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QUEEN CITY LANDING’S FUZZY NUMBERS BY GEOFF KELLY IS IT $40 MILLION OR $85 MILLION? Back in

mid-April, when he first sought (and quickly received) Common Council approval for his proposed 23-story Outer Harbor tower on the former Freezer Queen site, developer Gerald Buchheit valued the project at $40 million. In a recent sworn affidavit, Buchheit testified that the cost of the project lay somewhere between $60 million and $85 million. (He also testified in that affidavit, which is dated August 12, that construction was expected to begin in “summer of 2016.” This seems optimistic, given that September is a week away and the lawsuit to which the affidavit responds intends to prevent the project from moving forward.) The jump form $40 million to $60 million in just five months seems significant, but might be attributable to changes in the plan’s scope. He may also have raised the price of the project in order to raise the financial cost should the judge—Donna Siwek of the New York State Supreme Court—allow the lawsuit to proceed. In the paragraph after Buchheit offers the most recent cost estimate, he suggests that the US Federal Reserve is considering raising interests rate in the third and fourth quarters of this year, meaning he’s in a hurry to nail down financing now, which he can’t do if this pesky lawsuit is not dismissed. If it’s not, he says, the putative increase in interest rates could cost him $11,000 per month over 30 years, or $3.93 million. That cost would be lower, of course, if the price tag on the project were the $40 million he cited in April. Whatever the reason for it, the range Buchheit currently avers—$60 million to $85 million— seems awfully broad. One would pause, for example, before buying a a used car if the dealer told you the price was similarly flexible. Which is it? How can a developer enter into a project with such cost uncertainty? The attorney handling the lawsuit that seeks to stop the project, Wooster vs. Queen City Landing, is noted environmental advocate Art Giacalone,

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Lower West Sides present the worst lead poisoning problems in all of Upstate New York. Lead paint is considered the culprit, but the crisis in Flint, Michigan, has raised questions about the safety of the drinking water in cities like Buffalo. The testing program used by Buffalo to determine whether drinking water is safe does not target the minority neighborhoods where the lead poisoning problem is concentrated, an analysis by Investigative Post has found. Instead, the city has focused on testing residences in predominantly white neighborhoods in North and South Buffalo that report few, if any, lead poisoning cases. Consider the disparity: The city collected only five of 300 samples in the past five rounds of testing from homes in the ZIP code located in the heart of the East Side. By contrast, the city collected 41 out of the 300 samples from homes in the ZIP code that covers predominantly white neighborhoods in North Buffalo where not a single child was diagnosed with high lead levels in recent years. Nevertheless, Mayor Byron Brown said he wasn’t alarmed by Investigative Post’s findings. “I’m not concerned because our water is good in the City of Buffalo,” the mayor said. But Investigative Post found serious shortcomings in the city’s testing program that extend beyond the racial disparities and call into question the mayor’s claim that the city’s drinking water supply is safe. Two national experts who helped bring to light the lead in drinking water crises in Flint and Washington, DC, said Investigative Post’s findings are concerning. They are particularly troubled by the lack of testing in high-risk neighborhoods. “If you’re not sampling in those neighborhoods, how do you know that the water is safe?” said Marc Edwards, a civil engineering professor at Virginia Tech University. “I certainly would take the position that it is morally highly questionable, if not outright wrong,” added Yanna Lambrinidou, a Washington, DC activist who served on a federal Environmental Protection Agency advisory panel that recommended revisions to the federal drinking water regulation that deals with lead.

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tions about water quality in cities like Buffalo that have older infrastructure. Buffalo’s aging drinking water infrastructure is part of a growing problem across New York. The estimated cost of repairing and updating the state’s drinking water systems is almost $40 billion. Houses in Buffalo built before 1940 are more likely to have a lead service line that carry water from the street into the house. Experts say these homes are most at-risk for having lead in their drinking water. “It’s like drinking water through a 30-foot lead straw,” said Edwards, the national expert. Homes built before 1986 are more likely to have plumbing inside that contains lead, such as in solder used to connect pipes. Like all water utilities, Buffalo’s is required by federal law to periodically test drinking water in a limited number of homes. All the homes tested are required to have some form of lead in the pipes. In Buffalo, an average of 60 homes are sampled every three years. Experts say water utilities and health departments tend to downplay the risks of lead in drinking water. “I guarantee you: You sample for lead in worstcase Buffalo homes, you’re going to find significant levels of lead,” Edwards said.

THE DISPARITY Investigative Post filed Freedom of Information Law requests to obtain records for the sampling conducted in 2002, 2005, 2008, 2011, and 2014. An analysis of the records found that only onethird of the samples the city collected came from homes in the five ZIP codes that account for 91 percent of the reported childhood lead poisoning cases. These neighborhoods are collectively 66 percent minority. Nothing illustrates this disparity more than the sampling in ZIP code 14211, an area of the city bisected by Genesee Street that includes Martin Luther King and Schiller parks. The neighborhoods here are collectively 83 percent minority and accounted for almost 20 percent of the children diagnosed with dangerous levels of lead in their blood over the past three years. That’s 118 children. Nonetheless, not a single home here was sampled in 2014 or in 2008. In contrast, 46 percent of the samples the city collected came from homes in five ZIP codes that account for only 2.5 percent of the reported childhood lead poisoning cases. These neighborhoods are 84 percent white. The two most tested ZIP codes—81 of 300 samples—were in North and South Buffalo where not a single child was found to have elevated blood levels in the past three years. Both neighborhoods are overwhelmingly white. East Side residents interviewed by Investigative Post said they are disappointed but not surprised by the disparity. Residents say the disparity in testing is part of a larger pattern of neglect by the city. “People in these communities are numb to it,” said Madi Robinson, of East Woodside Avenue on the East Side. “You don’t know what we’ve been through down here. How do you get them to act?” Robinson’s neighbor, Alexis Adams, said the disparity in the sampling program made her “a little frustrated, a little angry, and a lot curious.” “We’ve got some of the older houses in the city. It’s proven that they’ve got higher lead levels. So, why wouldn’t they take the time to check it out?” she said. Brown said any resident can volunteer to participate in the city’s sampling program and reminders are inserted in ratepayers’ bills before testing begins. “We’re not ignoring any neighborhood,” he said. “They have the ability to contact us and request that their water be tested.” Neither Meadows nor Robinson recall seeing the insert in their water bills. Adams only noticed the insert after a reporter asked her to check her most recent bills. “It is a little flier with a pretty picture of a boat floating on the lake,” Adams said. “I didn’t pay attention to it.” McFoy, the Buffalo Water Board chairman, acknowledged that the fliers do not reach tenants whose landlords pay the bills.

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POSSIBLE VIOLATION OF LAW Federal law requires that at least half the homes sampled are deemed most at-risk. Investigative Post obtained, through the Freedom of Information Law, the records the city said it used to determine the most at-risk homes and the location of lead service lines. The law requires every home sampled have lead plumbing and at least half must have lead service lines that run from the street into homes, which are “pure 100 percent lead,” said Edwards, the Virginia Tech professor. Of the 62 homes sampled in 2014, Investigative Post could only verify lead service lines in 28 households based on the records the city provided. Furthermore, many of the records the city provided are from a century ago, some of which could be inaccurate. For example, most of the records do not indicate if a lead service line had been replaced. “We ran into this in Flint, Michigan, where we’re learning that the error rate in these records is about 50 percent,” Edwards said. “So, how do you know if you’re meeting the law when the records may not have been updated? I mean, it’s hard to believe that in some of those homes the service line hasn’t been replaced in a hundred years.” The Erie County Health Department said the city needs to ensure it is sampling the most at risk homes. “We have required them to investigate current plumbing materials and update their monitoring plan,” a health department spokeswoman said in an August 17 email.

POSSIBLE CONFLICT OF INTEREST Investigative Post also found up to a quarter of the homes tested in 2014 were owned by current and former city employees or their family members. Among the homes the city sampled that year are those owned by a former chief pumping plant engineer employed by the city for 30 years, a water treatment supervisor employed for 28 years, and a chemist employed for 23 years. In addition, the city sampled homes owned by public works employees, a parking enforcement officer, and a senior engineer. In 2008 and 2011, the city sampled a home owned by state Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes. Experts said that while testing homes owned by current and former employees, family members, and politicians is not illegal, it does raise questions about whether the city is testing the most at-risk homes. “It seems like they’re sampling more for convenience rather than for really trying to find lead problems and protect public health,” Edwards said. “Sampling homes of employees, I don’t know what justification you’d have for claiming that those are the worst-case homes in the city.” Lambrinidou, the DC expert, said testing the homes of current and former government employees poses a conflict of interest. “It is time for water utilities to be required to monitor precisely in the highest-risk neighborhoods where people do not have the means to protect themselves,” she said. Brown disagreed with the experts’ contention that sampling the homes of current and former employees poses a conflict. “If they request that their water be tested there’s no problem with them making that request just as we would encourage any city resident,” he said.

INACTION AND “CHEATING” Investigative Post found other problems with the testing program. In February, the EPA directed all water utilities to “increase transparency” by posting on their public websites the locations of lead service lines and updated records on the types of plumbing inside homes. Buffalo has failed to follow this guidance. “If utilities are not able to demonstrate that they have made progress in this regard, then we have a serious problem on our hands,” Lambrinidou said.

In June, the Guardian newspaper found that at least 33 cities, including Buffalo, used “cheats” that could reduce the amount of lead in drinking water before sampling. In fact, Buffalo’s water utility was one of a handful that “cheated” on all three measures by instructing residents to: • • •

Flush faucets prior to testing, which removes water that may have been in contact with lead plumbing. Clean filter screens inside faucets, which can remove flakes of lead. Run the water slowly while collecting samples, which can prevent lead particles from flaking off pipes.

“I don’t know how this sounds to residents of Buffalo who are asked and expected to trust their water utility when the utility tells them that their water is safe to drink,” Lambrinidou said. City officials have since changed the sampling instructions so that they are more in line with EPA’s guidance. But the Erie County Health Department has no plans to change its protocols when investigating sources of lead in homes where a child is diagnosed with elevated blood-lead levels.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT IGNORES RISK Alexis Adams, the East Side resident, said her great-grandson was diagnosed with a high bloodlead level two years ago. She said county health inspectors checked the window sills and walls, but did not find any lead hazards. What did the county health department conclude? “They said primarily they think he was putting pennies in his mouth, coins in his mouth,” she said. “That’s the best they could come up with. They didn’t check the water.” Meadows, the Buffalo activist, had a similar experience after her daughter was diagnosed with an elevated blood lead level. The only difference was that the health department said her daughter’s exposure came from the soil. Although soil can be a source of lead exposure, Meadows said her daughter rarely played in the yard. “They never tested the water,” she said. “I didn’t know any better at the time. I just had a suspicion that they were not telling me the truth.” Erie County Commissioner of Health Gale Burstein refused an interview request. She said in a prepared statement that the county does not routinely test the water in the houses of children diagnosed with elevated lead levels in their blood. In her statement, Burstein said county inspectors have identified lead paint “as the primary source of lead in our investigation of elevated blood lead levels.” “If presented with evidence that tap water was becoming an identified source of lead poisoning, ECDOH would absolutely consider modification of our testing protocol to include tap water,” she said. Edwards called Burstein’s reasoning “narrow-minded,” and Lambrinidou said it was “unconscionable.” “It is unethical and it is entirely unscientific,” said Lambrinidou. “Anybody, and certainly public health professionals who take the time to understand how lead in drinking water works, would know better than to make blanket statements like this that reveal a lack of understanding.”

