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FILM: Colossal, Graduation, Their Finest, The Void. Plus capsule reviews.

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GOOD NIGHT, SUSAN TANNER BY DONNY KUTZBACH

SUSAN WAS MORTAL, LIKE WE ALL ARE, BUT THIS FIXTURE IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY HAD SUPER POWERS

From there she headed to Philadelphia to work an advanced degree in neuroscience, but fate and the draw of rock-and-roll had other plans. She was offered an internship with Miles Copeland’s I.R.S. Records, arguably the coolest taste-making imprint on the planet at the time. From then on it was sealed: Susan Tanner was in the music business. From I.R.S., she ended up with a full-time job at the industry powerhouse Universal Records at just the time when alternative rock—her stock in trade—was about to take over. At Universal, Susan was central in the ascendancy of a movement, flying across the world with Teenage Fanclub and minding a Seattle band called Nirvana through press conferences and promotional appearances. By the late 1990s, the draw of home was tugging at her; with her parents still in Eden, she moved back to Western New York just in time to get on board with another unique, strong-willed, and passionate homegrown woman: Ani DiFranco. At the height of DiFranco’s and her label Righteous Babe’s success, Susan was shepherding the marketing of a unique “made in Buffalo” brand to a global audience. She remained at Righteous Babe through the launch of Babeville and into the late 2000s. Through her tireless work and devotion, Susan proved herself a key ingredient in the success of many projects and collaborations. There was still one big project, the greatest collaboration in Susan’s life, personally and not surprisingly also in music. In the 1990s, through her work at Universal, she befriended the Hawaiian-shirted record store clerk, show booker, and general music know-it-all Marty Boratin. The years of platonic friendship surprisingly blossomed into a lot more. They became the Queen City’s de facto yin-and-yang rock couple who balanced one another: He the matter-of-fact but lovable record store curmudgeon and she the exuberant, energetic, and boundlessly kind believer. They

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However, if it’s hard to imagine the world without Susan, it is all but impossible to think of a Buffalo music scene without her.

Born and raised in Western New York, Susan graduated from Eden Central and headed to Allegany College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, where her love of music drew her to campus-based radio station WARC 90.3 in the 1980s heyday, when college radio was helping shape the next 20 years of popular music. Her scene of friends there included a synth-obsessed, aspiring musician from Cleveland named Trent Reznor.

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es away that it’s hard to imagine a world without them in it. That is absolutely true of Susan Tanner, who lost her long and valiant battle with cancer on Monday, April 24.

Music was part of Susan’s career for the long stretch of her life, but it was always so much more than any kind of job.

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In Susan’s championing, support, and seemingly endless enthusiasm, she not only enriched the music made in and coming out of Western New York but also was our ambassador: from her constant cheerleading of our city and its wealth of talent to hosting acts from around the world with husband Marty Boratin at their makeshift rock-and-roll bed and breakfast, a place that became a fabled oasis for road-beleaguered touring artists.

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pooled their powers and passions to deepen Western New York’s live musical landscape. They provided a country respite for touring bands at their home in Eden. In the fall of 2005, their families, the city’s music cognoscenti, and guests from around the world gathered under a giant tent on the Eden homestead for a wedding to end all: live music, lavish food and drink, and a party that went on late into the night. To this day, it’s party still bandied about as the quintessential “Susan and Marty” event. It would be tough to scratch and not find a musician or fervent fan not touched by Susan’s generosity, advocacy, and charm. She supported local bands not just by coming out to shows— which she always did—but spreading the word to her friends and colleagues, offering marketing advice, helping connect in other cities, and so much more. She would help people, not just friends, get in to private events or sold-out shows in far-flung cities with just a phone call or email. In 2012, Susan was diagnosed with an aggressive, tough-to-treat form of breast cancer called TNBC. After battling through tough treatment and earning a clean bill of health, it returned within a couple years. Of course, Susan fought it again all the way through with an unparalleled level of grace and indefatigability. She flew around the country for clinical trials, studies, and treatments, all the while still working, still helping others and still deep in the music world. As recently as last week, though fresh from a surgery, she and Marty hosted one of their regular house concerts with Mark Eitzel—unsurprisingly an artist who she’d known and loved for the better part of three decades—and she was prepping the house and making food for the artist and attendees. In the following days, she felt tired and was admitted to the hospital. Susan had battled the cancer back again but sadly the chemotherapy had ravaged her organs. On Monday morning, she died. In our polarized world, I defy you to find a polarizing opinion on Susan. She was the rarest case. It would be nearly impossible to find someone who could muster a negative word for her. The outpouring on social media since her passing is a testament. It’s the kind you only see for a star. Of course she was a star. Susan Tanner was mortal, like we all are, but she had a super power: a fortified, almost superhuman mix of being genuine, diligent, kind, engaging, and positive, while still always able to tell you how she felt and with brilliance and succinct honesty. Her smile lit up a room and her hug filled you with life. In accordance with her wishes, Susan Tanner will be remembered not with a wake. Or a funeral. Or a sad memorial service. Instead it will be a giant party planned for the middle of May downtown in the city she loved at Asbury Hall at Babeville. You can bet there will be some good P music playing.

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citywide on April 3, there was ample precedent to believe that the Zoning Board of Appeals would immediately sideline the document. In the six monthly meetings prior to the code’s implementation, the ZBA approved 81 percent of variance requests. The board rarely if ever put forth a rational basis for its decisions, and it would be fair to say that the decisions lacked consistency. Why would anything be different now? The ZBA met on April 19, the second monthly meeting at which Green Code variances would be considered, and things were indeed different. The ZBA, now two meetings in a row, denied 100 percent of use variances (four in total). Of 12 projects seeking 14 variances, 50 percent of projects received a denial—a rate of denial that is likely unprecedented in the ZBA’s history. Of the approvals, all were decisions made with a rational basis, and all were for minor area variances. For a full record of agendas and proceedings, visit the city’s meetings portal. Here’s the play-by play-for each decision: 313 RHODE ISLAND STREET. An applicant, who didn’t show up for the public hearing, sought to establish a contractor’s storage yard in the

N-2R Residential zone. The variance was denied because the applicant failed to prove financial hardship. 138 COLVIN AVENUE. An applicant sought approval for a front yard parking pad that had already been established for some time. The applicant, who is a recent owner of the property and not the person who installed the pad, could not prove that the parking pad was lawfully established by a previous owner. The variance was approved on the basis that on-street parking is prohibited in this section of Colvin Avenue due to the Colvin bus route. 129 HOLDEN STREET. LP Ciminelli, as part of the first phase of the Highland Park development, sought two minor area variances from parking lot perimeter landscape and driveway width standards. In the case of the Type C buffer yard required, the variance was approved on the basis that if the standard were not waived, the first phase of the project would essentially be buffering itself from future phases of the same project. In the case of the driveway width requirement, it’s more complicated. The UDO allows a maximum of 24 feet for a double-lane driveway, a standard likely put in place for a good reason: to minimize motor vehicle speeds over a sidewalk used by pedestrians. Here’s the weird part: The Fire Department, according to the applicant’s attorney, is requiring 26 feet in width to accommodate fire apparatus. The NYS Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code may very well

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LOCAL NEWS include this requirement, but the applicant was not able to cite the specific code for which a variance would be justified, or whether the building code allows for exceptions that are feasible for the applicant to pursue. Rather than table the item to seek answers, the ZBA approved the variance because it was minor (only two feet in width greater than allowed). In either case, the variance might not have been needed, since Section 1.1.7.C of the UDO specifies that the NYS building code is applicable and controlling at all times. 143 WELLINGTON ROAD. An applicant sought to reestablish a rooming house in an N-4-30 Single Family zone that had been unlawfully operated previously. The variance was denied because the applicant failed to prove financial hardship. 385 VERMONT. An applicant sought to establish a parking pad in the front yard. The variance was denied due to the adverse impact of removing a landscaped front lawn on the residential neighborhood, and because on-street parking is a feasible alternative. 355 LINWOOD AVENUE. An applicant sought to establish a four-bay garage in the front yard of a house in the Linwood Historic District. The application was fiercely opposed by a handful of speakers, including Paul McDonnell of the Preservation Board and Leslie Edmiston of the Linwood Preservation District and Friends. The applicant threatened that he’d move back to the suburbs if the four-bay front yard garage was not approved, and it wasn’t. The ZBA determined that the code allowed for feasible alternatives that the applicant could pursue. 115 PLYMOUTH AVENUE. An applicant sought approval for a front yard parking pad that had already been in place. The parking pad is a sidewalk widened with a 20-inch gravel strip encroaching into the front yard, enabling a motor vehicle to be parked. Oddly, as a condition of approval, the variance was approved so long as the parking pad is expanded an additional two feet into the front yard so that a car is not parked over a required access easement adjacent to the neighbor’s property. This is one questionable decision. 49 COTTAGE. An applicant sought a minor area variance to allow for one additional dwelling unit, for a total of ten units, as part of the rehabilitation of the Coatsworth House. The N-2R Residential zone allows a maximum of one dwelling unit for each 1,250 square feet of lot area, which for this 11,550 square foot lot means a maximum of 9.24 units. The variance was granted on the basis that the benefit to the applicant outweighed any potential adverse effect on the neighborhood. 36 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE. An applicant sought to establish a food vending use, not allowed in the N-2R Residential zone. The variance was denied because the applicant failed to prove financial hardship. 470 WEST DELAVAN AVENUE. An applicant sought approval for a front yard parking pad. The application was approved on the basis that no on-street parking exists directly adjacent to the house due to the Delavan bus route, and that seasonable restrictions on the south side of Delavan Avenue make parking there difficult, as well. This is a troubling decision, since every other house with no off-street parking on West Delavan Avenue meets the same criteria. If such decisions becomes a pattern, landscaped front yards along bus routes could become an endangered species. 730 WEST AVENUE. An applicant sought a minor area variance for a 13-unit multi-family conversion at a former livery stable at 730 West Avenue, and a use variance for a fitness center at the adjacent 111 Hampshire Street. The density variance was minor and therefore granted, but the use variance was denied because the applicant failed to prove financial hardship. 145 BROADWAY. An applicant sought a minor area variance to install a stairwell and elevator shaft at the Colored Musicians Club that does not meet setback requirements. The variance was granted on the basis that the benefit to the applicant outweighed any potential adverse effect on the neighborhood. Few if any of the decisions at the April 19 meeting were tough calls. When the Zoning Board of Appeals meets again on May 17, at least one controversial application, for multiple variances at a project at Elmwood and Forest avenues, may be a better measure of the ZBA’s capacity for reP form. The Public will be watching.

