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year-old daughter—on our extremely limited income. I was a graduate student, so existing on a stipend that barely covered living essentials. Searching through the newspaper classified ads for apartments, I remember being shocked—I had only previously lived in cities in New York and Wisconsin—to see the housing and apartments listings split into two subsections, one labeled “White” and one labeled “Colored.”

BACK IN THE 1960S, I lived in Baltimore, Maryland, for several years. Near where I lived, there was this magnificent equestrian statue, as I remembered. Actually two magnificent equestrian statues, as I recently had occasion to remember more precisely. I had forgotten that there were two. Also I had forgotten, statues of whom. Some military figures probably, but I couldn’t recall. All I could recall was that the statues were very beautiful, and I frequently walked by to admire them. Magnificent horses and gallant riders.

I thought, Wow, we’re in the South. I hadn’t previously thought of Maryland as the South. It’s not technically. It was a border state in the Civil War, with pro-Union and proConfederacy factions about even. When Lincoln said he hoped God was on our side “but I must have Kentucky,” he could as well have said Kentucky and Maryland. And he did substantial Constitution-bending to keep Maryland in particular in the Union. Such as numerous summary arrests and imprisonments, and suspensions of habeas corpus. And Maryland, like Kentucky, was a slave state, and as a key element of his desperate effort to keep them both in the Union, his freeing of slaves per the Emancipation Proclamation was applied to rebel states only. But Maryland never left the Union.

The occasion to recall my statues, as I think of them, was a news report two weeks or so ago, in the wake of the Charlottesville, Virginia fracas—which was originally about a plan, or organizers of the demonstration that devolved into a fracas claimed it was about a plan, to take down a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee—that Baltimore city officials had clandestinely, during the night, taken down some statues of Confederate figures. It didn’t occur to me till days after the Baltimore report to wonder if the statues they took down were my statues. Because, in the first place, I didn’t remember who those statues were statues of, but more I think because I couldn’t conceive that anyone could take down my statues— whoever they were statues of—because they were so magnificent, so beautiful. The most romantic sentiment I know of in literary art—in this case opera—not romantic as amorous, though maybe some of that, too— but romantic as to art historical category—is Radames’s declaration to Aida, in the tomb where he has been sentenced alive by the priest judges, and as the huge tomb capstone is lowered to seal him in the chamber, discovers Aida had snuck into the chamber to die with him, she tells him. As surely they both will. And he tells her, “No, you will not die. I loved you too much. You are too beautiful.” That’s about how I felt about my equestrian statues. I looked up the Baltimore story on the internet, and entries about my statues, which I did not know how to name, but did remember where they were located, in front of the Baltimore Museum of Art. And sure enough. My beautiful statues were the ones they had taken down in the night. Statues of Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson. Another thing I do remember about the time in Baltimore was trying to find habitation we could afford—my wife and I, and we had a one-

An interesting bit of information I learned from the internet entries on the statues was when they were erected. In 1948. I would have thought much earlier. Much closer to actual Civil War times. Moreover, thinking more about the matter, I thought, why would Maryland, which always was Union territory, in 1948 or whenever, erect monuments to Confederate leaders? Monuments, it occurred to me, more in the spirit—in 1948, as in the 1960s—of the openly segregationist housing and apartment listings in the newspaper than of honoring dead generals. Monuments to Jim Crow—which was alive and well in 1948, as in the 1960s—nor as simple commemoratives of that system, but to affirm it and maintain it. Keep it alive and well. Beautiful statues. But beyond the matter of formal beauty, artworks have—may have—a symbolic significance. And whereas formal beauty may have no moral aspect, symbolic significance most assuredly does. A message— in the case of the statues of Lee and Jackson— of oppression, discrimination, injustice. In the 1860s, as in the 1960s, as in 2017. In which respect, the statues were immoral. Obscene. While it was at it, Baltimore took down a few more statues. One of Roger Taney, a Maryland native and chief justice of the United States from 1836 to 1864, who penned the infamous Dred Scott decision, which held that an African-American whose ancestors had been brought here in bondage could never—never— be a citizen of the United States, with rights to P vote, to sue in court, etc. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / SEPTEMBER 6 - 12, 2017 / THE PUBLIC

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Buffalo’s SolarCity plant has started to manufacture solar roofing tiles, which is good news. The bad news: The sprawl subsidy machine continues to dominate the regional economy. Photo courtesy Stonebridge Iron.

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a connection to a fast-growing electric car company. Tesla pre-sold over 400,000 of its Model 3 cars. The roof tiles being made here are pre-sold through 2018.

Last week, the news came in an Associated Press wire service story that was circulated globally, and only incidentally here: the news that production of next-generation solar roofing tiles is now happening in Buffalo. This means that Andrew Cuomo can run for president of the United States in 2020. Cuomo has used the power of his office to bring next-generation capitalism to an icon of Rust Belt decline. He did it by embracing a growing enterprise with a greater market capitalization than General Motors, outmaneuvering grasping and mendacious locals, and by choosing, either by good luck or by good intelligence, a long-run winner. Cuomo didn’t follow the development paradigm of Republican governors in Alabama, Mississippi, and Indiana, who have all fed German automobile makers and American defense contractors billions in subsidies and prayed for a return. Instead, Cuomo bought his taxpayers a state-owned factory and leased it to a technology company that is supplying something entirely new: roofing that creates power from light, plus lighting that uses that power, batteries that store that power, and

Like Jerry Brown’s California, and unlike the handout states, New York under Cuomo has used intellectual capital, energy regulation, and, it seems, some elite social networking that connects Wall Street to personalities who are rich enough, bright enough, and ambitious enough to think far beyond the Buffalo River. Rather than pumping American money into Germany (the German state of Niedersachsen owns 20 percent of Volkswagen), Cuomo adapted the German model of stakeholder. Smart.

JUST IN TIME, TOO Sadly, our new analysis of the current state of the regional economy shows, again, that the FIRE sector—finance and real estate—continues to overshadow. That’s not good, because churning the stock of buildings here, with locals selling to the shrinking number of locals, mainly helps the dealers, brokers, financiers, and other agents who don’t create local wealth so much as shunt it around. Some Buffalo real estate is hot right now, as speculators bound in. There are studies out there, especially a recent one by the Brookings Institution, that argue that the great American re-

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LOCAL NEWS urbanization has stalled because prices have grown too high; the City of Buffalo continues to shrink, notwithstanding all the apparent (and real) improvement. But prices per se are not the barrier to re-urbanization here: The cruel dynamics of engineered abandonment, convenient racism, and heavily-subsidized suburban sprawl are at work. Buffalo’s real estate was worth 17.5 percent of the total Erie County taxable value of in 2010. The latest figures: Buffalo’s overall value has dropped to 16 percent, just $6.6 billion out of the total $40.2 billion, as a share of the Erie County whole. The sprawl machine continues; somewhere between 16,000 and 23,000 of Buffalo’s 93,000 parcels are vacant, while suburban housing construction continues to march ahead—for a declining regional population. One reason why the race for mayor of Buffalo is a yawn is because none of the candidates have a thing to say about this. Without the Riverbend project, Buffalo would be left to its current developer- and bankerdriven “renaissance,” in which fees for bankers, lawyers, and insurers, and profits for real-estate speculators, derive from the endless supply of subsidies for showy downtown projects and quiet, relentless suburbanization—all supported by a political class that couldn’t care less that the area’s population is growing older, smaller, and poorer. New figures from the Bureau of Economic Analysis show this: Between 2010 and 2015, as this country slowly recovered from the Great Recession, finance and real estate accounted for less than 15 percent of national economic growth—but over 60 percent of growth here. Manufacturing grew over five percent nationally, but in Buffalo shrunk overall, both in absolute and in relative impact. The total dollar-value of manufacturing in Buffalo fell by almost 15 percent since 2007, the last year before the financial crisis and the resulting Great Recession. Manufacturing was worth $8.6 billion in constant, inflation-adjusted dollars in 2007. In 2015, it was worth $7.3 billion. FIRE went from $6.5 billion to $9.1 billion. The overall economy here grew from $46.2 to $50 billion. Thus the growth in the FIRE sector—which doesn’t sell anything to anybody outside this region—was responsible for 70 percent of every new dollar here. That sector doesn’t employ very many people, but it has an outsize impact here—and in Rochester and Syracuse, too, where overall growth since 2010 has been anemic (less than one percent), but get this: The drop-off in goods-making private industry in Rochester has been so great that, had it not been for financial services and real estate, there would have been no growth whatsoever. In Syracuse, almost ditto: 90 percent of the growth since 2007 has been from FIRE. Except in Detroit, where the automobile industry has been re-consolidating since Obama’s bailout of GM, that’s the pattern in other big Rust Belt towns. In Cleveland and Milwaukee, manufacturing in 2015 had dropped below what it was in 2007, despite

