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LETTERS TO THE PUBLIC CARL PALADINO IS AN INTELLECTUAL THREAT OUR SCHOOLS DON’T NEED CARL PALADINO is an intellectu-

al threat to Buffalo’s schools. His obviously racist comments about the Obamas represent his civility as a person, and more importantly, as a public figure tasked with educating our students. What hope do our students, teachers, and administrators have if he’s our only prospect?

But his recent comments also raise questions about his credentials in the first place. In “Paladino Message to Republicans,” a video on his website, he lauds, “I’m not a career politician. I’m a self-made businessman.” One wonders whether politics and business are the most fitting careers to have to be considered for school board. Mr. Paladino notably lacks an education degree of any kind. In the same video, he claims to be “prolife, progun rights, and to “oppose gay marriage.” Is this, really, who we need representing a productive future for Buffalo? Regardless of one’s stance on these issues, Mr. Paladino’s inflexibility is troublesome since even decent public figures listen to and act on opinions they disagree with. One might even call that a mark of an educated mind. As a supposed educator, Mr. Paladino may have taken Plato’s “Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around” a bit too literally. Then again, he often negotiates as a business man, not as a student, teacher, or administrator. So when we protest his elected position, when we demand to vote on his resignation, and when we declaim his racism on social media, we send the message that his status as an official—by and for the people—no longer has a place in Buffalo’s schools. Our students need a reliable, productive, and informed figure to look up to. It seems radical today, but the prospect of educator-as-mentor is one of the most powerful relationships students build in school. It teaches them trust, responsibility, and respectability, lessons that extend beyond the classroom and into life. In a city where some 40 percent of students are African-American, this racist demagogue doesn’t have much to offer. The racism he’s espoused makes him an intellectual threat to students, teachers, administrators, and all citizens of the city. His attempt to paint the comments as a misdirected email even raises questions about the ethics of our leaders’ private lives. To some, racism is excusable in private, but in political life, the private dissolves when it comes to prejudice. Holding all elected officials to that standard of decency doesn’t strike me as a radicalidea. Thankfully, we don’t have any other examples to worry about these days. In Buffalo, a city where 55 percent of Black and African-American students graduate high school, education reform is sedentary under Mr. Paladino’s appointment. Most students don’t even know what their school board does, obscured only by the figurehead of a man whose presence makes it more tempting to stay docile and accept the rhetoric of those in power. Questioning Mr. Paladino’s ethics is a positive response to this docility, however uncomfortable it makes him feel. Students and teachers alike should continue arguing for what they believe. This, truly, is the mark of a successful system, one that problematizes everything it

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Like most career politicians, apologizing for his comments isn’t enough. In fact, doing so only sends the message that racism is borderline dismissible, especially coming from a position of white privilege. In America, being white and wealthy and in politics has already placed too many men in a position they’ve openly abused. I’d disagree with Governor Andrew Cuomo that “most New Yorkers know Mr. Paladino is not to be taken seriously.” As a figurehead, he is taken seriously because he symbolizes our schools, and by extension, our city. At best, the message Buffalo sends by keeping him in office is troublesome. At worst, it’s irresponsible to the city’s democracy, not because of the myth that democracy gives everyone a voice, but because democracy validates the voices of those in power more than the common people’s. If that doesn’t mean anything to the city, I’m not sure its popular cries for rescue can be funded much longer. Simply, Mr. Paladino is an intellectual threat to the students of a city so grappling for education reform, so strapped for cash, yet so wholly present with the reality that racism has no place in 21st-century America. It’s almost outmoded to even need to make this argument. His flippancy and lack of credentials are irresponsible.

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Most potently, his ineptitude as a productive member of the city doesn’t fit with the renaissance we so desperately need. In the words of Represantive John Lewis, and especially in the hearts of our students, “You cannot be at home with something you know is wrong.” —GEORGE GOGA

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Chris Collins seems to have forgotten about the people that he was elected to represent. Over the last few months, it seems that his own “bigger and better” interests in Washington are his sole concern while ignoring the citizens that he was elected to represent locally. I believe that Mr. Collins needs a reminder that we are still here. The senior citizens of the 27th District that rely on Medicare or Medicaid are still here. The citizens of the 27th district that are worried about losing their healthcare coverage are still here. Our children and families that are worried about the diversion of our taxpayer dollars to fund private and charter schools that lawfully discriminate against children with disabilities are still here.

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Where is Representative Collins? His constituents are asking for him to show his face in Western New York and speak publicly about these issues. He needs to think about someone other than himself for a moment and stop hiding from us.—KAREN JONES PHOTO OF CARL PALIDINO BY BRENDAN BANNON

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NEWS LOCAL paigns wrap up, are required to refund all remaining campaign funds. That rule does not apply to state offices such as Attorney General. It is not unusual for elected officials, after they leave office, to continue to maintain a campaign account. This includes former elected officials such as Tony Masiello, Joel Giambra, Paul Tokasz, and others, who retired following many campaigns and many years in elective office. What Denise O’Donnell has done, however, appears to be unique. She was never actually an official candidate for public office. Her name never appeared on a ballot. Since July 2008 money continues to trickle into the O’Donnell for New York account, mainly from interest earned from the bank account where her campaign has its money deposited. A total of $20,149 came in that way. Total receipts for the O’Donnell for New York committee up through January 2017 are $1,122,265. It should be noted that O’Donnell has been faithful in filing all required campaign financial disclosures over the past thirteen years. Along the way, since July 2008, O’Donnell for New York has continued to spend money, occasionally donating small amounts to Canisius College, the UB Foundation, some political candidates, and some other organizations. There have also been larger expenditures.

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THE O’DONNELL FAMILY POLITICAL TRUST BY KEN KRULY

DENISE O’DONNELL RAISED MORE THAN $1 MILLION, THEN NEVER RAN FOR OFFICE RUNNING FOR PUBLIC OFFICE can be a difficult proposition.

A potential candidate has to commit himself or herself to the grind of the campaign—endless hours and public scrutiny. A campaign team needs to be assembled. And depending on the office, money, sometimes lots of money, needs to be raised.

Denise O’Donnell had by 2004 (and continues to have) a distinguished legal career that has included work in private and public practice. She served in the 1990s as the Western District of New York United States Attorney, held a state criminal justice position, and more recently has been a member of the staff of the United States Justice Department. Senator Charles Schumer recommended her appointment as a federal District Judge but the Obama White House never formally nominated her and she withdrew as a candidate for the position. In 2004 O’Donnell moved forward on a plan to run for New York State Attorney General, an office that would be on the ballot in 2006. She organized a campaign committee and earned the support of her hometown Erie County Democratic Committee. She began raising money and was successful in developing a healthy campaign treasury. Between 2004 and July of 2006 O’Donnell’s committee, O’Donnell for New York, collected $1,071,434 from individuals, businesses, and other sources. For a statewide race that is not an outsized amount, but it is certainly an amount that would have provided the resources to run a credible race. (As a side note, in 1982 I was the campaign manager for Ray Gallagher, who ran on Ed Koch’s ticket for State Comptroller. Gallagher won a threeway Democratic primary against candidates from Brooklyn and Westchester; Koch lost his primary for governor. Gallagher’s winning primary campaign cost $40,000. He lost to Ned Regan in November.) In the spring of 2006 the New York State Democratic Committee held its nominating convention. O’Donnell made her case to the committee but the nomination for Attorney General went to Andrew Cuomo. O’Donnell dropped out of the race for the office even though she had the option of circulating petitions and qualifying for the primary ballot. She has not actively pursued another public office since the effort for AG collapsed in 2006. Between 2004 and July 2006 O’Donnell for New York spent $504,029, leaving her campaign committee with a balance of $566,607 at the end of the failed effort to secure the nomina4

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tion for Attorney General. Over the next two years, through July 2008, O’Donnell for New York raised an additional $30,682. A large portion of the spending from O’Donnell’s campaign treasury went for consultants, which included $40,000 to her son Jack’s consulting business. After 2006 a total of $61,300 was refunded to contributors, with 97 percent of that amount going back to just four New York City donors. Western New York donors to the committee received only $2,050 in refunds. In 2008 the O’Donnell for New York committee had a balance, after the spending which included the limited refunds, which totaled $411,914. In New York State candidates for judicial offices, after their camMARQUIL, 2016 / EMPIREWIRE.COM

The January 2010 filing reported an October 8, 2009 expenditure of $49,290.55 to the Committee to Re-Elect John O’Donnell. Justice John O’Donnell is Denise O’Donnell’s husband. Among the expenditures of Justice O’Donnell campaign was a payment of $4,988 in June 2010 to son Jack O’Donnell’s consulting firm. The Committee to Re-elect John O’Donnell spent $102,646 in 2009 with Niagara Business Solutions for TV and radio ads. Niagara Business Solutions had the same address at the time as that of Jack O’Donnell’s consulting business. Justice O’Donnell had a competitive race for re-election in 2009 but easily defeated Republican Jeffrey Voelkl. In June 2010 the O’Donnell for New York committee paid her son’s consulting firm $20,000 in consultant fees. The most recent campaign disclosure report of the O’Donnell for New York campaign committee, which was formed in 2004 for a 2006 election campaign that was never run, shows a balance of $299,965. For a 2006 campaign that never got off the ground Denise O’Donnell has been able to maintain and use a very large campaign treasury for pretty much whatever she pleases within the limits of Election Law rules. People who donated money to the committee more than ten years ago for the aborted 2006 campaign have mostly received no refunds and had no say over what their contributions actually paid for. Nothing that the O’Donnell for New York committee has done is illegal and everything has been reported appropriately. There just seems to be something wrong, however, with a campaign committee that never actually ran an election campaign raising more than $1.1 million and continuing to operate as a handy political pot of money 11 years after the reason for its creation has passed. One can only wonder if there are other such phantom committees floating out there throughout New York State. Ken Kruly writes about politics and stuff at politicsandstuff.com. P

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THE BUREAUCRATS HAVE ALREADY LEARNED THEY CANNOT REASON OR ARGUE WITH TRUMP. HE SEEMS IMPERVIOUS TO DATA. I DON’T KNOW IF THAT’S GROUNDED IN EGO, NARCISSISM, STUPIDITY, OR SOMETHING MORE FUNDAMENTAL. people, many of whom had green cards and jobs in the United States. There was no consideration of the impact the ban would have on higher education and industry. (The ban is shadow-play anyhow: It’s just a sop to Trump’s base and Steve Bannon’s Breitbart readers. None of the Muslim countries in which Trump does business were covered by it, nor were the home countries of the 9/11 terrorists.)