RESIDENTS SKEPTICAL McFoy, chairman of the Buffalo Water Board, said the city has moved up its sampling program a year ahead of schedule as a result of “heightened awareness” since the crisis in Flint. He said the city has more than doubled the number of homes it is testing this round to “ensure that we have complete coverage in the city.” McFoy said officials have visited block clubs, called on Common Council members to help recruit residents and gone door to door in undersampled neighborhoods. “We want to simply ensure that we have complete coverage in the city,” McFoy said. East Side residents said they are not hopeful that testing will increase in their neighborhoods. “Of course it upsets me that we are obviously neglected,” Robinson said. “They don’t do anything down here unless there’s an urgency to act.” Adams said she felt similarly. “I would ask them why they’re not representing us, why they’re not looking out for our best interests,” she said. Dan Telvock is a reporter for Investigative Post, P a nonprofit investigative reporting center.

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WATERFRONT BRIDGE REOPENS A key bridge at the foot of Ferry Street linking the West Side to its waterfront that was under construction these past 18 months finally reopened in June. One of the most scenic and relaxing places in the area is the 1.7-mile Bird Island Pier.

NEW COCKTAIL MENU AT BALLYHOO As if Ballyhoo (211 South Park Avenue) couldn’t get any better, they went ahead and released a new cocktail menu filled with 30 old stand-bys, plus a few modern libations for good measure.

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When you left, the Bills had drafted two key pieces to end the longest playoff drought in pro sports: Shaq Lawson and Reggie Ragland. Both have since suffered major injuries and only Lawson has the possibility of seeing the field by the season’s midpoint. Go Bills!

One of Philly’s elite bartenders has returned to Buffalo to open his own bar and restaurant in Black Rock. A large portion of the team is made up of Buffalo boomerangs who are looking to bring outside experience to their 491 Amherst Street location, formerly home to Black Rock Kitchen & Bar. Will be opening as soon as the liquor license is cleared.

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Loaded with prospects and draft picks, the Sabres lit a third round pick on fire, exchanging it for the rights to prized NHL-ready college forward Jimmy Vesey. Vesey stayed true to his original plan and spurned the Sabres flirtations by signing last week with the New York Rangers, ensuring that the Sabres are stuck negotiating the out-of-control frat boy behavior of winger Evander Kane.

SPECTRAL LOCUS Check out Ferry and Richmond and 950 Broadway for a temporary splash of draped fabric color. This public art was a community effort and will only be up for a short time. Get ready for selfies.

MAYOR BYRON BROWN BESMIRCHED? Despite being appointed chair of the state Democrats and getting front row for Paul Simon at the Democratic National Convention, Mayor Byron Brown has had something of a rough summer as he eyes potential promotion to Congress or a federal appointment in the Clinton administration. The city’s lead testing protocol and its zero tolerance policing policy have taken hits, but nothing is potentially more damning to his fortunes than having his former deputy mayor, Steve Casey, “cooperating” with the FBI on corruption allegations.

THE 500 BLOCK OF MAIN STREET Recently opened to cars once again, the 500 block of Main Street boasts two new restaurants: Raclette’s for French food and D’Avolio, a suburban import featuring pizzas, salads, and sandwiches along with various olive oils and vinegars—in addition to Oshun, which has anchored the block heretofore. Additionally, Jerks has opened, offering old-time confections and malts in a 1950s atmosphere. Just Fries has opened here, too, and you can guess what they serve. Finally, Furnishings will make your new room look great.

CANALSIDE CONCERTS MAY BE ON THE MOVE The most successful public events in the city’s recent memory may be forced to a new location in the future. There have always been concerns about noise and security, and this summer Canalside’s popularity may have reached a tipping point, with a packed July 4 crowd that panicked when it thought it heard bullets instead of fireworks, and the T-Pain show, during which a crush of people overwhelmed the security barriers.

OAK STAVE OFFERS SOLID FARE If you find yourself out in the ’burbs, check out East Amherst’s new blue-collar Americana eatery, Oak Stave (5989 Transit Road). Try the Cowboy Steak or Stave Burger with a Whiskey Hard Cider to wash it down.

HIGH-RISE ON THE OUTER HARBOR? Gerald Buchheit, a developer with an uneven history, is moving forward with plans for a 23-story apartment building on Buffalo’s Outer Harbor, raising again the question of what the community’s collective vision is for the industrial parcels that have been reclaimed by parks and nature preserve.

OXFORD PENNANT HANGS ITS BANNER Designers and producers of vintage style pennants and banners. Their new showroom downtown on Tupper may have limited hours, but the shop’s website (oxfordpennant.com) makes it easy to upgrade your collegiate gear with a click of a button.

ONE SENECA TOWER After one prospective deal to buy the tower fell through, several prominent voices argued for demolishing the structure to reintroduce a prized piece of real estate for development. (And, in some cases, to protect the value of their existing holdings in downtown Buffalo.) But Buffalo’s tallest and emptiest building is again under contract for purchase by another out-of-state developer for $12 million.

CARNIVOROUS FOOD TRUCK Though this truck may look like it will run you down, with claw marks and sharp teeth painted all over it, don’t worry, it’ll probably slow down for you—if you’re a meat lover, that is. If not, move out of the way, because the Carnivorous food truck is “meat centered.” Their motto is “There is room enough for all of God’s creatures right next to the mashed potatoes, so pass the gravy and enjoy.” Menu items change seasonally but expect things like giant turkey legs, fried bologna sandwiches, and pot roast. Find them at carnivorousfoodtruck.com.

RETURN OF THE BACK ROOM AT ALLEN STREET HARDWARE In February of this year, the Back Room of Hardware, the dance club and bar in the back of Allen Street Hardware (245 Allen Street), was closed down in Footloose-esque fashion for failure to maintain a dance permit. Last weekend the club had its grand reopening, sporting a few changes—$100,000 worth of changes actually—which include added rest rooms, a new DJ booth, and a bunch of safety renovations.

PEACH MAG Peach Mag (peachmgzn.com) is a new online literary magazine for writers looking for an outlet to share their poetry and creative writing. “We want to connect people our age who don’t have book deals yet, those who are just discovering creative writing for the first time. We want to be able to make those connections for people in Buffalo,” said Rachelle Toarmino, one of the magazine’s editors in a recent interview with The Public. Peach Mag is now accepting submissions. Send yours to peachmgzn@gmail.com.

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THERE’S A LOT OF GOOD FOOD OUT THERE, AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE RICH TO EAT IT BUFFALO’S RESTAURANT SCENE has come a long way in the last 10 years, but, if you’re broke or on a budget, that growth can feel inaccessible. What UB graduate student can eat at Black Sheep or Billy Club every week? Happily, the scene has expanded across the spectrum: There is a wealth of cheap, delicious places to eat as well—dozens of them, really, from Burmese to Middle Eastern, Puerto Rican to Ethiopian. Here we offer a a handful of suggestions, some new and some old standbys, as a jumping-off point. Start here and you’ll soon find many new favorites.

LA DIVINA MEXICAN STORE 2896 Delaware Avenue

They are not the only $2 tacos in town but they are probably the best. A more substantial torta runs just $5 at this Kenmore restaurant, run by the family that also owns Don Tequila, Agave Mexican, and El Agave.

GRINDHAUS CAFE 160 Allen Street

The newest coffee shop in Allentown also serves lovely sandwiches—just $6, or $8 if you add a side—and all of the food is vegetarian, most of it vegan. Delicious pour-overs, too, and a quiet spot to chat, read, or do work.

SAZON CRIOLLO 272 Hudson Street

We have never done a cheap eats feature that did not include this West Side storefront Puerto Rican restaurant. (Ask our editor about it.) Substantial lunch specials just $6; mammoth sandwiches, big enough to serve two, for a couple dollars more.

THE MELTING POINT 244 Allen Street

There are some gussied-up grilled cheeses on the menu of this shoebox sandwich shop nestled among Allentown’s bars and music clubs. But if you’re broke and hungry, just get the classic: one for $1.99, a bag of six for $9.99.

ISLAND MIX 883 Jefferson Avenue

For our money, the best of the region’s handful of Caribbean restaurants. Lunch specials— curried or jerked chicken with beans and rice, for example—run $6 or $7. Full dinners are a bit more but worth it for the cabbage and mac and cheese on the side.

007 CHINESE West Side Bazaar, 25 Grant Street

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FREDDY J’S BARBECUE 195 Grant Street

Freddy is a barbecue artist, and his sides— which are as important a measure of a barbecue joint as the meat itself—are impeccable. And every dish on the menu is $10 or less.

VASILI’S EXPRESS 1066 Elmwood Avenue

A good place to watch young people administering to their hangovers of a late Saturday morning. Much to enjoy here, all of it reasonably priced. We recommend the falafel, which is delicious and will set you back a mere $5.50.

LONE STAR FAJITA GRILL 1855 Hertel Avenue

A North Buffalo standby toward the east end of Hertel Avenue. Nothing on the menu costs more than $5.25—that’s the taco salad—but we usually go for two guaco tacos, $2.35 each, and slather them in pico de gallo and hot sauce.

EDDIE’S CHOP HOUSE 3171 Main Street

Another place with a $6 lunch special—in fact, you’d be hard-pressed to spend more than that on one dish, unless you ordered an entire duck. The cuisine is Chinese barbecue, along with noodle bowls and other satisfying dishes.

MR KONE’S 893 Jefferson Avenue

This ice cream stand also offers burgers and fries and other such fare at remarkably low prices. (Most lunch specials come with a piece of cake, too.) It’s not exotic but it’s a bargain. The delicious barbecue joint next door, Mr. Bone’s, appears to have closed, but something new is sure to fill the space soon.

RANCHOS LATIN FOOD 1516 Niagara Street

The arepas here—$8 for a massive serving of shredded pork or beef or chicken, doused in lovely hot sauce—are outrageous. Try getting three mini-arepas for $4 instead and split them. Maybe add some yuca with avocado for $3 and call it a meal.

PHO DOLLAR 322 West Ferry Street

Pho Dollar isn’t super-cheap—you’re going to spend $10 or $15 per person here, maybe more—but use the money you saved by living on $2 tacos and splurge: This Vietnamese place makes lovely dishes unlike any other place else in town.

AMY’S PLACE 3234 Main Street

Becoming a regular at Amy’s Place might as well be a graduation requirement at the University at Buffalo. It’s cheap, it’s delicious, it’s welcoming. It’s been an institution in University heights for 35 years. We like the lentil-berry sandwich, but an early-bird plate of eggs for P $2.50 is nice, too.

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SECOND FRIDAYS AT THE BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER Sense a theme building here? Like the Albright-Knox, its neighbor across the street, the Burchfield Penney waives its usual entrance fee, stays open late (10am-8pm), and offers a happy hour plus a program of talks, music, screenings, and other special events. Visit burchfieldpenney.org for more information.

THIRD FRIDAYS AT THE BUFFALO HISTORY MUSEUM Once again, admission is free, the place stays open late (until 8pm), and there are special events and programming. There is no better place to get to know the city and its history. Visit buffalohistory.org for more information.

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Once again, admission is free, the place stays open late (until 8pm), and there are special events and programming. Here you’ll pass among the studios of working artists in a variety of disciplines, in a sprawling factory that used to manufacture windshield wipers. Visit buffaloartsstudio.org for more information.