modest recovery after the Great Recession. In Cleveland, FIRE was over 60 percent of growth; in Milwaukee, 77 percent. Only in Pittsburgh, where there are a couple of hundred new startups thanks to the long-running entrepreneurship stewardship program there, has a drop in manufacturing not been matched by frothy frenzy in finance and real estate. Here’s the reality check: Where Rust Belt real estate steams ahead, Rust Belt populations are stagnant or declining. The sprawl machine of which I complain so bitterly in Buffalo is at work in every Rust Belt city. Every goddamned one. And then there’s the other appearance of growth—the ever-increasing supply of destinations for consumer spending, especially restaurants, hotels, and amusements. One reads with head-scratching wonder the many accounts of Rust Belt chefs creating lovely new offerings in lovely refurbished downtown spaces, and the puzzling yields more questions than answers: Could it be that the Rust Belt has become a very much nicer place for the top 10 percent or so, even as the bottom 90 percent sees the last of its high-paying work disappear, its rents rise, and the minimum wage emerge as the income ceiling for anybody just getting into the workforce?

So let’s count our blessings. Happy us, for having a new shot at a “tradable sector” to overtake FIRE—and for having a government functional enough to use our money to get us there rather than to subsidize Germans. The question remaining for Cuomo is not his to answer, but Tesla’s, and it’s the question that only one of the candidates for mayor of Buffalo is asking: Will the new Riverbend plant pay anything like the wages that the General Motors plant on River Road pays, or is the most that Buffalo’s new manufacturing workforce can hope for is Cuomo’s new $15-an-hour minimum wage, which won’t be in full force for a couple of years yet? Legislator Betty Jean Grant wants to know; the other mayoral candidates haven’t asked.

But the office mayor of Buffalo isn’t relevant to much of this discussion, until and unless a mayor of Buffalo challenges the way that the FIRE economy here works. So far, mayors and other local elected officials have been content to watch the FIRE sector grow—a sector that is all about trading inside the region’s boundaries, at the expense of the region’s core. Cuomo hasn’t changed that dynamic, even as he tries, with Elon Musk’s help, to change the trajectory of Buffalo from a once-was to a nowis manufacturing center. Bruce Fisher teaches at SUNY Buffalo State and is director of the Center for Economic and P Policy Studies.

BUT IT MIGHT BE BETTER THAN THAT At a recent two-day Cornell University conference here, dubbed “Buffalo Since the Recession,” many of the scholars and analysts made the same case: Economic recovery in Buffalo is real and measurable, and some bright days are ahead of us. Wages for new workers are creeping up toward (not yet reaching) the goal of a living wage for a family with children—a change which is due to Cuomo’s labor policy, less an ideology-driven change than a bow to arithmetic, but still, effective already. Other good news: Though rents are rising and some individual neighborhoods (like the Fruit Belt) are experiencing stress from speculators, there are vast swaths of Buffalo and of the first-ring suburbs where prices aren’t spiking or even rising much. The median price of a singlefamily home in the Buffalo area is less than twice the median household income—unlike in big cities, where the price of a house is often 10 times annual income. A family making less than the Buffalo median income of about $50,000 can afford a Buffalo-area house. But as our recent peeks at IRS data show, twothirds of Buffalo taxpayers report incomes below that $50,000 level. The world for the majority here is quite different than the life experience of the top 50,000 income-tax return filers here, people who report over $100,000 in annual income. Those 50,000 are the happy beneficiaries of the new consumer amenities of the recovery: Their restaurant options are great, their houses are rising in value, and, thanks to Elon Musk, their aspirational vehicle purchases may now include an electric car using Buffalo components.

LOOKING BACKWARD: GREYHOUND BUS STATION, CIRCA 1977 The former Greyhound Bus Station, 672 Main Street, represented at its opening in 1941 the highpoint of intercity bus travel in the United States. Designed in the Art Moderne style by William S. Arrasmith, the station was intended to symbolize, like the streamline Greyhound buses designed by Raymond Loewy, “a graceful machine in motion.” As Buffalo’s principal bus depot, it was for over a generation a place for coming and going, greeting, and departing. In this photograph likely taken shortly after the station’s closure in 1977, the Greyhound sign has been removed. The City of Buffalo would purchase the vacant building in 1979, renovating a portion as a police station. Alleyway Theatre took up residence in part of the building in 1985, and took over the rest in 2000. The towering Greyhound blade sign is all that is missing from the building that captured that imagination of travelers decades ago. - THE PUBLIC STAFF

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ART REVIEW “Baily’s beads.” Or in some cases radiating inward. Centripetal versus centrifugal. In these cases, the sky is at the center of the photo, whereas in the radiating outward examples, the center is a portion of earth. Or water, or ice, in some waterfront scenario photos. Witkowski the photographer has been previously best known for his waterfront industrial photos, including documentation of the final work assignment of the last of the “scoopers,” who unloaded grain from lake ships before that job was eliminated by automation. He retains his attraction to waterfront industry, however. Several of the current works feature looming grain elevator silos and dock apparatus—cranes and the like—but it would take a waterfront denizen of many years standing to positively identify most of the subject matter, given the skewed perspectives and radial distortions of the process. Which are part of the appeal of these photos. Part of the fun is the puzzle. An equal or greater part is the sheer beauty of the photos. Two of the most beautiful are of the same subject, the Henry Hobson Richardson building and environs on Forest Avenue. Winter scenes in both cases. One radiating inward—gothic towers and gothic trees looming from opposite sides of a circular arena, vying for prominence against a turbulent gray sky threatening storm—and one radiating out—the Richardson towers building clearly dominant in this one, atop what looks like an enormous snowy pearl. Winter settings help. Snow cover erasing what otherwise might be an overload of visual information, particularly in the industrial environments. One conundrum photo shows curved lines of railroad tracks and trackside dried grasses poking through snow cover, all in all as if embracing a distant prospect of grain elevators and associated structures. A little bit like looking through a telescope from the wrong end. Witkowski calls it a magnetic fields effect. A straight frontal but circularly distorted view of the botanical gardens main building in winter gives something of the sense of the Taj Mahal. (Not that the botanical gardens building isn’t magnificent in its own right, but now transformed into a magical castle. Something out of the Arabian Nights.)

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY GENE WITKOWSKI AT BETTY’S RESTAURANT THE FIRST SENTENCE of Gene Witkowski’s short-form “bio” accompanying his recent works current exhibit at Betty’s Restaurant states that he is “a self-taught photographer and amateur astronomer.”