PLAYING BALL The Trump inner circle’s attitude is, if you don’t agree with us, go. They fired the Acting Attorney General for refusing to follow orders. The White House spokesman said that the 100 members of the State Department who were signing a letter saying that the Muslim ban was not at all in America’s best interests “should either get with the program or go.” That may work in an absolute monarchy or a dictatorship. We’re not there yet. Just saying things are so doesn’t make them so. God can say, “Let there be light,” and there is light. But if a president wants to do it, he needs electric power, a lighting system, people to screw in the light bulbs. That is, he needs a bureaucracy. Trump can fire those at the top; he can’t fire everybody.

PSYCHOPATHS The bureaucrats have already learned they cannot reason or argue with Trump. He seems impervious to data. I don’t know if that’s grounded in ego, narcissism, stupidity, or something more fundamental.

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Trump doesn’t seem smart enough to be cynical with such consistency. He may not be lying all the time; he may believe the things he says. My late friend Ira Cohen, longtime professor of psychology at University at Buffalo, used to say that psychopaths never lie. To lie is to say something you know is untrue. For psychopaths, Ira said, what they say is true. Facts cannot impact that belief. If the facts contradict, then the facts are “bad.” For the psychopath, the only thing that is real is their own perception. You can’t, Ira pointed out, argue with a psychopath, because reason has no place in a world in which all the things the rest of us call “facts” are reduced to matters of belief. I think of Ira a lot when I listen to Trump talk.

LARGE-SCALE PROTESTS ARE IMPORTANT—BUT IMAGINE WHAT DISSIDENT BUREAUCRATS CAN DO TO STOP THIS FASCIST IMPEACHMENT Rumors are flying that Donald Trump will be impeached within months. That is, I am pretty sure, wishful thinking. Even if this Congress had any interest in ethics—there has been no indication that it does—impeachment is not a rapid process. Charges must be drawn up; they are answered; hearings must be held; there must be a trial in the US House of Representatives. If the trial results in conviction—impeachment—then the whole thing moves to the US Senate, where it starts all over again. It’s possible, but even if it happens, it won’t be fast. Bill Clinton’s impeachment and trial took years, and that was over a simple blowjob.

BUREAUCRACY But there is another force in government that may minimize, or at least slow, the damage Trump and his Svengali, Steve Bannon, seem bent on doing: the bureaucracy. What people hate about bureaucracy is how long it takes to get from here to there. The great film representation of it is the sequence in Akira Kurosawa’s Ikuru: A dying man is shunted from office to office to office, only to finally be sent to the place he started. But it may be the dysfunctional power of bureaucracy that will mire Donald Trump in the governmental mud. 6

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Bureaucracies exist to control flow. A request is made. It is approved or disapproved. If approved, something happens: A desk is bought, a bridge is built, a war begins. All along the way are people who might be called traffic managers: Officially or unofficially, they have the power to move things quickly or move them slowly, or to move things in ways that nothing happens or in ways that the process will go awry a step or two further on. Administrations come and go, but the bureaucracies remain. Donald Trump will not be able to fire everyone in the Postal Service or the Air Force or State Department or Justice Department.

AMATEURS There is no one in his senior staff, including Trump, with any experience in government. Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush had been governors; George H. W. Bush had been a vice president and, in many capacities, a bureaucrat; Barack Obama had been a state legislator and a US Senator. They understood how government functions. Running a government is not like running a business, where if a project goes sour you can just declare bankruptcy, walk away from it, and stick other people with the bill. Nor is it like running an online news service that caters to the rabid right, that preaches to the choir. Governance requires impulse control because its goals are always longer than an hour from now. The Muslim ban fiasco illustrates this. There was no consultation with Homeland Security (which had to implement it), the Department of Defense, the State Department, or other agencies that would have to deal on a blanket ban on 200 million

GOING ROGUE The bureaucrats have other devices at their disposal if reason is not a viable option, facts can’t influence policy, and long-term consequences are of no interest. And as long as people are in those jobs, they will have the power to minimize Trump’s damage, to slow him down. He may get up in the dark of night to Twitter with great velocity and no thought, but the process necessary to make things happen in the daytime go by a slower clock. I’ve watched bureaucracy at work in two institutions: the university and prisons. It isn’t much different. It’s easy to fire a warden, but it’s difficult to fire an assistant warden, the shop managers, the clerks, the entire staff; In the university, it’s easy to change a president or a dean, but it’s impossible to dump everybody who thinks you’re wrong-headed, ill-informed or nuts. One device bureaucracy has is going rogue. The Trump administration recently ordered NASA, EPA, and the National Park Service to stop providing information to the public via Twitter accounts. All three of those agencies, and at least fifteen others, immediately set up alternate or rogue Twitter accounts outside of government channels. They’re operated by non-government employees. They post information Trump would prefer hidden. They argue Trump policies even more forcefully than would have been possible had not Trump applied the muzzle. A recent National Park Service posting, for example, introduced us to “Santos the Ocelot.” Santos is beautiful. The posting described the damage that would be done to animal life along the Mexican border if Trump’s wall were to be built. It went viral. What kind of shitheel would murder Santos the Ocelot?

COMMENTARY NEWS BUCKS AND SLOW-BUCKS There is another technique bureaucrats have for undermining administrators. The best name I’ve heard for it was in Texas prisons: “slow-buck.” Convicts could slow-buck and so could guards. When a bad order came down, convicts or staff could overtly defy it. The convicts could riot or just sit down; the guards could refuse to act. That was called a “buck” and it usually resulted in immediate reprisals: solitary, beating, gassing for the convicts; job loss for the guards. We just saw that when Trump fired Acting Attorney General Sally Q. Yates because she told Justice Department lawyers not to defend Trump’s anti-Muslim order. (When she was confirmed, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions wanted to be sure that if she got what she thought an illegal order from the president she would refuse to act on it. He’s been very quiet this week.) The rogue Twitter sites are another kind of buck: the boss says shut up; the staff finds another way to keep talking. The slow-buck is far subtler. An order would be given or would come down, and people would set about carrying it out or following it. But, somehow, nothing would happen, nothing got

done, or what got done was so screwed up it might as well not have been done. No one said, “No!” No one defied anyone. “Yes, boss,” the convicts said. “Yes, sir,” the guards said. There was motion, but nothing moved. At the end, things were pretty much where they were at the beginning. Trump has been in office not much more than a week. We’ve seen the start of bucks. There will be more. Slow-bucks take more time. But they’re coming. It would be nice if Congress had the cojones or sense of responsibility to stand up and confront what is going on. It doesn’t. Not yet, anyway. In the absence of backbone on the Hill, bucks and slow-bucks in the enormous government bureaucracy may turn out to provide our best chance for getting through this nightmare. Bruce Jackson is an American folklorist, documentary filmmaker, writer, and photographer. He is SUNY Distinguished Professor and the James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo. P He writes for us a lot.

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LOOKING BACKWARD: GOTHIC HALL Gothic Hall, 189 Main Street, was one of the most interesting and unusual buildings in Buffalo. Built in 1843 by William Carland, a merchant tailor and immigrant from Cork, Ireland, it was described in a 1900 Buffalo Express account as “not only different from every business building in the city, but possesses a Gothic ceiling which is a remarkable piece of art.” At only 22 feet in width, it packed a lot of character into such a small mixed-use building, of which hundreds once existed in downtown. Here, in a circa 1895 photograph taken on the east side of Main Street between Exchange and Seneca streets, is a view of the building when it was occupied by the Salem G. Le Valley Company, purveyor of sporting goods. Gothic Hall remained in use through multiple booms and depressions, occupied at various times by a garments store, gun store, jeweler, novelty store, and tavern, but ultimately did not survive urban renewal. The Nimrod cocktail lounge was the last occupant of Gothic Hall, razed in 1968 to P make way for Marine Midland Center. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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THEATER PREVIEW From left to right: Neil Wechsler, David Oliver, and Vincent O’Neill.

