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THEATER: A quick guide to what’s playing on area stages.

CENTERFOLD: Juan Perdiguero, part of Saturday’s 14th Biennial CEPA Auction.

FILM: The Party, The Last Suit, Unsane, Love Simon. Plus capsule reviews.

CROSSWORD: Another devilish puzzle by Matt Jones.

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SPOTLIGHT: Meet musician Benjamin Lieber, a.k.a. Marigold.

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REMEMBERING TIM SENTMAN BY THE PUBLIC STAFF Last Tuesday, a print production day at The Public, we received word that Tim Sentman had died. The news cast a pall over the day, and the sense of loss continues to deepen, here and throughout Buffalo’s cultural community, in which Sentman was a well loved and admired fixture. Printed below is a remembrance composed by his family. At dailypublic.com, we will publish remembrances and photos from his friends and artistic collaborators as we collect them. Good night, Tim, and farewell. You are missed. TIMOTHY PATRICK SENTMAN,

37, passed away on March 12, 2018 in Buffalo, New York. Always the responsible one, he was born on his due date, December 24, 1980, to Chuck Sentman and Christine (Olender) Sentman in Kenmore, New York. He looked up to his older brother Michael, and looked after his younger brother Christopher, and was deeply loved by both. He attended St. Amelia’s School and Kenmore East High School, distinguishing himself in sports by playing football at Kenmore East and receiving a penalty during his St. Amelia’s soccer career for running too fast. His early accomplishments extended to the artistic realm as well. In second grade he won a $100 savings bond in a poster contest sponsored by AAA promoting traffic safety. This was evidently something of a formative experience, as some of his strongest and most admirable traits were his artistic talent, fiscal savvy, and near-compulsive sense of responsibility. Tim’s work ethic was legendary. He started early with a paper route and delivering the news via bicycle every day for several years. His stint as Burger King’s best employee earned him enough to buy his first car, a navy blue Ford Escort with cow-patterned seat covers, with cash. He then went on to work at Toys R Us and stayed there for five years until he was fully vested in his profit-sharing plan. It was there that he met Jerid, his friend who was like a third brother to him. He also became part of his extensive group of friends and they have stayed in touch all these years. He kept working, saving enough to support an extended academic career first at Erie Community College and later at the University at Buffalo, where his fascination with sociology and his love of learning led him to the threshold of a Ph.D.

He worked for many years at Roswell Park, conducting surveys for smoking cessation programs, and most recently as a Quality Assurance Analyst at Liazon, where he loved losing himself in data every day. It was in Buffalo’s art and music scene where Tim truly blossomed. As the eponymous front alien of the face-melting avant-garde progressive rock ensemble Blue Lazer, he introduced the world to his home planet and displayed both his intellect and humor with dazzling and hilarious pieces about kittens delivering pizzas in space, among other topics. He found an artistic home as an essential and beloved part of Buffalo’s Infringement Festival, bringing music, poetry, and spoken word to the streets of Buffalo for nearly 10 years. Playing at the 2017 Music is Art Festival was a highlight, both for him and for those who loved him. Tim was a cherished old soul—brilliant, funny, kind, compassionate. He is survived by his parents, Charles and Christine, brothers Michael and Christopher, his niece Viera and his nephew Damien, and many aunts, uncles, and cousins, and friends in Buffalo, across the country and around the world too numerous to count. He made a difference to all of us and the world is a P little less vibrant for his leaving.

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in a farce of an effort to evade a Freedom of Information Law request from community activist Dan Sack regarding developer Chason Affinity’s project plans for the corner of Elmwood and Forest. On March 6, Sack visited the Permits and Inspections office in Buffalo’s City Hall and asked to see Chason Affinity’s drawings for the project. Chason Affinity’s Planning Board-approved plan calls for 40 or so condominiums, in addition to retail space; because the developer has not yet filed necessary paperwork with the state Attorney General to get approval for the sale of condominiums, Sack wanted to see the plans, to ascertain if perchance the developer intended to switch from condominiums to apartments marketed to students—the sort of project Chason Affinity has done elsewhere. Sack was told the plans were in “code review” and thus unavailable to the public, and that anyway no one knew where they were. So Sack gamely filed a formal FOIL request to see the plans, right then and there. He followed up with phone messages for Permits and Inspections commissioner Jim Comerford and the department’s assistant director, Lou Petrucci. Meanwhile, Sack discovered on the city’s handy new online database that two work permits for the project had been issued in February—one for $25 million worth of work—somewhat contradicting the idea that the plans were still in “code review.” Five business days elapsed without the city acknowledging receipt of Sack’s FOIL request in writing, as required by state law. But Petrucci called SACK on March 13, reiterated that the plans were still under review and unavailable to the public, and told Sack he couldn’t share them because of potential copyright and security issues. The next day, Sack returned to City Hall to ask for a written response to his FOIL request. There he encountered Petrucci, who said once again that he could not share the plans until they’d been approved; they were merely “working documents.” He added that, in any case, Sack had failed to indicate on his FOIL request form why he wanted to see the floor plans. (There is no legal requirement, nor is there space provided in the city’s standard FOIL request form, to explain why a document is being requested.) Sack, with FOIL request form in hand, asked Petrucci to show him where it said he needed to give a reason; Petrucci refused, as he stepped into an elevator, saying that he wasn’t wearing his glasses. The elevator door closed. For good measure, and while he was there, Sack filed a FOIL request to see the work permits issued by the city. The clock is still ticking on that one. We’ll keep you posted. P

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LITERARY FEATURE BABEL series, and a major part of our class activities with the book has been to prepare them for that event, including writing questions to submit to the author for the Q&A session. It wasn’t my purpose to teach the history of the Vietnam War; rather, my goal was to use Vietnam as a case study through which to study American collective memory at work. We began with Peter Davis’ devastating 1974 documentary Hearts and Minds, studied Martin Luther King’s fiery “Beyond Vietnam” speech, and then launched into Nguyen’s book. Most of my students, when I asked, admitted that they knew next to nothing about the Vietnam War and had not learned about it in high school. (Even more unsettling, to me, was that their high school classes had not covered the 1990 or current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, either.) Most had no idea why any of these wars had been started and had no solid opinion about them. So I decided to start our discussion by asking these young people to reflect, and write, about the fact that their country has been at war for their entire lives (most of them are 18). The majority of them had never thought about it; had never thought about it as having any effect on or relevance to their own lives, and, if anything, assumed that our troops “over there” were “defending our freedom.” This opened up an ongoing discussion about the complicity of citizens in supporting, and making possible, what Nguyen calls “the war machine.” As he reminds us, “a war machine is a pervasive system of complicity that requires not only its front line troops but also its extensive network of logistical, emotional, and ideological support.” And further: that complicity is damning evidence of our own inhumanity and our refusal to acknowledge the suffering of others—of those who are “not us” because of their race, gender, religion, or national origin. “War’s obscenity,” asserts Nguyen, “lies not only in broken bodies but also in the complicity of the citizenry…Isn’t there something inhuman and monstrous about carrying on our daily business—indeed, in enjoying ourselves— while people die because of our war machine?”

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THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF MEMORY “I WAS BORN in Vietnam but made in America,” begins Viet Thanh Nguyen’s kaleidoscopic exploration of memory and loss, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. The theme of a divided self, of a deep sense of homelessness, pervades Nguyen’s work. Born in Ban Me Thuot in South Vietnam in 1971 to parents who were immigrants from North Vietnam, Nguyen spent only the first four years of his childhood in the country of his birth. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, his family fled as refugees to the United States. Today he is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His first novel, The Sympathizer, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; in 2017 he was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. His new book of short stories, The Refugees, was published in 2017. He will speak at Kleinhans Music Hall at 8:00 PM this Friday as part of the BABEL series curated by the Just Buffalo Literary Center.

