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Journalists and bloggers who question the government are also jailed or killed. The Committee to Protect Journalists recently ranked Russia in the top 10 nations where journalists are murdered with impunity. While Russian authorities claim that 90 percent of murders in that country are solved, when it comes to the murders of journalists, in 90 percent of the cases there is no prosecution.

Last year Putin’s government labeled internationally affiliated human rights groups operating in Russia as “foreign agents.” This year, Putin’s government issued an outright ban on many such entities, now listing them as “undesirable foreign organizations.” Russians who associate with such human rights and environmental organizations can face up to six years in prison. Another new law has sent bloggers who oppose Russia’s inva-

At the end of last year, when human rights activists alleged Putin involvement in the murder of opposition journalists in Russia, Donald Trump defending him, telling MSNBC that Putin is “running his country and at least he’s a leader, unlike what we have in this country.” Murdering journalists was no big deal; as Trump explained, “I think our country does plenty of killing also.”

Last week the Republican presidential candidate praised Putin for having “very strong control” over his country, adding that “he’s been a leader far more than our president has been a leader.” The Republican vice presidential candidate, Mike Pence, doubled down on Trump’s comments, calling them “inarguable.” This is the Republican White House ticket. This is their idea of a leader.

The presidential election is a little over seven weeks away. Expect the American media to focus more on Hillary Clinton’s bout of pneumonia than on the Republican Party’s embrace of fascism. Hell, Trump might win and be “a leader far more than [Barack Obama] has been a leader.” There’s no sense pissing him off.

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Western New York will still see its share of make-work projects of the kind championed for three decades by the Buffalo Niagara Partnership and its core Group of 18. But except for the state handouts to the Kaleida-centered Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, the old boys wouldn’t get any of the Buffalo Billion.

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EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY? The data have spoken. The ever-diplomatic Zemsky has also spoken: The Tielman plan was released within days of Zemsky’s day-long, invitation-only seminar on smart growth and collaborative governance, held last week at the Lafayette Hotel, keynoted by Cuomo, starring the very poster child of smart growth, Maryland’s former governor, Parris Glendenning.

The event was a demonstration of both the preservationist ethos and the new leadership consensus—that refreshing the region’s hub is the way we’re going to go from now on.

The data can’t be ignored. No matter that a candidate for the New York State Senate runs TV spots claiming that he’ll go to Albany to bring back white suburban tax dollars, the facts are well-established: CRG proved in 2004, this author re-proved in 2010, and then the Rockefeller Institute proved again in 2013 that all of Upstate New York, especially the eight counties of Western New York, get far more money from Albany than taxpayers send in. We have for

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THE MINIMALISM, THE FOCUS ON GREEN SPACE, ON SEASONAL RECREATION—IT’S AWFULLY CLOSE TO WHAT EXISTS ON TORONTO’S CHAIN OF ISLANDS more than a decade been receiving a Buffalo-area billion dollars a year subsidy, over and above what we pay into the statewide kitty, for roads, healthcare, education, and every other service.

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Over and above that, Andrew Cuomo made an extra Buffalo Billion available to the Empire State Development Corporation for a transformative input. Zemsky arranged for Elon Musk and his now-conjoined solar panel, LED light, and battery/transportation companies to come here.

Not surprisingly, local firm LP Ciminelli got the contract to build the panel/LED factory.

Nattering nabobs of negativism noodle around about alleged irregularities, even as the pace of solar-based electricity production accelerates.

It would suck were Elon Musk to go bust, but don’t count on that happening.

Meanwhile, the coordinated communication on the waterfront proposal has been crystal clear, if collaborative rather than handed down as diktat. Tielman, who has been a consultant to the Zemsky family’s wildly popular Larkinville project, spent his first two decades as a preservationist being a reliable irritant, with his demonstrations, press conferences, and protests.

He was routinely criticized for grandstanding, muttered about for having little follow-through other than that provided by his ever-patient legal allies Richard Lippes and Richard Berger, and never able to pull off the kind of foundation support that the Preservation Buffalo Niagara now enjoys. Tielman succeeded in cultivating the loathing of suburban-oriented real-estate developers. He was sued by Carl Paladino, Paladino being the frequent beneficiary of emergency-demolition orders that his City Hall friends would issue on a Friday afternoon, too late for media coverage unless Tielman and a few others found out in time.

Tielman’s MO changed when he went to work for Zemsky, who is mostly a diplomat. A Tielman solo act, on his proposal to turn the Skyway into an observation deck, predictably went nowhere.

But Tielman’s proposal for a measured, low-input, incremental-destination waterfront has legs. Citizen input that the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation invited and then promptly ignored two years ago is strikingly consistent with what Tielman proposes. The minimalism, the focus on green space, on seasonal recreation—it’s awfully close to what exists on Toronto’s chain of islands, which have served Toronto so successfully for so long as a nearby oasis of picnic-grounds, beaches, gardens, and child-centered recreation, with as much nature, wildlife, and person-powered watercraft as the market can handle. Buffalo’s 120 acres, in Tielman’s presentation, are a miniature of Chicago’s 21-mile-long lakeside green belt, with public amenities spaced along a meandering bicycle path that almost nobody rides when the gales of November start early.

Tielman will hold a large-scale public session for his plan on Wednesday, September 14, at 6:30 pm at Hutchinson Technical High School, 250 South Elmwood Avenue at Chippewa.

The plan has legs. It needs more.

Bruce Fisher is visiting professor at SUNY Buffalo State and director of the Center for P Economic and Policy Studies.

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IT’S TIME TO CELEBRATE THE NEW THEATER SEASON CURTAIN UP! HAS ARRIVED: This Friday, September 16, the regional theater season opens with a celebration in three acts:

ACT I: You eat and drink at a restaurant in Buffalo’s Theatre District. (See our map on page 27 for a handful of suggestions.) Or you can spring for the black-tie gala dinner on the main stage of Shea’s Performing Arts Center.

ACT II: You see a play. (Curtains rise at 8pm.)

If you can still get tickets to one, that is. If you can’t, never fear: Most of the Curtain Up! shows continue beyond this weekend. You might choose instead to continue carousing, until…

ACT III: A full-on street festival on Main Street in the Theatre District: live music, dancing, street performers, and other shenanigans. It’s free, and continues until 1am (officially) and much longer than that (unofficially).

Here’s a quick look at what’s playing now and what’s coming soon to same area theaters:

DEAR LYDIA Alleyway Theatre, 1 Curtain Up Alley, 716.852.2600

A world premiere by Louisiana playwright Larry Gray: “An ex-sportswriter turned agoraphobic advice columnist must face and conquer his own fears to save someone he loves.” Gray’s work should be familiar to Buffalo audiences: This is the ninth of his plays that Neil Radice and Alleyway have staged.

UP NEXT: Buffalo’s longest-running holiday attraction, Neil Radice’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol, December 8-18.

AMERICAN IDIOT: THE MUSICAL American Repertory Theater of WNY, 30 Amherst Street, 716.634.1102

A rock opera with songs by Billy Joe Amstrong of the pop-punk band Green Day and a book

by Armstrong and Michael Mayer, who directed the Broadway production, which was nominated for the Tony for best musical and won a Grammy for its Broadway cast album.

UP NEXT: How to Make Friends Then Kill Them

by Halley Feiffer, October 27-November 19.

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Buffalo Laboratory Theatre at Shea’s 710 Theatre, 710 Main Street, 1.800.745.3000

Buffalo United Artists & Ujima Theatre Company at Alleyway’s Main Street Cabaret, 672 Main Street, 716.886.9239

Pulitzer-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire’s comic tale of a woman who leaves her husband, runs off to Niagara Falls, and falls in with a crew of quirky characters.

For BUA, it’s another play about theater people, following this summer’s production of Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Play. The New York Times calls this one, by Jeff Talbot and co-presented with Ujima, a “perky tale of racial pride and prejudice in the theater.”

6 X 8 Brazen-Faced Varlets at Rust Belt Books, 415 Grant Street, 716.771.6277

World premiere of a piece written by the Brazen-Faced Varlets, part of a series dealing with women in prison.

UP NEXT: Midsummer Dyke Dream by Shawn P. Northrip, a co-production with BUA, marks 10 years of the Varlets queering Shakespeare. November 18-December 10 at Alleyway Theatre.

UP NEXT: For BUA, Christmas in July, a comedy

by Matthew Crehan Higgins. October 14-November 6.

SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH Irish Classical Theatre Company 625 Main Street, Buffalo, 716.835.1380

In which aging gigolo Chance Wayne demon-

strates that you can, but probably shouldn’t, go home again. By Tennessee Williams.

UP NEXT: Two well-known works in a row by Peter Shaffer, Equus and Amadeus, which Shaffer brought out one after another—in 1973 and 1979, respectively.

DON’T TALK TO THE ACTORS Kavinoky Theatre, 320 Porter Avenue, 716.829.7668

The adventures of a young playwright, beloved of Buffalo dinner theater set, getting his first play produced on Broadway.

UP NEXT: The 39 Steps, a comedic melodrama adapted by Patrick Barlow from the Hitchcock spy thriller, itself adapted from the short novel

by John Buchan.

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The Sondheim classic keeps ’em laughing. David Bondrow stars as Pseudolus.

UP NEXT: Jekyll & Hyde, the musical version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s story.

GYPSY MusicalFare Theatre, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, 716.839.8540

And more Sondheim! MusicalFare promises a reinvention of the classic, under the direction of Chris Kelly, who has a gift for that.

UP NEXT: Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical, which has a songbook sure to please fans of the great American popular singer and pop culture personality. Opens November 2.

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A cabaret show conceived by Mary Kate O’Connell playing three dates only: Friday, September 16 and Saturday, September 17 at 8pm, and Sunday, September 18 at 2pm.

UP NEXT: Breast in Show, a musical about five characters, each of whom has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Opens September 28.

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The great August Wilson’s eighth entry in his 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle, this one set in a gypsy cab.

UP NEXT: Christmas Is Comin’ Uptown, a reimagining of A Christmas Carol, opening December 8.

LOUISIANA BACCHAE Red Thread Theatre at Jim Bush Photography Studio, 44 17th Street, 716.331.2469

By Robert Waterhouse: “Voodoo and vengeance descend on a small Louisiana town when a mysterious preacher bewitches the local women and confronts a county sheriff about his past.” Based on the tragedy by Euripides.

BLISTERING VISION CHARLES E. BURCHFIELD’S SUBLIME AMERICAN LANDSCAPES

UP NEXT: The Unfortunates: It’s 1888 in the Whitechapel neighborhood of London, and Mary Jane Kelly is broke and alone. Coming in October.

Road Less Traveled Productions, 500 Pearl Street, 716.629.3069

ON VIEW THROUGH OCTOBER 23, 2016 Charles E. Burchfield reverently captured the grandeur of nature, along with the fierce,

Donald Margulies’s play about two couples, old friends, who are made to confront the reality of their relationships when one couple announces they are getting divorced.

sketches and paintings of these sublime landscapes, revealing Burchfield’s work as a bridge

UP NEXT: Sam Shepard’s brother-versus-brother drama, True West. Opening October 28.

to the modern environmental movement. Experience this unique exhibition at The Center.

deceptive beauty of the industries that threatened it. Blistering Vision brings together

URINETOWN Subversive Theatre Collective at Manny Fried Playhouse, 255 Great Arrow Avenue, 716.883.0856

It’s really about time that Subversive pulled together a production of the ultimately subverting Broadway hit. Through October 15.

UP NEXT: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, adapted from Ken Kesey’s novel by Dale Wasserman. Starring Thomas LaChiusa as McP Murphy. Opens November 3.

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ART Sculptor Phyliss Galembo work at Nina Freudenheim Gallery.