FAUST BY JACK FORAN

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a staged reading with music of Goethe’s gargantuan ungainly masterwork Faust—both parts—this weekend at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Nominally a dramatic piece—theater piece—but more realistically closet drama—incorporating elements of tragedy, comedy, epic and lyric poetry, grand opera, even sci-fi, in treating of matters human and divine and in particular diabolical. God has a cameo role right at the start, but the main characters are the already greatly learned but insatiably ambitious for more and more knowledge Faust—played by David Oliver—and Mephistopheles, an authentic devil from Hell—played by Vincent O’Neill—whose quest for Faust’s immortal soul is the ultimate subject matter of the work. There are other characters in generous abundance—played by Josephine Hogan and Kurt Guba, both in multiple roles—some of them important to discernible

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plot. Such as Margarete, the simple village girl whose seduction by Faust is the focal dramatic action of Part One, and who dies miserably at the end of the part. Hard to identify a focal dramatic action for Part Two. Helen of Troy shows up, more or less as replacement for Margarete. Faust seduces her—or maybe it’s the other way around—but anyway they have a child together, a kind of Icarus figure—always flying off dangerously—who comes to a similarly Icarian unfortunate end. But many other plots and subplots, some of them hard to connect one to another or to the main plot. Like Faust and Mephistopheles’ financial rescue of the emperor and empire—not clear just what empire, maybe the Holy Roman Empire—by locating some cached old gold—not so difficult a job for Mephistopheles, with his supernormal powers—and inventing paper money. Or the sci-fi episode with a test tube baby—Homunculus—who also comes to a bad end. Plus a medley of ancient world figures, including actual and mythological figures, known and obscure.

Thales, Proteus, a Sphinx, some Phorkyads. (Who? What?) Not to mention the series of improbable locations. When Goethe’s Faust is assigned reading—as say in a school or college course in world literature—and it’s not that often read other than as assigned reading, and not even always then—but it’s assigned because it’s the Teutonic contender in the masterpieces of world literature competition, up against competitors the likes of Shakespeare and Dante and Homer—almost invariably just Part One is assigned, which seems to work well enough as a complete literary piece on its own. Seems to have a beginning and middle and end (and no Phorkyads). Nobody wants to venture into the wild and crazy Part Two. Not teachers, not students. So it’s a brave undertaking of the impresario team behind this project—playwright Neil Wechsler, who adapted the text, the script, and composer Nathan Heidelberger, who created the musical accompaniment—to tackle both parts. But necessary to expound the real issue of the work, the contest for Faust’s soul. Which is not resolved in Part One. Which—in

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PREVIEW THEATER sofar as it is given or taken as a complete work in itself—is more about the tragedy of Margarete. Part of why Goethe’s Faust is a contender in the world literary masterpieces sweepstakes is because of how it captures—even amid the forest of its own devising of possibly extraneous scenes and characters and actions—a radically new world view in comparison with the previous world view. A paradigm shift. The Faust character’s definitive quality is intellectual curiosity. He is the consummate Renaissance scientist figure, always striving, always questing. For knowledge. But something more. Knowledge as power. But God seems to approve. Confident that the ceaseless quest will ultimately lead to Faust’s salvation. Willing to wager with Mephistopheles—with whom this God seems on surprisingly good terms—that he, the devil, can’t get Faust to stop, to rest, be satisfied. If so, Mephistopheles gets him—gets Faust’s soul—for eternity. He almost manages it in Part One with Margarete. Human, erotic love, which Faust previously—ensconced in his laboratory, studying, learning—never had any real experience of. (It hits him like a teen-ager.) Then again in Part Two, culminating in a kind of utopian scheme, new Eden scheme. Faust in a Robert Moses mold. Issues of colonialism, imperialism, gentrification. (But not to spoil the outcome.) In a key formulation right at the beginning of his Confessions—in a prayer to the Deity, to whom the Confessions is addressed, as well as précis statement about the human condition, human predicament—great medieval philosopher and theologian St. Augustine says, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” Restlessness in the Middle Ages, a kind of alienation. In the Renaissance, an admirable and proper human attribute. The paradigm shift.

Wechsler and Heidelberger gave a talk and demonstration recently at the Jung Center about various aspects of the project and their collaboration on it, including the problem of condensing a script that would take a day and a half to present in full down to less than an hour presentation. Asked by an audience member what got him interested in this play in the first place, and caused him to take on such a formidable project, Wechsler said, “I guess, for some reason, I am attracted to impossible plays.”

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Explaining further, he said although the work overall is “not dramatic, there are dramatic moments—sublime moments—about what it means to be human.” His interesting challenge was to capture some of those moments in a greatly condensed version of the work overall. Heidelberger said part of what intrigued him about the project was that whereas there has previously been lots of music written on the Faust theme—by the likes of Berlioz, Schubert, Stravinsky, many others—he said his aim and intention in his own compositions is “to take from the tradition and make it something new. Maybe a melodic fragment or a few chords from a traditional work, transforming that material into something very different.” He talked briefly about how he did this in the present case with a musical phrase from Schubert’s Gretchen am spinnerade, a song setting of one of Margarete’s speeches. The musical ensemble will include a flute, oboe, saxophone, two cellos, and percussion. Matthew Chamberlain to conduct. The project is under joint auspices of the Burchfield Penney, A Musical Feast, and the University of Buffalo Creative Arts Initiative. Performances will be at the Burchfield Penney on Friday and Saturday (February 3 and 4) at 8pm both evenings. For P tickets call 878-6011.

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PLAYBILL DIAL M FOR MURDER: The stage classic on which the Alfred Hitchcock film thriller was based. Through February 4 at Lancaster Opera House, 21 Central Avenue, Lancaster 14086, 716-6831776, lancopera.org. FRANKENSTEIN: David Oliver directs this adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic. January 20-February 12 at Road Less Traveled Productions, 500 Pearl Street, Buffalo 14202, 716-6293069, roadlesstraveledproductions.org. MARIELA IN THE DESERT: Playwright Karen Zacarias’s mystery. Through February 5, presented by Raíces Theatre Company at the Manny Fried Playhouse, 255 Great Arrow Avenue, Buffalo 14207, 716-381-9333, raicestheatrecompany.com. SOPHISTICATED LADIES, in which MusicalFare pays homage to the work of Duke Ellington. 716839-8540, musicalfare STEVE: Long-time theater people face midlife crises. Sound like you? Buy tickets today. Through February 12, presented by Buffalo United Artists at the Alleyway Theater, 1 Curtain Up Alley, Buffalo 14202, buffalobua.org. Cash only. Playbill is presented by: Information (title, dates, venue) subject to change based on the presenters’ privilege. Email production information to: theaterlistings@dailypublic.com

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ARTS IN GALLERIES NOW

CROSSROADS, works by Cornelia Dohse-Peck at Carnegie Art Center.

IN GALLERIES NOW = ART OPENING FF = FIRST FRIDAY FF 1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts (1045 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-2281855, photographics2.com/store/welcometo-our-studio-1045-gallery-store): Portions of Consciousness, works by Bradley Widman on view through Feb 25. Thu & Fri 11-6, Sat 11-4 and by appointment. FF Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox. org): Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is? through Jan 29. Picasso: The Artist and His Models through Feb 19, 2017. Claudia Joskowicz: Every Building on Avenida Alfonso Ugarte—After Ruscha, on view through Feb 5, 2017. Stop If You’ve Heard This One Before: humor and satire from the collection, through Mar 19. Matt Hoyt: Recent Past, 2010–2016, through Feb 5, 2017. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. Amy’s Place Restaurant (University Heights Arts Association) (3234 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 716-833-6260, uhartsgroup.com/amysplace): Every day: 7am-9pm. Art 247 (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, theart247.com): Black and White Exhibition on view through Feb 12. Wed-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 11am-5pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209, wnyag.com): Notable Artists of Western New York 1, on view through Feb 3. Included artists: Edward G. Bisone, Jeanette Blair, Robert Blair, Harold Dodge, Hal English, Fred Fielding, Walter Garver, Sherwin Greenberg, Donald Haug, Joyce Hill, Arthur Lindberg, Dorothy Markert, Andrew Sanders, Diana Slatin, Raleigh Spinks, Sean Witucki, and Mark Zahm. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716885-2251, wnyag.com): Western New York Artists Group Annual Non-Juried Members Exhibition on view through Feb 3. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm.

FF Ashker’s on Elmwood (1002 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886 -2233, ashkersbuffalo. com): Beforest Garden Design and WNY Permaculture presents The Year 2016 According to Trees: Art as an Additional Yield of Regenerative Ecology, on view through Jan 30. MonSat 7am-10pm, Sun 9am-5pm. FF Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): UNANTICIPATEDRELATIONSHIPS works by Karen Tashjian through Mar 19. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Bestow, works from the gallery’s estate collection. Opening Thu, Feb 2, 6-9pm. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Together We Can Carry the Weight, a solo exhibition by Zack Boehler. Fri-Sun 12-6pm. BT&C Gallery (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, btandcgallery.com): See HiTemp listing. Fri 12-7pm select Sat 12-4pm, or by appointment. FF Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Scott Bye: What Happens; Colleen Buzzard: Entangled. On view through Feb 28. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. FF Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint. com) Western New York Landscapes by Dale Schwalenberg. Opening on Fri, Feb 3, 6-9pm. On view through February 28. Open Mon-Fri 9am5:30pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare: Reflecting on the Life of the Bard. Milestones on Science: Books That Shook the World! 35 rare books from the history of science, on second floor. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6:00pm, Sun 12-5pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Jozef Bajus: Nothing Is Going Away through Jan 29, 2017. Babs Reingold: The Last Tree through Feb 26, 2017. Artists Seen:

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photographs of contemporary artists by David Moog. Here!, local history through art through Feb 26; The First Exhibition: 50 Years with Charles E. Burchfield on view through Mar 26; Charles Cary Rumsey: Success in the Gatsby Era through Jun 25. 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Canisius College Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library (Canisius College 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208, 888-8412, library.canisius.edu): Small works from the Gerald R. Mead collection. Canvas Salon & Gallery (9520 Main Street STE 400, Clarence, NY 14031, 716-320-5867): Work by Matthew Palmo. FF Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter. org): CROSSROADS, works by Cornelia DohsePeck. Opening reception Thu, Feb 2, 6:30–8:30 pm. On view through Feb 25 with artist’s talk Sat, Feb 11 at 1pm. Cass Project (500 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14204): Paintings by Ian de Beer in main lobby. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Gisela Colón: Glo-Pods, through Feb 12. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8562717, cepagallery.org): Liagnxiang Wu: A Modern Flaneur’s Possession, CEPA Gallery Members’ Exhibition, Richardson Center Corporation & CEPA Gallery: The Richardson Olmsted Complex, all on view through Mar 4. Mon-Fri 9am5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Daily Planet Coffee Company (1862 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, 716- 551-0661): Jeremy Pratt: I Will Not Be Broken. On view through Feb 5. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com): The Old and the New: 180 Years of Painting and the Arts. Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm. FF El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Screen Shot, drawings by Patrick Foran and video installation work by Javier Sanchez on view through Feb 25. Opening reception Fri, Feb 3 6-9pm. Tue-Sat 12-5pm.

Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Amid/In WNY Epilogue: Bruce Adams, Dennis Bertram, Brita d’Agostino, Patrick Foran, Andy Krzystek, Rosemary Lyons, Alicia Malik, Mizin Shin, J. Eric Simpson, and Patrick Willett. On view through Feb 24. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. Hi-Temp (79 Perry Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 852-5656, Gallery hours are by appointment only): Joseph Piccillo, Resource:Art’s “Eminent” series. Opening reception Thu Jan 26, 7-9pm (Catered preview reception 5:30-7pm, $35.) Through Feb 11, by appointment only: 2491320. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. On view through Apr 26. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Za Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Special winter Feature by John Rummell (18611942): on view through Feb 4. Tue-Sat 9:30am5:30pm. 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. Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-652-3270, norbergsartandframe.com): Local artists: Kathleen West, Bradley Widman, Peter Potter, and Miranda Roth. Tue-Sat 10am–5pm. FF Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): Paintings by Glenn Kroetsch, opening reception Fri Feb 3 ,7-9pm. On view through Feb 28. Wed-Fri, 12-7pm (until 9pm on first Fridays), Sat & Sun 12-5pm. FF Pine Apple Company (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/ store/pine-apple-company): Work for sale by Thomas James Holt, Yames Moffitt, Esther Neisen, Mickey Harmon, Mike West, and Sarah Liddell. Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. FF 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 Leibel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, Kisha Patterson, Lindsay Strong, Frank Russo, Michael Mulley. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Between theh Gates: Timothy Patrick Butler, Chris Buzelli, Steven Daily, Caitlin Karolczak, Greg Kuppinger, Craig LaRotonda, Maria Pabico LaRotonda, Dave MacDowell, Daniel “MythCity” Marcil, Dustin Myers, Kevin Peterson, Cate Rangel, Krystopher Sapp, and Joe Vollan. On view through Feb 4. FF Sports Focus Physical Therapy (531 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202, 332-4838, sportsfocuspt.com): Jill Gustafson Glunz: Paintings and Drawings. On view through Feb 28. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, 6-9pm on first Fridays. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Sondra Perry: flesh out. On view through Apr 1. Tue-Sat, 12pm-5pm. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio. org): Bobby Griffiths and Ray Barret. On view through Feb 28. FF Studio Hart (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 536-8337, studiohart.com): We Were Here: Ten Great Years at Studio Hart through Feb 22. Opening reception Fri, Feb 3, 6-9pm. Tue-Fri 11:30am-3:30pm, Sat 12-4pm, and open every First Friday 6-9pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Open by event and on Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries.org): The Human Aesthetic, Cravens World. Wed-Sat 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): Screen Projects: Lilly McElroy: The Square—After Roberto Lopardo, 2005 through Feb 5. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Photography Program Student Exhibit, on view through Feb 17. Opening reception Fri, Feb 3, 5:30-7:30pm. Mon-Fri 8am8pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 348-1430, wnybookarts.org): White.Lines.Matter: Edreys Wajed on view through Mar 10. Opening reception Fri Feb 3, 6-9pm. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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BRUCE ADAMS: Untitled 029 (Shop Vac), from the exhibition Amid/In WNY Epilogue, currently on view at Hallwalls through February 24.

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WEDNESDAY FEB 1 Fun-a-Day (All day) Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St.

[FUN] Fun-a-Day is a project developed by Sugar City, a local arts collaborative. The idea is simple; to do something fun every day for the entire month of February and to document it. For many people, that means creating a piece of artwork every day—the artwork being the document of the fun thing you did. The project can be as big and grandious or as simple and easy as you choose. The next step then, starting March 1, is to drop your project off at Sugar City (and they’ll email you an exact time to drop off your project). Then on March 16, there’ll be an art opening with everyone’s Fun-A-Day projects displayed. The show will remain up until April 8, and then folks return to pick up their project to do with it what they’d like. Participants are encouraged to share their work as they create it using the hashtag #buffalofunaday. Hey, maybe your art will even end up on the cover of The Public. You never know. (Note, no need to show up at Sugar City on February 1, simply begin working on your project). -CP

FIRST FRIDAY FRIDAY FEB 3 MUTUAL FRIENDS “Instant Gratification” video Recommended if you like: Arcade Fire, The Shins, Death Cab For Cutie

Indie rock band Mutual Friends have just released the video to their song “Instant Gratification.” The slow motion indie-pop song has singer Kevin Scoma in existential crisis presumably over social media or the online dating scene. The artfully shot video portrays the band’s frontman on a contemplative search for a bae with a certain je ne sais quois.

6PM / VARIOUS LOCATIONS / FREE [ART] The news feed on your phone isn’t going to get any better any time soon, don’t forget to stop and smell the art that every day, and particularly, ever First Friday offers when area art galleries open their doors into the evening hours. As always, the Friday events are anchored by the Albright-Knox’s event where admission is free, although we highly recommend dropping whatever it takes to check out the Picasso exhibit on its last few weeks of display. We recommend you check our “In Galleries Now” listing for a full list and choose wisely, but two openings in downtown/ Allentown which would pair well with whatever else your evening has in store are Edreys Wajed at WNYBAC (468 Washington Street) and Dale Schwalenberg at Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street). Wajed supplied us with this amazing centerfold a few weeks back from his upcoming show titled White.Lines.Matter. An emerging artist, this show provides a glimpse at an artist on the cusp with work that reflects and comments on our broader national discourse. Something of the opposite, but no less interesting on the surface, can be found in Schwalenberg’s Western New York Landscapes show. Schwalenberg’s photographed “landcapes” aren’t landscapes in the traditional sense, but dense micro-forest scenes that appear like they could have been taken either in Zoar Valley or behind the closest gas station, requestioning the role of “wildness” in the process. And there’s two openings on that same block of Allen: drawings by Patrick Foran matched with video work by Javier Sanchez at El Museo, and a Ten Year celebration and opening for Studio Hart. -AARON LOWINGER

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Two local musicians, Ideal and Jacebeats have teamed up on a collaboration called Mega Powers. Their latest release is a track and video titled “Hit the Streets,” which is directed by Kino. The track, which samples “Let’s Stay Together” by Al Green, comes from the duo’s upcoming album 0=1. The video has the two on the rooftops and walking the streets of Buffalo.

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Sharon Bailey 7pm Pausa Art House, 19 Wadsworth St. $7-$5

[JAZZ] Fair warning: Singer Sharon Bailey has lots of friends. So if you plan to see her perform at Pausa this Wednesday, February 1—and you should plan to, because she’s great—get there early, settle in at a table in the back room where the music happens, get a glass of wine and some appetizers fresh from the toaster oven behind the bar. Bailey is as talented and versatile a jazz singer as this city offers, and that’s saying something. And Pausa, which is all about the musicians, is the perfect—if slightly undersized—venue in which to hear her sing. She will be backed by Drew Azzinaro on guitar and Eamon Rayon on bass. -GK

THURSDAY FEB 2 Small Works by WNY Artists: From the Gerald Mead Collection 5pm Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library, 2001 Main St.

