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COMMENTARY NEWS Prosecutor Bunny and Supervisor McMurray have zero name recognition, while Poloncarz is known. Notwithstanding some recent scholarship that suggests strongly that identity politics has eliminated swing voters, there is ample evidence (i.e., Hochul’s near-miss in Obama’s re-election year) that turning non-participants into participants, or motivating the previously unmotivated, can be a game-changer. Curiously, some of the tools Democrats now use—like the notoriously amateurish and inaccurate VAN system—is overloading them with data that dissuade them from the doorknocking, networking, phone-banking, and shoe-leathering that has traditionally been done with voter lists. And for every Russian bot that plants itself on social media, there’s a Washington industry promising, credibly, that a counter-bot can be deployed, and cheaply. Congressman Chris Collins. Photo courtesy wnymedia.

THE BEST CHANCE TO DEFEAT COLLINS BY BRUCE FISHER

THE BEST CHANCE TO DEFEAT COLLINS? SLIM, NONE, AND THE MISSING BRAND-NAME… POLONCARZ soundly trounced Chris Collins in 2011 to succeed him as Erie County Executive. Democrats enjoy a massive registration advantage in Erie County, but not in those portions of the county that lie within the boundaries of the 27th Congressional District— the seat Donald Trump’s first Congressional endorser took by a tiny margin (5,000 votes out of 330,000 cast) from Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul in 2012. MARK

Poloncarz has told people informally that he will not challenge Collins in 2018 because the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee refuses to commit that it will invest in a Democratic challenger, despite Collins’s well-publicized alleged violations of ethics rules, and possibly laws, on insider stock-trading. The Washington Democrats see that the 27th District has a Republican registration advantage. Trump won the district just under 60 percent to Clinton’s 35 percent. The district voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin 55 percent to 44 percent over Obama-Biden in the teeth of the financial crisis in 2008. But once again: Hochul, who had won in Erie County, was known in the Buffalo media market that reaches as far east as the Genesee River. She won in a special election in 2011, defeating a bigspending Republican. She won in a district that is 93 percent white, that stretches from Niagara Falls to Canandaigua, the college town of Geneseo, the struggling cities of Batavia and Warsaw, and a glorious rural and small-town landscape of dairy farms and Victorian-era homes where many lawns are evidently permanently planted with signs that say, “Repeal the SAFE Act.” It’s a landscape where sagging agricultural commodity prices, deindustrialization, outmigration of the educated, and low real-estate values have been facts of life for years and years, but the district also includes Amherst, Clarence, Lancaster, and Aurora, where real-estate values are prime, and where farms are decorative accoutrements, not livelihoods.

KNOWN, UNKNOWN As of today, there is no candidate known to the media market. Batavia businesswoman Diana Kastenbaum, whom incumbent Collins defeated by more than two to one in 2016, neither raised nor invested personal wealth in raising her name recognition above single digits. As Hochul is

running for re-election as Lieutenant Governor, she is evidently unavailable. Poloncarz, who defeated Collins in Erie County and who has made it clear that he’d like a political career beyond Erie County, recently told people that Washington Democratic funders are interested in the Syracuse seat, and in the Utica-Binghamton seat, and in the Hudson Valley seat, but not in Collins’s district. Democrats worry, as they should, that Republicans are better at politics in the greater Buffalo media market than they are—specifically, that Donald Trump and his allies will continue to win in districts like New York’s 27th because Republicans coordinate and repeat and reinforce their core message with a big AM talk radio station, a Fox News-affiliated TV news shop, and a reliably conservative daily newspaper. That leaves the two leading announced challengers, prosecutor Sean Bunny and Grand Island Supervisor Nate McMurray, to define themselves. Both have impressive public-service credentials. Bunny was an Army Ranger in Iraq before joining the Erie County District Attorney’s office. McMurray was an Eagle Scout, a Fulbright scholar, and an Army lawyer who went on to practice law in both China and South Korea. They presumably have the same kind of network of military and professional contacts that made former candidate Erin Cole so promising before that military veteran, a linguist like McMurray, awakened to the reality that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will be absent.

But politics is also extraordinarily simple: Voters will overlook party labels if they know and like the challenger to a known and disliked incumbent. A strident campaign against Trump may be the desire of progressive Democrats, but the available evidence is that most Republican voters still cleave to Trump, and that most white voters strongly concur with Trump on immigration issues (even as they also love the children of DACA), but they’re wondering— especially in places like the 27th district, where as many as three-quarters of households report incomes that are $10,000 or more below the statewide median—what’s going to happen to their healthcare? This is why, though he may not want it, Mark Poloncarz fits the bill. Poloncarz has universal name recognition in the media market. He has high positives and low negatives. He has articulated popular Democratic positions on national issues, at least in social media, and as the incumbent Erie County executive set to run for a third term in 2019, he faces no personal electoral trouble in 2018—so even if he were to run a campaign entirely on the threat that Republicans have posed and will continue to pose to healthcare coverage for millions of New Yorkers, there is no downside to carrying his party’s banner and talking healthcare, healthcare, healthcare. And Collins, Collins, Collins.

It’s a matter of hunger, actually. One wonders how hungry are Democrats to avenge their losses in 2016 when Chris Collins isn’t targeted despite his massive negatives. Could it be that Democrats are close to admitting that they cannot be as disciplined as the Republican operations that coordinate message across many platforms, day after day, month after month? The House under Republicans has shown itself uninterested in governing, to the dismay of Republican veterans who think it’s political suicide (and bad public policy) to wreck Medicare, Medicaid, the State Department, the EPA, and Department of the Interior, and other useful operations. Leaving a leader of the anti-governing faction of the Republican Party essentially unchallenged isn’t a particularly patriotic thing for a well-known Democrat to do, actually—especially a Democrat who has zero chance of ever running for statewide office unless he does what the late Ned Regan did, which was to move to the New York media market. (In recent political history, the only Democrats to escape Western New York have been former Jamestown Mayor and Southern Tier Congressman Stanley Lundine and former County Clerk Kathy Hochul, who both became Lieutenant Governor running alongside a Cuomo. Of Republicans, Dennis Vacco had one term as Attorney General thanks to the midterm swing against Bill Clinton in 1994.) Perhaps it’s the shrinking relative value of Western New York that’s driving the decision: Population growth in the New York metro area, especially inside New York City, is strong. Population stagnation is the rule in all of Upstate, with shrinkage ahead for Western New York, the Southern Tier, and the North Country. Maybe it’s all futile. Maybe our heads should just hang in despair. But there will be a Member of Congress elected in the 27th district in 2018. Unless Collins’s challenger achieves name-recognition, or starts out with it, Collins simply wins. Bruce Fisher teaches at SUNY Buffalo State, where he is director of the Center P for Economic and Policy Studies.

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In a self-reinforcing writeoff of the western part of New York State, Democrats face this reality: Neither Bunny nor McMurray has any chance whatsoever to raise the $2 million to spend on introducing themselves to the voters of Erie, Niagara, Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming, Livingston, Monroe, and Ontario counties. And until they raise their name recognition, and remind voters here in this media market that there is an election coming in 2018, Republican media coordination produces this set of messages: The Democrats (they prefer to term them “the Democrat Party”) has no use for white men, has contempt for the rule of law for illegal immigrants, and is utterly contemptuous of the heterosexual nuclear family. Voters in the suburbs of both Buffalo and Rochester, plus Niagara Falls, Lockport, Warsaw, Batavia, LeRoy, Geneseo, and Canandaigua, and dozens of towns in the 5,000-square-mile district get this message very consistently. It is cultural conditioning, and it is branding, and it has been extremely effective. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / JANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 6, 2018 / THE PUBLIC

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THE FRUIT BELT. Community organizers and residents

IN 2003, DENISE O’DONNELL RAISED A BOATLOAD OF MONEY FOR A RACE SHE NEVER RAN. WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?

appear to have scored a victory with the Buffalo Common Council around the establishment of a land trust in the Fruit Belt, a neighborhood that appears to be ground zero in the city’s conflict between the forces of development, gentrification, and neighborhood stability. The final blessing from Mayor Byron Brown and the exact number of some 200 city-owned lots in the Fruit Belt that will be controlled by the land trust have yet to be secured, but all signs point to more stable and equitable future for the longtime African-American neighborhood on the edge of downtown and the medical campus.

