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IN MEMORIAM NEWS

A SHORT NOTE ON NAT HENTOFF

BY BRUCE JACKSON

A REMEMBRANCE OF A MAN OF PRINCIPLE, IDEAS, AND FACTS FOR A VERY LONG TIME, I have owed Nat

Hentoff—the great journalist, cultural analyst, political and jazz critic, and independent thinker, who died last week at the age of 91—a book review.

We lived in a shared world of letters and published articles and books. We had many friends in common and we wrote one another on occasion. At the Village Voice, Nat worked with my oldest writer friend, Jack Newfield, who lived a door down from me on Vernon Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn when we were little kids. As grownups, all three of us wrote for The Nation.

In 1968, Karl Menninger (of the Menninger Clinic) published a book titled The Crime of Punishment. At the time, I was writing for The Nation, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Magazine, and other places, about dysfunction in the American criminal justice system.

Nat, who was then one of the editors of Village Voice, asked me if I’d review the Menninger book. I said I’d be happy to review it. He sent it. I thought it was sappy, sentimental, good-intentioned, but, like Freud on Moses, soft on data leading up to a theoretical conclusion that was there before the writing started.

I wrote the review. It was, as I remember (no hard-copy survives), killer prose. I shredded the book. The kind of thing some young academics do to make their bones.

Then, just before I mailed Nat my review, I received in the mail a copy of the book from Karl Menninger. It had an inscription referring to a recent book of mine that said we were both trying to do the same thing, which was to help people outside the criminal justice system understand the evils the system manufactured. He said he was old and I was young but we were working toward the same goal. He thanked me for understanding.

I read it and thought, “There is no way I am

going to say ‘fuck you’ to this guy.” So I tossed my review into the waste basket and thought no more of it.

Except when I came upon a copy of the Village Voice. Or when I saw one of Nat’s articles or books. Or read about him arguing someone else’s politics. He was a hugely ethical and principled man. Even when I disagreed with him, he was one of my markers because I knew he got to his positions by thought, and his thinking was rarely simple.

After maybe a decade, I wrote him and told him that I’d written a killer review of The Crime of Punishment, but that before I’d mailed it, I’d received that book with that inscription from Karl Menninger, and I’d been personally seduced by it. I also said, it had gotten me thinking that what we were up to was not in the least as simple and obvious as it seemed when we were typing things we knew would go into a newspaper in a few days. (Who, then, could have imagined, having one’s thoughts online in microseconds?) I said that, once I’d read Menninger’s inscription, I wasn’t tough enough to publish the review the book deserved because I decided that what the book was about was really right. Its point was that our criminal justice system didn’t serve us; that it sucked. It doesn’t serve us; it sucks.

Nat wrote back that he would have done exactly the same thing, that hardly anything is ever simple or monochromatic. We all know that, he said.

I know that now. I don’t think I’d known that then.

You can find, online, obits for Nat Hentoff.

He wrote things with which everyone who respected and loved him disagreed vigorously. He had positions that many of us rejected totally.

What matter? He was a man of principle, ideas, and facts. When he wrote about his position, he said why he’d taken it, so you could argue, if you wished. He engaged the streets, politics, music, our world. He was a good guy and we’re better off for having had him writing to us all those years.

Bruce Jackson is the James Agee Professor of American Culture at UB and a SUNY P Distinguised Professor.

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NEWS LOCAL The governor enters the legislative session with tensions bubbling from both chambers of the state legislature. While state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has not hidden his displeasure with Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has been more diplomatic, even if news reports indicate his members are still furious with the governor over stalled talks on a legislative pay raise.

Cuomo did take one shot at state legislators, saying that most Albany lawmakers, most of whom hail from New York City and the surrounding area, would prefer to abandon the governor’s regional economic development councils because they put too much control in the hands of the communities that are receiving the money.

“The legislature doesn’t like it, because they liked it when they got to make the decisions,” Cuomo said.

While the governor is running up against challenges downstate, he spoke of the opportunity to build on what he began with the Buffalo Billion. Cuomo spent the majority of his speech noting positive gains in wage growth, employment and a growing number of young people in the city.

“Buffalo Billion is working,” Cuomo said. “On every level it’s working.”

As Cuomo prepares for a possibly trying year, he praised the people of Buffalo for their resilience over the years, crediting them with what he has described many times as the region’s successful turnaround after years of decline and promising that, if they continue to work with him, things will continue to get better.

“You ain’t seen nothing yet,” he said.

Governor Andrew Cuomo delivered his traveling state-of-the-state speech in Buffalo last Monday.

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Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared to be in a good mood during his visit to Buffalo Monday afternoon for the second leg of his State of the State tour.

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Joking at times with the head of Empire State Development, Buffalo developer Howard Zemsky, Cuomo proposed an ambitious plan that includes providing tuition-free college education, coming to an agreement on ride sharing for upstate communities and spending $650 million to expand the state’s growing life sciences sector. The governor often returned to the theme of upstate finally getting its due under his leadership after decades of neglect, a message that has been central to his public image for several years.

“What is the state of the state this January 9?” Cuomo said. “It is stronger than it has been in decades and nobody knows that better than you in Buffalo know that.”

But Cuomo’s big announcement to the largely friendly crowd, a second phase in his signature Buffalo Billion economic development initiative that would see another $500 million invested in the region, will move forward under a dark cloud. With the indictment of top Cuomo aides and beneficiaries of the state’s economic development projects moving forward through the courts, the future prospects for the program remains to be seen.

While the announcement of the additional funds was met with great applause by the crowd, one man stood up during the speech and screamed “traitor” and “corruption” at the governor, even referencing Louis Ciminelli, one of the developers charged in the federal bid rigging probe linked to a major project funded with Buffalo Billion money.

“Ciminelli’s going to flip on you,” the man shouted before being led out of the auditorium.

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CONSERVATIVES QUIT CARL: Later this month, the New York State Conservative Party—a club for people who care deeply about guns, abortion, defeating the homosexual agenda, and patronage jobs—will hold its annual statewide fundraiser. A mailer for that fundraiser sent out in mid-December listed the headliners. Among these were US House of Representative members John Faso and Claudia Tenney (both new) and Lee Zeldin and Elise Stefanik (both re-elected). Buffalo’s own Chris Jacobs, newly elected to the New York State Senate, bore mention, along with Dennis Vacco, former US Attorney for the Western District and former New York State Attorney General, and Clarence Congressman Chris Collins.

Other attractions: Betsy McCaughey, lieutenant governor under George Pataki; Rob Astorino, the Westchester County executive and GOP gubernatorial candidate in 2014; and Buffalo developer Carl Paladino.

But wait a hot second: On December 28, a new mailer soliciting attendance to the New York State Conservative Party’s annual conference hit mailboxes. the text of the mailer was entirely unaltered except for one omission: Paladino was gone from the list of attractions.

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Public outcry led them quickly to abandon that plan, but we still have no idea how Chris Collins (about whose ethics you can read more on page 8) voted at that secret conference. Is Collins for or against aggressive, independent ethics oversight of Congress?

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IN WHEATFIELD, WASTE FROM THE INFAMOUS DUMP SITE REMAINS A DANGER TOWN OF WHEATFIELD officials—encouraged

by a lack of urgency among state regulators— have failed to honor their pledge made almost 11 months ago to fence off a toxic landfill deemed a threat to public health.

As a result, nearby residents continue to use the 20-acre landfill to fish, hunt, walk their pets, and ride all-terrain vehicles that dig into the contaminated soils. Nothing warns them of any danger other than a small “No Trespassing” sign at the base of the landfill’s gravel service road off Nash Road.

Investigative Post reported last February that Wheatfield officials and the state Department of Environmental Conservation for decades ignored dangers that the landfill poses and disregarded guidance in 1989 to secure the property with a fence.

Some residents who live near the landfill—many worried if what is buried by their homes is affecting their their health and safety—are outraged with DEC and Wheatfield officials over the lack of urgency.

“I cannot believe that there’s not even a sign saying ‘Do Not Enter: Warning. Danger,’ ” said Sarah Kraus, a Forbes Street resident who battles a host of health problems.

“It’s frustrating and it makes me furious,” she said.

State Senator Robert Ortt, who granted discretionary funds that he controls to cover roughly half the cost to fence off the landfill, said the town should treat the project as an emergency.

“They own the property,” Ortt said. “They need to build it. I can’t go out there and construct it for them.”

TOXIC LEGACY The landfill, which operated from 1964 to 1968, was the subject of constant neighborhood complaints of odors, unsafe conditions and the lack of a fence, according to Niagara County Health Department records.

County health officials allowed the state in 1968 to bury some 80 truck loads of Love Canal waste dug up during the construction of the LaSalle Expressway in Niagara Falls.

Meanwhile, warnings signs observed by neighbors persisted: rusty barrels, exposed garbage and green and orange tinged ponds.

“Our parents bought these houses thinking that their kids were going to grow up in a great neighborhood and a lot of us are sick now,” said Tammy Keller, a neighbor of the landfill from 1974 to 1987.

Nevertheless, the DEC maintained for decades the landfill posed no risk to human health. In fact, state and local officials disregarded recommendations in a 1989 DEC report that called for fencing in the landfill and constructing a cap to cover the contaminated ground to keep toxic chemicals from spreading.

Landfill is a stone’s throw away from homes in City of North Tonawanda and Town of Wheatfield.

In 2015, the DEC had the Love Canal waste exhumed and shipped out of state. The DEC found more contamination in the soil and groundwater, including a thick, dark-brown carcinogenic mixture of benzene, toluene and chlorinated benzenes. Other contaminants include heavy metals and pesticides. That prompted the state to deem the property a Superfund site.

Officials acknowledge that people nevertheless continued to use the property.

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The Wheatfield site that has hosted waste from Love Canal for five decades.