[ART] We at The Public have been blessed with the good will of art collector and patron Gerald Mead: Works from his collection hang on the wall of our offices on Potomac Avenue. But we are hardly alone as subjects of Mead’s generosity with his extensive and growing collection, which focuses on regional artists. He frequently offers works from his collection for exhibition, and the latest exhibit opens this Friday, February 3, at Canisius College’s Andrew L. Bowhuis Library. The theme is small works, a notion dear to Mead’s heart; an artist himself, Mead makes very small pieces, bricolage. Everything in this show is seven inches square or smaller— just right, really, for carrying in pocket. Isn’t it nice to think about that? -GK

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TIG NOTARO FRIDAY FEB 3 7PM / TRALF MUSIC HALL, 622 MAIN ST. / $35 [COMEDY] Comedian Tig Notaro is not a dark person, she says. Even in the face of caner, she laughed. She laughed through her disease, which she was diagnosed with in 2012, and now she is in remission. This year, she released her memoir I’m Just a Person, in which she talks about that dark year that failed to break her. The subject matter sounds a little heavy for a comedian, but on stage the 45-year-old comedian from Jackson, Mississippi effortlessly transforms that pain into laughter. Tig Notaro comes to the Tralf Music Hall on Friday, February 3. -CORY PERLA

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7pm Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Ave free

[DISCUSSION] As part of their annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, Buffalo State College welcomes activist and writer Michaela Angela Davis to the Burnchfield Penney Art Center on Thursday, February 2. Through her writing, Davis has explored beauty and identity, leading her to adopt the title of “image activist.” Admission is free and open to the public -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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JOHNNY CASH BIRTHDAY BASH FRIDAY FEB 3 10PM / NIETZSCHE'S, 248 ALLEN ST. / $5 [TRIBUTE] In 2016, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named Johnny Cash a “Music Masters Honoree,” which means the rock institute focused a week on Cash’s brand of genre bending musicianship. “What’s so amazing about Cash is that almost every musician you ask will tell you that they love his music — from the rockabilly and country of his Sun Records recordings in the 1950s, and his outlaw image and his famous concerts at Folsom Prison and San Quentin, to his enduring love for June Carter Cash and their music work together,” said Jason Hanley vice president of education and visitor engagement for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The acts that will perform at the 6th annual Johnny Cash Birthday Bash celebration at Nietzsche’s on Friday, February 3, seem to share that same perspective, as each will likely underscore exactly what they love about Cash’s unique style. The show, presented by Andrew J Reimers will feature Reimers’ band The CPX, as well as Ten Cent Howl, The Bear and the Bison, Leroy Townes, and a special appearance from the cast of 710 Theatre’s “Ring of Fire” production. -CORY PERLA

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Get the Led Out 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $24-$29

[TRIBUTE] Led Zeppelin tour dates are hard to come by these days, so your next best bet is to grab a spot in front of the stage at a Get the Led Out show. The six-piece Led Zeppelin cover band based out of Philadelphia delivers a two hour set of Zeppelin hits and deep cuts that spans the English hard rock band’s entire career. Get the Led Out comes to the Town Ballroom on Thursday, February 2. -TPS

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GET OUT/DIVERSIFIED PRESENTS: GAY BOYS AT BILLY CLUB 7pm-9pm, Billy Club, 224 Allen

Check out this informal mixer at a relatively new neighborhood venue and share ideas about how to take Buffalo’s LGBT scene to the next level.

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BPO & ALAIN LEFEVRE: AMERICAN IN PARIS SATURDAY FEB 4 8PM / KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL, 3 SYMPHONY CIRCLE / $29-$82 [CLASSICAL] The most famous themes from George Gershwin’s 1928 symphonic poem are as firmly embedded in our collective cultural memory as any other 20th-century music, underpinned there by their use in film, television, everywhere. And of course, An American in Paris is a staple of symphonic repertoires—as is Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, which is also on the program at Kleinhans this weekend. But most people know these pieces from their uses outside the concert hall, evidence that great art is indeed part of our everyday lives. Joining the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor JoAnn Falletta is the spectacular Canadian pianist Alain Lefevre, who will also play Michael Colgrass’s As quiet as… and Andre Mathieu’s Concerto No. 3 “De Quebec.” -GEOFF KELLY

[COMEDY] Australian comedian Jim Jefferies likes to talk shit. In fact, he once ran a podcast with fellow comedian Eddie Ifft called Jim and Eddie Talkin’ Shit. On stage, Jefferies is considered an insult comic, which might be part of the reason that early on in his career he was attacked on stage while performing. Jefferies took it in stride though, even incorporating the incident into his act at the time. But that was back in 2007, and the 39-year-old comedian from Perth, Australia has moved on to more bigger and more intriguing topics, like “taking America to task” on his new Netflix Original comedy special Jim Jefferies: Freedumb. If you prefer the live version, you can catch Jefferies on his Unusual Punishment Tour, which comes to the UB Center for the Arts on Thursday, February 2. -CP

TIG NOTARO 8pm, Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St.

Out comic and breast cancer survivor Tig Notaro returns to Buffalo with her dependable wit and wisdom.

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Light as a Feather/Stiff as a Board 7pm Dreamland, 387 Franklin St.

[ART] Opening this Friday, February 3 Light as a Feather/Stiff as a Board is a two site exhibit curated by Dana Tyrell, that opens nearly simultaneously at Dreamland and Sugar City. Sugar City hosts Light as a Feather, while Dreamland hosts the counterpart, Stiff as a Board. The two exhibits feature artists Jenna Curran, Michael Degnan, Jacob Kassay, Dana Mcknight, Ann Moody, Tommy Nguyen, Jesse Pace, and Rebecca Wing. Though the openings overlap, Light as a Feather runs from 5:30pm-8pm, while Stiff as a Board runs from 7pm-10pm, so for those who’d like to see both, we suggest going in that order. -CP

BUA PRESENTS: STEVE 8pm, Alleyway Theatre, Curtain Up Alley

Be sure not to miss the latest BUA offering, Mark Gerrard’s contemplation of midlife and mortality, STEVE, now in its next-to-last weekend.

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[HIP HOP] Mohawk Place has a huge hip hop show lined up for Monday, February 6 and it’s free. the show features Savannah, Georgia’s Dope KNife, the rapper, producer, and director of Dope Sandwich Records. The rapper’s debut album, NineteenEightyFour, which was just released last week, features names like Sage Francis. The line up also includes a slew of local talent like Chuckie Campbell & Black Den, Absalute, Rap and Destroy, Frigid Giant, Shuteyes, L Biz, G Premacy, and Mad Dukez. Not only is it free (though, come on guys feel free to donate) there’ll also be some complimentary promotional packages for the first 25 guests which include coupons to local eateries and distilleries in the Buffalo area, as well as an informative booklet on all of our performers. -CORY PERLA

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[PARTY] Dance Days of Buffalo invites everyone to come out and bust a move for a great cause. The organization is hosting a dance party at the Allen St. Hardware Café on Friday, February 3 from 8pm to 11pm. Admission to the party, which will be held in the bar’s back room, is only $5. The proceeds will go towards helping fund this year’s Dance Days of Buffalo, which is the city’s three-day dance festival taking place from August 4-6. Two door prizes, including a $50 gift certificate to Evolation Yoga and a three-day pass to Dance Days 2017 (valued at $150), will be raffled off. DJ CropTop & Natron will provide the beats. The back room will technically be open for dancing until 3am, but those who attend this event will have the dance floor all to themselves until 11pm. This event is 21+. -VANESSA OSWALD

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PEACH PICKS ON PEACH: Breaking from the conventional, this week on Peach we featured two gifs by visual artist Richard Kerwin, entitled “voting” and “there is real danger in your dreams.” In “voting,” a blurry robot creaks back and forth while a subtitle-like text reads, “voting is play-acting medieval warfare where you compare army sizes and the victor gets to pillage everything”—the perfect sentiment for how this year is beginning to unfold. “These are the names of the faces that slither out at me from the kitchen sink and bite the bedsheets around my feet in the middle of the night,” writes Sheldon Lee Compton in his short story, “Drowning the Witch.” Peach is often home to the gritty and dark, but I would argue that this is probably the most rattling piece we’ve published yet. In it, the protagonist commits suicide after being haunted by the memory of one of the many children he’s murdered. The reader spends the first half of the story amassing sympathy for the protagonist, ensuring that the list of names and ages of his innocent victims in the pages to follow hits all the more disturbing.“Normally, there was some other trait or imagined slight that offended me and turned the switch on, but not with shy Anthony,” writes Compton of one particular victim. “It was unbearable, and I knew I would follow him in.”

ONLINE: Difficult Women by Roxane Gay (short stories) Grove Press, 272 pages In this timely collection, Roxane Gay presents the stories of a wide variety of women in all their amazing complexity. She begins by poetically listing and categorizing the groups into which women often find themselves placed: the frigid women, mothers, crazy women, loose women. In many ways, Difficult Women reads like a cross between a field guide of women and a sociology textbook, giving context in sections like “Why a Crazy Woman is Misunderstood,” or “How She Got That Way.” The final description has stuck with me most, that of the dead girl: “Death makes them more interesting. Death makes them more beautiful. It’s something about their bodies on display in final repose—eyes wide open, lips blue, limbs stiff, skin cold.”

IN TOWN: LOCAL READING REVIEW: Last Wednesday, Caffe Aroma resurrected their monthly open mic series, this time with a new host, local poet and playwright Justin Karcher. Many of the poets who packed themselves into the café read work about the bittersweet realities of Buffalonian life—all the love and frustration and 4 a.m. nights. A line that stands out was read by Karcher from his collection of poems,Tailgating at the Gates of Hell (Ghost City Press, 2015): “People from Buffalo are strange and intimate creatures, grinding their bodies against each other, while tailgating at the gates of hell,hooting and hollering and cheering.” Another favorite of the night was when Skylar Jaye Rutkowski read an untitled poem about the gentrification of our city, in which she discussed fearing that the hispanic sections of our grocery stores would soon become organic, that homes would become too expensive, and that the “Queen City has been burned alive at every sunset.”What I loved about last night’s open mic was how welcoming it felt; I couldn’t tell whether everyone in the place already knew each other (unlikely) or whether the veterans ensured that every person who volunteered a poem would be celebrated with snaps, hoots, hollers, and cheers.