The astronomy predilection helps explain the title of the show— and way of thinking about the rather odd-looking photos—as Little Planets. Photos in the round, as it were. Three-hundred-

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1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts (1045 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-2281855, photographics2.com/store/welcometo-our-studio-1045-gallery-store): Studies of Life, work by Heather Kanazawa. Oening reception Fri Sep 8, 6:30-9pm. On view through Sep 30. Thu & Fri 11-6, Sat 11-4 and by appointment. Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Drawing: The Beginning of Everything: Artists featured include Ingrid Calame,Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson, Ellen Gallagher, Roland Flexner, Mark Fox, David Hammons, Nancy Rubins, Fred Sandback, Tam Van Tran, and Daniel Zeller, among others. On view through Oct 15. Shark Girl: Never Quite There, on view through Oct 1. Joe Bradley, on view through Oct 1. After Metamorphoses, animated drawings by Amy Sillman, on view through Oct 29. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. Amy’s Place Restaurant (University Heights Arts Association) (3234 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 716-833-6260, uhartsgroup.com/ amysplace): Every day, 7am-9pm. Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, btandcgallery.

and-sixty-degree panorama views of local region scenes and features—architecture and artifacts and landscape—around a central circular area that can look more like a sphere than a circle. Views created by an elaborate sequence of in-camera photographic and in-studio editing processes. A possibly more timely pertinent astronomy reference would be to the solar eclipse. The fringe of imagery of note in the photos— the architecture and artifacts and landscape—radiating outward from around the less conspicuous central circular area—recalls the stunning images of the total and near-total recent eclipse, described variously as “ring of fire,” or “diamond ring effect,” or

com): Formerly known as the BT&C Gallery. I’ll try not to breathe, new paintings by Amanda Besl. Opening reception Fri Sep 8, 6-9pm. Artist’s talk Sep 28, 6pm. On view through Oct 7. Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara St, Bflo, NY 14207) ANTIDOTES, new work by Cassandra Ott. Opening reception Fri Sep 8, 6-9pm. On view through Oct 14. Sat 12-3 or by appt. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Under Water Series, work by Bob Budin. On view through Sep 8. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artpark (450 S 4th St, Lewiston, NY 14092, artpark.net) Buffalo Artspace Gallery (1219 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14209): Gravity Events/tetrad #onepaintingforways, work by Sally Rebl and J. Tim Raymond. Opening reception Sat Sep 9, 7-10pm. On view through the month of Sep. Sat & Sun 12-4pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): Victor Shanchuk: A Life’s Work, retrospective exhibit. On view through Sep 15. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm. Ashker’s on Elmwood (1002 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886-2233, ashkersbuffalo. com). Mon-Sat 7am-10pm, Sun 9am-5pm. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffa-

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In his artist’s statement, he briefly explains his process. Using a wide-angle lens and the camera aimed at the horizon, turning in a circle, he takes about 35 pictures that are then overlapped and manipulated in Photoshop to achieve a single picture wrapped in a circle, and seamless, and just the way he wants it, earth in the middle and sky outside the main subject matter ring, or viceversa. The Little Planets exhibit continues through September 17.

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lo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Little Planets, photographic works by Gene Witkowski. On view through Sep 17. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Frolick: Modern and Contemporary Views of Recreation. Opening reception Sat Sep 9, 8-11pm. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, Forging cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): American: Art in the Workings of An Asian American Rust Belt, curated by Van Tran and Natalie Fleming. Opening reception Fri Sep 8, 8-11pm. Fri-Sun 12-6pm. The Blue Plate Studio (69 Keil Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 725-2054): Artwork by Linda Hankin. On view through Sep 30. Box Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Praise N Panic, installation by Paris J. Henderson. On view through Sep 8. Every day 4-10pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): The Buffalo Summer Youth Celebration. Tue-Fri 10am5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 884-1777, buffalobigprint.com): Richard Angelo Runfola’s collection of resin paintings. On view through Sep 30.Mon-Fri 9am-

5:30pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare: Reflecting on the Life of the Bard. Milestones on Science: Books That Shook the World! 35 rare books from the history of science, on second floor. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm.Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Art Moves Me in the Front Yard, Fri Sep 8, 7:30pm. Squeaky Wheel Presents: Silent Sound: Variations on Napoleon @ Front Yard. Thu Sep 7, 8:30-9:30pm. Divine Messengers, work by Craig LaRotonda, opening reception Fri Sep 8 5-9pm. The House Has Gone Down and the Lamps Are Out, Michael Bosworth, on view through Sep 24. 50 in 50: Fifty Works for Fifty Years, through Sep 24. Community: Immigrant and Refugee Artists in Western New York, through Oct 15. Glass Within Glass: The Magic of the Trabucco Studio, the paperweight artistry of Victor, David, and Jon Trabucco, through Sep 17. Wright, Roycroft, Stickley and Roehlfs: Defining the Buffalo Arts and Crafts Aesthetic, through November 26. A Dream World of the Imagination, works by Charles Burchfield, through Nov 26. 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free.

GALLERIES ART Caffe Aroma (957 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222) Floating Worlds, artwork by Jeffry Burke. On view through Oct 1. 6:30-12am Café Taza (100 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Sunday, mixed media illustrations & paintings by Lina Tran. Opening reception Sep. 8, 5-8pm. Open Mon-Fri 7am-8pm & SatSun 8am-5pm Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter. org): Surfacing, work by Karen Lee Lewis. Artist talk Thu. Sep. 7, 7-9pm. Thu 6-9pm & Sat 12-3pm. Casa de Arte (141 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo NY 14201, 716-227-0271, casadeartegallery.com): La Revolucion Gloriosa, For Whom? Mon & Wed 10am-3pm, Thu 6-9pm. The Cass Project (500 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14204, thecassproject.org): The Clufffaloes, recent works by Charles Clough on view in the main lobby. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Painting Niagara, Thomas Kegler, on view through Jan 21, 2018. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Place Relations: Identity in Contemporary Israeli Avant Garde Art: Re’em Aharoni, Yael Bartana, Tamy BenTor, Keren Cytter, Dor Guez, Adi Nes, Barak Zemer. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com): Contemporary collection including Hans Moller, Edith Geiger, Lee Adler, Claire Burch, and more. Wed-Fri 10:30am5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm. Daemen College, Tower Gallery of the Haberman Gacioch Art Center (Daeman College Center for Visual & Performing Arts, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY 14226, 839-8241): ANASTIGMATICS, photography by Daniel V Calleri, Kate Stapleton Parzych, and Mark Snyder. Opening Reception Thu Sep 7, 4-7pm. On view through Sep 29. Gallery hours, Mon-Fri 9-5pm. Dolce Valvo Art Center (NCCC 3111 Saunders Settlement Road Sanborn 14132 (716) 614-5975): Recent Travels, new collages by Joyce Hill. Opening reception Thu, Sep. 7, 12:30-2. On view through Oct. 7 Dreamland (387 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, facebook.com/dreamlandarts.buffalo/ timeline): Reopening soon. Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com): Fri 11am-9pm, Sat 11am-4pm El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Get Me Out of My Head, work by Robert Harris and Kurt Von Voetsch. On view through Sep 23. WedSat 12-6pm. Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): One Trip, Three Rooms, a “Painting Papers” collage exhibit featuring the work of Suzanne Borowicz and Paulette Krakowski. Opening reception Fri Sep 8, 7-9pm. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Nancy Dwyer’s artist talk in conjunction with her solo exhibition at the Nina Freudenhiem Gallery. Thu Sep 7, 7-8:30pm. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Co Modify, recent work by Mizin Shin and J. Eric Simpson. On view through Sep 30. Artist reception Fri Sep 15, 6-9pm. Artist talk Sat Sep 16, 1pm. Wed & Fri 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 123pm, and by appointment Sun & Mon. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Kenan Center House Gallery (433 Locust Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 433-2617, kenancenter. org): Erie Canal, Spirit of Structure, platinum/ palladium images by Dennis Stierer and Tillman Crane. Through Oct 1. Mon-Fri 12-5pm & Sun 2-5pm. Main Street Gallery (515 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203): Noon-7pm. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts. com): Tue-Fri 9:30am-4pm, Sat 9:30am-2pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine

Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 2827530, thenacc.org): Textiles and Fashion Exhibit, Aug 18-Oct 8. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-8825777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Nancy Dwyer. Opening reception Sat Sep 9, 6-8pm. Tue-Fri 10am–5pm. Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-6523270, norbergsartandframe.com): TueSat 10am–5pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Wed-Fri, 12-7pm (until 9pm on first Fridays), Sat & Sun 12-5pm. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse.com): Play of Brilliance: Silo Interiors, work by Steve Siegel. On view through Oct 28. Thu-Sat. Pine Apple Company (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/ store/pine-apple-company): Along the Edges, watercolor and mixed media work by Obsidian Bellis. Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): The Art of Mental Health. Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod. com): Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Cut It Out, collage group show. On view through Sep 9. Thu noon-6pm, Fri and Sat noon-8pm, River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051, riverartgalleryandgifts.com) Wed-Fri 11am- 4pm Sat 11am- 5pm. Ró Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Along the Way, recent photography by Robert Schulman. Opening reception Fri Sep 8, 6-8pm. On view through Oct 31. Tue-Sat 11am6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Sports Focus Physical Therapy (531 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202, 332-4838, sportsfocuspt.com): Niagara Nature, photography by James Johnston. On view through Nov 28. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, 6-9pm on first Fridays. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Silent Sound: Variations on Napoleon at Burchfield Penney Art Center Front Yard. Thu Sep 7, 8:30-9:30pm. TueSat, 12pm-5pm. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio. org): Bob Budin and John Price. Opening reception Fri Sep 8, 6-8pm. On view through October 6. Mon-Fri 9-4pm. Stangler Fine Art (6429 West Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127, 870-1129, stanglerart. com): Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): From Your Collection: A Collaborative Exhibit. On view Sep 15. Open by event and on Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries. org): Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017. Opening reception Sat Sep 9, 11am2pm. Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic, a permanent display. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Galleries (North Campus) (201 Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017. Opening reception, Thu. Sep. 7, 5-8pm. On view through Dec 31. Screen Projects: Antonia Wright, on view through Oct 8. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833) Mon-Thu 7:30am6pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 3481430, wnybookarts.org): Kozo Experimentation and Tradition, a collaborative exhibition of 12 WNY artists. Opening reception Fri Sep 8, 6-9pm. On view through Oct 6. Wed-Sat 126pm.