“Dirt bike trails are evident throughout the site and use of such has resulted in landfill materials to become exposed at the surface,” the DEC wrote in a Dec. 21, 2015, public notice. “Therefore, the site represents a significant threat to the environment and public health.”

LACK OF URGENCY Two weeks after Investigative Post’s report, Ortt committed state funds to cover half the cost of fencing in the property. At the same time, Ortt said DEC officials told him privately that a fence is unnecessary.

“I couldn’t disagree more,” he said.

Wheatfield Supervisor Robert Cliffe repeated the DEC’s contention during a recent interview.

“It’s not considered an emergency to get it done today,” Cliffe said.

“We’re doing this because the senator thought it was necessary,” he said.

The DEC refused interview requests, but in a prepared statement said the state Department of Health “indicated the current risk of exposure to contaminants at this site is low, and therefore fencing the property is not necessary at this time.”

In addition, both state agencies “agreed that access control is the responsibility of the property owner and encouraged the property owner to adequately post the property and control trespass.”

Mary DiPota, a neighbor of Kraus on Forbes Street, said state officials are “full of it.”

“They see no emergency?” she said.

“Because the DEC is not working for the people, they are working for the bottom line. The classification was raised and it is just being pushed aside. The chemicals haven’t just magically disappeared.”

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OTHER OBSTACLES Cliffe said there “were a fair number of hurdles to overcome” that have slowed the project. They include obtaining wetland permits and designing around gas and brine pipelines.

“Perhaps most significant is that we are going to be hiring a contractor to work in an area which is known to have hazardous chemicals throughout,” Cliffe wrote in an email.

In addition, Cliffe said the town is wading through the months-long process with the State Dormitory Authority to secure the senator’s funding before the town can complete begin the $152,000 project.

To date, the town has spent less than $4,000 toward work on the fence.

“The town is not dragging its feet,” Cliffe contended.

“We have not considered it enough of an emergency to suspend procedures and just throw it on the backs of Wheatfield taxpayers.”

Meanwhile, DEC officials said they are in talks with three businesses—Textron Inc, Saint-Gobain Corp. and Republic Services—and the Town of Wheatfield about paying for the landfill cleanup.

Dan Telvock is a reporter for Investigative Post, a nonprofit investigative journalism center focused on issues of interest to Western New Yorkers.

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NEWS COMMENTARY

THE AGE OF TRUMP

BY JOSEPH STIGLITZ

RISING INEQUALITY, AN UNFAIR POLITICAL SYSTEM, AND A GOVERNMENT THAT SPOKE FOR THE PEOPLE WHILE ACTING FOR THE ELITES AFTER THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS CREATED IDEAL CONDITIONS FOR A CANDIDATE LIKE DONALD TRUMP. AMERICAN LEADERS WHO HAVE MISMANAGED THE PROCESS OF GLOBALIZATION HAVE ONLY THEMSELVES TO BLAME FOR THE COMING ERA. ON JANUARY 20, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. I would hate to say, “I told you so,” but his election should not have come as a surprise. As I explained in my 2002 book Globalization and its Discontents, the policies we have used to manage globalization have sown the seeds of widespread disaffection. Ironically, a candidate from the same party that has pushed the hardest for international financial and trade integration won by promising to undo both.

Of course, there is no going back. China and India are now integrated into the global economy, and technological innovation is reducing the number of manufacturing jobs worldwide. Trump cannot recreate the well-paying manufacturing jobs of past decades; he can only push for advanced manufacturing, which requires higher skill sets and employs fewer people.

Rising inequality, meanwhile, will continue to contribute to widespread despair, especially among the white voters in Middle America who handed Trump his victory. As the economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton showed in their study published in December 2015, life expectancy among middle-age white Americans is declining, as rates of suicides, drug use, and alcoholism increase. A year later, the National Center for Health Statistics reported that life expectancy for the country as a whole has declined for the first time in more than 20 years.

In the first three years of the so-called recovery after the 2008 financial crisis, 91 percent of the gains went to the top one percent of earners. While Wall Street banks were bailed out with billions of dollars in taxpayer money, homeowners received only a pittance. US President Barack Obama saved not only the banks, but also the bankers, shareholders, and bondholders. His economic-policy team of Wall Street insiders broke the rules of capitalism to save the elite, confirming millions of Americans’ suspicion that the system is, as Trump would say, “rigged.”

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such as climate policy; but with respect to the economy, he bolstered the status quo—the 30-year experiment with neoliberalism, which promised that the benefits of globalization and liberalization would “trickle down” to everyone. Instead, the benefits trickled up, partly owing to a political system that now seems to be based on the principle of “one dollar, one vote,” rather than “one person, one vote.”

Rising inequality, an unfair political system, and a government that spoke as if it was working for the people while acting for the elites created ideal conditions for a candidate like Trump to exploit. Though wealthy, Trump is clearly not a member of the traditional elite, which lent credence to his promise of “real”change.

And yet it will be business as usual under Trump, who will adhere to Republican orthodoxy on taxation and, by appointing lobbyists and industry insiders to his administration, has already broken his promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington, DC. The rest of Trump’s economic agenda will depend largely on whether House Speaker Paul Ryan is a true fiscal conservative.

Trump has proposed that large tax cuts for the rich be combined with massive infrastructure-spending programs, which would boost GDP and improve the government’s fiscal position somewhat, but not nearly as much as advocates of supply-side economics hope. If Ryan is not as concerned about the deficit as he says he is, he will rubberstamp Trump’s agenda, and the economy will receive the Keynesian fiscal stimulus that it has long needed.

Another uncertainty relates to monetary policy. Trump has already spoken out against low interest rates, and there are two vacancies on the US Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Add to that the large numbers of Fed officials itching to normalize rates, and it is a fair bet that they will do so—perhaps more than offsetting Trump’s Keynesian stimulus.

Trump’s pro-growth policies will also be undermined if he exacerbates inequality through his tax proposals, starts a trade war, or abandons America’s commitments to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions (especially if others retaliate with a cross-border tax).

Now that Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress, they will be relatively free to weaken workers’ bargaining power, deregulate Wall Street and other industries, and turn a blind eye to existing antitrust laws—all of which will create more inequality.

If Trump follows through on his campaign threat to impose tariffs on Chinese imports, America’s economy would probably suffer more than China’s. Under the existing World Trade Organization framework, for every “illegal” tariff that the US imposes, China can retaliate anywhere it chooses, such as by using trade restrictions to target jobs in the congressional districts of those who support import barriers.

To be sure, measures against China permitted under the WTO

framework, such as anti-dumping tariffs, may be justified in some areas. But Trump has enunciated no guiding principles for trade policy, and the US—which directly subsidizes its automobile and aircraft industries, and indirectly subsidizes its banks through ultra-low interest rates—would be throwing stones from a glass house. And once this tit-for-tat game begins, it could very well end in the destruction of the open international order created since World War II. Similarly, the international rule of law, which is enforced primarily through economic sanctions, could fare poorly under Trump.

How will the new president respond if Russian-aligned troops escalate the conflict in Eastern Ukraine? America’s real power has always derived from its standing as an inclusive democracy. But people around the world have now lost confidence in democratic processes. Indeed, throughout Africa, I have heard remarks such as, “Trump makes our dictators look good.” As American soft power continues to erode in 2017 and beyond, the future of the international order will become more uncertain.

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party will surely be conducting an election post mortem. Hillary Clinton undeniably lost because she failed to offer voters a convincing vision that was markedly different from the neoliberal agenda that Bill Clinton embraced in the 1990s. Having pursued for more than a generation a political strategy of “triangulation”—adopting versions of its opponents’ policies—the party of the left could no longer present itself as a credible alternative to the party of the right.

The Democrats will have a future only if they reject neoliberalism, and adopt the progressive policies proposed by leaders such as Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Sherrod Brown. This will put them in a strong position against the Republicans, who will have to figure out how to manage a coalition of evangelical Christians, corporate executives, nativists, populists, and isolationists.

With the arrival of Trump, and with both major parties now redefining themselves, the coming year may well be remembered as a turning point in US and world history.

Joseph E. Stiglitz, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979, is University Professor at Columbia University, Co-Chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. A former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and chair of the US president’s Council of Economic Advisers under Bill Clinton, in 2000 he founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. His most recent book is The Euro: How a Common Currency ThreatP ens the Future of Europe.

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LOOKING BACKWARD: WOOD & BROOKS COMPANY The Wood & Brooks Company was once the world’s largest manufacturer of piano keys. In this photograph by Hauser Bob taken from Kenmore Avenue and Ontario Street, Wood & Brooks employees assemble for a Liberty Bonds rally. Each year, the tusks of at least 1,000 slaughtered elephants made their way to the Buffalo plant to be fashioned into ivory piano keys. Ivory had been in use to cover piano keys since the early 1700s, but the barbaric practice—elephants must be killed to extract the tusks—fell into disfavor after the Great Depression.

“New-fangled plastics,” noted a 1954 Buffalo Evening News story, “are even replacing the elephant in one unique Buffalo industry.”

The transition to plastic was “pretty much a price proposition,” according to Charles H. Wood III, grandson of the founder and executive vice president of Wood & Brooks. The United States banned the ivory trade in 1988, with the world following suit one year later.

African elephants—poaching for ivory tusks still thrives in the black market—are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The Wood & Brooks factory complex, located at the Buffalo border in the Town of Tonawanda, still stands.

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Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Three Musicians, 1921. Oil on canvas, 80K x 74V inches (204.5 x 188.3 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art; A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1952. 1952-61-96 © 2016 Succession Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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of Congress drafts legislation that passes and then results in a direct personal financial gain?

I call it "Corruption 101," and it's the stuff that Third World kleptocracies are made of.

Last Thursday, Washington ethics watchdog Public Citizen released a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics and the Securities & Exchange Commission alleging that Republican Representatives Tom Price and Chris Collins (NY-27) may have acted unethically and engaged in possible insider trading.

