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UPS: CROSSROADS COLLECTIVE AND THE “STATE OF OUR CITY.” Policy talks can be dry

affairs, and participation can be hard to come by. But neither of these factors were the case last Thursday at the Buffalo Central Library. The capacity crowd—in fact it was over capacity—heard from speaker after speaker give three minutes of their mind on housing, policing, education, and immigration issues. Progressivism is alive and well in Buffalo, you just won’t find it in many elected offices.

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more than a decade, Peter Battaglia’s concrete-crushing operation in Buffalo’s Seneca-Babcock neighborhood has been flouting environmental regulations and governmental attempts to bring it to heel. But this Monday, Chimes issued an order forcing Battaglia Demolition on Peabody Street to cease operations, finding the company to be “a public nuisance” that lacked required permits. Chimes also ruled that Battaglia could be personally held liable for damages, for which neighbors have long been seeking redress. “It was a big win,” Brian Borncamp, a community organizer with the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York, which worked with residents in dealing with Battaglia, told our partners at Investigative Post. “We now have a mandate that he will follow the law and be held accountable for his actions.”

DOWNS: BUFFALO POLICE. For the third time in just over a year, the New York State attorney

general’s special investigations and prosecutions unit is investigating the death of a civilian by the conduct of Buffalo Police. Susan LoTempio of North Buffalo was struck and killed on Good Friday morning by an officer driving eastbound on Hertel Avenue en route to a service call on Starin Avenue. While this has the appearances of a tragic accident, we still don’t know why the city can’t be more transparent on this. Did the car have its lights on or off? Were the sirens on or off? What was the nature of the service call the officer was responding to? These are simple questions and that the LoTempio family deserves answers on now. They shouldn’t have to wait 10 months for the attorney general unit to release its findings. THE BUFFALO NEWS AND BUSINESS REPORTER DAVID ROBINSON, whose byline

appears on an April 3 front-page article that might as well have been written by public relations flacks for IBM’s downtown call center and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion program. This paper has published two pieces by Charlotte Keith of Investigative Post detailing the disappointing results of the program’s $55 million investment in bringing IBM to the region: What was touted as an investment in high-paying tech jobs has netted instead relatively low-paying, outsourced call center jobs. But Robinson’s story offers a venue for IBM executives and state economic development officials to reiterate promises already broken: The investment is called “a work in progress”; the article is littered with words like “hope,” phrases like “If that happens,” and assurances that tech support jobs are some sort of gateway to higher-paid programming and data analysis positions. It is the job of IBM and the Cuomo administration to put the best face on the Buffalo Billion investment in IBM’s local call center. It’s the job of journalists to provide balanced factual analysis of that investment, to counter spin. Charlotte Keith’s articles did that; the Buffalo News and David Robinson did not. NFTA CHAIRWOMAN SISTER DENISE A. ROCHE. Maybe she’s confused about

what she’s allowed to disclose from executive session, or what executive session really means? The Buffalo News discovered by a Freedom of Information request that Roche had approved substantial raises for the NFTA’s executive director, its chief financial officer, and its top lawyer. All three returned the raises, according to the ED Kimberley Minkel “in light of the recent New York State fiscal concerns that have been reported,” but also likely objecting to the underhanded way in which they received them. And someone, perhaps one of the three, tipped the News off to file the information request in the first place. Not a good look from the chairwoman as the NFTA struggles to secure P maintenance and operational funding without a fare increase or service decrease.

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THOROUGHLY THE ADper IS Aday PICK-UP. If approved, up toEVEN 220IFtrucks could rumble two-lane country road. The THISdown PROOFa MAY ONLY BE USED FOR new landfill wouldINhold toxic material PUBLICATION THEenough PUBLIC. to fill 1,200 Olympic-sized pools. “It’s insanity what they propose to do,” said Tim Henderson, whose adult son was killed in a head-on collision with a hazardous waste truck leaving CWM in January 2011. The application process is moving forward despite public opposition and CWM’s history of spills and environmental violations, an Investigative Post analysis of state and federal records found. CWM has been cited for Clean Water Act violations in six of the past 12 quarters for discharging chemicals into a tributary of the Niagara River above the limits set in its permit. The company has also paid at least $876,900 in state fines since 1995 for more than 100 violations, most related to the transporting, handling and disposing of hazardous waste. As the application process progressed CWM and its parent company, Waste Management Inc., have increased lobbying efforts and political donations to local and state campaigns. The proposed expansion is opposed by four local governing bodies and the LewistonPorter Central School District, which stands to 4

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“You wonder, you have kids, now are my kids going to go through it? My grandkids going to go through it?” said Peggy Leone, who has dealt with a host of health problems. CWM said concerns raised during the application process are not substantive or significant enough to derail their expansion. Lori Caso, a company spokeswoman, said the facility is the safest, most-regulated landfill in the state. “We’re on the inside of the fence, and I understand the people on the outside of the fence might be nervous, but I’m telling you for those of us who come here every day, there’s nothing to be afraid of here,” she said.

PEACE AND QUIET NOW There are 17 commercial hazardous waste facilities in the nation. The next-closest facilities to Niagara County are near Detroit, Toledo and Pittsburgh. CWM’s facility in Porter is one of eight in the country permitted to dispose of PCBs, a banned carcinogen that was used in the manufacturing of plastics, as well as lubricants and transformer fluids. The company has treated, stored and buried hazardous waste on 700 acres for more than three decades. The landfill stopped accepting waste in 2015 when it reached capacity. “We finally got some peace and quiet back on the roads, there’s very little trucks,” said Henderson, a member of Residents for Responsible Government, an advocacy group that has battled CWM for years. CWM has accepted everything from a few hundred pounds of lead paint chips to thousands of tons of toxic industrial sludge and contaminated soil. By taking this hazardous material, CWM has helped other places prosper, while communities in Niagara County are stuck with the consequences.

INVESTIGATIVE POST NEWS For example, in 2008, Admiral’s Wharf in Stamford, Connecticut, got a posh waterfront development with homes, stores, offices and a marina. CWM took in 218 tons of toxic soils dredged from the wharf. The Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, had to clean out its Rifle and Pistol Club range that it closed in 2004. The 370 tons of shotgun range pellets contaminated with lead are buried at CWM. Residents in Fords, New Jersey, benefited from getting their properties in their community remediated and sections of the Raritan River restored from decades of contamination from a former manufacturer of lubricants and other chemicals. The 4,484 tons of soil contaminated with PCBs is now at CWM.

RADIOLOGICAL CONCERNS The land that CWM occupies has a long history of being used as a dumping ground by the federal government. Before CWM came to town, the land was part of 7,500 acres the federal government called Lake Ontario Ordnance Works or LOOW. After World War II, the federal government used the land for storing and dumping radioactive waste leftover from the Manhattan Project and the development of the atomic bomb. Today, just a mile south of CWM, an underground containment area holds some 20,000 tons of radioactive waste, including half the world’s known radium, which decays into potentially cancer-causing radon gas. This landfill is managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1980, CWM purchased an existing hazardous waste facility on a portion of the former LOOW property. But the historic use of CWM’s property is another source of concern for opponents, who fear a new landfill would require digging up land that might be contaminated with radioactivity that could disperse into the air. “Our position is that radiological contaminants are diffusely spread across the site, as evidenced by the consistent discovery of elevated radiation on nearly every occasion CWM has had to put a shovel in the ground,” said Gary Abraham, the attorney representing the Town of Lewiston, Niagara County Legislature and the villages of Lewiston and Youngstown against CWM. Caso, CWM’s spokeswoman, said the radiological concerns are a non-issue. “You could look at it that the land is already historically contaminated, you don’t ever want to use this for anything else,” she said. CWM spokeswoman Lori Caso standing where landfill expansion would occur.

FINES AND SPILLS An Investigative Post review of state and federal spill and enforcement data shows CWM has a spotty track record. The pace of the violations and penalties slowed as the landfill took in less waste as it approached capacity. But problems have persisted. CWM has had Clean Water Act violations in six of the past 12 quarters for discharges of phenols, zinc and dirty wastewater into Twelve Mile creek, a tributary to the Niagara River. In 2016, CWM was fined $54,900 for a series of violations that included a 1,000 gallon spill of leachate, a toxic soup of chemicals that percolates from landfills. An employee error caused almost 200,000 gallons of additional leachate to spill over into a second containment tank, according to enforcement records. The company also failed to perform annual testing of the leachate tanks. Between 2006 and 2008, CWM was fined $175,000 for violations that involved storing hazardous waste in leaking or bulging drums, leaving a valve open that leaked leachate onto the floor of a building, and discharging “a substantial volume” of foam through a vent line near one of its stormwater drainage systems. Other violations include allowing a truck to track mud contaminated with PCBs off site, failing to inspect tanks for leaks, burying soil contaminated with chemicals at concentrations above what was

permitted, and accepting and burying prohibited radioactive waste. In addition, there are hundreds of other spills at the facility for which CWM was not fined because they were the fault of trucks delivering waste to the facility. An Investigative Post analysis found at least 389 reports of spills at or near CWM over the past two decades. Spills included chemicals such as petroleum, PCBs, lead and arsenic. More than one-quarter of the incidents involved spills of hazardous waste from trucks in transit to the facility since 2005, according to an analysis of U.S. Department of Transportation data.For example, in 2009, 240 pounds of material contaminated with PCBs leaked at the facility. Less than two months later, it happened again, this time 16 pounds of material contaminated with PCBs. Almost all of the spills were attributed to leaking gaskets on containers. “From time to time there might be a spill from a vacuum truck and there’s a little bit on the road, and we clean it up immediately. The spill is controlled. It is not being dispersed into the environment,” said Jill Banaszak, CWM’s technical manager.