Nguyen’s prose is dizzyingly poetic in both his fiction and nonfiction. He has an unsettling way of unearthing the emotional and cultural minefields we unthinkingly reconnoiter every day: the ways in which we carelessly ignore the concerns of those we have identified as “other”; the way we enfold American nationalism into every corner of our lives without question; the ways in which we support eternal war with the casual cruelty of children—with every purchase, every turn of our car’s ignition key, every phone call or click on the internet, every airplane trip, every house-cleaning session, every bank transaction—each of these a gesture of support for the corporations that also make the tanks and ammunition, that harvest the oil and other resources from the countries we invade and occupy, that enslave the populations we so readily dismiss. Born in Vietnam and made in America, Nguyen’s work negotiates the dense labyrinths of the double consciousness of the refugee. The Sympathizer is to fiction what Nothing Ever Dies is to nonfiction: its unnamed narrator is a conflicted and multifaceted character struggling to define his own identity. The double consciousness that plagues him, as the son of a French Catholic priest and a teenage Vietnamese girl, a child growing up in a world he cannot fit into, powerfully evokes Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man. Nguyen explicitly invokes Ellison’s novel and W.E.B. DuBois’s concept of double consciousness in Nothing Ever Dies, sketching out an intricate

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and strikingly original interpretation of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. He describes the memorial as a work of art that resonates as both metaphorical wound and literal mirror, a black wall that “captures how the dead belong to the living as their own but are also irrevocably other.” In its own doubleness, the black wall gives visitors the uncanny experience “of seeing themselves and being seen by the dead” through both its “embodiment of remembering oneself as well as its evocation of otherness.” In a sense, this book itself reverberates with its own double consciousness, or, perhaps, multiple consciousnesses. Destabilizing the boundaries between memoir and history, between art and politics, between citizen and bureaucracy, between self and other, Nothing Ever Dies indicts a history of American foreign policy inseparable from self-serving nationalist ideologies and— even more unsettling—from an almost pathological streak of inhumanity that most Americans resolutely refuse to see. With a stunning unity of form and content, Nguyen has given us a collage of diverse and sometimes contesting voices that demonstrate the impossibility of either remembering or forgetting with impunity or without complicity. I am teaching Nothing Ever Dies this semester in a First-Year Liberal Arts Seminar at D’Youville College, a course for which faculty choose a theme around which to structure readings and assignments. My theme this semester is “Mysteries of Memory & Feats of Forgetting”; over these 16 weeks, we explore the shadowy drama of human consciousness: repressed and recovered memories, collective memory, cultural memory, trauma, amnesia, and neurological disorders of memory. We’re reading fiction, medical case studies, war stories, science fiction, poetry, film, historiography, and memoir; in our discussions, we work with conflicting perspectives on the reliability and fallibility of memory; look at examples of the relationship between memory and art; debate the responsibility to bear witness; and struggle to comprehend the interdependence of memory and identity. For the course, students first produce a personal memoir project, and then spend the majority of the semester creating an online multimedia collage installation on a topic, person, or event that resonates in American collective memory. We’re reading Nguyen’s book as part of our investigation of the politics of public memory and what (or whose) histories are chosen to be remembered—or erased—in memorials, textbooks, art, movies, and the media. My 40 or so students and I will be attending Nguyen’s upcoming talk in the

What my students have struggled with the most is being confronted by the notion of their own immersion in ideology and identity politics; we Americans persist in imagining ourselves as heroic and perpetually innocent. Navigating the topics of nationalism and patriotism is a thorny business in an American classroom, where my predominantly white students appear stunned at the suggestion of their cultural dominance and the few students of color (three of them Vietnamese Americans) listen avidly but stay absolutely still, as if trying not to be noticed. Nguyen pulls no punches on this subject: “Those with the power to define themselves in relation to others,” he writes, “have the privilege of believing that they themselves have neither identities nor ideologies, neither biases nor politics… The powerful believe themselves to be impartial, unbiased, fair, objective, and universal, and do not like to be reminded that they are not, or that their power depends upon creating and targeting others.” What do words like this, arguments like this, mean to an 18-year-old college student? While responses were varied, many of my students, in their written reflections and verbal comments, have taken these ideas deeply to heart, some writing about their own “double consciousness” experience of being resolutely American and yet now also seeing themselves, for the first time, through the eyes of others. The view from there is not as rosy as the view we have of ourselves from inside our social media pages, safely ensconced in our sleek and well-appointed homes complete with every imaginable device and appliance, consuming the rest of the world with an insatiable appetite for our own entitlement. The view from outside chastens, even shames us; so many of my students came to class asking: what can we do? How can we change—change ourselves, change our country, change our world? How do we go about ending endless war? We found the most inspiring answers to these questions in Nguyen’s insistence on art as a method of waging peace and his call for artists to stand up and speak out against the inhumanity of war and of nationalism, to embody and model the humanity we must strive for if we wish to be an ethical society. We talked about their own projects for this class as projects of what Nguyen calls “just memory”—a memory that demands that we acknowledge the humanity of those we call others while at the same time forcing ourselves to look unwaveringly at our own inhumanity toward those others. The project proposals I am seeing from these firstyear students are ambitious in both scope and purpose. These young Americans are committed to creating, through research, writing, and creativity, works of art that do justice to “the forgotten, the excluded, the oppressed, the dead, the ghosts”—to righting the wrongs of our collective “unjust memory” by demanding of themselves that they allow the Other to compel them to justice. As Nguyen has it, “the genuinely political artist can see across all kinds of borders, beginning with those that separate selves from others. For the artist, politics should ultimately be about abolishing sides, venturing into the no man’s land between trenches, borders, and camps. We need an art that celebrates the humanity of all sides and acknowledges the inhumanity of all sides, including our own. We need an art that enacts powerful memory, an art that speaks truth to power even when our side exercises and abuses that power.” That Nguyen himself is one such artist is clear. My hope is that, in encountering the visionary humanity of his work, my students will locate their own humanity; that they will summon the courage to engage our brutal war machine with their own heads and hearts, letting the diver’s bell down deep into the rage and compassion and creative power that slumbers inchoate within them, ready at any moment to awake. Lizzie Finnegan is an assistant professor of English and director of the Media, Art & Performance Program at D’Youville College. P

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The cast of Carter Beane’s The Nance, playing through March 24 at Manny Fried Theatre.

PLAYBILL PLAYING NOW: BEN BUTLER: Richard Strand’s comedic telling of a serious story: What does a Union Army general do when an escaped slave asks sanctuary at the fort he commands? Through March 25 at Kavinoky Theatre, 320 Porter Avenue, 829-7668, kavinokytheatre.com. BETSY CARMICHAEL’S BINGO PALACE: It’s fun; it’s funny. It’s BINGO! With actual games and prizes. Opening March 23 at Shea’s Smith Theatre, 658 Main Street, sheas. org/SmithTheatre. DISGRACED: Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize, Ayad Akhtar’s play tells the story of an upwardly mobile lawyer, born American and raised Muslim, confronting racial and religious realities and biases. Through March 31 at Road Less Traveled Productions, 500 Pearl Street, 629-3069, roadlesstraveledproductions.org. DON’T BOTHER ME, I CAN’T COPE: Musical revue mixing rock, calypso, and ballads. Through March 25 at Paul Robeson Theatre, 350 Masten Avenue, 884-2013, aaccbuffalo.org. JUNIE B. JONES IS NOT A CROOK: She’s back! Through March 25 at Theatre of Youth, 884-4400, theatreofyouth.org. THE NANCE: Set in the Depression-era theater world of New York City, Douglas Carter Beane’s drama about a burlesque performer who plays an openly gay character at a time when Mayor Fiorello La Guardia seeks to “clean up” the city’s burlesque houses. Through March 24 at Subversive Theatre Collective, Manny Fried Theatre, 3rd floor, Great Arrow Building, 255 Great Arrow Avenue, 408-0499, subversivetheatre.org.

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THE NIGHT ALIVE: A comedy following the exploits and day-to-day of a group of Dubliners scraping out an existence on the streets and in the crowded house they share. Through March 25 at Irish Classical Theatre Company, Andrews Theatre, 625 Main Street, 853-4282, irishclassicaltheatre.com. ‘NIGHT, MOTHER: The story of a daughter informing her mother that she intends to commit suicide. Presented by the BrazenFaced Varlets at through March 24 at Rust Belt Books, 415 Grant Street, 598-1585, varlets.org. THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON: Jason Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the reunion of a high-school basketball squad and the long-held secrets revealed therein. Through April 7 at New Phoenix Theatre in the Park, 95 Johnson Park, 853-1334, newphoenixtheatre.org.

