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None of these sources want their name attached to their assessments, because lawyers and other habitués of the legal system are careful that way: They must do business before the courts, and the courts don’t forget. Even if Michalek—as far as we can tell, accused of accepting some sort of a bribe, with Pigeon as an intermediary—resigns or is removed from the bench, other judges will cast a wary eye on the lawyer who compromised one of their own. The one guy in town who has never seemed to give a damn about such niceties is Art Giacalone. Over four decades, Giacalone has run his own practice, specializing in environmental and zoning law. He is a hero to local environmentalists and good government advocates, one of the last sincere champions of state and local environmental assessment statutes; he has likewise been a thorn in the side of local developers and the elected officials who service them, mislabeled for his efforts as an obstructionist, subjected to threats of personal and professional injury. Giacalone will always go on the record. And he’s no fan of Judge Michalek.

When Giacalone offered Michalek’s prejudicial behavior as reason that the judge should

In the end, Giacalone’s objections to Michalek’s treatment of his clients and himself were upheld. The order of protection that Michalek placed on Giacalone regarding outside communication about the case was lifted. The project apparently died under the weight of unreasonable ambition and neighborhood objections, though its status is unknown. Last Saturday, May 7, the Buffalo News ran an article by reporter Dan Herbeck about the investigation into Michalek, headlined “Judge Michalek, facing ‘very serious’ investigation, has unblemished record.” In that article Herbeck broke the news that this week a grand jury would begin to hear evidence that Pigeon and Michalek were involved in a bribery scheme. (The story goes that Michalek solicited a favor from Pigeon while a close associate to Pigeon was involved in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit in front of the judge.) Herbeck also offers testimony to Michalek’s heretofore “unblemished record.”

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Herbeck’s article goes on to quote three local attorneys—Steven M. Cohen, John J. Molloy, and Daniel J. Henry—all of whom express surprise that Michalek should be the subject of a criminal inquiry. Prior to writing the piece, Herbeck spoke with Giacalone about his negative experience with Michalek. According to Herbeck’s subsequent email correspondence with Giacalone, Herbeck included that negative experience in the article he submitted to his editors at the Buffalo News. But that balancing narrative apparently was removed by Herbeck’s editors. In that correspondence, Giacalone noted for Herbeck that Michalek’s “willingness to do virtually anything Dennis Vacco asked him to do in this case—no matter what the law said—was inexplicable. Something—beyond the search for justice—was motivating his handling of the case.”

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Over the course of three years, from 2011 to 2014, Giacalone represented a group of homeowners who objected to a development plan for several parcels at the corner of Forest and Elmwood. Michalek’s behavior toward Giacalone personally and his clients in general during that case was beastly. He upbraided Giacalone and his clients in open court. At the urging of the plaintiff developer’s attorney, Dennis Vacco, he ordered Giacalone to cease communications regarding the case and the developer, Chason Affinity, with other parties outside the courtroom—specifically Kaleida Health, which was considering a bid from Chason Affinity for redevelopment of its Gates Circle hospital—in clear violation of Giacalone’s First Amendment rights. In the course of the hearings, Michalek made various rulings that Giacalone felt were motivated by animosity toward Giacalone or preference for Vacco.

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WHEN YOU POLL downtown attorneys about the state and federal investigation into New York State Supreme Court Judge John Michalek—and possibly into several of his fellow justices, all tied into the ongoing investigation into the informal political cabal of Steve Pigeon, Steve Casey, et alia—one gets several species of answer. Some lawyers have told us they’re surprised that he’d be implicated in any wrongdoing. Other roll their eyes and tell us stories of what they consider horrible judgments he’s rendered. One source, not a lawyer, said simply, “Of course he can be bought. Everyone knows he can be bought.”

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LOOKING BACKWARD: OHIO STREET HARBOR MASTER’S OFFICE Ohio Street, parallel to the Buffalo River, once ran clear to Main Street. In this photograph, taken sometime between 1912 and 1914, the Harbor Master’s Office is seen at 135 Ohio Street, built in the right-of-way of Columbia Street. Two boys walk by. A passenger ship is docked at Kelly Island. The Michigan Avenue Bridge, a jack knife bridge constructed in 1897 and replaced in 1929, is visible to the left. Behind the bridge is the Kellogg Elevator, built by Spencer Kellogg & Sons in 1910. The elevator is connected by overhead gantry, erected in 1912, above the now-buried Kellogg Slip to what was, from 1879 to 1961, one of the country’s largest vegetable oil plants. The Commissioner of Public Works appointed two Harbor Masters, one on duty in the day and the other at night, tasked with supervision and control of the harbor, directing bridge engineers and bridge tenders, and keeping records on the condition of bridges, docks, and other city property on the harbor. This office and the foot of Columbia Street were replaced with the construction in 1914 to 1915 of the DL&W Terminal. Ohio Street now terminates at the Fire Department slip west of Michigan AvP enue. -THE PUBLIC

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When you consider how much business is conducted on a global scale these days—right here in Buffalo—you wonder why you don’t hear more about it. Hundreds of people are passionate about international business in Buffalo, and hundreds of millions of dollars are churned through the economy by their actions. There’s no better icon of this hidden-in-plainsight economy than the Peace Bridge. It’s right there—huge and a part of our visual landscape for 90 years. At its most rudimentary, it’s a gate that swings both ways, allowing Canadian traffic into the US and vice versa. But it’s also an economic engine to this region. Ron Rienas, general manager of the Buffalo and Fort Erie Bridge Authority, helped me understand the operation and economics of the bridge. “We own and operate not only the Peace Bridge itself, but we’re the landlord for customs and immigration services on both sides of the border,” he says. “So we own the buildings, we own the inspection booths, the commercial warehouse, and administration facilities. We’re responsible for about 20 acres on the US side and 75 acres on the Canadian side. The authority does this with about 75 employees. But the total amount of employees connected to what is commonly called the Peace Bridge community would be close to 1,000.” One thousand jobs directly tied to inert steel and concrete. These are jobs that cannot ever be poached by a Southern state with lower taxes. This might be the most solid anchor-in-theground building-block Buffalo has. “We’re going to be 90 years old next year,” Rienas says. “We’re undertaking a $100 million rehabilitation of the bridge. It’s going to be a major conduit between Canada and the United States for 50, 100 years. So we’re planning improvements in that 100-year timeframe.” In this xenophobic day and age, it’s an understatement to say America has good relations with our trading partner to the north. “We have a bi-national workforce,” Rienas says. “I don’t consider myself a Canadian Peace Bridge employee, but simply a Peace Bridge employee. When I do orientation for new board members, I say to them, ‘Don’t consider yourself a Canadian board member or a US board member, consider yourself a Peace Bridge board member, and that the border doesn’t really exist.’” Seems like California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas might be jealous of such an arrangement.

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What’s the economic value of good international relations with your border partner? “The Peace Bridge—just goods transportation—accounts for $40 billion annually,” Rienas says. “The Lewiston-Queenston bridge handles $30 billion. So the Niagara River crossings—goods coming into and leaving Western New York—is worth about $70 billion each year. Additionally, Canada is the number one export market for New York State goods. The total export value of goods from New York State to Canada is $35 billion each year. Most of that, between 55 and 65 percent, crosses by bridge, by truck, with rail being the other primary mode. 650,000 New York State jobs depend on Canadian exports and Canadian investments.” In any business, time is money, and it’s no different when a bridge is your business. Getting product and travelers over the bridge in the quickest possible time, while factoring in safety, is the goal. And technology plays a large role. “NEXUS is a huge time-saver to moving people through the bridge footprint more quickly,” Rienas says. “Right now about 24 percent of our traffic utilizes the NEXUS pass, and we’re encouraging everyone to utilize that system. It gets you through customs 50 to 75 percent quicker. That’s significant. After NEXUS, we have enhanced driver’s licenses and the passport cards, which both utilize RFID technology. These allow customs officials to scan a document and significantly speed verification. The slowest document to process is the standard passport book, because the agent needs to enter that information into the computer. By far the gold standard for swift passage is a NEXUS card.” Of course, anything international implies government involvement, and that can be both good and bad. “Post 9/11, we had what was called the Trade Act, which required the filing of electronic manifest documents for all trucks. In terms of speeding transport and not having trucks idle on the bridge, this was a step forward. As good as it was, there was also a shortcoming. The legislation did not require empty trucks to file a manifest, and 30 percent of trucks entering the US from Canada are empty. This requires the booth operator to enter that data manually, and even if that only takes a minute, you then have truck traffic backing up and adding minutes here and there. That’s an oversight that could be corrected.” What traffic volume does it take to generate $70 billion in commerce annually? “Let me give you some perspective: 1.3 million trucks cross the Peace Bridge annually and five million cars. That works out to 16,000 vehicles per day. The Grand Island Bridges have 60,000 vehicles per day. So if you see traffic backups on the Peace Bridge, what that demonstrates is that there isn’t a lane capacity issue on the bridge, but it’s dealing with the plazas on either side and the customs process in both countries.” To hear more from this week’s subject, follow the International Buffalo podcast on dailypublic.com P and at internationalbuffalo.com.

