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EVENTS: Guitar rocker Delicate Steve at Nietzsche’s.

COMMENTARY: How a GOP candidate might assay Brian Higgins in 2018.

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LETTERS TO THE PUBLIC MY COUNTRY ’TIS OF ME President Trump’s recent ban on immigrants and refugees represents a new wave of aberrations in American policy: led by the president, the nation will become too comfortable distinguishing between foreign and native bodies. What used to be an exercise in demographics has become an exercise in exposé. This may be maddening, but it’s also criminal. With the new ban, American policy is welcoming the distinctions of foreign and native that we’ve often fought against. There’s a reason we debated the differences among melting pot, salad bowl, mosaic, and kaleidoscope: words matter because they shape thinking. At best, the ban will normalize a new strain of nativism, while capitalizing on the high-power alienation rhetoric Trump enjoys. He may be living out his agenda literally, but he’s also building a sense that this persecution is inherently nationalistic, even inherently American. Little could be more damaging. Of the 867 hate crimes happening within 10 days after the election, 49 were motivated by anti-Muslim sentiments and 280 by anti-immigration sentiments, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Clearly, hate, coupled with a misunderstanding of basic human rights, motivated some to lash out, but if we’re so keen on preventing supposedly foreign Anti-Americanism, what’s to be said about the real anti-Americanism right here, right now? It’s not purely speculation to predict an uptick in crimes against immigrants and Muslims in the coming months. This, because hate and violence directed toward minorities have increasingly normalized. The roots of this are certainly older, but none have mobilized it through political policy like this presidency. Trump’s ban speaks to a new nation, a My Country ’Tis of Me, populated mostly with wealthy, white elites. The corridors of power have long been defined this way. Trump himself may be holding up a mirror when he makes these appointments and delivers this policy, but we needn’t let him bask in the supposed glory (really nativism) he defines. If he wants to whitewash America, a ban on Muslims and refugees is a logical place to start. But if he really wants to become a president by and for the people, there’s real work to be done. Already, Trump’s executive order has mobilized our most American industries: Airbnb will offer free housing to refugees, Starbucks will hire 10,000 refugees in the next five years, and Lyft will donate $1 million to the ACLU. As much as we dismiss these segments of pop culture, it’s time we recognize their spending, and by extension, their political power. Their gestures will move us toward a country by and for the people, even if the president doesn’t unwaveringly stand that way. Boycotting these companies in support of the ban only defines an elitism that prefers pocketbooks over policy. Still, it’s an elitism colored by Trump’s supposed nationalism. I’m no founding father, but it’s tough to believe that inclusiveness isn’t of the utmost importance in today’s fragmented world. Banning Muslims and refugees is fundamentally anti-American. Strikingly, the ban is predicated

on Muslim stereotypes that have popularized in a post-truth world. To Trump, according to the Washington Post, “It is the policy of the United States to protect its citizens from foreign nationals who intend to commit terrorist attacks in the United States; and to prevent the admission of foreign nationals who intend to exploit United States immigration laws for malevolent purposes.” But not all foreign nationals “intend to commit terrorist attacks.” Not even a majority do. But the language argues otherwise. There’s little that could be more offensive than the implicit claim that every national is exploiting “immigration laws for malevolent purposes.” That is, after all, what the language says. I’d be hard-pressed to see if Trump thought fleeing from potential violence is one of these purposes. There may be precedence for this exclusiveness, but we needn’t allow anymore. In 1989, my parents boarded a plane and left Romania permanently. Only once they reached Rome did they find out that they were on the last plane to leave the airport before Ceaușescu was deposed and executed. Imagine being blindsided by a chaos like that. But their arrival wasn’t politically unfettered: At the whim of an American policy, they were forced to wait nine years before leaving Romania. They arrived as political refugees looking to work and to prosper. And they succeeded—at odds, here and there—because that’s what America has always promised: a chance. When they look at the climate Trump is building—one that fears, even hates foreigners— they, and I, can’t help but see themselves inside this dynamic. Just how many futures, Trump, are you willing to silence in the name of what’s clearly unpopular, anti-America, too? Citing the same policy that kept my parents waiting and the one that will keep today’s refugees waiting isn’t the answer. Any country by and for the people, any real super-power, delivers immediacy in times of crisis. It may not be perfect, but it’s there. That, precisely, is what Trump lacks with such a misinformed policy. Banning Muslims and closing off refugees is defining a powerful new country—but one, I fear, that can no longer be called America, for America, is after all, its immigrants. Persisting otherwise is more than a logical fallacy: America without its immigrants isn’t America. If we’re going to use the power of language against these immigrants, that same power will be used against us. “Malevolent purposes” isn’t just turn of phrase: It’s also reaffirmation of the Muslim stereotypes we see every day. If it’s offensive to suggest that America needs a new name, what does it mean for our president to essentialize this entire group into threats? It should go without saying that’s wrong, but a distinctly American hypocrisy prevents some from seeing that. In 2017, we needn’t stand by them anymore.—GEORGE GOGA

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Then get over to Burning Books (420 Connecticut Street) on Wednesday, February 8 at 6pm, where the newly formed Buffalo Research Collective will offer a workshop called “Follow the Money, Map the Power.” From the Buffalo Research Collective’s press release: On January 5th, Donald Trump’s campaign manager was the featured speaker at a $5,000 per plate luncheon. The fundraiser was held at The Westin, located in the heavily subsidized Delaware North building in downtown Buffalo. The event sparked plenty of protest action but left us with some important questions: Who owns the building? Who hosted the fundraiser? What are their ties to local decision-makers and prominent institutions? How do they make their money? How do they spend it? What do they stand to gain from the Trump administration? There’s a lot we don’t know about how power operates in Buffalo, but answering questions like these can help us to look beyond the luncheon and hold the system accountable. This is where the Buffalo Research Collective (BRC), a new independent research group focused on transparency and accountability, comes in. And you can be a part of it! At Wednesday’s training, the BRC will give a lesson on using Oligrapher, the data visualization tool developed by the Buffalo-based research organization LittleSis—the very tool used to make the basic chart above, documenting developer Carl Paladino’s donations to local public office-holders. By the end of the night, you’ll know how to make your own. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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In particular, he is concentrating on making sure that the designated resettlement agencies, vital to helping newcomers get on their feet and continue to learn to navigate their new surroundings, aren’t crippled by potential funding cuts from the federal government, which supplies much of their support. “What we don’t want is for the providers to close down and then have the refugee programs restart,” Ryan said. “There will be no refugee agencies to help resettle them in the future.” While the Trump administration has painted refugees and immigrants as potential threats, many Western New York politicians have been talking more about the benefits they bring to the community. Ryan said his district has seen a sharp decrease in the number of vacant homes and apartments, a sign of increased economic activity. “On many levels, we don’t want the cessation of refugees,” he said. Mayor Byron Brown, who spent much of his time shaking hands and posing for pictures at Sunday’s rally, has often pointed to the stabilization of the city’s long-declining population and the cultural vibrance immigrants and refugees have brought to many city neighborhoods. The city recently raised a “Refugees Welcome” flag at City Hall and Brown recently sent a letter to Trump urging him to consider the benefits that Buffalo has experienced in being a welcoming community. However, Brown has been wary to enter the fray over what it means to be a “sanctuary city,” something other mayors, like New York City’s Bill de Blasio, have adopted. A bill that would provide additional protections to immigrants and refugees passed the state Assembly yesterday, a measure that would effectively make New York a “sanctuary state,” though it is unlikely

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LOOKING BACKWARD: MAIN STREET, 1964 The year is 1964, and work is about to begin on the Main Place Renewal Project, which would raze eight blocks and 81 buildings in an effort to bring new life to downtown. In this photograph taken by the Department of Urban Renewal, Main Street is seen looking south from the upper levels of the Tishman Building. Still present are the Erie County Savings Bank, Kobacker’s, AM&A’s, and dozens of mixed-use buildings that would be replaced by the Main Place Mall, Edward A. Rath County Office Building, and Church Street Extension Mall. The Little Report, commissioned in 1960 by the Greater Buffalo Development Foundation, argued that the downtown shopping core was threatened by new “ethnic groups,” declining “crowd appearance,” and “marginal retail establishments.” The report called for extending the city’s “frontal assault” on residential blight to the “commercial blight and the decay that is sapping the competitive vitality and appeal” of Main Street. The City of Buffalo complied. In 1965, P the wrecking ball would start swinging.. -THE PUBLIC STAFF DAILYPUBLIC.COM / FEBRUARY 8 - 14, 2017 / THE PUBLIC

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IN NIAGARA COUNTY, RADIOACTIVE FILL WIDESPREAD BY DAN TELVOCK One expert said the state made a limited effort to determine the extent of the problem and even less of an effort to determine the responsible companies.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THE EPA COMMENCED A RADIOACTIVE WASTE CLEANUP NEXT DOOR TO YOUR PROPERTY? ACCORDING TO NEWLY REVEALED REPORTS, SUCH WASTE IS COMMONPLACE IN NIAGARA COUNTY JOHN RAYMOND WAS about to sell his home

in Lewiston until Environmental Protection Agency officials showed up last spring armed with radiation detectors. Turns out that Raymond’s basement has radon, a potent radioactive gas linked to lung cancer, at levels three times greater than regulatory limits. EPA officials said it is possible that Raymond has radioactive fill under his home that may be linked to similar material found across the street by Holy Trinity Cemetery. That’s where they had detected radioactivity in excess of 75 times what’s normal for the local environment. “Basically I’m stuck,” Raymond said. “One of the guys doing the testing advised me to find a lawyer.” He’s not alone. Raymond’s neighbor, Harry Wade, also wondered about his property as he watched the EPA in April install a fence around the radioactive waste by the cemetery. A survey by the EPA in September found that portions of Wade’s driveway tested at levels at least five times normal background readings. “I’m extremely disappointed to find out that they’ve known about this for all these years, and all of the sudden a fence goes up and we learn about it, and my property value is worthless,” Wade said. A third Lewiston resident, Robert Ward, said he has the radioactive waste in his yard, driveway, and rosebed on Creek Road Extension. “This is really crazy,” Ward said. “What would you do? I mean, who gets a soil test when they buy a house?” While there is debate regarding the potential health impacts, it’s clear that these property owners are already feeling the financial pain. In addition to these three properties, Investigative Post reported last July that state and federal officials in 1979 had identified dozens of other residential and commercial properties—most in Niagara County—contaminated with what they believe is radioactive industrial waste. Investigative Post has since obtained documents that raise the possibility that the contamination is more widespread and could be commonplace in yards, roads, parking lots, and driveways throughout Niagara County. Two reports done by a private investigator said half the parking lots in Niagara Falls could have been paved with industrial waste from a company that is the target of an EPA investigation into the source of the contaminated waste. Although state health officials maintained for decades that the radioactive waste did not pose a health risk, the EPA will spend at least $8 million to clean just one property—a parking lot shared by a bowling alley and building supply store on Niagara Falls Boulevard in Niagara Falls. 6

“It seems to me the state could be more concerned about this slag that’s located on people’s property and along streets in public areas, unless it would be an overwhelming task and they don’t have the money for it,” said Fred Haywood, a retired environmental scientist involved in some of the previous federal surveys.