According to Public Citizen and its analysis of news reports and financial disclosures, Collins is a "prolific trader of health care investments on the stock market." Collins, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, is a board member and the largest shareholder of a major biotech company, Australia’s Innate Immunotherapeutics Limited—a company in which both Price and Collins made major stock purchases within days of each other, according to financial disclosure reports.

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in the company whose board he sits on, and Price followed up with his own major stock purchase in the company two days later,” said Lisa Gilbert, director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division. “The stock value doubled in the three months following their investments. That’s quite good luck. This is worthy of investigation to determine whether any wrongful conduct occurred.”

Price is alleged to have traded more than $300,000 worth of stocks in about 40 healthcare companies while "sponsoring and advocating legislation that could potentially affect" the value of those stocks. The Wall Street Journal says that since 2012, Price sponsored nine and co-sponsored 35 bills in the House that could have resulted in direct, personal financial gain.

In August, Price bought $50,000-$100,000 in Innate Immunotherapeutics stock, the value of which has since doubled.

Price is President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be the director of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Collins is the Trump transition's Congressional liaison. Public Citizen bills itself as "protecting democracy from corporate greed."

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• Does pharmaceutical and health care legislation sponsored by Price and Collins run afoulof conflicts of interest concerns in that the legislation could directly and substantially benefit the lawmakers’ own investments beyond the benefit to the public generally? These legislative vehicles could well produce windfall profits for Price and Collins.

The Wall Street Journal adds: Innate Immuno’s chief executive, Simon Wilkerson, said at investor presentations this year that its future depends on an experimental drug to treat an advanced form of multiple sclerosis, which is currently in clinical trials.

One law enacted this month that could benefit Innate Immuno is the 21st Century Cures Act, which authorizes spending $6.3 billion for medical research, including $500 million for the FDA to speed up drug approvals.

A key provision that would permit clinical trials of new medical treatments to proceed more quickly was written by Mr. Collins as a member of the health panel of the Energy and Commerce Committee... ...[Collins told the Buffalo News that] his authorship of legislation wasn’t a conflict of interest, but rather an instance of bringing his business knowledge to the Congress.

A spokesman for Mr. Collins said he used his business experience and meetings with patients and regulators to write legislation that “will put patients first and get cures more quickly to those who need them most.” The statement added that Mr. Collins “has followed all ethical guidelines related to his personal finances.”

Both Mr. Price and Mr. Collins voted yes for the bill’s final House vote in November, just three months after they bought more stock in the company.

These patterns of extensive trading activity in businesses and industries that Reps. Price and Collins oversee in their official capacity, and the beneficial timing of these trades, raise legitimate questions concerning both potential insider trading and conflicts of interest. Some of these questions include:

In August 2015, Collins bought between $500,000 and $1 million worth—four million shares—of Innate Immuno stock. Collins was an author of a law that has a direct positive benefit on that investment and Collins' wealth, but dismissed these concerns to the Buffalo News. The value of that stock doubled after passage of that law. Collins has relentlessly pushed for repeal of a tax on medical devices, which would have a direct benefit on two of his stock holdings.

• Did Price and Collins have access to nonpublic material information accounting for adoubling in value of their investments in Innate Immuno? Collins sits on the board of thecompany, a company which is placing its bets on an experimental drug currently inclinical trials, and both members of Congress made substantial purchases in the company’s stock at almost the same time.

Earlier this week, House Republicans held a secret vote with no advance warning that would have changed congressional rules and effectively abolish the Office of Congressional Ethics.

Public outcry and a Tweet from the President-elect quickly prompted the Republican majority to abandon this first, tone-deaf act of the new Congress. As of this writing, no one P knows how Collins voted.

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AT THE BURCHFIELD PENNEY, AN EXHIBIT AIMS TO LOOK BACKWARD AT 50 YEARS OF TOUCHSTONES IN WESTERN NEW YORK CULTURE THE BIG EXHIBIT at the Burchfield Penney is called Here, and

introductory wall copy talks about “the culture of the New Buffalo.” Sounds like it’s going to be about the current touted—in general, but especially by the politicians and developers—Buffalo renaissance. But no. About something more real and interesting. The ferment the current culture and renaissance grew out of.

About people more than construction development.

Some paintings, a few sculptures, but mostly photos, from news photos to art photos to the kind of snapshots a generation later nobody knows who is in the picture unless somebody took the trouble—which wasn’t necessary at the time, everybody knew—to write the name or names on the back. A segment of the exhibit consists of a few boxes of such snapshots or school picture-day photos—without names on the back—and visitors are asked to comment on the photos, on the person or persons depicted. Some funny comments: “I wish I could give the guy on the right my number…he’s a total hunk.” Some serious: “This photo—like all the rest in the box—suggests that people of color do not live in Western New York.”

True enough about the photos in the boxes. Overwhelmingly— the day I visited—of white subjects. But untrue of the rest of the exhibit, which attempts to indicate—or at least not ignore—the contributions of people of color to the ferment.

Right next to the pictures for comment, some photos by Milton Rogovin. A little black girl from his “East Side” series. A family in old country garb from his “Yemeni” series. Four photos of two black men—old buddies—in various informal settings and poses. And a sequence about a possibly Puerto Rican family over the years, the decades. Members come and go.

Plus several long bench vitrines of pictures—albeit without captions—from the black community Challenger newspaper.

The lion’s share of the captioned and attributed photos are by a handful of professional photographers. Former Courier-Express photographers Mickey Osterreicher and Paul Pasquarello. Freelance photographer Brendan Bannon. And David Moog.

Some Mickey Osterreicher fire scene photos and sports photos from happier sports times. The Braves’ elegant, efficient scorer Bob McAdoo and the Pistons’ stalwart Bob Lanier in a tangle on the Aud floor, the referee leaping high to avoid getting tangled with them, and simultaneously calling a jump ball. The Sabres’ Gil Perrault on the ice against the Canadiens. A posed photo of OJ Simpson and son Jordan, then about six or seven. OJ holding the ball as if for a place kick by Jordan, lining up to drill it through the uprights.

Brendan Bannon’s tower perspective urban high school athletic field panorama entitled Refugee Soccer Team at International Prep / Grover Cleveland High School; one of his lakeshore arctic tundra photos; and some darkness and shadows portraits of age and experience, from odd perspectives, and radically cropped.

Paul Pasquarello’s magnificent portrait of an unnamed Native American unconcernedly approaching the end of the trail, chomping his cigar, called simply Tuscarora. The equivalent of one of anthropologist photographer Edward S. Curtis’ iconic historical photos of American Indians.

About 50 photos here and there around the gallery from David Moog’s Artists Seen documentary project at the Burchfield

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Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is? through Jan 29. Picasso: The

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Penney. Including David Schulz looking maleficent. Nancy Parisi looking noir seditious. Shirley Sarmiento perseverant, with great dignity.

Some other notable photos along the way. Patricia Laymon Bazelon’s grain elevators and railroad track along Ganson Street.

Fred Scruton’s mutual support sense red brick Segunda Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal “Sion” and contiguous Sam’s Happy Hour gin mill in baby blue. Mark Bizub’s photo of the Darwin Martin House before the lengthy restoration project as incipient ruins.

The Challenger photos depict various community events and cel-

Artist and His Models through Feb 19, 2017. Claudia Joskowicz: Every Building on Avenida Alfonso Ugarte— After Ruscha, on view through Feb 5, 2017. Stop If You’ve Heard This One Before: humor and satire from the collection, through Mar 19. Matt Hoyt: Recent Past, 2010–2016, through Feb 5, 2017. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm.

Amy’s Place Restaurant (University Heights Arts Association) (3234 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 716833-6260, uhartsgroup.com/amysplace): Every day: 7am-9pm.

Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue,

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ebrations, and numerous great and famous figures, presumably on visits to Buffalo. Eddie Murphy and Rick James, Jessie Jackson, Martin Luther King. And an urban blank wall with crude graffiti letters spelling out “White Power” and “Rise.”

Buffalo, NY 14209, wnyag.com): Notable Artists of Western New York 1, on view through Feb 3. Included artists: Edward G. Bisone, Jeanette Blair, Robert Blair, Harold Dodge, Hal English, Fred Fielding, Walter Garver, Sherwin Greenberg, Donald Haug, Joyce Hill, Arthur Lindberg, Dorothy Markert, Andrew Sanders, Diana Slatin, Raleigh Spinks, Sean Witucki, and Mark Zahm. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm.

Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag. com): Western New York Artists

The exhibit pièce de résistance is Mickey Osterreicher’s photo of Bobby Jackson, the black young man who on October 22, 1976, either leapt or fell—or maybe was pushed—from the observation deck of City Hall, and mid-fall was impaled on the building main flagpole, where he remained for hours while firemen worked to cut and lower the pole in order to remove his corpse.

The photo shows corpse and blood-stained shambles of American flag before the pole could be cut and lowered. This photo was never published, in the Courier or anywhere else.

Adjacent wall copy notes that “to this day, Jackson’s family still attempts to understand what led to his death. Some people assert that it was not a suicide but an accident or an act of foul play. At this point we will never know the truth.” (From what I have heard and read of the matter over the years, I think he was pushed.)

“Here” continues through February 26.

Group Annual Non-Juried Members Exhibition on view Jan 6 through Feb 3. Opening reception Sat Jan 14, 12-2pm. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm.

Ashker’s on Elmwood (1002 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886 -2233, ashkersbuffalo.com): Beforest Garden Design and WNY Permaculture presents The Year 2016 According to Trees: Art as an Additional Yield of Regenerative Ecology. Opening reception Fri Jan 13, 7-9 pm, on view Jan 1-30. Mon-Sat 7am10pm, Sun 9am-5pm.

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Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Artist to Artist, paintings

by Robert and Jeanette Blair, Ray Bonilla, Tricia Butski, Charles Burchfield and Alberto Rey. Man of Extremes: paintings by Wes Olmstead. ThuSat 11am-5pm.

Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-

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PATTI AMBROGI Patti Ambrogi is a photographer and an associate professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). She holds an MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. It often looks beneath the surface of official stories and received histories, and toward the discovery of the social, economic, and political processes that shape the roles and relationships of women, power, art, and media. She says, “I think of my process as…a liberatory project, a project about unmooring and looking seriously at our world with a visual playfulness.” For more information, visit pattiambrogiphotography.com or burchfieldpenney.org.

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by Zack Boehler. Fri-Sun 126pm.

BOX Gallery (667 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203): Trussed; an installation/performance piece by Dana McKnight. On view through Jan 31. Open 4-10pm daily.

BT&C Gallery (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, btandcgallery. com): Fri 12-7pm select Sat 124pm, or by appointment.

Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio. org): Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm.

Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8588900, buffalolib.org): Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare: Reflecting on the Life

of the Bard. Milestones on Science: Books That Shook the World! 35 rare books from the history of science, on second floor. Mon-Sat 8:30am6:00pm, Sun 12-5pm.

Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 8786011, burchfieldpenney.org): M&T Second Friday Jan 13 10am-8pm. Jozef Bajus: Nothing Is Going Away through Jan 29, 2017. Babs Reingold: The Last Tree through Feb 26, 2017. Artists Seen: photographs of contemporary artists by David Moog. Here!, local history through art through Feb 26; The First Exhibition: 50 Years with Charles E. Burchfield on view through Mar 26; Charles Cary Rumsey: Success in the Gatsby Era through Jun 25. 10am5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free.

Castellani Art Museum (5795

Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 2868200, castellaniartmuseum. org): Gisela Colón: Glo-Pods, through Feb 12. Tue-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

Daily Planet Coffee Company (1862 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, 716- 551-0661): Jeremy Pratt: I Will Not Be Broken. On view through Feb 5.

Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com): The Old and the New: 180 Years of Painting and the Arts. Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am4pm.

Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com): William C. Maggio: The Other Side. On view through Jan 14. Fri & Sat 11am-4pm or by appointment.

El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org):Town Wall, an interactive response forum to 2016, see website for details.

On view through Jan 28. TueSat 12-5pm.

Gallery 164 (164 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201): Buffalo Benches Project, and exhibition and fundraiser of work by students in the UB Small Built Works Program, under the tutelage of Brad Wales. Working with the Old First Ward Community Center, the students aim to design, fabricate, and install more than 20 artistic public benches throughout the First Ward neighborhood.

Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 8541694, hallwalls.org): Amid/In WNY Epilogue: Bruce Adams, Dennis Bertram, Brita d’Agostino, Patrick Foran, Andy Krzystek, Rosemary Lyons, Alicia Malik, Mizin Shin, J. Eric Simpson, and Patrick Willett. On view through Feb 24. Opening reception, Fri Jan 13, 8-11pm. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm.

Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. On view through Apr 26. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Za Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am4pm. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Special winter Feature by John Rummell (18611942): on view Jan 7-Feb 4. TueSat 9:30am-5:30pm.Native American Museum of Art at Smokin’ Joe’s (2293 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, NY 14123, 261-9251) Open year-round and free. Exhibits Iroquois artists work. 7am-9pm.Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 2827530, thenacc.org): Violet Gordon’s art, artists, and friends

exhibition on view through Jan 22. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm.

Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-6523270, norbergsartandframe. com): Local artists: Kathleen West, Bradley Widman, Peter Potter, and Miranda Roth. TueSat 10am–5pm.

Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Group show featuring local artists and craftsmen through Jan 31. WedFri, 12-7pm (until 9pm on first Fridays), Sat & Sun 12-5pm.

Pine Apple Company (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716275-3648, squareup.com/store/ pine-apple-company): Work for sale by Thomas James Holt, Yames Moffitt, Esther Neisen, Mickey Harmon, Mike West, and Sarah Liddell. Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am11pm, Sun 10am-5pm.

Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8688183, queencitygallery.tripod. com): Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, John Farallo, Chris McGee, Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Leibel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, Kisha Patterson, Lindsay Stong, Michael Mulley. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment.

Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Between theh Gates: Timothy Patrick Butler, Chris Buzelli, Steven Daily, Caitlin Karolczak, Greg Kuppinger, Craig LaRotonda, Maria Pabico LaRotonda, Dave MacDowell, Daniel “MythCity” Marcil, Dustin Myers, Kevin Peterson, Cate Rangel, Krystopher Sapp, and Joe Vollan. On view through Feb 4.

Sports Focus Physical Therapy (531 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202, 332-4838, sportsfocuspt.com): Jill Gustafson

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On view through Feb 28. MonFri 9am-5pm, 6-9pm on first Fridays.

Spot Coffee (765 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222): Abstract work by Stephen Coppola.

Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky. org): Soft Science: Science Fictions by Kathy High on view through Jan 10, 2017. TueSat, 12pm-5pm.

Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio. org): Mathew Sharp, John Giangreco, Daniel Maysonet. MonFri 9-4pm.

Studio Hart (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 536-8337, studiohart.com): Sail Away, group show of work by Peter Fowler, Barbara Hart, Daniel Hart, and Dale Schwalenberg. Tue-Fri 11:30am-3:30pm, Sat 12-4pm, and open every First Friday 6-9pm.

Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Leaving Something Behind: Art Installation by Aimee Buyea. Open by event and on Fri 5:30-7:30.

UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries.org): Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

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FRIDAY JAN 13 Canalside Chillabration 5pm Canalside, 44 Prime St.

PIECES “pieces 1” single Recommended if you like: The Magnetic Fields, Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder

A new project from Bill Nehill and Edhallborg, pieces has released new material. The record, utilitarianly titled pieces 1, is nine tracks of synth wave pop that seems equally as influenced by Kraftwerk as it is the Magnetic Fields. Highlights include album opener “sun,” which seems to genuinely channel Stephin Merritt, mechanical electronic pop track “letterburn,” and the driving proto-techno of “body decontrol/ mind of holy birth.” Fifty copies of the album will be pressed onto high quality chrome cassettes.

ULTRAMAN X: THE MOVIE THURSDAY JAN 12 7PM / THE SCREENING ROOM, BOULEVARD MALL, 1265 NIAGARA FALLS BLVD (SUITE 207) / $10 [SCREENING] If you were a Buffalo kid in the early 1970s, chances are you rushed through dinner on weeknights so as to get to the TV in time for Ultraman, a presentation of the then-new channel 29. (Today’s youngsters cannot imagine how exciting it was to have a new TV channel, at a time when the choices were the three network affiliates, public television, a few Canadian channels if you were lucky, and a lot of static.) A dubbed Japanese import from the mid-1960s, Ultraman offered all of what kids loved about Godzilla movies—guys in rubber suits clumsily wrestling amid cardboard and plaster buildings, atrociously dubbed English dialogue whose relation to the mouth movements of the actors was arbitrary at best—in a 30-minute format which meant minimal annoying plot to get in the way of the monster fights.

The original series only ran for 39 episodes and has been hard to find in the US in the intervening decades (though you can see all the episodes for free at www.shoutfactorytv.com/series/ultraman), but in Japan Ultraman appeared in dozens of other spin-off shows and movies. Two recent films made for the character’s 50th anniversary, Ultraman X: The Movie and Ultraman Ginga S: The Movie-Showdown, will be showing at the Screening Room over the next week—Thursday at 7pm, Friday at 6:30pm, Saturday at 2pm, and then next week Tuesday and Thursday at 7pm. The production values are higher and the English dubbing is better, and you’ve probably been meaning to check out the Screening Room’s new location in the Boulevard Mall anyway. -M. FAUST

[FESTIVAL] Canalside has whipped up a solid line up of festivities for their Chillabration winter festival. The all ages festival will include a petting zoo, a Native American snow snake, ice sculptures, amusement rides, fire dancing, on-ice performances, a vendor market, and live music. The four-day festival, this Thursday, January 13 through Monday, January 16 will also host a “dinosaur skate” on Friday, a four-on-four hockey tournament on Saturday, special ice-skating activities on Monday, and a musical performance by Empress & the Royals at 5pm.

-THE PUBLIC STAFF

Standup for Planned Parenthood 7pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $12

[BENEFIT] Do you stand with Planned Parenthood? These folks do, and they're asking you to come out for a night of hilarious local standup while supporting that great cause at a time when it could really use the help. It's another installation of the Zach Dietsch-hosted series Laugh and Other Drugs this Friday, January 13 at Babeville's 9th Ward, featuring Andrea Springer, RJ Purpura, Malcolm Whitfield, Nicky Spin, Cody Colin Chase, Allie Brady, and everyone's fave record store dude, Phil Machemer. It's music to our ears to hear these showcases have been packed—don't let the crap weather stop you from selling this one out as well. Doors are at 7pm, hilarity begins at 8pm. -CJT

Shining Star: A Tribute to Earth, Wind and Fire 8pm Seneca Niagara Bear's Den, 310 4th St $25

TJ ZINDLE Hold On With All Your Might album Recommended if you like: John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Ed Sheeran

Former Last Conservative frontman Tj Zindle has recently released a new full-length album.

The record, titled Hold on with All Your Might, is a power-pop record that runs 11 tracks long. The record moves from straight on pop music to country tinged rock on songs like “Nine Volt Brain” and into Led Zeppelin-esque rock on songs like “You Have it Coming.” The album is available now on iTunes.