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Advocates say grappling with the entrenched problems behind racial disparities always seems impossible—until it isn’t. “We want to get the word out,” Cornejo said. “It is possible to apply this model in other places.”

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IN BUFFALO, WORKFORCE DIVERSITY GOALS CAN SEEM ARBITRARY AND UNENFORCED. BUT OTHER PLACES ARE GETTING IT RIGHT. WHEN MINNESOTA LAWMAKERS agreed to put millions of dollars toward building a new football stadium for the Minnesota Vikings, contractors were told they had to do what some thought impossible: ensure that minorities accounted for a third of the construction workforce. Work on the $1.1 billion stadium is wrapping up, and contractors, despite their initial skepticism, have not only met the 32 percent goal but exceeded it, reaching 36 percent minority participation. This kind of ambitious goal-setting has been absent on major projects in the Buffalo area. The minority workforce goal was just 13.2 percent on the $130 million renovations to Ralph Wilson Stadium. The goal on construction of the $750 million

factory being built and equipped for SolarCity at taxpayer expense was dropped from 25 to 15 percent after contractors and unions said the higher goal was unachievable. In Niagara Falls, community groups have been pushing for change after discovering that African Americans make up less than one percent of the workforce building the new Amtrak station. The region’s construction boom has resurrected concerns about racial disparities in the local construction workforce. Here and across the country, cities and states are grappling with the same questions and facing the same obstacles: inadequate training programs, structural racism, and a disconnect between labor unions and communities of color. Unlike Buffalo, however, some communities have found solutions. “We were able to change the rules of the game,” said Jackie Cornejo, who directed a campaign, 12 years in the making at the LA Alliance for a New Economy, a non-profit organization. The group achieved a string of successes in persuading local government agencies to adopt am-

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bitious diversity goals—and, for the most part, meet them. Los Angeles is often cited as the gold standard in creating a pipeline to help people of color find good-paying construction jobs. In Los Angeles, a coalition organized by activists pushed for change; in Minneapolis, government was the driver. In each case, strong leadership was the catalyst for change. Advocates emphasize the importance of building relationships between community groups, unions, contractors, and elected officials; setting ambitious diversity goals and demanding transparency about whether they’re being met; and developing a pipeline of qualified workers through pre-apprenticeship programs. “These goals don’t get achieved in isolation,” said Minnesota Human Rights Commissioner Kevin Lindsey. “There has to be a conversation with the local schools, with training groups, with unions, with the bid-awarding entities, all pulling together in the same direction.”

The first step, experts agree, is finding common ground between construction unions and communities of color. “Getting the building trades involved is almost always a struggle,” said John Goldstein, a former head of the Milwaukee County Labor Council and now a national expert on workforce diversity. Despite this, he said, it’s crucial for success, because “coalitions are strongest when they include the trades.” Cornejo agreed. The starting point in LA, she said, was persuading the different parties— construction unions and community and faith groups—to recognize their common interests. This coalition then set out to learn when requests for proposals would be issued, contractors selected and work would begin. They then lobbied elected officials and bureaucrats at the city’s Department of Contract Administration to embrace diversity initiatives. They also organized “Construction 101 Seminars” to show residents how to apply for union construction jobs. “We kept hearing the myth of ‘There aren’t enough minority workers’,” Cornejo said. “But there’s tons: They just don’t know how to access apprentice programs and make sure they’re successful in them.” Almost immediately the group ran up against what Cornejo described as a “formidable barrier” in the form of an amendment to California’s con

INVESTIGATIVE POST NEWS stitution, in place for more than 20 years, which bans racial or gender preference in employment. That means goals explicitly encouraging the hiring of minorities or women weren’t an option. Instead, the group examined socioeconomic barriers and crafted language to give priority to residents of high-poverty zip codes, as well as “disadvantaged workers”—a category that includes the homeless, former offenders, welfare recipients and the long-term unemployed. Progress was gradual but unmistakable. In 2010, the LA Department of Public Works adopted a Project Labor Agreement including goals that 30 percent of the construction workforce be residents of high-poverty city ZIP codes, an additional 10 percent disadvantaged workers, and another 20 percent apprentices, with priority given to city residents. The PLA allows unions to prioritize workers from these categories when dispatching members and requires contractors to document their efforts to contact community groups in search of workers. The city’s school district and port and transportation authorities followed suit a year later. Now, LA is widely regarded as the gold standard in leveraging public investment to benefit low-income residents.

PLANNING AND PRE-APPRENTICESHIP After getting everyone on the same page, experts say the next step is identifying upcoming publicly funded construction projects early in the planning stage. “Once there’s a shovel in the ground, it’s almost always too late—but that’s often when communities get engaged,” Goldstein said. And while experts agree that there’s no “magic number” for diversity or local hiring, “the biggest mistake folks make is aiming too low,” Goldstein said. “If contractors have to do it, frankly, they figure out a way to do it.” Although workforce development has become the buzzword of choice for many local officials in Western New York, existing policies aren’t being implemented properly. Buffalo doesn’t know whether it’s meeting its own diversity goals for public works projects because the data that’s collected isn’t analyzed. A city law requiring contractors to hire apprentices and city residents, which union leaders say would encourage diversity, has gone largely unenforced. In Milwaukee, by contrast, local hiring laws have proved so successful that a goal to hire unemployed and underemployed city residents on public works projects was increased from 25 to 40 percent in 2009. At the same time, hiring standards are meaningless without qualified workers. When Labor Secretary Thomas Perez spoke at Bennett High School in March, he emphasized the importance of “investing in apprenticeship” and “working with our friends in organized labor to make sure there are pre-apprenticeship opportunities and they’re open to African Americans, that they’re open to women, they’re open to Latinos, they’re open to former offenders.” Buffalo’s pre-apprenticeship offerings have been sporadic, however. Community groups offering construction training have struggled to place their graduates in union apprenticeships; the trades’ pre-apprentice program, meanwhile, which is targeted at high school students, has only been offered twice in the past five years. Successfully completing the program means participants can go straight into union apprenticeships, bypassing the sometimes onerous recruitment processes. A version of this is currently underway at Burgard High School. Still, Paul Brown, president of the Buffalo Building Trades Council, said he was disappointed at the number of applications the program received—evidence of the disconnect between the unions and community groups.

MISTRUST, MISSED OPPORTUNITIES The long history of mistrust between unions and community groups is one reason changing the makeup of the construction workforce in Buffalo has proven difficult. In 2012, 11 percent of local union members were minorities. That figure has barely changed since 2005, despite ambitious goals to diversify union membership that were included the schools reconstruction project. Minorities account for around 18 percent of Erie County’s total workforce, by contrast.

Some local unions have, nonetheless, made progress. The Carpenters Local 276 has increased minority membership from nine percent in 2012 to around 17 percent at the end of last year, according to union representative Chris Austin. Working with Jomo Akono, an African-American union member, “we’re trying to hit as many places in the city to recruit as possible,” Austin said. He added that Akono has encouraged meeting with groups like the Buffalo Urban League and We Are Women Warriors that hadn’t traditionally been part of the union’s outreach. One particular challenge, Akono said, is the mandatory math test for prospective apprentices, so he’s been working with Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant to hold remedial math classes. “There’s like a wall of perception” about what it takes to get into the union, Akono said. “And so we’re trying to explain to people what’s happening on the other side of the wall.”

TRANSPARENCY AND CONSISTENCY Advocates also stress the importance of transparency in the way diversity goals are set and participation is reported. In New York State, workforce goals are set on a contract-by-contract basis, which allows for greater flexibility—but also less consistency. Construction at the state level, for example, is handled by a bewildering array of agencies, each with slightly different goal-setting processes. Those state goals aren’t typically aligned with whatever local goals might exist. To observers, the goals can seem arbitrary. For example, HarborCenter, the rink and hotel complex built by the Buffalo Sabres, had a minority workforce goal of 25 percent. The goal was 15 percent on the SolarCity project, even though both took place in the city and drew mostly from the same pool of workers. It’s a common complaint among African-American community leaders that the goals aren’t set high enough because contractors and government agencies don’t want to risk falling short. That’s not the case in Minnesota, where the Minnesota Department of Human Rights in 2012 increased the minority hiring goals from 11 to 32 percent for state-funded projects in the two counties covering Minneapolis and St Paul. Those counties have similar demographics to Erie County, according to US Census data. Cue grumbling from contractors. Kevin Lindsey, the state’s commissioner of human rights, acknowledged that the change met with some resistance—in particular from contractors and developers who feared they wouldn’t be able to find enough minority workers to meet the higher goal. But he said raising the goal was a way to “force people to think long-term and to think strategically about how to create a pipeline” for getting people of color into construction jobs. The change has been followed an increase in minority workforce participation across state-funded construction projects. Contractors have another incentive: Minority and female participation figures for all ongoing projects are available on the department’s website. One key difference with New York is that the goals in Minnesota are consistent for all state projects in a particular region, something Lindsey says is key to their success, as it sets a clear standard and makes enforcement easier. Since the goals are always the same, contractors know long in advance what they will be and have more time to plan how to meet them. In the context of Minnesota’s changing demographics, upping the goals was important for the state’s economy, he said, pointing out that more than half of the children in Twin Cities’ public schools are minorities. “If half of workforce don’t have access to certain opportunities, that doesn’t bode well for the economic viability of the state,” Lindsey said. Investigative Post is holding a workshop May 25 aimed at educating the community, contractors, unions, and policymakers on how to promote diversity in the construction trades. Charlotte Keith will recap her extensive reporting on the topic for Investigative Post. John Goldstein, a national expert in workforce diversity, will then discuss the key steps in building a pipeline to connect low-income residents and construction jobs. The event starts at 7pm at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site, 641 Delaware Ave. Admission is free; pre-regP istration is requested on our events page.