LITTLE ACTION BY GOVERNMENT The federal government survey in 1979 identified 100 properties with levels of radioactivity at least double what is normal in the local environment. The federal Department of Energy cleaned a third of those properties after determining the material was linked to spills from transporting radioactive waste to the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works property in Porter. The 7,500acre property includes a 10-acre landfill holding 278,000 cubic yards of radioactive residues and waste from the Manhattan Project, the government’s nuclear weapons research effort during World War II. The remainder—62 properties—were left untouched. This rocky waste material the government calls “slag” was used for bedding under asphalt or as gravel. Contractors used it as fill under streets, driveways, and parking lots. Beyond the aerial surveys conducted almost four decades ago, the state and federal government have done little to determine the full extent of the problem. Instead, the state Department of Health, which refused interview requests for this story, said in a prepared statement that a panel of experts determined in 1980 that the material did not pose a “significant public health impact that would require immediate remediation.” Some disagree with the state’s assertion. “Nobody is able to say for certain that the level of radiation found on any of these properties is safe,” said John Horn, an attorney who is part of a legal and environmental engineering team investigating the problem for a potential lawsuit.

FEDERAL INVOLVEMENT An EPA official said the agency got involved in June 2013 after a video conference with state health and environmental officials. According to the EPA, that’s when Adela Salame-Alfie, the state Health Department’s then-director of radiological health, mentioned four properties in New York that “exhibited ‘worse’ radiological issues than Wolff Alport.” The Superfund site in Queens was called “The Most Radioactive Place in New York City” by The New Yorker in 2014. Three of those four properties are in Niagara County: Rapids Bowling and Greater Niagara Building Center off Niagara Falls Boulevard in Niagara Falls, Holy Trinity Cemetery off Roberts Avenue in Lewiston, and a residential driveway on Upper Mountain Road. Three years later, the EPA has begun cleanup of the parking lot and adjoining land shared by the bowling alley and building supply store. The EPA said it will continue to assess the Holy Trinity Cemetery property and Grace’s driveway for cleanup. “Long-term exposure to that could be a health

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A contractor checked for radioactivity at the bowling alley site.

“THERE IS A PROBLEM OF SIGNIFICANT SCOPE IN NIAGARA COUNTY, AND THAT NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE WITH THE ABILITY AND THE LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS THAT PROBLEM HAVE DONE SO.” risk so that’s why we are doing what we’re doing,” said Eric Daly, a radiological response specialist with the EPA. The problem extends beyond the sites previously identified in government reports. “What’s clear is there is a problem of significant scope in Niagara County, and that not enough people with the ability and the legal responsibility to address that problem have done so,” said Horn, one of the attorneys researching a possible lawsuit.

POTENTIAL SOURCES OF CONTAMINATION Two reports produced by a private investigator in 1979 offer more detail on the potential scope of the problem. The private investigator, now deceased, was hired by the then-owner of the bowling alley. The investigator’s work included interviews with contractors who named companies, including Union Carbide, that could be the source of the radioactive waste. Union Carbide, which owned Electro Metallurgical on 47th Street in Niagara Falls, was the largest ore-to-metal uranium production plant for the Manhattan Project from 1942 to 1953. State documents and the investigator’s reports indicate Union Carbide was involved in other industrial work that produced radioactive waste before and after the Manhattan Project. In 1965, the state gave Union Carbide an exemption to bury radioactive waste on property it once owned and which is now part of the closed Cecos Landfill at 5600 Niagara Falls Boulevard. The only other option was an expensive one: to transport the material out of

state because New York did not have a landfill that could legally accept radioactive material. The private investigator’s reports state two companies had “exclusive rights with Union Carbide to haul their waste and slag to the dump.” “At the time, if you wanted Union Carbide slag, you had to buy it through Friona Trucking Company. You could go to the dumps and they would load your truck or they would deliver it for you,” states the May 10, 1979 report. Another contractor told the investigator “half the parking lots in the Falls have Union Carbide slag under it and that he has it under the driveway at his home.” The private investigator’s report details how multiple contractors told him Union Carbide slag was used as fill for the parking lots at the former Twin Fair department store off Packard Road and former King’s Plaza on Military Road. One of the contractors said Union Carbide had the “cheapest fill” but it “contained a lot of lime and would explode or rise up in the parking lot when it got hot.” The reports name other potential sources of the material. For example, the reports state that contractors purchased furnace waste from Oldbury Electro Chemical in Niagara Falls, which was acquired by Hooker Chemical in 1956 before it became Occidental Petroleum. In addition, the reports state that Pittsburgh Metallurgical, which was acquired by Airco (now part of the Linde Group) in 1962, “had stockpiles of radioactive materials at their Lockport Road dump” in Niagara Falls. All of these metallurgical companies have since closed.

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As for why it has taken so long to get to this point, Schick said: “I really can’t answer that. It has been on everyone’s list of issues to be dealt with and the time must have been right for the EPA to do this work.” “I am not quite sure there is a true responsible party, but it really isn’t something that falls into our authorities under Superfund,” he said.

But others believe more work needs to be done. “If it was me, and I was a government employee and I saw a letter similar to that, I would certainly start asking questions and start poking around to see how widespread this problem is,” said Brian Stamm, one of the attorneys investigating the problem. “But at this point, we have no evidence that anybody did do that.” US Senator Charles Schumer, responding to Investigative Post’s story in July, urged the EPA to do a “thorough investigation.” “Right now, it’s hanging over people’s heads in terms of property value and in terms of health, in terms of safety,” he said. “So let’s get an investigation done and clean this up once and for all.” EPA officials said that apart from emergencies they can only assess properties referred to them by the state. Judith Enck, then the EPA’s administrator for the region that includes New York, responded to Schumer that state health officials determined “most of the sites on the list were deemed not to present any public health issues.”

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Raymond lost his dream home in Wilson after the buyer backed out of the contract for his Lewiston home. EPA contractors did install a radon mitigation system in his basement but that did little to instill confidence in Raymond that he can sell his home. Wade, his neighbor, also has plans to sell. But he doubts if anyone will buy his contaminated property that sits across the street from radioactive ground by the cemetery.

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NEWS COMMENTARY can female more compelling than either of Higgins’s two recent challengers—then Collins would have an easier go. But the second reason Republicans might challenge Higgins is that Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in the suburbs, where Republicans know how to gin up turnout, and she lost even before Trump’s message strategists ever had the national bully pulpit where every day, they target the mainstream media, the judiciary, intellectuals, immigrants, the defenders of immigrants, and anybody who defends Muslims, with more airtime, more amplification, and more focus than they had during the 2016 campaign, And we’re only a month into the so-far successful season of Trump’s team successfully branding Democrats as defenders of The Other while Trump’s team brands the President as defenders of Americans.

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HIGGINS VS. TRUMP REPUBLICAN 2018 BY BRUCE FISHER

WHAT THE MIDTERM LANDSCAPE APPEARS TO AUGUR IN WESTERN NEW YORK SOME WASHINGTON DEMOCRATS with whom we speak imagine that their internal struggle will be resolved soon, and that the Bernie Sanders “insurgents” will triumph over the Hillary Clinton “pragmatists.” Other Washington Democrats believe that the advent of socialists in the Democratic Party is either a distraction or a disaster, and that the explicitly identity-focused coalition of groups that was the Clinton coalition, funded by Hollywood and Wall Street, just narrowly missed national victory, and that it would be completely nuts to disassemble what almost worked.

It’s early days yet. While the Washington Democrats hash it out, The world’s focus will continue to be on a White House that moves messaging faster and more disruptively than any operation anybody has ever encountered since Ronald Reagan’s team limousined into town in 1981. The Reagan ascendancy came, however, with allies: The Tories under Margaret Thatcher had won in the United Kingdom in 1979, and the powerful political rhetoric focused on the phrase “the free market” had a deep and broad legitimacy with intellectual elites, with established media from the Times of London to the Wall Street Journal to approximately half the editorials published in the New York Times, plus a broad swath of university intellectuals and think tanks, plus an institutional presence in every American town big enough to have its own chamber of commerce. All of that, all that co-operating positive messaging about an alternative future of growth, personal liberty, freedom, and forward-looking cultural empowerment, had triumphed over a diffuse message carried by a damaged Jimmy Carter. But back in 1981, Democrats still had Tip O’Neill, Danny Rostenkowski, and rising stars like Gary Hart, plus a presidential-candidate-in-waiting in Walter Mondale. Democrats had labor. Democrats had Congress, cities, some internal national consistency. Now, in every media market, the Trump messaging dominates— and because national Democrats are unsettled about whether they are energetic millennials who want economic progressivity and economic nationalism, or whether they want their diverse coalition of identities that literally embraces the world, the Trump messaging is also dominating Democrats. In every media market where there has been a demonstration against Trump’s (wilfully?) clumsy executive order on immigrants and refugees, the simplifying dualism of local media that always pushes simple oppositions has done its job for Trump, thus: Trump has a platform to denounce Muslim immigrants, refugees, courts, and the mainstream media, while the face of the opposition to the man who says, “I’m protecting the homeland,” has been brownish, lawyerly, liberal, and scolding. As a political branding exercise, it’s been textbook. To Trump’s base, it’s been the patriots versus the traitors. 8

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And the Democrats all over the US, not just in Washington, but everywhere there is a member of the news media, are as the victorious president has characterized them. Democrats amplify the message about “sanctuary cities” because that’s what Democrats do. Even though they could have been using the non-controversial, bipartisan language of attacking human trafficking and specifically of sexual slavery, Democratic elected officials have joined in demonstrations against what the president and Republicans have characterized as the rule of law. It’s nasty, it’s misleading, it’s been characterized by numerous retired military and intelligence leaders as counterproductive to American leadership in the fight against ISIS—but politically, Trump is almost certainly winning. And that’s why Democratic US Representative Brian Higgins can probably expect a well-funded, Trump-endorsed Republican challenger in the 2018 midterm elections.

