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NEWS COMMENTARY There are more data points, which we will get to. But we’ve been through this before. In 2001, when a full Environmental Impact Statement was prepared for the proposed convention center that the Buffalo Niagara Partnership insisted was absolutely necessary, the conclusion was pretty clear: Building the new convention center would cost $250 million, but the net economic impact of the new structure would be negative, and that we were better off keeping the old one.

HOW THE DECISION WILL BE MADE, ACTUALLY The numbers again: $500 million for 200 jobs. New York State taxpayers spent $750 million on the Tesla plant in South Buffalo, a plant that currently employs 600 at an average wage reported to be north of $60,000. Tesla has pledged to employ 1,400 within two years and 5,000 within five years. New York State spent the money, owns the building, and lets Tesla use it in return for employing local people in manufacturing in an area that has lost 45,000 manufacturing jobs since 1990. So the state had a specific goal (to bring back high-wage manufacturing jobs), a specific target (5,000 jobs within five years), and a yardstick: to create a $30 million annual payroll that would otherwise have been created someplace else. The total economic impact of that $30 million payroll would be anywhere from $60 million to $100 million, depending on a slough of factors that economists calculate using a generally accepted software package that addresses about 100 factors in what’s called “input-output analysis.” So if the state investment works out, then each of the 5,000 jobs will have cost $150,000 in 2017 dollars. If Tesla under-delivers, then each of the 1,000 jobs will have cost $750,000. And although the delivery and installation of solar roofing-tiles has been slow, the business press generally regards the Tesla plant in Buffalo as the real deal. But in the worst-case scenario, should Elon Musk and his firm have to move out, then New York taxpayers will still own a big building that some other high-tech manufacturer could use to build solar roofing-tiles, LEDs, and the other stuff that currently keeps 600 people making average wages of $60,000 apiece. The average wage in the hospitality industry, for example, in serving clients of the convention center, is currently under $12 an hour, and not full-time, and without benefits such as health insurance, pension, or sick leave.

THE $500 MILLION QUESTION BY BRUCE FISHER

WHAT ARE THE COSTS? WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL RETURNS? WHAT HAS CHANGED SINCE LAST WE TALKED ABOUT THIS?

If you believe that local elected officials are interested in making policy decision based on data, and not the way they usually make decisions (i.e., saying yes to the real-estate developers who give politicians here most of their most campaign money) then please read the report here, and pay particular attention to the following data points:

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The current convention center is a break-even operation thanks to the $1.7 million or so in Erie County bed tax revenue that covers the annual operating loss. The proposed new convention center would also lose money, with the loss subsidized by county revenues.

Poloncarz to add your voice to the conversation about whether Erie County should spend $500 million on a new convention center. Let’s hope that thousands of citizens rush to the public comment website where they can present their fact-based, wellreasoned analysis of the question: Should taxpayers spend $500 million on a proven economic loser? It’s not a loser because critics say so: Just read the consultants’ own report. Consultants hired by Erie County delivered their report last week, in which they insist—despite the numbers that they helpfully include—that spending between $480 and $520 million would create as many as 200 jobs, or $2.5 million per job. In the Buffalo metro area, there are around 550,000 people with jobs, so the 200 jobs would be an increase of a seasonal rounding error.

• National trends in attendance at conventions are inconsistent, with no growth for several years, but one out of five with professional meeting planners predict growth—mainly in training, education, and sales events. (That means that four out of five professional meeting planners do not predict growth.)

The consultants also calculate that the new $500 million building would have a net annual impact of an additional $34 million a year in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metro area’s $50 billion regional economy—an increase of just under seven-tenths of one percent.

• Only 14 percent of the reason why event planners don’t choose Buffalo, according to the report, is because the current convention center is too small. “Event planners indicate that overall destination appeal is the primary reason for not hosting at the BNCC for approximately 37 percent of lost events,” the consultants say. Further: “Ongoing improvements to downtown Buffalo and its tourism-related amenities and other destination improvements would improve Buffalo’s potential in the market.”

Revenue from operating a new convention center that is twice the size of the existing one would be approximately double today’s take, say the consultants, even though the new place would also operate at an annual loss of between $1 million and 2 million. But in order for the 200 new jobs (not at the convention center itself, but in the area) and the new money to happen, the hotel industry would have to increase by at least 1,000 the number of available beds in a market where today about 30 percent of hotel beds are empty. The consultants essentially state that there would be a huge (epic, unprecedented, fantastic) increase in the number of visitors to Buffalo who would come here expressly and specifically for the purpose of utilizing the new convention center. (It is not clear how many of the 200 jobs would come from an expansion of the hotel industry.)

• Just under half of the events “lost” by the current convention center are conventions, which are events held by and for outof-towners; the other events that don’t use the place are events of, by, and for local people: banquets, meetings, consumer shows, trade shows, sports events, and “other.” This means that more than half of the local events go to other venues, of which there is no shortage here.

• Let us return to that point this way: The proposed new convention center would be about twice as big as the current place, and the consultants project that the increase in available space would in itself stimulate demand for use of the space—even though the consultants state that most of the decision-making about whether to come to Buffalo is not based on the size of the convention center.

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But this is how capitalism seems to work now: Big industrial firms still get major subsidies for delivering tech jobs that pay decently. Old-style make-work subsidies for sports stadiums, convention centers, and amenity upgrades at public venues are very much the old way, the Old Normal in New York State, but there has been some recognition in Albany that New York has to compete with Sun Belt states that bribe industrial firms very, very effectively, so maybe the day of the Old Normal is done. The convention center question now before us is this: Will the Old Normal return?

FOCUSING ON THE NUMBERS New York State may well not be in any position to keep doing what it usually does, which is to send the Buffalo area about $1 billion more in state revenue than the Buffalo area sends to Albany—because of the Trump tax bill. That bill ended the deductibility of state and local income taxes, and changed the way Medicaid is reimbursed. And as Trump is still in office with a Republican majority in the House and in the Senate, some governmentalist nerds wonder if a potential federal government shutdown could be engineered to injure the Blue states, especially California and New York. Others wonder if the Republican majorities and the Republican President could wreak havoc with more changes before January, when, if it eventuates, a Blue Wave would be seated in Washington. Meanwhile, the discussion of the Buffalo convention center feels like a zombie reprise of the 1990s, when supine local politicians allowed us to be bullied into a long, expensive, distracting conversation about whether to replace what was then a 20-year-old convention center. Here is the most important number, then as now: zero. That is the chance that a new convention center—either at the Canalside site or on the block that currently houses some offices, some restaurants, a charter school, and a local performance artist’s Tuesday fried-dough enterprise—would not require a massive New York State subsidy. The consultant’s report has a most intriguing figure: local tax revenue from the proposed new convention center would be less than the annual operating deficit. In other words, the annual deficit today of between $1.5 million and $2 million is smoothed by using county revenues. The annual deficit of the new place would need the same subsidy—except in the first several years of operation, when the deficit is projected to be much greater than in the “normal” years down the road. Revenues from the larger operation, and from all the new hotel rooms, would top out at under $1.4 million.