HEALTH CONCERNS Grace Austin, a former bus driver for LewistonPorter schools, said she has seen enough friends and acquaintances suffer and die. Austin has a hand-drawn map of the area marked with pink X’s for each of the 127 residents she says have died of cancer since the 1980s. Austin, a breast cancer survivor, made the list by going through obituaries, confirming deaths with family members and jotting down the names of her own deceased friends and acquaintances. “This is a toxic area,” Austin said. Leone, who lives about a mile from the landfills, has had a hysterectomy, throat cancer and deformities in her kidneys. She said most hunters avoid the area. “Most don’t hunt around here, only for the very reason that there are a lot of deer that are contaminated,” Leone said. “I’ve seen deer that when you field dress it, the deer is green.” Elaine Martin had a tumorous gland removed in 1998 and has endured a lifetime of sorrow, watching as other relatives fell sick. “My brother had breast cancer when he was in his 30s and then my other sister, she had colon cancer and my other sister has melanoma. My father had prostate cancer,” she said. “My one son only has one kidney and he was born like that.” The state Department of Health found in studies released in 2003 and 2008 that a five-mile area around the Town of Porter had statistically significant rates of some cancers. The more comprehensive study in 2008 found more statistically significant rates of cancer, including rare childhood cancers, over a 10-year period for the towns of Lewiston and Porter, the Village of Youngstown and the hamlet of Ransomville. The study concluded that most of the cancers are common and that “much more research is necessary before the causes of cancer are well understood.” As for the rare childhood cancers, the health department suspected some of the children could have been exposed to pesticides from nearby farms. Neither study made any link to CWM, the radioactive landfill or any other nearby facility. Nor did they consider other illnesses, such as the autoimmune problems and neurological disorders that residents say seem prevalent in the area. Clyde Burmaster, a Niagara County legislator, is a five-time prostate and bladder cancer survivor. He lives three miles from the CWM facility. His mother and sister-in-law who lived nearby both died of cancer. “How is this allowed to exist? It is so idyllic here,” he said.

GOVERNMENT OPPOSITION The Town of Lewiston, Niagara County Legislature and the villages of Lewiston and

Youngstown, as well as the Lewiston-Porter school district, have voiced their dissent despite the risk of losing out on the millions of dollars in revenue from taxes and fees that CWM would pay over the lifetime of the new landfill. The Town of Lewiston and Lewiston-Porter schools would take in an estimated $13.2 million that CWM would pay in gross receipts taxes over three decades, according to an economic report prepared by the company. CWM also would pay $29.3 million to the Lewiston-Porter schools in school taxes over the same time period. The Town of Porter has remained silent. In 2001, it signed a host agreement with CWM that prohibits the town government from opposing the landfill expansion. The agreement earned the town at least $3 million in fees and payments. As part of the deal, CWM agreed to not build incinerators to burn waste.In total, CWM says its new landfill will bring Niagara County $581 million in economic benefit through 2045. None of that sways Alfonso Bax, a Lewiston Town Board member. “This deal is equivalent to selling your soul to the devil,” he said. “I think the loss of these fees and other revenues is certainly not worth the loss in property values and quality of life in our community, including the safety and health concerns our residents have raised.” The decision whether to approve the application is left to the state Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner and the Siting Board, an administrative law panel comprised mostly of representatives from state agencies.

DONATIONS, LOBBYING CWM stepped up its donations over the past decade, when the DEC was studying the need for hazardous waste facilities, and when the Siting Board subsequently took up the application. Since 2009, CWM has contributed $99,900 to P political committees. That includes $84,900 to the Niagara County Republican Committee, $10,000 of which was donated in the past three years. At the same time, its parent company, Waste Management, which does business across the state, also made more campaign donations than before. Since 2009, Waste Management and three of its subsidiaries have donated $525,070, including $77,500 to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who in 2014 appointed three ad-hoc members to the eight-member Siting Board.

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Caso said customers have maintained that additional landfill space is needed. She pointed to letters of support sent to the administrative judge by trucking companies and waste handlers that use CWM’s landfill. Most of the letters are identical, however. One of those supporters is Bart Klettke, a civil engineer who has designed landfills. He said the radioactive contamination “would preclude the property from being used for a shopping mall, a vineyard, farmers wouldn’t want to use the land.”

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HOW NEW YORK CLOSED A $4.4 BILLION BUDGET DEFICIT BY GRACE SEGERS

IT WASN’T AS PAINFUL AS SOME FEARED, BUT FUTURE SHORTFALLS STILL LOOM IN HIS JANUARY budget address, Governor

Andrew Cuomo warned about the impending budget deficit with dramatic effect. “In many ways, this is going to be the most challenging budget that we’ve had to do,” he said, thanks to a $4.4 billion deficit and the threat of funding cuts from the federal government. Cuomo and state lawmakers finalized a $168.3 billion budget last week, and were able to fill the budget gap this year, although the lack of longterm solutions to New York’s fiscal problems may mean that future deficits may be wider, and more difficult to close. So how did they do it? Not by raising taxes, but through avoiding spending increases and adding some measures to raise revenue. Morris Peters, a spokesman at the Division of the Budget, said that the state achieved “many of the savings proposals put forth in the executive budget, such as actions to hold state agency spending flat, containing Medicaid growth within the Global Cap, and service consolidation and reorganization.” The governor’s budget proposal had included consolidating redundant health care resources to increase savings. Albany also got lucky: The budget gap was partially able to be closed because projected revenues were higher than expected. This was discovered during the revenue consensus process, which occurred at the beginning of March, when the executive office and both chambers in the state Legislature calculated individual revenue forecasts. According to David Friedfel, director of state studies at the Citizens Budget Commission, they concluded that there would be $750 million in additional funding coming through pre-existing revenue streams such as personal income tax receipts. This extra $750 million cut down the deficit before the budget was even negotiated. Friedfel also said that funding to close the deficit came from spending reductions, settlement funds from agreements, primarily with financial industry operators, and revenue increases. 6

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Cuomo had proposed $1 billion in taxes and fees to help fill the gap as part of his executive budget. He said in his budget address that no legislator would be interested in cutting health care or education funding to fill the gap, so he suggested “revenue raisers.” State Senate Republicans rejected the majority of these proposals, including a requirement for online marketers to charge a sales tax and a surcharge tax on health insurance companies. One of Cuomo’s “revenue raisers” that did make it in the budget was the state’s ability to tax opioid manufacturers. Although not technically a tax, but an assessment, the measure will force opioid manufacturers to pay a combined $100 million per year to the state proportional to their sales in New York. The funds will go to the state’s drug treatment programs. “It’s not actually increasing the money that the state’s going to spend on drug treatment, it’s mostly replacing what they already spent. That’s pure budget balancing,” said Bill Hammond, director of health policy at the Empire Center, a conservative think tank. Hammond said that another major contribution to closing the budget gap would come from the state’s capture of $2 billion from the sale of Fidelis, a nonprofit health insurance company, to the for-profit insurer Centene—including $1 billion in the first year. Fidelis was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese in Brooklyn, and it currently has 1.6 million members. It initially only offered statesponsored managed care such as Medicaid. “Their entire revenue base was the state paying them premiums to cover New Yorkers that were on these programs,” Hammond explained, adding that Fidelis became the largest provider of Medicaid managed care, and the only provider that is in every county. Although the church had hoped to use the funds from the sale to Centene to create a charity foundation to provide health care for the needy, Cuomo argued that the state should be able to recoup the cost because Fidelis initially made its money through state funding. The governor eventually proposed that the state should be able to capture 80 percent of the sale, with 20 percent going to create a foundation. As the church needs permission from the state Department of Health and Department of

STATE NEWS Financial Services to make the sale, it ultimately agreed to a compromise whereby the state will capture Fidelis’ “excess reserves” from the sale. This will amount to $2 billion over four years, with $1 billion in the first year. As with the tax on opioid manufacturers, the state will be obtaining funds through different means than initially proposed by Cuomo, but with the same result. “The original governor’s proposal relied on half a billion dollars per year for four years from the conversion. The adopted budget instead basically grabbed some of Fidelis’ reserves in the first year, and then the state would give money in the out years based on a conversion, assuming it takes place,” Friedfel explained. “So that money basically was replaced from the same source through a different mechanism.” “You could say it’s closing about a quarter of the overall gap,” Hammond said about the funds that New York will capture from the sale. In an article for the Empire Center, Hammond suggested that this could set a precedent, as it allows the state “the right to claw back money it pays to private companies for services rendered.” Budget deficit hawks may also worry that onetime revenue boosts such as this won’t solve the imbalance between costs and revenues in the years ahead. Friedfel noted that Cuomo, for the most part, kept to his trend of spending reductions across many departments, although there was the notable exception of education spending, which increased by 3.9 percent. Although the governor initially suggested $300 million in Foundation Aid to schools, he later doubled that number

to over $600 million, with a nearly $1 billion addition of total aid to schools. Friedfel suggested that by increasing education spending, the state had missed an opportunity to reform the way schools are funded in the state. New York already spends more per student than any other state. “They could have provided additional revenues to high-need school districts without increasing beyond was in the executive budget or actually even decreasing compared to the executive budget if they had targeted those increases better,” Friedfel said. Although the state was able to close its budget shortfall and increase education funding, this higher spending could have a negative effect on future financing, as the state’s long-term financial prospects were not improved. “They closed the gap for this year, but by adding money for education, by using settlement funds in order to backfill the general fund, it makes it so that out-year deficits are going to be larger and also harder to close,” Friedfel said, referring to the years that occur after a given fiscal year. “I think the big takeaway is that using shortterm revenues or one-time revenues to fill ongoing expenses will make the out-years more challenging.” Grace Segers is a reporter for City & State, a politics and policy journal with which The P Public shares content.

