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COMMENTARY LETTERS about that “soul” and that “fight.” It also tells us that a candidate with “Democrat” behind his/her name starts at a big disadvantage in the 27th Congressional District next year. There is also (on a much smaller scale) a battle for ownership of the GOP. But in the 27th, that battle has already been won—by the extreme right wing of the party. One thing I would bet the ranch on is that Chris Collins will not be challenged by another Republican. Yet it is bound to be the case that a great many of the people who are registered as Republican in the district have been to some degree disturbed by Collins’s behavior. Just as was the case when he ran for re-election as Erie County Executive, a great many steps he took when he had power will be seen as deplorable by people who had voted for him four years earlier. The person who will take the 27th District away from the GOP will be someone with Inter alongside his/her name. It will stand for “Interdependent.” Unless the local Democrats were so foolish as to run a candidate as well.

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The surest sign that political parties in the U.S. are in big trouble is that in last year’s presidential campaigns the candidates for both main party nominations who received (by far) the most support from people-who-were-newto-politics were insurgents. It is a waste of time and energy to argue about whether Bernie Sanders would have won if he had received the Democratic nomination. But it is not useless to point out that a man who has still not joined the Democratic Party (and probably never will – why should he?) almost made it to the Democratic nomination.

LETTER WHEN CLOSE-TO-HOME GOVERNMENTS FAIL… “The government closest to the people serves the people best.” So goes a popular myth. With their drinking water supply at risk from construction of National Fuel’s proposed Northern Access natural gas pipeline, how well have Erie County Southtown governments served their residents? In 1987 the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated the Cattaraugus Creek Basin Aquifer to be the sole source of drinking water for 20,000 people in Delevan, Freedom, Machias, Yorkshire, Chaffee, Springville, Sardinia, and Arcade. These communities, warned EPA, “Are entirely dependent upon ground water for their drinking water supply. If substantial contamination were to occur, it would create a significant hazard to public health…” Because the aquifer’s water recharge sand and gravel deposits are, according to the EPA report, “exposed at land surface, it is potentially susceptible to contamination from surface sources [such as] septic tanks, fertilizer or other surface sources.” For 12.8 miles the proposed pipeline would clear a 75 foot wide right-ofway through this recharge area and then, using heavy construction equipment, excavate a deep trench to bury a 24 inch pipeline. It seems no one is taking the risk to the aquifer seriously. Not the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington. FERC’s Pollyanna response is don’t worry, the “Pipeline construction activities are not likely to result in significant impacts on groundwater resources… The direct and indirect impacts would be temporary and would not significantly affect groundwater resources.” Not the Department of Environmental Conservation in Albany. It’s denial of a required water quality permit is based on the pipeline’s unacceptable damages to 192 state-regulated streams and wetlands habitats along the pipeline’s route— without any mention of risks to the aquifer. National Fuel is challenging the permit denial in court.

Not even Erie County’s government. Once it was learned the pipeline’s original path would put two public parklands at risk, county officials promptly told National Fuel, “No way,” and National Fuel rerouted the pipeline. No mention of the aquifer. How about the towns and villages? One town supervisor told me, “Localities have little say in the matter. At this time the town will be undertaking no action.” While town and village officials don’t have the authority to block the pipeline, New York law certainly assigns to them the responsibility to promote the health, safety and general welfare of their residents and their property in other ways. Why have they not: Called upon National Fuel to relocate its proposed pipeline out of the aquifer zone. If Erie County officials could successfully protect their parklands, surely a joint effort of officials in communities dependent on the aquifer could have done the same; • Insisted on the addition of stringent environmental oversight and safeguards during construction and operation of the pipeline; • Passed resolutions to publicly place responsibility on National Fuel for future damage to the aquifer resulting from the construction and operation of the pipeline. Rural communities may do a good job collecting trash, plowing snowy roads and other routine tasks. But, when faced with a well-documented risk to the well-being of thousands of Southtowners, the governments closest to the people have failed, so far, to stand up and be counted. Ronald Fraser

I firmly believe that if a fully qualified person were to announce an intention to run against Collins as an Inter, all kinds of support would come in from all over Erie County. All over the nation. All over the world. And it would lead to victory. Because however many Republicans are still committed to Trump in 2018 there will be many Republicans who are not. And the race for Collins’s seat will be seen as a referendum on the state of the Union. Correctly so.

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“Mr or Ms Inter” will not be running against just an inept and faltering politician called Chris Collins—s/he will be running against two other men as well—a certain Donald Trump and a certain Carl Paladino. I am aware that the 27th District voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016. But it surely does not make sense to think that support for him has increased since then. Why would it? And the same is true for dear old, loveable old, Carl. A lot of people in the 27th read the Buffalo News and watch the local news on local TV stations. Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have bigger fish to fry than Collins. Whereas the people who live in CD 27 will welcome being in the limelight—especially those who believe that Trump is a menace and Collins is a fraud and Paladino is a creep. There are many thousands of them. Even with the party in disarray, the Democrats shifted the vote in Newt Gingrich’s old district by more than ten percentage points. That is relevant. The need for re-thinking is palpable. In fact, in my opinion, there is, in the 27th, a clear question for the Democrats in Erie County: Which is more important: losing to Collins by a smaller margin than last time, or reducing the number of Republicans in the House of Representatives?

Ronald Fraser, a former land use planner, lives in the Town of Colden.

We will find out when “Mr. or Ms. Inter” makes an announcement. The sooner s/he does that, the better it will be for decency and the rule of law.

AN “I” FOR AN “I”?

(Indie = Independent. Inter = Interdependent – which, after all, is what we all are.)

I am a hedgehog. I know one big thing. That thing is that the articles appearing all over the world about “the fight for the soul of the Democratic Party” will not be going away any time soon.

Peter Smith

“Chris Collins’ Trump Gambit” in The Public ( June 28, 2017) told us all we need to know

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A proposal for Dash’s Market on Hertel.

ZONING WATCH: HOW A CODE SHAPES A CITY BY THE PUBLIC STAFF THE GREEN CODE has been in effect citywide since April 3 and it’s already busy at work shaping Buffalo. A zoning code, like a filter through which each increment of physical investment is pressed, can have a profound effect on the form and function of a city. The applications reviewed in the past month show this process of incremental change at work. Here’s what you need to know: Coffee roastery coming soon. The City Planning Board, at its July 17 meeting, recommended approval to the Common Council of a special use permit for a Tipico coffee roastery and tasting room at 202 Rhode Island Street. This will be the second “artisan industrial” use to be approved under the Green Code—the first being a craft brewery at 1335 Hertel Avenue back on March 21. The new code allows for “artisan industrial” uses, defined as any manufacturing use involving small scale production or assembly with no noxious byproducts, in any zone where retail uses are allowed. This policy change is good news for “makers,” who were previously required to be in an industrial zone to conduct even micro-scale, zero-impact manufacturing under the now repealed 1953 zoning ordinance. Art gallery coming soon. The City Planning Board, at its July 17 meeting, recommended approval to the Common Council of a special use permit to convert the vacant Immaculate Conception R.C. Church, 150 Edward Street, to an art gallery (Assembly House 150). The new code deems a “cultural facility” an allowed use in the N-2R Residential zone. The project would have required a use variance—with a substantially higher threshold for approval—under the previous code. LED billboards coming soon. If the Green Code fell short anywhere, it would likely be in the liberalization of policies toward offpremise signs (billboards) and so-called Electronic Message Centers (EMCs), which are the blazing LED advertising screens often seen outside of strip clubs and used car dealerships in Cheektowaga. Presumably due to pressure from the sign industry, the Green Code legalized billboards and EMC signs in parts of downtown Buffalo (the N-1C Mixed-Use Core zone) and elsewhere. Now, you’ll start seeing these tacky signs popping up. The first such LED billboard, at 110 Genesee Street, was approved by the Common Council on May 30, and the second, at 51 Broadway, was recommended for approval by the City Planning Board on July 17. Beer garden coming soon. The Common Council, at its July 11 meeting, approved a Zoning Map amendment—the first such approval since the Green Code went into effect—to allow for an outdoor beer garden at the Buffalo Brewing Company, 314 Myrtle Avenue. A Zoning Map amendment is a tool vested in the Common Council that allows for a change in the Zoning Map in response to changed conditions or changes in City policy. Normally, a Zoning Map amendment would be a last resort—projects should generally comply with the zoning, rather than the zoning changed to conform to the project. In this case, the project was perhaps mistakenly mapped in the N-2R Residential zone, which allows for artisan industrial uses in certain cases, but only if the use is “conducted wholly within a fully-enclosed building.” 314 Myrtle Avenue is surrounded by commercial uses in differently designated zones that allow for such uses, including outdoors. This is a case of an appropriate use of the Zoning Map amendment. Beer under a shady tree, coming soon! Bullet dodged. Dash’s Market withdrew a proposal to remap 1764 Hertel Avenue from N-3C Mixed-Use Center to D-S Strip Retail, and the Common Council, rather than make a decision on the Zoning Map amendment, referred the proposal back to the Legislation Committee on June 27. Essentially, the applicant sought to remap a single parcel so that few design requirements aimed to create a comfortable and inviting street for pedestrians would apply to an expanded 47,500 square foot Dash’s Market. Had it been approved, the Zoning Map amendment would have provided a template for any future developer: to make sprawl great again, simply remap your parcel to D-S Strip Retail. North Buffalo resident Jesse Smith, at the June 20 public hearing before the Council’s Legislation Committee, rightly called the proposal a potential “Pandora’s box.” Dash’s is now proposing 12 area variances—including from window

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transparency and parking lot standards that are intended to promote an active public realm—to be considered by the Zoning Board of Appeals on July 19. The Zoning Board of Appeals, the five-member body considered to be the principal line of defense protecting the letter and intent of the Green Code, is where most of the action is. The ZBA’s June 21 meeting, at which 26 projects sought altogether 40 variances, was a marathon lasting 5 hours and 41 minutes. Here’s a few key updates from the meeting: Posted notice improvements. Of 26 applicants, only three failed to post the required notice (a 12 square foot sign visible from the street) on the property at least 10 days in advance of the June 21 public hearing. This 88 percent compliance rate is significantly better than the 16 percent compliance rate logged at the May 17 meeting, so procedures at City Hall must be improving. Due to inadequate notice, the public hearings for variances at 122 Gibson Street, 65 Louisiana Street, and 135 Herman Street were canceled. Use variance confusion. To allow applicants to provide competent financial evidence demonstrating qualification for a use variance, the ZBA tabled the requests at 80 Milton Street (to establish a contractor storage facility in the N-3R Residential zone), 109 Mayer Avenue (to establish a contractor storage yard in the N-3R Residential zone), 2695 Bailey Avenue (to establish two permanent storage containers in the D-S zone), and 700 Military Road (to establish a self-storage use in the D-IH zone). The ZBA did not appear to understand what meets the approval threshold for a use variance, so here’s a reminder from Section 11.3.5 of the UDO: To allow a use not otherwise permitted in the zone, an applicant must prove unnecessary hardship. In order to prove unnecessary hardship, the applicant must demonstrate that for each and every allowed use in the zone: 1. The applicant cannot realize a reasonable return, provided that lack of return is substantial as demonstrated by competent financial evidence. 2. The alleged hardship relating to the property in question is unique and does not apply to a substantial portion of the zone or neighborhood. 3. The requested use variance, if granted, will not alter the essential character of the neighborhood. 4. The alleged hardship has not been self-created. The Zoning Board of Appeals, in granting a use variance, must grant the minimum variance deemed necessary and adequate to address the unnecessary hardship and protect the character of the neighborhood and the public health, safety, and welfare. The first use variance approved. In spite of the ZBA’s confusion regarding the other use variance requests, it did approve the first ever use variance since the Green Code was put into effect. A proposal at 1002 Abbott Road sought to reestablish a gas station at a site where the infrastructure for a gas station is still in place. Since the proposal was to reestablish a nonconforming use that had simply lost its grandfather status, the application is likely the first to actually qualify for a use variance, but it’s hard to tell if unnecessary hardship was proven. Upon questioning by the Board, the applicant hastily assembled financial evidence on a wrinkled sheet of paper and handed it to one of the members, who then held it up as though it were as authoritative as the Ten Commandments delivered from Mount Sinai. The public was not afforded the opportunity to review this evidence, but the ZBA made an approval based on it. Minor area variances approved. Contrary to popular belief, the ZBA is “enforcing the Green Code” when it approves minor area variances that are consistent with New York State approval criteria. In approving an area variance, the ZBA is required to make a balancing test—to balance the benefit to the applicant against the detriment to the health, safety, and welfare. In several cases, the ZBA determined that the intent of the code in protecting the public welfare was upheld in spite of minor deviations from the code’s letter:

• 1657 Broadway. Construct an addition to an auto repair garage, deficient in required rear yard. • 2515 Delaware Avenue. Construct an addition to connect two existing structures, not in compliance with front yard, build-to percentage, and rear yard standards. • 324 Elmwood Avenue. Conduct vehicle sales as an outdoor use (use allowed, but must be within a fully enclosed building, in the N-2E zone). As a condition of approval, the Board required that a Type D buffer yard or masonry wall be erected between curb cuts. • 806 Kenmore Avenue. Construct a 66 space parking lot, insufficient in parking lot perimeter landscape (minimum 5’ buffer required, only 1.5’ requested) and interior landscape (minimum 10% required, only 5% requested), and in excess of permitted fence height (up to 4’ allowed, 6’ requested). As a condition of approval, the Board required that interior parking lot landscape be increased to 8% of the area of the lot. • 2317 Niagara Street. Construct a single-unit dwelling with a garage deficient in required setback. • 175 Nottingham Terrace. Install a fence in excess of permitted height (up to 4’ or 6’ allowed, 8’ requested). One resident stated, perhaps correctly, that the fence would be the “most beautiful fence erected in Buffalo since the Larkin Administration Building was built in 1904,” and that a 4’ vinyl fence from Home Depot would be allowed as-of-right. • 437 Rhode Island Street. Construct a four-space parking lot in an interior side yard (location not allowed) and erect a fence in excess of permitted height (4’ allowed, 6’ requested). The variance was granted on the basis that no practical alternative existed for the applicant (there is no rear yard, where parking must be located), and because of the nature of the improvement (permeable pavers, an attractive fence, and a sculpture will replace a vacant lot). Parking pad smack-down. The ZBA denied the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority’s bid to expand front yard parking pads at 16 Lockwood Avenue, 138 Tennessee Street, 80 Troupe Street, 16 Trowbridge Street, 77 Trowbridge Street, and 104 West Woodside Avenue, and approved preexisting parking pads at 42 Rugby Road and 56 Rugby Road. Lexington Co-Op sign denial (sort of). In a surprise move, the ZBA proved that a popular use (the Lexington Food Co-Op) could not simply receive an area variance because it was popular. The applicant had requested two signs with a total sign area of 90 square feet at 1678 Hertel Avenue, while the N-3C zone allows for only 35 square feet of total sign area per establishment. This would have been a 157% area variance, well enough to be considered substantial, and the Board had previously denied area variances for signs that were as little as 60% above the allowed sign area (388 Amherst Street, for example). The ZBA “approved with modifications” a proposal that allows for up to 45 square feet of sign area (a 28.5% area variance), or only one of the two proposed signs. Big decisions put off: The ZBA tabled hot-button items at 2929 and 2939 Main Street (at the applicant’s request) for front yard, interior side yard, tree conservation, interior parking lot landscape, and driveway width variance requests, and at 1111 Elmwood Avenue for building height, building width, ground floor level height, ground story height, window sill height, and frontage type variance requests. A request to establish a fence in the right-of-way of Colonial Circle, part of the Olmsted Parks & Parkways Historic District, was withdrawn by the applicant due to objections by the Preservation Board. The Zoning Board of Appeals meets next on July 19, when it could take action on 62 variance requests for 26 projects. It is likely the P longest ZBA agenda in Buffalo’s history.

LOCAL NEWS John Humann and Martin J. Vogelbaum. “It is a very fact dependent decision,” Humann said of the Schroeder decision. Arthur Jordan, Jr. is still on the hook for his federal indictment for “transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to injure one or more police officers,” which his public defenders have portrayed as a form of protected political speech rather than a true threat.

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JUDGE RULES OUT JORDAN’S GUN, HORNE’S CHARGES BY AARON LOWINGER

JUDGE RULES FOR JORDAN: Last Friday, US Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder issued his ruling on the pretrial suppression hearing concerning Arthur Jordan, Jr. Schroeder ruled to suppress the evidence seized in the arrest, namely the handgun in Jordan’s back pocket and incriminating statements he made to arresting officers while the pepper spray was still burning his eyes. Jordan’s case lies at the heart of the Buffalo Police Department’s at times loose adherence to the Fourth Amendment. A year ago, in the wake of the Alton Sterling and Philando Castille shooting deaths by police, Jordan posted on Facebook “Let’s Start Killin Police Lets See How Dey Like It.” His post caught the attention of the FBI and also members of BPD’s Strike Force, who would later testify they knew Jordan and had long considered him a member of a Central Park gang. When they spotted Jordan entering a Metro PCS store on Main Street near Fillmore, four officers— Adam Madorski, Joseph Acquino, Michael Acquino, and Mark Hamilton—followed him in and told him he was wanted for questioning. When Jordan said he wouldn’t go with the officers, who lacked both a warrant and probable cause for an arrest, the officers closed in on him, eventually restraining him enough to perform a search. Judge Schroeder describes what happened next, according to the store’s video which was viewed at the hearing:

video evidence contradicted Michael Acquino’s testimony regarding the behavior of the two men who were with Jordan that day, who Acquino stated added to the officer’s suspicion due to “nervous” behavior. Public defender John Humann raised the issue of Officer Hamilton putting on black gloves as he entered the store as a non-verbal threat communicated to Jordan and his two colleagues, and Judge Schroeder agreed. He quoted his own observations from the hearing: You can’t say well, the police officer can have his suspicions and be nervous but the defendant cannot have his suspicions and be nervous. It can’t just be one way. We all know— psychologists will testify that in the AfricanAmerican community, young people, especially young men, when they see police have a different reaction [of ] fear … because they know there are police who will beat them up or who will shoot them, and they act accordingly. They act nervously. They run. They hide. Does that mean they are engaged in criminal activity?

As Jordan is pinned down on the counter with his hands up, Officer Madorski moves around the other officers to spray copious amounts of pepper spray in Jordan’s eyes. Officer Joseph [Acquino] then flips Jordan over the counter in a bear hug, Officer Hamilton handcuffs Jordan from the opposite side of the counter, after which Officers [Michael] Acquino and Joseph [Acquino] punch Jordan in the head. According to Officer Acquino, he “had to [punch Jordan] to effect the arrest.”

The generosity of Judge Schroeder’s statement comes into focus in the cases of both Jose Hernandez-Rossy and Wardel Davis, the two unarmed men of color who died by police hands this year. Hernandez-Rossy was found to be carrying drugs, according to police and reports. One of the two officers involved in Hernandez-Rossy’s shooting death was Joseph Acquino. Davis, on the other hand, was clean and no information about his being under the influence of any substance has come forward since a toxicology was performed by the medical examiner. Police have also not demonstrated their cause for reasonable suspicion for Davis’s arrest, though for Hernandez-Rossy police stated nearly a week after the fact that he was pulled over after officers saw him smoking marijuana. Hernandez-Rossy was shot in the back while running away from police and there has been speculation that Wardel Davis ran from police as well.

The details of the case rankled Judge Schroeder’s sense of Fourth Amendment case law during the suppression hearing, where he shared concerns about the lack of probable cause and the thin evidence the BPD and the US Attorney shared to support reasonable suspicion, and made a point of pointing out how

Judge Schroeder’s recommendations on the case head to US District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. for final review. Reversals of such recommendations are rare but possible, though district judges usually defer such cases to the magistrate judge who saw and heard the testimony, according to Jordan’s public defenders

Cariol Horne was arrested last February for blocking the intersection of Franklin and Court streets during Mayor Byron Brown’s State of the City address in protest of Wardel Davis’s death, and as we reported last week, was arrested this month for trespassing while attempting to attend a court appearance on her case. She had been powering down her phone when an officer, named by Horne as Officer Doxbeck, told her she could not be on her phone in the courtroom. Horne informed him that the phone was now off, and Doxbeck asked her her name to check her into the courtroom. According to Horne, when he discovered her identity, he ordered her to wait outside. Horne refused, fearing that if the officer forgot about her, she could be issued a bench warrant for failing to appear. Horne returned to court last week with some supporters there to advocate for her fair treatment, only to find herself charged with two additional crimes by Judge Craig T. Hannah: disorderly conduct and contempt of court. Horne wrote The Public that they were trying to make her look like “the angry black woman.” “Truth is,” she wrote, “after all I’ve been through, I should be.” It should be added that Cariol is a mild-mannered grandmother in reality and in character, and a former police officer who understands how to respectfully interact with an authority. And Horne also claims this isn’t the first time she’s felt targeted by authorities. Horne was a 19-year veteran of the BPD until her dismissal after a 2008 incident in which she freed a handcuffed man from a police chokehold. The officer in question in that incident, Gregory Kwiatkowski, has since retired and pled guilty last December to police brutality charges in federal court. Judge Schroeder, in fact, alluded to that case from the bench during the Arthur Jordan suppression hearing to point out that some people have good reason to fear police.

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Donald Trump has less attention span than a stalk of grass and he does not read. Nothing he has said, either in his campaign or in his six months in office, suggests he has any idea of the structure or method of government. He doesn’t know the difference between an executive order and legislation. His working vocabulary is smaller than a six-year-old child’s, and, when he’s not scripted, it consists largely of adjectives, mostly superlatives. The word he uses most, other than “I,” is “very.” He often uses it three or four times in a single sentence. He frequently repeats a phrase two or three times, as if he didn’t know he thought it until he heard the worlds spilling from his mouth, so he then tells us what he just heard himself saying, then says it again to indicate his approval. He is driven by a desperate need for adulation and approval, which is why the Saudis placed huge billboards proclaiming his praises along his motorcar routes; all were gone as soon as he left. In return for the flattery, he turned against Qatar, site of the most important US military mission in the region.

