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received some unfortunate national attention when it was revealed that an early February homicide was the nation’s third of a transgender person already this year. Tonya “Kita” Harvey was shot to death on Shepard Street on February, being first identified by authorities as a man. In an excellent piece of organizing, local grassroots advocacy group Queers for Racial Justice called out the Buffalo Police and the Buffalo media for their transphobic way of reporting and recording the event, and organized a rally on the steps of City Hall over the weekend that was attended by dozens, including Harvey’s mother, Arnester Harvey. “As a mother to lose your child in any incident is heart-breaking, but to lose your child to murder—it’s like unbearable,” she told Spectrum News.

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with 11,000 signatures demanding that the House Ethics Committee complete its investigation into allegations that Congressman Chris Collins might have engaged in insider trading by encouraging other lawmakers to invest in the Australian company Innate Immunotherapeutics and violated House ethics rules by encouraging the National Institutes of Health to meet with a company representative. In October, the committee issued a report that said there is “substantial reason to believe” that Collins violated federal law but has been silent since: It has neither issued further results of its investigation, which in October it said would remain open, nor dismissed the charge. Public Citizen, citing the committee’s penchant for allowing investigations to die on the table, is pushing for resolution, and good on them for that. Plus, we like the name.

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was of a transgender woman, Tonya “Kita” Harvey. We didn’t know Harvey personally, but on social media accounts, her identity and image was certainly that of a woman, yet the Buffalo Police denied her dignity, identifying her as a “male.” And in a move that underscored the deep issues with police and reporters in Buffalo, the Buffalo News and WIVB both took dictation from the BPD and reporter Harvey as a “man.” A follow-up story in the Buffalo News correctly identified Harvey but the newspaper did not issue a correction or apology for the initial report, placing the blame solely on BPD. Repeated phone calls to BPD by volunteers with Queers for Racial Justice to change Harvey’s gender to female on the report were rebuffed, leaving the transgender community to conclude that city’s institutions remain stuck in systemic transphobia, one that directly impacts the safety of Buffalo’s transgender community. Under 25 percent of homicides committed in Buffalo since 2016 have been cleared by detectives. CHRIS COLLINS AND CHRIS GRANT:

After the Florida shooting, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz challenged Chris Collins to a town hall style event to discuss the matter of mass shootings and gun control. A strange move in itself, especially as Poloncarz isn’t again threatening Collins’s seat in government. The thin-skinned congressman from Spaulding Lake not only rejected the invitation, but his strategist Chris Grant make a counter-offer to arrange a town hall pitting Poloncarz against Stefan Mychajliw, the presumptive Republican challenger for county executive in 2019. Though we’d probably all be interested to hear the back and forth, it is thoroughly beside the point for two local elected officials to debate an issue that is screaming for federal legislation and/or regulation. It’s a different story for Collins, who, except for a CNN event in Long Island, has long refused to hold a town hall in his district. Why is Collins scared to stand behind P his ideology and his A+ NRA grade?.

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or not cities do better with streetcars or with buses is in, and it’s been in for a very long time, and New York State taxpayers really should not have to shell out another nickel for another study about whether to invest in streetcars. Streetcars, or trams, or light-rail rapid transit (LRRT) all work. Streetcars are cost-effective, they’re pretty, they attract new ridership, they function well both when networked with lightrail rapid transit or subways (e.g. Portland, Budapest, Toronto, Montpellier, etc.), and when networked just with buses in smaller places (e.g. every medium-sized European city that doesn’t have a subway, and Tampa, Nashville, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and soon in Minneapolis-Saint Paul). Being able to take a tram from Erie Canal Harbor all the way out to UB North Campus, riding past a functioning Boulevard Mall, is a dream. But it’s a strange transit plan that ignores how long the walk would be for any person who might want to board that tram anywhere but at the end-points of the line. It’s a strange plan that ignores that there’s a radical and rapid and very disruptive remaking of retail going on right now, a change that is putting most of the legacy retail investment in jeopardy of obsolescence unless it’s a grocery store or a discount warehouse. And it’s a downright bizarre fantasy to think that a single intermittent transit option that connects a vacancy-plagued regional administrative and entertainment district with an island university campus 15 miles away will work to address the needs of the former or the function of the latter. Congressman Brian Higgins is correct: Buffalo’s transit planners should be focused on improving the light-rail system that we have right here, in the urban core, and not only because the Trump administration is unlikely to fund it a $1 billion line through Amherst to UB, but because there is no prospect whatsoever—none—that that investment will do what city-center streetcars do best, which is stimulate the density that helps cities become economically stronger. The question is why the NFTA doesn’t know this—and why it’s going to spend over $5 million in order to plan a system that can’t work.

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WHERE TRAMS ROAM Buffalo had an extensive electric streetcar system that was scuttled in favor of smoke-belching buses. The map of the streetcars system is very compelling: With the benefit of decades of hindsight, it’s hard to imagine why city leaders decided to shut it down. There are places in the world where the streetcar systems were never shut down—specifically, in Europe, where land-use rules have been effective in preventing the low-density suburban sprawl that makes running any US transit system a very daunting challenge. The US has very few metro areas that are as compact as European cities. The enthusiasm that planners and urbanists have for Portland, Oregon, which has both the downtown streetcar and the MAC train to the airport, is that it is landlocked by geography as well as by law: There is sufficient density for great public transit options because there’s a growth (sprawl) boundary and because there are mountains, the Columbia River, and competing economic interests, including farmers, wineries, and foresters. We don’t have that here. Until Erie County Executive Dennis Gorski killed it quietly in the night, there was a makeshift, half-baked regional planning entity. His successor Joel Giambra tried to revive it but was thwarted by the county

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But the NFTA has absolutely no power whatsoever to limit sprawl—low-density development—which persists in this region, which has had almost exactly the same population since 1970, but where more than 76 percent more land is now in use than it was then. So what to do? Here’s a thought experiment: Imagine that you are 27 years old, or 10 years old, or 78 years old, and you either don’t have a car or would prefer not to have the hassle, and you want to get to where you can be educated, entertained, fed, housed, or where you can buy what you need and get what you buy to where you want to take it, and you want to spend less than $100 a month to do it all. In Portland, or Toronto, or in most mediumsized cities in Europe, you would not need an automobile in order to achieve any of those tasks. But in Buffalo?

HOW TO FIGURE THIS OUT The entire board of the Niagara Frontier Transit Authority should take a five-day, fivestop trip to the cities of Buffalo’s size. Include Lackawanna, Cheektowaga, West Seneca, Tonawanda, and the city-adjacent sections of Amherst, and we have a typical medium-sized urban agglomeration very comparable to the 300,000-to-500,000-population cities of Caen, Nantes, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Montpellier in France, and to Hamilton and KitchenerWaterloo in faraway, exotic Ontario. If we can’t take some of the $5 million for the study that some politically connected engineering firm is going to do for us, then maybe a civic-minded local tycoon or foundation could step in and buy all the commissioners and their staff the five-day trip to France. Or maybe we could just hire a bus for a day to drive us up to Toronto, then stop in KitchenerWaterloo, then in Hamilton. The good people of Hamilton pile into buses every couple of years to go and poke around in Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and Pittsburgh to see what the American side of the Great Lakes is doing, and their response was to return home to the birthplace of Tim Horton’s and vote in favor of creating a brand-new light-rail transit system that will run east-west and north-south. The money is in place, the plans are firming up, and Hamilton will soon have what the connected, adjacent cities of Kitchener and Waterloo are about to start up: a downtown-connecting lightrail rapid transit system. All is not paradise in Canada: There’s a desperate need for more streetcars east of Toronto, but there is a plan for the next two decades, and the deliverable is that nobody in the Greater Toronto Area will be more than two-thirds of a mile from a tram. But we don’t need to wait. We can see the

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Hamilton’s trams will probably look like the sleek, brand-new streetcars built by the Canadian firm Bombardier (in France, with the local partner Alstom) that function extraordinarily efficiently, quietly, with great ridership of every social class in Caen, Nantes, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Montpellier.

Facing reality means this: Investors and planners and government and institutional leaders need to focus our collective efforts on Buffalo’s core, which needs more population, and more population density, and refreshed and convenient and extended transit options, and strengthening that core means focusing all available resources on achieving successes visibly, quickly, and sustainably.