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MASTEN & EAST UTICA, CIRCA 1959 The corner of Masten Avenue and East Utica Street was a small neighborhood center, with a couple shops and School No. 8. In this photograph, taken sometime between 1959 and 1963, Masten Avenue is viewed looking north across the intersection. Masten is lined with American elms. John’s Delicatessen, with a Queen Anne style turret, is visible on the left at the northeast corner at 164 East Utica Street. The sign for the Masten Pharmacy, at the southwest corner at 163 East Utica Street, is visible on the far left. Mostly today this scene is of vacant lots, and few trees. The building that housed John’s Delicatessen stood at least until 2001, when it last housed Farouk and Salah Alhudais’ Masten Deli.. -THE PUBLIC STAFF DAILYPUBLIC.COM / APRIL 4 - 10, 2018 / THE PUBLIC

ART REVIEW to see in a static work of art—even about dynamic processes— but seems more implicit. What Shin’s various works show explicitly are networks, in a range from concrete—the cows and chickens and farm production work—to abstract. Several large and small dots and interconnecting lines works—like a Jackson Pollock if he took the next step and with a pen or pencil joined his dots—including a wall-hanging sheet work—or actually just off the wall, about six inches from the wall—with black dots and perforation dots and lines, part of the aesthetic effect of which is the shadow subdued reiteration of the sheet pattern on the wall behind it.

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MIZIN SHIN AND CHUCK TINGLEY AT BUFFALO ARTS STUDIO A WEEK OR SO ago, in a story on the radio on the tariffs Trump

was announcing on steel and aluminum imports from most of the rest of the world, the reporter interviewed an Iowa pig farmer. The farmer explained what a bind the tariffs put him and other pig farmers in, given that China in particular was certain to retaliate with tariffs on a laundry list of American products, including pork. How the loss of the China market for Iowa pork meant having to load more pork product on other markets—such as the American domestic market—that already had more than adequate pork supply. Causing pork prices to drop, reducing pig farmers’ revenues, and ultimately pork production, and so corn and soybean production—corn and soybeans being main

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FF = FIRST FRIDAY FF Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, on view through May 27. We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85, on view Feb 17-May 27. Matisse and the Art of Jazz, on view through Jun 17. Picturing Niagara, paintings by Stephen Hannock, on view through Sep 30. B. Ingrid Olson: Forehead and Brain, through Jun 17. Tue-Sun 10am5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. FF Amber M. Dixon Dixon Gallery at the Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology (1221 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 259-1680, buffaloartstechcenter.org): Bricks: Vitrified, Broken, Assembled, solo exhibition and performance. At exhibition closing on Apr 6, BCAT, Benjaman Contemporary and PUSH present a panel discusssion, Loss and Growth: A Community Discussion of Buffalo (de) Gentrification from 6-8pm. Mon-Fri 10am-3pm. Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annakaplancontemporary.art): Deviating Lines, work by Lyn Carter and Pam Glick. Closing reception and artist talk, Sun Apr 29, 2pm. The exhibition will run through April 29. Sat 12-4 or by appointment. Art 247 (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, theart247.com): Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Joan Fitzgerald, Drawings in Ink. On view through May 11. Reception, Sat Apr 7, noon-2pm. Tue-Fri

ingredients in pig feed—and farm equipment—tractors and trucks—sales and manufacturing, and so forth and so on. In other words, everything’s connected. Which is the main message of Mizin Shin’s artwork currently on show at Buffalo Arts Studio. Except illustrated with cows and chickens instead of pigs. One of her large wall installation works consisting of multiple little icons of cows and chickens, among icons of farm crops—corn and soybeans again certainly, main ingredients also of cattle and chicken feeds—and farm equipment and facilities used to harvest and store feed and other crops—tractors and combines and corn cribs—and process equipment used to process food product and get it to urban markets. And the further message, that if everything’s connected, the system becomes a feedback loop, which occurs when system outputs are routed back in as inputs, for ultimate increased effectiveness of the system, for good or ill. Feedback loop is harder

11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716885-2251, wnyag.com): 22nd Annual Juried Members Exhibition, modern works installation, juried by Zach Boehler. On view through April 20. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. FF Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Betty’s annual staff, friends, and family show. Through May 20. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Now-here, interactive installation by Bernard Aaron Dolecki. Fri-Sun 12-6pm. FF BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Rebecca Wing: Soft Things Rigidly. Every day 5-10pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Solo exhibitions by Chuck Tingley and Mizin Shin. 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) The Magic of the “In-Between” Realm, photography by Sabine Kutt, on view through Mar 29. Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City & WWI, 100th Anniversary of America’s Entry into WWI, on second floor. Building Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from

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While in a second gallery, some cave paintings by an artist better known for his fine portraits, Chuck Tingley. Two heavy canvas construction cavern spaces and tunnel passageways in and out, the walls and floors and ceilings painted in a riotous variety of images and styles and techniques, juxtaposed and overlaid and occasionally intermixed with some often scarcely legible verbal content, meandering meditations on art and life. Thoughts about middle and high school and social groups and interactions, and the sometimes futile project of “trying to fit in.” And moment of realization that fitting in is not the essential thing, but something more essential and interesting might be achievable through sedulous practice of one’s art. “Get into a zone, and paint for hours,” and “paint every day.” The caves project seems an impromptu—and uncharacteristic for this artist—outcome along the way. (For some more characteristic work, check out his contributions to the Freedom Wall public art project a mile or so down Main Street from Buffalo Arts Studio and one block east, the corner of Michigan and Ferry. Portraits of hero and heroine African-Americans Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis, George K. Arthur, Huey Newton, Mary B. Talbert, Dr. Monroe Fordham, and Minnie Gillette.) Among the caverns phantasmagoria of images and words: Super Mario, zodiac signs, a monster dragon, soldiers, dense jungle greenery, some Lockport references, including a Millersport Highway sign, a pair of white deer, a woman in a tub, a mother and baby, two dowager ladies in blue dresses and black shoes on a pink couch, outline portraits sketches, electronics apparatus, a man on a ladder climbing up to a ceiling trap door, apparently about to enter, and the words nearby, “who/what will save me now?” And scattered words and phrases: “fear” and “struggle” and “anxiety” and “nothing left to say.” The Mizin Shin and Chuck Tingley exhibits continue through P May 5.

Buildings, in the Grosvenor Rare Book Room. Catalogue available for purchase. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm.Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Opems: Verbal Visual Combines, Michael Basinski, on view through Jun 24. Images (of Us by Us) through Apr 1; Cargo, WayPoints, and Tales of the Erie Canal, through Jul 29. Wright, Roycroft, Stickley and Roehlfs: Defining the Buffalo Arts and Crafts Aesthetic, through November 26. A Dream World of the Imagination, works by Charles Burchfield, through Nov 26; Under Cover: objects with lids from the permanent collection, through Apr 29. At This Time, group show, through May 27. M & T Second Friday event, second Friday of every month. Fri, Feb 9, 5:30-10pm10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Café Taza (100 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Momentary Canvas, aerial photographs by Jim Cielencki. Caffeology Buffalo (23 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY, 14201): All My Friends Are Aliens, works by Julie Grygier, through Apr 5. Canisius College Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library (Canisius College 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208, 888-8412, library.canisius.edu): Works by Tom Coyne and Greg Hannen. On view through Apr 7. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter. org): Recrudescence by Lindsay Baeder, Sehnsucht by Aleah Ford. Opening reception April 5, 7-8:30pm. Thu 6-9pm & Sat 12-3pm. The Cass Project (500 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14204, thecassproject.org): Chroma

Soma, work by Kyla Kegler. Artist talk Sat, Apr 7, 2-4pm. Thu 12-9pm, Fri & Sat 12-5pm. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Writing on the Wall, textbased works from the collection, through July 29; The Lure of Niagara: Highlights From the Charles Rand Penney Historical Niagara Falls Print Collection, through Sep 9; Of Their Time: Hudson River School to Postwar Modernism, through Dec 31, 2019. Tue-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Enduring Views: The Richardson Olmsted Campus Exhibition, photos by various artists, on view through Apr 11. . Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Daemen College, Tower & Karamanoukian Galleries of the Haberman Gacioch Art Center (Daeman College Center for Visual & Performing Arts, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY 14226, 8398241): Exhibition of work by undergraduate students from the Visual and Performing Arts program at Daemen College. On view through Apr 13. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com): Wed-Fri 10:30am5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm. FF El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Andie Jairam: Kweku Anansi Fables. Opening reception Fri, Apr 6, 7-9pm. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): Member’s exhibit through Apr 28. Opening reception: Fri Apr 6, 7-9pm. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm. GO ART! (201 East Main Street, Batavia, NY

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SOFT THINGS RIGIDLY BY BECKY MODA