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His handshake is perhaps the most pathological handshake in public life. Usually, he grips the other man’s right hand with his own and yanks it forward; sometimes, he puts his left hand on the other man’s wrist, to increase his advantage. The most bizarre televised handshake thus far was on July 14, when he held on to French President Emmanuel Macron’s hand for 24 seconds, moving it back and forth, like a teenager who cannot stop jerking off. Little wonder that he makes great fodder for our best comedians. Steven Colbert, who was sinking into late-night banality after his move to CBS, took new life once he had Donald Trump’s follies for the basis of his nightly monolog. Likewise John Oliver, Samantha Bee, and Saturday Night Live, particular guest host Alec Baldwin. But the Trump administration is no joke. Even though the Republicans, now in full control of all three branches of government, have thus far been unable to pass any significant legislation,

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dedicated opponents of the agencies they are running or areas they are supposed to protect: Betsy Devos opposes public education; Jeff Sessions is starving the civil rights division in the Department of Justice in favor of an all-out crusade against medical marijuana; EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt denies the significance of greenhouse gasses…it goes on and on. The Trump administration has placed a fox for just about every henhouse in government. Things are so bad that Walter M. Shaub, Jr., the US ethics chief resigned because no one in a position of power in the Federal government cares about ethics. “It’s hard for the United States to pursue international anticorruption and ethics initiatives when we’re not even keeping our own side of the street clean,” he said in a July 17 New York Times interview. “I think we are pretty close to a laughingstock at this point.”* Trump just does not care. The Republican Senate and Congress just do not care. Trump lies incessantly, has no sense of ethics, and no capacity for shame. He never admits error. Most members of Congress are so terrified of a primary fight, they opt for silence. There are just about no real conservatives left. I’d say that they’re just whores, but I don’t want to insult whores, most of whom have some principles and all of whom work hard for a living.

“OUR ENVIRONMENT IS MORE TOXIC THAN IT WAS A YEAR AGO, AND IT WILL GROW MORE TOXIC AS THAT DEREGULATION CONTINUES.”

COMMENTARY NEWS Trump performs like the ultimate Manchurian candidate, the perfect clean bomb. Not a building is destroyed, not a life is deliberately taken, but the United States sinks deeper into global irrelevancy faster than it would under a barrage of offensive, visible weapons.

distorts what would otherwise be a circular orbit. Eccentric movements of distant stars implies the presence of a black hole, a body whose gravity is so dense no light is capable of escaping, so it is invisible.

There are two ways to regard the Trump administration, both of which I think are right. The simpler is to assume profound incompetence, narcissism, venality and lunacy. The more complex is to assume purpose and design. If the latter, whose purpose? Whose design?

Imagine a secret member of the cabinet and an invisible department of the government. Maybe it’s directed by Steve Bannon, one of the few people from whom Trump takes advice. Perhaps there are others. Whoever they are, they don’t give press conferences, they’re rarely seen, and, thus far, they haven’t provided the White House leakers the kind of information needed to push them into the spotlight.

Some commentators postulate Russia. That is unlikely: Getting orders and carrying them out is a complex affair, and so is keeping such things secret. Russia clearly wanted Trump rather than Clinton and apparently did everything in its power to help him win. But, in all likelihood, Putin wanted him in not because he’d be a good puppet, but rather because he’d be an incompetent president. I’ve found few people who think Trump capable of doing this much damage on his own. You have to know where to place the charges to make the bridge fall down. As is evident from all his extemporaneous remarks, he knows almost nothing about anything. His book The Art of the Deal, someone recently pointed out, is really a book about failure: The only enterprise in it that didn’t go bankrupt or otherwise fail was the ice skating rink in Central Park. His genius was getting other people to pay the bills for his failures. Physical scientists often infer the existence of an invisible body by the movements of actions of bodies that are visible. Planets have an eccentric orbit, so astrophysicists infer the presence of a body whose gravitational field

MSNBC describes the Trump White House as chaotic. It isn’t. Chaos exists only in the absence of order. When there is pattern, there is structure; when there is structure, there is order. The Trump administration has both order and pattern, but it is not the one we—the reading public or the press—assume drives governmental operations. At this point, nobody other than the inhabitants of Trump’s Black Hole know what that order is. On the basis of what we’ve seen thus far, there is oneP thing about which we can be certain: their mission is destruction of the America we know.

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THEATER ON STAGES

Pretty/Funny, at MusicalFare through Aug 13.

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MACBETH: Saul Elkin directs. Opens July 27 on Shakespeare Hill in Delaware Park.

PLUS, AT THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL: BAKKHAI: In Euripides’s play, Dionysos arrives in Thebes, bent on revenge. THE CHANGELING: Treachery, madness, murder, lust—all the elelments of a

PRETTY/FUNNY: Coming-of-age story inspired by the life of comedienne Imogene Coca. Through August 13 at MusicalFare, Daemen College, 4380 Main Street, 716-839-8540, musicalfare.com.

Jacobean tragedy.

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seas operetta.

1837: THE FARMERS’ REVOLT: A play about the Rebellions of 1837, which led eventually to Canadian nationhood.

ROMEO AND JULIET: Shakespeare’s second-

1979: More Canadian history, this one a comedy about former Joe Clark, prime minister for just 10 months.

THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Witty society

AN OCTOROON: Funny, challenging, and award-winning play by Brandon JacobsJenkins examining racial attitudes in America.

GUYS AND DOLLS: Frank Loesser’s classic musical. HMS PINAFORE: Gilbert and Sullivan’s high-

most frustrating tragedy. comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. TIMON OF ATHENS: How not to succeed in business, win friends, and influence people? TREASURE ISLAND: Adapted for the stage by Nicolas Billon.

ANDROCLES AND THE LION: An interactive take on Shaw’s re-telling of the well-known fable.

TWELFTH NIGHT: A comedy with everything: a

DANCING AT LUGHNASA: 1990 memory play by Irishman Brian Friel.

dissolute uncle.

shipwreck, sassy servants, cross-dressing, a

DRACULA: A funny and sexy staging of Bram Stoker’s supernatural thriller.

THE VIRGIN TRIAL: A thriller about the

THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE III: Alan Bennett play about the monarch’s struggles with mental illness.

Tudor intrigues.

young Princess Elizabeth navigating

ME AND MY GIRL: Musical comedy from the 1930s, revised by Stephen Fry in the 1980s.

At the Stratford Festival, 55 Queen Street, Stratford, Ontario, 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca.

MIDDLETOWN: An exploration of a small American town by playwright Will Eno.

PLUS, AT CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION:

SAINT JOAN: Shaw’s study of the sainted French military hero and martyr.

DETROIT ‘67: Obie award-winning play set

WILDE TALES: Four stories by Oscar Wilde adapted for the stage.

Detroit. Through July 30.

Playing now at the Shaw Festival, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

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ART REVIEW

From the Inferno series by Yael Bartana.

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AT CEPA, A SUPERB BEGINNING TO A SERIES EXPLORING THE ISRAELI AVANT GARDE A propitious start to an ambitious CEPA series of consecutive exhibits of works of seven Israeli artists continuing into next year. The overall title of the series is Place Relations: identity in contemporary Israeli avant-garde art. The initial exhibit is by Re’em Aharoni and includes two short but superb movies—one about his mother, one about his grandmother—and a photos and related items component about his father. Poignant and revealing movies about the mother and the grandmother. About the grand-scale topic of cultural clash, but even more compelling as individual portraits. About personal struggle and survival and loss. We empathize, we admire. Whereas the component about the father more conceals than reveals. Reflecting his nature, his character. Something of a mystery man to the son. Nor do we so much admire, nor does the son. We feel his loss, his disappointment. These people—the artist’s family—are Yemenite Jews who migrated to Israel in the 1950s. The movie about the mother consists of family archives footage mostly of her wedding. The father, the husband, of course is in the footage as well, but not that we learn much about him in this case, either. The subtitles narration is entirely from the mother—the bride—who is very young and very beautiful. With a look on her beautiful face throughout the elaborate wedding ceremonials like a deer in headlights. A look of “horror,” the artist describes it in a diary entry. Double elaborate ceremonials in fact, of the Israeli “white wedding,” and Yemeni wedding a week prior, in Yemeni traditional costume, including high tiara-like headdress and festoons of beads and jewels necklace for the bride, and exotic fabric dress for bride and groom and most of the attendees as well, and much communal song and dance. She talks in the subtitles narrative about what a bride feels at her wedding—what she was feeling—and what the Yemeni community acknowledges, and 10 THE PUBLIC / JULY 19-25, 2017 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM

is present to support her in her doubts and misgivings—that she is too young for marriage. A sense of abandonment by her birth family, her own father and mother. She says this is what the Yemeni community singing and dancing is about, “to cheer up the bride.” But an even darker cloud—dark and indistinct—overshadows even her personal problematics about her wedding and marriage. This time relative to the whole Yemeni migrant community to Israel. Somehow, the bride narrator explains, in the course of the migration, children were lost, stolen, kidnapped. Babies were taken from their parents. No real explanation as to how, or why, or by whom, but narrated not as possible fantasy but simple tragic fact. “The majority of the guests at my wedding have experienced the tragedy of a kidnapped child,” she says. But she ends on a positive note. (Though slightly perforce conventional.) “We will assimilate,” she says. “We will adopt new manners.” Though not forgetting “the things [that are] missing.” The movie about the grandmother is of the talking head variety, but with an appalling story to tell of her series of beyond-traumatic pregnancy and parturition events. Birthing pains misunderstood by the mother-to-be and mocked— precisely that—by the husband. As well as, per mandate of the husband—possibly in accord with his tribal cultural traditions, or possibly just his whim—parturition at home, in a social setting before an audience of his extended family, his mother presiding. In another instance, amid birthing complications and the husband’s obstinate refusal to allow recourse to hospital medical help until almost too late, a harrowing ambulance ride to the hospital, whereupon a nurse scolds her for her tardy response to a life and death situation both for her and the baby. “Are you an immigrant?” the nurse asks sarcastically. “We are all immigrants,” she answers. “We belong nowhere special,” is a lesson she draws from her own life and travails. But like Dilsey, she survives. And the babies survive. After another relocation—and unclear now if

with a different husband—she declares a happy finale period to her life story. The materials about the father consist of some large-format photos—that look sandpapered, then collage juxtaposed—of military operations in which possibly the father was involved. We know he served in the Israeli military, but not much more about him. A display case contains a half dozen letters to him from his Swedish mistress during his service period. In one of the artist’s diary entries, he attributes his “fascination with women,” which he describes as “clean, pure, rewarding,” to “the bond I have with my mother.” And his “fascination with men” to “the imprint made on me by the first man in my life— my father, who is as evasive as mysterious.” The Re’em Aharoni exhibit continues through September 23. The next artist up in the consecutive and overlapping series is photographer Barak Zemer. His show opens August 10.

