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UPS: MICHAEL WHALEN, JAMES MCCARTHY, AND MCCARTHY’S UNNAMED YOUNGER BROTHER, whose stories of child sexual abuse committed by a trusted priest were featured

in an excellent Buffalo News story on Sunday. We’ve been reminded of it recently with the Florida shooting and the Larry Nassar trial, and we’re seeing it again in our own backyard: When ordinary people survive institutional failure, they become more powerful than the giant, well-funded institutions standing in the way of justice. Who is more credible, Emma Gonzalez or Wayne LaPierre? Aly Raisman or USA Gymnastics? Michael Whalen or Bishop Richard Malone? It takes tremendous courage to kick against power. We tip our hat. AFRICAN-AMERICAN LGBTQ ACTIVISTS IN BUFFALO. We got it wrong last week when we gave Queers for Racial Justice credit for organizing a rally to honor the life of Tonya “Kita” Harvey, a transgender woman murdered last month on the East Side. While Q4RJ helped promote the rally and advocate for how Kita was misgendered by police and media, it was a smaller group of activists and close friends that organized the rally, and we want to shout out to them. CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE NATE MCMURRAY. The Grand Island town

supervisor bumped into his opponent, Congressman Chris Collins, at last week’s Pride of Wyoming County Agricultural Dinner. McMurray approached Collins and asked him for a debate; Collins brushed him off. Watch the exchange at dailypublic.com for a good laugh. Kudos to McMurray for drawing out Collins’s bizarre combination of arrogance and cowardice.

DOWNS: BISHOP MALONE AND THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BUFFALO. While the local diocese has made an effort to make things right in the wake of the latest revelations of sexual abuse scandals, we suspect their response is more about public relations and damage control than accountability. The diocese has yet to disclose a comprehensive list of all priests who were suspected of offenses, the parishes they pastored, and the years of their service. Bishop Malone, who is from eastern Massachusetts and rose up through the ranks in the Boston area, has been surrounded by a culture of child sexual abuse covered up by church officials his entire career. He should absolutely know better. A soft cover-up is a still a cover-up. WBEN AND DAVID BELLAVIA. A reader of The Public caught a segment at the end of Bauerle and Bellavia right-leaning radio program last Friday during which Bellavia did a prolonged segment about “how gay people talk.” It was described to us as “super awkward, uncomfortable, and inappropriate.” Curiously, the last hour of Friday’s (March 2) was never uploaded to the station’s on-demand audio section. As we’d rather withhold judgment until hearing it ourselves, we asked for the audio. Station manager Tim Wenger responded to the The Public, saying he’d look into it, but we still haven’t received the audio file review nor a response about Bellavia’s alleged comments on air. In the absence of the audio, a big thumbs-down rushes in for the station, which our columnist Alan Bedenko has described a GOP propaganda machine. ASSEMBLYMAN DAVE DIPIETRO, who, in his wisdom, sent mail invitations (paid for with tax dollars) to selected voters in his district inviting them to a “SAFE Act Forum” at the East Aurora Wesleyan Church this Saturday morning, March 10. While churches, as tax-exempt organizations, are banned from participating in political campaigns on behalf of particular candidates or parties, they are permitted to engage in voter education efforts—to host debates and forums, for example—so long as the efforts are nonpartisan. The subject of the forum seems, in part, overtly political (“the fight to repeal the SAFE Act!”) and, in part, informational (i.e. “information on Pistol Recertification”). Certainly, though, the panelists are all partisan: Sheriff Howard has said he would not compel his sheriffs to enforce the state’s gun control laws; Erie County Clerk Mickey Kearns and DiPietro have made criticism of the SAFE Act planks in their political platforms; and attorney Max Tresmond’s firm brought a lawsuit that sought to overturn the SAFE Act, and has handled other SAFE Act-related cases, always representing the interests of gun owners. Way to put the church where you worship in an uncomfortable P spot, Assemblyman!

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notice. Every student at every one of our public schools deserves the chance to participate in an instrumental music program. If I never had the chance to participate in orchestra, I wouldn’t have had a place in school where I could freely create. I wouldn’t ever have picked up a cello. I wouldn’t be a part of the wonderful band and orchestra community at CHS. I wouldn’t have performed in Albany or at Collage. I wouldn’t have considered a career in music. I wouldn’t have performed on a stage, period. My experiences with the music department at City Honors are such a large part of my personal history. Think of the opportunities you would be denying to young people! I likely do not have to remind anyone that band and orchestra studies, learning an instrument, have been positively correlated with better performance in school. Just in case, here are a fraction of the available statistics and studies showing a positive correlation: From the NAMM (nammfoundation.org):

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• Schools that have music programs have an attendance rate of 93.3% compared to 84.9% in schools without music programs (The National Association for Music Education, “Music Makes the Grade.” Accessed February 24, 2015). • Research at McGill University in Montreal, Canada showed that grade-school kids who took music lessons scored higher on tests of general and spatial cognitive development, the abilities that form the basis for performance in math and engineering (nisom.com/index. php/instruction/health-benefits). • A study of almost one thousand Finnish pupils who took part in extended music classes found they reported higher satisfaction at school in almost every area, even those not related to the music classes themselves (Eerola & Eerola, “Extended music education enhances the quality of school life,” Music Education Research, 2013). • Musically trained children performed better in a memory test that is correlated with general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, visiospatial processing, mathematics, and IQ (Dr. Laurel Trainor, Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior at McMaster University, 2006). • Music education sharpens student attentiveness and equips students to be creative (Arts Education Partnership, 2011). • Everyday listening skills are stronger in musically-trained children than in those without music training. Significantly, listening skills are closely tied to the ability to: perceive speech in a noisy background, pay attention, and keep sounds in memory (Strait, D. L. and N. Kraus, “Biological impact of auditory

COMMENTARY NEWS expertise across the life span: musicians as a model of auditory learning,” Hearing Research, 2013.) • Music and math are highly intertwined. By understanding beat, rhythm, and scales, children are learning how to divide, create fractions, and recognize patterns (Lynn Kleiner, founder of Music Rhapsody in Redondo Beach, California). • Music training not only helps children develop fine motor skills, but aids emotional and behavioral maturation as well, according to a new study, one of the largest to investigate the effects of playing an instrument on brain development (Amy Ellis Nutt, “Music lessons spur emotional and behavioral growth in children, new study says,” Washington Post, January 7, 2015). • Taking music lessons offers a space where kids learn how to accept and give constructive criticism, according to research published in The Wall Street Journal in 2014 ( Joanne Lipman, “A Musical Fix for American Schools,” Wall Street Journal, October 10, 2014). • Group classes require peer interaction and communication, which encourage teamwork, as children must collaborate to create a crescendo or an accelerando (Kristen Regester, Early Childhood Program Manager at Sherwood Community Music School at Columbia College Chicago. Copyright © 2013 Meredith Corporation).

• Playing an instrument teaches kids to persevere through hours, months, and sometimes years of practice before they reach specific goals, such as performing with a band or memorizing a solo piece (Mary Larew, Suzuki violin teacher at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, Connecticut. Copyright © 2013 Meredith Corporation). • More benefits of music for children include learning cooperation, sharing, compromise, creativity, and concentration—skills that become invaluable as they enter school, face new challenges, and begin to form new friendships and develop social skills (© 2015 Program for Early Parent Support (PEPS), a 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization). • Kids who make music have been shown to get along better with classmates and have fewer discipline problems. More of them get into their preferred colleges, too (nisom.com/ index.php/instruction/health-benefits).

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NEWS NATIONAL Bass Pro retail empire, is worth an estimated $4.3 billion. Bass Pro doesn’t just sell firearms (including semi-automatic rifles)—it’s expanding its gun retail business. Last year, it acquired Cabela—another major firearms retailer—for around $4 billion. Bass Pro has also received hundreds of millions of dollars in public subsidies, as we detailed in 2010. Other major gun retailers include Dick’s Sporting Goods and WalMart—whose CEO, Doug McMillon, took in $22.3 million in 2017 and a total of about $61.5 million from 2015 to 2017. But unlike Bass Pro, WalMart and Dick’s have both stopped selling assault rifles (WalMart did so in 2015), and both are now raising the age to 21 for its gun buyers. It will be interesting to see if Bass Pro responds to the pressure to do the same.

