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LOCAL NEWS Schoeneman, a teacher from Collins’ district, has emerged as a leader of the grass-roots movements after spearheading efforts to put up the anti-Collins billboards. The billboards display a photoshopped image of the congressman throwing his hands in the air and the message, “Where’s Chris Collins? WNY would like a word … .” As she visits towns and villages organizing against Collins, she has heard a common refrain that gives her confidence that the congressman can be defeated: buyer’s remorse for the man to whom he hitched his wagon, President Donald Trump. “With every passing day of his presidency he becomes more of a disaster and, therefore, so does Collins,” said Johnston Schoeneman, who is now running for county legislature as a firsttime candidate. The Collins camp is showing no signs of worry. Collins declined to be interviewed for this story, but Grant, the congressman’s political adviser, was dismissive of the early noise from Democrats. “The Democrats are really good at bluster,” Grant said. “What they aren’t really good at is action and moving the ball forward.”

CHRIS COLLINS’ TRUMP GAMBIT

Nick Langworthy, the Erie County Republican Committee chairman who has helped Collins win campaigns for Erie County executive and Congress, said the extra scrutiny is all part of being in the spotlight. Given Collins’ work for the Trump campaign, his spot on the transition team and his status as the president’s top liaison on Capitol Hill, it was expected that he would become fodder for Democrats, and the media writ large. What’s different this year, Langworthy said, is the current “period of political warfare” akin to what is normally reserved for the heart of campaign season.

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“He was going to become a target, especially after the exposure he received as a national surrogate,” Langworthy said. “He is a very easy target for Democrats to use to raise money, to raise their rallying cry amongst their core base.”

AS COLLINS HAS BECOME A SYMBOL OF TRUMP, DEMOCRATS EYE A CHALLENGE IN 2018 AFTER YEARS OF toiling in relative obscurity,

just another finely tailored suit roaming the halls of the US Capitol among the congressional rank and file, Chris Collins had finally made it big time. As the first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump for president, at the time a long shot for the Republican nomination, Collins’ status skyrocketed. The Republican congressman from a sleepy, sprawling district in Western New York was all over the airwaves, with networks seeking him out as Trump’s grip on the party nomination tightened. And by the time the party was ready to christen Trump as its standard-bearer—even as procedural skirmishes were breaking out on the floor of the Republican National Convention and the Never Trump movement was in full swing—Collins had been lifted into the inner circle of the all-butinevitable nominee, spending time in the Trump family’s private box at Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena and offering a second to his nomination. “We, in Western New York, know Donald Trump is not merely a candidate,” Collins told the raucous convention crowd. “Donald Trump is a movement.” But now, as the political machines start to gear up for next year’s midterms, Collins is facing a mounting opposition, the likes of which he has not faced since first winning his seat in 2012, a development no doubt spurred by his proximity to the president. So, while the benefits of helping Trump were clear last year, the question remains: Will that relationship help or hurt Collins as he seeks a fourth term? Over the first six months of the year, it has become plain that Democrats see the congressman as a symbol of everything that’s gone wrong in Washington and a convenient foil in their efforts to make up for the devastating losses in 2016 that left them with no tangible power. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has listed his seat as a target for 2018—one of 59 nationwide— despite the congressman’s convincing 35-point victory last year in a district where Trump also won big. Not all of the attacks have to do with Trump. Democratic politicians and left-leaning advocacy groups filed complaints with the House Ethics Committee that spurred an investigation this year after reports surfaced that Collins had been heard bragging about making people in the Buffalo area rich through a stock deal. It has come out since that he was also pushing a biotech stock, which has shot up in value since, to fellow members of Congress, including now Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, just prior to a private stock sale last summer where Collins bought an additional 4 million shares. At the heart of the investigation is whether Collins’ vote on a bill, months before the private stock sale, was improper because the legislation would have

directly benefited the Australian biotech company, Innate Immunotherapeutics. The stock in that company decreased sharply on Tuesday after the Australian company revealed their key drug failed a second round of clinical trials. Collins has been mum on the investigation, though staffers and political advisers have characterized it as a “witch hunt” pushed by political enemies, noting that Collins has held stock in the company for more than 15 years. “In the end, when the facts come out… this will all be exposed for the witch hunt that it is,” Chris Grant, the top adviser to Collins’ campaign, told City & State. In addition, the congressman’s unwillingness to hold town hall meetings in his district has drawn the ire of constituents. Some even raised money to post billboards shaming him and formed a coalition of grass-roots groups that are hellbent on ousting him. Collins has repeatedly argued that town hall meetings are a waste of time, amounting to opportunities for partisan activists to shout down representatives, with no productive discussion to be had. “I feel by meeting with, and talking to, literally tens of thousands of my constituents during the course of the year in different gatherings and going to high schools, I have a give-and-take that’s a true give-and-take,” he said during a televised town hall-style event filmed in Washington, D.C., for CNN. And just this month, Collins was criticized for blaming Democrats for the mass shooting at a congressional baseball practice that left House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, two Capitol Police officers, a staffer from Rep. Roger Williams’ office and a lobbyist seriously injured. Collins took to the radio just hours after the incident, and before any official information on the nature of the attack had been released, to lambaste his minority party colleagues, drawing attention from national news outlets like The Hill, Politico and CNN. “I can only hope that the Democrats do tone down the rhetoric,” Collins told WBEN, a radio station that hosts many right-leaning talk shows. “The rhetoric has been outrageous … the fingerpointing, just the tone and the angst and the anger directed at Donald Trump, his supporters.” Collins later walked back those statements, saying that he had been caught up in the emotions of the shooting. “It’s time for all of us, including myself, to tone down our rhetoric and recognize that we are all of one country and all proud Americans,” he said in a statement. Then he published an op-ed in the Washington Post reasserting earlier statements that he would now be carrying a gun while touring his district. “I owe it to the people in my community, God help me, to try to stop a threat to their safety, should it ever occur because of my presence,” he wrote in the opinion piece. His stance was criticized on social media for what some viewed as hypocrisy. For many, though, Collins’ chief vulnerability is his loyalty to the president. Michelle Johnston

“We, in Western New York, know Donald Trump is not merely a candidate. Donald Trump is a movement.” – Rep. Chris Collins DESPITE THE DEMOCRATS’ saber rattling,

defeating Collins would take a great plan, a tremendous candidate, exquisite execution, ideal political circumstances and at least a little luck.

Across the board, experts and insiders agree that even if all of those elements were to come together, the Democrats, who are still in the process of picking a candidate, would also need for the current conditions working in their favor to hold—Trump’s low approval rating, dismay over efforts to scale back Obamacare and scant progress on other major legislative goals. Brad Blakeman, a Beltway GOP strategist who was a member of former President George W. Bush’s senior staff, said the Democrats’ best chance of gaining significant headway in the House and Senate at the midterms is if Republicans fail to accomplish any of their major goals from the campaign season – health care, infrastructure and tax reform – by the end of the year. Senate Republicans have been hammered for crafting their own recently released health care bill in private, and it remains unclear whether the controversial measure will have enough votes to pass. Trump’s tax plan amounts to little more than the list of bullet points he presented during his campaign and substantial details are not expected until at least the fall. His $1 trillion infrastructure plan, which he dedicated an entire week to promoting, also has little detail. “If they cannot produce legislation, specifically on health care, infrastructure, taxes, then there’s going to be hell to pay in 2018,” Blakeman said. Even if all those stars align for the Democrats, history paints a bleak picture for their party in New York’s 27th Congressional District. In 2012, Collins, who had served one term as Erie County executive before losing to Mark Poloncarz, barely defeated incumbent Kathy Hochul. Despite a Republican voter registration advantage, Collins won by fewer than 2 percentage points. And to even keep things that close, Hochul had to spend nearly $5 million to his $1.4 million, according to campaign finance filings with the Federal Election Commission. Collins routed political neophytes in his two successful re-election bids, far outpacing the roughly 10 percentage point registration advantage Republicans enjoy in the district. On top of all that, local Democrats have yet to name a candidate, though a coalition of the district’s county committee chairs and some grassroots organizations called Turn NY-27 Blue is in the process of interviewing a list of 10 people – the group has kept the names secret – who want the opportunity to take on Collins. The two initial frontrunners, Hochul and Poloncarz, declined to run for the seat. Neither lives in the district

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now. “If they had a rock-solid candidate, there wouldn’t be the need for the charade of a process,” Langworthy said. Still, Jeremy Zellner, the Erie County Democratic Committee chairman, is as optimistic that Democrats can retake the seat as he has been since Collins first won. “Two years ago, we didn’t MESSAGE TOthis ADVERTISER have anyone,” at point in the cycle, he said. Thankwho youisfor advertising with Blue, THE said the Zellner, part of Turn NY-27 PUBLIC. Please review ad and who are group has been hearing fromyour constituents passionately to the care bill and check for opposed any errors. Thehealth original layout other Republican policies Trump instructions have beenpromoted followed since as closely took office. as possible. THE PUBLIC offers design services two the proofs atpower no charge. “You cannotwith discount people that’s in the THE PUBLIC isZellner said. not responsible for any district right now,” error if not historically, notified within 24 hours And indeed, midterms haveofswung receipt. The production department must to the party out of power, sometimes drastically, havefew a signed proofinin recent order to print. After with exceptions decades. Please sign and the fax Affordable this back or approve Democrats passed Care Act and by responding to thisObama email. signed it into law former President Barack in 2010, a very unpopular piece of legislation at CHECK COPY CONTENT the�time, Republicans made historic gains in the House, picking up more than 60 seats and gaining � CHECK IMPORTANT DATES a majority that they’ve held since – and expanded in� theCHECK 2016 election. NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE #, Dan Hopkins, & WEBSITEa political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said that trend, coupled � PROOF (NOapproval CHANGES) with Trump’sOKlow ratings over recent months and the unpopularity of the health care � PROOF OK (WITH CHANGES) bill, will create an environment ripe for another big swing, if those factors don’t change before Election Day. “Recently, usually the swings have been quite Advertisers Signature marked,” Hopkins said. And there are some early indicators that the political ____________________________ mood has already begun to swing. An Assembly special election in May went to Democratic Date _______________________ candidate Christine Pellegrino, a schoolteacher and political newcomer, her Republican opponent GEOFF over / Y17W26 Issue: ______________________ Tom Gargiulo for a Long Island seat in a heavily Republican district that Trump won with 60 percent YOUvote. APPROVE ERRORSelection WHICHto ARE ON ofIFthe In a special Congress in Kansas, Republican Estes beat his Democratic THIS PROOF, THERon PUBLIC CANNOT BE opponent James Thompson by just seven points in HELD RESPONSIBLE. PLEASE EXAMINE THE AD a district where Trump won by 27 points. In New THOROUGHLY EVEN IFEdith THE AD IS A PICK-UP. Hampshire, Democrat DesMarais defeated Republican Matthew Plache in a FOR state legislative THIS PROOF MAY ONLY BE USED district considered a Republican stronghold that PUBLICATION IN THE PUBLIC. Trump won by seven points. Those numbers may bring some comfort to Democrats, but they failed to take a single seat in the four contests to replace members of Congress who left their seats to join Trump’s Cabinet. Still, while special elections are more likely to see upsets, given that neither candidate has the advantages that come with incumbency, analysts see sitting Republicans as increasingly vulnerable in the midterms. And Zellner is hoping that the grass-roots opposition to Collins he and allies say is building in the district is enough to make it one of the surprise races next fall. “We believe, from what we’re hearing,” he said, “that this is a district that we can make a good challenge in.” “He is a very easy target for Democrats to use to raise money, to raise their rallying cry amongst their core base.” – Nick Langworthy, Erie County Republican Committee chairman WHETHER OR NOT Democrats have a real shot

at pulling off an upset, Collins’ political machine is gearing up earlier than it has in years past. This could simply be a reaction to the fervor with which Democrats are coming out of the gate, or perhaps due to Collins’ elevated visibility and proximity to the president. But it could also signal some anxiety that his close association with Trump and his vote for the deeply unpopular American Health Care Act may spell trouble. In the last two two-year fundraising cycles, Collins raised about $1 million each time. In the first three months of the current cycle, he reported raising $281,000 and he has planned a more aggressive schedule of fundraisers in Washington, D.C., than in previous years, the Buffalo News reported. Evan Lukaske, a spokesman for the DCCC, claimed that Collins’ early fundraising efforts are a sign of worry. “He can sense his own vulnerability and we sense it too,” he said. Grant downplayed the fundraising haul, saying that Collins isn’t worried, but also doesn’t take anything for granted. “There’s no question that Washington is a dynamic and volatile place these days,” he said, “and any smart, hardworking congressman is going to do anything in their power to prepare for any eventuality.” While this year’s race is likely to be more heated, Collins has a big advantage in simply knowing that he will be the candidate. As the incumbent, as someone in the president’s inner circle, as someone who has traveled the district countless times, as someone with a sophisticated fundraising apparatus—he has about $1 million on hand—he is well-positioned to fend off any attacks.