WORK BY REBECCA WING AT THE BOX GALLERY REBECCA WING’S EXHIBITION at the BOX Gallery, which she

calls Soft Things Rigidly, is an unassuming body of work. Each piece means everything and nothing. It’s ambiguous that way, much like the show’s title. She isn’t trying to tell us a story or make a statement, though all of her sculptures do exactly what they are supposed to do: They play with us, they are static yet suggest movement, and allure us. When I sat down with Wing to talk about her work, I found that I was trying hard—too hard—to understand it. I had a list of the usual questions: What inspired this piece? What do you want the viewer to know? What inspires you? What is this piece about? It wasn’t until halfway through our conversation that I realized I needed to be quiet and really let her talk. Most of these pieces are conceived of as “lids” to Wing—I’ll get back to this later. Many of her nine sculptures in the BOX Gallery, inside the Hostel Buffalo Niagara downtown, are displayed precariously: one hung low to the floor-corners protected by bubble wrap, a few of them leaned up against the wall on way-too-small shelves, balanced on a small wooden stilt or leg, one wrapped in a green tarp. Yet they’re all stable, strong and sure. Each work is elegant, intangible, temperamental and playful. The material is the same in all the pieces. Wing describes it as a low-brow papier-mâché recipe of white glue, plaster, toilet paper, and joint compound. It goes on soft and turns rigid, appearing like ceramic at the end. It’s craft material but her sculptures are not crafty. She imposes strict rules on this material. In most cases an armature is created of cardboard and the papier-mâché is carefully spread across it. Color doesn’t come first; copy paper white dominates. In some pieces, color only goes where shadows go, making the colors barely perceptible. The color she does use brings some levity to these austere forms. Corners are really important to Wing; bringing hard edges to this material imposes order. Her work is subtle and needs to do nothing more than take up space. It is imbued with humor though she isn’t trying to play with us. She knows when enough is enough. Betty Spaghetty is a wall-hanging sculpture that leans on a small shelf. It’s essentially a hunk of plaster with a piece of

14020): The Kite Boy, paintings by Alex Segovia. Exhibit in the Oliver’s Gallery in the Seymour Dining Room, on view through Apr 7. Where Do I Go From Here? Bisque exhibit by Shirley Nigro in the Rotary Club Room Gallery. Thu-Fri 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Second Sun 11am-2pm. Reception Apr 15, 6-8 pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Artisanal Capitalism, work by Vandana Jain, on view through Apr 27. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am2pm. FF Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): “….and what’s the use of talking” recent work by Kristina Siegel and Jörg Schnier. Wed 126pm, Thu 12-7pm, Fri, 6-9pm Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays. Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo Bunis Family Art Gallery (2640 N Forest Road, Benderson Family Building, Amherst, NY 14068, 6884033, jccbuffalo.org): Donors Art Show, on view through Apr 30. Mon-Thu 5:30am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am-6pm. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Passages, paintings by Jeanne Beck. TueSat 9:30am-5:30pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 282-7530, thenacc.org): Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 124pm.

pink thermoplastic that looks like a heater vent set on it. From between the vent slits hang strips of yellow boondoggle set in the plaster. The plastic in this piece is a strong contrast to the plaster-colored form. Wing described many of the pieces in the show as lids. As I understand it, she finds sculptural forms and composition material all around us. She regards forklift arms, army tank tires, steamrollers, excavators, and dumpster lids with a childlike enthusiasm. Lids, an ironing-board-shaped form propped up by a wooden leg, is reminiscent of a dumpster lid. Next to this is another, similar form—its underside painted a perfect grey to imply a shadow—leaning against another long-board-shaped form, one side with a perfectly placed piece of pink packing material across it. The relationship between these two related forms leaves one searching for its purpose. What does this do? Another piece called Tetch made me nervous. It looked like it might move, fall, or plop down at any minute. It is a white, deflated spherical form with a hole in it that glows green set on top of a long dowel rod form with more yellow boondoggle strips set on the bottom. This sculpture is literally laughing at you. One wants to look in the green glowing hole and stroke the plastic strips at the bottom but you can’t. You are afraid even to breathe near it. Experiencing this handsome piece that hangs, hovers, and leans induces internal laughter. The show’s biggest piece and easiest to spot walking by on Main Street, Loll, laughs at you too. It’s a large box with a green tarp over it secured with yellow rope and some white twine. Wing alludes to a construction site by placing fence-like posts in front of it with a string of yellow triangles. Set on top is an elegant scroll-like form that rests on top of the tarp-wrapped sculpture. The scroll is doing what it is supposed to do, curling and unraveling.

Betty Spaghetty by Rebecca Wing.

To Wing herself, the process is simple. “I see sculptures in the world and then I want to make them,” she told me. Some things move in certain way and take up certain spaces for a reason—a forklift, for example, is made to do a job. “Why does it have to look this way to do what they need it to do?”

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Nichols School Gallery at the Glenn & Audrey Flickinger Performing Arts Center (1250 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14216, 332-6300, nicholsschool.org/artshows): Work from the collection. Mon-Fri 8am-4pm, Closed Sat & Sun. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-8825777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Work by Kyle Butler, Sam Gilliam, Amanda Means, Peter Stephens, Duayne Hatchett, Allyson Strafella. On view through Apr 4. TueFri 10am–5pm. Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-6523270, norbergsartandframe.com): Regional artists from the gallery collection. TueSat 10am–5pm. Harold L. Olmsted Gallery, Springville Center for the Arts (37 N. Buffalo Street, Springville, NY 14141, 716-592-9038, SpringvilleArts. org): Wed & Fri, 12-5pm. Thu 12-8pm, Sat 103pm. FF Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): Nature Photography by Hannah Brenner, Opening reception Fri, Apr 6, 7-9pm. WedSat,12-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Pine Apple Company (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/ store/pine-apple-company) Wed & Thu 11am6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. FF Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): 11th anniversary show. Art by Neil P Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, Chris

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McGee, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Liebel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, John Farallo, Thomas Busch, Sherry Anne Preziuso, Tony Cappello, Michael Mulley. On view through Apr 4. First Friday extended hours. Tue-Fri 11am4pm and by appointment. Resource: Art @ Hotel Henry (444 Forest Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14213, facebook.com/resourceartny): Work by Gary Sczerbaniewicz and Julian Montague on view in the Corridors Gallery, with two large works by Jack Drummer in the stairwell landing. On view through mid-May. FF Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Impotent Gods work by Anthony Freda and Nick Chiechi. Opening reception Apr 6, 8-11pm. Thu 12-6pm, Fri and Sat 12-8pm. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051, riverartgalleryandgifts.com): Wed-Fri 11am-4pm Sat 11am- 5pm. Ró Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Work by Catherine Willett. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Sisti Gallery (6535 Campbell Blvd., Pendleton, NY 14094, 465-9138): Honoring Watercolor, works by Rita Argen Auerbach and Charles E. Burchfield. Fri 6-9pm, Sat & Sun 11-2pm. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Let Me Remember: first North American solo exhibition of artist and videoactivist belit sağ, on view through Mar 23. Tue-Sat, 12pm-5pm. Stangler Fine Art (6429 West Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127, 870-1129, stanglerart.com): Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm. Closed Sundays. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware

Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio. org): Marc Tomko and Alison Mantione. MonFri 9-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Buffalo Funa-Day 2018, through Apr 14. Open by event and Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries. org): Light, Line, Color and Space, new acquisitions from among hundreds of recently acquired gifts to the permanent collection. On view through Apr 15. Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017. Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic. Wed-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries. org): Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, on view through May 26. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Graphic Design Program Student Exhibit, on view through Mar 29. Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. WASH Project (593 Grant Street, Buffalo, NY 14213): Law Eh Soe, photographs from Burma to Buffalo. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 3481430, wnybookarts.org): Nurtured Memories, work by Phyllis Thompson, on view through Apr 18. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. To add your gallery’s information to the list, please P contact us at info@dailypublic.com

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The Gordian Knot by ANTHONY FREDA is part of a collaborative show with Nick Chiechi at Revolution Gallery, 1419 Hertel Avenue. The show “Impotent Gods” opens this Friday and remains on view through May 19.

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6PM / COMMUNITY BEER WORKS, 520 SEVENTH ST. / FREE [BOOK LAUNCH] This event is a twofer. First, it’s a party marking the publication of a new collection of essays by The Public‘s Bruce Fisher, comprised primarily of Fisher’s columns for this newspaper and illustrated with a stunning selection of artwork from the collection of the Burchfield Penney Art Center. (That is to say, it’s a book full of smart, thoughtful consideration of politics and policy surrounded by beautiful art. Sound familiar?) The book is called Where the Streets Are Paved With Rust: Essays from America’s

Broken Heartland, and it’s beautiful. Second, it’s a celebration of a publishing partnership between The Public and Foundlings Press, a likeminded local group that entered the world of publishing with its journal, Foundlings, and has since expanded to bring out books, too. The party takes place this first Friday, April 6, 6-9pm, at the new Community Beer Works space at the corner of Seventh and Jersey streets on Buffalo far lower West Side. So it’s a good chance

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to get a look at that venue, too. There will be books for sale, some poetry, some

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good music, and of course terrific beer. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

Recommended if you like: Animal Collective, Caribou, Aphex Twin On Saturday, April 7, psychedelic electronic rock band Space Cubs will release their new EP, What Iff (see our concert preview on page 14). The EP marks a shift for the band, lead by Suzanne Bonifacio. What began as a solo electronic music project for Bonifacio has expanded into a full band recently with the notable addition of musicians Shawn Lewis, A.K.A. Lesionread, as well as Adam Pressley and Ken Culton.