THE BANKS Gun manufacturers and retailers couldn’t exist on the scale that they do without the backing of major banks. Wall Street CEOs like Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein, and others are tied to—and profiting from—the firearms industry. Banks that offer lines of credit to major firearms companies include: • Goldman Sachs has been a big backer of Bass Pro. In 2016 it bought $1.8 billion of Bass Pro stock to help finance the acquisition of Cabela.

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THE SHOOTING RAMPAGE LAST MONTH AT MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL PUT RENEWED FOCUS ON THE FIREARMS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY—WHICH, ALONG WITH AMMUNITIONS PRODUCTION, ACCOUNTS FOR AN ESTIMATED $17 BILLION IN REVENUE. THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS—with those from Parkland, Florida leading the way—have staged walk-outs across the nation to protest the firearms industry, the NRA, and industry’s bought-off politicians. It’s starting to feel like it could be some sort of turning point.

Even corporations are feeling the heat over their ties to the firearms industry. A slew of corporate have ended partnerships with the NRA due to public pressure—United Airlines, Delta Airlines, MetLife, and First National Bank of Omaha among them. Dick’s Sporting Goods, a major firearms retailer, has announced that it is halting all sales of automatic weapons, and both Dick’s and Walmart are raising their minimum age to 21 for all gun buyers. BlackStone, the powerful private equity firm headed by billionaire Trump ally Stephen Schwarzman, put out an urgent request to the funds it invests with to “detail their ownership in companies that make or sell guns,” according to the Wall Street Journal. As the Parkland students and others think through questions of strategy, tactics,and targets, it’s worth reflecting on who holds power in—and who profits from—the firearms industry. Who are the billionaires and multi-millionaires that are profiting most off of gun sales in the US? Who are the executives and investors? Who holds power over the decisions that are made within the industry? Some of these individuals come from the firearms manufacturing and retail industry itself—for example, top executives in the companies that produce and sell the guns. Others come from Wall Street—the hedge fund billionaires and big money managers that invest in the gun companies. Still others come from the big banks that finance the gun companies. While a lot of focus has been on the NRA, these other corporations and individuals hold a lot of power over the firearms industry. If banks, investors, and retailers felt strongly that the decisions of gun companies were hurting their owns brands, they could exert a lot of leverage—the threat of pulling their credit arrangements and investment stakes, or limiting or ending gun sales—to force change. 6

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Understanding the powerful figures behind the gun industry helps provide a potential path for challenging it. We put together a list to help readers make sense of the different players who are profiting from firearms sales in the US.

THE GUN MANUFACTURER CEOS The top executives of the major companies that make guns are the most obvious profiteers. Here are the CEOs of the top US gun manufacturers: • P. James Debney, CEO of Smith & Wesson. Debney raked in $5.3 million in total compensation in 2017, and $12.5 million from 2015 to 2017. Debney is a big NRA supporter and a member of its “Ring of Freedom,” an elite club for its biggest (read: seven-digit) donors. Debney told the NRA that “it’s more important than ever that we come together in support of the NRA” and that the organization’s efforts “are critical to the future of the country.” • Anthony Acitelli, CEO of Remington Outdoor. Since Remington is a private company, we don’t know how much Acitelli is compensated—but, given that it’s the second biggest arms manufacturer in the US, with $603 million in sales in 2017, we can be sure it’s a lot. Acitelli is a gun industry lifer— prior to becoming CEO of Remington, he was CEO of Taurus Holdings, the ninth biggest US gun manufacturer. At Taurus, he settled a class-action lawsuit due to the poor quality of its pistols—including that they could discharge when dropped. • Chris Killoy, CEO of Sturm Ruger. Chris Killoy took over in May 2017 as CEO of Sturm Ruger. Before that he was its chief operating officer. As COO, Killoy took in $2.54 million in total compensation in 2016, and close to $5 million from 2014 to 2016. While it’s unknown how much he’s earning as CEO, his predecessor earned $4.27 million in 2016 and around $8.7 million between 2014 and 2016. Killoy is a huge supporter of the NRA and, like Debney, a member of its Ring of Freedom. • Christopher T. Metz, CEO of Vista Outdoor. Metz became Vista Outdoor’s CEO in October 2017, so there’s no data yet on his compensation. But according to the company’s proxy filing, his predecessor took over $25 million from 2015 to 2017. Vista Outdoor owns Savage Arms, a major gun manufacturer, and also makes ammunition and gun accessories.

THE GUN RETAILER CEOS A wide range of retailers sell firearms, including assault-style weapons. One major player in the gun retail industry is Johnny Morris, CEO of Bass Pro. Morris, who founded and oversees the

• Bank of America has a $40 million line of credit with Sturm Ruger. Interestingly, the credit agreement expires on June 15, 2018—a few months from now. Given that Bank of America is feeling the heat over its financing of the gun industry, this could be an opportunity for people to pressure it to not renew the credit agreement. • TD Bank, Branch Bank & Trust, Regions Bank, and Wells Fargo have a $350 million line of credit with the Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation. And there are more—earlier this week, ThinkProgress published a list of 16 banks financing firearms manufacturers: Bank of Montreal, Berkshire Bank, Branch Bank & Trust (BB&T), Capital One, Citizens Financial Group, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley Bank, MUFG Bank, Northern Trust Company, People’s United Bank, Regions Bank, Stifel Bank & Trust, TD Bank, US Bank, and Wells Fargo.

THE HEDGE FUND CEOS Another group of firearms profiteers are billionaire hedge fund managers. One example is Stephen Feinberg, the CEO of Cerberus Capital, a hedge fund that manages around $30 billion in assets. Cerberus owns Remington Outdoors, the second biggest US gun manufacturer. Remington recently filed for bankruptcy and is being restructured, but Cerberus still controls it. In the process of the company’s restructuring, its creditors will become owners— these include Franklin Templeton Investments and JPMorgan Chase Asset Management. As the restructuring moves forward, it will be interesting to see who ends up buying stakes in Cerberus and what direction they take the company related to its production of assault rifles. Feinberg is worth around $1.6 billion. He’s been a big donor to the NRA, and, as a long profile of him in New York Magazine shows, he has long been enamoured with firearms. Feinberg is also close to Donald Trump. He was a member of Trump’s Economic Advisory Council (which disbanded amidst the controversy surrounding Trump’s sympathetic remarks for white supremacists after Charlottesville). Feinberg also gave $678,800 to Trump at a fundraiser. Cerberus owns DynCorp, a major defense contractor. Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly was a paid $166,000 a year to serve as an “advisor” to the company before he entered in the administration. Major pension funds also invest through with Cerberus— for example, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System and the Florida State Board of Administration—and college endowments. Feinberg and Cerberus also own chunks of major companies where millions of people shop, including Avon, Staples, and Albertsons. Another hedge fund manager who has profited off the firearms industry is Paul Singer, the head of Elliott Management, which manages $33 billion in assets. Singer himself is worth around $2.8 billion. Singer and Elliott Management at one point owned 6 million shares of gun retailer Cabela—they held over 11 percent of the company in late 2015. After Singer pressured Cabela to sell itself to rival gun retailer Bass Pro, Singer sold a chunk of its shares, profiting to to the tune of $90 million. Other hedge funds remain invested in the gun industry. For example, Renaissance Technologies—which until recently was headed up by Trump and Breitbart benefactor Robert Mercer— owns about 1.19 percent (around $11.5 million) of Sturm Ruger. Point72 Asset Management—run by Steven Cohen, who until this month had been banned for two years from running hedge funds due to insider trading that went on in SAC Capital, his old firm—owns about 1.8 percent (around $12.4 million) of American Outdoor Brands and about 0.54 percent (around $5.2 million) of Sturm Ruger.