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MOVING THROUGH THE FIRE: EXCURSIONS INTO UNKNOWABLE WORLDS BY GALIA BINDER

AT HI-TEMP THIS WEEKEND, STANZI VAUBEL ORCHESTRATES AN IMMERSIVE ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE “IF YOU’RE GOING TO LIVE WITH unknowing, you have to really

follow your gut and instincts. But it is not possible to live instinctually if you’re not actually being honest with yourself. I’m talking about the kind of not knowing that is the result of rigorous and constant inquiry—do you know where you’re going, I turned off the GPS—it’s a result of constantly asking yourself the difficult questions, and then asking new questions.” I’ve forgotten the camera. We are too late, and the site is closing. Stanzi Vaubel is telling me about Excursions Into Unknowable Worlds, the performance she is conceptualizing and directing, happening on the evening of May 12 and 13 at Hi-Temp Fabrication on Perry and Illinois streets. I don’t yet know that I’ll join a collective of more than 30 artists working on this immersive journey. Vaubel will invite me to dance, even though I haven’t done so professionally since I was a teenager in Buffalo, but she assures me I can do it. The plan was to record the interview at Hi-Temp and take photos there in one shot. We don’t know each other too well, and we’re both trying to be polite, but we really don’t know where to go from here. We start driving. As we get onto the 33, we pass my iPhone back and forth, talking into its tiny microphone as the city falls away. “Something collective and experiential happens when you’re finding the direction in an honest way that doesn’t pretend to have more knowledge than it does. You’ll feel that in both shows—there’s going to be this feeling that people don’t know quite what they’re supposed to be doing, but that’s what is supposed to be happening. If a structure creates a permissiveness to not always know, it makes a safe space for experience.” Since recently returning to Buffalo after years away, I have thought about growing up in this place—where people wore struggle like diamonds, suffered with grace, worked harder than ever until the day they died, were loyal to those who both did and did not deserve it. Where people defined themselves by living in a past they could

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not stare in the face. Where young, mad, brilliant friends tried to find the future and, crumbling under too much trauma and inequity, overdosed instead.

you, you can dance the structure, but you may not be present. You have to desire to be present. If you aren’t automatically engaged, you have to continue to try to find a way in.”

The capacity to endure is what stayed with me. To accept, with humility and gratitude, whatever occurs as part of a fabric of ultimate truth: These are working people’s ethics. This is a place that is bonded to its own fate. That can bury itself or birth itself.

The musicians will perform Terry Riley’s “In C.” Jonathan Golove, a collaborating artist on Excursions, cellist, and UB professor of music, says, “‘In C’ is a piece that asks you to be an individual and also to be part of a collective. The ensemble members of ‘In C’ don’t play in fixed relationships with each other the way they would in a traditional string quartet. Instead, the piano plays a basic pulse throughout the entire piece, and all of the musicians are listening to and basing decisions about their parts around this pulse. When they first start playing, they’re tuning each other out because they’re trying to listen to the piano. But as they get better at doing that, they begin to listen to each other, creating a collective whole out of these individual parts.”

In this particular moment, we have a choice. In this moment, when Buffalo is experiencing a “renaissance,” we must ask: Who is benefiting and who is being disenfranchised? What communities do we want to create? These are the kinds of questions we must ask in order to define our intentions in this creative process. We can only act with agency when we are aware of who we are as individuals and what our city has meant to us, historically and in the now. We as citizens are rebranding this city, intentionally or unintentionally. When we take ownership of our intentions, we take ownership of our creative actions. I ask Vaubel what she means when she says “rigorous.” “Being rigorous is about a very, very tight correspondence between action and intention. What is interesting about dancers and weight-sharing exercises in particular is that intention and action are in direct relationship, so if you’re lying, it immediately shows up. The structure of this system depends upon honesty. “Other structures hide that; they can hide if you’re playing without feeling, or if you don’t mean what you say. You can be an actor or a liar. It all depends upon the self that you really are, and how you bring that self to the moment you’re in. We as people do ourselves a disservice unless we work to walk that line, to delineate the difference between false enactment of ritual and honest ritual.” At Hi-Temp, audience members will navigate a maze of scrims where footage of dancers will be projected. The same dancers will also perform live, moving in relationship to an ensemble of musicians and a sound engineer who will mix a multi-channel system. Upon arrival in the space, the audience will be given an audio guide to download on their phones, a poetic meditation on the experience that is unfolding before them as they walk through the room. They will listen to this voiceover on headphones. Melanie Aceto, movement choreographer for Excursions and a professor of dance at UB, says, “A better word than meditation, for me, is presence. If the people around you or the music aren’t feeding

“If you don’t know yourself you can’t know another, but without the other, you can’t know yourself,” Vaubel says. “You’re nothing without the other, but without the self, you can’t know where the other starts and ends. By learning yourself, you learn individuation. Currently, we live in a culture where people perceive themselves as hyper-individualized. So individuation isn’t perceived as a problem because we feel we know we’re individuals. However, the kind of individuation I’m talking about is different. It’s not about putting yourself at the center of the equation and counting yourself as more important than anything else.” While the performance, a blend of improvisation and meticulously planned elements, “manifests in a way that might seem spontaneous,” Vaubel says, “It’s only able to be so because there’s been a year—two years’ worth of commitment to a process and relationship-building. The bonds between the aesthetic elements of the piece, the artists, the lighting, and the space, are strong. The intention is to create a non-hierarchical relationship between the elements, which allows the audience to become fully immersed in the experience by being genuinely included. “There are people like John McKendry who owns Hi-Temp, Rick Smith who owns Silo City, and Jim Watkins who lives in Silo City, who exist in Buffalo,” Vaubel says. “John opens up his floor to artists and performers at a minimal rate. When I first went to Hi-Temp, I liked about it what I liked about Silo City: There was a chaotic feeling that things were happening, that life had been invited in instead of kept out. Neither space is claiming to be a polished, finished work. In wealthier cities, with theater or warehouse spaces, the in

INTERVIEW ARTS stinct is to clean it up, polish it, finish it. But my concern is that it’s in the gaps, in the spaces of randomness and unfinishedness that you create. Creativity happens in the cut, in the leap in the person’s mind. The more things are commercial or big business or not run by financially small people, we lose that feeling.”

and all I can tell you is this:

Carlie Todoro-Rickus, lighting designer for Excursions, adds: “I spent a lot of time in theaters in the first half of my career, but I also enjoyed going to a space whose architecture had a story to it. I like to call myself a light stenographer because I want my light to create a space. But it’s also what is already in the space itself that will direct the light. I’m no longer interested in trying to create a false space, or taking an audience in a theatre to a different place by using light to manipulate space. Now I want to take an audience to a site and create light that is truthful—allowing them to see the elements and history that are actually there.”

or lost, or never had.

its time to go home. not to a place or a city or a new destination but the home you’ve forgotten the home you will have to carve out from inside yourself in a way that will be painful, like you’ve just stepped right into the fire, instead of walking around it the way you were before kind of skirting it, but playing with it.

“Place is only place as much as you keep it, and allow the references to bubble back up,” Vaubel says. “If the references aren’t there to be picked up upon, there can be a collective amnesia; a community can forget its history. A place that is hygienic and wiped of pastness; it’s likely that it will evoke nothing for a person. It’s an anti-inspirational environment because it’s entirely referencing this idea of a non-memory oriented present. This is a present that is not remembering its past, not interested in the way the past creates the future, and not acknowledging that the future, past, and present are really one In Silo City, the past is living in the present, and that’s so much a part of the graffiti and the things that stay. “The more you’re conscious of what you have, the more you can safeguard it. Silo City and Hi-Temp, their senses of self have been protected by individuals who get it and so are tapped into the power of place and site. I felt like John is like Jim and Rick: individuals who are beacons of protecting a place. That’s why these places have these feelings, because it’s a choice they have made as people: to believe.” We pull into the driveway, watching Lafayette High School students walk by, members of the immigrant, refugee, and asylee communities that make my neighborhood one of the most diverse in America. I think of my West-Side born Sicilian, Native American, Puerto-Rican god-daughter, who bears the combination of my brother’s name and my name. She was unplanned, like every great city. This city has marked me. When I feel the past inscribed upon my body, I begin to move through the fire. Now I know that I never stopped dancing. “The healing is not in burning down the past we have built, but in a sort of collective re-kindling,” Vaubel says. And then she reads me a section from the audio guide:

walking through fire is radically different. it requires fierce bravery, a kind of selfless courage as you consciously and intentionally walk into something you know will permanently change you make you into something other and the inability to plan ahead and determine what that might be what it might look like and feel like to live after such an occurrence. but this, is the beauty of living as a choice,

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IN GALLERIES NOW = ART OPENING 640 Gallery (640 Ridge Road, Lackawanna, NY 14218, 716-823-5124): Mandalas by Barbara Comerford. On view through May 16. Mon-Fri 10am-4pm. Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Erin Shirreff monographs, on view through May 8. Joan Jonas: Good Night, Good Morning, on view through May 1. Torey Thornton: Sir Veil, through May 29. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays until 10pm. Art 247 (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, theart247.com): Joseph Whalen exhibition from the collection of Paul Hunt. Wed-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 11am5pm. Ashker’s on Elmwood(1002 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, ashkersbuffalo. com)Echoing Echo, an exhibit complementary to Echo Art Fair. Work from Gerald Mead collection by Bruce Adams, Robert Blair, Susan Copley, Julian Montague, Kathleen Sherin, and Gary Sczerbaniewicz. On view through May 30. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo. com): Annual staff show on view through May 22. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm.