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[TRIBUTE] Given Earth Wind and Fire’s epic sound—the expanded rhythm section, the brass, the high-harmony falsetto singing— paying tribute to the legendary R&B outift seems like a task that might be better left alone. But Chicago-based 11-piece Shining Star does a bang-up job, as they’ll surely prove when they play at the Bear’s Den in the Seneca Niagara Casino on Friday, January 13. Led by singer/guitarist Al Bullitt, Shining Star is comprised of seasoned musicians that have toured with the likes of KoKo Taylor, Buddy Guy, and Mavis Staples. -CJT

SATURDAY JAN 14 The Pietasters 8pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $20

[SKA] The Pietasters are famously all over the punk spectrum when it comes to their sound. The eight-piece band from Washington, DC, which formed in the early 1990s, has always been able to attract the punks, the skankers, the mods, and even some hardcore fans. The classic ska band will hopefully unite the punk scene under one roof this Saturday, January 14 when they come to Buffalo Iron Works with the Abruptors. -CP

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6PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. / $5-$8 [INDIE] Filled with the lo-fi piss and vinegar of early Black Keys, but shot through with something even less orderly and restrained, the Falling Birds teeter on the thin wire between gritty electric blues and garage punk. It’s an inexact balancing act that allows the duo room to occasionally veer off into some folksy prettiness without sacrificing the fury and snarl that caught your attention on “Sweet Things That Kill,” the lead single and first track on last year’s ‘Til We All Fall Down EP, which was recorded in their New York City basement. Arriving at Mohawk Place on Thursday, January 12, Stephen Artemis (vocals, guitar, harmonica) and Dave Alan (drums, percussion, and keys) will likely play some tunes from the forthcoming new EP, What Is There to Talk About, which sees an official release on February 17. If the current single, “Anything Worse” is any indication, the material might boast some tighter harmonies, but they’ve retained the fuzz-factor and punchy delivery. Either way, it’s always refreshing to discover new bands that don’t seem terribly interested in super tidy production. The Falling Birds are joined by local trio Chester Copperpot, Crooked Gener8ion, This, Echota, and Soldiers for Higher. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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FTMP Events Presents: Poetry Slam for Saving LGBTQ Lives

5PM ◆ FREE!

“30% of LGBTQ YOUTH TRY TO DIE: HERE IS WHY: NOT.”

Featuring Poetic Performances By: Michael Manning, Brandon Williamson, Bianca L. McGraw, Marek Parker, David Butler, Al Montgomery, Jonathan Herr, Seth Tyler Black, Jazz the Ripper, ETC., Lissa, Blanche Harling, Skyler Jaye, Meg Specksgoor, Tom Dreitlein, & Ten Thousand All profits are being donated to The Pride Center of WNY 8PM ◆ $5

CHRIS TRAPPER THU 3/16 $18 ADVANCE

◆ SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 ◆ early show

One Way to Nowhere, JOHN MARCINIAK 4PM ◆ $5

Brassband, Dixieland, Americana & Burlesque 4: Folkfaces, The Fredtown Stompers, Ten Cent Howl w/ the Buffalo Brass Machine, The Stripteasers Burlesque 8PM ◆ $10 W/ NON-PERISHABLE FOOD DONATION/$15 WITHOUT

DAN ANDRIANO & MATT PRYOR USS SATURDAY JAN 14 8PM / RAPIDS THEATRE, 1711 MAIN ST. / $20 [ELECTRONIC] A visit by electronic rock band Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker, better known as USS, to the Rapids Theatre has become an annual custom. The Toronto-based band returns on Saturday, January 14 for a show in support of their new record New World Alphabet, which drops the day before the show. Which means that fans in Western New York will be among the first to react in person to the band’s latest outing, eight songs including their latest singles “Us” and “Work Shoes.” In November, the duo, guitarist and vocalist Ash Boo-Schultz and turntablist/instrumentalist known only as Human Kebab, played six straight sold-out shows in Toronto in anticipation of their new record, and if history is any lesson, this one might be under threat of a sell-out too.

-CORY PERLA

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Ritual Walk Return Show + Exham Priory, Mojo Stone, God’s Creatures, The Rangeclips, The Cage Kings

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Vermin Supreme + Rob Potylo, THE BLOODTHIRSTY VEGANS 8PM ◆ $8 ADVANCE/$10 DAY OF SHOW

◆ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 ◆ Melodic punk rock from Burlington, Vermont

Suburban Samurai +The Same Sun, Arcadia 8PM ◆ $5

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the Sabbath-influenced sounds of Malarchuk alongside considerably heavier sludge from Dirt War. Also on hand will be the more complex and proggy tones of the Tines, and some straightforward, edgy rock from Governess, (gotta love a band with a track called “Thundertits”). Even if you prefer your music with more pop fluff than any of these bands have to offer, there’s just no denying: they all play impressively. Treat yourself. -CJT

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8pm Pausa Art House, 19 Wadsworth St. $5-$7

[JAZZ] Wife and husband duo Carina and the Six String Preacher are keeping the Buffalo’s jazz scene fresh with their latest record Why You So Wild, Crocodile. Their influences seem limitless, from 1960s jazz to indie surf rock, creating a unique sonic vibe in concert. They’ll play the Pausa Art House on Saturday, January 14. -CP

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11

OUT FOR BUSINESS

Continental Drifft, paris_monster, Spacey Stacey, and PizzaDoughnuts

5-7:30pm at Rust Belt Bar and Grill, 3720 Lake Shore Rd, Blasdell

10pm Nietzsche's, 248 Allen St. $5

Buffalo’s premiere LGBT professionals networking event, open to folks from all job sectors, career paths, and levels of experience. Enjoy a relaxed atmosphere with food, drinks and raffles. The first 50 people to arrive get a drink on the house.

[EXPERIMENTAL] If you’re looking for some experimental music this weekend, head over to Nietzsche’s this Saturday, January 14.

The venue hosts four talented acts including experimental garage act paris_monster, Rochester acid rock gurus Continental Drifft, improv trio Spacey Stacey, and [insert high-pitched dinosaur noises here] PizzaDoughnuts. -CP

FRIDAY, JANUARY 13

Party with the Animals 10pm The Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $15

POLYAMOROUS MEETUP 8pm-12am at Dreamland, 387 Franklin St.

A chill zone for polyamorous and poly-curious folks to meet, network, drink delicious warm beverages and chat with other likeminded people about their poly experiences within a cemented radical sex-positive atmosphere. Brink food, drink and merriment!​

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14

BUFFALO GAY BINGO 6-9pm at AmVets Medallion Post 13, 25 Review Pl.

This ain’t your grandmother’s bingo! Play starts at 7pm, hosted

by Patsy DeCline. Open seating with pizza, pop and snacks for purchase. The AmVets post bar will be open before the games.

Discounted packets with every game but one, including specials, are $20; O-69 Tic-Tac-Toe is $1 per board. Admission: $5, all proceeds benefiting AIDS Plus Fund of WNY.

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BRASSBAND, DIXIELAND, AMERICANA, & BURLESQUE IV SATURDAY JAN 14 9PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. / $10-$15 [BURLESQUE] Live music and dance is an age-old tradition; it is the heartbeat of humanity, the voice of the people in sweet revelry. Burlesque is protest theatre, twirling tassels for social change, never afraid to touch on the most pertinent political commentary. Burlesque empowers people of all gender identities, ages, and body types to speak up and be proud. For one night only we transform Mohawk Place into a scene from the Palace Burlesk, downtown Buffalo’s most infamous dance hall for more than 50 years.

There is nothing quite as openly lusty and exhilarating as bumping and grinding to a live, in-theflesh, sweating, screaming, and hearts-beating band! The drums changing the way your own heart palpitates, the strumming of the upright bass (its smooth shape mimicking the beauty of a woman’s curves), ivories being tickled by skilled fingertips, a saxophone leading the twists and curves of gyrating hips, baby got brass, the trumpet pumps it up, a washboard going right down your spine, the rhythmic ruckus of a guitar being strummed, and a voice with such passion and power it could make you cry (or take your clothes off ). ​Fringe swaying, booties shaking, heeled shoes tapping, tassels twirling, breasts revolving, hair tousled, arms flailing flawlessly, entangled bodies moving to the rhythm of the moment. The chemistry between live musicians and dancers is probably the most magical thing that has ever existed. Put on your dancing shoes and spin the girl already!

Music by the Folkfaces, Fredtown Stompers, 12/8 Path Band, and Ten Cent Howl with Buffalo Brass Machine. The Stripteasers burlesque featuring special guest star Juicy Lucy will be bumping and grinding throughout the night with each band. Photographer and performance artist Brandon Perdomo will have his magic photo booth. To top off this full blown art party there will be live painting by Cody Hughes and Tara Sasiadek. Costumes encouraged, so let's get fancy!

Join us Saturday, January 14 at Mohawk Place. Doors at 9pm. $10 with a delicious non-perishable donation for Friends of Night People $15 without. Scarves, hats, gloves, and winter coats will also be accepted. Even though it will be a hot night to remember we cannot forget those who are less formate during this frigid time of year. See you there! -CAT MCCARTHY

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Things get going at 10pm for this Hematone Productions shindig at The Waiting Room this Saturday, January 14, which invites you to coax your inner animal out to play for a mere $15.

Come dressed as your favorite member of the animal kingdom and writhe to the live DJ alongside the Hem-tome cage dancers. Ms. Ginger Applebottems will provide a special performance, and there's a $50 gift certificate from Third Eye Tattoo that'll go to the best outfit. Attendees are encouraged to party like extinction is imminent. -CJT

TUESDAY JAN 17 The Horszowski Trio 8pm Kleinhans Music Hall, 3 Symphony Circle $25

[CLASSICAL] Taking their name from the Polish-American pianist, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, the Horszowski Trio aim down the same path that the pianist, who died at the age of 101, did. Violinist Jesse Mills, cellist Raman Ramakrishnan, and pianist Rieko Aizawa will play pieces by Beethoven, Wuorinen, and Medelssohn, pieces that no doubt fascinated the original Horszowski, when the trio comes to Kleinhans Music Hall on Tuesday, January 17. -CP

WEDNESDAY JAN 18 Davina Sowers and the Vagabonds 8pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $10

BUFFALO GENDER WARRIORS 7-10pm at No Labels Clothing Cooperative, 224 Allen St.

