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WHEN HOMICIDE ISN’T HOMICIDE BY AARON LOWINGER

OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE CONTINUES FOR MEECH DAVIS, AND LOCAL MEDIA PLAY ALONG LAST FRIDAY, right against 5pm, news broke that the death of Wardel “Meech” Davis, who had been stopped by police on February 7 for still unknown reasons, had been ruled a homicide by the county medical examiner.

Reports were unanimous, however, in stating that Davis’s respiratory distress contributed to his death, saying that his acute bronchitis and asthma played a role. Police have maintained from the beginning—and media have mostly taken their word for it—that B-District officers Todd C. McAlister and Nicholas J. Parisi were engaged in some kind of “scuffle” or “struggle” with Meech before he stopped breathing while handcuffed. Police have still not offered any explanation as to why Meech was stopped in the first place, nor what that conflict looked like. The Buffalo News has reported on a text exchange between Meech and a friend on the night of his death, in which Meech said that he was ill and suffering respiratory distress. Frequent police attorney and de facto spokesperson Thomas H. Burton, who is representing McAlister in this matter, seized upon the information regarding Davis’s medical state. “There was no way either one of them could know the person they were trying to arrest suffered from hidden but nonetheless serious medical problems,” he told the Buffalo News. The News bizarrely has allowed Burton to define homicide in this case—a definition in which homicide doesn’t constitute murder, and in which Davis’s illness here matters. SUNY at Buffalo law professor Anjana Malhotra, who specializes in civil rights, sharply disagrees. The idea that the officers should be exonerated by this information is premature, she says, and adds that the idea that homicide isn’t homicide in this case is “legally incorrect.” “New York law is clear that the existence of other contributing factors to a fatality—here asthma—does not absolve the assailants of committing homicide and engaging in criminal wrongdoing,” Malhotra explains. “Further, New York Courts have made clear that an assailant is liable for a homicide when their conduct contributes to a fatality, even when there are other factors that lead to the victim’s death, and even when the individual’s actions are not necessarily the immediate cause of death.” Attorney Steve Cohen, who is representing Davis’s girlfriend Jashalyn Washington in the case, says that homicide simply means that someone else caused a death. “The truth is simple,” he told The Public. “The facts are the facts.”

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And yet the same defense is being invoked in Niagara County over the death of 25-year-old jail inmate DeJuan Hunt last year. His death was also ruled a homicide in February, but both Sheriff James R. Voutour and District Attorney Caroline A. Wojtaszek have thrown cold water on this language.

since day one, including the times for calls for backup and medical help that Parisi and McAlister made from the scene on February 7. Cohen said that he has interviewed multiple witnesses who have described a 40-minute gap between medical intervention being necessary and its arrival.

“The medical definition of homicide is far different than the criminal definition,” Voutour told the Buffalo News.

That the autopsy was completed and not shared with the family, but evidently shared with the authorities first, is another red flag for Cohen, who accused the police of concocting a “fact scenario” rather than a real investigation. “They have all their ducks in a row,” he said. “They are putting their records together in a way to escape culpability.”

“In this case, such a determination by the medical examiner does not mean that they find that the death was intentional, nor do they find it was criminal,” Wojtaszek said. Hunt’s autopsy concluded that there were injuries on Hunt’s shins which may have caused rhabdomyolysis, a syndrome that can lead to renal failure. The major difference between the Hunt and Davis investigations as they currently stand is that, pursuant to a new state law, Davis’s death is being investigated by the state attorney general’s office, while Hunt’s case is being investigated by the Niagara County DA and the state’s Commission of Correction. But for all the orchestrated shade thrown on the Wardel Davis autopsy report, there were some tells. A week after Davis’s death, the News reported that an autopsy would not be complete for up to two months, due to toxicology testing. If Davis, who prior reporting indicated had at times been in possession of cocaine and heroin, had any heavy drugs in his system, wouldn’t Burton and the BPD have made that public by now? It’s also interesting to track Mayor Byron Brown’s comments on the matter. The day after the death, Brown said he had called Davis’s grandmother to assure her there’d be an investigation. He called the event a “tragedy that is unfolding on various levels.” After the homicide news broke, he released the following statement: “My thoughts and prayers continue to be with Mr. Davis’ family and all of those who have been impacted by this tragedy.” Whether it was a poor choice of words or a deliberate nod, “all those who have been impacted by this tragedy” and “on various levels” of course includes McAlister and Parisi, who remain on paid administrative leave, and whose fates currently rest with the attorney general. The office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was less ecumenical in its statement: “Our hearts go out to Mr. Davis’ family. We are committed to conducting a full, fair and comprehensive independent investigation, which is still ongoing at this time.” Meanwhile, the Buffalo Police keep shutting doors on efforts toward transparency in the case. Steve Cohen told The Public that he has been trying “non-stop” to get key information on the case

That the police have not established a reason for stopping Meech to begin with is “insane” to Cohen. “A dispatcher would have punched a card,” he said, referring to how 911 calls are processed. But it does not seem there was a 911 call concerning Meech that night. We know that McAlister and Parisi were assigned to the B-District “detail car” that night, which, based on information made available to the Buffalo News and The Public, involves officers patrolling areas of regular criminal activity, often engaging in stop-and-frisk stops, allowing police wide latitude on their decision to intervene with a citizen. This police behavior matches the “zero tolerance” policing policy that has been a hallmark of the Brown administration and is currently featured on the front page of his re-election campaign website. We also know that Meech was on Parisi and McAlister’s radar, having been arrested for drugs in the recent past. The Public has requested detail car reports from the BPD pursuant to Freedom of Information law, but the BPD has not yet released them. Police have claimed that the house at 19 Hoyt Street, which Meech was exiting at the time he was stopped by police, was a “house known for drug activity” and the focus of frequent police calls in the past 10 years. Apparently, the BPD made those records available to the Buffalo News. Cohen claims to have interviewed residents in every unit of the house, and the closest any of the occupants came to that accusation was a description of a group of tenants as “college kids who smoked pot.” Cohen said he has also requested a record of police calls to 19 Hoyt Street and has so far received nothing. “I will say that, after getting stonewalled, I did talked to the attorney general’s office, and they said they were conducting a thorough investigation,” Cohen said. The city’s lack of cooperation with basic information requests on this matter certainly raises the specter of election-year gaming. Brown is now facing two challengers in September’s Democratic primary. Brown is the statewide chairman of the Democratic ParP ty, and certainly has Eric Schneiderman’s attention.

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Neighborhood residents have been waiting and worrying for a decade since state environmental regulators declared several acres of the plant on East Delavan Avenue a significant threat to public health. The contaminant of concern are PCBs, which are so toxic that the federal government banned the manufacturing of them in 1979. The residents want the property cleaned up, but instead have endured inaction from state regulators and legal maneuvering by the plant’s changing cast of owners. Those caught in the middle of the dispute include 25,500 mostly African-American neighbors who live within a one-mile radius of the plant. “We have nowhere to go. We’re poor people,” said Golden, who lives on Northumberland Avenue. Neighbors, working with the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York, are pressing the state Department of Environmental Conservation to end the tug of war between the agency and the property’s current owner, Jon Williams and his East Delavan Properties LLC. Clean Air Coalition organizer Brian Borncamp said the DEC is putting the interests of the property owner over the Delavan-Grider community. “This site has been leaking hazardous waste for decades, and fulfillment of the state’s responsibility is past due,” Borncamp said.

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Virginia Golden, of Northumberland Avenue.

The DEC has failed to use its authority to require a clean up, and it has not spent any of the $2.8 million earmarked for the remediation. The agency is now signaling it will get tough with Williams’s company, declaring in a March 29 letter that the company has not “performed sufficient monitoring during the course of its many years of ownership to ensure stabilization of known hazardous wastes/substances at the site.” Williams counters that the contamination is not his doing. The PCBs are remnants of the era when General Motors owned the plant. Although he’s willing to remediate, he and the DEC cannot agree on how. “East Delavan Properties didn’t create this contamination, it didn’t walk away from the contamination, it didn’t abandon the site,” Williams said. “GM did, and by extension New York State.” The health concerns extend beyond the immediate neighborhood. State records show PCBs have penetrated a brick sewer that runs below the property. Heavy rain can cause this sewer to empty into badly polluted Scajaquada Creek, and testing has detected PCBs in the waterway’s bed at levels harmful to fish and other wildlife. But it’s uncertain whether any of the PCBs in the creek come from the plant. Martin Brand, DEC’s deputy commissioner, said the agency needs “a comprehensive and detailed investigation of the current conditions at the facility” to determine the condition of the sewer and property.”

LOCAL NEWS Delavan Properties bought the plant.

IMPACT ON SCAJAQUADA CREEK

Williams, the current owner, said the oil drenched some buildings, leaving a slippery mess.

The PCBs pose a potential danger beyond the plant site.

“You had these 100-year-old production facilities that were essentially covered in cutting oil,” he said.

“No more talking,” says Greg Glover, who has lived behind the plant for 32 years.

OPERATED AS AUTO PLANT The former GM plant at 1001 East Delavan Avenue is one of almost 400 contaminated sites in New York State that contain PCBs. This plant is one of two properties on Buffalo’s East Side that the DEC deems a significant threat to public health. The other site is Vibratech, a mile west on East Delavan Avenue, which contains toxic solvents. The GM plant opened in 1922, the first Chevrolet automobile production facility outside of Michigan. The plant was a huge East Side employer in its heyday. Workers used a lot of oil and lubricants laced with PCBs, which do not break down, even under high temperatures. That was good for industry but terrible for the environment. In 1991, GM reported a spill to the DEC that led to the discovery of PCBs in oil beneath one of its manufacturing buildings. Three years later, GM found PCBs had leaked into a brick sewer line beneath the facility that feeds into Scajaquada Creek when the system is swamped by rain. The spill prompted testing that found PCBs in concentrations high enough to be deemed hazardous waste. That discovery prompted GM to install a treatment system for the underground contamination. In 1994, GM sold the facility to American Axle, which manufactured automobile parts. In 2006, GM agreed to remediate the property through a legal order with the state. Then, in 2008, East

GM’s legal obligation to remediate the property ended in 2012. The company filed for bankruptcy several years earlier and subsequently negotiated a settlement with the state that absolved GM’s of its liability in exchange for $2.8 million. That money was earmarked for remediation of the plant, which would cost an estimated $10 million. That agreement effectively put the onus on Williams’s company to remediate the site, state officials now say. Williams said that’s unfair. “I’m not going to take responsibility for what GM did here forever,” he said. State officials see it differently. “We understand that East Delavan bought this property when GM was starting to go into the bankruptcy, but they did have their eyes open when they bought it, and they knew what they were buying,” said Brand, DEC’s deputy commissioner. Williams said he is willing to remediate the property, but he does not want to be held liable for the contamination. The state is not agreeable to that condition and has instead issued an ultimatum: Remediate under the Superfund program or the state will do so and take his company to court if necessary to recover the costs. Meanwhile, Williams’s company has one of his other businesses, OSC Manufacturing and Equipment Services, on site. The company makes and sells heavy construction equipment. Williams has also leased space to at least four other companies and sold a portion of the property to Niagara Lubricants, which relocated there after a fire destroyed its Black Rock factory. His plans include the expansion of his company to build diesel-free construction equipment and become a major employer in a neighborhood that is hungry for jobs.

Studies have found PCB-laced oil leached through a brick sewer below the property. This sewer feeds into lines that eventually empty into Scajaquada Creek in Forest Lawn Cemetery when the system is inundated with runoff during storms. This happens often: Buffalo Sewer Authority documents show up to 270 million gallons of untreated sewage and stormwater flow into the creek from a tunnel in Forest Lawn Cemetery up to 65 times a year. Studies prepared for GM in 2009 concluded that the oil plume underground was not a human health risk and that the PCBs entering the sewer had a negligible impact on the creek. But a 2014 study by the US Army Corps of Engineers found unsafe concentrations of toxic chemicals, including PCBs, in the creek. Seven spots within Forest Lawn Cemetery tested at levels deemed “likely harmful” to fish, birds, and other wildlife. People who regularly eat contaminated fish can develop serious health problems, including liver disease, high blood pressure, and cancer. The US Army Corps’ study did not identify any sources of the PCB contamination. DEC officials don’t know if PCBs underneath the plant continue to leach into the brick sewer. “I think we need to answer those questions,” said Brand of the DEC. Jill Jedlicka, executive director of Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, said if found, the PCBs need to be remediated. “Certainly, when we find it, we definitely need to take action to remove it from the system,” she said. That sentiment is shared by East Side residents living near the plant. They want the stalemate between the state and East Delavan Properties to end. “No more talking, no more meeting, just clean the land up so that I can go on about my day,” said Greg Glover, who has lived behind the plant for 32 years. Dan Telvock is a reporter for Investigative Post, a nonprofit investigative reporting center focused on issues of importance to residents of Buffalo and Western New York. P

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LOOKING BACKWARD: UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO LAW SCHOOL, 1949 Wielding a trowel, Chancellor Samuel P. Capen placed mortar for the cornerstone-laying of the University of Buffalo Law School at 77 West Eagle Street on February 18, 1949. This was the first building constructed for the purpose of housing the law school, but was not the first downtown location. Prior to 1973 and dating back to its founding in 1887, the Buffalo Law School had never been located on the university’s main campus. Its first downtown home was a single room of the Buffalo Central Library in 1888. When it became part of the University of Buffalo in 1891, it moved to an upper floor of the Stafford Building at 158 Pearl Street, then to the ninth floor of the Ellicott Square Building in 1896, and to the third and fourth floors of the Third National Bank at 275 Main Street in 1913. In 1917, the Law School purchased 77 West Eagle Street, which would be its address for more than 50 years. The 1949 building, pictured here at its completion, is now owned by Erie County and used for auxiliary court functions. The law school moved to the seven-story John Lord O’Brian Hall at the Amherst Campus in 1973. Stating the obvious, a Buffalo Courier Express noted in a July 5, 1973, article that the move meant “law students may find it harder to clerk in the offices of downtown law firms and judge’s offices, [and] will no longer have nearby physical access to the courts. P -THE PUBLIC STAFF PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BUFFALO HISTORY MUSEUM.