IN THE WORLD of state government in Albany there is always

talk about “reform.” Reform this, reform that—mostly though, it is all just talk. The state’s record on enforcement of provisions of the Election Law has been hit or miss. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office has recently picked up the pace, but there is still a lot that goes on that is ignored. Campaign donations are supposed to be for election campaigns. Frequently, however, political committees resemble zombies, wandering around for years after a candidate or officeholder is no longer an active candidate. Some former candidates use those funds for donations to charities, while others spread campaign cash among active candidates or political parties. Some former officeholders make use of former campaign funds to assist with their lobbying firm efforts. Local examples of such activities have included former Buffalo Mayor Tony Masiello, former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra, and former Assembly Majority Leader Paul Tokasz. And then there is the O’Donnell for New York committee, which was created in 2005 to support the 2006 state attorney general candidacy of Buffalo attorney Denise O’Donnell. O’Donnell made an effort to secure the Democratic nomination, but failed and never became an official candidate. But O’Donnell for New York lived on, having never even funded one primary or general election effort for the candidate for whom people wrote checks. Over the past 13 years the committee raised $1,122,670 (for the past many years the receipts simply being bank interest) and still, as of July 2017, had $280,776 in their account. The committee’s funds have been used to support O’Donnell’s husband John’s reelection to the State Supreme Court and to pay for the consulting services of her son Jack. It can now be reported that O’Donnell for New York is out of business. The January 2018 financial report shows that the committee donated $25,000 to St. Joseph Collegiate Institute plus $255,720 to the Osborne Association in New York City. The Osborne Association is described on its website as an organization that “works in partnership with individuals, families, and communities to create opportunities for people affected by the criminal justice system to further develop their strengths

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and lead lives of responsibility and contribution.” They “design, implement and advocate for solutions that prevent and reduce the damage caused by crime and incarceration.” That sounds like a very good use of the money. None of the activities I have just described are illegal. Judicial candidates in New York State are required to refund unused campaign funds during the year following their election. Why not something similar for other offices? Elected legislators and executives tend to stay in office for a while, their terms are much shorter than those of judges, and they sometimes run for other offices. Money donated to Giambra’s 2003 campaign for county executive will now likely be transferred to his 2018 campaign for governor. Immediate refunds of campaign donations after an election would not be practical. But how about a simple law requiring that after a specific period of time passes without a candidacy for public office, say five years, all remaining funds be either returned to the original donors on a pro-rata basis, or that the funds be donated to charity? Whoever donated money to Joel Giambra in 2003 did not expect that their money would be used 15 years later for a totally different campaign, one whose object is to challenge a candidate (Cuomo) whom Giambra’s 2003 donors might likely be supporting in 2018. A simple reform, an easy reform, would be nice. Ken Kruly writes about politics and other stuff at politicsandstuff.com.

LOOKING BACKWARD: SENECA & SWAN, CIRCA 1932

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Seneca Street in the Hydraulics was among Buffalo’s most active neighborhood centers— fueled by the streetcar, commuter traffic, and laborers from nearby plants such as the Larkin Company and F. N. Burt. Here, in a photograph dated circa 1932, is a view of Seneca Street looking northeast toward the intersection with Swan Street. In the foreground is the former Sacred Heart church and friary, then used as the Larkin Auditorium and Larkin Men’s Club. Beyond, from upper left to upper right along Swan Street, is St. Matthew’s Evangelical & Reformed Church (built in 1868 and still standing), the Hydraulic Flats with its 10 ground-story shopfronts (now the site of the Larkin Diner), and a corner mixed-use building that at one point housed a notorious house of prostitution (now home to the Hydraulic Hearth). Along Seneca Street in the upper right is the Marine Trust Company Hydraulic Branch (now the resurrected Schaefer Building) and the Wagner and Nauland Block (a parking lot). The St. Patrick’s R. C. Church, the mother church of Irish Buffalo, caps off the image in the upper left. P —THE PUBLIC STAFF

announced last week it would be holding a panel discussion on February 8 (6pm, Madonna Lounge, D’Youville College) to discuss the future of affordable housing in Buffalo. A panel of housing experts from government agencies, non-profits, advocacy groups, and Niagara District Councilman David Rivera will talk about hot-button issues housing issues like inclusionary zoning, gentrification, senior housing issues, and community land banks. For a city that lacks a comprehensive housing policy and is wont to hand out tax abatements to well-heeled, campaign-contributing developers, giving voice and power to everyday residents is long overdue.

DOWNS: PHIL RUMORE AND THE BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION The BTF

president released a report earlier this week on student behavior, alleging a pattern of serious student behavior issues met with inadequate discipline in schools across the district. While we’re certain these issues raised by teachers deserve individual attention and redress, it’s poor timing for Rumore to grandstand on this issues and point the finger at City Hall for trying to fix a culture of overly punitive school discipline that often breaks along racial lines against students in Buffalo, thousands of whom live in poverty and are witness to the daily trauma of being poor in America. Buffalo Schools and students need more help, not more suspensions. MAYOR BYRON BROWN’s evolving stance on marijuana.

This is a twofer: one thumb down on the Buffalo News’s Bob McCarthy for not asking Brown specifically on the racial disparity of marijuana arrests in Buffalo (85 percent of which are of minorities) in an interview published last week, and one thumb down for Brown. Brown said that he’s always had an anti-drug position, which is partly understandable given that he grew up in the midst of New York City’s crack epidemic, but his job is to promote sound policy, not cast lifestyle aspersions. “I do know the attitude toward use of marijuana is changing dramatically,” Brown told the News. “Millennials use it recreationally.” It’s time for the mayor, now the state’s Democratic party chairman, to get a clue on marijuana issues and policy. New York will most likely soon be bordered by three states and two Canadian provinces P with legalized marijuana.

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BECAUSE STATE CONTRACTS ARE JUST ONE SMALL PART OF THE TOTAL MARKET, CUOMO’S EXECUTIVE ORDER ON NET NEUTRALITY IS UNLIKELY TO MOVE INDUSTRY STATE CONTRACTS ARE just one small part of

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Although Governor Andrew Cuomo likes to position himself at the forefront of opposition to the Trump administration, New York was beaten to the punch by Montana in responding to the Federal Communications Commission’s recent repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules. Cuomo last Wednesday signed an executive order directing the state government not to enter into any contracts with internet service providers, or ISPs, unless they agree to follow net neutrality principles, after Montana Governor Steve Bullock signed a similar order on Monday. “The FCC’s dangerous ruling goes against the core values of our democracy, and New York will do everything in our power to protect net neutrality and the free exchange of ideas,” Cuomo said in the press release announcing the executive order. But that power is limited. Experts say that major ISPs are unlikely to adopt net neutrality just to appeal to New York’s state government, whose contracts are just one small part of the total market. The FCC voted in December to roll back regulations that allowed for net neutrality, which prohibited ISPs from blocking certain websites and charging a premium for higher-quality service. Republicans in Washington generally supported the move, arguing that the regulations were excessive, while Democrats believed that it would allow ISPs to put smaller companies and organizations at an unfair disadvantage online. While Cuomo might hope to shame ISPs into adopting net neutrality principles for all customers, Andrew Rasiej, the chairman of the New York Tech Alliance, a nonprofit organization supporting the New York tech community, said they are unlikely to do so willingly. “I think the ISPs clearly would like to have as little regulation as possible, and so the question becomes whether or not the market and individuals will force them to behave differently,” Rasiej said. Ernesto Falcon, legislative counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a national nonprofit organization that is in favor of net neutrality, said that it is unclear whether this executive order for state contracts will also successfully encourage ISPs to abide by net neutrality principles in contracts with individual consumers.

“It will put pressure on them for sure,” he said. “More can be done at the legislative to add more support, but ultimately this needs to be solved by restoring the federal network neutrality rules.” Cuomo’s order, while limited in its ability to shape the market, is just one among a bevy of actions taken by states, companies and members of Congress to oppose the FCC’s decision. Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy is sponsoring legislation for state contracts to require ISPs to follow net neutrality principles, and called for the governor to support her bill on Twitter after the order was announced. This would have the same effect as Cuomo’s order, but would carry the permanence of law rather than being subject to potential reversal by a future governor. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is leading a multi-state lawsuit against the FCC for the repeal of net neutrality, brought earlier this month. Democrats in the US Senate have also announced that they are one vote away from having the votes to pass a resolution disapproving of the FCC’s decision. That would also require passage in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives and a signature by President Donald Trump to actually overturn the FCC ruling, so it is unlikely to become law unless the House and the presidency change hands. AT&T, a major ISP, released advertisements in newspapers this week calling for Congress to pass net neutrality legislation that would govern ISPs and tech companies. Until that happens, New York’s action may be subject to legal challenge from the FCC or other ISPs. When the FCC overturned net neutrality, it blockedstates from mandating net neutrality for private sector customers. But even if the FCC’s ban on state regulation were upheld, that is different from states deciding which ISPs their own agencies will use. Falcon said that the FCC does not have the power to block this state action. There is no federal regulation that it conflicts with, he noted, and states have the authority under the U.S. Constitution to regulate contracts involving state government within their borders. “The irony in getting rid of a uniform federal structure that regulates internet service providers is that directly empowers the states,” Falcon said. “Without any sort of federal law that directly applies to ISPs and many of their actions, that eliminates any sort of preemption issues of (states) conflicting with federal law.” Falcon said that ISPs themselves could bring litigation against New York, but that the Cuomo administration would have a strong legal case because the executive order only involves state government contracts. He said that Cuomo’s action also forces ISPs to defend why they wouldn’t be using net neutrality principles, putting them on the wrong side of public opinion. “They have to try and fight back against a local P uprising,” he said. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / JANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 6, 2018 / THE PUBLIC

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A HUNTER S. THOMPSON SUPER BOWL READER BY DAVID STABA

THANKS TO THE WONDER OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY, YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT SUNDAY’S SUPER BOWL MATCHUP BETWEEN WIDELY LOATHED NEW ENGLAND AND THE SCRAPPY UNDERDOGS FROM PHILADELPHIA WHOM THE PATRIOTS WILL DISEMBOWEL SUNDAY NIGHT IN MINNEAPOLIS. (NOTE: Since a prediction is required of every media type even mentioning the contest, We Want Marangi’s analytics department has crunched the numbers and come up with New England 41, Philadelphia 23. And not just because we have squares one and three in a pool.) IF YOU CARE to, you can watch former NFL players discuss the positional matchups involved, analyze every conceivable statistical comparison, or listen to radio hosts conduct probing interviews with players and retirees about whatever product they happen to be hawking. You can also read scores of columns about why Boston loves Tom Brady while most of the rest of the country does not.