ONGOING: COMEDYSPORTZ: Improvisational comedy every Friday and Saturday, 7:30pm at CSz Buffalo, 4476 Main Street, Amherst, 393-8669, cszbuffalo.com. CSz AFER HOURS: Late(ish) comedy for the 18+ crowd every Saturday, 9:30pm at CSz Buffalo, 4476 Main Street, Amherst, 393-8669, cszbuffalo.com. DIVA BY DIVA & GENTLEMEN PREFER DIVAS: Long-running and popular revues featuring songs, readings, humor, and more—by and about (but not exclusively for) women. At O’Connell & Company, in residence at the Park School, 4625 Harlem Road, 848-0800, oconnellandcompany.com. P

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ART REVIEW white screens, to the drone-like atonal background music of a vintage age film projector. Though not that his work was simplistic. Or for the most part simple and easy to understand. On topics referenced in a range from higher mathematics to post-structuralist French theorist on—among other things—social control and institutions and practices devised to maintain it, Michel Foucault. The panopticon work is redolent of Foucault, as are various other works on subject matters touching on discipline and punishment and control. One room at the Albright-Knox contains a stage-set prison cell— double prison cell actually—for a project about women in prison. Some of the more theory-fraught aspects of some of the work— voiceover commentary you don’t understand, in a film or video you don’t understand either, what’s going on even—you have to wonder: serious or spoof? And ultimately decide: both. Not either/or, but both/and. Conrad could make fun of theory—the pretentious language, the opaque discourse—even as he derived sustenance from it.

Tony Conrad making field recordings, Atlanta, 1965. Image courtesy Tyler Hubby. Photograph by Frederick Eberstadt/LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.

TONY CONRAD RETROSPECTIVE BY JACK FORAN Ars est celare artem. (Art consists in concealing the artistry.) —Horace, Ars Poetica Power is effective when it is transparent, when it is concealed. —Tony Conrad, Vidi Vici AN APT BUT inadequate way to describe Tony Conrad in a word,

he was a revolutionary. He didn’t absolutely overturn and undo Roman poet Horace’s critical dictum about how an artwork should hide—or normally should hide—the toil and sweat that went into making it. (Every film can’t be Fellini’s 8½.) But what he did was notice that the concealment of the artistic effort—which is a lot of what made the work effective—as if whatever the work was saying or doing was a perfectly natural and casual thing to say or do, that no one could possibly object to or question—was much like the concealment of the coercion and violence underpinning political oppression. That was effective because it seemed to occur naturally and casually. Or underpinning gender oppression, that was enabled by seeming to be a natural and casual thing. The way things are and must be. (“It is important for me to be in control,” he says in peremptory direct address to the audience of one of his videos, in the role of artist/director/actor. “It is important for me to be able to keep you in line. It is important for you to stay in line.”)

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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. B. Ingrid Olson: Forehead and Brain, through June 17. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. Amber M. Dixon Dixon Gallery at the Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology (1221 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 259-1680, buffaloartstechcenter. org): 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.

Complicated underpinnings, in art as in the political realm. Making them easier to hide. But all the more so in an age of technology. Of not just painting and sculpture, but multiple and interrelated camera and electronic arts—film, video, television, computer art, internet. Age of the all-seeing, all-surveilling eye. One of Conrad’s artworks currently on show at the Albright-Knox gallery—one of five art venues showing his work, in an area-wide retrospective celebration of the artist, who died two years ago next month—conceives of the modern world as a panopticon, an 18thcentury design for a prison in which all activities of all inmates were continually being observed—or could be being observed— by a single watchman. A supposed means to assure prisoner good behavior, and achieve prisoner reform, via the signally dehumanizing method of total deprivation of privacy. The main concern and central thematic of Conrad’s art was to expose the innards of the artmaking process, to demystify the process, and promote and encourage active participation in it, as a liberating and empowering experience for the otherwise mere as it were audience of artworks. Conrad insisted on the audience as a collaborator in the process, an active contributor to the art. For the sake of the art experience, and tacitly, the real world social and political experience. Part of the way he went about this was by breaking the process down, into its components, its elements. Another way to describe Conrad in a word, he was a minimalist. As in his drone music on a single note—or a few notes, but the same few—repeated over and over. Or in his films—the one he is most famous for, Flicker, consisting of a rapid-fire sequence of alternating black screens and

art): Deviating Lines, Lyn Carter and Pam Glick. Opening reception Fri Mar 23, 6-9 pm. Closing reception and artist talk, Sun Apr 29, 2pm. The exhibition will run through April 29. Sat 12-4 or by appointment. Art 247 (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, theart247.com): Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Joan Fitzgerald, Drawings in Ink, on view On view Mar 23 through May 11. Reception Sat Apr 7, noon-2pm. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-8852251, wnyag.com): 22nd Annual Juried Members Exhibition, modern works installation, juried by Zach Boehler. On view Mar 23 through April 20. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Betty's 13th Annual Staff, Family and Friends Exhibition, on view through May 20. 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

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But nothing he did was more of the essence of his artistic mission than the Studio of the Streets interviews he produced when cable was a new technology and public access TV a novel concept, once a week setting up with two video cameras and a mic in front of Buffalo City Hall to interview anyone who happened along—let them have their say about whatever—about the city, the police, the schools, their neighborhood, their own plans and hopes and dreams—and within the week ran the footage on the public access channel. Along the way encouraging anyone and everyone to produce their own public access broadcast materials. Regularly reiterating on the Studio of the Streets broadcast the premises of the project, that “anyone can do what we do best—talk about what we know and what we want—and anyone can do camera work— look how easy it is—and anyone can make good television—look how we do it…” Segments of the street interviews are on view on monitors at the Albright-Knox and projected on walls at the UB Center for the Arts gallery. A related project in a similar public service vein was his Homework Helper live call-in public access TV program for kids struggling particularly with math homework, but covering all school subjects. And he was fun. “There’s a little bit of fun involved in this, a little bit of imagination,” he says somewhere, about really the full scope of his artmaking. Though with always—or usually—a serious point to the fun. As with the various bizarre musical instruments—some on display at the Albright-Knox, others at UB—he created, mostly from found items, scrap. But you could make music with them, as he demonstrates in a video of one of his performance art works, banging with a stick on various size boxes. Or as in any number of films and videos, such as his military movie with a distinct Keystone Cops flavor. Or the all-white paintings that he thought of as—and sold as, in two senses of the word— extremely long-duration movies (given the way a painted surface will change, darken slightly, over a fifty-year period or so; remove a picture from a wall where it’s been hanging for a few decades, and the area behind the picture will be a few shades lighter than the rest of the wall). Or his musical composition that takes John Cage’s famous 4’33” piece—four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence—to the next level. Conrad’s piece called simply A Piece, the instructions for which explain that there are no instructions— not to mention apparently no music—and performers of the piece should not perform it. In addition to the Albright-Knox and UB components (AlbrightKnox continuing until May 27, UB continuing until May 26), some Tony Conrad events at the Burchfield Penney, including, on April 15, a performance of some of his music (A Piece not listed on the preliminary program). And at Squeaky Wheel, on May 11, a screening of films and videos featuring Tony, submitted by Tony’s friends and students and collaborators. A Tony Conrad exhibit at Hallwalls recently concluded, but further Tony events including film and video screenings and “surprises” are scheduled for fourth P Tuesdays (March 27, April 24, and May 22).

the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): No-w-here, interactive installation by Bernard Aaron Dolecki. Reception Sat, Mar 24, 6-8pm. Fri-Sun 12-6pm. BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Rebecca Wing: Soft Things Rigidly. Every day 4-10pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Solo exhibitions by Chuck Tingley and Mizin Shin. Opening reception Fri Mar 23, 5-8pm. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint.com) The Magic of the “In-Between” Realm, photography by Sabine Kutt, on view through Mar 29. Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib. org): Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City & WWI, 100th Anniversary of America’s Entry into WWI, on second floor. Building Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings in the Grosvenor Rare

Book Room, 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, Michael Basinski, on view through Jun 24. Charles E. Burchfield, 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; Under Cover: objects with lids from the 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):