WHAT WE HAVE NOW The existing convention center is busy over 200 days a year, mainly with events that serve the local market. The few actual large-scale meetings are mainly held there by New York State organizations

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THIS FEELS LIKE A ZOMBIE REPRISE OF THE 1990S, WHEN SUPINE LOCAL POLITICIANS ALLOWED US TO BE BULLIED INTO A LONG, EXPENSIVE, DISTRACTING CONVERSATION ABOUT WHETHER TO REPLACE WHAT WAS THEN A 20-YEAR-OLD CONVENTION CENTER. that rotate between Manhattan and Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, and Saratoga, all of which have big meeting spaces and amenities for visitors. The occasional national or international groups (always welcome!) are small and infrequent. Important growth in revenue in recent years has come from amateur sports. But there’s more. One of the proposed sites is next to Pegulaville, and the Pegulas have voiced a desire to have a new convention center next to their sports, hotel, working, and beer, donut, and fried-food complex. The argument is that Buffalo can’t be “competitive” without a new, bigger place, and that such a place should be next to the new icons of our Renaissance. A handful of huge destinations—New York City, Las Vegas, Orlando, Chicago, Los Angeles, and some amenity-rich places like Washington DC, Toronto, Montreal, Nashville, and San Francisco—get the big meetings. That’s where the actual conventions go, leaving medium-sized cities like Buffalo to scrape along with regional meetings of medical associations, statewide teachers’ unions, boat and car and home-repair shows, and a few bargain-hunting small-time affinity groups that can’t afford the Javits Center, McCormick Place, or the immense behavioral and bacteriological risks posed by Las Vegas professionals. So when the guy from the Buffalo-area automobile dealers’ association says that he wishes he had more space to show his cars during the annual two-week Auto Show, he’s saying that he wants Erie County taxpayers to take 100 years’ worth of all the money we currently invest in the Zoo, the Philharmonic, the Science Museum,

the Botanical Gardens, 19 theaters, and about 50 other cultural organizations that the County funds annually to make life here nice. Or we could just get the State of New York to buy him a virtual-reality headset for each of his hot prospects. Or we could pop some popcorn, and sit back, and wait for the usual rent-seekers (the economist term for people who bribe politicians in order to get public money) to trot out their fantastic promises, and then order drinks as the usual bobble-heads from academia and the private sector agree that Buffalo can only be “competitive” if we have a new convention center. Last fact: In 1996, two economists from the University of Pennsylvania predicted that Erie County’s population would be 909,000 in 2020. The Census estimates that Erie County’s population will be 925,000 in 2020. The Penn economists in 1996 didn’t estimate that approximately 20,000 refugees would accumulate in Buffalo over the past two decades; otherwise, their estimate of our population was spot-on. In all that time, we had a convention center. Our population in 1980, a couple of years after the convention center opened, was 1.01 million. In 2000, it was 949,494. It would seem that the existence or non-existence of the convention center would mean about the same. Bruce Fisher teaches at SUNY Buffalo State and is director of the Center for Economic and Policy Studies. His latest book, Where the Streets Are Paved With Rust: Essays From America’s Broken Heartland (The Public Books/ Foundling Press 2018) is available at Talking Leaves Books and at foundlingspress.com. P

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LOOKING BACKWARD: CURTISS & CO. EMPIRE MALT HOUSE, CIRCA 1860 The Empire Malt House, operated by Charles G. and Lyman L. Curtiss, was among the early brewing businesses of Buffalo. In this photograph taken in about 1860, malt house workers pose in the windows of the plant at the foot of Court Street. The malt house required the turning of malt by hand, a laborious process that yielded about 50,000 barrels per year. The company remained in existence at this site, adjacent to the Erie Canal, until 1888. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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NEWS LOCAL certified police department, and accordingly, it falls short on many of the standards that are required among certified departments, de-escalation chief among them,” said Steve Cohen, a civil rights attorney retained by Rivera’s family. Investigative Post reported in January 2017 that the Buffalo police is not accredited by an outside agency, despite a requirement to do so in the City Charter. At the urging of the Common Council, the department has started the accreditation process. In a series of community meetings conducted over the past month, citizens commonly requested that police officers act less aggressively, according to a report compiled by the Police Oversight Committee’s community advisory board. The report was made public earlier this week.

BUFFALO POLICE DE-ESCALATION TRAINING LACKING BY MARSHA MCLEOD policy requires that officers use de-escalation techniques like maintaining distance and taking cover, whenever possible.

THE BUFFALO POLICE Department’s use of force policy lacks “important provisions” and is “very weak” on the de-escalation of crisis situations, two national experts have told Investigative Post.

The shortcomings, first documented by Investigative Post two years ago, are again open to question following the fatal shooting of Rafael “Pito” Rivera, 32, by a police officer last week. Video tape shows Rivera was running away from police when he was shot three times, including once in the back. No gun is readily visible on Rivera in the video, although police maintain he was in possession of a handgun and posed a threat to officers. An Investigative Post review found the department’s use of force policy lacks clear directives on when and how officers should respond to tense situations with deescalation techniques. The policy directs officers to “use verbal techniques to achieve compliance” when a person displays a low level of resistance to police commands, but does not indicate that officers should use a form of de-escalation, such as verbal techniques, if they perceive a higher level of resistance. A police source confirmed that the direction to use verbal commands when officers perceive a low level of resistance represents the de-escalation component of the policy. He added that officers are taught a variety of deescalation tactics, but did not provide specific details about that training before deadline. “It was a very weak de-escalation policy,” said Samuel Sinyangwe, a racial justice activist and policy analyst who reviewed the Buffalo police policy as a part of a national project examining use of force policies. “For departments that have stronger deescalation policies, it’s clear that officers are required to de-escalate the situation whenever possible, not limited to a particular level of resistance,” he said. For instance, the Seattle police department’s use of force policy directs officers to “slow down or stabilize” a critical situation, if possible, and lists specific de-escalation techniques to consider, such as calling for crisis intervention officers or those equipped with less-lethal forms of force. In Portland, the police bureau’s use of force 6

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In 2016, Sinyangwe and the Use of Force Project team analyzed nearly 100 police departments’ use of force policies. They measured whether the policies included eight restrictions known to preserve citizen lives. Buffalo’s most recent use of force policy includes four of those. The policy includes best practice controls like prohibiting officers from shooting at moving vehicles and from firing what are known as warning shots. It also instructs officers to only use physical force when “no other viable option is available.” However, the policy does not include other controls, such as restricting the use of chokeholds or strangleholds, which can be deadly; requiring officers give a verbal warning before using deadly force; or ordering that officers intervene if they believe one of their own is using excessive force. In addition, the policy provides only one example of a deescalation tactic: verbal techniques. “While it has some very important provisions, it lacks equally important provisions,” Norm Stamper, former chief of the Seattle police department, told Investigative Post after reviewing the policy. “If Black lives matter to us, if human lives matter to us, we get real serious about how we [write policies], and so a mention of de-escalation, in passing, is wholly inadequate.” If department doesn’t explicitly detail its approach to de-escalation and provide specific provisions in policy, Stamper said he wonders if it may have been intentionally left vague. “The short answer is, based on my experience, yes,” he said. Many departments use policies to make general statements and provide more specific detail within procedural documents; a Freedom of Information Law request for Buffalo police procedures on use of force did not return any additional documents. In the last 18 months, three men of color have died during encounters with Buffalo police: Wardel “Meech” Davis, 20, in February 2017; Jose Hernandez-Rossy, 26, in May 2017; and now Rivera. Separate state Attorney General’s Office investigations into the deaths of Davis and Hernandez-Rossy recommended that the Buffalo police become accredited with the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, a process that would involve an external review of the department’s policies. “The Buffalo Police Department is not a

“I would say absolutely this is an issue that the police advisory board would want to look into, simply because de-escalation is critically important for a variety of different reasons and in lots of different spaces,” said Danielle Johnson, co-chair of the advisory board. Seth Stoughton, a former police officer and associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, said that while it can be a mistake to compare different departments’ policies to one another due to unique context, there are accepted best practices in policing, including de-escalation tactics like maintaining distance, cover, and concealment. “So it’s not just an agency isn’t living up to what some other agency is doing, it’s that the agency isn’t living up to the basic, minimum professional standard that all agencies are supposed to be meeting and that’s certainly worth criticizing,” Stoughton said. Stoughton told Investigative Post that any policy must be supported by strong training, agency culture, and supervision. Investigative Post reported in October 2016 that Buffalo police training on firearms and use of force was comprised of a two-hour annual session, in comparison to 11 ½ hours of training in Rochester. The training involved a multiple choice test and a review of Article 35, a state law which permits the use of deadly force if a person “reasonably believes” another presents a deadly threat or is committing one of several felony offenses. Considering the wide latitude of the state law, some see a gap between police shootings that may be legally justifiable, but morally questionable. “It is axiomatic in police work that if your life is under imminent threat, or the life of another is under imminent threat, that you are legally justified in using lethal force. We do a generally pretty good job of communicating that message—where we fail is in the moral implications of taking a human life,” said Stamper, the former Seattle police chief. Stamper emphasized that officers need “repetitive experiential training” to teach them how to accurately assess risks while experiencing fear and stress. “It is vital to understand that a police officer who is not in control of his or her emotions, who, for example, is not in touch with fear, and how that affects him or her, is a dangerous police officer,” he added. The Buffalo police source said that the department’s firearms and use of force training now totals around four hours annually, but is still largely classroom based. Around the country, many police departments require that officers practice deciding whether to use deadly force through simulated training exercises, often using what’s known as a shoot/ don’t shoot simulator. Buffalo police have previously said that they will begin training officers with a simulator once they move into their new headquarters, a process which began early last week. The police source said the department will have their training simulator ready for use by the first day P of 2019.

