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LOOKING BACKWARD: Iroquois Door Company.

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The celebrated novelist JUNOT DIAZ opened up with week with a searingly personal piece in the New Yorker, detailing the sexual violence he survived as a boy. He opens up about the many years he spent running from the truth, filling the void with depression, alcohol, drugs, and self-serving sexual relationships, even as his career advanced, until he hit rock bottom with a suicide attempt. We hope the trend of people in high places sharing stories like these continues. Each one pierces another hole in the veil of silence around human trauma. We can’t wait for Diaz’s appearance on April 20 at Kleinhan’s for Just Buffalo’s Babel series.

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violence in schools, but instead sat down with WGRZ for an extended interview. We were reminded again why Collins and his staff are so reluctant to put Collins in front of the public. He compared his opponent Nate McMurray’s knowledge of gun legislation to that of an Uber driver. Shout out to all the Uber drivers in Collins’s district who we feel would do a better job with customer service and government representation than their congressman. HOUSING IN BUFFALO: A Buffalo News analysis found that the city’s federally funded

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Republican for Assembly against endorsed Democrat Patrick Burke to fill the Assembly seat vacated by Erie County Clerk Mickey Kearns. Bohen describes himself as a lifelong Democrat and a friend of organized labor—he’s a member of the Buffalo Teachers Federation, and his father is an officer in Ironworkers Local #6—but a campaign mailer went out on his behalf last week that had no union bug on it: That is, it was produced by a non-union print shop. That’s a bad look in the 142nd Assembly District, which is home to a lot of Democrats and union members. It’s not really Bohen’s doing: The mailer appears to have been paid for and posted by the New York Republican State Committee, which does not feel the same compulsion as Democratic organizations to patronize union labor. Nonetheless, in this same week, one of Bohen’s high-profile champions, developer Carl Paladino, released by email and social media an attack on a pro-labor proposal in the Erie County Legislature to expand requirements for contractors on county-funded projects to support apprenticeship programs. (Paladino called the proposed law “a sick breach of responsibility.” Burke, an Erie County legislator, is P among the drivers of the proposal.) You shall be known by the company you keep.

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commissioners and a staff of lawyers and other officials, FERC holds significant power over the approval and regulation of, among other things, proposed oil and gas pipelines that cross state lines or that will transmit fossil fuels from out of state. FERC has also been a regular stopping point in the revolving door between the fossil fuel industry and the regulatory apparatus that overseas that industry. This trend continues, now, with the appointment of a top FERC attorney to McGuireWoods, a major lobbying firm. John P. Perkins III has been a top litigator at FERC since 2013. According to McGuireWoods, he was a “lead trial lawyer and acting branch chief in FERC’s Office of Administrative Litigation in Washington” and “directed a team of lawyers and support staff in rate proceedings for electric transmission projects, natural gas pipelines and oil pipelines, led settlement negotiations and litigated administrative hearings.” In other words, Perkins has close ties to and experience with FERC’s inner-workings around utilities and oil and gas projects. Indeed, he even served on FERC’s Oil and Liquid Committee and authored its 2014 legal handbook on marketbased rates for oil pipelines. In joining McGuireWoods, Perkins will be teaming up with a lobbying giant that has been lauded by the energy industry for its effective advocacy. The firm’s clients from 2017 included such fossil fuel industry powerhouses as the American Petroleum Institute, Dominion, Exelon, ExxonMobil, Murray Energy, and Southern Company. One of McGuireWoods’s partners is Richard Cullen, who is the brother-in-law of Dominion Energy’s powerful CEO, Tom Farrell. Cullen is also the former Attorney General of Virginia and US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. At McGuireWoods, Perkins will represent the firm’s energy clients in FERC rate cases and “[support] the firm’s transactional lawyers on federal regulatory matters related to mergers and acquisitions,” according to the firm. Prior to joining FERC in 2013, Perkins was in private practice for eight years. He was an associate at Haltom & Doam (based in Texas) from 2004 to 2008 and a partner at Shults & Brown (based in Arkansas) from 2008 to 2012.

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Perkins’s flight from FERC to the fossil fuel industry—to litigate and lobby for the corporate entities he used to regulate while he personally profits from the ties and experience he developed as a public servant—is not unusual. A few other recent examples of FERC’s revolving door include: • Colette Honorable, who served as a FERC Commissioner from 2014 to June 2017, joined the lobbying firm Reed Smith LLP just a week after she left FERC. Reed Smith lobbies for energy clients such as Dominion Energy. As LittleSis reported last year, Honorable was cozy with the Edison Electric Institute, a major lobbying group for big utilities corporations and the fossil fuel industry. • Kevin J. McIntyre has been the FERC chairperson since November 2017. Prior to being nominated to this position by Trump, McIntyre was a top lawyer in the global Energy Practice of Jones Day, a law firm that has close ties to the Trump administration. Jones Day’s energy clients have included Chevron, FirstEnergy, Southern Company,and several others—as well as private equity firms like Goldman Sachs and Carlyle Group who have fossil fuel holdings. While we don’t know the full range of clients that McIntyre personally represented, a 2010 document shows he represented Macquarie Energy LLC, which described itself as “an importer of LNG, a marketer of natural gas, and a holder of LNG terminal capacity.” • Anthony T. Clark was a FERC Commissioner from 2012 to 2016. After leaving FERC, he became a senior advisor at Wilkinson Barker Knauer, a DC law firm. Clark now works with the firm’s energy clients. At the time of the announcement of his new gig, Utility Dive remarked that Clark’s move “follows a rich tradition of federal regulators heading into the energy law and lobbying sector.” • Philip D. Moeller was the second longestserving FERC commissioner ever, with a tenure that lasted from 2006 to 2015. After he left FERC, Moeller joined the utilities lobbying powerhouse Edison Electric Institute, whose members include a range of fossil fuel industry giants. Moeller serves as EEI’s Executive Vice President of Business Operations Group and Regulatory Affairs. See Perkins’s and other FERC officials revolving door ties in our slideshow map at LittleSis.org. Derek Seidman is a research analyst at the Public Accountability Initiative. LittleSis, where this article first appeared, is a grassroots network that connects the dots between the world’s most P powerful people and institutions.

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Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s office to seize records related to payments to pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels, tax documents, and other records, including communications between Cohen and the president. Cohen is reportedly under federal investigation for possible bank fraud and campaign finance law violations. With Cohen’s every move under scrutiny by law enforcement, thanks to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s potential collusion with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, Cohen may be even less able to live up to Trump’s expectations as his ruthless enforcer. When US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation, according to the New York Times, the president complained, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Trump had expected the attorney general to act like his personal lawyer and have his back, the role that Cohn—the colorful consigliere to mobsters, politicians and celebrities—had played for more than a decade after taking Trump under his wing in the 1970s. Cohen, the president’s current personal attorney, might have been hurt by Trump’s comments. He has already demonstrated fierce loyalty to his client, fulfilling Trump’s most important qualification. In vituperative messages left for reporters, and other threats to perceived enemies, Cohen has also replicated his near-namesake’s penchant for bullying. Cohn used his vast connections, and a compliant media, to maneuver behind the scenes. Cohen doesn’t have that luxury. His client is now the president. He’s on a much bigger stage, the stakes are much higher and the media is paying attention. Even if Trump thinks Cohen is not as good of a henchman as Cohn, Cohen has demonstrated a willingness to push the boundaries of professional conduct on his benefactor’s behalf. And, like Cohn, that may one day come back to haunt him. Cohn and Trump were a perfect match. For the brazen and pugnacious Cohn, practicing law was a contact sport—rules and ethics be damned. The son of a politically connected judge, Cohn graduated from Columbia University Law School at age 20. By 1951, at the height of the Cold War,

