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NO TRANSFERS AT CITY HONORS, PLEASE “Putting Children and Families First to Ensure High Academic Achievement for All”—the motto of the Buffalo Public Schools.

#195. Continued cuts at #195 have been rumored and parents are aware that changes may be made without their input again in the near future.

We represent a group of BPS #195 families urging the District to immediately stop the midyear transfers of 5.5 teachers, and for all parties to engage in mediation to resolve this protracted contractual issue.

At a moment when nationwide students are demanding their voices be heard, students should be heard in matters that affect their learning and their schools. We are proud of the steps #195 students have taken to make their voices heard on this issue of transferring their teachers.

During the mediation process, we ask that a creative solution to the teacher aide situation at #195 be arrived at such that the district can better use their resources in other schools. It is apparent to all involved, including students at the school, that requiring 16 aides at #195 is excessive and unnecessary. We understand that #195 is one school in a larger community and we advocate for all Buffalo Public Schools to have the resources they need to ensure high academic achievement for all. We also understand that the labor issue is a contractual legal matter, that the Board of Education publicly acknowledged that the District’s attorney signed off on this contract and made them responsible for it, and that the courts have ruled in favor of the Buffalo Teachers Federation repeatedly. The District and the Board of Education have chosen to disrupt the education of the children they purport to uphold.

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We urge the Board—our elected officials and representatives—to direct Superintendent Cash and the Buffalo Public School District to stop the transfers and engage in mediation, putting children and families first. BPS #195 parents, alumni, and students: Jenna Balducci, class of 2017 Ellen Barnum, parent Janz Castelo, parent Tatyiana Gordon, class of 2016 Rumiz J. Haq, class of 2011 Kushnood Haq, parent Kareem Haq, student Leah Higgins, class of 2016

This situation could have been handled differently by the District and the building administration. The District and the building administration took measures that were not in the best interest of the students, leaving them on the thin ice of the legal system, when at any moment the court could grant the District’s petition to lift the temporary restraining order and to go ahead with the immediate transfer of 5.5 teachers.

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Our children are living with the uncertainty that at any moment their teacher could be transferred out of their school. It appears that the music program will be essentially dismantled and the IB program is also at risk. Most of the 11th grade will be adversely affected if their IB Literature teacher would, at any moment, be required to abandon his planned-out lessons for the year, effectively cancelling the course. How does this make sense?

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Other than two letters to parents, the last one notifying us that 5.5 teachers would be transferred out of CHS on February 27, the Principal has not communicated at all as to how the school would adjust to his decision to eliminate these teachers. Neither the District nor the building administration have held a public, open, all#195 meeting to explain how it is that we are in this situation and how we are going to move forward from here. Limited access meetings have been held by various stakeholders, adding to the divisive, poor communication with families at

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governor, who is feeling the heat from progressives lining up behind presumptive nominee Cynthia Nixon, tweeted last week: “Failing schools, NYCHA, Rikers, what do they all have in common? They have mostly minority populations and they are all being abused. I see my job as Governor to put my thumb on the scales for social justice.” This is an encouraging thing to hear from the governor, but also a bit frustrating for progressives who see the governor as dragging his feet on marijuana, cash bail, solitary confinement, housing policy, and public corruption reforms. You know, the kind of stuff that creates widespread social injustice in the first place? PASTOR LANGON HUBBARD, of the First Presbyterian Church of East Aurora, weathered

a storm of vitriol visited upon him on Facebook by a creature named Nick Orticelli last week. The occasion was Hubbard expressing his reservations about the “SAFE Act Forum” hosted by Assemblyman Dave DiPietro at the East Aurora Wesleyan Church last Saturday that featured four speakers, all of whom favor repeal of the state’s existing gun control legislation. For this and other progressive positions, Hubbard was subjected to long, angry, insulting diatribes from Orticelli, a conservative attack-dog-without-portfolio who works for developer and former Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino’s Ellicott Development. Hubbard responded with grace and firmness, for which he earns our applause. (The forum itself, while certainly partisan, was largely civil, though next time DiPietro might want to warn his pro-property-rights allies that it’s not cool to take over the parking lot at neighboring St. Matthias Episcopal Church without asking permission.) Orticelli is now publicizing another SAFE Act forum at a church, again with a politically partisan, anti-gun-control lineup that includes Paladino. (That’s Thursday, March 15, 7pm, at My Father’s House Church, 140 Pound Road in Elma.) Interestingly, Orticelli is the subject of an order of protection as the result of harassment charges brought against him by a Buffalo activist, which requires that Orticelli surrender any guns he may own to authorities. He has surrendered no guns to date, and no authorities have checked to determine whether he is in compliance with that part of the court order. THE BUFFALO BILLS: No one wins the offseason like the Buffalo Bills.

DOWNS: CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BUFFALO: Apparently, Bishop Richard Malone is “pondering” whether or not to continue covering for priests accused of sexually abusing children. We have a suggestion: don’t do it. The public and the survivors—not only the survivors of clergy-involved abuse but sexual abuse survivors across the spectrum—deserve to see the list of suspected priests be disinfected by the sunlight. Malone has been in the shadow of abusive priests and the system that protects them for his entire career. It’s time he step into the light. FRANK’S RED HOT: There was such a thing as National Ranch Dressing Day, and the