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PLAYING NOW: Improvisational comedy presented by CSz Buffalo every Friday and Saturday at 4476 Main St., Lower Level, Amherst, 393-8669, cszbuffalo.com. COMEDYSPORTZ:

CSZ AFTER HOURS: The late-night (9:30pm)

Saturday show by the improvisational crew CSz Buffalo runs a little more blue than the early show. Ongoing at 4476 Main St., Lower Level, Amherst, 393-8669, cszbuffalo.com. FAHRENHEIT 451: In which Subversive Theatre

Collective, as is their wont, employs the transportive power of science fiction to plunge its audience into an ice-cold reality bath. Their adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian classic runs through October 6 at the Manny Fried Theatre, 3rd floor, Great Arrow Building, 255 Great Arrow Avenue, 408-0499, subversivetheatre.org GOLDEN BOY: Clifford

Odets’s 1937 play about a talented violinist who instead pursues fame and fortune as a boxer. It’s a brilliant and tragic story, delivered in Odets’s signature language, raw and musical. Starring Anthony Alcocer, Cassie Cameron, Rolando Martín Gómez, David Autovino, and Arin Lee Dandes. Through October 7 at the Andrews Theatre, 625 Main Street, 853-4282, irishclassicaltheatre.com. PHILOSOPHUS: World premiere of Colin Speer

Crowley’s comedy in which Voltaire and a companion are on the run with a treasured notebook stolen from Frederick the Great, whose men are on their tail. Through October 6 at the Alleyway Theatre, One Curtain Up Alley, 852-2600, alleyway.com.

Philosophus runs through October 6 at Alleyway Theatre.

HENRY V: In which Prince Hal becomes a king, in

this production with World War I as a setting. THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW: The world premiere

of an adaptation of what is either the first or the sixth (depending on what edition you have) of C. S. Lewis’s The Narnia Chronicles. OF MARRIAGE AND MEN: Two shorts by Shaw on

the subject of marriage: How He Lied to Her Husband and The Man of Destiny. O’FLAHERTY, V.C.: The Irish and World War I—it’s

complicated. A lunch hour one-act. OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR: Also set in World War I,

a musical comedy about the business of war. THE ORCHARD (AFTER CHEKHOV): Imagine The

Cherry Orchard re-cast with a Punjabi Sikh family who are trying to protect their orchard in the Okanagan Valley. STAGE KISS: Exes in “real” life are cast as lovers

on stage in the comedy by Sarah Ruhl.

THE MUSICAL: Dress your children and yourself in pink for the return of this colorful kids’ musical, running through October 7 at Theatre of Youth, 884-4400, theatreofyouth.org.

At the Shaw Festival, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagaraon-the-Lake, ON 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES: The Tony Award-

AN IDEAL HUSBAND: Oscar Wilde’s comedy about

PINKALICIOUS:

winning 1982 musical, in which the “pump boys” who operate a honky-tonk and the “dinettes” who run a neighboring diner put on an evening of country and rockabilly songs. Directed by Chris Kelly, starring Jaclyn Lisenby Brown, Jayson Clark, Joseph Donohue III, Maria Droz, Ryan Kaminski, and Andrew J, Reimers. Through October 7 at MusicalFare Theatre, in residence at Daemen College, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, 839-8540, musicalfare.com. PURLIE: A musical based on the 1961

Ossie Davis play Purlie Victorious, about a preacher who returns to his Georgia hometown to save his church and free his people from Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee’s plantation. Through October 7 at the Paul Robeson Theatre, 350 Masten Avenue, 884-2013, aaccbuffalo.org. SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET: The Kavinoky Theatre’s production of

Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical is winning rave reviews. Starring Matt Witten as Sweeney Todd and Loraine O’Donnell as Mrs. Lovett, it runs through September 30 at the Kavinoky Theatre, 320 Porter Avenue, 829-7668, kavinokytheatre.com.

AT THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL: politics and blackmail.

BRONTE: THE WORLD WITHOUT: ”Three sisters live in poverty with their ailing father and dissolute, dying brother, jealously guarding the secrets of their disappointed hearts.” THE COMEDY OF ERRORS: Slapstick, mistaken

identity, ribald puns, in one of Shakespeare’s first comedies.

One of Shakespeare’s later, grimmer tragedies. CORIOLANUS:

JULIUS CAESAR: This is not the Shakespeare high

schoolers should be asked to read first. LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT: Really just about the opposite, in every imaginable way, of The Comedy of Errors. Eugene O’Neill at the absolute top of his game dramatizing the bottom. THE MUSIC MAN: And the pendulum (with a

capital “P” and that rhymes with…) swings again. Meredith Willson’s classic musical. PARADISE LOST: Inspired by Milton’s epic poem

about the struggle between good and evil. THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW: Dan Chameroy fills

Frank-N-Furter’s fishnets. Drinks before, during, after the show.

AT THE SHAW FESTIVAL:

THE TEMPEST: Ban, ban, Ca-caliban has a

THE BARONESS AND THE PIG: A Pygmalion-like tale,

new master.

but with a baroness instead of a patronizing professor.

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Christopher Sergel’s

stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel

GRAND HOTEL: Tony-award-winning musical

based on the 1932 film based on the 1929 novel, set in 1920s Berlin.

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ART REVIEW

Charles Burchfield, The Three Trees.

BURCHFIELD'S ARBORETUM BY JACK FORAN

AT THE BURCHFIELD-PENNEY, AN EXHIBIT OF THE NAMESAKE ARTIST’S PAINTINGS AND DRAWING OF TREES THE WORKS OF Charles Burchfield current exhibit at the

Burchfield Penney Art Center consists entirely of paintings and drawings of trees. The exhibit is in conjunction with renewed attention and commitment to the Buffalo State College campusextensive Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum, established in the early 1960s—original Burchfield gallery director Dr. Edna Lindemann was a prime mover in the establishment of the arboretum—but neglected in recent years due to a plethora of inimical conditions including “weather events, disease, insect infestations, construction projects,” etc. A sign in earnest of the renewed attention and commitment is a handsome and informative new map—two maps actually, geared to walking tours of the campus—pointing out and briefly describing arboretum features in the Rockwell Hall old campus area, and the west end rest of the campus. The feature artwork in the Burchfield exhibit is a large watercolor entitled The Three Trees, three towering American elms in an open field area beneath a dark canopy of what look like major storm clouds, but with rays of sunlight piercing through, creating a kind of open-air proscenium stage set to best show off the magnificent elms. The painting was virtually a life-long project for Burchfield. He started work on it in the early 1930s, but didn’t finish it until 1946. But the idea goes back to youthful memories of the three trees, which grew in Salem, Ohio, where the artist was born and grew up. Wall copy points out that by the time painting was finished, the actual three trees were destroyed as the result of a tornado and a construction project—much like the fate of so much of the Buffalo State arboretum in recent decades—and how over the same period the American elm species was decimated by Dutch Elm disease, a fungal infection spread by beetles. But with the help of the new map, it’s easy to find the single survivor American elm example on the Buffalo State campus. Located hard by Campus House—one of the original college buildings, formerly the college president’s residence—across 8

Iroquois Drive from Rockwell Hall. While directly in front of Rockwell Hall, flanking a central large English Oak, are two hybrid elms, trees genetically modified to be more resistant—if not entirely immune—to Dutch elm disease. Among other works on show, a series of sketches seeming to afford an addendum note on the much-remarked matter of Burchfield’s synesthesia, that is, basically, the ability to perceive the same phenomena via several senses. A semicircular array of trees, all of about the same size, in a small clearing in a woods. Among the artist’s handwritten notes to himself at the bottom of several of the sketches, one seeming to describe the particular configuration, in the particular setting, as a “wind harp.” Surely he meant what would be more properly called an Aeolian harp, a musical instrument played by the wind. A stand of trees—in a configuration a little like you might see organ pipes—that when struck by the wind resounded like the strings of an enormous string instrument. Like a harp perhaps, but not plucked like a harp, but struck, like a piano.

nature alike. Back in the gallery, in the little Burchfield Rotunda—adjoining the Burchfield exhibit rooms—amid photos and descriptive material on the creation of the campus arboretum—are some pictures of Charles Burchfield, shovel in hand, planting a little tree as part of the arboretum. The gallery exhibit, called Burchfield’s Arboretum, runs through P December 2.