It’s pretty safe to say, though, that you will not run across anything resembling Hunter S. Thompson’s musing on The Big Game and the country where it has become a secular holiday. Thompson wrote about a lot of things—bikers, bluegrass, police corruption, high-powered weaponry, and horse racing, to name a few. Most successfully, though, he wrote about politics and football. At his best, both at the same time. In particular, presidential elections and Super Bowls were his twin inspirations, regularly scheduled events that embodied what he hated and loved about America and Americans. Even his suicide note was entitled “Football Season is Over.” I’m not going to try to explain his brilliance here, because doing so would be an exercise in ego and pointlessness, other than to introduce a few of my favorite passages so you can see for yourself. As a recovering sportswriter, I’ve never read an analysis that captures the profession’s spirit, or lack thereof, as this bit from Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72, a collection of Thompson’s Rolling Stone articles on Richard M. Nixon’s final run for office: There is a dangerous kind of simple-minded Power/Precision worship at the root of the massive fascination with pro football in this country, and sportswriters are mainly responsible for it. With a few rare exceptions like Bob Lypstye of The New York Times and Tom Quinn of the (now-defunct) Washington Daily News, sportswriters are a kind of rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks whose only real function is to publicize & sell whatever the sports editor sends them out to cover… Which is a nice way to make a living, because it keeps a man busy and requires no thought at all. The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: (1) A blind willingness to believe anything you’re told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers, and other “official spokesmen” for the teamowners who provide the free booze… and: (2) A Roget’s Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph. Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: “The precision-jackhammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jackthrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends…” Right. And there was the genius of Grantland Rice. He carried a pocket thesaurus, so that “The thundering hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen” never echoed more than once in the same paragraph, and the “Granite-grey sky” in his lead was a “cold dark dusk” in the last lonely line of his heart-rending, nerve-ripping stories… There was a time, about ten years ago, when I could write like Grantland Rice. Not necessarily because I believed all that sporty bullshit, but because sportswriting was the only thing I could do that anybody was willing to pay for. A few paragraphs earlier, Thompson served up a brutal parody of every hack who ever filed a game story (present company included): They came together on a hot afternoon in Los Angeles, howling and clawing at each other like wild beasts in heat. Under a brown California sky, the fierceness of their struggle brought tears to the eyes of 90,000 God-fearing fans. They were twenty-two men who were somehow more than men. They were giants, idols, titans…

Behemoths. They stood for everything Good and True and Right in the American Spirit. Because they had guts. And they yearned for the Ultimate Glory, the Great Prize, the Final Fruits of a long and vicious campaign. Victory in the Super Bowl: $15,000 each. They were hungry for it. They were thirsty. For twenty long weeks, from August through December, they had struggled to reach this Pinnacle… and when dawn lit the beaches of Southern California on that fateful Sunday morning in January, they were ready. To seize the Final Fruit. They could almost taste it. The smell was stronger than a ton of rotten mangoes. Their nerves burned like open sores on a dog’s neck. White knuckles. Wild eyes. Strange fluid welled up in their throats, with a taste far sharper than bile. Behemoths. Those who went early said the pre-game tension was almost unbearable. By noon, many fans were weeping openly, for no apparent reason. Others wrung their hands or gnawed on the necks of pop bottles, trying to stay calm. Many fist-fights were reported in the public urinals. Nervous ushers roamed up and down the aisles, confiscating alcoholic beverages and occasionally grappling with drunkards. Gangs of Seconal-crazed teenagers prowled through the parking lot outside the stadium, beating the mortal shit out of luckless stragglers… A year later, Thompson referred back to the “The precisionjackhamer attack of the Miami Dolphins” lede in a lengthy Rolling Stone piece entitled “Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl: No Rest for the Wretched.” Gonzo journalism at its finest, Thompson blends his thoughts on Watergate, labor relations, and fortune-telling with a mini-profile of Oakland Raiders strongman Al Davis, trademark accounts of substance abuse and a pre-dawn sermon based on Revelations 20:15 from the 20th-floor balcony of his hotel. As in the best of Thompson’s work, he cuts the psychedelia and freeform association with some remarkably precise description of the physical and psychic impact of Miami wide receiver Paul Warfield: This was what happened in Houston with the Dolphins’ Paul Warfield, widely regarded as “the most dangerous pass receiver in pro football.” Warfield is a game-breaker, a man who commands double-coverage at all times because of his antelope running style, twin magnets for hands, and a weird kind of adrenaline instinct that feeds on tension and high pressure. There is no more beautiful sight in football than watching Paul Warfield float out of the backfield on a sort of angle-streak pattern right into the heart of a “perfect” zone defense and take a softly thrown pass on his hip, without even seeming to notice the arrival of the ball, and then float another 60 yards into the end zone, with none of the frustrated defensive backs ever touching him. There is an eerie kind of certainty about Warfield’s style that is far more demoralizing than just another six points on the Scoreboard. About half the time he looks bored and lazy—but even the best pass defenders in the league know, in some nervous corner of their hearts, that when the deal goes down Warfield is capable of streaking right past them like they didn’t exist… Unless he’s hurt; playing with some kind of injury that might or might not be serious enough to either slow him down or gimp the fiendish concentration that makes him so dangerous… and this was the possibility that Dolphin coach Don Shula raised on Wednesday when he announced that Warfield had pulled a leg muscle in practice that afternoon and might not play on Sunday. This news caused instant action in gambling circles. Even big-time bookies, whose underground information on these things is usually as good as Pete Rozelle’s, took Shula’s announcement seriously enough to cut the spread down from seven to six— a decision worth many millions of betting dollars if the game turned out to be close. Even the rumor of an injury to Warfield was worth one point (and even two, with some bookies I was never able to locate)… and if Shula had announced on Saturday that Paul was definitely not going to play, the spread would probably have dropped to four, or even three… Because the guaranteed absence of Warfield would have taken a great psychological load off the minds of Minnesota’s defensive backs. Without the ever-present likelihood of a game-breaking “bomb” at any moment, they could focus down much tighter on stopping Miami’s brutal running game—which eventually destroyed them, just as it had destroyed Oakland’s nut-cutting defense two weeks earlier, and one of the main reasons why the Vikings failed to stop the Dolphins on the ground was the constant presence of Paul Warfield in his

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customary wide-receiver’s spot. He played almost the whole game, never showing any sign of injury; and although he caught only one pass, he neutralized two Minnesota defensive backs on every play… and two extra tacklers on the line of scrimmage might have made a hell of a difference in that embarrassingly decisive first quarter when Miami twice drove what might as well have been the whole length of the field to score 14 quick points and crack the Vikings’ confidence just as harshly as they had cracked the Redskins out in Los Angeles a year earlier. The above represents Thompson at the peak of his powers, the writer who produced Hells Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent And Depraved.” Over the three decades before his suicide (for which I remain pissed at him), his genius unraveled, whether due to fame, wealth, drugs, the internal victory of cynicism over hope for his country, or a swirl of all four. But the Super Bowl remained his personal Holy Day, and he could still reach back and find the groove when writing about it. Whoops. Strike that. Leeches are not rodents. They are blood-sucking members of the Hirudinea family, a sub-species of the hermaphroditic sucker-worm that is frequently applied to headache-victims and other human wounds. Leeches used in human treatment range in size from three inches to 13 inches when fully bloated. They have two ugly mouths, one on each end, filled with tiny, razor-sharp teeth by which they attach themselves firmly to the flesh, prior to sucking. The leech has many eyes. The Oakland Raiders are the only team in football that still routinely uses leeches for treatment of serious injuries. It is an old-timey medicine, deriving no doubt from the team’s Bay Area roots, with its powerful Italian community and its many neighborhood grocery stores and exotic foreign delicacies, along with sausage, fresh fish and leeches…I have many fond memories of hanging out in North Beach at elegant Italian restaurants with Raiders players in the good old days of yesteryear, when the silver-and-black dynasty was just getting started, long before they turned into the gigantic, highpowered winning machine that they are today. Things were different in those years, but they were never dull. Every game was a terrifying adventure, win or lose, and the Raiders of the ’70s usually won—except in Pittsburgh, where cruel things happened and many dreams died horribly. You could see the early beginnings of what would evolve into the massive Raider Nation, which is beyond doubt the sleaziest and rudest and most sinister mob of thugs and whackos ever assembled in such numbers under a single “roof,” so to speak, anywhere in the English-speaking world. No doubt there are other profoundly disagreeable cults that meet from time to time in most of the 50 states… But so what? There is nothing more to say. I have obviously made my decision about the Raiders. They are simply a better football team than the Buccaneers, and they will win. A realistic line for this game would be 10 or 11, but right now it is hovering around 5 or 6. For all Thompson’s gifts, football prognostication was not one of them. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers stomped the balls off the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII, 48-21.

