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“He’s carrying a concealed weapon.” Good point, Bruce Beyer: Pastor, perhaps it’s time to lay down your arms. The larger point is valid, too: It is incumbent upon elected officials to listen to movements like this and then act, rather than to speak. WBFO 88.7 FM: The National Public Broadcasting affiliate in Buffalo scored a major theft in

luring longtime radio reporter/anchor Dave Debo away from WBEN 930 AM. Debo, who will become WBFO’s news director next month, is an old-school broadcast journalist who will soon be freed from the confines of WBEN’s far-right programming, which features the pro-Trump views of local talk show hosts Sandy Beach, Tom Bauerle, and David Bellavia, as well as the nationally syndicated right-wing spewings of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Michael Savage. Don’t let management at WBEN tell you otherwise: Losing Debo is a blow to their shrinking newsroom. Debo is regularly praised by political wonks on both sides of the aisle for his work anchoring WBEN’s Hardline, a two-hour Sunday morning politics program that is a must-listen for anyone who has an interest in local, state, and national politics. Who replaces Debo as host of Hardline? We have no idea, but whoever it is will have some huge shoes to fill. Here’s hoping Debo considers eventually introducing a similar politics and policy program in WBFO’s weekly lineup.

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appearance in the “Ups” last week, thumbs point down again on the local Catholic Church. Last week the diocese released a list of priests who had been admonished and removed from the ministry due to child sexual abuse complaints, but the list is hardly comprehensive, as Buffalo News and other reporting has shown. Not only that, but it contained several errors. One innocent priest with the same first and last name but different middle initial as an offending priest was named, and diocese also botched the status of several priests as being deceased or alive. On Monday, Charlie Specht at WKBW reported that a priest who was the subject of two abuse complaints was still an active priest in Dunkirk. For an institution charged with institutional abuse that is fighting to maintain the appearance of doing the right thing, these errors and omissions take on a larger import. Just who is at the wheel?

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NEWS COMMENTARY That’s the start of the reason why Cynthia Nixon’s candidacy for governor makes one sigh. A progressive Democratic incumbent occupies the Governor’s mansion in Albany today. There are several execrable Republican members of the House of Representatives who are up for election in 2018 in New York State, all of whom are less electable than they were in 2016 when Sigourney Weaver let progressives know that the Democratic nominee for President of the United States was less acceptable to her than was Donald Trump. Self-funding activists with huge name recognition need to do some national service this year, and that national service needs to start with flipping the House of Representatives.

CUOMO AND GOVERNING Law school sucks. Being in the executive branch of government really, really sucks, and not just because days are endless, fiscal years of different levels of government are incongruous, learning curves are steep even for the educated, and becase there’s an exhasting parade of rent-seeking exploiters who demand that you change the rules just for them. Then there are the insane career bureaucrats who lie about their budget miscalculations, legislatures jam-packed with vicious narcissists, staff who suck up and kick down, whining insatiable perfectionist critics, global economic hurricanes, duplicitous allies… Actress and progressive activist Cynthia Nixon launched a primary challenge to Governor Andrew Cuomo last week.

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Those who have done the hands-on work sigh, nod agreement, but then go back to work. Learned professors tell each other that bridges shouldn’t take so long to build, or that monetary policy is really quite simple—but bridges like the one in Florida come crashing down when they’re built too quickly, and the Fed can’t just be wished away.

GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNING are under assault from Trump and Trump’s party, and now from the Sigourney Weaver/Betsy DeVos group of wealthy, opinionated celebrities untroubled by experience and evidently quite content to advance themselves as candidates for public office because they like the attention. They don’t know that they don’t know—that governing is about the boring details that take a long time for even very bright people to learn.

Some bright people, like the internationally famous American political scientist Francis Fukuyama, get upset and agitated when looking at government today. Twenty years ago, Fukuyama proclaimed that liberal democracy, in which sensible adults like us Americans make rational choices about governing, was what won the Cold War. More recently, though, Fukuyama, who has only advised but never held governing responsibility, has written articles in which he throws up his hands at how complex governing has become.