NATIONAL NEWS THE MONEY MANAGERS Another group that profits from the gun industry are the high-powered asset managers that invest trillions of dollars into hundreds of companies through a range of funds. Hundreds of thousands of people and institutions do business with these firms, and they are often some of the largest beneficial owners of publicly-traded companies—indeed, they own a stake in almost everything. They have a lot of leverage if they choose to use it. Some CEOs of huge money managers invested in gun manufacturers and retailers include: • Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock. BlackRock is a giant asset manager that manages $6 trillion in assets. CEO Larry Fink (pictured at center, facing page) earned over $25 million in total compensation in 2016 and pulled in a total $75 million between 2014 and 2016. All told, BlackRock owns a total of almost $350 million of three major publicly traded gun corporations: 16.9 percent of Sturm Ruger stock, worth about $165 million; 11.1 percent of American Outdoor Brands stock, worth about $77 million; and 12.7 percent of Vista Outdoor stock, worth about $106 million. BlackRock reportedly “has questions” for the gun industry now, and as we’ve noted before, Fink has called upon fellow CEOs to be more socially responsible. But Fink and BlackRock— who are currently big investors in private prisons, fossil fuels, vulture banks, and arms manufacturers—have a long way to go on this. • Tim Buckley, CEO of Vanguard Group. Vanguard Group manages $5 trillion in assets. Tim Buckley recently became Vanguard’s CEO at the end of 2017. Vanguard has tried to keep its management compensation a secret, but one report said that its CEO earned $10 to $15 million in 2015. Vanguard has owns over $225 million of three big publicly traded gun companies: 9.5 percent of Sturm Ruger stock, worth about $93 million; 8.3 percent of American Outdoor Brands stock, worth about $58 million; and 9.1 percent of Vista Outdoor stock, worth about $76 million. In November 2017, Buckley was explicit about playing down the importance of “morals” when investing. If you “create the sin factor,” he said, you increase the likelihood that “you will underperform in the long run” (he used Philip Morris—who “has done pretty well, above the market”—as an example). With close to a quarter-billion invested in gun companies, he is living up to his investment philosophy. • Abigail Johnson, CEO of Fidelity Investments. Fidelity oversees around $2.3 trillion in assets. As Fidelity CEO, Abigail Johnson is inheriting the family business. Her grandfather founded the firm in 1946,

BLACKSTONE, THE POWERFUL PRIVATE EQUITY FIRM HEADED BY TRUMP ALLY STEPHEN SCHWARZMAN, PUT OUT AN URGENT REQUEST TO THE FUNDS IT INVESTS WITH TO “DETAIL THEIR OWNERSHIP IN COMPANIES THAT MAKE OR SELL GUNS.” and her father had a long run as CEO too. Abigail Johnson owns around a quarter of the firm and is reportedly worth a whopping $16.8 billion. Fidelity owns 8,570,173 shares of Vista Outdoor—about 15 percent of the company—worth around $125 million. This makes Fidelity the largest beneficial owner of Vista Outdoor. • Martin Flanagan, CEO of Invesco. Invesco manages nearly $1 trillion in assets. CEO Martin Flanagan Flanagan took in $14.6 million in total compensation in 2016 and about $46 million between 2014 and 2016. Invesco has major holdings in three big publicly traded gun companies worth about $104 million in total: 9 percent of American Outdoor Brands stock, worth about $62 million; 3.3 percent of Sturm Ruger stock, worth about $32 million; and 1.2 percent of Vista Outdoor stock, worth about $10 million. All told, Invesco owns around 6.13 million shares of the three companies for a total of In 2016, Flanagan was the highest paid CEO in the state of Georgia—which includes the corporate headquarters of several major corporations. He lives in a lavish mansion in one of Atlanta’s wealthiest districts. While some billionaire investors like Warren Buffet think it would be “ridiculous” to not do business with gun manufacturers, others—like those on this list, especially those from the Wall Street and the big retailers—may be more open to popular pressure to follow the example of the corporations that have begun to loosen their ties with the gun industry. Derek Seidman is a research analyst at the Public Accountability Initiative. LittleSis, where this article first appeared, is a grassroots network that connects the dots between the world’s most powerful people P and institutions.

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ART REVIEW that the original of this photo—housed in a museum in Munich, Germany—was obliterated, destroyed, in a botched cleaning/ preservation attempt. Munich is tangentially relevant here in that another of the works is about bias in a Munich court trying charges of murder of immigrant alien Turks and Kurds in particular—belit sağ is herself of Turkish ethnicity—by members of the neo-Nazi group the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Much of the brief work is devoted to diagrams of the courtroom, with overlays showing visual lines of sight from various locations in the room, by way of illustrating how families of victims and even lawyers for the victims had only a partial view of the proceedings— for instance, they could not see the faces of witnesses as they testified—and visitors present in support of families of victims could not make eye contact with the families.

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AT SQUEAKY WHEEL, BELIT SAĞ ADDRESSES THE MISTREATMENT, AND EVEN MURDER, OF IMMIGRANTS BY NEO-NAZIS IN GERMANY NEO-NAZI TACTICS against the current influx of immigrants

to Germany include sporadic or systematic murder. And if and when the murderers are caught and brought to trial, the courts may show bias in the murderers’ favor—perhaps just inasmuch as they are Germans, but possibly also inasmuch as they are neoNazis—versus the alien status victims, whom the courts would maybe just as soon forget about. And what can the immigrants— the survivor families and community of the victims—do in the face of such injustice? Whatever they can to expose the justice system bias. And whatever they can to preserve memory of the victims. By telling their stories and showing their pictures. Not letting the world forget. Such is the message and import of the video artwork of belit sağ currently on show at Squeaky Wheel. As political art, polemic art, it is strangely flaccid, feeble.

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Albright-Knox Art Gallery 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, on view through May 27. We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, on view Feb 17-May 27. Matisse and the Art of Jazz, on view through Jun 17. Window to Wall: Art from Architecture, on view through Mar 18. 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 the evening of April 6, 2018. 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, Buf8

In one work, she shows photos of some victims—head shots published in the newspaper when they were killed, for the most part apparently cropped from larger photos that would have included other family members or friends, and background context—but then notably fails to tell much or anything of the victims’ stories. Instead, supplying idle comments on the picture and person depicted. In one case speculating, based on the blank background, that the picture was taken in a studio. And she adds, “I wonder what [the victim] was thinking?” In another, because of some background landscape, and the subject is smiling, guessing the picture was taken on vacation, maybe by family or friends. Of another photo, she says, “it’s hard to tell what’s in the background.” Of another, in gray tones and scratchy, surmising that the image was photocopied over several times. Part of the artist’s message seems to be that stories and images are ultimately indelible. But one of the videos seems to tell a different story about photo images. A segment about a famous photo by pioneer photographer Louis Daguerre, the first photo ever of a human subject, or actually two, blurred images of a man seated having his shoes shined and the bootblack shining them on a Paris street. Video captioning by the artist explains

falo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Photographs by Donald J. Siuta, on view through Mar 16. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): 22nd Annual Juried Members Exhibition, traditional works. Juried by Patrick Foran. On view through Mar 16. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. 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, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery. com): Works from the collection. ThuSat 11am-5pm. BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Soft Things Rigidly, works by Rebecca Wing. Opening reception Fri Mar 16, 8-11pm. Every day 4-10pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Opening March 23, solo exhbitions by Chuck Tingley and Mizin Shin. On view through Mar 3. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint.com) The Magic of the “In-Between”

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One bias-laden exchange when a lawyer for one of the victims asks an NSU member on the witness stand something anodyne but slightly off-topic about the witness’s feelings—perhaps before he was a full-fledged member of the NSU—as he watched the rise of the neo-Nazi group, but was quickly shut down by court officials. “We know you are a temperamental woman,” the chief judge tells the lawyer, “but please calm down.” Only one other quote from the court proceedings, the cryptic statement, “I guess I don’t need to further explain the thoughts that crossed my mind,” as reported by an NSU-watchdog group. But out of all context, and we don’t even know who said it. All in all, not much here that would hold up in a court of law. Which the artist might say is not the point. But ultimately seems to be the point. The belit sağ exhibit is called Let Me Remember and continues P through April 14.