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ENTWINED: RECENT WORK BY JESSE WALP AND BETHANY KRULL AT INDIGO ART GALLERY WHEN MOST ARTISTS COLLABORATE, they go home when the work is done. When they go home, Jesse Walp and Bethany Krull, who have been working side by side for the last 12 years, find themselves in the same place—together. In the early years, what brought them together was proximity and deep interest in each other’s process. More recently, what binds them together are two young children. Walp and Krull appear to thrive in their partnership.

Their exhibition titled Entwined, on view at Indigo Art Gallery, focuses mostly on the relationship between humans and nature, asking its viewers many of pressing questions of our time. How do we teach younger generations about the complexity of nature? What happens when we try to control it? Why do we value certain species or spaces more than others? The show has me contemplating the words of author Jon Mooallem: “Zoom out and what you see is one species—us— struggling to keep all others in their appropriate places, or at least in the places we’ve decided they ought to stay. In some areas, we want cows but not bison, or mule deer but not coyotes, or cars but not elk. Or sheep but not elk. Or bighorn sheep but not aoudad sheep. Or else we’d like wolves and cows in the *same* place. Or natural gas tankers swimming harmoniously with whales. We are everywhere in the wilderness with white gloves on, directing traffic.” The exhibition features 11 major works, three of which are made by Walp and Krull in tandem, while the other eight find connections to one another without having been made collaboratively. Also included in the show are a series of small works that demand attention. The textures, colors, and shapes are alluring. I would liken my first reaction to entering the gallery to the long walks I take in the woods with my children. I wanted to look beneath each piece, inside, and underneath. In some cases I wanted to stroke or squish the work, much to the obvious dismay of Walp. Before you even enter the gallery, in the window you will first see Krull’s Entangle—a gorgeous, if grotesque, pile of ceramic baby rats. No fur, they are varying shades of flesh tones resting on one another, their eyes squinting through slits suggesting safety and happiness. They are surrounded by dense artificial grass that slowly thins out on the sand bed they lay on. The grass protects them. This piece reminds of our relationship to rats—animals we see as nuisances, historical carriers of disease. In the northern Canadian city Edmonton, authorities have taken extreme actions over the last 50 years to eradicate rats all together. They have also been wiped from our consciousness: Many people don’t even know what a rat looks like. Krull asks us to consider our relationship with other species. How can we love or respect one animal over another? Some of us even repulsed by non-domesticated animals. Becoming Brand New is composed of ceramic tadpoles suspended in rubber bubbles or orbs. (This is the piece I wanted to touch most.) Curator and gallerist Emily Tucker described this piece as “visual magic.” I can’t agree with her more. The piece looks wet, the ceramic tadpoles look alive, and its arrangement sug-

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gests it was placed there by nature. Each orb with the tadpole suspended is mounted on the wall. It the center the composition is dense and the orbs radiate out—they become sparser. Walp writes, “I am inspired by thoughts of the internal energies and processes that bring natural forms into being…” These tadpoles aren’t done growing; they need water and time. Walp suggested I open any plastic container in my refrigerator and look at the underside of the lid. He seemed sure I’d find a similar formation of water droplets, minus the tadpoles. This piece is the fruit of Walp and Krull’s collaboration. Persistence, made by Walp, is composed of four concrete bricks laid up against one another, as if to suggest bricks in a sidewalk. Pushing up between the bricks are blades of purple and green grass. This piece subtly illustrates the power of nature in clear and simple terms. If you look closely, you will see this power even in the most densely populated cities. Nature was first and it will certainly be last. Tranquil & Trembling Earth is an urgent call-to-action by piece made of soil, ceramic, adhesive, wire mesh, and artificial grass. There are two naked rats, eyes shut, curled up with one another on broken, cracked, dark earth surrounded by scant blades of grass, some cut, some still standing tall, untouched by human hands. The color of the soil suggests it is nutrient rich and fertile, though it is cracked, buckling, dry, and curling up. Krull explained that it had sat dormant for some time, but she realized its potential again as she tried to process the recent political shit show. Walp’s Harbor is made of slightly arched, black-dyed wood thoughtfully connected to look like slats. In the center there is

May 21, with a closing reception May 20, 4-7pm. Gallery open Friday, May 5, 5-8pm and Saturday, May 13, 1-4pm. FF Ashker’s on Elmwood (1002 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886-2233, ashkersbuffalo.com): Ashley Kay: This Realm: Ladies of Night, through Jun 4. Reception Fri, May 12, 7-9pm. MonSat 7am-10pm, Sun 9am-5pm. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): 12th Annual Betty’s Staff, Friends and Family Exhibition through May 21. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Toma Yovanovich: Tongues of Flame, on view through Jun 3. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. The Blue Plate Studio (69 Keil Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 725-2054): Work by Alicia Malik. Box Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Larger Than Life, a new installation by Daniel Galas. BT&C Gallery (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, btandcgallery.com): Claire Ashley: Brave New Points and Planes. On view through May 13. Fri 12-7pm, Saturdays 12-4pm (during exhibitions), and by appointment. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Julia Douglas, Tint-

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is slight arched opening. At first glance, you only see the sculpture—the bones of the sculpture—but if you take the time to look inside, you’ll see a few small bluish “seeds,” suggesting a hidden potential. Looking at this piece and finding the seeds inside gave me a similar sensation to turning over a decayed log in the woods in hopes of finding a salamander. Swamp is composed of cast disks of concrete with fake grass and flowers coming out of them. On one half, the disks only have grass growing from them; the other half blooms with fake flowers of multiple colors. Tucked way in the grass and flowers are two tadpoles staring each other down. I am reminded of mowed lawn with only one species of grass to be found, versus a yard filled with various plants, flowers, insects and animals. Krulls asks us, why control it? Observing Underbelly can be compared to waiting for a seed to germinate and break through the soil. It is a long, lean piece made of walnut, poplar, and dye. It is like a long, double-sided tongue wrapped in thin sheets of wood. This piece feels like it might come alive at any moment. Walp describes this piece as a study of common bugs, such a potato bug or an African hissing cockroach. It really gives the viewer a sense of emerging energy. This piece must be seen in person to fully understand. As elsewhere in the show, the craftsmanship is stellar. Bound shows two placid, white ceramic otters swimming around in a spiky metallic sphere. Krull described that spiky sphere to me as an object of desire. This work seems to sum up Krull and Walp’s relationship to one another—happily bound in family, art, and exploration. There is something about this collection of works that makes me consider how if nature was gone, we could come look at these pieces to remember, if only faintly. They have an artifact quality to them. If the conceptual basis of this work doesn’t strike you, the craftsmanship will. Entwined will be on view through May 27. There will be a gallery talk on Saturday, May 6 at 3pm. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Friday, noon-5pm, Saturday noon-3pm, and by appointP ment.

ed: A Visual Statement on Color, Identity, and Representation. Van Tran Nguyen, Strange Agency (University at Buffalo MFA Thesis Exhibition). Both shows on view through Jun 2. Tue-Fri 10am5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. FF Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint.com): Buffalo Artists: Recent Works. Featuring photography, pastels, paintings, and more from several talented local artists. Opening Fri, May 5, 6-9pm. On view through May 31. Mon-Fri 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 books from the history of science, on second floor. MonSat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm.Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney. org): Robert L. Flock: Color as Energy, through May 21. Artists Living in Other Worlds, through May 21. The Interior World of Roland Wise, through May 21. Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns & the West, on view through May 28. Reunion: Chess, through Jun 25. Artists Seen, photographs of contemporary artists by David Moog. 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. Canvas Salon & Gallery (9520 Main Street, Clarence, NY 14031, STE 400): Work by Anne Valby, on view through June 30. Cass Project (500 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14204): Charcoal works by Tricia Butski, through May 7. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Ebru: Floating Emotions featuring ebru by İpek, Ali Burak, and Musa Saraçoğlu, on view through Jul 9. Chinese Folk Pottery: The Art of the Everyday through Jul 2. Painting Niagara, Thomas Kegler, on view through Jan 21, 2018. Opening reception Sun May 7, 2-4pm. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8562717, cepagallery.org): Karsten Krejcarek: (However) the Owner of the Living (Death) May Pierce (an Abscess) and Spread Ruin, Babalú-Ayé through May 21. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Daily Planet Coffee Company (1862 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, 716- 551-0661): Reflections by Youssou Lo, through Apr 30. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts. com): Contemporary collection including Hans Moller, Edith Geiger, Lee Adler, Claire Burch, and more. Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm.

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AT THE BURCHFIELD-PENNEY, THE STORY IN WORDS AND PICTURES OF A WOMAN WHO HELPED DRIVE AN AMERICAN MODERNIST MOVEMENT THE MABEL DODGE LUHAN exhibit at the Burchfield Penney is the story in words and pictures of the creation of an alternative American modernist art tradition to the default tradition abstract expressionist New York School. The alternative tradition was more authentically representative of the fullness and complexity of American culture than the basically self-referential New York School in that—without ignoring or rejecting the abstractionist imperative—the variant tradition was solidly and consistently in reference to the American land and American people, including Native American and Hispanic ancestry populations. The home base of the alternative tradition was—of all places—Taos, New Mexico. But the story started in Buffalo.

world.” She went, and upon arrival promptly dispatched Sterne back east and met and took up with Tony Luhan, an ethnic Pueblo Indian and eventually her fourth husband. It was to her and Tony’s place, called Los Gallos—originally a 12-acre farmstead with small adobe house that she and Tony greatly enlarged and improved, adding guest houses—that she brought her artist and other friends. She later wrote about her vision of Los Gallos as a retreat for the “movers and shakers of the earth, to relax and recover their energy” there. The visitors typically fell in love with the stark magnificent Northern New Mexico environs, and some relocated there, but all were likely significantly influenced by the Taos experience.

Some notable artists associated with the Taos eventual arts colony included: painters Georgia O’Keefe, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Buffalo grande dame of modernism Martha Visser’t Hooft; photographers Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Paul Strand, and Ansel Adams; writers Willa Cather and D. H. Lawrence; and dancer/choreographer Martha Graham. All of them were introduced to Taos by Mabel Dodge Luhan, whose first visit to the region was in response to a message from her then husband Maurice Sterne, who on a trip there wrote and encouraged her to come out to “Save the Indians, their art—culture—reveal it to the

She was born Mabel Ganson into an old money Buffalo family, to escape which she married at an early age and had a son with Karl Evans, who a few years later died in a hunting accident. Soon afterwards, she and her son, John Evans, shipped off to Europe. On board she met Edwin Dodge, a wealthy Bostonian, and they married and purchased a former Medici villa in Florence, where she began developing a taste for art, and hosting visitors the likes of Gertrude and Leo Stein. Eventually the Dodges—their marriage now heading for the rocks— amid numerous romantic affairs, on her part at least, with lovers of both sexes—relocated to Greenwich Village in New York City, where she set up as a patron of the arts and hosted weekly salons that attracted artists and intellectuals, usually of distinctly socialist progressive political leanings. Such as poet and radical journalist John “Jack” Reed—most famous for his eyewitness accounts of the Russian Revolution—with whom she had a sporadic series of romantic affairs. The Greenwich Village peri-

Dreamland (387 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, facebook.com/dreamlandarts.buffalo/ timeline): Open by event. FF Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects. com): Brendan Fernandes: From Hiz Hands. On view through Jul 30. Dennis Maher: City House Models. On view through May 6. FF El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Phyllis Thompson: Memories of Making Special. Opening reception Fri, May 5, 6-9pm. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): C.Mari, Grace Wilding and Serena Way. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm . Fox Run Gyda Higgins Art Gallery (One Fox Run Lane, Orchard Park, NY 14127): Hometowns of WNY by Linda Hall. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Between gallery exhibitions. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. FF Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Entwined, Jesse Walp and Bethany Krull. Gallery talk, Sat May 6, 3pm. On view through May 27. Wed & Fri 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sun & Mon. Jewish Community Center of Buffalo, Bunis Family Art Gallery (2640 North Forest Road, Getzville, NY 14068 jccbuffalo.org): Exhibit by Jerry Birzon, Opening reception Tue, May 9, 6-8pm in the Lippman Lounge. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. On view through Apr 26. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Kenan Center House Gallery (433 Locust Street,

Lockport, NY 14094, 433-2617, kenancenter.org): Three Generations of Burchfields: Works from the Schoene Collection, on veiw through June 16. Mon-Fri 12-5pm & Sun 2-5pm. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Sean Witucki: Kindred Spirits, on view through May 27. Tue-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 282-7530, thenacc.org): NF125, opening reception, Fri, May 5, 5-7pm. MonFri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-882-5777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Roil, new work by Kyle Butler through Jun 14. Opening reception Sat, May 6, 6-8pm. Tue-Fri 10am–5pm Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-652-3270, norbergsartandframe.com): Local artists: Kathleen West, Bradley Widman, Peter Potter, and Miranda Roth. Tue-Sat 10am–5pm. FF Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Group 263: Kathleen Corff Rogers, Karima Bondi, Rick Steinberg, Brian Boutin, and Gethryn Soderman through May 30. Opening reception Fri, May 5, 7-9pm. Wed-Fri, 12-7pm (until 9pm on first Fridays), Sat & Sun 12-5pm. FF Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse.com): Tropicals, watercolors by Rita Argen Auerbach on view through Jun 17. Opening Fri, May 5, 2017, 6-11pm. Live music Thu-Sat. FF Pine Apple Company (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/store/ pine-apple-company): Unicorns! LGBTQ Invitational. Opening reception, Fri, May 5, 6-9pm. Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gal-

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od included regular excurses to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she also became involved in arts scene—she and Reed helped organize the Provincetown Players theater group. Back in the city, she was one of the organizers of the famous 1913 Armory show. The exhibit includes works of many of the artists associated with the Taos colony, including: Georgia O’Keefe’s magnificent Grey Cross with Blue; a series of Southwestern landscapes by John Marin; an abstract of Indian symbols by Marsden Hartley; sketch drawings by Diego Rivera for a dance collaborative work with Mexican composer Carlos Chávez; a photo portrait of Chávez by Paul Strand; other photos by Stieglitz, Weston, and Adams; and Martha Visser’t Hooft’s dark luminous Blue Shards oil painting with a look and feel of stained glass work.

lery.com): Set Aside the Cobwebs in the Sky (Gently Open Your Eyes to Sleep): multimedia installation and performance piece, on view May 3-7. Public viewing on Fri, May 5 7-9pm and Sat, May 6 7-9pm. Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. FF Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): Art by Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, John Farallo, Chris McGee,Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Leibel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, Kisha Patterson, Lindsay Strong, Frank Russo, Michael Mulley. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. FF Resource:Art (Various locations, resourceartny. com, 249-1320): Community, Milton Rogovin photographs, in conjunction with Max Collins public art project at the Buffalo Center for Art and Technology (1221 Main Street in Buffalo). Ticketed reception Thu May 4, 5:30-7:30 ($75, proceeds go to student programming at BCAT), public reception Fri, May 5, 6-9pm. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Sonic Splendor, group show with work by Adam Weekley, Annette Hassell, Craig LaRotonda, Dan Barry, David Brinley, Greg Kuppinger, Hope Kroll, Maria Pabico LaRotonda, Mark Rogers, Matt Duquette, Matthew Dutton, Paul Neberra, Stephanie Henderson—each artist interpreting one song. Through June 10. Opening reception Sat, May 6 8-11pm. RO Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Dianne Baker, mixed media, through Apr 30. Tue-Sat 11am6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Rust Belt Books (415 Grant Street): Recent works on paper by Hetta and Esther Gardner through Jun 30. Opening reception Sun, May 7, 2-5pm. FF Sports Focus Physical Therapy (531 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202, 332-4838, sportsfocuspt.com): Photography by Joe George through May 30. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, 6-9pm on first Fridays.