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BASE Brian Higgins won almost 75 pecent of the votes in his district in 2016. Higgins won more than two-thirds of his district in 2014. It’s crazy to think that a Democrat who is that dominant, in a media market where everybody knows his name, would ever face a real challenge. Or is it? Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump 53.3 percent to 46.7 percent in Erie County. She beat Trump by 55,000 votes inside the 40.5 square miles of the City of Buffalo. But here’s what to focus on: Her margin of victory in Erie County was not 55,000 votes. It was 27,000 votes. Hillary Clinton lost the suburban towns. Brian Higgins won hugely in the City of Buffalo. He defeated the underfunded, barely visible Republican by more than 67,000 votes. He vastly outpolled Hillary Clinton. His margin of victory in Erie County was over 133,000 votes. So why would Republicans bother?

TWO REASONS First, somebody at the Democratic National Committee in Washington, DC decided to let the world know that national Democrats would be targeting Republican US Representative Chris Collins, who shares the Buffalo media market with Higgins. (With Democratic Representative Louise Slaughter of Rochester and Republican Representative Tom Reed of the southern tier, there are technically four members of Congress in this media market, but Slaughter and Reed are barely visible.) In order to blunt any news presence of any Democratic candidate challenging Chris Collins, any national Republican Party strategist would probably succeed in arguing for investing in a robust challenger to keep Higgins busy. If Republicans could utilize a well-known face—say, a Stefan Mychajliw whose own name recognition is as good as Higgins’s, or an up-and-coming Republi-

As we reported here recently, this political branding technique, which successfully differentiates patriots from the other, is a feature of Viktor Orban’s durable parliamentary majority in Hungary. Analysts generally concur that the Conservative campaign to separate the United Kingdom from the European Union (the so-called “Brexit” of summertime 2016) was a campaign that persuaded most of the working- and middle-class native-born rural and suburban English that immigrants and indeed all of Europe was a threat of which they could rid themselves if Britain went it alone. This coming spring, France will choose a new President; two of the four candidates, including the radically nativist Marine Le Pen, are promising what Trump promised: to leave international organizations like the European Union, to favor the native-born national population over immigrants (especially Muslims), and to pursue nationalist economics. It’s a movement. And now it’s in every media market in the US—and most importantly, in the Rust Belt, where Trump did very, very well in the general election of 2016, and where his messaging could very well have carry-through for 2018. Meanwhile, another well-known figure in the Buffalo media market remains an elected official. This elected official has deep ties to President Trump, deep personal antipathy to Brian Higgins, and a record of strong electoral performance in Erie and Niagara Counties. His name is Carl Paladino.

HIGGINS VS PALADINO 2018? Brian Higgins defeated a conventional (and completely underfunded) Republican 2-1 in 2014, the midterm election when Democrats took a drubbing nationally. The turnout in 2014 was much lower than in the presidential year, with only 166,000 voting, compared to 288,000 this past time. Higgins won Buffalo by 31,233. He won the district by 60,000. So this is how the arithmetic works: Somehow fight the Democrat to a tie in Buffalo, and eke out the win in the suburbs. Could it happen? Local Democrats scoff. Higgins has every friend in the world in the local business community. He has broad support among the public-sector unions and deep personal connections to the building trades unions that seem to have cut a deal with Trump in Washington, but, as Tip O’Neill reminds us from beyond the grave, all politics is local. Higgins has branded himself on local issues—as the advocate for the waterfront, not for any foreign policy initiatives. Higgins was on the record for years for a $1 trillion national infrastructure program. He actually introduced a bill in Congress to get the program going—a program much more specific than the vague, tax-credit and deficit-spending boondoggle that Trump proposed in the campaign. But don’t discount the power of scapegoating and anti-elite messaging among the anxious middle-income voters of the Southtowns and of Niagara County. And don’t go assuming that the Trump voters of South Buffalo, West Seneca, Cheektowaga, and Amherst will stay home in the off-year election, dropping their turnout in the same proportion as African-American voters in Buffalo routinely do in non-presidential election years. It’s early days. National Democrats will soon have a leader. New York State Democrats will be running Andrew Cuomo, the person who will, by 2018, be able to point to at least 1,000 new jobs at the Solar City factory on the Buffalo River—a proven producer of actual economic uplift starring new technology that, in a curiously Reaganesque way, is about growth and tomorrow and possibility rather than about fear, resentment, or anger. But there are lots and lots of daily news cycles between now and then—news cycles during which some terrorist, somewhere in the western world, might strike, and strike fear into the hearts of Trump voters in Rust Belt media markets that have talk-radio stations, daily newspapers, and Fox News outlets that amplify the White House message. Could it happen here? Bruce Fisher is visiting professor at SUNY Buffalo State and P director of the Center for Economics and Policy Studies.

PREVIEW MUSIC

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BY KEVIN THURSTON

AT THE BURCHFIELD PENNEY, A TRIBUTE TO AN OFT-NEGLECTED COMPOSER FROM THE GOLDEN ERA OF BUFFALO’S AVANT GARDE JULIUS EASTMAN’S MUSIC exists between

Terry Riley (the Creative Associates were the first to perform In C at Baird Hall on SUNY Buffalo’s North Campus) and John Coltrane. His identity drifts between being black, gay, and avant-garde, Buffalo’s minimalist past, and the uptown/downtown divide of the New York City art world, blending in disco and academia. Dying alone and homeless at Milliard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in 1990, it wasn’t until his obituary appeared in the Village Voice some months late that many of his friends discovered his fate. All of that is beginning to change. This Friday’s concert of Eastman’s work at the Burchfield Penney Art Center is a testament to how this nearly forgotten composer is suddenly seeing a surge of renewed interest. A recent article in The New Yorker, a new book from the University of Rochester Press entitled Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music by Renée Levine Packer—who was the Managing Director of the Creative Associates—as well as a newly issued recording, Femenine [sic], all speak to the musical resurrection Eastman’s work is experiencing. In a conference room at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Don Metz, with his shock of white hair and elliptical speech pattern—the kind of person who has too many thoughts that are colliding and linking up—is clearly excited when discussing how the concert came about. “A long

time ago I made a list of people that I think would be great to perform, and so then it’s an issue of timing. Some money came in. I’ve always liked his music and have been familiar with his work since 1980.

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“When I found out Renée [Levine Packer] was writing the book Gay Guerrilla, I thought, ‘Oh, great—I can bring her in.’ Then I found out about Amy Knowles, who did Crazy Nigger all on percussion with electronics the concert made itself and I called it a day. Then I thought about doing either ‘Evil Nigger’ or ‘Gay Guerrilla.’ I decided on ‘Gay Guerrilla’ because it is the most logical thing to do in the East Gallery with the reverberation, so I added that piece.” Enter Janz Castelo, founder of the Buffalo Chamber Players adding, “In the course of my research I came across Julius Eastman and over the last few years have grown very interested in his music and his story. Then, I think I was having lunch with Don and I don’t who mentioned it first, but it was some great serendipity. We’re performing ‘Stay on It’ and then, together with a bigger group, we will perform ‘Gay Guerrilla.’” Born in Harlem, Eastman grew up in Ithaca and was trained as a pianist and choir boy. After a year at Ithaca College, he moved to Philadelphia to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in 1959. When he moved to Buffalo in 1968, he found himself entering fertile ground. “There was the recovery of Gertrude Stein, Steve Reich was working, Morton Feldman,” Metz says. “It was an interesting period in Buffalo revolving around Minimalism. Culture was changing. Vietnam was over and ’60s culture was heading into adulthood, and so what remained was the environmental movement, civil rights, women’s movement, gay

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rights, and the more childish aspects of the hippies went away. The Creative Associates existed at the perfect time. Buffalo had a history of the avant-garde, there was funding, there was a large group of like-minded artists and also world-class musicians all together. And it carried over into other forms to, like video. It’s 1979 and we are about to get Media Studies; Just Buffalo Literary Center started around that time. These things were happening here for a reason.” One of the challenges facing a performer of Eastman’s music is the lack of scores written in the composer’s hand. How do you become canonical without a score? Each reference to a performance on video or a recording freezes Eastman’s compositions. Castelo, current violist in the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, in discussing the piece Stay On It, says, “It’s like notating a Miles Davis solo and then having everyone play that way from now on. Even in so-called ‘traditional classical

music’ a Mozart concerto, for example, the cadenzas [solo passages allowing the performer to showcase their virtuosity]) weren’t written down. So there was probably improvisation since time immemorial. But, with Mozart, at this point, you play the ink. There aren’t any liberties taken. It’s been taken into the museum, as it were.” Castelo offered this glimpse into his process as a classical musician: “When we look at the music of the past, we obsess over every minute detail: Why was this note picked to start the crescendo as opposed to that one. Now that I’m friends with some contemporary composers, I think as performers we over-obsess and forget that music is written by people. Composers are just like anybody else: They worry about their next check, they have good days and bad days, and don’t always pore over every detail like we do. Julius Eastman, didn’t know him, but I find it interesting he didn’t specify instrumentation in the pieces we’re doing. Just that they should be from the same family. Gay Guerrilla is often performed with four pianos, but we aren’t going to do that. He just suggests four pianos as one possible version.” (See dailypublic.com for full version of this story) Read more about Julius Eastman and this weekend’s shows at dailypublic.com.

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This exhibition was made possible through the generosity of M&T Bank. Additional support has been provided by Ferrero USA Inc. and Fondazione Ferrero Onlus; Superior Group; The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Funds at the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo; Amy and Harris Schwalb; Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP; C2 Paint; and by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

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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video monitors displaying a computer-generated avatar image of the artist—but with some key differences—and headphones through which she—the avatar, the artist—discourses, explaining more or less what she is and why. The differences include that the avatar is hairless, but also that she is thinner than the artist. She explains that the computer image does not replicate the artist’s body type more accurately because it was developed based on a pre-existing computer program template featuring a perhaps more socially acceptable body type—skinny, slender, but skeletal ultimately versus fleshy—than the artist’s actual type. Hence also the treadmill exercise machine. Symbolic of social acceptability issues, morphing into productivity and economic issues, relative to black ethnicity, wherein from the beginning the norm was not the default norm, not the template. “We are not as Caucasian as we sound,” the avatar explains. And “we have no safe mode.” The avatar’s tone in the discourse is admirably calm and measured, given that the subject matter is discrimination. The mechanics of discrimination. Or at least in general. Only at one point does she seem to break down in inarticulate rage over the pervasive and persistent injustice, unfairness, not to an individual but an entire race of people, based simply on skin color. It looks and sounds like the computer program is about to crash. But then she recovers, and carries on with her discourse. She talks about how blacks are constantly enjoined to be productive. As if they weren’t. Or encouraged to live up to their potential. As if they weren’t trying to. But the treadmill component figures in here in another way. As so often the work blacks are given to perform has a treadmill aspect. A sense of going nowhere.