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[COMEDY] Comedian Mike Birbiglia describes his latest hour of stand up as “raw.” After touring dozens of cities on his Thank God for Jokes material, the 38-year-old comedian from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts is trying out some new material, and he wants you to be his guinea pig. “I’ve never been more excited about standup in my whole career,” he says. As rough as it might be, I promise that my heart will be in it and sometimes my writing has to catch up to my heart. That said, they will be fun. And funny.” Birbiglia comes to Helium Comedy Club this Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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11:30pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $3

[METAL] The next edition of Mohawk Place’s new series, Friday Night Heavy, the late night metal, punk, and hardcore showcase, comes this Friday. The event features Buffalo death metal band Nethergrave and grindcore band and fellow Buffalo natives Prepare for the Mindscan. -TPS

SUNDAY FEB 5 March for Immigrant and Muslim Solidarity 1pm, location TBA

[MARCH] We don't have the specifics of the location yet, we just know you should try to be there and stand for religious freedom and American pluralism at this Sunday's March for Immigrant and Muslim Solidarity. Look for the event details to be posted and shared on Facebook, and make a stand for your neighbors and honor this city's growing history of religious and cultural diversity. -AL

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[INDIE] Mister Goodbar welcomes a solid line up of indie rock to the stage on Saturday, February 4. The line up includes The Soft Love, Handsome Jack, and Deadwolf. -CP

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Girls Drink Beer (from left to right): Tessa Lowe, Cassie Czuprynski, Syrie Roman, and Angela Schroeder.

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GIRLS DRINK BEER LOOKS TO EXPAND PALATES & PERCEPTIONS YOU’RE OUT WITH your friends looking to blow off some steam after a horrible day of work. You’ve been looking forward all day to a wellearned draught and you place your order. The bartender replies, “Oh, you don’t want that one, sweetie. How about a Blue Moon or a shandy?” You blink twice, making sure this is what is happening.

“No, I’d like the double rye IPA,” you repeat. “Are you sure? It’s really strong,” the bartender asks. If this sounds frustrating to you, you’ve never experienced it. If you rolled your eyes will reading it, you can unfortunately relate. Enter Cassie Czuprynski, Tessa Lowe, Syrie Roman, and Angela Schroeder. Or, simply, Girls Drink Beer. While not an organization that is seeking to overthrow the brewing patriarchy, they have certainly seen the best and worst of the craft beer world. And they are focusing on the best. The idea for the group was hatched on September 14, 2014, Roman quickly tells me with the assistance of her phone. In 2014 the extension .beer was released and Lowe registered a few domain names with the hopes of selling them down the road. Then, on that fateful day, she shared the domain names with Roman. Lowe explains, “But then there was the issue of what do we do? We didn’t want to be another blog reviewing beers, so we had to formulate what we wanted to do before launching something we weren’t prepared for. We started with just creating a social media presence, but that didn’t really get going either until this last year where we are making an effort to really populate our Instagram account.”

Fortunately for them, all four travel quite a bit which offers a variety of locales and beers to document. Just in the last year at least one of the women could be found at a beer event in London, Oktoberfest in Tampa Bay, amongst others. “While currently we are documenting what is happening at these places outside of Buffalo, we want it to be a catalyst for the Buffalo beer scene to expand. We have a lot to offer here and we want to help spread the word,” said Schroeder. To that end they are growing their social media presence and it isn’t just Buffalo beer geek types, it is people from all over. One way the ydo it is to constantly try new beers and tag the breweries. “How could we limit ourselves to just one kind of beer?” asked Roman with a mischievous smirk. They widen their knowledge be continuing something they began quite innocently enough years ago when they wanted to learn more about beer: a bottle share. Think of it as a beer potluck. They would go to Premier or Village Beer Merchant and other similar bottle shops and buy a bunch of assorted bottles and taste them and talk about them and learn about their styles. From there, their knowledge as well as tastes became more refined. This communal approach to learning allowed them to try things they wouldn’t have otherwise. They didn’t have to commit to a 6-pack or a 750ml bomber that they might despise. Now that they have a solid bedrock of knowledge, it is less about trying new styles (though they would be happy to) and more about trying breweries that are new to them. “Since one of us is always traveling, we’ll bring back bottles and cans that are exclusive to that area and so you never get to try. So then we sit around, try them, talk about them and then we’ll post about them. Sometimes we get re-posted from brew-

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eries like Stone (Brewing Company) and that certainly helps,” said Lowe.

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OUR STOPS We want on a tour of three breweries that were selected because they all have strong links to women in craft beer.

THIN MAN BREWERY 492 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo Multi-floor brewery (which features an excellent eponymous burger and roasted veggie plate!) on Elmwood. Highlights include: Hop Pants and Burning Monkey. Minkey Boodle gets an honorable mention as the most unique brew from any of the spots.

COMMUNITY BEER WORKS 15 Lafayette Avenue, Buffalo This tiny spot offers a bare-bones tap room. This is Buffalo’s most unique and quirky spot to taste what’s fresh. Highlights include: Interrobang IPA and the Joint Venture (with Rochester’s 3 Heads) Sour Ale.

12 GATES BREWERY 80 Earhart Drive, Williamsville Tucked away inside of a business park is 12 Gates. Highlights include: West Coast Style IPA and the Buffalo Tripel.

As their reputation grows, and as they become influencers themselves, they are expanding into promotional events and consulting, starting with the first stop on our tour, 12 Gates in Amherst. “We want to work with other breweries, taprooms, and bottle shops, not just for promotional purposes, or to get a gig, but to bring a female perspective to things.” Lowe continues, “A lot of people in the industry are realizing that there is a female market and we don’t want to alienate them. How do they do that? At 12 Gates they have an intern (Cory) who is studying at ECC for her Brewing Certificate.” As our flights arrived, Schroeder shifted the conversation to the members of the team, “We all bring something different to the table, which is one of our greatest strengths. Cass (Cassie Czuprynski) is super knowledgeable about brewing beer.” “And I also opened up and ran a bottle shop in East Aurora [ed. Aurora Brew Works],” said Czuprynski. “Tessa has a marketing background, with a little bit of photography. And Syrie—” “Event planning and food and beverage,” said Roman. Angela Schroeder’s story was a bit more personal, “I actually got into all of this from bartending. I bartended to put myself through college. It was in Erie, Pennsylvania, at a craft beer bar just when craft beer was beginning to take off. They had over 160 bottles and I just couldn’t understand why. Why would you have this many? Who would come in for this? And then I started trying a new beer each time my shift ended and before you know it, I’m in. It’s fun.” “That is a big part about craft beer. Having fun while learning,” echoed Roman. “Right now, sours are in the forefront and some people are like, ‘I can’t get into a sour.’” said Lowe. “My parents, for example, were anti-IPA for a long time. Then, each time we were out, I made them try a little bit of mine and now they are texting me pictures of bottles and cans.” “We want people to have fun drinking beer. We want to bring together breweries and people. We want to bring Buffalo breweries to other places,” said Schroeder. “Our personalities are extremely different, our talents are different, and this is what brings us together,” said Czuprynski. Cheers, ladies.

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When you first were introduced to Verve, did you know a lot about Hip-Hop culture, or were you just interested? I didn’t know a lot about

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marketing strategies and developing company newsletters for the non-for-profit health service, you can find her bustin loose on the dance floor. This week we met up with her at Tipico Coffee to learn more. How do you feel being a female breakdancer in Buffalo? I think it’s an honor to represent wom-

en breaking in Buffalo. I also wish that there were more women involved.

Is there a tight-knit community of women who breakdance in Buffalo? I know of one other

b-girl. There’s been some other women over the years that have been here either through the colleges or just run in that were breaking at the time. But that I know of? There’s just a few of us. Do you feel comfortable moving your body?

To physically do some of the moves, you can’t be afraid. As you’re learning things, you’re pushing through all this self doubt, all this literal fear of “Am I going to hurt myself? Should I really be doing that?” So you’re pushing through all of these things to ultimately learn something new, to get better at your art or increase your skills. But you develop confidence, and that’s for any dance style. Do you often battle other b-girls? More so in other places I’ve battled other b-girls. There’s been some girls I’ve battled with, say, a two-versus-two. A few times there’s been people from Buffalo breaking at the time and other b-girls I know come down to Buffalo and we’ve battled together. B-boying is a male-dominated dance form, right, and you can tell by really saying “b-boying.” You can use the term “b-girling” but b-boying does apply for all breakers. PHOTO BY HAYLEY ELLEN DAY

B-GIRL STACY “RESOLVE” VANBLARCOM BY SCHONDRA AYTCH

MEET ONE OF THE FEW, THE PROUD FEMALE BREAKDANCERS IN WESTERN NEW YORK WHILE ATTENDING one of Verve Dance Studio’s

monthly dance battles, I witnessed an unassuming, smiley, petite woman elevate the room with her high-flying tricks and groovy rhythm. She transitioned from complicated floor-work into subtle moves that gave just the right bounce. Like the crowd, astonished and with a gust of enthusiasm, I cheered, satisfied that Resolve gave the b-boys a run for their money. Stacy “Resolve” VanBlarcom is a resident dancer and teacher at the studio. Apart from the breaking group Differential Flava Crew, she is one of few female breakdancers in Buffalo. And she is a notable creative force. Verve, a hub for local hip hop dancers has been providing classes and hosting battles and community events since 2005. Established by Shane Fry, the studio is integral in maintaining the breakdancing culture here in Buffalo. A public relations professional by day, VanBlarcom has used her talents to support the community. Her nickname Resolve came after she realized how much she enjoys being around her peers, and having the determination not to give up on anyone or anything. Ryan Nash, a fellow

crewmate in Differential Flava Crew, explained just how much he appreciates his friendship with Stacy. “Stacy is a friend-asset, someone who is not only a kind person and an honest friend, but also committed to improvement, so that it encourages people around her to act similarly. She has a sort of resolute enthusiasm that helps me improve my projects and my dancing. I met her when I was a freshman at UB, and through the years her energy has certainly contributed to my happiness. Stacy is committed to improving herself and bettering her community. It is great to be included.” A dance teacher as well, Stacy is committed to having a positive impact. “As a student of dance, taking class with Stacy has always been an empowering experience,” says a student from one of her former B-Girl Bootcamp classes. ”Her passion for the technique, foundation and overall culture of whatever style she’s teaching is inspiring to me. What I most love about her as a dancer, teacher and friend is the way she strives to make what she does ridiculously fun and educational for all ages and skill levels.” Now with more than 20 years of trained experience that includes jazz and hip hop under her belt, this triple threat is only getting better. Originally from Rochester, the St. John Fisher alumna is a communications manager at Lifetime Health Medical Group. When she’s not managing over

break. He bought two copies of the same record so that when the break ended on one record he could flip it and keep it going for as long as he wanted. And that allowed people to develop their moves further. If I have minute to dance, I’ll have a lot more to do with it.

