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THEATER: A quick guide to what’s playing on area stages.
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THIS WEEK’S UPS AND DOWNS BY THE PUBLIC STAFF
UPS: It’s hard for us to figure out whether this is an up disguised as a down, or a down saved at the last minute by an up, but the sad, strange case of JOHN FLICKNER has a little bit of everything. Flickner, a 78-year-old wheelchair-bound tenant of Niagara Falls apartment complex, was evicted last week due to the zero-tolerance drug policy maintained by the company that owns the complex. Flickner uses marijuana to help cope with the pain stemming from a skydiving accident in 1968. When the company had a problem with him smoking it, he got a medical marijuana license and vaping tool, but that still wasn’t enough, and Flickner last week landed in a homeless shelter in the Falls. Flickner’s case highlights several stark policy failures around marijuana and the criminalization of drugs overall that all boil down to: How is it legal for anyone to give a fuck if a 78-year-old man uses medical marijuana in his own home? The company, the Tennessee-based LHP Capital, had even called police in the past, and the police refused to bring any charges, because why the hell would they? And let’s extend that a little bit: Why does any give a fuck about any adult using cannabis in their own home? Cases like Flickners underscore for us that the full-scale decriminalization of marijuana in New York State can’t come fast enough, so we’ll give this one an up, because after the Buffalo News story and LHP’s barbaric policy and actions came to light, they “welcomed” Flickner, his weed, and his vape stick back into his home. And again, we salute the efforts of US District Court Judge VALERIE CAPRONI, who meted out a 42-month sentence to Alain Kaloyeros as we were going to press. Political corruption in New York State is almost as inevitable as weather. Here’s to hoping that the message is heard statewide, that the quid-pro-quo, transactional nature of state politics is deleterious to the state’s economic health. And we hope that message is heeded in Albany, where Democrats enjoy majorities in the Assembly and the Senate and like to pretend there are no legislative solutions to this kind of corruption, whether they’ve benefited from elements of the game being played or not.
DOWNS: On Monday evening, Democratic Party committee members within District 7 of the Erie County Legislature—at least those who bothered to attend the meeting—voted to designate Cheektowaga Town Boardmember TIM MEYERS as the party’s choice to fill the seat that soon will be vacated by its current holder, Pat Burke. Burke just won the District 142 seat in the state Assembly, which he will assume in the new year. Meyers’s competition for the designation was a fellow town board member, Brian Nowak, who had Burke’s endorsement, which helped him not at all: The margin was 73-27 in favor of Meyers. Nowak is (like Burke) young and progressive, a first-time officeholder who entered politics in 2016 as a local organizer for Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, then turned to local politics. Meyers is a legacy politician: His father was a Cheektowaga town supervisor, and many folks in Cheektowaga (including many Democratic committee members) owe political debts to the Meyers clan. (Tim Meyers himself has a good government job as an airfield supervisor for the NFTA.) But in this case, the vote was about more than old relationships and transactions. Meyers has been maneuvering for the Erie County Legislature since the moment Burke signaled his interest in the Assembly seat last winter (and probably before that). But more recently he signaled his intention to run a primary challenge to Cheektowaga’s Democratic town supervisor, Diane Benczkowski, who might fairly be described as embattled and vulnerable. To immunize Benczkowski against Meyers’s putative challenge, a deal was struck among Democratic leadership to send Meyers to the Erie County Legislature instead. Where does that leave Nowak? He’s considering running for the District 7 seat next fall, presumably beginning with an insurgent’s primary against Meyers. But, of course, some immunizations carry risks: Nowak could choose instead to run a primary challenge to Benczkowski, who is up for reelection next year. And speaking of the ERIE COUNTY LEGISLATURE: Democrats hold a six-to-five majority in that body, and such a narrow margin always tempts defectors. (The most famous defection in the Erie County Legislature was in 2009, when Tim Kennedy and Barbara Miller-Williams jumped ship, made Miller-Williams chair, gave then Erie County Executive Chris Collins a majority voting bloc, and extended the influence of Mayor Byron Brown in county hall.) The current threat is that conservative Democrat Tom Loughran, who wins his right-leaning Amherst district again and again, will join the five members of the Republican-Conservative-Independent caucus to replace conservative Democrat Peter Savage as chairman. Savage became chairman at the beginning of this year, having successfully enlisted the support of Erie County Democratic Chairman Jeremy Zellner to push aside Loughran, who thought the position was his due. Alienated, Loughran may now abandon the Democratic leadership which he believes to have abandoned him in exchange for the chairmanship he thinks he deserves. Democrats will likely respond (if they have not already) with overtures to Republican Kevin Hardwick, who has been known to buck his caucus and has a less-than-stellar relationship with Minority Leader Joe Lorigo. Hardwick, a moderate, might be convinced to vote with Democrats to retain Savage, who is Hardwick’s close friend. We’re told he’s considering his options. If Hardwick needs help deciding where to caucus, Lorigo might have offered some on Twitter this week, assailing Hardwick for having “sold out” his caucus and taxpayers in recent budget negotiations. Do you have ups and downs to share? Email us at info@dailypublic.com.