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A HIGH-SPEED CHASE CAUSES INJURIES AND PROPERTY DAMAGE, A NO-KNOCK RAID YIELDS FEW DRUGS AND NO MONEY OR WEAPONS. WHAT HAPPENED? ON MARCH 29, 20-year-old Antonio Gutier-

rez led police on a high-speed chase through the late afternoon traffic on Clinton and Seneca streets. The chase ended in carnage outside the Seneca-Babcock Community Center. Images taken of the aftermath show gnarled, unintelligible vehicles, their missing pieces scattered over the street. A school bus full of kids was among the wreckage—one child suffered minor injuries. The driver of another car suffered serious injuries. Gutierrez himself was critically injured and remains hospitalized. The Buffalo Police Department’s version of the events that precipitated the chase differ starkly from the version of events told to The Public by two occupants of the home in Kaisertown where it began. The two witnesses—subjects of a drug raid—believe Gutierrez happened on that raid as he pulled up in front of their house, saw men in civilian clothes with guns, and tried to leave. They say police fired at Gutierrez before the chase even started. Buffalo Police have said from the beginning that the chase was justified. In his explanation, BPD spokesman Lieutenant Jeffrey Rinaldo read from the BPD’s manual, which states police chases “shall be limited to those circumstances in which the life or safety of any person is in imminent danger, or in which the person being pursued is suspected of having committed a violent felony.” The violent felony Guti-

errez is accused of committing on March 29 was clipping the arm of a police officer while pulling away in his car. A day after the raid, Rinaldo told the Buffalo News that the officer Gutierrez hit would have to follow up with a physician for a “tender and sore arm.” Felicia Canterbury was in her home at 91 Weiss Street on that Wednesday morning. Her nine-month old baby was sleeping. Downstairs, her boyfriend William Fish was looking after Canterbury’s five-year-old daughter. Canterbury heard a loud blast and looked out the window. She saw about a dozen men in the street, one holding a shotgun at the 2005 Honda Pilot she and Fish had recently purchased from Gutierrez. Gutierrez, they say, had borrowed the vehicle and was coming to return it just at the moment that Buffalo Police were preparing to raid Canterbury’s house. Canterbury said the officers arrived in one squad car and several unmarked cars and none of them wore a uniform. Fish guessed that Gutierrez saw the men and the guns and, whether he knew they were cops or not, made a snap decision to flee. While backing up his car, he struck an officer’s arm, according to Canterbury, and Canterbury says she heard an officer say, “Shoot that n*****.” Downstairs, Fish said he stepped on to his front porch shortly after hearing the shotgun blast with his arms raised, hoping to shield the children inside from any danger. He says he announced to the officers the location of his marijuana. When his dog, an American Staffordshire Terrier named Caesar, followed him on the porch, the police shot and killed him on the spot, in view of Canterbury’s daughter. A month of heavy rains later, two orange paint circles still mark the street where Matt Albert

LOCAL NEWS believes the shotgun shells fell. Albert is representing Canterbury in the resulting criminal case and in a civil suit they intend to file against police. According to the warrant allowing police to conduct the raid—obtained by Albert and shared with The Public—the basis for the raid was marijuana. Based on the charges filed, police could not have found more than two ounces of marijuana on the premises. Fish claims it was about 10 grams. Fish and canterbury were also charged with possession of half a gram of cocaine and paraphernalia. Listed on the paraphernalia charge are scales, baggies, and Enfamil “used in the cut.” Albert noted that there was a nine-month old in the house and said, “If you have two lines of cocaine, you’re not cutting it with Enfamil.”

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In the hours after the raid, Fish said he felt the police were figuring out that they had raided a home, instigated a police chase that resulted in multiple injuries, and killed a dog over a small amount of marijuana and a tiny amount of cocaine. No weapons or cash were seized, according to documents provided to The Public by Albert. According to both Fish and Canterbury, a police lieutenant told them at the scene that if they tried to sue, they wouldn’t be around to collect the settlement money. Albert believes police have been making good on that threat since Canterbury’s first court date, when they noticed him representing her. Although she had not been charged with child endangerment the day of the raid, within days of Albert appearing in court, Child Protective Services became involved and placed the children with alternate caregivers. Canterbury claims she has been stopped and searched by police since the raid. “They’re out for blood on this and they’re using every trick in the toolbox to intimidate these kids,” Albert said.

The BPD has said that they have launched an Internal Affairs Division investigation into the incident. Fish and Canterbury say that police have not contacted them as part of that investigation. “Should an East Side gang have shot someone’s eye out, injured children on a school bus, and blown up a family dog, all for minute quantities of cocaine and marijuana, US Attorney James Kennedy Junior and Erie County District Attorney John Flynn would be holding press conferences at City Hall, pounding their chests and stating how they were going to put all the young men responsible into prison for the rest of their lives,” said Albert in a prepared statement. “However, because these criminal had uniforms on, the above-named officials will toast champagne and eat rubber chicken with them at the next Police Benevolent Association fundraiser. Such is the police state that we P have become.”

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The lack of real specifics in the description of the subject of a warrant allowing a no-knock raid confounds Albert. “Complected isn’t even a word,” he told The Public. “A judge is allowing a home invasion based on gibberish. You got a heroin epidemic of biblical proportions and you got these guys going full Rambo for a few plants of weed.” No-knock warrants have become a favored tool by law enforcement and local judges, even though local research has found them ineffective, and the ACLU and Cato Institute have both criticized their widespread use.

Fish and Canterbury are adamant that shots were fired at Gutierrez on Weiss Street, before the chase began. When Canterbury first looked out the window, she claims to have seen him slumped over, as if he were already injured. This contradicts the BPD’s claim that police may have shot at Gutierrez’s vehicle during the chase, which police and observers claim reached speeds between 60 and 100 miles per hour.

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NEITHER EMERGING SCANDALS NOR FRUSTRATED LAWMAKERS COULD DERAIL THE GOVERNOR’S BUDGET PRIORITIES

STATE LAWMAKERS were getting restless.

Joe Percoco, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s righthand man, had been subpoenaed last year as part of an investigation into the Buffalo Billion, the governor’s marquee economic development program. By autumn, Percoco was indicted, along with seven others, in a case that laid out allegations of bribery and fraud involving “hundreds of millions of dollars” in state contracts. Individual lawmakers openly criticized the governor and demanded greater oversight of the state’s economic development funds.

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The tone grew sharper heading into the 2017 session. Unhappy with their failure to secure a pay raise, lawmakers grumbled privately about exacting revenge by breaking Cuomo’s streak of timely budgets. State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan promised to “stand up for the primacy and independence of this body, which is long overdue.” For the first time, Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie skipped Cuomo’s State of the State speeches. At a budget hearing in February, lawmakers unleashed another attack on the lack of transparency with the administration’s regional economic development councils and the lackluster results with its Start-Up NY program. “You painted a rosy picture of our economic development in New York state,” state Senator Phil Boyle told Howard Zemsky, Cuomo’s top economic development official, “but obviously anybody who reads the newspaper and sees the media knows that there’s true problems.” In the end, the problems weren’t nearly enough to derail the governor. While Cuomo suffered the minor embarrassment of delivering a late budget, he achieved 8

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most of his top policy goals—raising the age of criminal responsibility, expanding ride-hailing services to upstate and funding his free college tuition program. He fended off attempts to bring transparency to his economic development programs, despite the negative publicity brought by the Percoco scandal. An additional $500 million was approved for the second phase of the governor’s Buffalo Billion economic development initiative, and it went through even before the final budget deal was reached. Even more remarkably, Cuomo strengthened his already considerable leverage over the state Legislature, including new powers to adjust the state budget if significant federal funding cuts occur and the creation of an inspector general to root out managerial misconduct at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The Cuomo administration dismissed concerns about the governor’s growing powers, arguing that the times called for them. “Given the current federal landscape and the amount of taxpayer dollars invested in large-scale downstate infrastructure projects, these measures are both prudent and necessary,” Abbey Fashouer, deputy communications director for Cuomo, said in a statement. “There’s advocates for everything, including apparently chaos, uncertainty, and lack of accountability. That, however, is no way to govern.” Others say it’s just the latest chapter for a governor who is frequently described—even by himself and his aides—as a “control freak.” Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, a Western New York Democrat who has assailed the opacity of the Fort Schuyler Management Corp. and Fuller Road Management Corp., the two major state-affiliated entities at the heart of the federal probe, and the lagging job creation numbers from the Start-Up NY program, said the label clearly fits. “I would certainly agree with the governor when he makes that self-characterization,” he said.