Also some film footage by Chauncey Hamlin— the founding father of the Buffalo Museum of Science—of a horseback trek into the mountains with wife Emily and daughters Martha and Mary during a trip to Taos to visit Mabel and Tony. In a display case nearby, a letter from the trip from young Martha to her fiancé Franciscus Visser’t Hooft. That begins, “My most darling boy—why aren’t you here—that is what I keep saying to myself…” and goes on for nine pages to describe some of her experiences on the trip: “If you could see the shadows on the hills out here…This is the country of poets and artists, and they are here in hundreds… Suddenly the most gorgeous Northern lights appeared…a glorious sight…” The exhibit includes a segment on native Pueblo art, and ancillary display of Mexican Hispanic folk art religious paintings and statues, and other works related to the intense religious sensibility of the indigenous population. Including a superb photo by Barbara Morgan of dancer Erick Hawkins, as if in performance in a Martha Graham ballet, in the role of “El Flagellante.” The exhibit is called Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns and the West. It was put together by the Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, University of New Mexico, with additional materials on Buffalo connections in the Burchfield Penney version. Continuing P through May 28.

Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Sondra Perry: flesh out. On view through May 6. Tue-Sat, 12pm-5pm. FF Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio.org): Ann Moody, Kelly Evans, Shamika Long, Debbie Medwin, Sonya Lewis, Lisa Kobis, Rosita Scott, on view through Jul 16. Opening reception: Fri, May 5, 2017, 7-9pm and Fri, May 12, 10am. MonFri 9-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): 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. Wed-Sat 11am5pm, 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): Ill at Ease: Dis-ease in Art, curated by Conor Moynihan. Ebony G. Patterson: Dead Treez through May 13. 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): Fine Arts Program Student Exhibit, open Apr 25-May 5. Mon-Fri 8am-8pm, Sat 10am -5pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 348-1430, wnybookarts.org): Contentual Relationships, a collaborative exhibition by Scott Kristopher, on view through Apr 28. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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News briefs New Imperial Court monarchs to be crowned this month Members of Imperial Court of Buffalo cast their votes on April 25 for Emperor and Empress to Reign 27, but the results won’t be announced until May 27 at the group’s annual Coronation Ball.

Anita Mandalay — current Imperial Crown Princess — was the only candidate for empress, which almost guarantees her the title. Imperial Crown princes to Reign 26 and 24, respectively, Marty Crawford and Linda Shamrock, aka R.N. Derring Capone, are both vying for emperor. Once crowned, the emperor and empress will become the new face of the organization and entrusted with being the primary fundraisers for the group during the coming year. The Court is a non-profit organization founded here in Buffalo in 1991 the raises funds for local queer-oriented charities, with a focus on causes related to HIV, as well as queer youth.

by Michael Rizzo During his bid for governor in 2010, it was revealed he’d circulated pornographic images by email, one that included the use of the N-word. Paladino’s ignorances are not reserved for racial minorities. In October, he was the only school board member to vote against the implementation of a state-recommended gender identity policy, falsely purporting that the board would be in violation of the state’s penal code regarding lewdness if it allowed transgender students to use public accommodations that align with their gender identity.

Local activist group Queers For Racial Justice has been actively coordinating with other racial justice advocacy groups in grassroots efforts to garner support for his removal for the past three months.

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Paladino has a track record for making racist remarks, once commenting about “damn Asians” and other “foreigners” attending University at Buffalo during a political rally in June 2015. He defended the then-commissioner of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority and his use of a racial epithet to describe Mayor Byron Brown and several other African-American officials.

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A busload of locals hopped on a bus to Albany in the wee hours of the morning on May 2 to meet with elected officials in the State Senate and Assembly and advocate on behalf of the Western New York queer community.

LGBT Advocacy Day is an evolution of Equality and Justice Day, the annual lobby day formerly sponsored by Empire State Pride Agenda, which disbanded last year.

Attendees who were able to schedule an appointment with their district’s representatives attended those meetings, with this year’s emphasis on the need to safeguard basic rights for transgender individuals and queer families with children. Issues such as anti-transgender violence and conversion therapy were the focus. The trip was funded by a grant from embraceWNY.

NYSED orders hearing date for Carl Paladino

It’s been more than 100 days since the board sought Paladino’s removal for publicly releasing information discussed in executive session about teachers’ contract talks. New York State United Teachers and Buffalo Teachers Federation also filed petitions for his removal back in January, citing the “racially inflammatory statements” he made about President Obama, Michelle Obama and African-Americans, published in Artvoice in late December, but the order from Elia cites neither of those petitions. A change.org petition posted on Dec. 23 calling for his removal has been signed by 24,355 people to date.

Locals advocate in Albany for queer civil rights

Now an educational day organized by New York State United Teachers as well as other labor unions and LGBT advocacy groups, the WNY Anti-Violence Project, which coordinated the bus trip for the second year, as well as Stonewall Democrats of WNY facilitated several workshop sessions during the day.

The annual Coronation Ball is the group’s premier fundraising event of the year, when the local figureheads host members of visiting Courts from all over the United States and Canada for a full weekend of activities. This year’s Ball is themed “Cape, Crowns and Gowns: A Regal Affair.” Tickets to the Ball and each of the week’s events are available at www.imperialcourtofbuffalo.com.

State Education Department Commissioner MaryEllen Elia ordered a hearing April 18 for Carl Paladino, to be held on June 22, in response to the Buffalo Board of Education’s request to have him removed from the school board.

they are not, though the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently said they are protected. Congress has repeated rejected a federal non-discrimination law for gays and lesbians, but 22 states have laws prohibiting workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation — including New York.

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Buffalo pageant icon wins national title

Beloved local performer and pageant owner Keke Valasquez-Lord took home the crown for Miss Continental Plus 2017 on April 18. Any of the four highly coveted titles from Continental Pageantry Systems has been known to be a career game-changer for many female illusionists and performers since its first contest 37 years ago and the crowning of Chilli Pepper.

Federal Appeals Court rules LGBT job discrimination prohibited

In the first ruling of its kind, a federal appeals court in Chicago voted 8-3 on April 4 that “discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination,” and is therefore prohibited by federal civil rights laws. In the past, every federal appeals court to consider whether gay employees are entitled to non-discrimination protection has ruled that

This year’s workshop sessions addressed how to hold a legislative visit, how to carry on a conversation with people about queer issues who have no association with the community, how to host a successful in-district visit, and how to organize grassroots advocacy groups in small pockets around the state and create a network for activism. The day ended with a transgender town hall meeting.

GLYS board seeks new executive director

A Buffalo business consulting firm began accepting resumes for the position of executive director of Gay and Lesbian Youth Services early in April. The job listing is posted on Performance Management Partners’ website at www. performancepros.net.

Marvin Henchbarger currently maintains the post and has since 2001. The organization was founded in 1983. More information was not available at the time of publication. Henchbarger declined to comment.

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archives: The John Morgan Story by Adrienne C. Hill

John Morgan, former executive director of the MOCHA Project, remembers feeling a keen sense of difference from others at a young age. Going back to age twelve, he’d search his local East Side library to try and gain an understand of this feeling.

“Everything on homosexuality was in the closed shelves,” Morgan said during a recent interview. “In order to get any of those books, you actually had to request them. The books would come up, and I would pass by the table, and just grab them quickly and go someplace to start reading them.”

Although Morgan began seriously exploring his gay identity as a teenager, hanging out at Buffalo’s Gay Community Center on the corner of Main St. and Utica, it was his college education at Buffalo State that instigated his activism. Along the way, Morgan became a member of the Student Alliance for Gay Equality (SAGE) in 1974, where his primary role was providing space and visibility for students considering coming out. “I manned the office, or would do information tables in the Student Union,” he recalled. “I was a nervous wreck, but I would do it anyway. I think it would shock a few people.” Following graduation, he took a series of social work jobs, eventually earning his master’s degree and becoming a psychotherapist at ECMC’s Immunodeficiency Clinic.

“I was not an activist at all,” Morgan recalls. “I was just living my life, going to bars on the weekend.” Morgan’s young adulthood was marked by the growing realization that his experience as a black gay man separated him from his white counterparts.

“Back in the 1980’s, I never knew if I was actually going to get into the bars,” he said. “Depending on who the bouncer was… they would give you

some excuse about ‘you can’t come in’ for whatever reason. And although I was light-skinned, I had this huge afro as a way to make sure people knew I had a black identity. That would always cause a little bit of trouble.” Morgan credits Black Men Talking (BMT), a discussion group now entering its 25th year, with connecting him to other black gay men, and helping him navigate racism in Buffalo’s gay community. “It helped me to recognize that I wasn’t as odd as I thought I was,” he said.

In 1996, Morgan’s friend Gary English began an organization in Rochester called the Men of Color Health Awareness Project, or MOCHA Project, an HIV/AIDS education organization created by and for gay men of color. English enlisted Morgan’s help to open a Buffalo office, and eventually, in 1997, asked him to take MOCHA’s helm. Morgan reluctantly applied and was offered the position.

Building a Black Gay Identity

In the 1990s, people of color began accounting for the bulk of new HIV cases rather than gay white males, but the AIDS service organizations that’d formed in the epidemic’s early days had yet to adjust. “They kept saying they couldn’t reach this population,” Morgan remembered. Consequently, organizations like the MOCHA Project became newly eligible for grant funds. Based on his experience at the Immunodeficiency Clinic and in BMT, Morgan believed that the key to promoting health among black gay men was to help them develop a distinct black gay identity.

“How can you address health issues if you don’t even have the sense of an identity?” he said. “If [AIDS is] considered a white gay disease, and you don’t have a black gay identity, then you think

you’re immune. Everybody’s downplaying it, not talking about it.”

According to Morgan’s philosophy, poor identity development was caused by the invisibility of black gay men within their communities. If homophobia within black communities kept gay blacks from discussing AIDS, then racism in the gay community kept them from believing they deserved health. He also cites ongoing racism in the bars: “What do you think that’s doing to your psyche? It’s sort of setting up, like, you don’t matter. So, MOCHA had to be the place where you do matter.” Morgan thus fought health problems among gay men of color by combating their invisibility. The backbone of his outreach strategy involved introducing gay men of color to the MOCHA Project via social events. This technique was not always understood, either by his board or by predominantly white AIDS organizations.

“People were like, ‘Oh, you’re just having parties.’ No. The purpose was, first of all, to get people into the facility, so that they know where it is; to educate them around what it is we do, and also to set up testing opportunities because you’re saying it’s hard to reach this population and get them tested. So, we devised an incentives program, as well.” Morgan’s believes his greatest accomplishments at MOCHA amount to turning it into a viable, independent organization and, in 1999, collaborating with likeminded organizations across the state, ultimately co-founding the New York State Black Gay Network and becoming its first chair. This new level of statewide activism reinforced his dedication to identity development.

“The first meeting that I had, I felt like I was having a panic attack, due to the fact that I was surrounded by black men who appeared so put together, so intelligent, so outgoing, so competent,” he said, “I wanted the black gay individuals in

Buffalo to see what’s possible, to see that there are people out here that are just dynamic. And that we, too, could be like that.”

Now on the other end of his career, Morgan is reluctant to talk in detail about his 2007 departure from MOCHA. He describes it as “heartbreaking,” and “a mourning process” that took years. Today, he has mostly withdrawn from activism, but remains a member of Black Men Talking and is active in his block club. In reflecting on his legacy, he points out that the issues that informed his work two decades back still persist in the present – including being tokenized during his tenure at MOCHA.

“Whenever there was any kind of black gay anything, all of a sudden: ‘Oh, John, can you be a part of this?’ It was like, ‘Okay, let’s get some buy-in from the black guy.’”

Instead of creating activist agendas alongside people of color, he says, predominantly white LGBTQ organizations tend to ask people of color to endorse agendas they had no part in planning. Nowhere in recent history has this practice been more apparent than during the marriage equality debate.