Dave Staba is a recovering journalist who posts rather infrequently at wewantmarangi.blogspot.com and can be found P somewhat more often on Twitter: @DavidStaba.

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ART REVIEW perimeter area growing space. The building becomes effectively a huge terraced agricultural project, like a Chinese rice paddies terraced mountain. The project would include a food market on the ground floor, and community kitchen with regular workshop instruction for residents and neighbors on cooking and preparing real food. Another proposal, for the same location, is intended just for housing for medical personnel, with amenity features such as a meditation room and plentiful green spaces, plus a gym and a bathhouse, as means to alleviate some of the physical and psychological stresses of the residents’ pressure-cooker jobs. A rather limited-scope project, it would seem. Until one notices an accompanying graphic illustrating alarming numbers and increasing levels of clinical depression among medical professionals as they advance through their career: 12 percent for medical students, 25 percent for graduates, nearly 30 percent for interns, and above 30 percent for doctors. There are several specialized medical treatment or rehabilitation facilities. One that would combine medical and artistic forces in treating military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury conditions via art therapy techniques. The facility would include studio space and living units for resident patients—or non-resident patients could use the facility on a drop-in basis—and a rooftop greenery quiet area, among other features. Another project would specialize in treatment of Alzheimer’s disease in an architectural cum natural environment encouraging physical exercise and social interaction among patients and patients and caregivers. UB architecture students Andre Duque and Nicole Tsai with their work.

CAN A BUILDING PROMOTE ECONOMIC JUSTICE? BY JACK FORAN

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functionalities. Architectural megablocks with randomnesseffect substantial cut-out volumes. High-rises with ellipticalform atria slicing from roof to ground floor, and copious rooftop and other exposed areas greenery—including along atria edges—for aesthetic but also therapeutic purposes. Or sometimes not megablocks at all, but more purely sculptural forms. Conglomerates of low-rise and tower segments, with cantilever extensions from a main building mass, more or less

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FF = FIRST FRIDAY FF Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Takashi Murakami: The Deep End of the Universe, on view Nov 4-Jan 28. Out of Sight! Art of the Senses, on view Nov 4-Jan 28. Picturing Niagara, paintings by Stephen Hannock, on view through Mar 25. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. Amber M Dixon Dixon Gallery at the Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology (1221 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 259-1680, buffaloartstechcenter.org): 3X3: Dianna Derhak, Natalie Dilenno, and David Simpson on view through Feb 2. Mon-Fri 10am-3pm.

balancing cut-out volumes. And tower portions sometimes diverging alarmingly from strict verticality. Constructions usually intended to be located in the medical corridor or nearby Allentown, with the medical and/or artistic communities particularly in mind. (Often sited on the underdeveloped block on the south side of High Street behind the Medical School, or in Allentown on the southeast corner of Delaware and Allen streets, property currently occupied by a convenience store and gas pumps.) One or two of the projects even address needs of the nearby Fruit Belt community, currently in process of gentrification by the medical behemoth. Such as one project that—noting that the entire Main/High/ Allen streets area is a food desert—would grow and supply fresh foods year-round for the medical and artistic communities and Fruit Belt residents alike. The building—proposed for the High Street property—looks a little like an enormous cruise ship of about 12 stories, each story set back from the story below, so that substantial perimeter areas would be exposed to sky and sun, and intensively farmed and gardened. Fruit trees and vegetables, and most or all of the farming and gardening to be performed on a part-time or hobby basis by residents in dwelling units toward the interior of the structure, but connected each one to a

FF Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annakaplancontemporary.art): Safe Word, an exhibit of erotic art on view through Feb 3. Curated by Dana Tyrell and Emily Tucker (Benjaman Gallery). Gallery Hours, Friday 12-7pm, Sat 12:30-4 or by appointment. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Photographs by Donald J. Siuta, Feb 2 through Mar 16. Opening reception Sat, Feb 3, 2018, 12-1:30pm. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716885-2251, wnyag.com): 8th Annual Non-Juried Members Exhibition on view through Feb 9. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207) By appointment only. FF Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.

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Many of the projects feature significant gardening components, in open-air and greenhouse arrangements on rooftops and along perimeter areas of multiple levels of the various structures, and surrounding ground areas where possible. One—somewhat on the Kevin Guest House model—for short- or long-term stays by patient families and/or patients undergoing rehab—would allot gardening space to each resident for the duration of their stay. Another project, a limited-stay orientation facility for refugee peoples to the Western New York area, would provide gardens in part to allow residents to experiment growing foods they would be accustomed to from their previous homelands that might not be available in local markets. Several projects are about intermixing heterogeneous groups in the same residential facility. One about racial segregation, dedicated to including people of various races or ethnicities, implying radically different income levels, a factor as much or more associated with social segregation as race or ethnicity. Expository material with this project includes graphics showing average white income seven times average black income, and six times average Hispanic income. This is the project that asks the question can a building promote economic justice. Imaginative architecture for visionary projects, sometimes verging on the impractical, or infeasible, or just plain unnecessary. Like the medical personnel “kinetic architecture” residence building with living spaces that can be readily contracted or expanded—that is, reconstituted as living spaces—at the will or whim of the resident. Kind of a Murphy’s Bed version of an apartment. According to the explanatory material, a resident could compact his or her apartment on leaving for work for the day, then upon return expand it again. Mind-boggling, and for what possible reason? The architectural projects exhibit is slated to continue until P February 16.

com): New work by the artists of Autism Services, on view through Mar 18. Tue-Thu, 8am9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): See Anna Kaplan Contemporary. Works from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Ian DeBeer and Craig Sheperd: In a Better Place. Fri-Sun 12-6pm. BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Altars of ERIE, an installation and sound piece by Lara Buckley. Through Jan 31. Every day 4-10pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): George Afedzi Hughes, The Politics of Identity. On view through Mar 3. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-

2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City & WWI, 100th Anniversary of America’s Entry into WWI, on second floor. Mon-Sat 8:30am6pm, Sun 12-5pm.Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): The Flying Slatherpuss and Other Portals Into the World of M. Henry Jones, through February 25. Charles Burchfield: The Ohio Years, works by Charles Burchfield, through March 24. Milton Rogovin: A Trip to Chile, 50 Years After, through March 25. Angels and Demons: Works in Paper by David Schirm, through March 31. Images (Of Us By Us), through April 1. Cargo, Way-points and Tales of the Erie Canal, through July 29. 10am5pm (Thu until 8pm), Sun 11am-4pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free.