“all good sciences and learned inventions tending to the benefit the commonwealth of our Realm and Dominions, and serving for the defense thereof.” Other components on economic benefits to the state, regarding exploration and trade, colonization. And four vitrines—on maps, cosmology, alchemy, and the weather—in the Government Documents area (accessible via the architectural afterthought stairway from the lobby—oh wait, we’ll need a way to get into that area—part of the worst entranceway complex ever into a great university library). Maps at the time were mostly state secret matter for military purposes and aiding and abetting exploration and exploitation of new lands. (The first English explorations of North America and semi-permanent settlement in what was to become Newfoundland, Canada, occurred in the 1490s, under King Henry VII; the first English colonization attempt in what is now the United States—Walter Raleigh’s mysteriously ill-fated Roanoke settlement—occurred in 1584, under Elizabeth.) A map of North America from 1593

Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery. com): Draw Near: Love Lessons at the Art Institute of Buffalo; paintings by Robert Noel Blair, Jeanette Blair, James Koenig, and Catherine Koenig. On view through May 14. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Civics, an exhibition of sculpture and photographic work by Joseph Bochynski on view through May 29. Fri-Sun 12-6pm. Box Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Splinters and Seams, furniture design by Adam Ianni and textile design by Mary Kate Morrison. On view through May 31. Mon-Fri 5-8pm. BT&C Gallery (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, btandcgallery.com): Jack Drummer survey exhibition on view through Jun 11. Fri 12-5pm or by appointment. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8588900, buffalolib.org): Annual exhibition of Buffalo Public School art: Celebrating Art 2016. Opening event and awards reception Tue, May 10, 4-6pm. Milestones on Science: Books That Shook the World! 35 rare books from the history of science, on second floor. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6:00pm, Sun 125pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri-Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Dorothy Fitzgerald, Committed to Memory and Tri-

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cia Butski, Semblance on display through May 6, 2016. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am2pm, fourth Fridays until 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Furniture From the Darwin D, Martin House, Fluidity in Form: Selections from the Dean Spong Collection, on view through Aug 21. Artists Seen: photographs of contemporary artists by David Moog. Roycroft from the Collection, on view through Jun 24. Collected Memories: Docents as Curators, through Jul 24. Sequel, on view through Aug 14. The Birthday Party: A Community of Artists, on view through Sep 25. The Effects of Time, paintings by John E. (Jack) Drummer, on view through Jun 12. Finding Aid: Making Sense of the Charles E. Archives on view through Jun 19. 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 2868200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Max Collins: Natural Processes through Sep 11. Opening reception Sun May 15, 2-4pm, artist’s talk at 3pm. Buffalo Society of Artists120th Catalogue Exhibition on view through Jul 31. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Shane Farrell: Proxyself; Hans Van Den Broek: Landscapes; Joseph Bochynski: Civics; Caroline Doherty: Basic Furnishings for Unequal Spaces; all on view through May 29. MonFri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm.

shows mountain ranges running east/west across the continent, the Appalachians stretching from what was to become New England to about Southern California, the Rockies reaching to about where Chicago would be located, but no noticeable Great Lakes, and no Mississippi River. Under cosmology, components on mathematician and astronomer Thomas Digges (1546-1595), who first translated Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus into English, and added several ultimately key insights not in Copernicus: the idea that the stars were not fixed— that is, immobile—and most provocative idea of the infinite universe, that the stars were not located in a ring or sphere around the planets, but at varying distances—stretching to infinity—from the solar system. Alchemy materials suggesting how the original search for the “philosopher’s stone,” with the dual functions of turning base metal into gold and securing personal immortality, transmogrified into the science of chemistry. And a segment on Isaac Newton’s dabbling in alchemical practices. On the weather, considerations about climate change in the age of Shakespeare. The possibility that the period was undergoing a “little ice age.” With not inappropriate credit to the UB geologists who pioneered ice-coring on Greenland as a chief means of paleo-climatological data collection. In the Music Library, a song score that may have been part of an actual Shakespearean production—that is, that Shakespeare himself was involved in—an accompaniment to “It was a lover and his lass” from As You Like It—by Thomas Morley from Morley’s First Book of Ayres, published in 1600. And later incidental or adaptation music ranging from Felix Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to Iannis Xenakis’s Sea Nymphs, based on Ariel’s song from The Tempest: “Full fathom five my father lies…Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange…” Also, Four Movements from West Side Story, original music by Leonard Bernstein, based on Romeo and Juliet, arranged for solo piano by long-time UB music professor Leo Smit. In the history of medicine collection in the Health Sciences Library, a vitrine largely about Dr. John Hall (1575-1635), who set up medical practice in Stratford-upon-Avon and married Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna, and whom Shakespeare may have consulted on medical matters in the plays. Hall was also a writer. The vitrine includes a copy of the English version—the original was in Latin—of his Select Observations on English Bodies of Eminent Persons in Desperate Diseases. With added appendix (no pun apparently intended) by physician H. Stubbs on “Directions for drinking of the Bath-water, and Ars Cosmetica, or beautifying art.” (Not clear from the title page on display whether drinking of the bathwater and Ars Cosmetica are one and the same thing or different procedures/ pursuits. Or for that matter, just whose bathwater.) And in Special Collections, viewing by appointment of the university’s four First Folios. (But without an appointment you can view the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library’s First Folio and variety of other English books of the era in the main floor exhibit room. And upstairs, the library’s nonpareil collection of historical science P volumes, starting with Copernicus, De Revolutionibus.)

Collect Art Now (Virtual gallery, collectartnow.com): Featured spring show with work by Polly Little, Matt Grote, Rita Argen Auerbach, Evan Hawkins, Peter Fowler, Patrick Willett, Chuck Tingley, Maria Pabico LaRotonda, Bruce Adams, Candace Masters, A.J. Fries, and Mark Lavatelli. Daily Planet Coffee Company (1862 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, 716- 551-0661): Photography by Setlur, on view May 2-May 30. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (417 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 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. Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com): Taper, sculptural installation by Scotty Bye in front window through May 15. Rodney Taylor: Grey, through May 29. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): A Conversation in Conflict, documentary images from Marten Czamanske and Courtney Grim. On view through May 28. Tue-Sat 125pm. Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 6750204, etjgallery.com): Universal Meditations, John Merlino. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm. Fargo House Gallery (287 Fargo Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14213, thefargohouse.com): David Schalliol: Telescope Houses of Buffalo. Open by appointment.

Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo. com): I Walk the Line, mixed media by Jozef Bajus on view through May 15. Wed & Fri 126pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The invention of the telegraph and the railroad. TueSun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Margret E. Bacon Gallery (Upton Hall, SUNY Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222): Experimental Matters: dual show by Melissa Ash and Tiffany Rohrback, on view through May 14. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): “Mutotones” by Howard Beach. On view through May 28. TueSat 9:30am-5:30pm. Native American Museum of Art at Smokin’ Joe’s (2293 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, NY 14123, 261-9251) Open year round and free. Exhibits Iroquois artists work. 7am-9pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 2827530, thenacc.org): Jonathan Rogers, retrospective. On view through Jun 5. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm.Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 282-7530, thenacc. org): Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm.

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ARTISTS SEEN: A PROJECT BY DAVID MOOG

RACHEL ADAMS Rachel Adams is a writer and curator based in Buffalo. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA in exhibition and museum studies from the San Francisco Art Institute. In March 2015 she became associate curator of the University at Buffalo Art Gallery; before accepting that position she worked for as an independent curator based in Austin, Texas, planning and executing exhibitions with nationally and internationally known artists at venues throughout Texas and California. In addition to publishing essays in a number of exhibition catalogs, she is a contributing writer for several publications including artforum.com, Art Papers, Modern Painters, and Texas Architect. She is married to artist Nicholas Conrad Miller. For more information on Adams’s career, visit burchfieldpenney.org and racheladamsprojects.com. -THE PUBLIC STAFF 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 716-4726721 or contact the center at 716-878-4131. Artists working in all media are welcome; visit P burchfieldpenney.org for more information.

Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 8825777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Photographs by George Woodman on view through May 11. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Mon open by appointment only, and closed on Sundays. Paper Moon Gallery (497 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 9496604): Richard Gubernick: Drawings. On view through May 28. WedFri 12-5pm, Sat 12-3pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Works by Jill Gustafson Glunz, Susan Liebel, Scott Matheny, David Fehrman, Donald Jackson, Teresa Alessandra, Debra Orrange, Jane Marinsky, Paul Chlebowski, on view through May 29. Tue-Thu, 11am-6pm, Fri 11am7pm (11am-9pm on first Fridays), Sat 11am-5pm. Prism (MyBuffaloPride, 224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201): Natural Narratives, sculptures by Brian Dickenson. Thu & Fri 4-8pm, Sat & Sun 3-7pm. Queen City Gallery (617 Main

Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8688183, queencitygallery.tripod. com): Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, John Farallo, Chris McGee, Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Joshua Nickerson, Susan Redenbach, Barbara Lynch Johnt, Kristopher Whatever, Michael Mulley. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14120): Work of 20 artists who are member artists at The River Art Gallery and also members of The Buffalo Society of Artists on view through Jun 4. Opening reception Sat May 14, 4-6pm. Wed-Fri 11am- 4pm Sat 11am- 5pm. RO (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop. com): Woven Through the Sun: A reflection by Hayley Carrow and Issa Mars, on view through May 30. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Sports Focus Physical Therapy (531 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202, 3324838, sportsfocuspt.com): Images

of WNY on loan from the Buffalo Museum of Science. On view through May 31. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, 6-9pm on first Fridays. Studio Hart (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 536-8337, studiohart. com): Flower Burst Group Invitational: Rita Argen Auerbach, Ani Hoover, Polly Little, Kate Parzych, Dale Schwalenberg, and Carol Case Siracuse, on view through May 28. 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): Open by event. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8293754, ubartgalleries.org): Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic, on view through Dec 31, 2016. On the Front Lines: Military Veterans at the Art Students League of New York and Cracked Open, paintings by David Schirm, on view through Aug 7. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

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Artist Talk: Mark Bradford Tuesday, May 24, 2016 PS 192 Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts Free Talk 6–7 pm Free Community Reception 7–8 pm FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Mark Bradford is one of his generation’s most celebrated artists and the cofounder of Art + Practice, an arts and education foundation based in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. Bradford’s work is the subject of an exhibition at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Shade: Clyfford Still / Mark Bradford, which has a free public opening on Wednesday, May 25, from 7 to 9 pm. The artist will give a free talk at 7:15 pm.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery 1285 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, New York 14222-1096 albrightknox.org Shade: Clyfford Still / Mark Bradford has been made possible through the generosity of the First Niagara Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Banta, Jay Goldman, Hauser & Wirth Inc., Deborah Ronnen, and Amy and Harris Schwalb. The First Niagara Foundation is proud to serve as the official Education Sponsor of this exhibition. Their sponsorship will underwrite free admission to the exhibition for all K–12 students in Erie County during the months of July and August. Education programming for Shade: Clyfford Still / Mark Bradford is presented in partnership with the City of Buffalo. Image: Mark Bradford (American, born 1961). Photograph courtesy the artist.

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EVENTS CALENDAR Faizon Love 8pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $18-$30

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[COMEDY] Actor and comedian Faizon Love is best known for roles in the films Friday, Elf, The Replacements, Made, and Couples Retreat. Love also co-starred in the sitcom The Parent ‘Hood, and made guest-appearances in The Real Husbands of Hollywood and on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. His brand of comedy mixes his own charismatic personality with his observational wit to discuss racism, women, and pop culture, amongst other things. Catch Faizon Love at Helium Comedy Club on Thursday, May 12 through Saturday, May 14. -KELLIE POWELL

FRIDAY MAY 13 Foreigner 7pm Seneca Niagara Events Center, 310 4th St. $45

PETER KIRSCH Free Music Zone album Recommended if you like: Mac DeMarco, Ariel Pink

Combining lo-fi recordings with dream pop aesthetics, Peter Kirsch puts together some strange pop riffs on the new record Free Music Zone. The self-proclaimed “home recordist” released the record through the New York City-based not-for-profit music label OSR in March. Highlights include the Mac DeMarco-esque “Because of Me,” which boasts a (presumably purposefully) cringeworthy video of a middle-aged hula-hooper hooping in an infinite loop.

LOOSEN THE BIBLE BELT TOUR THURSDAY MAY 12 7PM / ASBURY HALL, 341 DELAWARE AVE. / $12-$15 [COMEDY] Kristen Becker’s Loosen the Bible Belt show is truly a one-of-its-kind experience. Last year, comedian Becker (an out-and-proud lesbian and activist) and pastor Jay Bakker (son of televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker) teamed up to create a tour which combined standup comedy and preaching, mixed with a little music, in a traveling tent revival style show bent on promoting not just tolerance but love and acceptance between Southern evangelicals and the LGBTQ community. Becker and Bakker are back at it this year, and they're kicking off the tour at Babeville's Asbury Hall this Thursday, May 12. Accompanying Bakker and Becker on this tour are Buffalo’s the Heavenly Chillbillies, Louisiana singer/songwriter SarahRose Marie, and comedian Duane Duke. Catch this curious blend of down-and-dirty comedy, newfangled old-time religion, music, and good will before the troupe trundles onto the Chillbillies' vegetable-oil-fueled tour bus and departs for point south. -EVAN JAMES

WEDNESDAY MAY 11 Parkway Drive

THE JEALOUS UNKNOWNS “Hard Way Off” video RIYL: Chumped, Weezer, Foo Fighters

This week alt rock band the Jealous Unknowns released the music video for their single “Hard Way Off.” The song will appear on their upcoming EP Say Yes.

7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $10-$12

[METAL] Parkway Drive is an Australian metalcore band signed to the popular punk label Resist Records. Since their inception in 2003 the band has released five studio records including their latest, 2015’s Ire, which marks a move away from their signature metalcore style into straight metal territory. They’ll come to the Town Ballroom on Wednesday, May 11. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

[INDIE] “New York singer-songwriter writes the most depressing songs EVER…and you’ll love him for it,” reads one headline for an interview with artist Mishka Shubaly. Another reads “Mishka Shubaly on forgiveness, authenticity, and life as a sober artist.” Needless to say, the young musician takes his art seriously and he’s got plenty of serious life experiences to pull from, including recovering from teen alcoholism. The award-winning songwriter, who has toured with some high profile bands including the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s and the Decemberists, comes to the Town Ballroom’s Leopard Lounge on Thursday, May 12 with Seattle-based singer/ songwriter Star Anna. -CP

7pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $16-$18

Battling this week for the chance to open for Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires:

n CRITT’S JUKE JOINT n THE HEAVENLY CHILLBILLIES n VIN DEROSA & THE VITAMIN D CREW To vote, go to: DO YOU MAKE MUSIC? dailypublic.com/thepublicchoice HAVE RECOMMENDATION? Voters A must log in to Facebook to vote. Voting for week one begins on May 11 and ends on May 16. CONTACT CORY@DAILYPUBLIC.COM Check back here next week to see TO BE CONSIDERED IN OUR the winner and to see the next WEEKLY PUBLIC PICKS. batch of contestants.

[POP] Essentially the project of singer-songwriter Zach Schwartz (a.k.a. Zach Rogue), Rogue Wave has persevered through all the music industry tumult over the past decade-plus, having launched a career with a promising Sub Pop Records contract only to get dropped after a pair of releases. Since then, vacillating between a duo (with Schwartz's ongoing creative partner Pat Spurgeon) and a fullsized touring band of various configurations, they've released four more full-length discs, culminating with Delusions of Grand Fur, out on the Easy Sound Recording Company label (Vetiver, Marianne Faithfull) last month. Far from the dance-pop of 2010's Permalight, the disc picks up where 2013's Nightingale Floors left off and takes a dark-side detour, bathing the band's trademark shimmering pop melodies in sentiments of uncertainty and boredom. The restless tone at the disc's core is palpable, but Grand Fur refuses to take the plunge into depressive territory. Hear for yourself Wednesday, May 11 at the Tralf Music Hall with openers Hey Mar-

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J@zz on the Edge 10pm Nietzsche's, 248 Allen St. $5

[JAZZ] Local jazzist Adam Bronstein will present a performance titled J@zz on the Edge this Friday, May 13 at Nietzsche’s accompanied by his band, the Freehand Band. The performance is billed as a celebration of 20th-century American improvistional music and its influence on pop music, and will also feature Michael McNeill, a debut performance by the Vendo Llamas, Tom Stahl and the Dangerfields, and MELA. -CP

Mishka Shubaly

7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $20-$25

Rogue Wave

BATTLE OF THE BANDS

THURSDAY MAY 12

[ROCK] Whether or not it's really Foreigner is a matter of perception—only Mick Jones remains from the original 1976 lineup, which went on to sell more than 35 million records in the US alone. Still, the band's shows have been well received with current frontman Kelly Hansen (since 2005), consisting of an all-hits setlist. Catch them as they promote their new acoustic/unplugged release, which brings them to the Seneca Niagara Casino Events Center in Niagara Falls this Friday night, May 13. -CJT