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NEWS COMMENTARY
COMFORT AND JOY FROM YESTERDAY BY BRUCE FISHER
HOW GOVERNMENT MONEY AND PENSIONS — DEFERRED AGES FROM OUR PREVIOUS MANUFACTURING COMPANY — KEEP WNY AFLOAT OF THE $54.9 billion in personal income that
came to people in Erie and Niagara Counties in 2017, about $12.4 billion came in the from the government—mainly Social Security and Medicare for elderly people, plus Medicaid for the very poor, plus an alphabet soup of income-support programs, including disability payments, veterans’ benefits, the Earned Income Tax Credit, unemployment insurance, and more. Back in 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt started to set up income-support mechanisms that Lyndon Baines Johnson greatly expanded 30 years later. Republicans including Dwight David Eisenhower and Richard Milhouse Nixon, and New Yorker Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, endorsed the approach—because they all agreed with the consensus lesson that the faraway wars and revolutions of the 20th century taught: that the way to avoid wars and revolutions was to use government to keep poverty at bay. Poverty, as in actual starvation and want of the kind that drives caravans out of Central America and fragile boatloads across the Mediterranean, is rare here. But stress isn’t. As incomes for most households don’t and haven’t and won’t grow, even while for a very few they leap, ‘tis the season to warn that the broad middle class is measurably seeing its expectations defeated.
IT’S NOT JUST IN FRANCE Americans with slipping incomes aren’t taking to the streets the way that thousands of rural and small-town demonstrators have been in France for the past month. Protests over a new gas tax there turned quickly into demands—now met—for a higher minimum wage, an end to a pension tax, and some other help for moderate-income families. Looking at how incomes are trending in the Buffalo area, especially as the drums beat loudly in celebration of our economic renaissance, it’s a wonder we’re not seeing protests here—because the numbers do not show any change in how money flows. Over the past 20 years, data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis show that the norm had been that 18 percent of all personal income here comes from federal and state government programs— including the Social Security that working people pay into all their working lives. But as of the latest available figures, that share has grown—to 22.6 percent. Here’s what that signals: New jobs don’t pay like pre-Great Recession jobs used to, and retirement income is more important than ever to the regional economy. Pensions, disability, and Social Security comprise a fifth of personal income here. Another fifth comes from government jobs—mainly teachers, public safety personnel, and college professors, but also the broad range of civil servants, everybody from snowplow drivers to weather forecasters to road crews and school nurses. This is what economists mean when they say we have a “mixed” economy. Private employment in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metro accounts for at least 480,000 of the 580,000 or so jobs here. The private sector still accounts for an overwhelming share of the personal income of working people. But as we’ve tracked for a bunch of years now (today’s analysis looks at numbers just released last month, current through the end of 2017), this region is living off its legacy as a manufacturing center. That legacy includes high-wage employment that no longer exists except in the form of private pensions. And there’s another change afoot: The highestincome people around the Buffalo-Niagara Falls
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area get their high incomes increasingly from capital gains, dividends, interest, and rents—from what the tax nerds call “unearned” income. Notwithstanding the strenuous exertions of mouse-clicking day traders and stock order-takers, analysts generally distinguish between money that comes from doing a job and money that comes from money. Attention all Rush Limbaugh listeners: The numbers published by the Trump administration are the same as those published by his predecessors. To wit: • Eight out of 10 dollars in capital gains income here are going to tax-return filers who report incomes over $200,000. • More than 25 percent of total income in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area went (at last count) to folks in that category, who amounted to just under three percent of all the people who filed income tax returns last year. So here’s what we’ve got as we head into the consumption spree known as the Christmas season: • Two-thirds of the people who filed income tax returns last year reported incomes of under $50,000, which is about $10,000 below the statewide median income; • about 13 percent of taxpayers reported incomes over $100,000, and they accounted for 51 percent of all the income from every source; • that happy 13 percent has a great quality of life here, with a high-quality housing inventory that costs far less than anywhere else in the Northeast; but • for the two-thirds reporting incomes below the $50,000 line, the cost of transportation is wrecking household budgets and pushing up household debt. A major gripe of the middle-class French protesters is the cost of transportation. Green politicians, take note: Telling stressed out middle income suburban and rural drivers that climate change is theirs alone to pay for is a political loser. Urban Europeans enjoy clean, cheap, convenient public transit that runs all hours, comes every few minutes, and costs families about a quarter what a car payment plus fuel, insurance, maintenance, and tolls cost. But that’s for urbanites. Rural Europe is like here: underserved, spread out, and broke. The Niagara Frontier Transit Authority delivers barely adequate service inside an area of about 50 square miles out of a two-county region of more than 1,200 square miles, and is simply not an option for our sprawling, shrinking population. It could and should be, but that’s another story.
AGING MONEY The BEA data show that though retirement incomes are a large and growing share of total income, and that private pensions and Social Security also go to the well-off households, these sources were hugely more important to lower-income households. Meanwhile, • The overwhelming majority of capital gains, dividends, and rents went to taxpayers reporting over $200,000 incomes; and • the share of overall income derived from wages went down while the share of overall income derived from unearned income went up since 2001. There’s a new theory popping up in Washington— that income stagnation for the middle class is overstated, a myth actually, and that the chief reason that pundits and politicians are wrong about the plight of the middle class is that we’re not counting healthcare benefits and low inflation as income. That’s hogwash, for three reasons: • Try spending your employer-funded healthcare benefits (less than half of jobs created post-2008 have it) on housing, utilities, food, or tuition: It’s not disposable income. Indeed, most deductibles, co-payments, and drug costs gave ballooned even for those who are covered by employers.
COMMENTARY NEWS • Most households spend at $700-$1,000 aftertax per month on a car (or two), which leaves a $4,000-a month household only $3,000 per month for everything else. • We don’t spend inflation-adjusted dollars. Wages have not kept pace with price increases in utilities, groceries, or durable goods.