GALLERIES ART FF Caffeology Buffalo (23 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY, 14201): The Witch and Circumstance, works by Nikayla Brown. Opening Fri, Feb 2, 6-9pm. Canisius College Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library (Canisius College 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208, 888-8412, library.canisius. edu): Along the Way, by Stacey Lechevet. On view through Feb 24. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter. org): Buffalo Society of Artists: Winter Exhibition. Thu 6-9pm & Sat 12-3pm. The Cass Project (500 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14204, thecassproject.org): The Blues of Collaboration, Team Razor Wire (TRW) Nick Miller & Christopher Kameck. On view through Jan 31. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Appealing Words: Calligraphy Traditions in WNY, through June 3. Western New York Collects: Nancy Dwyer, on view through Feb 4. Of Their Time: Hudson River School to Postwar Modernism, through December 31. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Photos by Tara Jain; Through the Blue Hour, works by Natalie DiIenno; Visions, selection of photographs taken by emerging photographers from many of Buffalo’s social justice organizations, Portraits of Struggle, photos by Orin Langelle; CEPA Gallery Members’ Exhibition. All shows on view through Feb 24. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Czurles-Nelson Gallery (Upton Hall, Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222): Buffalo State Alumni Artists: Works from the Gerald Mead Collection. On view through Feb 15. Opening reception Tue, Feb 13, 5-7pm. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com): Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, 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): See and Be Seen, 49th Annual juried exhibition at Daemen College of high school juniors and seniors throughout regional schools. Opening reception and announcement of scholarship winners is Sun, Feb 4 from 1-3pm. On view through Feb 23. Mon-Fri 9-5. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Wed-Sat 126pm. Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): Tue-Fri 11-6pm, Sat 11-4pm. GO ART! (201 East Main Street, Batavia, NY 14020): Cabal and Zen by Jim Burns on view through Feb 3. Thu-Fri 11am-7pm, Sat 11am4pm, Second Sun 11am-2pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Tony Conrad @ Hallwalls, on view through Mar 2. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. FF Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo. com): Recent work by Caroline Doherty and Gareth Lichty, on view through Mar 2. Opening reception Fri, Feb 2, 6-9pm. Wed & Fri 126pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays. Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo Bunis Family Art Gallery (2640 N Forest Road, Benderson Family Building, Amherst, NY 14068, 688-4033, jccbuffalo.org): Teresa Alessandra on view through Feb 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. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts. com): Original Originals: Vintage Drawings by WNY Artists, on view through Feb 10. TueSat 9:30am-5:30pm. Nichols School Gallery at the Glenn & Audrey Flickinger Performing Arts Center (1250 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14216, 332-6300, nicholsschool.org/artshows): Peanut Punch Leisure Lamps, artwork by Robert Lynch and Matthew SaGurney. On view through Mar 19. Mon-Fri 8am-4pm, 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. FF Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): The Heart, a group exhibit on view Feb 1-28. Reception Fri Feb 2, 7-9pm. Wed-Sat,125pm, Sun 1-5pm. FF Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse. com): The Allegory of Color, show by Cassie Lipsitz. Thu-Sat by event. Pine Apple Company (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/ store/pine-apple-company) Wed & Thu 11am6pm, 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): Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, Chris McGee, Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Liebel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, John Farallo, Thomas Busch, Michael Mulley. First Friday extended hours. Tue-Fri 11am4pm and by appointment. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Fathom, work by Tricia Butski, on view through Feb 17. Thu 12-6pm, Fri and Sat 12-8pm. 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): Work by Catherine Willett. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Sisti Gallery (6535 Campbell Blvd., Pendleton, NY 14094, 465-9138): Honoring Watercolor, works by Rita Argen Auerbach and Charles E. Burchfield. Fri 6-9, Sat & Sun 11-2pm. Slosson Gallery (7601 Seneca Street, Elma, NY 14059, 652-0930, observethis.homesteadcloud.com): Robert N. Blair, on view through Jan 30. Tue, 2-5pm, & by appointment. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Let Me Remember: first North American solo exhibition of artist and videoactivist belit sag, on view through Mar 23. Tue-Sat, 12pm-5pm. Stangler Fine Art (6429 West Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127, 870-1129, stanglerart.com): Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Closed Sundays. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio. org): 3X3: Heather Swenson, Ricky Hogan, & David Feickert, on view through Feb 28. MonFri 9-4pm. FF Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): 20th Century: Drawings by Curtis A. Guy. Open by event and Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries. org): Light, Line, Color and Space, new acquisitions from among hundreds of recently acquired gifts to the permanent collection. On view through Apr 15. Opening reception Sat, Feb 3, 6-8pm. Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Jouneys 1967-2017. Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Unity Gallery (1243 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-8820391) Impact Artist’s Members on view through Feb 28. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Fine Arts Program Student Exhibit, Feb 5-16. Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 3481430, wnybookarts.org): Printed Lives, an exhibition by Bob Fleming. On view through Feb 23. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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BOB FLEMING, whose current show of prints at Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street) is called Printed Lives, will give an artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk and workshop on Saturday, February 3, 12-3pm The workshop costs $5; pre-register at wnybookarts.org.

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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 31 West End Blend 9pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St. $5

[FUNK] Dropping into Buffalo on their winter tour is the eight-piece funk band West End Blend. The Hartford, Connecticut-based band is lead by supremely soulful singer Erica Bryan and deliver poppy funk-rock along the lines of classic acts like Stevie Wonder, Parliament Funkadelic, and Chaka Khan. Catch West End Blend at Nietzsche’s on Wednesday, January 31 with special guest Critt’s Juke Joint. -TPS

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 Iroquois Beverage Co. Launch Party 5pm Hotel Henry, 404 Forest Ave.

JOLLY WAILER

Session Victim, Romare

MARSHMELLO THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1

The latest track from DJ and

7PM / BUFFALO RIVERWORKS, 359 GANSON ST. / SOLD OUT

"I'm the President" single Recommended if you like: Max Graef,

producer Jolly Wailer is titled “I’m the President.” The track is a funky, bassy, kind of chaotic groove that hits in all the right spots to get you

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] If you slept on this one, then sorry, you’re too late. Tickets to this concert have

been sold out for a few weeks, and rightfully so, because Marshmello puts on a pretty spectacular show.

moving on the dance floor. There

The EDM DJ from Philadelphia not only brings with him a whole bunch of hyper future bass and trap

are a few bars of some old school

bangers, but an extensive lighting rig that includes something called a “waterfall”—who knows, maybe

hip hop verse sampled in there, a few piano vamps, and some funky,

an actual waterfall—as well as an occasional video occasional intro by Will Ferrell. On stage, the elusive

percussive scrubbing that gives it a

DJ—real name, Christopher Comstock—dons his signature marshmello mask with crossed-out eyes

hint of a retro vibe. Stream it for free on Soundcloud now.

[BEER] The venerable West Side startup brewery Community Beer Works recently announced it would be resurrecting Buffalo’s strongest historical beer brand, Iroquois Beer, a regional, easy-drinking, American light lager. There are layers inherent in such a project, and one of those is the racist appropriation of Native American culture. And not just because they advertise with us but because they try their damnedest to put good back into the world—hosting dozens of fundraisers in their brewery for groups like Planned Parenthood, the International Institute, and Friends of the Night People—if anyone can be trusted to exercise sensitivity and make a beer we can all be proud of, we believe it’s Community Beer Works. The Iroquois Beverage Co. Launch Party takes place this Thursday, February 1 at Hotel Henry. -AL

as he plays to his legions of fans known as the “Mellow Gang.” If this sounds like something for you, you probably already have tickets, and if you do, here’s your reminder that Marshmello plays Buffalo Riverworks this Thursday, February 1, presented by MNM Presents. -CORY PERLA

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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 2 SMUG 8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $5

[INDIE] There’s something amusing right off the bat about a band that names itself SMUG—call it sarcastic irreverence. The punky, local alt-rock trio—Craig Perno, Zach Russell and Travis Perno—is busy readying a debut album which you can surely sample material from at their Mohawk Place gig on Friday, February 2. They’re joined by the ethereal drone of Cooler and the more popleaning Total Yuppies. Nylon Otters kick things off sometime after 8pm. -CJT

Wayne’s World: The Music of Wayne Shorter 8pm Pausa Art House, 19 Wadsworth St. $7

[JAZZ] Saxophonist Jon Lehning, along with vocalist Alex McArthur, pianist George Caldwell, keyboardist Harry Graser, bassist Anthony Henry, and drummer Alec Dube perform a wide range of music from jazz star Wayne Shorter's catalogue drawing from some of his most influential recordings, interpretations by other jazz artists as well as their own arrangements and material from his time with Weather Report. Friday, February 2 at Pausa Art House. -TPS

AL POLANSKI “The Drink of Necessity (on The Back of a Can of Beer)” single Recommended if you like: DJ Haus, Bicep, Kelela

Different Strokes

Buffalo native Al Polanski dropped

9pm Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar, 253 Allen St $5

a new track this month titled “The

[TRIBUTE] A bunch of guys from a bunch of local indie rock bands take on the music of 2000s indie rock darlings the Strokes. For more info, check out our interview with Different Strokes in this week’s paper. Support comes from the Eaves, the Good Neighbors, and the Dance Yrself Clean DJ crew, this Friday, February 2 at Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar. -CP

Drink of Necessity (on The Back of a Can of Beer).” The synthy track oscillates between funky uptempo house and an R&B-inspired

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breakdown as a thick, round bassline pulsates throughout. Stream for free on Soundcloud now.

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(ALL DAY) / VARIOUS LOCATIONS, [ART] First Friday at the Albright-Knox turns to a theme of dance with scheduled docent-led

tours all day and two talks in the evening on French artist Henri Matisse and jazz, with live jazz

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and drink specials in the café. Meantime, down at the Indigo Gallery on Allen Street, an opening

Big Wreck

from Caroline Doherty and Gareth Lichty features work that uses archetypal objects, video, and performance with large-scale sculptures and wood-cut panels. Check our compendium of gallery information “In Galleries Now” (page 8) for information on other shows hanging currently. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $25-$29

[ROCK] There’s a pretty big gap in Big Wreck’s discography that begins after the release of their 2001 album The Pleasure and the Greed and lasts until their reunion

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PEACH PICKS ON PEACH: Yesterday, Peach featured the short story “Chekov’s Beard” by Bob Raymonda. Raymonda’s new fiction is a comedy of bizarre frustration, slowly unfolding the worst party you’ve ever attended into a surreal, quasi-nightmare. The story centers around a late party-goer, crashing into a soiree populated by a cavalcade of the most obnoxious people on earth, as she forcefully regales the crowd with her latest “worst date ever” story. The story grows ever more bizarre as she tells it, and there’s a deeply scathing and sadly humanistic streak in Raymonda’s prose as the clinically sardonic crowd refuses to buy into her tale of the extraordinary. The story, in which an aspect of her date is slowly revealed to have surreal properties, is best not to be spoiled, but it is in the way that Raymonda allows all of his characters to be absolute boors in the face of a miracle that this story finds its heart. Allow yourself to be frustrated and charmed by it.