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“WHAT’S HAPPENING IN AMERICA IS VERY TROUBLESOME, WHICH IS TO FURTHER EMPOWER EXECUTIVES AND DIMINISH LEGISLATURES.” What was obvious during this round of budget negotiations was just how much leverage the governor has in a process where legislative leaders can apparently do little more than make suggestions and raise the specter of discord as they move toward the end of session. “Like it or not,” Schimminger said, “the governor is the driving force in the enactment of a state budget and, in almost all cases, he wins.” ••• Any assessment of Cuomo’s governing style starts with his father, the late Governor Mario Cuomo, who served from 1983 to 1994. Mario Cuomo, who brought Andrew Cuomo with him to Albany, was very hands on, much like the younger Cuomo is now. But unlike his son, the elder Cuomo took on too many priorities and many failed, said Bruce Gyory, a veteran Democratic consultant. Another longtime political observer said Mario Cuomo was known for his oratory skills and lofty ideas, but was not as disciplined as his son. “When we judge chief executives, we either tend to get down on them for being either control freaks if they’re hard workers—Mario Cuomo fit into that. If you’re not hands-on enough, we make fun of you for not having your hand on the pillar, like de Blasio comes to mind,” the source said, referring to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. “That is the critique of hands-on governors, hands-on governors are always accused of overreaching—and sometimes they do.” Since becoming governor in 2011, Cuomo has prided himself on restoring order to Albany and having on-time budgets after years of dysfunction. Before him, the budget cycle used to go into the summer months, far past the April 1 deadline. Each year, he also puts forward a few big proposals—legalizing same-sex marriage, instituting a property tax cap, raising the minimum wage—and has frequently followed through on them. “His leadership style is, get out of my way,” former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky said. “Now, in a way, it’s worked very well for him because you don’t hear talk about dysfunctional Albany anymore. And that may have political benefit or not, but under Cuomo, government functions. You may not like what it’s doing, but it’s functional.” While they battled against him this year, legislative leaders ultimately applauded the governor, at least publicly. Flanagan and Heastie issued statements praising the final budget deal. Jeff Klein, the leader of the state Senate’s Independent Democratic Conference, was the only legislative leader to reply to a question about the governor’s growing powers, including the ability to react to federal cuts. “The governor has been good about engaging the Legislature on important financial decisions that impact New Yorkers,” Klein said in a statement. “This emergency measure gives legislators 90 days to act before any action can be taken by the executive to address potential federal cuts to Medicaid and state operating funds.” Cuomo’s long history in government partly explains his controlling nature, one observer said, since he knows what it takes to get things done. But that has also gotten him in trouble in the past. Notably, he was under federal investigation for his meddling in the supposedly independent Moreland Commission he created and abruptly disbanded. His much-touted Buffalo Billion and other economic development plans became a liability when charges were brought against Percoco and other Cuomo associates. “It creates its own set problems. Occasionally he looks around the room and says, ‘I had nothing to do with it,’” Brodsky said. “It’s very hard to make that case when the central point is, ‘I’m the governor, I can do what I want.’”

And in New York, the state Legislature has limited powers to stop Cuomo. A big part of that is the landmark Silver v. Pataki case, in which Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver brought a case against Governor George Pataki to challenge his budgetary powers. However, the state Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Pataki. “The state Court of Appeals gave him this power, what is he supposed to do? Ignore it? Who would ignore that power?” Brodsky asked. “No other governor has ignored it. If there’s any critique here it’s that he perfected it. That’s not the same thing as abusing it.” While Cuomo does have extraordinary powers—the most recent edition of the textbook Politics in the American States: A Comparative Analysis lists New York’s executive office as the sixth most powerful in the nation—governors have been gaining power across the country, said Gerald Benjamin, a political science professor at SUNY New Paltz, who has been watching New York State politics for more than five decades. “What’s happening in America is very troublesome, which is to further empower executives and diminish legislatures,” he said. “It’s happening at every level.” ••• The approval of new powers allowing the governor to make cuts to the state budget to confront any federal cuts is unprecedented. Cuomo’s executive budget proposal would have gone even further, allowing the state Division of the Budget to unilaterally make cuts in response to any revenue shortfalls that would impact aid to localities and state operations. It also would have allowed the governor to increase spending in certain areas. What ultimately went through gives Cuomo the ability to institute a savings plan after the budget’s been passed to deal with any federal cuts. It allows the governor to propose a deficit reduction plan if there’s federal cuts to Medicaid over $850 million or if cuts to all other programs total more than $850 million. The state Legislature could make changes to the governor’s changes. If they failed to act, the proposal would automatically be adopted after 90 days. “On the governor’s ability to institute a savings plan, the CBC is generally supportive, certainly compared to the executive’s proposal, which we thought would have provided too much power to the executive,” said David Friedfel, director of state studies at the Citizens Budget Commission. “The way it was set up was better than what was proposed, the fear would be that the governor’s proposals would not get a full hearing, but with 90 days and that plan being public, the proposed cuts should be seen by the public and they can react to their elected officials.” Even with limitations, the change is unusual, Friedfel added. After the financial crisis in 2007-2008 and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, governors did not seek the same kind of executive powers. “It’s certainly different from what happened post9/11 or after the financial crisis where the governor’s proposed cuts like any other budgetary matter and the Legislature negotiated and the plan was done,” Friedfel said. For better or for worse, Cuomo will continue to have the executive powers to get his way— which could once again leave him well-positioned for another re-election bid in 2018, or even a potential presidential bid in 2020. “In the end, the fairest thing you can say about him is that he should be judged on the end result,” Brodsky said. “The end result is someP times good, sometimes not.”

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of the big three networks’ weekly program schedules from years 1968 and 1970. At a glance, much better offerings then than these days, at least on those networks. Lots of actual movies, for example. In 1968, seven movies a week—one a day on whichever of the three networks. In 1970, that number drops slightly, but a new listing on the schedule is Monday Night Football (with a notation, “to be replaced after December 14 by movies”). The rest of the week’s schedules peppered with classics like Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Mannix, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Jackie Gleason Show, and Smothers Brothers. Along with—to be fair to the other side of the perennial question debate—vast wasteland embarrassments like Let’s Make a Deal, The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and Hee Haw. Whereas—de gustibus—artist Langston Gardner has several painted text works celebrating shows the likes of The Price Is Right and Family Ties. The Family Ties work consists of layers of words or phrases—one thing on another—such that nothing is quite legible. The idea maybe of everybody talking at once at the dinner table. A somewhat enigmatic text work by Jim Bilger reads: “there it is an ice cream over there an island hey look an icicle.” Among homage caricature portraits of famous entertainers are Stacy Mania’s Charlie Chaplin, in top hat and white tie and tails, and Salvador Dali, with signature ridiculous mustache. Also Chaz Buscaglia’s Dorothy Dandridge, and Mae West.

Charlie Chaplain by Stacey Mania.

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AT WNED STUDIOS, AUTISTIC ARTISTS PAY HOMAGE TO ENTERTAINMENTS PAST currently on show in the WNED studios building. The title of the exhibit is Throwback. The theme is remembrance of things past, appropriately for this venue, with special attention in many of the pieces to radio and television entertainment.

Among outstanding works, James Marino’s two drawing/painting variations on the theme of classic automobiles. One called Classic Car and Model, featuring a shiny new-edition vehicle and smiley leggy human female model showing it off, as at an annual car show extravaganza. Another called simply Classic Car. As spiffy a little roadster as one could desire, fully loaded with custom options and accessories, it looks like. And Liz Harzewski’s portrait of the PBS Kids high-energy feature character Nature Cat, in green and brown Robin Hood outfit and panache note red cap feather.

Some excellent and delightful works, that additionally shed light on the perennial question: Were things better in the old days?

The evidence that things were indeed better in the old days is from artist Dan Carey, who has two large-format drawing charts

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IN GALLERIES NOW = ART OPENING Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox. org): Menagerie: Animals on View, on view through Jun 4. Shantell Martin: Someday We Can, on view through Jun 25. Tamar Guimarães and Kasper Akhøj: Studies for A Minor History of Trembling Matter; Jacob Kassay: OTNY; Eric Mack: Vogue Fabrics; Willa Nasatir, photographs, all on view through Jun 18. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. Amy’s Place Restaurant (University Heights Arts Association) (3234 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 716-833-6260, uhartsgroup.com/amysplace): Every day: 7am-9pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Joseph Miller, Paintings and Drawings. On view through May 26. 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): Buffalo Niagara Art Association Spring Exhibition, through May 26. Opening reception Fri, Apr 28, 7:30-9pm. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Ashker’s on Elmwood (1002 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886 -2233, ashkersbuffalo.com): Richard Rockford sculptures on display through Apr 30. Reception Fri Apr 14. Mon-Sat 7am10pm, Sun 9am-5pm. Atrium 124 (124 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Awake: Paintings and Poems by Kristin Maggio. Opening reception Fri Apr 7, 5:30-7:30. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo,

NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): 12th Annual Betty’s Staff, Friends and Family Exhibition through May 21. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Toma Yovanovich: Tongues of Flame, on view through Jun 3. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. The Blue Plate Studio (69 Keil Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 725-2054): Work by Alicia Malik. Box Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Larger Than Life, a new installation by Daniel Galas. BT&C Gallery (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, btandcgallery.com): Claire Ashley: Brave New Points and Planes. On view through May 13. Fri 12-7pm, Saturdays 12-4pm (during exhibitions), and by appointment. Buffalo Artspace Gallery (1219 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14209): Gabrielle Goldstein: TRIGGERED SNOWFLAKES. Sat/Sun 12-4pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Julia Douglas, Tinted: A Visual Statement on Color, Identity, and Representation. Van Tran Nguyen, Strange Agency (University at Buffalo MFA Thesis Exhibition). Both shows on view through Jun 2. Opening reception, Fri, Apr 28, 5:00-8:00pm; artist talk at 6:00pm. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint.com) ”Being John Berg” through Apr 30. Mon-Fri 9am5:30pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette

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And as if in recollection of an earlier era art world, some abstract expressionist paintings, including an untitled gestural work by Courtney McGovern, another by Bob Banach, and one entitled Flower by Glenn Martin. Kevin Krauss has a smudge-effect sardonic portrait of a couple of human female models. The idea possibly that beauty is only skin deep. Erich Haneberg has a handsome black marker on white board grid presentation of thirty varieties of telephones, plus a T-shirt painting celebrating Golden Girls and Betty White. Dan Carey— who did the weekly programming schedules—in addition has a group portrait of nebulosity figures around a conference table, everyone happily in accord, it looks like. And an artist who goes by the first name and initial Eddie K, a Spiderman suspended upside down. Just to be clear, this is artwork without an asterisk. Not universally excellent, but some of it excellent. These are artists who have autism a lot like some other artist might have a heart condition or diabetes. It’s an art show and reiterated lesson in how much we don’t understand about what we don’t understand, in this case, diversity. The exhibit is up through April 28.