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1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts (1045 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-228-1855, photographics2.com/store/welcome-to-our-studio-1045-gallery-store): Cloth Shells, group exhibition features the work of Canadian Artists; Alex Chorny, Samantha Goeree, Judy Graham, and Amber Lee Williams on view through Jul 31.Thu & Fri 11-6, Sat 11-4 and by appointment. Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Drawing: The Beginning of Everything: Artists featured include Ingrid Calame,Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson, Ellen Gallagher, Roland Flexner, Mark Fox, David Hammons, Nancy Rubins, Fred Sandback, Tam Van Tran, and Daniel Zeller, among others. On view through Oct 15. Shark Girl: Never Quite There, on view through Oct 1. Joe Bradley, on view through Oct 1. Camille Henrot: October 2015 Horoscope, on view through Jul 9. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. Amy’s Place Restaurant (University Heights Arts Association) (3234 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 716-833-6260, uhartsgroup.com/amysplace): Every day: 7am-9pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): American Art Pottery, through Sep 1. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): Trilogies XXVIII – The Work of Three Artists, Pat Fortunato Stephen Ketterer, Mark Kirkland. On View through August 18, 2017. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Ashker’s on Elmwood (1002 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886-2233, ashkersbuffalo.com). Mon-Sat 7am10pm, Sun 9am-5pm. Atrium 124 (124 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Autism Services Arts Faculty Show: Todd Lesmeister, Raisa Mehltretter, Dana Ranke, Elizabeth Switzer. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Little Planets, Photographic works by Gene Witkowski. Opening reception Mon Jul 24 6-8:30pm. On view through Sep 17. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Music on Canvas, a selection of music and dance themed paintings and ceramic works created by Robert Noel Blair. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. The Blue Plate Studio (69 Keil Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 725-2054): Work by Alicia Malik. Box Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Compulsion at the End of the World, video portals into the tangible graphic inquiries of Marc Tomko. Every day 4-10pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Colleen McCubbin Stepanic & Laura Borneman. Tue-Fri 10am5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, Photo Synthesis, Featuring community garden photography by Liesl Keyser. On view through Jul 31.716-884-1777, buffalobigprint. com) Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare: Reflecting on the Life of the Bard. Milestones on Science: Books That Shook the World! 35 rare books from the history of science, on second floor. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm.Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): What It Meant to Be Modern, 1910-1965, American works on paper from the Karen and Kevin Kennedy Collection, on view through Jul 23. Community: Immigrant and Refugee Artists in West-

ern New York, through Oct 15. Glass Within Glass: The Magic of the Trabucco Studio, the paperweight artistry of Victor, David, and Jon Trabucco, through Sep 17. Wright, Roycroft, Stickley and Roehlfs: Defining the Buffalo Arts and Crafts Aesthetic, through November 26. 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter.org): A History of the Funnies (1880s-2000s) Collection of Dr. Maurice Dewey, Opening reception Sat Jul 22 11-4pm. On view through Aug 19. Thu 6-9pm & Sat 12-3pm. The Cass Project (500 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14204, thecassproject.org): The Clufffaloes, recent works by Charles Clough on view in the main lobby. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Painting Niagara, Thomas Kegler, on view through Jan 21, 2018. TueSat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Place Relations: Identity in Contemporary Israeli Avant Garde Art: Re’em Aharoni, Yael Bartana, Tamy Ben-Tor, Keren Cytter, Dor Guez, Adi Nes, Barak Zemer. Mon-Fri 9am5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com): Contemporary collection including Hans Moller, Edith Geiger, Lee Adler, Claire Burch, and more. Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm. Dreamland (387 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, facebook. com/dreamlandarts.buffalo/timeline): Reopening Soon. Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com): Lesley Maia Horowitz: Course of Empire through Jul 29. Fri, 11am-9pm, Sat 11am4pm El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Members’ Exhibition: Take Two. Wed-Sat 126pm. Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): Influence of The 20th Century Masters — Member’s Exhibit on view through Jul 28. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 114pm . Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 8541694, hallwalls.org): 2017 Members Exhibition. On view through Aug 25. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 9849572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Summer in the City, Artists: Bill Stewart, Nancy Belfer, Jackie Felix, Mark Lavatelli, Kevin Kegler, Catherine Parker, Ann Muntges, Jozef Bajus, Kathleen Sherin, Rosemary Lyons, Bob Collignon, Elizabeth LaBarge, Linda Collignon, Sally Danforth, David Vitrano, & Dorothy Fitzgerald, On view through Aug 5. Wed & Fri 12-6pm, Thu 127pm, Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sun & Mon. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Kenan Center House Gallery (433 Locust Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 433-2617, kenancenter.org): Masterworks: Watercolors from the Gerald Mead Collection. On view through Jul 30. Mon-Fri 12-5pm & Sun 2-5pm. Main Street Gallery (515 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203): Art by Chris McGee and John Farallo. Closing reception Sat, Jul 22 6-10pm. On view through Jul 26. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Benefit Exhibition for the WNY Land Conservancy: The Art of Native Plants, featuring work by 31 regional artists through Jul 29. Tue-Fri 9:30am4pm, Sat 9:30am-2pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 282-7530, thenacc.org): NF125. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm.

Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-882-5777, ninafreudenheimgallery. com): Tue-Fri 10am–5pm Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-652-3270, norbergsartandframe.com): Remnants of the Spirit, work by Bradley Widman, On view through Aug. 5. Tue-Sat 10am–5pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Paintings by: Glenn Kroetsch.WedFri, 12-7pm (until 9pm on first Fridays), Sat & Sun 12-5pm. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 6979069 pausaarthouse.com): Resonance by Kathleen Sherin. Thu-Sat. Pine Apple Company (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716275-3648, squareup.com/store/pine-apple-company): Came To Mind: New Work by Bobby Griffiths. Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8688183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): Art Under the Stars, 64 College Street, Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, Chris McGee, Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Liebel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, Kisha Patterson, Steve Siegel, John Farallo, Michael Mulley. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Drawn Together group show with work from: Craig LaRotonda, Esther Neisen, Jaclyn Alderete, Jel Ena, Joe Vollan, Joseph Pfeiffer-Herbert, Maria Pabico LaRotonda, Matthew Robertson, Megan Buccere, Melissa Morgan, Michael Mararian, Rob Lynch, Sandra Yagi, Shaunna Peterson, Tricia Butski, and William Herod through Jul 22. Ró Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 2409387, rohomeshop.com): New Paintings, by David Buck TueSat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Sports Focus Physical Therapy (531 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202, 332-4838, sportsfocuspt.com): Group 263:Works by Karima Bondi,Brian Boutin,Kathleen Corff Rogers,Gethyn Soderman,Rick Steinberg on view through Aug.29 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, 6-9pm on first Fridays. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Shape of a Pocket, Featuring work by Morgan Arnett, Jason Bernagozzi, Charlie Best and Jaz Palermo, W. Michelle Harris, Kyla Kegler, Dana McKnight, Przemyslaw Moskal, Van Tran Nguyen, Elisa Peebles and the United Melanin Society, Carl Spartz, Kalpana Subramanian, and Tony Yanick. On view Jun 30-Aug 26, Events Jul 29, Aug 12, Aug 25. Tue-Sat, 12pm-5pm. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio.org): The Bold and the Beautiful, featuring Andy Calderon from Starlight with James Marino and Ben Brauen from Autism Services, Inc. with Debbie Medwin, Jeremy Pratt, and Ron Steele. Mon-Fri 9-4pm. Stangler Fine Art (6429 West Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127, 870-1129, stanglerart.com): Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): My 20th Year: A Retrospective in Polaroids by Geri Lee. On view through Jul 22. Open by event and on Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries.org): The Human Aesthetic, Cravens World. The Language of Objects on view through Jul 30. WedSat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Rainforest work by Matt Mansour, On view through Aug 4. MonThu 7:30am-6pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 348-1430, wnybookarts.org): 9th Annual Members’ Show. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. To add your gallery’s information to the list, please contact P us at info@dailypublic.com. P

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EVENTS CALENDAR their father’s funeral in 1981, and shortly after went on tour in support of Bob Marley’s Legend compilation album release. He worked with his mother, Rita Marley, on the production of the Melody Makers’ debut LP, also featuring the original rhythm section for Bob Marley’s Wailers. Ziggy went on to release his first solo album in 2003 titled Dragonfly, winning the Grammy for Best Reggae album. His most recent album titled Ziggy Marley was released in February of 2016, with a few records in between. Catch him at Artpark on Wednesday, July 19. -LM

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Beams 8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $5

BOLD FOLLY More Garbage Than Art album Recommended if you like: Captain Beefheart, Ariel Pink, Deer Hunter A 6 track record titled More Garbage Than Art was recently released by the Buffalo-based psychedelic indie rock band Bold Folly. The drowsy, stoned-out record is full of meandering guitar sounds, odd vocals, and slow motion drums. The record moves from noisy feedback fueled experimentations to krautrocky mechanical jam rock, sometimes within the same song. Highlights include the intense and unhinged “Lake Michigan,” the lazy and sunny “Dogfight,” and the more grungy “Streets.”

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[INDIE] Looking for something delightfully organic and unassuming? Beams, a sevenpiece from Toronto, delivers the goods with their earthy blend of rootsy, alt-folk that’s cut with tinges of lo-fi indie pop. The outcome is simultaneously familiar and new, featuring dual fem vocalizing from Anna Mernieks and Heather Mazha set against a backwoods string-stew of banjos, lap steel, and mandolin with occasional flourishes of brash electric guitar. Following their well-received 2013 debut, Just Rivers, they’ve released a series of singles, including a spot-on cover of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill.” With nary a keyboard in sight, this is the perfect remedy for your digital blues. They’re at Mohawk Place on Wednesday, July 19, with the droning talents of locals Be Locust or Alone and Lalalangue. -CJT

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

8:30PM / NIETZSCHE’S, 248 ALLEN ST. / $10 [FUNK] The Public Presents returns to Nietzsche’s this month with a humongous band from

New York City. Burnt Sugar Arkestra are no strangers to Buffalo, but this time around they’re set to deliver their impressive Prince tribute set. The 12-piece band has been active since 1999, delivering a cosmic combo of jazz, funk, and rock, but after the death of the Purple One, the band decided to add a tribute set to their repertoire, which they pull off with cosmic perfection. The women of Burnt Sugar are what make this more than just a cover set, as the four part vocal group harmonizes perfectly—led by supreme Prince fangirl Shelly Nicole, also of the band Blakbüshe. The band, founded by George Tate of the Village Voice and lead by bassist Jared Michael Nickerson will also perform their latest release, 2018’s All You Zombies Dig the Luminosity—a 17-track freak-funk odyssey. David Fricke of Rolling Stone once called the band “a multiracial jam army that

[ROCK] This is unusual: a Rotterdam based band with a penchant for classic sounds that references everything from Jefferson Airplane to The Bee-Gee’s. With co-ed lead vocals and a folk-pop core, they’ve toured extensively through the Netherlands and have built a sizable following in the process (the band has over 35,000 Facebook followers). This summer they’re braving a US tour, which brings them to Buffalo Iron Works on Wednesday, July 19, in support of First Flowers — their third studio full length. The album runs the gamut between 1970’s inspired light falsetto-funk and percussive neo-psychedelia, all of it pleasingly executed with tasteful modern production—it’s hard not to find things to like. A perusal of www. thecosmiccarnival.com reveals a film project that traces the arc of Fleetwood Mac’s music from the British blues beginnings on through the So-Cal superstardom of their most celebrated work—all impressively executed by The Cosmic Carnival. Doors are at 8pm and it’s a bargain at $5. -CJT

freestyles with cool telekinesis between the lustrous menace of Miles Davis’ On The Corner, the slash-and-om of 1970s King Crimson, and Jimi Hendrix’ moonwalk across side three of Electric

INTENT TO SELL

Ladyland.” Sounds like a good enough reason to check out Burnt Sugar Arkestra this Thursday,

Free the Free Minded album Recommended if you like: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Sublime Buffalo hip hop/rock group Intent To Sell released their first album, Free the Free Minded on June 22. The seven track album bounces between rock, hip hop, jazz, and funk seamlessly, and their positive attitude and lyrics come across as refreshing throughout the record. Jazzy samples come up against a rock-based instrumental and an aggressive flow on album opener “What’s Happening.” Other highlights include the Red Hot Chili Peppers-esque “Automatic” and “My Brotha,” and the more low key “D.O.C.,” possibly the most radiofriendly track on the record.