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In 1973, when he first met Cohn at Le Club, a members-only Manhattan disco, the 27-year-old Trump was still working for his father’s outerborough apartment empire, trying to infiltrate the Manhattan real estate world and celebrity social scene. He told Cohn that the Justice Department was suing him and his father for systematically discriminating against prospective black tenants. The government had a solid case, but Cohn advised Trump to fight back and tell the government to “go to hell.” Cohn orchestrated a press conference at the New York Hilton where Trump announced that he was countersuing the government for $100 million, claiming that the Justice Department has used “Gestapolike tactics” by making false and misleading statements against him and trying to force him to rent apartments to welfare recipients. The judge threw Trump’s bogus lawsuit out of court and accused Cohn and Trump of “wasting time and paper.” But Cohn persuaded the Justice Department to let Trump settle the case by agreeing not to discriminate in the future while not admitting guilt that he’d discriminated at all. Trump declared victory. Trump liked Cohn’s combative win-at-allcosts style and the two quickly became a team. Cohn introduced Trump to his influential friends, telling them that the brash young man was “going to own New York someday.” He taught Trump to never admit mistakes and never apologize. Cohn also schooled Trump in how to use the media to promote his reputation. Trump soon adopted Cohn’s habit of contacting columnists with self-serving gossip about himself. To grease the skids for Trump’s development projects, including arranging a tax break for Trump Tower, Cohn used his ties to politicians and the mob (who controlled New York’s construction unions and building materials companies) and guided Trump in donating to key elected officials. Cohn represented Trump in several libel cases against reporters, crafted Trump’s prenuptial agreement with his first wife Ivana and emceed a birthday party for Trump at the famous Studio 54 nightclub, where both Cohn and Trump were regulars. He contacted his friend White House aide Edwin Meese to get Ronald Reagan to

COMMENTARY NEWS appoint Trump’s sister to a federal judgeship. According to one account at the height of their association, Trump and Cohn talked 15 to 20 times a day. Over the years, Trump has said Cohn exhibited the characteristics that he most admires. “If you need someone to get vicious toward an opponent, you get Roy,” Trump told the Associated Press. “Roy was brutal, but he was a very loyal guy,” Trump told writer Tim O’Brien. “He brutalized for you.”Trump did not repay that loyalty. In 1984, Cohn became ill and began treatment for AIDS, claiming that he had liver cancer. Trump quickly kept his distance from Cohn and dropped him as his lawyer. Even the ruthless Cohn was shocked by Trump’s betrayal. “I can’t believe he’s doing this to me,” Cohn told Trump biographer Wayne Barrett. “Donald pisses ice water.” But when the state Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Committee investigated Cohn for ethical misdeeds, including stealing money from and defrauding clients, Trump testified as a character witness, describing Cohn as “extremely loyal and extremely honest.” Nonetheless, Cohn was disbarred six weeks before his death in 1986. Since Cohn’s death, Trump has hired at least dozens of lawyers. In the 30 years before he ran for president, Trump and his companies were involved in 4,095 lawsuits, according to a tally compiled by USA Today. The 51-year-old Cohen may be personally closer to Trump than any lawyer since Cohn, and shares many of the same characteristics. He has frequently threatened Trump’s adversaries and has said that he would “take a bullet” for Trump. Cohen, whose father was a surgeon and his mother a nurse, grew up on Long Island. He received a law degree from Western Michigan University’s Cooley Law School, which was recently ranked the worst law school in the country by Above the Law.

Like Cohn and Trump, Cohen’s political work has spanned both parties and shows no evidence of ideological commitment. In the 1980s, he volunteered and interned for Massachusetts Democrats. In 2003, Cohen— who lives on Manhattan’s Upper East Side—ran unsuccessfully for the New York City Council as a Republican, but he said he voted for Barack Obama in 2008. In the 2016 New York primary, he couldn’t vote for Trump because he was still a registered Democrat. He didn’t switch his official affiliation to the GOP until March 9, 2017. Cohen’s legal career did not measure up to Cohn’s in terms of the number of noteworthy cases or notorious clients, but it shares a certain hustler’s mentality. Cohen began his career as a personal injury lawyer, then, according to the Daily Beast, “spent the ’90s buying up taxi medallions in New York City and Chicago and hustling side projects like a Miami gambling boat and several familyrun Ukrainian ethanol businesses.” He and his family then began investing in Trump’s real estate deals. In 2007, Trump hired Cohen as special counsel and executive vice president for the Trump Organization. Like Cohn, Cohen operates as a fixer and enforcer. “If somebody does something Mr. Trump doesn’t like, I do everything in my power to resolve it to Mr. Trump’s benefit,” Cohen said in an interview with ABC News in 2011. “If you do something wrong, I’m going to come at you, grab you by the neck and I’m not going to let you go until I’m finished.” That year, Cohen created the ShouldTrumpRun. com website, which disingenuously sought to “convince Donald Trump to run for President in 2012.” Since Trump entered the 2016 race, Cohen has been a relentless political attack dog on the boss’s behalf. Cohen’s specific duties, before and after Trump took office, have always been murky. He’s done everything from brokering Trump’s real estate branding deals, to running a Trump-funded martial arts company, to arranging to have his

plane’s engine repaired. “He’s the guy that you could call at 3 (o’clock) in the morning when you have a problem and you need something taken care of,” Cohen’s longtime friend David Schwartz told CNN earlier this year. “Every dinner I’ve been at with Michael, the boss has called.” Soon after Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015, Daily Beast reporter Tim Mak called Cohen for comment on an allegation, reported in a biography of Trump, that the would-be president had raped his first wife Ivana. Cohen denied the charge, which Ivana had made during divorce proceedings and later recanted. But Cohen also incorrectly told Mak that “by the very definition, you can’t rape your spouse…and there’s very clear case law.” In fact, spousal rape is illegal in all 50 states. And Cohen issued a warning, lest the reporter dared to go ahead with the story: “I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we’re in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don’t have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know,” Cohen said to Mak. “So I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?” The New York Times recently reported that in 2015 Cohen “received a phone call from Jeremy Frommer, a hedge-fund manager turned digital entrepreneur, who had obtained photos of Mr. Trump appearing to autograph the breasts of a topless woman from the estate of Bob Guccione, the founder of Penthouse magazine.” Cohen connected Frommer to David J. Pecker, chairman of American Media (which owns the National Enquirer and other tabloids) and a close Trump ally, who was known to purchase embarrassing photos and gossip about his high-profile friends in order to bury them. The Times also recounted that in 2016, in the midst of Trump’s presidential campaign, Cohen may have brokered a deal to keep former Playboy

playmate Karen McDougal from disclosing her alleged affair with Trump in the mid-2000s, not long after he had married his third wife, Melania. With the help of Hollywood lawyer Keith Davidson, a Cohen acquaintance, McDougal gave the exclusive rights to her story to American Media in exchange for $150,000 and a pledge to keep quiet about the relationship. America Media never published McDougal’s allegations. Cohen left the Trump Organization in January 2017, but has continued to serve as Trump’s personal attorney. In recent weeks, Cohen has been in the news for admitting to having paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 out of his own pocket to sign a nondisclosure agreement shortly before the November 2016 election, in order to buy her silence about an affair she said she had with Trump. Daniels is suing Cohen for defamation for asserting that the affair never took place. Some legal and campaign finance experts believe that Cohen’s payment on behalf of a client may violate New York’s ethics rules as well as federal campaign finance regulations. McClatchy News recently reported that Mueller is looking into Cohen’s role in Trump’s business deals not only in Russia, but also in Georgia and Kazakhstan, even though Trump has denied having any such dealings. So, his complaints to the contrary notwithstanding, Trump seems to have found his new Roy Cohn. But, in exchange for his loyalty, Michael Cohen might one day have to ask Trump for the same favor he did for Cohn—to serve as a character witness at his friend’s disbarment hearing. Peter Dreier is a professor of politics and chairman of the Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. This piece first appeared in City & State, a politics and policy journal with which The Public P shares content.

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DAN'S DRAGON BY JACK FORAN

DAN GALAS IS CREATING A SCULPTURE THAT WILL, WHEN IT IS FINISHED, LITERALLY COME ALIVE WITH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. ARTIST DAN GALAS’S current project is a 100-foot-long functional sculpture dragon. To function

as a Burmese gourd tunnel, an arbor-like structure—but in this case in the shape of a dragon—for growing gourds and other types of vegetables and fruits, hanging gardens fashion. To be situated on part of a large plot of open land—several contiguous city lots—on the East Side, on which refugee assistance organization Journey’s End now operates a community garden.