Highlight listings on the arboretum map include three dawn redwoods in the area east of Ketchum Hall. The map descriptive copy calls the trees “living fossils,” noting that redwoods “grew in North America when dinosaurs still roamed.” And on the north side of Ketchum, three small cherry trees, one of which is dedicated to arboretum eponymous Maud Gordon Holmes and one to arboretum idea champion Edna Lindemann. Also— in several locations, west of Rockwell Hall, and west of Moot Hall—beautiful Japanese Zelkova. Beautiful in name and

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Charles Burchfield, Gnarled Tree.

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1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts (1045 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-2281855, photographics2.com/store/welcome-toour-studio-1045-gallery-store): Carlos Blanco Artero: BLANCO. On view through Sep 30. Thu & Fri 11-6, Sat 11-4 and by appointment. Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): The Swindle: Art Between Seeing and Believing, through Oct 2. Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, through Jan 6, 2019. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annakaplancontemporary.art): Reed Anderson: DayBreaker. On view through Oct 6. Wed-Fri 11am3pm or by appointment. Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207): Myths and Maxims, Caitlin Cass. On view through Sep 29. Sat 12-3pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Fred Fielding: New Pastel Paintings, on view through Oct 26. Opening reception Fri, Oct 5, 7:30-9pm. TueFri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): 27th Annual Juried Regional Artists Exhibition juried by Scott F. Propeack. On view through Sep 29. TueFri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo. com): Whimsy and Wonder, works on paper by Julie Lewitzky. On view through Nov 18. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Nest, an installation by Adam Weekley. Every day 4-10pm. ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery (148 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201, photolangelle.org): One World: Issues Across and Through Skins, photos from Buffalo to Africa by Johanna C. Dominguez. Tue-Fri 1:30-4:30pm, Fri 6-8pm, Sat 1-3pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Jozef Bajus, Gold Rush; Kurt Treeby Re-Model. Opening reception M&T Fourth Friday, Sep 28, 5-8pm, with artists talk at 6pm. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo Artspace Gallery (1219 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14209): ARTbreast Initiative 2018, Breast Cancer Awareness, through Sep 29th. Bidders Auction of remaining ARTbreasts, Fri, Sep 28, 7-10pm. Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint. com): Richard Angelo Runfola, Manifest Exploration. Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City & WWI, 100th Anniversary of America’s Entry into WWI, on second floor. Building Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings, in the Grosvenor Rare Book Room. Catalogue available for purchase. Mon-Sat 8:30am6pm, Sun 12-5pm. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Salvaged: The Stitched Narrative of Jennifer Regan, Ten Years In, BPAC retrospective, through Oct 28; Enough Killing, through Oct 28; The Complexity of Life, Jonathan Rogers, through Jan 27, 2019; Where the Streets Are Paved With Rust, illustrations from Bruce Fisher's book of the same titl, through Jan 27, 2019. Under Cover: objects with lids from the permanent collection, through Nov 12. M & T Second Friday event (second Friday of every month). Mon-Sat 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Caffeology Buffalo (23 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY, 14201): Detail Distilled, by Quincy Koczka. Canvas Salon & Gallery (9520 Main Street STE 400, Clarence, NY 14031, 716-320-5867): Casey Okonczak, through Sep 30. The Cass Project (500 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14204, thecassproject.org): Nous, by Fo-

tini Galanes, on view through Oct 26. Recent Acquisitions from the Gerald Mead Collection, through Oct 26. Opening reception, Thu Sep 27, 5-7:30pm. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Think Big: The Artists of Autism Services, through Jan 14, 2019. The Higner Maritime Collection: 25 Yerars of Shipbuilding, through Mar 17, 2019; Of Their Time: Hudson River School to Postwar Modernism, through Dec 31, 2019. Tue-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Fast, Cheap, and Easy: The Copy Art Revolution. Mon-Fri 9am5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Czurles-Nelson Gallery (Upton Hall, Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222): Bodies and Spaces: Marc Duquette, Sandy Bartz, and Brian Porter. On view through Sep 27. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com): Wed-Fri 10:30am5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm. Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com): Do Not Mistake Our Softness for Weakness, Shasti O’Leary Soudant, through Oct 19. Tue-Fri, 10am-4pm, or by appointment. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Chance Operator: Iris Kirkwood, Shawn Lewis on view through Sep 29. Wed-Sat 12-6pm Expo 68 (4545 Transit Road, Amherst, NY 14221, near JCP, Eastern Hills Mall): There Is Life Here: an immigrant’s story, works by Markenzy Julius Caesar. On view through Oct 4. Gallery hours: Tue-Fri 12-8pm, Sat 108pm, Sun 12-5pm. GO ART! (201 East Main Street, Batavia, NY 14020): The Traveling Ghost: a photographic exhibit featuring abandoned buildings found in Western New York on view through Nov 3. Thu-Fri 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Second Sun 11am-2pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Sculpture by Fabienne Lasserre. Tue-Fri 11am6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. The Harold L. Olmsted Gallery, Springville Center for the Arts (37 N. Buffalo Street, Springville, NY 14141, 716-592-9038). Wed & Fri, noon5pm, Thu noon-8pm, Sat 10am-3pm. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Indigo Celebrates 10 Years. Wed 12-6pm, Thu 127pm, 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): Lawrence Ross: Photographs From Near and Far. On view through Oct 30. Mon-Thu 5:30am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am-6pm. Jewish Community Center of Buffalo, Holland Family Building (787 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14209, 886-3172, Hours: jccbuffalo.org): Photography Caravan: Images of Jewish Buffalo, on view through Oct 31. Mon-Thu 5:30am10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am-6pm. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Kenan Center (433 Locust Street, Lockport NY 14094, kenancenter.org): Nature’s Microcosm, featuring work by Wendy Caldwell Maloney, Cindi O’Mara, and Paula Sciuk, guest curated by Gerald Mead. Through October 7. Mon-Fr 12-5pm, Sat & Sun 2-5pm. Main Street Gallery (515 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203): Online gallery: BSAonline.org. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts. com): Constance Payne: Hounds & Horses, on view through Oct 13. Tue-Sat 9:30-5:30pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 282-7530, 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.

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AN EVENING WITH AVIVA CHOMSKY THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27

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[TALK + BOOK SIGNING] Over the last 20 years, the earth has gained two billion more people, a rapid population boom that has strained the very notion of borders as people with the ill luck to be born in impoverished conditions and under the pressure of war, crime, or climate change (or all of the above) figure it’s worth risking their lives to leave, since staying is its own kind of death. Or as writer and scholar Aviva Chomsky explains it, “When most people are forced to leave their homes, they don’t want to leave their homes. The problems of immigration are the problems that force people to leave their homes.”

The immigrant crisis we’re facing in America isn’t particularly new, even with the rise of a nativist president in the White House. Forced child separations and a more aggressive enforcement apparatus strike many as barbaric, but state-sanctioned xenophobia is nothing new for America. of famed linguist, historian, and critic Noam Chomsky, is coming to the Trinity Episcopal Church on Thursday, September 27 to talk about immigration and labor: where we are now, where we’ve been, and where we’re going. Chomsky took the time to speak with us about her appearance. Why do you feel it’s important right now to take your show on the road and talk about immigration, or is this something you’ve always been doing?