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While the nominal, non-inflation-adjusted 2017 dollars look bigger than they did in 2001, some are actually much smaller: Around here, income from manufacturing dropped from $4.64 billion to $4.4 billion while most other industry sectors rose.
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Income from manufacturing used to go to the workforce. There’s less overall, and less of it shows up as wages. Meanwhile, dividends, interest, and rents have risen every year (but one) since 2001, from $5.3 billion to $8.9 billion, a 69 percent increase.
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Tens of thousands of high-wage, low-skill factory jobs went away more than 30 years ago. But the legacy of those jobs persists in the form of pensions—which are deferred wages from those long-ago jobs.
BUT SPEND WE DO The Buffalo economy of the industrial age is gone, except that its legacy continues to pay our collective bills. How? Through transfer payments, through private and also public pensions, and through the marvel of high ratios of discretionary, disposable income thanks to the low cost of housing here. That’s why Buffalo and other Rust Belt cities enjoy such a robust entertainment sector, as various national and major-market media seem to have discovered. Restaurateurs, cultural venues, and other market-conscious business types are wise to track the supply of elderly and near-elderly people here and in other places where big factories once pumped out retirees with nice pensions, and where public employment guarantees 20 percent of the workforce a very secure retirement. To widespread pension security add the phenomenon of the paidoff house, and voila: Even without an uptick of childfree, urban-trending millennials, the coffee shops, saloons, boutique eateries, fromageries, artisanal olive-oil shops, farmers’ markets, and middle-ticket restaurants continue to do good business. Retiree money is critical to several sectors here, because for current workers, for the not-yet retired, there are tectonic shifts underway. The biggest private-sector sources of income here these days are quite different than just a decade ago. In the year of the 9/11 attack, manufacturing jobs provided 20 percent of all the wages paid to working people here. Now, manufacturing provided only eight percent. But bank employees, managers, administrators, and hospital and healthcare workers have seen their pay grow, slightly, to be more important in the region. Construction work, IT, transportation, and both wholesale and retail have all inched downward in importance. Earnings from work in scientific and technical jobs are up overall and also as a share of total compensation. And though hospitality and food-service jobs are more numerous than they were, the pay in those trades is small; in the aggregate, the share of income paid to servers looks even lower when compared to the pay of construction workers, whom servers now outnumber by a lot. The gist: So long as there is a decent supply of elderly people bringing Social Security and Medicare benefits in to pay for healthcare workers (Medicare doesn’t go to the patient, but to the healthcare establishment), and so long as there is some steady pay for civil servants, the Western New York economy has a baseline of income stability. Let’s hope that the next round of General Motors plant closures bypasses Buffalo. And that Tesla’s 600 employees grow to the 3,000 Elon Musk promised. And that millennials and climate refugees begin the remigration to our shrinking (our population dropped by 30,000 since 2001) but cheerful and well-promoted region. They’ll find housing in oversupply, dysfunctional public transit, and politicians flush with Christmas cheer from real-estate developers both free and, like one of our congressmen, out on bail. They’d best arrive soon, before our retirees die off and leave a huge hole in our regional economy. Bruce Fisher teaches at SUNY Buffalo State and is director of the Center for Economic and Policy Studies. His latest book, Where the Streets Are Paved With Rust: Essays From America’s Broken Heartland (The Public Books/ Foundling Press 2018) is available at Talking P Leaves Books and at foundlingspress.com. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / DECEMBER 12 - 18, 2018 / THE PUBLIC
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Last-Minute Gifts FOR LAST-MINUTE SHOPPERS BY THE PUBLIC STAFF
YOU THINK YOU’VE GOT PLENTY OF TIME — TWO WEEKS! — BUT YOU DON’T.
5 REASONS TO VISIT THE 5 CORNERS:
THIS WEEKEND WILL fly past, and suddenly you’ll be confronted by the reality that Christmas is days away and your gift-giving list is full of yawning holes. No worries: Rip out this page and stuff it in your coat pocket, or bookmark it on your phone. Here are six destinations that’ll get you to the finish line, plus some extra shopping and entertainment suggestions while you’re in the neighborhood.
While you’re there: Four more reasons, all on the same corner: Black Monarchy (African-inspired fashion and design), Urban Roots (gardening supplies), Five Points Bakery (baked goods, locally sourced foodstuffs), and Remedy House (because you need a cup of good coffee and a respite). Three more for good measure: Closer to Richmond you can grab a quick bite, and maybe a gift certificate, at the Left Bank, the Essex Street Pub, or the newly re-opened Providence Social.
GET YOURSELF TO EAST AURORA: Candles and soap are very good things to have on hand during the holiday season. Find Saipua Soaps and Maison Louis Marie candles at August Market in East Aurora (650 Main Street). The soaps, which come in scents like Coffee Mint and Saltwater, and candles, which exude earthy warm vibes, are perfect stocking stuffers.
While you’re there: There’s a cornucopia of gift-shopping within these three blocks of Main Street: the Dress Shoppe (fashion and accessories), Aurora Outfitters (outdoor gear), Muse Jar (art supplies and workshops), 42 North (craft beer to go), The Walk-in Closet (vintage), and of course Vidler’s (nearly every damned thing imaginable). And much more—give yourself a couple hours. Stop in at Mambrino King or Elm Street Bakery for coffee and something sweet.