Flipping the Script by Eric Magnuson, at Hallwalls.

Renaissance is Where You Find It

BY JACK FORAN

A QUICK LOOK AT WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE REGION’S ART GALLERIES THIS FALL THE LOCAL ARTS SCENE FALL SEASON is already underway, but much more to come. Shows just opened at the Burchfield Penney Art Center of the arts of Josef Bajus and Babs Reingold, with shows to come—to honor the 50th anniversary of

the Burchfield Penney institution—on gallery eponymous artist Charles Burchfield and sculptor Charles Cary Rumsey. Rumsey did The Centaur outside the Buffalo Historical Society building, the Three Graces in the middle of the lake in Forest Lawn Cemetery, and Pizzaro, the flamboyant conquistador equestrian tucked high among Ionic columns outside the Albright-Knox. And to honor the 100th anniversary of the Irish Rebellion this year, a full slate of Irish-themed events in collaboration with the riverrun organization. On September 23, a day-long festival of movies and discussion about the rebellion, and that evening a stage reading of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape by actor Vincent O’Neill, followed by talk and panel discussion, followed by two short films

by Beckett ipse.

Riverrun, whose purpose and purview has previously largely been

limited to Irish cultural effects, is reaching out globally this season—in conjunction with the UB English Department—with a two-day festival of Iranian classic and contemporary films, to be screened at the Burchfield Penney, September 29 and October 1.

Events at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery include an exhibit on multifarious proto-Pop artist Rosalyn Drexler, to include sculptures, paintings, and collages, and selections from her literary work—in addition to her visual arts works, she wrote plays and novels, and was awarded three Obies and an Emmy. A color and sound video work by Bolivian-born artist Claudia Joskowicz called Every Building on Avenida Alfonso Ugarte—After Ruscha.

And a show called Picasso: The Artist and His Models, the second chapter in the Albright-Knox’s Transformations in Modern Art series launched last year with Monet and the Impressionist Revolution, 1860-1910. Including works by Picasso from the Albright-Knox collection and other museums in the United States and Europe,

IN GALLERIES NOW = ART OPENING 1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts (1045 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-228-1855, photographics2.com/store/welcome-to-our-studio-1045-gallery-store): Juried exhibition entitled ninesixteen juried by Ginny O’Brien. On view through Sep 30. Thu & Fri 11-6, Sat 11-4 and by appointment.

and works by Picasso contemporaries such as Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, Stuart Davis, and Georgia O’Keefe.

At Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Center, a series of screenings entitled Other Worlds, and related gallery exhibit by Kathy High called Soft Science. The titles and dates of the movies are Victory Over the Sun, October 26; Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles, November 23; Not of This Earth, December 2; and Nude on the Moon, January 18. Also upcoming, Squeaky’s annual fundraiser blowout, this year with an elections theme. Third Party is scheduled for September 24 at the Curtiss Malting Agway Building, 1100 Niagara Street.

At Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, text-based paintings by artists Amy Greenan, Eric Magnuson, Brad Philips, and Betty Tomkins, opening September 16. And on September 21, a talk by Mickey Harmon, artist illustrator of the area-history-based series The Life and Times of Grovey Cleves, and the booklet, A Pie-Eyed Night with Peggy O’Neill.

exhibit, November 5; art of Stacey Robinson, opening November 15. At the Studio Hart Gallery, currently, works by the father-daughter duo Patrick Willett and Catherine Willett. And upcoming, works on paper by Chuck Tingley, opening October 7, and an Art Toy Invitational exhibit, opening November 4.

At UB, north campus, just underway, works by Lydia Okumura, and With and Without the Other, works by Chinese students— mostly—associated with the UB collaboration with Tsinghua University, Beijing. And the Anderson Gallery, more works by Okumura, and Screen Projects: Rodney McMillan.

At BT&C Gallery, Early One Morning, works by Roberly Bell. At Casa de Arte, just underway, works by Mexican artists Carlos Merida, Jesus Escobedo, and Raul Anguiano. At Buffalo Arts Studio, fiber works by Ani Hoover, opening September 23, and Revelx25, the BAS 25th anniversary party, October 1.

At CEPA, photographic works by Bob Collignon and Biff Henrich—separate shows—opening September 16. And at Big Orbit, on September 23, an installation and performance by Flatsitter

At the Meibohm Fine Arts Gallery, Observe and Imagine, works

by Raymond Bonilla and Richard Kersting, opening September 16. At 1120 Projects, The City Is Clean, paintings by Jay Carrier, opening September 22. And at the Manuel Barreto Gallery, Walk in the City, drawings by artist Pedro Manuel.

At the Castellani Gallery, paintings by Sara Zak, opening with an artist’s talk, September 25. At the Nina Freudenheim Gallery, just underway, photos by Phyllis Galembo, and opening October 22, paintings by Duayne Hatchett. At Indigo, just underway, Tree-cantations, drawings and sculpture by Reinhard Reitzenstein, and upcoming, paintings by Jeffrey Vincent.

September 14, an Instagram-based event billed as “like Jumanji but with photographs, and no monsoons or giant deadly spiders,” and October 7, a sculpture show. And November 11, another show still in planning stages.

and friends, called Lily Dale.

At Artists Group Gallery, just underway, We Remember, works of some not-so-long-ago-deceased local artists. Edward Bisone, Catherine Parker, Joseph Whalen, Robert and Janet Blair, many more. (Sì lunga tratta di gente ch’ io non averei creduto che morte tanta n’avesse disfatta.) Followed by the 25th annual juried regional artists exhibit. And at Art Dialogue, just underway, the art of Joyce Hill.

At El Museo, a fundraiser costume party celebrating the gallery’s 35th anniversary, October 29; the annual Dia de los Muertos

Albright-Knox Art Gallery(1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Shade: Mark Crawford and Clyfford Still, through Oct 2. Operation Sunshine: Joan Linder, through Oct 30. Marie Lorenz: Ezekia, through Sep 11. Defining Sculpture, works from the museum’s collection on view through Oct 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): Allusive Formations. Metal and glass

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At Box Galley, Final Frontier, a collaborative work by Gary Nickard, Reinhard Reitzenstein, and Patty Wallace, opening September 16. And at Hi Temp,

More at the Burchfield Penney. September 22, a tribute to John Coltrane by the George Caldwell Quartet (George Caldwell, piano; Tim Clarke, trumpet; Tyrone Allen, bass; and Abdul Rahman Qadir, drums) and special guest saxophonist Vincent Herring.

And September 22 to 24, the Buffalo Humanities Festival Renaissance Remix. Renaissance is where you find it. Early modern era Italy, Harlem in the 1920s, Buffalo right at the moment. How does it happen? What does it mean? Three days of talks, discusP sion, performances, food.

wall sculptures by Lawrence Kinney. On view through Sep 20. Every day: 7:00am-9:00pm.

Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Transitions, work by Joyce Hill. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm.

Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-8852251, wnyag.com): We Remember, Artist Members of the Western New York Artists Group, on view through Oct 7. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm.

Ashker’s on Elmwood (1002 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886 -2233, ashkersbuffalo. com): Group 263: works by Brian Boutin, Kathleen Corff Rogers, John Lloyd, Gethyn Soderman, Rick Steinberg. Mon-Sat 7am-10pm, Sun 9am-5pm.

Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Unintended Consequences: recent photo collages by J. Tim Raymond on view through Sep 18. Opening Sep 19, R x R Graffiti, photos by Ann Kutner on view through Nov 19. Opening reception Mon Sep 19,

ART 6-8:30pm. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm.

Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): See Artpark listing. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm.

Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Autism Services Inc.: BLACK and WHITE, paintings, drawings, sculpture, and mixed-media work by ASI artists, through Sep 11. Fri-Sun 12-6pm.

Box Gallery (667 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203): Final Frontier, a collaborative piece by Gary Nickard, Reinhard Reitzenstein, and Patty Wallace. Opening reception: Fri Sep 16, 2016 6pm-Midnight.

Open 4pm-10pm daily.

Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2496 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Five Buffalos, student murals, through Sep 2. Archiving Western New York: Select Artists from the Gerald Mead Collection, through Sep 2. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm.

Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology (1221 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 259-1680, buffaloartstechcenter.org): Sandy Ludwig: Portraits, Places and Pleasures​, on view through Sep 28. MonFri 10am-3pm.

Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib. org): Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare: Reflecting on the Life of the Bard. Milestones on Science: Books That Shook the World! 35 rare books from the history of science, on second floor. MonSat 8:30am-6:00pm, Sun 12-5pm.

Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney. org): Jozef Bajus: Nothing is Going Away (through Jan 29, 2017) and Babs Reingold: The Last Tree (through Feb 26, 2017), Blistering Vision, Charles E. Burchfield’s sublime American landscapes through Oct 23. Artists Seen: photographs of contemporary artists by David Moog. Aries Press of Eden NY, through Sep 11. Sequel on view through Sep 18. The Birthday Party: A Community of Artists, on view through Sep 25. 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free.

Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter.org): Buffalo Society of Artists fall exhibition, celebrating the BSA’s 125th anniversary. Opening reception Thu Sep 15, 6:30-8:30pm. On view through Oct 15.

Casa de Arte (141 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-0227, casadeartegallery.com): Mexican Movements: Carlos Mérida and his Compañeros.

Mon, Wed, Fri 10-3pm, or by appointment.

Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): The Structure of Things, Biff Henrich, monument, photographs by bobCollignon, both on view through Dec 17. Opening reception Fri Sep 16, 7-10pm. Mon-Fri 9am5pm, Sat 12-4pm.

Daily Planet Coffee Company (1862 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, 716- 551-0661): Work by Enid Edelman, opening Tue Sep 13. and on view through Oct 8.

Daemen College, Tower Gallery of the Haberman Gacioch Art Center (Daeman College Center for Visual & Performing Arts, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY 14226, 839-8241): Recent work by Kevin Kegler, on view through Sep 30.

Dana Tillou Fine Arts (417 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts. com): The Old and the New: 180 Years of Painting and the Arts. Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am4pm.

El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 4644692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Realizing Beauty, photographs by Nick Butler on view through Oct 1. TueSat 12-5pm.

Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): COEXIST, Lauren Fratantonio Dunn and Jessica Rosenberg. On view through Oct 1. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm.

Grindhaus Cafe (160 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, facebook.com/grindhauscafe): Paintings by Ian McPhail. Tue-Sat 8am-8pm, Sun 8am-6pm.

Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Text-based paintings

by Amy Greenan, Eric Magnuson, Brad Phillips, and Betty Tompkins. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm, Closed on Sundays & Mondays. Opening reception Fri Sep 16, 8-11pm. On view through Oct 28. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm.

Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Tree cantations by Reinhard Reitzenstein, on view through October 2. Wed & Fri 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays.

Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The invention of the telegraph and the railroad. 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): Beauty of the Beasts: paintings by wildlife artist, Judith Hartke on view through Oct 2. “Tea & Tour” event of exhibition with artist Sep 18, 1-3pm. Mon-Fri 125pm & Sun 2-5pm.

Lockside Art Center (21 Main Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 478-0239, locksideartcenter.com): Members exhibition on view through Sep 17. Fri-Sun 124pm.

Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Raymond Bonilla and Richard Kersting: Observe & Imagine, on view through Oct 15. Opening reception Fri Sep 16, 6-9pm. Tue-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm.

Native American Museum of Art at Smokin’ Joe’s (2293 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, NY 14123, 261-9251) Open year round and free. Exhibits Iroquois artists work. 7am-9pm.

Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 882-5777, ninafreudenheimgallery. com): Phyllis Galembo, portraits. On view through Oct 19. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Mon open by appointment only, and closed on Sundays.

Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Gary P. Sellig, pen & ink works. On view Sep 1-30. TueThu, 11am-6pm, Fri 11am-7pm (11am-9pm on first Fridays), Sat 11am-5pm.

Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069, pausaarthouse.com): Flesh and Water: Markenzy Julius Cesar Live Music Thu-Sat. See website for more info.

Pine Apple Company (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/store/ pine-apple-company): Work by Thomas James Holt, Yames Moffitt, Esther Neisen, Mickey Harmon, Mike West, and Sarah Liddell. 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): Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, John Farallo, Chris McGee, Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Redenbach, Barbara Lynch Johnt, Kisha Patterson, Sara O’Brien, Michael Mul-

ley. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment.

RO Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Coffee and Cabal, mixed media illustrations by Alexander G. Perry, on view through Oct 31. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays.

Sports Focus Physical Therapy (531 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202, 332-4838, sportsfocuspt.com): Susan Q. Liebel “large colorful textured abstract paintings.” On view through Dec 27. Mon-Fri 9am5pm, 6-9pm on first Fridays.

Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio.org): Adrian Bertolone and Denton Crawford. Includes work by the Starlight artists Ron Steele, Jeremy Pratt, and Saeed Dubaishi. Mon-Fri 9-4pm.

The Rosalie “Roz” Steiner Gallery (Genesee Community College, One College, Batavia, NY 14020, 585343-0055, genesee.edu/gallery): Meditations, paintings by Joanna Angie on view through Sep 24. Opening reception, Sep 24, 1-4pm.

Studio Hart (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 536-8337, studiohart.com): Facets: New Work

by Patrick Willett & Catherine Willett, on view through Sep 24. Tue-Fri 11:30am-3:30pm, Sat 124pm, and open every First Friday 6-9pm.

UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries.org): Situations: Lydia Okumura on view through Jan 8, 2017.

Opening reception Sat Sep 10, 11-1pm. Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic, on view through Dec 31. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Situations: Lydia Okumura on view through Jan 8, 2017.

Opening reception Thu Sep 8, 5-8pm. Screen Projects: Rodney McMillian on view through Nov 13. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm.

Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Neighbors: a story of twelve neighbors, portraits, sculptures and poetry by Ariel Aberg-Riger on veiw through Oct 14. Opening reception Fri Sep 16, 5:307:30. Mon-Fri 8am-8pm, Sat 10am -5pm..

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FILM BANJO ON MY KNEE (1936) Friday, October 14 Phillip Sheridan School, 3200 Elmwood Avenue

The venerable Old Chestnut Film Society has been around long enough that it may be impolite to ask its age, but it’s well into its fourth decade. Proprietor Grant Golden hosts monthly screenings featuring his own 16-millimeter prints, and many of the films he shows are not available on DVD or any other new-fangled technology. This year’s series devoted to Barbara Stanwyck opens with this rarity, a riverboat musical co-starring Joel McCrea and Walter Brennan.

ONE-STOP HALLOWEEN HORROR Saturday, October 22-Monday, October 31 The Screening Room

Amherst’s the Screening Room is the place to be in the week before Halloween, where you’ll be able to see Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein, Mario Bava’s Hatchet for the Honeymoon, the locally produced horror comedy Killer Rack (yes, it means what you think it does), the original Halloween, Vincent Price in House on Haunted Hill, Edward D. Wood Jr.’s infamous Plan 9 From Outer Space, and George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. And this maybe your last chance to visit their longtime home before they move to their new location in the Boulevard Mall.

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Wednesday, October 26, 7pm Squeaky Wheel

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Summer may be over, but that doesn’t mean the drive-in is closed. It’s a cultural advantage most of the rest of the country doesn’t get to enjoy: double features of popular new features delivered by modern digital projectors and FM sound.

BUFFALO FILM SEMINARS Every Tuesday / Dipson Amherst Theater

We’re already into the 17th year of the popular film series in which University at Buffalo professors Diane Christian and Bruce Jackson (also an editor-at large for The Public) open up their film class to the public. They cast their net wide for a range of features from classic noirs to foreign films that haven’t previously been screened in Buffalo.

CINEGAEL BUFFALO 2016 Friday, September 23 Burchfield Penny Art Center

This year’s edition of the annual salute to Irish film and theater event runs all day from 1pm.

The afternoon features a pair of historical documentaries, while the evening section is devoted to Samuel Beckett, including a staged reading by Vincent O’Neill of Krapp’s Last Tape and Quad ½, a pair of short films Beckett made for the BBC in 1981.

DEMONS (Italy, 1985) Thursday, September 29 Dipson Amherst Theatre

The next entry in the monthly Thursday Night Terrors series of classic 1980s horror films is this gleefully cheesy zombie epic, produced

by Dario Argento and directed by Lamberto (son of Mario), with music by Goblin’s Claudio Simonetti.

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RIVERRUN GLOBAL FILM SERIES Thursday, September 29-Saturday, October 1 / Burchfield Penny Art Center

Branching off from Cinegael, a new annual series that will spend a weekend exploring the cinema of a particular country. This inaugural edition will focus on the rich filmic tradition of Iran, including screenings and lectures. Free and open to the public.

A WEDDING (1978) Thursday, October 6 Dipson Amherst Theater

Cultivate Cinema Circle, the free-floating group now in its third year of matching films to appropriate local venues, begins a series of late films by Robert Altman, to be followed by The Player and Gosford Park on the first Thursdays of November and December respectively.

BUFFALO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Friday, October 7-Monday, October 10 North Park Theater

This long struggling festival finally got on its feet last year with a dedicated new team, and there’s no reason not to believe that it’s tenth year—yes, BIFFX—will cement its foothold.

Tickets are already on sale; a pass that gets you into as many of the 35 features and 60 shorts as you can make it to is only $35. buffalointernationalfilmfestival.com.

NOSFERATU (1923) Wednesday, October 12 North Park

The original vampire movie, a classic of German expressionism, will be given a live musical accompaniment by the eclectic Austin, Texas band the Invincible Czars.

CALL HER APPLEBROOG Wednesday, October 12 / Hallwalls

Documentary portrait by Beth B. of her mother Ida Applebroog, both visitors to Hallwalls at various points in its history.

As part of Squeaky Wheel’s alternative science fiction program Otherworlds, an evening of short films that promises “a portrait of 20th Century ambitions, worldly tedium, and galactic madness.” Featuring Peggy Ahwesh’s Heaven’s Gate (2000), Max Almy’s Leaving the 20th Century (1987), Frances Bodomo’s Afronauts (2014), Chema García Ibarra’s Protoparticles (2011), Michael Robinson’s Victory Over the Sun (2007), and the 1924 Soviet animation Interplanetary Revolution.

IMITATIONS OF LIFE: THE FILMS OF RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER Friday, October 28 to Thursday, January 5 Bell Lightbox, Toronto

You may not have the time, money, or stamina to attend the Toronto International Film Festival, but a day trip to its year-round component always offers something of interest. This comprehensive retrospective of the late German filmmaker includes restorations, rarities, and Toronto premieres, along with a sidebar featuring 15 of his favorite classic films.

POLISH FILM FESTIVAL November / Montante Cultural Center, Canisius College

The exact dates haven’t been announced, but presumably we can expect a 10th edition of this dependable showcase, presented by the Permanent Chair of Polish Culture at Canisius College and highlighting some of the best recent movies from a country with a rich cinematic heritage.

BUFFALO DREAMS FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL Friday, November 4-Thursday, November 10 / Eastern Hills Mall Cinema

Under the aegis of local filmmaker/novelist (and occasional The Public film reviewer) Gregory Lamberson, this annual showcase (now in its seventh year, originally as Buffalo Screams) is not only a showcase for well-chosen horror and fantasy movies but for recent local productions of all genres as well. Expect some bonus events after the official end date.

REYNER BANHAM LOVES LOS ANGELES (1972) Wednesday, November 23, 7pm Squeaky Wheel

In this BBC documentary, the British architectural critic takes us on a tour of his favorite city, a place that he acknowledges needs to be explained. He proceeds to do so, with the help of Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and a talking car. The definition of a time P capsule piece.

MUSIC songs don’t go much beyond those themes, but it’s hard to deny that it’s just good punk rock music. It’ll make you laugh, it’ll make you want to shotgun a beer and puke into your own American flag hat, and then you’ll finish off the night with some Taco Bell and wake up in the morning and want to start your own band. Because these guys just look like they’re having a lot of fun. Their new LP is called Chunks but start with their 2011 album Grateful to Shred.

In all honesty, you’re not going to need to know these songs to enjoy them. White Fang comes to Mohawk Place on October 20.

October 22, Lift Nightclub, 257 Franklin St.

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SUMMER WAS GREAT, BUT AUTUMN IS BETTER THE SUMMER CONCERT SEASON in Western New York was great, but the fall tour lineup is where you’re likely to find some of the most exciting concerts of the year. It’s time to leave the bigger outdoor festival acts for more intimate club shows. Here is our list of 10 must-see fall concerts.

frontman Kurt Cobain has stated that the band chose Albini because they liked his work with the Pixies and the Breeders. As a journalist he’s written for a plethora of zines and websites.

As a musician his most notable projects have been his punk band Big Black, which existed from 1981 to 1987, and alternative rock band Shellac, which formed in 1992 and has released several influential albums including 1994’s At Action Park, 2000’s 1000 Hurts, and, most recently, 2014’s Dude Incredible. Albini will bring Shellac to Buffalo for a super intimate show at the 9th Ward on October 18.

BRIAN WILSON September 28, UBCFA, 103 Center for the Arts

Though this show is sold out, it’s worth reminding ticket holders that it’s coming up, as tickets went on sale in January. The legendary Beach Boys frontman will, for the last time, deliver the band’s seminal album, Pet Sounds, in its entirety. Originally released in 1966, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the iconic concept album. Brian Wilson comes to the UB Center for the Arts Mainstage Theatre on Wednesday, September 28.

ANKLEPANTS October 7, Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St.

Anklepants exists at once to make his audience feel uncomfortable, but also to quickly alleviate that discomfort. He does this by donning a mask with a low-hanging, mechanical dong as the nose, but once you’ve accepted that his nose-dong will be donging around in front of you all night, you’ll find yourself dancing and moving along to his bizarre yet groovy performance. Anklepants comes to Mohawk Place on October 7.

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CLASSIXX October 18, Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave.

Since debuting as Classixx in 2013 with their album Hanging Gardens, the Los Angeles-based duo have found strength in collaboration. The highlight of Hanging Gardens, “All You’re Waiting For,” featured LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Whang on vocals and piqued the interest of the DFA Records crowd. On their latest, Faraway Reach, they harnessed that strength and multiplied it, working with the likes of Passion Pit, How to Dress Well, and even T-Pain. If the crowd is into it when they come to the Waiting Room on October 18, then this could be one of the best dance parties of the year.

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Among Steve Albini’s list of accomplishments are his work as a music producer, music journalist, and guitarist for his band, Shellac. As a music producer, his greatest feat was the recording of Nirvana’s final album, In Utero. Nirvana

At first White Fang will make you cringe, like a shot of tequila without a chaser. The party-punk band from Portland, Oregon play songs with titles like “Bong Rip” and “Wrecked”—as in “get wrecked”—and the substance of the

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LUCIUS October 26, Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave.

The latest album from Lucius is called Good Grief and it’s very appropriately titled. It’s not a Charlie Brown reference, but more a reference to the way we bask in our own depression and anguish. In that context, the record, which is mostly about anxiety, mental illness, and heartbreak—song titles include “Madness” and “Gone Insane”—is actually pretty ecstatic and ironically gleeful rather than sorrowful. The record also stands in contrast to their 2013 debut, Wildewoman, which was rooted in retro vibes and organic soul sounds, where as Good Grief is far more a contemporary pop album. The band, led by look-alikes Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, comes to Asbury Hall on October 26.