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-6pm, Sun 12-5pm.TueFri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Robert L. Flock: Color as Energy, through May 21. Artists Living in Other Worlds, through May 21. The Interior World of Roland Wise, through May 21. Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns & the West, on view through May 28. Reunion: Chess, through Jun 25. Artists Seen, photographs of contemporary artists by David Moog. The First Exhibition: 50 Years with Charles E. Burchfield, on view through Mar 26. Charles Cary Rumsey: Success in the Gatsby Era, through Jun 25. 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Canvas Salon & Gallery (9520 Main Street, Clarence, NY 14031, STE 400): Work by Anne Valby, on view through June 30. Cass Project (500 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14204): Charcoal works by Tricia Butski, through May 7.. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Ebru: Floating Emotions featuring ebru by İpek, Ali Burak, and Musa Saraçoğlu, on view through Jul 9. Chinese Folk Pottery: The Art of the Everyday through Jul 2. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8562717, cepagallery.org): Karsten Krejcarek: (How-

ever) the Owner of the Living (Death) May Pierce (an Abscess) and Spread Ruin, BabalúAyé through May 21. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 124pm. Daily Planet Coffee Company (1862 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, 716- 551-0661): Reflections by Youssou Lo, through Apr 30. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts. com): Contemporary collection including Hans Moller, Edith Geiger, Lee Adler, Claire Burch, and more. Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm. Dreamland (387 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, facebook.com/dreamlandarts.buffalo/ timeline): Open by event. Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects. com): Brendan Fernandes: From Hiz Hands. On view Apr 22-Jul 30. Dennis Maher: City House Models. On view through May 6. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 4644692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Rock: Millie Chen, Warren Quigley, on view through Apr 29. WedSat 12-6pm. Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): C.Mari, Grace Wilding and Serena Way. Opening reception Fri, Apr 7, 7-9pm. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm . Fox Run Gyda Higgins Art Gallery (One Fox Run Lane, Orchard Park, NY 14127): Hometowns of WNY by Linda Hall. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Renee Lear: Every Shot From Dziga Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera As An Animated GIF; Sarah Fonzi: Infrastructure Misappropriated. On view through Apr 28. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm.

IN GALLERIES NOW ARTS Van Tran Nguyen’s Strange Agency, at Buffalo Arts Studio.

Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Entwined, Jesse Walp & Bethany Krull. Gallery talk, Sat May 6, 3pm. On view through May 27. Wed & Fri 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sun & Mon. Jewish Community Center of Buffalo, Holland Family Building (787 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14209, 886-3172, jccbuffalo.org): Photography by Wendy Caldwell Maloney on view through Apr 28. Mon-Thu 530am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am-6pm. Jewish Community Center of Buffalo, Bunis Family Art Gallery (2640 North Forest Road, Getzville, NY 14068 jccbuffalo.org): Exhibit by Jerry Birzon, Opening reception Tue, May 9, 6-8pm in the Lippman Lounge. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. On view through Apr 26. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Kenan Center House Gallery (433 Locust Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 433-2617, kenancenter. org): Three Generations of Burchfields: Works from the Schoene Collection, on veiw through June 16. Opening reception, Sun, Apr 30, 2-5pm. Mon-Fri 12-5pm & Sun 2-5pm. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts. com): Sean Witucki: Kindred Spirits, on view through May 27. Opening reception Fri, Apr 28, 4-9pm. Tue-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-882-5777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Rwanda: Landscape and Memory, a work in progress, Brendan Bannon. On view through Apr 26. Tue-Fri 10am–5pm Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-652-3270, norbergsartandframe.com): Local artists: Kathleen West, Bradley Widman, Peter Potter, and Miranda Roth. Tue-Sat 10am–5pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Kathleen Corff Rogers, James Johnston, David Fehrman, Joe George, and Tim Kozlow through Apr 29. Wed-Fri, 12-7pm (until 9pm on first Fridays), Sat & Sun 12-5pm. Pine Apple Company (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/store/ pine-apple-company): Bored Future: We Should Be So Lucky, show from Emily Churco. Work for sale by Thomas James Holt, Yames Moffitt, Esther Neisen, Mickey Harmon, Mike West, and Sarah Liddell. Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): Unkept: solo exhibition by Sherry Arndt Preziuso on view through Apr 29. Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY

14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): Art by Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, John Farallo, Chris McGee,Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Leibel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, Kisha Patterson, Lindsay Strong, Frank Russo, Michael Mulley. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. Resource:Art (Various locations, resourceartny. com, 249-1320): Eminent Series: Jackie Felix at 500 Seneca Street in Boiler Room Exhibition Space. By appointment. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): We Are the Resistance, group show with work by DK Burger, Tricia Butski, Anthony Freda, Shannon Freshwater, A.J. Fries, Barbara Hart, Felice Koenig, Anita Kunz, Craig LaRotonda, Maria Pabico LaRotonda, Nandrysha, Arabella Proffer, Eric Richardson, Carolina Seth, Marcos Sorensen, Daniele Spellman, Katherine Streeter, Kelly Vetter, and Joe Vollan through Apr 29. RO Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Dianne Baker, mixed media, through Apr 30. TueSat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Sports Focus Physical Therapy (531 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202, 332-4838, sportsfocuspt. com): Photography by Joe George through May 30. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, 6-9pm on first Fridays. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Sondra Perry: flesh out. On view through May 6. Tue-Sat, 12pm-5pm. Studio Hart (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, studiohart.com): CODA: a finale between friends: work by David Buck, Bob Collignon, Elizabeth Leader. Through April 29. Tue-Sat, 12pm4pm. 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 Galleries (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Ill at Ease: Dis-ease in Art, curated by Conor Moynihan. Ebony G. Patterson: Dead Treez through May 13. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Fine Arts Program Student Exhibit, open Apr 25-May 5. Mon-Fri 8am-8pm, Sat 10am -5pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 348-1430, wnybookarts.org): Contentual Relationships, a collaborative exhibition by Scott Kristopher, on view through Apr 28. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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Kinky Friedman 6:30pm Sportsmen's Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $30-$35

[COUNTRY] Kinky Friedman may have only scraped together 12.6 percent of the vote when he ran as one of two independent candidates for governor of Texas in 2006, but he's still a popular humorist/storyteller and songwriter—perhaps everywhere except here in Buffalo, where a purported dust-up with some irritated feminists in the early 1970s that took issue with his tune "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed," kept him from returning to our city until 2012. Friedman comes back regularly now, however, and while his attitude toward women is still questionable, he's always spoken out against racism (particularly as a Jew raised down South in the 1950s) and animal cruelty. It's an enduring (though perhaps confusing) juxtaposition of ideals that brings tunes like "How Can I Tell You I Love You (When You're Sitting On My Face)" and "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore," to life within the same set. Friedman brings his amusing shenanigans back to Sportsmen's Tavern on Wednesday, April 26. -CJT

The Coathangers 7pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $10-$12

SONNY BAKER easier ep Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Elliott Smith The latest EP from Buffalo-based singer/songwriter Sonny Baker is a five-song record titled easier. Written by Baker, the songs were recorded and produced by Chris Groves, who also plays a variety of instruments on the record. The opening track, “Swollen, You’re Opening,” is an outlier of sorts, with an electronic beat underlying a tidy keyboard line. The most memorable track on the record, it has a hummable, dreamy vocal melody. Baker opining “Guilty Heart” sounds like it would be at home next to Radiohead’s “House of Cards” or “Body Snatchers.” Though it’s unclear when Baker wrote the EP, he played several In Rainbows tribute sets last year with his band Lazlo Hollyfeld, which might indicate that the Radiohead album was a heavy influence for this EP. In fact, there’s a small sort of rainbow design jutting out of the face of a warped figure on the cover of the album, drawn by Baker.