Wine. WINE. Duh. Paradise Wine on Rhode Island Street specializes in small wineries and sustainably farmed, organic, biodynamic spirits. Try the Pot De Vin merlot, which in French translates to “The Bribe.” Maybe give this one to your boss.
TAKE A WALK DOWN MAIN STREET Oxford Pennant (731 Main Street) specializes in custom pennants, which have been a hit locally and around the world: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was recently spotted on Instagram rocking some Oxford Pennant flair in his gym. The best part is this rapidly growing company is locally owned. It might be too late to get something custom made, but you can always find an illustrated “Buffalo, N.Y.” pennant in stock.
While you’re there: Down the block is City Wine Merchant, where every bottle is a good bottle.
FIND IT ALL ON ELMWOOD Know someone who needs a wardrobe upgrade? You don’t have to gift this person a full suit to achieve that effect. Maybe just a pair of tan leather driving gloves, or a large red paisley silk tie. You can find these gift ideas and others like them at Bureau (830 Elmwood). For the hard-to-shop-for gift receiver, there are two approaches. One: Find something universal that everyone would love, or two: Pick something super out of the ordinary that nobody has. There are a few options from Ró (732 Elmwood). For the universal stuff, there’s handmade Christmas stockings and felt ornaments. For something a little out of the ordinary: a Tibetan lamb footstool. While you’re there: In the blocks between and surrounding Ró and Bureau, you’ll find Second Chic (vintage), ShoeFly (footwear), Pasteurized Tees (t-shirts), Lotions & Potions (bath and body products), the Treehouse (toys), Fern + Arrow (assorted gifts), Thin Ice (assorted gifts), Elmwood Pet Supplies (self-explanatory), Campus WheelWorks (cycling and other winter sports), Everything Elmwood (more gifts), Ten Thousand Villages (still more gifts), Fowler’s and Watson’s chocolate shops, and the Lexington Natural Foods Co-op, among many others. If you can’t finish your shopping here, you’re not trying.
OPEN YOUR MIND ON CONNECTICUT STREET: Turn the holidays into a learning experience this year. For ages 1-3, My First Book of Feminism (for Boys) by Julie Merberg. For ages 8-12, Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham. And finally, for grownups who could use a little bit of an awakening, The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. Find these fine holiday gifts at Burning Books (420 Connecticut Street).
While you’re there: Retail of the sort that attracts holiday shoppers is still scarce on Connecticut Street, but if you’re gift card giver, consider treating a loved one to dinner at the stellar Black Sheep, or to an assortment of bagels from BreadHive Bakery & Cafe, both just down the street. And then there’s Horsefeathers, new home to Perks Cafe and host of the Horsefeathers Winter Market, an indoor farmers and artisan market that’s open Saturdays through the end of the year. 6
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GALLERIES FULL OF GIFTS Shopping for art lovers is easy in Buffalo, with so many art galleries and gift shops all over town, but we’ll make it even easier. Just pop into the Burchfield Penney Museum Store where you’ll find art books and posters to original art by local artists. And, of course, gifts that celebrate the gallery’s namesake, Charles Burchfield.
While you’re there: Naturally you’ll cross Elmwood Avenue to visit the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, which has a pretty great gallery shop, too. Not so obviously, consider a stop at the Hotel Henry, which offers gift cards and hosts a Holiday Market on December 19 and December 23 during brunch hours, 10am-2pm. It’s spectacular.
ON STAGES THEATER
Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberly continues through December 22 at Shea’s 710 Theatre.
PLAYBILL = OPENING SOON
IN AND AROUND BUFFALO: A CHRISTMAS CAROL: It’s year 36 for this classic production, opening December 7 and running through December 23 at Alleyway Theatre, One Curtain Up Alley, 852-2600, alleyway.com. A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS: The classic stage adaptation of the Peanuts holiday classic. This show sells out, so get tickets fast. Through December 16 at Theatre of Youth, 884-4400, theatreofyouth.org. THE BETSY CARMICHAEL CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: Games, carols, prizes, frivolity, Christmas sheer. And loads of bingo. Presented December 14-23 by O’Connell & Company at Shea’s Smith Theatre, 658 Main Street, sheas.org/SmithTheatre. CHRISTMAS OVER THE TAVERN: An all-new musical holiday story about the Pazinzki family by playwright Tom Dudzick, author of the much beloved Over the Tavern. Through December 19 at MusicalFare Theatre, in residence at Daemen College, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, 839-8540, musicalfare.com. COMEDYSPORTZ: Improvisational comedy presented by CSz Buffalo every Friday and Saturday at 4476 Main St., Lower Level, Amherst, 393-8669, cszbuffalo.com. CSZ AFTER HOURS: The late-night (9:30pm) Saturday show by the improvisational crew CSz Buffalo runs a little more blue than the early show. Ongoing at 4476 Main St., Lower Level, Amherst, 393-8669, cszbuffalo.com. MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY: Mr. and Mrs. Darcy, newlyweds, share their first Christmas together in this look at what happens after Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has concluded. Runs through December 22 at Shea’s 710 Theatre, 710 Main Street, 8470850, sheas.org/710. NUNCRACKERS: THE NUNSENSE CHRISTMAS MUSICAL: In which the beloved sisters of Nunsense record a cable access TV special in the basement of their convent. Through December 23 at O’Connell & Company, in residence at the Park School, 4625 Harlem Road, 848-0800, oconnellandcompany.com.
AT THE SHAW FESTIVAL: A CHRISTMAS CAROL: The stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’s holiday classic.
At the Shaw Festival, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.