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future—and if we can’t get the tycoon or the foundation of any of the $5 million from the planners to go to France or Hamilton or Kitchener-Waterloo, we could try Google. You can try it on your own: Google the words streetcars, trams, LLRT, and the medium-sized cies of Caen, Toulouse, Nantes, Montpellier, and take a look.

It’s a city thing. The rides are short and cheap. There isn’t an airport in any downtown of any of these places, but there isn’t an airport outside any of these places that isn’t served by a lightrail train. In France, the light rail systems also intersect with inter-urban electric trains and with the TGV, but let’s stop dreaming about what will never happen in the USA, and focus on the very practical reality of making choices about the public transit system we have in place and that we need to improve.

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NEWS COMMENTARY contributors—including the $7,000 he received from his father and Erie County Conservative Party chair, Ralph Lorigo— seems much more likely to influence legislator Lorigo’s conduct in office than any nominal gift an organization or individual might toss his way. • County Legislator Barbara Miller-Williams’s receipt of $34,330 in political contributions pales in relative size to the funds accepted by other county officials. But, is it unfair to wonder how much influence City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown could exert, if he wished, on Ms. Miller-Williams when nearly 10 percent of all contributions she received ($3,224) came from the mayor’s campaign coffers? Given the stunning contrast between the value of the token gifts offered to our elected officials and the size and significance of campaign war chests, it seems rather frivolous for our county’s lawmakers to prepare, discuss, and argue over a detailed list of what should or should not be treated as a “gift” under the new Code of Ethics. Can our lawmakers actually quibble, with a straight face, over promotional hats and t-shirts, publicly presented sports memorabilia, or invitations to attend personal or family social events, when political contributions of $1,000, $5,000, or even $10,000 are the metaphorical “elephant in the room”? Apparently, they can. Mind you, I don’t mean to suggest that the topic of political contributions has been totally ignored by our intrepid legislators. Erie County legislators have managed to slip into their latest Code of Ethics proposal a provision meant to shield county officials from any suggestion that political contributions—even if they violate the state’s election law—are to be considered “gifts” intended to influence the performance of an elected official’s duties:

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reporting and editorializing on the effort of Erie County’s elected officials to determine what is or isn’t a “nominal” gift that county officers and employees may accept without running afoul of his or her ethical obligations. The discussion arises in the midst of the county legislature’s unimpressive effort to rewrite the county’s Code of Ethics. The focus of the public debate—by the newspaper and county legislators—has been on a rather mundane issue: Should a 200-level Sabres ticket be considered an allowable gift? According to the News editorial board, the “nominal gift” question and other complex ethical concerns could be appropriately resolved if county lawmakers consider the following question: “How best can we instill and protect the public’s confidence in government?” From my perspective, it would be more useful (and more honest) if our county officials, the media, and Erie County residents asked the following question: What is more likely to improperly influence our county’s elected officials, a Sabres ticket (which, this season, virtually no one wants), or the generous political contributions the county executive, members of the county legislature, the district attorney, the sheriff, the county comptroller, and the county clerk pursue and receive each time they run for office?

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM I have little doubt that an overwhelming majority of residents would perceive political contributions as the bigger threat to their confidence in government. To help place my suggested inquiry into a tangible context, I visited the website of New York State’s Board of Elections and retrieved information concerning the contributions various Erie County officials have received between January 2010 and February 2018. Here are some thought-provoking results: • County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz’s campaign was the beneficiary of over $2.4 million in contributions over the eight-year period. As a member of the public, my confidence in Mr. Poloncarz’s decision-making is shaken much less by the thought that someone might offer him a Sabres ticket or a ceremonial plaque than by the fact that he has received $28,000 in contributions from the Clover property management group, $31,000 from Mosey Associates/Mosey Persico LLP, $23,297 from the Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman law firm, $22,484 from Phillips Lytle LLP, a one-time $5,000 contribution in 2015 from R & P Oak Hill Development LLC, etc. • County Legislator Joseph C. Lorigo received in excess of $230,000 in campaign contributions between January 2010 and February 2018. The generosity of his campaign

Proposed Code of Ethics, Section 6(a) … For purposes of this subsection, the term “gift” shall not include … (viii) contributions reportable under article fourteen of the Election Law, including contributions made in violation of that article of the election law;… Please note that I am not suggesting that a municipality’s code of ethics is the appropriate mechanism to address as vexing and complicated an issue as the corrupting impact of political contributions on the integrity of our democratic institutions. On the other hand, I would find it terribly refreshing if one of our elected officials were to decide that a political contribution offered to her or him appears to be an improper attempt to influence her/ him in the conduct of her/his office, and files an official report pursuant to Section 11—“Duty to report”—a provision found in both the current and proposed county code of ethics: Section 11. Duty to report. Every county office or employee shall report to the Erie County Board of Ethics, district attorney and county attorney any action which may reasonably be interpreted as an improper attempt to influence him in the conduct of his office.

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The county’s authority to adopt a code of ethics is found in Article 18 of the state’s General Municipal Law [GML], entitled “Conflicts of Interest of Municipal Officers and Employees.” GML Section 806 provides the following instructions: GML Section 806. Code of ethics. 1. (a) The governing body of each county, city, town, village, school district and fire district shall … adopt a code of ethics setting forth for the guidance of its officers and employees the standards of conduct reasonably expected of them… Codes of ethics shall provide standards for officers and employees with respect to disclosure of interest in legislation before the local governing body, holding of investments in conflict with official duties, private employment in conflict with official duties, future employment and such other standards relating to the conduct of officers and employees as may be deemed advisable. Such codes may

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Any contract willfully entered into by or with a municipality in which there is an interest prohibited by this article shall be null, void and wholly unenforceable.

In an opinion letter dated February 14, 2018, County Attorney Michael A. Siragusa advised the Erie County Legislature of his conclusion that “there is no evident conflict” between the proposed Code of Ethics and the ethics laws enacted by the New York State Legislature. I respectfully disagree.

It appears that Erie County’s lawmakers have willfully excluded this fundamental provision from the county’s Code of Ethics, and, in doing so, have authorized contracts prohibited under GML Article 18.

FAILURE TO PROHIBIT “CONFLICTS OF INTEREST” BANNED BY GML ARTICLE 18 The heart of Article 18 of the state’s General Municipal Law is found at GML Section 801, titled “Conflicts of interest prohibited.” That provision—with exceptions found at GML Section 802—expressly prohibits a municipal officer or employee from having “an interest in any contract with the municipality of which he is an officer or employee” when such officer or employee, individually or as a member of a board, has the power or duty to: “(a) negotiate, prepare, authorize or approve the contract or authorize or approve payment thereunder (b) audit bills or claims under the contract, or (c) appoint an officer or employee who has any of the powers or duties set forth above.” Amazingly, neither Erie County’s current Code of Ethics, nor the proposal now under consideration, includes this ban against a county officer or employee having an “interest”—defined as “a direct or indirect pecuniary or material benefit accruing to a covered individual or his relative”—in a contract with Erie County. Rather than prohibiting the proscribed “conflicts of interest,” county lawmakers (as set forth at Section 5, “Disclosure of interest in county business”) merely require a county officer or employee with an interest in an actual or proposed contract with the county to: (i) “publicly disclose the nature and extent of the interest in writing”; (ii) “consider divesting himself of the interest, if he can do so without undue hardship” (with the conflicted officer or employee’s conclusion in that regard being “conclusive”); and, (iii) “If he does not divest himself of that interest, he must abstain from participation in such action.” By allowing elected officials and other county officers and employees to decide whether they wish to divest themselves of an interest in a county contract, rather than prohibiting the conflict, the current and proposed codes violate GML Section 806 by, in effect, “authoriz[ing] conduct otherwise prohibited” by GML Article 18. I suggest that our county lawmakers, as well as the County Attorney, go back to the statute that authorizes (and, mandates) a code of ethics, and slowly and carefully read the “Conflicts of interest prohibited” provisions.

FAILURE TO INCLUDE GML ARTICLE 18’S “CONTRACTS VOID” PROVISION Reflecting the significance of its prohibition against conflicts of interest, GML Article 18 makes contracts intentionally entered into despite a prohibited conflict of interest “null, void and wholly unenforceable”: GML Section 804. Contracts void.