A monthly meet-up and open discussion group for Buffalo’s gender diverse and Western New York’s gender warriors and revolutionaries.

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StarWars Cantina Party: A Dreamland Fundraiser 7pm Dreamland, 387 Franklin St. Suggested donation $5-$20

[PARTY] Dreamland transforms into the Mos Eisley Cantina on Tatooine for one night. DJ Kylo Ron will provide the tunes, perhaps some cuts by Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes, while the folks at Dreamland provide the “crazy atmosphere.” The party happens

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this Saturday, January 14. Funds generated at the party go to help cover the cost of a new PA system at Dreamland. Star Wars or general sci-fi costumes are encouraged. -CP

Malarchuk, Dirt War, Governess, and The Tines 7pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $7

[ROCK] On Saturday, January 14, the Tralf Music Hall opens its doors for a lineup of metal-tinged local indie goodness, featuring

[ROCK] I wouldn’t call Davina Sowers and the Vagabonds a throwback act necessarily—their original music has enough contemporary flair—but their influences are obvious, from Fats Domino to Janis Joplin. Front gal Davina has also gained comparisons to Lady Gaga and Amy Winehouse, but the band also prides themselves on being able to cover music from the past 100 years in America.

Get a little bit of old and new with Davina Sowers and the Vagabonds when they come to Buffalo Iron Works on Wednesday, January 18. -TPS

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No Illusions, Jungle Steve & the Gypsophelias 9PM $5

ON PEACH: “Memento Mori,” a poem by Geoffrey Gatza, the editor and publisher of local press BlazeVOX, was featured on Peach last week. With its title translating to “a reminder of death,” this poem of Gatza’s seems to recount a last afternoon, relishing in the simplicities of the world inhabited by its speaker. The line, “As if all dreams were possible in the vastness,” is haunting.

Yesterday we featured Seattle-based poet Angie Sijun Lou’s gorgeous poem, “You keep me up at night.”

Reading like a hopeful and intimate conversation between lovers, the primary speaker recounts their life and relationship, interjecting “you” with time stamped text messages.

“You keep me up at night cause you can’t/ stop talking. We lay our bodies down &/ your anxiety rots like fruit/ on the vine—/ you (2:58 am): ‘can i just say one last thing & then i’ll be done. just one last thing i swear.’”

IN PRINT: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (novel)

by Alexandra Kleeman Harper Perennial, 304 pages Alexandra Kleeman’s debut novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, is a whirlwind of the strange, and was by far my favorite novel of 2016. Equally absurd and intelligent, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine is a story about the mundanities within the lives of nameless characters A, B, and C. Weaved within the narrative are introspections on body image and the effects of marketing, advertising, and obsessive consumption on young women in today’s world.

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GIGANTOSAURUS REX, Brownman Ali, RADARADA 10PM $8

8PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. / $8-$10 [PERFORMANCE ART] “A perennial joke candidate who wears a boot on his head has received more votes in the New Hampshire primary than former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore,” reads a headline from the New York Daily News. That “joke candidate” is Vermin Supreme—the performance artist, activist, prankster, wannabe meme, and ever present political candidate. His policies include passing a law requiring people to brush their teeth, increased zombie apocalypse prep, time travel research, and a free pony for every American. On paper his live show might not seem like much: he does songs to a backing iPod and video track, he does a campaign speech, he reads from his new book iPony, and gets the crowd involved with a Q&A, but we can ensure you it will be much weirder than it sounds. Vermin Supreme comes to Mohawk Place on Monday, January 16 with support from musical comedian Rob Potylo. -CORY PERLA

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“Peach Picks” is a new column of literary news and recommendations written by the editors of Peach Mag, an online literary magazine based in Buffalo, New York. For inquiries, contact Rachelle at peachmgzn@gmail.com.

9PM $5

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Metatron Press, 68 pages Frankie Barnet’s short story, “A Plot of Ocean,” was the second feature ever on our site and a hit when she read it at our launch party in August, which doubled for Barnet as a stop on her book tour for her debut collection of stories, An Indoor Kind of Girl.

“A Plot of Ocean” is the last piece in this beautiful collection out from Metatron Press, and as a unanimous favorite among the three of us, was chosen as our fourth and final Pushcart Prize nominee. In this story, central character Angela travels to Australia and is confronted by the baby she “didn’t keep.” Clever and playful, this magically realist short story is a must-read.

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EVERY WEDNESDAY FREE 6PM. TYLER WESTCOTT & DR. JAZZ

7PM / BUFFALO IRON WORKS, 49 ILLINOIS ST. / $20-$25 [HIP HOP] Back in the game after waiting 10 years between studio albums, hip hop duo Blackalicious have refreshed their two decade long career. Their latest, 2015’s Imani Vol. 1 is a groovy powerhouse of a record that relies as much on producer Chief Xcel’s beat-crafting mastery as it does on Gift of Gab’s skillful flow and lyrical gymnastics. On previous records, the duo have worked with talents including DJ Shadow, Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine, and Cut Chemist, but on this one they stick mostly to their own guns, with the occasional feature from vocalist Imani Francesca Coppola. Where their seminal album, Blazing Arrows could be categorized as epic, Imani Vol. 1 is subtler, and by virtue of its title promises more, perhaps sooner, from the underground alt rap duo. Blackalicious comes to Buffalo Iron Works on Tuesday, January 17 with support P from Lushlife -CORY PERLA

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BUFFALO RIVERWORKS BREWERY

BY TIM FENSTER

COSTS BE DAMNED, A WORKING BREWERY INHABITS GRAIN SILOS CONSIDERING THAT BUFFALO is the birthplace of the grain

elevator and home to the world’s largest collection of them, the upcoming brewery at Buffalo RiverWorks could hardly be more fitting.

The brewing operation, which is expected to open by next spring, will be housed entirely in six grain silos that were recently painted to resemble a six pack of Labatt Blue, known colloquially as the silo six-pack.

“It’s the only brewery that’s been built into a grain silo in the world,” said Chris Herr, chief brewer for the Pearl Street Grill & Brewery’s operations, which includes the Pan-American Grill & Brewery in the Hotel Lafayette and the large RiverWorks site. Unsurprisingly, converting six, 21-foot-wide silos—made of rebar-reinforced, hardened concrete—into a brewery is no easy feat. Work has been underway there since March, and has hit several delays.

“Everything in this is custom made and custom cut, which in the world of construction just means slow and expensive,” Herr said.

In some places, contractors had to cut through several feet of concrete to open holes for doorways and running wires and lines.

For doorways, contractors used a diamond-encrusted wire saw, which they ran through holes drilled into the concrete. For other cuts, they used a gas-powered concrete saw.

“Every time they hit a piece of rebar they would have to change the blade. For some it was as many as six times,” Herr said.

Fitting the equipment into the relatively small space of the silos was another challenge. Crews had to construct second levels throughout to make room.

Meanwhile, equipment like fermentation and storage tanks — which often weigh thousands of pounds — had to be moved into the silos on ground level, hoisted up by chains to the second floor, laid on their sides, slipped into the brewing space and pushed upright. Herr called likened it to the “world’s largest game of Tetris.”

The location of the brewery also required about two total miles of insulated beer lines, with the largest single line coming in at about 300 yards. Work crews installed a system of line chillers to keep the beer cool on its journey from tank to glass.

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21-foot in diameter. Your typical brewery might be in a warehouse, and we’re trying to build it into a grain silo.”

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Herr acknowledges that it would have been far cheaper, faster and easier to construct the brewery in a more traditional space.

But RiverWorks developer Doug Swift, an architect, and Pearl Street group founder and owner Earl Ketry wanted a uniquely Buffalo brewery.

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“I think a big part of it was the cool factor. We wanted it to be a unique facility. And I think the fact that it’s the only brewery built into an existing grain silo,” Herr said.

“A lot of other cities don’t even have grain silos along the waterfront,” he added. “A lot of other cities don’t even know what a grain elevator or a grain silo is. In Buffalo we’re kind of spoiled.”

Once it’s opened, the RiverWorks brewery will offer eight unique beers, including three rotating seasonal selections, as well as Trainwreck Amber Ale, the Pearl Street group’s signature beer. The brewery has an annual production capacity of just over 2,000 barrels, or about 62,000 gallons, but Herr says they are anticipating a production of about 1,500 barrels.

Come spring, patrons will be able to enjoy a beer in the RiverWorks Beer Gardens, an outdoor seating space among the ruins of former grain silos, or on a second floor patio which connects the silos to the main restaurant and event space. One section of the silos has been converted into a bar that opens directly to the Beer Gardens.

Herr is currently working on the beers he will brew to include at the new space. So far he has settled on two, a cream ale and a New England IPA, which debuted at RiverWorks Brew Year’s Eve party.

Chris Herr, chief brewer at Buffalo RiverWorks Brewery.

But craft spirit aficionados should not hold their breaths on the RiverWorks distillery.

Herr said they first want to perfect the brewing operation, which may take months given the unique space and complexity of the operations. All told, it may be a year or more before you can order a RiverWorks cocktail with the restaurant’s signature spirits.

“We want to establish the brewery and the operation here, and get a year of brewing under our belt,” Herr said.

“It’s quite an elaborate operation here, so there’s going to be a lot of kinks to iron out for the first couple months.”

The future RiverWorks distillery will not be alone there. The neighborhoods near the First Ward already boast Lockhouse Distillery, and sometime next year, will add the Barrel Factory.

From then on, the beers will be available at Pan American Grill and Pearl Street as seasonal selections, and at RiverWorks until it runs out.

Altogether, it’s part of a remarkably rapid resurgence of an area that seemed to have seen it’s best days decades ago. Recent years have seen a surge in new restaurants, breweries and distilleries and apartments along the Buffalo River, as developers hope to take advantage of an influx of activity, particularly during the summer months.