“It wasn’t like we differed on [marriage equality],” he explained. “It was like, you want us to back your agenda, but where are you when we’re talking about supporting money for people of color and HIV? Where were you guys when that girl got hit by the car because the bus would not go into the Walden Galleria? These are our priorities. Not marriage equality.” Combating tokenization and racism, Morgan insists, will require white LGBTQ activists to rethink the meaning of inclusion.

“Inclusion is not just about having a face in the room, it’s about looking at how you’re supporting those individuals,” he said. “How are you helping them feel comfortable being in the room?”

the disconnect: Trump Dump by Michael Rizzo You go, girl. As in, “Bye!”

Trump supporters don’t belong in positions of queer leadership. And there’s no qualifying that. If you stand behind Trump while claiming to be an advocate for queer equality, you’re a fraud. You may believe you say and do things that sound and look like equality, but your words and actions are hollow, at best, and more than likely self-serving. “Welcome to your tape.”

It is not my job to fix your stupid.

That’s not exactly a life motto of mine, but it’s definitely how I feel about you if you’re a Trump supporter — especially if you’re a Trump supporter who identifies as gay. This is me checking out on any attempts to change your mind. If his first 100plus days in office hasn’t already done that, and you’re still a Trump fan, big league:

Do I sound divisive? Honestly, you started it. So sorry, not sorry. Am I being too harsh? Can a snowflake be too harsh? I mean, I’m seriously asking, because I live in Buffalo, so I know that enough snowflakes will give you eight and a half inches and prevent you from leaving the house for a few days. Do you need a safe space? Because you’re not welcome in this one. You can’t sit with us.

Trump supporters aren’t even in the majority, they’re just in power. And that’s not a jab at the electoral college vote versus the popular vote. That’s acknowledging that more than 92 million eligible voters didn’t vote. Given the most likely reasons why, that’s yet another majority’s vote that

wouldn’t have been for Trump either. There are so few people in this country — literally, the world — that (still) support Donald Trump’s presidency, the opinions of those that foolishly continue to do so should be rendered meaningless.

Look. Not all Trump supporters are terrible people, and I wish them no cumulative ill will, but I also refuse to feel bad for them. When people call you racist, homophobic, xenophobic or bigoted, it’s because you’re behind a man and an administration that personifies those things. It no longer matters what you do in your day-to-day life and whether you think any of those words apply to you or your everyday actions. You’ve aligned yourself with an ideology that’s governed by these principals. Your worldview is all of those things. Of course, if you are a Trumpeteer, you don’t get that, and I’m not surprised. Your loyalty already betrays your ignorance.

My harsh words aren’t directed at you simply because you’re a Trump supporter. It’s the lack of perspective, respect and compassion you have to possess to be a Trump supporter that gets me heated.

And for the very small handful of you Drumpf followers who I would say I love, that I think highly of, and that I respect: I understand how you arrived at the worldview you did, but that doesn’t give you an excuse to continue clinging to it. Call it my version of loving the sinner while hating the sin — an inherently flawed analogy, but all I can muster at my level of exasperation with stupid, standing in conflict with my loyalty to blood.

To clarify, I do not feel this way about republicans or conservatives. In general, we’re cool. It’s really just the Trump supporters with whom I can’t even. Gay Trump supporters? You’re the worst. There have got to be some synapses that just aren’t firing there. If you’re one of them, you’ll probably call this an attack, but it’s not. It’s just the facts. I know you’re not super clear on the meaning of ‘facts,’— feel free to step away from the The Donald’s Twitter feed and Google it. No, I didn’t fill this reading session with structured arguments, hard data and precise language. I just called a spade a spade. Because I’m a little busy. And it is not my job to fix your stupid.

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chechnya, reflected by Bruce Kogan Three months into the Trump administration and I’m really missing the Obama administration and its secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. It’s about the news from Chechnya and the round-up of gays for concentration camps: Who here expects Rex Tillerson to issue any condemnation of human rights violations for Chechnya’s rulers — essentially puppets of the Donald’s BFF, Vladimir Putin?

The Chechens have their answer, the same one given by the Saudis: “No way this is happening, because there are no gays in Saudi Arabia or Chechnya. We have ways to deal with them here, a little therapy and they’re out breeding like the rest of us.” Conversion therapy is public policy for these folks.

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revenge of the nErds Buffalo’s Poindexter stakes it’s claim by Christopher John Treacy In the age of alternative facts, never underestimate the value of a good misnomer.

“We’re a proud gay punk band from Buffalo” is how songwriter/musician R. Jeffrey Proctor usually introduces his band, Poindexter, which plays Mohawk Place on Saturday, May 27. But the statement is debatable. What we do know for sure is that Proctor is definitely gay and proud, and Poindexter remains a vehicle for his songwriting. And while the band certainly has punky overtones, it’s a distinctively 1990’s power-pop distillation of punk that really comes through. But “proud gay punk band from Buffalo” sure rolls of the tongue better than any of those nitpicky distinctions, and it gives Poindexter a leg-up — nobody else out there right now is making that claim.

Curiously, misinformation is what lit Proctor’s enthusiasm for the Foo Fighters and interest in starting a band to begin with: for a long time, he was pretty sure Foo’s guitarist Pat Smear was gay. Smear, happily married with kids, has never publicly acknowledged being anything other than heterosexual, but he comes across in a way that could be described as ‘West Coast fey.’ Proctor was off and running. “He seemed flaming gay, and the Foos rock really hard,” he said with an incredulous tone while in the midst of rehearsals to play CLAW, Cleveland’s annual leather convention, where Poindexter will be in a revue emceed by towering drag personality, Veranda L’Ni. The band has been learning some covers (The Waitresses “I Know What Boys Like” among them) in an effort to entertain a crowd that’s likely unfamiliar with them. “I have a bunch of live Foo recordings, and if you’ve never seen them, their live set is so much edgier than their studio recordings. And [Smear] was on House of Style — signs point to gay!,” he joked, adding more seriously that, “I’ve always wanted to break free from the stereotype of gay guys not rocking hard, so the idea was really attractive to me. But it’s all a lie, he’s not a homo.” Proctor latched onto his myth about Pat Smear mainly because he was looking for a hero in the world of 1990’s rock and found himself coming up short – no Freddie Mercury, no Rob Halford.

Smear would have to do. And for a while, he did.

Poindexter is the second incarnation of a band Proctor formed while in college with roommate Steve Kerfien on drums (also in Gun Candy) and friend Jon Kessel on bass, which disbanded and then reformed a decade later after Proctor’s songwriting went all prolific in the wake of a nasty breakup. Listening to them, you can clearly hear the Foo Fighters influence coming through in much the same way that bands like Blink 182, Jimmy Eat World, and even Green Day merged the scrappy punk aesthetic with tidier pop economics. And make no mistake, it rocks pretty hard. Kerfien, in particular, is a pummeling madman (Proctor likens him to Animal from The Muppet Show), tearing up the bottom end with Kessel while Proctor’s guitar gallops over the top. His self-deprecating insights and vocal delivery are vaguely reminiscent of Ben Folds, but there’s no piano in earshot softening the blow. He doesn’t pull any punches with his unapologetically gay depictions, either: “I like the way you climb on top/I like the way you always hit the spot,” he sings in “Hit the Ground Running,” just one of many revealing quips. For Proctor, the transparency is about setting examples. If that makes certain folks uncomfortable, so be it. “I think it’s important not to hide,” he said. “That’s paid off a few times. I remember playing a show in a hick town and afterwards a member of one of the other bands actually came out to me. I was the first person he told! That’s a big deal, and it wouldn’t have happened if Poindexter hid its identity.”

Proctor will happily tell you, the band has reached many of their initial goals – releasing on vinyl and playing out of state, in particular. Coming away from a winter’s hiatus, the trio is looking to play Canada and potentially book a proper tour. The downtime allowed for some necessary reflection. “Being in a band is like dating several people at once and making the compromises that would accompany that scenario, but I’d go crazy without it,” he said. “I may write all the music, but we develop my ideas as a trio and each have our own distinctive musical personality and input. When we get back from CLAW we’llstart writing new material. The current political climate is great for punk rock.”

I still remember during the Obama administration, Secretary Clinton condemning the killing of gays in the Middle East and feeling a sense of pride that the American government was standing up for my right to merely exist for the first time in our history. I also remember watching Pat Robertson’s 700 Club and hearing Reverend Pat say that this was all wrong and that we should respect the cultures of other nations in these matters…as if generations of missionaries ever did that.

What’s happening in Chechnya is surely part of our international movement, but it has also assumed a certain local significance as well. New York State is trying to ban anti-gay conversion therapy as a bogus practice condemned by every reputable scientific authority.

Currently, there’s a statewide “executive regulation” of these practices rather than the legislative statute that’s been adopted by California, Vermont, and, most recently, New Mexico.

Meanwhile, full-on bans are on the table in Florida and Texas.

A bill to ban conversion therapy practices in Erie County was introduced in December of last year, but it looks like it’ll pass the Assembly again and get locked up in the Senate Republican conference without even being given debate (let alone a vote). What are our Republican elected legislators afraid of ?

John Flanagan and his Republican conference and Jeff Klein and his breakaway independent Democratic conference have a lot of explaining to do on this issue. Keep their collective feet to the fire, people. They won’t discuss this on the legislative floor, so make sure you nail them in their districts when they go back for constituent meetings.

Locally, we can count on solid support from state Senator Tim Kennedy, and Assembly members Sean Ryan, Crystal Peoples-Stokes, and Monica Piga Wallace and Ray Walter. The rest of this region is pretty hostile. Here in Erie County, we should be lobbying state Senators Patrick Gallivan, Michael Ranzenhofer, and Chris Jacobs. In the Assembly, if you’re a constituent of Robin Schimminger, David DiPietro, or Mickey Kearns, don’t leave them alone for a second until they cast a vote against barbarism…because, make no mistake, that’s what conversion therapy is. Just part of the resistance in these troubling times.

Bruce Kogan is a guest columnist for Loop and longtime local LGBT advocate.

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Vegas mainstay Frank Marino comes to Western New York by Michael Rizzo It’ll be a drag show like none other seen in Western New York on June 9 and 10 when Las Vegas’ longest-running headliner Frank Marino emcees as Joan Rivers at Seneca Niagara Casino’s Bear’s Den Showroom. Marino leads an all-star cast of female celebrity impersonators — everyone from Lady Gaga to Cher, Diana Ross to Beyonce, Madonna to Britney Spears. Divas is no joke. Marino’s production, a pop-music revue featuring a cast of no fewer than 15 performers and a studly crew of backup dancers, is a huge spectacle — and it has been for 32 years. “An Evening at La Cage” was the show’s first iteration and ran for 23 years at The Riviera. The current adaptation of the show is Frank Marino’s Divas Las Vegas at the Linq Showroom.

“The key to success as far as longevity is being able to change the show up,” Marino said. “When we first started, we had Marilyn Monroe in the show, and people liked Julie Andrews. Now, people like Adele and Katy Perry. My fans are everything from prom kids to senior citizens, so I have a really big range of stars I’m bringing with me. We’re going to bring you between 15 and 17 different characters.”

Which means just as many costume changes, he added. “The hardest part of traveling is packing,” he said. “And I don’t do many shows outside of Las Vegas. It’s very difficult to do because I have such a large cast. This year, I’m doing five outside shows, and this happens to be one of them. I’m from New York, as well — I grew up in Long Island — but this is my first time playing here in 25 years.” 16 THE PUBLIC / MAY 3 - 9, 2017 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM 6 LOOP - MAY 2017

Marino is able to recall the original production schedule for “La Cage” — three nights a week, seven days a week. The opening-night ticket cost $6.95 with a prime rib dinner included. At the time, there were only 10 stage shows on the Strip, and within five years, he’d counted his first $1 million. When “La Cage” closed, the number of stage shows on the Strip had grown to more than 90. Marino started his run portraying Rivers when he was 19 years old, and in 1986 year, he was served legal papers onstage from an attorney representing the celebrity. She was suing for $5 million for copyright infringement for allegedly using her jokes in his show. The two soon settled out of court and became friends.

“I’ve been very lucky in that the character I picked made for a great MC and also had a large demographic of her own,” he said. “Joan Rivers average fan base was around 26 years old. For an 81-year-old to have a 26-year-old fan base — it’s pretty good.” In addition to more than a dozen high-energy performances from decades’ worth of female pop, Marino — who was also a client on Season 5 of Millionaire Matchmaker in 2011 — has a staple 20-minute monologue at the start of the show that he’ll be sprucing up with anecdotes about his trip to New York and jabs at “our lovely president Donald Trump.” “If I knew that a TV reality star could become president of the United State, I would have ran myself,” he said.

“I would have saved you a lot of money, and right off the bat I could have been First Lady. We might not win any more wars, but the parades would be fabulous.”

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rainbows and unicorns and pride, oh my! by Christopher John Treacy Perception Perceptionisiseverything. everything.

When When renowned renowned performance performance artist artist Karen Karen Finley Finley came came to to Buffalo Buffalo last last year, year, it was to perform her show show Unicorn Unicorn Gratitude Gratitude Mystery. Mystery. In In typical typical Finley Finley fashion, fashion, itit was was aa tangential tangential melding of ideas both both personal personal and and political political with with aa script-flipping script-flipping feminist feminist bent. bent. If If some some of of the concepts were a bit muddled, muddled,one oneaspect aspect was was not: not:Finley Finley isis fascinated fascinated not not only only with with unicorns, unicorns, but but also with our cultural fixation fixationon onthem. them.Why Why are are we we so so taken taken with with these these mythical mythical creatures? creatures? In Inconsidering consideringpossibilities possibilities for for Allentown-based Allentown-based arts arts collective collective Pine Pine Apple Apple Company’s Company’s latest invitational tionalhanging hanging––which whichneeded neededto tohave havean an LGBTQ-applicable LGBTQ-applicable theme theme since since itit would also become the centerpiece centerpiece of of this this year’s year’s CHROMA CHROMA event event to to kick kick off off Pride Pride –– 32-year-old 32-year-old Mickey Harmon found himself himselfdrawn drawnto to unicorns unicorns as as well. well.