Excursions Into Unknowable Worlds 7:30pm Hi Temp Fabrications, 79 Perry St

[ART] Stanzi Vaubel, a media studies professor at the University at Buffalo, wears many hats. In addition to being a classical cellist and radio show host, Vaubel is an artist who whose collaborative work will be performed this Thursday, May 12 and Friday, May 13 at Hi Temp Fabrications. Excursions Into Unknowable Worlds is a truly immersive experience, featuring music, installation, and live performances—the product of more than 30 artists, all orchestrated by Vaubel. Read an interview with Vaubel on page 8. -EJ

Consider the Source 9pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $10-$15

[FUSION] Consider the Source plays progressive rock and jazz-fusion with a touch of intergalactic shimmer—all drenched in a Middle Eastern glaze. The results could easily sound like an overwrought mess, but instead it’s earthy, original, and hypnotic. Dubbed “Sci-Fi Middle Eastern Fusion,” the sounds of Consider the Source have captivated millions by way of a relentless touring schedule that’s put them in front of a wide range of fans across the country and beyond. Catch Consider the Source with Intrepid Travelers at Buffalo Iron Works on Friday, May 13. -KP

SATURDAY MAY 14 Born Ruffians

5pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $13-$15

[INDIE] Toronto-based indie-rock quartet Born Ruffians returns to Buffalo in support of 2015's Ruff (and the new companion EP, Extra Ruff, out last month), perpetuating the post-punk revival sound that's always been at their core—raw, scrappy anthems that exude frustration cloaked in an anthemic wash. This Western New York show comes in between recurring gigs in Las Vegas, where our friendly northern neighbors seem to have taken up a sort of fascination and residency. (They'll be playing dates in Las Vegas throughout the year.) See bornruffians. com for more. It's unclear if there's intended irony in their "Las Vegas residency for an indie band" concept, but we're all for it! Doors are at 5pm for an EARLY SHOW at Mohawk Place this Saturday, May 14. -CJT

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7PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. / $6 [INDIE] Jeremy Quentin may come from Flint, Michigan, but he’s spent quite a bit of time in Buffalo. He’s also spent a lot of time not really having a home, living the nomadic existence of a troubadour—perpetually touring (200 shows last year), living out of his car, and couch-surfing. But all that changed recently when he decided to sprout roots in Austin, Texas. “It’s the first time I’ve done this in my adult life,” he said over the phone from Burlington, where his musical project, Small Houses—which comes to Mohawk Place on Thursday, May 12—was performing at a festival. “I wasn’t even really thinking about the music scene when I made the decision. Austin, to me, is like a dream—I can ride my bike, have my coffee shop and grocery store right nearby, I have a piano right in my house, it’s summer all the time. It’s so calm there. I never wake up thinking that the day is gonna suck.” Quentin says the new living arrangement has impacted his writing because of having the keyboard at his disposal, allowing him to compose songs on the piano and then re-work them for guitar. On his current trek, he’s joined by his vocalist friend Sophie who flew in from Amsterdam to sing with him, putting a softer feminine touch on his trademark gravelly tone during her first trip to the States. He’s been working on a follow up to 2015’s Still Talk; Second City and ran a pledge campaign to raise funds, which he’s now supplementing with hours at that coffee shop near his home. While Quentin readily admits that having a label to help fund the process of recording and releasing music would be a welcome change, he’s committed to making it happen by whatever means necessary. “If it bugged me, I wouldn’t do it. But there’s something exciting about it—you love packaging it and receiving your test pressing. Every time you do it, you want it to be better than the last, so it feels like a new experience each time. “I’m working seven days a week right now to buy studio time for the fall,” he continued, noting that while funding is necessary for obvious reasons, it needn’t run the show. “If you’re on the road all the time and you’re broke, when all your friends are broke and you’re living that existence with one another, money leaves the conversation pretty quickly. I hear these complaints about insane licensing issues and problems with Spotify—if we get fed and have a place to sleep, I don’t understand what the argument is about.” Doors are at 7pm with an early poetry reading from City Honors freshman Cayli Enderton and sets from Tough Old Bird and the Sonny Baker/Alex Berkley duo. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

Marco Benevento 7pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $15-$18

[JAZZ] Marco Benevento strikes the ivory of his upright piano, meticulously calculating each note’s effect on the one that precedes it. Filling his piano lines in with rich textures and tones, his songs grow into their own atmospheric soundscapes that are as creative as they are harmonious. Through five albums, Benevento wrote, arranged, and played his largely instrumental anthems, leading a band from behind his piano and army of drum machines, sequencers, keyboards and pedals. The only instrument missing from this medley was his voice, until his 2012 release, Swift, which found Benevento’s earnest vocals sitting comfortably atop his colorful compositions. Benevento continues playing with his

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vocals on his 2016 release, The Story of Fred Short. While he has always had a flair for penning unique yet accessible music, the album opener, “In the Afternoon Tomorrow,” is a pinnacle of gentle pop, kicking off an album that’s less experimental than past albums but by no means less powerful. Benevento’s latest work is an excellent demonstration of his capacity for tuneful songwriting, and he deploys a wide array of sounds to create something that’s boldly enthusiastic, from the echoey, chamber music sounds of “I Intro: The Story of Fred Short” to the smooth classic rock vibes of “Heavy Metal Floating Upstream.” Catch him at the Tralf Music Hall on Saturday, May 14. -KP

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FRIDAY MAY 13

Max Collins: Natural Processes 2pm Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University

INAUGURAL WESTMINSTER FRIENDS OF MUSIC GALA 7:30PM at Saturn Club, 997 Delaware Ave.

An evening of fine dining, brilliant music, and fun to benefit Westminster Friends of Music, which provides quality music to enhance the cultural life of Buffalo and the worship life of Westminster Presbyterian Church. Hors d’oeuvres, dinner, open bar, and a string quartet accompanying Matt Alber, well-known performer and LGBT advocate. Black tie optional. Tickets available at wpcbuffalo.org: $75, presale; $100, at-the-door.

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BURCHFIELD PENNEY SECOND FRIDAY FRIDAY MAY 13 5PM / BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER, 1300 ELMWOOD AVE/ FREE [GALLERY NIGHT] This Friday’s monthly open gallery event at the Burchfield Penney Art Center provides its usual pairings of art and music, but with a few added bells and whistles. No one should deny themselves the chance to check out some of the late Jack Drummer's work now on view at BPAC and Niagara Street’s BT&C Gallery, whether you’ve seen it already or not; the large works on rubber sheets have a hypnotic presence in person that neither pixels nor newsprint can convey, and an unforgettable smell, too. There’ll be live music from Bill Sacks and Will Redman at 5:30pm, a musical perfomance by Corner & Reisch at 6pm, and a drop-in art-making class, 5:30-7:30pm. At 8pm, there’ll be a special classical music concert courtesy of A Musical Feast. While gallery admission is free all day, the nightcap concert is $20 for the public and $10 for members of the gallery. -AARON LOWINGER

UNDERGROUND BURLESQUE 10PM at Underground, 274 Delaware Ave.

A night of burlesque entertainment hosted by Trixi Firecracker, with a special set this month in tribute to Prince. Shows at 11pm and midnight. No cover, and drink specials all night.

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[ART] Max Collins is a visual artist whose art you’ve likely seen in local galleries and even on the streets of Buffalo, as he’s know for his striking wheat-pasted street murals. His next show, titled Natural Processes, will open at the Castellani Art Museum in Lewiston on Sunday, May 15. The exhibition consists of photography, installations, and a film that considers life cycles in nature—or, as Collins puts it, “wilderness therapy.” -TPS

MONDAY MAY 16 The Fabulous Miss Wendy 8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $5

[ROCK] Only a lady punk rocker from Hollywood could have a name as glamorous as the Fabulous Miss Wendy. Inspired by the Misfits, Dead Kennedys, and the Ramones, the glam-punk band comes to Mohawk Place on Monday, May 16 with support from Crazy Eyes and Big Classic. -CP

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Radiator King 8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $5

[INDIE] This is not a plug for your uncle’s shitty radiator repair company, though the folk/punk band from Boston might have been inspired by the side of his truck. No, this is Radiator King, a.k.a. singer/songwriter Adam Silvestri, a student of the school of Dylan and maybe one who spent a little too much time in detention listening to the Clash. The poetic-punk comes to Mohawk Place on Tuesday, May 17 in support of his latest album Document Untold with local openers Lonestar Sailing and The Good Neighbors. -CP

THE MAIN DRAG 8PM at The Grange Theater, 22 Main St., Hamburg

Drag in the suburbs is such a hit, they added another monthly show! Robotika 2Kay presents a 2.0 of The Main Drag, this time featuring the Queen City Queens: Keke Valasquez-Lord, Chevon Davis, Alicia Michaels, Leigh Da Riot and Fy’a Colby-Valentino. Tickets available at buffalochrysalistheatre.com: $10, must be at least 16.

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IMPERIAL COURT CORONATION 26: THE IN-TOWN SHOW 9PM at Q, 44 Allen St.

Emperor and Empress 25 of Buffalo Thomas Branscum Carrington Sugarbaker and Jayme Cadelle Coxx command your presence at the official start of Coronation 26, with performances from the Royal Family. It all leads up to The Grand Ball: A Night of Illusions and Delusions, Heroes and Villains on Saturday, May 21.