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November 5, Town Ballroom, 681 Main St.

At the end of this month, irreverent Detroit-rapper Danny Brown will drop his highly anticipated third LP, Atrocity Exhibition.

From the sounds of the the album’s first single, “When It Rains,” we’re in for another ferocious, weird, and punch thumping record from the 35-year-old rapper. The record will also feature some familiar names including Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Earl Sweatshirt, Kelela, and more. Danny Brown comes to the Town Ballroom on November 5.

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ART SPOTLIGHT Top: The Andrew Jackson Davis Lyceum at Lily Dale, named for the renowned American Spiritualist. Below: A tarot card from a deck illustrated by artist Bobby Griffiths.

FLATSITTER’S LILY DALE

BY AARON LOWINGER

VIRTUAL REALITY ART COLLECTIVE FLATSITTER TURNS ITS FOCUS TO LILY DALE

“Our soul is our capacity to think and to feel.

That part goes to the spirit world. (Our spirit is our life energy.) I was totally wide awake when this happened. I had just bought my house here. It was in 1990. The first time I’d ever been away by myself for a week. I was up really early that morning, and I was writing different things. Thinking about being here by myself. Then I went upstairs to run the bath and I was singing to myself the hymn ‘How Great Thou Art.’ And in a really good mood, and the bathtub’s running, and then all of a sudden — I look up and I could see my mother and my father and uncle and aunt and they were singing with me. Behind them were thousands of people singing. That is something I will never forget. It was amazing.

It was amazing.” —LYNNE FORGET

“In this room right now, there are radio waves, and if you have an instrument to tune properly, you can pick up opera channel, a sports channel, a rock-and-roll channel, by tuning in. It’s always there. It’s just when you use a tuner that you can pick up what’s there.”

—NEAL RZEPKOWSKI THE ARTIST COLLECTIVE Flatsitter is embark-

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ing on an ambitious virtual reality art project this month using the history of American spiritualism and interviews with mediums at Lily Dale as part of the project. Excerpts from those interviews are woven into this article—and the full text of these is available at dailypublic.com.

Flatsitter’s Kyle Marler was drawn to Lily Dale’s hopeful ethos. “The city is so cheerful, and there is this light-hearted embrace and denial of death, explains Marler. “‘We never die’ seemed like a great counterpart to ‘You only live once.’”

Marler’s Lily Dale contains 20 different “scenes,” landscapes of sight and sound that akin to something you might find in a video game. The scenes you will experience are determined by drawing several tarot cards from a deck custom-created by illustrator Bobby Griffiths.

“We were born to die. Do we die when we go to the other side? No. We continue on in the spiritual part of us that god created.” —JAMES BARNUM

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The movement met at the confluence of the burned-over headwaters and the river of blood that was the Civil War. The Chautauqua County town, Lily Dale, beside the serene Cassadaga Lake, was incorporated in 1879 as a camp and meeting place for spiritualists. Trauma like war or death begets a yearning for closure and meaning, a desire to defy the pain trapped in our physical bodies.

The world of mediums, mystics, and deep dreamers occupies a lot of common ground with Flatsitter’s past immersive projects. The technology of virtual reality places the participant in a foreign environment, replacing all natural perception of sight and sound with that of the artists’, something very much akin to an outof-body experience or a dream, two elements of human experience that are foundational to how spiritualists view reality.

“Seven years old, and I used to swing a lot.

And dare myself to jump off of the swing.

So, one particular day—it was a beautiful day with wonderful sky. Our house was right across the street from a Catholic church. So, I was focusing on the steeple of the church.

And focusing on the clouds. And imagining what angels would be. And got as high as I possibly could on the swing. Parallel with the top bar. I wanted to fly. That’s all I wanted to do was fly. I jumped, and floated upward. And was kind of surprised that finally I was flying.

And, I was heading directly for the steeple of the church. Which I would’ve needed to go over my house to get to. So, I continued to go higher and further, and I got to tell you that feeling was just unbelievable.” —JACKIE AVIS

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social movements that had profound impacts on the development of a young nation, as the Erie Canal connected a localized, agrarian economy to a global market. To name a few: the Women’s Rights movement centered at Seneca Falls; the deeply religious, Lake Placid potato-farmer-turned abolitionist crusader John Brown; the teenaged Joseph Smith, who claimed to find tablets buried in a hillside in Palmyra that he translated from an unknown language into English that became the basis for the Book of Mormon; and William Miller, whose failed prediction that the Second Coming would occur in 1844 nevertheless helped spawn Adventism and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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“When I was 10 my dad died. He died in the night and his body was gone when I got up in the morning. Then, my mother sent me off, of course, to stay with an aunt to get me out of the house and out of the way for a while.

I was very upset that I hadn’t got a chance to say goodbye to my dad. And so he came into a dream one night and told me why he hadn’t been able to say goodbye. And I woke up all the way and he was there talking to me and we had a lovely conversation, and then he went on.” —GRETCHEN CLARK

Buffalo attorney and video artist Kyle Marler is the driving force behind Flatsitter, maker of a series of virtual reality projects over the last few years. Marler started it with former Squeaky Wheel director Jax Deluca before a move ended her involvement, and Marler has continued to use the Flatsitter name and describe it as a collective, which helps him enlist the support of other participants, facilitators, and enablers. In this case, mediums who conduct spiritual traffic between life and death.

“I was influenced by Dan and Melissa [Meola] Shanahan at Torn Space, and their ability to produce amazing large-scale projects by finding talented artists and letting them ‘do their thing’ essentially,” Marler says of his affinity for opening his projects to the talents of others, clairvoyant or no.

Interested parties can drop in to experience Flatsitter’s Lily Dale on Saturday, September 17 all day in Lily Dale’s Octagon Building on Library Street, or on Friday, September 23 in Buffalo’s Big Orbit Gallery, as part of a full installation assisted by David Mitchell, Max Collins, and P Carlie Todoro-Rickus.

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Hippie Sabotage 8pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $20-$65 [ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Hippie Sabotage had a tough summer. After receiving a bunch of online flack for wrestling with some security guards at What the Festival, the duo was dropped from at least one other festival. But that hasn’t slowed down the Sacramento-based musicians, who have recently embarked on their cross-country Force of Nature tour. The duo, brothers Kevin and Jeff Saurer, have landed a few other hits (aside from those on the security guards), first with “Stay High” and more recently with the more subdued “Waiting Too Long.” Hippie Sabotage comes to the Town Ballroom on Wednesday, September 14 presented by MNM Presents.

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CHEVRON BLOOM Chevron Bloom album Recommended if you like: Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, The Flaming Lips The latest release from Buffalo indie rock band Chevron Bloom is a four-song, self-titled EP. Recorded at Tempermental Recordings in Geneseo, the EP dips into shoegaze, psychedelia, and space rock across its four low-key songs. Highlights include “Inactive Minds Are Personal Crimes,” which oscillates between meditative arrangements and spacey-jam outs, and the Flaming Lips-esque “Dying All Alone.”

[PRESENTATION] According to a press release, pechakucha is Japanese for “chit chat.” And there will be plenty of chit chat at the 10th anniversary of PechaKucha Buffalo at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on Thursday, September 15. The premise of the event is simple: 10 thought leaders in the realms of architecture, design, and other creative disciplines will each deliver a six-minuteand-20-second-long presentation. Presenters include Brian Carter, professor at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning; Paul Vanouse, professor of art and director of Coalesce Center for Biological Art at the University at Buffalo; Dana Mcknight, founder and arts & performance director of Dreamland; Amy Ozay, founder of Buffalo BookBike; and Dan Shanahan, artistic director and co-founder of Torn Space Theater and assistant professor at Daemen College; Charles Davis, PhD, assistant professor of architectural history and criticism at the University of North Carolina Charlotte; Matthew Hume, a Buffalo-based architect and designer; Jean-Michel Reed, artist, designer, realtor, and retired paramedic; and the collaboration known as Liminal Projects (Omar Khan, principal and associate professor and chair at the University at Buffalo Department of Architecture and Planning and Laura Garófalo, principal and associate professor at the University at Buffalo Department of Architecture and Planning); Joanna Gillespie, independent arts consultant and co-organizer of PechaKucha Buffalo; and more. The event, which will also feature DJ sets by Sherrie Miller and Mario Fanone of ABCDJ, has been held in hundreds of cities around the world, including in Tokyo, where the first was held in 2003. The first edition held in Buffalo—the 30th of 925 cities to hold the event—took place in 2006. -CORY PERLA

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8pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $13-$16 [FOLK] Somewhere between folk, indie, and soul lands Sean Hayes. The singer/songwriter and guitarist keeps his songs simple—usually his voice and some stripped-back instrumentation.

Hayes has spent time all over the country—right now he calls San Francisco home, but he was born in North Carolina and lived for a while in New York City, so it’s no wonder that his music is hard to pin down. The 47-year-old wanderer’s recent album, Low Light, is his eighth release since launching his career in 1999 with A Thousand Tiny Pieces. He’ll come to Babeville’s Ninth Ward on Wednesday, September 14 with support from Charley Crockett and Tim Carr.

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The Public Presents: Death Picnic & Short Moscato, Holland Purchase, N3wT, and Passed Out 8pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St. $5 [INDIE] This month’s The Public Presents concert at Nietzsche’s will be an adventurous one—with a little bit of hip hop, some indie rock, electronic music, and even some emo thrown in. The lineup includes Death Picnic & Short Moscato, Holland Purchase, Passed Out, and N3wT. Death Picnic & Short Moscato is a live hip hop group led, of course, by MC and pro

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[COMICS] You can meet Steve Guttenberg this weekend at the Buffalo Comicon—this Saturday, September 17 through Sunday, September 18 at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center—but the world-famous actor isn’t coming to town just to visit his fans. Guttenberg’s attachment to Buffalo is personal and potentially professional.

Guttenberg’s girlfriend, news anchor Emily Smith, is a Grand Island native who started her broadcast career at WBEN. In recent years, the 2 Lava 2 Lantula star has become a big fan of the region while visiting Smith’s family and friends.

“There’s so much promise in Buffalo that I just fell in love with it after visiting several times. You’ll see that the architecture is just brilliant and the people are honest and hardworking…I think it’s going to have a great future and I think it’s going to grow by leaps and bounds and I want to be a part of it,” the actor says. “Buffalo is going to [see] an influx of great of artists and galleries and great restaurants, and I think that it is a place [where] I would be interested in investing some money.”

And while Guttenberg is hesitant to share the breadth of his plans, he will admit that he is interested in the hospitality business. The Short Circuit star is partnering with local attorney and businessman Howard Cadmus, who met Guttenberg when the actor visited Cadmus’s Sweet Jenny’s candy and ice cream shop in Williamsville.

“It’s safe to say we’d like to do something in the food world. It’s exciting, and we are hoping to provide something that’s lacking from the area,” Cadmus says. He pointed out that the operation will focus on flavors popular to the New York City area, as both proprietors are natives of the city.

Guttenberg’s name was a late addition to the list of celebrities attending the Buffalo Comicon. The convention will also feature comic artists Mike Zeck and Steve Rude, stars from the cult classic horror film Return of the Living Dead, WWE Hall of Famer Tito Santana, and more.

Guttenberg enjoys meeting with fans of his film work on the convention scene. “I get the chance to chat with people. My demeanor is very friendly, but I’m pretty much a private person,” he says. “Mostly people just want to chat about the movies and [that] helped them have better times.”

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Academy series he starred in as Cadet Carey Mahoney. The screwball franchise (which has made nearly $240 million in worldwide box office revenues, according to move business data website The-Numbers.com) was a topic of Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention earlier this year, when Clinton said he watched all six movies in a row with his daughter Chelsea during some time off.