“First “Firstof ofall, all,they’re they’re cute cute as as shit,” shit,”he he said, said,barely barely aa week week before before the the Friday, Friday, May May 5, opening reception. “Now, “Now,II think, think, more more than than ever, ever, there’s there’s such such aa huge huge focus focus on on gender gender and and identity identity within LGBTQ communities communities — — and and then then there’s there’s that that conceptualizing conceptualizing in in the the mainstream mainstream of what that might be, what whatititlooks lookslike like form form the the outside. outside.To To the the general general public, public, itit comes comes across across like like a fantasy world. Unicorns corns represent represent that that idea idea pretty pretty well, well, but but they’re they’re also also universal, universal, because because no no matter matter what your creed, sexuality, sexuality,gender, gender,etc., etc.,everybody everybody loves loves aa good good unicorn. unicorn.It It seemed seemed like like aa great great way to tap into a broad spectrum spectrumof ofartists artists and and showcase showcase our our creative creative diversity.” diversity.” Harmon, Harmon,who who some some folks folks know know as as Grovey Grovey Cleaves, Cleaves, aa character character he he draws, draws, began began working more with queer queer artists artists last last year year when when he he started started curating curating art art for for the the PRISM PRISM gallery, gallery, which is now the space occupied occupied by by the the No No Labels Labels Clothing Clothing Cooperative Cooperative adjacent adjacent to to Pine Pine Apple Apple Company’s 224 Allen headquarters. headquarters. Formerly Formerly the the site site of of Glow Glow Gallery, Gallery, CHROMA CHROMA had had been been overseen overseen in past years by then-gallery-owner then-gallery-owner Marcus Marcus Wise, Wise, who who relocated relocated to to Wisconsin Wisconsin last last year. year. Harmon acknowledges the thegreat greatjob jobthat thatWise Wise and and building building owner owner Michael Michael Rizzo Rizzo had had done done developing developing CHROMA (with help help from from Evergreen Evergreen and and the the Pride Pride Center Center of of Western Western New New York) York) in in past past years, years, but he yearned to develop developititfurther. further.

“I“Iwant want to to continue continue the the tradition tradition they they started, started, but but II can’t can’t help help but but feel feel itit was was falling into a bubble,” he hesaid. said.“This “Thisisisan anart artshow, show,and and we we have have plenty plenty of of untapped untapped art art being being made made out there. It’s not really aimed aimed at at hobbyists, hobbyists, so so whatever whatever we we ended ended up up with with thematically, thematically, itit needed needed to be something that would wouldbring bring more more people people out out of of the the woodwork. woodwork. II didn’t didn’t want want itit to to just just be be open open to anything. Invitational tionalshows showsalways alwayshave haveaatheme, theme,which which helps helps potential potential contributors contributors focus focus and and lends them direction while whilealso alsoenergizing energizing them. them.It’s It’s aa fairly fairly loose loose construct, construct, though though –– just just guidelines.” guidelines.” Harmon Harmonestimates estimateshe’ll he’ll be be hanging hanging upwards upwards of of 30 30 pieces pieces for for Unicorns!, Unicorns!, which which will run for a total of two two months. months.He’s He’s pleased pleased with with the the submissions, submissions, which which he he opened opened up up to to include include LGBTQ allies as well, well,noting notingthat that Pride Pride art art shows shows can can verge verge on on being being too too insular insular for for their their own own good.

“It’s “It’s important important to to recognize recognize that that the the culture culture has has shifted,” shifted,” he he said. said. “The “The younger younger generation doesn’t care care nearly nearly as as much much about about what what your your gender gender isis or or how how you you define define your your sexuality. sexuality. As a millennial, II feel feel that that everyone everyone isis unique unique and and special special and and that that we’re we’re all all unicorns unicorns in in our our own ways – and we all deserve deserveto tofeel feelthat that way, way,regardless regardless of of our our various various stripes.” stripes.” 18 88 THE PUBLIC /2017 MAY 3 - 9, 2017 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM LOOP -- MAY LOOP MAY 2017

By tapping into emerging artists with an invitational show, Harmon has has kept kept in in step step with with the the Pine Pine Apple mission to collaboratively engage unseen artists and maintain maintain their their commitment commitment to to fresh fresh ideas. Which also means that the collective itself will participate by creating creating aa mural mural upon upon which which the the submitted art will get arranged. In keeping with the CHROMA model for the opening of Pride weekend, weekend, Harmon Harmon says says there’ll there’ll be be no shortage of awesome shenanigans built around the show.

“CHROMA will take the form of a mid-exhibition ceremony that not not only only includes includes our our show, show, but but will also involve many of the other Allentown galleries that usually participate participate in in First First Friday,” Friday,” he he said. “For this, we’ve partnered with the Allentown Association, and I’m I’m hoping hoping we we can can block block off off at at least a portion of the street so we can have chalk art, drag queens, hula-hoop hula-hoop performers… performers… and and ifif we can pull it off, the rainbow crosswalks will also get painted that night,” night,” which which isis Friday, Friday, June June 2. 2. If you haven’t heard yet, Rainbows on Allen — spurred by a suggestion suggestion Harmon Harmon made made during during aa meeting with the Allentown Association— is the first project in Buffalo Buffalo to to officially officially recieve recieve aa mimicro-grant from The Awesome Foundation. Elsewhere, there are 88 Awesome Awesome Foundation Foundation chapters chapters in 17 countries, which have collectively granted $2.6 million, $1,000 at at aa time. time.

In this case, that money will cover the cost of the traffic grade paint and and its its application, application, which which will will have Allentown’s intersections glowing with the same colorful symbol symbol of of inclusion inclusion that’s that’s graced graced gayborhood crosswalks in Seattle, Philadelphia, Toronto, and Key West. West.

“Now that the funding is in place, we’re just waiting on the DOT and city city Planning Planning Board,” Board,”he he said. said. “I would say at this time, there’s a 60% chance it will be a reality for the the June June 22 event.” event.” In the backyard at 224 Allen, behind Pine Apple Company, Max Darling Darling will will DJ DJ and and emcee emcee for for the evening, which includes an hour long set featuring five special performers, performers, (Vidalia (Vidalia May, May, Fifi Fifi LaFlea, Cherry Brown, Little Cake, and RED ROCKET) from 9 to 10 10 p.m. p.m.

When Finley talked about the symbolism of unicorns last year, she did did so so with with aa cautionary cautionary edge, edge, suggesting that the horned-horsies are fascinating to some of us because because they’re they’re aa metaphor metaphor for for white privilege and represent the unfortunate tradition of preying on the the budding budding sexuality sexuality of of young young girls. But while Harmon readily admits to finding some sarcastic humor humor in in our our cultural cultural unicorn unicorn fixation, he isn’t much interested in any negative connotations. “To me, unicorns symbolize magic, strength and wonder,” he said. “Sure, “Sure, there’s there’s some some room room for for sarcasm in there as well – we’re all farting rainbows fer crissakes. My piece piece in in the the show show features features My My Little Pony with a communism banner behind her. But I try to think of of the the topic topic in in terms terms of of pospositivity, and putting this together has helped me open my eyes to corners corners of of the the community community II didn’t didn’t know existed prior.”

“Next year,” he continued, “the theme will change, but the invitational invitational format format will will remain. remain. We’re We’re going to hit the pavement running and reach out to creative young people people through through GLYS GLYS and and at at the colleges. It can only get better from here.”

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Climate Change: Pissin’ in a River (or How the Fringe Became the Mainstream, and Vice Versa) by Ron Ehmke

“Everything changes and nothing remains still ... and ... you cannot step twice into the same stream”—Heraclitus, ca. 6th century BCE

Words are slippery critters. We tend to assume that everyone means exactly the same thing by them—and that’s where we get into trouble. Our current president, like countless hucksters before him, got where he is today by slipping and sliding around the truth, well aware that most reporters never stop to question the basic assumptions embedded in the words he (mis)uses.

The slippage that infuriates me the most these days is the evolution of the phrase “mainstream media.” Demonizing journalists is nothing new; I grew up hearing Spiro Agnew rant about the “nattering nabobs of negativity,” for instance. In those pre-blog, pre-YouTube days, it was easy to identify the “mainstream media,” because there wasn’t much else: There were three major TV networks (whose news coverage was largely limited to a half hour broadcast each evening, invariably hosted by a white man assumed to be heterosexual), a few weekly newsmagazines (the most important of which, Time, had been a Right-wing mouthpiece since its inception), and a handful of big-city papers (unless you count the conservative Wall Street Journal or Christian Science Monitor, there was no national newspaper akin to USA Today). This handful of opinion-makers was so monolithic that most people would have thought the adjective “mainstream” was redundant. The first folks who used it, and did so in a pejorative sense, came from the Left: Anti-war protestors, African Americans, women, and the newly emerging Gay Liberation movement, among others.

These minority populations — each just beginning to formulate itself as a tribe and then assert itself in the culture at large—had every reason to be pissed off, because print and broadcast journalists generally ignored them. On the rare occasion that a major network or wide-circulation magazine bothered to pay attention to, say, the Stonewall generation, its only interest was in cooking up fear-mongering tales of lonely, mentally ill men so deluded that they dared call themselves “gay.” All of these nascent communities soon heeded Abbie Hoffman’s advice: “Don’t blame the media; become the media.” The late 1960s and early 1970s saw an explosion in alternative news sources, from mimeographed broadsheets to public access TV showing footage captured by the very first video camcorders. This happened on both a national scale (in the form of Rolling Stone, Ebony, Ms., and The Advocate, to cite some that have survived the decades) and just as importantly on a local level. Launched sometime around 1970, 5th Freedom was Buffalo’s first gay paper, as far as I can tell—and the fact that I’m not sure is evidence of just how marginal and thus ephemeral these things tended to be. Both Loop and The Public carry on this legacy of giving voice to the voiceless to this day. In 2008, “rogue” Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin jumpstarted the current resurgence of aw-shucks Know-Nothing populism with her regular assaults on what she dubbed “lamestream media.” Like any good mar-

keter, Tr*mp noticed how well that played with a particular strain of voters and amped it up to serve his own purposes a few years later.

The irony is too delicious to ignore: As we all know, Candidate Tr*mp owed his enormous name recognition to decades of attention from the very media—the more “mainstream,” the better—that he’s subsequently declared war on. I, for one, first heard about him in the 1980s, not because he was a masterful real estate tycoon but because my travel agent was obsessed with the virtually nonstop coverage of his scandalous first marriage in every issue of People, on every episode of Entertainment Tonight, and plastered across the cover of every tabloid at Wegmans. He parlayed that notoriety into a series of cameos playing himself in Hollywood movies (needless to say, the same Hollywood he berates today), then became a regular on championship wrestling telecasts in the 1990s, where he honed the larger-than-life persona of “Donald Tr*mp” that would emerge on an even grander scale with his major-network series, The Apprentice, in 2004.

Tr*mp, Palin, and most of the voices whining the loudest about the mainstream media at the moment have long enjoyed glowing coverage on Fox News, which, as of this January, has been the most-watched news network in the country for the last fifteen years. From airport terminals to your parents’ living room, it’s inescapable. Fox is not just the main “stream,” it’s a Great Lake, if not a freaking ocean. Even media that really are on the fringe by any demographic standard—Breitbart and Alex Jones’s InfoWars—have received an open invitation from the White House to splash and play in the Big River these days. LGBTQ folk know a thing or two about life outside the mainstream. One reason I prefer the term “queer” to “LGBTQ[etc]” is that the former bears the powerful reminder that what unites us as a community is our distance from majority culture—from a mindset that for so long rendered us invisible, and that now wants so badly to sell us the same crap they’ve sold everybody else for so long. What is assimilation but a more subtle form of invisibility? First we were hated and feared because we weren’t “normal.” But we didn’t crawl back into our hiding places; after decades of unceasing work on multiple fronts we made a place for ourselves in the larger culture. And now that we are indeed considered part of the “mainstream”—a drop in the ocean, if you will—our enemies have changed their strategy. The people currently in power look and behave much like the people who have traditionally held the reigns in America, but they’ve paid close attention to how the disenfranchised achieved success. Now they’re trying to sell themselves as the outsiders, the forgotten ones, the powerless. And it’s up to us call bullshit on that tactic.