GALLERIES ART Momentary Canvas, aerial photographs by Jim Cielencki. On view through Mar 29. Caffeology Buffalo (23 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY, 14201): Works by Julie Grygier, through April 5. Canisius College Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library (Canisius College 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208, 8888412, library.canisius.edu): Work by Tom Coyne and Greg Hannen. On view through Apr 7. 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. Thu 12-9pm, Fri & Sat 12-5pm. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 2868200, castellaniartmuseum.org): The Lure of Niagara: Highlights From the Charles Rand Penney Historical Niagara Falls Print Collection, through Sep 9; Appealing Words; Calligraphy Traditions in WNY, through June 3; Of Their Time: Hudson River School to Postwar Modernism, through Dec 31, 2019. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8562717, cepagallery.org): Auction preview exhibition. Remains, on view through Mar 16. Mon-Fri 9am5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Daemen College, Tower & Karamanoukian Galleries of the Haberman Gacioch Art Center (Daeman College Center for Visual & Performing Arts, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY 14226, 839-8241): Undergrad Exhibition of the students from the Visual and Performing Arts program at Daemen College. On view through Apr 13. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com): WedFri 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. WedSat 12-6pm. Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery. com): Member’s exhibit through Apr 28. Opening reception: Fri Apr 6, 7-9pm. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm. GO ART! (201 East Main Street, Batavia, NY 14020): The Kite Boy, paintings by Alex Segovia. Exhibit in the Oliver’s Gallery in the Seymour Dining Room, on view through Apr 7. Where Do I Go From Here? Exhibit by Shirley Nigro in the Rotary Club Room Gallery. Thu-Fri 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Second Sun 11am2pm. Reception Apr 15, 6-8 pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Artisanal Capitalism, work by Vandana Jain, on view through Apr 27. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): “….and what’s the use of talking” recent work by Kristina Siegel and Jörg Schnier. Wed & Fri 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 123pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays. Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo Bunis Family Art Gallery (2640 N Forest Road, Benderson Family Building, Amherst, NY 14068, 688-4033, jccbuffalo. org): Donors Art Show, on view through Apr 30. MonThu 5:30am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am6pm. 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): Urban Arts Collective 2018 Annual Exhibit. Opening reception Fri Mar 23 6-10pm. On view Feb 16-Feb 21. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Passages, paintings by Jeanne Beck. Tue-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 282-7530, thenacc. org): Artists of Color Exhibit in the Townsend Gallery, on view through Mar 18. 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): Mon-Fri 8am-4pm, Closed Sat & Sun. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-8825777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Work by Kyle Butler, Sam Gilliam, Amanda Means, Peter Stephens, Duayne Hatchett, Allyson Strafella. On view through Apr 4. Tue-Fri 10am–5pm. Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-6523270, norbergsartandframe.com): Regional artists from the gallery collection. Tue-Sat 10am–5pm. Harold L. Olmsted Gallery, Springville Center for the Arts (37 N. Buffalo Street, Springville, NY 14141, 716-5929038, SpringvilleArts.org): Joe Ward: Scenes, on view through Feb 24. Wed & Fri, 12-5pm. Thu 12-8pm, Sat 10-3pm.

Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): The Element of Texture, a group exhibit, through Mar 31. Opening reception Mar 23, 7-9pm. Wed-Sat,125pm, 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/pineapple-company) Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am11pm, 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 12-6pm, Fri and Sat 12-8pm. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051, riverartgalleryandgifts. com): Wed-Fri 11am-4pm Sat 11am- 5pm. Ró Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Work by Catherine Willett. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Sisti Gallery (6535 Campbell Blvd., Pendleton, NY 14094, 465-9138): Honoring Watercolor, works by Rita Argen Auerbach and Charles E. Burchfield. Fri 6-9pm, Sat & Sun 11-2pm. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Let Me Remember: first North American solo exhibition of artist and videoactivist belit sağ, on view through Mar 23. Tue-Sat, 12pm5pm. 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 and Alison Mantione. Mon-Fri 9-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Buffalo Fun-a-Day 2018, through Apr 14. Opening reception Thu Mar 22, 6-9pm. 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): Graphic Design Program Student Exhibit, on veiw through Mar 29. Reception Thu, Mar 22, 5-7pm. 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, 348-1430, wnybookarts. org): Nurtured Memories, work by Phyllis Thompson, on view through Apr 18. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm.

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

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THURSDAY MARCH 22 Toronzo Cannon 6pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $15-$19

[BLUES] Those who are up-to-date on the American blues music scene probably recognize the name Toronzo Cannon. The blues guitarist from the South Side of Chicago was nominated last year for Album of the Year in the Blues Music Awards for his album The Chicago Way. Cannon is considered a leader in contemporary blues music, and the 50-year-old musician will bring his show to the Tralf Music Hall on Thursday, March 22 with support from young blues guitarist Hayden Fogle. -CP

North By North, Witty Tarbox, The Rifts, and Nylon Otters 7pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $8

[INDIE] Out-of-towners North by North join a handful of Buffalo-based bands for a solid night of indie rock at Babeville’s 9th Ward this Thursday, March 22. North by North, hailing from Chicago, bring psychedelic garage pop sounds for fans of bands like Portugal the Man. They’ll be joined by Buffalo-based indie rockers Witty Tarbox, the Rifts, and Nylon Otters. -CP

BEAN FRIEND Ataraxy album

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Recommended if you like: Philip glass, Erik Satie, Brian Eno

Nightwish

A new album from Buffalo-based musician Bean Friend titled Ataraxy was released earlier this month. The five-track album contains extremely minimal piano productions and ambient music. The first track dives deeply into minimalism, containing only a handful of notes throughout its five minutes and 20 seconds. In an artist's statement, Friend indicates that the songs were inspired by the feeling of being a new father and the new sensations that brings. “Since becoming a dad, I’ve really come to appreciate the tranquility that night brings, as well as the magical transition that happens at dawn.” Tracks like “Airship” and “Starfish” are slightly more filled out and approach a whimsical, Philip Glass-like quality, but the obvious goal here was to create music with that’s geared toward relaxation, as evidenced by the term “ataraxy,” which is defined as “a state of serene calmness.”

7:15 pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $45-$190

RUSKO THURSDAY MARCH 22 8PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $23-$28 [ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Last time dubstep producer and DJ Rusko was scheduled to come

through Buffalo to deliver his high-octane EDM show, he canceled at the last minute. Not even a year later, he’s coming back, and that’s kind of a big deal. That’s because his last show was canceled after the British musician was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Over the last year the 33-year-old musician from Leeds, England waged a hard-fought battle with gastric lymphoma: He described going days on end not being able to eat, and undergoing escalated chemotherapy. The cancer had spread throughout his body, but he was told his chances of recovering were still good. The powerful chemo treatment was successful, and now, less than a year later, he’s back on tour, and in January, on his birthday, he released a new bouncing, bassy new single, titled “Look Out.” The young DJ and producer, who is widely known for helping to popularize dubstep in the underground with his 2007 Fabriclive mix with then production partner Caspa, returns to the Town Ballroom on Thursday, March 22, presented by MNM Presents. -CORY PERLA

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[HIP HOP] Underground hip hop series Buffalo Boiler Room Session returns for its third edition on Friday, March 23 at the downtown boutique, Free Agent. The event is a showcase for local and regional beatmakers, and this month’s event features Chup The Producer out of Rochester. The producer will be joined by fellow Rochester resident emcee ENox, as well as Buffalo’s Kage Durden, Slowso, Donutxslinger, and DJ Jett. -CP

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The album follows his 2016 release The Moving Decade, a series of haunting and beautiful minimal piano pieces recorded inside of a Silo City grain silo. Stream Ataraxy for free on Bandcamp, or buy the album for $7.

[METAL] Not nearly as well known here in the States as they are in their home country of Finland, Nightwish is, nonetheless, Finland's greatest musical export, selling an impressive nine million-plus albums worldwide and receiving more than 60 gold and platinum awards while also topping various chart and various places. It's a niche sound: symphonic "operatic" metal, and it requires uncommon musical chops to pull it off—and an uncommonly skilled vocalist. Until 2005, three-octave soprano Tarja Tarunen fronted Nightwish, who was then replaced by Anette Olzon, who remained until 2012. Since then, Nightwish has brought on Floor Jansen, formerly of the group ReVamp and, prior to that, After Forever. The band's visit to the Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls on Friday, March 23, is part of a nine-month world tour titled Decades, staged in conjunction with the release of a new compilation of the same name. The shows are said to feature some rarely heard material and audience members are supposed to receive copies of the new compilation for free during the US and Canadian legs of the tour. -CJT

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[INFRINGEMENT] As Infringement Festival season approaches, so do the string of pre-festival showcases. Thinking wishfully, they’ve dubbed the next event the Spring Showcase, and it’ll feature a bunch of kind of off-the-wall musical acts including Hooked on Casiophonics, Bold Folly, and more. Get into the Infringement mood this Friday, March 23 at Nietzsche’s. -CP