SUPERORGANISM FRIDAY APRIL 6

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7PM / RAPIDS THEATRE, 1711 MAIN ST. / $1.03-$10.33 [INDIE] Led by 18-year-old singer Orono Noguchi, and comprised of

musicians from around the world—from New England to New Zealand, Japan, Australia, and South Korea, Superorganism has become an instant sensation. Formed just last year, the psychedelic pop band released their debut self-titled record on Domino Records in 2017 to critical acclaim. What the album does best is to instantly engage listeners with pop-sheen and hooky power, which upon closer inspection is constructed with a collage of found sounds, sound effects, field recordings, and looped strangeness. This is a tough thing to do—to make the experimental accessible—but they do it with what seems like ease, using apathetic

On What Iff, Bonaficio and company also shift the project’s sound, from clanking, mostly dark electronic based productions to dubby, hypnotic tunes that dip into jazzy structures, ambient lows, and psychedelic field samples. The EP’s first single, “Quitting” moves from cosmic, spacey vocals to quiet noodling and floating rhythms adorned with otherworldly chirps and feedback. From there, the record shifts toward electronica with the title track, “What Iff,” which is followed by a disorienting interlude titled “Fizzle Practicality.” The record concludes with a melting downtempo piece titled “The World,” which piles overflowing fountains of static white noise on top of massive bass thumps and Bonifacio’s highly reverberated, mesmerizing vocals. Stream “Quitting,” now on Soundcloud and look for the full EP soon.

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song titles like “Nobody Cares” and “It’s All Good” to describe their music which exist at the intersection of The Flaming Lips and Animal Collective. Despite this free wheeling attitude, the band takes their music deathly serious—in a recent interview, the band’s young frontwoman talked about the anxiety of taking the stage for the first time in front of a festival crowd in Germany. The anxiety quickly melted away however, said Noguchi, not unlike the melting, psychedelic sounds of the band’s live show. Catch Superorganism live at the Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls on Friday, April 6. Get your tickets in advance and they’re only $1.03. Presented by 103.3 The Edge. -CORY PERLA

WEDNESDAY APRIL 4 Access is Equity: Why Drivers Licenses Matter 7pm Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St.

[TALK] An issue for many migrant and immigrant workers in Western and Central New York agriculture is that of proper identification and the ability to operate motor vehicles. An event titled Access is Equity at Burning Books this Wednesday hopes to spark that conversation around the advocacy of possible state reforms that could benefit many folks who risk arrest and far worse for simply driving to work or to the store. Dairy workers with Alianza Agricola will be on hand to explain exactly why they are leading a statewide license campaign and also inform attendees on what they can do too! -AL

Mad Dukez & Chuckie Campbell 8pm Gypsy Parlor, 376 Grant St. $5

[HIP HOP] Buffalo-based hip hop artists Mad Dukez and Chuckie Campbell will be back in action in their home town after a 12-city

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tour. Cambell will bring along The Black Den as his backing band for this one. Expect additional sets by Short Moscato, Toneyboi, and GTW, as well as comedy between sets by Jesse Winterhalter, Sam Minney, Ryan Henry, and Spencer Carr. Check it out Wednesday, April 4 at the Gypsy Parlor. -CP

Radio Wonderland 8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $10

[EXPERIMENTAL] Radio Wonderland, the experimental electronic music project by Brooklyn-based artist Joshua Fried, doesn’t just take electronic music to its natural extremes, it demolishes it entirely and doesn’t

even attempt to put it back together in a familiar way. On stage Fried is dressed in a baggy suit as he wriggles around, bopping his head while he splices together bits of sentences, fragments of words, or the essence of a pop melody, distorting, shifting, and repeating these bits ad infinitum. It’s not just the choice of sample material that makes this transcend our idea of what music can be, but the way he does it physically on stage. Watch Fried sample a Rent-A-Center commercial and then pitch shift the sample with a steering wheel controller mounted on a bar stool, or use a boombox tuned to conservative talk radio as source material with which to fuck with. During his live sets, some audience members dance, as much of it eventually forms into something that approaches minimalist electronica music, but most on-lookers seem to lose themselves in it, standing still, staring, and listening. It’s a mesmerizing performance that cannot be done justice with studio recordings or even live recordings. Catch Radio Wonderland live at Mohawk Place on Wednesday, April 4 with support from hometown experimental music artists Lifemusik Mit Andre, Ay Fast, Hooked on Casiophonics, and uncertain. -CP

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FRIDAY APRIL 6 Two Lectures by Satanic Temple Co-Founder Lucien Greaves

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7pm Center for Inquiry, 1310 Sweet Home Road Free-$5

[LECTURE] Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves will present a pair of lectures this week in Buffalo. The Satanic Temple is a “non theistic” religious organization whose stated mission is to encourage benevolence and empathy and to advocate for common sense, reason, and justice. They’ve enacted this mission by publicly opposing laws which they view as promoting religion, specifically Christianity. The group recently made the news for challenging a Missouri law that would require women to wait 72 hours before having an abortion and be given a pamphlet that states that “human life begins at conception,” on the grounds that this represents a state government promoting a religious belief, which violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution. The first of Greaves’ two presentations will happen this Wednesday, April 4 at the University at Buffalo, Knox Hall (Room 110) and is presented by the UB Pastafarians. The presentation is titled “The Satanic Temple: Fighting Against Theocracy." The second will take place at the Center for Inquiry (1310 Sweet Home Road) on Friday April 6 and is titled “Ending Pseudoscience And Theocracy: Grey Faction And The Satanic Temple.” -CP

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PEACH PICKS IN PRINT: Deep Camouflage By Amy Saul-Zerby Civil Coping Mechanisms / 2018 / poetry collection

BOOM DAYS SATURDAY APRIL 7 1PM / OLD FIRST WARD / FREE [FESTIVAL] It’s springtime in Buffalo, and naturally our thoughts turn to ice: to great swaths of churning

river ice, set loose at last to rush toward the Niagara Falls, freeing our riparian city of its chilling effect. It is time for Boom Days, the annual celebration marking the removal of the ice boom that prevents lake and Buffalo River ice from clogging the intakes of the Niagara Falls power turbines. This year’s festival has grown out of its usual habitat at Silo City to encompass the entirety of the old First Ward neighborhood. The event, which runs 1-9pm on Saturday, April 7, offers a wide range of happenings at venues throughout the First Ward: The Old First Ward Community Center (62 Republic St., Buffalo) and Undergrounds Coffee House & Roastery (580 South Park Ave., Buffalo) hosts family-

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friendly activities and performances, 1-4pm, including the Buffalo Zoomobile, the Buffalo & Erie

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

County Library on Wheels, Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Preserve, and programming

[COUNTRY] From rock to country/folk, from CBGBs to SXSW, singer songwriter Marc Berger has honed his ability to craft heartfelt music over his long and varied career. His focus now is Ride, an album of cinematic recordings inspired by the American west assembled with slide guitars, harmonicas, mandolins, and Berger’s comforting yet passionate vocals and lyrics. Marc Berger comes to Babeville’s 9th Ward on Friday, April 6 with local support from singer/ songwriter Christina Custode. -CP

by Young Audiences of Western New York. Waterfront Memories and More museum at

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of the First Ward. For more information, check out the Boom Days Facebook page. -GEOFF KELLY

Mutual Riverfront Park (41 Hamburg St., Buffalo) will be open for visitors. At 4pm the Buffalo Brass Machine will lead the way as the “boom ball” will be rolled from the community center to Riverfront Park and launched into the Buffalo River. All are welcome to join the parade. Then, 5-8:30pm, live music from the Blues Society of WNY and the Sportsmen’s Americana Music Foundation will take place at the Barrel Factory (65 Vandalia St., Buffalo) and Gene McCarthy’s (73 Hamburg St., Buffalo). There will be food and drink specials at these locations and Undergrounds as well. The evening wraps up with a boom as fireworks will light up the sky at 8:30pm; they can be seen from Riverfront Park and the streets

7pm Squeaky Wheel, 617 Main Street $5-7

[EXPERIMENTAL/SOUND] A rising star in the sound world, the virtuoso trombonist and composer Weston Olencki is due to perform a wide-ranging, genre-bending, and mind-melting program this Friday at Squeaky Wheel. Olencki will play “trombone, euphonium, electronics, video, and melodica” and will be joined by the Buffalo sound outfit Null Point for a program called Artificial Life: New Works for Brass Instruments, Ensemble, Electronics, and Video. -TPS

IN PRINT: Thunderbird

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By Dorothea Lasky Wave Books / 2012 / poetry collection

SE2 Silent Disco 9pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $25$30

[DANCE PARTY] The bloggers, activists, and Buffalo boosters at Rise Collaborative will bring back their Silent Disco dance party for another round, this time to Buffalo Iron Works. For those who are new to the concept of a silent disco, show goers are given a headset with three channels tuned to different DJs. Just add alcohol and boom, you’ve got a dance party like no other. Check it out, this Friday, April 6. -TPS

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BASIC PRINTER WEDNESDAY APRIL 11 7PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. / $5-$7 [INDIE] Scanning a press release sent by the synth-pop project Basic Printer, a few keywords

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emerge: Radiohead, Zelda, Neutral Milk Hotel, and pumpkin soup among them. Like a fine cup

6:30pm Buffalo RiverWorks, 359 Ganson St. $39-$59

of pumpkin soup, Basic Printer combines all of their influences—ingredients if you will—into

[CELEBRATION] Beer, wine, and spirits lovers line up for this one. Thawfest 3 is spring’s coming out party, complete with frosty beers and the music of Tragically Hip cover band Strictly Hip. Expect samples from dozens of local breweries, distilleries, and vineyards. This Saturday, April 7 at Buffalo RiverWorks. -TPS