The idea for the project—embryo of the idea—originated from Artfarms, an organization all about “integrating functional art with community agriculture.” Artfarms has several art and gardening projects currently underway in Buffalo on the East Side. The only one with its art component presently installed is on Michigan Avenue, the block between Riley and Laurel streets. A bizarrely beautiful meandering fluid form picnic tables complex. Artfarms broached the functional sculpture idea to Buffalo Arts Studio—some kind of a sculptural project with an agricultural aspect—it wasn’t a Burmese gourd tunnel yet, nor certainly a dragon— to see if any artist there was interested in pursuing it. Galas was, and came up with some preliminary ideas for a “grow project.” And talked with Journey’s End, with offices down the corridor from BAS in the Tri-Main Building, about locating it on their garden plot on Brewster Street, between Fillmore Avenue and Halbert Street, a few blocks from the Tri-Main building. Journey’s End was amenable. At which point, Galas thought, since this was going to be a refugee-oriented project, it would be good to get some actual refugee input into the project. Partly for which reason, he volunteered to teach an art class at Journey’s End. Some drawing and some basic sculpture with clay. The student makeup of the class was some Bhutanese, some Burmese, and some Congolese. “We talked a lot about their various homelands,” Galas said, “and in their art exercises, they did a lot of drawing and modeling of familiar images and features of their homelands. One of the Bhutanese did a clay model of this huge snake-like creature. I asked him about it, and it turned out it was a dragon, a key figure in Bhutanese origin mythology—there’s a dragon on the Bhutanese flag. And one of the Burmese drew this strange architectural item, and I asked about it, and it turned out it was a gourd tunnel, a regular method for growing vegetables in that country. That’s how we got to the dragon gourd tunnel idea.” Another thing Galas learned about in the interaction with the art class students was bamboo. “A traditional building material the three cultures have in common,” he said. “The Congolese build bridges with it.” So it was decided to use bamboo as the main structural material for the dragon. An exceedingly strong and deterioration-resistant Vietnamese type of bamboo, called Tam Vong, alternately referred to as “iron bamboo.” (Galas said he’s been practicing building with bamboo, and recently constructed a backyard fort for his twin five-year-olds. “They love it,” he said.) The 100-foot measurement is from the cantilever projection dragon nose to the tip of the tail— including snaky undulations—and the height varies—undulations there too—from about 12 feet to 18 feet. In addition to the bamboo basic structure, and some still to be determined sort of screening infill within the bamboo network interstices, there’s a 24-foot-long red tongue—undulant again— in steel, and one electrical component, flashing led lights dragon eyes.

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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 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. Amber M. Dixon Dixon Gallery at the Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology (1221 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 259-1680, buffaloartstechcenter.org): 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, 10am5pm. 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 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. 8

Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, 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. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Betty’s annual staff, friends, and family show. Through May 20. TueThu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery. com): Works from the collection. ThuSat 11am-5pm. BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Rebecca Wing: Soft Things Rigidly. Every day 4-10pm. 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 9am5:30pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-

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Galas said he hopes to see the dragon sculpture completed this summer, but the process is not uncomplicated. The next step is to present to the city Planning Board. And there are many groups and individuals involved in the work. In addition to Galas, BAS, Artfarms, and Journey’s End, the Studio T3 engineering firm is assisting with construction planning and permitting, and Rigidized Metals Corporation is fabricating the dragon tongue and anchor elements securing and supporting the bamboo structural poles. The other current Artfarms projects—in addition to the dragon sculpture and the community garden and artwork on Michigan Avenue—are a community garden across Best Street from City Honors School, tended by City Honors students, and another on Wilson Street, off Broadway, a block in, toward downtown, from Broadway and Fillmore. And when you stop by to see the dragon sculpture—under construction or upon completion hopefully this summer, don’t miss checking out the same artist’s mural paintings of a dozen or so closeby architectural landmarks—slightly askew transmogrified—a block or so away on an industrial P building at the corner of Jewett Avenue and Halbert Street (behind the Tri-Main building).

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 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, 8786011, burchfieldpenney.org): Opems: Verbal Visual Combines, Michael Basinski, on view through Jun 24. Images (of Us by Us) through Apr 1; Cargo, Way-Points, 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) Apr 13, 5:30-10pm. 10am-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. Thu 12-9pm, Fri & Sat 12-5pm. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 2868200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Writing on the Wall, text-based 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 11am-5pm, 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 9am5pm, Sat 12-4pm. The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry, A Resource:Art Project (444 Forest Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14213, facebook.com/resourceartny): Solo installations by Rebecca Allan, Jack Drummer, Gigi Gatewood, Julian Montague, Eric Magnuson, Gary Sczerbaniewicz curated by Resource:Art. On

GALLERIES ART view through mid-May. Check-in at second floor front desk. Daemen College, Tower & Karamanoukian Galleries of the Haberman Gacioch Art Center (Daeman College Center for Visual & Performing Arts, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY 14226, 839-8241): 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. 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, 6750204, etjgallery.com): Member’s exhibit through Apr 28. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm. GO ART! (201 East Main Street, Batavia, NY 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 11am4pm, 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 11am6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. 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 12-6pm, 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, 688-4033, jccbuffalo.org): Donors Art Show, on view through Apr 30. MonThu 5:30am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, SatSun 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. Tue-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 2827530, thenacc.org): Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm. 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. Tue-Fri 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 10-3pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): Nature Photography by Hannah Brenner. Wed-Sat,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 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery. tripod.com): 11th anniversary show. Art by Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, Chris 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 11am-4pm and by appointment. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Impotent Gods work by Anthony Freda and Nick Chiechi. Thu 12-6pm, Fri and Sat 128pm. 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 11am6pm, 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. Mon-Fri 9-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Buffalo Fun-aDay 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 19672017. Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, on view through May 26. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Interior Design Program Student Exhibit Apr 13-27. Opening reception Apr 13, 5-7pm. Mon-Fri 9am6pm, 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, 348-1430, 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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7PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $24-$84 [BURLESQUE] Did you know there was a social networking site operating before Myspace dedicated to alternative pin-up models? There was, and still is. That site is SuicideGirls, an online community and adult lifestyle brand featuring pin-up photography sets of alternative models founded by Missy Suicide (real name Selena Mooney) in 2001. Missy, who runs the site with co-owner Sean Suhl or “Spooky,” first came up with the idea for the site after coming across some stunning photos of Bettie Page taken by photographer and pin-up model Bunny Yeager. She became enthralled with Yeager’s style of shooting the models and pin-up photography in general. “There was something just so beautiful about the female gaze,” Missy said in a recent interview with The Public. “Like when Bunny Yeager would snap the shutter, it was like three seconds before and three seconds after most of the male photographers who had photographed Bettie Page before.” After this she started photographing her friends and putting the photos up online in an effort to capture them with the same respect and beauty Yeager’s photos evoked. Seventeen years later she has created a platform for over 3,000 official Suicide Girls and hundreds of thousands of hopefuls to display their pin-up photos. These pin-up models are from all over the world, which includes every continent—even Antarctica. “I wanted to create a space where [women] could share themselves in their own words, not just through their images. So I created blogs for them and blogs for the members and a space where people could connect.” Over the years Suicide Girls have been featured in movies, comic books, TV shows, and burlesque tours. Missy describes a Suicide Girl as “a girl who lives life according to what drives her, is uniquely and beautifully herself, that doesn’t feel the need to conform to anybody else’s definition of what she is or what she should be, and who feels passionately and is confident and comfortable with her body and with herself.” One Suicide Girl from Buffalo, who goes by the name Lascaux, started following the website in 2015 when she was 19. Last year she decided to audition for the show, Blackheart Burlesque, which is a burlesque company attached to the SuicideGirls community, and has been touring with them ever since. Aside from dancing in the burlesque group, she also works in the office at SuicideGirls headquarters in Los Angeles and takes part in photo shoots that are later posted to the site.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 11 Basic Printer 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 emerge: Radiohead, Zelda, Neutral Milk Hotel, and pumpkin soup among them. Like a fine cup of pumpkin soup, Basic Printer combines all of their influences—ingredients if you will—into 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. -CP

David Sedaris 8pm UB Center For The Arts, 103 Center For The Arts $28-53

[TALK] Few authors have cracked through the rigid border between literature and pop culture the way David Sedaris has over the course of his career. His use of humor—ranging from wry satire to blistering self-deprecation—binds his narrative style like glue. His entertaining brand of storytelling, self-reflection, and broader social commentary is guided, weighed down by, and held together by his omnipresent jokes. Sedaris broke through with an appearance on NPR's Morning Edition in 1992 with his now holiday classic SantaLand Diaries and is currently making the rounds performing from his most recent autobiographical publication, last year's Theft By Finding, a compilation of diaries from 1977 through 2002. In it, Sedaris marks his own development as a writer and person, struggling with drug addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder and coming into his own as an artist. Sedaris' chief talent is in making the quirks of his personality and background as a gay man of Greek heritage from middle class America