THOMAS DRAKE THURSDAY APR 27 7PM / BURNING BOOKS, 420 CONNECTICUT ST. [DISCUSSION] Former NSA executive turned whistleblower Thomas Drake will speak at Burning Books on Thursday, April 27. In 2005, Drake leaked unclassified information to a Baltimore Sun reporter about fraud and abuses of power at the NSA. Much of the information regarded the Trailblazer Project, which was a mass data analyzation program that was eventually linked to controversies over the NSA’s warrantless surveillance practices. In 2010 Drake was indicted for “willful retention of national defense information” under the Espionage act of 1917, among other charges. The charges were eventually dismissed. Meanwhile, Edward Snowden, perhaps the world’s most famous or infamous whistleblower, cited Drake as an inspiration for his own NSA whistleblowing, famously telling Al Jazeera news, “If there hadn’t been a Thomas Drake, there couldn’t have been an Edward Snowden.” -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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of Montreal 7pm Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave. $18.50-$22

The album’s centerpiece, “Lazy,” is an appropriately titled meandering guitar and vocal track that’s equally as comforting as it is depressive. “State + Flawless” is a lyrically personal indie rock track that at moments opens up to a full on jam before pulling back. The final track, titled “(sarcastic feedback),” is a reverberated lo-fi folk song that eases the listener into a safe space for reentry into every day life. easier is available for streaming on bandcamp, and owning for name your price.

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[INDIE] Nosebleed Weekend, the fifth and latest release from Atlanta's the Coathangers— out this time last year on Suicide Squeeze Records—finds the fem-trio sounding taut as can be. Never ones for subtlety (yes, the band name is a thinly veiled reference to abortion, and they've covered topics like "twat-punching" in the past), they've still managed to evolve into a well oiled unit that understands how holding back can lead to a bigger payoff down the line, both musically and lyrically. It's all relative, though—meaning that a punk band such as this one still plows forward through most of Nosebleed like an IBS sufferer races to the john, dropping killer riffs and impressive harmonies ("Perfume," "Hiya") while still managing to expand on their newly minted, artsier side, ("Watch Your Back"), and reminding of their irreverant sense of humor ("Squeeki Tikki"). Punk and polish have long been strange bedfellows, and most bands trying to balance them end up sounding like Blink 182, but not these chicks—you'll thank them for it when they come to rock the Tralf Music Hall on Wednesday, April 26, with local support from honey COMA. -CJT

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EILEEN MYLES THURSDAY APR 27 7:30PM / EVERGREEN COMMONS, 262 GEORGIA ST. [POEMS] Eileen Myles is a force. Author of 19 books that often don’t care to discern the lines between fiction, memoir, essays, and poetry, Myles is nothing less than a national treasure, inhabiting the “best-known secret” corner of contemporary American letters. Writing their ass off in relative obscurity yet known well as a member of a circle of bohemian-minded Lower East Siders like Ted Berrigan, Jim Carroll, Alice Notley, and Joe Brainard, Myles has the style of a consummate conversationalist across all the genres she works in. Her writing and storytelling is never far from a long conversation with a dear friend, in which they tell you something you had never previously considered. Badass, rock star, punk-poet, none of the superlatives define them accurately enough. See for yourself at the Evergreen Commons this Thursday, April 27. -AARON LOWINGER

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[INDIE] Indie rock band of Montreal has been prolific in their 21 years as a band. Their 2016 album, Innocence Reaches, which frontman Kevin Barnes says was equally influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys as it was by Arca and Jack Ü, is the band’s 14th studio record, not counting EPs, a category that includes their latest release overall, the self-released Rune Husk. Across those 14 albums they’ve rarely hit a slump, at least as far as critics are concerned, ranging from the good (Lousy with Sylvianbriar, 2013) to very good (Paralytic Stalks, 2012). Barnes has remained the constant of the Atlanta, Georgia based six piece band that’s had about 20 members over the years. Which makes it even more incredible that their sound has followed any kind of consistent trajectory, but maybe it’s this constant mixing up and chaotic change that keeps the band’s kaleidoscopic sound familiar yet fresh with each record. Of Montreal returns to Babeville’s Asbury Hall for a show this Wednesday, April 26. Christina Schneider’s Jepeto Solutions opens the show. -CP

THURSDAY APR 27 100 Years: Celebrating Ella Fitzgerald 7pm Pausa Art House, 19 Wadsworth St. $10

[TRIBUTE] On Thursday, April 27, the Katy Miner Quintet will pay tribute to “The First Lady of Song,” Ella Fitzgerald, with a special show at Pausa Art House. This month marks

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CLOUD NOTHINGS FRIDAY APRIL 28 7PM / TRALF MUSIC HALL, 622 MAIN ST. / $15-$18 [PUNK] It hasn’t been unusual for Cleveland-based no wave band Cloud Nothings to reimagine their sound from album to album—in fact it has kind of been their modus operandi. The sense of urgency on records like Attack on Memory is still apparent on their new album, Life Without Sound, but it’s been polished up and re-purposed. On the contrary, the sense of pessimism and hopelessness that made their seminal, Steve Albini-produced record Attack on Memory so intriguing is gone, replaced with a reflective and enthused tone akin to something you’d hear from Rivers Cuomo on a good day. In terms of their discography, Life Without Sound delivers a necessary sense of resolution. Maybe that’s because the album took much longer to produce for the band, allowing some breathing room to cultivate a contemplative state— dispersing some of their anger and making space for hopefulness. There are exceptions, though, especially the album’s final track “Realize My Fate,” which has frontman Dylan Baldi unleashing some serious angst amid the chaotic discord of the rest of the band—almost like a reverse sort of resolution from the rest of the album’s mostly upbeat tone. Frontman Dylan Baldi actually referred to this album as “my version of new age music,” which might be a stretch, but it also gives some insight into his mind state while making the album— which apparently was made with less of an off the cuff approach than the their previous records. What has likely not changed drastically is the band’s inarguably stellar live show. Cloud Nothings comes to the Tralf Music Hall for just such a show this Friday, April 28. -CORY PERLA

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T-PAIN FRIDAY APRIL 28 6PM / RAPIDS THEATRE, 1711 MAIN ST. / $25-$30 [HIP HOP] Last year, T-Pain had a career rejuvenating show of sorts, right here in Buffalo. Tens of thousands of people showed up for his free show at Canalside, one of the biggest of the season. Since then, the 31-year-old hip hop star, known for his auto-tuned vocals, has released the lead single from his album Stoicville, titled “Dan Bilzerain” (after the wealthy and douchey Instagram star) featuring rising star Lil Yachty, and worked on the track “Straight Up & Down,” for Bruno Mars’ hit album 24K Magic. T Pain’s initial claim to fame came with his singles “I’m Sprung,” and “I’m N Luv (Wit a Stripper), but he might be most well known for his work with Kanye West on the track “Good Life,” which won a Grammy for Best Rap Song in 2008. T-Pain will return to Western New York for a show at the Rapids Theatre on Friday, April 28. -CORY PERLA DAILYPUBLIC.COM / APRIL 26 - MAY 2, 2017 / THE PUBLIC 15

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REEL QUEER: BIJOU

8-11pm, at Dreamland, 387 Franklin St.

In anticipation of Thursday’s Just Buffalo event featuring Eileen Myles, Dreamland is screening Wakefield Poole’s Bijou, his artsy follow-up to 1971’s Boys in the Sand, which broke ground in the world of gay erotica and put hunky Casey Donovan on the map. Myles has a relationship with Poole, selected Bijou for the Marfa Film Festival and has previously written about the film, which will be followed by discussion led by RE Katz. Keep in mind, there is actual penetration in the film.

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SYNTHETIC EYES SATURDAY APR 29 8PM / REVOLUTION GALLERY, 1419 HERTEL AVE. / $10

BUFFALO BOYS SOCIAL 6:30pm, at Falley Allen, 204 Allen St.

Enjoy this new LGBTQ mixer presented by Get Out/diversified productions, a social and networking event which aims to meet monthly at different locations. This month’s meet-up is at the new Falley Allen, and partial proceeds from it are going to the Rainbow Railroad, which is helping Chechnyan gays escape to Canada. A perfect way to meet up before going to the Eileen Myles reading.

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STUDIO: EILEEN MYLES 7:30pm, at Evergreen Commons, 262 Georgia St.

“The rock star of poetry” (Boston Globe) and template used for the character of Leslie Mackinaw on Amazon’s Transparent—not to mention our April cover model and lead story in Loop —stops in Buffalo for a reading as part of the Just Buffalo STUDIO series.

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[EXPERIMENTAL] On Saturday, April 29, dark wave synth band Night Slaves will team up with experimental video artist Brian Milbrand for a unique visual and music show at Revolution Gallery on Hertel. The collaboration will present two shows that night, at 8pm and 9:30pm titled Synthetic Eyes. Milbrand is a media artist who has worked with many theater companies around town in addition to his plethora of solo work. He also teaches and works at Buffalo State College in the Communications Department. For the show, Milbrand will live control a video feed directly influenced by the sounds of Night Slaves using software that he’s written which allows him to take the feeds from their instruments and control the visual output based on that. He combines that with optical illusion style visuals, a library of video samples, and other digital effects. “It’s very driven by the music so it will match the pulse of the music, certainly,” says Milbrand, who has been rehearsing with Night Slaves for the show. “I can take multiple inputs from the audio and sort of pass them through a control matrix, so I can say, for instance, the frequency of the piano will control the color of video one and the volume of the vocal will control the spinning element of the optical piece—its rotation, the digital effects, stuff like that.” He’s been working with similar software for about a decade, using it in live theater production and interactive installations as well.

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The Ragbirds 7pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $10-$12

PRIDE PROM BUFFALO 2017 4–11pm, at Troop 1 / Hamlin House, 432 Franklin St.

Looking to support a cause and a chance to redo prom right this time? This annual black tie event is a fundraiser for Buffalo United Artists and PFLAG Buffalo-Niagara, and will be hosted by Mr. & Mrs. Gay Buffalo 2016, Benjamin Stein-D’Lobita and Sabrina D’Angelis. Tickets are $60/ single or $110/couple. All tickets include a buffet dinner, 4 hours of open bar, entertainment by a live DJ and a professional photographer to take your "prom photo" (picture packages will be available for purchase).