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8PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $25-$55 [HIP HOP] On Thursday, September 7, Wu Tang Clan member Raekwon

will come to Buffalo for a show at the Town Ballroom. Originally scheduled for the Waiting Room, the show was moved this week after the Waiting Room suddenly closed. Raekwon has been an integral part of Wu Tang Clan since the rap group formed in Staten Island New York in 1992. In 1995 the now 47-year-old rapper released his seminal record, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, which dove deeply into the rapper’s “Mafioso Rap” style and is considered one of the best Wu Tang Clan member solo records. In 2009, the rapper released Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…Pt. II, which featured several members of Wu Tang as well as productions by Dr. Dre and J Dilla, among others. His latest record, The Wild, was released earlier this year. When asked by GQ magazine what it was like recording the record, he said, “For me, it’s like, yo, if I get the right production, it’s on. It’s like making a sandwich again.” -CORY PERLA

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8:30PM / BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER, 1300 ELMWOOD AVE. / FREE [FILM AND MUSIC] A special coda to the summer season of outdoor performances that take risks and experiments with media will be found on Thursday, September 7 on the front lawn of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, where the massive projectors along Elmwood Avenue will be put to use to consider an ill-tempered populist of a bygone era. Variations on Napoleon will feature filmmaker Brian Milbrand doing a live remix of films that feature the story of Napoleon Bonaparte, including Abel Gance’s 1927 epic, to a live soundtrack provided by a string quartet. Evan Courtin, Leanne Darling, Jonathan Golove, and Don Metz will play Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Sinfonia Eroica ("Heroic Symphony," a.k.a. Symphony No. 3 in Eb major), a work originally dedicated to Napoleon. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair down to the Burchfield Penney's Front Yard to check out the latest installment of Squeaky Wheel’s Silent/Sound series. —AARON LOWINGER

CONFIRMATION ++++ album Recommended if you like: Ty Segall, Jay Reatard, Naomi Punk Lo-fi post-punk band Confirmation has just released a record titled ++++. The six-track record, with songs titled in Roman numerals, runs through choppy, raw punk. A stew of unintelligible vocals and croaking guitars boil up through the driving drums and bass on this quick list of primal punk tracks that mostly clock in under two minutes.

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BLEACHERS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8 6PM / ARTPARK, 450 SOUTH 4TH ST. / $33-$38 [POP] In an interview with the New York Times published earlier this year, Jack Antonoff, frontman

of the band Bleachers, talks about why he walked away from his former band Fun—which hit it big with their Grammy Award winning song “We Are Young” in 2011. “I remember immediately— immediately—feeling like, ‘I don’t want to play “We Are Young” when I’m 35,’” Antonoff said. “‘I don’t want to be defined by this.’” It wasn’t that he didn’t like the song, it was that it didn’t feel like his song. But Bleachers is most definitely his, and with it he’s released at least one song, “I Wanna Get Better,” that’s become nearly as ubiquitous as “We Are Young.” That song came from the band’s 2014 album Strange Desire. That was followed up by Terrible Thrills, Vol. 2 in 2015, which featured some of big-name pop artists like Charli XCX and Carly Rae Jepsen. Earlier this year the band released their third full length record, Gone Now, which is full of synthy 1980s pop and electro-R&B written alongside Jepsen and pop-star Lorde. Bleachers will perform live at Artpark on Friday, September 8 with special guests July Talk. -CORY PERLA

JACK TOPHT "We Can't Go Back Now" single Recommended if you like: MC Chris, Reggie Watts, Dr. Awkward The first single from an upcoming 22-track album from Jack Topht is titled “We Can’t Go Back Now.” The DIY track about the DIY musician lifestyle is a punky freak-out that disintegrates into chaos in under two minutes. The full album, titled The Cold

Rhyme Collection, is set for release on September 25.

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6 Live at Larkin: Dive House Union and Jony James Band 5pm Larkin Square, 745 Seneca Street free [FUNK] The final concert of the year in the Live at Larkin concert series happens this Wednesday, September 6. The free concert will feature funk/ soul band Dive House Union and blues rockers the Jony James Band. Chances are both bands will combine their forces for a collaborative set at the end of the night too. Check it out this Wednesday in Larkin Square. -CP

to—his acoustic folk rock music, is what has him out on the road right now. He’s on tour screening his film, Chasing the Lighting: A Working Musician’s Life, which is a document of his life as an independent working musician. But it can really be read as a story of any working-class musician who simply must pursue his passion. Tedesco will be on site to screen the film, answer questions, and perform an acoustic set, this Thursday, September 7 at Babeville’s 9th Ward. Presented by Community Beer Works. -TPS

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

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7 Dan Tedesco 7pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $10-$15 [FOLK] You may not know who Dan Tedesco is, but that’s okay. It’s actually kind of the point. Dan Tedesco is kind of your average Joe working musician, or at least that’s how he comes off. He’s actually more than that; in fact, he’s also a filmmaker, and that, rather than—or in addition

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[INDIE] If you were one of the 25 people lucky enough to see Catl last week at the Mohawk Place and are hankering to catch another highenergy songwriting duo, revisit the scene of the crime this Thursday, September 7 at Mohawk Place and catch Schwervon! The Kansas City duo of Matt on guitar and Nan on drums (they both provide vocals) is an intimate, fun slice of up-tempo songwriting with the occasional cartwheel thrown in. Joining Schwervon! will be a collection of homegrown weirdos including Pat Kewley, Jack Topht, and Slow Mutants. -AL

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8 Creative Space: Breaking Down the Industries 8am The Barrel Factory, 65 Vandalia St. $60 [WORKSHOP] Creative Space is a new music industry workshop for musicians, photographers, journalists, and marketers. The workshop event will be held this Friday, September 8 at the Barrel Factory and will feature a panel of industry insiders who will speak to and engage with a group of artist-students. The panel includes Kei Henderson, manager for hip hop artist 21 Savage; Justice Baiden, CEO of LVRN Records; Lauren Nostro, music editor at Complex; Thomas Falcone, industry photographer to Big Sean; and Denzel Williams, music video director. The event is limited to 120 tickets, so sign up at the Creative Space Eventbrite page soon. -TPS

Dead Sun, Elder Light, Honey Coma, and Award Show 7pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St. $5-$10 [EMO] A couple of out-of-town emo bands and

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IN PRINT: POLICING THEBLACK MAN:A RREST, PROSECUTION AND IMPRISONMENT EditedbyAngelaJ . Davis Pantheon, 2017 Angela J. Davis, professor of law at AU’s Washington College of Law, is an expert on prosecutorial power and racial disparities in the criminal justice system. In this new anthology, she brings together essays on the unconscionable treatment of black men at various stages of the criminal process. Contributors include Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, who reveals the seamless link between lynching and capital punishment in his essay “A Presumption of Guilt.” Also notable is Kristin Henning’s “Boys to Men” on the devastating role of policing in the socialization of black youth.