FIRST FRIDAYS AT THE ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY On the first Friday of each month, the Albright-Knox waives its usual entry fee for most of its galleries, stays open late (10am10pm), and offers tours all day, a happy hour (5:30-7:30pm), and special programming in the evening. On September 2, it’s jazz with Doug Yeomans and Sue Kincaid during the happy hour, followed by Squeaky Wheel’s 13th annual Animation Fest. On October 7, College Night at the Albright-Knox, the happy hour musicians are Bill Bates and Bob White; afterward artist Joan Linder will give a talk about her exhibit at the gallery, and folk outfit Savannah & the Kings will play a set. Visit akag.org for details.

SATURDAY ARTISANS MARKET AT CANALSIDE Nearly every Saturday, Canalside hosts an open-air market for artists and artisans to exhibit and sell their work. But that’s not all there is: Free of charge every week, there are tours and yoga classes and an ever-changing variety of other activities. In both warm and cold weather, a trip to Canalside—once the epicenter of Buffalo commerce, now an open-air waterfront park—is a great free-to-cheap way to spend a morning or afternoon. Visit canalsidebuffalo.com for more information.

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The assortment of small galleries in Allentown offer their own first Friday event too: a gallery walk spanning all of Allen Street and its side streets, usually featuring exhibit opening receptions. It’s a much better way to get to know Allentown than a bar crawl—not that they are mutually exclusive. Visit allentown.org for more information.

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MAPPING STUDENT DEBT BY DANIEL BAUER

IT’S A PARTICULAR PROBLEM FOR POOR AND MINORITY COMMUNITIES—AND A GENERAL THREAT TO OUR SOCIETY THE WASHINGTON CENTER FOR EQUITABLE GROWTH recently released Mapping Student Debt, an intuitive visual method for connecting student debt with larger issues of economic inequality. It’s a nifty tool that lets us see how the student debt problems we already knew existed have gotten even worse in Buffalo. Long story short: Less affluent areas get hit harder with student loan delinquencies, and delinquencies disproportionately affect African American populations. A few key takeaways:

MORE DEBT = LESS FREQUENT DELINQUENCY It seems counterintuitive: The more debt you take on, the less likely you are to miss your payments. WCEG provides an explanation for this phenomenon. First, the people who take on the most debt tend to be graduate students, who face a much friendlier labor market than those of us with simple undergrad degrees. They tend to be whiter, which means they don’t face the same kind of hiring bias that people of color do. And they tend to come from families that are wealthy enough to help them out if they’re in danger of becoming delinquent on their debts. On the other side, people who borrow less often can’t count on the same kind of privilege or safety net. With less ready access to credit (something very much tied to race), they’re more likely to fall into exploitative loan arrangements. Perhaps most unfortunate of all, these students are more likely to attend for-profit colleges. which tend to prey openly on low-income, minority, and veteran students. For-profit colleges tend to have poor graduation and job placement rates; in the worst cases, they’re schemes which enable institutions to gobble up financial aid money while providing worthless educations to vulnerable populations.

EVEN WHEN YOU CONTROL FOR INCOME, RACE MATTERS WSEG found that, across the country, ZIP codes with higher African-American or Latino populations had much higher loan delinquency rates. “Wait!” you might say. “Race and income usually correlate too. How can we be sure this isn’t a matter of income?” Sort of a covert attempt to derail, but we’ll go with it. WSEG controlled for income and found that this racial element didn’t necessarily cut across all income levels. High-income ZIP codes, regardless of race, had low rates of delinquencies. In lower-income zip codes, there were also low rates of delinquencies, likely because residents couldn’t afford to borrow money to go to college if they wanted to. In middle class ZIP codes, though, race correlated with greater delinquency rates, reflecting a long history of structural racism in the US. Education is often lauded as the key to social mobility for people looking to break into the middle class, and student debt is often perceived as investment in the future. With every investment, though, there’s risk: In this case, the risk of not being able to pay back your loans. African-American and Latino families are much more likely to fall victim to that risk. Decades of racist practices, like redlining, mean that those families are much less likely to have any sort of financial cushion to fall back

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on if things don’t go exactly right. On top of that, things are much less likely to go exactly right for non-white populations. African-American and Latino students are much less likely to complete college and less likely to apply and be admitted to prestigious institutions. Those populations are also more likely to be preyed upon by the worst kinds of high-cost creditors. Even after graduation, there are plenty of studies out there that show that, despite laws to the contrary, minority populations face persistent hiring discrimination. Middle-class African Americans and Latinos, then, face much stiffer odds than white peers in the same income bracket when it comes to paying off their student loans.

EVEN NON-DELINQUENT DEBT CAN BE STIFLING There’s a lot of info out there about the negative effects of saddling a whole generation of highly-educated citizens with unmanageable debt. Even as higher education is supposedly necessary for securing a decent life for yourself, student debt erodes the middle class by making it increasingly difficult to attain a middle-class income and do middle-class things like buy cars and houses. It also contributes to widening income inequality: According to Pew Research Center, young adults without student debt had seven times the net worth of young adults with debt. That’s all well-documented. What I want to talk about are the political consequences of turning millennials into a generation of debtors. Andrew Ross’s Creditocracy spells this out very clearly. According to Ross, “the loading of debt on to all and sundry has proven to be the most reliable restraint on a free citizenry in modern times” short of armed repression. The basic contours of situation are these: Neoliberal governing pushes the costs of social needs like education, medical care, and housing onto individuals, who more often than not have to turn to debt financing to afford them. This is where your uncle chimes in and mentions that taking on debt is a choice—no one forces you to sign up for that credit card or take on student loans. Sure, fine. Technically, he’s correct. But in a society where the costs of basic social goods fall directly on the individual, where the prices

of those goods have inflated far beyond what most of us will realistically be able to save in a timely fashion from honest labor, and where almost every institution that could help us has the incentive to guide us into a lifetime of debt servitude, what do you expect? That sort of armchair moralism is idiotic and unproductive. Propping up society with individual debt would be regrettable but easier to stomach if these were one-time debts taken on, paid off, and left in the past like a rite of passage. The credit industry, though, thrives on “revolvers,” the folks who can’t afford to pay off their balances in full and who accumulate debt just to keep their heads above water. Revolvers now make up the majority of debtors. Why else, when you’re swimming in credit card debt, would Discover keep filling your mailbox with offers for more cards? Federal student loans aren’t much better than debt to private companies, and in many cases, it’s worse. Senator Elizabeth Warren recently made headlines by pointing out that the government makes a huge profit on student loans—well over $50 billion. Even as more borrowers become delinquent on their debts and default, the government still rakes in late fees and penalties, buoyed by the fact that student borrowers lack bankruptcy protections. As Ross points out, even though the governments profits on student loans are astronomical, very little of that money actually gets funneled into education. More often than not, we borrowers are subsidizing the nation’s militarism, bank bailouts, and our legislature’s dangerous, small-minded hunger for slashing government programs in the name of the deficit. On top of that, the government has cleared the way for student loan interest rates to continue to rise even as most other borrowers are enjoying some of the lowest interest rates ever recorded, and tuition for colleges public and private continues to rise every year. Like I said above, this is not just a financial problem: It’s a dire political problem. Ross traces the genealogy of this political dimension back to 1975, when the Trilateral Commission (a favorite target of conspiracy theorists) released a report called “The Crisis of Democracy.” Troubled by the activism of the 1960s, the Commission reminded the leaders of the free world that “the effective operation of a democratic political system usually requires some measure of apathy and noninvolvement on the part of some individuals and groups,” especially students, who were becoming more educated, less employed and increasingly inconvenient to deal with as a political force. Luckily for those in power, debt was on the rise, especially student debt. Instead of breeding educated citizens with enough time on their hands to organize, colleges pushed out students already underwater in debt, who had no choice but to attempt to break into the labor force as quickly as possible and work twice as hard just to give themselves some breathing room. As Ross puts it, “in a world where debt service forces us to work longer and harder in the present, and where the future is already eaten up by compound interest, the labor of imagining, let alone creating, an alternative society is easily set aside. After all, keeping the repo man from the door is already onerous enough.” It makes logical sense. How could we find the time or energy to change things when we’re working more to stay afloat? We live in a society where social goods are re-imagined as shoddy private investments so that organizations that are already exceedingly wealthy can continue to extract rents from us just for staying alive, but how can we resist that system when we’re yoked so tightly to it? How can we take on any additional risks, try anything new, take any unnecessary chances when we’re all one bad day away from our foundations caving in? And even if we had the energy, we might lack the political imagination. A better, more just society seems like a fairy tale; our monthly payments are very real. To steal a cliche from Fredric Jameson, it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. P Then again, it seems obvious: Something must be done.

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Jim Norton 8pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $25-$30 [COMEDY] Jim Norton is one of the most multi-faceted joke-wranglers on the comedy scene. A two-time New York Times bestselling author, the off-the-cuff comic was a regular contributor on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and guest on The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Chelsea Lately, The Burn with Jeff Ross, Inside Amy Schumer, and the Opie & Jim radio show. Catch Jim Norton at Helium Comedy Club on Thursday, August 25 through Sunday, August 28. -KP

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WHITE SHADE The Buckingham Tapes album Recommended if you like: Menomena, Ty Segall, Surfer Blood Newcomers White Shade, led by guitarist and vocalist Matt Sacha, are making themselves known to the indie-rock scene with their debut EP, The Buckingham Tapes. The record, three tracks of schizophrenic yet low-key stoner rock tunes, was released last month. “Fix Me” is the highlight of the record, a sometimes jazzy, sometimes driving indie rock tune that’s lined with the deadpan vocals of Sacha. The EP is available for stream on Soundcloud now.

FIVE MUST-SEE ACTS AT NIGHT LIGHTS MUSIC FESTIVAL THURSDAY AUG 25 - SATURDAY AUG 27 2PM / GREAT BLUE HERON FESTIVAL SITE, 2361 WAITS CORNERS RD / $55-$125 [FESTIVAL] Night Lights Music Festival is back again at the Great Blue Heron festival grounds with what might be the event’s biggest lineup yet. Billed as a “sound and light spectacular,” the festival, which runs this Thursday through Saturday, August 25-27, features a couple dozen bands, DJs, and performers over the three-day period. There are lots of notable acts performing at this year’s festival, including Jimkata, Aircraft, Holly Bowling, Moon Hooch, and Aqueous, but here we’ve picked out a few more of our must-see favorites.

BEATS ANTIQUE At the top of most must-see lists for this year’s Night Lights music festival is the Oakland, California band Beats Antique. Psychedelic art nouveau stylings collide with over-the-top dubby jamtronic music in their immersive live set, which quite often also includes performance art and dance choreography led by dancer Zoe Jakes. More like a full on theatrical piece than just a concert, a Beats Antique set usually includes some spectacular visuals— projections, psychedelic lighting, and stagecraft.

STRESS DOLLS “Pills” single Recommended if you like: The Dead Weather, Them Crooked Vultures, Interpol The band formerly known as Wolf has remerged with a new name and a new single. Now known as Stress Dolls, the band, led by vocalist and guitarist Chelsea O’Donnell, has released their first single titled “Pills.” The straight-up alternative rock track emphasizes O’Donnell’s ardent vocals and the band’s driving rhythms. The song is the first single from the band’s debut album, out soon.

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LONDON SOULS Despite what their name might have you think, London Souls actually hail from New York City, but their music is the best of both rock worlds. A little bit the Clash and maybe a touch of the Flaming Lips, a dash of Led Zeppelin balanced out by a spoonful of the White Stripes, the band really does a great job of sum-

ming up walloping rock and roll. Check them out on the Main Stage.