REQUIRING FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE BY CANDIDATES FOR ELECTED OFFICES The language is less than clear, but the current and proposed code of ethics compel candidates for elected office to file extensive financial disclosure statements. While it may be beneficial to voters (and to incumbents facing a challenger) for candidates to publicly disclose their financial information prior to election day (after all, many Americans wanted presidential candidate Donald Trump to make his tax returns public), the issue for county lawmakers is whether they possess the authority to require candidates for elected office in Erie County, as part of the county’s ethics code, to file financial disclosure statements. I have no knowledge of any court decisions addressing this legal issue. In my opinion, the answer is pretty clear: GML Article 18, at Section 811, only authorizes a municipality—such as the County of Erie—to require the filing of financial disclosure statements from two categories of individuals: municipal officers, employees, and elected officials, on one hand, and local political party officials, on the other. There is no authority—at least in GML Article 18—to compel such disclosure by candidates for elected office.

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to Erie County businesses and organizations. As legislator Lorigo expressed in a press release when he was appointed to the ECIDA board: “The ECIDA can have a significant impact on our community, providing valuable incentive programs that will make Western New York stronger for the long-term.” (Note: Mr. Lorigo is no longer on the ECIDA board.) Given the policymaking powers of the ECIDA, the updated Code of Ethics must make it clear that the code’s financial disclosure provisions apply to the ECIDA members and staff. Clarification is also needed on the status of members of the county’s Board of Ethics. As with ECIDA members, appointees to the Erie County Board of Ethics are uncompensated, but possess significant discretionary powers. The public has the right to know as much as possible about the financial, family, political, and business connections of individuals entrusted with the authority to pursue—or not—county officers and employees accused of violating the code of ethics.

THE PROPOSED CODE OF ETHICS—MAKING BOARD OF ETHICS EVEN MORE POLITICAL? The current Code of Ethics calls for a six-member Board of Ethics. Each member is appointed by the county executive subject to confirmation by the county legislature, and all six members possess full voting powers. In contrast, the current proposal would increase the size of the board to eight members, five of whom would be full voting members appointed by the county executive subject to confirmation by the county legislature, and three of whom would be non-voting “ex-officio members.” One ex-officio member would be appointed by the Chair of the Erie County Legislature (currently, Peter J. Savage, III), one by the Legislature’s Majority Leader (currently, April N. M. Baskin), and one by the Legislature’s Minority Leader (currently, Joseph C. Lorigo).

GML Article 18’s definition of “municipal officer or employee” is appropriately broad, and includes an officer or employee “whether paid or unpaid,” as well as “members of any administrative board, commission or other agency” of the municipality. In doing do, it ensures that conflict-of-interest and disclosure provisions apply to individuals who serve without compensation on administrative and policy-making boards—individuals who often are wellconnected politicos, influential business women and men, and/ or campaign contributors.

I can’t help but question the wisdom of this change. Given the sensitive and confidential nature of Board of Ethics proceedings, what constructive role would non-voting members play? How would the investigation of alleged ethical violations be enhanced by the presence of individuals who would almost certainly act as his or her appointee’s “eyes and ears”?

Additionally, the state’s conflict-of-interest law expressly includes members, officers and employees of a municipality’s “industrial development agency” as a “local officer or employee” required to file an annual financial disclosure statement.

Our elected officials and their advisors must invest as least as much time and energy to ensure compliance with the letter and spirit of Article 18 of New York’s General Municipal Law—the source of their authority to adopt and amend a code of ethics— as they have drafting and quibbling over what is or isn’t an acceptable gift. If they do, the public might actually regain some confidence in government.

County lawmakers have chosen to limit the term “employee” to a person “who receives a salary or wage” from Erie County. They also have not mentioned in their definition of “officer or employee” whether the term applies to the members, officers and employees of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency. While members of the ECIDA board of directors are not compensated, they possess the power to dole out millions of dollars in tax abatements and other forms of “corporate welfare”

CONCLUSION

Arthur J. Giacalone has been living, practicing law, and challenging authority in Western New York for four decades, and currently resides in Buffalo’s Cazenovia Park neighborhood. he writes about the law and the courts at his blog, With All Due P Respect: withallduerespectblog.com.

LOOKING BACKWARD:

MANHATTAN HOTEL, 1910 The Manhattan Hotel, 466 Michigan Street, was reportedly Buffalo’s first African-American hotel. Mack Gordon Anderson, pictured fourth from the left, opened the tavern hotel with his wife Bettie Spencer Anderson in about 1910. Advertised as a “refined cabaret” with Chinese and American dining and “modern conveniences,” the Manhattan Hotel was a mainstay of Michigan Street, later Michigan Avenue. The building, at the southwest corner with William Street, no longer stands. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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ART REVIEW days after the disaster states simply: “Fear lost. It is terrible.” Signed simply: “Selfridge.” (Harry Selfridge? The London department store entrepreneur, the subject of the recent public television drama series? It’s plausible.) Among the scores of posters on show, the iconic Uncle Sam image “I Want You” recruitment poster, the work of artist James Montgomery Flagg, and several by local artist of renown Alexander O. Levy, including one showing a lovely Columbia/Buffalo figure towering above a crowd of Buffalonians—the Lafayette Square Soldiers and Sailors monument and the old Central Library just visible in the background—reaching down to the citizens to receive money contributions they eagerly hand up to her, in cash money or via the War Savings Stamps contribution mechanism. In one hand the Columbia/Buffalo lady is either handing down or receiving a savings stamps booklet. The title of this poster, “Buffalo Never Fails,” is adopted as the exhibit title.

BUFFALO NEVER FAILS BY JACK FORAN

AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY DOWNTOWN, A SUPERB EXHIBIT THAT DOCUMENTS WORLD WAR I AS EXPERIENCED BY WESTERN NEW YORKERS PRECISELY A CENTURY ago, Buffalo was in a frenzy of

excitement and for the most part enthusiasm about the war the United States was just getting into that was once and for all to end war. There were skeptics, but they were in the minority.

The downtown library is currently presenting a superb exhibit on what was then called the Great War, later just World War I. Numerous kiosk and wall displays focus alternately on what was occurring on the European battlefields and what was occurring here in the United States, and in particular Buffalo and Western New York, with its rich mix of ethnic groups, the most economically and socially established of which happened to be Germans, now more likely denominated “Huns,” and vilified on the war propaganda posters that are the central feature of the exhibit as more animals than humans, with bloody arms up to their elbows. And so sauerkraut became liberty cabbage, and hamburger became liberty steak, and the key local financial institution GermanAmerican Bank became Liberty Bank. (An unauthenticated by actual research and documentation personal hypothesis as to one important reason the area economy went into serious decline for a half century and more, and nary

IN GALLERIES NOW = ART OPENING

FF = FIRST FRIDAY FF Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 8828700, albrightknox.org): Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, opening reception Friday, March 2, 5-7pm. 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. Window to Wall: Art from Architecture, on view through Mar 18. Out of Sight! Art of the Senses, on view through Jan 28. Picturing Niagara, paintings by Stephen Hannock, on view through Mar 25. 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): Bricks: Vitrified, Broken, Assembled, solo exhibition and performance. At exhibition closing, BCAT will host a panel on gentrification

a sign of rebound until very recently—whereas other comparable rust-belt cities that experienced the same latter-20th-century national economic changeover from heavy industry to technical and service sectors, like Pittsburgh and Cleveland, seemed to recover decades sooner and with more economic staying power in the upshot—recoveries usually premised on reinvestment of an “old money” residue of former prosperity enterprises into more promising new directions—is that the breadth and depth of the insult here to the Germans—who as the most established group owned and controlled the “old money” residue—caused them by and large to keep their money under a pillow, or prefer to invest it elsewhere.)