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“Being part of Blackheart Burlesque is hands down the greatest experience of my life,” Lascaux said. “Every day you wake up in a different city, which is an incredible thing for a kid from Kenmore.” Lascaux came up with her name due to her interest in art history, which she majored in at Buffalo State College. Her moniker is inspired by a set of ancient cave paintings in France that caught her eye when she was in college. “Learning something new and performing and stretching the boundaries of my comfort zone was cool to me,” Lascaux said. “All of the girls I get to dance with on the tour have the most unique personalities that somehow manage to be friends, which is amazing to me. It’s a lot of really powerful and talented women that really function as a unit and that’s really special to me.” The Suicide Girls perform at the Town Ballroom on Wednesday, April 11. Doors open at 7pm. -VANESSA OSWALD

into something relatable and meaningful to huge audiences. Buffalo folks will get a chance to experience it themselves next Wednesday at UB Center for the Arts. -AARON LOWINGER

comes from Buffalo’s Rap and Destroy, DJ Dovey, and the Incredible Scott Down. No presold tickets, so get there early. Don’t want to miss this one. -CP

Apathy & Celph Titled

Marco Benevento

9pm Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar, 253 Allen St

9pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $15

[HIP HOP] East coast rapper Apathy’s brand of in-your-face rap hits that sweet spot between hardcore hip hop and vibey excellence that old school hip hop fans crave. On his latest album, The Widow’s Son, released in March, the Connecticut-based rapper teamed up with producers Pete Rock, DJ Premier, Buckwild, and Nottz to create an aggressive, hard hitting record that pulls no punches. With features from Pharoahe Monch, M.O.P., and partner Celph Titled among others, 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

[FUNK] Buffalo is no stranger to Marco Benevento’s unique, fun, and funky live show. The 40-year-old will bring his jamming, psychedelic rock show to Buffalo Iron Works for a show on Wednesday, April 11 with support from Caroline Rose. -TPS

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PEACH PICKS AT PEACH: Last Friday at Peach, we featured local poet Eve Williams’s poem, “My father looks like Emmett Till.” Williams self-publishes recordings of her spoken word poems to her Facebook page, Unfiltered, and has garnered national attention for her clever and devastating style. In “My father looks like Emmett Till,” Williams explore a terrifying reality in which no person of color is safe in our world. She writes, “And it must be nice/ for all those to whom things is simple/ A tree is just a tree/ A rope is a rope”—a reminder, for those who have it, to reconcile the gravity of their privilege, to know that feeling grateful for one’s privilege isn’t good enough. Catch a performance by Eve Williams alongside local poets Dan McKeon and Olivea Wiggins and visiting poets Jamie Mortara and Jakob Maier this Saturday at an EPISODEat Georgette on Elmwood.

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By Nabila Lovelace YesYes Books / 2018 / Poetry Collection Seeing Nabila Lovelace read from her debut collection, Sons of Achilles, was one of my highlights from AWP/Whale Prom 2018. Nabila has the kind of presence that commands the attention of any crowd. As she read, we hung on every word, and afterward I found her and had to have a copy of this book. Son of Achillesis Lovelace’s debut collection and is teeming with stories of love, relationships, and the cycle of violence and trauma that takes its toll on them. Her poem, “When Your Vice Is a Man,” relates her relationship with her father to her romantic relationships; of taking her father’s and then her future husband’s name, she writes, “my last name is leashlike. Now I complicate: I wanted / the boy to leash me. A bitch& here.” In “Citizenship,” a poem in which she explores the conflicted feelings she has toward America as a first-generation American raised by immigrants in the South, Lovelace writes, “I am afraid/ of what I mean by loyalty./ A down ass bitch/ I’d ride to the grave for love/ but what of where I made country / of the place I live my possible death plot?” Lovelace’s knack for tackling complicated issues through rhythmic and stylish prose make this collection unforgettable. — BRE KIBLIN

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THE LAST DETAIL FRIDAY APRIL 13 7PM / BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER, 1300 ELMWOOD AVE / VARIES BY EVENT [MUSIC, ETC.] Trust Don Metz to arrange some extraordinary exit music for himself. Metz— who is currently associate director and head of public programs at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and who has worked at the institution since 1995, including a stint as acting director— will retire this year. As a final gift, Metz has arranged The Last Detail, a four-day festival of music and multimedia performance illustrative of his tastes for the cutting edge and the subversive. (The gala’s subtitle is “An Eclectic Mix of Music Detached From Uniformity of Reason,” which might as well be the title of Metz’s unwritten autobiography.) The series begins Thursday evening at 7pm with multimedia setting of “Cassandra,” a poem by 1960s countercultural icon Ed Sanders (perhaps most famously a member of the Fugs), one of Metz’s favorites. Poet and visual artist Mike Basinki narrates; Metz, on guitar, is joined by musicians John Smigielski (percussion) and Kristen Smigielski (voice); Andrew Deutsch and John Kostusiak contribute audio/ video design and lighting, respectively. On Friday, famed Buffalo musician Joe Rozler presents Ambient/Analog, a soundscape that will greet guests attending the Burchfield Penney’s Second Friday events, which include the opening of four—count ’em, four—new shows in the galleries. That same night, in the auditorium, A Musical Feast—the gallery’s chamber ensemble in residence, led by acclaimed violinist Charles Haupt—present an eclectic program that includes works by Boulanger, Rachmaninoff, and Bach, among others, with guest musicians Arie Lipsky (cello, flute), Charles Castleman (violin), Diane Hunger (saxophone), and Claudia Hoca (piano). On Saturday evening, the internationally celebrated Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo (comprising Helena Bugallo and Buffalo native Amy Williams) will perform cutting-edge new works and 20th-century masterpieces for piano four-hands and two pianos. Finally, on Sunday afternoon, The Last Detail concludes with Tony Conrad’s Amplified Drone Strings, performed by the Open! String Ensemble, a relatively new collaborative musical project formed by BPO cellist Jonathan Golove. (The ensemble lineup: David Adamczyk (violin), Ana Vafai (violin), Helen Yee (violin), Leanne Darling (viola), Evan Courtin (viola), Golove (cello), Stanzi Vaubel (cello), Paige Sarlin (cello).) The program includes original works by the ensemble’s members, as well as pieces by the likes of Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Yo La Tengo, St. Vincent, and King Crimson. Quite a weekend. If you see Metz grinning in the corner, wish the old man luck—and make sure he’s getting plenty of electrolytes. Visit burchfieldpenney.org for more information. -GEOFF KELLY

Buffalo’s Premier Live Music Club ◆ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 ◆ experimental synth-pop from nashville

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dreambeaches, humble braggers

7PM DOORS/8PM SHOW ◆ $5 ADV./$7 DAY OF SHOW

◆ THURSDAY, APRIL 12 ◆ after dark presents brings you australian indie-pop-hit-makers

cub sport

wild things, parade chic

7PM DOORS/8PM SHOW◆ $10 ADV./$12 DAY OF SHOW

Progressive Psychedelic Sludge Space Punk from D.C.

Caustic Casanova Debouch, Spacelord 9PM ◆ $5

◆ FRIDAY, APRIL 13 ◆

happy hour: dj malik von saint 5PM ◆ FREE

from north carolina

reed turchi

handsome jack, black canyon lights 8PM ◆ $5

radiation risks, saturn v, yellow house, rpg (debut show) 8PM ◆ $5

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rock a mile in their shoes: benefit for crisis services advocate program

the gennies, kerry fey, erica wolfling from east brunswick, nj

bobby mahoney & the seventh son velvet bethany

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THURSDAY APRIL 12

7pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $10-$12

Katy Guillen and the Girls 6pm The Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $10-$12

[ROCK] If Susan Tedeschi had fronted the Pretenders as an all-girl outfit, this is what it might have sounded like—and that’s a good thing. Coming out of Kansas City, Katy Guillen and the Girls have been lighting up the new blues frontier for over five years now, wowing audiences (including Robin Trower’s as a recurring opener) with their mix of rootsy grit and punky sneer, which is often tempered with touches of pop knowhow and soulful balladry. It’s a quadruple threat executed in power trio format (with Claire Adams on bass and vocals and Stephanie Williams on drums), and while Guillen doesn’t come across as unhinged, there’s a satisfying, menacing energy bubbling beneath the surface of some tracks. It’s a delicate balance, but at no point does it seem calculated—we need more of this. They’re at The Tralf Music Hall on Thursday, April 12, supporting Remember What You Knew Before, which came out last month. Randle and the Late Night Scandals take the opening slot. -TPS

[POP] Indie-pop band Cub Sport make the long journey from Australia to Buffalo for a show at Mohawk Place on Thursday, April 12. They’ve hit a few other locations along the way, of course, propelled by their latest single “Crush,” a steamy R&B pop banger, and their affinity for covering Kanye West. Support comes from Buffalo indie rock bands Wild Things and Parade Chic. -CP

Floodwood 8pm Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar, 253 Allen St