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Realm, photography by Sabine Kutt, on view through Mar 29. Opening reception, Fri, Mar 2, 6-9pm. Mon-Fri 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 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 12-5pm.Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Opems: Verbal Visual Combines, work by Michael Basinki, opening Fri, Mar 9. Charles E. Burchfled, The Ohio Years, 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. At This Time, work by Virocode, through May 27. M & T Second Friday event,

second Friday of every month. Fri, Feb 9, 5:30-10pm10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Café Taza (100 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Momentary Canvas, aerial photographs by Jim Cielencki. On view through Mar 29. 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): Chroma Soma, work by Kyla Kegler. Opening reception Thu, Mar 15, 5-8pm. 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

GALLERIES ART CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Annual CEPA Auction preview show, Fri Mar 9, 5:30-8pm. Remains on view through Mar 16. 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 10:30am-4pm. 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. 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 11am4pm, Second Sun 11am-2pm. Reception Apr 15, 6-8 pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Artisanal Capitalism, work by Vandana Jain, on view through Apr 27. Opening reception with artist’s talk Fri Mar 9, 8-11pm. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo. com): Recent work by Caroline Doherty and 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. MonThu 5:30am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, SatSun 8am-6pm. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. 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. TueSat 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 103pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): The Element of Texture, a group exhibit, throughMar 31. Opening reception Mar 23, 7-9pm. 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. Thu-Sat by event.

Pine Apple Company (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/ store/pine-apple-company) Wed & Thu 11am6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. 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. Resource: Art @ Hotel Henry (444 Forest Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14213, facebook.com/ resourceartny): Work by Gary Sczerbaniewicz and Julian Montague on view in the Corridors Gallery, with two large works by Jack Drummer in the stairwell landing. On view through mid-May. 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 126pm, Fri and Sat 12-8pm. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051, riverartgalleryandgifts.com): Wed-Fri 11am-4pm Sat 11am5pm. Ró Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Work by Catherine Willett. Tue-Sat 11am6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Sisti Gallery (6535 Campbell Blvd., Pendleton, NY 14094, 465-9138): Honoring Watercolor, works by Rita Argen Auerbach and Charles E. Burchfield. Fri 6-9pm, Sat & Sun 11-2pm. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Let Me Remember: first North American solo exhibition of artist and videoactivist belit sağ, on view through Mar 23. Tue-Sat, 12pm-5pm. Stangler Fine Art (6429 West Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127, 870-1129, stanglerart.com): Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Closed Sundays. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio.org): Marc Tomko & Alison Mantione, opening reception Fri, Mar 16, 6-8pm. MonFri 9-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Monsters, works by Steve Ardo, on view through Mar 14. Open by event and Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries. org): Light, Line, Color and Space, new acquisitions from among hundreds of recently acquired gifts to the permanent collection. On view through Apr 15. Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017. Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic. Wed-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, on view through May 26. Tue-Fri 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. Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. WASH Project (593 Grant Street, Buffalo, NY 14213): Law Eh Soe, photographs from Burma to Buffalo. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 3481430, wnybookarts.org): Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

COMING ON APRIL 6, 2018 FROM THE PUBLIC BOOKS AND FOUNDLINGS PRESS: WHERE THE STREETS ARE PAVED WITH RUST Essays by Bruce Fisher about Rust Belt economies, environments, and politics. 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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WEDNESDAY MARCH 7 PUBLIC APPROVED

Universal Sigh with Witty Tarbox 9pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St.

[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

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MARGARET ATWOOD AT UB FRIDAY MARCH 9 BRENT MARTONE One for the Road album Recommended if you like: The Postal Service, Brand New, Bright Eyes Brent Martone, better known as the frontman of Buffalo-based indie rock band Head North, released a solo album this week titled One for the Road. The 13-track album comes with the following description: “recorded in my bedroom, with cheap gear, while underemployed at a coffee shop.” The album features production that ranges from emotional vocals and acoustic guitar to minimal, poppy drum machine patterns, and more chaotic, noisy pieces. Highlights include the soaring pop track “20,000,” the Postal Serviceesque “Feel the Bern,” and the reverberated, minimal album closer “See You Soon!” Listen for free on Bandcamp.

8PM / UB CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 103 CENTER FOR THE ARTS / VIP WITH RECEPTION $64, GENERAL $30, STUDENTS $8 [LITERATURE] Now more than ever, thanks to the Hulu TV series based on the novel, Margaret Atwood is best known for The Handmaid’s Tale, which was a finalist for the 1986 Booker Prize.

But her first novel, The Edible Woman, came out in 1969, and she won the Booker Prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin, and two novels in between—1988’s Cat’s Eye and 1996’s Alias Grace— were also Booker finalists. She has published 20 volumes of poetry, 10 books of nonfiction, and a graphic novel; she has written television scripts, opera, and reams of short stories. Even without her impressive bibliography and mantle full of awards earned thereby, her career as an environmental and political activist would make for talk at UB Center for the Arts on Friday, March 9, an event not to be missed. VIP tickets, which include a pre-talk reception with Atwood and general admission tickets can be purchased online; student tickets must be purchased at the UBCFA box office. This is the first in the UB Humanities Institute’s annual series of events, Humanities to the Rescue, which also includes a screening of environmental documentaries on Saturday, March 10, 3-9:30pm, at the UBCFA screening room, curated by UB professor Adam Rome. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

Science After Hours: 8-Bit Dance Party 6pm Buffalo Museum Humboldt Parkway $16

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[DANCE PARTY] It's computer science. And it's sound art. And it's a dance party hosted by the Buffalo Museum of Science on Thursday, March 8, the soundtrack of which is provided by chiptune artists using handheld consoles. SBthree, HangOnGetReady, and Danimal Cannon make the music; CLD provides the visuals. Cash bar. -TPS

Richard Shindell 7pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $20-$25

[FOLK] Richard Shindell is the type of folk musician who can craft a song from front to back with just his voice and a guitar. Holding chords on the neck of his electric guitar and gently patting above the first pickup of the instrument with his open palm, Shindell taps out a percussive, minimal folk tune— “Careless”—with a passion that feels as if he had written the song yesterday. The 57-yearold musician, a resident of both Buenos Aires, Argentina and Port Washington, New York, comes to Babeville’s 9th Ward for an intimate concert this Thursday, March 8. -CP

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[VISUAL ART] The M&T Second Friday event on Friday, March 9 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center is called New Locals, and its focus is Buffalo’s newest residents: immigrant and refugee communities that are transforming the city’s neighborhoods and enriching its cultural fabric. There will be an exhibit of artwork by immigrant and refugee artists, music by Lamin Tang and Rhythm Musical Group, an all-ages art workshop led by Muhammad Z Zaman, a screening Diedie Weng‘s Ming Cafe, and performances by Buffalo String Works and the Resistance Revival Chorus, among other attractions. -TPS

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CARINA AND THE SIX STRING PREACHER The Great Hideaway album Recommended if you like: Pete La Roca, Wayne Shorter, Tom Waits Buffalo based jazz-noir duo Carina and the Six String Preacher released a new record at the end of February titled The Great Hideaway. The EP features five tracks of loungey, vocal jazz that is equally as atmospheric as it is musical. Highlights include the seductive album opener and title track; the moody, minimal “Ashtray,” and bossa novainspired “Boy.” Stream for free on Apple Music.