WHISKEY MYERS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 2 7PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $18-$22 [ROCK] Red Dirt rockers, Whiskey Myers, from Palestine, Texas, come bucking and snorting

back to Town Ballroom on Friday, February 2 for their Hurry Up and Wait Tour. It’s just a week or two short of a year since they were here supporting Mud, their fourth disc, out in fall of 2016 on the Wiggy Thump label (with some distribution help from Thirty Tigers). Although they haven’t yet released new material since then, the band remains expanded to seven pieces from five, having completely ripping up the country-based template that’s brought them this far—2014’s Early

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Morning Shakes reached Billboard’s country top 10 and was an iTunes #1. The results are highly

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used Mud as an opportunity to show a now-captive audience all the cool tricks they can do without

listenable—grittier than something like Blackberry Smoke—making melting-pot goodness from bits of Skynyrd, Zeppelin, R-and-B, and deep twang, occasionally augmented by horns, backup gals, Classic FM guitar work, and fiddling, the latter of which adds an Appalachian mountain feel to the opener “On the River.” Former Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson contributed

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the track “Frogman,” and actually there are numerous points during Mud where frontman Cody

The Burning Person: A Novella By Bob Schofield 2Fast2House / 138 pages / fiction

Cannon sounds an awful lot like Crowes focal point Chris Robinson. At the end of the day, this

The Burning Person by Bob Schofield begins as a creation myth draped in pitch black silk before transforming into a love story fringed about its edges with dream logic. A woman and an executioner escape from their lives in the city to the countryside. There they find the titular burning person, a pained entity born out of ghastly nightly fireworks, and they begin to care for it. Schofield paints watercolor scenes of skewed reality using concrete images and phrases, an effect that produces emotions in the reader that are puzzlelike in their complexity: “They put cold air in mason jars, and carried it to the lake. Its surface froze into strange panes of glass, and they chipped away at them with icepicks. In this way they made the perfect window for their church. They fixed it in place with fresh honey and twigs, sealed it with wet clumps of dirt. The sun pushed through the trees, down past the wicker door and into their church, just as the whole congregation broke into song about the glory locked away in that flaming body.” The way the tragedy is constructed through the lyrical framework of Schofield’s The Burning Person moves from the personal to the mythic acts as a sweeping gesture for human kindness in the face of loneliness’s ultimate implausible cruelty.

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the lady, or the tiger?, Mike Criscione 6PM DOORS/7PM SHOW ◆ $5

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Total Yuppies 8PM ◆ $5

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Psyched out Power Pop from Western Massachusetts

Fragile Rabbit Slow Mutants, Facility Men, Alpha Hopper 8PM ◆ $5

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Happy Hour: Disco Hospital

KRYSTYNA HUTCHINSON & CORINNE FISHER SATURDAY FEBRUARY 3

5PM ◆ FREE

The Rifts

Dreambeaches, Witty Tarbox, Nothing Casual 8PM ◆ $5

7:30PM / HELIUM COMEDY CLUB, 30 MISSISSIPPI ST. / $23-$25

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[COMEDY] The NSFW podcast Guys We F****D, hosted by Krystyna Hutchinson and Corinne

Fisher, has a pretty simple format: The two hosts interview a gentleman with whom one of them has slept. It’s most definitely a comedy show, but it’s also, as they like to call it, an anti slut-shaming podcast, broadcasting the message that women should be able to have sex with whomever they want whenever they want and not have to worry about being called a slut. The two have been performing as a comedy duo since 2011 and, in addition to their podcast, are known for hosting “house party style” live comedy shows at the New York City comedy club Gotham City Improv. Now on the road doing a joint stand up routine, the duo comes to Helium for a series of shows this Thursday, February 1 through Saturday, February 3. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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chevron bloom, little summer, velvet bethany, shane meyer 8PM ◆ $5

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record, Albatross was released in 2012. But since their reformation, the band has been nothing if not consistent in their releases and the quality of them. Their latest, 2017’s Grace Street is solid, slickly produced rock music as evidenced by their single “One Good Piece of Me.” For most fans, the album that stands out most, however is their 1997 debut In Loving Memory Of… In celebration of the 20-year anniversary of the release of In Loving Memory Of, the Canadian alternative rock band will make their return to the Town Ballroom on Saturday, February 3 for a show that focuses on that hard-hitting, fanfavorite album. -CP

THIS WEEK'S LGBT AGENDA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 G2H2 HAPPY HOUR AT ROOST 5-8pm, 1502 Niagara St.

Check out this increasingly popular and purely social event at Roost this month, which is the new incarnation of Martin Cooks. New location, new kitchen, in the heart of the newly designated Tesla Heritage Corridor. There is no cost to attend, just bring cash for your drinks. Come meet new people and socialize—widen your circle. There are no dues, and business card exchanges are frowned upon. Just relax and enjoy—it's Friday!

The Leones, Dreambeaches, the Demos, and Minor Poet 7pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $7

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[INDIE] A lineup of dreamy indie pop bands is slated for a show at Babeville’s 9th Ward this Saturday, February 3. Heading the show are indie pop band the Leones, lead by singer/songwriter Justin Bachulak. They’ll be joined by Buffalo-based indie rock bands Dreambeaches and the Demos, and Richmond, Virginia’s Minor Poet. -CP

7PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $39.50-$45

Cock Robin

[METAL] Formed as a vehicle for the solo work of sometimes Ozzy Osbourne sideman Zakk Wylde,

who now also fronts a Black Sabbath cover band called Zakk Sabbath, Wylde played most the

FOR THE LOVE OF ALLENTOWN THROUGHOUT ALLENTOWN HISTORICAL DISTRICT

band. Later releases have gone farther to highlight contributions from other players, but the lineup

6-9pm

has been a bit of a revolving door along the way. Now sober for a while after some serious health

This kicks off the 2018 year of programming for Allentown First Friday Gallery Walk with a special celebration. Businesses and galleries alike will host events and specials for patrons as they celebrate this unique and diverse historic neighborhood. There will be poetry readings, gallery hangings, dinner and cocktail specials…even a burlesque show at Free Agent, located at 704 Main (heading toward downtown). See the Facebook event page for more specific details.

instruments on the first few Black Label Society albums despite his intention to form a proper

problems, Wylde is busier than ever—but still found time to put together a new Black Label Society album, out in mid-January, entitled Grimmest Hits. (No, it’s not a compilation.) We haven’t heard the latest from openers Corrosion of Conformity, No Cross No Crown, also out mid-January, but we’re told it pairs well with the new BLS. Kicking things off for both bands at Town Ballroom on Monday, February 5, is Portland’s Red Fang, supporting 2016’s Only Ghosts. It’s a highimpact lineup for Buffalo metal fans. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

LOVE NOTES: A PINE APPLE CO. GRAND REOPENING

As part of the above listed event, come share the love at Pine Apple Co.'s grand reopening in their new space at 65 Allen Street (formerly at 224 Allen, former Loop headquarters). PACo will be displaying work from its themed show "Love Notes," featuring work from the collective's six members: Tom Holt, Mickey Harmon, Sarah Liddell, Esther Neisen, Yames, and Mike West. Additionally, No Labels Co-op—which is still in the building at 224 Allen for the time being— will host an art show that celebrates queer identity and the radical act of being oneself in the face of censorship and oppression that is our current political climate. This is a great opportunity to see work by LGBTQ artists who are local as well as a few from other parts of the country.

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

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2pm to 5pm, 44 Allen St.

Imperial Prince Royal to Reign 27 Frank Scarpino presents this clothing/charity drive. Please donate new or gently used winter hats, gloves, scarves, and socks. Cash donations will go to purchase additional winter items. All items will be donated to Buffalo Homeless Shelters. There will also be a short show where you can tip performers with winter items. Proceeds to benefit the charities of Reign27 of the Imperial Court of Buffalo. Also, later Saturday at Underground (274 Delaware, 10pm onward) the Buffalo Bulldogs are hosting their monthly bar night, which also features a drive for winter clothes and accessories to benefit Friends of Night People.