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Out recently from Civil Coping Mechanisms is Amy Saul-Zerby’s second full-length poetry collection, Deep Camouflage. Saul-Zerby, a Philadelphia-based writer and the editor in chief of Voicemail Poems, was awarded publication with the press after being a finalist for its annual Mainline competition. Deep Camouflage, written in seven parts, is Saul-Zerby’s study of how, in grief, memories become daydreams you get to direct. She writes of the many dimensions of heartbreak—trauma, blame, reclamation—and exposes what is underneath her silence and instinct to make herself smaller, or in other words, what lies at the deep end of her camouflage. SaulZerby’s writing is devastating, grand, and very funny, often all within the same line; in “typing into my phone again like,” she writes, “i promise i will end this poem / on a note we can / all live with,” and in “kindness does not indicate weakness,” writes, “quiet is all i know how to keep / time slips thru me, smiling.” Whatever quiet Saul-Zerby may have kept is now generously broken in this stunning second collection.

something smoothed out and totally new. There’s a weirdness inherent in the music—songwriter Jesse Gillenwalters exaggerated facial expressions tell the story as much as the over-the-top synthy, drum machined sounds and dreamy lyrics, which makes the live, in person experience critical factor in understanding the Nashville, Tennessee-based project. Basic Printer comes to Buffalo’s Mohawk Place on Wednesday, April 11 with local support from indie rockers dreambeaches, and synth pop band Humble Braggers. -CORY PERLA

Every once in a while I begin reading a book late on a weeknight that ends up so monumental that I consider calling in sick to work the next day. That was the case for me last week when I began Thunderbird by Dorothea Lasky, the first of her many poetry collections that have come out with Wave Books. The poems in Thunderbird are opened by an epigraph from Sylvia Plath’s infamous 1951 poem, “Mad Girl’s Love Song,” in which she writes, “I should have loved a thunderbird instead … (I think I made you up inside my head.)” Thunderbird is a playlist of mad girls’ love songs; they cover everything from the harm of betrayal to death ideation to feeling—above all else— gleefully detached from the world around you. In “Why go in cars,” Lasky writes, “I don’t want to be destroyed by you / I love you and your want” and “I will never put the fire / Out of you.” The poems in this collection will fall like rain through you. They’ll unclench whatever fist you’ve got buried inside your chest.

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[BOXING] There's not a better amateur sporting competition on the Buffalo calendar that's as good as the Golden Gloves and this Sunday the tournament comes to a close with 19 three-round bouts to decide state championships across weight divisions and levels of experience. No fewer than eight of those fights will decide who will carry the state banner into the national USA Boxing tournament in May. About a dozen gyms from across the state outside of metro New York City will be bringing fighters into Buffalo Riverworks. -AL

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hardcore hip hop and vibey excellence that old school hip hop fans crave. On his latest album, The

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] In a recent review, EDM blog Run the Trap called Kayzo’s current tour “one of a kind.” That’s because Kayzo has the ability to string together many different styles of music from trap to dubstep, and hardstyle, and make it make sense. The 23-year-old musician from Los Angeles came out with his debut full length, Overload, earlier this year. The album is littered with heavy guitar samples on top of mostly dubstep beats creating an ominous though highly danceable mix. Catch Kayzo at the Town Ballroom this Sunday, April 8 with support from 4B, Dubloadz, Gammer, and JST JR. Presented by MNM Presents. -CP

Widow’s Son, released in March, the Connecticut-based rapper teamed up with producers Pete

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6pm Rapids Theatre, 1711 Main St. $32-$37

the record simultaneously recalls classic underground hip hop sounds while remaining fresh with precise rapping, cutting lyricism, and well sourced and sampled beats. Fans of El-P, Freddie Gibbs, and Wu Tang Clan should line up for this one, slated for the intimate space inside of Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar this Wednesday, April 11. Support comes from Buffalo’s Rap and Destroy, DJ Dovey, and the Incredible Scott Down. No pre-sold tickets, so get there early. You don’t want to miss this one. -CORY PERLA

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[ROCK] Chris Daughtry of American Idol fame is currently on a tour that brings the artist and his band through the Rapids Theatre on Tuesday, April 10. The 38-year-old artist appeared on the 2006 season of American Idol and since then has released a handful of albums, including his self-titled 2006 debut and his latest full length, Baptized. This week the band released “Backbone,” the first single P from an upcoming untitled album. -TPS

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MARY GRACE SULLIVAN BY CORY PERLA IN HER PERFORMANCE project, Feedback

Loop: Art practices in constraint, artist and dancer Mary Grace Sullivan, a 32-year-old MSA dance student at the University at Buffalo, examines the relationship between the constrained and the unconstrained, as well as the surveilled and the surveillers. What does it mean to be watched? What does it mean to be put into a box or on a stage? Feedback Loop examines these ideas through improvisational interpretive dance that’s influenced by those who are watching it. A performance of the piece will take place on Friday, April 6 at the Pilates Loft and Brad Wales Architecture at 166 and 164 Allen Street in two parts. In one part, beginning at 8pm, Sullivan’s performers, who include herself, Pilates Loft owner Beth Elkins Wales, performer Angela Lopez, and musician David Adamczyk will be situated in the store front of Brad Wales Architecture for the public to view. In a second part the performers will engage in a choreographed and improvisational installation in the Pilates Loft. Those who would like to view the Pilates Loft portion of the performance, which begins at 9pm should purchase a ticket ahead of time as seating is limited. There will also be art by multimedia artists Brian Milbrand, Robert Harris, and Jim Bush. This week we spoke with Sullivan about how she conceived of the concept for this show and how she’s using her work to breakdown the idea of choreography itself. What is Feedback Loop?

It’s a performance and a party. It’s a collaboration between dance artists, live musicians, and a multimedia artist who will be doing projects, like an actual feedback loop in the space at the same time. What is a feedback loop?

For me it’s multifaceted. Conceptually we’re using the information we see during the performance to inform what we do next. But in media, a feedback loop is a collection of images that spiral into a simultaneous still frame created by camera projections. It’s not very complex to do but it definitely is a very interesting visual to play with. The performance is base on improvisational structures of themes. The ideas of constraint come in because we’re using contained spaces and we’re suspended from the ceiling in certain areas or chained to the wall as part of the performance. It’s also inspired by the concept of surveillance.

Yes. We notice as the performers, throughout the feedback loop, how we are being captured in space and time during the performance. What furthers

the idea of the performance being immersive is that the audience is not just sitting and watching a concert dance. They are actually in the space with us, so that they are captured too and they will encounter themselves being projected and watched. That’s where the ideas of surveillance come in. You’re not safe from the videos. You’re not safe from being watched. How do the concepts of surveillance and constraint relate for you?

It goes back to who has the privilege of watching and then being watched. So being watched is almost a form of constraint?

Yes, being watched as a form of constraint, but also nodding to the bigger idea of surveillance and the pervasive use of surveillance. There’s a lot policing of how we move through the world. It’s about who is being surveilled and who is able to survey. It’s about the constraint of who can watch and who is being watched. And the performers are actually physically constrained.

In the downstairs portion, in the window, the space itself is constraining. Our movement vocabulary will find limitations. Someone will be suspended, their limbs will actually be harnessed from the ceiling, trying to do the movements while being constrained. Upstairs, when we’re in the loft, we’re using similar ideas—there are harnesses hanging from the ceiling which we can suspend from and there are chains coming from the walls that we use within the dancing. Does the performance have a specific beginning, middle, and end or is it more like an installation which can be walked up to at any time?

For the first hour, from 8pm to 9pm, anyone can experience it at any point. If you want to go upstairs and see the rest of the show, you do buy a ticket. I’ll be honest, it’s a fundraiser for me and my thesis work. I’m getting my MSA in dance. My research is in undoing the boundaries of choreography—what we think choreography is. How do you think this piece applies to the concept of undoing the boundaries of choreography?

This piece is using the themes of constraint as practices of freedom, quote unquote, in the arts. Sometimes we view art practices as meaning community, but in fact a lot of time it’s happening under a lot of constraints. My ideas of

choreography stem back to creating a score. The score is a map that you can go back to to know what you do in time and space, and then you have scenes of music. Or, for David [Adamczyk] playing, he has his themes on the violin. We all have our ideas to come back to, yet what we do in time and space is intuitive with each other and it’s all based on a theme. And to me that’s choreography. I don’t need to repeat the same thing in the same time and space. What was the seed that planted this idea in your mind?

I wanted to not do a concert dance. I think that to undo the ideas of art community, I want to create art that is immersive—where people who are performing as well as people who are watching are all participants. Everyone is valuable in the process of the actual performance.

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FILM REVIEW most viewers that it cannot be heading to any kind of a happy ending. I don’t know if either director Paolo Virzì, novelist Michael Zadoorian, or screenwriter Stephen Amidon (who also wrote Virzì’s international hit Human Capital) intended this story to be a protest of the sad situation of the aging in the Unites States. The film has more than a few scenes set in what John refers to as “human warehouses,” where people who left him are sent to die. You probably wouldn’t argue the decision that sparks the film’s conclusion, but that’s at least partly because it’s dramatically loaded. Such decisions in real life are seldom so clear-cut. If that’s the case, Virzì might have done better to put the conclusion at the beginning of the film and let the rest play in flashback. As it is, it may leave many viewers with a bad taste. *** GIVEN THE OCCASIONAL difficulty of finding single films that

Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland in The Leisure Seeker.