Buffalo-born hot sauce committed the faux pas of recognizing that everywhere outside of Buffalo, wings are known as “Buffalo wings” and that in many godforsaken places outside the 716 they are served with ranch dressing. Nothing gets Buffalo’s dander up like a perceived slight, so one of the region’s most recognized brands straying from its roots was treated like some arch betrayal, as if ranch dressing were a liquefied version of Tom Brady into which folks were dipping their sacred orange wings. But come on, Frank’s, it’s your job to be an ambassador for the wing; everyone knows ranch is just cheapo imposter for the real thing! THE BUFFALO NEWS: The Buffalo (Niagara Partnership) News penned a completely predictable editorial panning laudable efforts underway in the Fruit Belt to create a land trust and put real estate in the community’s hands, a move that would partly shield the historically African-American community from speculation and gentrification. The News correctly points out that real estate creates personal wealth, but then criticizes the land trust for barring developers, who would extract corporate wealth. The creation of a land trust wouldn’t stop home values from rising, but would give the neighbors greater ability to own homes and tether their own boats to the rising valuation. ERIE COUNTY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: A few blocks west of the Fruit Belt

is the brand new $100 million Conventus building, which appears to be on the verge of being sold by Ciminelli Real Estate to a Hong Kong-based company. The project received $4.7 million in IDA tax relief, none of which is expected to flow back to the county after Ciminelli makes a tidy profit. We’ll wait patiently for the Buffalo News editorial board to P explain to us why this is a good thing. 4

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This view of the downtown Buffalo skyline, snapped in 1912 from the New York Telephone Building, is barely recognizable today. The perspective looking north from 16 stories above Church Street reveals only a few familiar landmarks: from left to right, Benjamin Rathbun’s 1833 First Unitarian Church, later known as the Ticor Title Building; the General Electric Tower, also built in 1912; and the Brisbane Building, erected on Lafayette Square in 1895. Virtually every other building pictured has been replaced, either as a result of the building boom of the 1920s or the urban renewal period of the 1960s. A photograph taken from the same perspective today would be dominated by the Edward A. Rath County Office Building. - THE PUBLIC STAFF

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Being able to show up at a polling place on Election Day, register then and there, and vote is the single most effective means of boosting turnout, according to experts. Professors from New York University and American University have found that Election Day registration leads to a three percentage point increase in turnout, on average. I myself was saved from disenfranchisement by same-day registration in 2000 because it was available in Connecticut, where I attended college. Students are just one group that may move frequently— and so do other young people and poor people. In New York, there is no way to legally vote if you happen to move between the registration deadline and Election Day. Anyone who moves between elections and neglects to update their registration to their current address is also unable to vote. “Same-day registration is the one reform that’s consistently proven to have an impact on turnout,” said Tova Wang, senior democracy fellow at Demos, a nonpartisan, New York City-based think tank. “People are highly mobile, especially certain groups, and the deadlines are ridiculously early in a lot of states. There are people who don’t know there are deadlines or don’t know they have to register.” A 2015 study found that many Americans did internet searches on how to register to vote after their state deadline had passed.

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All of these impediments take a toll on turnout: New York State’s was the 11th-lowest in 2016. If Cuomo and the state Legislature want to expand voting access and enable more participation, some reforms will work better than others, voting rights experts said. And history suggests that not all of Cuomo’s ideas will make it into law any time soon. Based on what experts said data has shown in other states, below is a ranking of potential reforms—from most to least effective— at increasing the size and diversity of the electorate.

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COMMENTARY NEWS AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION The precise details can vary by state, but automatic voter registration means that any time a person interacts with a state agency, and presents evidence that they are eligible to vote, that person is automatically registered to vote. That means if you bring your Social Security card when you get your driver’s license, you will be registered to vote. Oregon was the first state to adopt automatic voter registration in 2015, and the results have been impressive. Turnout in 2016 was the state’s highest ever at 70.4 percent of eligible voters, compared to New York’s 57.3 percent, and 44 percent of Oregonians who were registered automatically actually voted. It was especially effective at turning out underrepresented groups. Eligible youth voter turnout rose by seven percentage points, a bigger increase than among the overall electorate. The state also skyrocketed in one year from only 53 percent registration among people of color, ranking 31st in the nation, up to 79 percent, the nation’s second-highest rate. From 2012 to 2016, Latino turnout went up five percent in Oregon and Asian-American turnout increased 17 percent. “We’ve seen potentially transformative effects among young people and people of color,” said Henry Kraemer, national campaigns director for Alliance for Youth Action, a youth empowerment advocacy organization. “[Automatic voter registration] has really tremendous potential to increase representation of people whose voices haven’t been heard,” he said.

EARLY VOTING, VOTE BY MAIL, OR NOEXCUSE ABSENTEE BALLOTS Early voting allows people to stop by a polling place in the week or two leading up to Election Day, while vote by mail allows them to skip the polling place altogether. The former has been widely adopted, while the latter is only used in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington. Anything that reduces the need to appear in person on Election Day could increase participation. Although experts said that a significant effect on turnout is not fully established—and that it will not have as large of an impact as same-day registration—it can’t hurt and may help quite a bit. A new study cited in the Washington Post found that vote by mail increased turnout by 3.3 percentage points in Colorado in 2014. Early voting became more widely adopted during George W. Bush’s presidency, partly in response to the 2000 debacle in Florida. This, combined with the Obama campaign’s outreach efforts in 2008, led to enormous increases in Latino turnout in the Southwest. “Between 2004 and 2008, the share of the Latino vote went from eight percent to 13 percent in Colorado, 10 percent to 15 percent in Nevada and from 32 to 41 percent in New Mexico,” said Simon Rosenberg, president of NDN, a centerleft think tank that specializes in engaging with emerging demographic groups, such as Latinos and millennials. “One of the reasons Republicans have been attacking early voting so savagely is because of that success,” Rosenberg

added, referring to efforts in recent years by Republican legislatures in states like North Carolina and Ohio to scale back early voting. Same-day registration doesn’t eliminate the need to show up in person on Election Day to cast a ballot, which is a problem for many people. “If you have a manual labor job, you don’t know if you’ll be able to get off on Election Day,” Rosenberg said. “Construction workers and nurses don’t necessarily have the flexibility to vote on Election Day.” Voting by mail has proven effective at increasing turnout only among voters who are already registered, so its impact is bigger when combined with automatic voter registration—hence, the impressive turnout in Oregon, which uses vote by mail.