But the voices on both the right and left say, in weird chorus, that governing should no longer be left to people who studied law, engineering, public finance, or who have made legislative compromises, or revised treaties, or prioritized one kind of spending over another, because look at this mess! So maybe it’s no wonder that celebrities, especially those who get famous reading other people’s writing out loud, also throw up their hands. But that frustration can be productive: by running for a legislative office, either state or federal (and this year, the US needs a lot of new members of Congress). Recent history is full of examples of why it’s better to learn governing as a legislator rather than to go tabula rasa to become governor, sheriff, comptroller, judge, attorney general, or any other office that requires as much actual training as, say, a chief science officer, engineer, or medical examiner. If one’s only experience is having opinions and voicing them strongly, one just doesn’t have what it takes to do governing.

Nevertheless, facing all this, Andrew Cuomo as governor has delivered a huge boost in the minimum wage, a meaningful family leave policy, sane restrictions on war guns, college tuition for most families, boosts to green energy and pollution cleanup, a fracking ban, and prudent if risky bets on economic development that have some chance of halting the otherwise inevitable pauperization of New York’s Rust Belt, which is the part of the world that globalized capitalism just doesn’t need the way it used to. Cuomo is an incumbent, so of course he was going to get a primary. He was never going to get Professor Zephyr Teachout’s allies, or her, to admit that Teachout’s failure to best Cuomo in the 2014 gubernatorial primary was actually really helpful to progressives because it gave Cuomo political space to get progressive policies enacted. And now that he has, it’s precisely because of his progressive record that he deserves their early and energetic support. He also deserves endorsement by Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, California governor Jerry Brown, all the climate scientists, every economist from Thomas Piketty to Joe Stiglitz to Janet Yellen, both Democratic Congressional caucuses, and anybody who is seriously interested in preventing a new American civil war. Cuomo is the bridge to a national reconciliation because his persona is forceful enough, his progressive bona fides strong enough, his ethnic base big enough to make him a logical challenger to the incumbent President, who already has a 2020 campaign underway. Cuomo is a part of the national solution, and he should be celebrated by liberals for his courage, tolerated by liberals for his open door to the business class, lionized by labor for being successful and forceful on lifting the economic floor for low-income families. Instead, he’s facing an allegedly progressive challenger who has less in common with Cuomo’s fellow lawyer Teachout than with the egregious Sigourney Weaver, that other successful actress whose political behavior injured the experienced lawyer, legislator, and diplomat who ran for President as a Democrat in 2016. Hillary Clinton, like Andrew Cuomo, just wasn’t progressive enough for some. The $15 minimum wage was a Sanders platform in 2016. Cuomo delivered on this and on many other extremely difficult policy initiatives long sought by every labor-funded think tank and activist in Washington. But neither California’s Jerry Brown nor New York’s Andrew Cuomo can enact a single-payer healthcare system—governors of each individual state are limited—or snuff

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COMMENTARY NEWS out existing charter schools, snap gubernatorial fingers to command an instantaneous end to fossil fuels, disproportionate incarceration of visible minorities, concentrated childhood poverty in low-income Census tracts, and other evils. Sadly, there are endless voices demanding that these governors make it all happen and now, because liberals engage in the same kind of magical thinking that Tea Party types do: they want the world and they want it now. Now! In Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, incrementally lower turnout by Democrats, influenced by Sigourney Weaverism and by Putin’s bot armies, swung those states against the experienced lawyer, legislator, and diplomat in favor of a TV star with as much name recognition as one of the stars of Sex in the City. I’ve helped run US Senate campaigns in tough Presidential years: even when a coordinated campaign is tough to manage, the turnout goes up when the Democratic candidates spend money getting everybody out for the ticket. A celebrity running in an otherwise low-turnout Congressional district would be a huge help this years—especially if that celebrity were to help move suburban women away from the Republicans, where most of them are. But what if the alleged progressive tarnishes the mainstream Democrat? We know what happens: too many progressives got the message in 2016 that it was okay to stay home in November’s general election after having lost the primaries. So we have what we have now, a primary. Thus in 2018, it might look like this in New York State:

Cuomo will almost certainly defeat Cynthia Nixon in the primary, but ill-will, and a sense of disappointment due to defeated expectations, will have been created, especially in affluent areas of Long Island, the Hudson Valley, and in suburban Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo—thus giving Republican Members of Congress opportunities to parrot Nixon’s critique as they run against Cuomo and against Democrats generally. Et voila: the Blue Wave that could flip the House of Representatives won’t be strong enough, and the three (some say five) winnable House seats in New York could stay Red. All because the mayor of New York, who doesn’t like Andrew Cuomo, won’t tell his TV star friends to do themselves and everybody else a favor and go run for Congress rather than waste time attacking Cuomo. Be very sure about one thing: Democrats running against government is a loser. Voters already know that as the Republican mainstay message. If voters are offered a fundamentally Republican message by a Democratic candidate, voters will choose the real Republican every time.

Bruce Fisher teaches at SUNY Buffalo State, where he is director of the Center for Economic and Policy Studies. His new book, Where the Streets Are Paved With Rust: Essays from America’s Broken Heartland (The Public Books, 2018), is available from P Foundlings Press.

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LOOKING BACKWARD: LARKIN COMPANY, CIRCA 1919 The Larkin Company was one of the great mail order firms of North America. It 1885, Larkin Company executive Elbert Hubbard devised the “Larkin Idea” to sell directly “from factory to family” via mail order, the basis for the company’s exponential growth from 1890 to 1915. By 1910, the company’s business expanded far beyond soap—its original product—to dozens of household products, including perfumes, pharmaceuticals, coffee, tea, extracts, paints, varnishes, and so on. To handle the volume of Larkin Company shipments, the US Post Office opened a dedicated branch in the Larkin Terminal Warehouse, now the Larkin at Exchange Building, shown here in about 1919. The Larkin Company sent its last mail order catalog in 1962.. - THE PUBLIC STAFF DAILYPUBLIC.COM / MARCH 28 - APRIL 3, 2018 / THE PUBLIC

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IN 2006, THERE WERE 50 CANDIDATES, FAR FEWER IN 2010, ADVERTISING@ ANDDAILYPUBLIC.COM THEN JUST ONE LAST MONTH MAYOR BYRON BROWN didn’t search for job applicants or interview any candidates other than Byron Lockwood before he nominated him to succeed DAILYPUBLIC.COM Daniel Derenda as police commissioner in February. Selecting a police commissioner without conducting a job search is not standard practice for large municipalities.

Other cities take their candidate hunts national by posting on professional police association job forums, like the one provided by the International Association of Chiefs of Police. In towns like Amherst and Cheektowaga, applicants take a civil service exam and only the three top-scoring candidates are considered for the position by the town boards. Under the City Charter, the mayor nominates department heads, including the police commissioner, and the Common Council is responsible for vetting and confirming them. The Brown administration conducted an extensive search for police commissioner in 2006 when Brown was first elected mayor, recruiting a pool of 50 candidates and interviewing 18 of them before recommending H. McCarthy Gipson for the post. A more limited job search that fell short of the national search that Brown had promised was conducted in 2010 when the mayor nominated Derenda. “I felt that I had the right candidate in the department,” Brown told Investigative Post about Lockwood’s appointment. “I felt very comfortable with Commissioner Lockwood’s experience, his credentials, his service to the community, and his vision for the future of the department.” The absence of a formal recruitment process comes in the face of a series of troubling developments involving the police department. Investigative Post has reported on the insufficient training of officers in the use of force and firearms and the department’s failure to obtain accreditation by state authorities as required by the City Charter. A member of the department’s dive team who was inadequately trained and equipped drowned last fall during a training exercise. Surveys have shown many minority residents don’t trust the police, as evidenced by a lack of cooperation by witnesses in homicide investigations. And two unarmed civilians died last year in encounters with officers. The Common Council did not make an issue of Brown’s decision to not seek other candidates and unanimously confirmed Lockwood on March 6. Lockwood met with Council members individually and answered questions in an open session before the Council voted to confirm his nomination.