Ron Ehmke is a writer, performer, and all-around artsy-fartsy fellow; learn more at everythingrondoes.com.

ear worms:Erasure & Deb Talan by Christopher John Treacy Erasure’s 17th album, out 5/19 on Mute, is much more emotionally sincere and contemplative than 2014’s hollow The Violet Flame. Heavy on mid-tempo ballads and more sparing with the ear candy, Clarke and Bell have crafted a late night set that reflects on how interpersonal relationships morph against a backdrop of political unrest – both are Brits living in the US. If The Violet Flame was a shower, World be Gone is a grower, taking the long way ‘round to reveal itself and never really reaching the punchy pop highs that characterize the pair’s most celebrated work. Instead, the disc goes far to show that Erasure is still capable of writing thought provoking songs that’ll keep you coming back despite not being shot through with killer hooks (lead single “Love You to the Sky,” aside). The ACT UP-inspired “Still It’s Not Over” stands as a reminder of LGBTQ strength in the face of adversity; “We made a miracle/dying on the steps of City Hall,” Bell sings in a particularly impassioned performance. In “Take Me Out of Myself ” he croons “Don’t talk to me as if I’m crazy/ It’s not the way it’s meant to be/please talk to me as if I’m equal/fear of rejection’s hanging on,” which could be a statement to a lover or to larger oppressive forces – either way, it’s one of myriad candid assertions that make World Be Gone satisfyingly personal while reflecting larger issues. Clarke has cooked up a series of thick arrangements that divulge new details each time through, rarely sounding like rehash; the gospel-noir of “Oh What a World,” in particular, feels innovative and fresh once you find your bearings. It may not be one of Erasure’s most immediately likeable or user-friendly albums, but World Be Gone’s reassuring message of hope acts like a balm that just takes a little extra time to start soothing. The payoff is definitely worth the wait. Download: “Just a Little Love” 10 THE 20 MAY 3 - 9, 2017 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM LOOPPUBLIC - MAY /2017

As half of the married folk-pop duo The Weepies, Deb Talan has spent the last decade making music that’s permeated mass consciousness via coffee shop rotation and media placement, quietly selling a million albums along the way. As good as the duo’s work has been, however, fans of her pre-Weepies records have clamored for a disc like this, her first solo release since 2003’s brilliant A Bird Flies Out. It took a bout with breast cancer in 2014 to rally her for the challenge, and Lucky Girl, out 5/19 on Nettwerk, sounds much like the survivor’s album you might expect, oft-brimming with the gratitude the title implies (“I Wake in Joy”). But it’s also a set of songs haunted by memories that were jotted down in a notebook and saved under the mattress. Bittersweet nostalgia informs “Joshua Tree in the Headphones” and “Son Volt Came to Town” as Talan recalls old friends or lovers, attempting to make peace with her younger self. Sometimes her musical choices work beautifully, creating an ethereal vocal wash with delicate electronic flourishes behind her (“Still Life”) or with more driving beats to create a sense of urgency (“Bring Water”). She tries some new approaches, too, going for a “Positively 4th Street” style delivery on “Growing Up,” and testing out a vaguely funky riff on “Lay Down.” Despite an acoustic base, The Weepies have always gone in for fairly modern sounding production on teir records, and you can hear the urge to over-decorate these songs seeping through. In particular, “Butterfly” — a misty-eyed song of encouragement — would shine much brighter without the synthy strings and a clanging beat-loop she used to fill in the space. The album’s most stunning moment, “Stained Glass,” is just guitar and voice – pity it’s barely two minutes. Despite occasionally wishing she’d done more with a little less, however, Lucky Girl finds Deb Talan in fine form – a grateful survivor with a distinctively reedy voice and a gift for poignant storytelling. Download: “Still Life”

silver lining: Let’s Review by Rod Hensel It was in the Springtime three years ago when a group of five people met at the Pride Center of Western New York to ask if there were activities or services needed by LGBT people age 50 and up. Within a few weeks the Silver Pride Project was formulated, and today that handful of people has grown to a roster of over 100.

Some investigation showed that based on national studies, gay seniors faced greater-than-average challenges and hurdles. They’re twice as likely to age alone, and four times more likely to have no children to call in an emergency. Because they came out (or were outed) in an era when there was less acceptance, they were often cut off completely by their families. Many are considered “elder orphans” that don’t even have people they can name as emergency contacts. This particular generation also took the brunt of the AIDS epidemic and watched many of their closest friends die in a time when there was no treatment for HIV.

There’s a popular misconception that with no kids to raise, LGBT people are well off. In fact, the current elder generation spent their earning years in a society where they were considered criminals and mentally ill. Unless they lived a double life (which has its own psychological consequences) they were consigned to service jobs and passed over for promotion. With no job protection, they could be fired at will for their sexual orientation, leading to frequent job changes with long periods of unemployment in between. Because of workforce discrimination, this group of seniors never had a chance to accumulate funds for retirement. Today, one-half of all LGBT seniors who live alone live at or below the poverty level. Isolation often leads to depression, and the trauma from experiencing discrimination earlier in life remains, which means they may be reluctant to access programs that are designed to help.

It’s not a pretty picture for people who were the pioneers of what was then called “gay liberation.” Their courage in coming out and standing up for their individual rights laid the groundwork for the freedoms LGBT people enjoy today — the right to get married, to serve in the military, and just generally to be open and accepted about who they are and who they love.

The Silver Pride Project tries to tackle some of these problems with social events that allow LGBT seniors to meet others like themselves. The most popular event is a coffee hour held on the second Saturday of each month. It’s a very informal chat session with no rigid rules. There are no formal programs or presentations on “senior topics” because the group decided it didn’t want them. Instead, representatives of service agencies can come and introduce themselves, sipping coffee with the group and making themselves available for one-on-one meetings if asked.

greatest need is for affordable LGBT senior housing, where the “elder orphan” issue can be addressed by neighbors helping neighbors. This would go far to avoid nursing homes, where the costs of care would be carried by taxpayers.

There needs to be more cultural competency training for caregivers and social workers, and the local LGBT community itself needs to overcome ageism and lend a hand to helping out the founders who made today’s LGBT freedoms a reality. The need is immediate; this pioneering generation is running out of time.

COMMUNITY STAPLES & EVENTS FRIDAY MAY 5 LGBTQ Seniors Lunch Meet Up 2-4 p.m. at Family Tree Restaurant 4346 Bailey Ave., Amherst This is a buy your own lunch event Contact judynibe@aol.com SATURDAY MAY 6 2017 AIDS WALK 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at Delaware Park 5K/3.1 Mile Annual Fundraiser SUNDAY MAY 7 2017 BUFFALO BRUNCH 11 a.m. - 3p.m. at Salvatore’s 6461 Transit Rd., Depew 21st Annual fundrasier/awards ceremony for embraceWNY THRUSDAY MAY 11 Niagara Falls LGBTQ Supprt Group 6 p.m. First Unitarian Universalist 639 Main St., Niagara Falls Open community discussion FRIDAY MAY 12 Spectrum Transgender Group 7-9 p.m. at St. Andrew’s 3017 Main St., Buffalo SATURDAY MAY 13 LGBTQ Lunch Bunch 12-4 p.m. at Seneca Niagara Casino 310 4th St., Niagara Falls GAY BINGO 6-9 p.m. 25 Review Pl., Buffalo NIGHT OF ILLUSIONS- Candyland Edition 10:30 p.m. - 2:30 a.m. at Underground 274 Delaware Ave., Buffalo PUPPY PRIDE 10 p.m. at Q 44 Allen St. BUH-PAH and ICOB team up for a night of fundraising!

TUESDAY MAY 16 Imperial Court of Buffalo Monthly Mtg 7-8 p.m. at Pride Center of WNY 206 S. Elmwood WEDNESDAY MAY 17 Silver Pride Tea 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Amherst Seniors Center 370 John James Audobon Pkwy Out for Business 5-7 p.m. at Big Ditch Brewing 55 E. Huron St., Buffalo Monthly LGBTQ mixer with a business netowrking focus. Sponsored by PCWNY. THURSDAY MAY 18 TRANSgeneration 6-8 p.m. at The Pride Center 206 S. ELmwood Ave., Buffalo FRIDAY MAY 19 Brothers Sing On Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus concert at The Riviera Theater 67 Webster St., North Tonwanda Lastest program from the chorus, also runs on Saturday, 5/20. Tix: $20. MONDAY MAY 22 Seniors Healthy Lunch 1-3 p.m. at Preservation Pub 948 Main St., Buffalo TUESDAY MAY 23 Forbidden Fruits 6-7:30 p.m. at Pride Center WNY 206 S. Elmwood AveMonthly support meeting focused on LGBT Individuals who are also developmentally disabled. Stonewall Democrats Meeting 7-9 p.m., 224 Allen Group meeting for those interested in creating change in WNY politics SUNDAY MAY 28 PFLAG Meeting 2:30-5 p.m. at Kenilworth United 45 Dalton St., Buffalo

The Pride Center established a partnership with Erie County Senior Services to help LGBT seniors tap into non-profit and government programs for the elderly on an individual counseling basis. The Center provided sensitivity training to the staff to help them understand the concerns of their LGBT clients. The county was also instrumental in establishing a monthly “healthy lunch” program. Instead of being at a senior center or church, the group meets monthly at Preservation Pub, an LGBT owned business in Allentown. Attendees need only pay what they can afford, up to $3. But the food is secondary to the conversation and the chance to make new friends.

Silver Pride now consists of a series of monthly activities, including three lunches, a coffee hour, a tea time in the suburbs, a bike riding group and special activities suggested by members. Many stay in touch throughout the week via Facebook. There’s still a lot of work to be done. The

MONDAYS RAPID HIV TESTING (9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. @ Pride Center of WNY, 200 S. Elmwood Ave.) Walk-in HIV testing is free and confidential, results onsite and within 20 minutes. LGBT VETERANS SUPPORT GROUP (2 p.m. - 3 p.m. @ Buffalo VAMC, 3495 Bailey Ave.) TUESDAYS RAPID HIV TESTING (12:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. @ Pride Center of WNY, 200 S. Elmwood Ave.) Walk-in HIV testing is free and confidential, results onsite and within 20 minutes. FRONTRUNNERS/FRONTWALKERS (6 p.m. @ Delaware Park) Meet at Ring Road Snack Shop via the Nottingham Entrance. BRIDGES OVER WALLS (4-5 p.m.) LGBTQ Psychiatric Support Group 400 Forest Ave., Buffalo CONTEMPORARY WOMEN 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. at Evergreen Commons 262 Georgia Street LGBTQ-friendly women’s AA group WEDNESDAYS RAPID HIV TESTING (9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. @ Pride Center of WNY, 200 S. Elmwood Ave.) Walk-in HIV testing is free and confidential, results onsite and within 20 minutes. THURSDAYS RAPID HIV TESTING (12:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. @ Pride Center of WNY, 200 S. Elmwood Ave.) Walk-in HIV testing is free and confidential, results onsite and within 20 minutes. FRIDAYS RAPID HIV TESTING (9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. @ Pride Center of WNY, 200 S. Elmwood Ave.) Walk-in HIV testing is free and confidential, results onsite and within 20 minutes. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. @ Evergreen Commons, 262 Georgia St.) AA meeting geared for members of the LGBT community. RAINBOW NORTH AA 7:15-8:15 p.m. at Hope Center 781 Maple Road, Williamsville LGBTQ AA in Northtowns SUNDAYS FRONTRUNNERS/FRONTWALKERS (10 a.m. @ Delaware Park) Meet at Ring Road Snack Shop via the Nottingham Entrance.

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lowing someone else’s lead. None of the songs were our own. It was this whole thing, like, we were just good enough to play, I guess. When that all went to shit, we knew the songs were kind of corny and whatever, we were, like, “We want to play music that we want to listen to.” That was the goal. When we finally got back together and started working and were just having fun, it was just about putting things together that we thought were like the bands that were influencing us at the time, which were early Kings of Leon, Cage the Elephant, and of course, the classics, like the Beatles and Nirvana. The main priority was just about making music that we ourselves wanted to listen to. It didn’t matter about anybody else. It wasn’t for anybody else. I think when you start to try to figure out how to connect with people more, you actually miss the mark. What would you say is the band’s biggest accomplishment so far? We were super stoked when we opened up for

Made Violent: Rob Romano, Justin Acee, and Joe White. PHOTO BY BRETT MIKOLL

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MEET A LOCAL BAND THAT HAS MADE VERY GOOD INDEED—AND ARE PREPARING TO RELEASE A NEW SINGLE AND SEVEN-INCH MADE VIOLENT ARE anything but shy when it comes to their

Buffalo roots. All band members—lead singer and bassist Joe White, guitarist Rob Romano, and drummer Justin Acee, all originally from the area—make sure to rep their city wherever their band takes them. They formed the band at the end of 2013, giving the whole “let’s start a band” thing one last shot. Writing songs in a cabin in the woods together, they came up with the successful single “Wasted Days,” which made them known not just in Buffalo and nationally, but also internationally. Their journeys in music have even taken them to London’s legendary Brixton Academy, where they served as the opening act for Wolf Alice. This past Monday, the band dropped the first single “Basement Ghost,” along with a music video for the song, from their upcoming sevin-inch release.The band will take to the stage of Waiting Room on Friday, May 5 to celebrate the forthcoming release of their new collection of songs, which will be available to stream digitally on that day, with physical pre-orders available online and at the show as well. Drummer Acee was kind enough

to chat with The Public about the band’s humble beginnings, breakout as a band, and current music-making. How long have you known the other guys in the band? How long have you been a band? Rob and I have known each

other since we were in middle school. We rode the school bus together. He made fun of me because I like emo music and he liked punk music, and eventually it came to a point where I was, like, “I need a guitar player,” and I was, like, “Can you play?” And he said, “Yeah!” We ended up playing together, and along the way we picked up Joe. Joe is much younger than us, and we’re just blown away by him. We ended up just partying together. That was kind of how it all came to be. Joe would party with us then I would drive him back to high school in the morning. We asked him to play in the band that we were in at the time and he did. Then, when that all went to shit, we started Made Violent. It was funny because we were all in separate places. I was in California, Joe was filling in doing some touring stuff, and Rob was at home. We were, like, “Let’s just give it one last shot.” We got together and wrote what ended up being “Wasted Days” and this new single “Basement Ghost,” which we’re actually releasing for the show. The very first song we ever wrote was “Basement Ghost” in 2013, so it’s old, but we recorded it when we were in LA in 2015. When you started the band, what were your expectations for it? There were no expectations because the bands we had

played in previously, it was like we were just the musicians fol-

Wolf Alice in London at Brixton Academy in 2015. It was really cool when you’re backstage there and you see all the posters of the Foo Fighters and Dinosaur Jr. There are so many different bands that have played there. It’s a legendary venue in the UK and we were just, like, “Wow, this is really cool to be here,” especially being this band from Buffalo that people back home were kind of cheering on. I think the greatest thing for us was just people hearing our music in general. We put out “Wasted Days” and there was just all this love from random people across the country, so that’s just as cool. I actually interviewed Joel from Wolf Alice last year for The Public, and he had great things to say about you guys.

Yeah, they’re great people. We played some shows with them in the Midwest and the first day we all got really fucked up off Fireball and became friends, and from that day on it was just really cool. I was talking to Ellie when they asked us to come to London, and I was, like, “Why are you letting us come to London? This is your big release show.” And they were, like, “You guys made us feel at home here and we want to do the same overseas for you guys.” That’s kind of the Buffalo thing, I guess. We’re super welcoming people. Are you guys currently working on any new music at the moment? We were with Columbia and that was pretty much

a horror story. Everything was peaceful in the end, they let us go and we left on our own terms. We recorded the album we wanted to record and now we switched over management and we’re working to shop with indie labels. The whole reason for the show on May 5 is we’re going to drop the seven-inch we’re putting out. It’ll be streaming digitally, but we’ll have pre-orders the day of show. We’re going to try to build that momentum and lock in with an indie label and put the record out because we recorded the record, but we have a good 15 or 16 songs we want to choose from and make something special. Are Buffalo shows your favorite shows to play? Of course.