Posters encouraging supporting the war effort in various ways, and from various countries participating in the war (including Germany, these presenting a very different image of German soldiery, depicted elsewhere as monsters). Promoting economizing of all sorts—including cheerful acceptance of rationing—to supply more guns and butter both for the soldiers in the field. Several suggesting meals of more modest portions than apparently customary pre-war, and more meals of just fish and vegetables, sparing “wheat, meat, and fats for our soldiers and allies.” (We don’t do this anymore, ask civilians to sacrifice anything for our recent wars, which would soon lose their often considerable popular luster if we did.) Posters promoting victory gardens, including one with rather mixed message imagery, showing and naming Uncle Sam as the Pied Piper, leading a troop of youngsters off maybe to dig and plant a school victory garden, or maybe never to be seen or heard from again. Canadian posters chiding Canadian farmers for not producing more eggs and bacon and beef to send to mother country England. And a French poster that looks like an advertisement for a scifi movie, showing a futuristic tank-like vehicle with snake-like proboscis (for what purpose?) and enormous iron wheels. The posters originally were collected by Buffalo lawyer and real estate agent and centenarian at the time of his death Edward Michael (1850-1951), who gave them to the library. Among Michael’s claims to fame was that as a youngster he played with Lincoln’s children, when the president-elect, passing though Buffalo on the way to his inauguration, lodged at the American Hotel here—on land now occupied by the ghost town Main Place Mall—owned and operated by Michael’s father. The exhibit was curated by library Special Collections Manager Meg Cheman, Rare Books Curator Amy Pickard, and Rare Books and Maps Librarian Charles Alaimo. You still have time to see this one. January 2020.

Exhibit topics range from armed forces recruitment drives and war bond campaigns in Buffalo to the perils and miseries of trench warfare along more than 25,000 miles of zig-zag lines from Belgium to Switzerland, the famous Western Front. When the United States finally declared war on Germany, on April 6, 1917, the US had a standing army of just over 125,000 soldiers and officers. A year later, the number was four million, of which 19,000 were from Buffalo. A series of bond sales events here netted total sales of $250 million, at a time when the total area population was only half a million, and average household yearly income was around $650. Another exhibit component is on the Lusitania, struck and sunk by a German torpedo off the southwest coast of Ireland, and its famous local passenger Elbert Hubbard, whose purpose in making the voyage was to meet with the Kaiser and talk him out of this war project madness. A cablegram to East Aurora from London nine

the evening of April 6. Mon-Fri 10am-3pm. Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annakaplancontemporary.art): Susan Reedy: Urban Passage, on view through Mar 17. Sat 12-4 or by appointment. Art 247 (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, theart247.com): Black White & One Color, photography exhibition. On view through Mar 18. Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Photographs by Donald J. Siuta, on view through Mar 16. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716885-2251, wnyag.com): 22nd Annual Juried Members Exhibition—traditional works. Juried by Patrick Foran. On view through Mar 16. TueFri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. FF Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo. com): New work by the artists of Autism Services, on view through Mar 18. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm,

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Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. FF BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Altars of ERIE, an installation and sound piece by Lara Buckley. Closing reception with performances (see Events) Sat, Mar 3, 8pm. Every day 4-10pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): George Afedzi Hughes, The Politics of Identity. On view through Mar 3. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. FF Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint.com) The Magic of the “In-Between” Realm, photography by Sabine Kutt, on view through Mar 29. Opening reception, Fri, Mar 2, 6-9pm. MonFri 9am-5:30pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8588900, buffalolib.org): Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City & WWI, 100th Anniversary

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of America’s Entry into WWI, on second floor. Building Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings: Grosvenor Rare Book Room, through Mar 21. Catalogue available for purchase. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 125pm.Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 8786011, burchfieldpenney.org): M & T Second Friday event, Fri, Feb 9, 5:30-10pm. Charles E. Burchfield: The Ohio Years, on view through Mar 24; Milton Rogovin: A Trip to Chile, 50 Years After, on view through Mar 25; Angels and Demons, works on paper by David Schirm, on view through Mar 31; Images (of Us by Us), through Apr 1; Cargo, Way-Points, and Tales of the Erie Canal, through Jul 29; Divine Messengers, work by Craig LaRotonda, through Mar 25. 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: A Selection of Objects With Lids, through Apr 29. 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10,

GALLERIES ART children 10 and under free. FF Café Taza (100 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Momentary Canvas, aerial photographs by Jim Cielencki. On view through 29. Opening reception Fri, Mar 2, 7pm. FF Caffeology Buffalo (23 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY, 14201): The Witch and Circumstance, works by Nikayla Brown. Canisius College Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library (Canisius College 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208, 888-8412, library.canisius.edu): Along the Way, by Stacey Lechevet. On view through Feb 24. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter. org): Buffalo Society of Artists: Winter Exhibition. Thu 6-9pm & Sat 12-3pm. The Cass Project (500 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14204, thecassproject.org): Thu 12-9pm, Fri & Sat 12-5pm. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 2868200, castellaniartmuseum.org): The Lure of Niagara: Highlights From the Charles Rand Penney Historical Niagara Falls Print Collection, through Sep 9; Appealing Words; Calligraphy Traditions in WNY, through June 3; 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, 8562717, cepagallery.org): Annual CEPA Auction preview show. Fri Mar 2, 5:30-8pm. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts. com): Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am4pm. FF El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Contrasts and Contradictions, Buffalo Public School students and teachers side by side, on view through Mar 24. Opening reception Fri, Mar 2, 5:309pm. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. 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 11am-4pm, Second Sun 11am-2pm. Reception Apr 15, 6-8 pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Tony Conrad @ Hallwalls, on view through Mar 2. Tue-Fri 11am6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. FF Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo. com): Recent work by Caroline Doherty & Gareth Lichty, on view through Mar 2. Wed & Fri 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, 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): Teresa Alessandra on view through Feb 28. Mon-Thu 5:30am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am6pm. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. TueSun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Main Street Gallery (515 Main St. Buffalo, NY 14203): Western NY-inspired watercolors by Mike Thompson. On view Feb 16-Feb 21. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Tue-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 282-7530, thenacc. org): Artists of Color Exhibit in the Townsend Gallery on view through Mar 18. Opening reception, Mar 10, 5-7pm. 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): Peanut Punch Leisure Lamps, artwork by Robert Lynch and Matthew SaGurney. On view through Mar 19. Mon-Fri 8am-4pm, Closed Sat & Sun. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-8825777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): TueFri 10am–5pm. Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-6523270, norbergsartandframe.com): Regional artists from the gallery collection. Tue-

Sat 10am–5pm. Harold L. Olmsted Gallery, Springville Center for the Arts (37 N. Buffalo Street, Springville, NY 14141, 716-592-9038, SpringvilleArts.org): Joe Ward: Scenes, on view through Feb 24. Wed & Fri, 12-5pm. Thu 12-8pm, Sat 10-3pm. FF Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): The Heart, a group exhibit on view Feb 1-28. Wed-Sat,12-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse.com): The Allegory of Color, show by Cassie Lipsitz. ThuSat by event. FF 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 10am-5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. FF Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod. com): 11th anniversary show. Art by Neil 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. FF Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery. com): Pop Star, work by Leanne Davies, Dave MacDowell, Johannah O’Donnell, Shaunna Peterson, on view through Mar 30. Thu 12-6pm, Fri and Sat 12-8pm. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051, riverartgalleryandgifts. com): Wed-Fri 11am-4pm Sat 11am- 5pm. Ró Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Work by Catherine Willett. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Sisti Gallery (6535 Campbell Blvd., Pendleton, NY 14094, 465-9138): Honoring Watercolor, works by Rita Argen Auerbach and Charles E. Burchfield. Fri 6-9pm, Sat & Sun 11-2pm. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Let Me Remember: first North American solo exhibition of artist and videoactivist belit sağ, on view through Mar 23. Tue-Sat, 12pm-5pm. Stangler Fine Art (6429 West Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127, 870-1129, stanglerart. com): Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Closed Sundays. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio. org): 3X3: Heather Swenson, Ricky Hogan, & David Feickert, on view through Feb 28. MonFri 9-4pm. FF Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Monsters, works by Steve Ardo, on view through Feb 28. Open by event and Fri 5:30-7:30.

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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, Jouneys 1967-2017. 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): Photography Program Student Exhibit on view through Mar 9. MonFri 9am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. WASH Project (593 Grant Street, Buffalo, NY 14213): Law Eh Soe, photographs from Burma to Buffalo. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 3481430, wnybookarts.org): Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28 Alan Doyle 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $24-$28 [ROCK] Canadian musician, Alan Doyle, best known as the lead singer of the now defunct 1990s folk rock band Great Big Sea, returns to Buffalo for a show at the Town Ballroom on Wednesday, February 28. The 48-year-old singer and guitarist is touring in support of his third solo record, A Week at the Warehouse, which was released late last year. Support comes from Canadian folk-pop band, Fortunate Ones. -TPS

Mid-Winter’s Draw at Hallwalls

WALIDAH IMARISHA: ON RACE, PRISON, AND RESISTANCE THURSDAY MARCH 1 7PM / BURNING BOOKS, 420 CONNECTICUT ST.