[JAM] Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar resident jam band, Floodwood, returns to their long time haunt this Thursday, April 12. The band, featuring moe drummer Vin Amico delivers a jam-saturated take on Americana and bluegrass. They’ll be joined by Buffalo-based folk-rock band PA Line and DJ Charles Masters. -CP

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my life with the thrill kill kult orations, optic oppression

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eyes set to kill, convictions, breaking solace, deep valleys, breath of the valkyrie, signs (of a slumbering beast) 6PM ◆ $12 ADV./$15 DAY OF SHOW

◆ TUESDAY, APRIL 17 ◆ ftmp events presents: boisterous baltimore brass-rock

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the toy box brigade, 42 eagle, skulking ghost 6PM ◆ $8 ADV./$12 DAY OF SHOW

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ftmp events presents

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FRIDAY APRIL 13

ghostpool, previous love, darling harbor, of night and light

Here Come the Mummies 7pm Rapids Theatre, 1711 Main St. $25-$30

[FUNK] A 10-piece mummy themed funk band is either going to your thing or it’s not. If this seems like it might be your thing, know that Here Come are good at what they do, which is deliver light-hearted, goofy, and tight funkpop songs. Here Come the Mummies bring their spectacular, funky show to the Rapids Theatre for a show this Friday, April 13. -TPS

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Brendan & the Strangest Ways, Jungle Steve 8PM & The Gypsophelias ◆ $5 47 East Mohawk St. 716.312.9279

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8PM / SENECA NIAGARA EVENTS CENTER, 310 4TH ST. / $35-$65 [ROCK] So, for anyone that might be wondering: It has, essentially, always been “Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo.” Benatar, now 65, met Giraldo while she was on the cusp of recording her stellar 1979 debut, In the Heat of the Night. He was dating Linda Blair at the time, she was in the process of getting divorced. There’s no denying, and Benatar is the first to admit: It was the energy he brought to re-working her demos for the album that really shaped the sound we came to associate with Pat Benatar in the heady years of stardom that followed. But marketing strategies often call the shots, especially going back 40 years. The powers that be during the almighty video age (her cover of the Young Rascals tune “You Better Run” was the second-ever clip aired on MTV) wanted Benatar’s vixen-in-spandex image to grow, which is ironic given that it was basically something she’d tested out one night as a joke. The fact that the two became an item (and married a few years later) was purposefully kept on the down-low, which is pretty ridiculous since Neil “Spyder” Giraldo’s nimble-fingered guitar work was always a focal point in videos and certainly at live shows, not to mention that fact he’s always been—and remains to this day—easy on the eyes in his own right. Now free of any contractual confines, the pair remain dubbed as a duo, which is how they like it. For the better part of the last 20 years, they have toured quite regularly without releasing much new music, save for a few one-off charity-related singles and one full-length disc, 2003’s Go!. Instead, they’ve chosen to stick with the catalogue of songs for which they’re known best, and they’ve reinforced that with a few live releases over the years (both audio and video) that revel in slightly different arrangements of them. Their current tour, which brings them to the Seneca Niagara Casino Event Center on Saturday, April 14, is a run of acoustic dates. In

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this case, all that will be on stage is Pat, Neil, an acoustic guitar, and a keyboard. There may be some additional guitar parts piped in so the songs retain some semblance of their original shape, but this is the most stripped-down and intimate presentation that they’ve ever offered, and Benatar’s vocals remain impressive—it’s not to be missed. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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7PM / ASBURY HALL, 341 DELAWARE AVE. / $44.50-$50 [COUNTRY] A bona fide star in Australia and a bit of a Chet Atkins protégé, guitarist Tommy Emmanuel has spent his career honing his own brand of Travis picking—a finger-picking style that allows you to simulate bass lines, chords, melodies, and harmonies simultaneously, using the thumb and fingers of the right hand. Emmanuel also makes percussive use of his instrument, striking harmonics and slapping the wood in different places to emit particular drum-like sounds. Over here, he’s been nominated for two different Grammy Awards for Best Country Instrumental Performance, but in Australia, he’s been up for eight Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (won two) and took home a pair of Country Music Awards of Australia in 2005 and 2007, respectively. His list of collaborative credits are many, including work with Jason Isbell, Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler, and sought-after dobro king Jerry Douglass, but for his gig at Babeville’s Asbury Hall on Monday, April 16, he’s splitting the bill with Suzy Bogguss, a major-label country refugee with some gold and platinum records from the late 1980s and early-mid 1990s under her belt. Bogguss got her start as a performer at Dollywood, the Parton-owned Tennessee theme park that still attracts more than two million visitors each year. By the late 1990s, with showboat country belters like Martina McBride and Shania Twain dominating the charts, Bogguss lost some of her audience and was dropped from Capitol. Like many others confronted with similar circumstances, she’s stayed busy, releasing another nine indie albums and touring often to maintain her core fanbase, while Capitol put out a hits compilation in 2002. -CORY PERLA

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7:30PM / UB CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 103 CENTER FOR THE ARTS / $39-$89 [ROCK] The music of Frank Zappa was, and continues to be, extremely challenging. The experimental musician wasn’t afraid to grapple with new technology, tackle heady concepts, or wrestle with complex song structures throughout his nearly four decade-long career. His son Dweezil Zappa is not, and never has been, afraid of the challenge of recreating his father’s music. Throughout his career, the 48-year-old Zappa has presented his father’s music to new audiences, and has also used it as a jumping-off point for his own original music. On his latest tour, dubbed Choice Cuts, Dweezil Zappa will deliver his dad’s “meatiest tracks” from the 1960s and 1970s and beyond—from the Mothers of Invention to the classical, orchestral stuff the elder Zappa explored later in his career. Catch Dweezil Zappa live at the UB Center for the Arts on Wednesday, April 18. -CORY PERLA P

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SATURDAY APRIL 14 Rock A Mile In Their Shoes 7pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $10

[ROCK] Rock a Mile in Their Shoes is a benefit show to raise money and awareness for the Crisis Service Advocate Program, which provides free and confidential response and support for survivors of sexual and domestic. Supporting the cause this year are a handful of talented bands including Buffalo’s the Gennies, Kerry Fey, Erica Wolfing, and Velvet Bethany, as well as New Jersey-based rock band Bobby Mahoney and the Seventh Son. Support the cause and rock out this Saturday, April 14 at Mohawk Place. -TPS

MONDAY APRIL 16 Eric Andersen 7pm Sportsmen’s Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $20

[FOLK] A Greenwich Village folk scene original who grew up in nearby Snyder, Eric Andersen, now 75, has written tunes recorded by Johnny Cash, Dylan, the Dead, Linda Ronstadt, Judy Collins, and many others. He even appeared in an Andy Warhol factory film, and is often used as an interview subject in films about the work of his contemporaries. All the while, he's maintained a fairly low profile for himself, quietly releasing some 35 albums along the way. The most well known of them, 1972's Blue River, featured a guest vocal spot from Joni Mitchell on the title track. In 2003, he won the coveted "Premio Tenco" award with Patti Smith in San Remo, Italy, which is reserved for outstanding songwriters. Previous winners have included Jackson Browne, Tom Waits, Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Randy

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Newman—he's always been in good company. Last month, Sony/Legacy (who also put out an expanded version of Blue River a while back) released The Essential Eric Andersen, a 2CD set that covers 50 years of his recorded history, from 1965 onward. Additionally, a documentary about Andersen, The Songpoet, is now in post-production and planned for release sometime later this year. Andersen will appear at Sportsmen's Tavern on Monday, April 16 for a career-spanning set that shows off his gift for conveying deep feeling in song. -CJT

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TUESDAY APRIL 17 Moose Blood 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $18-$22

[EMO] We all know that emo is still alive and well, and Moose Blood attests to its presence in the UK. Coming over from Canterbury, Kent, the quartet is brandishing its punk-pop chops for American audiences in support of Blush, which came out last summer on the LA-based Hopeless label; they're in Buffalo at Town Ballroom on Tuesday, April 17, with the ambient tones of Arizona-based trio Lydia opening, readying for the release of a new disc, Liquor, in summer. Just prior to releasing the first single off Blush earlier last year, sexual harassment charges were filed against Moose Blood's thendrummer Glenn Harvey, who quickly departed and has since been replaced by Lee Munday. They didn't miss a beat. Southwest indie P rockers Lydia open the show. -CJT

SPOTLIGHT GIANT ART PARTY Jump Start provides professional arts training and mentoring to local youth. How does BAS sustain itself? How important is this event to BAS? Buffalo Arts Studio is sustained and maintained through Trimania, so this event is an essential fundraising opportunity in our repertoire. It happens only once every three years, so it’s not only the biggest party in Buffalo each time it happens, but it allows us to work within the Tri-Main community, the Western New York arts community, as well as our many community partners. Trimania is a triennial call to renew the mission and spirit of Buffalo Arts Studio, and our staff has been deeply touched by the outpouring of support from all of our partners as well as the unflagging support of what we represent within the arts community. What are BAS’s plans for the upcoming year? What should we look forward to?