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the sublime J. M. W. Turner’s mid-nineteenth century painting of an horrific historical incident wherein captured Africans on a slave ship were en masse thrown overboard to lighten the ship— and enable collection of insurance compensation for cargo lost in transport—at the prospect of an imminent typhoon.

A MESMERIZINGLY BEAUTIFUL video piece across three large screens in Squeaky Wheel’s Main Street window space (one door down from the Market Arcade main entrance) is part of artist Sondra Perry’s multifarious current exhibit, flesh out. About possible interconnections among topics ranging from 19th-century art and politics to present-day digital technology to an array of social justice issues probably best summed up in the phrase and slogan “Black Lives Matter.”

A work in the indoors gallery space—a little like the Turner excerpt work—is an enormous—large wall dimensional—extreme close-up video projection of the artist’s brown skin. But at a level of microscopic detail where skin doesn’t look like skin but more like the flesh beneath it. Brown more toward the red end of the spectrum, nor inert single extensive material, but seething profusion of discrete amorphous matter. Skin not so much as pleasant as painful.

The piece in the window is a digital moving image rendition of the spectacularly variegated turbulent ocean waters in artist of

What is maybe the central piece of the exhibit consists of an odd assemblage of treadmill exercise machine surmounted by three

IN GALLERIES NOW = ART OPENING 1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts (1045 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-228-1855, photographics2.com/store/welcome-to-our-studio1045-gallery-store): Portions of Consciousness, works by Bradley Widman on view through Feb 25. Thu & Fri 11-6, Sat 11-4 and by appointment. Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Picasso: The Artist and His Models through Feb 19. Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before: humor and satire from the collection, through Mar 19. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. Amy’s Place Restaurant (University Heights Arts Association) (3234 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 716-833-6260, uhartsgroup.com/amysplace): Every day: 7am-9pm. Art 247 (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, theart247.com): Black and White exhibition on view through Feb 12. Wed-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 11am-5pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209, wnyag.com): Notable Artists of Western New York 1, on view through Feb 24. 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 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209,

716-885-2251, wnyag.com): Western New York Artists Group 21st Annual Juried Members Exhibition through Mar 17. Opening reception Fri, Feb 10, 7:30-9pm. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm. Ashker’s on Elmwood (1002 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886 -2233, ashkersbuffalo. com): Mon-Sat 7am-10pm, Sun 9am-5pm. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): UNANTICIPATEDRELATIONSHIPS works by Karen Tashjian through Mar 19. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Bestow, works from the gallery’s estate collection. ThuSat 11am-5pm. BT&C Gallery (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, btandcgallery.com): See HiTemp listing. Fri 12-7pm select Sat 12-4pm, or by appointment. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Scott Bye: What Happens; Colleen Buzzard: Entangled. On view through Feb 28. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint.com) Western New York Landscapes by Dale Schwalenberg. On view through February 28. Open MonFri 9am-5:30pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare: Reflecting on the Life of the Bard. Milestones on Science: Books That Shook the World! 35 rare

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A fourth work is a video with audio juxtaposing and thus suggesting but not quite delineating interconnections among various color blue phenomena—literally or nominally—and the black ethnic community. Such as police blue—as was immediately referenced in response to the “Black Lives Matter” movement by interests wishing to undermine the movement by pretending it was created as an opposition movement to legitimate police functions and activities—and “blue code of silence” clandestine agreements and understandings among police officers not to snitch on misconduct or even criminal actions of fellow officers. And “chroma-key blue” digital standard technology for combining images, developed based on the blue color difference from human—particularly Caucasian human—skin color, and the so-called “blue screen of death” indicating computer system total breakdown. One segment of the work presents a series of individual photos of black people, presumably victims of police brutality or more likely killings. Mechanics of discrimination. Technology of discrimination. Now in digital mode and format. The Sondra Perry exhibit continues through April 1.

books from the history of science, on second floor. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6:00pm, Sun 12-5pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Jozef Bajus: Nothing Is Going Away through Mar 19. Babs Reingold: The Last Tree through Feb 26. 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. 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Canisius College Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library (Canisius College 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208, 888-8412, library.canisius.edu): Small works from the Gerald R. Mead collection. Canvas Salon & Gallery (9520 Main Street STE 400, Clarence, NY 14031, 716-320-5867): Work by Matthew Palmo. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter. org): CROSSROADS, works by Cornelia DohsePeck. On view through Feb 25 with artist’s talk Sat, Feb 11 at 1pm. Cass Project (500 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14204): Paintings by Ian de Beer in main lobby. This week Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Gisela Colón: Glo-Pods, through Feb 12. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8562717, cepagallery.org): Liagnxiang Wu: A Modern Flaneur’s Possession, CEPA Gallery Members’ Exhibition, Richardson Center Corporation &

CEPA Gallery: The Richardson Olmsted Complex, all on view through Mar 4. Mon-Fri 9am5pm, Sat 12-4pm. 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 10:30am-4pm. Dreamland (387 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, facebook.com/dreamlandarts.buffalo/ timeline): Open by event.Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board through Feb 22 (also at Sugar City). Works by Jenna Curran, Michael Degnan, Jacob Kassay, Dana McKnight, Ann Moody, Tommy Nguyen, Jesse Pace, and Rebecca Wing. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 4644692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Screen Shot, drawings by Patrick Foran and video installation work by Javier Sanchez on view through Feb 25. TueSat 12-5pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, 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. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. Hi-Temp (79 Perry Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8525656, Gallery hours are by appointment only): Joseph Piccillo, Resource:Art’s “Eminent” series. Through Feb 11, by appointment only: 2491320. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lin

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JOHN BONO John Bono is a photograper, cinematographer, media and installation artist, web designer, and programmer based in Buffalo. He received his BA (2010) and MFA (2014) in Media Study from UB. In addition to solo projects, he has worked with the Irish Classical Theatre, Torn Space Theatre, the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Squeaky Wheel, and is a frequent collaborator with media artist Brian Milbrand on projects including the “Front Yard” at the Burchfield Penney. Much of Bono’s own work explores the theme of melancholy and its connection to creativity, a role he conceives as primarily a positive and freeing one. For more information, visit luxetbono.com or burchfieldpenney.org. Artists Seen: Photographs of Artists in the 21st Century is an ongoing project by photographer David Moog in partnership with the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State. Moog has set out to make portraits of every self-identified working artist and arts professional in Western New York. To be included in the project, call David Moog directly at 716-472-6721 or contact the center at 716-878-4131. Artists working in all media are welcome; visit burchfieldpenney.org for more information. -THE PUBLIC

TimeTraveller™ by Skawenneti, at Squeaky Wheel.

coln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. On view ists: Kathleen West, Bradley Widman, Peter Potter, and Miranda Roth. Tue-Sat 10am–5pm. through Apr 26. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Za Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood AvePorter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the nue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): Paintings by Glenn Kroetsch. On view United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. through Feb 28. Wed-Fri, 12-7pm (until 9pm on Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aufirst Fridays), Sat & Sun 12-5pm. rora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts. Pine Apple Company (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, com): Special winter Feature by John RumNY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/store/ mell (1861-1942): on view through Feb 4. Tuepine-apple-company): Work for sale by ThomSat 9:30am-5:30pm. as James Holt, Yames Moffitt, Esther NeisNina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, en, Mickey Harmon, Mike West, and Sarah LidLenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-882- dell. Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, 5777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Black Sun 10am-5pm. and White: work by eight artists: John Coplans, Richard Fleischner, Robert Lobe, Mag- Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, da McHale, manda Means, Steve Miller, Kathy NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod. Muehlmann, and Peter Stephens.. Through com): Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, John Farallo, Chris McGee,Tim Raymond, March 15. Tue-Sat 10am–5pm. Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara CrockNorberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove er, Thomas Bittner, Susan Leibel, Barbara Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-652Lynch Johnt, Kisha Patterson, Lindsay Strong, 3270, norbergsartandframe.com): Local artFrank Russo, Michael Mulley. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm ists: Kathleen West, Bradley Widman, Peter and by appointment. Potter, and Miranda Roth. Tue-Sat 10am–5pm. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Love Sick: Street, East Aurora, NY 14052,DAILYPUBLIC.COM 716-652Because what other gallery in Buffalo can describe so appealing an intersecction between 3270, norbergsartandframe.com): Local art-

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love and death. Opening reception for a new group show, Saturdat, 2/11, 8-11pm. Sports Focus Physical Therapy (531 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202, 332-4838, sportsfocuspt.com): Jill Gustafson Glunz: Paintings and Drawings. On view through Feb 28. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, 6-9pm on first Fridays. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): TimeTraveller™ (2008–2013) presentation by artist Skawenneti, Sun, Feb 12, 5pm. Sondra Perry: flesh out. On view through Apr 1. Tue-Sat, 12pm-5pm. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio.org): Bobby Griffiths and Ray Barret. On view through Feb 28. Studio Hart (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 536-8337, studiohart.com): We Were Here: Ten Great Years at Studio Hart through Feb 22. TueFri 11:30am-3:30pm, Sat 12-4pm, and open every First Friday 6-9pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Light as a Feather, DAILYPUBLIC.COM Stiff as a Board through Feb 22 (Also at Dreamland). Works by Jenna Curran, Michael Degnan, Jacob Kassay, Dana McKnight, Ann Moody, Tom-

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my Nguyen, Jesse Pace, and Rebecca Wing. Open by event and on Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries.org): The Human Aesthetic, Cravens World. Claire Ashley: Loathsome Beauty Loaded Body through Apr 2. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Galleries (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Ebony G. Patterson: Dead Treez through May 13. Opening reception Thu, Feb 9, 5-8pm. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Photography Program Student Exhibit, on view through Feb 17. Mon-Fri 8am8pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 348-1430, wnybookarts.org): White.Lines.Matter: Edreys Wajed on view through Mar 10. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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That 1 Guy 7pm Studio at the Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $15 [FUNK] Magic pipes, musical boots, hairy mutton chops, psychedelic funk music—it may sound like a twisted acid trip, but it’s actually a That 1 Guy concert. The one-man band uses a variety of homemade instruments to concoct a strange yet funky musical experience that’s equally as sonically stimulating as it is visually intriguing. “How does he make these noises?” You’ll likely wonder to yourself, investigating his universe of unique gadgets that crowd around him. His magic pipe—a towering, crooked, homemade instrument—is, however, his signature instrument, which fans of That 1 Guy will instantly recognize. He’ll have his magic pipe and more when he comes to the Studio at the Waiting Room on Thursday, February 9 with Danimal Cannon. -CP

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[JAM] It might be a testament to quality, or maybe it’s just dumb luck. But jam-jazz trio Moon Hooch has been able to support its three members pretty much from the beginning, which consisted of busking in New York City. Which isn’t to suggest there’s any lack of talent involved. But lots of talented musicians struggle endlessly to stay in the game, just barely making their lives and careers somehow work together.