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Grant says that the game plan has not changed from previous cycles—promoting a message of job creation, national security issues and America’s place on the world stage—even if the pace of fundraising has quickened. Voters of the district, he argues, will see through the message the Democrats are pushing and recognize it as “D.C. spin.” “At the end of the day they don’t care about Washington, D.C. nonsense,” he said. “They care about how this impacts their lives and we’re looking forward to putting Congressman Collins’ record, on that front, against their failed record any day of the week.” Democrats will also have to avoid the infighting of 2016, something Zellner says won’t be a problem, as all the people they have interviewed have pledged to support the endorsed candidate. Still, people from outside the group, including stalking horse candidates, could ruin those plans. And as the Democrats spend time and energy looking for a candidate, while also facing the possibility of a contentious primary, Collins is free to continue fundraising, grabbing headlines and engaging in early campaigning, said Blakeman, the GOP strategist. “All Chris has to do is sit back and enjoy the fight,” he said. At the heart of the battle over messaging will be whether discontent with Trump, the health care bill, the economy or any number of other factors will be enough to convince Republicans to either flip their vote or stay home on Election Day. Hopkins, the political science professor, said that there are crosswinds in the district when it comes to campaigning on an anti-Trump message. A good predictor for midterms, he said, is often the margin of victory for the president. Districts where a president wins by more than 15 points—Trump beat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by 25 in Collins’ district—tend to stay with the president’s party. “These are the kinds of seats that, even in a down year, tend to be hard, but not impossible, for an out party to win,” Hopkins said. At the same time, a key demographic for Trump’s victory, white people without college degrees, could present a problem, as they are more likely to stay home on a midterm year. “It’s also worth pointing out that white, noncollege voters are a bit more volatile, just in that, as a group, they have moved from one party to another from election to election,” he said. But for the Collins camp, the path forward seems to be clear. Grant mocked the Democrats for believing that tying the congressman to Trump, while also sending Cuomo, who garnered just 35 percent of the vote in the district in 2014, to attack Collins on health care, is a winning strategy. Cuomo and Hochul assailed Collins and Rep. John Faso after the two congressman added an amendment onto the House health care bill that Democrats argue will cost the state nearly $7 billion over the next four years. “I think it tells you everything you need to know about the Democrats’ political acumen,” Grant said. “(A Democratic challenger) can’t be someone who is carrying the liberal torch. It’s got to be someone who represents the district.” – Jeremy Zellner, Erie County Democratic Committee chairman SO, AS THE DEMOCRATS work toward choosing a candidate, Collins will go on raising money and using small group events to promote his conservative brand of politics.

While Zellner said there is no timetable on an endorsement, he and his fellow Democrats are on the same page in terms of the type of candidate they will need to pull off an unlikely victory. “It can’t be someone who is carrying the liberal torch,” Zellner said. “It’s got to be someone who represents the district.” Johnston Schoeneman declined to name any of the candidates, saying it was their choice on when and how to announce their candidacies. However, she did say there are several people with significant military backgrounds she believes could provide the centrist image needed to get a Democrat elected. Some of Johnston Schoeneman’s fellow teachers who voted for Collins and Trump have already soured on the president, she said. The next step is convincing them that Collins is more interested in serving his donors and his ally in the White House than the people of Western New York. “These are smart people,” Johnston Schoeneman said. “They’re just people who really were hoping that something would change.” Grant painted a much different picture. “The reality is the Democrats don’t have a message, they don’t have a candidate, they don’t have money,” he said. “All they’ve got right now is a lot of hysteria and they’ve shown a complete lack of organizational ability to translate that into anything remotely resembling a competitive campaign.” Article courtesy of City & State

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1. whether prior New York State constitutional conventions (the state has convened nine of them) held during such crises as the American Revolution, Reconstruction, the Great Depression, and Vietnam produced constitutions having deleterious provisions inspired by the populism of which he now worries; 2. why he believes the state of New York, in which Mr. Trump managed to obtain a only 36.5 percent of the vote and currently “enjoys” an unfavorability rating of 65 percent, will somehow be dominated by tea partyers, other populist candidates, and dark money forces who will undercut everything the state has stood for over the last 125 years;

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A STATE CONSTITUTION FOR THE 883-2323 21ST CENTURY: WHY WE NEED A 891-9233 CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION IN HIS ESSAY “Against a State Constitutional Convention,” Jeremy Toth asserts that the election of Donald Trump has singlehandedly caused him to go from being a fervent proponent of a state constitutional convention in New York to being a fervent convention opponent. His logic: “Anything is possible” (with the implication being of course, that “anything,” in the sense of a convention, would mean something bad).

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3. how past conventions, which have consisted in part of the sitting legislator class that Toth confidently predicts (contrary to his “anything is possible” mantra) will “largely” make up a 2019 convention, have managed to formulate meaningful provisions which remain sources of pride for New Yorkers to this day.

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Part I First, despite Toth’s claims to the contrary, not anything is possible. A convention could not strip away from or change existing pension benefits for current public employees or retirees (illegal under the US Constitution). A convention could not eliminate the state’s republican form of government (also barred by the US Constitution). Thanks to the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution, a convention could not implement any changes that run afoul of any US Supreme Court decisions (such as the decision striking down same-sex marriage bans) or US statutes, such as the Voting Rights Act. Running through his polemic against holding a constitutional convention is a tension between what appears to us to be contradictory visions. On the one hand, it scares the hell out of Toth that “populist” delegates might be elected and might dominate the convention. On the other hand, the empirical data he presents about the 1967 convention demonstrates the extent to which established, prominent, and well respected politicians— liberal, conservative, Republican moderates, Democratic progressives—dominated both delegate selection and the convention itself. Toth believes the same thing will happen in 2019: Andrew Cuomo and the Democrats will line up delegates; Republicans will line up delegates. It will be, according to him, the same old same old. However, in startling fashion he reverses course and spends the rest of the essay trying to convince his readers that it could (will) be a convention dominated by populists who will foist dangerous proposals on the rest of the convention and then bamboozle voters (who have the final approval over anything the convention does) into accepting them.

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representative sample of the hundreds of amendments introduced, the proposals Toth selected are not the stuff of populist rantings. One proposal, a unicameral legislature, has had the support of a number of prominent respected political scientists and reform groups. Populist? Hardly. Another example is term limits, which Mr. Toth admits is not outside the mainstream of political reform in America and which have been adopted by a number of states, including California, which has not succumbed to right wing populism. Another proposal Toth cites is that we not pay legislators. The less said about that one the better. He also mentions proposals that would require extraordinary majorities to raise taxes. This is far from a novel concept. New York currently requires a supermajority when local legislatures wish to raise property taxes. That measure was supported by “populist” Governor Andrew Cuomo, and our “populist” state legislature. That puts the state in line with California, which also requires voter approval for raising local taxes. Sixteen states require a supermajority vote for certain taxes to be raised. You may or may not approve of such measures, but they are hardly out of the mainstream. Relying on pejorative labeling with little analysis, Toth equates what he calls “populist measures” with “bad” measure without justifying that equation. What his argument comes down to is that a convention might adopt measures he does not like. He draws examples from the many proposals introduced by legislators that never go anywhere; never come to a vote; and are made with the full knowledge that they are going nowhere—they are symbolic gestures made largely to appease constituents. These “go nowhere” proposals are even less likely to go anywhere at the convention for the additional reason that delegates do not face reelection as delegates so there will be little or no electoral pressure on those who are not inclined to support such measure. If these are meant to be examples and they are the best he can come up with, we can tuck the worry beads away.

COMMENTARY NEWS Part II Concerning Toth’s argument that the political process for the selection of delegates will make a convention an unnecessary duplication of the legislature, our constitutional history does support this claim. Significant differences exist between the state legislature and a constitutional convention that make a convention more likely to propose structural changes. For a legislatively initiated constitutional amendment to make it to voters, the amendment must be adopted by each of the houses of two consecutively elected legislatures—legislatures that have other functions to perform such as passing a budget and adopting necessary legislation for the state to function. A convention is a unicameral body; its proposals have to pass once through a single body that is constituted for the sole purpose of proposing constitutional reform. Delegates to a constitutional convention also have much greater independence than legislative members. There are no re-election campaigns for delegates and no seniority system for the appointment to critical positions. Convention delegates also are a mix of district and statewide, allowing for a statewide view to balance purely local interests. Convention officers do not wield nearly the same political power as legislative leaders. Also, delegates are drawn from different branches of government, bringing different perspectives that may be absent from a legislative process that it as devoid of hearings and substantive committee reports as the New York legislature.

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The 1967 convention, often assailed as a “failure” because its work was rejected by voters, produced a remarkably forward looking document. Rejected in large part because of the removal of a provision banning the use of public money for religious education, the constitution produced by that convention included several reforms that the state could benefit from today: • an independent redistricting commission; • a more equitable school funding formula; • prohibition against discrimination based on sex, age or handicap; • a constitutional provision protecting clean air and water; • reduction in the length of the document by 50 percent to 26,000 words.

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The very constitutional protections opponents use to scare people from approving a constitutional convention happened because we held conventions! In the absence of conventions, would these cherished rights and policies be in the constitution? We wouldn’t bet on it. Since the state’s founding, conventions have had a much stronger record of creating and enhancing rights than the state legislature. Although we cannot predict what a convention will or won’t do, we have no evidence whatsoever to believe that a convention in 2019 would undo this strong tradition.

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Perhaps because of these differences, past conventions have been of great value in creating our constitutional tradition. They have been far from the do nothing boondoggles that Toth presages. The 1821, 1846, 1894, and 1938 conventions, all of whose work was approved in whole or in large part by the voters, had their share of sitting or former legislators and judges. Yet nearly every right and most of the important constitutional reforms that we now look at with pride were the products of these conventions. • the state bill of rights; • environmental protections (the “forever wild” clause preventing state forest lands in the Adirondacks and the Catskills from being developed); • the Education Article which has been interpreted to provide the right to a sound basic education; • the requirement that the state provide aid and care for its needy; • provisions encouraging the state and municipalities to provide low-income housing for their most vulnerable residents; • a bill of rights for organized labor; • the state’s equal protection clause; • constitutional protection for public employee pension benefits; • protections against illegal searches and seizures.

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NEWS COMMENTARY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 Far from a do-nothing waste of taxpayer money. Part of the reason conventions have been successful is that they are not dominated by sitting legislators and judges. Of the 186 delegates to the 1967 convention, only 13 (seven percent) were sitting legislators and 24 (13 percent) were sitting judges—hardly dominant and nowhere near a majority. If we include former elected legislators and judges in our numbers (even though former legislators are not under the same political pressures as sitting ones), the total still only rises to 66 delegates, slightly more than onethird of the body. Below is a breakdown of all the delegates to the 1967 convention: 1. Public service (excluding party or elected office): 46 2. Sitting state legislators or judges: 37 3. Locally elected officials: 33 4. Former state legislators or judges: 29 5. Party leaders: 22 6. Labor union officials: 4 7. Academics: 4 8. Other: 11 Most striking is that the largest number of delegates (46) were notable for their public service and not for their party leadership positions or elected offices. They were individuals who had distinguished themselves as citizens. If there are delegates at future conventions who have distinguished themselves in public life and earned the esteem of the voters who chose them as delegates, should we fault the process for producing such results? A small number of legislators is a byproduct of having a crosssection of people bringing different levels of experience and coming from different political parties, and different parts of the state. Would Toth trade these individuals, all of whom are familiar with our constitutional system of local, state, and national governments and committed to our constitutional values such as the rule of law, an independent judiciary, a viable legislature, and the rights and policies New Yorkers cherish, for a convention filled with delegates who had no political experience or familiarity with decision-making in democratically organized forums? Such delegates are the best defense against Toth’s other charge: that a convention

will open Pandora’s Box and threaten our constitutional values.