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[INDIE] Fusing rock, pop and folk, Missouri natives the Ragbirds perform at Buffalo Iron Works this Thursday, April 27. The dynamic quintet combines lead vocalist Erin Zindle’s Celtic fiddling and brother TJ Zindle’s acoustic melodizing with the three-piece rhythm section—drummer Jon Brown, percussionist Randall Moore, and bassist Dan Jones—to create a progressive folk sound as diverse as their audience. Forming over 10 years ago, this dynamic collective often borrows from reggae, bluegrass and african percussion to create their unique sound. The band has toured through over 45 states, making appearances at Michigan’s Rothbury Music Festival and New York’s CMJ Music Festival. With their most recent album, The Threshold and The Hearth, released last March and produced over a three year stint, the collective has created a groovier and livelier sound, inspired by Zindle and Moore’s new daughter. -SCHONDRA AYTCH

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As far as the theme for Synthetic Eyes goes, Milbrand says that it started with the synthesizer-based aspect of the music of Night Slaves. “I’ve also taken that title with synthetic eyes and ran with it within the imagery. There will be a lot of eye ball footage within the show,” he says, laughing. David Kane of Night Slaves proposed the project to Milbrand and Milbrand was quickly inspired by their music, which he hand’t heard until that point. Night Slaves, a duo made of Kane and John Toohill. The duo has released three records, and will play all three in addition to four new songs. Anyone who has ever heard the music of Night Slaves will agree that it lands on the darker end of the spectrum, with noise distorted vocals, droning synths, and heavy industrial digital percussion. “My folder of samples and imagery was already pretty dark, so it was easy for me to match the tone and theme of their music,” says Milbrand. Clips from Vertigo, Anguish, and A Clockwork Orange were starting points for him. “Very dark and aggressive imagery,” he says. He’s also include some motion capture footage that he shot with local dancer Beth Elkins. “I brought her into Buff State where we have a motion capture studio, and she did a dance to their song ‘Black Bug.’ I took that motion capture data and will be applying it to that song.” As for the gallery space, the Milbrand says that the show will “definitely fit into their asthetic,” which has in the past included art by an artist who paints in blood, and one who has been on death row. For more info search for Synthetic Eyes on Facebook. -CORY PERLA

FRIDAY APR 28 BPO Rocks: The Music of Prince 8pm Kleinhans Music Hall, 3 Symphony Circle $39-$75

[TRIBUTE] As part of their BPO Rocks series, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra will take on the music of Prince this Friday, April 28. Winborne Music’s Brent Haven, who has also done the music of Led Zeppelin and the music of the Rolling Stones, has arranged the music of the purple one, who’ll get the symphonic treatment on the Kleinhans Music Hall stage—along with a full rock band. -TPS

Kopps, Humble Braggers, Mags, and Mutual Friends 9pm Nietzsche's, 248 Allen St. $6

[INDIE] A bunch of indie pop bands from Buffalo and Rochester take to Nietzsche’s for a solid show presented by Yace Booking this weekend. Kopps, a four piece satiric dance/ electro pop band from Rochester take the headlining slot. They’ll be joined by Buffalo electro-pop band Humble Braggers, indie rock band MAGS, and dream pop band Mutual Friends, this Saturday, April 29. -CP

SUNDAY APR 30 Screaming Females 7pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $15

[PUNK] Known for their DIY ambition and unapologetic punk sound, New Jersey trio Screaming Females have created their own brand of energetic indie underground music. Performing at Mohawk Place on Sunday, April 30, the band has an impressive resume of performing over 700 shows all over the globe. With several albums under their belt and a feature on NPR’s “All Things Considered," their following has grown extensively. At almost a decade in the game, this no nonsense punk outfit have honed their lively shows with powerful vocals by frontwoman, Marissa Paternoster. Also in the lineup is Buffalo’s own six-piece funk collective the Mallwalkers. -SA

MONDAY MAY 1 Denny Laine 5pm Sportsmen's Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $30

[ROCK] When Paul McCartney and Wings kept getting busted for traveling with cannabis in the early 1970s, Denny Laine was

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ON PEACH: The two poems yesterday on Peach by the indelible Fawn Parker are trolling themselves as an act of misdirection. They offer a portal, a mousehole, a rift, a way in, then immediately block the entrance with some kind of neon coy inflatable furniture. Fawn Parker’s clowning is all the starkness of “an overexposed woman in a sundress” and beneath it, a sunburnt aloesmeared kind of rawness. Parker’s all: come for the flash and stay for the dark undermeat. These poems recoil from and dress down all possible futures like antihoroscopes. Parker writes, “I’ve been having dreams about babies/ and it means nothing./I try to feed them my tits and they hiss at me.” Parker writes, “You are right/It’s all contrived,” and she’s getting the last word in the middle of the poem. Parker fakes left and moves next door to appear every morning at exactly the right time to make you forget you knew a world without her.

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edited by Julieta Salgado & Charles Theonia (visual art & creative writing) Femmescapes is a zine edited by Julieta Salgado and Charles Theonia that features work by queer and trans artists “who experience an affinity with femmeness.” This is their second issue, and its pages are startlingly beautiful. Its contributors have all been asked to respond in some way to this question: “How do we understand our femininity in this changing world, where fascism is escalating every day?” Femmescapes is an important project because it deals with femme identity but not in isolation—not even in relation to femininity or embodiment. Femme here is a perspective of resistance. Each artistic contribution exists in the liminal boundaries between our facile axes of gender, class, national identity, and so on. Femme is the conduit that not only connects Femmescapes artists, but targets our particular investment in wrecking the boundaries set by the state, the institutions, Poetry and the Artworld industrial complex. Our ideas about gender are inextricable from race. Our ideas about race are inextricable from colonial pain and violence. Through offering the spectrum of femme, Femmescapes is performing these complex intricacies. The zine contributors are each still invested in femme formations as ones of care and vulnerability, but each is free of the trappings of normative femininity. The word femme can often be misdefined as this narrow cluster of associations: these little anchors attached to whiteness, motherhood, gentility, etc. Femmescapes is for the unanchored femme. In the back of this issue, there is a one-page shoutout to the antifascist witchwork of the Yerbamala Collective, which we’ve touched on in another Peach Picks. F emmescapes , like the work of YMC, functions as radical artwork, community resource, and call to action.

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DAVE ALVIN AND THE GUILTY ONES TUESDAY MAY 2 6:30PM / SPORTSMEN'S TAVERN, 326 AMHERST ST. / $30-$35 [ROCK] In the early 1980s, as the synthesizers that would define new wave began taking over pop music, an interest in what’s often called “early rock” emerged as a backlash—a reclaiming of rock and roll basics that held appeal for fans of Bowery punk bands like The Ramones who were less enthused with the drone of hardcore. Led by brothers Dave and Phil Alvin, The Blasters churned out a sound that was both rootsy and forward moving, preserving the libido-fueled energy of early rockers like Elvis Presley and fusing it with elements of rockabilly (which the Stray Cats would bring back into the charts just a couple years later), and an old-world western sensibility we now call Americana. The results occupied the tamer side of the same space occupied by bands like X, which Dave Alvin went on to play and record with (and alongside in The Knitters and the Flesh Eaters). Dave Alvin, 61, still records with his brother, but he’s also gone on to release a prolific stream of solo records. The most recent, Eleven, Eleven (Yep Roc, 2011) showcases his gift for character sketches told through his gravel-and-smoke pipes with a rough-hewn, country rock barroom feel. It’s a perfect match for Sportsmen’s Tavern where he and his band The Guilty Ones will play on Tuesday, May 2. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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there. When the demo tapes of songs intended for the landmark 1973 album Band on the Run were stolen by thugs in Lagos, Nigeria (where initial recording took place), Laine was also there. When Wings—then reduced to just a trio featuring both McCartneys and Laine—had to regurgitate the demo'd songs from memory, Laine was there for that as well. These experiences inform Laine's current show, wherein he and his band perform the Band on the Run album in its entirety among other selections. It's a reminder that Wings, McCartney's massively successful 1970s incarnation, was a bit more than the stoned vision of a Beatle looking to reinvent himself, although contrary to popular belief, that's what the song "Band on the Run" is really about. Long believed to be a commentary about traveling with contraband (which plays a role in its narrative, but a much smaller one than lore would have you thinking), the track is really about the business clutches of stardom and escaping from an unhappy management relationship while looking back at the humble expectations of a once younger lad hoping to make enough to pay his bar tab. Hear Laine's take on this classic album Monday, May 1 at Sportsmen's Tavern. -CJT

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[PODCAST] The moody, strange, fictional podcast Welcome to Night Vale—a “community update” program that covers the supernatural events surrounding a small desert town—is one of the most popular podcasts around. The eerie atmosphere created by the simultaneously calming and apprehensive narrator Cecil Palmer, voiced by Cecil Baldwin, is inimitable and it’s become a benchmark for paranormal fiction, especially in the podcast realm. In 2013, the podcast went on tour, presenting live shows across the country. On Monday, May 1, Welcome to Night Vale will come to Asbury Hall for a special live show starring Cecil Baldwin