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11AM / BUFFALO RIVERWORKS, 359 GANSON ST. / FREE [FESTIVAL] The 16th edition of Buffalo’s Music is Art Festival will take place on Saturday, September 9 at a new location this year, Buffalo River Works, and the line up is just as extensive as ever. The main upshot of this move is that River Works offers some indoor and outdoor spaces in case of bad weather, which has plagued this late summer/early fall festival in the past. As of the time of this writing, however, the forecast for this weekend looks sunny. As usual the festival will feature several stages—the main stages, which will be split into an indoor and an outdoor area at River Works; The Rail Barn Stage, which is dedicated to Americana and blues; the Pyramid at The Ruins, Balcony, the Bunker, Reggae Dub, Silent Disco, Vinyl, and Front stages are where you’ll find DJs of just about any kind you can think of; the Gateway stage, which appears to be dedicated to hip hop; the Riverfront Jazz stage; and finally two kids stages. On top of that, there are five Cinema areas which will be screening horror movies, short films, and music documentaries. As you might imagine, it’s actually impossible to see everything at Music is Art, so if there are specific acts you’d like to see, look at a schedule and plan ahead. Some recommendations as far as main stage acts go: on Saturday be sure to check out indie rock band The Tins at 9:45pm, industrial electronic duo Night Slaves at 12:15am, and rapper Chae Hawk at 12:45am. There will also be a few acts playing on Friday and Sunday, most notably alternative rock band Dirty Smile at 7:30pm and emo band Darling Harbor at 9pm on Friday and indie rock band Ponder the Giraffe at 4pm, and ska-punk band Reggie Childs at 4:30pm on Sunday. Or if you’re like me, you’ll just wander in and see where the festival takes you. -CORY PERLA

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� CHECK COPY CONTENT8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $10-$12 [INDIE] Two potent Buffalo-based indie rock [ROCK] Glenn Danzig may not be known as rock-and-roll’s friendliest frontman,� butCHECK he certainly has a DATES IMPORTANT bands, M.A.G.S. and the Slums, have teamed fondness for Steve Zing. Zing has been one of Danzig’s most frequent musical collaborators, playing bass for a#, double album release show this Friday, �subsequent CHECK NAME, ADDRESS,up PHONE & WEBSITE and drums in post-Misfits punk-goth-metal outfit Samhain in the 1980s and during reunions, September 8 at Mohawk Place, presented by and as touring bassist for the band Danzig since 2006. Clearly, Danzig likes working with the multi-talent� PROOF OK (NO CHANGES) Yace Booking. M.A.G.S the indie-punk band ed and amiable Zing, who is a fellow Lodi, New Jersey native. headed by Elliott Douglas will drop their latest, PROOF OK (WITH16CHANGES) Zing and his bandmates are preparing for a string of tour stops that lead to the Riot� Fest on September self titled album; while the Slums celebrate in Chicago, where Danzig will play 1992’s Danzig III in full. One of those dates is Tuesday, September the release of their new EP, Bloodsucker. 12 at Artpark in Lewiston, where Danzig shares the stage with Corrosion of Conformity, Mutoid They’ll be joined by out-of-towner emo band Advertisers Signature Man, and Buffalo’s Governess. Zing spoke to The Public about working with Glenn Danzig, the Misfits Jouska and Buffalo synth pop band Humble reunion, his personal project Blak29, and his desire for Anchor Bar chicken wings when Danzig comes to Braggers. -CP ____________________________ Western New York for a late summer outdoor metal bash at Artpark. Date _______________________ Tom Rainey Trio You are the longest-tenured bass player with Danzig (touring bassist since 2006) and one of 8pm Allen Street Hardware Cafe, 245 Allen St. the most experienced collaborators with Glenn Danzig going back to your days inCY Samhain Issue: _____________________ / Y17W35 $15 general, $12 students/seniors, $10 members (1983-1985). To what do you attribute the strength of your working relationship with Glenn? [JAZZ]AREAn IF YOU APPROVE about ERRORS WHICH ON accomplished trio of improvThere’s no ego, there’s no drama. I like to go up and have a good time. I’m not going to complain ready musicians visit the back room of Allen the food, I’m not going to complain about this or that. It’s a blessing to be doing what we are doing, I don’t THIS PROOF, THE PUBLIC CANNOT BE Street Hardware this Friday. With jazz vet care who you are playing with. To do it on our level, and for the amount of years that we’ve had success, it’s HELD RESPONSIBLE. PLEASE EXAMINE THE ADdrums, Ingrid Laubrock on Tom Rainey on a true blessing. I met him when I was 12 years old, I’m 53. It was an interesting thing, I can remember the and Mary Halvorson on guitar, THOROUGHLY EVENsaid, IF THE saxophone, AD IS A PICK-UP. day when I went into the garage to listen to the Misfits rehearse in 1978. And I just looked at him and the trio puts together makes what jazz THIS PROOF MAY ONLY BE USED FOR “I’m going to be in a band with this guy,” and I didn’t even play an instrument. critic Josef Woodard called "a refreshing PUBLICATION IN THE PUBLIC. new and not-sentimental kind of beautiful music," one that is primed for improvisation Your show in Buffalo comes just a few days before Danzig plays Danzig III in full at Riot Fest and experimentation. The performance is in Chicago. Is it likely that we will hear material from Danzig III at the Buffalo show? presented by Hallwalls. -AL I think so. I’m actually flying out Monday morning to rehearse and then I’m going to fly home to New

Jersey on Tuesday. We’re going to rehearse specifically Danzig III stuff. The great thing about this lineup is we don’t have to play for a year. We get in the rehearsal studio and it just flows. I’m blessed to play with (guitarist) Johnny (Kelly) and (drummer) Tommy (Victor).

Glenn frequently says that he’s not interested in touring anymore, but here he is on the road again. Well, this is a short run, it’s nothing where he’s going to get out for a month and go anymore. And he shouldn’t have to—that’s not his thing. He still has a brand to promote. I don’t think he will tour with the Misfits. I think he enjoyed it, which is why they are doing another show, but I don’t think they are going to get on a bus and tour. Never say never. As a fan, you’d love to see it. But I’m loving the fact that they are getting the respect for the original music. I enjoy your Blak29 project, where you really get to show off your chops as a vocalist. Some of stuff is reminiscent of Ian Astbury of the Cult or Billy Idol, and I think people might be surprised. People refer me to Ian Astbury, and I like the Cult. I don’t really, like, listen to them, but I do take that as a compliment. I started singing vocals years ago because I couldn’t find people to sing the songs I was writing. I would bring people down and let them sing and it didn’t make sense. And it was kind of like, you know what, screw it, I’ll do it myself. It’s kind of like the Glenn attitude: When he wants to make music and no one is around, sometimes he plays the bass, he plays the guitar. He does what he’s got to do to get it done. Is there anything coming up from Blak29 we should be looking out for soon? There’s new Blak29 coming out, we’ll be doing a 45 soon, I’ll announce that hopefully within a month. We’re just having problems getting vinyl. Because what’s old is new again, so vinyl is on this uptick, So, you know, they can’t make it fast enough. All these places that produced vinyl at one time went out of business. A lot of those machines were discarded, so now you have a lot of these companies and now you have to produce the machines again. Because nobody ever thought, after vinyl basically died and CDs took over, that it would ever come back. So these guys were just throwing the machines in the garbage. When compared to other punk and metal acts of the time, Glenn has been very protective about the brands that he’s been involved in. Look, there will be times when Glenn will do certain things and you kind of sit there and question it and then you go, “Oh, now I see why he did it.” Again, it’s for protection. He doesn’t want to water it down. That’s not his thing, never was. And he’s going to do it his way, or it’s not going to get done. And look, every band has moments where you kind of plateau and it levels off and I think he knows that. Glenn has always been protective. When it comes down to shirts—if he sees a shirt and the quality is horrible, he will reject it. He’d rather not sell it, he says, “I don’t want to sell crap.” When it comes down to the stickies that are printed up for backstage, if the thing is wrong, he will reject it. You can say, “Who cares?” He does. It’s down to the most minuscule things that you would never think of, but he’s concerned about it. And people can put down the production of things, but it doesn’t matter. He’s raw, he’s a raw guy. He can be produced if he wants to be produced, but when it comes down to it, he’s a raw guy. He’s what punk rock is. He will sit there and make laminates himself. He loves the control because it’s his, you know? It’s his. And if people want something overproduced, they’re not going to get it from Glenn Danzig. He’s going to do what he wants to do, and that’s that. And you know what, he’s been damn successful with it. Is there anything about coming back to Buffalo you are looking forward to in particular? What I’m looking forward to is just coming up to Buffalo, musically kicking your ass and having some P wings from the Anchor Bar and Grill. -KIP DOYLE