Guttenberg, who also starred in Diner, Cocoon, and Three Men and a Baby, says he enjoyed the unexpected reference.

“It was exciting. [Clinton is] a pretty powerful human being, so when someone that regal describes a portion of their leisure time and it centers on my work, it’s a great compliment,” he says.

For more information on Buffalo Comicon, visit buffalocomiccon.com.

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PAPER BIRD SUNDAY SEP 18 7PM / THE 9TH WARD, 341 DELAWARE AVE. / $10-$13 [FOLK] If you’ve been having a hard time with the bilge pump of passionless commercial country flooding your senses, Denver’s Paper Bird might just be the perfect remedy. Having undergone some game-changing lineup shifts since their 2007 inception, the indie-folk-pop ensemble is coming to Babeville’s 9th Ward in support of a self-titled new full length. It’s the sextet’s fifth release in total, but the first time they’ve put something out with the assistance of Nashville-based Thirty Tigers, a management and promotion company that’s worked recent projects for Patty Griffin, Avett Brothers, and Sturgill Simpson, among others. Paper Bird is a knockout, albeit maybe a tad slick for fans of deep twang. With a swoon-worthy trio of female vocals up front (Sarah Anderson, Genevieve Patterson, and relative newcomer Carleigh Aikens), the collection straddles the lines between folk and country with an accessible, addictive pop wash that keeps it from fully qualifying as any of the above. Consistently tasteful and satisfying, the John Oates co-produced project presents the band as the love child of mid-1970s Fleetwood Mac and Little Big Town (10 years ago), replete with singing that’ll make your eyes cross in harmonious glee. Paper Bird brings the goose bumps on Sunday, September 18 with Keenan O’Meara & Megan Lui. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

ducer Short Moscato. If you’re not familiar with Moscato, check out his track “Rose Gold” on Soundcloud, or check out the live video Death Picnic & Short Moscato, “A Long Story Short,” on Youtube. Next we have Holland Purchase, a new lo-fi emo project, who will make their debut at this show. The three-piece band, which features members of the Buffalo-based postrock band Tomoreaux, recently released their first track, “Grayscale,” a hazy indie rock track that brings to mind bands like Broken Social Scene and American Football. Another new band to the scene, Passed Out—a four-piece indie-punk band— will also take the stage. The band is led by guitarist/vocalist Andy Pothier, who many might know from bands like Pine Fever and the Evil Things, and as a solo performer. Passed Out released their debut EP, Infinite Regression, on August 19. Finally, you might know N3wT from projects like Amrageddon Party. For this show he’s flying solo, laying down some of his propulsive electronic rhythms. Check out these four talented acts at Nietzsche’s on Wednesday, September 14. -CP

THURSDAY SEP 15 A Fat Wreck: Fat Wreck Chords Documentary 7pm The Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $10-$15 [SCREENING] Fat Wreck Chords, the San Francisco-based record label formed by NOFX frontman Fat Mike, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. As part of the celebration, Fat Mike and Fat Wreck Chords have released a documentary titled A Fat Wreck: Fat Wreck Chords Documentary, which chronicles the record label’s growth and survival in the shifting punk rock world. Any punk fan has likely owned a record put out by this label—bands like Anti-Flag, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, the Ataris, Against Me!, Face to Face, Less Than Jake, MxPx,and Rancid have all released records on the label—so you’re likely to see some familiar faces in this film, which will be screened at Waiting Room on Thursday, September 15. -CP

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5pm Sportsmen's Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $30-$35 [ROCK] The way the story goes, Martin Barre's original audition for Jethro Tull (the result of an invitation for Tull's manager Terry Ellis following a shared bill with Barre's band of the time, Gethsemane) didn't go well—he was too nervous to play. But a second audition was furnished at his request, and Barre then spent the 1968 holiday season learning guitar parts for Tull's classic Stand Up album, which was recorded the following spring. Barre's tenure as Tull's guitarist extended until the band's (supposed) dissolution two years ago and also included bits of mandolin and flute. Over the years, he also became a key co-writer with frontman Ian Anderson, his contribution to the band's trademark neo-classical arrangements reaching a pinnacle with Songs from the Wood (1977) and Heavy Horses (1978), and again on 1987's Crest of a Knave. During the 1990s, he launched the solo career that brings him to Sportsmen's Tavern on Thursday, September 15. In the wake of Tull's potentially permanent hiatus, Barre has released a live album and a pair of new studio recordings, 2014's Order of Play and the blues-focused Back to Steel last year. -CJT

Godfrey 8pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $15-$20 [COMEDY] It’s kind of amazing that Godfrey hasn’t had any major movie or TV roles yet because he’s a funny guy. His hilarious Obama impression might have a limited life span, as Obama's days in the White House are limited, so that’s one reason to catch this guy as soon possible. If all he did his whole set was grunt like Schwarzenegger, that would be worthwhile, too. Check him out at Helium Comedy Club on Thursday, September 15 through Saturday, September 17. -CP

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FRIDAY SEP 16 Everyone Orchestra 8pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $18-$22 [JAM] Two moe.s, three Turkuazes, and a pair of Aqueouses make up this jammy super-group hitting Buffalo Iron Works on Friday night, September 16. But this is more than just any old side project: The Everyone Orchestra is a rotating collective of contributing artists from other bands, throwing an added improv spin on a genre that’s already known for doing things off-the-cuff. Past ensembles have included members of the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Punch Brothers, even Thievery Corporation. Conductor Matt Butler somehow manages to make it all work. Mike and Dave from Aqueous will open as the Emporium. -CJT

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GWAR SUNDAY SEP 18 7PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $22-$25 [METAL] The satirical heavy metal band GWAR makes their yearly return to Buffalo for a show at the Town Ballroom on Sunday, September 18. Despite the death in 2014 of lead singer David Brockie, a.k.a. Oderus Urungus, the band has continued on, re-recruiting former bassist Michael Bishop, a.k.a. Blothar, as lead vocalist. Of course that’s not the only change the band has made in their 32 years as a band—their list of former members runs into the dozens—but the band’s overthe-top live show is still just as much of a spectacle, complete with gratuitous violence and blood splatter. The blood splatter leaks sonically into their recordings, as well—highlights include their 1990 album Scumdogs of the Universe, 1992’s America Must Be Destroyed, 2006’s Beyond Hell, and their latest, 2013’s Battle Maximus. But of course, GWAR exists to perform live, and that’s what they’ll do this Sunday with special guests Crowbar. -CORY PERLA

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Compete for $600 in cash prizes in various categories that are open to all, including face, realness, virgin, sex siren, oldway, performance and runway. Commentated by Princess “mami” Precious, with music by DJ Remmz. Presented by MOCHA Center of Buffalo and sponsored by HIV Stops With Me. PHOTO BY DREW REYNOLDS

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8am Ashker's Juice Bar, 1002 Elmwood Ave. [SHOP] Two Guys Good Buys is a roaming vintage pop-up shop that has been operating since 2015. The shop will make a stop at Ashker’s Juice Bar this weekend, Saturday September 17 and Sunday, September 18 to celebrate their return home. They’ll feature a bunch of cool vintage clothes as well as a photography exhibit that chronicles their travels over the last eight months. -CP

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6:30pm First Niagara Center, 1 Seymour H Knox III Plz $35-$125 [COUNTRY] Some side projects, a solo album, and a couple presidential terms after their anti-Iraq war hullaballoo, Dixie Chicks are finally ready to make nice, returning to the stage in support of a Sony reissue campaign that sees all their material available on vinyl for the first time. Originally slated as a European-only tour, the group extended it by 40 shows, playing headlining gigs in the United States and Canada for the first time in a decade. Catch the gals that sparked the country-pop phenomenon on their MMXVI trek with Elle King opening at First Niagara Center on Saturday, September 17. -CJT

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11pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $5 [DANCE PARTY] This Friday, show up at Mohawk Place to revel in all things '90s (and '00s).

Gabby Smith and Emma LaQue, the hosts for the evening, have made sure Mohawk will be decked out in nostalgia gold. The girls will be spinning under their DJ guises of Gabtron and BB Garbanzo to help us get down to the decade’s best. Think N*SYNC and Britney, but certainly make sure to expect some Daddy Yankee, DMX, and Will Smith as well. Come decked out in butterfly clips, overalls, and a whole lot of denim. Extra points if you bring a working flip phone. -MB

[INDIE] If you’d like to see some dudes go insane, this is the show for you. Barrence Whitfield is a punk rock, Americana (yes, both) nut who gives every ounce of energy he’s got to keep us full-throttle fans entertained. Whitfield does this with crazy good—Little Richard good—soulful screams and vocals and a compact, Sonic-esque accompaniment that blasts off with a range of dance party anthems, cover songs, and mosh-pit-starting energy. Whitfield’s band, the Savages, includes guitarist Peter Greenberg, Phil “Mr. Tenacious” Lenker on bass, drummer Andy Jody, and Tom Quartulli on saxophone, and started touring in the 1980s when Whitfield was fresh out of college.The band went on to tour with Bo Diddley and Tina Turner, and critics have promised that their second time around is just as authentic and crazy as it was in the 1980s. The prospects are promising for this tour; he seemed to have dumped a bottle of champagne onto his head during a recent show in Finland. Buffalo’s the Naggs will start the night off. If you’re into bands like the Black Keys, the Sonics, or the Fleshtones, check out Barrence Whitfield and the Savages at Mohawk Place on Monday, September 19.-MARISSA BEINHAUER

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9pm Nietzsche's, 248 Allen St. [JAM] The Buffalo-based psychedelic jam band Intrepid Travelers return home from a cross-country tour for a show at Nietzsche’s on Saturday, September 17. Their 2016 summer tour took the four-piece band—Brian Calisto, Jon Fohl, David Meimanis, and Donny Frauenhofer—from Ithaca, New York, to Denver Colorado, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and many places in between. On Saturday, they’ll be joined by Pittsburgh’s the Clock Reads, and Rochester’s Haewa. -CP

SUNDAY SEP 18 The Felice Brothers 7pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $20 [AMERICANA] The Felice Brothers return to the Tralf this Sunday, September 18, for their second Buffalo gig this year, having released Life in the Dark (Yep Roc) in the interim, which was recorded on a farm. The unkempt Americana contained therein mixes moments of musical exuberance with painful images of our decaying American dream, making for a powerful, timely record during this election season. Echoing bits of Dylan and Springsteen, Ian Felice's character sketches are peppered with subtle comedic bits, but it can be hard to discern what's black and what's just bleak. They'll be joined by Buffalo Americana group Rear View Ramblers. -CJT

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things happen—when somebody can’t make it—I’m always sad for the fans that are super psyched to see someone else, so that makes me want to do even better. I’ve got to really deliver.

When you take on something like this—replacing someone as iconic as Greg Allman—do you get nervous? It’s very much about me wanting to share with the audience the fact that I un-

derstand and appreciate how amazing the live music experience is. It’s not nerves, but I think a lot of people want it to be perfect, and I am definitely far from perfect. No show is ever the same, and there’s a reason for that. My shows are so much about interacting with the audience. There’s this energetic give-and-take that you get to experience and it really does change the show. So I follow the audience as much as the set list. I’m so Type A in most of my life, but I sort of just throw it all to the wind when I’m performing because there’s no way you can control everything.

it exudes confidence, sexuality, spontaneity—it sounds very free. Did you feel liberated when you were writing and recording it? Yeah. There was definitely a moment of realization

where the music was just shooting out of me. This whole album is about not compromising and not trying to have everything be kind of washed with “Hopefully all five people will be satisfied when they’re on stage playing this song.” Just being able to be a single-minded person and pursue that.