10PM / ALLEN STREET HARDWARE CAFE, 245 ALLEN ST. / FREE [DISCO] After our first edition of Let’s Get Lifted, we could hardly wait a month to bring it

back again. It’s finally time for another one, and DJs Bump and Touch, a.k.a. Sike and Chris Baran, are ready. They showed up last time around with a few shoe boxes full of carefully selected 45s and crates of 12-inch singles and LPs that revealed lost disco, funk, and soul favorites. The turnout exceeded expectations and we need you to help us keep it going this month, so come down to Hardware Cafe in Allentown for the next edition of Let’s Get Lifted, this Thursday, March 22. Have a drink, and hit the dance floor on a school night. No charge at the door. -CORY PERLA

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“sludge”— but the band eschews labels. For their gig at Mohawk Place on Sunday, March 25, they’re joined by New York City hardcore mainstays Cro-Mags, known as pioneers for their punkmetal blend, though it’s anybody’s guess what the band will consist of since they’ve has morphed into a collective of sorts without any permanent members. ( John McGowan, A. J. Novello, Mackie Jayson, and Mike Couls are listed as the current lineup). Also on the bill: Cleveland’s FYPM, plus locals Malarchuk and Juggernaut. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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[COMEDY] If you’re a fan of the E! network show Chelsea Lately, you know Cap. Cap, real name John Caparulo, is a standup comedian known for his “everyman” style, as evidenced by his appearances on specials like The Next Generation of Blue Collar. Of course, he’s also appeared on all of the popular late night TV shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Tonight Show. John Caparulo comes to Helium Comedy Club for five shows this Thursday, March 22 through Saturday, March 24. -TPS

Johnny Hart and the Mess 9pm Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar, 253 Allen St $5

[ALTERNATIVE] Four-piece alternative rock band Johnny Hart and the Mess continue their residency at Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar this Saturday, March 24, this time with special guest Mike Zogaria. Fans of Grace Potter and Fitz and the Tantrums, line up for this one—part of DBGB’s monthly series. -TPS

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[AMERICANA] Call them a string band with a twist. Folkfaces takes a contemporary approach to

a tried-and-true musical style, mixing banjo, upright bass, and acoustic guitar with washboard and sax to create a blend of ragtime blues that’s got some jazzy jump (and maybe just a hint of cow-punk here and there). It’s completely organic, which is especially welcome in these digitally moderated

[TRIBUTE] Buffalo-based musician Scot Celani and Beatles tribute band Beatle Magic team up for a tribute to Paul McCartney dubbed "Maybe I’m Amazed." Expect to hear some of McCartney’s Beatles classics as well as his hit solo material this Saturday, March 24 at the Sportsmen’s Tavern. -TPS

musical times, and the band works impressively hard at staying on the road. At Nietzsche’s on Saturday, March 24, they’re joined by like-minded local swingin’ roots enthusiasts, Pine Fever, and the slightly grittier tones of Akron’s the Tenants. Can’t go wrong, especially for $5! Music gets going at 10pm. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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[HIP HOP] A staple of the Buffalo hip hop scene will be spinning hits at Thin Man Brewery this Sunday, March 25. Dr. Ooo will be set up at the Elmwood Avenue brewery for a morning/afternoon hip hop set starting at 11am. It’s wise to make reservations if you’re looking to take advantage of food specials and drink deals. -TPS

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[INDIE] After hanging out at SXSW, playing an unofficial showcase, four-piece indie rock band Hate Club head back in the general direction of their hometown of Albany, stopping in Buffalo along the way. They’ll bring fellow Albany-based band Death Vacation along with them for a show with Buffalo wierdo-indie rock band honeycoma at Milkie’s on Sunday, March 25. -CP

TUESDAY MARCH 27 Pop Evil 6:30pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $22-$25

WILD CHILD TUESDAY MARCH 27 7PM / BUFFALO IRON WORKS, 49 ILLINOIS ST. / $18 [INDIE] Since releasing their 2011 debit, Pillow Talk, Austin’s Wild Child has sustained an

impressive indie buzz, which landed them on Late Night with Craig Ferguson in 2013, while promoting their Ben Kweller-produced second album The Runaround. Taking a unique approach to indie-pop with a gypsy-tinged undercurrent, the newly expanded seven piece (including violin, trumpet, cello, harmonica and trombone among all the usual instruments) just released its fourth full length, Expectations, on Dualtone last month. The disc revels in the band’s adventurous spirit

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as it’s split amongst six different producers, including Chris Walla, formerly off Death Cab for Cutie. At Buffalo Iron Works on Sunday, March 25, they’re joined by Wild Reeds, once a harmony-driven outfit from California that has more recently morphed into an indie-folk band with a bit of an edge. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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[ROCK] Pop Evil, as a name for a band, makes sense for the hard rock band that formed in Michigan in 2001; much better than their former name TenFive. As a band, they’ve oscillated, in a sense, from evil to pop, moving from darker tones on their 2013 album Onyx, to lighter, poppier sounds on 2015’s Up. Their latest, the self-titled album that was released earlier this year, cranks it up one again to a heavier sound; a return to form in some ways. Catch the post-grunge outfit at the Town Ballroom on Tuesday, March 27. -CP

Jouska, Honey, Award Show, and Be Locust or Alone 7pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St. $5

[EMO] Get your emo rock fix at Sugar City this Tuesday, March 27. Philadelphiabased emo band Jouska makes their way to Buffalo for a show with emo-punk band honey, “slowcore” band Award Show, and the Daniel Johnston-esque weird-rock band P Be Locust or Alone. -CP

SPOTLIGHT MUSIC good thing in a musician. The best musicians strive to change, and grow, not to stick to one sound. That almost goes without saying. His approach to Marigold in terms of storytelling was as different as his approach to musical structure. The album is written not from his perspective but from the perspective of a fictional character on to whom Lieber can project emotions, who can have revelations and epiphanies for him. “I felt like I had this story that I had to tell that coincided with things that were going on in my life; realizations I had and figuring out where I stood in my beliefs and finding my footing in life. Like, ‘This is how I operate.’ These are the things that are necessary to put your time into and these are the things that are not worth your time in life, because you only get so much. I realized those things and figured out myself through writing about someone else realizing it, through the record.” Lieber struggled with whether or not he should be more overt about the storyline by adding in sections of monologue, or to let his listeners piece it together. Ultimately, he chose to be more subtle with the delivery, which stuck with his philosophy of cutting the fat. Petty would be proud. “Songwriting has always been a way for me to work out things within myself that I feel need to be worked out. When I finish a record, it’s the most satisfying feeling because it’s, like, ‘Oh my god I feel like I’ve grown so much.’ I feel so much growth within myself; I got all these things out. I kind of stare at myself from a third person almost. It just so happened that with this record, the idea of this story let me be that character and let me yell at myself.”

MARIGOLD BY CORY PERLA WHEN I SHOWED up for my interview with

Benjamin Lieber, a.k.a. Marigold, I thought he was a no-show. I was already a few minutes late, and looking through the all-glass exterior of Remedy House, the small coffee shop on the West Side of Buffalo where we were set to meet, I didn’t see him. I opened the glass door of the coffee shop looking for the guy I saw on Facebook. On his page, he’s pictured sitting behind a drum kit, shirt soggy with sweat from playing drums with his band Head North, his long, wild, wavy hair hanging down in front of his face. So when I walked into the coffee shop, I almost walked right by him. Sitting at a small table directly in the center of the coffee shop, he sat, hair cut down to a couple of inches on top and shaved on the sides, stubble shaved down, wearing a blue print shirt buttoned up to the top button. A new look to go with a new solo record he’s releasing under the name Marigold, which he says is about breaking away from expectations. “It was like closing a chapter,” he tells me about putting out the new record, and changing his physical appearance at once. “I had very long hair for a long time. It started to become this expectation of me. Like when people thought of Ben, they thought of this dude with long hair; as superficial as that might be, I hated that there was this expectation. That feeling kind of applied to music as well. I don’t want anyone to have an assumption of what the parameters of my music are.”

own, often comparing his new record to his previous record in a highly self-critical, selfaware way—how he’s matured as a musician, and how much coffee really matters. “I would say the sounds of this record are totally different than the last one and that was completely intentional,” he says, talking about the first record he put out as Marigold, Couterfeit Art, an angsty emo pop-punk record that Lieber released just one year ago. “The first album was kind of, like, I had never done this before and I was, like, ‘I have all of these things I need to say and I have to prove to myself that I can do this.’ So it came out kind of pukey. Looking back at it from a more mature standpoint, it’s, like, “All right, settle down, kid.’” After writing that record, he put down his electric guitar and picked up an acoustic guitar. He dumped his Foo Fighters records and picked up Tom Petty records. The results are what can really only be described as heartland rock; open spaces, slower tempos, and a focus on lyricism characterize the record. “Departure,” the album’s opening track, is a microcosm of the album in many ways: shuffling drums, clean guitars, and twangy vocals that occasionally push past their breaking point, painting pictures of small-town life as a beautiful trap.