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ART REVIEW it may also refer to Clyfford Still, another abstractionist much given to black. Or several works by Vietnamese-born artist Danh Võ, now living in Belgium, whose family fled the Vietnam war when he was four years old. One of them a portion of his full-scale reproduction of the Statue of Liberty in copper sheeting similar to the actual statue material—the artist reproduced the entire statue in this way, just never put the segments together into a whole statue—called We the People (Detail).
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WE THE PEOPLE AT THE ALBRIGHT KNOX BY JACK FORAN
SEVERAL DOZEN RECENTLY ACQUIRED WORKS, MANY BY ARTISTS OUTSIDE THE US, SEVERAL ABOUT THE REFUGEE EXPERIENCE. THE TITLE OF the Albright-Knox gallery centerpiece current
exhibit is: We the People: New Art from the Collection.
A slightly ungainly—well, more than slightly—but nonetheless apt alternative subtitle could be: “Thus we refute Donald Trump and his anti-globalist, anti-humanitarian lies and machinations to further advance the richest and most powerful nation and people on earth at the expense of poor and impotent nations and individuals, maybe most prominently at the moment in his all-out efforts to refuse entry to refugees to a country built on the moral principle and historical tradition and ultimate socioeconomical advantage of welcoming the world’s poor and oppressed, the ‘huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’” A superb show. Several dozen newly acquired works over the past few years, all of them interesting, many also beautiful. But what’s particularly noticeable about the exhibit is the global character. The foreign origin—often from what are sometimes called third-world countries—Trump uses another descriptive— or just current foreign status of what seems like—I didn’t do a precise tally—the vast majority of the artists and works.
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Including several actual refugee artists, and works specifically about the refugee experience. Such as Indian artist Subodh Gupta’s huge pile of old and dented but apparently mostly still serviceable pots and pans plus working water spigots, entitled This is not a fountain. Said to be about prevalent Indian domestic population migration from rural to urban areas, in terms of the stress and burden on environmental resources, raw materials, water. Or Zimbabwean artist Dan Halter’s Rifugiato Mappa del Mondo (Refugee Map of the World), composed of old woven-web plastic bags. About recycling of resources and populations both. Or a beautiful abstract sculpture—a little like a Henry Moore sculpture, or like a four-dimensional space-time representation— of wired strips of bamboo by artist Sobheap Pich, who was born in Cambodia during a civil war period, to escape which his family fled to Thailand, then lived in a series of refugee camps before eventually immigrating to the United States. Or a painting by artist Serge Alain Nitegaka, born in Burundi, who as a ten-yearold escaped from a civil war there to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, then to Kenya, then to South Africa. The work is called BLACK SUBJECTS: Still II. In all black and white, with silhouette human figures partially hidden behind a jumble array of what could be construction item girders, beams. In appearance a little reminiscent of the Ellsworth Kelly painting in the Albright-Knox collection called New York, NY. And whatever the “Still II” part of the title means—or means principally, primarily—since the rest of the title has a double meaning—
lo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag. com): 24th Annual Artful Gifts, artworks meant for giving or collecting; Pictures, = ART OPENING = REVIEWED THIS ISSUE Songs, and Words, art by writers and musicians, on view through Dec 28. TueAlbright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Aria Dean, solo exhibition Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, through Jan 13; Giant Steps: Artists and Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbufthe 1960s, through Jan 6; We the People: falo.com): Pastel, Pencil & Paint, works New Art from the Collection, through Jun in various media by Sandy Ludwig. Tue30. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fri- Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. days (free) until 10pm. Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue BufStreet, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, an- falo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery. nakaplancontemporary.art): Sculpture by com): Works from the collection. ThuGary Szcerbanewiecz and works on paper Sat 11am-5pm. by Sheila Barcki through Jan 4. Wed-Fri Big Orbit Project Space (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about11am-3pm or by appointment. Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffalo, big-orbit): Sat 12-6pm. NY 14207, 882-8100, eleventwentyproj- BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 ects.com/argus-gallery): Integration, works Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Tutelary, an inby Mohammad Z. Zaman through Jan stallation by Obsidian Bellis. Through Jan 24. Every day 4-10pm. 5. Sat 12-3pm, or by appointment. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery (148 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Three Art- Buffalo, NY 14201, photolangelle.org): ist Friends: John Brach, Thomas Kegler, One World: Issues Across and Through and Sean Witucki, on view through Dec 28. Skins, photos from Buffalo to Africa by Johanna C. Dominguez. Tue-Fri 1:30-4:30pm, Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Fri 6-8pm, Sat 1-3pm. Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffa- Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th
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Among other notable works in the show, German artist Anselm Kieffer’s Der Morgenthau Plan, in a fiercely painterly style suggesting equal parts Jackson Pollock and Vincent Van Gogh. The Morgenthau Plan was a post-World War II more extreme version of the Allies’ post-World War I vindictive strategy to hamstring the German national economy and thus war potential possibly forevermore. The post-World War I version resulted within a few years in Hitler and World War II. And Danish artist Ebbe Stub Wittrup’s large-format photos of so-called “devil’s bridges,” such wondrous engineering achievement stone construction medieval arch bridges—the builders had learned well from their observations of Roman aqueducts—that lore grew up around them that suprahuman agency was involved in their making. Though not to overlook the American artists’ works in the exhibit. Connecting in general to the global and refugee themes, but in particular to the third-world codicil idea. In the sense of American domestic population perennially and programatically poor and oppressed. Often people of color. Two Kara Walker pieces about American historical institution slavery—and by implication aftereffects—including a sculptural maquette for a caravan vehicle with cut-out silhouette slavery scenarios, including a gruesome instance of slaves’ revenge—almost as gruesome as lynching—and a triptych of paintings with layered ironies reference to Renaissance European art prototypes. Or Theaster Gates’s austerity sense tapestry composed of neat columns of fire hose, with reference to the fire hoses used in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1960s, in an attempt to quell Civil Rights demonstrations. Or another specifically We the People work, spelling out that opening phrase of the Constitution in fabric from prisoner’s uniforms, by artist Hank William Thompson. There’s even a painting by a Native American artist, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, with a global image and message. A global map with latitude and longitude lines emanating—as if from a pole—from the artist’s birthplace Flathead Reservation in Montana. The work is called Homeland. The We the People exhibit continues through June 30.