CREATE VOTING CENTERS This is a twofer because it helps both people who don’t know where to go and those who aren’t near their polling place during voting hours. In dense urban areas, where election districts are closely sandwiched together, it can be confusing to know where to vote, especially after moving. Creating centralized polling centers where anyone from within the city or county can cast a ballot ameliorates that problem. It also helps people who are at work or away from home during the day. “Last year, I voted early and I went to a voting center that was not in my precinct but near where I was picking up my son, who was playing baseball,” said Rosenberg, who lives in Washington, DC. “Research shows a lot of the reason people don’t vote is inconvenience.”

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LENGTHEN POLLING HOURS In much of New York state, polls are only open from noon to 9pm for primaries. That’s hardly conducive to maximizing turnout. Why not open at 6am like in the New York City region? And why not keep the polls open until 10pm or 11pm? The impact might be statistically insignificant, but so were the 537 votes separating Bush and Al Gore in Florida during the 2000 presidential election.

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INCREASE THE NUMBER OF POLLING MACHINES AND IMPROVE TRAINING FOR POLL WORKERS Long lines caused by broken or too few voting machines and chaos caused by poll worker errors breaks out in every election, especially in New York City. The hours-long waits can lead potential voters to give up and discourage them from voting in the future. A law requiring a certain number of machines per precinct, with enough to serve as a backup in case one fails, would help. Since it’s impossible to quantify the number of voters who are turned off by long lines, however, there is not good data on how much difference this would make.

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ART REVIEW shooting or stabbing one another—reminiscent at once of the two iconic photos from the Vietnam War, the one of the Vietnamese general summarily executing a captured enemy with a bullet to the brain, and the one of the napalm victim little girl running naked down the road—is called It’s Very Clear, People Must Not Do This to One Another. History past—from before the artist’s time—in a work on the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel tragedy in West Virginia in the 1930s, said to be the worst American industrial disaster ever. An enormous three-mile tunnel through solid rock that was found to contain high levels of silica, to which the 3,000 or so workers in the tunnel remained exposed throughout the digging, with little or no breathing protective equipment—though management personnel, when they had to enter the tunnel, were outfitted with protective equipment—resulting in some 760 listed official deaths from silicosis, though undoubtedly many more unlisted. The piece shows what look like x-ray views of men with black lung disease. History present in a work the artist produced in the 1990s but that could have been made yesterday for the #MeToo movement. It’s called There Must Be No More Violence Against Women, and shows some faces with eyes and mouths sewn shut, amid numerous what look like daddy longlegs spiders, and what look like lily flowers morphing into angels about to fly off upwards.

David Schirm, Howe Town Tune, 1983; mixed media on paper.

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superabundance of artworks by David Schirm in a recent show of his life’s work at Hallwalls, check out the show of less than a score of his paintings/drawings at the Burchfield Penney that makes it all make sense. Art in an art brut vein. The look of outsider art, inept cartoon art, doodle art. But passionate and poignant. With ample titles and handwritten added-in text to make it clear what’s going on. And humor to make it palatable. Back in the day—way back—when artwork had to depict something—before modernist formalist abstraction swept everything else out of the gallery, as it were—but formalist abstraction has had its day and reign, and for some time now depiction has been making a comeback—back in the day, theorists about art—about what was great and what less great— categorized artworks on the basis of genre. Genres such as landscape, portrait, still life, etc. And the highest, most exalted genre was what was called history painting. Basically meaning just narrative painting, art that tells a story. But significant story.

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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 on April 6, BCAT will host a panel on gentrification. Mon-Fri 10am-3pm. Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annakaplancontemporary.art): Susan Reedy: Urban Passage,

Sometimes from secular history, sometimes religious history, from the Bible. If we still categorized as to greater and lesser by genre, Schirm’s art would be in the highest category, history painting/drawing. Significant stories about past matters, but also some present, and even some future. Some stories he must have learned about the way we usually learn about history, that is, at some remove, by reading, studying, etc. Some he learned about directly, through personal experience. The future stories—about things he really has no knowledge or experience of, but then neither does anyone else—are satiric alternative versions of stories people tell who pretend to know. The part he learned from personal experience is about the Vietnam War. Two partial self-portraits in R&R in a hot tub in Japan, and a work called Accumulations from the Country, showing a battle aftermath dispersion of discrete human body parts, nature flora and fauna fragments, and occasional partial demons. Another war aftermath picture—scatter array of body parts again, plus numerous mostly integral female figures—is called When I Go to Paradise I Will Have 72 Virgins, But I Will Spend My Time Looking for My Johnson. Another that about sums up the exceeding dumb criminality of the whole Vietnam enterprise—depicting half a dozen or so naked humans, male and female, calmly and unemotionally

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, 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. 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. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main

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Another present history piece—if not quite current moment, close enough, and relevant enough—on overlooked and uncounted Iraqi citizen deaths in the Iraq war. With a handlettered caption along the bottom of the picture: “The dead lie in piles waiting to be buried. Well, whata ya know about that. The estimates are wrong. It’s not 100,000 dead, it’s more like 200,000…” Plus a futurist series on alternative scenarios to religious Evangelicals cockamamie anticipated rapture event, when supposedly, after an Armageddon fight to the finish with the P demon forces, elect Christian believers—living and resurrected dead—will be caught up into the sky to live with Jesus forevermore. Schirm’s scenarios show Jesus with a laser finger— for zapping devils—and choirs of snowy angels and giddy elect. One particularly unorthodox alternative scenario has the devils winning. The David Schirm exhibit is called Angels and Demons. It runs P until March 25.