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SHU LEA CHEANG: FLUIDO & I.K.U. SATURDAY MARCH 10 8PM / HALLWALLS, 341 DELAWARE AVE. / $5-$8 [FILM] “I consider sex as a political statement,” said filmmaker and media artist Shu Lea Cheang

to the online magazine seditionart.com: “Sexuality is a construct, fluid gender is the norm.” Born in Taiwain, Cheang received an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University in 1979. Remaining in New York, she saw the sexual permissiveness of the 1970s give way to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, followed in the 1990s by the even more revolutionary rise of cyberspace. While she has been active in new media art covering multidisciplinary topics, she is best known for I.K.U. (2000), a “sci-fi porn film” that plays like Blade Runner crossed with Liquid Sky. That film brought her to the attention of Lars Von Trier, who was planning to open an arm of studio Zentropa to produce erotic films for women. That was where Cheang first conceived of FLUIDØ, which was recently completed with German backing. The film is set in the year 2060, when the AIDS virus has been eradicated. A mutation of it in certain humans is the basis for a hypernarcotic, illegal and therefore the basis of a ferocious black market. Cheang will present both films on a weekend visit to Buffalo that concludes with an artist’s talk at the UB Department of Media Study’s PLASMA lecture series on Monday at 6:30pm in the UB Amherst Campus’s Center for the Fine Arts, room 112. I.K.U. screens at Squeaky Wheel on Friday, March 9 and FLUIDØ screens at Hallwalls on Saturday, March 10. -M. FAUST

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[INDIE] A pair of indie rock bands are lined up for a fun one at Lockhouse Distillery this weekend. Garage rockers Ugly Sun will be joined by synthy indie-pop band Mutual Friends this Friday, March 9, brought to you by Sunbeam Entertainment. -CP

Vandana Jain Opening at Hallwalls 8pm Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Ave. Free

[VISUAL ARTS] Brooklyn-based artist Vandana Jain‘s work is topical and political: Allow the national flags and corporate logos she frequently incorporates into her pieces to be your guide; and if you don’t detect a position there, enjoy the more explicit messages expressed in pieces like Rejected Hand-Me-Down: Jenny Holzer x Ralph Lauren Polo, a striped polo shirt bearing the words “ALL SURPLUS IS IMMORAL.” The internationally exhibited artist visited Hallwalls last spring in order to conceive a site-specific installation. The show, called Artisanal Capitalism, opens with a reception this Friday, March 9, with an artist’s talk at 8pm. -TPS

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IN TOWN: Local journal steel bellow: A Purely Buffalo Literary and Arts Magazinecelebrated the release of Issue 5.1 last week with readings by Sandy Geary, Tim McPeek, and Ed Taylor at the Second Reader Bookshop in North Buffalo. The journal has been run by local poets Paige Melin and Vincent Cervone for six years, and has remained free with a suggested donation of only a couple bucks since its very first issue. After the reading, Melin revealed that Issue 5.1 would be the penultimate issue of steel bellow, with the final issue—featuring Rick LaClair, J.B. Stone, and Scott Williams—to come this summer. “steel bellowwas founded in 2012 at a time when there was a lull in independent zines being produced in Buffalo,” Melin told Peach Mag. “Buffalo now boasts a number of independent zines that, while not laser-focusing on local writers the way steel bellowalways has, are all doing phenomenal work to represent, energize, disseminate, and celebrate Buffalo’s poetry zine.” It’s hard to imagine that s teel bellow will come to an end, and Buffalo’s poetry community will be forever indebted to the efforts of Melin and Cervone. For now, I suggest getting your hands on a copy of Issue 5.1. A piece from the collection that I’ve had stuck in my head since hearing him read it is “Repousse for Chorus, Audience” by Ed Taylor: It ends, “two people, then three, / a song, then unrehearsed hunger, / instructions in case of fire, / & the last act / a door slowly closing on a form, / a bright pulsing; / & that heart now ours / as we breathe again, / weave into night now / shaped into shining things, wings."

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[HOUSE] Something awesome is happening in the Buffalo house and techno music scene right now.

World-class talent is flooding the city virtually every weekend, with new parties popping up what seems like over night. Near the center of this—I guess it wouldn’t be crazy to call it a renaissance—is Strange Allure, the collective that has been throwing fun, high-quality underground parties for over a year now. Their next party comes this Saturday, March 10 and features Ari Goldman, half of the leftfield house music duo, Beautiful Swimmers. This set is bound to leave you asking the question “Can I get an ID on this?” as it’ll likely be packed with obscure, idiosyncratic, and absorbing house and disco music. With his production partner, Andrew Filed-Pickering, a.k.a. Maxmillion Dunbar, the duo, as Beautiful Swimmers, have put out a non stop stream of engaging house music. If you’re looking for a start, check out their 2013 album, Son, which was released on their Future Times imprint. Expect additional sets by DJ Nasor and Friends of Music. The party is, as usual, set up at an undisclosed location. Location details will be released the day of the show via email for ticket holders and email subscribers. For tickets, ask around. Limited tickets available at door. -CORY PERLA

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[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] The monthly techno party, Pyramid, has a solid night planned for their next installment, this Saturday, March 10 at Gypsy Parlor. New York City-based tech house DJ Christina Crossin will ship in for a late night set at the West Side venue. Formerly known as Chris Cross, the DJ has slowly but surely made her way up the ranks, delivering deep, bassy vibes at venues mostly in her home base in New York City at venues like Output and Verboten. Expect plenty of house, techno, and tech house from the young DJ as well as sets from Kyle Moody and Chad Lock. Oh yeah, and free tacos. -CP

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SPOTLIGHT LIVING unidirectional because if you were to bump it in the wrong direction, you might stay underwater too long and get hurt or die. By rotating in only counterclockwise, the bezel can only move in the direction that would make you ascend early, which is never a problem. Dive bezels are a big topic among watch nerds, and they offer up a fascinating set of design choices for watch designers. One final note on dive watches: If they’re quartz, they need to have a battery life indicator on their face because, if it were to die mid-dive, you’d be in trouble. In the case of dive watches, mechanical ones remain highly popular because the risk of a batter failure wasn’t there, and today mechanical dive watches make for reliable backups to dive computers. I wear one when I dive; thankfully I’ve never had to use it.

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quartz movement inside or a mechanical one may be of little concern to the uninitiated, but horological nerds often make this distinction their very first act of snobbery. The correct opinion is to prefer mechanical movements, and only to conceded to quartz in very special cases.

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Quartz movements keep better time than mechanical ones, but by tapping into the ultraconsistent oscillations of a crystal to keep time these electrical mechanisms bypass the oldworld challenges that face the mechanical watchmaker. Quartz watches also lack soul, according to us watch nerds. The seconds hand jumps from point to point on a quartz watch while mechanical watches “beat” at a certain frequency, sending their seconds hands across the dial in an oddly jagged but consistent rotation called the “sweep.” Anyone who’s watched 60 Minutes knows what a sweep looks like. Deep nerds can tell you how many beats per second there are by observing the seconds hand, and these nerds will endlessly debate the merits of various methods for deriving hi-beat (i.e., fast oscillating) movements whose springs take many days to wind down. Most mechnical watches can run for around 38 hours before stopping, but many mechanical movements can run for eight to 10 days on a single wind. Some six-figure marvels can store months of mechanical power across multiple springs. Unfathomably clever people have sorted these things out, which is part of the magic of the mechanical watch.

it’s hard to fault Heitis for launching quartz watches at first because the initial investment is far more realistic for start up. Now, however, D. J. has proven that Heitis Watches has staying power, and he’s on to the big leagues by launching the Okeanos Explorer, a mechanical dive watch. Named after the mythological God of Freshwater, the Okeanos Explorer dive watch finds its inspiration deep beneath the windblown rollers of Lake Erie. A good watch needs a good story, and the name Okeanos, along with the Buffalo origins, tells just enough story without clobbering us with some elaborate narrative. It’s very Buffalo in that way—no illusions, an understated manner, a quiet pride. For those not familiar with dive watches, these are anachronistic mechanical devices that SCUBA divers used to wear in order to time various aspects of their dives. Until dive computers took over in the late 1980s, a dive watch was essential to the survival of divers. Today they’re more of a lifestyle accessory, but dive watches are also some of the most rugged timepieces available. Qualifying as a dive watch requires meeting technical specifications set up in the International Standards Organization’s description 6425— commonly just called ISO-6425. A dive watch must be legible in total darkness, water resistant to at least 100m depth, accurate to within +/- 30 seconds a day, and it has to meet requirements for resistance to shock, magnetism, and corrosion.