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“I guess [Brown] has a lot of confidence in Mr. Lockwood and if he does that’s his prerogative,” said Fillmore Council District Member David Franczyk. “I spent over an hour with Lockwood in my office, so I felt that I went through my process and voted accordingly.” Lockwood outlined his priorities for the department during the confirmation meeting with the Council. They include obtaining accreditation from the state, equipping officers with body cameras, and creating a community policing culture. Lockwood told the council he doesn’t want just a couple officers building community trust. “My goal is to have the whole department doing community policing,” he said. Lockwood has served as a deputy police commissioner since shortly after Brown took office in 2006 and was named interim commissioner in mid-January, after Derenda retired. Investigative Post attempted to interview Lockwood about his credentials and ideas for reforming the department, but city spokesman Michael DeGeorge did not respond to the request. The department would only provide a copy of Lockwood’s resume. Lockwood started out as a patrol officer in the department in 1984 and was promoted to detective in 1992. Over the years he worked in units that dealt with narcotics, prostitution, homicide and street crime. He was promoted to detective sergeant in 1996. He received an associate’s degree in liberal arts from Erie Community College in 2003. Lockwood was president of Buffalo’s AfroAmerican Police Association and has received numerous awards for public service, including an “excellence in service” award from Medaille College earlier this year. According to his resume, the last professional development course he took was in 2007, one year after being promoted to first deputy commissioner. One of his responsibilities as deputy commissioner was overseeing the Internal Affairs Division, which investigates both internal and external complaints of officer misconduct. Last year Investigative Post analyzed data on 886 Internal Affairs investigations conducted from the beginning of 2014 to September 2017. Officers were disciplined in only four of the 62 completed investigations into excessive use of force complaints. One of the first changes he made to the department as interim commissioner was disbanding Strike Force, a crime prevention unit that engaged in illegal stop and frisk and other aggressive tactics, as reported by Investigative Post last fall. The move met with the approval of department critics. Daniela Porat reports for Investigative Post, a nonprofit investigative journalism center focused on issues of importance to Buffalo and P Western New York.

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ART REVIEW wool on linen versions of twenty-six corporate logos, one for each letter. Some you readily recognize—the NBC peacock, the Japan Airlines crane, the Lufthansa bird in soaring flight, the Girl Scouts three girls in profile on a green shield—some you have to think about, try to remember where you may have seen such an image. The magnificent lion, the trees. Other embroidery consisting of tight clusters of national flags, representing member nations in various international political/economic cooperation groups, such as the G20 group of governments and bankers that get together for a summit meeting every so often, or the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), of countries that describe—or in the past have described—themselves as committed to democracy and market economy. (The American flag hanging off one end of the OECD cluster, suggesting less than full-bore commitment to either of those objectives under the current administration.) The fabric appliqué works include a semaphore dense array of 25 different brightly colorful invented symbols, representing the 25 top earnings corporations, multiply reiterated and interspersed to graph gross revenues of the various corporations over the time period 1955 to 2017. And on a coat hanger, as you walk into the exhibit, a kid’s hand-me-down polo shirt with appliqué bold letters legend “All Surplus Is Immoral.”

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ONE OF THE more eye-catching works in artist Vandana Jain’s exhibit currently at Hallwalls is a line graph of increasing worker productivity versus hourly compensation, from 1950 to the present. On a dollar bill to help drive home the point. Which is—basically—the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Productivity climbs smoothly and steadily upward, from the bottom left corner of the bill to the top right corner. Whereas, the worker compensation line hugs the productivity line for a while—almost as if the two data sets were related—but then, about 1970, levels off. No more gradual ascent, but from then on more like a plateau. Slight dip even around the late 1990s, and slight rise since, but nowhere near matching—in relative or absolute terms—the productivity line.