I’ve been doing it about 10 years, ever since I published my first book on immigration and I think it’s always important. There’s specific aspects of what’s happening right now that make it a particularly important time to be talking about immigration, but a lot of what’s going on right now is just a continuity of what’s been going on for many years. I think that the antiimmigrant attitude and policies are not new to the Trump administration; certain things have gotten a lot worse, certain things are being expressed more openly now, but in fact a lot of the policies that we’re seeing really have their roots very deep in American history. Some of them have their roots in the Clinton administration; some of them have their roots in the Obama administration. Even though we’re seeing certain things sharpening under Trump, it’s not really new. Obama never engaged in open hate speech or openly racist commentary about immigrants the way Trump does, and yet Obama was the president that raised the deportation levels to historic heights, that they had never reached before. So if you want to talk about family separation, we associate that with Trump in the policies that he has implemented on the borders now, but Obama actually separated a lot more families. He just did it with a nicer smile.

just against illegal immigration.” We’re sort of in the midst of a shift here, where the concept of illegality is starting to fade and straight out antiimmigrant sentiment is growing, because some of the policies that Trump is putting into place have actually been illegalizing people who formerly had legal status, and that’s happening in all kinds of different ways. Instead of just going after people who are technically illegal, he’s actually trying to make a lot more people technically illegal. Immigration law is exceedingly complex, and there’s hundreds of different statuses, and statuses can change frequently, so the idea that some people are legal and some people are illegal is just nonsensical. Locally, we’ve been following the case of Carlos Cardona, a dairy worker from Guatemala who has been in Western New York for 10 years and is likely facing deportation for speeding. Under prior administrations, this kind of offense would have been administratively closed, and now that avenue itself is closed.

A lot of people in cases like the one you’ve been describing, their cases weren’t completely administratively closed what they were granted what was known as a stay of removal. Which is a temporary legal status, but they have to check in with ICE—they’re under ICE monitoring, so they have to check in with ICE every year. Those stays of removal, they’re tenuous and temporary, but under the Obama administration they were pretty routinely just renewed every time a person went to check in. This is definitely something that it’s changed: A lot of people have these stays of removal are finding now that when they go in for their annual check-in, they’re put immediately into deportation proceedings. Is there anyone in mainstream politics we can look to currently who gets it?

So what’s different about now?

There’s a couple things that are different about now. I feel like in the last maybe 50 years or so, the concept of illegality has been used a lot with immigrants so that you can hear a lot of people say the kind of phrase that you hear again and again: “Well, I’m not against immigration, I’m

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I don’t think there’s any politician that we could put our faith in. I think there’s many grassroots organizations that are working on these issues from a moral and ethical stance. But the job of a politician is to get elected and make compromises. So I don’t think we’re going to find the answers in a politician. -AARON LOWINGER

STEPHEN “ESPO” POWERS: EMOTIONAL WAYFINDING THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27 7PM / ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY, 1285 ELMWOOD AVE / FREE [ARTIST’S TALK] For the last several months, there have been signs—

along the highways and byways, in the interstices. What these signs portend will be the subject of a conversation this Thursday, September 28 at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, between the creator of the signs, Stephen “ESPO” Powers and Zack Boehler, coordinator of the gallery’s public arts projects. The Powers project is called Emotional

Wayfinding and comprises more than 100 signs—handprinted and screen-printed, some occupying billboards and some as small as street

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[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Think of it like a modern, electro version of what Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band pulled off 40+ years ago during the disco era. Portland's Sepiatonic takes a similar approach by marrying a current dance floor pulse to vaudevillian theatrics, complete with brass blasts and swinging time signatures—voila, a sound is born! Add some choreography and, well, you've got quite a spectacle. A trio at the core, Sepiatonic apparently operates like a collective, the size of the troupe varying depending on the needs of a given gig. With belly dancer and burlesque artist Karolina Lux as their producer, the soundtrack reaches into other territories to keep things fresh, melding together elements of klezmer, New Orleans brass, hip-hop, and electronica, resulting in a sonic smorgasbord that's a refreshing good time. Treat yourself, tonight, Wednesday, September 26 at the new Rec Room on Chippewa. -CJT

Neko Case 7pm Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave. $32.50-$35

[INDIE] “Just when you think the rage has cooled in your veins, there’s a brand new flavor that fucking beats your head against the wall every day,” singer-songwriter Neko Case told Pitchfork senior editor Jillian Mapes in an interview earlier this year. Case, who'll perform at Babeville's Asbury Hall on Wednesday, September 26, was reminiscing about the various trials she'd endured leading up to and during the making of her latest, Hell On (ANTI-), not the least of which was finding out that her Vermont farmhouse had burned down while she was in Sweden, recording with Peter Björn and John's Björn Yttling producing. The fire was born of natural causes, which has allowed Case—who's technically homeless for a spell—a reason to write it off. Seeing her experience as sandwiched between other, more colossal disasters (flooding in Puerto Rico, wildfires in California) has helped quell her anger and loss, but despite the hard luck circumstance, Hell On isn't at all mired in selfpity. It may indeed be a more prickly set than its predecessor, 2013's The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, but the issues she wrestles with therein speak to us all, throwing shade at a world in which women remain shafted by a patriarchal system while spirituality and romance repeatedly come up short. At a time when many feel disenfranchised and unable to advocate for their own needs, Case lends her engaging, gorgeous pipes and oddball musical instincts to the debate about how we landed in this precarious spot, subtly taking the blame off of our universal shortcomings and placing it back on a system that's destined to fail. Thao Nguyen, of Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, will open. -CJT

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27 Slaughter Beach, Dog 7pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $12

[INDIE] Indie-emo band, Slaughter Beach, Dog comes to Mohawk Place on Thursday, September 27. The project comes from Modern Baseball guitarist and vocalist Jake Ewald, who launched the side-projectturned-main-project in 2015. After an indefinite hiatus from Modern Baseball, the Philadelphia-based musician’s solo project became his main passion—through which he farms the emo-rock sound that he established with Modern Baseball while reeling it back to a more essential sound. Slaughter Beach, Dog will be joined by fellow Philladelphians Gladie and Buffalo’s Ugly Sun for this show, presented by After Dark. -CP

signs—scattered throughout Western New York, their subject matter gleaned from conversations with Western New Yorkers. Powers began his career as a graffiti artist, first in his native Philadelphia and then in New York City, where, after an arrest in 1999, he transitioned into becoming a full-time studio artist. Except, of course, that much of his work—certainly including this project commissioned by the AlbrightKnox, which is anything but studio-based—is created in, is exhibited in, and becomes part of, at least for a time, the public thoroughfare. Learn more about this subtle and ubiquitous body of work, then keep your eyes open: The signs are everywhere. -GEOFF KELLY 12 THE PUBLIC / SEPTEMBER 26 - OCTOBER 2, 2018 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM

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CHRIS D'ELIA THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27 7:30PM / UB CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 103 CENTER FOR THE ARTS / $26-$42 [COMEDY] Comedian Chris D’Elia has been on a few major TV shows, including Whitney and the

Good Doctor, but his standup act is where he shines. Though he’s not necessarily a household name, 38-year-old comedian steps up onto the stage with a rock-star attitude. His confidence borders on cockiness, which makes his exaggerated facial contortions, outlandish stage movements, and ridiculous voices that much funnier. His vibe is kind of like an off-duty porn-star with a hangover, but his comedy style is obviously influenced by some of the greats, and he demonstrates the stamina and talent to go all in on each joke. If you’re new to D’Elia, check out his latest special, Man on Fire, which was released by Netflix in June, then catch then the LA-based comedian at the UB Center for the Arts on Thursday, September 27. -CORY PERLA