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 9 Lil BUB at Black Sheep 11am Black Sheep, 367 Connecticut St. $125

[FUNDRAISER] From the realm of the truly ridiculous comes a local appearance of the Youtube star Lil BUB, who is a cat. Albeit a cat with preternaturally large eyes and the innate ability to gently protude its tongue from its face so as to always look pathetic but also sympathetic and adorable. Lil BUB is making a guest appearance this Saturday, September 9 at the West Side restaurant the Black Sheep because that’s what you do when you’re a feline celebrity, so we’ve been told. It’s a simple meet-and-greet. With a cat. And you have to buy tickets to go, because what BUB’s really all about is raising money for animal shelters, and that’s nothing to hiss at. -AL

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[HIP HOP] Buffalo-based hip hop label Deep Thinka hosts a funky DIY hip hop showcase this Sunday, September 10 at pop-up venue Faux/Real. The show, which is billed as a “no gimmicks, no bullshit” celebration of hip hop culture, features Deuce Ellis, Short Moscato, Mad Dukez, Cee Gee, and Rap & Destroy. -TPS

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 13 Magpie 8pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $5

[FOLK] Magpie is a three-piece folk band with a pretty spiritual philosophy. With band members hailing from Nashville, Tennessee and Moab, Utah, the band combines folk rock with jazz and country to create a moody, sometimes psychedelic sound accentuated by singer Zach Dunn’s soul-searching lyrics. The band comes to Buffalo Iron Works on Wednesday, September 13 with support from local indie rock bands the P Tins and Mom Said No. -CP

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9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL: The stage adaptation of the movie, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton. Opens September 15 at Lancaster Opera House, 21 Central Avenue, Lancaster, 6831776, lancopera.org. DESIGN FOR LIVING: A bohemian love triangle in 1930s England, made comedy by Noel Coward. Opens September 15 at the Irish Classical Theater, Andrews Theater, 625 Main Street, 8534282, irishclassical.com. THE FEVER: A collective theater experience in which the audience and performers collaborate to examine what it means to be present together. September 15 & 16 at Torn Space Theater, Adama Mickiwiecz Dramatic Circle, 612 Fillmore Avenue, 8125733, tornspacetheater.com. IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE: Darkly funny stage adapatation of a Sinclair Lewis novel that imagines a political scenario dreadfully parallel to that in which we live right now. Opens September 14 at Subversive Theatre Collective, Manny Fried Theatre, Great Arrow Building, 255 Great Arrow Avenue, third floor, 4080499, subversivetheatre.org. JOHN: ”A young couple, struggling with their future, arrives at a mysterious bed & breakfast in Gettysburg, PA—one brimming with watchful objects, where certain rooms are not to be entered and certain things are better left unsaid.” Opening September 8 at Road Less Traveled, 500 Pearl Street, 6293069, roadlesstraveledproductions.org. KILLER RACK: A “feminist horror musical comedy” directed by Greg Lamberson. Opening September 15 at Alleyway Theater, 1 Curtain Up Alley, 852-2600, alleyway.com. MY OLD LADY: Israel Horovitz’s play about a middle aged New Yorker who becomes roommates in Paris with a nonagenarian Frenchwoman. Opens September 15 at New Phoenix Theatre in the Park, 95 Johnson Park, 853-1334, newphoenixtheatre.org. PETER AND THE STARCATCHER: It is to the Peter Pan story what Wide Sargasso Sea is to Jane Eyre. Sort of: back story, alternate story. Winner of several Tony Awards, including Best Play. Opening September 6 at MusicalFare Theatre, 4380 Main Street (Daemen College campus), 839-8540, musicalfare.com. THE PRODUCERS: Norm Sham as Max Bialystock, Brian Mysliwy as Leo Bloom. You can’t lose. Opening September 8 at Kavinoky Theatre, 320 Porter Avenue (D’Youville College campus), 8297668, kavinokytheatre.com. SONS AND LOVERS: A new play by Buffalo playwright Donna Hoke about a woman coming to terms with truths about her husband and son. Opens September 14 at Buffalo United Artists, Alleyway Theater, 1 Curtain Up Alley, 886-9239, buffalobua.org.

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1837: THE FARMERS’ REVOLT: A play about the Rebellions of 1837, which led eventually to Canadian nationhood. 1979: More Canadian history, this one a comedy about former Joe Clark, prime minister for just 10 months. AN OCTOROON: Funny, challenging, and award-winning play by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins examining racial attitudes in America. ANDROCLES AND THE LION: An interactive take on Shaw’s re-telling of the well-known fable. DANCING AT LUGHNASA: 1990 memory play by Irishman Brian Friel. DRACULA: A funny and sexy staging of Bram Stoker’s supernatural thriller. THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE III: Alan Bennett play about the monarch’s struggles with mental illness. ME AND MY GIRL: Musical comedy from the 1930s, revised by Stephen Fry in the 1980s.

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A STAR FOR STEPHEN MCKINLEY HENDERSON: The kickoff to Buffalo’s theater season, Curtain Up!, is Friday, September 15. (And if you have not yet got tickets to a show, get cracking: Seats sell out fast.) The celebration begins this coming Monday, when UB professor of theater and dance Stephen McKinley Henderson is honored with a star in the Theatre District’s Plaza of Stars. Henderson currently stars in the Broadway production of Lucas Hnath’s A Doll House, Part 2; his career on stage and in film and television has garnered numerous awards, and a Tony nomination for the 2010 Broadway production of August Wilson’s Fences with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. Henderson’s star will be dedicated with a ceremony at the corner of Main and Tupper Streets at 5:30pm on Monday, September 11. Read an interview with Henderson about the honor and his career at dailypublic.com.

MIDDLETOWN: An exploration of a small American town by playwright Will Eno. SAINT JOAN: Shaw’s study of the sainted French military hero and martyr. WILDE TALES: Four stories by Oscar Wilde adapted for the stage.

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

PLUS, AT THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL: BAKKHAI: In Euripides’s play, Dionysos arrives in Thebes, bent on revenge. THE BREATHING HOLE: World premiere of a play tracing Candian history from first contact between Europeans and First Nations to a world threatened by cliamte change. THE CHANGELING: Treachery, madness, murder, lust—all the elelments of a Jacobean tragedy. GUYS AND DOLLS: Frank Loesser’s classic musical. HMS PINAFORE: Gilbert and Sullivan’s high-seas operetta. THE KOMAGATU MARU INCIDENT: Based on a 1914 incident in which a shipload of emigrants from India are denied entrance to Vancouver. THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT: Imagine that there is a rich reservoir of oil under the streets of Paris… ROMEO AND JULIET: Shakespeare’s second-most frustrating tragedy. THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Witty society comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. TARTUFFE: Holy Molière. TIMON OF ATHENS: How not to succeed in business, win friends, and influence people? TREASURE ISLAND: Adapted for the stage by Nicolas Billon. TWELFTH NIGHT: A comedy with everything: a shipwreck, sassy servants, cross-dressing, a dissolute uncle. THE VIRGIN TRIAL: A thriller about the young Princess Elizabeth navigating Tudor intrigues. Playing now at the Stratford Festival, 55 Queen Street, Stratford, P ON, 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

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CAIROTOWN THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT BY M. FAUST THERE ARE FILM genres that will always have an audience,

and noirs about the corruption in political life are one of them. Like horror movies, these tend to be pretty much the same no matter what country they come from, which is why the Egypt-set thriller The Nile Hilton Incident can appeal to an American audience. Set in January 2011, in week just prior to the events in which it appeared that a popular uprising would remove President Hosni Mubarak from power, the film begins as a murder mystery. A popular singer is found dead in a hotel room, her throat slit. When the government prosecutor closes the case as a suicide, it rouses the ire of the investigating detective, Noredin (Fares Fares, who Star Wars fans may recognize as Senator Vaspar from Rogue One). Getting Noredin’s interest is no mean feat. He got the job because his uncle Gammel is the local police chief, and he’s happy to go through life taking all the money the crooked operators of Cairo press into his palm. But when he starts to pull at this exposed