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The most distinctive requirement for a dive watch is the rotating bezel, which is that ring around the watch face with a 60-minute timer on it. By setting the “pip” (the zero-marker) to the minute hand, you simply read elapsed minutes off the bezel. This bezel must be

However, it’s the soul of a mechanical watch that truly fascinates those who drink the horological Kool-Aid. No one seems able to objectively pin down what exactly gives a watch soul, but all agree it’s there, that it matters a lot, and that it’s mechanical, not quartz. All of this is why Buffalo’s own Heitis Watches is so delighted to release their first mechanical watch. In a previous Body Buzz I had gone through Heitis’s three quartz offerings, all fine watches ticking away accurately, if a little soulessly. As a “micro-brand” founded and run by just one really nice guy named D. J. Heider,

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Like most dive watches, the Heitis Okeanos Explorer is a beefy piece of metal with serious heft to it. That weight may bother some people, for for folks like me it’s a welcome reminder of the watch on my wrist. At 42mm across, the Okeanos wears large, but not huge. watch. The winding crown is set at four o’clock instead of the traditional three o’clock position, and this affords a bit more comfort and sleekness. Other than the position of the crown, the case leans toward the shape of renown Omega and Rolex divers. The Okeanos’s numerical font is uniquely square, and the six and nine use what’s called in typesetting an “open counter,” meaning that the numbers don’t connect back onto themselves. If you were to isolate the six, for example, you’d read it as a G. This is a bold deviation from most numerical fonts, and it gives the Okeanos a retro-futuristic vibe. There are two colorways available for the face of the watch: black, red and white like so many classic dive watches, and another that I call the Sabres Combo for its unique blue face with white and yellow accents. If you were shopping for something unique to Buffalo, or for a hockey fan, go for the Sabres Combo. The date window is located at an angle at four o’clock, a position that many watch nerds despise, but which I always think works fine when the winding crown is also at four. My personal preference would have been to eliminate the date window because it would clean up the face and offer more symmetry. Maybe down the road. The solid steel case back is noteworthy, as it holds a rather lovely embossed image of an anchor, a compass rose, and some ropes, not unlike a sailor’s tattoo—very nautical, very retro, very cool. To derive that case back, Heitis went with 316L surgical steel has been “deep pressed” to achieve the design. This process is somewhere between stamping and cutting, and is no joke coming from a micro-brand. Last but very much not least is the movement inside, a hi-beat 9015 automatic winding unit from Miyota. Don’t balk at the Japanese manufacturer, as Japan builds some of the world’s very best watch movements. You’ll find the Miyota 9015 in myriad mechanical watches—some quite expensive. It’s highly regarded for durability, accuracy, and ease of maintenance. Remember you’ll need to wind and set this watch from time to time, but the power reserve is a hefty 48 hours on this one, so you can take if off for a couple days and likely find it still running. In order to back this ambitious venture, Heitis Watches began offering the Okeanos via Kickstarter starting on March 1. “Early bird” discounts are very deep, bringing the cost of the watch down from the $529 retail to just $329 for those looking to help D. J. get this one launched. You can find Heitis Watches at heitiswatch.com, and links to the Kickstarter for the Okeanos Explorer will be there as well. From watches to whisky, Allen Farmelo’s writing celebrates luxury as a pathway to health, sustainability, and joy. He lives in a one-room schoolhouse in the Hudson Valley with two big orange cats. Learn more at allenfarmelo.com and body-buzz.com. P

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Film, Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman sets its title character on a quest for recognition of her basic human rights. This soon proves to be a difficult and soul trying pursuit, one that’s met by hindrance and sometimes vicious opposition. Marina (Daniela Vega), a still-young café waitress, has met her older lover Orlando (Francisco Reyes) after her performance in a Santiago, Chile club where she sometimes sings. It’s her birthday, and the couple began a night of celebration before they returned to his apartment, where, after a session of lovemaking, he suffered a fatal aneurysm. Marina’s trials begin when a cop, called to the hospital by suspicious staff, addresses her as Daniel after reading her ID. She’s transgender and this fact will cause her an expanding series of slights, restrictions, humiliations and abuses. Marina understands her unusual situation and tries to accommodate Orlando’s family, especially Sonia (Aline Küppenheim), his angrily resentful estranged, or former, wife (the movie’s a little vague about this)

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OPENING THIS WEEK BUFFALO INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL—33rd edition of the weeklong festival showcasing short and feature films from around the world. See the preview this issue. Dipson Amherst A FANTASTIC WOMAN— From Chile, the Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film stars Daniela Vega as a transgender woman fighting to mourn her dead boyfriend despite the rejection of his family. Co-starring Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, and Aline Küppenheim. Directed by Sebastián Lelio (Gloria). Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills GRINGO—Action comedy starring David Oyelowo as a milquetoast businessman whose colleagues get him in trouble with drug lords on a trip to Mexico. With Charlize Theron, Thandie Newton, Amanda Seyfried, and Joel Edgerton, whose bother Nash directed. Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE HURRICANE HEIST—Thieves plan to use a category five hurricane as cover to rob the US mint. Starring Toby Kebbell, Maggie Grace, Ryan Kwanten, and Ralph Ineson. Directed by Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious). Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT— Masked psychos terrorize a family of travellers at a mobile home park in this sequel to 2007’s The Strangers. Starring Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, and Martin Henderson. Directed by Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down). Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THOROUGHBREDS—Two sociopathic girls bond at their boarding school over a plan to kill one of their stepfathers. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Olivia Cooke, Paul Sparks, and Anton Yelchin (who died almost two years ago, indicating that the movie has been sitting

Daniela Vega, Pablo Cerda, and Aline Küppenheim in A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantástica).

and his aggressively belligerent, possibly dangerous son (Nicolás Saavedra), but they are disdainful and insulting. Sonia tells Marina, “When I look at you, I don’t know what I’m seeing.” They consider her a repellent trespasser and bar her from Orlando’s wake and funeral. Marina’s quest, then, is to find a way to mourn him without anyone’s permission. In this mission, she musters resolve, courage and a calm intelligence in the face of some very unpleasant tests. She’s almost too impressive for us to believe, but Lelio’s movie (which he co-wrote) and Vega’s careful performance encourage our sympathy and belief.

on the shelf for awhile). Directed by Cory Finley. Dipson Amherst A WRINKLE IN TIME—Ava DuVernay (Selma) directed this adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s perennially popular children’s fantasy novel. Starring Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, and Chris Pine. AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (1945)— Classic adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians, in which 10 people trapped in an island castle try to figure which one of them is plotting to kill off the others one by one. Starring Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez, Mischa Auer, C. Aubrey Smith, and Judith Anderson. Directed by Rene Clair (I Married a Witch). Fri 9:15pm. Screening Room THE BIG CITY (Mahanagar, India, 1963)— Satyajit Ray continued to explore the difficult changes between tradition and modern life in India with this story of an extended family who clash over the need for the mother to take an outside job, especially when her husband is fired and she becomes the sole breadwinner. Starring Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, and Jaya Bhaduri. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst GILDA (1946)—One of the steamiest Hollywood films of the post war period, thanks to Rita Hayworth’s sultry performance in the title role, the center of a twisted triangle involving her mobster husband (George Macready) and her bodyguard (Glenn Ford). Directed by Charles Vidor. Wed 7:30pm. Dipson Eastern Hills DENIAL (2016)—This instructive, frequently absorbing and unexpectedly relevant movie is both a very good introduction to the subject of the Holocaust (even though it’s set much later in time) and an implicit lesson in contemporary provocateur politics. Rachel Weisz stars as Deborah Lipstadt, an American historian who was sued for libel by Holocaust denier David Irving (Timothy Spall). Under British law, Lipstadt was required to prove her charge: that the Nazis actually did murder somewhere from 5.5 to 6 million Jews, along with several

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million non-Jews. The film’s strengths are joined by the unintended but disconcertingly obvious comparisons it makes to the same year’s ugly and disruptive presidential election: it’s hard not to be reminded of Donald Trump’s truth-and-fact ravaging performances by Irving’s audience baiting. With Tom Wilkinson and Andrew Scott. Directed by Mick Jackson (Threads) . —George Sax Sun 4pm. Parkdale School Auditorium, 141 Girard Ave., East Aurora THE GENERAL (1926)—Widely considered Buster Keaton’s crowning achievement, which is to say, one of the greatest comedies in cinema history. He stars as a Southern engineer of a train during the Civil War, and the stunt sequences involving the real, full-sized locomotive are still astonishing. The writers include Buffalo-born Al Boasberg, at the time one of Hollywood’s most popular gag men. Thu 7:30pm. Screening Room