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD TEACHERS THE LEISURE SEEKER, BOMBSHELL, THE ROAD MOVIE BY M. FAUST THERE ARE TWO things of note about The Leisure Seeker, not

counting the infelicitous title referring to the Winnebago that has long been in the family of John and Ella Spencer (Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren). One morning, without telling their adult children of their plans, the elderly couple bring it out of the garage and set off on a road trip from their home in Massachusetts to Key West, to visit the home of Ernest Hemingway, a lifelong favorite of John’s. A former professor of English, he is in the grip of Alzheimer’s disease, and is better able to quote Hemingway than to recall the names of his children or grandchildren. Ella, whose own health is fading, realizes that this is the last chance they have to do something on their own. The first item of note is, obviously, the casting. Almost the entire film consists of Sutherland and Mirren interacting with each other, and they work so well together that I found myself wishing the filmmaker had edited out the few scenes that don’t

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

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OPENING THIS WEEK BLOCKERS—Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, and John Cena as parents plotting to prevent their teen-aged daughters from having sex on prom night. The directorial debut of Kay Cannon, who wrote the Pitch Perfect movies. Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY— Documentary about the Austrian-born Hollywood star who also invented a system to prevent US torpedoes from being jammed by enemy signals. Directed by Alexandra Dean. Reviewed this issue. North Park CHAPPAQUIDDICK—Speculative docudrama about the 1969 incident in which a young woman drowned after an accident with a car that was driven by Edward Kennedy. Starring Kate Mara, Clancy Brown, Olivia Thirlby, and Jason Clarke. Directed by John Curran (The Killer Inside Me). Dipson Amherst THE LEISURE SEEKER—Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland as an elderly couple taking a last road trip from New England to Key West. Directed by Paolo Virzì (Human Capital). Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst A QUIET PLACE—John Krasinski directed and stars in this horror movie about a family living in a remote location terrorized by creatures that con only find them if they can hear them. Co-starring Emily Blunt. Regal

(Sutherland was honored with an honorary Oscar this year. There was a time was when the broadcast would have included a ten minute tribute to him, in which we would been shown clips from some of his best performances, an introduction from a fellow thespian, and some words from the tributee himself. That fact that the Oscar broadcast can no longer be bothered with anything so backward looking was a large reason why I’ve stopped watching the show.) The other thing worthy of discussion, alas, is the ending, which the film critic’s code of ethics prevents me from doing. While the movie works as a portrait of a marriage that has been happy, but not without its difficult patches, it will be clear to

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA A BOY AND HIS DOG (1975)—Cult movie from a Harlan Ellison novel starring Don Johnson as a loner in a post-apocalyptic world who is taken in by a utopian cult. With Susanne Benton, Jason Robards, and Alvy Moore. Directed by L. Q. Jones. Fri, Wed 7:30pm. Screening Room DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975)—Sidney Lumet’s flawlessly made drama based on a true story, starring Al Pacino as a would-be bank robber who finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation. Co-starring John Cazale, Carol Kane, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick, Charles Durning, and Dominic Chianese. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst THE FITS—Cultivate Cinema Circle’s series of first films by women directors continues with this psychological drama about an 11-yearold Cincinnati girl who becomes part of a dance troupe at her local rec center just as members of the group start suffering from unexplained seizures. The screening will be introduced by Tilke Hill of the Buffalo International Film Festival. Thu April 12, 7pm. Hallwalls

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include them. It’s a particular pleasure to see Sutherland in a leading role, as he’s so seldom ever in his long career been given the opportunity to carry a film. Even in supporting roles, he has too often been the best thing about bad movies.

Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE ROAD MOVIE—Documentary comprised of footage taken by dashtop security cameras on Russian cars. Directed by Dmitrii Kalashnikov. Reviewed this issue. North Park THE YOUNG KARL MARX—Bio-drama with a self-explanatory title. Starring August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, and Vicky Krieps. Directed by Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro). North Park

can attract sufficient crowds for a week, the North Park theater occasionally breaks up its schedule to run several films over the course of a week. Most prominent on the schedule this week is Bombshell, a documentary about the Austrian born actress Hedy Lamarr, by any measure one of the most beautiful women ever to grace the screen. (She was the model for both Disney’s Snow White and for the comic books’ Catwoman.) Signed to a Hollywood contract on the strength of her once-scandalous nude scene in the 1933 film Ecstasy, she was poorly used by Louis B. Mayer, who mostly cast her a sultry beauty in a series of unambitious potboilers. But if her movies may mostly be forgotten, she will be remembered for something that got her little attention in her lifetime. Bored with Hollywood life in the early 1940s and concerned about the war effort, she devised a system that would allow torpedoes to be controlled by radio in a way that was resistant to enemy jamming. That idea went on to be pivotal in the development of WiFi, Bluetooth and cell phones. IF YOU ONLY have time for one film this week, by all means

get to the jaw-dropping The Road Movie, even if it means you have to stay up late for the 9:30 show. This feature compiles footage captured by dashboard cameras in Russian cars. (At a Toronto screening I saw last year, director Dmitrii Kalashnikov said that more than half of cars in post-Soviet countries have such cameras, to provide evidence for insurance claims and as a safeguard against the police.) There are a fair share of collisions, a few of them shocking, though Kalashnikov didn’t use any that involved serious injury or death. Many capture people at their worst. The best capture extremes of weather: roads covered in ice, and a forest fire that is mesmerizing in its intensity. A bear takes a night-time jog; a woman demonstrates why you should never light a cigarette while fueling your car; and we learn what you should do if your tank gets dirty. It’s the greatest movie that P Abbas Kiarostomi never got around to making.

FRANTZ—Shortly after the end of the First World War, a young woman in Germany is visited by a Frenchman who knew her fiancée, who was killed in France. François Ozon’s seemingly placid but complex and deeply felt film was loosely adapted from Broken Lullaby, a Ernst Lubitsch 1932 film that is memorable for being so unlike the sophisticated comedies for which that director is remembered. Filmed primarily in 35mm with bursts of color, the movie’s depiction of grief gives way to a consideration of the role of fiction in human lives, and the possibility that some lies are not only forgiveable but necessary. –MF Starring Paula Beer, Pierre Niney, and Ernst Stötzner. Presented by the Roycroft Film Society. Sun 4pm. Parkdale School Auditorium, 141 Girard Ave., East Aurora www.roycroftcampuscorp.com

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS: LIVE FROM COPENHAGEN—The band from their recent tour in a concert that relies primarily on songs from the album “Skeleton Tree.” Thu April 12, 7:30pm. Dipson Amherst

#SCREAMERS—Found-footage horror film about the CEOs of an internet startup whose efforts to track their customers unleashes an unstoppable evil force. Starring Tom Malloy, Chris Bannow, Griffin Matthews Directed by Dean Matthew Ronalds. Thu 7:30pm, Fri 9:30pm. Screening Room TALL: THE AMERICAN SKYSCRAPER AND LOUIS SULLIVAN (2006)—Manfred Kirchheimer’s visual essay on the history of the towering buildings that began to be built in the late 19th century as a uniquely American form. Sat-Sun 11:30am.

CONTINUING BLACK PANTHER—The first big-screen depiction of the superhero created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1966 is at its best when it functions as an epic fantasy film. Chadwick Boseman stars as T’Challa, the king and protector of the fictional African nation of Wakanda, secretly the most sophisticated and technologically society on earth thanks to Vibranium, a metal which literally fell from the sky. T’Challa possesses mystical powers in addition to those granted him by the cat suit he wears, which combines the aesthetics of Batman and the gimmickry of Iron Man. His nemesis is Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), more black militant than Lex Luthor, who dethrones T’Challa and seeks to overthrow the rest of the world. Director/co-writer Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) delivers a colorful spectacular with a mostly black cast. It is the most culturally significant entertainment yet from Marvel, and from Disney. With Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis. —Gregory Lamberson AMC Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

REVIEW FILM THE DEATH OF STALIN—Adapted from a French graphic novel, Armando Iannucci’s pitchblack comedy is set in 1953 in the months after the title event, as the top leaders in the Communist leader’s government struggle for power. With its large cast of characters and historical background that is unlikely to be familiar to most viewers, this would have worked better as a long-form series than a feature film: you long for more detail about the events as well as for more opportunities for the excellent ensemble to play off of each other. Still, its depiction of political struggle as personal, petty and based almost entirely on fear is likely to remain eternally relevant. Starring Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Palin, Simon Russell Beale, Jason Isaacs, Paul Whitehouse, Andrea Riseborough, Rupert Friend and Paddy Considine. –MF Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills

LOCAL THEATERS AMHERST THEATRE (DIPSON) 3500 Main St., Buffalo / 834-7655 amherst.dipsontheatres.com AURORA THEATRE 673 Main St., East Aurora / 652-1660 theauroratheatre.com EASTERN HILLS CINEMA (DIPSON) 4545 Transit Rd., / Eastern Hills Mall Williamsville / 632-1080 easternhills.dipsontheatres.com FLIX STADIUM 10 (DIPSON) 4901 Transit Rd., Lancaster / 668-FLIX flix10.dipsontheatres.com FOUR SEASONS CINEMA 6 2429 Military Rd. (behind Big Lots), Niagara Falls / 297-1951 fourseasonscinema.com

GAME NIGHT—This action comedy about a trio of suburban couples (headed by Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams) whose weekly game night turns into something deadly takes an awfully long time to get rolling. At least the first third of the film is nothing but drab exposition and characterization. But when it gets rolling it provides some solid laughs and a satisfyingly twisty ending. Not likely to be on anyone’s list of the year’s best films, but it makes me look forward to what filmmakers John Francis Daley (once a cast member of Freaks and Geeks) and Jonathan Goldstein come up with next. With Jesse Plemons and Michael C. Hall. —MF Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