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St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Rebecca Wing: Soft Things Rigidly, 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, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Opening March 23, solo exhibitions by Chuck Tingley and Mizin Shin. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint.com) The Magic of the “In-Between” Realm, photography by Sabine Kutt, on view through Mar 29. 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, 8786011, burchfieldpenney.org): Opems: Verbal Visual Combines, Michael Basinksi, on view through Jun 24. 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 25; 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; Object Lids from our permanent collection, 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.

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SENSES FAIL WITH REGGIE & THE FULL EFFECT THURSDAY MARCH 15

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Strong Island 7pm Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St. Free

[SCREENING] The good folks at Burning Books are offering a post-Oscars opportunity to catch up on your viewing of nominated films, with a screening of Yance Ford's documentary Strong Island. The film tells the story of a family that escapes the Jim Crow South for New York City, and then that city's middle-class suburbs, where one of its members meets a tragic, violent death. It's a story about the persistence of racism and injustice, and about grief. The screening, presented in collaboration with Cultivate Cinema Circle, is on Wednesday, March 14. It's free. -TPS

6:30PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $18-$22 [PUNK] Formed in New Jersey in 2002, Senses Fail were your classic

Vagrant Records/Drive Thru Records band—aggressive but not too aggressive, loud, and fun. In 2004, the band released their debut record, Let It Enfold You, which featured sing-along screamo hits like “Lady in a Blue Dress” and begged for comparisons to scene leaders like Taking Back Sunday and Brand New. At the time of the release, frontman Buddy Nielsen was only 20 years old. This year the band released their seventh studio album, If There is Light, It Will Find You, and diving into it, one can’t help but to still picture Nielsen at 20, despite the fact that life has come at him hard; he’s married now, he’s experienced the birth of a child, he’s watched friends struggle with substance abuse, and he has helped his wife battle multiple sclerosis. All of these events have inspired him on the new record. Though the band’s sound hasn’t changed much— emo riffage, pained vocals, epic choruses, and breakdowns galore fill the record—Nielsen’s songwriting has matured and feels more genuine than ever. Senses Fail come to the Town Ballroom this Thursday, March 15 with support from Reggie and the Full Effect (Read our interview with Reggie frontman and new resident of Buffalo James Dewees in our Spotlight section.) -CORY PERLA

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FRIDAY MARCH 16 Doug Tallamy 7pm Niagara Power Vista, 5777 Lewiston Rd. Free

[LECTURE] Doug Tallamy, naturalist, educator, and author of Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in our Gardens (Timber Press, 2007), is returning to this area with a new lecture courtesy of the Western New York Land Conservancy. The book is the seminal and extremely influential work about why and how to use native plants as gardening and conservation tools. The event will be held on Friday March 16, 7-8pm at the Niagara Power Vista, 5777 Lewiston Road in Lewiston. It is a free event, but seating is limited, so register now through eventbrite.com. -JB

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7:30 PM / JUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER, 468 WASHINGTON ST., 2ND FLOOR / FREE

SUNDAY MARCH 18

Born in the Mekong Delta, raised in the Washington, DC area, and now living in Toronto, Hoa Nguyen was nominated for a 2017 Griffin Prize (Canada’s most prestigious literary award) for her book Violet Energy Ingots (Wave Books). The book was well-received by the Boston Review and Publisher’s Weekly. Even the New York Times joined the fray writing, “her poems invoke influences from Sappho to Shakespeare as she rewrites the rights of those played by love, betraying the old appeal to prove fidelity.”

Bill Bellamy 7:30pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $25

[COMEDY] Some people live their lives hoping one day to coin a phrase that becomes ubiquitous. Comedian Bill Bellamy, if nothing else, has achieved that as coiner of the phrase “booty call.” The now 52-year-old comedian coined the phrase on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam back in 1993, and really what else can you ask for as a comedian? Since then he’s appeared on MTV, has hosted Last Comic Standing, and even appeared on a couple episodes of the Nickelodeon show Kenan and Kel. Catch Bill Bellamy at Buffalo’s Helium Comedy Club for five shows, this Friday, March 16 through Sunday, March 18. -CP

Nguyen comes to the Just Buffalo Literary Center STUDIO series this Thursday, March 15 at 7:30pm, along with poets Sasha Steensen and Ryan Kaveh Sheldon. She spoke to The Public not long ago, as she was preparing to return to Vietnam for the first time since she was three years old. This is a sample; read the full interview at dailypublic.com. Did you watch Ken Burns documentary series on The Vietnam War?

Recently I met a white anthropology professor from England, and he asked me this same question, and I said no rather directly, and he seemed confounded by my response. Later I sent him a URL to a thoughtful introductory essay by the writer Dao Strom which introduces the subject well and collects links to the essays and critiques of the series. But what I wanted to say to the white anthropology professor from England was this: Imagine that the French had colonized England, exploiting its natural resources, stealing land, exploiting labor, freely killing English people in rural villages, because, naturally, the English are not considered fully human to the French and they could getting away with murder with impunity. Then imagine that the English people organize and rebel. The French fight to put down this uprising—and then their allies, the Germans, join the French to squash it. This joint effort turns into a German effort—and many other things happen including massive carpet bombing of London and other major cities and surrounding countryside. Historic places are destroyed as are ways of life, millions of civilian English people are murdered in these bombings and attacks. Imagine that there was also a massive herbicidal campaign across the England, Wales, and Scotland and Ireland that goes on for 10 years/20 million of gallons (with massive birth defects and high cancer rates to this day), plus napalm attacks, systematic rape, and entire English towns razed and citizens slaughtered. And then later, the Germans come to call it the "England War." And every year afterwards there are German movies and TV shows of the "England War" featuring All-German soldiers, medics, government officials, the plots and narratives centering Germany as a nation. German films in German on the England War! And in these German films on the "England War," the English people and land of England is slated as mere setting and props. The English people are not people but interchangeable nameless extras with no speaking roles other than un-translated yells and cries: various hapless victims, many villains, sex workers, or just bodies. But didn't say any of that because we were at a holiday party. Ha ha. The Vietnamese are erased constantly from the national narrative—from 12 THE PUBLIC / MARCH 14 - 20, 2018 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM

TUESDAY MARCH 20 inheritance of culture, our own and the culture we are in. Always foreign, other and erased. In conversation with C. A. Conrad about broadcast images of Vietnam and the American war, they noted that "[The Viet depicted there were] just a blur to be erased with bullets." Some critics have written about your poems as beautiful accounts of domestic life. As a woman, and as a mother, is there/was there any trepidation in writing about the domestic life? Last year I spoke with Maggie Smith, who said, "When I became a mother, I didn’t want to write about family and become a 'mommy poet.'" If a woman writes about her family, the reaction is “We expected that from you, why aren’t you writing something more cerebral?”