Part III Toth also argues that if the delegates do manage to overcome the inertia plaguing the legislative system, the measures they take will likely threaten constitutional provisions that many hold dear, such as protections for the Adirondack and Catskill forest preserves, the obligation of the state to provide aid and care for its needy, and the protection for collective bargaining and labor rights. It is hard to square Toth’s worry about runaway populism with public opinion in the country and in New York. Two nationwide polls conducted in the spring of 2017 showed that a majority of Americans envision a larger role for government. In a survey conducted by NBC, 57 percent percent said that government should do more to solve problems and meet the needs of Americans, the highest percentage since the question was first posed in 1995 and a significant increase over the 2015 figure of 50 percent. A Pew Research Foundation poll conducted in April 2017 found that more Americans now prefer a bigger government with more services to a smaller one with fewer services. Compared to 2013, there was an 18 percent increase in support for more spending for assistance to the needy; a 13 percent increase for protection of the environment, and a 15 percent increase for Medicare. Public support for an enhanced positive role for government is especially strong in New York State. Consider: 1. Ninety-six percent of state residents agree, most strongly, that here in the Empire State, no one should go hungry. 2. At least 60 percent from every region of the state say Obamacare should be kept and improved, while only 17 percent of New Yorkers supported the replacement of Obamacare with the Republican alternative, AHCA. 3. Notwithstanding 19 amendments to the forest preserve, the voters in the state have reaffirmed the core “forever wild” mandate, while sustaining and giving impetus to a substantially more robust level of governmental action to enhance the Forest Preserve. In 1900, the area of the Forest Preserve was just over 1.2 million acres. Today it is 3 million acres.

4. New York State has the highest percentage of union membership in the country. The share of New York City workers who belong to unions has risen sharply over the last four years — to 25.5 percent in 2016 from 21.5 percent in 2012, boding well for pension protections. 5. Even during 2011, when the country was still suffering under the Great Recession and support for unions had fallen off considerably nationwide, a majority of New Yorkers supported the Triborough Amendment as well as the right of public union workers to strike (a practice currently banned by the Taylor Law). Such results suggest that the time is right and that voters are unlikely to support any cutback in the positive role for the state in promoting social welfare, conservation, and education, among others. New Yorkers voted for Hilary Clinton over Trump by 23 percent. Democrats serve as governor, comptroller and attorney general. In fact, no Republican has won a statewide election since 2002. The state has a Democratic controlled assembly and Democratic enrollment advantages in 49 of the 63 state senate districts. Where are these reactionary/populist delegates that scare Toth so much going to come from? Where are the voters going to come from to approve any reactionary proposals? Under any measure, the populist shift that rocked the country in the last election has not made its way to New York, and will likely have little impact on a convention.

Part IV Not once in Toth’s essay does he even hint that a convention might provide necessary changes to a state that by almost all accounts is in need of major changes. Toth is wrong when he says the state constitution is a “progressive” document. It was progressive in 1938, not so much today. Rather than deal with the possible, let’s deal with some actualities: 1. New York thrives on a pay-to-play culture that has seen: four temporary presidents of the Senate since 2008 charged with (and three convicted of ) some form of public corruption; the convictions on corruption charges of one of those presidents, Dean Skelos, and the speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, within weeks of each other; criminal convictions of 29 sitting or former elected state officials between 2003 and 2016, and current indictments against two of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s top aides.

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2. The state has close to a 90 percent incumbency rate for members of the state Assembly and Senate. More legislators leave office under indictment, conviction, retirement, or death than by losing elections! District lines are drawn in ways that insulate most incumbents from primary challenges and guarantee victory in general elections.

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3. New York has one of the most anemic electoral participation rates in the country, while the state constitution prohibits

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measures to combat that trend such as same-day voter registration and no-excuse absentee balloting. 4. The state continues to engage in back-door financing and sleight-of-hand tricks with the state budget in a manner that hides structural deficits and circumvents the constitutional requirement that all general obligation debt be approved at a statewide referendum. Ninety-four percent of all state-funded debt has never been approved by voters! 5. The court system of the state is so complex and uncoordinated that it costs the state, litigants, employers, and municipalities over $500 million annually in unnecessary inefficiencies — not to mention the additional inconvenience, time, and frustration for litigants having to work their way through the system. 6. The state perpetuates a system of local governments that promises home rule for municipalities and then adopts state statutes that both undercut that promise and handcuffs them with unfunded mandates. 7. The state education funding system is disparate, denying students from poorer school districts the same equality of opportunities that are given to those in higher income districts. 8. There is no state constitutional guarantee of clean air and water. 9. The constitution provides no constitutional protections against discrimination based on gender, physical or mental disability or sexual orientation or identification. 10. Other states have long passed New York in ways to amend their state constitutions to reflect changing times (such as limited constitutional conventions, popular initiatives and constitutional commissions). While Toth is correct when he notes that the legislature has the right to initiate constitutional amendments, it has either been unwilling or unable to meaningfully address these issues during the last 40 years, and we have no confidence that it will meaningfully address them in the next 20 years. Likewise we believe a commission whose proposals are subject to legislative review will be similarly ineffective. The citizens of New York deserve a much better state constitution and the only way they will have a chance to get that better state constitution is with a convention. It was hope, not fear, that propelled New York to its status as the Empire State. The state’s motto is not “Let sleeping dogs lie.” It is “Excelsior!” Ever upward. Peter Galie is professor emeritus, Canisius College. Christopher Bopst is chief legal and financial officer at Sam-Son Logistics Inc. Together they are authors of The New York Constitution 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2012) and co-editors of New York’s Broken P Constitution (SUNY Press, 2016).

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PLUS, AT THE SHAW FESTIVAL: 1837: THE FARMERS’ REVOLT: A play about the Rebellions of 1837, which led eventually to Canadian nationhood. 1979: More Canadian history, this one a comedy about former Joe Clark, prime minister for just 10 months. ANDROCLES AND THE LION: An interactive take on Shaw’s re-telling of the well-known fable. DANCING AT LUGHNASA: 1990 memory play by Irishman Brian Friel. THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE III: Alan Bennett play about the monarch’s struggles with mental illness. ME AND MY GIRL: Musical comedy from the 1930s, revised by Stephen Fry in the 1980s. SAINT JOAN: Shaw’s study of the sainted French military hero and martyr. WILDE TALES: Four stories by Oscar Wilde adapted for the stage.

Playing now at the Shaw Festival, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

Radium Girls at Manny Fried Theatre through July 1.

PLUS, AT THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL: BAKKHAI: In Euripides’s play, Dionysos arrives in Thebes, bent on revenge. THE CHANGELING: Treachery, madness, murder, lust—all the elelments of a Jacobean tragedy. Playbill is presented by:

GUYS AND DOLLS: Frank Loesser’s classic musical. HMS PINAFORE: Gilbert and Sullivan’s high-seas operetta. ROMEO AND JULIET: Shakespeare’s second-most frustrating tragedy. THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Witty society comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. TIMON OF ATHENS: How not to succeed in business, win friends, and influence people? TREASURE ISLAND: Adapted for the stage by Nicolas Billon. TWELFTH NIGHT: A comedy with everything: a shipwreck, sassy servants, cross-dressing, a dissolute uncle.

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A PHOTOGRAPHER’S REBUTTAL BY DAVID MOOG

DAVID MOOG REBUTS A WIDELY HELD ASSUMPTION ABOUT HIS ARTISTS SEEN SERIES

I abruptly learned, recoiled when photographers themselves regularly used any one of these words. He lamented that photographers would denigrate their own art form with indifference to the beauty of their intentions.

ARTIST I’VE ever known has thrived on compliments. Artists often refer to compliments as “feedback.” (The term feedback is a humble, non-egocentric substitute for compliment—it’s technical sounding and intellectual. And receiving feedback is rarely dangerous to selfesteem: I’ve never heard anyone at an opening night reception give negative feedback directly to an artist.) During the two and one half years I spent in the studio provided me by the Burchfield Penney Art Center, artists and gallery visitors would drop in to watch me work, to see the most recent portraits on display, and to provide feedback. The sincerest, the most frequent, and most well-intended compliment offered to me was: “You really captured the essence of that particular artist.” I confess here and now I loved hearing the praise. Who wouldn’t? I’d be guilty of false humility if I said otherwise. The problem is that the premise isn’t true. Not even close.

There is a better verb than the ones we automatically reach for; one that makes complete sense and defines perfectly the relationship between the photographer and what, or whom, he or she photographs. It’s the word “make.” Photographers make pictures.

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Before I try to explain what I’ve blurted out, we need to understand how all of us talk about the act of photographing. As certain as the sunrise, one of the following three words will be used in any conversation involving photography: shoot; take; or capture. Oddly, all of these words describe an act of violence—in particular, what armies do. Yes…armies do take cities, and they capture people, and they most assuredly shoot people. Doesn’t it seem ironic that photographing would come to be defined this way? My mentor, Minor White, made me painfully aware of my own poor word choice the day I met him. The very first question I asked the legendary photographer began with: “So when you shoot these pictures…” Minor glared at me through the clarity of silence—a long, awkward, embarrassing silence. Minor, as

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1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts (1045 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-2281855, photographics2.com/store/welcometo-our-studio-1045-gallery-store): Yab-yum, Mount Sumeru and Dukkha, by Xiao Yang on view through Jun 30. Thu & Fri 11-6, Sat 11-4 and by appointment. Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Menagerie: Animals on View, through Jun 4. Shantell Martin: Someday We Can, on view through Jun 25. Tamar Guimarães and Kasper Akhøj: Studies for A Minor History of Trembling Matter; Jacob Kassay: OTNY; Eric Mack: Vogue Fabrics; Willa Nasatir, photographs, all on view through Jun 18. Camille Henrot: October 2015 Horoscope through Jul 9. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. Amy’s Place Restaurant (University Heights Arts Association) (3234 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 716-833-6260, uhartsgroup.com/ amysplace): Every day: 7am-9pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Automobiles and the Golden Age of Advertising in Print, through Jul 28. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): Botanical Artists: Karen Carbonara, Carol Koziel Clark, Pat Fortunato, Eileen Graetz, Marie Hassett, David Hays, Norm Hornung, Marti Kutas, Bill McCullagh, Julie McIndoo, Cindi O’Mara, Donald Scheller, Vicki Schneider, Alice Seeley, Carol Siracuse, Diane Sterbak, and Dennis Stierer through Jul 7. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm. 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. Mon-Sat 7am10pm, Sun 9am-5pm.