July 20 at Nietzsche’s with support from DJ Milk. -CORY PERLA

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WEDNESDAY JULY 19 Live at Larkin: Grateful Dead Cornell ‘77 Revisited

5pm Larkin Square, 745 Seneca Street free

[TRIBUTE] May 8, 2017 marked the 40th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s show at Cornell University’s Barton Hall—one of the Dead’s most famous shows, in part due to the widely circulated soundboard recording of the performance, which this year received a remastered official release. In honor of that classic show, Buffalo’s premier Grateful Dead cover band, Workingman’s Dead will recreate both sets of the show on the stage at Larkinville as part of the Live at Larkin summer concert series. The show happens Wednesday, July 19 and is free and open to the public. -CP

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Ziggy Marley

6pm Artpark, 450 South 4th St. $12-$27

[REGGAE] Fun fact: this guy wrote the theme song for Arthur, the cartoon with all the aardvarks. That’s hardly the most recognizable aspect of Ziggy Marley, though. He’s also Bob Marley’s eldest son and leader of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers. His birth name is David, and it’s been said that Bob Marley nicknamed him Ziggy meaning ‘little spliff." Ziggy, however, stated to a magazine once that people began calling him Ziggy after “Ziggy Stardust” was released because he’s such a big David Bowie fan. Either way, it stuck. He’s played alongside his father and siblings during his younger years, appearing on stage at the One Love Peace Concert in Kingston in 1978. Ziggy and his siblings Sharon, Cadella and Stephen made their debut as the Melody Makers in 1979, releasing “Children Playing in the Streets," a track written for them by their father. They made their on-stage debut shortly thereafter at the Rock Roots Reggae two-day concert series in Kingston, performing on the same bill as their father. Ziggy and his brother Stephen played at

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THURSDAY JULY 20 Eric Paslay 5pm Canalside, 44 Prime St. $5

[COUNTRY] Canalside gets a dose of country music this week with a concert from Eric Paslay. The red-bearded 34-year-old singer and songwriter from Abilene, Texas released his debut, self-titled record on EMI Nashville records in 2014 and has built a reputation for crafting pop-infused country style tracks, like his single “High Class.” He’ll be at Canalside this Thursday, July 20. -TPS

El Silver Cabs 8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $5

[INDIE] Who says kids from Westchester can't rock? Hailing from New Rochelle with Weezer-like snark, El Siver Cabs has grown from a trio to a quartet since 2015 and—as announced just the other day—are now a five-piece with the addition of Laura Gwynn (Sirs and Madams), which will surely sweeten the vocals. After a series of promising EPs that branded their 1990's-inspired, humor-

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OUT OF BODY WITH RIOT STARES, ONPOINT, AND SOCIAL DIVORCE FRIDAY JULY 21 7PM / DEEP SPACE 8, 145 GRIMES ST. / $5 [HARDCORE] If you’re looking for a solid underground hardcore show to go to this week, you’ve

found it. Austin, Texas-based punk band Out of Body, South Carolina’s Riot Stares, and Buffalo’s Onpoint and Social Divorce round out this impressive line up. “It’s going to be a smorgasbord of genres so it’ll be a treat for more than one kind of music listener and it’s a POC line up, which I think is important to have more of in every music scene,” says Lisarie Martin of the hardcore punk band Social Divorce, who released a seven track titled New York State Politics earlier this year. The headlining band, Out of Body, lands on the more melodic, alternative side of hardcore and are touring in support of their latest record Voiceless, which was self released earlier this month. Originally slated for Dreamland, this show will now take place at this Friday, July 21 at Deep Space 8 on Grimes Street. -CORY PERLA

laced guitar rock, the band is out supporting its self-titled full length debut (on King Pizza) this summer, landing them at Mohawk Place on Thursday, July 20, with locals Nylon Otters and Dead Lounge-CJT

FRIDAY JULY 21 Party on the Portico: Tim Britt Band 5:30pm Buffalo History Museum, 1 Museum Ct. $5-$10

[FUN] The second event in this year’s Party on the Portico happy hour series happens this Friday, July 21 at the Buffalo History Museum. This month’s party features the Tim Britt Band, who will deliver a colorful set of covers of everything from The Beatles to Dave Matthews, Whitney Houtston, and Mumford & Sons, and maybe some original songs too. The Tim Britt Band will be set up on the Buffalo History Museum’s beautiful back portico, which overlooks Mirror Lake. As is usually the case for the Party on the Portico series, there’ll also be food, live art, prizes and free mini-tours of the museum. The series happens each third Thursday of the month through September. Upcoming events will feature Robert “Freightrain” Parker, and Stone Flower with Geno McManus. For more info, check out buffalohistory. org. Rain or shine. -TPS

Foreigner, Cheap Trick, and Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience 7pm, Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, $19$123

[ROCK] No, it probably won't feel like the first time, especially without Rochester-born vocalist Lou Gramm, but Foreigner is celebrating 40 years this summer with an extensive tour and a newly released compilation entitled—wait for it—40, that includes (you guessed it!) a total of 40 songs released between their 1977 debut and now. It includes all 16 of their tracks that penetrated the Top 30 on Billboard's singles chart. Say what you will about the British-American rockers, but the double-disc set is nothing if not a reminder that Foreigner is permanently etched into our consciousness with sales in excess of 80 million records, nearly half of which were here in the US. Along for the ride on Friday, July 21 at Darien Lake are the men of Cheap Trick. who were here last summer with the Rock Hall Three for All Tour that also featured Joan Jett and Heart, as well as Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience (which, between you and I, is the secret weapon on this tour—so don't be late). -CJT

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SATURDAY JULY 22 Silo City Reading Series: Morgan Parker 7pm Silo City, 120 Childs St.

[POETRY] A few months ago, Just Buffalo brought poetry rock star Eileen Myles to town, this Saturday they’re bringing in the woman whose book Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night Myles selected to win the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Morgan Parker, also curator of the Poets With Attitude reading series in New York City, is headlining the usual eclectic mix of art and performance that is the Silo City Reading Series. Joining Parker will be Peach Mag’s own Rachelle Toarmino, music from one of the founders of Buffalo Afrobeat Orchestra in Zoe Scruggs, and art installation work from Zack Boehler. -AL

THIS WEEK'S LGBT AGENDA WEDNESDAY, JULY 19 OUT FOR BUSINESS AT ALLEN BURGER VENTURE 5-7pm, 175 Allen St.

Buffalo's premiere LGBTQ networking event is always a great opportunity to meet and greet, a chance to have a drink with community friends you don't always get to see and possibly make some new ones. Even if you're a fledgling entrepreneur or are just thinking about launching a small business, this is a great opportunity to find other folks in the community that can champion your efforts and potentially help point you towards success. This month's mixer is at the Allen Burger Venture, btwn Delaware and Elmwood, across from Grindhaus, and is sponsored by Mass Mutual NYS. Be one of the first 50 people to arrive and you'll get a free drink from organizers.

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BLONDIE WITH GARBAGE TUESDAY JULY 25 5PM / ARTPARK, 450 SOUTH 4TH ST. / $12 [ROCK] There’s no need to say anything about Blondie, who will headline the “Rage and Rapture” tour at Artpark on Tuesday, July 25 other than that they’re still in fine fettle after 43 years (including a 15 year break) and still recording new material that stands up to their generous history of hits. But don’t

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show up late for the show, because this is a co-headlining tour with Garbage, another endlessly inventive hard-rocking band fronted by a strong female singer. Scottish singer Shirley Manson was recruited to join the band in 1994 by founders Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch Vig, all of who had substan-

AMBUSH PARTY #57 AT SKY BAR 6pm-Midnight at 257 Franklin (Roof)

No lesbian bars in Buffalo? No problem. Ambush takes over a venue once a month for these hot parties, and July's is bound to be a blast, taking place on the rooftop patio of Skybar — Buffalo's only 'open-air rooftop nightclub experience'. Combining excellent views of downtown, private VIP Cabanas and fantastic drink prices, you don't want to miss this. And you also don't need to be a gay woman to attend – male allies, gender fluid folks… everyone is welcome so long as you believe in inclusion and can leave your baggage at the door. Admission is free and dancing is encouraged.

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tial studio and production experience (Vig was the producer of Nirvana’s Nevermind.) The three had been doing a lot of remixes for other artists, and wanted to expand that “anything goes” attitude into a performing band. You can argue that Garbage was to grunge what Debbie Harry et all were to punk, an attempt to take a stripped-down style and see what could be added, all in the name of pop. The hit you’re most likely to remember is “Only Happy When it Rains,” but like the band they’ll be sharing the stage with they’re still going strong: they’ve just release a new single, “No Horses,” which Manson calls “A dark imagining of the future in which a presiding regime values only profit and success.” -M. FAUST

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3RD ANNUAL TRANSGEN BEACH DAY BASH AT WOODLAWN BEACH STATE PARK

7pm Bidwell Park, Elmwood Ave at Bidwell Parkway free

[LATIN] The Elmwood Village’s Picnic in the Parkway series continues this week with a concert from latin percussionist Wendell Rivera. The Buffalo Music Hall of Fame member will invite the crowd to dance along to his Afro-Caribbean grooves and latin jazz stylings. Check him out this Tuesday, July 25 for a free concert on Bidwell Parkway. -CP

8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $5

[ROCK] Named in the spirit of the 1967 Detroit riots, the ever-shifting Rhode Island-based collective, Detroit Rebellion, is currently the duo of Jeff Toste on vocals and guitar and Micaiah Castroon on drums. Known for a grimy take on bluesy Americana, the band has spent the first half of this year recording a follow-up to a debut, The Man, that's getting a formal reissue on the Bodan Kuma label this month. The new music will follow in the fall. Scrappy but passionate, sloppy but not without skill, Detroit Rebellion sounds a little like a less produced Black Keys and a lot like themselves—which is what indie rock needs more of: artists that stand apart with organic (rather than contrived) originality. They're at Mohawk Place on Tuesday, July 25, with our own Nylon Otters and Doc Ellis. -CJT

Some trans and gender expansive people feel like they cannot go swimming after beginning transition, so this event was created to help support gender-diverse folks in going to the beach and being visible together. This is most definitely meant to be a family friendly event, so partners and allies are welcome! The group will meet at Woodlawn Beach State Park, which is just 15 minutes south of Buffalo. Email Shevy for details or with questions/concerns: sfitzgerald@pridecenterwny.org.