Singer/songwriter Damian has recently release a new album titled Earnest Kid. The 12-track record is an electronic folkpop record with a focus on the artist’s deadpan lyrical delivery and serene electronic melodies. The album stands in contrast to Damian’s electric guitar fitted previous album, On the Verge, which was released last April, and the full band instrumentation of the lo-fi indie-folk on 2014’s You Don’t Need It. Highlights from Earnest Kid include the tranquil title track, upbeat instrumental track “Kickshift Poolside,” and the moody minimal pop track “We’ll Be Ready.” Earnest Kid is available for free digital download on Bandcamp.

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“That’s what’s so crazy about this whole experience,” horn man Mike Wilbur explained over the phone as they headed back out on the road for a six week tour that arrives at Buffalo Iron Works on Wednesday, February 8. “We’ve had no day jobs since Moon Hooch started. We could support ourselves right off the bat.” Maybe the band’s success has more to do with there being nothing else around that sounds anything like them: two sax players (Wilbur and Wenzl McGowen, who both play other horns and wind instruments as well) and a drummer ( James Muschler), going at it hard, churning out hyper grooves that pull on everything from rock to swing to klezmer and well beyond. They’re a modern day force of fusion—innovative without becoming inaccessible. It’s high brow music that you can definitely dance to, which keeps a gleeful spirit running through their shows. Wilbur, McGowen, and Muschler met while attending the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in downtown Manhattan (also Becca Stevens’ alma mater). Up until that point, Wilbur had assumed he’d probably end up working in a funk/party outfit of some kind, performing lots of private house shows—not a bad way to make a living, but perhaps not the best method of engaging his muse. Moon Hooch feels much more appropriate. “I definitely think that we attract young jazz musicians and young instrumentalists, because we speak to them in a way that a rock band can’t,” he said. “We brought playing horns to the main stage as lead instruments, which I think gives up and coming jazz players a bit of hope. But it’s a diverse audience, and we work to engage everyone that comes to see us. Last night we played a sold out show and people from myriad backgrounds were in attendance: there was a big mosh pit circle and some older couples up front against the stage… lots of folks that just like to come and dance to something a little off the beaten path. I think the diversity of our audience is evident in the numbers we see for our videos on youtube. Our Tiny Desk show has 1.5 million views.” Indeed, Moon Hooch attracts a diverse audience that shares a love of listening. It’s not light enough to successfully ignore as background fodder for party conversations and endless selfies: the trio’s music demands your attention and presents a bit of a challenge. Last year’s Red Sky, (Hornblow/ Palmetto), received many raves, and Wilbur feels it was their best album to date. But he also feels the recording studio sells them a little short. “We all come from an improv background, and for me personally, I don’t feel like tracked studio recordings capture our true essence,” he said. “Improvising is really truthful. It’s what you are, what you’re capable of. Rehearsed music speaks to a different part of your creativity.” To satisfy the improv itch and perhaps come a little closer to truly representing the band’s musical spirit with a recording, Moon Hooch released a pay-what-you-can EP, The Joshua Tree, at the end of the year (which has nothing to do with the namesake release from that overrated Irish band). “We had some time off after our last tour and we wanted to do something more raw. We’re really into lo-fi, raw, intense music and we wanted to emulate that. [Sacramento-based experimental hip-hop trio] Death Grips does a lot of stuff like that, putting out free EPs in real time, rather than the planning and scheduling you go through with a label. It’s more like making music as an immediate expression, which is attractive. It’s sad that even music has to be looped in with the capitalist mindset and rabbit-chase of money. Ideologically, we’re not capitalists.” -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

WEDNESDAY FEB 8 Homesafe

6:30pm Studio at the Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $10-$12 [ROCK] Homesafe is a three-piece rock band formed in Chicago. The band independently re-

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leased their record Evermore in November of 2016, and have since embarked on an East Coast tour which brings them to Buffalo’s Studio at the Waiting Room on Wednesday, February 8. They’ll be joined by Oklahoma City-based pop punk band Life Lessons, Fort Wayne, Indiana singer/songwriter Chase Huglin, and more. -CP

7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $20-$24 [COUNTRY] "We're back-to-back undefeated world war champs/So take a cup, raise it up for my Uncle Sam," urges Granger Smith on his metal-tinged patriotic anthem, "Merica." Smith's star has been on the rise recently as the result of a major label push: After years of remaining an independent country artist, and with a fair bit of success doing so, he signed with the newly minted BBR Music Group imprint, Wheelhouse Records, for his recent Remington album, featuring the singles "Backroads Song," and "If the Boot Fits." Smith may revel in a chew-spitting, brew-swilling aesthetic that's lately taken the auto-tune-heavy country rock genre into a musical nowhereland, but using his real name (Earl Dibbles Jr.) as that of his hick alter ego, who guests on a few cuts (and at his shows), indicates that he's got a good sense of humor. Presented by WYRK, Country 106.5 at Town Ballroom this Friday, February 10. -CJT

Stephen Bishop 8pm Seneca Niagara Bear’s Den, 310 4th St $35 [POP] Stephen Bishop arrived on the scene at an odd time for singer-songwriters, as the genre’s reigning champs, James Taylor, Carole King, and Carly Simon (to name a few) struggled to keep pace with the increasing popularity of dance music and electronic instrumentation. His 1976 debut, Careless, and the follow-up, Bish (1978) were both certified gold and launched a handful of hit singles, (“On and On,” “Save it For a Rainy Day,” “Everybody Needs Love,” and “A Fool at Heart”), which remain soft-rock radio staples to this day. Never cut for pop stardom, Bishop went on to write songs for the screen, but his biggest score doing so was “It Might Be You,” from the film Tootsie, which he performed but didn’t write. His song “Separate Lives,” performed by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin on the White Knights soundtrack, was nominated for an Academy Award. He’s also made a bunch of film cameos, most notably as the folkie dude who gets his guitar smashed up by John Belushi in Animal House. Now 65, Bishop will perform at the intimate Bear’s Den in the Seneca Niagara Casino on Friday, February 10. -CJT

Red Hot Chili Peppers 8pm Key Bank Center, 1 Seymour H Knox III Plz [ROCK] Maybe the most intriguing aspect of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ latest album, The Getaway, is that the band worked with both Danger Mouse and Radiohead’s long-time producer Nigel Godrich. Because of this, you can expect at the very least that the album is perfectly produced. Sonically it sounds great. The bass is deep, the guitars shine, and the drums punch. What you might not expect are the musical stylings on the record. The first single, "Dark Necessities," moves effortlessly from alt rock to disco, to art rock and back—Godrich’s influence seems clear on this track especially as the overall vibe is not too different than the contemplative moods found on Radiohead’s latest album—the obvious difference being Anthony Kiedis’s love-it-or-hate-it voice. The rest of the album is noticeably low-key. There's nothing as aggressive as, say, "Higher Grounds," or as freaky as "Suck My Kiss" or "Give it Away." Though they've always had their mellow side, even on many of their hits, the band—like Radiohead—seems to have mellowed even more with age. Notable is the absence of guitarist John Frusciante, who left the band before the release of their last record, I’m With You, but

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7PM / BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER, 1300 ELMWOOD AVE / FREE [SCREENING] On Thursday, February 9, the Burchfield Penney Art Center will screen the film 13TH by director Ava Duvernay. The screening is part of the art center’s series, Beyond Boundaries: Dare to Be Diverse. Duvernay is the first black female director to have a film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for her 2014 film Selma, the historical drama about Martin Luther King’s march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama in a campaign for equal voting rights for African Americans. Duvernay’s follow up, 13TH—a reference to the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery—is a documentary film about race and the prison-industrial system, which makes the connection between slavery and this country’s current state of mass incarceration. The film begins with the shocking, though maybe not surprising, statistic that 25 percent of the people in the world who are incarcerated are incarcerated in the US.) The series is curated by Buffalo State College professors Ruth Goldman, Meg Knowles, Michael Niman (a columnist for this publication), and Jason Parker. The screening is free and open to the public. -CORY PERLA

guitarist Josh Klinghoffer does a good enough job replicating Frusciante’s style, though his guitars often take a back seat to Flea’s potent bass-playing. When the band comes to the Key Bank Center on Friday, February 10, fans can obviously expect to hear many of the band’s hits, but might be surprised to hear some of the slower, softer cuts from The Getaway. -CP

Dub Affair with Styn and Berrix 8pm Venu, 75 West Chippewa $20 [ELECTRONIC/DANCE] The 19-year-old producer from the Netherlands, Styn, electrifies the stage with his versatile transitions from dubstep, trap, and hip hop. Berrix, the DJ newbie hailing from Antwerp, Belgium comes with a classic dubstep sound and pounding technical styles. What do you do when you put them together? The ultimate Dub Affair. Check them out at the the VENU this Friday, February 10. -SCHONDRA AYTCH