The exhibit is called Artisanal Capitalism, and includes some lovely embroidery and fabric appliqué works, and wall displays in media described as “paper and holographic tape.” And iconic imagery, including copious commercial/industrial logos, and

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Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 8828700, albrightknox.org): Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, on view through May 27. We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85, on view Feb 17May 27. Matisse and the Art of Jazz, on view through Jun 17. Picturing Niagara, paintings by Stephen Hannock, on view through Sep 30. B. Ingrid Olson: Forehead and Brain, through Jun 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.art): Deviating Lines, work by Lyn Carter and Pam Glick. 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

What to make of the pyramids? Some recondite Ancient Egyptian reference perhaps, or there’s that pyramid—with the eye at the top of it—on the back of the dollar bill. Or more likely, economics reference—via play on words—to pyramid scheme, Ponzi scheme. As in Reaganomics, the economic regime most associated with the flat line in the productivity versus worker compensation graph. Reaganomics—a.k.a. trickledown economics, a.k.a. voodoo economics—has been called the greatest Ponzi scheme ever. Not the classic model, but authentic sub-category version. For what is a Ponzi scheme in essence, but a stratagem that exploits and impoverishes the multitude on the bottom for the further enrichment of the few on the top. Though as for the title and honor greatest Ponzi scheme ever, Reaganomics certain to be dwarfed by the recently adopted Trump tax reform scam, also defended as trickle-down economics. Certain to make Reaganomics and its effects look benign. Somewhat the way Trump as president makes former president George W. Bush look like a reasonably good one. Beautiful embroidery in a work called Alphabet, consisting of

Fitzgerald, Drawings in Ink. On view through May 11. Reception, Sat Apr 7, noon-2pm. TueFri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): 22nd Annual Juried Members Exhibition, modern works installation, juried by Zach Boehler. On view through April 20. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Betty’s annual staff, friends, and family show. Through May 20. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Now-here, interactive installation by Bernard Aaron Dolecki. 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. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint.

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Among other works, a projected slide sequence mandala composed entirely of corporate logos (car manufacturers and oil companies for the most part, not the more aesthetic sort of logos in the embroidery work, but more apt for a mandala maybe). And an anomalous work—in terms of its vernacular materials, box cardboard and red and black magic type marker, whereas most of the other items have a properly artisanal meticulous work look—a version of the American flag with boustrophedon red snake for the red stripes, and inter-stripes complicated story about the relative cost of a latte for someone making $40,000 a year versus a billionaire. Overly complicated, but you get the point. For the billionaire, a latte—even at $4.50—is not such a big deal. The Vandana Jain exhibit continues through April 27.

ARTISANAL CAPITALISM WORK BY VANDANA JAIN HALLWALLS CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER 341 DELAWARE AVENUE, BUFFALO NY 854.1694 • HALLWALLS.ORG

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, 8588900, buffalolib.org): Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City & WWI, 100th Anniversary of America’s Entry into WWI, on second floor. Building Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings, in the Grosvenor Rare Book Room. Catalogue available for purchase. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 8786011, burchfieldpenney.org): Opems: Verbal Visual Combines, Michael Basinski, on view through Jun 24. Images (of Us by Us) through Apr 1; Cargo, Way-Points, and Tales of the Erie Canal, through Jul 29. 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, group show, through May 27. M & T Second Friday event, second Friday of every month. Fri, Feb 9, 5:30-10pm10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Café Taza (100 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Momentary Canvas, aerial

photographs by Jim Cielencki. On view through Mar 29. Caffeology Buffalo (23 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY, 14201): All My Friends Are Aliens, works by Julie Grygier, through Apr 5. Canisius College Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library (Canisius College 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208, 888-8412, library.canisius. edu): Works by Tom Coyne and Greg Hannen. On view through Apr 7. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter. org): Recrudescence by Lindsay Baeder, Sehnsucht by Aleah Ford. Opening reception April 5, 7-8:30pm. 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): Writing on the Wall, text-based works from the collection, through July 29; The Lure of Niagara: Highlights From the Charles Rand Penney Historical Niagara Falls Print Collection, through Sep 9; 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, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Enduring Views: The Richardson Olmsted Campus Exhibition, photos by various artists, on view through