MONDAY, JULY 24 GAY DAY AT DARIEN LAKE! 11am-6pm at 9993 Allegheny Rd, Darien Center

NEW PORNOGRAPHERS WITH CLOUD NOTHINGS TUESDAY JULY 25 WEDNESDAY JULY 26 7PM / ASBURY HALL, 341 DELAWARE AVE. / $30

Live At Larkin: Buffalo Colored Musicians Club Centennial Celebration

[INDIE] Led by singer Neko Case, the New Pornographers are never short on hooks. After seven

5pm Larkin Square, 745 Seneca Street free

albums, their catchy yet complex indie-pop style has been perfectly refined. Their latest album,

Whiteout Conditions, is an exercise in pop songwriting—songs are crafted in such a was as to have the captivating ability to get you singing along by the end of the first listen. When the New Pornographers come to Babeville’s Asbury Hall on Tuesday, July 25, they’ll bring with them the added bonus of Cleveland indie-punk band Cloud Nothings. The four-piece band’s latest album, Life

Without Sound is a deviation from the band’s usually angsty grunge-inspired style, opting instead

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Well, now – this ought to be awesome… Tickets are $45, which includes admission to both parks, all u can eat and drink and free parking if purchased in advance from any of the locations listed here: In Buffalo - Club Marcella, Q, Funky Monkey, Cathode Ray, and Underground; In Rochester - Bachelor Forum; In Utica - That Place / Team Larry. Schedule is as follows: Park Opens at 11am. The 'gay fun' starts at 1pm in the pavilion; Drinks will flow from 2-6pm; Food will be served from 3:30-5:30pm; a drag show with giveaways will happen at 4pm and there'll be a laser show at 10pm. This is an all ages event, 21+ to drink. If you already have a season pass, you can purchase a $25 bracelet for food/drink at the pavilion. Once again, parking is free when tickets are purchased in advance. If you have transportation issues, contact Kevin V Wagner/Jayme Coxx on facebook.

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for what frontman Dylan Baldi called “my version of new age music,” which should make the band an interesting and apposite match to the New Pornographers’s exuberant sound. -CORY PERLA

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[AFROBEAT] The Colored Musicians Club of Buffalo will continue their centennial celebration with a concert featuring the Buffalo Afrobeat Orchestra and Brotha Perry on Wednesday, July 26. The concert is the next in the free Live at Larkin concert series, which happens each Wednesday during the summer in Larkin Square. Founded in 1917, the Colored Musicians Club is the longest continuously operating African-American Musicians Club in the entire United States, and has hosted jazz greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Duke ElP lington. -TPS

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started the band as teenagers in the U.K. Though they debuted after the pop punk craze started by New Found Glory and Blink 182 started to wear away, for a younger generation, All Time Low picked up where those groups left off. Catch All Time Low in Niagara Falls this Wednesday, July 26 when the band comes to the Rapids Theatre. -CORY PERLA

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Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses is absurd, dark, and funny in a way that seems unique to the mountains of other post-apocalyptic writing out there. The story, “A Hundred Apocalypses,” is written in four sections—“quarters” as Corin calls them—each involving its own apocalypse. They range from the reasonable to the grotesque, with much overlap. One story, “July Fourth,” describes the ground being “covered with bodies” as the narrator lays down among them, looking “at the sky, bracing for the explosions.” In another, “Barbarians,” the economy collapses, which excites the narrator, until the world falls apart and the narrator gets scratched in the eyes by a kitten: “I felt the pats of little kitten feet and felt I was not in it alone.” One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses will cause unease in even the most detached reader.

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40-piece orchestra. It’s evident as soon as you click play on the first track, “Follow the Leader,” that this, like most of Foxygen’s previous releases, is a retro-nostalgic affair—and their use of pianos, horns, and vocal chorus groups, are an essential part of getting that sound right. Though most of their fans probably aren’t nostalgic for big band sounds, Abba Songs, or 1950s pop-jingles, the songs are so properly crafted that it doesn’t really matter if you remember the source material. What makes the album all the more dramatic is that the band was able to keep it together long enough to record—in 2015 they went on a Farewell Tour that was only partially a joking matter, as the duo has reportedly struggled to get along since their breakthrough with We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic. Though the band is on the heels of a critically acclaimed record in Hang,

their history of instability means you should take this chance to catch Foxygen at the Tralf Music Hall this Wednesday, July 26 with support from Cut Worms. -CORY PERLA

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MUSIC SPOTLIGHT What is the biggest challenge of doing this festival each year? Funds. Money. We do our event on a shoestring and we do it because so many people come to the table willing to perform or provide services for less than their normal rate in order to help support the cause. If they didn’t do that, we would never be able to survive. It’s really a labor of love and a labor of the whole community together.

What are your goals for Slyboots School of Music and Sly Fest?

Griffin Brady (center) drums with the Sly Boots School of Music and Dance.

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The goal is to create a community resonance and showcase the work that we do around the country and around the world. Sly Fest is an opportunity to bring to our community what it is that we’re doing. The Saakumu troop has continued to come back to the United States every year, since 2008. We’re just about to embark in our 11th international tour together in November. Each year we reach over 40,000 students at colleges, universities, elementary schools, high schools all across the country. We’re working to renovate this church in Buffalo. We renovated a building of our own back at Sly Fest 7, 8, 9, and 10, we were working through transitions of finding a brick and mortar home here in Buffalo. We’ve gone through a lot of different phases, a lot of different evolutions, teaching drum and dancing classes— at Canalside, at 700 Main Street, at the Yard, at Shakti Yoga, at Ashker’s on Main Street, at Verve Dance Studio, basically anywhere we can gather and put on a class. We’ve been doing a Tuesday drum and dance class for like six years running. But it’s been at a different place because as we renovate buildings and owners sell the buildings, we’re just trying to get a foothold here in Buffalo. So this opportunity at the church is really a serious marker to show that we’re on the right path and that the community is responding. This opportunity to open up a real world class venue for music and dance education, specifically world music and dance education is unprecedented and exactly the opportunity we’ve been working toward.

BY CORY PERLA How would you describe the current state of Sly Fest?

THREE DAYS OF CAMPING, DRUMMING, AND COMMUNITY AT SLY FEST 12 VISITING AFRICA CHANGED Griffin Brady’s life. It was after

his trip to Ghana that Brady decided to launch the Sly Boots School of Music as a student at Fredonia in the early 2000s. Inspired by his then mentor and now working partner, master percussionist Bernard Woma—who runs the Dagara Music Center in Ghana—Brady set out to create a music school modeled after his teacher’s; a place where he could bring in cultures from all around the world and create opportunities for artists to come and display their drumming and dancing. And that’s what he did, with the Sly Boots School of Music. His first step was to bring the Saakumu dance troop to the United States from West Africa, which he did—the group is now the resident dance company for the school. His vision then turned toward creating his one of a kind world music festival, which he calls Sly Fest. This week we talked to Brady about the history of the 12th annual festival, which is returning to the Great Blue Heron Festival for the second year in a row August 11 through 13, and his plans for the future.

How has Sly Fest evolved over its 12 year span? In 2005 I was playing in a jazz fusion group called On the Sly and we launched the first Sly Fest that year after I got back from Africa. That’s when I started the Sly Boots school in the barn in the back of our house in Fredonia. We did three years there at the house we were renting. It was kind of like a college party. By Sly Fest 3 I had saved up enough money to put some things in line—I enrolled in a masters program at Goddard College and I designed my whole degree around bringing 15 members of the Saakumu dance troupe from Ghana to the United States for the first time ever, in 2008, which was right when we came into Sly Fest 4 at the North Fork Music Park. We did Sly Fest 4, 5, and 6 at North Fork, branching out and bringing in some of my favorite musicians—the Slip and Marco Benevento, and One World Tribe. We were really starting to reach out into the world music and jazz niche—not giving people a show that’s like every other show of the summer, but giving them a real different kind of festival experience always centered around drumming and dancing. Then the North Fork Music Park shut down after Sly Fest 6, so that was kind of a big transitional year for us. We moved to the Griffis Sculpture Park, and of course they don’t allow camping, so we began to scale the event down to be a one day event and just be a fundraiser, because these things are a labor of love, they seldom make money. In 2010 we started to bring groups to West Africa to Bernard’s school in Ghana. We scaled down the festival size but we ramped up the cultural component in opening up the exchange. The dance troupe continued to come back to the United States every year, since 2008. When the opportunity came up for Sly Fest 10 it was kind of a rebirthing opportunity. We had someone from the community come forward and give us an anonymous endowment and we were able to invest that back into the community and bring Kaki King and 18 THE PUBLIC / JULY 19-25, 2017 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM

Bernard Woma and Cyro Baptista to come and support the event for number 10, and we did well. It was kind of like year one all over again. In each place we’ve had to recreate a rhythm, and this last year we changed venues and went to the Great Blue Heron to open back up to camping and to expand our reach and work to fit with their demographic. There is a big drum community that already resides at the Great Blue Heron. So there’s a target audience there who maybe doesn’t even know the magic that our organization has in store for them.

Why is percussion based music and world music so important to you? Before blockbuster movies and big time entertainment there was the drum. The drum is the original storyteller, the passer of culture, the perpetuator of all things artistic. No matter what corner of the world you go to, they might have completely different tonal structures, completely different insturments, even completely different drums, but the drums are there and percussion is there. The rhythms that create this existence are mimicked and mirrored and honored through rhythms. That is one of the underlying things that pulls us together as humanity and trumps [he laughs], never mind trumps, I won’t even say trumps, but it really has the ability to make all of the other differences seem small. They say that music is the universal language, well drumming is the alphabet.

For this festival I think one of the unexpected gems might be DJ Logic. I think that dozsome might not realize that a musician like DJ Logic can be extraordinarily rhythmic, though he’s DJing.

Now we’re at a stage at Sly Fest where we’re kind of shifting the focus and it’s not so much just an awareness raiser or a platform for marketing and creating a brand, the community knows what we’re doing—and now Sly Fest has been thrust into the responsibility of becoming our fundraiser. Our big annual opportunity for the community to come out and show their support for the work that we do and help us to manifest our spot at this Richmond Ferry Church. We are embedded into the nonprofit that runs the church program, which is called the Rosanna Elizabeth Heckl Foundation for the Arts, which is a non profit that runs the church program. All Sly Fest sponsorships and donations are passed through that organization. We’ve been doing this thing for a long time and now people can directly have impact on the future of it. Do want to see that church come back to life after 25 years of sitting there and doing nothing? Come out and support this event and the proceeds are going to the Buffalo World Music and Dance Academy, the new evolution of Sly Boots in our time and place. I lost my mother in February and she lived with an undeniable passion for going out and living every day. Carpe diem she’d tell me every day. If you were to leave this earth tomorrow, you’re not bringing any of your money or riches with you, you’re going to leave an impact, and what that impact is is completely up to you. Now I’ve got a baby boy who was just born a year ago. Life is changing for me in a big way. I’m a very different person now than I was 12 years ago when this journey began, but the emerging man out of all of this is still optimistic, is still hopeful, and is still believing wholeheartedly in the nature of persistence, to allow this passion that’s been driving me to take center stage at Sly Fest and inspire people.