ERIC KRASNO Guitarist Eric Krasno is best known for his work with funk/jam bands like Soulive and Lettuce and is a Grammy-winning musician. Earlier this year he played a late-night set at the New Orleans Jazz Festival, where he collaborated live with London Souls, so don’t be surprised if there’s a little co-mingling at Night Lights.

LAZLO HOLLYFELD PLAYS RADIOHEAD This talented band has been around the Buffalo scene for quite a while, and their original music is exciting and enjoyable, but they’ve recently taken to doing something a little different, which is covering Radiohead. Earlier this year the band did a tribute to Radiohead’s groundbreaking 2008 album In Rainbows. For this festival they’re scheduled as “Playing Radiohead” so perhaps they’ll dive into more of the legendary band’s back (and present) catalogue.

EVERY BAND ON THE PUBLIC STAGE This year The Public has our very own stage, and we packed it full of our favorite bands, including the Tins, Sonder, Pine Fever, the Observers, Tough Old Bird, French Quarter Hounds, Folkfaces, and more. Also expect some late-night campfire DJ sets by Sugar City’s Neon Veins. -CORY PERLA

7pm Sportsmen's Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $20-$25 [BLUES] “He starts at excellent before segueing into goose bumps, ecstasy, and finally nirvana.” That’s the beautiful lowdown on Curtis Salgado’s performance style as described by Blues Revue. The Portland, Oregon-based performer has recently been touring, playing cuts from his ninth studio album, titled The Beautiful Lowdown, a melodic 12-track work, released in April. The award-winning blues and R&B vocalist will bring his show to the Sportsmen’s Tavern in Buffalo’s Black Rock area on Thursday, August 25. -GRACEANNE BROWN

FRIDAY AUG 26 The Lo Profile 8pm Matinee, 698 Main St. [HIP HOP] The Lo Profile is like a live talk show meets a concert. Hosted by local personality Truey V, the show launched last month at Matinee on Main Street and continues this Friday, August 26 with a new, solid lineup of acts. This month features hip hop beat-maker Wza, who will participate in a discussion and live performance, as well as a video screening. Wza will be followed by another beatmaker and producer, ScreamMaker, who will stick to the same format. The night will end with an interview and performance by Amina. DJ Crespo will kick off the night. Only 40 people are admited into the event, so be sure to show up early. -CP

Cubicolor 10pm Sky Bar, 257 Franklin St. $10 [ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Sky Bar will welcome dutch house-master Cubicolor to the rooftop on Friday, August 26. Signed to one of the biggest house music record labels in the world, Anjunadeep, Cubicolor will present cuts from his new album, Brainsugar. The deep house producer/DJ will be joined by local Chuck Abbott for the second last Sky Bar roof top party of the year, presented by Factory Nightlife. -CP

SATURDAY AUG 27 Alpha Hopper 7pm Dreamland, 387 Franklin St. $5 [INDIE] Four-piece post-punk band Alpha Hopper is preparing for a late-summer run of tour dates that’ll bring them across the Rust Belt and down the East Coast, but not before they release their debut album, Last Chance Power Drive. The band will debut their new record at Dreamland on Saturday, August 27 with support from Gun Candy, Trinket, and Space Is Haunted. -CP

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WEDNESDAY AUG 24 Blink 182 7pm Darien Lake, 9993 S Alleghany Rd $15-$175 [PUNK] Blink-182 pioneered a brand of punk that relished in pop’s uplifting melodies, with a consistent “life sucks” dialogue. Their music gave teens of the 1990s and early 2000s funny and serious lyrics to scream along to, like “What the hell is caller ID?” and “Fate fell short this time.” Their angst was apparent, but so was their sense of humor. Catch Blink-182 with A Day to Remember and All Time Low at Darien Lake on Wednesday, August 24. -KP

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Going Places 6pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St. [ART] Sonia Veiga is an alternative educator who prefers to teach outside of the traditional classroom setting. In the midst of her quest to visit as many state and national parks as possible, she will find and record images of landscapes unblemished by the hands of man, nestled in remote pockets of the United States. While she plans to move on to Yellowstone National Park, she’ll be joined by Ainsley Moy, Emily Churco, Emma LaQue, Julia Conte, and Lisa Brown at Sugar City for an exhibition of her artwork on Wednesday, August 24. Going Places is a collection of images captured of places near and far, as seen by women who travel.-GB

8pm First Niagara Center, 1 Seymour H Knox III Plz $50-$200 [HIP HOP] Kanye West is like the Donald Trump of hip hop. He has virtually no filter, he seems obtuse to some and sincere to others, and you pretty much either love him or hate him. His marketing campaign for his latest album, The Life of Pablo—either a reference to shape-shifting artist Pablo Picasso or maybe to the drug kingpin Pablo Escobar—seemed to strategically include a mental breakdown. Nonetheless, he continues to be one of, if not the most, influential rapper in the world, on top of his burgeoning career as a fashion designer. His appeal crosses genres; he’s been known to sample some obscure stuff on his albums—on The Life

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A serial comic project from Buffalobased artists Dana McKnight and Mickey Harmon satirizing the gentrification and “renaissance” of their former zombie city. Limited edition, 100 copies. Come dressed in Buffalo Apocalypse Finery. Admission: $5, includes party and a comic; pre-orders: send $5 via PayPal to fevajen@gmail.com.

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INTERVIEW: LAKE STREET DIVE FRIDAY AUG 26 7PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $29-$34 [ROCK] In the process of making Side Pony, Lake Street Dive’s third studio full-length and debut for Nonesuch, the conservatory-trained, Brooklyn-by-way-of-Boston quartet learned to use the recording studio as its own instrument. It’s an important milestone in the evolution of a band that cherishes classics like the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds and the Beatles’ White Album, both from an era when studio creations in pop music were growing increasingly experimental. “In the past, we were capturing something more akin to our live show,” explained Mike “McDuck” Olsen [guitar, trumpet], calling from a tour stop in Wyoming. “On this record, however, there was a very deliberate progression—an embracing of the studio as a tool. The irony is that we ended up playing the core tracks 90 percent live anyway.” Side Pony, which brings the band to Town Ballroom on Friday, August 26, synthesizes a wide range of influences across the board of contemporary music. This, Olsen says, is a byproduct of their collective musical geekdom and near-manic drive to dissect the tunes that make them tick the most. But the album still sounds enough like the organic soul-pop of its predecessor, 2014’s Bad Self Portraits (Signature Sounds), that listeners won’t likely realize the carefully layered production straight away. As usual, Rachael Price’s honey-coated pipes steal the show; initially, it’s hard to hear anything else. But over time a sonic complexity reveals, filling in some of the open space that characterizes much of Portraits. Luckily, they hired the right man for the producer’s chair, and while Side Pony sounds busier, it’s far from cluttered. “We knew we wanted to work with Dave Cobb,” Olsen said. “Despite being known for Americana projects, our favorites of his have a lot of depth that transcends genre. Sturgill Simpson’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music put us over the moon. He’s got a great country voice and writes great country songs, but a few cuts on there have tape reversal tricks and bits of distortion—elements that betray the Americana tradition but also make for a much richer listening experience.” Lake Street Dive cut the tracks for Side Pony in two distinct chunks with a month-long tour or Australia in between. Giving the initial recordings time to breathe, they later decided to scrap a portion of what they had and write new material collaboratively—another first. “The tour afforded some distance and we came back and asked ourselves: Is this the album? We decided it wasn’t. We experimented, wrote as a band, used samples, and pulled brand new songs from ideas dreamt up in Australia, where we’d tried very hard not to think about the next recording session. It’s so easy to over-think this process. The more spontaneous and less attached, the better. If you get precious about it, you lose your objectivity, and six months later you think, ‘What have I done?’” -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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An evening of conversation and refreshments in the garden at Preservation Pub, the site of the monthly Seniors Healthy Lunch Program. Silver Pride Project is a peer group designed by seniors for seniors that organizes social events and raises awareness on LGBT aging issues.

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MONDAY AUG 29 Kevin Seconds 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $13-$15 [PUNK] At age 55, Kevin Marvelli, a.k.a. Kevin Seconds, keeps the punk spirit alive. His namesake and original band, 7 Seconds, formed way back in 1980 in Reno, Nevada and still continues to tour, but Marvelli has always made time for his stripped-back, acoustic guitar solo performances. He’ll bring his solo show back to Buffalo for a show at the Town Ballroom’s Leopard Lounge on Monday, August 29 with support from SoCal punk rocker Steve Soto. -CP

The Ataris 6pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $12-$15 [ROCK] It’s been 13 years since the Ataris said so long to Astoria, but this Indiana-based rock band is still going strong. Having released three EPs since 2012, they’ll have some fresh material mixed into their nostalgic set when they appear with high-energy Buffalo punk band the Barksdales and ambient four-piece band Younger Then on Monday, August 29. Get ready to Welcome the Night with an incredible rock set presented by For the Music Productions at Buffalo’s Mohawk Place. -GB

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3-8PM at Underground, 274 Delaware Ave.

[INDIE] It seems like every week there is a Don Giovanni Records band coming through town. Last week it was Izzy True, this week it’s the New York City Indie rock band Big Eyes. The project from Kait Eldridge has been a work in progress since forming in 2009, and from what we’ve heard of their new record, Stake My Claim, the progress continues. The lead single, the title track from the album, is a driving indie rock track that dips into pop-punk and alternative rock territory too, while the rest of the album channels everything from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Pat Benatar. The band comes to Mohawk Place on Sunday, August 28 with support from Cincinnati rock band Lung and Buffalo’s Mojo Stone and Quantum Folk Lords. -CP

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 of Pablo alone he managed to sample everyone from Arthur Russell to Ghostface Killah, Mr. Fingers, the original soundtrack to the video game Street Fighter, and of course himself—pulling in music heads of all kinds. Kanye West will bring his tour to the First Niagara Center on Saturday, August 27. -CP

Battle @ Buffalo: Under the Lights 6 12pm New Era Cap Company, 160 Delaware Ave. $5 [BATTLE] This has clearly been a big week for New Era, as the Bills have just renamed their stadium New Era Field after the brand’s massive endorsement deal was made. The big week continues with Verve Dance Studio’s annual hip hop culture festival, Battle @ Buffalo: Under the Lights taking over the store on Saturday, August 27 for this year’s edition. The event will feature DJs SC-One, Trevthorne, and Sike provided the tunes for the spectacular series of breakdancing battles that the event is known for. The main event is the 2v2 bboy/bgirl battle, where teams will show off their breakdancing

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skills for a chance to win a $1,500 grand prize. Other events include a 2v2 all styles battle and a 1v1 kids all styles battle. There will also be a New Era Cap Design contest and more. It’s not too late to enter the battle, either. Entry fees are $5 per crew, the same as general admission. -CP

Sex, Jugs, & Rock n' Roll 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $12-$15 [DANCE] A new burlesque troupe is on the scene and they’re called Femme Noire. The contemporary burlesque fusion dance company will make their debut at a special event at the Town Ballroom’s Leopard Lounge on Saturday, August 27. The show, creatively titled Sex, Jugs, & Rock n’ Roll, will feature four women and artistic director Ebony Jones—stage names: MaDamn Noire, Vivi L’Amour Noire, Cocoa Noire, Lady Noire, and Satine Noire—not only rocking out but also showing off their hip hop dancing skills, jazz hands, and classic burlesque moves. Local hip hop/funk band PeaceBridge will deliver some covers and original songs throughout the night as well. Expect raffles, vendors, giveaways, and additional music from DJ Assata Shapvrr and MC Monica. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