ONE, TWO, THREE, TRIMANIA! BY THE PUBLIC STAFF TRIMANIA IS BIG. Big as an entire former

windshield wiper factory. Big enough that you might walk in with a couple friends, lose them at the door, and not see them for the rest of the night. Big enough that, for all the familiar faces you’ll see among the crowd and in the lineup of artists and performers and organizations that teem the hallways of the sprawling Tri-Main Center during this one-night-only art party, you will be nonetheless overwhelmed by novelty and strangeness. Trimania—a fundraiser and showcase for Buffalo Arts Studio, the nonprofit arts center located in the Tri-Main—is so big that it can only happen once every three years. And the day is upon us: It happens Saturday, April 14, 8pm-1am. There are more than 50 musical acts participating, a dozen dance performances, maybe 100 or so visual artists, and many sundry delights—far too many to list here. (Visit Trimania.com for a full listing and schedule.) Tickets are $25 general admission, $50 for a VIP pass that gets you into an early reception at 6:30pm ($80 for two of those), and worth every penny. We dispatched a few questions to the fine folks at Buffalo Arts Studio—BAS director Alma Carillo, and curators Shirley Verrico and Dana Tyrell—about this behemoth of a party. Here’s what they had to say: Give us a rundown of what people will find at Trimania this year. What should folks look for? This Trimania is the biggest one yet. We have more than 75 visual artists exhibiting work within Tri-Main Center, including Buffalo Arts Studio’s featured exhibits with Mizin Shin, Feedback Loop and Chuck Tingley, Stream. We also have more than 100 musicians and performing acts spread throughout the evening, and spanning the gargantuan, six-floor Tri-Main Center that Buffalo Arts Studio has called home since 1991. We have partnered with fellow Tri-Main resident Twisted Rope to develop an app for Trimania, which allows you to curate your perfect evening; you can see your favorite artists, never miss a single performance throughout the night, and most importantly locate bathrooms and bars throughout our sprawling event. The free app can be found in app stores by searching “Trimania,” and we would encourage anyone coming before to download it and start planning their evening!

How do the curators go about imagining this sort of broad and immersive experience? SHIRLEY VERRICO: Trimania is amazing, but an event of this size takes dozens of people and hundreds of hours of planning. Trimania is also a bit of a wild beast. It brings together so many creatives and fills so much space, you have to let grow organically. Last fall, I walked all 575,000 square feet of the building with Tri-Main owner Matt Wolfe and saw some very interesting spaces. He gave me a lot of freedom, including use of several large, unrented suites, and with so much space I knew I couldn’t do it alone. Buffalo Arts Studio is a community of artists so I asked for help from my community. The curatorial committee includes Julia Bottoms, Zainab Saleh, Kathleen Sherin, Dana Tyrrell, and me; each of us has a unique curatorial perspective as well as diverse networks, so we wanted to utilize this collective knowledge. We brought in artists we know and trust, and welcomed a number of new artists who approached us. For this iteration of Trimania we have hallway galleries, micro galleries, and live action art making. We are also working with a number of galleries and art spaces. This Trimania will host Contemporary Galleries of Buffalo, with over 3,645 square feet of visual and performing arts installations by regional artists curated by ArtReach, Benjaman Gallery, Pine Apple Company, Resource:Art, and Revolution Gallery. Additionally, Sugar City Arts Collaborative is presenting a microcosm of their Niagara Street space with DIY musicians and artists inside a 3,900-square-foot space. The Aspire of WNY, Inc. iXpress crew has created “Beneath the Surface,” an installation depicting a voyage under the sea. Dana Tyrrell and Kathleen Sherin have curated a suite of offices spaces-cum-micro galleries featuresting the art of Avye Alexandres, Jonathan Casey, Michael Degnan, Robert Fleming, Gerald Mead, Alexis Oltmer, and Dana Tyrrell. The process with the music and dance was similar. The entertainment committee came together and made suggestions for performers to fit the available spaces. We have added a Jazz Lounge, which will feature Saranaide, the Shadows with Terri George, and Carina and the Six String Preacher. Influential music booker Marty Boratin is a rock star and the backbone of the music programming. He has donated hundreds of hours, booking bands like Fredtown

Stompers, Tiger Chung Lee, Little Cake, Aircraft, and Pine Fever. Elías Benavídes, Kenny Maggs, and Marty have also spent a ton of time in TriMain making certain there is adequate power for sound, staging, and lighting too. Like with the visual arts, we are collaborating with other organizations. The Sportsmen’s Foundation is hosting the Americana Room with bands like Shaky Stage, Ten Cent Howl, Steam Donkeys, and Miller and the Other Sinners. Jill Shanley Morlock worked her magic and booked dozens of dancers to move throughout the building as well as perform on main stages. Tri-Main tenants have also contributed in numerous ways, most notably with our technology partner Twisted Rope, who have developed the aforementioned app. Several tenants will also be hosting their own events throughout the evening, such as Buffalo Game Space; they will be showcasing locally made video games, virtual reality experiences, as well as playing “chip tunes.” Other tenants will play host to visual and performing artists. Newbird, a digital marketing agency, will be hosting a participatory quilting workshop with the renowned Jack Foran. This event also brings tenants together, WNYCOSH will host their floor neighbor Pure Ink Poetry for a Poetry Slam. Give us a brief overview of BAS’s mission, maybe some examples of that mission fulfilled. Buffalo Arts Studio was established with the goal to provide affordable studio space and valuable exposure for artists while also offering arts education and public art for the entire community. Since 1991, Buffalo Arts Studio has been a catalyst for self-empowerment and the cultivation of new ideas and actions that enhance our region. We achieve this through our dynamic courses and workshops, engaging exhibitions, thoughtful public art, effectual mentorships, strong artist support, and meaningful partnerships. Located on the fifth floor of the Tri-Main Center, Buffalo Arts Studio houses two galleries and a community space gallery that are free and open to the general public, with extended hours on Fourth Fridays thanks to M&T Bank support. Also within the more than 20,000 square feet of space are 30 studios for visual artists who apply and are selected to be Resident Artists and Aspire of Western New York’s art program, iXpress. The education program offers classes for hundreds youth and adults every year. Our youth program,

We have a very exciting programming schedule ahead for the rest of the year, including our Resident Artists who continue to exhibit both completed pieces and works in process in their studio spaces year-round. We are thrilled to be organizing the first largescale solo exhibit of BAS Resident Artist Muhammad Z. Zaman, who is a Buffalo-based, urban artist specializing in calligraphy. Zaman uses the languages that make up his identity: English for his current home, Bengali as the language of his fatherland, and Arabic as the language of his religion. His canvas paintings and wall murals layer powerful messages onto seemingly borderless fields in order to inspire people to learn from each other in harmony and mutual understanding. His work has recently been featured in smaller projects with El Museo and the Burchfield Penney Arts Center, so we are very excited to not only have him among our Resident Artists, but to also give him the platform to exhibit his work on a larger scale. Additionally, we will be exhibiting the work of Jozef Bajus, our newest Resident Artist at Buffalo Arts Studio. Bajus forthcoming body of work utilizes remnants of the light industries inside Tri-Main Center; he makes sculpture out of the detritus of contemporary culture. His work imagines another future for that which is too often discarded. He rejects the notion that the act of “disposal” ends one’s societal obligation. By investigating the production processes as well as the refuse from such production, Bajus will construct original objects that bring new understanding to the possibilities that lie within P what is too often discarded.

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FILM REVIEW including actor Jason Schwartzman, is set in a somewhat futuristic Japan where the corrupt, authoritarian Mayor Koyabashi (Kunichi Nomura) of Megasaki City has decreed the banishment of all the city’s dogs to an island garbage dump, where they languish, starve, and battle for food scraps. The exiles include Spots (Liev Schreiber), the electronically weaponized guard dog of the Mayor’s 12-year-old ward, Atari (Koyu Rankin). Mayor Koyabashi’s dynasty has an ancient hatred of dogs based on events in history. The distraught Atari flees to Trash Island to find Spots and takes up with a small band of former house pets (voiced by the likes of Bill Murray and Edward Norton) and one street dog, Chief (Bryan Cranston), who set off with him to find out what became of Spots. Meanwhile, in Megasaki the mayor conspires to control news of Atari’s absence and prevent efforts to bring the dogs back. (This part of the movie boasts Yoko Ono as a biochemical researcher, and how many movies can say that?)