What’s your favorite part of the festival each year?

DJ Logic is one of these guys who has been able to reinvent himself and his sound over and over again. If you look at the long list of people he’s collaborated with they’re some of the greatest drummers on the planet. It’s not by accident. He’s got a wonderful ear and flexibility. We’ve never had a DJ featured at Sly Fest, because the nature of the event is centered around drumming and dancing and a kind of return to your root kind of thing, but DJ Logic has got that something special. He’s perfectly applicable to the scene because he can reinvent and make it accessible to any audience regardless of taste.

Each year it changes. Each year has something special about it that will stick with me in my memory. I think, seeing the kids is one of the big things now especially now that I have a little boy. Looking back at the pictures of Sly Fests past, seeing the families and seeing the intrigue and curiosity and the joy, it’s such a magical experience for everybody, but for the kids especially.

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The underlying thing that ties it together is here we are in America and America is a big part of the world. We’ve got music that was born right here in the United States that is just as important and viable as any other culture. We want to have that represented and celebrated in addition. We don’t want to be “us and them,” we don’t want to be apart, we want to be together. Jazz music, funk music, folk music, Appalachian music, all of this stuff has a place in the Sly Fest community.

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FILM REVIEW And sometimes the movie gods respond. Maudie, which opens Friday at the Amherst Theater, is a film to fall in love with. British filmaker Aisling Walsh’s movie is a biography of Maud Lewis, born in 1903 in Nova Scotia. She was crippled from a young age by rheumatoid arthritis, and after the death of her parents in the 1930s was left in the hands of a brother and aunt who clearly regarded her as a burden. Determined not to be institutionalized, she found a position as a housekeeper for a local man who placed an ad at the general store. To call the place where Everett Lewis lived a house is a stretch. It was a utilitarian room in a remote area, 10’ by 12’ with a sleeping loft, no gas, plumbing or electricity. I presume he built it himself; the film is parsimonious with details like that, though to be fair they may have been hard to come by. Lewis was an orphan who made his own living doing odd jobs and selling fish door to door. If there was a precise antonym for “affable,” that would be the word to describe him.

Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins in Maudie.

FINDING JOY MAUDIE BY M. FAUST THIS MORNING’S EMAIL included publicity

for a new film which one admirer describes as “A rock’n’roll rollercoaster of a movie punctuated with deranged human beings doing awful, awful things.” I’m not going to be disingenuous and

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 DUNKIRK—Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) moves from fantasy to history for this recreation of the operation to evacuate Allied soldiers from a beach in France before they are surrounded by German forces. Starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Tom Hardy. Reviewed this issue. AMC Maple Ridge, Aurora, Dipson Eastern Hills, Dipson Flix, North Park, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria GIRLS TRIP—Shouldn’t there be an apostrophe in there somewhere? Latest entry in the “girls get raunchy on vacation” genre, this time in New Orleans. Starring Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee (The Best Man Holiday). Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria MAUDIE—Biopic starring Sally Hawkins as Maud Lewis, who lived a hard life in Nova Scotia but produced a now-treasured collection of folk art from hardscrabble materials. With Ethan Hawke. Directed by Aisling Walsh (The Daisy Chain). Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS—A comic book epic with a difference: it’s from France. Of course, given that the director is Luc Besson, whose has made a career out of imitating Hollywood excesses, that may not be all that much of a difference Starring Cara Delevingne, Dane DeHaan, Elizabeth Debicki, Ethan Hawke, Clive Owen and Rihanna. Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA THE BIG COMBO (1955)—The masterful John Alton photographed this noir drama starring Cornel Wilde as a police lieutenant obsessed with bringing down a local gangster. Co-starring Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy and Jean Wallace. Directed by Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy). Fri 9:30 pm. Screening Room BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (1984)—

claim to be mystified why anyone would consider that a recommendation. Still, especially at this time of year, one tires of that kind of thing and wishes that the movie gods would send something more uplifting one’s way.

Charles Burnett wrote and photographed this independent film that addresses many of the same themes as his earlier Killer of Sheep, as a Los Angeles family struggles to survive unemployment. Directed by Billy Woodberry, it was added to the National Film Registry in 2013. Presented by Cultivate Cinema Circle. Thurs July 20, 7 pm. Hallwalls THE HITCH-HIKER (1953)— Nail-biter about two guys on their way home from a fishing trip who give a ride to an escaped prisoner, who announces that he will kill them as soon as they take him where he’s going. If the killer looks familiar, it’s because William Talman went on to play Hamilton Burger, the district attorney who always lost to Perry Mason on that TV show. With Edmond O’Brien and Frank Lovejoy. Directed by Ida Lupino. Thurs 6 pm. Screening Room LANCE DIAMOND: A DIAMOND IN THE BUFF—Documentary about the legendary Buffalo performer who led a high-energy rock and soul revue for many years. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s directors Kevin Polowy and Brandon Rae, and an official after-party featuring live music from numerous Diamond collaborators at Milkie’s on Elmwood. Thurs July 20 7 pm. North Park LES MISÉRABLES (2012)—Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) directs the longin-coming film of the Broadway musical based on Victor Hugo’s novel about a man’s lifelong flight from injustice. Starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter and Oscar winner Anne Hathaway. July 20 7 pm. Riviera Theater. MOULIN ROUGE (2001)—As concocted by Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom), with a lot of help from his wife, set and costume designer Catherine Martin, this fairy tale set in the fabled Parisian night club of 100 years ago is as relentlessly fast-moving as any Jerry Bruckheimer action flick, but a lot more entertaining. The song-and-dance numbers feature a variety of tunes from throughout the 20th century are as spectacular as anything since Busby Berkeley: my favorite is “Roxanne” refashioned as a tango. Nicole Kidman stars as the showgirl suffering from courtesan dualism as she tries to satisfy both her heart and her pocketbook after falling in love with penniless composer Ewan McGregor. Co-starring Jim Broadbent, John Leguizamo, and Richard Roxburgh. Thurs 27 7 pm. Riviera Theater. NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950)—Masterpiece of film noir starring Richard Widmark as a promoter who thinks he’s finally found the key to success with a Greek wrestler. Co-starring Gene Tier-

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Do they fall in love? You could say that love existed by the end of their lives. It grows out of accommodating each other. Everett wants an improvement in his living conditions and, well, what a man wants from a woman. Maud wants security and peace. And one other thing: time and tools to paint. That Maud Lewis is remembered today is for her paintings. Various sources say that she was

ney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe and Herbert Lom. Directed by Jules Dassin (Never on Sunday). Fri-Sat 7:30 pm. Screening Room THE STRANGER (1946)—Orson Welles directed and co-stars in this suspenseful thriller about a government agent (Edward G. Robinson) tracking down an escaped Nazi living under an assumed name in suburban Connecticut. Welles and John Huston both worked on the script, though they’re not credited. Co-starring Loretta Young and Richard Long; look fast for “Brother” Theodore Gottlieb. Sat 9:30 pm. Screening Room TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)—After Citizen Kane, this pulp noir was as close as Orson Welles ever got to making a studio film on his own terms. It’s hard to tell how seriously he expects viewer to take the melodramatic story pitting Charleton Heston (as a Mexican DEA agent!) against a corrupt border town cop (a shockingly bloated Welles), but the craftsmanship and enjoyment of storytelling shines through in every scene, beginning with the still-astonishing crane shot that opens the film. Co-starring Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Marlene Dietrich, and Mercedes McCambridge. Thurs 7:30 pm. Screening Room THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) and TWISTER (1996)—Is this a brilliant double feature or what? Tues dusk. Transit Drive-In

CONTINUING BABY DRIVER—In films like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End, writer-director Edgar Wright used parodying his favorite trash film genres as an excuse to make he same thing he was supposed to be kidding. Working entirely outside of England for this action movie about a hotshot young crime driver trying to get away from the gangster who controls him, he uses Michael Bay-ish photography and editing to enliven a script that is cut-and-pasted from the early years of Quentin Tarantino—Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, True Romance. In other words, it’s a retread of a retread. It might have worked if it wasn’t all built around Ansel Elgort, a young actor so blandly callow that he makes you long for the days of Fabian and Frankie Avalon. –MF With Jon Bernthal, Lily James, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey and a small army of celebrity cameos. AMC Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In BEATRIZ AT DINNER—Salma Hayek, as a salt of the earth immigrant, and John Lithgow, as a cigar-chomping, earth-destroying, society-endangering capitalist, do verbal battle at an

taught by her mother or that she taught herself; her style was simple, apparently begun as a way of decorating dull spaces. She seldom produced anything bigger than the size of a piece of paper, but she produced many of them, using house paints and whatever surfaces were available. At the time of her death, the entire interior of the house was covered with her brightly colored images of the rural world she saw. Although the Lewises found something of a market for Maud’s pictures, she didn’t do them for money: she did them because they brought her joy, in a life where little else did that. Maud is played by Sally Hawkins, the extraordinary British actress who hasn’t had many leading roles in the movies since Mike Leigh’s Happy Go Lucky. (You may recall her as the mother in Paddington.) Like the rough Nova Scotia landscape, her Maud isn’t pretty but she is beautiful, and if her disabilities aren’t quite as extreme as re-enacted by Daniel Day Lewis as Christy Brown in My Left Foot, it’s still a comparison worth making: Hawkins she’s that good. As Everett, Ethan Hawke worked with Hawkins to pare their dialogue to a minimum: these are not people who would have talked a lot to each other. Writing in 1997 about an exhibition of Maud’s work, Bernard Riordon, director of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, said “I think it will bring joy to people, and that they will go away feeling a great deal of satisfaction in the value of simple P things.” The same is true of this movie.

elegant dinner party in this new comedy by longtime collaborators director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White (The Good Girl, Chuck and Buck). It’s probably an accident of timing that the film arrives in theaters at a time when the dangerously concentrated economic and political advantage at the top of the American social system is such a matter of public discussion. The film is smoothly directed and the visual scene setting is fluid and supportive. But Arteta and White have freighted it with simplistic assumptions and overdrawn conflict that often come across as self-righteously liberal and thin. With Chloë Sevigny, Connie Britton, and Jay Duplass. —GS Dipson McKinley OPENS FRI THE BEGUILED—Sofia Coppola’s adaptation of the 1966 novel by Thomas Cullinan is both similar to and a departure from the version filmed in 1971 by Don Siegel. Like Siegel’s other film of that year, Dirty Harry, it starred Clint Eastwood wounded Union army corporal who, near the end of the Civil War, is taken in at a seminary for young women. Employing a “feminine gaze” to the older film’s masculine assumptions and fears about females, Coppola has diminished the brutal elements and given her film a calmer, more sympathetic cast, turning Siegel’s gothic horror movie into a curious but uninvolving mood piece that lacks tension or dramatic interest for much of its length. Starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning. —GS Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills ENDS THURS THE BIG SICK—Believe the hype for this gentle, good-natured culture clash rom-com produced by Judd Apatow. Stand-up comic Kumail Nanjiani (TV’s “Silicon Valley”), whose family moved to the US from Pakistan when he was a child, and North Carolina-born Emily Gordon wrote the script based on their own relationship. Their romance is impeded first by her reticence to be distracted from her studies, then by his inability to stand up to his parents who are trying to set him up in an arranged marriage, and then by an illness that would be hard to believe if it weren’t a true story. Holly Hunter and Ray Romano nearly steal the film as her parents, who first meet Kumail in the waiting room of the hospital where their daughter is in a coma. -MF Directed by Michael Showalter (Hello, My Name Is Doris). Dipson Amherst, Dipson Flix THE EXCEPTION—Christopher Plummer stars as exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II, engineering a plot to return to power in Germany 20 years after he was exiled to Belgium. Little does the octogenarian know that the Nazis are actually using him as a way of flushing out anyone with monarchist sympathies. This