Canadian Hall of Famers: Burton Cummings, April Wine, Buffy Sainte-Marie 6:30pm Artpark, 450 South 4th St. $12 [ROCK] If you’ve been to see a show by the touring band that calls itself the Guess Who in recent years, you’ve probably been disappointed by how different their performances sounded compared to the original versions of hits like “American Woman,” “No Time,” “These Eyes,” “Share the Land,” “Laughing,” and “Albert Flasher.” That’s because the group lacks the man who sang all the Guess Who’s hits, Burton Cummings, praised by no less than Robert Plant as “one of rock’s best voices.” With his energetic keyboard playing and distinctive singing, he’s an inimitable performer with a deep catalogue of hits from both the Guess Who days and as a solo artist. Cummings and his long-time touring band, the Carpet Frogs, will headline the final show of Artpark’s summer season next Tuesday August 30. The evening includes two other acts who are also members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, veteran folksinger and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie and hard rockers April Wine ("Just Between You and Me," "Sign of the

Gypsy Queen"). -MF

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ANI DIFRANCO TALKS BABEFEST AND WHY SHE SEES AN END TO THE “CULTURE OF ME” THE RIGHTEOUSNESS of the quintessential Righteous Babe

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At 45, Ani DiFranco has accomplished more than many musical artists do in their entire careers. But there’s a stigma associated with her, a set of unfortunate stereotypes, that follows her around to this day—even here, in Buffalo, where she grew up and began making music. The associations are largely based on generalized conceptions of anger as a negative emotion. Throughout her career, using her music as a podium for ideas about social justice and political reform, she’s become known for her ability to cleverly articulate rage. But DiFranco isn’t about getting pissed off merely for the sake of letting off steam and rallying audiences to grit their teeth alongside her. Rather, in the folk-singing tradition, she’s looking to inspire positive change; getting pissed off is just a launching pad toward a better tomorrow. She returns to her old stomping ground on Friday, August 26 for the newly minted inaugural Babefest at the Babeville compound. Dubbed as a festival of music, comedy, and social activism, this year’s show features Daily Show co-creator/Lady Parts Justice founder Lizz Winstead and artist/advocate Chastity Brown with DiFranco (who’s been readying a disc of new material for early next year entitled Binary) in the headlining slot. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Ani DiFranco, the consummate optimist. “There’s a tendency to feel like when something is wrong, it’s eternal,” she said over the phone from her New Orleans home. “But everything changes, everything passes. When shit starts

looking really bad, like with these weekly gun massacres in our society, many of us tend to believe that’s just how things are now. But it can change again just as quickly as it became a reality.” With the tagline “Vote, Dammit,” DiFranco’s current tour resurrects a crusade for democracy that she’s driven in previous election cycles, but she’s not entertaining the idea of a Trump presidency as a threatening reality. Instead, she’s choosing a dream-made-flesh approach to staying focused on getting a real candidate in office. In a refreshing denial of media power, she’s not taking the right-wing bait. “It seems like the conservative Republican apparatus is very focused on whipping up our emotions,” she said. “But it’s all negative on that side of the aisle. There’s been so much incendiary speech, and Trump is the face of this. They’re going to great lengths to inspire rage and fear in people, and that succeeds at being terrifying in and of itself, but it’s all wasted energy. Meanwhile, conversely, there’s a lot of important, prescient things to feel about our real crises, things we ought to feel deeply about and respond to—the ongoing, endemic racism in our criminal justice system, for instance—and these folks over here are trying to incite rage about made up shit. Voter fraud, the supposed menace of trans people in the wrong bathroom…invented problems to create divisiveness.” To help temper her motivational messages with humor, DiFranco is bringing along Daily Show co-founder Lizz Winstead, a woman she characterizes as having an active, hilarious voice, who’s been hard at work weaving progressive ideals into her art and our media for many years. When approached, Winstead specified that she didn’t want to be “an anger-fluffer,” and so part of the mini-fest’s goal is to project potential solutions to our problems—the optimism resurfaces.

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“One thing we’re trying to do at Babefest is not to just incite, but also inspire into action,” DiFranco said. “The thing that gives my life the most meaning is when a listener approaches me and says, ‘You inspired me to xxx’—to become themselves in some way, to do something they needed to do but perhaps weren’t able to prior. My favorite artists and activists are the ones that inspire me to jump off my own cliffs, and knowing I’ve been that instigator for someone else is the best it gets.” In that spirit, Winstead’s Ladyparts Justice group will be tabling at Babefest along with other activist groups, and if you haven’t registered to vote yet, DiFranco has that covered as well. The macro take-away from the event is designed to remind people of voting as a concept and not just a way to handle this volatile presidential election, but also as a means of shaping our government around the presidency by voting in all of this fall’s secondary and tertiary elections. Having seen what can happen to a well-meaning president when surrounded by an extremist congress, Babefest is meant to reboot consciousness with the whole picture in mind. The refreshing confidence in DiFranco’s idealism is contagious, especially at a time when most of us are drowning in negativity from warring with associates on social media. Conversely, she’s having none of it, referring to Trump as a “rogue frat boy” and opting instead to see the forest for the trees. We could all stand to have a bit of whatever she’s having. “There’s an inevitable pendulum swing happening,” she said. “The bluing of the red states cannot be stopped. Through immigration and the awakening of a new generation, more and more Democrats evolve every year. The conservatives know it, and they’re panicking. It’s getting harder and harder for a conservative candidate to win an election. A figure like a Donald Trump represents the deepest darkness before the dawn. Shit is gonna change. We all saw how the Sanders campaign made the whole country go, ‘Whoa, who knew that a guy like that could get that far?’ Look at all the people that jumped up and shouted yes to his campaign—that cannot be denied. But we can’t go slack, so don’t sit this out. It’s very doable to get this ship turned around and we can resuscitate our democracy if we pull together as ‘us’ and get P rid of the ‘culture of me.’”

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PROPHETS OF RAGE WEDNESDAY AUG 31 7PM / RAPIDS THEATRE, 1711 MAIN ST. / $20-$35 [ROCK] Like a Justice League of social warriors, the Prophets of Rage have assembled as if in response to a political distress signal. Combining the firepower of the rebellious Rage Against the Machine, the sharptongued Public Enemy frontman Chuck D, and the loose rhymin’ of Cypress Hill’s B-Real, the Prophets began their tour in Cleveland in repsonse to the Republican National Convention. They’ve since peddled their #MakeAmericaRAGEAgain and #TakeThePowerBack mantras across the country, donating their earnings to various charities and playing for all kinds of audiences, including prison inmates. With the disorienting haze of racism and corruption that’s plagued our political landscape, the Prophets are both the refreshing glass of ice water and the gasoline igniting a revolution. First there’s Cypress Hill, one of the earliest groups to bridge the gap between Latino rappers and the mainstream in the late 1980s, while making “marijuana” less of a swear word. Around the same time, Public Enemy shed light on the systematic discrimination of minorities via bold lyricism, while Rage Against the Machine took on a corrupt corporate America with their own reckless brand of rock. Almost 30 years later, these guys still resonate. Perhaps that’s why lyrics cut from Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” fit so well into Prophet’s single, “No Sleep Till Cleveland.” The live recording’s rock backdrop tones down the funky twang of the original Beastie Boys tune, and the deep vocals coupled with Tom Morello’s take on Kerry King’s iconic solo is extremely powerful. The Prophets’ debut EP, The Party’s Over ,drops on August 25. Catch the Prophets of Rage on Wednesday, August 31 at The Rapids Theatre. P -KELLIE POWELL DAILYPUBLIC.COM / AUGUST 24 - 30, 2016 / THE PUBLIC 19

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BITTER SWEET BY KEVIN THURSTON

LOCKHOUSE AIMS TO LOCK UP THE CRAFT BITTER LIQUEUR MARKET CORY MUSCATO WIPES A LOCK OF HAIR

from his face, grins, and tells me about his hunt for cochineal. “I got on the phone with South America—the whole continent—and ran into a giant language barrier. So I hired a translator and told them what I wanted, then sat with them while they made some calls. First three, no luck. And then on the fourth one the translator looked at me and said, ‘Okay, we got it.’ It took two days and the translator’s fee, but that leap of faith—hoping that my idea to the translator, who then translated it to the the wonderful people of South America would pay off—paid off.” Why did he need a red dye derived from beetles? For Ibisco bitter liqueur, the newest offering in the Lockhouse Distillery portfolio. To be classified as a liqueur, the product has to be over 2.5 percent sugar by weight. Many vodka makers, for example, add a lot of sugar to their products to make them more appealing, or to make them taste like cotton candy or cake icing, but if it is under 2.5 percent by weight, they don’t have to claim it. Liqueurs are also, traditionally, modifiers: coffee liqueurs, maraschino liqueurs, or aperitifs, like Ibisco, which is most easily comparable to Campari or Aperol, or digestifs like Fernet Branca and other Amaros. A modifier is something that the majority of drinkers mix with something else as opposed to sipping it on its own, though Ibisco certainly can be enjoyed by itself. When asked about the curious name, Muscato said, “Ibisco is Italian for hibiscus. They use dried petals from Italy. We were worried that if we called it Hibiscus Bitter it might create confusion with people thinking it is a hibiscus bitters and/or create too much of a flavor expectation in the mind of the consumer—a synergistic response.” Campari, as the world leader in the bitter liqueur market, is the first and most natural comparison to make, but there are some remarkable differences between Campari and Ibisco. First thing you notice is the color. It is akin to the flesh of a ruby red grapefruit and is opaque, whereas Campari is ruby red and clear. It is not

BARREL AGED NEGRONI 1 oz. Ibisco Ibisco Bitter 1 oz. Lockhouse Barrel Aged Gin 1 oz. New York State sweet vermouth Stirred and strained over ice or up with a twist of orange for garnish.

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as bitter as Campari. It has some nice sweetness, a little bit of alcohol burn, and then the botanicals kick in. As a local bar owner said when he sampled it, “This has more flavors than Campari or Aperol.” The color and the opacity are not happy accidents. Muscato again: “Campari, the most famous bitter liqueur in the world, is an orange base. As is Aperol. We wanted something with a bit more resin to it, so we have a grapefruit peel and coriander base. There are 18 different ingredients in Ibisco bitter liqueur, with 15 of them being botanicals. Then there is sugar, alcohol, and water, and my favorite, cochineal. In 2005 or so, Aperol and Campari switched from cochineal to red #40. There are so many good reasons to use [cochineal]. It is by far the most widely used natural coloring agent. For us, the advantage is that it is colorless and tasteless… I didn’t have that lovely, red color the liqueur would be a bit more tan or even slightly brown, and that wouldn’t reflect what you were about to taste. “After the initial distillate goes through the coriander and grapefruit peel we then macerate it with the other botanicals for about three weeks,” he said. “Afterwards, we filter out the solids—I only use cheesecloth; industrial filters would remove flavor compounds that we worked really hard to create. We add water to proof it down from 100 proof to 50 proof, then add sugar by volume, then add the color at the very end.” As the region and nation begin to produce more and more craft spirits and other commodities, Lockhouse has made a calculated business decision to start expanding into liqueurs, digestifs, vermouths, aperitifs—things that differentiate them from other distillers and are useful behind the bar or at home. Muscato hinted to two other new products that are currently in development. Discussing the larger framework the company is operating under, he said, “I remember a time when people were told what they want. Now they have the opportunity to try what they want. If they don’t like it, that’s fine. It’s not my job to make someone like my product. It’s my job to make a product to my specifications and that people step out of their comfort zone and try it. Without quality, this entire craft community we are trying to build falls apart.”