SATURDAY FEB 11 Doyle Bramhall II 7pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $24 [ROCK] The last time Doyle Bramhall was in the Buffalo area, Mother Nature cheated him. For the summer 2015 Wheels of Soul Tour gig at Artpark, which featured the Tedeschi Trucks Band, concertgoers waited out torrential downpours under shelters scattered throughout the venue's grounds before a cloud-clearing got the gates to finally open. The late Sharon Jones performed, but Bramhall's early set got cut due to lost time. He'll fare better when he plays at the Tralf Music Hall on Saturday, February 11 in support of his Concord release, Rich Man, which came out last fall. Largely a tribute to his dad, blues great Doyle Bramhall senior, the disc is all originals written in the wake of his 2011 death with the exception of a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Hear My Train A Comin'." There are exceptions, however: the infectiously funky

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7pm Key Bank Center, 1 Seymour H Knox III Plz $60-$550 [R&B] Sultry, soulful, and funky R&B will be in Buffalo this Saturday, Febuary 11 when Charlie Wilson, co-founder of iconic funk trio the Gap Band, comes to the Key Bank Center. Wilson kicks off 2017 as a best-selling author for his memoir I Am Charlie Wilson, with his new single “Blessed” featuring T.I, and with his album In It to Win It, slated for release mid-February. Joining him is Grammy award-winng songstress Fantasia (check out her album The Definition of…) and four-time Grammy nominee Johnny Gill. Gill, longtime member of New Edition, who recently released a mini-series biopic, just dropped his own album, Game Changer, available on iTunes. -SA

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on tour in support of their 10th studio album, Unleashed, which was released in 2016. They’ll bring that tour to Niagara Falls for a stop at the Rapids Theatre on Saturday, February 11 with support from Sick Puppies and Devour the Day. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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[TRANSMEDIA] Squeaky Wheel is hosting a special appearance by Montreal-based artist Skawennati who will be presenting her award-winning transmedia piece TimeTraveller™ (2008–2013) this Sunday. Created and shot in the virtual world of Second Life, this machinima video series re-imagines the history of colonization from the point of view of native peoples in a science-fiction future. Hailing from the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve in Quebec, Two Row Times has called her arguably "the most instrumental Haudenosaunee person bringing an Indigenous perspective to the forefront of multimedia and popular culture." -AARON LOWINGER

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FLIRTSHOP 7pm — 10pm, Pine Apple Company, 224 Allen St.

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7PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. / $13-$15 [INDIE] Buffalo’s Lemuria are in it for the long haul. Formed in Buffalo in 2004—as the official story goes, the band came into existence inside of the hipster breakfast spot Amy’s Place, likely over a Margie Meal wrap—the hard-working band has toured consistently across the country and even internationally. Lead by guitarist/vocalist Sheena Ozzella, the three-piece have released several albums, but their debut record, Get Better, is what they’ll be focusing on for their latest tour, which celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the record. Get Better was released on Asian Man Records (Less Than Jake and Alkaline Trio are among the label’s alumni) and recorded in Lockport at Watchmen Studios in 2008. Though their emo-tinged indie rock music has brought them around the world, there’s nothing like playing their hometown, drummer Alex Kearns told The Public in an interview in 2015. “It’s different because we know everyone in the crowd. It’s like a little reunion,” he said. If you want to be a part of the next reunion, check out Lemuria when they return to Mohawk Place as part of their Get Better 10 Year Anniversary Tour on Friday, February 10. Support from Mikey Erg and Cayetana. -CORY PERLA

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Palberta 7pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St. $6 [PUNK] Indie punk band Palberta return to Buffalo for a show at Sugar City on Monday, February 13. The noise-rock band from Brooklyn are on tour in support of their forthcoming record Bye Bye Berta, slated for release on Brooklyn’s Wharf Cat Records. As the band describes it, the record will be as concise as it gets: Most songs on the record are less than two minutes long. "At this point writing short songs feels more intuitive for us than intentional—it's the natural way," says one of the band’s multi-instrumentalists, Nina Ryser. Their combination of their noisey punk sounds, sense of humor, and talent is worth the price of admission, which is only $6. As is the case for many Sugar City events, folks under 18 pay what they can. Local support comes from Slow Mutants, Award Show, and Dildon't. -CP

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Cherub and the Floozies 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $25 [INDIE] The Floozies have teamed up with the indie electro-pop group Cherub for “Your Girlfriend Already Bought Tickets Tour” that hits the Town Ballroom, on Valentine's Day, Tuesday, February 14. The funky brother duo originally from Kansas is currently on back-to-back tours—just finishing their Power Ranger tour a couple months ago. Their music, heavily infused with bouncy electro funk instrumentals, is bound to please. Cherub, who just released their sophomore album, Bleed Gold, Piss Excellence, is known for his left-field, futuristic space hip hop vibes. Chicago rapper and special guest ProbCause will also be in the building. -SA

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10PM / NIETZSCHE'S, 248 ALLEN ST. / $10-$13 [INDIE] Guitar rocker Steve Marion, better known as Delicate Steve, plays all of the instruments on his new record, This Is Steve, which was released just a few weeks ago. But you can catch him with a full band when he comes to Nietzsche’s on Friday, February 10. For an instrumental guitar record, This Is Steve is surprisingly lyrical. Marion has a knack for telling a story with his guitar, writing melodies that feel like a universal language that anyone can sing along to. But as previously mentioned, Marion plays all of the instruments on the record, and although guitars tend to be at the center, songs like “Driving” are led by Steve’s delicate piano, and “Together” weaves together wah-effected guitars with meaty synthesizers. Whether you’re into bands like Ratatat or Paul Simon, you’ll likely find something to groove with at a Delicate Steve live show. Buffalo’s Aircraft and Witty Tarbox play in support. Presented by Sunbeam Entertainment. -CORY PERLA

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[FUN] For all the single ladies and gents on Valentine’s Day, fear not, the Black Heart Singles Party is here and there’s plenty of sexy goodies to go around. The annual event held by Malik Von Saint, taking place at Lockhouse Distillery, is set to bring you an atmosphere catered to singles. Whether you’re just celebrating being single or looking to flirt with your next sweetie, this party has something for everyone. Who knows, maybe you’ll find your soulmate or maybe just make a few new friends. Either way, come dressed to impress and have a few specialty cocktails or craft beers while jamming to music from DJ Malik Von Saint. Also featured will be erotic toys for sale by Tessa Lowe of Primrose Path Boutique. Last but not least, a kissing booth will be set up for those ambitious singles looking to snatch a kiss or two. Whether you link up with someone at the event or not, this party is about flaunting your singledom and showing others Valentine’s Day isn’t only just for couples. -VANESSA OSWALD

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Saturnalia Books, 70 pages (poems) Natalie Shapero was a captivating reader last summer during the July installment of the Silo City Reading Series. Shapero stresses an economy of language in her work and readers will find themselves taken with the quietly tragic laughter along the edges of her poems—something not quite along the lines of gallows humor, more like a joke told to you by a resigned fireman as your house burns down. “I heard an accomplished scientist refer to the practice of autopsy/as questioning with a knife. He kissed me in a library.” The poems in No Object strive to communicate to the reader in a language of doomed playfulness, or perhaps more accurately, a playful sense of doom.

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The regular fund raiser for Sugar City, the Buffalo DIY arts collective, happens once again on Saturday, February 11 at Milkie’s on Elmwood. Since moving to their location on Niagara Street three years ago, Sugar City has held nearly 400 events. If you want to help them keep doing what they’re doing, Soul Night is a great way to put some money in their pockets and have a great time dancing to some soul and funk classics. DJs this time around include Handsome Dan, Good Reverend Johnny Drama, DJ Pat K and special guest DJ Jheri Kurl. There’ll also be some raffles and special surprises, so get there early. -CORY PERLA

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HAPPY GALENTINE’S DAY! FROM: BLUE SKY DESIGN SUPPLY AND DIY BFLO, WHO WANT TO HELP YOU TO EXPRESS YOUR LOVE EVERY FEBRUARY you’re flooded by Valentine’s Day and its ridiculous expectations. The store shelves are lined with chocolates, roses, jewelry, cards, and numerous shades of red that scream, “Pick me!” You agonize over what to buy or plan for your significant other and wonder if they’re taking this holiday as seriously as you. Or you think maybe you’re not taking it seriously enough. Or maybe you’re single and just want to drown out the fact you’ll most likely be eating leftover pizza alone over your kitchen sink on February 14. Either way, why don’t we all try something different this year? Let’s take a different approach, focus on being thankful for all the love we experience on a daily basis in our lives, express that gratitude, and let the stress melt away.

There’s a better holiday, and it comes the day before Valentine’s Day. It’s called Galentine’s Day. This year Blue Sky Design Supply is teaming up with DIY BFLO to offer a special class celebrating Galentine’s Day. This holiday, seen by many as an add-on to Valentine’s Day, was made popular by Amy Poehler’s character Leslie Knope from the TV comedy series Parks and Recreation. This special day, deserving to stand on its own, takes place on February 13 and is devoted to celebrating the love you have for your best friends, your family, and even yourself. Halley Marie Shaw, who works at Blue Sky, and Melissa Swiatek-Odien, owner of DIY BFLO, will be teaching a Galentine’s Day card-making workshop on Sunday, February 12, 1-3pm.