Herr hopes that the soft release will build anticipation and help them perfect the recipe before the RiverWorks brewery is up and running.

Herr said they hope to keep that momentum going at RiverWorks, by bringing larger events and national touring acts to the riverfront.

“Anytime we brew a new beer we’re always looking for feedback,” he said.

“It’s kind of incredible when you sit here at lunchtime on a Tuesday and you can watch 300 people in kayaks or boats moseying on down the Buffalo River. It’s just something that didn’t happen five years ago, two years ago even. It’s been really exciting to be part of the growth and part of the culture that’s being formed P downtown on the waterfront.”

The silo space will also house a distillery that—like the brewery—will be served primarily in-house. Herr plans to begin with vodkas and gins, and perhaps eventually produce rums and whiskeys as well.

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FILM REVIEW

Liam Neeson in Silence.

Isabelle Huppert in Elle.

FAITH NO MORE SILENCE / ELLE / PATRIOTS DAY / LIVE BY NIGHT

BY M. FAUST SO MANY MOVIES, so little space…

As a filmmaker, Martin Scorsese has two sides: the entertainer who makes bravura, sometimes ostentatious spectacles about outsized characters, and the arthouse fan who emulates the great European directors of the 1950s and 1960s that he grew up watching.

While these two sides aren’t mutually exclusive, Silence is wholly in the latter camp. That it will be showing in mainstream multiplexes speaks party to his clout with a major studio (Paramount), and partly (I think) to that studio’s hopes that it can cash in on the market for independently-financed Christian movies that have been doing well in chain theaters in recent years.

The film is based on the 1966 novel by Shūsaku Endō, which Scorsese discovered while dealing with the difficult reception of The Last Temptation of Christ. The novel takes place in Japan in the mid 17th century, when the feudal rulers were working to stamp out Christianity. Along with torture and murder, their tactics including getting missionary priests to publically renounce the faith, or “apostatize.” Following a report that prominent Portugeuse missionary Father Ferreira (Liam Neeson) has apostatized, two young priests, Father Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) and Father Garrpe (Adam Driver) head for Japan to investigate.

Their journey is hard, and their arrival harder, as they are asked to minister to dirt-poor Christians who have gone underground.

Eventually Rodrigues is captured and subjected to the same pressures to renounce. As he witnesses the torture of others, he is tormented internally by the silence of God, who permits these things to happen.

That Scorsese has been trying for thirty years to film this story speaks to what the project means to him. Yet sitting through its two hours and forty minutes, I often felt that the material had become too familiar to him and his co-screen writer Jay Cocks.

There is little historical context, reducing many of the Japanese characters to an unfortunate, brutal stereotype. And too much of

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

BY M. FAUST & GEORGE SAX

OPENING THIS WEEK THE BYE BYE MAN—Horror movie that I probably wouldn’t bother mentioning other than that the cast list includes Faye Dunaway as the “Widow Redmon.” Directed by Stacy Title (Hood of Horror). Area theaters LIVE BY NIGHT—Ben Affleck, whose directorial debut was adapted from Dennis Lehane’s Gone Baby Gone, returns to Lehane for this gangster saga set in Prohibition era Boston and Florida. Affleck directed and co-stars with Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson, Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana and Chris Cooper. Reviewed this issue.

what is left will strike most filmgoers as abstruse arguments about the nature of faith. (Non-believers are likely to find it all almost entirely pointless.)

Even at its unnecessary length, Silence is seldom boring—Scorsese (working mostly with longtime collaborators) is too skilled a filmmaker for that. But neither is it particularly engrossing, unless you’re a theologian. He has done a number of interviews about the film that provide some useful context—there’s an extensive one in Commonweal that is well worth reading before you see the film, if you decide to tackle it.

••• You just never know where you stand with a Paul Verhoeven movie. The Dutch-born director with a penchant for shocking audiences with sex, violence, and occasionally both was an arthouse favorite (Soldier of Orange, Spetters, The Fourth Man) before Hollywood success with RoboCop, Total Recall, and Basic Instinct. The degree to which his films critiqued the very audiences who were eating them up remains open to debate, and one suspects that’s just the way he likes it.

Made in France, his new film Elle has been hailed almost entirely for its leading performance by Isabelle Huppert, in a role that no other actress could probably have pulled off. As Michèle, a former publisher with respectable literary credentials who now runs a successful video company specializing in borderline pornographic games, she is at the center of a straight-faced satire of bourgeois mores that gets more lurid with each reel. And that’s after the film opens with her being raped in her Paris living room by a masked intruder.

Based on a novel by Philippe Djian (Betty Blue), Elle sometimes seems like an example of the old game in which one person starts a story and passes it on to successive people to continue. Its parade of melodramatic twists start to feel arbitrary well before the movie is half over. That Michèle handles them with such unvarying sangfroid at points reminded me of one of those early John

PATRIOTS DAY— Docudrama about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the manhunt to find the two young men responsible for it. Starring Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Michelle Monaghan, Alex Wolff, Themo Melikidze, and J. K. Simmmons.

Directed by Peter Berg (Deepwater Horizon). Reviewed this issue.

SILENCE—Martin Scorsese’s long-in-development adaptation of the novel by Shûsaku Endô set in 17th century Japan, where European priests fight the efforts of the Japanese ruler to stamp out Christianity. Starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, Adam Driver, and Tadanobu Asano. Reviewed this issue.

SLEEPLESS—Remake of the excellent 2011 French thriller Sleepless Night, which was set almost entirely inside a nightclub where a crooked cop tried to rescue his son from the criminals he double-crossed. Starring Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan, Dermot Mulroney, Gabrielle Union, and Scoot McNairy. Directed by Baran bo Odar (Who Am I). Area theaters

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Waters movies where Divine is subjected to an endless parade of indignities. But whatever your reaction to the plot, it’s undeniable that watching Huppert defy any expectation you have of her characters makes up for the piled-on nature of the plot.

••• Given the number of films that have been set there in the past decade, it seems that I am not alone in my fondness for the city of Boston, where I went to school for a year a long time ago.

Two more hit local screens this week. Patriots Day is the inevitable retelling of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, recreating the attack itself and the investigation in which local and federal agencies collaborated to locate and capture the two perpetrators. It’s been less than four months since the same director, Peter Berg, did the same thing with Deepwater Horizon, and you have to wonder what it is in audiences that wants to replay such horrible events: Is it that watching a movie about them allows us to feel that we have grasped them? If so, I can’t agree that it’s a good thing.

••• Live by Night reunites two Boston boys, Ben Affleck and writer Dennis Lehane, whose novel Gone Girl Gone was the source of Affleck’s excellent directorial debut. This one is a gangster drama that starts out in The Olde Town in the years after World War I, with Affleck as Joe Coughlin, war-disillusioned son of a cop (Brendan Gleeson) who goes in for a life of crime. The bulk of the movie shifts to Florida, where Joe takes over the rum racket.

It’s a chapter of Prohibition that hasn’t been told in many films, and Lehane’s story is rich in details, so much so that I wish he P had developed it in to a cable miniseries a la Boardwalk Empire.

Too much of what is interesting here is developed only to be dismissed with a line or two of narration, and the ending seems tacked on. Affleck has done better work, both in front of and behind the camera; he’s adequate, but the movie is stolen in a brief appearance by Elle Fanning as a would-be actress turned P temperance leader.

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA Film Noir Double Feature: HE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948) and THE HITCH-HIKER (1953)—Los Angeles police stalk a killer in He Walked By Night, an engrossing procedural, shot in pseudo-documentary style (an innovation at the time). Starring Scott Brady, Richard Basehart, and Jack Webb (who was directly inspired by it to create Dragnet). Directed by Alfred Werker and an uncredited Anthony Mann. The Hitch-Hiker was directed by Ida Lupino, one of the few women to find a place behind the camera in a noir. This crackling suspense drama about two California businessman (Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy) on a camping trip who contend with a psychotic escaped convict (William Talman) may not be her most personal film, but it’s her most technically accomplished. Tue 7pm, 8:30pm. Screening Room NUDE ON THE MOON (1961)—In which Doris Wishman, the female Ed Wood, shows her boredom with nudist camp movies (a genre she was only two films into) by adding chintzy sci-fi. A scientist and his buddy use a financial windfall to build a rocketship and fly to the moon, where they find—well, see

if you can guess. Everyone needs to see a Doris Wishman movie or two before they die, and this isn’t even one of the weird ones. Wed Jan 18, 7pm.

Squeaky Wheel SITTING PRETTY (1948)—Classic comedy starring Clifton Webb as an eccentric efficiency expert who takes a job as a live-in baby sitter in order to test out his theories. With Robert Young and Maureen O’Hara. Directed by Walter Lang (Cheaper by the Dozen). Fri 7:30pm. Old Chestnut Film Society, Phillip Sheridan School, 3200 Elmwood Avenue. http://oldchestnut.com TOSCA—Puccini’s opera, from London’s Royal Opera House. Conducted by Antonio Pappano. Directed

by Duncan Macfarland. Starring Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel and Lukas Jakobski.

In Italian with English subtitles. Sun 11am. Dipson Amherst

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LION—The true story of Saroo Brierley, who as a five-year-old boy was separated from his family in a small Indian village and spent several years living on the streets before being adopted by an Australian couple. That could well be an unbearable story to watch, but it only takes up the first half of the movie, and is handled with attention to what n audience can tolerate. The remainder of the story follows the adult Saroo (Dev Patel, oozing movie star charisma) as he comes to grips with his dimly remembered past and decides to find his birth place. That he accomplishes this online gives the film an odd dramatic shape after its almost Dickensian opening; the finale is satisfying, but it feels rushed. Co-starring Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, and David Wenham. Directed by Garth Davis.—MF Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills MANCHESTER BY THE SEA—Heartbreakingly perfect, an emotionally transcendent drama in a year that has not been lacking in them: Along with Moonlight and Loving, it’s enough to revive your faith in the ongoing strength of cinema in an era when it seems that all the best stories are being told on television. Casey Affleck stars as a man crushed by guilt (the nature of which is not immediately apparent) who becomes the guardian of his teenage nephew when his brother dies. That summary sounds terribly mawkish, but don’t hold that against it: Writer-director Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count On Me) is interested in real people more than feel-good stories, and the care with which he and Affleck peel back the layers is all the more affecting for being so apparently artless (aided by the hardscrabble New England setting).