Pursue and pinpoint the spotlight of your original idea and really see it through. I’ve never been able to really do that before—with my own music anyway. This was a really rewarding experience.

To answer your question: Yes, this was a very new way of songwriting.

Can we expect another album in the near future? I’ve got a lot of ideas. I’m still hashing them out, but I’ve got my sight set on the horizons. It’s still far off, but this is really the tail end of the tour, so we’re definitely going to end with a splash. You’re catching some of the last live performances of this version of the band, and it’s an amazing experience live, and I’m so excited to get there and share it. -KELLIE POWELL

WEDNESDAY SEP 21 Chris Robinson Brotherhood 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $24-$29 [ROCK] Chris Robinson Brotherhood took that leap from a precise and rehearsed album recording to open-ended improv with their latest recording, Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel. This means a little bit more soul and a little more connection between the artists and the audience for the band’s seventh al-

bum. Songs incorporate tragic mythic heroes and stream-of-consciousness discussions to expound on themes of harmony, natural rhythm, and the existence of love in our everyday life.

The self-produced recording introduces new drummer Tony Leone (of Ollabelle and Levon Helm) and new co-writes of songs, but the sound is not too big of a departure from the band’s first two critically acclaimed albums, Big Moon Ritual and The Magic Door. Chris Robinson Brotherhood will play at the Town Ballroom P on Wednesday, September 21. -MB

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I notice your Type A personality in the technical proficiency of your songwriting and musicianship, but whenever I’ve seen you live it’s seemed really free-spirited and offthe-cuff. I don’t want to feel like I’m on an amusement park ride when I’m at someone’s concert. I

certainly don’t want to feel like I’m running an amusement park ride when I’m putting on a show.

It’s never the same experience because it’s not a roller coaster; it’s this other emotional, dynamic visceral experience that all humans share. It’s a desire to just sort of feel free and dance and enjoy life.

With the release of your solo album, Midnight, it seems clear that your departure from the Nocturnals wasn’t a diva move, but rather a musician looking to grow. I think that change scares everybody. I had worked so hard to really emphasize the band. I considered us a team, and so leaving was really one of the hardest things I ever did, but as an artist I was stifling myself by insisting the Nocturnals be a part of every single thing I did. I felt indebted. There was a good five-year window where there was that push-and-pull, and we always came back to center as a band, but it wasn’t easy for me, and there always seemed to be something I was giving up. It was difficult to give myself what I need professionally. It felt better to give to others than to take for myself, and this was a very big moment of stepping out of my comfort zone, and really being brave enough to not be afraid of being deemed a diva or bitchy to the outside world, because I knew there was going to be some backlash.

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Whatever modifier comes before “cocktails,” it is undeniable that something has been happening for a few years across the United States. What was once the purview of a few select bars that are now industry landmarks, like Employees Only in New York City, have become the norm in any mid-size city. Cities like Buffalo.

Rachel Wright, bar manager at Hertel’s Mes Que, on what she sees happening: “I think the craft cocktail movement is definitely a millennial thing. From the 1950s to the ’90s you were pretty much drinking crap unless you were on a cruise drinking tiki drinks. There’s definitely a learning

“Our process at Mes Que is pretty extensive,” a bleary Wright told me over coffee at Delaware Park. She had just closed the night before, and I feel bad making her talk about work as soon as she wakes up. She’s very polite, though, and the more she talks about her craft the more animated she becomes.

“Each bartender has to come up with three cocktails. They meet with me and we critique, taste, and tweak. Then we have a staff-wide tasting meeting were all of us taste each other’s cocktails.

We chat. We vote. Then we look at what we selected and put that together and check to make sure we have a cohesive list. We need a balance between the nerd cocktails and the more approachable cocktails like our Pink Rabbit orYoga

Pants that were just on the menu.”

At Vera, a similar process is taking place. Jason Wood, smoking on a bench with a Red Bull, has the advantage of meeting me later in the day.

Wood expanded on Wright’s answer: “We also pick glassware to make sure we don’t have too many coupe drinks. Not only is the lack of visual variety a problem, but the bar can only have so many coupes.

n 20A RED RYE IPA

September 23rd, 5-11:30pm, Adam Mickiewwicz Library & Dramatic Circle, 612 Fillmore Ave, Buffalo, buffalobeerweek.com Come out and celebrate the official kick-off to Buffalo Beer Week at an intimate Meet the Brewer night at the Adam Mickiewicz Library & Dramatic Circle. Over 15 of your favorite regional breweries will be on hand serving their latest offerings, including 12 Gates, 42 North, Big Ditch, Blackbird Cider Works, Chateau Buffalo Cider, Community Beer Works, Ellicottville Brewing, Flying Bison, Four Mile Brewing, Old First Ward Brewing, Gordon Biersch, Hamburg Brewing, Pearl Street, Resurgence Brewing, Rusty Nickel, Southern Tier Brewing, and Woodcock Brothers. Awardwinning a-la-carte pierogi will also be available. A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit Torn Space Theater.

42 North Brewing, 25 Pine St, East Aurora, 42northbrewing.com 42 North Brewing is celebrating Buffalo Beer Week with the release of a new wet-hopped beer, the 20A Red Rye IPA, featuring 55 pounds of Cascade hops harvested by hand on August 29 from fellow East Aurora locale Hunter Valley Hops. The 20A Red Rye IPA will be released on Thursday, September 29, beginning at 4pm, and Gravy will take to the stage at 7pm. “The 20A Red Rye IPA has a 7% ABV, and an approximate 75 IBU,” 42 North says. “This is a seasonal beer in the truest sense of the word, and we hope you think of a local hop farmer when enjoying.

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1198 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo ristorantelombardo.com This North Buffalo mainstay is one of WNY’s finest dining establishments, but don’t let that dissuade you from ordering a stack of pies to go. Woodfired pizzas are the best kind of pizzas and Lombardo’s are not only affordable, they’re really hard to beat.

“The glassware has to suit the cocktail too. A coupe, since we’re talking about them, has those edges on the side to bring the cocktail directly to your face, and that fits certain drinks better than, say, a Collins or rocks glass.”

As a former touring musician, most notably with It Dies Today, there is something about the way he is describing glassware selection that invites a comparison to stage presence. “Sometimes it’s aesthetically driven, too,” he says. “The idea is all five senses being activated. I want the drink to feel a certain way in your hand. I want it to taste

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mycitybrew.com Community Beer Works own Andrew “Drew” Hardin has been tapped to formulate and brew four test beer samples for MyCityBrew’s final selection event. “Once the votes are in, info is tallied and Buffalo’s choice is made, I will do my very best to create for the people of Buffalo and the MCB crew a beer that will be exactly what Buffalo’s beer drinkers want to imbibe,” Hardin says. “This is a truly unique approach to the production and marketing of craft beer.” If you didn’t know, MyCityBrew want to brew the ultimate Buffalo beer and need your help. You can vote for what you’d like to see brewed at mycitybrew.com.

HYDRAULIC HEARTH 716 Swan Street, Buffalo hydraulichearth.com This Larkinville destination restaurant was practically built on its Arugula Pesto pizza with brussels sprouts, and for good reason! We’re also fans of its more playful ‘zas, topped with anything from mac and cheese to cheeseburger fixin’s (pictured above).

n MIKKELLER TAP TAKEOVER Thin Man Brewery, 492 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, thinmanbrewery.com If you weren’t lucky enough to score tickets to the Buffalo Bills hope opener against the New York Jets on Thursday, September 15, why not drown your sorrows in some good beer? Thin Man can help with that with a special tap takeover featuring the Buffalo debut of Mikkeller San Diego. Beginning at 4pm (game at 8:30pm), you can enjoy a number of Mikkeller SD beers, including Imperial Wit, Imperial Pils, Waves IPA, Sparks Pale Ale, Spells Imperial IPA, Belgian Dark Strong, Tripel, Hoppy Brown, Kaffe Spogelse (Coffee Ghost) Black IPA, Black Malts & Body Salts Imperial Black IPA, Running Club Pale, and Sesh’n P Session IPA. Let’s go, Buffalo!

VERA 200 Lexington Avenue, Buffalo verapizzeria.com Vera, celebrating its anniversary this week, has been churning out killer cocktails and good pies on Lexington for five years now. Stop in for a classic Vera Margherita or try something less familiar, like this rapini and eggplant mashup with a drizzle of honey!

SPOTLIGHT FOOD + DRINK Rachel Wright learned to make Tejuino on a research trip to the Jalisco region of Mexico.

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a certain way, for it to smell great. To look a certain way. For you to hear me making the drink. If all five senses aren’t tingling, then there is something wrong.”

TRYING NEW THINGS One can perfect a single cocktail recipe through trial and error (and a generous amount of product with the support of the bar owners), but all of that time and energy is wasted if no one is willing to try it. Fortunately both Wright and Wood are charismatic, befitting their positions as the public faces of their respective bars.

Wright gets people to try things all the time.

“We had a cocktail called the Vecchia Signora [cucumber, gin, soda, Thai chili bitters, lime juice] and I used to suggest that to people when they’d ask for a vodka or gin and soda. It has similar flavors, and is a similar experience. Nine times out of ten they’ll try it.

“It’s also a matter of education. Not everyone realizes that cocktails can be approachable and enjoyable. It isn’t just some snooty thing we were are all talking about Chartreuse and lavender foam.”

Wood takes a similar approach at his bar. “There are people here and there that say underneath their breath, ‘Oh, $15 for a cocktail,’ and I tell them to try it. If they don’t like it, I am happy to make them something different. This is treating yourself, not work. My staff and I truly appreciate you coming in here—especially now that there are so many choices. If I see that you’ve only taken two sips over the last 20 minutes, you probably don’t like your drink. I’ll grab it and say, ‘I’m going to drink this. What would you like to drink? That’s what I want to make for you.’ Sometimes they’ll say, ‘No, I’ll drink it.’

But that’s not what I’m looking for. I want you to want to have two more in the next hour because you love it.”

gram with Patron so I was flown out to Mexico for three days. I was at their hacienda in the Jalisco region and I tried this beverage and they make it with the Tejuino, fresh lime juice, and they top it with lime sorbet and salt. I wanted to pay homage to to the Jalisco region and use that inspiration to make a cocktail. It has been quite the challenge. The Tejuino needs to ferment for two or three days, so it needs air. I didn’t put enough sugar content in the first couple of batches so one definitely got mold. The second one I stirred constantly but it tasted musty. I’m tweaking that recipe out and there aren’t a lot of resources available for me to consult. It’s very much a recipe that varies family to family, made in the backyard by a grandmother. When that is perfected, I’m going to combine it with Patron Incendio, which is a coffee liqueur, but it is really spicy because it has arbol chiles in it—and it also has some chocolate, so it almost tastes like a mole. And I’m going to use corn to fat wash the tequila. I like cocktails that have a story and I like to make cocktails that challenge my palate.”

While Wright opts for narrative, Wood tells me about a cocktail that Adam Winzel invented that was much more analytical. “Winzel is a mad scientist. He’s going to do something weird and make his own orgeat or milk wash something. One of his cocktails that is still on the menu and is crushing it is the Back in My Day. It’s tobacco-infused bourbon with a smoked syrup. We take mesquite, pecan chips—things that you’d smoke meats with—toast them in a pan and then cook the syrup in that. The smoke comes through in the syrup. The tobacco comes through in the drink, and it reminded all of us of our granddads. At that point all of those ‘When I was your age’ type expressions were being tossed around. ‘Back in my day’ came up, and that was perfect. That type of thing is just his style. He has a centrifuge so he’ll make clarified lemon or lime juices. Lime juice will have more lime flavor and you can make a clear daiquiri with it. He also makes clear ice. Every weekend we will have a couple bags of it. It’s not appropriate for every drink, but it is a great thing to have when it’s appropriate.”