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T Second Friday event (second Friday of every month). Mon-Sat 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Caffeology Buffalo (23 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY, 14201): Lo-Fi Memories, a ”Found Game Boy Camera” photography project curated by Stevie Boyar. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120): 4th Annual Art Off the Wall Exhibition and Fundraiser to benefit the Carnegie Art Center. Canvas Salon & Gallery (9520 Main Street STE 400, Clarence, NY 14031, 716-3205867): Cloud Burst, artwork by Kathleen Sherin. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Think Big: The Artists of Autism Services, through Jan 14; The Higner Maritime Collection: 25 Yerars of Shipbuilding, through Mar 17; Of Their Time: Hudson River School to Postwar Modernism, through Dec 31, 2019. Tue-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Fast, Cheap and Easy: the Copy Art Revolution, through Dec 15. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, dana-
GALLERIES ART tilloufinearts.com): Wed-Fri 10:30am5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm. Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com): Figment, W. C. Maggio, through Dec 15. Tue-Fri, 10am4pm, or by appointment. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Stephanie Rothenberg: Trading Systems: Bio-economic Fairy Tales. Wed-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 1-5pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Guy Richards Smit: Guilty of Everything. TueFri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. The Harold L. Olmsted Gallery, Springville Center for the Arts (37 N. Buffalo Street, Springville, NY 14141, 716-592-9038). Wed & Fri, noon5pm, Thu noon-8pm, Sat 10am-3pm. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo. com): Home Again, a group exhibition exploring the meanings of home, through Dec 29. Wed 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Fri, 6-9pm Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays. Jewish Community Center of Buffalo, Holland Family Building (787 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14209, 886-3172, Hours: jccbuffalo. org): Thoughts Along the Way, Daniel Rodgers, through Dec 28. Mon-Thu 5:30am10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am-6pm. 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. Main Street Gallery (515 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203): Online gallery: BSAonline.org. Maison Le Caer (1416 Hertel Ave, Buffalo, NY 14216, 617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203 ): Peculiar Buffalo: Historical Photography 1900-2012, through Mar 3. Opening reception, Wed, Dec 19, 6-9pm. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Tanya Zabinski: Around the Seasons, through Dec 22. Tue-Sat 9:305:30pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 2827530, thenacc.org): Violet Gordon’s Art, through Jan 26. Mon-Fri 9am5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm. Nichols School Gallery at the Glenn & Audrey Flickinger Performing Arts Center (1250 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14216, 3326300, nicholsschool.org/artshows): Work from the collection. Mon-Fri 8am4pm, Closed Sat & Sun. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-8825777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): TueFri 10am–5pm. Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-6523270, norbergsartandframe.com): Regional artists from the gallery collection. TueSat 10am–5pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Gifts of Art ($10-$100), a diverse collection from local artists and craftsmen, through Dec 30. Wed-Sat,125pm, Sun 1-5pm. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse. com): The Group 263 Art Exhibition, through Dec 29. Thu, Fri & Sat 6-11pm. Live Music Thu-Sat. Pine Apple Company (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup. com/store/pine-apple-company): Close
to Home, Dana Tyrrell and Tom Holt, through Dec 30. Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): Art collective, including Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, Chris McGee, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Liebel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, John Farallo, Thomas Busch, Sherry Anne Preziuso, Michael Shiver, Madalyn Fliesler, Steve Siegel, Michael Mulley, et alia. Tue-Fri 11am4pm and by appointment. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Joe Vollan: On Behalf of the Under Enthusiastic. Thu 12-6pm, Fri and Sat 12-8pm. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051, riverartgalleryandgifts.com): Wed-Fri 11am4pm Sat 11am- 5pm. The Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History (311 Curtis Street, Jamestown, NY 14701, 716-665-2473, rtpi.org): The Extinct Birds Project by Alberto Rey, featured through Jan 12. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): The North Is a Lie: Nitasha Dhillon, Rhys Hall, and Elisa Peebles. On view through Dec 8. Tue-Sat, 12pm5pm. Tue-Sat, 12pm-5pm. Stangler Fine Art (6429 West Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127, 870-1129, stanglerart.com): Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm. Closed Sundays. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio. org) Starlight Holiday Exhibit and Market, on view through Dec 31. Mon-Fri 9-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Dylan England: Lawn Order through Nov 30. Open by event and Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries.org): Ernesto Burgos: Implications; Collected Views: I Am Here; Kambui Olujimi, Zulu Time, on view through Dec 2. Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic; Electric Avenue (In Blue). Wed-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (103 Center for the Arts, First Floor, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape, multimedia exhibition of 18 artists, guest curated by Jennie Lamensdorf and UB’s Joan Linder. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Undergrounds Coffee House and Roastery (590 South Park Avenue, Buffalo NY 14210, undergroundscoffeebuffalo.com): Oil Portraits by Tara Steck, on view through Jan 15. Mon-Fri 6am-5pm, Sat & Sun 7am-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Mon-Fri 9am6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Weeks Gallery (Jamestown Community College, 525 Falconer Street, Jamestown, NY 14702, 338-1301): Patrick Robideau: Hidden Room, installation on view through Dec 9. Mon-Fri 11am-4pm, Sat 11am-1pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 348-1430, wnybookarts.org): Last Minute Panic Holiday Marketplace. More than 40 vendors. Fri Dec 14 4-8pm, Sat Dec 15 11am5pm. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.