The writer Ursula K. Le Guin passed away recently. She was a writer and a mother and I read where she spoke to this issue—she said, “I feel a certain obligation to sort of stand up and be counted as a woman who has had kids and brought them up, and also done creative work, which—particularly in the arts—there does seem to be almost a sort of agreement that this can't be done.” I felt a certain obligation to stand up and be counted. It was a punk act of defiance. -KEVIN THURSTON

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[PUNK] There aren’t many Ramones left these days. Johnny, Dee Dee, Joey, and Tommy—all the original members of the iconic New York City punk band have left this planet since the turn of the century. Richie Ramone, the third drummer of the band (from 1983 to 1987) is still alive and kicking, though. And to be honest, those weren’t the worst years for the Ramones: In 1984 they released a back-to-the-basics record, Too Tough to Die, and in 1986 they released maybe one of their best songs since their heyday, “My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down,” which came from the record Animal Boy. Of the band’s three drummers (Marky Ramone fits in there somewhere), Richie, who played more than 500 shows with the band, was perhaps the most aggressive behind the kit. Catch Richie Ramone at Mohawk Place on Tuesday, March 20 with local support from the Barksdales, Chester Copperpot, and the Waves. -CP P

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PEACH PICKS AT PEACH: We got the opportunity to meet Layne Ransom on Friday at Whale Prom, which just so happened to also be the day that we were publishing two of her poems at Peach. There we learned that not only is Ransom an incredibly talented poet, but that she’s also one of the nicest humans on the planet. Her P eachfeature, which includes poems “Queen” and “Discontinued Thunder,” employs natural and fairytalelike imagery. “Queen” in particular is a meditation on longing to be elsewhere. “I would be a voyager / and walk below lonely structures of importance,” Ransom writes, “murmuring about axolotls / while the rain hesitates.” The final line—my favorite—ends “all of us / carrying stars in our crotches.”

IN PRINT: Through Clenched Teeth Edited by Monika Woods, Becca Schuh, and Bryan Woods Triangle House / 2017 / poetry, prose On the last day of AWP, I was on a mission to find the Triangle House table because I hadn’t yet gotten my hands on their first inprint anthology, T hrough Clenched Teeth. Through Clenched Teethis Triangle House’s response to the election of Donald Trump, and features work by contemporary women writers such as Mira Gonzalez, Wendy Ortiz, Melissa Broder, and Chelsea Hodson. I made it within the last 10 minutes of the book fair and was greeted by Chelsea Hodson, who gave sleep masks to me and Rachelle (which we wore on the plane trip home) that advertise her upcoming essay collection, T onight I’m Someone Else, forthcoming from MacMillan. Hodson’s piece in the collection, a prose poem called “Purplish Heart,” explores brushes with fame and love. She finds a world of possibility when she meets a model at a party, who put her hand on Hodson’s shoulder and pardoned herself. “She walked/ around me and never touched me again but I felt like I could/ be famous if I stayed at the party long enough,” Hodson writes. “Why is it/ we always think we’re on the verge of something.” Proceeds from Through Clenched Teethbenefit Planned Parenthood.

IN PRINT: gesture edited By Matthew Sherling and Jason Schenheit The Gorilla Press / 2018 / poetry, fiction, interviews

gesture zine is a collaboration between editor Matthew Sherling and The Gorilla Press p ublisher Jason Schenheit that began in 2012 as an online literary magazine. The new issue is the duo’s first in-print edition, and features work from legends Lydia Davis and Scott McClanahan alongside many Peach c ontributors, including Kimmy Walters, Leah Clancy, Oscar Bruno d’Artois, Jamie Mortara, and Jakob Maier. In the last week since picking up the issue, I’ve told at least six friends about Maier’s poem, “I HAVE A SKATEBOARD,” written after the Slovenian avant-garde pet Tomaž Šalamun. The poem is a stunning blend of the playful and devastating, with lines ranging from “I have accounts on various websites. I keep them until I forget my password” to “I have no one to love. With no one to love I hope to discover time.” For more from Maier, you can find some of his poems in the S eason 1 archive at our website, or better yet, catch him in Buffalo (surprise!) on Saturday, April 14, reading with Jamie Mortara at our Spring Episode.