There is a caveat. Making a picture is, I think, a very misunderstood event—and this is where the rebuttal comes into play. Photographic images cannot appear on a sensor or a roll of film as a result of imagination alone. Photography is nothing like painting in this regard. No. A picture is made when there is a momentary partnership between the person in front of the camera and the person behind it. The relationship could last 1/125th of a second or even less. I like to call it a “conspiracy of beauty.” It’s a transient moment and a transcendent one. It’s magical. But it has nothing to do with any special power to capture anything. Artists Seen is a collection of relationships. Over 650 relationships: some close; some distant; some warm; and some combative. No matter what kind of relationship existed during the moment of exposure each one of the portraits in Artists Seen is the co-equal product of both the subject and the photographer. Yet the mystery of these images lies in a single, undeniable phenomenon: The relationship between artist and photographer is absolutely transferable to the viewer—now or in the future. So when any one of these portraits is seen by a viewer not involved with the making, it is the viewer who assumes the relationship. The photographer is not present. A new inexplicable relationship occurs. For all of you kind enough to say I captured the personality, the

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essence, the character, the nature of any of the 650 people who conspired in a moment of beauty to make a picture with me, I am flattered but you are wrong. The photographer was the window. The relationship belongs to you. No capturing, no taking, no shooting. And everyone survived. Artists Seen: Photographs of Artists in the 21st Century is an ongoing project by photographer David Moog in partnership with the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State. Moog has set out to make portraits of every self-identified working artist and arts professional in Western New York. If you would like to be included in the project, call David Moog directly at 716-472-6721 or contact the center at 716-878-4131 or email burchfld@buffalostate. edu. Artists working in all media are welcome; visit burchfieldpenney. P org for more information.

ugee Artists in Western New York through Oct 15. Glass Within Glass: The Magic of the Trabucco Studio; the paperweight artistry of Victor, David, and Jon Trabucco through Sep 17. 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): The Clufffaloes by Charles Clough. 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. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Place Relations: Identity in Contemporary Israeli Avant Garde Art: Re’em Aharoni, Yael Bartana, Tam BenTor, Karen Cytter, Dor Guez, Adi Nes, Barak Zemer. Opening reception Fri, Jun 29, 5-8pm. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. 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 10:30am5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm. Daily Planet Coffee Company (1862 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, 716- 551-0661): Andrea Oswald’s traditional paintings. Dreamland (387 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, facebook.com/dreamlandarts.buffalo/ timeline): Open by event. Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyproj-

ects.com): Lesley Maia Horowitz: Course of Empire through Jul 29. Fri-Sat 11am-4pm. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Photography, creative writing, and group activities by students at International Prepatory School at Grover Cleveland High School. Wed-Sat 126pm. 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 . Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): There’s More To Explore: Up Close and Personal With Ryder Henry, on view through Jun 30. Tue-Fri 11am6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Biophilia, work by Dorothy Fitzgerald, Kevin Kegler, Elizabeth LaBarge, Lynn Northrop on view through Jul 1. 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. 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 view through June 16. Mon-Fri 12-5pm & Sun 2-5pm. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts. com): Benefit Exhibition for the WNY Land Conservancy: The Art of Native Plants, featuring work by 31 regional artists through Jul

REVIEW ARTS yards. And how a gardening curriculum in schools promotes awareness about plants as food that becomes reflected in family grocery store choices. She also talked about farmer’s markets as a means of promoting interaction among newcomer and established communities. “There’s no language barrier when walking into a farmer’s market,” she said. Scalise talked about how art institutions, instead of thinking about ways to get lower socioeconomics groups—such as immigrant and refugee communities, but also the black community—into art galleries to look at works on the walls, are thinking about ways to bring innovative art projects into poorer communities. He talked about a recent UB Art Galleries venture in which a two-artist collaborative from Los Angeles whose projects focus on fruit—apples, oranges, grapefruit, bananas—including providing fruit to undernourished or otherwise disadvantaged communities—undertook to plant fruit trees in the Fruit Belt section of Buffalo. Scalise said the one-weekend project was less successful than hoped for due to torrential rains that weekend. (The Los Angeles art collaborative is called “Fallen Fruit.” The two artists are David Burns and Austin Young.) Cunningham noted another benefit of gardening for kids “who these days are on computers all day long,” and not getting outside and experiencing the natural environment. “Kids need to get outdoors and involved in the outdoors,” she said, “to develop human traits of compassion and empathy and respect for other living things—including other people.” On a question from the audience about what plants grow best in the region’s “native clayey soil,” Cunningham answered succinctly, “Native plants,” and plugged the exhibition currently at Meibohm Fine Arts gallery in East Aurora called Art of Native Plants, continuing through July 29.

Carol Koziel Clark, Peonies, watercolor

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AT WESTERN NEW YORK ARTISTS GROUP GALLERY, AN EXHIBITION AND SPIRITED DISCUSSION OF ART AND GARDENING ART AND GARDENING experts discussed topics ranging from

engagement with immigrant and refugee communities to use of the herbicide Roundup in a panel session in conjunction with the current botanical art exhibit at Artists Group Gallery.

The works on show in the gallery—by a score or so of accomplished area artists in a wide variety of media—all depict flowers. The nominal discussion topic was: “How Art and Gardening Bring Cultures and Generations Together.” Panelists included: Sally Cunningham, master gardener and author of the volume Great Garden Companions; Julie McIndoo, watercolor artist and also master gardener; and Robert Scalise, acting deputy director of the UB Art Galleries. Scalise confessed from the outset that he is “not a gardener,” but was ready to talk about art. David

29. Tue-Fri 9:30am-4pm, Sat 9:30am-2pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 2827530, thenacc.org): NF125. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-8825777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Roil, new work by Kyle Butler through Jun 14. TueFri 10am–5pm Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-6523270, norbergsartandframe.com): Local artists: Kathleen West, Bradley Widman, Peter Potter, and Miranda Roth. Tue-Sat 10am–5pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Paintings by: Karen Carlton through Jun 30. Wed-Fri, 12-7pm (until 9pm on first Fridays), Sat & Sun 12-5pm. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse.com): Resonance by Kathleen Sherin. Opening reception Fri, Jun 23, 6-11pm. Live music Thu-Sat. Pine Apple Company (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/ store/pine-apple-company): Unicorns! LGBTQ

Swarts, president and CEO of the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, was moderator. Lots of lively back and forth on the nominal and tangential topics. Cunningham talked about a Cooperative Extension program she was involved in some time ago in conjunction with the Massachusetts Avenue Project then in its infancy, wherein African-American youngsters interviewed West Side refugee people about the food they ate and the gardens they grew it in in their former lands. Cunningham said it was probably the first encounter many of the African-American kids had with refugee populations, or the refugee populations with AfricanAmerican kids, and both sides seemed to greatly enjoy and learn from the encounter. She said one result of the program was that the Massachusetts Avenue Project added hibiscus—to make hibiscus tea—to its garden plants roster. McIndoo talked about her experience once as a schoolteacher starting up a gifted and talented program with prominent gardening elements, such as seem to be widespread in elementary schoolrooms these days. Kids planting plants in the classroom that they then can take home and re-plant in their back or front

Invitational.Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod. com): Art by Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, Chris McGee, Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Liebel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, Kisha Patterson, Steve Siegel, John Farallo, Michael Mulley. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. 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). By appointment. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Drawn Together group show with work from: Craig LaRotonda, Esther Neisen, Jaclyn Alderete, Jel Ena, Joe Vollan, Joseph Pfeiffer-Herbert, Maria Pabico LaRotonda, Matthew Robertson, Megan Buccere, Melissa Morgan, Michael Mararian, Rob Lynch, Sandra Yagi, Shaunna Peterson, Tricia Butski, and William Herod through Jul 22. Ró Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo,

Another question from the audience was about Roundup. Nobody had much good to say for the product. Cunningham offered several alternative solutions for dealing with unwanted plants, including, as a last resort, “bend over and weed.” Among works on show at Artists Group Gallery: Vicki Schneider’s delicate, lovely soda lime glass sculptures reminiscent of the nonpareil glasswork of George and Paul Marchand for museum dioramas such as at the Buffalo Museum of Science; varieties of impressionist watercolors by Pat Fortunato, Alice Seeley, and Julie McIndoo; embroidery stitchery fabric work by Marie Hassett; a screen print purple iris with an art nouveau feel by Dorothy Markert; and photographs by Don Scheller, Eileen Graetz, and Norman Horning. (Hornung’s employing a novel technique he calls “Scan-o-Gram.” Photos that mimic paintings. Not in the old Photo-pictorialst mode. Nor more recent paintings that mimic photos Photorealist mode. Something inbetween. A third alternative.) The Artists Group Gallery show runs through July 7.

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NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Somatic Color, Kyla Avery Kegler. 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. 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. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Tue-Sat, 12pm-5pm. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio. org): The Bold and the Beautiful, featuring Andy Calderon from Starlight with James Marino and Ben Brauen from Autism Services, Inc. with Debbie Medwin, Jeremy Pratt, and Ron Steele. Opening reception Fri, Jun 23, 6-9pm. Mon-Fri 9-4pm. Stangler Fine Art (6429 West Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127, 870-1129, stanglerart. com): Buffalo Society of Artists Open Members Exhibition through Jun 30. Mon-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY

14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Contemporary Queer, works from the Gerald R Mead Collection curated by Dana Tyrrell. Work by Steve Ardo, Eric Bellman, Lawrence Brose, Nick Butler, Craig Centrie, Jack Edson, Florian Ayala Fauna, Keith Gemerek, Jim Goodrich, Anthony Peter Gorny, Amy Greenan, Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Andrew Hershey, Justin Higner, Scott McCarney, Dana McKnight, Tommy Nguyen, Alice O’Malley, Cristiano Pereira, Paul Rybarczyk, Tara Sasiadek, Donald Situa, Peter Stephens, C.J. Szatkowski, Adam Weekley, and Joe Ziolkowski. On view through Jul 1. 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. The Language of Objects on view through Jul 30. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 348-1430, wnybookarts.org): Words and Pictures: A Collaborative Exhibition by Trudy Stern and Michael Morgulis, through Jun 23. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. To add your gallery’s information to the list, please contact us at info@dailypublic.com

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WEDNESDAY JUNE 28 Gates with Head North 6pm Studio at the Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $12-$14

[INDIE] On the heels of the release of their latest album, The Last Living Man Alive Ever in the History of the World, Buffalo-based indie-pop band Head North are on the final leg of a tour with the New Jersey based indie-pop band Gates. The new album from Gates, a five piece band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, is titled Parallel Lives and features 11 tracks of electronics-tinged, emotional indie rock music. For a taste, check out their singles “Habit” and “Empty Canvas” before you check them out live at the Studio at the Waiting Room this Wednesday, June 28. -CP

Live at Larkin: The Jumpers and the Irving Klaws 5pm Larkin Square, 745 Seneca St. free

MASON-JAR "Day Job" music video Recommended if you like: Blink 182, MxPx, New Found Glory Formed by former members of Cute is What We Aim For—drummer Tom Falcone and guitarist/vocalist Fred Cimato—and Steve Gardner, formerly of Crush the Everlasting, is pop-punk band Mason-Jar. Their first single, “Day Job” comes with a Blink-182-inspired lead guitar riff and straight on pop-punk stylings. The video features the members of the band performing in full pop-punk mode—sporting Fender guitars, dickies slacks, Puma shoes, and arm tattoos.

THE BPO AND STRICTLY HIP: THE MUSIC OF THE TRAGICALLY HIP THURSDAY JUNE 29 5PM / CANALSIDE, 44 PRIME ST. / $5 [ROCK] It is, I would surmise that every day, or most days, tribute band Strictly Hip plays the songs of the Tragically Hip. But it’s not every day that the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra plays the music of the Tragically Hip. So it’ll be a special thing when these two forces combine this Thursday, June 29 for the next entry in the $5 (formerly free) Canalside Live concert series. Strictly Hip and the BPO are slated to play a whole night’s worth of Tragically Hip, so if you’ve wondered how, say, “Fiddlers Green” would sound with a whole lot of fiddles, or how “Fifty Mission Cap” would sound with like 50 musicians, then you’re in luck. Last year, the Hip embarked on their final tour, which ended with a final show in Kingston Ontario on August 20—so that’s it, folks. If you want to see the Tragically Hip live, it’s too late. But here’s a chance to catch the music of the Tragically Hip in a totally unique way, which means there will likely be a jam packed crowd for this one, so get there early-CORY PERLA

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[PUNK] The Jumpers, a five piece punk band from Buffalo featuring frontman Terry Sullivan are next in line for the free Live at Larkin concert series. The band, who helped cultivate Buffalo’s punk scene in the 1970s and 1980s, are still full of the same driving, punk energy and are sure to be entertaining live. Catch the band live in Larkin Square on Wednesday, June 28 with fellow veteran rockers the Irving Klaws. -CP

THURSDAY JUNE 29 Closing Party: Talking Leaves Main Street 6pm Talking Leaves, 3158 Main St.

[LITERARY] Naturally, co-founder Jonathan Welch would never himself throw a going-away party for the original location of Talking Leaves, the Main Street book shop in University Heights, which will close its doors forever next month. He’s not that kind of guy. A couple of fans, writers Brian Castner and Matt Higgins, are the instigators of the final farewell party that happens this Thursday, June 29, 6-9pm. There will be some some wine and some beer (courtesy Community Beer Works), and remarks by local writers beginning at 7pm. That Main Street location has been a center for many overlapping communities—writers, activists, academics, assorted lovers of printed pages— for its 42 years in the business. It deserves a proper sendoff, and you can be assured it will get one. Long live the Elmwood Avenue location. -GK

Black Pussy

8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $6-$8

FUNERAL "Nine Layers Deep" single Recommended if you like: Kylesa, Torche, Mastodon The latest track from Buffalo band Nine Layers Deep is Funeral, a dark, sludgy stoner rock anthem. The heavy slow moving track has lead

ROCKIN’ AT THE KNOX FEATURING OUR LADY PEACE AND COLLECTIVE SOUL THURSDAY JUNE 29

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[ROCK] 2017 marks the 20 year anniversary of rock band Our Lady Peace’s sophomore album

from the band in the near future.