7PM / KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL, 3 SYMPHONY CIRCLE / $10-$25 [JAZZ] For what it’s worth, Project Trio might be the most popular chamber music ensemble in

the country. The Brooklyn-based trio specialize in a variety of musical genres including classical,

[BLUES] They call him Taz because he rips it up. Fourteen-year-old blues guitar prodigy Brandon "Taz" Niederauer got a big break a couple years back, landing the lead in the Tony Award-nominated Andrew Lloyd Webber Broadway production School of Rock at the Winter Garden Theatre. Since then, he's diversified impressively: Niederauer has been welcomed into the jam-band fold by the likes of Derek Trucks (Tedeschi Trucks Band, Allmans) and Warren Haynes (Gov't Mule, Allmans), and he's played with everyone from Dweezil Zappa to Lady Gaga to the Scorpions. It's no joke. Come see him show off his chops in a smaller room at Buffalo Iron Works on Saturday, February 3 with openers the Hayden Fogle Band. -CJT

jazz, hip hop, and rock, as well as folk styles, and have done arrangements for pieces by everyone

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from Thelonious Monk to Guns ’n’ Roses. Featuring Flutist Greg Pattillo, cellist Eric Stephenson,

California Cousins

and bassist Peter Seymour, the group take a bit of an unconventional approach—Pattillo is famous

6:30pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St. $8

Sunday, February 4 as part of the BPO Kids series, and then as a trio on Tuesday, February 6.

[INDIE] “Dudes playing riff hitting jams,” is how Rochester indie rock band California Cousins bill themselves, and it’s pretty damn accurate. More specifically, loud, headbobbing indie rock that lands somewhere along the emo/pop punk spectrum is what you’re in for. Check them out at Sugar City this Wednesday, February 7 with Caracara,

-CORY PERLA

the Weak Days, and honey. -CP

on Youtube for, among other musical performances, his simultaneous beatbox and flute renditions of the Inspector Gadget theme song and the Super Mario theme song. Those videos, which were posted 11 years ago, have racked up a combined 55 million views. Expect the unexpected when Project Trio comes to Kleinhans Music Hall for a pair of performances, first with the BPO on

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Slow Mutants, Fragile Rabbit, Facility Men, and Alpha Hopper [PUNK] Get your noise-punk fix at Mohawk Place this Saturday, February 3. A solid lineup of mostly Buffalo-based noise punk and indie bands is set to take the stage. Outof-towners Fragile Rabbit of Easthampton, Massachusetts will be joined by Buffalo mainstays Slow Mutants, Facility Men, and Alpha Hopper. Don’t miss this one. -CP

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 WARMING UP BUFFALO'S WINTER ICOB STYLE AT Q ALLEN

[ROCK] Not to be confused with the California-based 1980s duo that gained more popularity overseas than here in the States, Cock Robin is actually a Buffalo institution of sorts. Formed here in the 1970s, the band—Steve MacDonald, Matt Geltz, Don Peters, Jim Sommer, and Pete Militello— delivers harmony-driven rock from the era that spawned their musical partnership, continuing a Western New York tradition of more than 40 years. Their gig Saturday, February 3 at Sportsmen’s Tavern kicks off a monthly residency that will continue through all of 2018. -CJT

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Griffin Smith, Tom Burtless, Ben Parsons, Ryan Schila, and John Grace are Different Strokes — a local Strokes cover supergroup.

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BY CORY PERLA FOR ALMOST A DECADE now, the influence

of the Strokes has been in question. Some bloggers have called the New York City-based band the most influential American band of the 2000s so far, who ripped the attention away from cringeworthy nu-metal bands early in the decade. Some beg to differ, calling into question their “indie-ness” or staying power. Whatever you think about the Strokes, there’s no question that our local tribute band version, Different Strokes, have their sound, and even their look, nailed down. And you’re likely to recognize a few of the guys in the lineup, which features members of Humble Braggers, the Slums, Fever Box, and the indie rock DJ crew Dance Yrself Clean, who’ll be on hand to DJ at the band’s next show, this Friday at Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar. Their friends the Eaves, formerly known as Sixties Future, will be on hand to warm the crowd up. This week we spoke with Ben Parsons and Tom Burtless of Different Strokes about where their love for the band comes from, and how to channel your inner Julian Casablancas. Tell me who you are in real life—any other projects you’re involved—and who you are in Different Strokes. Ben Parsons: I’m part of Dance Yrself Clean, a DJ collective that includes Tom and a few other local musicians—Bryan Johnson and Allison Lavis. I’m the lead singer for Different Strokes. Tom Burtless: I play in Humble Braggers, I played in Honey Coma and the emo cover band Girl Jeans, and I am basically Albert Hammond Jr. in Different Strokes.

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Obviously great name for the band. I hope people don’t show up looking for Gary Coleman. Tell me a little bit about the origin of the band? TB: Ben and I were at karaoke one night and Ben sang “You Only Live Once,” and we were both kinda, like, “What if we did a Strokes thing.” I didn’t really think too much of it. I didn’t think we’d play more than just that first show we had for Halloween, but we thought that it would be a really fun idea. I just threw out a feeler on Facebook to see if anybody would be interested in doing it, and my buddy John [Grace], who plays bass, just loves to play in cover bands, so he was immediately on board even though he barely knew any Strokes songs. I think Pat Butler tagged Griffin [Smith] and was, like, “I’m pretty sure Griffin knows every one of these songs anyways,” so he was in. Then Ryan [Schila] sent me a message and said he was totally in. It’s just about our love of the Strokes. Where does your love for the Strokes come from? BP: For me personally, the Strokes were one of the first bands that I got really into, probably through Tom’s brother back in the early 2000s. It’s just always kind of been a strong passion that we’ve both had for the band. TB: We’ve been friends for a super long time, and it was one of the first bands that we—when we started getting into music—were, like, “Oh, hell yeah.” They’re one of the most important bands from like the past 20 years. Ben, how do you channel your inner Julian Casablancas? BP: Honestly, not gonna lie, but Julian Casablancas has been like a fuckin’ fashion idol for me for quite a while. It’s kind of something that’s always I think subconsciously been there. To me it’s not that much of a stretch to kind of try to emulate him. So you’re kind of just channeling him in your everyday life? BP: [He laughs.] I guess I’ll admit that, at least somewhat. Like Tom said, we did it at karaoke before. The Strokes have been like my go-to karaoke band, so I feel like I’ve had a lot of practice trying to get his vocal style down. Tom, has learning the structure and kind of sensibilities of the Strokes’ songs affected at all how you think about your own music? TB: It’s kinda funny. A little bit. There’s definitely a separation between writing music and listening to music—or at least I think

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you try to have one. I don’t sit there and try to analyze everything I’m listening to the same way that I would a song that I’m working on. But it is kind of funny to learn these songs and be, like, oh my god, the repetition and the simplicity, which I never really thought of too much is kind of crazy. Then to realize which songs are way more complicated in ways that I wouldn’t have thought. It’s interesting deconstructing them. Humble Braggers is working on our next release and still finishing up some stuff, and it’s definitely making me think a little bit about the structure of our songs and how simple or complex I want them to be in reference to these songs that have been held as kind of classics for the past 15, almost 20 years. Favorite Strokes album and why. Go. BP: I’m probably going to have to say Room on Fire. I spent a good majority of my freshman year in high school listening to that album front to back. I’m in the small minority that kind of likes the whole Strokes discography, even past the first couple albums. But most people would probably agree the first two are classics. TB: I’m tempted to say the same but it’s really tricky. I remember my brother showing me Is This It when I was like 12 years old, and there’s a lot of nostalgia wrapped up in that first record, but the second record I came into maybe more on my own. The last show we did Is This It front to back, so it was really cool to learn all of those songs and reliving all of the nostalgia. So I’m going to go with the first one. I’ll be different than Ben. If I ever hear that first riff start for Is This It, I can’t turn it off. It’s one of those things where I have to listen to it. What percentage of your set is songs from Is This It? BP: It’s a good 50/50 between Is This It and Room on Fire and then we have a few others thrown in there from like First Impressions of Earth and Angles. Nothing from Comedown Machine yet but maybe we’ll get there some day.

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if we can branch out a little bit to play in Rochester or Fredonia. Everybody is kind of doing these throwback things. These things exist an hour away from Buffalo so we’re trying to see if we can get a night at Bug Jar with some other indie bands.

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FILM REVIEW

PARIAH AT HALLWALLS BY M. FAUST THOSE OF YOU who pride yourselves on

seeing all the films nominated for the major Academy Awards before the Oscar telecast may be befuddled by the presence of one title in the categories for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actress (Mary J. Blige), and Best Original Song. Did Mudbound sneak in and out of local theaters without you hearing about it?

Adepero Oduye and Aasha Davis in Pariah.