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[ACTIVISM] Author, activist, and historian Walidah Imarisha’s book Angels With Dirty Faces: Three

Strike record

Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption (AK Press, 2017) takes a hard look at life in America’s prison

Recommended if you like: Tame Impala, The Black Angels, L.A. Witch Indie rock band Parade Chic released a series of what they call “sketches” or demos of songs slated to be on a forthcoming full-length record. The demo tape, titled Strike, features four tracks that drip of 1960s psychedelia. Highlights include the sun child rock of “Black Sheep,” and the darker, more driving “Rage and Riot.

system through three interconnected narratives, one of them her own. Imarisha, who is also a co-editor of the much celebrated anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, comes to Burning Books on Thursday, March 1, to talk about the book and her work as an activist, journalist, and poet. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

7pm Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave. $5 admission, cash bar and silent auction [ART] The twice annual drawing rallies that Hallwalls organizes at Asbury Hall have been among the city’s most enduringly popular art parties since they began in 2012. The Mid-Winter’s Draw works like this: The doors to Babeville’s beautiful Asbury Hall open on Wednesday, February 28 at 7pm; at 7:15pm sharp, a coterie of 18 local artists start producing art, live, right in front of your eyes, as you wander about, cocktail in hand, listening to music courtesy DJ Undersound. After 45 minutes of drawing, the pieces are put up for silent auction, and another 45-minute drawing rally begins, followed by another silent auction. That’s a total of 36 original works by local artists available for purchase, often cheaper than they ought to sell for (bidding for each piece begins at $39), with the proceeds benefiting Hallwalls, a linchpin in Buffalo’s remarkable cultural machine. It’s a lot of fun, and a great way to meet artists and collect their work. If you’ve never been, go. If you’ve been before, well, we don’t need to tell you. -TPS

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7pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $15-$18 [FUNK] Magic pipes, musical boots, hairy mutton chops, psychedelic funk music—it may sound like a twisted acid trip, but it’s just a That 1 Guy concert. The one-man band uses a variety of homemade instruments to concoct a strange yet funky musical experience that’s equally as sonically stimulating as it is visually intriguing. His instruments are strange and homemade— his signature instrument is a towering, crooked pipe—allowing for sounds you’ve likely never heard before. He’ll have his magic pipe and more when he comes to the Mohawk Place on Wednesday, February 28. -CP

Raquel Salas Rivera at Rust Belt Books

DARLING HARBOR This Lonely War album Recommended if you like: The Spill Canvas, Dashboard Confessional, This Day and Age On their latest record, This Lonely War, Buffalo’s Darling Harbor gets to work quickly, laying down hooky pop punk from the first notes of the album’s opener, “The First Step.” Despite the album’s dark, foreboding cover artwork, the inner workings are much more upbeat, especially on tracks like “Playing Favorites,” though it often dips deep into the emo realm on tracks like “Glass” and “Ocean.” Stream the entire album for free on Bandcamp.

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8pm Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St. [LIT] Philadelphia’s been a hotbed for creative poetry for decades now, so much so that the city recognizes a poet laureate and has bequeathed that honor to Raquel Salas Rivera, who brings their work to Rust Belt Books this Wednesday, February 28. Reacting to the after-effects of the hurricane that ravaged their ancestral home in Puerto Rico, Rivera published the following amazing lines in the Poetry Project Newsletter: “terrorism is some shit white people do when they are having a bad day” and “fema box contains: one can of beans one packet of cookies one oatmeal bar a small ricebox.” -AL

5PM / VARIOUS LOCATIONS, [ART] There is hardly a cultural vanguard, from the late 1950s on, that the late Tony Conrad

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by his influence. This is in part because Conrad—sound and video artist, filmmaker, musician,

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writer, composer, academic—collaborated with lots of people, both abroad and here in Buffalo,

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Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, and exhibit presented in collaboration with the UB Art Gallery and UB Center for the Arts (with exhibits in all three venues). And across the

[LIT] A new genre-bending book from writer Kevin Thurston with copious illustrations from Mickey Harmon is getting a second reading event in town, fresh off the authors’ recent performance to enthusiastic crowds in Baltimore and Washington, DC. The reading is this Thursday, March 1 at Buffalo Distilling. In an adult coloring book format, the book takes apart the nature of white privilege and masculinity in a style that is simultaneously fresh, embarrassing, and blunt as all hell. Thurston’s edge in this project recalls a woke Larry David on the heels of an MFA program, and Harmon’s cartoony line illustrations are hilarious and refreshing complements. -AL

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there will be a screening of Conrad’s video works collected in a show called Tony Conrad: Surplus

7pm Lockhouse Distillery, 41 Columbia St. $7-$10 [FUNK] Nashville-based funk band Dynamo make happy music. There’s no simpler way to

Here he took his place among a firmament of avant-garde stars: Steina and Woody Vasulka, Hollis Frampton, Paul Sharits, Gerald O’Grady, Cathy Steffan, and James Blue among them. And now, with his birthday (March 7) approaching, four of the region’s leading cultural centers are collaborating with one another, sort of, to mark the legacy of Conrad, who died two years ago at age 76. Closing this Friday, March 2 at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center after a six-week run is Tony Conrad @ Hallwalls, which document’s Conrad’s work there. See it before it closes, then move on: Opening at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on Friday, March 2, 5-7pm, is

Affect. That opens at 7pm. It’s a great big Tony Conrad weekend. Avail yourself, and discover why Conrad once famously said of himself, “You don't know who I am, but somehow, indirectly, you’ve been affected by the things I did.” -GEOFF KELLY

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AT PEACH: Last Friday, Peach featured two poems from the editor in chief of Voicemail Poems, Amy SaulZerby. Both pieces are calm and compact, presenting emotions that float somewhere outside of simple descriptions like “longing” or “sadness.” In “if today we were perfect,” Saul-Zerby writes, “i want to tell you: / we could / have climbed mountains / in your chest i found / diamonds / and kept digging / i’m sorry i couldn’t / tell you why.” Yesterday on Peach, the featured poem was “Delirium” by local writer J. B. Stone. Stone’s words hit the reader with a torrent of purpose-driven musicality. This is a poem that absolutely wants you to feel something: “the crimson red / gushes from the lobes, / but I’m still smiling / still laughing / I may be deaf now, / but not dead yet.”

IN PRINT: Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley Ballantine Books / 2014 / graphic novel

Secondsis a self-contained graphic novel by Bryan Lee O’Malley, the Canadian-born writer and artist best known for the “Scott Pilgrim” series. S econds has a similar tone to “Scott Pilgrim” in the way it presents convincingly relatable characters and mundane everyday problems set in a world in which events can casually slip into a dreamlike state at a moment’s notice. In S econds, the reader follows Katie, a young restaurateur hoping to open her second establishment as she stumbles into a shadow reality of old world witchcraft. By ingesting mushrooms growing beneath the pantry of her restaurant, Katie finds she’s able to erase a single mistake from her past. This almost immediately gets out of hand, of course, and the consequences are catastrophic. In the latter half of the book, as things grow ever more cataclysmic, the narrative does stumble a bit and feel a little predictable. It’s in the individual characters and the specific and natural ways in which O’Malley allows them to inhabit this world that S econdsfinds its heart. However, the artwork of S econds is where the book truly shines. O’Malley’s style has a friendly, cartoonish quality that helps the characters stay grounded and relatable, while also allowing them to transition convincingly into incredibly surreal territory later on. Similarly, the color palate O’Malley employs has a warm and inviting effect, much of the book has a comforting hushed glow to it, like a booth in your favorite restaurant lit by the light of a crackling fireplace.