Clumsy. The record, released in 1997 by the Canadian rock band, features some of the band’s most

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well known hits, including the album’s title track “Clumsy”—a huge radio hit, that was even featured in the teen horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer. Twenty years on and “Clumsy” is still an essential part of the band’s live show, along side earlier hits like “Starseed” from their 1994 debut album, Naveed, and “Somewhere Out There,” from 2002’s Gravity. And after more than two decades as a band, their lineup is surprisingly still mostly intact—the only new member since the band released Gravity is drummer Jason Pierce, who took over after the departure of long time drummer Jeremy Taggart in 2014. Prepare for some radio-day flashbacks when Our Lady Peace comes to Buffalo to perform at Rockin’ at the Knox, the Albright Knox Art Gallery’s outdoor

[ROCK] Musician Dustin Hill and the rest of his garage rock band have chosen their hill to die on: they’ve called their band Black Pussy. Despite all of its cringeworthyness, the band refuses to change the name—in fact, it’s likely they see the whole controversy as great PR. If that whole thing isn’t a turn off for you, then you can see the band at Mohawk Place this Thursday, June 29 with some great local bands like SMUG (formerly The Naturalists) and Keys to the Spaceship. -TPS

Yonder Mountain String Band 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $10

[BLUEGRASS] The Yonder Mountain String Band is a six piece, you guessed it, string band from Colorado. The self-proclaimed “progressive bluegrass outfit” are prolific as far as progressive bluegrass outfits go; releasing more than a dozen albums since forming in 1998—most of them released on their own independent record label, Frog Pad Records. Their seminal album is perhaps 2001’s Mountain Tracks Vol. 1 (which has spurred five additional volumes), a live release, which features songs like “Snow on the Pines,” a sometimes 14-minute-long banjo jam. Think the Grateful Dead meets Lester Flatt. Their latest album, Love. Ain’t Love, was released just this week and features the folky summer jam, “Alison.” Yonder Mountain String Band will make their return to Buffalo for a show at the Town Ballroom on Thursday, June 29. -CP

summer concert bash, this Thursday, June 29. OLP will be joined 1990s rock bands Collective Soul and Tonic.-CORY PERLA

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[ROCK] Third Eye Blind has taken some unexpected turns in its 20-year recording career, but one thing is for sure: if you were paying attention to pop music at all in 1997, you should be able to sing along to at least half of the songs on the San Francisco band's self-titled debut. "SemiCharmed Life," "Graduate," "How's It Going to Be," "Losing a Whole Year," and "Jumper" were all released as singles, while "Narcolepsy" enjoyed AOR airplay as if it was also a single. Released on April 8, 1997, Third Eye Blind went on to sell over six million copies in the US alone, and Rhino is celebrating the disc's 20 year anniversary with a deluxe —two CDs or three LPs that include newly released demo recordings. This is also the impetus for the band's Summer Gods Tour, which comes to Darien Lake on Thursday, June 29. Front man Stephan Jenkins is still running the show, but the only other member from the band's commercial heyday is drummer Brad Hargreaves. Although former lead guitarist Kevin Cadogan assisted in the writing of the first two 3EB albums, his 2000 departure was contentious, leaving behind questions about Jenkins' character that remain unanswered to this day. Don't let that stop you from enjoying the trip down memory lane, however: after a half dozen lesser known tunes selected from their other releases (including a couple from the new EP, We Are Drugs) they've been performing Third Eye Blind in its entirety, followed by an encore that includes "Never Let You Go," from 1999's Blue – worth it! Arrive early for opening sets from oceanparkstandoff and Silversun Pickups. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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SILO CITY ALIVE SUNDAY JULY 2 EXHIBIT CLOSING: CONTEMPORARY QUEER AT SUGAR CITY 5:30 to 6:30pm, 1239 Niagara St.

Sugar City is excited to announce a closing reception for Contemporary Queer: Artists from the Gerald Mead Collection on Friday June 30, 2017 from 5:30-6:30pm. The reception will feature a walkthrough of the exhibit by Collector Gerald Mead, with an introduction from Curator Dana Tyrrell.

FRIDAY, JUNE 30 CALL ME WINKIE AT ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH (FELLOWSHIP ROOM, DOWNSTAIRS) 7:30pm, 3107 Main St.

The WNY Anti-Violence Project is proud to host a staged dramatic reading of"Call Me Winkie," a play by longtime local advocate and activist, Bruce Kogan,featuring Timothy Lane. Directed by David Granville and co-sponsored by Pride Buffalo. Donations to the WNY AVP gratefully accepted.

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2PM / SILO CITY, 120 CHILDS ST. / $7, CHILDREN FREE [MUSIC FESTIVAL] You want Americana? How about this: A music and art festival the weekend before the Fourth of July, in the shadows of Buffalo’s iconic grain elevators, with a lineup of roots music artists assembled by the folks at the Sportsmens Americana Music Foundation. Silo City Live happens next Sunday, July 2 at Silo City, with two stages featuring music by Leroy Townes, Black Rock Zydeco, Ten Cent Howl, Shaky Stage, Mr. Conrad, the Brothers Blue, the Legendary Longjohns, and Tyler Westcott. Plus local artists will produce interactive pieces on-site, and Buffalo Aerial Dance Company will perform aerial ballet. GoBike Buffalo and Slow Roll will offer a bike tour of the city that ends at the silos in time for the festival’s 2pm start. Other sponsors include Flying Bison Brewery and Buffalo’s Best Grill, along with Silo City itself, of course. Tickets are just $7, kids get in free, and proceeds benefit the foundation, which Sportsmens Tavern owner Duane Hall started to support and promote the music he loves. It’ll be a beautiful day by the river. -GEOFF KELLY

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Intrepid Travelers EP Release Show

9pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $10

[JAM] Buffalo-based jam band Intrepid Travelers will celebrate the release of their latest EP, Everyday is Your Birthday, and kick off their next tour, with a show at Buffalo Iron Works on Thursday, June 29. In a recent interview with The Public, the band explained that the songs for Everyday, like the driving funk jam “Funnel” and the jazz odyssey “Woolify” matured in their live set before they decided to record them. See all that they’ve got cooking in their live set, this Thursday. -CP

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Check out the second installment of Comedy Comes To Hertel Ave! Here's another batch of excellent Buffalo comics for your enjoyment… leave your easily offended, humorless peeps at home! Featured Comics: Dan Mahoney, Clayton Williams Jesse Winterhalter, Cody Colin Chase, Madelein Smith, and Bennett Solowski. Hosted by funny man Phil Machemer of Revolver Records. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at the door or ahead of time at Revolution Gallery or Revolver Records (1419 and 1451 Hertel, respectively).

[INDIE] The latest from neo-folkies, Big Thief, out on Connor Oberst’s Saddle Creek label, is even better than their first. Out on June 9, the Brooklyn four-piece has outdone itself with Capacity, which mines much of the same territory as it’s near-universally well received predecessor, Masterpiece… just deeper. Vocalist Adrianne Lenker’s style reminds a bit of Joanna Newsom dipped in a retro reverb time capsule ala Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, but her ability to deliver unflinching details (often about sexual intimacy) sets her apart. Veering between folk-pop simplicity and something noisier, her musical comrades supply a soundtrack that remains compelling without getting in the way of her wispy delivery. They’ll bring their mix

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of classic and queer to the Tralf Music Hall on Thursday, June 29, with openers Twain. -CJT

Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit 6pm Constellation Brands Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center, 3355 Marvin Sands Dr $25-$55

[ROCK] One of the more hotly anticipated shows on CMAC‘s summer schedule, former Drive-By Truckers member Jason Isbell is out on the road supporting his new self-released album with his sometimes band, The 400 Unit, entitled The Nashville Sound, out June 16– the first official release with The 400 Unit since 2011’s Here We Rest. In the interim, Isbell has publicly spoken of his choice to get sober in his post-Truckers years, a process reflected upon in much of the writing for his haunting 2013 breakthrough, Southeastern and it’s somewhat cheerier 2015 follow-up, Something More Than Free. Produced by recurring collaborator Dave Cobb, Nashville sticks mainly to the quiet, contemplative feel of those albums – but the narrative looks to the more universal terrain of marriage, parenthood, and politics. Isbell sounds like a man in transition, no longer mired in the darkness of his own past and looking outward, trying to make sense of his surroundings and affirm his priorities. If The Nashville Sound doesn’t break much new musical ground, Isbell sounds great merely treading water, and there’s nothing wrong with that. He’s joined on this one date of

[COMEDY] “You know, Ella Fitzgerald once worked on this stage. But did she put her butt on the floor? No,” said comedian Paula Poundstone on stage, laying flat on her back with her legs propped up on a stool. The 57-year-old comedian has been delivering her irreverent brand of stand up comedy for almost four decades. Appearing on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, on her own talk show on HBO, and recently in the Disney Pixar animated film Inside Out, Poundstone has had, by any estimate, a profound career in comedy. Stand up is where she’s made her mark most, however, and she’ll return to Buffalo to perform her stand up routine, this time at Babeville’s Asbury Hall, on Friday, June 30. -The Public Staff

Fracture 9pm Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar, 253 Allen St

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Dubbed as a “return of the beats” to Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar, Frosty Tone brings U.K. junglist Fracture to the Allentown venue. “Duke’s/Allen St [is] where it all started for us. At Staples, between those times and our DBGB era, [this is] a highlight of where we laid our foundation together and for the bass music era that followed,” says Frosty Tone leader Robert Matthews a.k.a. Basha. Fracture’s style is intense—a mix of fast-paced, relentless jungle music, and complex breakbeats—and his sets can get be hypnotic, especially when given a chance to explore in a longer format. And he’ll have 90 minutes to explore when he comes to Duke’s on Friday, June 30. Fracture will be joined by Cleveland dubstep-lord Thunder St. Clair, as well as Basha himself, and Syracuse’s Deltat and R Hop. -CP

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7:30pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $20

[COMEDY] It takes balls as a stand up comedian to call yourself, simply, Talent. It’s kind of like calling yourself Madonna. But James “Talent” Harris, went there; and it’s worked for him. The host of Showtime at the Apollo, a star in movies Sunset Park and With or Without You, Talent is a New York City comedy veteran with an arsenal of hilarious Def Jam approved jokes. And if you’re offended, he’ll assure not to worry, because “it’s just comedy.” Talent comes to Helium Comedy Club for five shows, Friday, June 30 through Sunday, July 2. -CP

SATURDAY JULY 1 Doug Stanhope 7pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $35

[COMEDY] In an age when everyone is preoccupied with saying the right thing and avoiding offence, Doug Stanhope‘s irreverent sense of humor and far-flung, anarchic ideologies have gotten him in a bit of hot water – and what would you expect from a guy that formed a touring group of comics called “The Unbookables”? Ten years ago he was practically thrown out of Ireland for telling a joke at a Kilkenny festival which posited that Irish men engage in pedophilia because of the ugliness of Irish women. But generally speaking, he’s on the right side of the equation: Stanhope also has a history of making fun of pedophiles, going as far as setting up Chris Hanson-esque predator-trapping internet hoaxes, then subjecting the predators to sustained abuse once ensnared. If it sounds over the edge, that’s because it is—but Stanhope and his comedic peers exist in an age when shock value is paramount to having a career. See what’s in his latest bag of tricks when he brings his current standup routine, Doug in the Buff, to the Tralf Music Hall on Saturday, July 1, and leave your easily torked-out-of-shape friends behind. NOTE: Tickets must be ordered online for this show and are not available at the Tralf box office. -CJT

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ON PEACH: Sam Price presented a pair of conjoined fiction pieces last Friday on Peach. Price’s work concerns family, the way we divide it and the ways in which it divides itself. The first, “On My Mother’s Side,” paints a side of the family devastated by loneliness: “One holiday ends with the living brothers and sisters climbing stiff-kneed into their SUVs, their children grown and gone, no limp, dead-tired bodies that need to be carried to the car. They drive home where single lamps are lit in living rooms to give the illusion to potential thieves that someone is home, alert, waiting for them.” The other, ” On My Father’s Side,” is less knowing, and a little more playful: “Later, after some grieving, my mom put it this way. H is dad lived until fifty-two, and your dad lived until sixty-seven, so you should get fifteen more years on top of that. I imagined passing away at eighty-two, after a long, productive life. Of course the funeral was mobbed with press.” When presented together, Price’s stories reveal life as a long tragicomedy that we are forced to silently watch with a very familiar audience. There is a delicate and masterful sense of restraint in the work of Terry Abrahams. Peach published four pieces by Abrahams yesterday, three of which take on the guise of short “exercises.” In exercise in grieving, Abrahams writes simply, “stand still / for as long as possible.” In exercise in understanding, “you are so small / in this / with me.” The space around Abrahams simple words beguile the magnitude of the feelings communicated. These words create beautiful, big open spaces that are lonely, but certainly not empty.

