIUM 16 One Walden Galleria Dr., Cheektowaga 681-9414 regmovies.com RIVIERA THEATRE 67 Webster St., North Tonawanda 692-2413 rivieratheatre.org THE SCREENING ROOM 3131 Sheridan Dr., Amherst / 837-0376 screeningroom.net SQUEAKY WHEEL 712 Main St., / 884-7172 squeaky.org SUNSET DRIVE-IN 9950 Telegraph Rd., Middleport 735-7372 sunset-drivein.com TRANSIT DRIVE-IN 6655 South Transit Rd., Lockport 625-8535 transitdrivein.com

CONNECTIVITY, FRENCH STYLE

and stop a heroin shipment from France. Three years later, John Frankenheimer’s less well-received French Connection II had Popeye traveling to Marseille to catch the drug-ring kingpin (Fernando Rey). Writer-director Cédric Jimenez’s The Connection is apparently intended to give the French side of the story, a fact-based one. (An on-screen note says it’s “based on a true story.”)

THE CONNECTION

Friedkin and Jimenez’s movies are being shown in tandem at the North Park this week and next, but not as a double feature. Admission to each is a separate ticket. This may sound like a better idea than it is. The two features don’t really complement each other or offer an interesting contrast. Jimenez has focused on Pierre Michel ( Jean Dujardin), a Marseille magistrate passionately committed to bringing to justice one Gaetan Zampa (Gilles Lellouche), a very dangerous drug lord, the real French connection.

BY GEORGE SAX BOTH THE CRED THAT’S LONG BEEN ATTACHED to William Friedkin’s influential 1971 megahit The French Connection and the critical rap against it primarily come from the movie’s most important quality: its propulsive, audience-slamming attack mode. The expat British critic-journalist-historian David Thomson has called it “an inept film that shoves its impact in our face and employs the most deliberately mechanical sort of editing. Time and again, it becomes incoherent or impossible to follow…Dirty Harry presents a more somber view of the predicament of the policeman.”

Thomson’s complaint is on point (although he probably overestimates the sober insights in the semi-demagogic Don Siegel-Clint Eastwood film). But he doesn’t seem to perceive that the slam-bang impact and the lack of close attention to narrative nuances are much of the point. The French Connection audiences were supposed to be swept along in the movie’s rush. Energy and exploitation are its currency, and when Thomson calls it inept he’s wrong: Friedkin accomplished pretty much what he set out to do. The French Connection was trashy, aesthetically and morally meretricious, but ineffective and inept it was not. As many will recall, it’s about the quest of a violently overzealous New York cop, “Popeye” Doyle (Gene Hackman in his most prominent role), to find

Jimenez operates much differently than Friedkin. His movie has its depictions of violence, and it is well paced, but it’s a story with more human dimensions. Even Zampa, the feared mobster, is allowed his individuality and softer tendencies. But The Connection takes too long to attain a suspenseful level, and too much of the plotting has a slightly musty, generic quality. Jimenez also seems to have wanted to expose corruption at the highest levels of the Marseille government, but his treatment is too perfunctory. There are individual scenes that work well enough, and he’s introduced elements with real potential—the contrasting personalities of the two antagonists alongside some similarities, for example. (It can’t be entirely coincidental that Dujardin and Lellouche somewhat resemble each other.) But the picture never really catches fire dramatically, not for long enough. It too often seems caught between docudrama and conventional crime fiction. The movie begins with a video clip of Richard Nixon dedicating his administration to fighting what he calls America’s biggest danger: illegal drug use. Both these movies, each in its own way, are artifacts of a low era that left a poisonous legacy of criminal prosection overkill, injustice, and social destruction. Friedkin’s is the real thing. Jimenez’s is something of a throwback. P

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THE GRUMPY GHEY GOING TO THE CHAPEL OF LOVE Marriage: Good god, y’all, what is it good for? BY CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