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1PM / ADAM’S MARK HOTEL, 120 CHURCH ST. / $45 [DRINK] Earlier this year, Bobby Finan helped launch a whiskey festival in Buffalo. It was a success,

despite a cease-and-desist letter from another popular whiskey festival with a similar name—so much so that his team, which includes his sister Margaret, who works on the festival full-time, and event organizers Step Out Buffalo, has decided to do it again less than a year later. This time the festival has been re-branded—it’s now called Whiskey Riot Festival—and it takes place not just in Buffalo but in Rochester and Albany, too, with the goal of moving into even more cities next year. Finan is founder and head distiller at Tommyrotter Distillery, a Buffalo-based distillery which opened in 2015. The brand is known mostly for their award-winning American Gin, but they’re now trying to break into the world of whiskey and are hoping that their new Whiskey Riot Festival will be their jumping-off point. If you’re here in Buffalo, you can head to Whiskey Riot Festival at the Adam’s Mark Hotel, where they’ll be holding two sessions—1-4pm and 6-9pm— on Saturday, September 29. But if you’re planning to go, here’s a word to the wise: Buy tickets ahead of time, even if it’s the day of the festival, because due to regulations, they can’t sell tickets at the door. Finan is founder and head distiller at Tommyrotter Distillery, a Buffalo-based distillery which opened in 2015. The brand is known mostly for their award-winning American Gin, but they’re now trying to break into the world of whiskey and are hoping that their new Whiskey Riot Festival will be their jumping-off point -CORY PERLA

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EVENTS CALENDAR How to: Friend, Love, Freefall, is a sort of survival guide for adjusting

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to the pressures of adulting from the perspective of creative people, and

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it contains the single, “Hide,” written by frontman Sam Melo about the

Steel Panther

realization of his homosexuality. Melo wrote the song in 2015, but it took

8pm Rapids Theatre, 1711 Main St. $25-$30

a while before he was ready to show it to his bandmates. Now fully out

[METAL] Steel Panther registers somewhere between Def Leppard and Spinal Tap. With song titles like “Gloryhole” and “It Won’t Suck Itself,” you really have to have a certain type of sense of humor for this one, and if you’re not already deeply into 1980s hair metal, this might not be for you. But if it sounds like it is, then catch Steel Panther at the Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls on Friday, September 28. -CP

of the closet, Melo let director Kyle Thrash take the video for “Hide” in a direction that goes beyond his own personal experience—the resulting clip is a moving mini-documentary about four drag queens living in New Orleans. Turning our cultural celebration of queer via shows like Ru Paul’s

Drag Race and Queer Eye on its head, Thrash’s video is a reminder that for many people, being their true selves is still a huge struggle. But as an album,

How to: Friend, Love, Freefall is more than merely a coming-out party for Melo. Rather, it’s a genre-be-damned melting pot of indie pop with sizable

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29 Black Rock Oktoberfest 3pm Various Locations,

[OKTOBERFEST] That first crisp is in the air can only mean one thing: It’s finally time to gear up for the many holidays ahead and honor the ancient, harvest-time Bavarian tradition of drinking large quantities of beer. Preferably outside, in a tent. Or on a bus. The Black Rock Oktoberfest is your chance to get ahead of the curve on the whole bit, kicking off with a keg tapping ceremony at Artisan Kitchen and Bath Design at 200 Amherst at 3pm. The party then spills onto the free shuttle bus, ferrying you and your merry gang throughout the mix of old and new and that is Black Rock; from Hot Mama’s Canteen to the Croatian Club out by the precipice of Tonawanda, and back again to Rohall’s Corner in fist-shaking distance of Wegman’s. Beer by the liter, chilled Jaegermeister, and music throughout the route. Prost! -TPS

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helpings of acoustic soul and hip-hop for instantly recognizable influences. The song forms are unusual, the timing shifts around, and Melo’s whimsical vocalizations take some getting used to. The good news is that you won’t be mistaking them for anyone else, and that goes for the sound as well as the name. Catch RKS at Town Ballroom on Monday, October 1.

7PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $22.50-$89 [INDIE] Remember the other folks you met your freshman year of college,

the ones who lived on the same dormitory hall as you? Maybe you still know some of them—and that’s essentially how the guys in North Carolinabased Rainbow Kitten Surprise originally met. If the name is jarring to you, you’re not alone. But as someone pointed out to me maybe a year ago as I balked at it, it’s search engine gold: There’s no risk of having something else come up when you Google them. The name isn’t the only trick up the quintet’s collective sleeve, either. Their third album and debut for Elektra,

Opener Caroline Rose is touring in support of Loner (New West). Rose’s earlier pair of releases showed off a passing fancy for retro-rockabilly as an occasional ingredient in her otherwise country-folk aesthetic, but Loner turns up the volume significantly, allowing Rose’s edgier anti-heroine alter ego to take the wheel. The results are unforgettably sassy and fun: Check out the series of videos for “Bikini,” “Money,” and “Soul No.5” for a better idea. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

Early in his career, he collaborated with Donovan, sang with the Beatles, and helped Joni Mitchell develop her guitar style. He hung out with

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the guys in Traffic and was cast in Jesus Christ Superstar, though he turned down the role. It was enough to keep him signed to major labels

Borgore 8pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $25-$30

and maintaining a busy performance schedule, but Phillips became

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Where does one start with Borgore? His tracks are ridiculous, his image is over-the top, and his sound is humungous. He’s outrageous by any metric, but that’s why his fans love him. The 30-yearold DJ and producer is a huge name in the dubstep scene, but he prefers to refer to his music as “Gorestep” due to its over the top heavy metal and horror movie influences. The Israeli musician has released handfuls of records on his own label, Buygore, as well as Steve Aoki’s dance music label Dim Mak Records and has collaborated with everyone from Miley Cyrus to Gucci Mane. Catch Borgore at the Town Ballroom on Saturday, September 29 with support from GG Magree and Brenda, presented by MNM Presents. -CP

increasingly reclusive, shacking up in Italy and, later, South Africa. He’s

Amy Helm 9pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $25

[AMERICANA] Folk artist Amy Helm comes to Buffalo Iron Works on Saturday, September 29. The Yep Roc Records artist released her latest album, This Too Shall Light on September 21, which was produced by Grammy-winning producer Joe Henry. The Woodstock, New York-based artist released the 10-song record which features originals and covers, such as Rod Stewart’s “Mandolin Wind,” all painted with the artist’s distinct Americana style. -CP

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 30 Martin Barre Band 4pm Sportsmen’s Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $35-$40

[ROCK] The way the story goes, Martin Barre's original audition for Jethro Tull didn't go well—he was too nervous to play. But a second audition was furnished at his request, and Barre then spent the 1968 holiday season learning guitar parts for Tull's classic Stand Up album, which got recorded the following spring. Barre's tenure as Tull's guitarist extended until the band's (supposed) dissolution a few years ago and also included contributed bits of mandolin and flute playing. Over the years, he also became a key co-writer with frontman Ian Anderson, his contribution to the band's trademark neo-classical arrangements reaching a pinnacle with Songs from the Wood (1977) and Heavy Horses (1978), and again on 1987's Crest of a Knave. During the 1990's, he launched the solo career that brings him to

remained a cult figure in music for 50 years. When asked about this more recently, he attributed his lack of household recognition to a lifelong disinterest in fame. The money would have been useful, he admitted, but none of the record labels that released his music (Columbia, A&M, RCA and Capitol among them) were consistent in their promotional efforts. It’s not a new story: Phillips is in good company, and many talented folks never break through. The corner of art and commerce is often crowded

SHAWN PHILLIPS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3

by prostitutes, clamoring for a slice of pie while the artists give up and go find a quiet place to get some work done. Over 25 albums later, Phillips is enjoying a bit of late-career buzz on account of Continuance, his most

7PM / TRALF MUSIC HALL, 622 MAIN ST. / $20 [ROCK] Bay area promoter extraordinaire Billy Graham called Shawn

Phillips the “best kept secret in the music business.” It’s a fitting description, given that Phillips, now 75, is a gifted Texas-born troubadour who, despite numerous brushes with fame, never really broke through.

recent disc, released last year, which brings him to the Tralf Music Hall on Wednesday, October 3. It’s a socially conscious set of tunes for our times, and this is quite possibly the last proper tour that he’ll do, so don’t miss out. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

Sportsmen's Tavern on Sunday, September 30. In the wake of Tull's potentially permanent hiatus, Barre has released a live album and a pair of recent studio recordings, 2014's Order of Play and the blues-focused Back to Steel the following year. -CJT

self-titled record. Hailing from Isla Vista, California by way of Hawaii, the band comes to Buffalo for a show at the Town Ballroom on Sunday, September 30 with support from Common Kings and Katastro. -TPS