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[ART FAIR] For five years, the Echo Art Fair has provided the region with a big tent event for its art makers and collectors. Part exhibition, part marketplace, the fair has evolved into a welcome staple on the arts calendar, filling the void for fine arts created as more and more commercial and nationally established vendors have moved into the Allentown Art Festival. Echo is not a place where you can find handmade salad tong; it’s a place to enter the ongoing and universal human conversation that art countenances. This year’s installment will occupy the OSC Manufacturing & Equipment Services, formerly the American Axle plant and before that General Motors. Designed by the incredibly prolific architect Albert Kahn and situated on Buffalo’s railroad beltway, the fair's venue offers a rare peak at a piece of living Buffalo history. Paying homage to the venue, UB architecture professor Jordan Geiger is curating a special feature on Buffalo architecture dubbed Light Industry that will include full-scale architectural installations, and real-time, audience-driven performances integrated into the site. Adding to the space the work of dozens of individual artists and galleries from throughout the region and beyond, as well as site-specific installations, will certainly create a special experience this weekend. The affair kicks off with a ticketed preview reception on Friday ($50), and the fair is open 11am-7pm on Saturday and 11am-6pm on Sunday for $5 admission, with children 10 and under getting in gratis. -AARON LOWINGER

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WEDNESDAY MAY 18 Blue October 6:30pm Rapids Theatre, 1711 Main St. $25-$30

[ROCK] Alternative rock band Blue October hits Niagara Falls next weekwith a can’t-miss all ages show. Best known for their platinum hits "Hate Me" and "Into the Ocean" off 2006’s Foiled, Blue October is still making music, releasing their eighth studio album Home last month. This band prides themselves on having a fan base that is diverse and spans all ages. From young to old, Blue October’s fans love their music which promises “inspiring reflective moments, joy, hope, self-healing, and self-empowerment.” Catch them at the Rapids Theatre on Wednesday, May 18 . -EJ

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ON MAY 29, SOLE OF BUFFALO WILL SCREEN THE 2016 DOCUMENTARY, FINAL STRAW: FOOD/EARTH/ HAPPINESS SOLE OF BUFFALO WILL SCREEN the 2016

documentary, Final Straw: food/earth/happiness. Before the film, the directors, Patrick Lydon and Shuee Kang, will have a special message for SOLE’s supporters, so be certain to arrive early. After the screening there will be a deliciously diverse salad bar, predominately made up of fruits and vegetables and other foodstuffs as well as beverages produced here in Buffalo. The fundraiser will be at Sewing Souls Studio (356 S. Elmwood) on Sunday, May 29 from 1 to 4pm. Tickets are $25 through brownpapetickets.com ($30 cash at the door) and all profits from the event will be used toward SOLE of Buffalo’s goal of opening the Dharma Kitchen and Prana Pantry Center, which will:

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There will be door prizes and a couple raffle baskets including tickets to a guided tour of Forest Lawn Cemetery. Additionally, the Veteran Tickets Foundation is providing two tickets to active military and their families. SOLE of Buffalo is a nonprofit that focuses on the right to access seasonally, organically, locally, and ethically produced foodstuffs for all. If they aren’t currently teaching a class on

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FARM TO PINT! Sunday, May 15 / 12-8pm Hamburg Brewing, 6553 Boston State Rd, Hamburg / hamburgbrewing.com In advance of the third annual Farm to Pint event, which takes place Sunday, May 15, 12-8pm, at Hamburg Brewing (6553 Boston State Road, Hamburg), let’s examine some of the locally sourced beer that will be available: n Hamburg Brewing Blackberry Gose (3.8%): A traditional German-style sour featuring primarily New York State-grown wheat and two-row malt from NY Craft Malt, brewed with blackberries, coriander, and Mediterranean sea salt. n CBW Frank American Pale Ale (4.6%): A mellow malt base consisting of a portion of malts from Niagara Malt and hops from the Pacific Northwest. n Resurgence Brewing Cucumber Saison (4%): A saison dry-hopped with Sorachi Ace, aged on cucumbers—made with wheat and Munich malt from NY Craft Malt.

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barleywine-style ale made with local blackstrap molasses and maple syrup. n Big Ditch Brewing Niagara Wild (4%): Belgian-influenced wild ale featuring local pilsner malt and hops from Niagara Malt and as well as wild yeast and bacteria collected from WNY. n Five and 20 Spirits and Brewing Rye Pale Ale (5.2%): Brewed using rye malt for a spicy grain character with moderate hop additions using American hop varietals for a spicy, citrus flavor and aroma. n New York Beer Project Saison With Cherries: A saison crafted with malt from Niagara Malt and sour cherries. n Gordon Biersch Pilsner (Cask): Czech-style pilsner dry-hopped with Cascade hops from Niagara Hops. P

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ALL-TIME HIGH POINTS SCORER IN HOLLAND HIGH SCHOOL WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HISTORY IT’S HALFWAY THROUGH the second quarter.

Holland High School basketball player Olivia Schmidt catches a pass from a teammate. She’s outside the arc and shoots the three— swish! The game is stopped; celebration ensues.

An milemark was hit this high school basketball season in the Town of Holland, when Olivia Schmidt scored her 2,000th career point in a home win in front of all of her family, friends, and fans. Only 11 other local women high school players have hit that mark. The school and Town of Holland celebrated her milestone as soon as she hit the shot, stopping the game and giving her a commemorative game ball. “I felt extremely blessed, honestly, because I had so much of my family and friends there, and people that have helped me succeed,” Schmidt says. “Some of my best friends are on the team now, and I got to do it beside them, which was awesome.” Schmidt led the team to the Far West regional championship game, which they lost to the eventual state champions, South Seneca. Schmidt scored 44 points and dished out five assists. She ended her career with 2,263 points. Coach Dan Parker, Schmidt’s coach of six years, touches on her leadership, and how it helped her and the team go so far this season. “Her leadership and skill set have helped her mature into a player who knows how to win,” he says. Parker says her leadership was exemplified in her play in a game against Allegany Limestone. “She was double-teamed through-

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FILM REVIEWS like. By the same token, it’s possible that the long list of plot holes I noted are answered in ways that more careful audiences than I will notice. But I don’t think so. For as entertaining as most of it is to watch—it’s 110 minutes but feels a half hour shorter— Nichols builds expectations only to frustrate them. A little of that is okay, but there’s a fine line between ambiguity and obscurity, and he comes up on the wrong side. Opens Friday at the North Park. *** Before the internet, a “widget” was something business school instructors used when discussing a principal or procedure in which the nature of the physical object was not relevant. Higher mathematics functions in somewhat that way in The Man Who Knew Infinity, a biopic about the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920): You don’t have to know anything about the subject or Ramanujan’s contribution to it to watch the movie, which only occasionally lets discussions of his work intrude on the drama. That’s not likely to be much of a surprise—a movie about mathematics inevitably brings to mind the phrase about dancing about architecture. But you can’t help but wish that writer-director Matthew Brown had been able to find some way to impart to viewers the nature of Ramanujan’s importance other than having his Trinity College sponsor ( Jeremy Irons) rhapsodize about his brilliance. Irons takes the acting honors as a mostly fictionalized character who, having lived in world of numbers, is unable to be the friend the young Indian needs. As Ramanujan, Dev Patel is hamstrung by the twin demands of biography and inspirational drama. It opens Friday at the Eastern Hills Mall Cinema. ***

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LEARNING CURVE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL / APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY / SING STREET BY M. FAUST A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL who have been watching his career feel

that writer-director Jeff Nichols is in the place now where Steven Spielberg was in 1974, after Sugarland Express and Duel on his way to Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Nichols’s three films—Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, and Mud—show a craftsman consciously developing his skills with the goal of becoming the kind of filmmaker who can helm studio blockbusters. This isn’t interpretation: It’s exactly the way Nichols talks about himself in interviews. There’s no denying that he is both gifted and able to learn. Combine that with an authentic point of view for stories set in the South, where he was born and raised, and you have a potentially unique talent, on a level with if not specifically comparable to the Coen Brothers or John Sayles. That’s why Midnight Special is finally such a disappointment. While his technical skills drive most of the movie along smoothly and smartly, in the end this modestly budgeted studio movie is all too clearly a calling card showing how willing he is to sign up to make lucrative summer comic book franchise movies. For most of its running time, Midnight Special is a pleasure to watch. Nichols knows how to tease out his story, giving us just enough information to keep us involved without front-loading it. (It’s a skill that makes for engrossing viewing while making it difficult for the conscientious reviewer who wants to tell you about