Most of the classes offered at Blue Sky, which specializes in selling eco-friendly home décor and craft products, focus on specific home improvement techniques, like paint methods for upcycling furniture or painting cabinetry. “This class is a bit of a human interest course rather than home improvement,” Shaw says. “We are doing something for anyone who has wanted to try crafting, but hasn’t felt comfortable yet. We want to provide a positive space where students walk away with a new skill set that can be applied to making use of one’s craft stash.” While teaching class participants card-making skills and chalk paint techniques, Shaw and Swiatek-Odien will also share some creativity prompts. “It will be a great outlet not only to find a creative way to express gratitude without feeling bombarded by the societal pressure that focuses on romantic love, but will also be a way to tap into self-care by allowing oneself to play and get curious,” Shaw said. Both instructors want to emphasize that love comes in many forms and that it’s beneficial to recognize all the people who bring joy to your life. And what better way to show them than with a personalized card or collage made of recycled products? Not only can you express your love and gratitude with a one-of-a-kind piece of art, but you can lessen your carbon footprint while doing it. Participants will receive their own materials pack at the start of the class, which includes a variety of traditional and non-traditional reclaimed or recycled papers. (Past issues of The Public will also be on hand for people to add to their creations.) Stencils will be available for tracing shapes and making envelopes, as well as chalk paint, adhesives, scissors, and more. While you don’t have to show up to the class with any materials,

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the instructors encourage participants to bring their own odds and ends and found items to spice up their Galentine’s Day cards if they wish to give their projects an extra personal touch. “Things like unique papers, fabric, rubber stamps, ink pads, dried flowers, and copies of photos would work well for this type of project,” Swiatek-Odien said. Owner Tyra Johnson, who opened Blue Sky in 2010, is excited to offer the community a class that exposes people to her eco-friendly products and allows them to tap into their creative sides. “Antecdotal evidence suggests people want to have learning opportunities in a fun and relaxing way,” Johnson said. “We want to encourage people to be creative and lessen their impact on the environment. It’s a win for the individual and our greater community.” Blue Sky sells several alternatives to conventional products that can be harmful to the environment. Some of the most popular items are interior finishes like paints, stains, sealants, and removable wallpaper. They also have crafty items like Washi Tape and recycled yarns. There are home and lifestyle products like cleaners, furniture polish, handmade dryer balls, and food wraps. A selection of decorative and gift items are available as well. “Many of these products aren’t available at big-box hardware stores,” Swiatek-Odien said. “They offer shoppers eco-friendly options that they would not otherwise have or would have had to seek out online. I also love how knowledgeable they are about the products. That’s something that online reviews and product descriptions just can’t duplicate.” Blue Sky Design Supply is located at 978 Elmwood Avenue. The workshop is $25. Snacks and juice will be provided. Those 21 and over can bring their own alcoholic beverages if they wish. Spend this Galentine’s Day with friends, family, loved ones, pets, or by yourself, if that’s your jam. Make it a point to remember all the people in your life who send their love to you on the regular and without expecting anything in return. And don’t worry about Valentine’s Day, whether you’re with a significant other or not, beP cause your Galentine’s Day crew has your back.

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LINCOLN IN THE BARDO BY AIDAN RYAN

IN HIS NEW NOVEL, GEORGE SAUNDERS ASKS HOW WE LIVE, TOGETHER AND APART WE’RE DROPPED INTO the chilly Washington of February, 1862: “a nation that had known little of sacrifice” (as one historian puts it) is beginning to witness the enormous toll of a Civil War just beginning; the unpopular President Abraham Lincoln is tasked with saving a nation that inked its doom into its own Constitution; and his son Willie is dying of typhoid.

It’s a setting begging for a sweeping panoramic treatment, an American epic, but, after a dazzling collage of accounts from the Lincoln’s first, lavish reception, a party Willie only heard from his deathbed, most of the novel takes places at night, in the Georgetown Oak Hill Cemetery, which is a bardo, a sort of Tibetan Buddhist purgatory. Outside, the nation is at its most vulnerable. But, like the spirits that inhabit it, our concerns are mostly kept inside the fence. Instead of giving us a hero-tale like The Killer Angels, Saunders focuses tightly on the day of Willie Lincoln’s death and the night after the funeral, when the president returns to the crypt to cradle the corpse—like an “American Pietà,” Saunders says, an image that’s plagued him through countless attempts to write this book since about 1994. To tell this story, Saunders animates a dizzying heteroglossia, an American chorus of historical commentary, eyewitness accounts, and invented characters—a president and his hatemail, slaves and servants and soldiers, eloquent voices and voices just this side of silence—a bold formal leap forward in an age when doubting the novelist’s potential to innovate is a commonplace. (And, on that note, the audiobook promises to be an extraordinary achievement in its own right, with a chorus including Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, Don Cheadle, Bill Hader, Rainn Wilson, Lena Dunham, and Jeff Tweedy—along with Saunders himself and another 158 voices.) As a short story writer Saunders is a living master, peer to Flannery O’Connor and Anton Chekhov. Now he’s more than proved himself in a new medium: Not since John Dos Passos has an American novelist dared so much. The pleasures of the book are not all style, sound, and slapstick. While staging a battle over Willie Lincoln’s soul, Saunders also limns a dozen kinds of thwarted loves; he gives voice to the unspeakable horrors of rape and of slavery—while somehow acknowledging that these remain unspeakable; he captures a painful but not hopeless tableau of American

racism; and he renders anew one of the most studied, analyzed, vilified, and revered figures in human history. Like one character in the “bardo,” a once-enthusiastic hunter fated to acknowledge and caress and pour attention and affection into each creature he killed while living, Saunders also reverently acknowledges all those sense-ephemera that make life so precious, and so difficult to give up—“a gaggle of children trudging through a side-blown December flurry…someone remembering to write; someone noticing that you are not at all at ease…Geese above, clover below, the sound of one’s own breath when winded.” He captures the fleeting-ness of all that is fleeting, from memories to life itself: we come to understand, with Lincoln, that “all things started as nothing…but we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth. And now must lose them.” If there is a question at the heart of the book— How do we live (together and apart)?—then it’s a question grounded in a “conditionality,” one Saunders and Zadie Smith teased out in a recent conversation, which he phrases like this: “1) we’re born to love, and 2) all that we love will eventually disappear (as will we).” Not since John has any great writer peddled revelations—Saunders doesn’t—but the experience of reading this book, a prolonged, intense awareness of this “conditionality,” forces us to confront questions to which our daily duties and preoccupations usually leave us numb. This is the realization Saunders’s Lincoln comes to toward the end of the novel: “that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering…that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his,” and that all people are “Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.” Better than any critic, Saunders here describes all the characters he’s produced in more than 20 years as “satirist,” “saint,” short story writer, and now novelist. These are the qualities that make his characters so compelling—and so easy to inhabit. It’s time to say that Saunders, in Lincoln in the Bardo, has ascended into that rank of writers who, perhaps once a century, distill in words and images one of the irreducible elements of the human condition, theretofore undefined. We have the Quixotic for indefatigable romance, or as Harold Bloom puts it, “a persua-

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sive awakening into mortality.” We have the Karamazovian for the human tendency to excess: of feeling, belief, idiocy, guilt, sacrifice. We have the Kafkaesque for the vast cruelty of all that we cannot understand. And now we have the Saunderseque: an awareness of humanity as “Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces”—a beautiful thing, as h renders it here. Spirits in the bardo realize they can cohabit and coexist, in the most radical sense of the word— with each other and with living humans—and in this way find hope, at least, of some redemption, of doing some good that will matter. As Saunders carries his experiment in metempsychosis, intelligent empathy, to its exquisite conclusion, the reader begins to wonder if this isn’t limited to the bardo, if it might be achieved in the “real” world.

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As “new” an achievement as this is, Lincoln does grow out of Saunders’ previous work—in many ways, it seems like an act of alchemy on the elements of “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” the title story of his first collection—one that seems much gentler now than it did to critics when it was published in 1996. Other works by Saunders seem like precious antidotes to the present—The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, about the rise (and fall) of a fear-and difference-baiting demagogue, or The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, an illustrated children’s book about community, generosity, forgiveness, and the opposites of these virtues. Lincoln in the Bardo is something more. There is disappointment in finishing the book—disappointment that it is over and that you will never have the chance to read it for the first time again. There is comfort, too, because you can return. But there is something more: It’s a sense of being reborn, that you’ve earned a second chance at life, and that this time, you might do it all better. Aidan Ryan is a writer, editor, and adjunct professor at Canisius College, a regular music critic for The Skinny, and co-editor of P Foundlings poetry magazine.

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PATERSON / THE 2017 OSCAR SHORT FILM NOMINEES BY M. FAUST HE WAKES UP every day at pretty much the same time, be-

tween 6 and 6:30. He has an old-fashioned alarm clock on his nightstand, the kind with a dial that you have to wind up, which might go off if he oversleeps, but he doesn’t in the week we spend with him. He has Cheerios for breakfast in a kitchen with a cornflower casserole dish on the stove. While he eats he examines a box of Ohio Blue Tip Matches, which he thinks about as he walks to work. He drives a bus in the city of Paterson, New Jersey, a pleasant small city whose name he shares. His job doesn’t command all of his attention all of the time. He likes to listen in on the conversations of the people riding behind him. And he thinks about that box of matches, which provide him with an image that he will turn into a poem, a few lines at a time. It’s not that Paterson (Adam Driver) is a “poet.” But he writes poetry. And that difference is the basis for this film, named after him or the city, probably both, which is the loveliest, most heartfelt movie Jim Jarmusch has made in more than three decades as a filmmaker. Jarmusch made his reputation in the independent film boom of the mid-1980s as an ironist, a hipster before the word became popular and maligned. He championed black-and-white photography, archaic music, and cities. If he helped inspire a generation of young people who took up those things as an affectation, you can’t hold it against him. His early protagonists were people out of step with their environments, always a choice subject for humor. As he progressed, his work became increasingly about homage, to writers like William Blake or older filmmakers like Ozu and Melville. It got to the point where his last feature, Only Lovers Left Alive, sank under the weight of its references: under its trendy vampire story, it seemed to exist only as a way for Jarmusch to name-check all of his favorite writers and musicians.

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OPENING THIS WEEK FIFTY SHADES DARKER—Sequel. Starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, and Eric Johnson. Directed by James Foley (Who’s That Girl?). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, North Park, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO—Highly acclaimed (96/100 on MetaCritic) documentary based on James Baldwin’s unfinished last book, a meditation about racism in America through the lives and assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X. Directed by Raoul Peck (Lumumba). Dipson Amherst JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2—Sequel. Starring Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Peter Stormare, Laurence Fishburne, John Leguizamo, Peter Serafinowicz, Common, and Franco Nero. Directed by former stunt coordinator Chad Stahelski. Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE—Technically not a sequel, but c’mon. Directed by Chris McKay (Robot Chicken). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Hamburg Palace, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS—Annual compilations of the films nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Short Film and Best Short Animated Film. Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills PATERSON—Jim Jarmusch’s takes a break from irony with this look at a New Jersey bus driver (Adam Driver) who writes poetry. With Golshifteh Farahani and Method Man. Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills

Adam Driver and Golshifteh Farahani in Paterson.

But while Paterson has its patron saint—the poet William Carlos Williams, a native son of the city where the film is set—it scarcely matters. This is a portrait of simple life, almost idyllically so, and of a man who finds in poetry a vehicle for appreciation. The opening 10 minutes or so would make a perfect short film in and of itself, containing almost everything to be found in the rest of the film. Paterson’s week follows a comfortable routine. He works, he has dinner with his wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), who is understanding of him while being different enough to maintain an active chemistry. After dinner he walks the dog and stops by the local bar for a beer. This is the kind of gin mill where people can chat, play chess, and play jazz on the juke box. (If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember Anacones on Bailey.) When someone asks the owner/ bartender, “You’re never gonna get a TV in here?” he thunders, “Hell no!” Is much modern life like this? Of course not. When was the last time you were in a bar that didn’t have a TV set? Or even fewer than a half dozen of them? Paterson’s Paterson is an idealized place, where the downtown is still thriving yet not congested. ( Jarmusch is clearly not a guy you will ever find in an urban lifestyles center.) There are no cell phones, even if the movie acknowledges that they’re sometimes a necessity, which is what sets this apart from being an American version of the Kinks’ ode to all things antiquated, “The Village Green Preservation Society.” Does Paterson have all that he needs? For the time being. What’s more important is that he values everything that he has, and that makes him a man to be envied.