Melodime

MONDAY OCTOBER 1

7pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $12-$14

[COUNTRY] Country-rock band Melodime comes to Babeville’s 9th Ward on Sunday, September 30. The four-piece band from Virgina make lush country rock music with all of the fixings, from organ to mandolin and the rustic-pop vocals of vocalist Brad Rhodes. Buffalo's Lonestar Sailing opens the show. -TPS

Iration 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $22-$99

[ROCK] Rock band Iration comes with a whole bunch of influences, from jam to reggae, to alternative rock, and pop. Six albums deep, the band is still in touch with their spiritual side either, never taking for granted the healing effects of the universal art form, which is evidenced on the band’s latest

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Our Damaged Democracy: Can We Fix It? 6pm Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site, 641 Delaware Avenue Free

[PANEL DISCUSSION] The country’s current dysfunction has been decades in the making. How bad is it? What can we the people do? The League of Women Voters of Buffalo/Niagara will explore this important topic in a panel discussion titled Our Damaged Democracy: Can We Fix It? The free program, nspired by Joseph A. Califano Jr.’s recent book, Our Damaged Democracy: We the People Must Act, will take place on Monday, October 1, at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site. The panelists are three political science professors: James Campbell of UB, Peter Yacobucci of Canisius College, and Jamie Pimlott of Niagara University. -TPS

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3 The Fever 333 7pm Rec Room, 79 W. Chippewa St. $13.33

[HARDCORE] Members of Letlive, The Charoit, and Night Verses come together to form the relatively new band, The Fever 333. Based out of Inglewood, California, the hardcore punk band formed in 2017 and earlier this year released their first material in their EP, Made An America, a heavy, subversive, hardcore record. The Fever 333 comes to the Rec Room on Wednesday, October 3. -TPS

Girl With No Job 7:30pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $25

[COMEDY] Is Girl With No Job the first comedian to break into the industry through Instagram? Maybe. The 24-yearold comedian, real name Claudia Oshry does most of her best work on social media platform, on which she has amassed millions of followers. Does it translate to the live stage? Find out when she comes to Helium Comedy Club on Wednesday, October 3 for P two shows. -TPS

SPOTLIGHT MUSIC to even touch the record. Now I’m so much more comfortable with it and beatmatching has become more natural. To me that’s the biggest hurdle. What inspired you to learn to DJ?

I’ve been involved with the dance music scene for 10 years. During that time I’ve always been a dancer, but I’ve also been standing behind the booth watching my friends DJ. There’s something therapeutic, it seemed. I like the idea of taking tracks that I love and putting them together in a cool way so maybe other people can love them too. So many DJs have really saved me and I thought maybe I had some tracks that could really help someone else. And it’s fun. There’s something thrilling and exciting about mixing music together. Even when I’m home alone, it’s my form of therapy. When you say it’s helped you and it’s a form of therapy, what do you mean?

Sherri Miller (left) and Alicia Greco.

WALKING & FALLING BY CORY PERLA THERE’S A STACKED weekend of events coming

up here in Buffalo for women and non-binary folks who are trying to break into the electronic dance music scene. The weekend, sponsored by Block Club and organized by Sherri Miller and Alicia Greco, will feature a workshop, a latenight party at the Underground, and an outside daytime party The centerpiece of the weekend for Miller, a Buffalo resident, and Greco, a Buffalo ex-pat, is the Walking & Falling DJ Workshop and Mentor Program, which both artists have attended in Chicago and decided to bring to Buffalo. The Walking & Falling workshop, which takes place on Saturday, September 29 from 1pm until 5pm, will be specifically geared toward women and non-binary folks. A select few participants will receive a mentorship-like experience with direct one on one support and instruction from a group of women and non-binary artists including Greco, Miller, Lydia Wrobel, and Abbey Madigan Morejon, during which the participants will learn basic turntable, CDJ, and laptop DJing skills as well as beat matching and mixing basics. Then the group will hold a freeto-the-public DJ workshop for women and nonbinary folks who are interested in learning the basics of DJing and networking with local artists. The workshop will also include a panel discussion with the Walking and Falling mentors. Then, that night, Greco and company will host a party at the Underground Niteclub featuring techno and house artists from New York City, Chicago, and Buffalo including Akua, Kiddo, and Mutalism. The party is presented by Daisychain, the podcast run by Greco that focuses on women and non-binary DJs. Finally, on Sunday, September 30, there’ll be an outdoor, daytime party held at Georgette (69 Elmwood Avenue), featuring many of the mentors and other artists, spinning music from 1pm until 7pm. Greco, who grew up in Syracuse, went to school in Buffalo, and now lives in Chicago, took some time this week to talk to us about the workshop, what inspired her to dive into the sometimes overwhelming world of DJing, and how electronic music has helped her heal.

What led you to Walking & Falling?

In March 2017, Sassmouth, Sam Kern, who DJs in Chicago, invited me to be her mentee for Walking & Falling Chicago. I stayed with Sam for the whole week, did one-on-one lessons with her and with DJ Kiddo. I learned how to beatmatch—and learned not just the basics of DJing, but they brought this really empowering community into my life. At the time I had really bad self-esteem and self-confidence and had wanted to learn to DJ, but couldn’t quite find the right environment to make that happen because it definitely is a bit male dominated— there are a lot of women doing important things, but it can be ridden with gatekeeping and general bad energy when trying to learn. But I formed really amazing relationships and came back to Buffalo with this insane boost of confidence and had all of these ideas of things I wanted to do. I ultimately decided to move to Chicago because the workshop changed my life so much and now I’m here. How does it feel bringing this thing to Buffalo now?

It feels awesome. It feels really exciting. The weekend wouldn’t be possible without Sherri. She is so full of amazing ideas, passion, and we’re on the same wavelength. I’m very lucky to know her and Buffalo is so lucky to have her. For me, it feels like a return to the source. I care so much about the City of Buffalo and the scene there. I didn’t leave with any sort of bad taste in my mouth. I see a lot of women and queer people that are out at parties and dancing, but maybe they want to learn, maybe they want to create, maybe they want to throw parties too. There are women that are DJing and throwing parties that have the knowledge and can spread that on to other people. Talk a little bit more about the other folks involved in these events you’re doing here in Buffalo.

Myself and Sherri Miller are the two people who are really organizing things. The other mentors include Lydia Wrobel, and Abbey Madigan Morejon. We’re the four mentors and

we each have people who we are mentoring. We’ll do one-on-one lessons with them on Friday. Then Saturday is when the workshop happens and that’s going to open up to the public, so people can come, observe, get their hands on records, get their hands on CDJs, and get some pointers and tips from Sassmouth, Kiddo, and Jenny Arcade. Then there will be a panel discussion during which we’ll talk about the trials, tribulations, and triumphs in dance music. You’ve kind of touched on this, but why do you think it’s important to have an event specifically geared toward women and non-binary folks?

Women and queer people can have a difficult time hedging their way through and it can be a little disjointed trying to create that space. I think it’s important to have things like this because there’s very much an energy that is necessary—not to say that men don’t have this energy, because I have met many amazing men that are very much on the same page, but having that central focus allows for a certain level of comfort for people to really be open to learning and making mistakes. Walking & Falling actually comes from this Laurie Anderson track. The lyrics are basically talking about how you can both be walking and falling at the same time and as you’re going forward you’re also falling, you’re also making mistakes, you’re catching yourself from falling, and continuing to keep walking. The whole process of the workshop encourages making mistakes, learning from your mistakes, and not getting too caught up along the way. What are the biggest challenges folks face when learning these skills?

Nerves. It’s nerve-wracking. You’re definitely making yourself vulnerable by DJing. Whenever you learn something new, it’s opening yourself up to the process of making a mistake. It’s important to have that space where you’re being welcomed to learn. I think that’s the biggest challenge. I still have that challenge. When I first started at the workshop I was afraid

I’ve had a few mixes released, and for some of them I’ve had a very specific concept in mind when I do it. One that I could mention is the mix I did for Walking & Falling. I used to have really bad panic disorder. Like debilitating panic. Walking & Falling helped me break out of that cycle. So I felt like, with my mix, I wanted to tell that story through a sonic narrative. With my track selection and the way that I mixed things, I tapped into that pain that I experienced for so long, and I almost worked through it while I was DJing. I’ll listen back through it and it’s wild to me that I can hear myself healing while I’m mixing. Maybe that’s waxing poetic, but for me, that’s just want it does. Everyone’s experience is so personal and different and that’s also the beauty of it. Tell me about Daisychain.