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[FOLK] Shawn Colvin is proud. And she’s got every right, every reason to be. At 62, her career has taken some unexpected twists, not the least of which was scoring a #1 single and a pair of 1998 Grammy Awards for “Sunny Came Home,” a murder ballad about a gal who’s not content to simply grab the kids and flee her situation for greener pastures—so she burns the house down, with him in it. But Colvin was never looking for chart success and has never thought of herself as a singles-oriented artist. She’s a folkie at the core, and she came of age at a time when the pathways to finding an audience were perhaps less congested, but there were also fewer ways of reaching people. In order to amass listeners, you had to perform, tirelessly trekking from city to city, looking for an audience to connect with. There were no video platforms, no social media networks to help build excitement. She put in the time and paid dues, long enough so that she didn’t even release her debut album, Steady On, until she was already in her 30s. (It, too, snagged a Grammy, for Best Contemporary Folk Album, in 1991.) More so than the residual effects of “Sunny,” it’s likely the grunt work of her early years that enables her to continue packing halls today, recording and regularly embarking on collaborative tours like the one she’s on with country storyteller Lyle Lovett that comes to UB’s Center for the Arts on Thursday, March 15. “I guess I’m a little surprised to be able to continue doing this,” she said, calling from a hotel room where she’d been waiting out a snow storm that’d forced the duo to cancel a gig in Maine the night before. “Twenty years ago, 62 seemed a long way off, in retrospect. But, especially if we’re paying attention to the present state of things, I’m really just grateful more than I am surprised or anything else. I think I’m good at what I do, I believe in myself and I can hold my own, but at the end of the day, that doesn’t mean I get to have a career, that doesn’t mean I’ll definitely sell tickets. I think those things are attributed to the way I built a strong fan base coming up. It’s a slow, steady, grassroots approach and it worked out for me—I made loyal fans. But it’s hard work because you’re going out and opening for the people the crowd really wants to see, you don’t get paid much money, and sometimes you don’t get paid much attention to, either. When I got my deal with Columbia, I got sent around the entire country. I’d spend all day doing radio promos and then finally get to play the gig at night and sometimes not many people would show up. But the outcome is that I built a career.” It’s a career that finds her busier than ever lately. In the last six years she’s published a memoir, released and toured to support her most recent collection of her own songs, All Fall Down, put out her second covers album, toured with Don Henley, toured with Marc Cohn, recorded an album and toured it with Steve Earle and, last year, celebrated the 20-year anniversary of her most commercially successful record, A Few Small Repairs, with an expanded reissue release and full band tour. Each of these jaunts has had a substantially different flavor, and the current run with Lovett is no exception. “With duo shows like these, we’re on stage with each other all night,” she said. “Lyle constantly changes his set list, too, and we don’t discuss it before we go on—he sets the bar high. So, we’re working off of each other, we take turns. It’s a question of dynamics.” Just prior to embarking on the tour with Lovett, Amazon released her latest, The Starlighter, a disc of lullabies taken from a book that Colvin enjoyed as

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a child, Lullabies and Night Songs, written by Alec Wilder and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Though Amazon had initially approached her about recording a children’s album, the results are more compelling and nuanced than something meant exclusively for kids, and the project allowed Colvin to put down her guitar and concentrate exclusively on her vocals—a rare treat for both artist and audience. “I think people will find that I’m using a different part of my voice,” she said of The Starlighter, which is accompanied by a series of intriguing stopmotion animation clips that bring many of the stories to life. “There’s something about playing guitar and singing—one lends itself to the other, it’s a symbiotic relationship. This is a different ballgame, yes. The music is slower, jazzier and not quite as obvious as what you might expect from lullabies.” Colvin describes Lullabies and Night Songs as having become a part of her, and says that singing the songs now, so many years since she first learned them on piano as a child, she understands them better. It’s a clarity that extends well past grasping the subtext of lullabies, however. Colvin says she’s fit from years of swimming, skiing, and running, and often feels like she’s 30. But some aspects of growing older she welcomes wholeheartedly. “You’re going to get more accepting, get wiser, and you’ll slow down,” she said. “You get to appreciate the bullshit you won’t put up with anymore.” Definitely something to look forward to. Catch an acoustic evening with Lyle Lovett and Shawn Colvin at UB Center for the Arts Mainstage Theatre, Thursday, March 15. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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12:30PM / VARIOUS LOCATIONS, [CELEBRATION] Most people here in Buffalo know about the two major parades: the “real” parade, a.k.a. the Old Neighborhood parade in South Buffalo, and the OG parade down Delaware Avenue, which is now in its 78th year. Many don’t know that there’s another parade, in Lackawanna, which has taken place for almost as long—since 1946. Maybe the reason it’s not as popular is because it’s only 98 steps long, from Our Lady of Victory Basilica (767 Ridge Road) to Lackawanna City Hall (714 Ridge Road). If you’re looking to expand passed the 700 block of Ridge Road for your St. Patrick’s Day celebration, we’ve got a list of a bunch of great events to check out all through the week. On Friday, March 16 (or Saturday, March 17), start with dinner at Hardware Cafe in Allentown, where they’re serving up corned beef and cabbage, Irish lamb stew, and bangers and mash, as well as pints of Guinness. From there head to the Buffalo Irish Center (245 Abbott Road in South Buffalo) for their Parades Eve celebration featuring music by Crikwater, the Brothers Blue, a full-band tribute to the Cranberries by Maria Sebastian and Zak Ward along with an open Celtic seisun in the pub led by Cairde, plus dance by Rince Na Tiarna Irish Dance School. In addition, Slow Roll Buffalo will present a St. Paddy’s Pedal Party, a seven-mile bike ride around South Buffalo and the original Old Neighborhood Parade route, free and open to all ages and skill levels. Obviously, there’s a lot to do on Saturday, beginning with the Old Neighborhood St. Patrick’s Day Parade, which marches through the Old First Ward starting at noon. View the parade along South Park Avenue (between Hamburg Street and Smith Street), along Smith Street (between South Park Avenue and Elk Street), along Elk Street (between Smith Street and South Park Avenue), along Hamburg Street (between South Park Avenue and O’Connell Avenue), or along O’Connell Avenue (between Hamburg Street and Louisiana Street). If you end up in the Elmwood Village/Allentown area after the parade there’s