“YOU’RE GETTING MARRIED? REALLY?” My mother was doing her best not to choke as she attempted to swallow my big news along with some of her favorite takeout tuna. “Well, um…congratulations…” And then after a pause, in a lower voice, “Are you sure this is what you want?” It was late 1993 and I sure as hell thought so. Faced with our mutual dysfunctions, my boyfriend and I—12 years apart—had convinced ourselves that marriage would right all the wrongs in our relationship. Fail. A few months after that fateful phone call home, Greg and I got married in front of about 50 guests at our Boston duplex. We hired a caterer. A retired Episcopalian priest oversaw the ceremony. We went for counseling from the co-rectors at the church he favored. At one point they’d told us in their faux-progressive voice that we’d be welcome to have the ceremony at their Cambridge church if the parish didn’t object. But when the husband announced his intention to run for bishop in the upcoming election, that offer was suddenly off the table. Never one to enjoy being told what he could and couldn’t do, this only fueled my ex’s determination to tie the knot. As the Supreme Court drags its sagging ass to the finish line with a definitive decision about that fate of gay marriage in this country, we need to honestly examine our motivations: Why is this so goddamn important to us? I suspect there are plenty of folks out there today blindly adding their voices to the collective din without really looking deep within themselves to understand why the idea of getting married makes them tick. Mind you, all I’d really wanted from Greg was a monogamous commitment. Sure, getting married was one way of handling that; the truth was that he was already striving to remain faithful. But that wasn’t enough for me. Why? Because I knew that gay monogamy had an unusually short shelf-life. See, I’d been raised with this “forever ideal” about romance just like most everyone else—you shopped around and found someone you thought was worthy of sticking it out. You loved them enough to compromise over personal differences. You’d fight it out until you worked it out. Plenty of my friends had parents who got divorced, but in my mind that was because they hadn’t tried hard enough. Shortly after arriving in Boston, however, my idealistic romantic bubble had been popped with a big, pointy phallus. Moving to the city after college, I saw how gays at large behaved. I was soon taught that this notion of “forever” was nothing more than a delusional heterosexual construction, and that we were free to exist outside that narrow standard. It was confusing. And it definitely didn’t jibe with the way I was raised. At the time, I failed to see the glory in it. But this was the reality of gay life, so I was told, and 20-plus years later, I still know it to be true. So, when I met someone I really liked and wanted to stay with for a while, panic set in—how do I keep him? The norm said I probably couldn’t. He responded by making this grandiose gesture of marriage in front of me, his god, and a few dozen guests, apparently thinking that by doing so he stood a greater chance of actually following through. In my hysteria, I bought into it. I wanted very much to believe it too. My mom ended up not coming to the wedding. She’s always hated traveling, especially alone, and my dad

seemed less than enthused, which neither surprised nor particularly bothered me. She decided to spend the travel money on some British china in a pattern my grandmother had owned that I’d loved as a little kid. It was a sweet gesture, and she’d probably have had a lousy time anyway. It was boring. Which isn’t surprising: Weddings are boring.

we never before have sought to define our romantic liaisons on the same grand scale as heterosexuals do, we were let to live more akin to the way we’re naturally wired, drifting in and out of relationships that meant different things to us at different times. It’s a much more fluid sexual existence than traditional marriage allows.

They’re also expensive and stressful. You invite the people closest to you to attend your wedding, thus forcing them to save-the-freakin’-date with unprecedented fervor. Quite often there’s traveling involved, maybe even plane tickets and a hotel room. People are usually expected to get dressed up and dump money on a gift—more than they’d give for a birthday. And it’s not as if you’re going to spend any quality time with your guests during the event. That’s a fantasy.

For some, there are long term love affairs that define huge chunks of our lives, and that’s fantastic. My underwhelmed stance about same-sex marriage isn’t meant to imply that gays aren’t capable of long, loving romances. But especially for young gays, it now seems like this is the only type of relationship they imagine. Everything else is just hooking up. Rather than letting situations naturally progress (or not), all non-platonic interactions must be mentally categorized—are we dating or just screwing around? We’ve lost the grey areas that once made our collective lifestyle edgier, more exciting and—let us not forget—instilled jealousy in many of our tied-down straight friends. Gay dating will now, more than ever, be fraught with the looming question: is this “the one”?