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8PM / KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL, 3 SYMPHONY CIRCLE / $39-$75 [ROCK] Classic rock fans will recognize his name in an instant. But for the uninitiated, Dave

Mason is a guitar legend. As a solo artist, he has but two charted tunes to his credit—the selfpenned “Only You Know and I Know” (1970) and 1977’s soft rock-ish “We Just Disagree,” written by Jim Krueger. But as a founding member of Traffic with Steve Winwood, Mason’s contribution to the rock-and-roll history books is undeniable. His “Feelin’ Alright” was a hit for Traffic, Joe Cocker, and Grand Funk Railroad, with lesser known versions recorded by everyone from Three Dog Night to Paul Weller. Another of his Traffic songs, the ultra-psychedelic “Hole in My Shoe,” was used in an episode of 1980s Brit-com The Young Ones, thus introducing the tune to a whole new generation of listeners (while also parodying its spacey sentiment). Traffic was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, but Mason’s work as contributor and sideman outside of the band have landed him some mighty prestigious guitar sessions, including an uncredited appearance on Beggars Banquet by the Rolling Stones, on Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland, and on former Beatle George Harrison’s opus All Things Must Pass. His second album outside of Traffic was a collection of duets with Mama Cass Elliot, and he’s performed with Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, the Tedeschi Trucks band, and even Michael Jackson (say what!). Little-known fact: Mason was briefly a member of Fleetwood Mac in the 1990s when they released the album Time, the band’s first album sans Buckingham and Nicks since 1974. His latter-day philanthropic efforts have included co-founding Yoga Blue, an nonprofit organization focused on holistic approaches to mental health and substance abuse issues, as well as Rock Our Vets, a collective of musicians helping disenfranchised veterans access basic resources to stabilize and improve their lives. For his gig at Kleinhans on Friday, March 2, Mason will likely revisit his most well known work with Traffic with a couple of surprise covers thrown in for good measure. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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Cavalcade, Moody Cosmos, and Major Arcana 8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $5 [INDIE] Originality can be somewhat rare in indie rock, but Rochester’s Cavalcade have nothing if not a distinct sound. Somewhere between math rock and new wave, or maybe indie rock and straight up rock and roll, the band tends to be able to mix all of these styles pretty seamlessly. Cavalcade comes to Mohawk Place for a show with Buffalo’s Moody Cosmos and Major Arcana on Friday, March 2. -TPS

THIS WEEK'S LGBT AGENDA FRIDAY, MARCH 2 G2H2 HAPPY HOUR AT CURTISS HOTEL 5:30-8:30pm, 210 Franklin St.

Check out this increasingly popular and purely social event at VUE, this month. Curtiss Hotel’s spectacular VUE Rooftop Lounge is like nothing else in Buffalo. Enjoy a cocktail and take in the breathtaking panoramic views of downtown Buffalo, Lake Erie, and the Canadian shoreline. VUE is located on the roof of the Curtiss Hotel, which is built inside of the renovated historic landmark Harlow C. Curtiss building. There is no cost to attend, just bring cash for your drinks. Come meet new people and socialize—widen your circle. There are no dues, and business card exchanges are frowned upon. Just relax and enjoy—it’s Friday!

JAMES BONDAGE AT FREE AGENT 9pm, 704 Main St.

After stopping at the G2H2 Happy Hour, why not head over to Free Agent for this First Friday event, featuring Bondage. James Bondage. Check out the Bond Girls that have never seen the living daylights. When the world is not enough, and you just need to indulge in some octopussy, just bring your license to kill and never say never again. For your eyes only, because you only live twice, and you can die another day. Featuring performances by host Vidalia May, Cat McCarthy, Honey Jazel, Rope Captures Amber Lynn Norton & Clinton James ‘Howlett’ Parker. DJ set by xhearto. It’s $7 and 21+… go on, try something new.

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LIGHTS TUESDAY MARCH 6 7PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $22-$142 [POP] Anyone who legally changes their name to that of their musical project to avoid copyright

infringement is dedicated to their craft, and that’s exactly what Canada-based Valerie Anne Poxleitner did over a decade back at the start of her career. Having been called “Lights” as a nickname for many years (a play on her last name), she wasn’t yielding to another artist who had already laid legal claim to the moniker, which is only trumped by someone who can claim the name as their own, officially, on the books. Call it a rather extreme exercise in branding, but the name change has served her well. Lights (which used to be stylized in all caps, but no more) got a big boost in the late aughties when some of her tunes got used in an Old Navy ad campaign. Since then, her records have sold very well, particularly in Canada, where she’s a star, which has helped her maintain a Sony/ATV publishing deal. In 2015, her Little Machines release took the Juno award for Album of the Year. Now four full-length albums in, with a husband (Blessthefall’s lead vocalist Beau Bokan) and a child, she’s touring the US in support of last year’s Skin and Earth (Warner Bros.) and its latest single, the post-apocalyptic “We Were Here.” Lights is largely an electronic-pop artist, using modern vocal production and elements of trap in her tunes to produce something both catchy and glitchy at the same time. Once described early on by a Toronto-based blogger as a nervous performer, her tenacious touring schedule has paid off—now she commands the stage. See for yourself at Town Ballroom on Tuesday, March 6 with Aussie trio Chase Atlantic and Toronto DJ DCF in the opening slots. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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Join friends at the bar and celebrate the 90th Annual Academy Awards at Q, with NO COVER Hosted by Master of Ceremonies, David Poole with CoCo LaTique as Mistress of Ceremonies and assists from Kevin Crowley, Keith Barett, Jesse Woomer and, of course, Q’s Mark Curtin. After you enter on the Red Carpet, sit back with your favorite cocktail, created by the expert staff, as you are served a variety of tasty catered bites right to your seat, all night long. Be sure to arrive early to cast your ballot. Fantastic prizes for ALL of the categories throughout the evening. Enjoy “Movie Theatre” style popcorn and candy as you complete your ballot. It’s a perfect dress-to- impress opportunity.

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Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2pm Squeaky Wheel, 617 Main Street [ACTIVISM] A 2011 study showed that less than 10 percent of Wikipedia's contributors were women. On Saturday, March 3 at Squeaky Wheel, there's an opportunity to make a dent in that disparity. The Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edita-thon is an all-day affair in which participant will learn how to edit Wikipedia entries and then do it, focusing on the women artists who are part of the Albright-Knox's show We Wanted a

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Join hosts Anthony Lenczyk, Michael Maciejewski, and Jesse Woomer for this Imperial Court "throwback" party. Travel back in time with Aqua Net hairspray, Tamagotchi’s, and Moon Shoes. So bring out your Deluxe Talkboy and/or Talkgirl—whichever you prefer— or even your walkman. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd best Running man, Butterfly, Macarena, Carlton or even Cabbage Patch dance.

8pm Revolution Gallery, 1419 Hertel Ave. $10 [MUSIC] The duo of David Kane and John Toohill, a.k.a. Night Slaves, should require little introduction to local music fans: Kane has been pushing musical and performance boundaries for four decades; Toohill has made his mark in a number of ensembles and as a solo artist, most recently with his project the Midnight Vein. Night Slaves has just finished recording a new record, their third, which they’ll debut with a listening party this Friday, March 2 at Revolution Gallery, whose favored genre of artwork (and particularly its current show, portraits of rock stars) could not hope for a better soundtrack. The $10 you pay at the door buys you a limited edition, pre-mastered copy of the recording and will help Kane and Toohill to finish the project. Doors open at 8pm, the listening party begins at 9pm, DAN O spins tunes before and after. -TPS

DAVID BYRNE TUESDAY MARCH 6 7:30PM / UB CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 103 CENTER FOR THE ARTS [NEW WAVE] Former Talking Heads frontman, author, and musician David Byrne kicks off his

American Utopia tour on March 3, and three days later brings it to UB’s Center for the Arts on Tuesday, March 6. It’s unclear exactly what shape and form Byrne’s show will take, but what we do know is that he’ll be joined on stage by 12 musicians for a choreographed show, which will feature songs from his new album, American Utopia, and “many others that will, I assume, be familiar,” according to Byrne. “This is the most ambitious show I’ve done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense, so fingers crossed,” the 65-year-old Scottish musician said in a recent interview. After recent collaborations were announced with experimental musicians Brian Eno and Oneohtrix Point Never, it P would be safe to expect something pretty far out from this extensive tour. -CORY PERLA

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 put it—their groovy brand of pop-funk is designed to put a smile on your face. Led by vocalist Dain Ussery, the 11-piece band, which includes three guitarists, two drummers, two keyboard players, a bassist, and some woodwinds and brass, formed in 2012 and in the summer of 2017 their most extensive work so far, an LP titled Celina, which bounces between Michael Jackson-esque poppy funk and soulful jazz that recalls Stevie Wonder. The band comes to Lockhouse Distillery this Thursday, March 1, presented by Sunbeam Entertainment. Opening set comes from Rochester’s Tim Mitchum and the Outfit. -CP

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FRIDAY MARCH 2 My Next Heart 7pm Gypsy Parlor, 376 Grant St.