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Punk Rock St. Patrick’s Day at Thin Man brewery featuring Super Tugger or St Paddy’s with Phantasm, Buffalo Brass Machine, and more at Nietzsche’s. Craft beer lovers should just head straight to Community Beer Works on the West Side to pick up their latest brew, Woodruff Pun Intended, a sour gose that’s perfect for the holiday since it looks kinda green from the woodruff, an herbaceous perennial. A little bit off the beaten path, you’ll find Celtic jam band the Town Pants at Buffalo Iron Works. For late-night partying, check out Club Marcella for The Green Party. Then, on Sunday, if you honestly need another parade, there’s the more mainstream United Irish American Association of Erie County Parade, which heads down Delaware Avenue at 2pm. If you’re looking for a great spot to camp out for the parade, head downtown to Babeville— which is along the Delaware Avenue parade route—for some bluegrass from the Observers, Middlemen, Kirckwater, and Catskills Mountain Boys. Then, if you’re hungry for some hip hop and corned beef and cabbage, then Duke’s in Allentown is your spot because they’ll have a whole bunch of DJs and a complimentary buffet full of Irish favorites. Have a safe and happy St. Patrick’s Day. -THE PUBLIC STAFF DAILYPUBLIC.COM / MARCH 14 - 20, 2018 / THE PUBLIC 13

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RUFUS GIBSON PRESENTS: PUNISHER SATURDAY MARCH 17 10PM / GYPSY PARLOR, 376 GRANT ST. / $5 [ELECTRONIC/DANCE] If you’re into techno and house music, you may have noticed Punisher

pop up on the bill of some after parties for one of the country’s most prominent techno and house music festivals, Movement, which happens each year in Detroit. The Detroit native will share a bill with house music heavyweights like Andres and Rick Wilhite, as well as Buffalo native and promoter Rufus Gibson, who’ll bring the veteran DJ to Buffalo for a show at the Gypsy Parlor on Saturday, March 17. It won't be the first time Punisher, a.k.a. Michelle Herrmann, has shared the top-shelf talent; over the years she has shared festival stages with names like Richie Hawtin, Maceo Plex, and the Orb. Expect a set that’ll transcend house and techno. Rufus Gibson will throw down the opening set. -CORY PERLA

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SHOVELS AND ROPE TUESDAY MARCH 20 7PM / ASBURY HALL, 341 DELAWARE AVE. / $25-$30 [ROCK] Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, a.k.a. Shovels & Rope, needed a respite from the intensely personal tunes they wrote for 2016’s Little Seeds—an album that dealt with tragedy, uncertainty and difficult circumstances, albeit with revelatory musical tones. The South Carolinabased husband-and-wife duo are known for their earnest Americana that’s oft-spiked with elements of garage-y rock and always features their gift for harmonizing. The resulting sound is more timeless than vintage, but it has little in common with the current sound of mainstream country music. Having released a second collection of oddball covers in December, Busted Jukebox Vol. 2—in which they re-imagine songs written by others by enlisting additional artists to participate, resulting in some truly unexpected transformations—they’re currently on the road working up new original material in smaller rooms, stopping at Babeville’s Asbury Hall on Tuesday, March 20 along the way. We spoke recently while their tour bus was parked in Boulder, Colorado. During the conversation, a man in a championship wrestling belt stood outside the bus window and began flexing for an imaginary audience. Americana, indeed.

While you may see yourselves in other people’s songs, it’s probably a little less taxing to inhabit them, no? Michael Trent: It’s definitely more fun to work with other people’s material. They’re both satisfying—writing your own stuff and building everything from the ground up is rewarding in a special way, but interpreting other people’s music, especially when we get to collaborate with friends and peers is a fun, creative exercise, and you’re not connected to the song in such a personal way. When you put these covers projects together and invite participants to join you, do you select specific artists for particular songs, or do they get to pick? Is there a list that begins the process? MT: It definitely varies per song. We start with a list of songs we feel would be fun to do in a different style than the original version and a list of artists we could imagine singing them. One of the challenges is to cast them so the results are outside what you’d expect, but not in an ironic way. For example, with the Breeders song “Do You Love Me Now?” we thought, "What if we were to reinvent this and have an alt-country rocker/crooner song it with a sorta NIN beat behind it—what would that sound like?" 14 THE PUBLIC / MARCH 14 - 20, 2018 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM

Cary Ann Hearst: We’re not in the studio with these artists, so the collaborations happen in the space and time of the internet, mainly because everybody’s out on the road. We never know if they’re going to like it or not or whether it’s going to turn out how we wanted it to be, so it’s a fun experiment. MT: If we had our druthers, we’d be doing it all in a room together. But even still, it helps us get to know other artists and builds a sense of community. What you do as a duo is fairly different that what you were doing as solo performers prior to 2008’s Shovels & Rope. Since then, there’s been a lot of recognition, a wider audience, awards, and critical accolades galore. What do you think is speaking to people that maybe wasn’t before joining forces? CAH: Michael and I knew really quickly it was something we could do and do well. We had a lot of time invested in our solo careers and a lot of energy envisioning what we wanted for ourselves. Coming together was a very organic process, and we built our band around this one voice that we create with our two voices. MT: In the beginning we thought, "Wow, we’re not the best musicians, but we sing very well together." I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Kinks, absorbing that type of harmony singing. Cary grew up with more traditional folk and bluegrass, and so we’re able to incorporate a blend of those different types of harmony singing into what we do, and I think that might be what people are reacting to. Is Americana a backlash in response to what modern country has become? Or perhaps it’s an effort at preserving something that seems lost in the country idiom? CAH: It’s a cycle. And don’t hear me wrong, I love Nashville and rhinestones and all that. But if you look back at what happened to country music in the 1960s and 1970s, all of a sudden you had these big sweet string sections on country records…everything was all dressed up with super white gowns, violins, and it projected something classy and gorgeous…nothing hillbilly about it. It became super saccharine pop. In 2018, it’s happened all over again, just in different ways. The production of country music doesn’t have reverence for tradition, necessarily, and there’s been a definite response to that in Americana. It’s a catchall for music that presented a marketing issue, and now Americana artists have access to business and media—but there was no infrastructure for many, many years. I think of the careers of artists like Dwight Yoakam and Lucinda Williams and what a struggle it was to find a spot P for their music. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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SPOTLIGHT MUSIC Full Effect’s new album, titled 41, which was released February 23. 41 came in the wake of the death of his mother and his mother-in-law, who both faced the tumultuous effects of cancer. The album is a compiltation of introspective thoughts from different points of view— Dewees, his father, and his mother—all coping with heartbreak. It also reflects his mother’s final moments in his parents’ house. “In life there are a lot of things you don’t want to do that you have to do,” said Dewees. “There