People just love to have fun here and everyone just gets boozed up and has a blast here. We have a lot of fun in Fredonia when we go there, too. We play small venues there and we’ll see kids doing backflips off little stages. You just see kids do the craziest P stuff there and we’re just laughing onstage.

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of great music. Expect sets by Strictly Hip, West of the Mark, Tiny Music, Kung Fu Grip, and more. There’ll also be a 50/50 auction benefiting Meals on Wheels. It takes place, you guessed it, Friday, May 5 at the corner of Ellicott Street and Broadway. -CP

SATURDAY MAY 6 AIDS Walk Buffalo 9am Hoyt Lake, Delaware Park

[5K] “Keep Talking, Keep Walking” is the theme of this year’s AIDS Walk Buffalo. The event, this Saturday, May 6, presented by Quest Diagnostics is a 5k walk to bring awareness of “impact HIV/AIDS continues to have on our community by honoring those living with the disease and memorializing those who have passed on.” This is the 25th annual edition of this event, and not only does it bring awareness to the plight of those living with AIDS, but it also raises funds for Evergreen Health Services, which is a leading provider of HIV testing and treatment in the area. Registration begins at 9am with the opening ceremony to begin at 10am, followed by the walk, which begins at Hoyt Lake in Delaware Park. -TPS

Free Comic Book Day

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11am Gutter Pop Comics, 1028 Elmwood Ave.

I record Recommended if you like: James Ferraro, Hype Williams, Chuck Person Swagger Thief is a project from Eric Schwartz and Justin Ruiz of Buffalo. Their latest release I, is a four-track record that bounces between instrumental new age hip hop music and funky interlude jams. The style, self-dubbed “post internet” lands somewhere between vaporwave and cloud rap—with ethereal, almost new age-esque flute sounds, hovering synthesizers and hypnagogic album art. Highlights include the dreamlike “The Hustle,” and the hip hop piano groove “Drunk Hosanna.”

Milton Rogovin at Artspace

FIRST FRIDAY FRIDAY MAY 5 6PM / VARIOUS LOCATIONS [ART] The cruelest month is in the rearview, and more art worth experiencing is poking its way through the ground. As always, whether you start or end your travels at the Albright-Knox, you’ll do well for yourself to spend time in the Shantell Martin exhibit and gallery talks scheduled at 6pm and 7pm. Other openings of note are the Resource:Art affair at Artspace (1219 Main Street) and Kyle Butler at the Nina Freudenheim Gallery. Resource:Art will be showing some work of Milton Rogovin and unveiling a project of Rogovin-inspired public wheat-paste installations by Max Collins. Mark Rogovin will be on hand to talk about his father’s work. And Butler’s new batch of drawings look fantastic. New work also opening at Buffalo Big Print, and be sure to check the Walp & Krull show at the Indigo Gallery reviewed in this issue. -AARON LOWINGER

THURSDAY MAY 4 Steve-O 8pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $22-$25

SUBURBS candyflip record Neon Indian, Com Truise, Panda Bear Members of post-rock band Tomoreux feature on the new project Suburbs, whose new record is titled candyflip (to candyflip refers to taking MDMA and LSD simultaneously). Expectedly, the album is a bubbly, otherworldly journey into hypnotic electronic beats and celestial vocals. “Suburbs After Dark” veers toward slow-motion dance music with foaming beats and a rolling bass-lines. “Bottom Shelf” maintains the rolling bass-lines and forgoes the upfront beats, at least partially, in favor of faded tambourines and spacedout vocals. Finally, “48 Hour Scumbags” is a downtempo postparty chill out track. candyflip was recorded at Afterglow Studios and is available to stream and download on Bandcamp.

[COMDEY] Most folks will be just as shocked as I am to learn that Steve-O from Jackass is still alive. Not only is he alive, but he’s touring the stand-up comedy circuit. If you skip to the 42-year-old’s website, you’ll see that he’s still dedicated to performing and hosting insane stunts—including jumping off of a bridge from a trampoline mounted on a pick up truck, and persuading an apprentice to skateboard into a field of cacti. He won’t have his trampoline or cacti on the live stage, only his arsenal of shocking and gross stories from his years of pranking, double-dog daring, and ill-advised stunting. Steve-O comes to Helium Comedy Club for five shows, this Thursday, May 4 through Saturday, May 6. -CP

FRIDAY MAY 5 Cinco de Mayo Street Fiesta 12pm Ellicott Street and Broadway, $10

[CELEBRATION] Let’s hope for good weather this Cinco de Mayo, because if we’re blessed with some sunshine, this Deep South Taco Street Fiesta could be the place to be. The lucha-libre themed street party will feature a bunch of food—Deep South tacos, margaritas, and nachos—as well as a bunch

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[COMICS] This Saturday, May 6, the good people at Gutter Pop Comics are hosting a Free Comic Book Day to try to get you hooked on the eclectic and ever-expanding range of books and work that make it in to a store like Gutter Pop. Adults are maxed at three free books, but kids can have as many as their guardian deems healthy. Coffee and vegan donuts go to the early birds! -AL

Pop-Up Craft Fair 12pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St.

[CRAFT FAIR] Okay, don’t panic, but Mother’s Day is coming up quickly. You’ve still got some of time to find a gift, however, and we suggest you take that time and head over to this awesome little craft fair at Sugar City this weekend. The pop-up craft fair is actually not that little—it features 15 artist/vendors peddling everything from arts and crafts, photography, jewelry, candles, and a bunch of other things that most moms like. It’s not just a Mother’s Day event, there should be something for everyone. Check it out this Saturday, May 6. -TPS

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MAY 4

Stress Dolls, Lonestar Sailing, Telempathy 9PM $5

Happy Hour: A Band Named Sue MAY 5

BOOM DAYS 2017 SATURDAY MAY 6 11AM / SILO CITY, 120 CHILDS ST. / FREE [FESTIVAL] In the future, maybe there will be no ice boom. Maybe the towers and turbines, dams and sluices of the Niagara Power Project will go the way of Buffalo’s grain elevators: First abandoned, left as a decaying totems to industries that have either disappeared or adopted new infrastructure and new patterns; then, gradually, reoccupied and reclaimed by the great reclaimers: artists, historians, visionaries, and people who like to drink beer. (Not necessarily in that order, or any order, but in cycles, with tremendous overlap.) In that future, there will be no need to install an ice boom at the juncture of Lake Erie and the straits of Niagara when winter is fast upon us, nor to remove the ice boom in the spring. But there will still be Boom Days, Buffalo’s rite of renewal, a celebration of the tulips and the cherry blossoms and the burgeoning summer to come, held among the glorious reclaimed forest of concrete called Silo City. It’s the region’s first big outdoor festival, now in its 17th year. It is one of our finest, and it takes place this Saturday, May 6, 11am-10:30pm. There will be music: the Tyler Pearce Project, Alison Pipitone, Flashback, and Randle and the Late Night Scandals. There will be a live broadcast of the Kentucky Derby. There will be aerial dancers. There will be untold surprises, some installed for the purpose and some happenstance. There will be fireworks, for god’s sake. There will be tours of Silo City by Explore Buffalo, the fireboat E. M. Cotter, and showcases and workshops by Young Audiences of Western New York, Cabela’s, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and more. (Visit boomdays2017.com to learn more. Read more about Silo City at dailypublic.com.) And of course there will be good, local beer, and of course there will be food trucks. Admission is free. From 11am to 5pm, there are dozens of things to do with kids. (And beer for adults.) After that, the main stage lights up. Fireworks at 9:30pm. We live in Buffalo, so this is a weather-be-damned event. -GEOFF KELLY

Cinco de Mayo Groove Jambalaya w. Vinnie DeRosa & Max Muscato

Groove Jambalaya is... Donny Frauenhofer - keyboards, Harry Graser - keyboards, Adam Bronstein Music - guitar, Brian Calisto - guitar, Ellen Pieroni - saxophones, Jon Lehning - saxophones, Anthony Henry - bass, Alex McArthur - vox, Einat Agmon - vox, Jon Fohl - percussion, Tom Vayo - percussion, Ryan Campbell - percussion 10PM $7

SATURDAY

Anal Pudding, KRAM, David Kane, Native American flute player Ed Koban, The Disobedient Quartet, Scantron, The Catskill Mountain Boys, Easy Chair McGee, Aversa Army, Green Schwinn, Tim Allen (NYC)

jazz Happy Hour w. Adam Bronstein 5:30PM FREE

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7pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $12-$15

[JAZZ] JJ Quintet is a jazz band headed by trumpet player Jacob Jay—and presumably also where their namesake comes from. Joined by sax player Dalton Sharp, piano player Jake Malone-Brancato, bassist Ed Croft, and drummer Stephen Lattimore, Jay and company play original songs as well as jazz standards. They’ll be joined for their show on Thursday, May 4 at the 9th Ward by award winning vocalist Shaun Doyle, who will sing original arrangements from the Great American Songbook. -TPS

Wildhoney

Manafest [ROCK] Canadian artist Manafest, a.k.a. Chris Greenwood will make a stop at the Evening Star Concert Hall for a show this Saturday, May 6. The hard rock act will be joined by Missouri-based rock band Famous Last Words, along with Lily Among Thorns, Diceros, Beneath Me, and Anchor. -TPS

8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $7-$10

[INDIE] Somewhere between My Bloody Valentine and Beach House land Baltimore’s Wildhoney. On their 2015 debut, Sleep Through It, the band delivered equal parts shoegaze and pop, oscillating between massive guitar walls and vocal hooks from singer Lauren Shusterich. The follow up from the five piece band, Your Face Sideways, was released on Top Shelf Records, whose roster includes the popular emo band Braid and Buffalo indie rock band Del Paxton. The six-

Professor Louie and the Crowmatix, with the Hit Men 4pm Sportsmen's Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $25

[ROCK] Get over the Band, man: You’ll never see them again. Embrace instead Professor Louie and the Crowmatix—a living, breathing, performing, and still recording tether

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song EP’s first single, “Slow Motion,” got a video treatment that depicts the band performing live as a part of makeshift virtual reality dream of sorts. Wild Honey will return to Buffalo for a show at Mohawk Place this Thursday, May 4. They’ll be joined by Albany indie pop group Cannon the Brave, Buffalo alt rock band honey, and indie rock band the Good Neighbors. -CP

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to that great era of rock-and-roll. The good professor, who sings and plays accordion and keys, was a collaborator with the Band for 16 years. (He still lives in Woodstock.) Other members of the Crowmatix have played with the Band, too, and with Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Levon Helm, Joe Jackson, and Mercury Rev. So why on gods’ green earth are you living in the past, man? Get yourself to the Sportsmen’s Tavern on Sunday, May 7, where the band will be joined by Buffalo’s finest horn brigade, the Hit Men. It’s an early show, 4pm, but it counts toward your holy obligation. -GK

TUESDAY MAY 9 FIRST FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR

Thin Lips, honey COMA, Passed Out

5pm- 10pm, at Preservation Pub, 948 Main St.

8pm Dreamland, 387 Franklin St.

Join 2017 embraceWNY community service award honoree Jayme Cadelle Coxx for drinks at this monthly happy hour that coincides with the First Friday art walks in Allentown. $3 well drinks and domestic beers – stop in before heading to the Unicorns opening!

[EMO] Dreamland has a solid line up of indie rock bands set for this Tuesday, May 9. Headliners Thin Lips come in from Philadelphia with their rambunctious pop punk sound. They’ll be joined by local emo bands honey COMA and Passed Out. -TPS

FRIDAY, MAY 5

HOMEBOY SANDMAN SATURDAY MAY 6 10PM / GYPSY PARLOR, 376 GRANT ST. / FREE

UNICORNS! 6pm, at Pine Apple Company, 224 Allen St.

See article in this month's Loop! Join Pine Apple Company for the opening of this invitational show featuring LGBTQ artists with a fantastical theme!

SATURDAY, MAY 6

[HIP HOP] Queens-based rapper Homeboy Sandman is a force to be reckoned with and the social justice-minded rapper is coming to Buffalo for a free show this Saturday, May 6 at the Gypsy Parlor. Signed to the L.A.-based hip hop label Stones Throw Records, Homeboy Sandman—real name Angel Del Villar II—should be on every local hip hop fan’s radar. The 36-yearold rapper slings vibey hip hop tunes framed by his smart, real lyrics and ruthless flow. His proficent style has not only gained the attention of collegues like Aesop Rock and RJD2, but has also piqued the interest of artists like DJ Koze, Karriem Riggins, and others in the house and dance music realm, who have worked the music of Homeboy Sandman into their more diverse sets. He’s been pretty prolific as of late too, releasing two full length albums in the last 12 months. Last May he released the stronger of the two records, Kindness for Weakness, which featured Jonwayne, Large Professor, and RJD2. In April of this year he dropped his latest record, Veins, a low-key lyrically driven record led by what Sandman says was “A burning desire to just fuckin rhyme.” Don’t sleep on this free show this weekend. -CORY PERLA

7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $25-$75

[HIP HOP] Rapper Nathan Feuerstein, better known as NF, brings his “Therapy Session” tour to the Town Ballroom on Tuesday, May 9. In the last two years, the 26-year-old Christian rapper has released two full length records, 2015’s Mansion, and 2016’s Therapy Session. The albums have received generally positive reviews from Christian blogs and mainstream hip hop sites alike, often comparing the young rapper to Eminem. NF has shaken off the comparison as “annoying,” however. " I think the thing that annoys me the most out of it, I feel like some people just do it because I'm white, and I rap, and as soon as they hear a white rapper they assume Eminem," he said in a recent interview. Decide for yourself when NF comes to the Town Ballroom this weekend. -CP

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AIDS Walk, a 5K (3.1 mile) fundraising walk, serves to raise awareness of the impact HIV/AIDS continues to have on Western New York by honoring those living with HIV/AIDS and memorializing those who have lost their fight against the disease.