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[ROCK] It doesn't get much rootsier than a band playing a mix of homemade instruments and depression-era guitars. The joke's on us, though, since the "big damn band" is only sizable in the sound it makes – Rev Peyton and company are a trio. A trio that, as it turns out, almost never happened. After playing a party following his high school graduation, the Reverend—a happily grinning beardo usually in overalls named Josh Peyton—was told he'd permanently injured his fretting hand and would never be able to play guitar again. A second opinion, followed by surgery to remove scar tissue, put him back in full capacity a couple years later and he's never looked back. After meeting his wifeto-be, Breezy, and a first date at the Indiana State Fair, she took up the washboard, which she's known to play wearing a pair of golfing gloves that have thimbles attached, resulting in a very unique sound. They're joined by drummer Matt Senteney, whose kit includes a five-gallon bucket. The band's joyful exuberance and admirable work ethic has made them a draw at festivals, including Telluride, Bonnaroo and ACL. Their self-released latest, The Front Porch Sessions, came out last month with some distribution help from Thirty Tigers, and it features mostly new originals alongside a cover of Memphis blues legend Furry Lewis's "When My Baby Left Me." It's a bit quieter than past releases and finds Senteney sometimes playing a suitcase instead of a drum (or a bucket) to achieve a hushed, front porch feel. Perhaps he'll bust it out at the Tralf Music Hall when Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band plays on Tuesday, May 2 with Uncle Ben's Remedy in the P opening slot. -CJT

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nounced for Buffalo’s Cobblestone District, and the lineup is full of exciting national acts, rising regional bands, and, up-and-coming local artists. The festival, which will take place July 15 and 16, is called Cobblestone Live! and it’s produced by Buffalo Iron Works, Lockhouse Distillery, and Sunbeam Entertainment. Music fans in Buffalo are bound to recognize many of 50 or so names on the festival’s twoday schedule, especially headliners Real Estate, the critically acclaimed New Jersey-based indie rock band signed to Domino Records. But, like any good festival, Cobblestone Live! envisions a few different itineraries for music fans. Fans of jam music, which Buffalo Iron Works has focused on in recent years, will be happy to see headliners Moon Taxi and Aqueous, both hailing from Buffalo. If you’re inclined to go down that path, you’ll find Funktional Flow, the Intrepid Travelers, and Moon Hooch, among others. Stick with indie rock and you’ll be pleased to see bands like Delicate Steve, Midnight Snack, Lazlo Hollyfeld, and Aircraft on the lineup. There’s also a healthy dose of club music too, from Solidisco and Eyes Everywhere. “We were extremely excited to to be asked to play such a dope festival in our own city,” says Kyle Tatum one half of the duo Eyes Everywhere. “The lineup is incredible. Especially psyched to see a solid mix of out-of-town headlining talent along side other artists from Buffalo who are making waves nationally and beyond, like Aqueous and Solidisco. Really pumped to spend some time out in the sun with the city going wild.” The festival will be centered the foot of Illinois Street, where the main stage will be set up. Stage two will be inside of Buffalo Iron Works. Between Buffalo Iron Works and Lockhouse, along South Park Avenue, there’ll be a vendor area—which will include food trucks, a beer tent, and more—and then Lockhouse will serve as stage three, hosting much of the late night entertainment, like Solidisco and Eyes Everywhere. This festival has clearly has required some cooperation from Lockhouse and Buffalo Iron Works, two venues that at times have competing live music events. CJ Cook, who along with his business partner Vinny Croglio founded the

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booked Delicate Steve, Midnight Snack, Ellen Siberian Tiger, and others who he has booked again to play this festival—but he’s also worked on larger scale events. “I went to the University of Vermont and I organized our college Spring Fest. That was, capacity-wise, around 5,000 people.” He helped book MGMT and the Roots for these annual Spring Fest events. He says the most challenging part of running an event like this is putting together all of the permits required. “That’s the annoying part, but it hasn’t been too bad so far,” he says. “Booking the talent was the easy part.” One of their biggest accomplishments so far, the organizers say, is partnering with Planned Parenthood, who will be the main beneficiary of the event. “This event is so much more than just a music festival,” says Muscato. “It’s an opportunity to add another dimension to our city. Putting this together we have the opportunity to work with so many like minded people that share our values and ethics. To be partnered with such a valuable and prolific organization such as Planned Parenthood for this festival was really the cherry on top.” This aspect has been appealing to many of the artists involved with the festival too, like Tatum: “Finding out that the festival will benefit Planned Parenthood was a major plus. With our own parties we have been trying to take a more conscious stance on partying by making sure proceeds go to causes we care about so it means a lot to be involved with other people who are on the same vibe.” As far as goals go, the promoters hope to make this a yearly event that maybe one day could grow into something even the size of a festival like Lollapalooza.

“Another point of the festival is to highlight these awesome up-and-coming acts. We came together and said, ‘Why not do a really eclectic lineup?” says Cook. “Expect a really good time, expect to be impressed with new bands. I think that’s the thing I want people to walk away with. We want people to be really pumped that something like this is going on in Buffalo.” P

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PLAYBILL CABARET: Willkommen. Through April 30 at Shea’s Performing Arts Center, 646 Main Street, 716-847-1410, sheas.org. CEMETERY CLUB: Three Jewish widows, united by mourning and ritual, whose unity is disrupted by the arrival of a man. It’s a comedy. Through May 21 at O’Connell & Company’s theater at the Park School, 4625 Harlem Road, Snyder, 716-848-0800, oconnellandcompany.com. THE COUNTRY HOUSE: Donald Margulies’s play about is the theater, theater people, and the people who love both. Opens April 28 at Road Less Traveled Theater, 500 Pearl Street, 716-629-3069, roadlesstraveledproductions.org. THE FATHER: Artistic director David Lamb plays the title role in Florian Zeller’s award-winning play. Opens April 28 at the Kavinoky Theatre, 320 Porter Avenue, 716-829-7668, kavinokytheatre.com. GODSPELL: The 1971 Stephen Schwartz classic, through May 7 at Lancaster Opera House, 21 Central Avenue, Lancaster, 716-683-1776, lancopera.org. THE GREAT GOD PAN: The Jewish Repertory Theatre’s season of plays by Amy Herzog continues with The Great God Pan, about a journalist whose friend accuses the journalist’s father of sexual abusing him as a child—and suspects the journalist was abused, too. Opens April 27 at the Jewish Repertory Theatre, 2640 North Forest Road, Getzville, 716-688-4033, jewishrepertorytheatre.com. MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET: The story of the 1956 Memphis jam session between Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley. Through May 28 at MusicalFare, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, 716-839-8540, musicalfare.com. THE TRIAL OF TRAYVON MARTIN: Gary Earl Ross’s new play supposes that George Zimmerman, not Trayvon Martin, was the one killed that fateful Florida night. How would a black teenager have been treated by the US criminal justice system? The seventh installment in Subversive Theatre Collective’s Black Power Play series continues through May 6 at the Manny Fried Playhouse, Great Arrow Building, 255 Great Arrow Avenue, 716-408-0499, subversivetheatre.org. THE WINSLOW BOY: Terrence Rattigan’s 1946 play—based on an actual incident in which a father struggles to clear the name of his teenage son falsely accused of a seemingly paltry but reputation-damaging crime—has great currency in an era when youthful foibles are made indelible by social media. The Irish Classical’s production runs through May 14 at the Andrews Theater, 625 Main Street, P 726-853-ICTC, irishclassical.com. Playbill is presented by:

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FILM REVIEW less cosmopolitan setting, but hey. It’s always worked for her in the past. A giant monster mysteriously appears in Seoul, South Korea, cutting a path of destruction before disappearing into the night air. No, I didn’t lose a block of text and segue into another movie there. What does this have to do with Gloria, Oscar and company? One might think only that such a horrifying event affects all mankind. But it turns out to be more specific than that. And that’s all I’m going to tell you. Colossal was written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo, whose previous films (Open Windows, Extraterrestrial) weren’t limited to the genre market in the US. This is his first shot at a mainstream release, and it’s entirely possible that it may be regarded as too weird for the multiplex regulars. I hope that’s not the case. It’s also entirely possible that people like me, who have spent their lives watching far too many movies, may simply be reacting to novelty value. I’ve seen Colossal twice, once last year at TIFF and again recently, and it holds up. I’m not sure if the place the movie gets to in the end is worth the path it takes to get there, but there’s a lot to be said for taking the scenic route. •••

Jason Sudeikis and Anne Hathaway in Colossal.

REMEMBRANCE OF FILM FESTIVALS PAST COLOSSAL / GRADUATION / THEIR FINEST BY M. FAUST YOU’D HAVE TO GO BACK to the early heyday of Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) to find a movie like Colossal, one that not only has an utterly novel premise but that manages to keep it moving in unexpected directions. I love to think of viewers who will come across this movie on cable a few years from now, start watching solely on the basis of stars Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudekis, and halfway through say to themselves, “What the fuck is this?”