[LIT] A recent, semi-comprehensive crosssection of Buffalo poetry released a few months ago is showcasing its spoken-word and slam poets in the same venue in which many of them honed their chops. This Friday, March 2 at Gypsy Parlor, entrants to My Next Heart are holding a Slam and Spoken Word Showcase. Readers include Venezia Appleby, Matthew Bosque, LaVerne Thompson, Janna Willoughby-Lohr, Benjamin Brindise, Skyler

8pm Box Gallery, 667 Main Street [ART] One of the area’s most unique and creative exhibitions is getting a proper send-off this Saturday, March 3 in the BOX Gallery for the closing reception for Lara Buckley‘s Altars of ERIE show. The multidisciplinary exhibition will reap the multiple benefits of cross-pollinating performances from astraea beaming (Kathleen Ashwill Solo Cello), Uniflora (Britt Wagner’s Solo Project), Nola Ranallo (of Cages), and Lara Buckley (Goose Kisser). -AL

Denim Playground, Sofa Kingz, and Real Movement 9pm Milkie’s, 522 Elmwood Ave $5

[ROCK] If you’re looking for some fun punk rock this weekend, head over to Milkie’s. A few colorfully named local rock bands, Denim Playground and the Sofa Kingz, will be joined by Chicago-based weirdo pop singer/songwriter Real Movement for a show this Saturday, March 3. -TPS

WEDNESDAY MARCH 7 Universal Sigh with Witty Tarbox 9pm, Nietzsche's, 248 Allen St. $5 [JAM] Athens, Georgia-based band Universal Sigh bills themselves as “metamorphic rock,” which is kind of vague, but I guess is their way of saying that their music is for fans of bands like Radiohead and Snarky Puppy. Their latest record, which was released in January is a full live set from a festival slot they played in September, in case you’d like a pretty comprehensive sample of their sound. Catch Universal Sigh live at Nietzsche’s on Wednesday, March 7 with support from Buffalo indie rockers Witty Tarbox. -TPS P

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the city” address earlier this year that focused on building a “compassionate community” that challenged citizens, business leaders, and elected officials to sign on to pledge to “commit to making a difference.” To sign the “compassionate charter,” one had to pledge to assist the homeless or impoverished, work to create jobs through innovation, support seniors, children, and artists, and promote “safety for women in all aspects of their lives.” In the same speech the mayor vowed to bring a safe injection site to the city to deal with its burgeoning opioid crisis to a wave of applause. This city was not Buffalo, but St. Catharines, Ontario. Every year, a group of social justice bootstrappers called the “Niagara County Coalition of Services to the Homeless” throw together a one-day conference for service providers to hear new ideas, and “kind of recharge the batteries,” in the words of Christian Hoffman. Hoffman is the communications director for Community Missions in the Falls, a sprawling agency that originated during the peak of Niagara Falls’ industrialization to serve growing numbers of homeless and has grown into something much larger that offers an array of basic needs and mental health services. “I like to say if we were in Erie County we probably would be 10 different organizations,” Hoffman told us. The conference that Hoffman and company have organized this year carries the theme of “compassionate communities,” which has become a hallmark of St. Catharines Mayor Walter Sendzik’s platform. Sendzik will be providing the conference with its keynote address at the Sixth Annual Niagara County Poverty Conference on March 7 at Niagara University. We talked with Hoffman about services in Niagara Falls and Buffalo, and what compassionate communities rally means.

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Last year we brought in speakers with from a group called ideas42—they had done a white paper about integrating behavioral science into social services agencies—and what are some little tweaks people can make and also what are the systemic changes. For example, how can intake forms be written so that anybody could be able to read it, even with a much lower reading level them what intake forms might currently be at Social Services. How can we best serve people who are working poor? Can we offer evening hours that is kind of unaccustomed to having people working late, but that is the best way to serve some of our clients. So that was last year: What are some kind of tweaks things that we could do better. And this year: compassionate communities? Right, in particular bringing in the mayor of St. Catharines, Ontario. This is one of his platforms: making the city more compassionate. And so we were on a conference call with him kind of exploring what he would be talking about and he brought up some really interesting points. When they launched this compassionate city campaign, he was anticipating it taking two years or so for it to really filter into the culture of the city. And so it was about six months after they had really done their initial push of how can we be more compassionate looking at all factors of the city and life to be more compassionate to our people who are kind of living on the margins. On the local news there was a takedown of a sex-trafficking ring in St. Catharines. The optics were not good, as it turned out; the police were there and putting the sex workers themselves in the back of police cars, and the mayor started getting calls complaining that these people may be sex trafficking victims and not the criminals the media was portraying them as. As it turns out, they were victims and police were taking them for treatment as such, but the mayor was encouraged by the response. You know, wow, it only took six months for people to kind of realize and start to get it that there is a compassionate way to do it. That would be wonderful, especially in today’s political climate. How can the Falls, Niagara County, be more compassionate? And what are some ways, some really practical ways, for that to quickly happen. Can you think of any examples in the last few months of where a community response to an event it could be better informed by compassionate community model? Certainly looking at the shooting in Florida, there is a tremendous amount of compassion, I think, for the teenagers. But from our vantage point it’s always interesting to look at the mental health piece of it: that obviously this young man and most of the shooters we will see, you know, have that mental health diagnosis, or something is obviously going on mental health-wise. It’s very easy to demonize that person, that stigma—that we feel is certainly decreasing—of not wanting

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to open up and not talk about depression or whatever mental illness or mental health episode that might be going on for somebody. Each time that there is a shooting or something in the news that is negative towards mental health, it is easy to see on social media and in other places people demonizing mental illness. And that definitely might make it harder for someone who is battling with those things to even consider talking to Mom, Dad, whatever it is, a counselor about that. How are things going for Community Missions? What kind of changes are you seeing in the community you serve? The one that’s most fascinating for us, and may be interesting to follow back up on three to four months from now, is the amount of food assistance we’re offering is way up. When I started here five years ago, typically we would serve around 75,000 meals between all the different programs. Then a couple years ago we went from 77,000 to 88,000, and I believe it was 89,000 in 2016. It was more than we’ve ever seen, but it was a steady increase. However in 2017, we went from 89,000 meals to 109,000 meals this past year, which is just massive jump. So our food pantry number has gone from about 41,000 meals to 61,000 meals, a 49 percent jump in just one year, which is just literally unbelievable. So the reason we want to follow up in a few months is we’re having some students come in from Niagara University in April. They’re going to be administering surveys to try to get a good sense as to what in the world happened in one year’s time where we had a 50 percent increase.

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FILM REVIEW Last Word, was another showcase for an actress in her 80s, Shirley MacLaine.) Nostalgia is likely to strike a lot of viewers as being precious to the point of twee. The score, full of piano arpeggios and mournful cello lines, seems inspired by Philip Glass’s music for The Hours, another ensemble piece that moved some viewers and annoyed others. Those who buy a ticket are advised to approach it in a contemplative state of mind. ••• If David Cronenberg, the master of biological horror, had been inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, he might have made a film like Annihilation, which arrived in theaters last week as part of an indifferent release by Paramount after selling the international rights to the film to Netflix. Given that overseas markets are where films like this make most of their money, that’s a huge vote of no confidence. The film has been finished and awaiting release for nearly a year, but test screenings indicated to the studio guys that it was too smart for the audiences they’re looking for.