His full-time band, Head North—the band that he’s been in since high school and has toured across the country with five times over; the band that has played sold-out shows and released records on indie labels like SideOneDummy—is also struggling with expectations, specifically those of fans who expect the band to stick to the emo-pop punk sound they came to popularity with but have now moved on from. More on that later.

“Tom [Petty] has shown me some light,” says the 21-year-old musician as he sips from a plain white mug of coffee. “The biggest thing with this record and being so inspired with him is he taught me, and is still teaching me, how to cut the fat, and that there’s beauty in simplicity. If you search a little deeper and you really feel what you’re doing, you can make a fucking G chord sound godly. You may just be playing a G chord and a C chord, but if you do it right and you think about it…it’s about quality over quantity. My biggest qualm with the first record is there’s so much going on. There’s all these riffs and fills everywhere. It’s, like, chill out.”

In the course of our conversation, Lieber talks about dealing with those expectations and his

He speaks of his prior work as if his younger self is his biggest adversary. Of course, that’s a

Writing the record coincided with a move to Buffalo for Lieber, who grew up in Williamsville, but who toured almost nonstop with Head North from the time of his graduation from high school in 2013 until 2015. As a kid, he was a Boy Scout and eventually became an Eagle Scout. He has two younger brothers and says he comes from a close-knit family with “super supportive” parents. It was Lieber’s idea to meet today at Remedy house, the beautiful, relatively new coffee shop on the West Side, although he works as a barista at another beautiful, relatively new coffee show on the West Side, Tipico. He worked a shift earlier in the day. Coffee, he says, has become an obsession almost on par with music in recent years. It’s still up in the air whether living a highly caffeinated life helps him in his creative endeavors. “It’s probably good and bad. Sometimes I get too wired and it drives me crazy and makes me more stressed about things. But coffee is like a world that I’ve found comes as naturally to me [as music]. I’m really good at it and I understand it when I’m working with it. It’s like a craft for me. It’s been really cool over the last two years getting into that and having another thing that I enjoy doing.” He looks forward each morning to taking his dog, a shepherd-husky mix named Django who stands over six feet tall on his hind legs, for a walk each morning and then brewing a cup of coffee. He speaks almost as highly of his roommate and bandmate Brent Martone as he does of coffee. Martone and Lieber, who not only share a band and an apartment but Django too, have been in Head North together since high school. They’ve toured the country coast to coast five

times, some years playing more than 150 shows. Martone has also enjoyed working with Lieber. “We clicked since the first time we got together,” Martone tells me over the phone. “What I think is special about working with Ben is even when it doesn’t click, he has the patience to stick with me until we get to a point where it does,” he says of their chemistry working together in Head North. As far as Lieber’s solo material goes, Martone says “it’s exactly what he should be doing.” “He’s always been like an Americana kind of songwriter,” says Martone. “I fucking love the record.” Their skill sets are different, Lieber says. Both are talented songwriters, but Martone has a greater interest in the engineering side of things. Together, they’ve made a name for themselves with Head North, but since writing their latest record, The Last Living Man Alive Ever in the History of the World, which marked a drastic shift in sound for the band, they’ve struggled to overcome expectations. The new record abandoned the band’s pop punk roots for a more serious, more introspective indie rock sound. “We’ve been feeling like we’re trying to force a rectangle into a square as far as the scene we’ve been involved in for a number of years, the pop punk emo scene,” he says. “We’ve had a lot of trouble removing ourselves from it. It’s the expectations thing again. It’s unrewarding to go out on a tour where you’re playing to 500 kids a night and nobody cares. There’s a problem when you’re playing to 500 kids and you sell $60 of merch.” He’s confident and happy with the music the band is making, but they’ve seen first-hand that the shift in tone has alienated some fans. “We know that we’re playing good music and we know that we’re putting our all into it. So instead of being unsatisfied with that, we’re going to shift to being a band for ourselves, and we’re going to make music for ourselves, and if we get a tour that we fit on, eventually down the line, but we’re done taking those offers and trying to get a certain audience to like us that we know are not going to like us.” They’re clearly living that philosophy. Lieber will release his new, self-titled Marigold album on April 6, and earlier this month Martone released his own solo record, One for the Road. In support of his new record, Lieber recently embarked on a solo tour. A totally solo tour, actually. “I took our van because I don’t have a car, so I was one person in a 15-passenger van. I stayed with friends. It was the first Marigold tour ever. It was back to DIY roots, which I haven’t done since Head North was fresh out of high school. It was house shows and basement shows.” Though he says he’s planning a move to New York City soon, he also says Buffalo is the best place to come home to. “You go to NYC and Chicago and LA and you are one in nine million. You’re basically invisible. When you come back to Buffalo everybody knows everybody and you can’t walk down the street without seeing someone you serve coffee to every morning. It’s a really humbling thing.” Marigold will play a record release show at Georgette (69 Elmwood Avenue) on Friday, P April 6.

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FILM REVIEW effects, and Unsafe achieves these. It conveys the hospital’s grimly oppressive, sporadically violent environment in a number of shots and scenes. Soderbergh has skillfully employed the phone technology. The photography ominously squeezes closeup perspective, the light bleak and sometimes muddied and desaturated, and the imagery includes a kind of convex deepfocus that’s unsettling. But Soderbergh’s movie becomes motored by cheap-effect, sometimes gruesomely sensationalist scenes and before these, it’s too often arbitrarily implausible. Let me give you a small example. Sawyer’s mom (Amy Irving) finally locates her daughter and calls a lawyer from her car. He assures her he’s in her corner, then inexplicably hangs up. C’mon! Lawyers go to the movies; they know a case with high publicity and monetary potential when it comes calling. But even the mild appearance of plausibility evidently wasn’t on Soderbergh’s mind.

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TWO PROTAGONISTS, TWO DILEMMAS, NO COMPARISON UNSANE, LOVE SIMON BY GEORGE SAX STEVEN SODERBERGH HAS inserted a little embed joke into a

scene in his new horror thriller Unsane. Matt Damon, no doubt cheerfully slumming in a cameo as a personal security advisor for his old pal Soderbergh, tells the main character, “Think of your cell phone as your enemy.” This, in a movie that was entirely photographed (by Soderbergh himself, under the transparent alias Peter Andrews) on iPhones. Judging by the results, it seems likely that he was more interested in the means than the ends as he made this movie. The character who engages Damon’s security guy is Sawyer Valentini (Claire Foy, intensely engaged and impressive, until things get out of hand). She’s trying to protect herself from a frighteningly intrusive stalker named David ( Joshua Leonard). Sawyer flees her Boston home and takes a job in Pennsylvania, where she seeks psychological advice to help her battle her

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OPENING THIS WEEK BUFFALO INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM THE LAST SUIT—An elderly Argentine Jew travels to Poland to find the friend who saved his life in 1945. Starring Miguel Ángel Solá, Ángela Molina, and Martín Piroyansky. Directed by Pablo Solarz. Reviewed

this issue. North Park MIDNIGHT SUN—Teen romance based on a Japanese film about a girl whose first love is hampered by her allergy to sunlight. Starring Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Rob Riggle. Directed by Scott Speer (Step Up Revolution). Area theaters PACIFIC RIM UPRISING—Sequel. Time was you had to wait for summer for this kind of stuff. Starring John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Adria Arjona, Mako Mori, and Burn Gorman. Directed by Steven S. DeKnight. Area theaters THE PARTY—A small London dinner party becomes an opportunity for the guests to open their souls in this satirical comedy written and directed by Sally Potter (Orlando). Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimer, and Cillian Murphy. Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills UNSANE—The supposedly retired Steven Soderbergh used an iPhone to shoot this horror thriller starring

disruptive traumatic after-effects of the siege this probably mad intruder has laid against her life. After only one session with a seemingly sympathetic woman at a private hospital, she’s gulled into inadvertently signing a voluntary admission form and finds herself incarcerated in a psycho-snakepit. She also has an even more frightening discovery there, one which ethical considerations prevent me from revealing. I can say it relies on a very hard-to-swallow piece of arbitrary plotting. A sympathetic and sane patient ( Jay Pharoah)—he’s there for opioid withdrawal—tells her the operation relies on extracting every possible dollar from patients’ insurance and then releasing them. The movie may have been sparked by recent reports of forprofit hospitals prescribing the lengths of patient stays based on availability of insurance, but Soderbergh clearly wasn’t interested in social commentary. He’s worked on atmospherics and shock