COMMEMORATIVE BEER The Buffalo Niagara Brewers Association would like to sincerely thank all those who took part in celebrating the life of the late Kevin Wise at the Kevin Wise Memorial Beer Festival & Fundraiser, held August 18 at Pettibones. They would like to thank the hundreds who attended and donated their time and money to honor the lasting legacy of Kevin and his love of craft beer, as well as all of the breweries who sold tickets and donated beer to the cause, which was to raise money for Kevin’s family. Be on the lookout for a commemorative beer brewed in honor of Kevin, which will be released during Buffalo Beer Week. More details are forthcoming.

PENNE FOR YOUR THOUGHTS Researchers in Italy have determined that pasta doesn’t make you fat. Thank goodness! Now we can spend more time eating pasta and less time trying to hide how much pasta we actually eat. Whether you’re looking to test the research or prove to your dinner date just how stellar your taste in restaurants is, we have just the noodles for you!

AMARETTO BISTRO 7170 Transit Rd, Williamsville amarettoitalianbistro.com Given its location, first-time diners may be surprised by the quality of fare available at Amaretto. Everything is made from scratch in-house, and with a wide variety of offerings, it’s sure to please even picky eaters.

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Flying Bison Brewing Company 840 Seneca St, Buffalo flyingbisonbrewing.com Congratulations to Flying Bison Brewing Company on winning a pair of awards at the 2016 World Beer Awards. Rusty Chain won Gold in the Altbier category and Buffalo Kolsch 716 was named the Country Winner in the Kolsch category. “We don’t brew to win awards, we brew to provide people delicious beer,” FBBC’s Tim Herzog said. “The fact that judges from around the world awarded our flagship, Rusty Chain, a Gold Medal is exciting for all of us here at Flying Bison. Evidently Buffalo knows beer; Buffalo’s favorite is the judge’s favorite.” Both flagship offerings are on tap right now at their taproom.

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Saturday, Aug 27, 6pm-9pm 359 Ganson St, Buffalo Celebrate all things summer and craft beer at the Riverworks Brewfest: A Summertime Celebration on August 27, 6-9pm, at Buffalo Riverworks. The event, which takes place outside under the Olympic Hockey Pavilion (rain or shine), will feature over 20 breweries, wineries, and distilleries available for sampling. There will also be a Riverworks Artist Market with nearly 20 art vendors and backyard games such as cornhole, ladderball, Kanjam, Polish horse shoes, and giant beer pong. Tickets are $39 and VIP tickets, which grant you early entry, access to rare beer, and complimentary food, are available for $59. See riverworksbrewfest. com for more information.

RISTORANTE LOMBARDO 1198 Hertel Ave, Buffalo ristorantelombardo.com Open for over 40 years, there’s no denying the skill of Lombardo’s highly trained staff, its exquisite and approachable wine list, its incredible food, and its overall warmth and ambiance. Go for a spendy, celebratory meal or stop in for a pizza and a nice glass of wine, no matter the occasion, you won’t be disappointed.

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9992 Main St in Clarence westshorebrewing.com West Shore Brewing Company, Clarence’s First Brewery and Tap Room, have launched a Kickstarter campaign in order to raise the funds necessary to put the finishing touches on construction of their facilities. You can earn a number of varying rewards for your pledges, including stickers, growlers, pint glasses, t-shirts, mug club memberships, brew days, and private catered events. West Shore is aiming for a fall opening with four beers on tap, including Historic Rail Pale Ale, Clarence Station Amber, Imperial Series Tower IPA, and Erie Limited Pre Prohibition Ale. For more information on West Shore, visit westshorebrewing.com or facebook. P com/westshorebrewing.

THE BLACK SHEEP 367 Connecticut St, Buffalo blacksheepbuffalo.com Chef owners Steve and Ellen Gedra don’t always have pasta on their menu, but when they do you can be certain it’s phenomenal. Handmade, adeptly prepared, and full of flavor, pasta dishes at Sheep are showstoppers.

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Though the majority of her art has been defined by detailed realism, Merkle recently graduated from Sheridan’s illustration program, which opened in her an ingenuity and freedom that shapes her most current works. “I really do enjoy the fantasy genre and I also read a lot of comic books,” she said, “so I wouldn’t mind finding an avenue in which I can incorporate some of that into my work, or even make a separate body of work that would have some of those elements more present in them.”

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Notable in Merkle’s portfolio are the portraits, especially black-and-white charcoal portraits of family and friends that use the expressions of her subjects to bring personality and realism into the piecse. A large portrait of her older brother Chris with his eyebrow arched and a look of cynicism is simply titled Really? Merkle submitted the piece to a competition, only to have the jury message her back saying that they didn’t accept photography—for a realist, perhaps the best compliment they can receive.

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CLYFFORD STILL AND MARK BRADFORD AT THE ALBRIGHT-KNOX “I don’t think it’s possible to have a black body and not view that color through the lens of politics in the United States. We are made so hyperaware of race and the raging political debate, and I can’t separate body politics from my body and the body of my work…I understand that, and my art sometimes refers to that. But I don’t want that to be my whole artistic narrative.” —MARK BRADFORD ABSTRACT ARTIST CLYFFORD still was apo-

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litical in the extreme. For example, he turned down a series of invitations to show in the world exhibition Venice Biennale because of what he saw as the “political machinations characteristic” of such events. Whereas artist Mark Bradford’s “entire practice is an argument for politically engaged abstraction,” as stated in a catalog essay for the current show of works of both artists at the Albright-Knox. Some differences between the two men—including generational—Still died in 1980, Bradford was born in 1961—but much also in common, Bradford argues. The show constitutes a kind of dialogue between him and one of his artist heroes. About art and politics in general, and in particular a series of all-black—or nearly all-black—paintings Still produced in the 1950s and 1960s. How could these not be somehow political? So much black, in a period of increasing general awareness of the depth and extent of racial injustice in America, and inchoate but incremental racial justice progress. Period of the lynch mob murder of Emmett Till, but also Brown v. Board of Education, Selma, the March on Washington, and Martin Luther King.

see his blacks as fearful,” he said. Wall copy near the beginning of the exhibit quotes the artist himself on the matter. “Black was never a color of death or terror for me,” Still said. “I think of it as warm, and generative.” Bradford makes reference to an Albright-Knox story recounted in the catalog about an occasion in the 1960s when Still was visiting Buffalo and touring the gallery with his friend Seymour Knox, Jr. And having a protracted look at one of the gallery masterworks, French post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin’s The Yellow Christ. As Knox later recalled, Still wondered aloud “whether people were ready for a black Christ.” In an aside (pointedly political) comment on the story and question, Bradford observed that “some people are not even ready for a black president.” In addition to the dialogue about the meaning of black, and art and politics—the folly and futility of trying to separate those two categories—the exhibit offers a new way of looking at the Abstract Expressionist major art mode of the middle of the last century. Generally touted for its non-figurative aesthetic purity, versus contamination with social content. “I don’t think there is such as thing as ‘pure’ abstraction,” Bradford has said. And “I think all painting is subversively figurative, even abstract painting.”

Bradford’s art is variously reminiscent of the art of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and maybe most of all, Anselm Kieffer. What it has most in common with Still’s art—besides the emphasis on black—is layering. For Still, paint layers, differentiated sometimes by color, but more essentially—especially in the all-black or nearly all-black paintings—tone and texture, due mainly to paint application technique, sometimes with a brush, sometimes with a palette knife, a trowel. For Bradford, collaged layers of Negative connotations and associations attach paint and canvas and other materials as likely to the color black from forever and wherever. from the hardware store as the art store. Plus But Still did not seem to share the negative at- incorporating found materials from the streets IF YOU APPROVE ERRORS WHICH ARE ON THIS PROOF, THE titude about black, Bradford points out. “I don’t of Los Angeles. That he often then physi-

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cally excavates into—sometimes with power tools—to expose the underlayers. Indicating an archeological—which implies social content— thematic to Bradford’s art. Suggesting a similar archeological thematic—maybe at a more abstract level—in Still’s layering. Social content interest at a more abstract level. Layering and the prevalent rough-hewn conjunction of forms and materials. Torn—riven— forms and materials. Metaphorically in the case of Still, literally as well as metaphorical in the case of Bradford. And the bias toward black, for both artists about subtleties of black. For Still, subtleties of textural differences—matte versus sheen, rough P versus smooth. Versus Bradford’s quasi-scientific explorations—in works entitled Legendary and Shade—akin to chromatography analyses—employing chromatography techniques— to reveal the color components of black. Spectral components. Lavender significantly. “Black is beautiful” was a slogan of the 1960s. An essentially aesthetic message, with socio-political import. In the hope and trust that an aesthetic message would suffice. Would result in significant societal change. It wasn’t. It didn’t. Now the slogan is “Black lives matter.” More political, more urgent. So also with the 1950s and 1960s art of Clyfford Still and contemporary art of Mark Bradford. About some of the same issues, same critical concerns, but more political now, more urgent. In more of a time of crisis. Of less hope and trust. The dual-artist exhibit is called Shade. It P continues through October 2.

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Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-8852251, wnyag.com): Betty Pitts Foster, Robert Then, Sean Witucki. On view through Sep 2. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Ashker’s on Elmwood (1002 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886 -2233, ashkersbuffalo.com): Group 263: works by Brian Boutin, Kathleen Corff Rogers, John Lloyd, Gethyn Soderman, Rick Steinberg. Opening reception Fri Aug 19, 7-10pm. MonSat 7am-10pm, Sun 9am-5pm. Artpark (450 S 4th St, Lewiston, NY 14092, 716754-9000, artpark.net): Extemporal: works on paper by Bruce Adams. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Unintended Consequences: recent photo collages by J. Tim Raymond on view through Sep 18. Tue-Thu, 8am9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): See Artpark listing. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Autism Services Inc.: BLACK and WHITE, paintings, drawings, sculpture, and mixed-media work by ASI artists, through Sep 11. Fri-Sun 12-6pm. Box Gallery (667 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203): Posture Alternatives, a new installation by Kyle Butler. Runs through Sep 12. 4pm-10pm daily. BT&C Gallery (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, btandcgallery.com): Closed through Sep 9. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2496 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Five Buffalos, student murals, through Sep 2. Archiving Western New York: Select Artists from the Gerald Mead Collection, through Sep 2. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. 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. MonSat 8:30am-6:00pm, Sun 12-5pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Blistering Vision, Charles E. Burchfield’s sublime American landscapes through Oct 23. Sequel, through Aug 14, Furniture From the Darwin D, Martin House, Fluidity in Form: Selections from the Dean Spong Collection, on view through Aug 21. Object as Energy Point, Andrew Deutsch through Aug 21. Artists Seen: photographs of contemporary artists by David Moog. The Birthday Party: A Community of Artists, on view through Sep 25. 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 695-4400, carnegieartcenter.org): Plein Air Landscape; Catching the Light, artwork of the Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters. Casa de Arte (141 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-0227, casadeartegallery.com): Mexican Movements: Carlos Mérida and his Compañeros. Opening reception Sep 10 6-10pm. Mon, Wed, Fri 103pm, or by appointment. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Max Collins: Natural Processes, through Sep 11. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8562717, cepagallery.org): Eikoh Hosoe: Revisitations to a Vacuum’s Nest. On view through Aug 27. MonFri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Daily Planet Coffee Company (1862 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, 716- 551-0661): Paintings by Maddison Proctor, on view through Sep 12. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (417 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com): The Old and the New: 180 Years of Painting and the Arts. Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm. Dreamland (387 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, facebook.com/dreamlandarts.buffalo/timeline): Altercation Dreamer Solutions, collage and mixed media. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 4644692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Inaugural members show on view through Aug 27. Tue-Sat 12-5pm. Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): Dueling Apertures, Phil McCabe and Richard J. Ricci. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm. Grindhaus Cafe (160 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201 facebook.com/grindhauscafe): Paintings by Ian McPhail. Tue-Sat 8am-8pm, Sun 8am-6pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Hallwalls 42nd Annual P Members Exhibition. On view through Aug 26. Tue-