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MINE, MINE, AND MINE NOSTALGIA, ANNIHILATION, GAME NIGHT BY M. FAUST IN A SIGNATURE piece from the middle of his career, George

Carlin used to talk about the value we place on personal possessions—collectively, our “stuff.” “That’s all you need in life,” he reasoned, “a little place for your stuff. A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it.” By the end of the routine, of course, he has repeated the word “stuff ” so many times that it becomes meaningless, which was probably the point to begin with. If Carlin were still alive, it would be fun to take him to a screening of the new film Nostalgia, a rambling essay in dramatic form about the importance we attach to objects, just to get his reaction. One suspects that he would be so torn between agreement and dismissing it that his head would explode. Directed by Mark Pellington from a script he wrote with Alex Ross Perry, Nostalgia follows a chain of characters forced to assess their stuff. Bruce Dern plays an elderly widower whose granddaughter sends an insurance assessor ( John Ortiz) to his ill-maintained apartment to suss out whether he has anything of value on hand. The assessor goes on to visit an elderly woman (Ellen Burstyn) whose house has burned down, leaving her with only a few items to remind her of her late husband. Annoyed by what she sees as the grasping of her son (Nick Offerman),

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OPENING THIS WEEK NOSTALGIA—Ensemble drama in an interlocked series of stories on the theme of the importance we place on objects in our lives. Starring Jon Hamm, Ellen Burstyn, Bruce Dern, Catherine Keener, James Le Gros, Nick Offerman, and John Ortiz. Directed by Mark Pellington (The Last Word). Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst RED SPARROW—Russian ballerina Jennifer Lawrence is recruited for a spy program in which young women are trained to seduce enemy operatives. With Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Joely Richardson, and Jeremy Irons. Directed by Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games). Dipson Eastern Hills, North Park

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (Mexico, 1973)—Alexandro Jodorowsky’s follow-up to El Topo is an essentially plotless but visually spectacular religious odyssey about a messianic figure leading followers to a sacred site where they hope to achieve enlightenment. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time the film has been screened theatrically in Buffalo. WedThu 9:30pm. North Park THE LODGERS—From Ireland, a gothic horror tale about a brother and sister trapped on their family estate by a malign presence that

she takes her valuables to a Las Vegas specialist in collectables ( Jon Hamm). After their business, he pays a trip to his home town to deal with the house his parents have just vacated prior to retirement in Florida. His sister (Catherine Keener) disagrees about his perspective on their stuff, only to be forced to reassess her own life when an unexpected tragedy occurs. That’s what happens from beginning to end, but it’s less a plot than it is a structure for people to reflect and argue about the significance they place in objects that have no meaning to other people (or, in the case of a family heirloom that commands a surprising price on the collectibles market, a wholly unrelated meaning). The biggest dividing line isn’t between those who have more and those who don’t, but between the old an the young, exacerbated by technology that encourages us to own fewer physical artifacts like records and books. While most everyone will be able to identify with at least some of the arguments on hand, the ideas are on the whole less compelling than the skill with which the cast delivers them. On paper, the idea of an old lady grieving at the loss of her house in a fire sounds like a quicksand pit of sentimentality, but Burstyn brings it fully to life. (Pellington’s previous film, 2017’s The

sets out rules for how their can live their lives. Starring Charlotte Vega, David Bradley, and Moe Dunford. Directed by Brian O’Malley. Thu, Fri 7:30pm. Screening Room THE ROOM (2004)—If you thought that James Franco’s portrayal of Tommy Wiseau in the recent The Disaster Artist was unbelievably over the top, wait until you see the real thing. This berserk melodrama by the multiuntalented Wiseau is the best so-bad-it’s good film since the heyday of Edward D. Wood Jr. It has its dull patches, but by no means should you leave before the ending. Co-starring no one that you’ve ever heard of. Fri 9:30pm. Screening Room

CONTINUING ANNIHILATION—A team of scientists heads into an environmental disaster zone in this scifi thriller that has been sitting on the shelf since 2016. Starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson Benedict Wong, and Oscar Isaac. Directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina). Reviewed this issue. AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria BLACK PANTHER—The first big-screen depiction of the superhero created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1966 is at its best when it functions as an epic fantasy film. Chadwick Boseman stars as T’Challa, the king and protector of the fictional African nation of Wakanda, secretly the most sophisticated and technologically society on earth thanks to Vibranium, a metal which literally fell from the sky. T’Challa possesses mystical powers in addition to those granted him by the cat suit he wears, which combines the aesthetics of Batman and the gimmickry of Iron Man. His nemesis is Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), more black militant than Lex Luthor, who

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They’re probably right, but you have to long for the days when Hollywood would take a chance on a movie that a capable and visionary filmmaker gave them. Alex Garland spent the early part of his career writing sci-fi films like Sunshine and 28 Days Later before moving to the director’s chair in 2016 with the indie hit Ex Machina. Working here with a bigger (if not blockbuster-sized) budget, Garland takes on the topic of what extraterrestrial life might be life with an imagination you seldom get in sci-fi cinema. Natalie Portman stars as a cellular biologist who joins a team of scientists sent by the military to investigate what they are calling “the shimmer,” a region in the southeastern US that is bound by unusual lights. From within that area, no communications have been possible, and no team sent into it has emerged. And it’s growing. From there, the less you know the better, other than that Garland spent his production funds wisely with a crew that was capable of bringing to life a unique vision. The movie may be cerebral, but it also packs a gut punch: There’s a bear that is the stuff of nightmares. Garland may not have answers form all the questions that interest him, but that’s never been a bad thing in science fiction. ••• An action comedy about a trio of suburban couples (headed by Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams) whose weekly game night turns into something deadly, Game Night takes an awfully long time to get rolling. At least the first third of the film is nothing but drab exposition and characterization. And while the final result isn’t likely to be on anyone’s list of the year’s best films, it has enough well-executed bits to make you hope that filmmakers John Francis Daley (once a cast member of Freaks and Geeks) and Jonathan Goldstein keep honing their craft. P

dethrones T’Challa and seeks to overthrow the rest of the world. Director/co-writer Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) delivers a colorful spectacular with a mostly black cast. It is the most culturally significant entertainment yet from Marvel, and from Disney. With Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis. —Gregory Lamberson AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria CALL ME BY YOUR NAME—Scripted by James Ivory from André Aciman’s 2007 novel of the same title, this Oscar-nominated film by Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) portrays a crucial affair between a young man in his twenties and a 17-year-old youth having his first physical homosexual experience. Set at an isolated villa in Northern Italy, it is a voluptuously appealing movie, its surface and compositions elegant and compelling, as well as a celebration of carnality. But it’s at least a bit anachronistic given the changes that have occurred in gays’ lives and opportunities since 1983 (when the story takes place). Starring Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, and Esther Garrel. — George Sax Dipson Amherst (ENDS THURS), Dipson Eastern Hills (STARTS FRIDAY) COCO—An aspiring young musician visits the Land of the Dead for guidance in this new Pixar animated film. Dipson McKinley, Four Seasons THE COMMUTER—The latest of Social Securityeligible Liam Neeson’s roles as a kick ass action star (surely the most unexpected career shift since Leslie Nielsen turned to comedy) reunites him with director Jaume Collet-Serra, who has made better-thanaverage use of him in films like Unknown, Ride All Night and Non-Stop. This time Neeson is a commuter whose bad day gets worse on the train ride home when he becomes tasked with a mystery to be solved before it reaches its destination. It’s not as well-tooled as Non-

Stop, and if I hesitate to lay out the mechanism of the plot it’s partly because the way the film sets up its premise is better than the way it executes that premise. But as with most of these Neeson vehicles, you could do worse. With Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, Sam Neill, and Elizabeth McGovern. —M. Faust Dipson McKinley DARKEST HOUR—Gary Oldman may not seem like a likely candidate to portray Winston Churchill, but beneath cosmetic padding and facial reconstruction he gives a bravura performance of the great man as he becomes prime minister of England at one of the lowest points in that country’s history, in he early days of World War II. Churchill was one of the Western world’s greatest political actors, a man acutely aware of his effect on the public, and Oldman captures him as variously pugnacious, smugly self-possessed, rhetorically soaring, acerbic, and sometimes privately abashed. Joe Wright (Atonement) directs in his customary technically emphatic and sometimes gimmicky fashion. While there has been no lack of Churchills on screens small and large recently, this is likely to remain the one huge numbers of people remember. With Ben Mendelsohn, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Lily James. —GS Dipson McKinley, Four Seasons DEN OF THIEVES—“Thieves without fear. Cops without limits,” proclaims the exhausting trailer for this LA thriller in which I couldn’t tell who we’re supposed to be rooting for. Starring Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jordan Bridges, and Dawn Olivieri. Directed by Christian Gudegast. Dipson McKinley, Four Seasons EARLY MAN—From Wallace and Grommit creator Nick Park, a new stop-motion animation feature about cave men. With the voices of Tom Hiddleston, Eddie Redmayne, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall, Richard Ayoade, Miriam Margolyes, and Rob Brydon. AMC

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