Those are the annoying little details. Less distinct and harder to discuss are the bigger issues brought to light in our quest for legalized marriage. Younger gays seem to feel that gay marriage is the primary issue on their socio-political timeline, but the why and how of its importance remain evasive. Most will tell you it’s a civil/human rights issue, pure and simple, as if to say, “They can, so why can’t we?” And since when, exactly, have we wanted so badly to be like heterosexuals? Is that what all this boils down to? Even Margaret Cho gave me a hilariously over-the-top response during a telephone interview some years back that conveniently dodged the issue. Denying gays the right to marry was, she said, “just bringing the government one step closer to shoving us all in a work camp.” Apparently, some of us have wanted to live like suburban straight couples for ages. If that’s your vision of fulfillment, your ‘happy place,’ by all means. But making traditional heterosexual marriage a potentially expected facet—a social norm—of gay life (don’t think it’ll happen? Just give it time) signifies a troubling lack of acceptance regarding our queer selves. And rather than working at that, (admittedly, a difficult, sometimes life-long journey), we’re busy shaving our edges down so we can more easily squish ourselves into a widely accepted conceptual box. There’s no glory in that, folks. Marriage is a mirage of safety. It says you’ve navigated the harsh waters of hooking up, dating, loving, and all the in betweens. Finally emerging victorious on the opposite bank, you’ve found “the one.” Young gays now daydream of this righteous sunset ride, leaving their less fortunate friends in a cloud of barroom sawdust as they gallop toward a white picket fence and two cars in the garage. Apparently, the only thing more boring than the wedding is the happily ever after that supposedly follows. Parents that bristled upon discovering their child is homosexual are given a safe, familiar ideal to cling to as well: marriage makes the sexuality more palatable. I know there was an element of relief in my mother’s acquiescence since, in the wake of AIDS, I was off the market. In the end, her big exhale was unfounded since I was marrying a man with HIV, but that’s not something I disclosed to her until well after we’d split up. Gays have never been great at monogamy. True, many heterosexuals struggle with it as well—it’s safe to say that human sexuality has a strong impulsive component regardless of what turns you on. But because

Whereas we once ferociously sought to define our individualism, we now pine for completion from another. This is dangerously codependent. Granted, yearning for companionship is totally human and normal. But we’re now courting a hetero-normative method of pinning someone down and I can’t help but think that some are hoping it will cure them of their natural proclivities for anonymous sex and multiple partners. We’ve long enjoyed these freedoms, and while for some of us there’s palpable excitement at the prospect binding someone to us in legal terms…that’s another fantasy. Marriage is a contract, but it’s no guarantee. Good luck with all that. Greg and I both cheated. The breakup was long and ugly. Eventually a friendship emerged, and hindsight says a low-key sexual friendship might have been the better route for us all along, but there’s no going back. I shudder to think just how much worse it would’ve been as a legally married couple with cars, bank accounts, mutually-owned property, and even (gulp) children to consider. After all, with the process of legal marriage comes the processes of legal separation and divorce. You thought it sucked when your former partner took the dog? Just wait until you have to watch them zipping around town in that Mini Cooper you’re still paying off. When I was a teen, my mom found some gay pornography in my room. Once confronted, I copped to being bisexual because I felt like it would be easier for her to take (and actually, it’s what I believed at the time). She told me she thought I was choosing a hard road…a sad and difficult way of life. She was obviously misinformed about the perceived choice (and now gets the difference), but seen through the eyes of a woman brought up on the aforementioned romantic fairytale of forever, I now understand her point. Because while we may aspire to monogamous partnerships, our behavior generally dictates otherwise. If your eyes are set on the ‘forever’ prize, the heartbreaking reality is that it’s out of reach for many of us. But when we were content not to marry, before all this hubbub started, we’d accepted that. We enjoyed our relationships for as long as they lasted, and sometimes they lasted for a long time. Now we’re all caught up in some hetero P marriage status quo—and to what end?

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