HALLWALLS 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo / 854-1694 hallwalls.org HAMBURG PALACE 31 Buffalo St., Hamburg / 649-2295 hamburgpalace.com LOCKPORT PALACE 2 East Ave., Lockport / 438-1130 lockportpalacetheatre.org MAPLE RIDGE 8 (AMC) 4276 Maple Rd., Amherst / 833-9545 amctheatres.com MCKINLEY 6 THEATRES (DIPSON) 3701 McKinley Pkwy. / McKinley Mall Hamburg / 824-3479 mckinley.dipsontheatres.com

THE LAST SUIT—Argentine director Pablo Solarz based this drama about an elderly Jew on a seemingly impossible mission to find the Christian friend who saved him from the Nazis partly on memories of his own grandfather, who escaped Poland in 1945 after experiences so devastating that he demanded that the name of the country where he was born never be spoken aloud in his house. The popular Argentine actor Miguel Ángel Solá stars as Abraham Bursztein, a retired tailor whose doctor wants to amputate his bad leg and whose daughters want to put him in a retirement home. Instead he hits the road, a difficult trip given that he can barely walk, he loses all of his money, and he’s not the most pleasant person in the world. The changing cast of characters and locations hold your attention, as does the commanding performance by Solá. But the script doesn’t delve very deeply into Bursztein, and the heart-tugging finale is exceedingly unlikely, even if it is based on a true story. With Ángela Molina and Martín Piroyansky. –MF North Park (ENDS THURS)

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and Katherine Langford. Directed by Greg Berlanti (Life as We Know It). —GS Dipson Amherst, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria Maple Ridge, Dipson Amherst, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria MIDNIGHTSUN—Teen romance based on a Japanese film about a girl whose first love is hampered by her allergy to sunlight. Starring Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Rob Riggle. Directed by Scott Speer (Step Up Revolution). AMC Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

PACIFIC RIM UPRISING—Sequel. Time was you had to wait for summer for this kind of stuff. Starring John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Adria Arjona, Mako Mori, and Burn Gorman. Directed by Steven S. DeKnight. Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria PADDINGTON 2 may look like a children’s movie, but kids are unlikely to enjoy these newest adventures of the “short but polite” talking bear as much as adults will. It takes an adult to truly appreciate Paddington’s good nature, so lacking everywhere you turn these days. And unlike animated movies in which the name-value cast only provides voices, you get to enjoy such sights as Downton Abbey’s Earl of Grantham, Hugh Bonneville, doing yoga splits, or Dr, Who (Peter Capaldi) as a neighborhood crank, or The IT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade as a forensic investigator. Best of all is Hugh Grant as a villainous ham actor who gets to dress up in any number of ridiculous costumes before ending the film with a production number that only Mel Brooks has ever matched. With Sally Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Tom Conti, and Joanna Lumley. Directed by Paul King (The Mighty Boosh). — MF Dipson McKinley

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Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, and Lena Waithe. Directed by Steven Spielberg. AMC Maple Ridge, Aurora, Dipson Eastern Hills, Dipson Flix, Hamburg Palace, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria RED SPARROW—You’ll be disappointed if you go to see this ludicrous thriller expecting to see, as the film’s trailer implies, Jennifer Lawrence as a Russian spy using sex to seduce enemy agents; others will simply be bored. Though her character, a Bolshoi ballerina sidelined by a career-ending injury, does spend time in what she refers to as “whore school” under the unlikely tutelage of Charlotte Rampling, she spends the rest of the movie refusing to use those skills against CIA op Joel Edgerton as she tries to work both sides to her advantage. In clunky Russian accents, characters talk endlessly about events we should be seeing, while Lawrence spends all two hours and 20 minutes with the same impassive expression glued to her face. An exceptional cast— Matthias Schoenaerts, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Joely Richardson, and Jeremy Irons—is stymied under the mechanical direction of Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games). —MF Dipson McKinley THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT—Masked psychos terrorize a family of travellers at a mobile home park in this sequel to 2007’s The Strangers. Starring Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, and Martin Henderson. Directed by Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down). Regal Elmwood, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria TOMB RAIDER—From a director with a name like Roar Uthaug, you might have expected a livelier reboot of the video game-based action franchise than this utterly generic timewaster. (He did much better work in the Norwegian thriller The Wave, about a tsunami in a fjord.) Alicia Vikander clearly did a lot of physical training for the role of the young Lara Croft, which calls for her to do lots of running, leaping, and pulling herself out of dangerous situations. But the plot is wholly uninterested in doing anything you haven’t seen a millions times before. With Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, and Kristin Scott Thomas as an overly optimistic link to a sequel. —MF Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria UNSANE—The supposedly retired Steven Soderbergh used an iPhone to shoot this horror thriller starring Claire Foy as a woman confined to a mental institution, where she may or may not belong. Soderbergh did the photography himself (using the alias Peter Andrews), and the results indicate that he was more interested in the means than the ends. He makes skillful use of his P low-tech tool, effectively conveying the hospital’s grimly oppressive, sporadically violent environment in a number of shots and scenes. But the story is too often arbitrarily implausible, motored by cheapeffect, sometimes gruesomely sensationalist scenes. With Joshua Leonard, Sarah Stiles, and Amy Irving. —GS Dipson Amherst, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria A WRINKLE IN TIME—Ava DuVernay (Selma) directed this adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s perennially popular children’s fantasy novel. Starring Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, and Chris Pine. Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal P Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of a DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Name: First Move - WNY, LLC. Orig filed Articles of Organization w/SSNY ON 2/22/2018 Office location: County of Erie. SSNY shall mail copy of any process to: 2025 Delaware Ave, Suite 1e, Buffalo, NY 14216. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. -------------------------------------------------NOTICE OF FORMATION of a DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Name: MADIBA JANITORIAL SERVICES, LLC. Date of filling of articles of organization with the Ny Dept. of State: February 20, 2018. The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 29 Riverside Ave, 14207. Proposed of LLC: We are providing Cleaning services in Commercial and residential houses. -----------------------------------------------------NOTICE OF FORMATION of a DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Name: 75 Allied Drive LLC. Articles of Organization filed with sec. of state of NY(SOS) on 3/23/18. Office location: Erie County. SOS is designated as agent of LLC for service of process. SOS shall mail copy of process to 270 Park Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY 11040. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. ----------------------------------------------------NOTICE OF FORMATION of a DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: DogSentials LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/11/2017. Office: Erie County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 731 Columbus Pkwy, lwr, Buffalo, NY 14213. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

FREE YOUTH WRITING WORKSHOPS Tue and Thur 3:30-6pm. Open to writers between ages 12 and 18 at the Just Buffalo Writing Center. 468 Washington Street, 2nd floor, Buffalo 14203. Light snack provided.

ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Norwood Ave.

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AUDITIONS: Artpark opens its stage to all citizens of Western New York and announces a second casting call for its new musical production of THE ODYSSEY, adaptation/music/new lyrics by TODD ALMOND, conceived by LEAR DEBESSONET. The Artpark production will be directed by Roger Danforth, starring: Terence Archie* (Broadway’s Rocky), and performed on August 4th at 8pm and 5th at 1pm, 2018 (Rehearsals start July 9th). THE ODYSSEY is a 90-minute original musical adaptation of Homer’s classic story and will bring together hundreds of Buffalo-area citizens, joining the best professional talent with leading local cast, creative team and community groups. We are looking for actors of all ages, genders and ethnicities, including senior citizens, choristers, theatre students, musicians, dancers, and performers with any special talents. Our goal is to place the entire Western New York Community on stage. No role has specific vocal requirements; all roles are flexible and will be created from the group of performers hired. We welcome everyone; both physically-abled and persons with disabilities. All ethnicities are desired and welcomed. Auditions will be held April 14th, from 2-5 PM at ARTPARK Mainstage. Please contact Susan Stimson with any questions susan@ artpark.net.

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FESTIVAL SCHOOL OF BALLET Classes for adults and children at all levels. Try a class for free. 716-9841586 festivalschoolofballet.com.

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ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Richmond Ave. 2 story, 1+ BR, appliances, laundry, off-street-parking, porch, hardwood + granite. No smoking. $895+. 882-5760.

UB SOUTH ROOMS renovated & spacious, incl. util + wifi, W/D, pkg, .2 mi. to campus. $495 & $595. 236-8600.

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Celebrate Spring in the Old First Ward!

SATURDAY, APRIL 7 All events are free and open to all. 1 pm - 4 pm: The Old First Ward Community Center (62 Republic St., Buffalo) and Undergrounds Coffee House & Roastery (580 South Park Ave., Buffalo) will host family-friendly activities and performances, including the Buffalo Zoomobile, the Buffalo & Erie County Library on Wheels, Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Preserve, and programming by Young Audiences of Western New York. Waterfront Memories and More Museum at Mutual Riverfront Park (41 Hamburg St., Buffalo) will be open for visitors. 4 pm: The Buffalo Brass Machine will lead the way as the “boom ball” will be rolled from the community center to Riverfront Park and launched into the Buffalo River. All are welcome to join the parade! 5 pm - 11 pm: Live music from the Blues Society of WNY and the Sportsmen’s Americana Music Foundation will be happening at The Barrel Factory (65 Vandalia St., Buffalo) and Gene McCarthy’s (73 Hamburg St., Buffalo). There will be food and drink specials at these locations and Undergrounds as well. 8:30 pm: Fireworks in the sky over the Old First Ward

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