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Dewees knows that cancer is not something that through the same grieving process. “I know that things will be okay,” said Dewees. “Nothing will ever be the same, things will change, but you will learn how to deal with it, and you will feel some kind of happiness again.” Moving to Buffalo has many positive aspects and put Dewees on optimistic footing. The last song off of 41, “Off Delaware” specifically shows the positivity and hope that his new surroundings bring him. The new friends and relationships he’s built, the pleasures of snow, and playing with Soul Patch, the 1990s cover Meet Buffalo transplant James Dewees, whose band Reggie and the Full Effect plays Town Ballroom on Thursday, March 15.

band which features his friends Keith Buckley and Steve Micciche from Every Time I Die, are only some of many of the reasons he is excited

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Buffalo Sabres, the Buffalo Bills, and, more recently, of the beanie-clad punk rocker James Dewees, frontman of Reggie and the Full Effect and keyboard player for the Get Up Kids. Growing up in Liberty, Missouri, Dewees evinced a natural musicianship, with his musical prowess revealing itself at a young age. When Dewees was five years old, his brother, nicknamed Smack, started taking piano lessons. Dewees could play what his brother was practicing just by listening to what Smack was playing, and his mother knew that he had to have lessons too. At the age of seven, Dewees started taking lessons and added drums to the mix. Dewees won a songwriting competition when he was 13, and he studied music at University of Missouri Conservatory. Although all signs pointed to a career in music, Dewees didn’t imagine this career. In his sophomore year of college, Dewees began to build an impressive punk rock resume. In 1995, Dewees started playing with metalcore band Coalesce, which led to playing keyboards in seminal emo band the Get Up Kids. Dewees proved to be a versatile musician as a three-year touring member of New Found Glory, a sevenyear touring member and then later permanent member of My Chemical Romance, and a brief stint with Biffy Clyro. His instrument catalog is as diverse as the list of bands with which he’s believed; he has been a vocalist, pianist, guitarist, percussionist, drummer, and keyboardist. Though the years of touring with different bands, Dewees wrote his own songs, which manifested in the seven-album solo side project, Reggie

Through a few chance relationships he built as Reggie, the Buffalo seed was planted. A pop punk band of local prominence, Pentimento, was the opening act on the Reggie and the Full Effect tour in 2015, and because of the fast friendship that resulted, Dewees decided to bring them on full time as the Full Effect. For Dewees, who was living in Long Island at the time, it made sense to move to Buffalo to continue to practice, learn, and tour with new bandmates. Dewees’s move to Buffalo came at a somber point in his life, as reflected in Reggie and the

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Dewees. “No one ever focuses on all the good that’s going on; all we do is pay attention to the bad.” Dewees strives to be kind, fair, and honest in his personal life, and to extend that effort to the music world as well. Dewees aims to use his veteran musician status to motivate and nurture the newer bands on the scene, knowing that tough times are a part of the growing pains. “People that want to be musicians will do all of this and put up with everything that’s bad in life just to be at home at night and play their guitar and their piano,” said Dewees. “That is what’s inspiring.” Reggie and the Full Effect is the direct support band for Senses Fail this Thursday, March 15 at Town Ballroom.

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57 Bacon portion

1 1998 Apple rollout

59 Search (through)

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63 Shaped like a zero

10 Dog in early kiddie lit

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31 Walked away from the poker table with cards face down?

68 NPR correspondent Totenberg

32 Leaves off

14 “You’re in trouble!” 15 Buddy, slangily

29 “Guardians of the Galaxy” star Chris 30 Heart chambers

16 Russian speed skater Graf who turned down the 2018 Winter Olympics

69 Wonderstruck

34 Mythical weeper (and namesake of element #41)

70 Bauxite, et al.

35 Caught lampreys

17 Request in exchange for some ones, maybe?

71 “Electric Avenue” singer Grant (who turned 70 in 2018)

38 Took the wrong way?

19 “Roseanne” of “Roseanne” 20 Confused 21 It’s sung twice after “que” 23 “Uh-huh”

72 “I Got Rhythm” singer Merman 73 Abbr. in a Broadway address

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41 People who cut you off in traffic, say 42 Oklahoma city near Oklahoma City 45 Shortest of the signs 47 Meat that somehow sparked a 2017 Arby’s craze

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1 Greek vowel

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49 Pic taken alone, or together (as the name doesn’t suggest)

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51 Extremely

33 The Rock’s real first name

4 Snack notable for its residue

53 Canonized figure 55 Fibula or ulna

36 66 and I-95, e.g.

5 Retiring

37 Surveillance needs, for short

6 Org. that honors sports legends

39 1966 Michael Caine movie

7 Author Kingsley

60 Emotion that’s unleashed

8 Bridge fastener

61 Claim on property

9 Looked closely

62 Crafty website

10 Convulsive sigh

64 Make some eggs?

11 Demand for your favorite band to perform at a county gathering?

66 Ma who says “baa”

40 Pound sound 41 Io’s planet 43 “You’ve got mail!” company 44 “The Great Gatsby,” for one 46 Harry and William’s school 47 General feeling 48 Some circus performers 50 Split into splinters 52 Harnesses for oxen

12 Beast 13 Camping need 18 Palindromic address with an apostrophe 22 1978 Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Sadat 25 Preemie’s ward, for short

54 Garden of Genesis

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55 Scrooge’s outburst

28 Buddy

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