Isle of Dogs.

EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY ISLE OF DOGS BY GEORGE SAX IF THE LAST two years of distressing national political events

have left you with an unslaked need for ideological engagement, feel free to interpret Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs, his intricately clever and unusual stop-motion animated movie, as a cautionary fable about contemporary threats to justice and freedom. The movie does feature a demagogic political leader and his efforts at scapegoating and persecuting a segment of the population he rules over.

Personally, I don’t think that kind of response to the movie is worth the candle, but go ahead if it makes you feel any better. One notable reviewer has offered the opinion that Anderson’s work is inspired by our troubled times, but I don’t think his sensibility and imagination are fired by political reality and its discontents. He seems to answer to his own imagination and he rather obviously fabricates his own altered or original worlds. The storyline concocted by Anderson, along with three others,

Stop-motion animation is only realized with extensively meticulous craft, and Isle’s workmanship and inventiveness are remarkable. (Andy Gent was in charge of the puppet creation.) The dogs come off as more “real” than the human characters, who often appear cartoonish. One of the movie’s conceits is that the dogs’ barks are “translated” into English on the soundtrack, but the Japanese characters’ speech isn’t. Anderson’s fancies and visions can certainly be engaging and amusing, but they can also become tediously self-indulgent and oppressively cute (as in his Grand Budapest Hotel from 2014). Isle goes both ways, but the balance is favorable, I think. There’s more than enough wit, charm, and enchantment, particularly visually, to sustain audience involvement. Isle’s images are a marvel of intricacy, exquisite detail, and dramatic compositions. The movie is somewhat tonally uneven, mixing adventure and comic bits with cruelty and murder and appeals to sentiment. But this potential problem, and Isle’s rather flattened resolution, don’t amount to serious enough deficiencies to thwart the film’s appeal P and enjoyability.

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OPENING THIS WEEK BEIRUT—Jon Hamm as an alcoholic former diplomat called back to the middle East in 1982 to deal with a kidnapping. Co-starring Rosamund Pike, Mark Pelligrino, and Shea Whigham. Directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist). Dipson Eastern Hills, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit FINDING YOUR FEET—Imelda Staunton and Celia Imrie as estranged sisters forced to get to know each other again when the former’s marriage ends. With Timothy Spall, Joanna Lumley, David Hayman, and Josie Lawrence. Directed by Richard Loncraine (Brimstone and Treacle). Dipson Amherst ISLE OF DOGS—Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills JOURNEY’S END— In the trenches of France during World War I, young British officers try to cope with the pressure of an imminent offensive by Germany that they are unequipped to resist. Starring Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield, Stephen Graham, Toby Jones, and Tom Sturridge. Directed by Saul Dibb (Suite Française). North Park RAMPAGE—Reviewed this issue. Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal

Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In TRUTH OR DARE—By my count, the 30th movie to use this title. Starring Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Violett Beane, and Nolan Gerard Funk. Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA L’ARGENT (France, 1983)—The French master Robert Bresson’s final film is this adaptation of a Leo Tolstoy story about a man whose life is ruined after he unwittingly comes into possession of a forged banknote. Starring Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, and Caroline Lang. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (Italy, 1970)—Dario Argento’s directorial debut set the pattern for his distinctive oeuvre: An innocent man becomes involved in the hunt for a seemingly psychotic, brutal murderer, whose attacks form the set pieces around which the film is built. The music (by Ennio Morricone) and widescreen photography (by Vittorio Storaro) are both first rate. Starring Tony Musante and Suzy Kendall. Fri 9:30pm. Screening Room CARMEN—Australian director Barrie Kosky did substantial work in updating this production of Bizet’s often-staged opera, incorporating music not usually

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used and emphasizing the piece’s physicality. Starring Starring Anna Goryachova, Francesco Meli, Kostas Smoriginas, and Anett Fritsch. From London’s Royal Opera House. Sun 11am. Dipson Amherst DREAMS SO REAL: METRIC LIVE—4K concert documentary of the Canadian rock group on the last performance of its recent tour. Thu 9pm. Screening Room A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1957)— Producer David O. Selznick’s glossy effort to do with Ernest Hemingway what he did with Margaret Mitchell in Gone With the Wind. Worth seeing if you’re a fan of candy-colored Cinemascope spectacles from the 1950s, but as the ambulance driver and the nurse whose love struggles to survive World War I, Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones are not up to the task of bringing Hemingway to life. With Vittorio De Sica, Oskar Homolka, Mercedes McCambridge, and Elaine Stritch. Directed by Charles Vidor and John Huston. Sat-Sun 11:30am. North Park THE FITS — Cultivate Cinema Circle’s series of first films by women directors continues with this psychological drama about an 11-year-old 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 FOURPLAY— In this drama filmed in a single unbroken shot, two couples confront uncomfortable truths

about their relationships over the course of a Sunday brunch. Starring Tammy Blanchard, Bryan Greenberg, Dominic Fumusa, and Emanuela Galliussi. Directed by Dean Matthew Ronalds. Thu 7pm. Screening Room THE HUCKSTERS (1947)—Early example of the post-war subgenre of films critiquing the amorality of the business world, with Clark Gable as a former ad man looking to get back into the game after his military service. Co-starring Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner, Keenan Wynn, and Edward Arnold. Directed by Jack Conway (Libeled Lady). Fri 7:30pm. Old Chestnut Film Society, Phillip Sheridan School, 3200 Elmwood Avenue, oldchestnut.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 NIGHTMARE CITY (Italy, 1980)—A.k.a. City of the Walking Dead. Standard Italian Dawn of the Dead-inspired mayhem, You either have a liking for these things or you don’t. Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Francisco Rabal, and Mel Ferrar. Directed by Umberto Lenzi (Cannibal Ferox). Part of the Thursday Night Terrors series. Thu April 19 7:30pm. Dipson Amherst SUSPIRIA (Italy, 1976)—Italian horror maestro Dario Argento’s masterpiece: If you’ve never seen any of his films, this is the one to judge him on. Jessica Harper is the new student at a ballet school

housed in the one-time residence of an infamous witch. Argento’s use of color and music (by his house band Goblin) grab you by the throat and don’t let go. This print is a newly restored 4K update, so it will look even better than ever. With Udo Kier, Alida Valli, and Joan Bennett. FriSun, Tue 7:30pm. Screening Room SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957)— Best known for such classic British comedies as The Ladykillers and The Man in the White Suit, Scottish director Alexander Mackendrick had never been in Manhattan before making this film noir classic, one of the best ever at using that city’s canyonesque architecture to create a feeling of oppression. Aided by brilliant dialogue written by Clifford Odets, Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis had two of the best roles of their careers as a powerful gossip columnist and the young press agent who will do just about anything to get ahead in his profession. Like many classics, it was a flop when it was released. With Susan Harrison and Martin Milner. Part of the Noir Essentials series. Wed April 18 7:30pm. Dipson Eastern Hills

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,

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movies like Frankenstein Conquers the World on Channel 29’s Sci-Fi Theater in the 1970s, there’s a good chance you’ll have a great time watching Rampage, the latest vehicle to allow Dwayne Johnson to flex his muscles and charm in the face of preposterous situations. This reasonably family-friendly giant monster mash (based on a video game) successfully copies the old Toho Studios formula right down to a pair of terribly dull human villains. For reasons unimportant to detail, a friendly albino gorilla a la Son of Kong, a not-so-friendly wolf, and a ferocious alligator transform into giant monsters bound for Chicago, and only The Rock can save the day. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is delightful as a southern fried military type, and the film wisely eschews the gravitas of the last three Godzilla films, which all skimped on the monster action, in favor of humor. I won’t call it a good film by any means, just wildly entertaining. A surprisingly grisly opening sequence aboard a space station, a few jump scares, and one creature’s penchant for obscene hand gestures may make parents wish P they hadn’t brought kids under 10.