Claire Foy as a woman confined to a mental institution, where she may or may not belong. With Joshua Leonard, Sarah Stiles, and Amy Irving. Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA DAY OF THE DEAD (1985)—The most thoughtful and least gruesome of George Romero’s sequels to his epochal Night of the Living Dead (1968), set in an underground bunker where scientists and military officers experiment on zombies to see if they can be domesticated. Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato, and John Amplas. Part of the Thursday Night Terrors series. Thu Mar 22 7:30pm. Dipson Amherst THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN (1973)— Walter Matthau and Bruce Dern search San Francisco for the guy who turned a machine gun on a busload of people in this ironically titled drama adapted from a Per Wahlöö novel. With Louis Gossett Jr., Albert Paulsen, Anthony Zerbe, Val Avery, Cathy Lee Crosby, and Joanna Cassidy. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg (Cool Hand Luke). Fri, Tue 7:30pm. Screening Room HE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948)— Pseudo-documentary police procedural, based on a true story, about the hunt for a cop killer in Los Angeles. Starring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, and Jack Webb, who was directly inspired by it to start a new radio show a few months later called Dragnet. Directed by Alfred L. Werker, with help from an uncredited Anthony Mann. Fri 9:30pm. Screening Room PERSONA (Sweden, 1966)—Ingmar

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Bergman’s opaque yet compelling drama about an actress (Liv Ullmann) who stops speaking and her nurse (Bibi Andersson) who tries to bring her out of her shell, at the growing cost of her own identity. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst SAILOR MOON R: THE MOVIE— Feature adaptation of the popular anime series about teens saving the galaxy. Sat-Sun 11:30am. North Park

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 writerdirector 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. Costarring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Benedict Wong, and Oscar Isaac. —M. Faust Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, Regal

“I’m just like you,” high-school senior Simon (Nick Robinson), the protagonist of Greg Berlanti’s Love, Simon, narrates as the movie opens. He has, he tells us, “a totally normal, perfect life.” The perfect part isn’t going to hold up to scrutiny and events, and the populist appeal only works if you’re a teenager with your parents’ gift of a new, red, beribboned Subaru station wagon awaiting you in the driveway of your gracefully proportioned Colonial Revival home in a gently hilly suburb of similar dwellings. (A crucial party scene is set at a parent-free home around—what else?—the swimming pool.) Okay, maybe I’m quibbling and caviling, not giving this movie its due and acknowledging its good intentions, and the social significance that’s being widely claimed for it. But I can’t avoid the perception that Love, Simon’s success will depend on its box office and its deployment of a rather assiduous cuteness. The movie is a rom-com centering on Simon’s secret homosexual identity. He’s afraid to reveal it to anyone, except an anonymous guy code-named Blue with whom he exchanges emails, and whom he thinks he loves, despite never having even met him. At the same time, he’s being blackmailed by a kid who wants Simon to help him woo a girl friend of his who doesn’t seem inclined to accept the blackmailer’s suit. Problems, resentments and recriminations ensue. Robinson is somehow both winsomely attractive and “normal” appearing and he can deftly deliver a line. Most of this is harmless, and occasionally amusing, but it’s never clear why Simon can find no adult in whom to confide in a high school P whose bywords are tolerance and respect.

Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria BLACK PANTHER—The first bigscreen 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, Aurora (STARTS FRIDAY), Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria 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 Wilson, Jonathan Banks, Sam Neill, and Elizabeth McGovern. —MF Dipson McKinley DARKEST HOUR—Gary Oldman may not seem like a likely candidate to portray Winston Churchill, but beneath cosmetic padding and facial reconstruction he gives a bravura performance of the great man as he becomes prime minister of England at one of the lowest points in that country’s history, in he early days of World War II. Churchill was one of the Western world’s greatest political actors, a man acutely aware of his effect on the public, and Oldman (who won the Oscar for Best Actor) captures him as variously pugnacious, smugly self-possessed, rhetorically soaring, acerbic, and sometimes privately abashed. Joe Wright (Atonement) directs in his customary technically emphatic and sometimes gimmicky fashion. While there has been no lack of Churchills on screens small and large recently, this is likely to remain the one huge numbers of people remember. With Ben Mendelsohn, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Lily James. —George Sax Dipson McKinley EARLY MAN—From Wallace and Grommit creator Nick Park, a new stop-motion animation feature about cave men. With the

REVIEW FILM changed by the exceptional kindnesses he is shown by strangers on his journey. And while the heart-tugging finale is exceedingly unlikely. Solarz may be able to claim that it is based on a true story, but drama requires more than that.

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*** Sally Potter has not, to my knowledge, claimed that the characters in her new film The Party are based on people that she knows, But I’d be surprised to earn that they aren’t, at least in part, and I hope they’re thick-skinned enough to take this satire with good grace.

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BY M. FAUST ARGENTINE DIRECTOR Pablo Solarz was inspired to write The Last Suit based on two things in his life. The first was his memories of his grandfather, a Jew who escaped Poland in 1945 and was so devastated by his experiences that he demanded that the name of the country where he was born never be spoken aloud in his house. The other was hearing a story about a Jewish man in his 90s who, despite poor health and against the wishes of his family, journeyed back to Hungary on a seemingly impossible mission to find the Christian friend who saved him from the Nazis.

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The popular Argentine actor Miguel Ángel Solá stars as Abraham Bursztein, a retired tailor with a bad leg that bothers him so much that he has named it “Tzures” (presumably a Latinization of “tsuris”—trials and tribulations). A widower, his daughters have sold his house out from underneath him, his doctor wants to amputate his leg, and even his favorite greatgrandaughter blackmails him before she’ll pose for a photo with him. Before he can be moved into a retirement home, he dresses himself in his best suit (a striped number that looks like

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something you would wear to run a string of hos on the Deuce in 1972) and sets out for Poland. His goal: to find the childhood friend who nursed him back to health at the end of the war and present him with gift, the last suit he ever made. The Last Suit is essentially a road movie, as Abraham makes his way from Buenos Aires to Spain and on across Europe. This is not an easy trip given that he can barely walk, that he loses all of his money, and that he’s not the most pleasant person in the world. But he manages, aided by people along the way who see some good in him. (One of these is a hotel clerk/nightclub singer played by Ángela Molina, the Spanish star whose career goes back to Luis Bunuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire and includes starring roles in two Pedro Almodovar movies.) Solá commands the screen as a character several decades older than himself, but the script doesn’t delve very deeply into Bursztein. It’s not clear if his crankiness began after the death of his wife, or if it stems from his painful experiences during the war. Nor does he seem

This acidic comedy from the filmmaker who has followed a generally experimental path since her worldwide hit Orlando some 25 years ago takes place in real time, more or less, during a party attended by seven friends. The occasion is the election of Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) to a political post she has been pursing for years. Her usually supportive husband Bill (Timothy Spall) seems out of it as the guests begin to arrive: April (Patricia Clarkson), Janet’s longtime friend, a former idealist who now misses no opportunity to mock the values of others; her friend Gottfried (Bruno Ganz), a New Age therapist; another college friend, Martha (Cherry Jones), and her lover, Jinny (Emily Mortimer), who is expecting triplets; and coke-addled Tom (Cillian Murphy), a financial advisor whose wife is the evening’s no-show. That’s quite an ensemble, no doubt attracted by the gleefully barbed dialogue Potter has provided for them. It’s not something that has been part of her work in the past, but she has always made a point of trying to do new things in each new film. To reveal the fissures that set this bunch at each others throats would be to spoil the fun for you of experiencing them first hand; suffice to say that while Potter’s goal was to explore cracks in modern British politics, she has done so with characters you can enjoy even if you don’t know Jeremy Corbyn from Patrick Brown. Filmed in harshly lit black and white, The Party is over in a trim 71 minutes. It could and probably should have been longer, and the ending feels like the punchline to a P sketch—but it is a corker.