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OPENING THIS WEEK France, an animated steampunk adventure about a young girl carrying on the scientific experiments of her parents in a world where all the famous scientists have disappeared. Directed by Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci from the graphic novel by Jacques Tardi. Reviewed this issue. Amherst (Dipson) THE DARKNESS—Scary stuff about a family that picks up an evil force after a trip to the Grand Canyon. Starring Kevin Bacon, Radha Mitchell, and Jennifer Morrison. Directed by Greg McLean (Wolf Creek). Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit

the movie without giving away too much.) We recognize that we’re in a familiar 1980s sub-genre, about a child with special powers on the run with his parents while being chased by the government and other nefarious figures. Think Firestarter with dollops of Starman and E.T. It’s set in Texas and Louisiana and (for valid plot reasons) largely takes place at night, on desolate roads and run-down motels. The boy’s father is played by Michael Shannon (who has been in all of Nichols’s films), and he fits the definition of a movie star: Whenever he’s on screen, you’re eyes are drawn to him, even if he’s not doing anything. He is aided by an old friend, a state trooper played by Joel Edgerton; Kirsten Dunst joins them as the boy’s mother. Sam Shepard and Adam Driver round out an above-average cast for a story that is more concerned with issues of family and faith than special effects, though Nichols uses those sparingly and tastefully. So what’s not to like? As satisfying as it is to be drawn into a slowly revealed story, the time comes when you have to show your hand. And in the final reel, sad to say, we find that Nichols has been bluffing. It’s possible that he knows how the final combination of science fiction and Christian parable fit together; on the other hand, it seems just as likely that he’s throwing out a lot of options hoping that viewers will extract something from the stew that they

THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY—Biopic about the Indian mathematician S. Ramanujan (Dev Patel), whose self-taught theories brought him to Cambridge university in the years before World War I. With Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones, Jeremy Northam, and Stephen Fry. Directed by Matthew Brown. Reviewed this issue. Eastern Hills (Dipson) MIDNIGHT SPECIAL—Indie director Jeff Nichols (Mud) sets a foot into the mainstream with this sci-fi thriller starring Michael Shannon as a man trying to save his young son from a cult and government agents who want to harness his mysterious powers. With Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, and Adam Driver. Reviewed this issue. North Park MONEY MONSTER—Jodie Foster returns to the director’s chair for this real-time thriller about a financial TV show taken hostage by an irate investor. Starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell and Dominic West. Flix, Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit SING STREET—Writer-director John Carney (Once) returns to Dublin for a movie about boys

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I can’t claim to be knowledgeable about the genre, but the French animated film April and the Extraordinary World (adapted from the graphic novel by Jacques Tardi) is the first steampunk movie I’ve seen that gives a basis for its alternative history. In 1870, Napoleon III is killed while overseeing an experiment designed to produce invincible soldiers. A side effect leads to the disappearance of important scientists over the next seven decades, leading the world to develop not by creating new technologies but by refining existing ones, primarily steam-driven engines. So in 1940 the world was exhausted its supply of coal, and the need for charcoal sends countries to war over land with heavy forests. That’s the background for a story involving a young girl, April (voiced by Marion Cotillard), trying to carry on the work of her parents and grandfather, who are among the disappeared scientists. In the manner of this kind of thing, the story is too complex to spell out, but it’s as entertaining as the design of the film is compelling to look at: As befits a sooty world, it’s primarily grey and black with splashes of primary colors—quite elegant. The animation style openly references the work of Hayao Miyazaki (look for that walking castle), though the story is equally French (there’s a cop who could well be named Javert). Opens Friday at the Amherst. *** I wasn’t expecting to like Sing Street, the new film from writer-director John Carney, whose 2007 Once charmed audiences around the world before doing the same on Broadway. His 2011 follow Begin Again was an obvious attempt to repeat that success, so the news of a third music-based film from the Irish filmmaker sounded dead in the water. To my surprise, it’s one of the most appealing movies of the year, especially if you were a teenager in the 1980s who knew every British band on MTV. Ferdia Walsh-Peelo stars as a boy, pulled out of private school because of his parents financial problems and sent to a rough local school, who copes by forming a band. The fun comes from watching them try out different musical styles of the era, alternately imitating Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, and the Cure, with as much attention to making videos as to writing songs. It’s sugar-coated but not saccharine, and the songs (co-written by Carney) cleverly mimic what a bunch of precocious but imitative teens might have done. As 1980s nostalgia goes, it’s purely delightful. Opens Friday at the P Amherst and Eastern Hills.

who form a band in the heady musical days of the mid-1980s. Starring Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Maria Doyle Kennedy, and Aidan Gillen. Reviewed this issue. Amherst (Dipson), Eastern Hills (Dipson)

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with multiple layers of quilting, I mean…you can really let go in one of these. Enjoy your stay in Oxford!” Above and beyond the misleading headline, though, are the consequences revealed in the article. The Oxford, Alabama law is the first to specify a punishment: a $500 fine or six months in the pokey if you are caught relieving yourself in whichever facility doesn’t match your physicality. Tinklegate just got mighty expensive.

TINKLEGATE AND THE GEORGIA PEACH

Who will enforce this law, and just how will they go about doing it? I am reminded of South Park’s Season 16 premiere, in which the TSA (Toilet Safety Administration) begins confronting people in public restrooms (and at home!) about proper use of the facilities. Flashlights are used to examine crevices, gloved attendants in uniforms administer additional wiping when deemed necessary, etc. Is this what lies up ahead—demanding people to expose their genitals for ‘specially trained’ officers at the restroom entrance? And what if you refuse… does an assault ensue? When you play the tape all the way through, the possibilities are unimaginably humiliating.

BY CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY IT’S ALWAYS UPLIFTING when we see people stick their necks out for what’s right, especially when they play for the other team.

We should all be playing for Team Humanity. But that sort of utopian thinking is usually met with a loud, catty, “Surrender, Dorothy,” and perhaps rightfully so. Still, when Georgia governor Nathan Deal vetoed HB 757, it illuminated what’s really wrong with the majority of right-wing thinking about what I’ve come to call Tinklegate. “As I’ve said before, I do not think we have to discriminate against anyone to protect the faith based community in Georgia of which my family and I are a part of for all of our lives,” Deal said in a statement about his decision. “Our actions on HB 757 are not just about protecting the faith-based community or providing a business-friendly climate for job growth in Georgia. This is about the character of our State and the character of its people.” You’re damn right it is, Nate. His inclusive tone nailed it: We needn’t rule one thing out in order to protect the other. And it must be noted that Nathan Deal is a Southern Baptist as well as a Republican. Granted, part of the reason things went the way they did in Georgia is because the right people got to Deal in time. Was he pressured? Indeed he was. The Atlanta Convention and Business Bureau heard from no less than 16 corporations planning conventions in the state that would take their business elsewhere should HB757 get signed into law. Time Warner, Viacom, Disney, and AMC all weighed in similarly. Naturally, LGBTQ organizations also leveraged what they could. Pressure or no pressure, Deal made his views on the topic pretty clear weeks earlier, using logic that goes above and beyond the state’s fiscal bottom line.

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“What the New Testament teaches us is that Jesus reached out to those who were considered the outcasts, the ones that did not conform to the religious societies’ view of the world…We do not have a belief in my way of looking at religion that says we have to discriminate against anybody. If you were to apply those standards to the teaching of Jesus, I don’t think they fit.” Compared with the din of folks yelling “Foul!” over North Carolina and Mississippi, however, we didn’t hear a whole lot about this noteworthy development. I guess it’s just no fun anymore to give credit for a job well done.

It stinks of “Get to the back of the bus.” Have we really progressed so little in over a half-century? I find myself wondering if this is all a joke designed to distract democrats from the impending election, wearing us down so that folks like Drumpf and Cruz (who, by the way, thinks trans folks should take care of all bathroom needs before leaving the house…so big of him to still allow them the right to venture out, ay?) can slither into office. Stranger things have happened.

Especially not when there’s so much left to complain about. Tinklegate continues to astound. Last week, scrolling through my Facebook feed, I was taken aback by the wording of a report about Oxford, Alabama. In a link to an article at the Occupy Democrats website, the heading read, “Pee At Home: Alabama City Bans Trans People From Using ALL Public Bathrooms.”

Believe me, I’d rather write about something else. But as Tinklegate continues to permeate social media (and, in turn, our national consciousness), it demands more examination. We seem to keep getting caught with our pants down in states where we’re not actively represented in government. Sometimes allies just aren’t enough. Let’s face it, if they’re not living with the reality of somehow being part of the LGBTQ community, they don’t really understand. And therefore, they’re too susceptible to outer pressures. Conformity still reigns supreme.

So, this is a tad misleading. According to the article, trans folks would still be able to use the bathroom that matches whatever sex is noted on their birth certificate. The headline skips over this detail, making it sound like an alarm will go off somewhere if your equipment doesn’t match that associated with the stick figure on the bathroom door. However awful, it conjures some amusing thoughts. When you drive over the border into Oxford, does an officer greet you at your vehicle with an adult-sized pull-up and a kidney shaped urine bottle? “It’s your choice,” they might tell you, being careful not to use any pronouns. “But most people just go with the diaper since it’s all inclusive. That way, you’re covered, you know? And they’re super absorbent

We need more of our own people seated in government, spread out more evenly through the country if we have a chance at nipping these euphemistically titled “religious freedom acts” in the bud. Not that we couldn’t figure that out on our own, but a study published recently by the Victory Fund and Institute breaks down the numbers in ways that really illuminate how having more of our own in office makes the difference. Their site also introduces candidates we might want to consider—a handy tool for those unable (or unwilling) to wade through all the other information to find folks that can be counted on to have our best interests at heart. Check them out at victoryfund. org. They may hold the key to the future of restroom politics. P

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Some local spots near the Echo Art Fair on Buffalo’s East Side…

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