SUNDAY, MAY 7

BUFFALO BRUNCH AT SALVATORE'S ITALIAN GARDEN 11am – 3pm, Salvatore's Italian Garden, 6461 Transit Rd., Depew

It's brunch time again! Join embraceWNY, LGBTQ friends and allies from far and wide for this, the 21st annual dual fundraiser/ celebration and community service awards ceremony. Tickets for the brunch are $60, including mimosas, and can be purchased at buffalobrunch.org.

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ELECTRORESPECT X: A TRIBUTE TO MARK FREELAND SATURDAY MAY 6 10PM / NIETZSCHE'S, 248 ALLEN ST. / $5 [TRIBUTE] It’s hard to believe that this is the 10th edition of Electrorespect, the annual tribute to Buffalo freak-out disco genius Mark Freeland. Pegasus, Pegasonics, the Fems, and Electroman were the rock projects that Freeland, who died in 2007 of cancer, gave to the world, but more specifically Buffalo. Though, over his lengthy music career, he did get several tastes of international fame, working with Japanese superstar Motoharu Sano, and seeing his albums reviewed in Playboy Magazine. Playboy once describe Freeland’s sound as “a dead panning David Bowie (or a shrill munchkin) backed by a Hendrix-ish guitar and a George Clinton-ish rhythm section.” That was in reference to Freeland’s seminal record with his band Electroman, American Googaloo, a jacked up disco rock record that was equally as funny as it was danceable. Though he was likely delighted to be compared to the very musicians that inspired him, Freeland was an inspiration in his own right—the Goo Goo Dolls, R.E.M. and others have noted his artwork as inspiration. Now, 10 years after his death, the local music scene continues to recognize Freeland’s significance. A whole slew of local artists including David Kane, The Disobedient Quartet, Scantron, Anal Pudding, KRAM, and more will pay tribute to Freeland at Electrorespect X this Saturday, May 6 at Nietzsche’s. Have a beer in honor of Freeland. It makes you smart, after all. -CORY PERLA

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A couple weeks ago we published a few excerpts from Aidan Ryan’s debut collection of poetry, Organizing Isolation: Half-Life of Love at Long Distance, out now from Buffalo’s own Linoleum Press. The collection is a portrait of ultimates—love, religion, presence, absence—formed from the fragments of letters and postcards previously sent to Ryan by his loved ones. The resulting poems feed new life into moments whose hunger has long since abated. In a poem entitled “The Sister [September 2015],” Ryan collages text that reads, “I have no ideas / none significant or strange. / And living alone at the end causes me such unfunny anxiety. / I’ve never heard anyone shuffle like god / but I’m glad we are continuing.” The careful manipulation of the text speaks to the magical way we sometimes manipulate memories, given enough estrangement, in an attempt at what Ryan sharply terms “organizing isolation.” The collection is the latest run in local photographer and book artist Joel Brenden’s publishing press, Linoleum, which specializes in artist books and other beautifully designed printed matter. True to form, Brenden adds stunning craftsmanship to Ryan’s vision and produced an art object that plays with themes of organizing and the intimacy of handwritten letters.

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In celebration of National Poetry Month, people in Buffalo gathered at Westminster Presbyterian Church a couple weekends ago to read all 1,789 poems written by Emily Dickinson. The marathon was co-sponsored by the UB Department of English and Just Buffalo Literary Center, but was not limited to scholars and poetry buffs. The event was family-friendly and community-oriented, with comedy and musical performances to break up the afternoon. Even Mayor Byron Brown made an appearance and read a poem. Volunteers read from the recently released Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them by Cristanne Miller, Edward H. Butler Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at UB. Those who missed the event have the opportunity to hear any of Dickinson’s poems, totaling more than eight hours, at the Emily Dickinson Marathon YouTube channel.

[METAL] A staple on the local music scene for years, Tony Lorenzo passed away in March. Now his friends and family are coming together to celebrate a life gone too soon. On Sunday, May 7, friends, family and a huge line up of bands will gather at the Waiting Room to celebrate the life of Tony Lorenzo. Lorenzo, who was 30 years old, was known as former guitarist of the popular death metal band Sons of Azrael. He also played guitar for another popular Buffalo-based metal band, It Dies Today, on one of their European tours. In 2011, Lorenzo was shot and paralyzed not far from his house in Buffalo’s Elmwood Village. The incident resulted in Lorenzo having to use a wheelchair, and at first he was unable to move his right arm and hand—a devastating diagnosis for a talented guitarist. However, through hard work and patience Lorenzo regained the use of his hand, which allowed him to once again pick up a guitar—and eventually perform on stage again with his band Ritual Quarantine. Lorenzo’s friend, Brian Butch Hulin, organized this memorial show. “I decided to organize this celebration to bring all of his friends and family together to celebrate and honor his life,” says Hulin. “He was a great person, friend, and brother and we had a very special bond. We weren’t best friends but we were very close and I felt like I had to do something in his honor. I have two medically fragile, special needs kids who are also in wheelchairs, and Tony and I could relate to each other because of that situation.” For a complete list of the bands performing, see the Waiting Room website or the Facebook event P page. -CORY PERLA

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FILM REVIEW scholarly and popular scrutiny. The poet is the focus of an almost cultish admiration, but much of her personal history is unsecured in the record. It’s the topic of a vast field of inquiry and dispute. The reasons behind her (sometimes exaggerated) retirement to her Amherst, Massachusetts family home and much of the time, to her room; her adoption of an all-white costume; her reluctance to permit her poetry to be published (sometimes overcome)—all this is still uncertain territory, and much disputed. This uncertainty gave Davies ample latitude for interpretation, but he seems to have been unable to produce a cogent, dramatically consistent one. Davies begins with the very young Dickinson at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, where she quietly declines to join her classmates in an affirmation of Christian hope, in the face of a condemnation by the headmistress. (Here and in much of the first half she’s portrayed by Emma Bell, with Cynthia Nixon as the older Dickinson.) Back in Amherst, she writes her poetry in the dead of night, after seeking her father Edward’s permission. (He’s cleverly portrayed by Keith Carradine.)

Cynthia Nixon and Jennifer Ehle in A Quiet Passion.

THE UNKNOWN BELLE OF AMHERST A QUIET PASSION BY GEORGE SAX FIRST THINGS FIRST. The title of Terence Davies’s movie about

the life of poet Emily Dickinson, A Quiet Passion, is presumably meant to convey a personal existence and temperament marked by intense but suppressed feeling. That “passion” must, therefore, have been sublimated into artistic effort, and an accommodation with the laws and social conventions restricting females in mid-nineteenth century America. The problem is that Davies’ movie only very inconsistently communicates this concept. It’s too frequently obscure, sometimes inaccurate, and on occasion

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OPENING THIS WEEK THE DINNER—Remake of an Italian film that played at the North Park in 2015, about two respectable families confronting an ugly incident staged by their children. Starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall and Chloë Sevigny. Directed by Oren Moverman (The Messenger). Regal Quaker, Regal Transit GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2—Sequel. Starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Michael Rooker and Kurt Russell. Directed by James Gunn (Slither). AMC Maple Ridge, Aurora, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria A QUIET PASSION—Biographical drama about American poet Emily Dickinson, who lived as a recluse at her family home in Amherst, Massachusetts. Starring Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff, Keith Carradine and Jodhi May. Directed by Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea). Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills, North Park

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA CHASING TRANE—This lovingly crafted documentary about jazz saxophonist John Cotrane is short on musical performance but long on tracing the influences that shaped his career, especially the challenging later work

strangely digressive. There are moments of poetically evocative mood, a specialty of Davies (The Long Day Closes, The Deep Blue Sea). But they’re separated by scenes that are of dubious dramatic and biographical value. It’s also the case that, particularly in its second half, it portrays an Emily Dickinson who scarcely resembles a shrinking violet, the title notwithstanding. Dickinson’s life and work have been the subject of very extensive

before his death at 40. Directed by John Scheinfeld (Who is Harry Nilsson?) Fri, Sun, Tues, Thurs 7:30; Sat 5:30, 7:30 pm. Screening Room DECONSTRUCTING THE BEATLES—Three of musicologist Scott Freiman’s popular lectures analyzing the music of the Beatles on their greatest albums. The White Album—Wed 2pm, 4:30pm, 7pm; Revolver—Thu 5/4 4:30pm, 9:30 pm; Rubber Soul—Thu 5/4 2pm, 7 pm. North Park TOPSY-TURVY (1999)—Mike Leigh’s most broadly enjoyable movie is also his least typical, though his fans won’t be disappointed to see him turn his standard process to a different kind of story. And even if you don’t care for Gilbert and Sullivan, you’re likely to be enchanted by this backstage musical that looks at the development of their biggest hit, “The Mikado.” With Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, and Katrin Cartlidge. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst TWELVE ANGRY MEN (1957)—Henry Fonda faces down Martin Balsam, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Ed Begley Sr., and a bunch of other familiar faces in Sidney Lumet’s classic jury room drama. Sat-Sun 11:30am. North Park YELLA (Germany, 2007)—Cultivate Cinema Circle’s retrospective of the work Christian Petzold, the preeminent German filmmaker of modern times continues with this drama that adapts the cult classics Carnival of Souls to the cut throat world of German business. Starring Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, and Hinnerk Schönemann. (cultivatecinemacircle. com). Wed 7pm. Squeaky Wheel

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The transition from a young, fairly sociable girl to a well-known semi-recluse at about age 39 is part of a mystery that the movie barely addresses. Davies invents a fictitious companion, Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey), who parries Emily’s earnest conversation with faux-Shavian, near-beer Wildean remarks and stilted attempts at wit (“Artificiality should always be spontaneous.”). These interludes are a heavy imposition on the audience, and do little more than demonstrate Davies’ tin ear for dialogue. In much of the rest of the movie, he’s tried to adapt sentences from Dickinson’s voluminous correspondence to conversation, with results that are frequently forced. Eventually, we get the dismissively sharp-tongued Emily, rebuffing friendly visitors from the second floor, speaking unseen to those below. This expressiveness will turn to sharply dissatisfied comments and then bitter criticism, as when she confronts brother Austin (Duncan Duff ) over his adulterous affair with a married woman, although there is no record indicating Dickinson acknowledged the affair, let alone attacked her brother. At the end, we’re left with a woman who seems to be an embittered old maid. This can’t be what Davies was aiming for. There are other errors as well as anachronistic or dubious portrayals. Davies does flirt with a narrative thread that might explain some of Dickinson’s behavior, but he lets it drop without making it clear. Dickinson may have suffered from epilepsy and sought seclusion to hide this affliction. There is evidence that may point in this direction and Davies shows the poet undergoing frightful fits, including in her death throes, in excruciating detail. But the word epilepsy is never uttered and no one in the movie ever refers to her terrible spells. Davies just creates a curious reticence. Nixon almost makes some of this work, particularly in scenes with Jennifer Ehle, in the rather thankless role of Dickinson’s patient sister Vinnie. But this movie remains an elegiacally P vague, dramatically erratic work

CONTINUING BORN IN CHINA—Nature documentary filmed over four years in remote regions of China. Released by Disney, so expect lots of anthropomorphized critters including panda bears, monkeys, and snow leopards. Narrated by John Krasinski. Directed by Chuan Lu. Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE BOSS BABY—Alec Baldwin as the voice of a power-hungry infant. It only sounds like an SNL skit. Other voices by Tobey Maguire, Steve Buscemi, Lisa Kudrow, and Jimmy Kimmel. Directed by Tom McGrath (Madagascar). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE CIRCLE—Would you agree to surround yourself with miniature camera and broadcast your entire life on social media? Of course not—you’re not a complete ninny. But then there’s Mae (Emma Watson, emoting ferociously), a new employee at a company that will variously remind you of Facebook, Google and Apple, who agrees to this for no reasons that make much sense. Dave Eggers scripted this adaptation of his novel in which the plot was the least interesting thing, though that’s all that makes it to screen. You’ll be at least two steps ahead of the characters at every point. With Patton Oswalt, Karen Gillan, John Boyega, Bill Paxton and Tom Hanks as an avuncular bad guy. Directed by James Ponsoldt (The End of the Tour). —MF Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria COLOSSAL—You’d have to go back to the early heyday of Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) to find a movie like this with such a novel premise that keeps moving in unexpected directions. It combines

a rom-com/drama starring Anne Hathaway as a burnt-out partier taking a breather in small town New Hampshire after burning out in Manhattan with a giant Asian monster movie. How does writer-director Nacho Vigalondo manage that—and more importantly, why? Better you find out for yourself. Hathaway is good, Jason Sudekis is even better (who would have guessed while watching him on SNL that the guy can act?) and if the place the movie gets to in the end isn’t entirely worth the path it took to get there, there’s something to be said for taking the scenic route. With Tim Blake Nelson and Dan Stevens. –MF Dipson Amherst THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS—Umpteenth sequel in the Fast and Furious franchise. Starring Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Charlize Theron, Jason Statham, and Michelle Rodriguez. Directed by F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria FREE FIRE—For one-third of this movie, a dozen or so assorted miscreants meet for an illegal arms deal that goes bad. For the rest of the film, they shoot at each other. That’s it, folks. Set in Boston in the late 1970s, the characters are colorful, atrociously dressed and often incomprehensible, mostly to comic effect. Creators Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump come from the endlessly fertile and cerebral world of British TV comedy, and their previous features (last year’s High Rise is the best known in the US) have featured a darkly comic obsession with violence. But the jollity they derive from their not-too-bright antagonists is countered by the impossibility to keeping track of what’s going on much of the time, and by the time it rolls to a Tarantino-ish end you can’t help but ask, what’s the point of it all? Starring Sharlto Copley, Brie Larson, Sam

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