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA CASABLANCA (1941)—Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in what is by general consensus Hollywood’s greatest romance, if not the most popular Hollywood film period. Call it a miracle of studio craftsmanship, a whole that exceeds the sum of its parts, and an almost mythological example of why we love movies so much. Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Paul Heinreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, S.Z. Sakall and Dooley Wilson. Fr, Sat, Mon, Tue, 7:15 pm, Sun noon. Screening Room DECONSTRUCTING THE BEATLES’ SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND—Second in the series of documentary films dissecting the Beatles’ best albums. North Park, Thu 7pm; Hallwalls, Wed-Thu Feb 1516, 7:30pm. THE LADY GAMBLES (1949)—Barbara Stanwyck as a housewife is ruined when she becomes addicted to gambling when her husband (Robert Preston) takes her to Las Vegas. Look for Tony Curtis as a bellboy. Directed by Michael Gordon (Another Part of the Forest). With the short Disney’s “Suzie The Little Blue Coupe.” Presented by the Old Chestnut Film Society. Fri 7:30pm, Community Room of the Philip Sheridan School, 3200 Elmwood Ave. PERSUASION (Great Britain, 2007)—Adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel about a young woman (Sally Hawkins) who meets the naval officer (Rupert Penry-Jones) she once spurned after her family’s finances have been ruined. With Alice Krige, Peter Wight and Julia Davis. Presented by the Roycroft Film Society. Sun 4 pm. Parkdale School Auditorium, 141 Girard Ave., East Aurora, 14052 THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)—Rob Reiner’s fractured fairy tale, adapted by William Goldman from his own novel, with a cast of comedians poking fun at children’s fantasy stories. Starring Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, Billy Crystal, Robin Wright Penn, Peter Falk, Peter Cook, Mel Smith, and Carol Kane. Fri, Sat, Mon, Tue 9:30pm, Sat 2:15pm. Screening Room THE RED SHOES (Great Britain, 1948)—The greatest film ever made about dance, but if that doesn’t appeal to you don’t let it keep you away: For sheer

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••• If you live in Los Angeles and you’re a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, you can attend special screenings of the films nominated for the Academy’s annual awards show, which you may know as the Oscars. The rest of us have to see the nominees where and when we can. But if you want to be one up on your peers in the range of awards about you can make an informed prediction, you’ll want to head to the Eastern Hills cinema this week to see either or both of the programs compiling the nominees for Best Live Action and Animated Short Film awards. In the past these have been categories spotlighting work of an experimental bent, from newcomers or from filmmakers looking to try out new ideas that might not deserve a full-length film. (A short film is defined as 40 minutes or less.) The categories have somewhat unfortunately been taken over by resume builders, up-and-comers using short films as a means to get into the big leagues. Still, the programs offer much to recommend them, and if you don’t like a film, it gives way before too long to another contender. If you can only get to one of the two, I recommend the animated shorts, where the most imaginative and surprising work is to be found. One warning: At least two of the five nominees are not terribly kid-friendly. My favorites, if you want to compare notes, are the animated “Pearl,” a wordless gem about a father and daughter, and “Timecode,” about two co-workers who P get to know each other through security cameras.

cinematic voluptuousness, and despite everything it has influenced (lately Black Swan and Kate Bush), it remains unparalleled. Starring Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, and Anton Walbrook. Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Stairway to Heaven). Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (Italy, 1959)—Luchino Visconti’s lengthy (three hours), operatically intense epic about five young men and their mother who relocate from the impoverished southern region of Italy to the north, where they hope to find work. Starring Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou and Claudia Cardinale. The Wednesday screening will be introduced by riverrun Global Film Series curator Tanya Shilina-Conte. Thursday’s screening will be introduced by The Public’s M. Faust. Presented by Cultivate Cinema Circle. Wed Feb 8, Thu Feb 9, 7pm. Hallwalls TIMETRAVELLER—Montreal based artist Skawennati present her transmedia artwork that re-imagines the history of colonization from the point of view of native peoples in a science-fiction future. Co-presented with PLASMA at the Department of Media Study. Sun 5pm. Squeaky Wheel

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ARRIVAL—A linguist (Amy Adams) and a mathematician (Jeremy Renner) are recruited by the government to try to communicate with the occupants of 12 alien spacecraft that have landed around the globe, hopefully before the rulers of any other country decide that the ships are a threat and attack them. This speculative fiction movie by Denis Villeneuve (Sicario) is short on action but long on process, and all the more engrossing for it. The place it takes you to, cerebral and emotional, fills a gap left by the absence of a new Christopher Nolan movie, so pay attention. The ambitious and memorable score is by Jóhann Jóhannsson, Co-starring Michael Stuhlbarg and Forest Whitaker. —MF Regal Transit ASSASSIN’S CREED—Effects-heavy video game adaptation, but check out this cast: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, and Michael Kenneth Williams.

Directed by Justin Kurzel, who worked with Fassbender on last year’s Macbeth. Dipson McKinley COLLATERAL BEAUTY—In Will Smith’s annual Oscar bait drama, he plays a man trying to make sense of life after being struck by tragedy. Co-starring Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Peña, Helen Mirren and Keira Knightley. Directed by David Frankel (Marley and Me). Dipson McKinley THE COMEDIAN—If Robert De Niro conceived of this long-cherished project as a sort of sequel to 1983’s The King of Comedy, it’s one that lacks most of that film’s satirical bite. As Jackie Berkowitz, a veteran stand-up unhappily coasting on audiences’ memories of a sitcom he made 30 years ago, De Niro is better at channeling the anger under the smile than he is at making you laugh. He’s misogynistic and bitter, and the film seems to suggest that such is the future of his profession, which won’t be news to anyone who has seen a comedy show in the last 20 years. Jackie’s performances are vulgar but not particularly shocking; the film’s blandness is leavened by a strong supporting cast, including Leslie Mann, Danny DeVito, Edie Falco, Patti LuPone, Charles Grodin, Cloris Leachman and Harvey Keitel, who does a brief De Niro impression. Directed by Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman). —MF Dipson Flix, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit DOCTOR STRANGE—Benedict Cumberbatch grabs for one of those fat Marvel paychecks, as do Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Mads Mikkelsen, Tilda Swinton, Michael Stuhlbarg and Benedict Wong. Directed by Scott Derrickson (Deliver Us From Evil). Dipson McKinley A DOG’S PURPOSE—Director Lasse Hallström could have reused the title of his first international hit, My Life as a Dog, for this fantasy about a dog who learns the meaning of his existence over several lifetimes and owners. Starring Britt Robertson, Dennis Quaid, and Peggy Lipton. Regal Elmwood, Regal Walden Galleria, Dipson Flix, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit FENCES—Set in the 1950s, August Wilson’s play is as lacerating a portrait of American manhood as Death of a Salesman. Denzel Washington (who also directed) recreates his performance from the 2010 Broadway revival of Troy Maxson, a Pittsburgh garbage collector reflecting on the journey of his life.

AT THE MOVIES FILM 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. With Michael Sheen and Laurence Fishburne. Directed by Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game). —MF Four Seasons, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

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PATRIOTS DAY—Docudrama about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the manhunt to find the two young men responsible for it. It’s competently done, but as it’s less than four months since director Peter Berg did the same thing with Deepwater Horizon, 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? Or that we prefer a tidy fictionalization to a documentary with unanswered questions? Starring Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Michelle Monaghan, Alex Wolff, Themo Melikidze, and J. K. Simmmons. —MF Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER—After sitting through 100 minutes of this sequel’s unwatchable machine-gun edited violence, interspersed with occasional bouts of expositional dialogue, I can report that while the main story is more or less concluded, you can expect more sequels. Perhaps Resident Evil: The New Generation? Starring Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, and Iain Glen as a villain I couldn’t help but compare to Steve Bannon. Directed, as usual, by Paul W. S. Anderson, who is not to be confused with Magnolia and Inherent Vice director Paul Thomas Anderson. –MF Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria RINGS—Long-delayed second sequel to the 2002 American remake of the Japanese horror film about…hey, wake up! Starring Vincent D’Onofrio, Laura Wiggins, Aimee Teegarden and Bonnie Morgan. Directed by F. Javier Gutiérrez. Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria 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). Regal Walden Galleria THE SPACE BETWEEN US—A teenage boy (Asa Butterfield) who was born on the first human colony on Mars visits Earth for the first time. Co-starring Britt Robertson, Janet Montgomery, Carla Gugino, and Gary Oldman. Directed by Peter Cheslom (Hear My Song). Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria SPLIT—Despite looking an awful lot like the very unscary Tony Hale, James McAvoy acts up a storm as a man with 23 separate personalities who kidnaps three young girls in order to—well, that would be giving it away. Not that you find out everything you want to know by the end of the movie, which seems clearly intended as the first in a series, and therefore leaves an awful lot of unanswered questions. You’re more likely to get something out of it if you remember writer/director M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable, from 17 years ago, but if a movie isn’t going to be self-contained there should be a warning to audiences before they buy their tickets. With Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, and Betty Buckley. —MF 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. The comedy is largely based on embarrassment, including an endless scene with Cranston sitting on a malfunctioning Japanese toilet. There are no really big laughs, though a fair share of gigglers on the sidelines. A must see for fans of the band Kiss, though. With Megan Mullally, Zoey Deutch, Keegan-Michael Key, and Cedric the Entertainer. Directed by John Hamburg (I Love You, Man). —MF Dipson McKinley XXX: THE RETURN OF XANDER CAGE—Sequel. You gotta give Vin Diesel this: It takes serious balls to pretend to be a bad-ass action hero when your co-stars are Donnie Yen and Tony Jaa. Who, along with Bollywood star Deepika Padukone, clue you in that the US is not where the producers expect to make their money back. Directed by D.J. Caruso (I Am Number Four). Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, P Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

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