IN PRINT: The Sarah Book By Scott McClanahan (novel) Tyrant Books, 233 pages The Sarah Book is a catalogue of modern American misery. McClanahan details the fallout from his divorce to the titular Sarah in clean and precise prose that leaves nowhere to hide. “That night I dreamed we were all magnets. I dreamed all living things were magnets and from the moment of our births we were being drawn together by some invisible force. I was a magnet and Sarah was a magnet and books were magnets too. We had finally found one another.” T he Sarah Bookreads like a waking nightmare — all these painfully mundane daily details seem familiar, except now everything has fangs. There are some tiny moments of joy, but they always exist in the past, and they’re always tainted in some way by the miserable sludge of time. The stories told in each chapter act as “anti-fables” in a way, a sentimental lesson is pulled out from under the reader and we’re left without any easy conclusion to make sense of the big dumb human experience of the everyday broken heart. “There was no new path and there was no new way. There was no new revelation. There was just a stupid ending and a tiny voice saying, that’s all. That’s all.”

The Sarah Book is an ugly book. It asks the reader to engage directly with its ugliness, it wants to put your face right into it, right into the mountains of chicken bones McClanahan’s discarded in the Walmart parking lot, right into the flooded grave of his blind pug. Ultimately, there’s no love or happiness to soar in at the end to salve the wounds and make sense of the mess. There’s only an understanding that all this pain is universal. We are not unique in our suffering, and any one of us could be Sarah.

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7PM / THE 9TH WARD, 341 DELAWARE AVE [ART PARTY] The Buffalo Infringement Festival is just one month away, which means that artists are quietly laboring away at their performances and exhibitions, and the event’s organizers are desperately setting the stage for the 11-day, grassroots, citywide, totally egalitarian, anything goes art extravanganza. Next Thursday, July 6, there will be a festival preview and fundraiser at the Ninth Ward at Babeville. Swing by, get a look at some of the artists and their work, have a drink at the bar, and warm up to the spirit of this, the festival’s 14th annual iteration. Can’t make it? No problem: Check out the schedule at infringebuffalo.org. While you’re there, maybe click on the link to the festival’s IndieGoGo campaign and throw a few dollars to support this all-volunteer, no-corporate-sponsors-ever effort. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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SUNDAY JULY 2 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 6pm Constellation Brands Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center, 3355 Marvin Sands Dr. $40-$150

[ROCK] In the three year hiatus from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 2014 tour—the bands longest break from the road in 25 years—66 year old Petty became a grandfather; and a radio station programming manager, sorta. He may not be the only aging rocker with his own SiriusXM satellite radio channel, but he's likely the only one that personally oversees it's operation. Petty treats his station as it should be: an extension of his personal taste and his career. He has a vested interest in its feel and tone. The station evolved from a weekly specialty program entitled Tom Petty's Buried Treasure—a hotly anticipated trove of cherry-picked deep cuts, the planning of which he said sometimes kept him up all night when speaking with Rolling Stone in 2011. Perhaps working hard keeps him feeling younger, but

as recently as late 2016, Petty was talking as if this summer's 40th Anniversary Tour with The Heartbreakers, which hits CMAC in Canandaigua on Sunday, July 2, might be the last. Citing his young granddaughter as a key reason, he wants to curtail the pattern of endless summer tour schedules adhered to by so many of his classic rock peers. And why shouldn't he? Petty has always been a rebel, and while the annual summer-shed cash grab probably looks mighty attractive—especially when record sales no longer pay the bills— Petty would do better to preserve his untarnished musical legacy by knowing when to rein it in. But longtime fans needn't fret, since he was careful not to say he would no longer perform, but rather just avoid large scale, crosscountry treks. It's not about retiring, it's about making time to enjoy the life he's b e e n lucky enough to create – and let's not forget, he's threatened to end the tour cycle before. What's more likely is that the summer shows will be followed by the expanded WIldflowers box he's been discussing for a while, with a string of smaller acoustic shows to perform the material from it—a pared down 1994 solo set that's remained a fan favorite for over two decades. Although originally conceived as a chance for deep cuts, the current tour sticks mainly with Petty's most recognizable repertoire—no complaints there. P -CJT

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THE GARAGE ROCK BAND AND ALL OF THEIR COLLABORATORS BUFFALO-BASED GARAGE rock band Mom

Said No, is releasing their debut album Time, this summer. The project, still in the final stretch of its creation, is being recorded at the popular GCR studio downtown. With help from GCR owner and Goo Goo Dolls bassist Robbie Takac, the alternative rock quintet has a promising future ahead. Takac is working with the group on their single, “The Campaign Song” and rumored to be assisting with a couple more tracks on the upcoming effort. “We’ve spent time with [Robby Takac] in the studio and he has been a huge help in the process of making this single and possible other songs a smash hit,” says vocalist Tim Jackson. Along with Jackson, the band is made up of guitarist Elliott Hunt, bassist Ben MacFayden, and brothers Chris Lillis, and Mike Lillis—keyboard player and drummer respectively. With their new line up, the band has developed quite the presence in the local rock scene. While they often play rockcentered music, the group doesn’t subscribe to any specific genre yet. Their high-energy pop edge has allowed the college-aged band to cultivate some impressive collaborations. Their 2016 EP, Motivation offered stylings from saxophonist Mars Williams of Psychedelic Furs and violinist Mary Ramsey from 10,000 Maniacs. It also featured Anthony Corrone of Arkells who delivered his effortless piano work on a few tracks.

and [we] mix it up.” To them, this means no one member really takes full ownership of any one song. It’s pure collaboration. Their undoubtedly catchy tunes often show off the band’s well-polished songwriting, though it hasn’t come without some challenges. The band has dealt with a couple roster changes in the past year, but their album seems to have come at a perfect time, as their line up of members has stabilized. And now, they seem more confident than ever. Bassist Ben MacFayden explains the new adjustment of the band. “The band that we have now is about a month old…we lost our lead guitarist recently and so we had to reconfigure ourselves.” With every member attending different schools, it has been a feat for the band to have a stable schedule. Though they have suffered multiple changes and functioned originally as a six piece band, Mom Said No has quickly adapted to the sound and pursuits they desire. “It’s our voice…It’s really cool how it all connects,” says MacFayden. “What we were always looking for was a band where if you took one away, it wouldn’t be the same.” While producing their next album, Mom Said No have been making the rounds in the

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local concert scene. They’ll be performing at a new festival coming to Buffalo this summer, Cobblestone Live. They are also on the serial compilation album We Killed Mckinley, which was released this past April and also features bands like Stress Dolls, dreambeaches, and the Mallwalkers. The first edition of the We Killed Mckinley album series was released in the early 1980s and featured Buffalo’s rock bands including the then teenage Goo Goo Dolls. With their album release date still unannounced, Mom Said No assures that there is a clear direction for the record. Both Chris Lillis and MacFayden chime in on the sound of Time. “There will be elements from the EP…but it’s gonna be definitely more of like an alternative rock vibe,” says Lillis. “Also I think this album is gonna sound very much so different from the EP—a complete 180,” says MacFayden. Hunt even goes further into the message of the album, which he says is to bring people together. The young, multi-racial band plays off the themes of black and white and often includes that in their dress code. “If we have something to say, we say it… years ago, this band would never be able to be a thing.” Planning to tour the east coast this fall in support of their album, the group looks forward to the future. While the appeal of this young rock outfit might be the pop melodies and genre-bending music, Mom Said No only wants to achieve one goal, and that is to P break barriers.

LGBTQ COMMENTARY

THE GRUMPY GHEY:

A LESS-THAN-IDEAL IDEAL BY CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY “THERE’S NO BROWN in the rainbow.” Really, Bitch? I’m not impressed with the thinking on this latest hubbub from our deeply soul-searching, inclusive community. Our resisting community. Our bigpicture community, our brothers and sisters in arms. We’re really just so full of shit. Yes we are. The irony is breathtaking. Adding brown and black stripes to the flag gives LGBTQ People of Color (POC) special treatment, you say? Folks, these people have been receiving “special treatment” of all the worst kinds for way too long. If you think it breaks from tradition, that’s great – and you would be correct. But these are traditions that need breaking from. Whatever argument anyone has in their back pocket that goes against that idea isn’t worth hearing. Put that in your vapor device and smoke it. It’s also indicative of how we’ve come up short. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the whole impetus for using the rainbow as a prideful symbol is its conceptual inclusiveness. Technically, it already represents all colors, all stripes. The fact that we need to change it in order to more literally include people shows that they’re feeling left out, and that’s on us. Kudos to Philadelphia for taking the lead. But the hair across my ass regarding the inclusiveness issue is a fair bit more tangled. We’re so busy giving lip service to diversity and shaming those of us that aren’t actively rallying alongside, we’ve all but ignored the hypocrisy going on among us, right in our own sexual arena. Let us not forget that, while the issues have grown quite complicated over the years, at the very core of all this debate is a group of people striving to be okay with their sexuality – something they’ve (we’ve) said over and over again is inherent to our being, our natural (not nurtured) disposition. It’s about sex. Sexual preference. It’s about that before it’s about any of these other things that have become hot button issues for activists. And if we’re not okay with the sexuality portion? We’re not okay with any of it. So many of us – too many of us – need to go back to square one. We seem to have little sexual respect for anything other than the masculine ideal. So, while we’re busy preaching to one another about making sure everyone feels included, we’re also ignoring men that don’t bother putting on masculine airs for sexual attention. I’m not going to suggest that it’s no longer okay to like whatever it is you like, but feeling attracted to masculine men doesn’t really qualify as a preference – it’s near-universal. Specifying it in a profile online (or anywhere other than the voice of your interior headspace) makes the sexual playing field about as hospitable as the high school cafeteria. Do any of us care to go back there? I didn’t think so. By nurturing this ideal as we have, we’ve given rise to a large

group of gays that keep their homo-ness under wraps. And we’ve rewarded them by making sure they have very active sex lives. There’s nothing remotely courageous about living this way. You’re not really out on a limb if you’re busy curtailing your homosexual tells. Quite the contrary, you’re closer to the closet. Which isn’t to say that we’re all naturally flaming and great Paul Lynde impersonators, but those of that are have been made to feel less desirable. It’s actually pretty gross. These people have fallen prey to rigid gender-policing in the world of app-based- hookups where we all feel perfectly justified typing things that we’d never utter to one another’s faces. Beneath the seemingly innocent surface of “preferring masculine guys” lurks all sorts of awful… you’re basically saying that you prefer that ambiguous sort of gayness with the edges sanded down, the kind you can take home to a gun toting, confederate flag waving Archie Bunker without getting his dander up. Inclusive? Fuck off. The level of ostracism we inflict on one another is absurd. It’s no wonder we struggle to be taken seriously. Plus, y’know, that super gay dude – the uber-flaming one that you can see and hear a mile away? He might be the one guy that hauls off and fucks you like the little bitch you really are the way you’ve always desired. You’ll never know until you try it, and you’ll never try it so long as you keep shaming gay men for being their authentic selves… which is probably the most masculine trait I can think of. Being comfortable with who and what you are is sexy. It’s a less obvious sexiness, but nobody should be doing all the work for you anyway. I’m reminded of a straight guy I used to work with at a restaurant in the 1990’s with whom I shared much dark humor. I would sometimes affectionately lean onto his shoulder and he would respond by singing, to the tune of The Lettermen’s classic, “Get your gay head off my shouuulllderrrr, or I’ll put a burning cross on your lawwwn.” He also used to say to me, as if he were making some sort of medical