British-Belgian co-production spends more time with the surprisingly explicit relationship between the Kaiser’s conflicted keeper (Jai Courtney, who spends way too much time at the gym) and a housemaid (Lily James) who is also a Jewish spy. It’s a lurid spy thriller whose occasional silliness is tolerable, though there’s noting silly about Eddie Marsan as a deceptively soft-spoken Heinrich Himmler. –MF Directed by David Leveaux. Dipson Eastern Hills 47 METERS DOWN provides a new variation on the ever-popular shark summer thriller. Mandy Moore and Claire Holt play two sisters vacationing Mexico (really the Dominican Republic) coaxed by local romantic interests to descend into shark infested waters in a protective cage just like the one that failed Richard Dreyfuss in Jaws. The women spend the rest of the film on the ocean floor, trapped in the cage and surrounded by a school of Great Whites as their oxygen runs out. It’s primarily a two-character thriller, a souped-up version of Open Water that manages to be claustrophobic even in the expansive ocean. The dialogue lacks the bite of Spielberg’s classic, and is so shallow that whenever Matthew Modine (collecting a paycheck and a vacation) warns of some hypothetical danger, that scenario becomes fait accompli, but the direction and cinematography yield stunning visuals and the promised scares. Visual effects have come a long way since an uncooperative Bruce the shark forced Spielberg to fashion a more Hitchcockian thriller than he had planned, and these sharks are entirely convincing. A film like this succeeds only if its audience is willing to go along with the increasingly preposterous situations the heroes face, and director Johannes Roberts, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ernest Riera, pushes all the right buttons. —Greg Lamberson Dipson McKinley, Four Seasons, Regal Walden Galleria THE HOUSE—As if Hollywood’s summer fixation on comic books and children’s movies wasn’t complete enough, of late the industry seems incapable of producing a decent comedy for adults. Snatched and Rough Night were bad enough, but this vehicle for Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler plays like it was written by a 14-year-old, or someone who assumed that all he had to do was give the stars a situation (suburbanites open a casino in order to pay for their daughter’s college tuition) and they could improvise their way through it. Andrew Jay Cohen presumably graduated to the director’s chair on the basis of having written Neighbors and Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, but he shows a shocking lack of talent for the job: the result is implausible, incoherent, and hugely unfunny. With

REVIEW FILM usual massive scope of the big star-studded 1960s and 1970s cinematic recreations of Second World War battles and campaigns (Midway, Battle of the Bulge), to get something more personal and visceral amid a great, historic situation. He came closer to his goal than I anticipated, even if his aim went astray now and then.

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Dunkirk is about the famously and heroically improvised rescue of more than 400,000 British and Allied soldiers from their entrapment by German forces at the titular French seaside city, and elsewhere on the French coast, in May and June of 1940.

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Dark Knight, Inception) recently told the New York Times that he didn’t want his new picture, Dunkirk, to be “a typical war film.” “We’re trying to disturb the established rhythm of these war movies,” he said. It’s obvious he eschewed the

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If any event in the history of warfare recalls extraordinary and courageous effort it’s this one, which the Brits dubbed “Operation Dynamo.” Most memorable is the emergency civilian supplement to the military’s operations, as a ragtag variety of 900 craft—tugs, fishing boats, barges, weekend sailors on their recreational boats— sailed across the channel to pick up the trapped soldiers. It’s an extraordinary story. Nolan has made an honest effort to capture it in a more intimate mode than is found in many war movies, although Dunkirk isn’t as unusual as he and others, including journalists, have been indicating. Oddly, despite its hallowed place in history, these events have been almost ignored by the movies, even by the British. (I know of only three that treat it even incidentally, one of them the sentimental American war-era inspirational melodrama, Mrs. Miniver.) Nolan’s approach (he wrote as well as directed) was to weave together three related narratives, each centering on a very few individuals, in order to give immediacy to his depiction. One follows the harrowingly challenged efforts of a very young solider, Tommy (newcomer Fionn Whitehead), to escape from Dunkirk. A second picks up the experience of a middle-aged civilian (Mark Rylance) who embarks on his small yacht, along with his adolescent son and a neighborhood kid, to pick up soldiers. The third focuses on a pair of RAF pilots (Tom Hardy, Jack Lowden) as they

try to shoot down the German planes strafing the massed soldiers on the beach and the rescue craft. Tommy’s grim adventure is the central, or through, story but the three Dunkirk-bound civilians’ is the most poignant and assimilable, both for its modest scale and eventually tragic element, and for Rylance’s muted but convincing performance. The other two sub-narratives, particularly Tommy’s, have some stunning scenes and shots, but they’re both more complex and more remote. Nolan and cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema impressively capture vast land- and seascapes (with the aid of computer imagery) but it’s clear Nolan wanted an intimate, in-close portrayal of these epic events. Much is being made of his cutting from one story to another and back, but such cross-cutting goes back at least a hundred-plus years to D. W. Griffith. (Everything old is new again?) Despite his successes, there are lapses and vagaries. The action can be hard to follow, even perplexing on occasion. The movie doesn’t bother with instructive preliminaries; from the get-go it has an urgent in medias res flow, presenting an audience with events already under way. And it can be misleading. The two RAF pilots seem almost isolated, although the British lost 177 planes over several days in trying to protect the beaches. And Dunkirk is of little help in understanding that valiant, desperate and doomed French troops kept the Germans at bay long enough for the Brits and their Allies to escape. But Nolan obviously wasn’t interested in being didactic. He wanted immediacy and intimacy in a hellish, if beautiful setting, and he’s been notably successful in accomplishing this. If you don’t like war movies, this one may be an P exception for you.

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“I’m not really here to make friends.” But it’s true. I’m not. And I’m not sure I completely understand those who are. Well, I take that back. When I was living in Texas for two years, the gay community was so fragmented and lacking in—jeez—lacking in just about everything, using hookup apps became a necessary device to find people for platonic socializing. But that was last ditch. It’s nothing I care to repeat. Thankfully, I’m not there anymore, and I feel like I meet enough LGBTQ folks through work and in my day-to-day travels whereby I don’t need to chit-chat with local strangers on a phone app just to find people with whom to spend time. In fact, I don’t understand where that extra time comes from for those engaged in doing it. When I was in Texas, I was extremely underemployed and, as alluded to above, pretty lonely. Phone hookup apps were just starting to really boom, and especially given that I was already in my 40s, it took a little while to find my footing. Online chat was never my favorite thing. It has always felt stilted and strange to me, but now I do it anyway…live, learn, adapt. Especially with strangers, it’s difficult to know what will fly. It’s a blind exchange. I often try and float something humorous as an icebreaker, but everyone is so easily offended here in the butt-hurt era, I’m perpetually concerned about hitting a nerve. Despite this, I regularly push myself off that cliff and sometimes I land on my feet, sometimes flat on my face. You must learn not to give a shit how you come across, which is especially challenging in a small city like Buffalo. But when someone on a hookup app is engaging you in nonsexual chitchat, there’s a gigantic elephant in the room. Which is to say, the elephant is there regardless (there really ought to be a DUMBO hookup app – and it’d complement our current zoology tangent, right?), but when you’re negotiating a sexual encounter with someone, at least you’ve both acknowledged it’s presence. If the conversation is revolving around Ru, World of Warcraft, or 13 Reasons Why, however, the elephant is just lurking—balls out, tail swatting… let it stand there long enough and it’s going to take a gigantic dump that’ll clear the room. If you’ve ever been to the circus, you know of what I speak. It feels a lot like wasted time. And if I’m going to waste time, I can think of much more pleasurable ways to manage it than making stilted chit-chat while an elephant busts a grumpy in the background. There was a time when making cyberconnections was a saving grace. But it wasn’t really intended for city dwellers like us. Rather, online liaisons were a great way for folks in remote places to plug into a network they couldn’t access otherwise. Chat rooms were destinations where folks could catch a 12-step meeting at an off hour or gather with other fans of very specific, obscure things to geek out about them. Sex may be very specific for some, and so the internet can connect you with communities of fetishists that exist

outside the mainstream. All of this is very useful. But for most of us, using online applications to find just plain old sex is a copout. It avoids all the tricky parts. It’s a lame shortcut. You bypass all the cues exchanged between people when they meet in the flesh, all the signs and signals – the buildup. There’s no hot anticipation in app cruising, more just a lot of distrust (and resulting disdain), lifeless conversation and, often, anticlimactic encounters. It all sucks, really. But we’re hooked on these half-assed hookups. Like it or not, it’s how we do it now. So, to me, using the above described scenario to try and make friends is one toke over the line. Which isn’t to say that I’m completely uninterested in meeting new people or discovering new hobbies. But, at 47, I’m not into gaming (which seems to be a huge talking point with these people), and I barely have time to maintain the friendships that I’ve made organically, the old fashioned way, nor do I have sufficient downtime for the interests I’ve cultivated over my lifetime thus far. If I’m looking for a fast encounter, it’s probably something I can schedule— at best—a day or two in advance, and I definitely don’t have the time (or the patience) for a ton of negotiating. The longer it takes, the greater the chances that the elephant is going to take a crap; it’s a game of beat the clock. Equally if not more confusing are the couples I encounter on hookup apps. And it’s not because I don’t understand opening up a relationship to an occasional encounter with additional participants – I get that. It’s the euphemistic language so often employed that’s the problem. “We like playing tennis and hitting the gym, gardening, going to see live jazz and drinking craft cocktails.” All fine and well, but the chances of our doing any of that stuff together is mighty slim, so wouldn’t it be better to come clean and put the sexual agenda on the table rather than this litany of useless information? Or maybe make it clearer: “We don’t hookup with just anybody, so you might have to play doubles with us on the court or sit through a Chick Corea show first.” A little obnoxious, but fair enough. Thing is, this wasn’t promoted as a dating app. Aren’t there enough venues for that? Social media has blurred the lines on all this stuff, so we have different folks with different agendas on the same playing field. I’m all for fluidity in many realms of life, but this might be one area where it backfires. I’ve been approached sexually on facebook, which to me is about pretty much everything besides sex. And I’ve been made to feel stupid for approaching people sexually on hookup apps designed for that purpose by queers that would rather talk about jigglypuff and TV shows. To me, this speaks to a certain level of isolation and a failed understanding of boundaries. At a certain point, you’re not being innovative and ‘bending the rules,’ you’re just in the wrong place barking up the wrong tree. As a result, we end up wasting each other’s time which, in the end, is the most precious commodity of P them all.

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