Really? It’s just called b-boying, but you can

specify b-girling if you want…

How do you feel about that? Well, I have mixed feelings about it being separated, So you have in larger areas or larger battles there will be a B-girl and a b-boy category; they’ll be separate. What that does then is that it holds you to a different standard. So I think in some ways, it holds women back. Because if you think about there being no separation, then you have to meet the same standard everyone has to…at the same time it’s a really beautiful thing to dance with other women. I’ve been to some really cool events specifically geared toward women in hip-hop. There’s some really cool programs out there and it is an awesome thing to just—anytime women gather with each other it’s, it’s awesome. But, if the battles weren’t separated, you know—we’re all competing against each other. What makes Verve special? Verve is something

that I think everyone in Buffalo should know about. I always find new people who’ve never heard of it and it’s actually been in the community for 11 years. It’s a really valuable resource, that offers the same environment where kids can learn. It’s a really unique place in Buffalo, and its unique in the breaking community as well, just as a family friendly place and a place to learn about hip hop culture. All the friendships and relationships that have developed because of Verve and because of Battle @ Buffalo is just astronomical. I think that has a huge value in the community because you’re meeting and developing friendships with people who are not like you, but you share this common passion. And you share a common love for hip-hop culture. I notice that when a song comes on, you know the song and it gets you hype. So you have to know a lot of 1990s but also a lot of 1970s music. A lot of the classic breaks came from the

1970s and they’re still used at the biggest battles in the world today. One of my favorite songs is called “Pam.” It’s by Crazy Elephant, that’s the name of the band, and it was made in 1969. Do think breakdancing has preserved the hiphop culture? The fact that it originated from breaks in 1970s music. You feel the breaks,

dancers would wait until the break of a song. So that 10 or 15 seconds that were the drums and the bass and everything else goes away— they would wait. They would stand around just kinda dancing at these parties right? And Kool Herc was actually the first person to extend the

the history, that was all research that I did. I was introduced to early hip-hop like Eric B and Rakim, the Beastie Boys most through my older brother. Badu, actually the first CD I ever owned was Baduizm. I’m proud of that one but, yeah as far as hip-hop history and research about the culture, that was all stuff that I did. What is the most interesting thing you learned within researching hip-hop history? There is alot, alot. I think one of the most significant

things is that people wrote about the social issues that were happening in their neighborhoods, in their communities, in their lives, and so you have people, like say MC Lyte, and she’s 14, 15, whatever writing her first album—and she’s talking about crack in her neighborhood, and how that was affecting things. And I just think it as a way to give a voice—giving voice to people who otherwise didn’t have that opportunity or vehicle to express themselves or be heard. I definitely think that music and art in general helps us understand each other, when we can identify, or something makes us feel similarly—you know just something that we’ve experienced; it’s a connection. People don’t feel alone, which is important. When you’re listening to something someone else has produced then you can feel what they’re saying and you don’t feel alone in your experience. You also teach House. I’m interested. You

should take it! It’s every Thursday from 6pm to 7pm through February 9. But the week after that, we start Advanced Hip-Hop. I’m not sure if house music originated in Chicago, but it’s deep in Chicago, right? It origi-

nated in Chicago. There was a place called “The Warehouse,” and there were people who DJed at the Warehouse and who also worked at a record store called Imports Etc. They had a section of records that were being played at the Warehouse at the time and people would come in looking for those records and it became the “Warehouse” music section and it just got shortened to “House.” It’s a dance that developed in clubs… I see you most as a breakdancer, so how did you start teaching House? I started housing… Housing? Is that a verb? Yup, housing—about 6 years ago and I really just learned from other friends I knew who were house dancers. They would always tell me just do what you feel. So from workshops and dancing with other friends and traveling and over the years I’ve picked up the housing style and developed my own stuff. It’s a very free dance, anyway. My style of house isn’t gonna look like other people’s style. You had the opportunity to dance with the late Sharon Jones. How was that? She was incred-

ible and I was always inspired by her because she didn’t find commercial success until later in life. There’s a documentary that’s out now about Sharon Jones. She talks about how she was basically told, “You’re too fat, you’re too short, you’re too black, you’re too old.” Just all these reasons why she couldn’t have a successful music career. I don’t know how to describe it really, but I did get to dance on stage with her—it wasn’t a planned thing. It was at a concert in Rochester in I think 2012 and we were in the audience and we were just cyphering. We just had a circle going in the audience and she called us up there and I think she kept us up there for two whole songs. And she actually changed their set list so that they could play something faster for us to dance to. And I just thought that that was so cool because who does that? She didn’t feel the need to always have the spotlight. Just the fact that she changed her set. I will never forget it. What is your message for female dancers? For women: You’re just as capable as men to learn breaking, you’re strong enough. I hear women say that a lot. “Oh, I don’t have the upper body strength.” But you develop it, all the muscle that you get from breaking is all functional muscle. It’s gonna come as you learn your foundation. And you’re just gonna build up all the strength you need. For the women’s class, I try to talk about significant women in hip hop in all the elements—so DJs, female graffiti artists, female P MCs, and b-girls, of course.

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FILM REVIEW

TEARS OF A CLOWN THE COMEDIAN BY M. FAUST ONE OF ROBERT DE NIRO’S most indelible performances, albeit one that wasn’t widely seen when the film was first released, was in Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy (1983). He played Rupert Pupkin, a loser with dreams of being a standup comedian. Pupkin’s lack of talent and pathetic neediness made him difficult to watch, which was one reason why the movie didn’t do well with the few audiences that got to see it.

The fact that King of Comedy has found a cult over the years may explain why De Niro wanted to make The Comedian, which has been in various stages of development since at least 2011. Maybe he wanted to see what Rupert might have turned into had he became successful. Or maybe he just wanted another chance to visit the way a stand-up comic turns his personal failings and anger into stage material, offering his pain for laughs. You can guess all day because whatever the answer is, it sure isn’t clear from the finished film. De Niro plays Jackie Berkowitz, a comic who has seen better days. Thirty years ago he had a hit sitcom in which he played a cranky-but-loveable cop named Eddie. That’s the guy that audiences still want to see. The film opens with Jackie performing at a nostalgia show with other comics in the same boat (the host is Jimmy Walker, one of numerous familiar comics who dot the film). When he loses his temper at a heckler armed with a camera, he ends up in court. Doing community service brings him into contact with Har-

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 THE COMEDIAN—Robert De Niro as a vulgar standup comic whose audience still demands the sitcom character he played 30 years ago. With Leslie Mann, Danny DeVito, Harvey Keitel, Edie Falco, Patti LuPone, Charles Grodin, and Cloris Leachman. Directed by Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman). Dipson Flix THE SPACE BETWEEN US—A teenage boy (Asa Butterfield) who was born on the first human colony on Mars visits Earth for the first time. Good sign: directed by Peter Cheslom, whose early films (Funny Bones, Hear My Song) were promisingly quirky. Bad sign: the studio has pushed back the release date several times. Co-starring Britt Robertson, Janet Montgomery, Carla Gugino, and Gary Oldman. Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria RINGS—Long-delayed second sequel to the 2002 American remake of the Japanese horror film about…hey, wake up! Starring Vincent D’Onofrio, Laura Wiggins, Aimee Teegarden and Bonnie Morgan. Directed by F. Javier Gutiérrez. Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE—A father and son, both coroners, are pulled into a complex mystery while attempting to identify the mysteriously preserved body of a young woman found in the basement of a house that was the site of a brutal murder. That this horror movie is the kind with a supernatural element (as opposed to the ones about monstrous human behavior) doesn’t become apparent until half-way through, though it’s a relief when it does. The details of the film’s climax are muddled, but overall it’s still original and deftly handled, one of the better scary movies I’ve seen in recent years Starring Emile Hirsch, Brian Cox, and Ophelia Lovibond. Directed by André Øvredal (Trollhunter). Fri 7pm, 9:15pm; Sat 2pm, 7pm, 9:15pm; Sun, Tues, Wed 7:30pm. Screening Room

Leslie Mann and Robert De Niro in The Comedian.

mony (Leslie Mann), a younger woman with anger issues of her own. The age difference is too large for a romantic relationship, as at least she realizes, but she becomes his companion as he tries to turn his recent notoriety into some career juice. (Hard work never helps him out, but in an age of cel phones and YouTube, getting in trouble often does.) If The Comedian is supposed to have any particular theme, it’s hard to tell what. Jackie’s material is misogynistic and bitter, with marriage a particular target. Sometimes it’s painfully to watch: called on to entertain a room filled with octogenarians at a Florida nursing home, he improvises new lyrics to the old song “Making Whoopie” called “Making Poopie.” But it’s hardly news that modern comedy is so bottomlessly vulgar.