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is no real difference between personal and political struggles for power: They’re all about survival. The Duchess feels so secure in her position at the Queen’s side that she never entertains the thought that a mere servant like her cousin could be a threat to her, until it’s too late. And if Abigail’s wiles are less honed, she’s more determined, willing to do whatever it takes to pull herself out of the mud that covers her when she arrives at court.
Already a big hit on the arthouse circuit, The Favourite seems like to succeed as a breakthrough film for Greek-born director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose oeuvre thus far can best be described as distinctive. “Hey, after Christmas dinner let’s take grandma and the kids out to see the new Yorgos Lantimos movie!”, said no one ever: His early films are models of stone-cold European satire, and while his English language debut The Lobster was absurdly hilarious in its satire on human coupling, last year’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer seemed designed to make you think that climate change hasn’t arrived any too soon to wipe away such a nasty species as humankind.
P Of course, a sickly monarch is still a monarch, The Favourite is mild stuff by Lanthimos’ capable of conferring great power and status measure, though it’s still nothing you’d want to to those in her favor. For years that was Sarah take grandma too: she might appreciate the sets Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel and costumes, detailed to the full ridiculousness Weisz), who manipulated Anne to her own of the time, but the sexual frankness of the political ends. The Favourite tells the story of dialogue is occasionally shocking. And the how theDAILYPUBLIC.COM Duchess came to beMORE supplanted in the & REVIEWS VISIT FOR FILM LISTINGS >> excellent performances by the three uniformly Queen’s affects by Abigail Hill (Emma Stone). stars are sometimes buried by the distractingly A cousin of Churchill whose branch of the grotesque photography. If Lanthimos has family had fallen on hard times thanks to her a peer in recent film history, it may be Peter father’s drinking and gambling, Abigail asked Greenaway, who was equally fascinated by the for and was given job in the palace, anFOR actMORE of distance between the public>>pomp and private VISITaDAILYPUBLIC.COM FILM LISTINGS & REVIEWS kindness (and apparently a rare one) that the monstrosities of the high born. The Favourite is Duchess came to regret. a film that will be admired more than loved, but
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AT THE MOVIES A selective guide to what’s opening and what’s playing in local moviehouses and other venues
OPENING THIS WEEK THE FAVOURITE—Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills LEZ BOMB—Comedy about a closeted gay woman hoping to come out to her family at Thanksgiving. Starring Jenna Laurenzo (who also wrote and directed), Caitlin Mehner, Steve Guttenberg, Cloris Leachman, Bruce Dern, Kevin Pollak, and Caitlin Mehner. Fri 4:30pm, 9pm, Sat 9:30pm, Sun 9:30pm, Mon 9:30pm, Tue 7pm. North Park THE MULE—Ever full of surprises, 88-year-old Clint Eastwood (who also directed) plays a character even older than himself, a 90-yearold horticulturist who gets caught smuggling cocaine for the Sinaloa Cartel. With Bradley Cooper, Taissa Farmiga, Michael Peña, Andy Garcia, Laurence Fishburne, and Dianne Wiest. Local theaters
ALTERNATIVE CINEMA THE BLOB (1988)—This remake of the 1958 camp classic is a smart exercise in combining homage and new technology, treating the material with tongue in check but not so far as to ruin a good monster movie for viewers who never saw the original. Starring Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey DeMunn, Candy Clark, Joe Seneca, and Del Close. Directed by Chuck Russell (The Mask). Part of the Thursday Night Terrors series. Thu 7pm. Dipson Amherst A CHRISTMAS CAROL (a.k.a. Scrooge, England, 1951)—Generally considered the best film version of the classic Charles Dickens story, with Alistair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge. Look for Patrick Macnee, The Avengers’ John Steed, as the young Jacob Marley. Also starring Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Ernest Thesiger, and Hattie Jacques. Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Sun 5:30pm, Tue 12:30pm, Wed 5:30pm. Screening Room A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983)—Admit it: This is the Christmas movie you’ve seen more than any other, and the one you’re most likely to watch again. Humorist Jean Shepherd’s stories form the basis for this portrait of Christmas in a
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blue-collar Midwestern city in the 1930s. Starring Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon, and Peter Billingsley. Directed by Bob Clark (Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things). Sun 4:30pm, 7pm North Park; Sat 11am Aurora CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989)—Or, what killed Chevy Chase’s career. Co-starring Randy Quaid (who found an even more novel way to murder his career), Beverly D’Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, John Randolph, Diane Ladd, E. G. Marshall, Doris Roberts, William Hickey, and, in her last film, Mae Questel. the voice of Betty Boop. Directed by Jeremiah Chechik (Benny & Joon). Sat 7pm. North Park HOME ALONE (1990)—Macaulay Culkin wreaks slapstick brutality on burglars Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. Sad to think that this was the film that the late great John Heard is most identified with, but a paycheck’s a paycheck. With Catherine O’Hara and John Candy. Directed by Chris Columbus (Gremlins). Fri 7pm, Sat 1pm. Screening Room IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)—Jimmy Stewart gets to see what life for his friends and community would have been like had he never lived in Frank Capra’s holiday classic. Co-starring Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Frank Faylen, Ward Bond, Gloria Grahame, H. B. Warner, Frank Albertson, Sheldon Leonard, and Charles Lane. Sat-Sun, Tue 7:30pm Screening Room; Sun 11am (free admission) Hamburg Palace THE LION IN WINTER (1968)—How did they spend Christmas 835 years ago? If you were King Henry II of England (Peter O’Toole), you were trying to decide which of your three sons would be your successor, a decision that will make no one in the family happy, beginning with his wife the queen (Katharine Hepburn). Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry, and Timothy Dalton round out the cast in this Oscar-winning adaptation of James Goldman’s play. Directed by Anthony Harvey (They Might Be Giants). Fri 1:30pm, Sat 3:30pm, Sun 1:30pm, Mon 1:30pm, Tue 1:30pm. North Park MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944)— “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” debuted in this Judy Garland musical about a family preparing for the 1904 World’s Fair. With Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Leon Ames, Marjorie Main, and June Lockhart. Mon 4:30pm, 7pm, Tue 4:30pm. North Park NORTH POLE, NY—Documentary about Santa’s Workshop, America’s first theme park, which has been providing holiday entertainment outside of Lake George since 1949. Directed by Ali Cotterill. Fri 7pm Sat 1:35pm. North Parklowns. Go figure. Fri 7pm. Screening Room P
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LEGAL NOTICES SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS: SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF ERIE, INDEX NO. 807326/2017 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, Plaintiff, vs. JOSEPH HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; AUDREY HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; MICHAEL HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JOANNA HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JOHN HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JEFFEREY HUNTZ A/K/A JEFF HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; MICHELLE SIMMONS, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; MARY E. DYSON; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; ‘’JOHN DOE #1’’ through ‘’JOHN DOE #12,’’ the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint,
failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.
OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR
NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT
AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE
THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $45,838.00 and interest, recorded on September 9, 2009, in Record Book 13464 at Page 1059, of the Public Records of ERIE County, New York, covering premises known as 383 HOPKINS STREET, BUFFALO, NY 14220. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. ERIE County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE: YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME
THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY)
COURT. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: IRINA DULARIDZE, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675
-----------------------------------------------NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY
If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.
COMPANY:
Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.
designated as agent of the LLC upon
YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY
14202. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
Diamond Concierge LLC. Articles of Organization filed with DOS on 09/14/2018. Office: Erie county. DOS
whom process against may he served. DOS shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 50 Fountain Plaza, buffalo, NY
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27 ___ Lisa
1 Backtalk
60 Rowan Atkinson character (or a clue for 28-Across)
28 “Hold on a ___!”
62 Carl who hosted the original “Cosmos”
31 Totally cool
64 Modern urban vehicles whose brand names have been parked in the middle of the three theme entries
34 What a QB tries to gain
5 Order on an order 9 Lion in the Narnia books 14 Feel certain 15 Barely grilled 16 Link’s “Good Mythical Morning” partner 17 Star of the BBC’s “Luther” 19 Shaw of the Big Band Era 20 Reconfigure a hard drive 21 Royal ball 23 Beliefs, for short 24 Morsel at the bottom of a fast-food bag
66 Supreme Court Justice Kagan 67 Internet explorer? 68 Part of 61-Down 69 Element tested for in home inspections 70 One-named Sao Pauloborn athlete 71 Japanese buckwheat noodle
30 Gp. before the gate
32 In one piece
35 Great buy 37 Got together with 38 He-bear, to Hernando 40 Croupier’s collection 41 “What ___ About You” (mid-2000s WB sitcom) 42 Sudoku grid line 47 Monsieur de Bergerac 49 “I give!” 50 100 cents, in Cyprus 51 It fires electrodes
25 Citrus-flavored dessert (with something parked in the middle)
1 Flat-bottomed rowboat
52 Florida city home to John Travolta
28 Portrayer of Ned on “Game of Thrones”
2 Conjunctions seen with a slash
53 Freeze, as a windshield
29 Word after bad or Dad 30 Quiz option
3 Word inevitably used in a stereotypical Canadian impersonation
33 Chicken giant
4 Do the butterfly
36 Controversial agribusiness letters
5 Franklin with the 1982 album “Jump to It”
39 Place for avians to thrive (with something parked in the middle)
6 Jimmy Kimmel’s cousin who makes frequent appearances on his show
61 Heat measurements, for short
43 Tack on
7 “Day” observed the last Friday in April
65 Disney collectible
44 “Stargate Universe” actress Levesque (OK, fine ... the mom from “Family Ties”)
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54 Western law enforcement group 55 “___ evil ... “ 56 Native Trinidadian, maybe 57 Prefix for gram or Pot
63 Photog Goldin
8 Bubble tea tapioca ball 9 “Altar” constellation
45 No longer fooled by
10 Piercing cry
46 Show starter?
11 Tutorial opener, maybe
48 Over again
12 “One Day at ___”
51 “Darlin’” classic kids’ song (with something parked in the middle)
13 Big bomb trial, briefly
55 Biol. or anat.
22 Actress Phillips
58 “___ in every garage”
26 Blog post
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