Additionally, Wood has a new collaboration up his tattooed sleeve. “One exciting thing coming up for the fall is that we’re working with Dave Collins, head brewer at Resurgence Brewery. We had this idea to do a cocktail-flavored beer. Not a beer cocktail, but a beer designed to taste like a particular cocktail. It’s modeled after a Fitzgerald [gin, lemon, sugar, Angostura bitters]. A pretty simple cocktail that is a great vehicle for gin and it crushes it. When people tell me they don’t like gin, I’ll make them one and not tell them there is gin in it. Then, when they love it, I tell them it’s a gin cocktail. It’s my big ‘gotcha!’ moment.

She really lights up when talking about her experiments with Tejuino (te-HUI-no), a beverage made from fermented corn popular in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

“So we are doing a kettle sour beer and adding gin botanicals in the dry-hopping session to add the gin elements. Then we are adding some of the elements of bitters, and then just a bit of sugar. It’s a hefty beer, it should be about nine percent. I feel like it is going to be a home run. It’ll be at our five-year anniversary party this Thursday [September 15], and if it does as well as we hope, you might see cans in the future. It’ll be called Reverend Wood’s Fitzgerald.

“I am working on a cocktail Jalisco Dreaming.

I was just out there with USBG (see The Public August 17, 2016). They have an awesome pro-

“Distilling and brewing are so closely related. Distilling is just taking beer to the next step by cookP ing down the beer to create alcohol vapors.”

THE BIRTH OF A COCKTAIL Wright says, “If the idea is in my brain, I just need to make it work. Sometimes I just want to make something funky.”

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FILM REVIEW

WHEN THEY WERE FAB THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK THE TOURING YEARS MR. CHURCH

BY M. FAUST I’M GOING TO MENTION THIS RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING SO

you don’t miss it: When you see Eight Days a Week, Ron Howard’s new documentary about the early years of the Beatles, do not leave the theater when the movie appears to be over. Yes, the credits will roll at about the 100-minute mark. But after the movie is finished, the show includes a remastered version of The Beatles at Shea Stadium, the professionally shot (Gordon Willis was one of the dozen cameramen) film of their historic performance in front of 56,000 fans. Never released to home video, it hasn’t been broadcast in decades and is pretty much worth the price of admission all by itself.

And it’s something you won’t see if you watch the documentary when it premieres on Hulu this weekend.

Even if it were, though, this is one to see in a theater. While it covers the familiar history of the band and probably contains little that fans won’t already know, it concentrates on live performances, most of which have been restored to a polish you’ve never seen.

There are the obligatory talking heads, some valid (new interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr), others less so (Whoopi Goldberg and Sigourney Weaver may have been of an age to have seen them live). It’s good to hear from Richard Lester, who directed their films, and Larry Kane, the Miami journalist who accompanied them on their American tours. One wonders why no one from any of the bands who opened for a Beatles show could be found to comment on their experiences: The Moody Blues, Tommy Roe, and Brenda Holloway are all still around, and could almost certainly have something to say about trying to play in front of thouands of girls screaming, “We want Ringo!”

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

BY M. FAUST & GEORGE SAX

OPENING THIS WEEK BLAIR WITCH—Remake/reboot/sequel to/of the movie that ushered in the found footage horror subgenre. Directed by Adam Wingard (The Guest).

Area theaters BRIDGET JONES’S BABY—Sequel. Starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, and Patrick Dempsey. Directed by Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones’s Diary).

Area theaters EIGHT DAYS A WEEK—Ron Howard directed this documentary about the Beatles using restored footage of their live performances. Reviewed this issue.

Dipson Eastern Hills MISTER CHURCH—Eddie Murphy in a non-comedic role as a cook who becomes part of the family of a single mother and her daughter when a benefactor hires him to tend to them. Co-starring Britt Robertson and Natascha McElhone. Directed by Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy). Reviewed this issue.

SNOWDEN—Oliver Stone’s take on the NSA whistleblower (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). With Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Rhys Ifans, Nicolas Cage, Tom Wilkinson, and Joely Richardson. Reviewed this issue. Area theaters

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA

ELLA ENCHANTED (2004)— Cinderella meets A Knight’s Tale in this fairy tale pastiche about an enchanted girl (Anne Hathaway) trying to remove a curse that requires her to do anything anyone tells her to. With Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes, Minnie Driver, Vivica A. Fox, Joanna Lumley, Patrick Bergin, Eric Idle, and Steve Coogan. Directed by Tommy O’Haver (Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss). Sat-Sun 11:30am. North Park FOR THE LOVE OF SPOCK—Leonard Nimoy’s son Adam concocted this documentary that began as an exploration of his dad’s famous character (for the 50th anniversary of Star Trek) and expanded it to include the man under the ears when he died in early 2015. It wasn’t much of a stretch: There wasn’t much to Nimoy’s career outside of Spock, a fact he eventually came to embrace. It’s lightweight but heartfelt, and gives any number of famous

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week

More than anything else, if you were ever a fan, and especially if you remember Beatlemania firsthand, you’ll want to see it for the footage of the Fab Four talking to the press, both formally and informally (not that they treated the two any differently.) The value of the music is unquestioned, though there’s an interesting commentary from a scholar who opines that in terms of consistency of melodic invention the group was bested only by Mozart. But Howard emphasizes the sense of camaraderie among them: the pleasure in each others’ company that made them so endearing to the world and that made it hurt all the more when they broke up in a slog of lawsuits and public sniping. The film follows them to the end, with some footage of the 1969 show on the rooftop of Abbey Road studios, but its emphasis is on the few short years in 1964 and 1965 when the world loved the Beatles and they loved us right back.

••• It’s always interesting to watch a performer try to break out of his or her safe zone and do something different from what the public expects of them. In the case of Eddie Murphy, of course, he’s not risking much: He hasn’t had a hit comedy in a long, long time, and in recent years seems to be semi-retired. But if he was hoping that

folks the chance to speak well of the real man as well as the fictional half-alien. —MF Wed 7:30pm, Fri-Sun 7pm, Tue 7:30pm. Screening Room OUT OF THE PAST (1947)—The quintessential film noir, with Robert Mitchum as an ex-cop whose past catches up to him in the person of genial gangster Kirk Douglas. Co-starring Jane Greer and Rhonda Fleming. Script by Daniel Mainwaring (with some help from James M. Cain), adapted from his novel Build My Gallows High. Directed by Jacques Tourneur. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars.

Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst THE 39 STEPS (1935)—Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film about a man on the run after he is falsely accused of murder. A deft, taut spy thriller anticipating the themes that would occupy the rest of Hitchcock’s career. Starring Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, and Lucie Mannheim. Sat 9:15pm. Screening Room LA TRAVIATA—Verdi’s masterpiece, from the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, Germany. Starring Olga Peretyatko, Atalla Ayan, and Simone Piazzola.

Conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado. Directed by Rolando Villazón. Sun noon. Dipson Amherst

CONTINUING BAD MOMS—Coming soon: Bad Father-in-Law, Bad Maiden Auntie, and Bad Dutch Uncle. Starring Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Bell, Christina Applegate, and Jada Pinkett Smith. Directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. AMC Maple Ridge, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria COMPLETE UNKNOWN—Kurt Vonnegut once wrote, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Rachel Weisz stars in this intriguing drama as a woman who takes that thought to an extreme, changing her identity every few years when it suits her. The bulk of the film is a conversation between her and a lover she abandoned 15 years ago (Michael Shannon in a relatively subdued but still strong performance). Most of the questions Complete Unknown poses go unanswered, which may frustrate viewers who like a film to be a tidy package. But in the era of social media when identity has become increasingly fluid, its concerns are far from abstract. With Kathy Bates and Danny Glover. Directed by Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace). —MF Dipson Eastern Hills THE DISAPPOINTMENTS ROOM—Mother and son move to the country and find scary stuff in their new home. Starring Kate Beckinsale, Lucas Till, Michaela Conlin, and Gerald McRaney. Directed by D.J. Caruso (I Am Number Four). Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

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Mr. Church might open up opportunities for him as a dramatic actor, well, it’s a good thing he’s got another Beverly Hills Cop sequel lined up.

It’s not that Murphy is all that bad as in the title role of a cook who finds himself working for a dying single mother (Natascha McElhone) and her daughter. Don’t ask me to explain: It doesn’t make much sense and is only the first of far too many clumsy and implausible dramatic contrivances by writer Susan McMartin.

The problem is that the character is so underwritten that Murphy has almost nothing to do other than look restrained and dignified. As the years go by and the girl grows up into Britt Robertson, we wait patiently for what we assume is going to be Mr. Church’s backstory. But when the film is over, we realize that the character is nothing more than the stereotype that Spike Lee famously characterized as the Magical Negro.

The film was directed by Bruce Beresford with the sunny nostalgic hue that has become his stock in trade. Beresford, you may recall, P also directed Driving Miss Daisy. Enough said.

DON’T BREATHE—Young thieves are trapped in the house of a wealthy blind man who is a serial killer adept at getting around in the dark. Starring Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, and Dylan Minnette. Directed by Fede Alvarez (the Evil Dead remake). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria DON’T THINK TWICE—Comedian Mike Birbiglia wrote, directed, and co-stars in this comedy-drama about a struggling Manhattan improv troupe that begins to fall apart when a member moves up to the big time. Defined as letting yourself “fall and figuring out what to do on the way down,” improv as presented as intensely interdependent and vulnerabile to life’s misfortunes. What Birbiglia and his film reveal, besides the backstage look at ego clashing and the dreaming and scheming, are the hard, too-often brutal facts of life on the margins of show business. The actors in this troupe display a kind of gallantry in their efforts to survive and advance in this world. With Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, and Kate Micucci. —GS Dipson Amherst FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS—Hugh Grant accomplishes the considerable feat of nearly stealing the show from Meryl Streep in a movie designed as a vehicle for her. She has the title role of the New York heiress and musical arts benefactor who also fancied herself an opera singer. Jenkins pursued her amateur singing career seemingly unconscious of her abysmal lack of gifts, skill, and pitch. Grant is her husband, who assiduously sustains his wife’s amateur career and illusions. He plays the character at first as plummy and archly witty, later adding emotional shading and personality complications, and brings off the transitions with a sense of easy mastery, however much work it took. Florence is, of course, laugh-out-loud funny, and not just when our protagonist tries to sing, but director Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Launderette, The Queen) adroitly guides the story it through a range of moods and emotions until it becomes heartfelt and touching. With Simon Helberg and Rebecca Ferguson. –GS Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills, Dipson Flix HANDS OF STONE—Biography of Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran (Edgar Ramirez) focusing on his relationship with his trainer Ray Arcel (Robert De Niro). I will leave it to boxing fans—I am not one—to pick apart this biopic for moments where it strays from the public record. Suffice to say that it’s a perfect vehicle for the talented but under-recognized actor Edgar Ramírez, that Robert De Niro has one of his better recent roles as Ray Arcel, the trainer who came out of a Mafia-dictated retirement to coach Duran, and that singer Usher has a notable supporting role as Sugar Ray Leonard. Filming largely in Panama with substantial support from the government, writer-director Jonathan Jakubo-

wicz works to tie Duran’s popularity with that country’s struggle for respect and self-determination in the last half-century. With Ana de Armas, Ellen Barkin, Ruben Blades, and John Turturro. —MF Dipson Flix, Regal Transit HELL OR HIGH WATER—A throwback to the kind of gritty crime dramas that graced American theaters in the mid-1970s, usually starring the likes of Robert Duvall or Walter Matthau. In financially struggling West Texas, brothers Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner (Ben Foster) embark on a series of bank robberies.