GALLERIES ART Apr 11. Opening reception Wed Mar 28, 5Z:307:30pm. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, 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, 8398241): Exhibition of work by undergraduate 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): Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am4pm. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Wed-Sat 126pm. 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 116pm, 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? Bisque exhibit by Shirley Nigro in the Rotary Club Room Gallery. Thu-Fri 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Second Sun 11am-2pm. Reception Apr 15, 6-8 pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Artisanal Capitalism, work by Vandana Jain, on view through Apr 27. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am2pm. 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 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays. Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo Bunis Family Art Gallery (2640 N Forest Road, Benderson Family Building, Amherst, NY 14068, 688-4033, jccbuffalo.org): Donors Art Show, on view through Apr 30. MonThu 5:30am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, SatSun 8am-6pm. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Main Street Gallery (515 Main St. Buffalo, NY 14203): Western New York-inspired watercolors by Mike Thompson. On view Feb 16-Feb 21. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Passages, paintings by Jeanne Beck. TueSat 9:30am-5:30pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 282-7530, thenacc.org): Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 124pm. Nichols School Gallery at the Glenn & Audrey Flickinger Performing Arts Center (1250 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14216, 332-6300, nicholsschool.org/artshows): Work from the collection. Mon-Fri 8am-4pm, Closed Sat & Sun. 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. TueFri 10am–5pm. Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-6523270, norbergsartandframe.com): Regional artists from the gallery collection. TueSat 10am–5pm. Harold L. Olmsted Gallery, Springville Center for the Arts (37 N. Buffalo Street, Springville, NY 14141, 716-592-9038, SpringvilleArts. org): Joe Ward: Scenes, on view through Feb 24. Wed & Fri, 12-5pm. Thu 12-8pm, Sat 103pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): The Element of Texture, a group exhibit, through Mar 31. Opening reception Mar 23, 7-9pm. Wed-Sat,12-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse. com): The Allegory of Color, work by Cassie Lipsitz. Thu-Sat by event. Pine Apple Company (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/ store/pine-apple-company) Wed & Thu 11am6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery. tripod.com): 11th anniversary show. Art by Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, Chris McGee, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Liebel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, John Farallo, Thomas Busch, Sherry Anne Preziuso, Tony Cappello, Michael Mulley. On view through Apr 4. First Friday extended hours. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. Resource: Art @ Hotel Henry (444 Forest Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14213, facebook. com/resourceartny): Work by Gary Sczerbaniewicz and Julian Montague on view in the Corridors Gallery, with two large works by Jack Drummer in the stairwell landing. On view through mid-May. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Pop Star, work by Leanne Davies, Dave MacDowell, Johannah O’Donnell, Shaunna Peterson, on view through Mar 30. Thu 12-6pm, Fri and Sat 12-8pm. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051, riverartgalleryandgifts. com): Wed-Fri 11am-4pm Sat 11am- 5pm. Ró Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Work by Catherine Willett. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Sisti Gallery (6535 Campbell Blvd., Pendleton, NY 14094, 465-9138): Honoring Watercolor, works by Rita Argen Auerbach and Charles E. Burchfield. Fri 6-9pm, Sat & Sun 11-2pm. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Let Me Remember: first North American solo exhibition of artist and videoactivist belit sağ, on view through Mar 23. Tue-Sat, 12pm-5pm. Stangler Fine Art (6429 West Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127, 870-1129, stanglerart. com): Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm. Closed Sundays. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio. org): Marc Tomko and Alison Mantione. MonFri 9-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Buffalo Funa-Day 2018, through Apr 14. Open by event and Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries. org): Light, Line, Color and Space, new acquisitions from among hundreds of recently acquired gifts to the permanent collection. On view through Apr 15. Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017. Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic. Wed-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries. org): Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, on view through May 26. TueFri 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 view through Mar 29. Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. WASH Project (593 Grant Street, Buffalo, NY 14213): Law Eh Soe, photographs from Burma to Buffalo. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 3481430, wnybookarts.org): Nurtured Memories, work by Phyllis Thompson, on view through Apr 18. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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JULIE MOLLOY is a Buffalo-based designer who has been described as “nice enough” and “really quite pigeon-toed.” She makes paintings because it feels good. She lives on the internet at juliemolloy.com. This piece is called try me; check out Molloy’s new work at Peach Mag (peachmgzn.com), too.

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SCIENCE & ART CABARET 21: DEATH WEDNESDAY MARCH 28

WEDNESDAY MARCH 28 PUBLIC APPROVED

10pm Mister Goodbar, 1110 Elmwood Ave.