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OPENING THIS WEEK IT—Remake (if you count made-forTV movies) of the Stephen King tale about kids stalked by a killer clown. From all reports it’s a lot scarier than that makes it sound. Starring Jaeden Lieberherm, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, and Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise. Directed by Andy Muschietti (Mama). AMC Maple Ridge, Aurora, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph Mankiewicz,1950)—Bette Davis had her most memorable role in this backstage drama as Margo Channing, a justturned-40 actress whose career faces a hostile takeover effort from a younger actress looking for a shortcut to the top. Mankiewicz’s juicily cynical dialogue is relished by a cast that includes George Sanders, Thelma Ritter, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, and Marilyn Monroe in one of her first notable roles. Winner of six Oscars (at least a few of which should have gone to Sunset Boulevard, but that’s the Oscars for you). Wed, Fri 7pm, Sun 6 pm. Screening Room BESIDE BOWIE: THE MICK RONSON STORY Documentary about the guitarist who was instrumental in shaping the sound of David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust phase. Directed by Jon Brewer (All Apologies: Kurt Cobain 10 Years On). Thurs 7:30, Fri 9:30pm. Screening Room 45 YEARS—Charlotte Rampling received an Oscar nomination for best actress as a woman whose long-term marriage changes when she learns

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thread, it leads him to a construction tycoon and member of Parliament, some sleazy photographs, and a Sudanese refugee who can connect them. Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, The Nile Hilton Incident is satisfyingly unsurprising in its surprises. Cynical viewers will be comfortably reassured that the corruption of the rich and powerful is no different in one of the world’s oldest cities than it is here in one of the youngest democracies. (The Egyptian government being

something she never knew about the life of her husband (Tom Courtenay, also very good) before he met her. Reminiscent of James Joyce’s classic story “The Dead,” it’s spare material in which much goes unsaid and you have to watch carefully for revealing details. But as acted by two performers whose careers extend back to the glory days of British cinema in the 1960s, it builds to a devastating conclusion. Directed by Andrew Haigh. Presented by the Roycroft Film Society. Sun 4pm. —MF Parkdale School Auditorium, 141 Girard Ave., East Aurora HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1978)— Warren Beatty’s remake of the classic fantasy Here Comes Mr. Jordon isn’t his best film as a director, but it’s far and away the most likeable. He stars as a football player accidentally taken to the afterlife and returned to earth in the body of a millionaire whose heirs are planning to kill him. Co-starring Julie Christie, James Mason, Jack Warden, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, and Buck Henry, who co-directed. Sat-Sun 11:30am. North Park TRIUMPH OF THE WILL (Germany, 1935)—Leni Riefenstahl’s documentary glorifying Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party on the occasion of the 1934 Nuremberg rally, at which 700,000 gathered to celebrate the party’s rise to power in Germany. If you’re asking, “Why would I want to watch such a thing?” then you should make plans to attend. Riefenstahl’s skills as a filmmaker in capturing the scope of the event combine with hindsight to make for a lesson that can never be repeated too often. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst

CONTINUING ATOMIC BLONDE is a terrible title for a serviceable spy tale that could have used more plot and less action, though there’s an extended fight scene in the last half hour that is as impressively staged to look like it’s happening in real time as anything in Birdman. Set in Berlin just before the Berlin Wall came down, it stars Charlize Theron as a British agent sent to retrieve a sensitive dossier. Her contact is an agent gone rogue (James McAvoy), who, coupled with a frame device that can’t help but remind you of The Usual Suspects, cues you not to take anything in the story at face value. Stuntman turned director David Leitch did uncredited work on John Wick, and

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once again shows that his skills don’t include squeezing any emotions out of his star players. With Eddie Marsan, John Goodman, and Toby Jones. —MF Four Seasons, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria BABY DRIVER—In films like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End, writer-director Edgar Wright used parodying his favorite trash film genres as an excuse to make the same thing he was supposed to be kidding. Working entirely outside of England for this action movie about a hotshot young crime driver trying to get away from the gangster who controls him, he uses Michael Bay-ish photography and editing to enliven a script that is cut-and-pasted from the early years of Quentin Tarantino—Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, True Romance. In other words, it’s a retread of a retread. It might have worked if it wasn’t all built around Ansel Elgort, a young actor so blandly callow that he makes you long for the days of Fabian and Frankie Avalon. With Jon Bernthal, Lily James, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, and a small army of celebrity cameos. —MF Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE BIG SICK—Believe the hype for this gentle, good-natured culture clash rom-com produced by Judd Apatow. Stand-up comic Kumail Nanjiani (TV’s Silicon Valley), whose family moved to the US from Pakistan when he was a child, and North Carolina-born Emily Gordon wrote the script based on their own relationship. Their romance is impeded first by her reticence to be distracted from her studies, then by his inability to stand up to his parents who are trying to set him up in an arranged marriage, and then by an illness that would be hard to believe if it weren’t a true story. Holly Hunter and Ray Romano nearly steal the film as her parents, who first meet Kumail in the waiting room of the hospital where their daughter is in a coma. Directed by Michael Showalter (Hello, My Name Is Doris). —MF Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria BIRTH OF THE DRAGON—Bruce Lee becomes a supporting player in this highly fictionalized account of his –pre-stardom days in San Francisco. The focus is on Billy Magnussen as an aspiring martial artist who gets mixed up in

as sensitive as it is to charges like this, the film was actually shot in Casablanca, where no one is shocked—shocked!—to learn what’s going on.) The film’s tone has more in common with “Nordic noir” shows like The Killing and The Bridge than it does with the florid melodrama that characterizes popular Egyptian cinema, which may well be because writer-director Tarik Saleh may be Eqyptian by descent but is actually Swedish by birth. The Nile Hilton Incident opens Friday at the Dipson P Amherst theater.

a Chinatown battle that pits Lee (Philip Ng) against kung fu master Wong Jack Man (Yu Xia). On its own merits it’s an undistinguished action drama. As cultural appropriation, it’s a slap in the face to the very audience that might have been expected to see it. Directed by George Nolfi (The Adjustment Bureau). —MF AMC Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE DARK TOWER—Stephen King’s enormous fantasy saga, totaling 4,250 pages and 1.335 million words over eight books (thanks, Wikipedia), has long been considered unfilmable, a charge this piffle of a movie tends to prove. Actually a sequel to the books incorporating parts of them, it centers on a Manhattan boy whose troubled dreams contain images that lead him into an alternate world where a “gunslinger” (Idris Elba) stalks a demonic fellow (Matthew McConaughey) who wants to—oh, I’m not going to try to lay it all out. At barely more than 90 minutes, it never attains the kind of gravitas that a tent pole film like this needs: It’s supposed to lay the basis for sequels in both film and TV, but it’s hard to see it gaining much of a fan base. Starring Katheryn Winnick, Matthew McConaughey, Idris Elba, and Jackie Earle Haley. Directed by Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair). —MF Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria DETROIT—Director Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) recreates an incident during the Detroit uprising of 1967 pitting three young African-American men against the police at a motel. Starring John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, and Jacob Latimore. Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria DUNKIRK—You wouldn’t expect a typical war movie from Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception), and he hasn’t provided one with his depiction of the famous campaign to rescue more than 400,000 British and Allied soldiers from their entrapment by German forces on the French coast in May and June of 1940. The most extraordinary part of the story was the participation of British civilians, who piloted 900 ragtag boats across the channel to pick up the trapped soldiers. Cutting among three stories, Nolan captures immediacy and intimacy in a hellish, if beautiful set-

ting. If you don’t like war movies, this one may be an exception for you. Starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Tom Hardy. — GS AMC Maple Ridge, Hamburg Palace, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE EMOJI MOVIE—No, seriously, I wouldn’t make up something like this. Featuring Patrick Stewart as the voice of Poop. Honest to god, I’m not making this up. Directed by Tony Leondis (Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit THE GLASS CASTLE—The trailers for this adaptation of Jeannette Walls’s best-selling memoir, about growing up in a dysfunctional family with parents who couldn’t adequately care for their children, seem to be trying to make it look like another Captain Fantastic. But Rex Walls (Woody Harrelson, adroitly cast) is a wholly different kind of character, a smart guy with a drinking problem and an inability to hold a job. Frustratingly short on important details of how the family survived once the children took charge of their lives, the film holds your attention but is generally a disappointing follow-up from Destin Daniel Cretton, after his striking 2013 debut Short Term 12. With Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, and Ella Anderson. —MF AMC Maple Ridge, Aurora,, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria GOOD TIME—Twilight fans won’t recognize Robert Pattinson in this change-of-pace role as a Queens small-time crook who spends a desperate night trying to dig himself out of a hole that opens when he breaks his mentally disabled brother out of a local institution. This breakthrough feature for brothers Josh and Benny Safdie, whose indie movies have been getting attention on the festival circuit for nearly a decade, is a descent into hell that makes up in velocity what it lacks in plausibility. You can’t help but compare it to Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs—especially during a third act tangent that threatens to take over the movie—but with less florid dialogue and more grit. Co-starring Taliah Lennice Webster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Barkhad Abdi. —MF Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