Daisychain was an idea I had while living in Buffalo. I wanted to get some women, and non-binary, and queer folks together and kind of form our own coalition. Then I moved and I turned it into a podcast. I started the podcast in January. It’s been a weekly podcast; every Tuesday we have a guest mix from a woman or non-binary person. So far they’ve all been either friends of mine or DJs who have had a very strong impact with me. It’s been so rewarding. It’s become more than I could have hoped for. Tell me about the event on Saturday.

Saturday will be kind of the first official Daisychain party. I really wanted Sherri to open the night because she’s such an important person in my life and to the whole process and this whole weekend. She’s been working so hard and does so much, I knew she’d be perfect for it. Kiddo will be playing also. She’s one of my mentors. She DJs really killer techno. Then Akua, she’s from New York City, where she does a lot of awesome things. Then the weekend wraps up on Sunday with a daytime party at Georgette.

Yes. Basically I thought to call it Gratitude during a Western New York party weekend. Sherri and I were at the Signal > Noise / Sole Rehab party the day after Strange Allure and I was just feeling really overwhelmed with love for my friends and what this music does for us. Sherri found the space, which looks so amazing and cute. It will be family friendly, held outside in the garden and we’ll move inside if it rains. What’s in the future for you?

I plan to work with even more women and nonbinary folks to have more Daisychain parties in other cities to further expand and connect this P supportive and encouraging community.

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FILM REVIEW

FEST FAVORITES:

Pet Names.

Jim Cummings and Kendall Farr in Thunder Road.

Mexman.

BUFFALO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: 20 FILMS $40 BY M. FAUST REMEMBER THAT LOUSY movie you saw a little while ago? The

quantity. But while I can’t guarantee that you’re going to love

one where you left the multiplex grumbling that all the good

every movie that you see at BIFF, the odds are much better than

stuff was in the trailer? What did that ticket cost you—$10, $12

if you go to see 20 other random movies. BIFF’s programmers

bucks? (God forbid it was in 3D and IMAX.) Do you remember

have worked to secure the most interesting films from other film

how ripped off you felt, Bunky?

festivals, along with a selection of locally connected premieres,

Boy, have I got a deal for you! How does 20 movies for $39.99 sound? Maybe even more than 20 if you plan your time right. Is there a catch? Well, of course there’s a catch. You have to see them all next weekend, at the 12th edition of the Buffalo International Film Festival. Bear in mind that it’s a long weekend, so you have from noon Friday until midnight-ish Monday. If you just plant yourself at the North Park, you can catch five movies

and they’ve been doing a first-rate job of it for enough years now that you should feel safe in devoting at least a part of next weekend to checking what they have to offer. Should you find yourself at a movie that really isn’t to your liking, there’s no reason to sit through it just because you really want to see the one that’s showing next. I started to take a count of how many places there are to eat and/or drink on Hertel Avenue within easy walking distance of the North Park, but I ran out

per day. If you want to up your total by seeing how many you can

of fingers and toes. Your biggest problem won’t be finding

squeeze in if you hustle between there and Hallwalls, Squeaky

something to do: It will be making sure you get back in time for

Wheel, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center, well, there’s just

the next movie.

no telling how hard you can squeeze that festival pass (which is only available until noon on Friday, October 5, opening day). Even if you only see one movie per day, you’re ahead of the game. Of course, movies are one of those things where quality trumps

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WHERE THE STREETS ARE PAVED WITH RUST Essays by Bruce Fisher about Rust Belt economies, environments, and politics. Ben Dickey and Alia Shawkat in Blaze.

EVER LASTING BLAZE BY BUCK QUIGLEY THE CHANCES THAT you know the legend

of Blaze Foley are slim. He never attained the widespread fame he truly deserved as a great songwriter. He died, tragically, in 1989 at the age of 39 from a gunshot to the gut delivered by the son of a friend. Still, one thing is certain: Actor-director Ethan Hawke’s portrait of him in the new film Blaze will increase Foley’s audience considerably because of its touching, intimate tone and because his story is so intriguing. We see the stumbles of an artist pursuing his muse, picking tunes out of the air while living a chill, bohemian lifestyle in a tree house with Sybil Rosen—whose memoir, Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley was the basis for the screenplay she co-wrote with Hawke. Alia Shawkat of Arrested Development portrays Rosen with great tenderness and toughness. We also see the drunken, belligerent Foley pounding on the drums, eating up valuable studio time while ranting about Cesar Chavez with an equally hopped-up Townes Van Zandt (played with convincing coolness by musician-actor Charlie Sexton) until the sober, exasperated record producer steps away from the mixing board and charges into the studio brandishing a baseball bat. Lead actor Ben Dickey brings Foley to life with a profound and moving performance, right down to the limp he carried throughout his life due to a bout with polio he contracted as an infant. His versions of Foley’s songs are delicate and warm, and his hillbilly drawl adds charm to all the witticisms and profound observations of his character. As its anchor, the film circles back to a storied performance Foley gave at the Austin Outhouse immediately before his death. (The Outhouse, I can tell you from personal experience, was not the most prestigious venue in Austin. I believe my band split $40 five ways at the end of one gig there in the early 1990s.) But it was there that Foley recorded the fourtrack Blaze Foley: Live at the Austin Outhouse— which stands as about the only example of the artist singing the songs he wrote. Early in the film, he delivers a monologue from the stage, musing on the nature of songs, and how they exist like stars or like babies, suddenly there, where before there was nothing. This is shortly before he steps off stage to confront a loudmouth talking on the bar pay phone as he’s trying to record.

The film is also an exploration of the nature of fame. Foley, who was born Michael David Fuller in Malvern, Arkansas, went through a couple of possible stage names before settling on Blaze, a more incendiary version of famous country singer Red Foley’s moniker. His ambition may have been sabotaged by the kind of drunken and erratic behavior that made him a pariah to club owners, and an increasing pain in the ass to Rosen. While out on the road playing rinky-dink honkytonks with all the distractions and trivial temptations that lifestyle entails, he found himself a million miles away from the idyllic tree house where their love took root. The path toward fame can be a cold and lonely one, probably not well suited to a fiercely talented but painfully insecure artist with a drinking problem. In one scene, Foley has hitchhiked with Rosen to meet his sister at the facility where his alcoholic father (played with profound grace by Kris Kristofferson) is housed with dementia. As Foley and his sister sing him a gospel hymn, his father’s face is flooded with bittersweet memories of a past he threw away in favor of the cheap wine he would drink in the parking lots of various churches as his wife and children sang to the congregation in order to put food on the table. “I don’t want to be a star. I wants to be a legend,” Foley confides to Rosen, early in the film. “Stars burn out because they shine for themselves. Legends last forever. Legends stand for something—something that matters.” Foley’s greatest professional success during his lifetime was with his song “If I Could Only Fly,” which was covered as a duet by Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, and again by Haggard as the title track to his 2000 album of the same name. Now, nearly 30 years after his death, Foley’s star is shining more brightly and his legend is continuing to grow thanks to Blaze. The film opens on Friday at the Amherst Theater. There will be a special preview screening on Wednesday (9/26) at 7pm with an introduction by Hamburg, NY born singer/ songwriter/producer Gurf Morlix, a longtime friend of Foley who appears in the film and has done much to burnish his legend, including releasing a fine collection of his songs in 2011 P entitled Blaze Foley’s 113th Wet Dream.

The financial decline of the middle class is the issue of our time. Bruce Fisher’s Where The Streets Are Paved With Rust is a must read for anyone seriously

trying to understand why it happened and how to fix it. —Ted Kaufman, former United States Senator and advisor to Vice President Joe Biden

To understand Rust Belt politics, you can’t do better than to read Bruce Fisher’s excellent essay collection. —Catherine Tumber, Senior Research Associate with Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Fellow with the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth’s Gateway Cities Innovation Institute, and author of Small, Green, and Gritty

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