As affecting as it is, it’s never a downer, with humor in places where you wouldn’t expect to find it.

With Michelle Williams, Lucas Hedges, Kyle Chandler, Gretchen Mol, Matthew Broderick, and Stephen McKinley Henderson. —MF Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills A MONSTER CALLS—A monster helps a boy (Lewis MacDougall) deal with his mother’s terminal illness. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones and Liam Neeson. Starring Directed by J. A. Bayona (The Impossible). Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY—It gets out of hand. Starring Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn, T. J. Miller, and Kate McKinnon. Directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck (Blades of Glory). Four Seasons, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria PASSENGERS—So you’re one of 5000 passengers on a space ship for a 120 year trip to a new planet.

An accident jars you out of your induced coma, leaving you to face 90 years of solitude (in the unlikely chance you live that long). Would you wake up someone else to keep you company? You know that engineer Chris Pratt will, because he’s second billed to Jennifer Lawrence, but that doesn’t make the ethical question any less interesting. Unfortunately, this is not a little indie speculative fiction movie but a big budget sci-fi spectacular, and the premise is sidelined in favor of the kind of adventure movie stuff that keeps the special effects guys busy. Nice production design, if that’s worth the cost of a ticket to you. -MF With Michael Sheen and Laurence Fishburne. Directed by Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria SULLY—Clint Eastwood’s trademark low-key approach to filmmaking is pleasurably displayed in this thoughtful look at the so-called “Miracle on the Hudson,” the 2009 incident in which a damaged airplane made an emergency landing on the Hudson River with no loss of life. Though pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) was lionized by a public that had long been starved of unambiguous heroes, behind the scenes he was subjected to interrogation by flight officials who questioned his judgment in the face of what their computer models say he should have done. It’s not hard to read a political subtext into this, that we should trust people of proven skill and experience instead of Monday morning micromanaging them (and at the age of 86, Eastwood is entitled to that opinion). But if the story’s drama is built on a shaky pivot (was the second engine functional?), the way it unfolds is smoothly compelling.

With Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Jamey Sheridan, Valerie Mahaffey, and Anna Gunn. –MF Dipson McKinley UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS—“ Vampire death dealer” Kate Beckinsale goes back into the breech in the fifth installment in a vampires-vs.-werewolves saga that looks like its never going to end. Directed by Anna Foerster. AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria WHY HIM?—What does it say about modern America that every holiday season brings us at least one movie about disparate people struggling to form a family? In this entry, Bryan Cranston is the square Midwestern father struggling to accept her daughter’s fiancée, a free-spirited but insanely rich California weirdo played by (who else?) James Franco.

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NOTHING BUT LOVE SONGS

BY CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY YOU’RE LISTENING TO New York’s favorite choice for soft, romantic hits—WPIX: Nothing But Love Songs. Top of the hour now, we’ll have traffic on the 10, but first, here’s Whitney Houston singing about the greatest love of all…

By early 1987, I’d acquired a driver’s license and WPIX had begun shifting away from the soft rock format. But during most of 1986 I still spent a sizeable chunk of time riding in my parents’ cars. Having the radio on wasn’t always a given, though both of my parents liked music. It had to do with nerves and tension. If there was room for music in the car, they made it, but it needed to be kept light.

Commercial radio is known for flogging certain songs to death, and in 1986, Whitney Houston’s version of “The Greatest Love of All” was inescapable, worming its way into heavy rotation via multiple FM formats. There was no avoiding it, particularly in the realm of “soft romantic hits.”

To this day, the song is branded on my brain, and yet I never liked it much.

Thing is, “The Greatest Love of All” isn’t a very romantic song, but radio delivered it in the context of a love song.

The woman who wrote the lyrics, Linda Creed, had found success writing for Philly soul giants the Stylistics and the Spinners in the 1970s. She wrote Houston’s monster hit after being diagnosed with cancer, and it spoke to her survival instinct. It was initially a hit for George Benson in 1977 when his version got used at the theme for The Greatest, a biopic about Mohammed Ali. But Houston’s determined, assertive, and impassioned interpretation came much closer to the spirit in which it was written. It shot to #1 in three countries, hit the Top 20 all over the world, and went on to become one of Houston’s top three commercial achievements.

Learning to love yourself/It is the greatest love of all…

Especially for a 16-year-old, this is a difficult concept. It’s an age that finds many kids wondering about the different kinds of love and what they might feel like, or how one knows when they’re engaged in a loving relationship, what’s expected of them, and, of course, what this notion of ‘falling’ is all about.

Certainly the kind of love they sang about on WPIX was different than the love one generally feels for parents, for siblings, for the household pet. We’re raised in a culture that puts an inordinately high value on this mysterious kind of love that sweeps us up, that we’re somehow helpless to resist, even if it may upset people around us and drastically alter the course of our lives (which, incidentally, might be a frightening prospect for a kid who suspects they’re homosexual). And yet, this ‘self-love’ Whitney so assuredly yammered about was apparently the stuff of pure gold.

I was a pretty cynical teenager, so Whitney’s declaration

shot my bullshit meter into the red, despite not really understanding what she was getting at. The idea that she hadn’t written the song didn’t occur to me at the time. But marketing is a powerful tool, and while it’s clear to me now how it’s not a traditional love song, I couldn’t really wrap my head around the fact that it’s essentially about survival and legacy. It’s as if, having been forced to sit through the song so many times, I tuned out right after, “I believe the children are our future” (because what 16-year-old wants to be bothered with that horseshit?), only to tune back in somewhere around “can’t take away MY DIG-NIH-TEEEE.” For years I went on assuming that Whitney was working on herself so she could be a better lover elsewhere or something like that. In retrospect, I can see how the whole angle about pride and raising our children with values was completely lost on me.

As LGBT folks, we hear about self-love an awful lot, probably because we do battle with issues of self loathing. We’ve come up in a culture that lets us know: Despite improved tolerance over the last twenty years, we’re not ideal. And so this concept of learning to love oneself rears its head when we talk to counselors, read self help books and just generally, when we try and find ways to take better care of ourselves. In my own experience, and for anyone else that’s struggled with ‘–isms,’ it surfaces again in recovery circles. It seems like everywhere I’ve turned for thirty years, there’s Whitney, making her big declaration. But especially given the issues that plagued the latter half of her career, it’s been a challenge to take self-love seriously. After all, she was the first one to bring it up.

It never helped that this idea of loving oneself has been publicly panned as an obnoxious Stuart Smalley-ism. I picture someone in that illusionary pose where it looks like a second person is hugging them but they’re really hugging themselves—miming being hugged. Barf. And the idea that I need to achieve that state in order to be a true romantic partner with someone else? It’s enough to keep me single for the duration.

But at the same time, it also seems like the saying about ‘needing to love yourself before you can truly love someone else’ simply cannot be true. A quick review of loving relationships we’ve witnessed seems like proof. We’ve all known plenty of people that clearly loved someone else but did not necessarily love themselves. I believe that Whitney Houston loved Bobby Brown, but she very obviously did not love herself.

Turns out, it’s all been misconstrued.

The term self-love was long associated with vanity and selfishness—a moral flaw. But German writer Erich Fromm set a different train of thought in motion with The Art of Loving, which became his most popular book after being published

in 1956. Fromm had made his way to the United States after Nazi’s invaded Germany and began a distinguished teaching career. His blended use of philosophy and psychological concepts as vantage points for social and political criticism made him a celebrated thinker. And it was Fromm that coined the saying about not being about to love someone else until you learn to love yourself.

But Fromm was skeptical about the human concept of ‘falling in love’ as some intangible, magical and mysterious happening that renders us helpless. Instead, he believed loving was a learned skill and not something that humans loan themselves to all that easily. The idea of falling into a state of love, he argued, is really sentimentality in disguise.

Cold, no? But maybe he was onto something.

So, when we look closely at Fromm’s iteration of self-love and how it relates to love between two human beings, it’s not the same correlation that most people are making when they tell us that we can’t love someone else until we love ourselves. What Fromm was getting at and our modern interpretation of it are different things. The closest parallel I can draw is to what we might call self-care. Fromm defined self-love as a blend of caring, self-knowledge, respect, and a sense of responsibility. It applies to both ends of the equation. So, you must learn to properly care for, understand, respect, and take responsibility for yourself before you can truly do those things for another person, which is what Fromm posited that truly loving them really means.

To be clear, the idea that you must love yourself in order to be romantically fit to fall in love and, in turn, have something worthwhile to bring to the table in that resulting relationship was not what he was getting at. And yet, I think most people have interpreted the saying that way.

Our romantic notions of love make for great, thrilling dramas—in theater, in song, in films, and in our imaginations.

We tend to focus on that rather than the hard work that real loving entails. Fromm believed that we’re all basically alienated from one another and that true love, as he defined it, is more than most humans want to deal with. Our tendency to couple up and marry, he seemed to think, was about avoidance of loneliness before it has much to do with real love.

Maybe Linda Creed nailed it when she wrote “The Greatest Love of All.” Perhaps her great declaration, her great epiphany (not Whitney’s, as I now know) was one of those rare, universal moments of truth, afforded her in the process of contemplating her own mortality.

Regardless, merely liking myself will have to be good enough. There was plenty of hard work entailed just getting to this point. I’ll leave “The Greatest…” to someone else. P

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