REVIEW FILM THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD—In what sounds an awful lot like the plot of the classic Midnight Run, Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson play a bodyguard for hire and a captured assassin on the run across Europe. In classic buddy movie tradition, this is fueled by the chemistry between the two leads, and Reynolds and Jackson are sufficiently disparate to spark interest. But director Patrick Hughes (The Expendables 3) puts all his trust in the big action set pieces, which consume the final (and dullest) half-hour of the movie. With Gary Oldman, Salma Hayek, Elodie Yung, and Richard E. Grant in a fun cameo as a coke-addled businessman. —MF Regal Elmwood, Regal Walden Galleria, Dipson Flix, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Transit Drive-In

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I DO…UNTIL I DON’T—Lake Bell (In a World) wrote, directed, and stars in this comedy about the marital troubles of three couples, put under the spotlight by a documentary filmmaker with an anti-marriage agenda. Co-starring Ed Helms, Mary Steenburgen, Paul Reiser, Amber Heard, Wyatt Cenac, and Dolly Wells. Dipson Amherst ENDS THURSDAY

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INGRID GOES WEST—A millennial update of The King of Comedy starring Aubrey Plaza as a mentally troubled a social media addict who moves to Los Angeles to work her way into the life of the Instagram personality she has become obsessed with. Writer-director Matt Spicer generally avoids easy laughs, which is wise when you’re dealing with such obvious material. But he doesn’t have a dramatic idea that isn’t perfectly obvious to anyone who has spent too much time following other peoples’ lives on an iPhone. With Elizabeth Olsen and O’Shea Jackson Jr. —MF Regal Transit, Regal Galleria

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to rob the box office at a NASCAR race in North Carolina. Not that anyone took that retirement very seriously (Soderbergh is only 54), but it’s hard to see what about this genial but slight material got his juices going. It plays like a lazy Southern knock-off of his Oceans movies, with vague plotting and characters that aren’t as strong as the actors were probably expecting. Still, it makes for a perfectly entertaining evening at the movies if you keep your expectations low. Co-starring Daniel Craig, Riley Keough, Hilary Swank, and Katie Holmes. —MF AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria MAUDIE—Biopic starring Sally Hawkins as Maud Lewis, who lived a hard life in Nova Scotia but produced a now-treasured collection of folk art from hardscrabble materials. Like the rough coastal landscape, Hawkins’ Maud isn’t pretty but she is beautiful, and if her disabilities (severe arthritis) aren’t as extreme as re-enacted by Daniel Day Lewis as Christy Brown in My Left Foot, it’s still a comparison worth making: Hawkins is that good. Writing in 1997 about an exhibition of Maud’s work, Bernard Riordon, director of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, said “I think it will bring joy to people, and that they will go away feeling a great deal of satisfaction in the value of simple things.” The same is true of this movie. With Ethan Hawke. Directed by Aisling Walsh (The Daisy Chain). —MF With Ethan Hawke. Dipson McKinley

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THE NEIGHBORHOOD—Toronto cult figure Frank D’Angelo wrote, directed, and stars in this gangster story that pits young hoods against old school mafioso. With Franco Nero, Leslie Easterbrook, Danny Aiello, Armand Assante, Michael Pare, Margot Kidder, and Giancarlo Giannini. Dipson Flix ENDS THURSDAY PARIS CAN WAIT—Take the comedy out of the three The Trip films (the third of which opens in August), substitute Diane Lane for Steve Coogan, and the result might well be this low-key semi-documentary filled with pleasant shots of the south of France and plenty of food porn. Lane’s companion is French actor Arnaud Viard as her husband’s business associate who agrees to chauffeur her to Paris. Whether or not he is actually trying to seduce her is a question left open until the end of the film, and I was as uncertain of the answer as I was indifferent. Eleanor Coppola, wife of Francis Ford, makes her dramatic directing debut with a project that runs the gamut from pleasant to bland. — MF Dipson McKinley PATTY CAKES—An overweight white girl in a blue-collar New Jersey town dreams of becoming a rap star. Starring Danielle Macdonald, Bridget Everett, Siddharth Dhananjay, Mamoudou Athie, and Cathy Moriarty. Directed by Geremy Jasper. Dipson Amherst ENDS THURSDAY THE TRIP TO SPAIN—Trip number three for Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon to trade celebrity impressions and grouse about middle age while reviewing fine restaurants in —well, see if you can guess. The third time is not the charm for this formula. Watching it is like eating the microwaved leftovers you brought home from a great restaurant meal: it’s not bad, but it’s not nearly as good as it was when you first had it. With Marta Barrio and Claire Keelan. Directed by Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People). -MF Dipson Eastern Hills (ENDS THURSDAY), North Park VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS—A comic book epic with a difference: It’s from France. Of course, given that the director is Luc Besson, whose has made a career out of imitating Hollywood excesses, that may not be all that much of a difference Starring Cara Delevingne, Dane DeHaan, Elizabeth Debicki, Ethan Hawke, Clive Owen, and Rihanna. Dipson McKinley

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES— Fifteen years after the >> events of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, in which “simian virus” wiped out most of mankind, the intelligent apes led by Caesar (Andy Serkis) live in secret, hunted by a Colonel Kurtz-like

commander (Woody Harrelson) who sees himself as mankind’s savior. It’s hard to believe special effects can still dazzle an audience spoiled by technology that makes anything possible, but the motion-capture technology that turns human actors into chimpanzees delivers powerhouse entertainment with rare emotional resonance. This may be conclude the trilogy, but don’t expect this thrilling, emotionally satisfying, and meticulously crafted installment to be the end: Action-fantasy films this good can fuel a decade’s worth of spinoffs. Directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield). —Greg Lamberson Four Seasons, Regal Quaker WIND RIVER—For his mainstream directorial debut, Taylor Sheridan mines territory similar to his script for last year’s Hell or High Water: both are about crimes committed in territory where the residents’ lives are stressed and constrained by social and economic conditions. In this case it’s a Native American reservation, where federal agent Jeremy Renner investigates the murder of a young girl. The movie is saturated in mood—sorrow, fear and anger—but it doesn’t feel very well thought through: We too often get atmospherics rather than narrative or character, despite some fine actors. Co-starring P Kelsey Asbille, Julia Jones, Apesanahkwat, Elizabeth Olsen, and Graham Greene. —GS AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Walden Galleria WONDER WOMAN—Patty Jenkins, who has been directing episodic TV since Monster, delivers a true crowd pleaser from the DC universe. The film traces the comic book heroine’s origin as an Amazon princess on Themyscira Island to her mission to slay Ares, the god of war, whom she believes is orchestrating World War I. Israeli-born actress Gal Gadot is perfectly cast as the feminist icon, and Chris Pine is charming as her love interest, American spy Steve Trevor. The first half of the film is true to the original comic, and may be the most romantic superhero adaptation since Richard Donner’s Superman. Diana is a relentless warrior, winningly embodying the phrase “Nevertheless, she persisted.” The film only goes awry in its last act, when Jenkins employs the same bleak color scheme as Snyder, and when a poorly cast actor assumes the role of Ares. Co-starring David Thewlis, Robin Wright, and Ewan Bremmer. —Greg Lamberson Dipson Flix, Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal P Walden Galleria

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