[INDIE] A new name for local indie rock band, Ponder the Giraffe, now known simply as Ponder, means a new set of shows. The band returns this Wednesday, March 28 for a show at Mister Goodbar. Expect some Hump Day beer specials too. -CP

7PM / THE 9TH WARD, 341 DELAWARE AVE / FREE [DISCUSSION] In the final edition of Science & Art Cabaret for this

season, the theme will be death. Artists working different media, from music to literature, will examine the theme from different angles. The lineup includes Elizabeth Mazzolini, UB associate professor of English; Joan Linder, chair of UB’s Department of Art; Erik Seeman, UB professor of history; electronic musician Angie Conte; and former pastor Dave Persons. Some of their planned presentations include a funeral-based music piece, a talk titled “Looking Forward to Death,” a discussion of high-altitude mountaineering titled “Climbing with Death,” and more. This will be the 21st edition of the series, which has invited a myriad conversations, from paranormal mysteries to the nature of sound, space, time, and nothingness. Science & Art Cabaret 21: Death takes place this Wednesday, March 28 at Babeville’s 9th Ward. -CORY PERLA

INTERVIEW: MICHAEL IAN BLACK THURSDAY MARCH 29

THURSDAY MARCH 29 State of Our City 5:30pm Central Library, 1 Lafayette Square

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8PM / HELIUM COMEDY CLUB, 30 MISSISSIPPI ST. / $20-$23 [COMEDY] Comedian Michael Ian Black’s association with Buffalo is more than just standup shows and chicken wings—he also has fond memories of traveling to Buffalo to watch men beat each other up in what he claims to be among the greatest nights of his life. Black’s razor-sharp wit and sarcasm have been among his calling cards since the debut of MTV’s The State sketch comedy show in 1993. Since then, Black has added many credits to his resume beyond comedy and acting. He’s also a successful author, film and television producer, and podcaster on his weekly How to Be Amazing interview show. With five standup sets scheduled at Helium Comedy Club this Thursday, March 29 through Saturday, March 31, Black spoke to The Public about his recent New York Times piece responding to the Parkland school shootings, his role as a commenter on political issues, and more.

6pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $12-$15

There was a lot of positive feedback. There wasn’t the volume of negative feedback that I was expecting. I was expecting more blowback from the kinds of men’s rights people who are out there. But there was very little of it. Maybe because it was in the New York Times and those guys don’t read the New York Times? I don’t know. It was overwhelmingly positive…it was pretty heartening, actually.

It’s been interesting to me watching it, and watching it really be led in voice and spirit by these teenagers. It’s been really awesome to see—it’s been so organic and fantastic to watch, [and] it feels important that they take the lead. And as best as we can, adults just stay the fuck out of it. And I shouldn’t say “stay out of it.” Support them, but don’t try to lead them. As a father of a toddler, I’m glad that I don’t have to explain what’s happened in this country over the past few years to my child yet. You have two teenagers" How do you talk to them about what’s going on while helping them not be jaded and cynical?

I’m not trying to make them not cynical or not jaded. I’m hopefully not trying to make them into anything. As a parent, all l I can do is ask questions, and hopefully they will have a thoughtful response. And if I hear them parroting my opinion back to me, I sometimes play devil’s advocate to my own opinion just to make sure they thought about these things. I don’t want my kids to be carbon copies of me and I know my wife feels the same way. I don’t want them to be Democrats because their parents are Democrats. Do you feel that the public has began to see you as more of a voice on these issues? Do you see yourself differently? Maybe not any less as a comedian, but maybe more as commentator? A pundit?

No, I’m definitely not a pundit. And God forbid I ever become one, because all a pundit does is prognosticating, which means you are predicting the future and getting it wrong. But no, I don’t think of myself any differently. I am, frankly, amazed when anybody pays any attention to what I have to say because, you know, nobody in my household particularly cares what I have to say. Well, I have seen some of your more poignant or thoughtful quotes in those thought provoking social media graphics. I see those and say, “Hey, that’s the guy who did the pizza sketch on Stella.”