pronouncement, “You are a very, VERY gay man.” On the surface it may have seemed like some kind of insult, but actually, it was complimentary. It was a tribute to my lack of compromise, my lack of interest in being anything other than what I am. We worked so hard, there wasn’t time for me to worry about how I looked and sounded to people. The double modifier made his proclamation all the more hilarious. Years later, when I saw him sing in a musical production, I left a note for him to let him know I’d been there and signed it, “A very VERY gay man.” The above scenario seems to depict a certain level of comfort; enough comfort to joke around about sexuality, about masculine and feminine… even to joke around about hate crimes which, in the shocking, surreal world of South Park and Family Guy, can successfully be transformed into dark humor. I never questioned this man’s sexuality, either. We were both comfortable with who we were. In contrast, I recently had a conversation with another straight man I know who’s so lacking in self awareness, he didn’t even realize his homophobia was sticking out. And this is someone whose sexuality I have questioned. “I’ve spent a lot of time around gay people the last couple years,” he told me, puffing away on his vapor device. “And I’m starting to realize what works for me about it and what doesn’t.” In between puffs, he went on to articulate his really deep thoughts about how he actually hates things like “drag and cabaret.” In other words, he doesn’t like the aspects of homosexual culture that flamboyantly bend gender. How terribly insightful and unexpected. He may as well have said, “I don’t mind gay people as long as they don’t act particularly gay.” Curiously, I hadn’t even asked – I ran into him, and this was his useful tidbit for the day. And yet, many of us hang out with people like this. We’ve made it okay. We refuse to accept that we’re not going to be friends with everyone, liked by everyone… and that we’re not going to be attractive to everyone, either. Because for every guy out there seeking a ‘masculine acting’ (acting is the key word) sexual partner is another one pretending to be something he’s not in the name of getting laid. To me, it’s all interrelated: the fact that we now converge just about anywhere vs. the need for specifically LGBTQ spaces; the push towards marriage, adoption, and corporate success vs. the more individualistic urban freakshow; the way we reward toxic masculinity vs. the lack of sexual appreciation for flamboyance. And rather than talk about it, we’d sooner argue over adding a couple additional colors to our rainbow flag – it creates a smokescreen. It’s not a rainbow anymore, you say? No. No, it P definitely is not.

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FILM REVIEW

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

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OPENING THIS WEEK BABY DRIVER—Hotshot young crime driver versus gangsters in what sounds like the same plot as this year’s flop Collide. Starring Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm and Kevin Spacey. Directed in what appears to be a shameless effort to sell out to Hollywood by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In THE BEGUILED—Remake of the 1971 gothic western with Colin Ferrell taking Clint Eastwood’s role as a wounded union soldier who causes problems when he is taken in at a Virginia girls’ school. Co-starring Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning. Directed by Sophia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides). Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills DESPICABLE ME 3—Kristen Wiig joins the voice cast as the sister of not-so-bad-guy Gru (Steve Carell) in this sequel to one of the better animated family comedies of recent years. Directed by Eric Guillon, Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin. Aurora, Dipson Flix, North Park, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In THE HOUSE—Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler as parents who, desperate to pay for their daughter’s college education, open an illegal casino in a neighbor’s house. With Jeremy Renner, Andrea Savage, Nick Kroll and Jason Mantzoukas. Directed by Andrew Jay Cohen. Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Transit Drive-In

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA MEATBALLS (Canada, 1979)—In which a summer movie genre was launched on the backs of the public’s infatuation with new-to-the-scene Bill Murray. Directed by Ivan Reitman. SatSun 11:30 am. North Park

RAISING ARIZONA (1987)—The Coen bothers’ second feature brought to the fore the train that has been the highlight of most of their films ever since: absurdly loquacious characters whose self-mythologizing is quaintly endearing. Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter star as a couple from opposite ends of the law who, unable to have a child of their own, pool their talents to liberate a baby from a local businessman whose wife just had quintuplets. With Trey Wilson, John Goodman, William Forsythe, Sam McMurray and Frances McDormand. Fri, Sat, Weds 7:30 pm. Screening Room ROBOCOP: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT (1987)—Remastered version of Paul Verhoeven’s pitch black dystopian satire included the minute’s worth of cuts involving the title character’s murder that were made to prevent the film from getting an “X” rating. Starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O’Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, and Miguel Ferrer. Tue-Thu 9:30pm. North Park SPACEBALLS (1987)—Like all of his genre parodies, Mel Brooks’s prodding of Star Wars works best if you’re a fan of what he’s making fun of. Starring Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga, and Brooks himself as the wizened “Yogurt.” Thurs 7:30pm. Screening Room

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CONTINUING ALL EYEZ ON ME—Biopic of rapper Tupac Shakur. Starring Demetrius Shipp Jr, Danai Gurira, and Kat Graham. Directed by Benny Boom (Next Day Air). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria BAYWATCH—Because Hollywood doesn’t think you’ll buy $250 million worth of tickets for a movie starring Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron unless it has a title you already recognize. With Priyanka Chopra, Alexandra Daddario, Kelly Rohrbach, and guest appearances by David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson. Directed by Seth Gordon (Identity Thief). Four Seasons, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit BEATRIZ AT DINNER—Salma Hayek, as a salt of the earth immigrant, and John Lithgow, as a cigar-chomping, earth-destroying, society-endangering capitalist, do verbal battle at an elegant dinner party in this new comedy by longtime collaborators director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White (The Good Girl, Chuck and Buck). It’s probably an accident of timing that the film arrives in theaters at a time when the dangerously concentrated economic and political advantage at the top of the American social system is such a matter of public discussion. The film is smoothly directed and the visual scene setting is fluid and supportive. But Arteta and White have freighted it with simplistic assumptions and overdrawn conflict that often come across as self-righteously liberal and thin.. –GS With Chloë Sevigny, Connie Britton and Jay Duplass. Directed by Miguel Arteta (Chuck and Buck). Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills THE BOOK OF HENRY—An 11-year-old genius enlists his mother in a plan to rescue the abused girl who lives next door to them. Starring Jacob Tremblay, Lee Pace, Naomi Watts, and Sarah Silverman. Directed by Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World). Dipson Amherst, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit 47 METERS DOWN provides a new variation on the ever-popular shark summer thriller. Mandy Moore and Claire Holt play two sisters vacationing Mexico (really the Dominican Republic) coaxed by local romantic interests to descend into shark infested waters in a protective cage just like the one that failed Richard Dreyfuss in Jaws. The women spend the rest of the film on the ocean floor, trapped in the cage and surrounded by a school of Great Whites as their oxygen runs out. It’s primarily a two-character thriller, a souped-up version of Open Water that manages to be claustrophobic even in the expansive ocean. The dialogue lacks the bite of Spielberg’s classic, and is so shallow that whenever Matthew Modine (collecting a paycheck and a vacation) warns of some hypothetical danger, that scenario becomes fait accompli, but the direction and cinematography yield stunning visuals and the promised scares. Visual effects have come a long way since an uncooperative Bruce the shark forced Spielberg to fashion a more Hitchcockian thriller than he had planned, and these sharks are entirely convincing. A film like this succeeds only if its audience is willing to go along with the increasingly preposterous situations the heroes face, and director Johannes Roberts, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ernest Riera, pushes all the right buttons. –Greg Lamberson AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In I, DANIEL BLAKE— Ken Loach, who has been artistically delineating class divisions in Great Britain for over half a century, won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. While he doesn’t directly address Brexit and the political turmoil around it, in its modest way it help illuminate British currents of a resentful mood. Veteran comedian Dave Johns stars as a 59-year-old master carpenter, ordered by his doctor not to work. His attempts to navigate the British social service system lead him through a maze of Orwellian-esque arbitrary requirements and rejection. This material arguably might be

more audience-friendly if presented as satire, but Loach remains an earnest, closely observant humanist trying to dramatize working-class society and the injuries of class. Does he load the dice on occasion? Sure. But the bleak, neo-realist feel of his movie is softened by the subplot involving Daniels’ befriending of a young single mother of two who’s also brutalized by the system (Hayley Squires in a sharp, moving performance). -GS North Park ENDS THURS IT COMES AT NIGHT— The high-tension trailer makes this look like a standard issue zombie movie, but that’s not the case at all: though set in an apocalyptic near future, the dead (killed by a plague) are less a problem than the living. Joel Edgerton stars as a father who is struggling to keep his wife and teenaged son safe from the mysterious disease in a secluded farmhouse. He makes the decision to share the house with another family, but can any of them be sure that the others are disease free? It’s a handsome low-budget effort, and cinematographer Drew Daniels squeezes atmosphere from the dim interior of the lantern-lit house. But persistent close-ups on the teenaged son seem to pose questions that the film never gets around to dealing with. –MF Co-starring Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo and Riley Keough. Directed by Trey Edward Shults. Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria KONG: SKULL ISLAND—The best King Kong since the 1933 original owes much to the spirit of professional wrestling. It operates much like a theme park ride, with dazzling special effects delivered at a breathless pace and high decibel level. Set near the end of the Vietnam war, the action is confined to the titular island, when survivors of a fleet of US Army helicopters who made the bad decision to invade Kong’s home turf battle the island’s other monstrosities in a bid to reunite and escape. The motion capture effects are top-notch, superior to those in Peter Jackson’s more ambitious 2005 remake. Starring Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly, and John Goodman. —Gregory Lamberson Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The Kings of Summer). Dipson McKinley LIKE CRAZY—From Italy, a comedy-drama about a society woman and an ex-stripper who have only one thing in common: the psychiatric group home in Tuscany to which they have both been committed. Starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Morandini Valdirana, and Valentina Carnelutti. Directed by Paolo Virzì (Human Capital). Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills ENDS THURS MEGAN LEAVEY—Drama based on the true story of a Marine corporal (Kate Mara) trying to adopt the dog she worked with while on duty in Iraq. With Bradley Whitford, Geraldine James, Common, and Edie Falco. Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish). Regal Quaker, Regal Transit THE MUMMY—Hoping to copy the successful Marvel Cinematic Universe formula, Universal Studios launches a new “Dark Universe” featuring its classic monsters with The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise. It is no longer enough to build a tent pole franchise around a single fantastic character; a studio must create a world in which several franchises intersect and support each other. This time around the mummy is female and Tom Cruise (too old for the military grunt he plays) is chosen to serve as the host for an angry god. This gender swap is the smartest move in an overly busy concoction. The spectacular first third of the film, containing the requisite Egyptian flashback and several action sequences with Cruise in Iraq, is its best. Things get silly fast when the action shifts to London, especially in a subplot featuring Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll and his alter ego the Incredible Hulk. There’s an army of zombies, a character appropriated from An American Werewolf in London, and scenes reminiscent of Cruise’s Mission Impossible and Tobe Hooper’s 80s opus Lifeforce. Sofia Boutella is an effective mummy, but her character takes a backseat to an origin for yet another superhero. –Gregory LambersonWith Annabelle Wallis and Courtney B. Vance. Directed by Alex Kurtzman. AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria PARIS CAN WAIT— Take the comedy out of the three The Trip films (the third of which opens in August), substitute Diane Lane for Steve Coogan, and the result might well be this low-key semi-documentary filled with pleasant shots of the south of France and plenty of food porn. Lane’s companion is French actor Arnaud Viard as her husband’s business associate who agrees to chauffeur her to Paris. Whether or not he is actually trying to seduce her is a question left open until the end of the film, and I was as uncertain of the answer as I was indifferent. Eleanor Coppola, wife of Francis Ford, makes her dramatic directing debut with a project that runs the gamut from pleasant to bland. –MF Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES—Sequel. Because Johnny Depp can apparently spend money faster than he can earn it. With Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush, Paul McCartney, and Anthony De La Torre, star of the upcoming local production Johnny Gruesome. Directed by Joachim Rønning Espen Sandberg (Kon-Tiki). Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In ROUGH NIGHT—Kate McKinnon’s Australian accent is the only memorable part of this tired “women get raunchy” comedy about a bachelorette party that geos awry after the male stripper they hired is accidentally killed. Any similarity to Very Bad Things is minimal at best in this laughless movie that wants to capture the Bridesmaids audience but has no idea what made that one effective. –MF Starring Scarlett Johansson, Zoë Kravitz, Kate McKinnon, Demi Moore and Jillian Bell. Directed by Lucia Aniello (Broad City). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT—Sequel. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel, and Laura Haddock.