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a metal which literally fell from personal, petty and based almost assiduous cuteness. Co-starring the sky. T’Challa possesses entirely on fear is likely to remain Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, mystical powers in addition to eternally relevant. Starring Steve and Katherine Langford. Directed those granted him by the cat Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael by Greg Berlanti (Life as We Know suit he wears, which combines Palin, Simon Russell Beale, It). —George Sax AMC Maple Ridge, the aesthetics of Batman and Jason Isaacs, Paul Whitehouse, Dipson Flix (ENDS THURSDAY), MAPLE RIDGE 8 (AMC) the gimmickry of Iron Man. His Andrea Riseborough, Rupert Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, 4276 Maple Rd., Amherst / 833-9545 nemesis is Killmonger (Michael Friend, and Paddy Considine. —M. Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal amctheatres.com B. 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BRECKENRIDGE: Large 2BR lower. Appliances, hardwood, porch, yard. $760+. 435-8272.

ELMWOOD VILLAGE, COLONIAL CIRCLE: Lafayette-Livingston. 2 BR. Hardwood floors, no pets or smoking. Must see. $1150 includes all utilities. 716-912-2906.

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BLACK ROCK Marion St. 1 bdrm, $650. Available on 7/1/17. Includes: cable, wifi, laundry, parking. Month-to-month, no smoking or pets. jph5469@gmail.com.

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GORGEOUS 3000 ft. 3/2 ELMWOOD MANSION: 2nd flr, W/D, off-st prking, fully renovated. Insulated, granite kitchen, huge bedrooms, hardwood flrs, private porch, huge yd, DR, L/R. Ann: 715-9332.

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1001 LAFAYETTE Large 2BR, offst pkg, 3rd fl, elec. incl., no pets/ smkg, WD connect avail, clean, $760. 698-9581.

NORWOOD BTWN SUMMER & BRYANT: Freshly painted 1BR, carpets, appliances, mini-blinds, parking, coinop laundry, sec. sys. Includes water & elec. No pets, no smoking. $695+sec. 912-0175. -------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Ashland Ave. Bright lg BR, private, all util & appl. No pets/smoke. $690. 435-3061. -------------------------------------------------D’YOUVILLE COLLEGE AREA: 3BR $900, 1BR $500-600, utilities incl. Must see. Call 415-385-1438. --------------------------------------------------

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RIVERSIDE AREA: 2BR $550/4BR $770 + utilities. Between Tonawanda & Ontario. Call 415-385-1438. -------------------------------------------------BUFFALO STATE AREA: 3BR single family home $950-1200 + utilities. Call 415-385-1438.

BIDWELL PKWY 850 SQFT, 1BR/1BA, Laundry, Hardwood Flrs, No Smoking, $975/mo incl heat+H2O. 882-3292 ---------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------UB SOUTH ROOMS renovated & spacious, incl. util + wifi, W/D, pkg, .2 mi. to campus. $495 & $595. 236-8600. --------------------------------------------------D’YOUVILLE GRAD STUDENT seeks female roommate. $600 per month fully furnished 1700 ft apartment. Walking distance to D’Youville, Elmwood, Allen Street. private bedroom, share common living areas, all utilities included, owner occupied. WIFI included. 919-830-3267 Elizabeth. 716-536-7119 Landlord Lisa. --------------------------------------------------CHEEKTOWAGA: Meadowbrook Pkwy. Lower 2BR, one-car garage, washer h-ups. Avail now. $700 + utl. Call/text908-2753.

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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 physicallyabled 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. ------------------------------------------------CALL FOR WORK: Art Crawl, May 5. Springville, NY. Seeking all mediums, installations, musicians, demonstrations. Info at: Crawl.SpringvilleArts.org ------------------------------------------------CALL FOR WORK: Parables Gallery & Gifts, 1027 Elmwood Ave.Bflo. “FLORA,” May 1-30. All mediums welcome. Please send samples of your work to: Glenn Kroetsch, gdkroetsch@roadrunner.com. ------------------------------------------------FESTIVAL SCHOOL OF BALLET Classes for adults and children at all levels. Try a class for free. 716-9841586 festivalschoolofballet.com. ------------------------------------------------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. ------------------------------------------------SOUTH BUFFALO ART STUDIO offers skills-based classes in drawing & painting, private or group, Jerome Mach (716) 830-6471 or jeromemach@ yahoo.com.

HELP WANTED INTERPRETER/TRANSLATOR: Do you enjoy helping others? Do you speak fluent English and at least one other language? Consider a job as an interpreter or translator. We are accepting applications for all languages, but currently are giving preference to individuals who speak Karen, Karenni, Burmese, Tigrinya, Farsi Dari (Afghan Persian), Nepali, Bengali, and Rohingya. Interpreters enable communication between two or more individuals who don’t speak the same language. If you are professional, punctual, self motivated, experienced, and communicative, consider applying today. Daytime availability, reliable transportation, and work authorization are required. Prior interpreter training is preferred. To apply please visit jersbuffalo.org/ index.php/employment or contact us at (716) 882-4963 extension 201 or 207 with any questions.

LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF SUMMONS: SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF ERIE PLAINTIFF DESIGNATES ERIE AS THE PLACE OF TRIAL SITUS OF THE REAL PROPERTY SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS MORTGAGED PREMISES: 383 HOPKINS STREET BUFFALO, NY 14220 SECTION: 133.38 BLOCK: 5 LOT: 52 INDEX NO. 807326/2017 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, PLAINTIFF, VS. JOSEPH HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; AUDREY HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; MICHAEL HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JOANNA HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JOHN HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JEFFEREY HUNTZ A/K/A JEFF HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; MICHELLE SIMMONS, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; MARY E. DYSON; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; ‘’JOHN DOE #1’’ through ‘’JOHN DOE #12,’’ the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or

parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. To the above-named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $45,838.00 and interest, recorded on September 9, 2009, in Record Book 13464 at Page 1059, of the Public Records of ERIE County, New York, covering premises known as 383 HOPKINS STREET, BUFFALO, NY 14220. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. ERIE County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: August 15, 2017 Westbury, New York RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: IRINA DULARIDZE, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 -------------------------------------------------PUBLIC NOTICE: AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 164’) on the building at 100 High St, Buffalo, NY (20171027). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

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. ---------------------------------------------------NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Name of LLC: Blue Table Chocolates, LLC Date of Filing Articles of Organization with NY Dept of State: Aug 10, 2017. Office of the LLC: 345 W Ferry St., Buffalo, NY 14213. The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of process to the LLC at: 345 W Ferry St., Buffalo, NY 14213. Purpose of LLC: any lawful act or activity. -----------------------------------------------------NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Name of LLC: Fresh Fix, LLC Date of Filing Articles of Organization with NY Dept of State: March 22, 2016. Office of the LLC: 425 Richmond Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222. The NY Secretary of

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60 “How can ___ sure?” 61 PART 5 OF 5 67 Pie ___ mode 68 ___ the occasion (come through) 69 Microscopic particle 70 Vancouver clock setting (abbr.) 71 “Sophie’s Choice” novelist William 72 Baker’s amts.

DOWN 1 Back, on board 2 Actress Salonga

27 “Jeopardy!” creator Griffin 33 Org. for Bubba Watson 35 Cheesy lunch counter orders 36 Not suitable 37 Part of IVF 39 Front counterpart 40 Memory unit rarely seen in the singular form 41 Monogram ltr. 44 Cake, in Italian restaurants 48 “Zero stars”

3 Spitz relatives

49 Troubled

4 Sauna atmosphere

51 “Le Freak” disco group

28 Romania’s currency

5 Fleischer formerly of the White House press room

53 Summary 54 Counts’ counterparts

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6 Prepare to drag race

55 Have ___ (stop standing)

30 Hall of Fame umpire Bill

7 Lunch time, sometimes

56 Doomed one

31 ___ Arbor, Michigan

8 Detach, as from a chain

32 Hiatus

9 Robert who stepped down from “All Things Considered” in January 2018

57 British war vessel of WWII

22 Half, for openers 23 PART 2 OF 5

34 Q followers 38 Regulation, for short 39 PART 3 OF 5 42 An eighth of octo43 Impulsiveness 45 “The Fountainhead” author Rand

10 Dr. who focuses on the head 11 “Confessions of ___ Idol” (2009 VH1 series) 12 Physicist Enrico 13 Rudimentary

46 ___ “King” Cole

18 Is suitable

47 Honolulu’s island

19 Yorke and McAn, for two

50 Nervous twitch 52 Easter mo. in 2018

23 Adobe animation platform being phased out by 2020

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24 Designer Oscar de la ___

58 90∞ from north

25 “Les MisÈrables” author Victor

59 New Orleans Saints linebacker Manti ___

62 ___-80 (old Radio Shack computer) 63 DDE’s WWII arena 64 Took the gold 65 Alley-___ (basketball maneuver) 66 Apt. divisions LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

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