AT THE MOVIES A selective guide to what’s opening and what’s playing in local moviehouses and other venues

OPENING THIS WEEK BILAL: A NEW BREED OF HERO—From Dubai, a lavish computer-animated feature about the boy who was born a slave but grew up to become a respected leader in a time of war. With the voices of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ian McShane, China Anne McClain, and Jacob Latimore. Directed by Khurram H. Alavi and Ayman Jamal. Area theaters

MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER—Hiromasa Yonebayashi, a former assistant to Hayao Miyazaki, strikes out on his own for this adaptation of a Mary Stewart novel about a bored young girl who discovers the wonders of magic. With the voices of Ruby Barnhill, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Ewen Bremner, and Teresa Gallagher. North Park WINCHESTER—Helen Mirren as the heir to the fortune built on the famous rifle, who constructs a mammoth San Francisco house to trap the ghosts of those killed by her ancestor’s creation. With Sarah Snook and Jason Clarke. Directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig (Jigsaw). Area theaters

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA AMELIE (France, 2001)—The whimsical French film that stole the heart of the American moviegoing public at the dawn of the millennium, starring Audrey Tautou as a waitress who delights in bringing joy to the lives of strangers from an anonymous distance. The film was designed to connect a lot of ideas about Paris from the sketchbook of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and at its best it’s delightfully inventive, even if it wears out its welcome before La Fin. With Mathieu Kassovitz. —MF Presented by the Roycroft Film Society. Sun 4 pm. Parkdale School Auditorium, 141 Girard Ave., East Aurora CASABLANCA (1941)—Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in what is by general consensus Hollywood’s greatest romance, if not the most popular Hollywood film period. Call it a miracle of studio craftsmanship, a whole that exceeds the sum of its parts, and

an almost mythological example of why we love movies so much. Directed by Michael Curtiz (The Adventures of Robin Hood). With Paul Heinreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, S. Z. Sakall, and Dooley Wilson. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst DESOLATION—Film festival favorite starring Dominik García-Lorido as a small-town woman who is swept off her feet by a visiting movie star, only to find a house of horrors when she moves into his LA apartment. (Okay, an apartment of horrors.) With Brock Kelly and Raymond J. Barry. Directed by David Moscow. Fri-Sat 9:30pm. Screening Room THE LADY VANISHES (England, 1938)—Alfred Hitchcock’s last British film before moving to Hollywood is one of the most enjoyable of his career, as Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood try to find out how a little old lady (Dame May Whitty) disappeared from a moving train. With Paul Lukas, Cecil Parker, and Googie Withers. Wed 7:30pm. Screening Room PARIAH—Reviewed this issue. Presented by Cultivate Cinema Circle. Thu Feb 8, 7pm. Hallwalls THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)—Rob Reiner’s fractured fairy tale, adapted by William Goldman from his own novel, with a cast of comedians poking fun at children’s fantasy stories. Starring Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, Billy Crystal, Robin Wright Penn, Peter Falk, Peter Cook, Mel Smith, and Carol Kane. Fri, Sat, Tue 7:30pm, Wed 8pm. Screening Room A SILENT VOICE (Japan, 2016)—Anime about a young man seeking redemption for a student incident when he bullied a deaf girl so much that her family moved away. Directed by Naoko Yamada (Tamako Love Story). Sat-Sun 11:30am. North Park SHOCK (1946)—Vincent Price hadn’t yet established a reputation as a horror icon when he starred in this noirish thriller as a psychiatrist who accidentally kills his wife and is forced to discredit a witness as mentally unstable. Directed by the reliable B-movie veteran Alfred L. Werker (He Walked by Night). Wed 6pm. Screening Room

CONTINUING ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD—Ridley Scott’s depiction of the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, whose grandfather, at the time the richest person in the history of the world, refused to pay his ransom, the kind of “based on actual events” drama that you sit through eager to go to Wikipedia to find out what really happened. The differences are substantial enough to make you wonder what director Scott and screenwriter David Scarpa (adapting a book by John Pearson) were thinking. Scott clearly loves shooting in Italy, but most of the characterizations are implausible other than Getty (Christopher Plummer), a monster whose motivations you wish they had devoted more time to. By contrast Michelle Williams (laboring under a bad accent and worse wig)

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be screened at 7pm on Thursday, February 8, as part of “Women Direct: First Films By Modern Visionary Filmmakers,” a year-long series programmed by Cultivate Cinema Circle.

No, it didn’t, nor did your friends in most other cities get a chance to see it. Despite the fact that it boasts cinematic qualities that can best be appreciated on a theatrical screen, Mudbound was given only a few theatrical dates by its distributor, Netflix, which has chosen to premiere it for most everyone else in their living rooms.

A more personal film than the epic Mudbound, Pariah stars Adepero Oduye as Alike, 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood. Alike is gay but not yet out, at least not to her family. Her desire to move forward clashes with uncertainty in a community that is not understanding of what she knows to be her true nature. Pariah was developed by Rees as her graduate thesis when she was studying film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

As a consolation, Buffalonians will have a chance to see the debut feature of writer-director Dee Rees next week at Hallwalls. Pariah (2011) will

The screening will be introduced by Ruth Goldman, curator of the Beyond Boundaries P film series.

and Mark Wahlberg feel like afterthoughts. —M. Faust Four Seasons CALL ME BY YOUR NAME—Scripted by James Ivory from André Aciman’s 2007 novel of the same title, this Oscar nominated film by Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) portrays a crucial affair between a young man in his twenties and a seventeen-year-old youth having his first physical homosexual experience. Set at an isolated villa in Northern Italy, it is a voluptuously appealing movie, its surface and compositions elegant and compelling, as well as a celebration of carnality. But it’s at least a bit anachronistic given the changes that have occurred in gays’ lives and opportunities since 1983 (when the story takes place). Starring Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, and Esther Garrel. — George Sax Dipson Amherst COCO—An aspiring young musician visits the Land of the Dead for guidance in this new Pixar animated film. Four Seasons THE COMMUTER— The latest of Social Securityeligible Liam Neeson’s roles as a kick-ass action star (surely the most unexpected career shift since Leslie Nielsen turned to comedy) reunites him with director Jaume Collet-Serra, who has made better-than-average use of him in films like Unknown, Ride All Night, and NonStop. This time Neeson is a commuter whose bad day gets worse on the train ride home when he becomes tasked with a mystery to be solved before it reaches its destination. It’s not as well-tooled as Non-Stop, and if I hesitate to lay out the mechanism of the plot it’s partly because the way the film sets up its premise is better than the way it executes that premise. But as with most of these Neeson vehicles, you could do worse. With Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, Sam Neill, and Elizabeth McGovern. —MF AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix (ENDS THURSDAY), Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria DARKEST HOUR—Gary Oldman may not seem like a likely candidate to portray Winston Churchill, but beneath cosmetic padding and facial reconstruction he gives a bravura performance of the great man as he becomes prime minister of England at one of the lowest points in that country’s history, in he early days of World War II. Churchill was one of the Western world’s greatest political actors, a man acutely aware of his effect on the public, and Oldman captures him as variously pugnacious, smugly self-possessed, rhetorically soaring, acerbic, and sometimes privately abashed. Joe Wright (Atonement) directs in his customary technically emphatic and sometimes gimmicky fashion. While there has been no lack of Churchills on screens small and large recently, this is likely to remain the one huge numbers of people remember. With Ben Mendelsohn, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Lily James. —George Sax Aurora (ENDS THURSDAY), Dipson Eastern Hills (STARTS FRIDAY), Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit DEN OF THIEVES—“Thieves without fear. Cops without limits,” proclaims the exhausting trailer for this LA thriller in which I couldn’t tell who we’re supposed to be rooting for.

Starring Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jordan Bridges, and Dawn Olivieri. Directed by Christian Gudegast. AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix (ENDS THURSDAY), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, 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 famously 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 setting. If you don’t like war movies, this one may be an exception for you. With Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Tom Hardy. -GS Regal Quaker, Regal Transit FERDINAND—Animated adaptation of the children’s book about a peaceable bull. With the voices of John Cena, Kate McKinnon, Anthony Anderson, Bobby Cannavale, Peyton Manning, and Gina Rodriguez. Directed by Carlos Saldanha (Rio). Dipson McKinley, Four Seasons GET OUT—Key & Peele’s Jordan Peele wrote and directed this horror film about a young black man whose discomfort when he goes to the home of his white girlfriend’s family proves to be all too well justified. It’s better written than it is directed, and you can’t help but wish that Peele had turned the script over to someone who had a better idea of how to balance the absurdity of the premise with the very real racial tensions with which it is combined. Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, and Bradley Whitford. –MF Regal Walden Galleria THE GREATEST SHOWMAN—Musical based on the life of circus magnate P. T. Barnum. Starring Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, and Zac Efron. Directed by Michael Gracey. AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria HOSTILES—Western starring Christian Bale as an Army captain tasked to escort a Cheyenne chief (Wes Studi) and his family through dangerous territory in 1892. With Rosamund Pike and Rory Cochrane. Directed by Scott Cooper (Black Mass). Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY—Horror sequel. Starring Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, and Josh Stewart. Directed by Adam Robitel. Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria I, TONYA—Though the story of “white trash” skater Tonya Harding and her involvement with an attack on her Olympic rival Nancy

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