They have a long-term goal in mind, which becomes clear as the film progresses, but in the meantime their methods draw the attention of Marcus Hamilton (Jeff Bridges), a veteran Texas ranger on the edge of retirement. (Don’t assume that you know what that means.) The script by Taylor Sheridan (Sicario) is cleverly structured, with a dry humor that counters the often grim atmosphere (per the score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis). Smartly directed by David Mackenzie, a Brit who may finally be living up to the promise he showed in Young Adam back in 2004. —MF Dipson Flix, Regal Quaker, P Regal Walden Galleria JASON BOURNE—I seem to recall reading some years ago that Matt Damon wouldn’t return to this action franchise unless the producers came up with a worthy script. He must have given up and taken the money, because it wouldn’t take more than a few sentences to describe what little plot there is here. Writer-director Paul Greengrass nonetheless stretches the film out to two hours with pointlessly protracted chase sequences, including one that takes up 15 minutes after the film’s logical end point. He fakes tension with jittery editing, shakycam manoeuvres, and a score so persistent that you want to shoot the conductor. By the time it was over I felt as if I had been waterboarded. With Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, and Riz Ahmed. —MF Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS—A boy in medieval Japan searches for a magic suit of armor that will help him fight an evil spirit in this animated adventure from the studio that made Coraline and ParaNorman. Directed by Travis Knight. AMC Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS— Adapted M. L. Stedman’s best selling novel for the screen, writer-director Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines) gives it an epic gravity that the material doesn’t entirely deserve. Michael Fassbender stars as a WWI veteran who, looking for an escape from the word, takes a job tending a secluded lighthouse off the coast of Australia. He finds a wife in a local young woman (Alicia Vikander) who cannot bear children. When an infant washes up on their shore, they decide not to report it and

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SNOWDEN

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IN A WAY, Oliver Stone is the right director for a movie about Edward Snowden, the renegade American spy who revealed the vast and illicit electronic spying on Americans by American intelligence agencies, principally the National Security Agency (NSA). Stone has persistently been a politically motivated filmmaker with a leftist bent. His first mainstream writer-director work, Salvador (1986), was about American journalists covering the effects of US intervention against a Salvadoran insurgency against a brutally oppressive autocracy.

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But Stone is also responsible for one of the most recklessly inflammatory, demagogically false movies in cinema’s history: JFK (1991), about the Kennedy assassination. And he has showed a dismaying Trump-like intemperate indifference to fact, as when he complained in 2010 about Jewish “domination” of the news media and said Hitler was “misunderstood” because of it.

And it didn’t enhance confidence in Stone’s ability to treat Snowden’s story and motives reasonably when the director made a deal with a Vladimir Putin-connected Russian lawyer who claimed to represent Snowden to adapt this guy’s pulp-fictionalization of Snowden’s story. (This, apparently, to gain access to the forcibly exiled former spy in Russia.)

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So there was ample room for concern about what Stone would do with this material. But damned if the often erratic, polemically unhinged filmmaker hasn’t just about brought this thing off. If there was room for doubt, now there’s cause for relief, and even some admiration. If Stone’s Snowden isn’t a gracefully consistent and integrated picture, well, it’s an Oliver Stone picture, and what do you expect? He has turned out one of the most important biopics in recent memory. Stone has risen to the occasion. His all-too-frequently impassioned approach isn’t absent, but he seems to have made an uncustomary effort to be fair. Not journalistically objective or balanced, mind you. The movie celebrates Snowden’s sincerity and courage, but its tone is a long way from pedal-to-the-floor gonzo. Stone has made a movie that’s both large-scale and intimate.

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It opens on June 3, 2013 in Hong Kong, when Snowden ( Joseph Gor-

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Snowden

don-Levitt) has fled with four laptop computers containing clear evidence of the US government’s alarmingly broad and illegal spying. He’s secretly summoned documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo) and Guardian newspaper journalists Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto) and Ewen MacAskill (Tom Wilkinson) so he can hand over the secrets he stole from his job as an NSA contract employee in Hawaii. Stone effectively renders the tension in Snowden’s hotel room, making it almost palpable, using stark lighting and ominously angled and focused photography.

Snowden is well aware of his perilous situation and he tries to impress on his guests the danger they’ll face. (Much of this generally tracks the scene Poitras captured in her 2014 movie Citizenfour.) The strained, anxious hotel setting is a sort of home page for the long flashbacks Snowden employs to tell how its protagonist wound up there. It delves backward to his early aborted effort to joint the Army Special Forces, the CIA’s recognition of his remarkable largely self-learned computer engineering and programming skills, his disillusionment with CIA dirty tricks in Geneva, and his interrupted route to work for an NSA contractor. It convincingly portrays his difficult romance with a young woman (Shailene Woodley) who chafes at the secrets Snowden has to keep, even when the couple is in danger.

The middle section of the movie flags a little, as if it and Stone were a bit overwhelmed by all the detail as he tried to keep things accurate. But Stone mostly holds his storyline together and keeps it involving. The movie makes this young man’s personal odyssey from an idealistic if rightist libertarian mindset to a sobering leftward drift out of innocence. Gordon-Levitt’s performance is a key factor in the movie’s success. He conveys Snowden’s earnest, troubled, self-examining sensibility.

Stone pulls off two especially striking scenes: a Big Brother-esque one with Rhys Ifans as a CIA official, appearing as a giant image on a computer screen that confronts Snowden as he sits alone in a dark room, and another suspenseful Hitchcockian one in which Snowden steals the secrets.

Snowden is a powerful and valuable movie. Maybe Stone has partly atoned P for previous sins.

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Some might attribute the rise in popularity of sex toys among straight men as a byproduct of increased sexual education and a liberating sense of adventure. I’m inclined to think it’s got more to with boredom, desensitization, and high levels of stress. We want it faster, funkier, more intense. Old reliable isn’t working anymore. Not as well, anyway. We’re conditioned to believe there’s something wrong if we can’t perform or aren’t supremely interested and at the ready should the urge come on. As many of us discover, however, the mind and the body aren’t always in sync. Gadgets can help. For a while, anyhow, until we burn out that engine as well.

BY CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY OUR LIVES ARE STRESSFUL. Modern living is demanding. Many

of us beat out our frustrations grunting all too audibly at the gym, while others prefer the more stealthy, yoga-based approach of calculated movement and breath. Maybe you’ve learned to meditate. Of course, there’s always alcohol, and some have added prescriptions like Xanax to their menu of life-coping aids. Perhaps the common denominator is that most of us masturbate, whether or not we go to the gym, whether or not we drink and/or take sedatives.

A 2009 report from the Journal of Sexual Medicine says about half of heterosexual males surveyed had used a vibrator with their partner, and 16 percent of those men went on to use the toy by themselves. Partner play apparently provides a gateway.

But those numbers are getting old, and in the seven years since then, numerous online boutiques that specialize in stocking toys for men have popped up, while others that used to cater mainly to women have expanded their stock to reflect the demand for quality sex toys designed for guys.

I remember being in my early 20s and discovering that the man I was living with, 12 years my senior, would masturbate on the sly. He’d try to hide it, knowing that I probably wouldn’t understand. And I didn’t. Having caught him at it twice in a short span of time (while I—23, adorable, and perpetually horny—was readily available and running around the apartment scantily clad), we got into a raging argument. “I’m tense a lot of the time,” he confessed. “So I masturbate. Just because I’m with you doesn’t mean I have to give up my fantasy life. Having sex and masturbating are two different things.”

One of the more popular, high-end, male-centric toys is made by a company called Hot Octopuss. It’s called Pulse, though people tend to call it “the guybrator.” Pulse is fairly demure—slides onto the top portion of your junk and vibrates with “oscillating technology” that culminates in a “totally unique orgasm.” (You have to imagine this being said in a British accent to get the full flavor of the promo video.) If you suffer from erectile dysfunction, Pulse promises to help you with that. It’s $100.

At the time, part of me thought (and maybe still thinks) this was a convenient excuse for compulsion. But that doesn’t eclipse the truth in his statement, particularly about the release of tension.

Masturbation is, among other things, a culmination of tensions, gathered and focused, that ends in a colossal release—and maybe, for just a short while, a huge sense of relief. If I didn’t get it nearly 25 years ago, I definitely do now.

The Swedish company Lelo is considered a leading designer of intimate do-jiggers, and in an article for Salon.com they estimated a 200 percent increase in “male anal pleasure objects” during 2015; it seems straight guys are sticking things in their butts with more frequency. Curiously, most of Lelo’s stock is priced between $100 and $200—for straight folks, it seems only an expensive toy is worthy of sticking in the stink.

Through that lens, it becomes a little easier to understand some of the sexual trends in our culture. We’re wound up tighter than ever before, juggling ridiculous amounts of responsibility. We’re expected to be going, going, going, 24/7. The real world encroaches on any stolen moments of bliss through our phones, on social media screens…it’s very difficult to escape. With greater levels of tension, we seek greater sexual thrills; hardcore porn and virtual reality are becoming the new normal. We want an express lane to tension relief. Choose your poison—whatever gets the job done quickly so you can get back to work with less

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“So, this might be a big TMI, but you can get something much more effective for significantly less money,” I said, holding the tester tube of gel, which was making my uvula feel as if I drank too much citrus juice too quickly. All I could think of was Gilda Radner talking about uvulitis on SNL. “You have to be willing to shop on a site geared for gay men, but if you go to Fort Troff, you can get a spray that really cuts right through the bullshit. It’s made with benzocaine—numbs your throat completely, and it’s P 10 bucks. It’s called ‘Suck it, Bitch!’ Can’t go wrong.”

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Perhaps the notion of a toy being high-end diminishes any sense of shame that might accompany its purchase when it comes to novice hetero couples. The boyfriend and I attended a sex toy party last Spring at a friend’s apartment, and while there were other gay men there, the most interested attendees were married straight couples. It was telling to see the women get excited about vibrators that looked like phallus-shaped spacecrafts, not to mention the high pricing and the language used by the company rep. Many of the toys geared for men were presented for times “when he wants to and you don’t,” and there were lots of scented creams and lotions, which gay men tend not to like because they detract from the au naturale pheromone factor.

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As straight men begin exploring vibrating toys that do this and that, we’re buying automatic, speed-controlled fuck machines that can turn into blowjob-giving machines with the quick switch of an accessory. We’re not as interested in vibrators, apparently, but realistic silicon dildos are all the rage, especially when accompanied by lube made to look like semen. Electro-stimulation devices with remote controls that send electric pulses through your junk, anus, nipples, etc., are increasing in popularity. It’s a circus. We’re getting savvier at finding ways to rub, jolt, and buzz ourselves into a frenzy.

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But spending money doesn’t deter. Entrepreneur/inventor Brian Sloan’s 2014 Indiegogo campaign for the Autoblow—it’s just what it sounds like—reached its funding goal six times over. Sloan is on to something: As he points out to the press, men are attracted to the idea of having something done to them. Whereas more

Naturally, gay men are ahead of this curve. And we tend to do it cheaper. I’ve known men who prefer the challenge of repurposing inanimate household objects to buying toys online. But for those who buy, Adam’s Toy Box and Fort Troff are online gadget outlets that cater to gay men for a reasonable price. It’s interesting to note how much raunchier the sites are, though, reflected in the porn-y images and language used. Anything marketed to gay men for pleasure seems to come with a growl and an imaginary motor-revving sound. It’s aggressive. There’s always a guy masturbating on a toilet—always. He’s usually wearing combat boots with white socks. It’s mighty effective marketing.

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well-known toys like Fleshlights and various other sleeve devices require you to manage the toy’s movement, the Autoblow moves on its own.

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