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (2017)—Having spent much of the last decade playing the Swedish police inspector Kurt Wallander on British TV, Kenneth Branagh turns to Belgium’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, in a performance that will remind no one of David Suchet. Even if you’ve never seen Sidney Lumet’s 1974 Oscar-winning adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel, you’re likely already to know how it ends, but that’s not necessarily a drawback: It may even be more interesting watching the plot unfold if you know where it’s going. Branagh (who also directed) puts an all-star cast through their paces with the finest sets and costumes that money can buy, with camerawork as flamboyant as Poirot’s moustache (which in this incarnation is saying a lot). On board are Penélope Cruz,

Lelio hasn’t stacked his deck. Marina isn’t bereft of aid and empathy: There are her friendly boss, her wryly avuncular singing teacher, and her forthright sister. Lelio has directed in a controlled, steady, and unfussy style, except when he’s interrupted things for several brief surreal sequences, of varying effectiveness, that are meant to convey the agitation and sorrow beneath Marina’s equanimity. It occasionally seems that A Fantastic Woman might benefit from a more dramatic tenor (when Marina finally loses it, the eruption seems artificial), and the ending is a little too pat and ceremonial, but the film amounts to an involving depiction of injustices large P and small, and a portrait of grace under their burdens.

Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Derek Jacobi, and Michelle Pfeiffer. —M. Faust Fri, Sat, Tue, Wed 7pm, Sun 6pm. Screening Room TOO HOT TO HANDLE (1938)—Fast-moving action comedy (with gags contributed by an uncredited Buster Keaton) starring Clark Gable and Walter Pidgeon as competing newsreel photographers who make an uneasy truce while search the jungle for the missing brother of aviatrix Myrna Loy. Directed by Jack Conway (Libeled Lady). Fri 7:30pm. Old Chestnut Film Society, Phillip Sheridan School, 3200 Elmwood Avenue, oldchestnut.com.

CONTINUING ANNIHILATION—If David Cronenberg, the master of biological horror, had been inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the result might have looked like this. 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. The less you know the better, other than that writer-director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) 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 for the questions that interest him, but that’s never been a bad thing in science fiction. Co-starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Benedict Wong, and Oscar Isaac. —MF 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 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, Palace Hamburg, 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. —GS Dipson Eastern Hills ENDS THURSDAY COCO—An aspiring young musician visits the Land of the Dead for guidance in this new Pixar animated film. Dipson McKinley THE COMMUTER—The latest of Social Security-eligible 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-than-average 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

REVIEW FILM like 911 and Hitler’s death camps? Film footage of inmate-organized cabarets at the latter offer a surprising perspective on the need for and use of laughter in even the worst of times.

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Another documentary, Rosenwald, tells the genuinely inspirational story of Julius Rosenwald, a child of immigrants who became the president of Sears, Roebuck & Company and then one of America’s great philanthropists. Inspired by Booker T. Washington during the time of Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan, he focused on helping African-American communities in the south, putting up funds to help build more than 5300 schools. A modest man who regretted his own lack of education (in a newsreel speech, he says, “Don’t be fooled into thinking that because a man is rich that he is smart. There is ample evidence to the contrary”), Rosenwald was a man you will be happy to have met.

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the Bible. The conductor of the Jerusalem Philharmonic Orchestra and his wife, the orchestra’s harpist, find their marriage tested by their inability to have children. Enter Hagar, a talented but undisciplined French horn player. Though her friendship with Sarah, she offers to become a surrogate for the couple, a decision that results in a family of mixed Jewish and Arab heritage.

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I was able to pre-screen about half of the films to be shown, and if you asked me to pick a single title for the viewer who could only make it to one movie, I’d have to flip a coin: Everything I saw was equally strong.

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Saturday night’s opening film, Harmonia, adapts the Old Testament story of Abraham and Sarah to modern day Jerusalem, though not so closely that you wouldn’t enjoy it if you’re not up on

Given its title and the presence of comedians like Mel Brooks, Rob Reiner, Carl Reiner, David Steinberg, Sarah Silverman, Judy Gold, and Gilbert Gottfried, the documentary The Last Laugh is likely to attract a sizeable audience. But while Jewish comedy is hardly an unusual topic, filmmaker Ferne Perlstein has a fresh take on it: How can humor exist, and what should it mean, in the shadow of historical calamities

International Jewish Film Festival is this area’s most reliable annual presentation of quality world cinema. This year’s selection includes 12 films over the course of one week, most screened twice. The movies were produced in whole or part in countries as diverse as Denmark, Hungary, Sweden, Poland, Austria, Israel, and the United States.

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The only film in the festival to have previously played theatrically in Buffalo, Menashe is a Yiddish-language drama about a widower in Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community fighting for custody of his son after the death of his wife. Mixing actors with real Hasidim in the Brooklyn neighborhood where the film was made, director Joshua Z Weinstein explores without proselytizing. Some viewers may have trouble with the fact that Menashe doesn’t simply abandon this world that treats him with so little respect, but that’s precisely what makes the film so powerful. The experiences of Jews during World War II and its aftermath may already have been the focus of innumerable movies, but just about every nation in Europe was home to stories that have yet to be told. Across the Waters recounts the efforts of Jews to escape Copenhagen for safety in Sweden when the Nazi’s hands-off policy toward Denmark is broken. Fever at Dawn recreates the true story of Hungarian writerdirector Péter Gárdos’s parents, camp survivors who met through the mail in 1945 from Swedish displaced persons camps where they were suffering from illness brought on by the war. All films will be screened at the Dipson Amherst Theater. Tickets are available at the theater box office and at bijff.com, where you can find a P complete schedule and trailers of the films.

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her involvement with an attack on her Olympic rival Nancy Kerrigan is less than 25 years old, the truth of what happened is less than clear. So director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) and writer Steven Rogers start out their biopic with a disclaimer that it is “Based on irony-free, wildly contradictory and totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and [her ex-husband] Jeff Gillooly.” The result is an enP tertainment that borrows equally from Fargo and Goodfellas, directly addressing the tabloid-reading audience just enough to let them feel off the hook about their complicity in creating such stories. Margot Robbie doesn’t much resemble the real Harding but plays the role with gutsy brio, doing much of her own skating. Oscar winner Allison Janney nearly steals the film as LaVona Harding, who as a mother makes Joan Crawford look like June Cleaver. —MF Dipson McKinley JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE—Reboot of the 1995 movie about a board game that pulls its players into an all too real situation. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, and Bobby Cannavale. Directed by Jake

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FILM AT THE MOVIES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 Kasdan (Sex Tape). Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria LADY BIRD—Greta Gerwig makes her debut as a writer-director in this winning comedy-drama inspired by her own youth as a teenager desperate to get away from a bland suburb of Sacramento. Saoirse Ronan stars as a senior at a Catholic high school, an ordinary girl desperate to be extraordinary, though it’s hard to be special when the exact nature of your specialness isn’t quite clear to you. This generous and perceptive movie covers a year in her life in short, concise scenes. Laurie Metcalf is excellent in a tailor-made role as Lady Bird’s mother, a psychiatric nurse who can’t recognize the nature of her passive-aggressive reactions to her frustrations with family and financial problems. Also starring Tracey Letts. —MF Dipson Amherst, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker 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 ENDS THURS PADDINGTON 2 may look like a children’s movie, but kids are unlikely to enjoy these newest adventures of the “short but polite” talking bear as much as adults will. It takes an adult to truly appreciate Paddington’s good nature, so lacking everywhere you turn these days. And unlike animated movies in which the name-value cast only provides voices, you get to enjoy such sights as Downton Abbey’s Earl of Grantham, Hugh Bonneville, doing yoga splits, or Dr, Who (Peter Capaldi) as a neighborhood crank, or The IT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade as a forensic investigator. Best of all is Hugh Grant as a villainous ham actor who gets to dress up in any number of ridiculous costumes before ending the film with a production number that only Mel Brooks has ever matched. With Sally Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Tom Conti, and Joanna Lumley. Directed by Paul King (The Mighty Boosh). —MF Dipson McKinley PETER RABBIT—The storybook character updated as a badass mofo. Apparently the Paddington movies are not having the influence one might hope. Domhnall Gleeson is joined by the voices of James Corden, Sia, Margot Robbie, and Daisy Ridley. Directed by Will Gluck (Annie). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Maple Ridge, Aurora, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria PHANTOM THREAD—Love it or hate it, another Paul Thomas Anderson film, reuniting him with his There Will Be Blood star Daniel Day-Lewis. Set in London in the 1950s, the slight story charts the relationship between a star dressmaker (Day-Lewis) and Alma (Vicky Krieps), the waitress who becomes his model and mistress. The building where he lives and works is his empire, with his sister (Lesley Manville) as business partner and majordomo, a nicely ordered life that doesn’t allow for an outsider (not for nothing is he named Woodcock). How Alma redresses this imbalance gives what narrative drive there is to a film that gives the impression it would rather have no plot at all to interfere with the director’s love of visual craft. (He serves as his own director of photography.) It’s lovely to look at, and Anderson is capable of immersing you in enough mood to sustain two plus hours, though one wishes he didn’t insist on smothering everything with music. But what you come away with could have been provided with much less effort. Co-starring Harriet Sansom Harris, Camilla Rutherford, and Gina McKee. —MF Dipson Amherst ENDS THURSDAY THE POST—Steven Spielberg’s dramatization of the Washington Post’s struggles to publish the top-secret Pentagon Papers in 1971 may be of some value to casual historians, but at heart it’s no more about Nixon era politics than The Crucible was about the Salem witch trials. Rushed into production earlier this year, The Post is clearly about the need for a free press