THE GENERAL (1926)—Widely considered Buster Keaton’s crowning achievement, which is to say, one of the greatest comedies in cinema history. He stars as a Southern engineer of a train during the Civil War, and the stunt sequences involving the real, full-sized locomotive are still astonishing. The writers include Buffalo-born Al Boasberg, at the time one of Hollywood’s most popular gag men. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst HOOLIGAN SPARROW—Shortlisted as an Oscar candidate for Best Documentary, this film follows the efforts of a group of maverick activists in China’s Hainan Province to investigate the case of six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. For their efforts, the activists meet government interrogation, harassment, and imprisonment. Presented by Cultivate Cinema Circle; free and open to the public. Directed by Nanfu Wang. Wed 7pm. Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St. cultivatecinemacircle.com/hooligan-sparrow/ THE MUMMY (1999)— Stephen Sommers’s entertaining update of the classic movie franchise borrows heavily from the Indiana Jones playbook, though like the second film in that series, the one that forced Hollywood to invent the PG-13 rating, the violence is quite strong for kids. Starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Arnold Vosloo, Kevin J. O’Connor, Oded Fehr, and John Hannah. Sat-Sun 11:30am. North Park NINOTCHKA (1939)—Famed as the film where “Garbo laughs!” She plays a stern Soviet officer on official business to France who gets seduced by the pleasures of Paris in the person of Melvyn Douglas. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a script by Billy Wilder, it’s as perfect as romantic comedies get, And how often do you get to see Garbo playing a scene with Bela Lugosi? Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)—Rob Reiner’s fractured fairy tale, adapted by William Goldman from his own novel, with a cast of comedians poking fun at children’s fantasy stories. Starring Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, Billy Crystal, Robin Wright Penn, Peter Falk, Peter Cook, Mel Smith, and Carol Kane. Fri, Sat, Tue 7:30pm. Screening Room ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (Italy, 1959)—Luchino Visconti’s lengthy (three hours), operatically intense epic about five young men and their mother who relocate from the impoverished southern region of Italy to the north, where they hope to find work.

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Asked to give a toast at the wedding of a niece who barely knows him, Jackie goes off the deep end—but pulls it out with a sweet finale. (That was something that old school comics like Buddy Hackett and Don Rickles knew: you can say the foulest things imaginable as long as you finish up with some sugar.) The Comedian (which is credited to four screenwriters, never a good sign) never wants too go too far into Jackie’s psyche. He gets to have some personal growth and end the film a better guy than when he started. Along the way the movie distracts us with supporting characters (played by Danny De Vito, Edie Falco, Charles Grodin, Patti LuPone, Cloris Leachman) who mostly fill time until this happens. As Harmony’s father, Harvey Keitel gets to a brief De Niro impression that you wish had been longer. P Which is more than you can say for the movie itself.

Starring Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou and Claudia Cardinale. The Wednesday screening will be introduced by riverrun Global Film Series curator Tanya Shilina-Conte. Thursday’s screening will be introduced by The Public’s M. Faust. Presented by Cultivate Cinema Circle. Weds Feb 8, Thurs Feb 9, 7pm. Hallwalls.

CONTINUING THE ACCOUNTANT—The premise sounds like a Monty Python skit: an action film whose hero is a member of the world’s least dangerous profession. But the result is surprisingly entertaining, with Ben Affleck as an autistic savant raised by a military father who had his own ideas on how to prepare him for survival in a cruel world. The character’s backstory unfolds along with the present-day one that ties in mobsters, government agents, and crooked businessmen, and the result is finally a bit overstuffed: It’s a 130-minute movie that you wish was longer, if only so that every member of the first-rate cast could have more screen time. Along with Affleck, that includes J. K. Simmons, John Lithgow, Anna Kendrick, Jon Bernthal, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson. Directed by Gavin O’Connor (Jane Got a Gun) —MF Dipson McKinley ARRIVAL—A linguist (Amy Adams) and a mathematician (Jeremy Renner) are recruited by the government to try to communicate with the occupants of 12 alien spacecraft that have landed around the globe, hopefully before the rulers of any other country decide that the ships are a threat and attack them. This speculative fiction movie by Denis Villeneuve (Sicario) is short on action but long on process, and all the more engrossing for it. The place it takes you to, cerebral and emotional, fills a gap left by the absence of a new Christopher Nolan movie, so pay attention. The ambitious and memorable score is by Jóhann Jóhannsson, Co-starring Michael Stuhlbarg and Forest Whitaker. –MF Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria A DOG’S PURPOSE—Director Lasse Hallström could have reused the title of his first international hit, My Life as a Dog, for this fantasy about a dog who learns the meaning of his existence over several lifetimes and owners. Starring Britt Robertson, Dennis Quaid, and Peggy Lipton. Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria FENCES—Set in the 1950s, August Wilson’s play is as lacerating a portrait of American manhood as Death of a Salesman. Denzel Washington (who also directed) recreates his performance from the 2010 Broadway revival of Troy Maxson, a Pittsburgh gar-

bage collector reflecting on the journey of his life. He is a powerful tragic figure, far from flawless, and those flaws are not noble ones, as his wife (Viola Davis, tremendous as she always is given a worthy role) knows too well. Co-starring Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby and Mykelti Williamson. —MF Four Seasons, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE FOUNDER—As Ray Kroc, the man who was not, as you may believe, the founder of McDonald’s but gets the credit for it anyway, Michael Keaton draws on our memories of the role that made him a star, as the “idea man” who turns a morgue into a brothel in the 1982 comedy Night Shift. The film is the story of how Kroc, middle-aged and going nowhere selling restaurant equipment, discovered Dick and Maurice “Mac” McDonald’s California hamburger stand and their assembly-line meal production. Kroc turned it into a ubiquitous international industry, at least partly by ignoring the brothers’ requests after they became partners. (He eventually drove them out of the business entirely.) This bitter-tinged drama about the true nature of modern business success also makes you wonder how much of himself producer Harvey Weinstein saw in Kroc. Co-starring Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Laura Dern, and Linda Cardellini. Directed by John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks). —MF Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria GOLD—Loosely inspired by the Bre-X gold mining scandal, which I can’t imagine means anything to a lot of people. Matthew McConaughey put on 47 pounds, mostly in his belly, for the lead role of a modern prospector who gambles on the existence of a huge gold mine in a remote Indonesian jungle, as predicted by geologist Edgar Ramírez. He throws himself into the role of a sweaty, drunken loser who hits the jackpot. But he doesn’t get enough support from the script, which mostly just marks time until the twist that is the whole thing’s rason d’etre. With Corey Stoll, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bruce Greenwood and Stacy Keach. Directed by Stephen Gaghan (Syriana). –MF Dipson Flix, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria HACKSAW RIDGE— The story of WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, a Virginia farmboy and Conscientious Objector who saved the lives of 75 men at the Battle of Okinawa, is so compelling that you wonder why it wasn’t filmed long ago. As directed by Mel Gibson, whose approach to violence in his previous films can perhaps best be described as hysterical, the result is better than you might expect, if not quite as good as it might have been. The faults are in the script: though the dialogue is strong (and all of the major cast excellent), it lacks too many seemingly important details. Doss’s personal development is confined to a few scenes that

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The household also includes her son’s platonic friend Julie (Elle Fanning), the post-rebellious Abbie (Greta Gerwig), and handyman William (Billy Crudup), all of whom participate in Jamie’s maturation. It’s equally reminiscent of The World According to Garp and Almost Famous, though the rambling perspective points in more directions than it can satisfactorily follow. -MF Regal Quaker, Regal Transit WHY HIM?—What does it say about modern America that every holiday season brings us at least one movie about disparate people struggling to form a family? In this entry, Bryan Cranston is the square Midwestern father struggling to accept her daughter’s fiancée, a free-spirited but insanely rich California weirdo played by (who else?) James Franco. The comedy is largely based on embarrassment, including an endless scene with Cranston sitting on a malfunctioning Japanese toilet. There are no really big laughs, though a fair share of gigglers on the sidelines. 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29 Contents of a cruet

1 Contacts electronically, in a way

56 “Gone with the Wind” plantation, insanely exaggerated?

30 Sasha’s sister

4 They’re the result of extracted genes

60 Duke University city

35 Astronaut affirmative

8 Chunks of fairway

62 “___ Jury” (Spillane detective novel)

36 Johnson & Johnson skin care brand

63 Architect I.M. ___

37 Car on the Autobahn

64 Beezus’s sister

38 Result of evil acts, supposedly

14 Buck’s counterpart 15 “___ that a kick in the pants?” 16 Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny 17 “Friends” costar Courteney 18 Falco of “Nurse Jackie” 19 Kitchen protectors 20 Theme park chain, grossly exaggerated? 23 French realist painter Bonheur

65 Group led by Master Splinter, initially 66 “Wow,” when texting 67 Like beer or bread dough 68 They may have polar bears and giraffes 69 Why the exaggeration? Because it’s this number raised to the nth power

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25 Chef DiSpirito

2 Cow sound in “Old MacDonald” 3 Like some illegal hiring practices

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28 End of many failed ‘90s businesses?

32 “E! News” subject

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