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DAILYPUBLIC.COM Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm, closed on Sundays & Mondays. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The invention of the telegraph and the railroad. 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): Beauty of the Beasts: paintings by wildlife artist, Judith Hartke on view through Oct 2. Mon-Fri 12-5pm & Sun 2-5pm. Lockside Art Center (21 Main Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 478-0239, locksideartcenter.com): Members exhibition on view through Sep 17. Fri-Sun 12-4pm. Native American Museum of Art at Smokin’ Joe’s (2293 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, NY 14123, 2619251) Open year round and free. Exhibits Iroquois artists work. 7am-9pm. Paper Moon Gallery (497 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 949-6604): Greg Kuppinger and Brian Dennis, Of Light and Matter, on view through Aug 31. Thu-Sat 11-5pm, Sun by appointment. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Joe George, NY Photos. On view through Aug 31. Tue-Thu, 11am6pm, Fri 11am-7pm (11am-9pm on first Fridays), Sat 11am-5pm. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, John Farallo, Chris McGee, Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Joshua Nickerson, Susan Redenbach, Barbara

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FILM REVIEW more melodramatically than it needed to: Perhaps Giladi didn’t realize how much this character would succeed in touching audience’s hearts. ••• Southside With You charts the course of a day spent together by two young people in Chicago in 1989. It’s a date, even though she is determined that they not call it that: They work together, she supervises him, and she doesn’t want word to get around that she is so unserious as to fall for a summer intern. That she is a black woman working at a corporate law firm makes her anxiety understandable: She feels under a microscope no matter what she does. But he is determined to put his best side to her now that he has gotten her away from the office: It might be the only chance he gets.

Roy Assaf and Moran Rosenblatt in Wedding Doll.

SHORT STORIES WEDDING DOLL / SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU / HANDS OF STONE BY M. FAUST AT LONG LAST, A VERY GOOD WEEK TO GO TO THE MOVIES.

On top of a handful of regular openings worth your attention, there are two series opening at the Dipson Amherst and a whole bunch of fill-ins at the North Park, enough that you could see something worth your while every night for the next week. The two best films of the week are notable for the slightness and precision of their scale: Each clocking in at less than 85 minutes, they are models of economical filmmaking based on a clear sense of what the movie wants to accomplish. From Israel, Wedding Doll is the story of Hagit (Moran Rosenblatt), age 24, who lives with her mother in an apartment in a small town on the edge of the Negev Desert. We first see her in the pre dawn, fashioning primitive little dolls of brides from sticks and what we later learn is toilet paper. She works at a small

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OPENING THIS WEEK DON’T BREATHE—Young thieves are trapped in the house of a wealthy blind man who is a serial killer adept at getting around in the dark. Starring Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, and Dylan Minnette. Directed by Fede Alvarez (the Evil Dead remake). Area theaters DON’T THINK TWICE—Comedian Mike Birbiglia wrote, directed, and co-stars in this comedy-drama about a struggling Manhattan improv troupe that begins to fall apart when a member moves up to the big time. With Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, and Kate Micucci. Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst EQUITY—Drama set in the financial industry focusing on women in that business. Starring Anna Gunn, James Purefoy, Sarah Megan Thomas, Alysia Reiner, and Craig Bierko. Directed by Meera Menon. Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills HANDS OF STONE—Biography of boxer Roberto Duran (Edgar Ramirez) focusing on his relationship with his trainer Ray Arcel (Robert De Niro). With Ana de Armas, Ellen Barkin, Ruben Blades, John Turturro, and Usher. Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz. Reviewed this issue. MECHANIC: RESURRECTION—Jason Statham sequel that shows no signs of disappointing his fans by giving them anything different than what they find in every other Jason Statham vehicle. With Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones, and Michelle Yeoh. Directed by Dennis Gansel. Area theaters SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU—Drama imagining the first date in 1989 of young lawyers Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson. Starring Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter. Directed by Richard Tanne. Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills WEDDING DOLL—From Israel, a drama about a brain-damaged young woman obsessed with becoming a bride. Starring Moran Rosenblatt, Roy Assaf and Assi Levy. Directed by Nitzan Giladi. Reviewed this issue. North Park

paper factory and seems happy in her life, with a big toothy smile that is never far from the surface. It’s the way her mother Sara (Assi Levy) hovers protectively around her that tips us off that something isn’t right with Hagit. Whether due to a learning disability or a youthful traumatic injury, she is of diminished capacity, and Sara has given her life to caring for her. That job has grown increasingly difficult, as Hagit’s craving for independence conflicts with her inability to care for her own needs. When the factory where she works announces it will close, it appears that she may have to go to live in a state facility. Writer-director Nitzan Giladi has fashioned a showcase for two excellent performances, matched by other performers in smaller roles. He uses the beautiful but bleak locale, a place where nothing seems to grow, to good effect. The film’s only fault is a finale that plays

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA BASIC INSTINCT (1992) and FATAL ATTRACTION (1987)— Leave the kids at home for this retro drive-in double feature. Tue dusk. Transit Drive-In BLOOD SIMPLE (1984)—The Coen brothers’ lean debut film has aged only to the extent that you can’t help but look at it through the filter of the movies they have made since, which makes the smart-assed humor of it stand out a bit more than it ought. (It’s also obvious just how much they took visually from their friend Sam Raimi.) Of course, none of this makes it any less enjoyable: The carefully worked-out story is reminiscent more of Claude Chabrol than Alfred Hitchcock, and if John Getz and Frances McDormond make a rather wan pair of lovers at the center, who cares when Dan Hedaya and M. Emmet Walsh are so much fun as the villains? Fri-Mon 9:30pm. North Park DEAD ALIVE (New Zealand, 1992)—Peter Jackson’s splatstick zombie epic (a.k.a. Braindead) opens a new series of cult horror films. See the preview this issue. Thu 7:30pm. Dipson Amherst HOW TO LET GO OF THE WORLD AND LOVE ALL THE THINGS THAT CLIMATE CAN’T CHANGE—Gasland director Josh Fox returns with a documentary about activists working to reverse or at least slow the course of climate change. Presented by Cultivate Cinema. Wed Aug 24 8pm. Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St. THE LADY VANISHES (1938)—Heiress Margaret Lockwood and musician Michael Redgrave team up to investigate how Dame May Whitty disappeared from a moving train in this comic mystery that was one of Alfred Hitchcock’s last British films before moving to Hollywood. With Paul Lukas and Cecil Parker. Tue 7:30pm. Screening Rom THE MATRIX (1999)—The original (and if only they had stopped there). Starring Keanu Reeves, Lawrence Fishburne, and Carrie Anne-Moss. Directed by the Wachowski Brothers. Tue 9:30pm. North Park THE ROOM (2004)—This berserk melodrama by the multiuntalented Tommy Wiseau is the best so-bad-it’sgood film since the heyday of Edward D. Wood Jr. It has its dull patches, but by no means should you leave before the ending. Wed Aug 31 9:30pm. North Park THE STING (1973)—Paul Newman and Robert Redford in their second and last collaboration, as con men working an elaborate scheme in 1930s Chicago. Oscar winner for Best Film. Co-starring Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, and Eileen Brennan. Directed by George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). Thurs—Sat 7:30pm. Screening Room

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Like Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise and its sequels, Southside with You understands that conversation between a pair of intelligent young people getting to know each other offers richer dramatic possibilities than any computer-generated superhero battle. With charming performances by Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers, a knowing use of Chicago locations, and a script filled with optimistic empathy for the struggles of young African-Americans looking to make a way for themselves in the world, Southside With You is such an appealing small film that it barely matters that the couple are Barack Obama and his future wife Michelle. The movie isn’t hagiography: It has no agenda in promoting a political position, and I don’t know to what degree it has been researched by writer-director Richard Tanne or created from whole cloth. I feel bad for anyone who would avoid it on the basis of political considerations. ••• It’s usual for films about real characters to include in the end credits a disclaimer stating that while some characters you have just seen were inspired by real people, others are composites or creations for dramatic purposes, as were some of the situations. In other words, lawyer fudge written to discourage lawsuits. If you stick around to the end of Hands of Stone, you will see the standard disclaimer found in fictional films stating that all of the characters and situations you have just seen are fictitious. Which is odd, given that the movie is a biography of the world champion boxer Roberto Duran and includes a number of people who are very obviously not fictitious. Whatever. I try not to research the true stories after seeing a movie like this because it just makes a lot of work for me and provides no clear benefit. I will leave it to boxing fans—I am not one—to pick apart this biopic for moments where it strays from the public record. Suffice to say that the story of the boxer from Panama is a perfect vehicle for the talented but under-recognized actor Edgar Ramírez, that Robert De Niro has one of his better recent roles as Ray Arcel, the trainer who came out of a Mafia-dictated retirement to coach Duran, and that singer Usher has a notable supporting role as Sugar Ray Leonard. Filming largely in Panama with substantial support from the government, writer-director Jonathan Jakubowicz works to tie Duran’s popularity with that country’s struggle for respect and P self-determination in the last half-century.

TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932)— A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner in Ernest Lubitsch’s sly romantic comedy. Starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles, and Edward Everett Horton. Opening this semester of the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst

CONTINUING BAD MOMS—Coming soon: Bad Father-in-Law, Bad Maiden Auntie, and Bad Dutch Uncle. Starring Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Bell, Christina Applegate, and Jada Pinkett Smith. Directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Dipson Flix, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In BEN-HUR—Sight unseen, what has to be the most uncalled for remake of the year. Starring Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, and Rodrigo Santoro. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov (Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter). Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker Crossing, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria CAFÉ SOCIETY—This year’s Woody Allen movie revisits one of his favorite periods, the 1930s, to follow a Bronx youth (Jesse Eisenberg) who heads to Los Angeles in the hopes that his uncle (Steve Carell) will help him find work in the movies. What he finds instead is love with Kristen Stewart, who is reluctant to get involved because of her attachment to an older man. It’s one of Allen’s best-looking films, both for Vittorio Storaro’s gilded-to-amber-toned photography and the director’s uncharacteristically imaginative use of the camera. But Allen never quite nails the note of rueful poignance he seems to want. With Corey Stoll and Jeannie Berlin. —GS Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills CAPTAIN FANTASTIC—How far would you as a parent go to protect your children from the evils of the world? Probably not as far as Ben (Viggo Mortensen), who with his wife raised their six kids completely away from society, deep in a forest in the Pacific Northwest. Those kids’ first contact with the world as they travel to their mother’s funeral is the focus of this movie written and directed by Matt Ross. (Was he inspired by the years he spent playing polygamist cult leader Alby Grant on the HBO series Big Love?) It’s an intriguing subject for a drama, maybe even too much so: Despite a running time of nearly two hours (which zip quickly by), you come away wishing that there was more to it. But Mortensen is ideally cast as a man who is both physically and intellectually capable of carry out his task,

yet unable to see the damage he is doing to his family along the way. With Kathryn Hahn, Steve Zahn, and Frank Langella. —MF Dipson Amherst FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS— Hugh Grant accomplishes the considerable feat of nearly stealing the show from Meryl Streep in a movie designed as a vehicle for her. She has the title role of the New York heiress and musical arts benefactor who also fancied herself an opera singer. Jenkins pursued her amateur singing career seemingly unconscious of her abysmal lack of gifts, skill, and pitch. Grant is her husband, who assiduously sustains his wife’s amateur career and illusions. He plays the character at first as plummy and archly witty, later adding emotional shading and personality complications, and brings off the transitions with a sense of easy mastery, however much work it took. Florence is, of course, laugh-out-loud funny, and not just when our protagonist tries to sing, but director Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Launderette, The Queen) adroitly guides the story it through a range of moods and emotions until it becomes heartfelt and touching. With Simon Helberg and Rebecca Ferguson. –GS. Dipson Amherst GHOSTBUSTERS—If you ask me, it’s better than the original, though I’ve always felt that the 1984 Bill Murray vehicle was one of the most overrated movies of its decade. Using an all-female cast for this remake may be a stunt, but it’s one that paid off: It’s doubtful that anyone could put together a current male ensemble that would guarantee strong opening box office and generate enough chemistry to keep viewers coming back for sequels. The result is no masterpiece: it never quite figures out what to do with top-billed Kirsten Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, and the plot feels like an afterthought. But it’s agreeable and funny more often than not, with likeable turns from Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth (as what Seinfeld once dubbed a “mimbo”), and Kate McKinnon, whose askew grin and ability to make technical jargon sound lecherous is the best thing in the movie. Don’t leave before the end credits. Directed by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids). —MF Four Seasons, Lockport Palace (ENDS THURSDAY) Regal Quaker, Regal Transit HELL OR HIGH WATER—A throwback to the kind of gritty crime dramas that graced American theaters in the mid-1970s, usually starring the likes of Robert Duvall or Walter Matthau. In financially struggling West Texas, brothers Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner (Ben Foster) embark on a series of bank robberies. They have a longterm goal in mind, which becomes clear as the film progresses, but in the meantime their methods draw the attention of Marcus Hamilton (Jeff Bridges), a veteran Texas ranger on the edge of retirement. (Don’t assume that you know what that means.) The script by Taylor

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NINE LIVES—Family movie starring Kevin Spacey as a workaholic businessman who learns to value his family when he becomes trapped inside the body of his daughter’s pet cat. It’s not as bad as you may have heard (how could it be?) but it’s certainly not very good, a French-Chinese co-production apparently produced by financiers who believe that a scriptwriter is an unnecessary expense. It’s a familiar but serviceable premise for a kid’s flick, but the jokes are minimal and the emotional stuff hokey. And a pro like Spacey should have been able to give better line readings than these. With Jennifer Garner and Christopher Walken. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, whose career has gone way downhill since Men in Black. —MF Dipson Flix, Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, Regal Transit

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OUR LITTLE SISTER—”Nothing’s happening!” I wrote in my notebook about halfway through this Japanese drama. But more was going on than I at firrst discerned in this frequently lovely and restrained film by Hirokazu Kore-eda (Nobody Knows, After Life). At the funeral of their estranged father, three women discover that they have a teenaged half-sister; on an impulse, they invite her to move in with them into the rambling old seaside house they inherited from their grandmother. Kore-eda’s visually impressive film chronicles four seasons in the life of this family, with a subdued focus on ordinary and intimate details; dramatic issues are addressed gradually, with little dramatic punctuation. Sometimes he seems to leave his characters in stasis or irresolution, but this impression is deceptive. Resolutions come, eventually. Starring Haruka Ayase and Masami Nagasawa. Dipson Eastern Hills

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[FILM] Nothing gives the vapid Hollywood summer offerings a sturdier boot out the door than the return of the Buffalo Film Seminars. Now in its 17th year, the series brings the University of Buffalo undergraduate film class taught by Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian into the community with screenings and discussions that are open to the public. Each semester of the BFS offers a rounded representation of international cinema in a theatrical setting with the best presentation available.

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This semester’s series opens with two comic classics of Hollywood’s golden age, Ernst Lubitsch’s Trouble in Paradise (1932) (Tuesday, August 30), a pre-Code film whose many sly touches probably would have escaped the notice of the Hays office bluenoses anyway, and the Marx Brothers in their biggest commercial success, A Night at the Opera (1935) (Tuesday, September 6). Foreign language masterpieces include Yasujiro Ozu’s sublime drama Late Spring ( Japan, 1949) (September 27); Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast (France 1946) (September 13), and Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (Italy, 1960) (October 11). As usual, there’s one film you’re unlikely ever to have heard of, the Eskimo documentary Drums of Winter (1977) (October 25), and one seemingly odd inclusion, the Johnny Depp-Angelina Jolie vehicle The Tourist (2010) (December 6) that you’ll want to see just to hear what Jackson and English have to say about it. Screenings are Tuesday nights at 7pm at the Amherst Theater (3500 Main Street). -M. FAUST

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Sheridan (Sicario) is cleverly structured, with a dry hubecause it wouldn’t take more than a few sentences to describe what little plot there is here. Writer-director mor that counters the often grim atmosphere (per the Paul Greengrass nonetheless stretches the film out to score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis). Smartly directed two hours with pointlessly protracted chase sequencby David Mackenzie, a Brit who may finally be living THE SCREENING ROOM es, including one that takes up 15 minutes after the up to the promise he showed in Young Adam back in 3131 Sheridan Dr., Amherst / 837-0376 film’s logical end point. He fakes tension with jittery 2004. —MF Regal Walden Galleria editing, shaky-cam manoeuvres, and a score so perscreeningroom.net INDIGNATION—A serious-minded young Jew from Newsistent that you want to shoot the conductor. By the ark tries to adjust to a Midwestern college in the early time it was over I felt as if I had been waterboarded. 1950s in this adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2008 novel, SQUEAKY WHEEL With Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Casinspired by his own college days. One big difference sel, and Riz Ahmed. —MF Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, 712 Main St., / 884-7172 between Roth and his protagonist Marcus Messner Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal VISIT DAILYPUBLIC.COM FOR MORE FILM LISTINGS squeaky.org (Logan Lerman) is that Marcus&isREVIEWS dead, narrating>> from Walden Galleria beyond the grave. How that happened is a matter of KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS—A boy in medieval Japan character that begins to unravel when he goes on a SUNSET DRIVE-IN searches for a magic suit of armor that will help him date with Olivia (Sarah Gadon) and is shocked when fight an evil spirit in this animated adventure from the the evening concludes with a sexual favor. Making his 9950 Telegraph Rd., Middleport 735studio that made Coraline and ParaNorman. Directed debut as a director after years running Focus Features 7372 / sunset-drivein.com by Travis Knight. Dipson Flix, Hamburg Palace, Regal and producing and writing the films of Ang Lee, James Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Schamus rounds off some of the more extreme parts Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In TJ’S THEATRE of Roth’s story but retains most of the dialogue, which isn’t always to the film’s benefit: It’s often cuttingly 72 North Main St., Angola / 549-4866 LIGHTS OUT—Scary stuff. If the trailer is any indication, precise, which can be more effective on the page than expect a saturation of the “sudden loud noise” effect. newangolatheater.com VISIT DAILYPUBLIC.COM FOR MORE LISTINGS & REVIEWS when read aloud (though there’s aFILM lengthy scene with Starring Teresa Palmer, >> Gabriel Bateman, and Maria Marcus and Tracey Letts as the school’s school’s dean Bello. Directed by David F. Sandberg. Regal Elmwood, of men that is a little masterpiece in and of itself). –MF Regal Walden Galleria TRANSIT DRIVE-IN Dipson Eastern Hills NERVE—Emma Roberts as a high school student who 6655 South Transit Rd., Lockport JASON BOURNE—I seem to recall reading some years becomes involved in an online version of truth or dare. 625-8535 / transitdrivein.com ago that Matt Damon wouldn’t return to this action Co-starring Dave Franco and Emily Meade. Directed by franchise unless the producers came up with a worthy Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (Catfish). Regal Transcript. He must have given up and taken the money, sit

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PETE’S DRAGON—The original version, a Disney musical which combined live action and cell animation ala Mary Poppins, seemed dated even upon its release in 1977. Their big budget remake wisely reinvents the story of a boy and his sometimes invisible dragon from square one, fusing together elements of E.T., The Jungle Book and the How to Train Your Dragon series. The result is an emotional and surprisingly idiosyncratic film; for much of its first half I speculated that John Sayles was somehow involved with the script (he wasn’t; the screenplay is credited to Tony Holbrooks and director David Lowery). Oakes Fugley stars as Pete, a boy orphaned in the opening minutes of the film and rescued by the non-verbal dragon Elliot, who proceeds to raise him in the forest until a ranger (Bryce Dallas Howard) tries to reintroduce the semi-feral child into society. The film succeeds as a modern fable and as a rousing family film, though some dramatic moments may reduce toddlers to tears. It’s well directed with a sense of lyricism, and the flight scenes and CG are spectacular without being overdone. (Ray Harryhausen fans will be entertained.) With Karl Urban and Robert Redford. —Gregory Lamberson. Regal Elmwood, Regal Walden Galleria, Dipson Flix, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS—Essentially a kid friendly take on Richard Adams’s novel The Plague Dogs melded to the central conceit and formula of the Toy Story movies, this animated film from the creators of the Despicable Me franchise is funnier than any of the numerous other animated films about anthropomorphized animals loose in New York City. Louis CK voices Max, a small dog whose life is turned upside down when his kind-hearted owner (Ellie Kemper) brings home Duke (Kevin Stonestreet), a big mutt from the pound. Before long Max and Duke’s Odd Couple-like rivalry gets them lost in the big city. The mismatched pets have to brave dangerous waters to find their way back to their apartment building, enabled or pursued by various animals and dog catchers. Kevin Hart and Jenny Slate scores the most laughs as a streetwise bunny and pampered pooch with opposing motives for locating Max, and Albert Brooks (in his second role in an animated feature this month) plays a helpful hawk who just needs a little camaraderie. Parents should find this all a pleasant enough diversion: I laughed out loud several times, and the kids at the preview screening applauded at the end. Preceded by a Minions short. Directed by Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney. —Gregory Lamberson Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In STAR TREK BEYOND—Reboot sequel. Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Idris Elba, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, and Anton Yelchin. Directed by Justin Lin (the last few Fast and Furious entries). Lockport Palace (OPENS FRIDAY), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit SUICIDE SQUAD—Comic book villains get to fight for the good side in exchange for reduced prison sentences. Starring Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Ike Barinholtz, Viola Davis, and Jared Leto. Directed by David Ayer (Fury). Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In WAR DOGS begs comparison to The Big Short as a comedy-drama on a serious social topic from a director whose previous work was limited to slob comedies, in this case Todd Phillips (the Hangover series). Based on a true story, War Dogs stars Miles Teller and Jonah Hill as David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, Miami high school friends who made a fortune using the internet to sell munitions to the Pentagon under the Bush administration. (It’s probably only one of many stories about waste in our military budget.) Phillips borrows openly from Goodfellas to capture the giddy high of this legal but immoral business: you understand how the money was too good for them to pass up, which makes you despair of the problem ever being solved. With Bradley Cooper and Kevin Pollack. —MF Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, P Transit Drive-In

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