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Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria I, TONYA—Though the story of “white trash” skater Tonya Harding and 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 P 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 exhusband] Jeff Gillooly.” The result is an entertainment 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

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FILM AT THE MOVIES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 LADY BIRD—Greta Gerwig makes her debut as a writer-director in this winning comedydrama 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 passiveaggressive reactions to her frustrations with family and financial problems. Also starring Tracey Letts. —MF Dipson Amherst (ENDS THURSDAY) LOVE SIMON—Gay coming-of-age drama. Starring Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, and Katherine Langford. Directed by Greg Berlanti (Life as We Know It). Dipson Amherst, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria 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 namevalue 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, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria 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 AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Eastern Hills, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria 7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE—Another replay of the 1976 terrorist hijacking of an Air France flight to Uganda. Starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, and Eddie Marsan. Directed by José Padilha (the 2014 RoboCop remake). Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills, Regal Quaker 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

BACK PAGE CROSSWORD 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 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). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THOROUGHBREDS—Adapted from a theater piece, writer-director Cory Finley’s chilly drama looks at two sociopathic teenage rich girls who plot a murder. Why? Hard to say, other than it solves problems that either one of them should be able to deal with in less gruesome fashion. If Finley’s point is to satirize privilege, it’s awfully blunt. His technical skills exceed his dramatic abilities, which keeps you watching the movie without getting involved in it. Starring Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Paul Sparks, and the late Anton Yelchin, who is the best thing in it. —MF. Dipson Amherst (ENDS THURSDAY) 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, and Abbie Cornish. —GS Dipson McKinley TOMB RAIDER—From a director with a name like Roar Uthaug, you might have expected a livelier reboot of the video game-based action franchise than this utterly generic timewaster. (He did much better work in the Norwegian thriller The Wave, about a tsunami in a fjord.) Alicia Vikander clearly did a lot of physical training for the role of the young Lara Croft, which calls for her to do lots of running, leaping, and pulling herself out of dangerous situations. But the plot is wholly uninterested in doing anything you haven’t seen a millions times before. With Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, and Kristin Scott Thomas as an overly optimistic link to a sequel. –MF AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria 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, Aurora (ends Thurs), Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal P Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

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1 Fly fast

58 Way up (and down)

30 April ___ (“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” reporter)

4 Amy of 2016’s “Arrival”

61 Director Ang

31 Contrary to

9 Retool

62 The Chi-___ (“Have You Seen Her” group)

32 “Inferno” poet

14 Fire truck accessory

63 Siberian forest region

33 Black-and-white ocean predators

64 “Chandelier” singer

35 Actor Elba

16 Boisterous

65 Strap for a dog walk

36 Become used (to)

17 Flock formation

66 With 67-Across, what each of the long answers displays

40 Calendar spans, for short

15 Addition to a bill or contract

18 Venus, when visible after sunset 20 “Back in Black” rockers 22 Some board members

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23 Light nap

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24 “In memoriam” write-up

2 CFO or COO, e.g.

26 Corrosive cleaning stuff

3 Irked, with “off”

27 Know with certainty

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30 Bass or buff ending

5 Split (up)

31 Bother, to the Bard

6 Skillful

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7 Department store section

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11 British isles 12 Exam for H.S. juniors 13 Banks who hosts “America’s Next Top Model” 19 Justin Timberlake’s former group 21 Dave of “Fuller House” 25 Rodeo horse, briefly 26 Sudoku solving skill 27 Costar of Rue, Betty, and Estelle 28 Do really well 29 Hardy wheat in healthfood products

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ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Richmond Ave. 2 story, 1+ BR, appliances, laundry, off-street-parking, porch, hardwood + granite. No smoking. $895+. 882-5760.

ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Norwood Ave.

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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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2 BR, study, porch, appliances, must see. No pets/smoking. $1,350+util. rsteam@roadrunner.com or 716-886-5212.

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Spacious 2BDRM, LG. Kitchen w/ Pantry, Office, LG Living Rm.& Dining Rms. Refinished Hrdwd. Flrs.,Carpeted Bdrms. 1 Bathroom ,Off Street Parking, Yard, 5 mins walk from Wegmans, Spars, Dapper Goose, Rohalls, Casey’s and 10 minutes from Sportsmans

ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Ashland Ave. Bright lg BR, private, all util & appl. No pets/smoke. $690. 435-3061. -----------------------------------------------------

D’YOUVILLE COLLEGE AREA: 3BR $900, 1BR $500-600, utilities incl. Must see. Call 415-385-1438

No pets, 1 Mon. Security Deposit, $850+Utilities, Water incl.

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.

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716-713-3566 ELMWOOD-CLAREMONT AVE: 3 BR, new kitchen, wall-to-wall carpeting, appliances, parking. Laundry room in apartment with new washer, dryer. $1350 plus utilities. 907-9346 NO TEXT.

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LINWOOD AVE: 3BD/2BA 1500-sq-ft apt., modern renovation. 368 Linwood. 1995/mo. 716-631-0568. ---------------------------------------------------

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spacious, incl. util + wifi, W/D, pkg, .2 mi. to campus. $495 & $595. 236-8600.

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PARKSIDE NEAR ROBIE: 1BD apt, all utilities included. $800. 386-344-5209. ---------------------------------------------------

Washer, Dryer, Parking, Furnished, NOW � PROOF OK (NO CHANGES) distance to D’Youville, Elmwood, Allen $800 812-6009; ron1812@aol.com.

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BIDWELL-ELMWOOD: 2nd floor 2 BR. No smokers, no pets. Utilities included. $950. 885-5835. ---------------------------------------------------

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NORTH BUFFALO: 251 Hartwell (off Delaware), 3BR upper, parking, appliances, storage, porch. No pets. $895+. 875-8890.

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ELMWOOD VILLAGE: W. Ferry, 1BR, living room, kitchen w/appliances No Advertisers Signature 882-6934. pets, no smoking $700+sec.,

occupied. WIFI included. 919-830-3267 Elizabeth. 716-536-7119 Landlord Lisa.

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Newly converted, 1 and 2 bedroom units starting at 530 square feet in a historic property located in the University Heights section of Buffalo. Amenities • Duplex Units Available • Onsite Parking • Laundry Room • ADA Accessible Units available • Oversized windows for great natural light • Community Room • Onsite Storage

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

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ELMWOOD VILLAGE 2 bedroom upper, newly renovated, front porch, appliances, laundry. $895 inc water. Must see. Call 913-2736.

BRECKENRIDGE: Large 2BR lower. Appliances, hardwood, porch, yard. $760+. 435-8272.

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RETIRED PSYCHOLOGIST available to assist adults in light daily living. Please call for details at 883-3216.

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NORWOOD BTWN SUMMER & BRYANT: Fresh-painted 1BR, carpets, applnces, mini-blinds, prkng, coin-op lndry, sec sys. Water & elec inc. No pets, no smoking. $695+sec. 912-0175.

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Apartment Rents 1 Bedroom $567 - $700 2 Bedroom $662 - $783 Stainless Steel Appliances Included

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THE ARTS CALL FOR WORK: Parables Gallery and Gifts, 1027 Elmwood Ave., Bflo. “The Element of Texture,” March 1-31. All mediums welcome. Please send samples of your work to: Glenn Kroetsch gdkroetsch@roadrunner. com ------------------------------------------------FESTIVAL SCHOOL OF BALLET Classes for adults and children at all levels. Try a class for free. 716-9841586 festivalschoolofballet.com. ------------------------------------------------FREE YOUTH WRITING WORKSHOPS Tue and Thur 3:30-6pm. Open to writers between ages 12 and 18 at the Just Buffalo Writing Center. 468 Washington Street, 2nd floor, Buffalo 14203. Light snack provided. ------------------------------------------------SOUTH BUFFALO ART STUDIO offers skills-based classes in drawing & painting, private or group, Jerome Mach (716) 830-6471 or jeromemach@ yahoo.com. -

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HELP WANTED BOX OFFICE ASSOCIATE: Irish Classical Theatre Company seeks a part-time, seasonal Box Office Associate. Must be available evenings & weekends. Job details & how to apply @ http://irishclassical. com/help-wanted/. ------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE SALON looking for hairstylist/assistant. Part or full time, Call 886-9788.

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