The next best thing is for you to stop reading this now and just go see it when it opens at the Dipson Amherst this Friday. I guess it’s possible you might like it, but I can’t believe that you

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OPENING THIS WEEK THE CIRCLE—Adaptation of Dave Eggers’s novel about a successful tech/social media company whose hold over its employees has a disturbing aspect. Starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, and Bill Paxton. Directed by James Ponsoldt (The End of the Tour). Area theaters COLOSSAL—The answer to the question, how can you mix a millennial rom-com and giant Asian monsters? Starring Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudekis, Tim Blake Nelson, and Dan Stevens. Directed by Nacho Vigalondo. Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst GRADUATION—A Romanian doctor finds himself gradually sinking into corruption as he tries to ensure that his daughter will get into a good school. Starring Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus and Lia Bugnar. Directed by Cristian Mungiu (4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days). Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst THEIR FINEST—British comedy-drama set at the Ministry of Information during World War II, as bureaucrats try to use the resources of the local film industry to produce a propaganda movie. Starring Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Jack Huston, Richard E. Grant and Jeremy Irons. Directed by Lone Scherfig (An Education). Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills

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won’t have found it worth your time simply for novelty value. Still here? Oh, ye of little faith. Anne Hathaway stars as Gloria, an unemployed writer living the high life in Manhattan, much to the annoyance of her boyfriend (Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens). Tossed out of his apartment, she heads back home to New Hampshire to get her head together. The implication that this will include a reduction in alcohol consumption falls by the wayside when she runs into her childhood friend Oscar ( Jason Sudekis, whose strengths as an actor are getting worked out in ways that SNL never offered). Oscar owns a bar, and Gloria doesn’t so much fall back into her bad habits as move them to a

about ten people stranded at a remote mansion trying to discover which of them is killing the others. Starring Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, and June Duprez. Directed by Rene Clair. Tue 7:30pm Screening Room CLASS DIVIDE—Documentary about class division and gentrification in the West Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and its effects on public housing. Directed by Marc Levine. Presented by Cultivate Cinema Circle. Free and open to the public. Wed 7pm. Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St. CONTEMPORARY COLOR—After becoming enraptured by colour guard—high school musicians who use complex dance sequences, flag spins and rifle tosses—David Byrne devised a showcase for some of the best teams by pairing them at a stadium show with musicians like St. Vincent, Devonté Hynes, Nelly Furtado, and Ad-Rock. Directed by Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross. Presented by Cultivate Cinema Circle. Tue 7pm. North Park DECONSTRUCTING THE BEATLES—Three of musicologist Scott Freiman’s popular lectures analyzing the music of the Beatles on their greatest albums. The White Album—Mon-Tue 2pm, 4:30pm, Wed 2pm, 4:30pm, 7pm; Revolver—Thu 5/4 4:30, 9:30 pm.; Rubber Soul—Thu 5/4 2, 7 pm. North Park THE EYES— Six people guilty of various unpunished crimes are imprisoned and pitted against each other, with only one allowed to survive. Starring Nicholas Turturro, Vincent Pastore, and Megan West. Directed by Robbie Bryan. Fri 10 pm, Tue 7:30pm. Screening Room FURY (2014)—Brad Pitt as an army sergeant commanding a Sherman tank and crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines at the end of World War II. With Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman and Michael Peña. Directed by David Ayer (End of Watch). Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst ICE GUARDIANS—Those badass enforcers are the center of attention in this hockey documentary.

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Also opening this week are two other films I saw at TIFF, though neither made as strong an impression on me (always a danger at a film festival that offers more good films that you can possibly take in). Graduation, for which the critically acclaimed Romanian director Cristian Mungiu was awarded Best Director at Cannes, was the first of his films I had seen. (The best known is 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.) Those who have followed his work may be better prepared for this new drama and its slow, deliberate pace. Adrian Titieni stars as a doctor whose respectable life falls into a morass of petty corruption after he tries to keep his daughter from losing a university scholarship after a violent attack makes it hard for her to complete her examinations. The basis for the Cannes award becomes gradually apparent as what seems to be a casually told story turns into a tight web of complications. Their Finest is the kind of exercise in World War II nostalgia that British filmmakers will apparently never grow tired of making, as long as they can find a slightly new take on the era. In this case, we follow a young secretary (Gemma Arterton) in the Ministry of Information who gets promoted to a job writing dialogue for “informationals,” short optimistic propaganda films shown in theaters to captive audiences as they wait for the Hollywood feature to start. Her job is to provide dialogue for female characters, a job held in such esteem that her pay bump is zero and her output referred to generically as “slop.” But still, like the guy following the circus elephants with a shovel, she has a job in show biz. Bill Nighy co-stars as a washed-up actor who refuses to admit his career has declined, the kind of role he’s done so often that he can do it in his sleep and still be charming at it. That aside, I recall that it was moderately likeable but don’t really remember why; The distributor refused to provide screeners for its local opening, so that’s the best I can tell you.

Or “hockumentary,” as no one but me will ever call it. Directed by Brett Harvey. Fri 2pm, 4:30pm. North Park LADYHAWKE (1985)—Medieval romantic fantasy starring Matthew Broderick as a thief who helps a pair of lovers (Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer) escape a curse that turns them into animals at alternate times of the day so they can never be together. With Leo McKern, John Wood, and Alfred Molina. Directed with an admirably straight face by Richard Donner (Superman). FriSat 11:30am. North Park LIFE, ANIMATED—Documentary about an autistic boy who finds a path to communication through his love of animated films. Directed by Roger Ross Williams (God Loves Uganda). Reviewed this issue. Fri 7pm. North Park PIECES (1982)—The giallo and slasher genres meet in this Spanish production set in Boston that has gained a cult following for its over the top gruesomeness and less than top-notch technical qualities. Starring Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Edmund Purdom and Paul L. Smith. Directed by Juan Piquer Simón (Slugs). Part of the Thursday Night Terrors series. Thu 7:30pm. Dipson Amherst SOME LIKE IT HOT (QING SHENG)—The English title of this Chinese film may have you looking for Marilyn Monroe, but it’s actually closer to a remake of The Woman in Red as a middle-aged man looks to make up for a dull life by romancing a younger woman. Fri 9:30pm, Sat 10pm. North Park SWORD ART ONLINE THE MOVIE: ORDINAL SCALE—Anime. But you knew that just from the title, didn’t you? Based on characters by Reki Kawahara and directed by Tomohiko Ito Sat 2pm, 4:30pm; Sun 2pm, 4:30pm, 7 pm. North Park TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992)—If you didn’t religiously watch the original TV series, this follow-up feature may not make a whole lot of sense to you. But then, what David Lynch movie ever did? The endless cast includes Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick, David Bowie, Miguel Ferrer, Heather Graham, Chris Isaak, Peggy

Lipton, Jürgen Prochnow, Harry Dean Stanton, Kiefer Sutherland, Grace Zabriskie, and of course Kyle MacLachlan. Mon 7pm. North Park VERTIGO (1958) — Guilt-ridden over the death of a policeman and a woman he was hired to watch, James Stewart falls madly (literally) in love with a shopgirl (Kim Novak) who resembles the dead woman. With Barbara Bel Geddes, Henry Jones, and Raymond Bailey. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Thu-Sat 7:30pm. Screening Room THE VOID—Lovecraftian monsters on the rampage in an understaffed hospital. Starring Aaron Poole, Kenneth Welsh, Daniel Fathers and Kathleen Munroe. Directed by Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski. Reviewed this issue. Sun, Mon, Wed 9:30pm, Tue 9:30pm. North Park ZARDOZ (1974)—Sean Connery costumed in a porn-stache, thigh boots, and a speedo is only the beginning of the ridiculousness in this cult sci-fi adventure. Written and directed by the seldom restrained John Boorman, in between Deliverance and Exorcist II: The Heretic. Sat 7pm. North Park

CONTINUING BORN IN CHINA—Nature documentary filmed over four years in remote regions of China. Released by Disney, so expect lots of anthropomorphized critters including panda bears, monkeys, and snow leopards. Narrated by John Krasinski. Directed by Chuan Lu. Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE BOSS BABY—Alec Baldwin as the voice of a power-hungry infant. It only sounds like an SNL skit. Other voices by Tobey Maguire, Steve Buscemi, Lisa Kudrow, and Jimmy Kimmel. Directed by Tom McGrath (Madagascar). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS—Umpteenth sequel in the Fast and Furious franchise. Starring Vin

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BY GREGORY LAMBERSON VIDEO DIDN’T JUST kill the radio star, it also mortally wounded the drive-in theater, relegating a lot of B movies to the small screen. The home video boom of the 1980s forever changed the way we watch movies, giving way to DVDs, then Blu-rays, and now streaming services. Millennials watch movies on their phones, a notion that might have given David Lean indigestion. The rise of multiplexes has only ensured that big-budget “tent-pole” films will play on multiple screens at any given venue during opening weekend. But as technology taketh away, it sometimes giveth, too. The change from film projection to digital projection has enabled boutique cinemas like the Screening Room and specialized palaces like the North Park Theatre to showcase eclectic programming that might have been unthinkable two decades ago. Even drive-in theater managers are finding unique ways to mix mainstream films with older films that would have once been relegated to repertory theaters (and good luck finding any of those). Another development afforded by current technology has been the advent of a distribution model that enables smaller niche films to enjoy limited theatrical runs concurrent with their release on video on demand services, giving the target audience the choice to enjoy certain films at home or on a big screen. “Arthouse horror,” a subgenre which includes such films as It Follows, The Babadook, and the recent horror musical The Lure, has flourished under this new model.

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I’m not sure The Void, playing late shows this Sunday through Wednesday at the North Park, qualifies as arthouse fare, but it is a film that reaps the benefits of this new platform. Co-written and co-directed by Jeremy

Gillespie and Stephen Kostanski of the Atron 6 filmmaking collective after a crowdfunding campaign raised $82,000, this indie horror flick finds its victims battling tentacled, Lovecraftian monsters rampaging inside a secluded and understaffed hospital while deadly cult members wait outside. The film borrows liberally from John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 and The Thing, Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond, and Stuart Gordon’s From Beyond. Derivative in concept, it is earnestly acted and has a serious tone, with some nice visuals (and also some that are maddeningly shrouded in darkness). Familiar faces—to cult fans, at least—include Art Hindle, who made his genre mark in the original Black Christmas and David Cronenberg’s The Brood, and Kenneth Walsh, who played agent Cooper’s arch nemesis on Twin Peaks. My chief criticism of the film is that I never gave a damn about any of the characters, which strongly undercuts any intended suspense, but the target audience for this film is more concerned with the gooey special effects, and they will find much to appreciate here. Still, the most notable aspect of The Void is that it’s screening at theaters across the country at the same time it’s available on VOD, so horror fans don’t have to settle for watching it in their living rooms, a trend I hope continues. P

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