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BY GEORGE SAX IN 1971, TWO of director Don Siegel’s films were released, both of them with Clint Eastwood leading the casts: Dirty Harry, the law and order celebration of a rogue copy (“Go on, make my day”) and The Beguiled, a Civil War-era drama. This second film was something of an anomaly in Siegel’s career, known as he was for tense contemporary crime thrillers and a very few westerns. Beguiled was a strange movie irrespective of who made it, creepy and violent, with an ominous, hothouse psychosexual tenor that leads to a violent denouement.

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Sofia Coppola’s new version, based like the older one on a 1966 novel by Thomas Cullinan, is both similar to, and a departure from Siegel’s. It’s also a personal reaction against much of it, one being lauded as an implicitly feminist redo.

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It does follow the same basic narrative structure. In 1864 Virginia, as the Civil War increasingly goes against the South, wounded Union army corporal, John McBurney (Colin Farrell), is discovered by a young student from the nearby Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. Taken in by the headmistress, Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman), he is tended to and nursed back to health by her and the few other females left at the school after most of the students, teachers and all the slaves have fled as the war has come closer. Beside Farnsworth, there is Edwina (Kirsten Dunst) the sole teacher, and five girls, none of whom have homes to which they could return. The school is an isolated and threatened island of refinement and tradition amid a savage national upheaval, housed on Farnsworth’s family plantation.

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McBurney is a penniless Irish immigrant who enlisted for a $300 bounty paid by a wealthy man to escape conscription. He’s a crafty survivalist, with no desire to return to his regiment. Farnsworth is also a survivor, a woman of sometimes intimidating, authoritative competence. She has kept her little brood protected in dire straits. This portrayal, ably achieved by Kidman, is in striking contrast to Geraldine Page’s performance in the 1971 movie as a tightly wound, resentful woman who eventually explodes in response

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to McBurney’s wiles and manipulation. All the females in Siegel’s film are portrayed as dangerously and stereotypically unstable. Here, McBurney is still an opportunist but Farnsworth and the others are unthreatening. It is this male interloper who’s the threat, a seducer and disruptor of this fragile little female enclave. It’s somewhat paradoxically signified by the much-photographed massive Ionic columns of the plantation’s mansion. There’s been a lot of comment about Coppola’s application of a “feminine gaze” to the story, a more enlightened and balanced reconceptualization of the older film’s masculine assumptions and fears about females. She certainly has diminished the brutal elements and given her film a calmer, more sympathetic cast, but the result doesn’t really work. Siegel’s was basically a gothic horror movie. Coppola’s quieter, more measured pacing doesn’t develop much tension, or even dramatic interest for much of Beguiled’s length. From her debut eighteen years ago with The Virgin Suicides, Coppola has concentrated on establishing and extending mood in her movies. In this one, the sunlight filtering through the mossy limbs of tall live oaks, the dim, candlelit interiors, the stately cadences of Monteverdi’s “Magnificat” on the soundtrack leave the movie awash in atmospherics, even as too little seems to be transpiring. The sharp climactic rise near the end is a little late and unpersuasive. Beguiled is only 94 minutes long, but it feels stretched. And for a movie that’s widely being described as benefiting from a feminine point-of-view, its portrayal of the women’s situation is rather odd. All of them save Farnsworth react to McBurney’s presence with avid interest or fluttery flirtatiousness. And even Farnsworth begins to soften under his attentiveness. The four elder girls, and especially Edwina, are presented, however unintentionally, as acting as if what they most need or want is a good you-know-what. This Beguiled is more curious than involving.

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Date: 06/04/2017 Applicant: BUFFALO NIAGARA RIVERKEEPER 721 MAIN ST BUFFALO, NY 14203 Facility: BMGC & BLUE TOWER TURNING BASIN IN-WATER REMEDIATION BUFFALO RIVER, BUFFALO NY 14203 Application ID: 9-1402-01129/00001 Permits(s) Applied for: l - Article 15 Title 5 Excavation & Fill in Navigable Waters 1 - Section 401 - Clean Water Act Water Quality Certification Project is located: in BUFFALO in ERIE COUNTY Project Description: The Department has received and made a tentative determination to approve an application from Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper for in-water and shoreline habitat restoration at two sites along the Buffalo River in the City of Buffalo. The two sites are the Blue Tower Turning Basin, which is located east of the Katherine Street Peninsula, 3.1 miles upstream from the mouth of the river and at the Buffalo Motor and Generator Corporation property, which is located south of the Michigan Avenue lift bridge and west of River Fest Park, 1.1 miles upstream of the mouth of the river. The project involves removing floating and near shore debris and invasive vegetation, placing a layer of planting substrate and planting submerged aquatic vegetation and emergent vegetation. Herbivory protection measures, rootwads and logs will be placed to protect the planting areas. The purpose of the project is to restore and enhance the ecological function of the river to address the Buffalo River Remedial Action Plan’s Beneficial Use Impairment for loss of fish and wildlife habitat and to provide effective and sustainable designs for restoring and naturalizing shorelines. As a tentative determination, the Department is seeking public comment prior to making a final determination on permit issuance. Availability Documents:

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the Waterfront Revitalization and Coastal Resources Act. Comments on this project must be submitted in writing to the Contact Person no later than 06/22/2017 or 15 days after the publication date of this notice, whichever is later. Contact Person: LISA M CZECHOWICZ NYSDEC 270 Michigan Ave Buffalo, NY 14203-2915 (716) 851-7165 ----------------------------------------------NOTICE OF CITATION: To: RICHARD J. DELGADO, JR., if he be living, and if he be dead, to his heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, if any such there be all of whom and all of whose names, ages, places of residence and post office addresses are unknown to the Petitioner(s) and cannot after due diligence used be ascertained and HON. ERIC T. SCHNEIDERMAN– Attorney General of the State of New York. A petition having been duly filed by JOLENE A. DELGADO, who is domiciled at 2427 SHADAGEE ROAD in the Town of EDEN, ERIE County, New York 14057. You are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate’s Court, ERIE County, held at 95 FRANKLIN STREET, BUFFALO, New York on July 11th, 2017, at 9:30 AS.M., why a decree of this Court should not be made in the estate of RICHARD J. DELGADO, deceased, lately domiciled at 4783 FREEMAN ROAD, in the Town of ORCHARD PARK, ERIE County, New York, granting Letters of Trusteeship to JOLENE A. DELGADO, as Successor Trustee of the “Richard J. Delgado and Marlene J. Delgado Living Trust”, dated February 6th, 1996. Dated, Tested, and Sealed, May 25th, 2017. HON. BARBARA HOWE, Surrogate, County of ERIE. Name of Attorney: ANDREW J. PACE, ESQ., 4513 S Buffalo St, Orchard Park, New York 14127, Ph: (716) 662-9808. ----------------------------------------------NOTICE OF CITATION: To: RICHARD J. DELGADO, JR., if he be living, and if he be dead, to his heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, if any such there be all of whom and all of whose names, ages, places of residence and post office addresses are unknown to the Petitioner(s) and cannot after due diligence used be ascertained and HON. ERIC T. SCHNEIDERMAN– Attorney General of the State of New York. Upon a petition having been duly filed by JOLENE A. DELGADO who is domiciled in Eden, New York, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED to show cause before the ERIE COUNTY SURROGATE’S COURT at Erie County Hall, 92 Franklin Street, 2nd Floor, Buffalo, New York on July 11, 2017 at 9:30am, why a Decree should not be made in the Estate of RICHARD J. DELGADO, late of the County of Erie and State of New York, admitting to Probate a Will dated August 29, 2013 directing that Letters Testamentary issue to JOLENE DELGADO, and directing such other and further relief as the Court deems just and equitable. Dated, Tested, and Sealed, May 25, 2017. HON. BARBARA HOWE, Surrogate, County of ERIE. Name of Attorney: ANDREW J. PACE, ESQ., 4513 S Buffalo St, Orchard Park, New York 14127, Ph: (716) 662-9808.

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DEFENDANT: TO: CELESTINE HICKS WHITE, the above named defendant: TAKE NOTICE that a Complaint seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: That the plaintiff be granted recovery of less than $25,000 for injures and damages sustained due to a car accident. You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than the 10th of February, 2017, said date being forty (40) days from the first publication of this notice; and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought, This the 29th of December ,2016. Butler, Quinn & Hochman By: Christine Camacho Attorney for Plaintiff 4801 Independence Blvd Suite 700 Charlotte, NC 28212 Tel: 704-569-9800 x 265 State Bar #4376

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“PARTS ON BACKORDER” -IT IS HUMANLY ELBISSOP

LOOKING BACKWARD: BROADWAY & SPRUCE The building at 306 Broadway, northwest corner of Spruce Street, was standard for its time. Built sturdily of brick with a slate Mansard roof sometime be-

ACROSS 1 South Beach, e.g. 5 Glide along

61 Actress Woodard of “St. Elsewhere”

33 How some daytime daters meet

fore 1888, it was originally home to a sausage market with a slaughter house

64 “Enough already!”

34 Reason for a scout’s badge

in the rear. The ground story was occupied by the R&R Surplus variety store

35 Fictional beer on “King of the Hill”

as late as 1979. In the 1950s and 60s it was occupied by J&M Goldberg Furni-

10 Get to the end of Julius Caesar, in a way?

67 Constitutional amendment that established Prohibition

14 “The Book of Mormon” location

68 WWE wrestler John

15 Impractical

69 “The Bone Garden” writer Gerritsen

17 1999 Drew Barrymore rom-com (and James Franco’s film debut)

70 Online magazine once owned by Microsoft

19 Kind of board at a nail salon 20 Passover feast 21 Some laptops 22 Have the appearance of 24 Bit of bitters 26 Protection for goalies 28 “You ___ awesome!” 32 Tomato on some pizzas 36 Mo. with both National Beer Day and National Pretzel Day 37 His first public jump in 1965 was over rattlesnakes and two mountain lions 39 Sewing kit staple 41 Nintendo’s ___ Sports

71 Shoe brand with the old slogan “They feel good”

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50 Mitch’s husband on “Modern Family” 52 Tickle Me Elmo toymaker 54 Org. in “Concussion” 57 “Wheel of Fortune” host since 1981

45 Suffix denoting the ultimate 51 “I don’t want to break up ___”

3 Listens in 4 “___ the door ...” 5 New reporter 6 Washington bills 7 For ___ (not pro bono) 8 Put in the mail 9 Accepts, as responsibility 10 “Pretty sneaky, ___” (Connect Four ad line) 11 1/2 of a fl. oz.

13 “___ Are Burning” (Midnight Oil hit)

49 Bi- times four

44 Respectful tributes

2 “Big ticket” thing

43 Star of “The Birds” and grandmother of Dakota Johnson

48 “Awake and Sing!” playwright Clifford

40 Gp. that includes Nigeria and Iraq

49 Time-based contraction

12 He has a recurring role as The Donald

47 Effortlessness

38 Charged particle

1 Frank Herbert sci-fi series

42 “Fidelio,” for one

46 Cup lip

37 Wallace of “Stargate Universe” or Wallach of “The Magnificent Seven”

16 Apple voice assistant 18 Deli sandwich option 23 Dallas pro baller, for short 25 Get ready, slangily

53 Ex-NBA star Ming 54 No, to Putin

ture Company, and in the 1930s and 40s by the John G. Kaderabeck Company, wholesale confectioners. The building was demolished in about 1980, presumably not long after this photograph was taken. In 1960, not one vacant lot existed on the north side of Broadway between Michigan and Jefferson avenues, a section that after dozens of piecemeal demolitions is now largely a grassy field. The house at 12 Spruce Street, visible on the left, still stands. Rapid Ray’s Printing & Services occupies the site of 306 Broadway.

55 Pate de ___ gras 56 Carries with effort

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58 “Community” star McHale 59 Tolstoy’s “___ Karenina” 60 Etta of bygone comics pages 62 Kentucky senator ___ Paul 63 Geological time spans

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65 Bygone TV taping abbr. 66 Definite article LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

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26 Kindergarten glop 27 Via ___ (famous Italian road) 29 Got hitched again 30 Say “comfortable” or “Worcestershire,” maybe

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