BACK PAGE CROSSWORD to stand up against the lies that fuel Trumpism. It’s still a canny piece of entertainment, with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep predictably appealing as Post editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Katherine Graham. But as a cri de coeur, it may only be preaching to the choir: those who need its lesson probably won’t get it, if they see it at all. With Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Sarah Paulson, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Alison Brie, and Michael Stuhlbarg. —MF Dipson Amherst ENDS THURSDAY RED SPARROW—You’ll be disappointed if you go to see this ludicrous thriller expecting to see, as the film’s trailer implies, Jennifer Lawrence as a Russian spy using sex to seduce enemy agents; others will simply be bored. Though her character, a Bolshoi ballerina sidelined by a career-ending injury, does spend time in what she refers to as “whore school” under the unlikely tutelage of Charlotte Rampling, she spends the rest of the movie refusing to use those skills against CIA op Joel Edgerton as she tries to work both sides to her advantage. In clunky Russian accents, characters talk endlessly about events we should be seeing, while Lawrence spends all two hours and 20 minutes with the same impassive expression glued to her face. An exceptional cast— Matthias Schoenaerts, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Joely Richardson, and Jeremy Irons—is stymied under the mechanical direction of Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games). —MF AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Eastern Hills, Dipson Flix, North Park, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE SHAPE OF WATER—Guillermo Del Toro’s tribute to his favorite movie monster, the Creature From the Black Lagoon, is a sophisticated fable for adults as well as a declaration that the Mexican director can make a great film even within the Hollywood studio system. His love for the gill man drips from the screen, but he has much more on his mind than making a creature feature. Sally Hawkins stars as a mute woman, romantically repressed, who works as a cleaning woman at a seaside military installation. Here scientists are conducting experiments on an “amphibian man” captured in the Amazon. Because he cannot speak the two bond, and she determines to set him free in a plot that hews closely to that of Splash, only with far deeper rewards. Del Toro packs a lot into the two hour running time, including numerous valentines to cinema itself. Oscar winner for Best Picture, Director, and Production Design. With Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Doug Jones. —GL Dipson Eastern Hills, Regal Elmwood STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI—Having paid George Lucas $4 billion for the Star Wars franchise, Disney sets about capitalizing on its investment with what they project will be a yearly series of movies. Picking up where J. J. Abrams’s The Force Awakens left off, The Last Jedi finds Rey (Daisy Ridley) imploring Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill, giving the best performance of his career) to train her in the ways of the Force. Meanwhile his twin sister, General Leia (Carrie Fisher, in her final performance), desperately tries to save the Resistance fleet from encroaching enemies. There are space battles galore, featuring the most spectacular special effects yet, a large dose of welcome humor, and the passing of the torch from old characters to new ones. The central conflict between Rey and Darth Vader wannabe Kylo Ren has sufficient weight to hold writer-director Rian Johnson’s pastiche of The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi together, but this Disneyfied universe still doesn’t make much sense: Stay tuned for the next installment. —GL Dipson McKinley (STARTS FRI) THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI— Frances McDormand won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance as a mother whose grief at the rape and murder of her teenaged daughter turns to rage as a year goes by and the police have failed to turn up a culprit. So she hires the titular signs to accuse the local sheriff (Woody Harrelson) of dragging his feet. McDormand manages a remarkable portrayal even as the movie drives her character beyond the borders of implausibility. Writer-director Martin McDonagh (In Bruges), whose working motto is “Guns. Explosions. Blood,” directs in a careful, conservative style and his cast performs impressively, but the behavioral extremes he imposes on his characters work against the redemptive theme he seems to desire. He’s tried too hard to juxtapose divergent moods, ranging from an adolescent-like mischievousness to domestic melodrama. With Kerry Condon, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, P and Abbie Cornish. —GS Regal Transit

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NORWOOD BTWN SUMMER & BRYANT: Freshly painted 1BR, carpets, appliances, mini-blinds, parking, coin-op laundry, sec. sys. Includes water & elec. No pets, no smoking. $695+sec. 912-0175.

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EAST AURORA HOME FOR SALE: 496 Grover Rd. Spectacular waterfront home. Spacious open floor plan with breathtaking views of Cazenovia Creek. Gourmet kitchen, formal dining room, cozy fireplaces, wraparound decks. Stunning perennial gardens. Lots of natural light, ideal for artist studio. Perfect home for entertaining, short drive to ski areas. Must see to appreciate. Call today! 716-998-1343. Coldwell Banker Aubrey Leonard Realty 259 Main St. East Aurora, NY 14052.

RIVERSIDE AREA: 2BR $550/4BR $770 + utilities. Between Tonawanda & Ontario. Call 415-385-1438. ----------------------------------------------------BUFFALO STATE AREA: 3BR single family home $950-1200 + utilities. Call 415-385-1438. ----------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Lancaster, lg bright 2BD upper, hrdwd flrs, laundry, parking. $1200 incl all. 884-0353.

ROOM FOR RENT $400 Per Mo. Incl. util./kitchen privileges Commonwealth off Hertel, 390-7543. --------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE, COLONIAL CIRCLE: Lafayette-Livingston. 2 BR. Hardwood floors, no pets or smoking. Must see. $1150 includes all utilities. 716-912-2906.

UB SOUTH CAMPUS MAIN ST: 1,100 sqft 1brm Heat, Utilities, Appliances, Washer, Dryer, Parking, Furnished, NOW $800 812-6009; ron1812@aol.com.

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

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BIDWELL-ELMWOOD: 2nd floor 2 BR. No smokers, no pets. Utilities included. $950. 885-5835. --------------------------------------------------NORTH BUFFALO: 251 Hartwell (off Delaware), 3BR upper, parking, appliances, storage, porch. No pets. $895+. 875-8890. --------------------------------------------------SOUTH BUFFALO-MCKINLEY PARKWAY: 3-BR lower. Carpeting, appliances, no pets. $800 + sec. 697-9445. ---------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE, COLONIAL CIRCLE/LIVINGSTON: 2BR apts, hardwood floors, skylights, porch, off-street parking, coin-op basement laundry, $1095/$1150. No pets, no smoking. All included, must see. 912-2906. --------------------------------------------------WEGMANS AREA: Studio with utilities and appliances. No pets, no smoking. 479-9313. --------------------------------------------------BRECKENRIDGE: Large 2BR lower. Appliances, hardwood, porch, yard. $760+. 435-8272.

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with NY Dept of State: May 23, 2017. Office of the LLC: 700 Main St, Fl 5., Buffalo, NY 14202. The NY Secretary of

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