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[FORUM] Let's face it: If an executive, elected or otherwise, isn't telling you that they're doing an awesome job during their annual address, they aren't doing their jobs. But absent from local annual "State of the City" or "State of the State" addresses is a real critical analysis of the holes, cracks, and shortcomings of government services writ large. Thursday's State of Our City at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Central Library aims to fill the void with a variety of speakers who are being asked to focus on solutions to Buffalo's most urgent problems. To name a few: public education and public transit funding shortfalls, safety for undocumented immigrants, affordable housing and community control of vacant land, and economic development strategies. There have been some positive developments in Buffalo in the past 10 years, but until Buffalo's arch pitfalls of racial segregation and discrimination and economic disparity are bridged, any talk of renaissance is terminology that befits the public relations of a mayor, not the reality for a community. The Crossroads Collective and the Buffalo Parent Teacher Organization have both endorsed and joined the event, so come and hear what solutions folks are promoting. To sign up to talk beforehand, contact Harper at harper@openbuffalo.org. Youth are being encouraged to participate on both ends. -AL

Paul Deslauriers Band

You wrote a widely discussed opinion piece “The Boys Are Not Alright” last month in response to the Parkland school shooting that may have exposed a less comedy-oriented side of you to a new audience. I’m wondering what kind of feedback you got from that piece.

And now we’ve seen the response from the students at Parkland and younger generations, who seem to be carrying the gun control issues on their shoulders.

Ponder

frame a message or stake out some territory. I often say on my Twitter feed, for example, that the NRA is a terrorist organization. And I believe that. But, I think it’s important for people like me, who are not pundits, but who have a voice, to stake out that territory because it moves the conversation just the tiniest bit. And even if you disagree with the premise, which far more people do than agree with it, it at least makes you go, “Wait a minute, why is he saying that?” I think that’s valuable, and I think that’s where I can add value to the conversation. Do you have any memorable stories from your various stops in Buffalo?

My friends and I got tickets to a UFC fight when UFC was still brutal and incomprehensible—it was one of the better nights of my life, watching these dudes beat the shit out of each other. And afterwards, I think I was meeting the producer, so we were able to get into the backstage area and it really blew my mind to see these same guys that I’d just seen beating each other up watching a replay of the fight together and laughing and complimenting each other on how they beat each other up. The original Stella sketches (with David Wain and Michael Showalter) that floated around the Internet in the early 2000s are some of my favorite works of yours. At that time, there were limited video outlets online and the sketches were difficult to track down. I feel like Stella was ahead of its time in terms of technology not being able to distribute the videos en masse.

That is probably true, but we weren’t thinking, “Oh, if only technology were there, we’d have this thriving online video career.” Those videos you are referring to were made for a live show in New York City. We would make a video a week, and we would just show them thinking they’d never be seen again. And then, slowly, a year or two or three into when we started doing that, the capability to put these things online started popping up, and I don’t think we recognized at the time that they would find an audience. And it wasn’t until we took that troupe, Stella, on the road—we would go all over the country and people were showing up. It just never really occurred to us that that would happen. And I was so surprised and happy that it did. -KIP DOYLE

[BLUES] Call it a blues-rock power trio. Formed after two decades of working together on projects far and wide, guitarist/singer Paul DesLauriers, bassist Greg Morency, and drummer Sam Harrisson decided a few years back to focus their energy on this outlet, which is based out of Montreal. They’ve gone on to win some coveted awards in the world of Canadian blues, and the trio’s most recent album, Relentless (2016), made appearances on blues album charts in both Canada and the USA, garnering some impressive reviews along the way. Blues Music Magazine‘s Charlie Frazier declared, “DesLauriers’s fiery guitar playing throughout, combined with Harrisson’s polyrhythmic drumming under Morency’s sinewy bass lines, makes this CD sound like a thick, juicy blues stew.” The stew, suely even thicker now over a year later, will get served up at the Tralf Music Hall on Thursday, March 29. -CJT

Kung Fu with LITZ 8pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $12-$15

[FUNK] Call them “new funk” or a “jam band”; it’s all just semantics. Maybe “new funk” is the better term (actually they prefer the term “lethal funk”) because Kung Fu is just so funky. Almost too funky, if that was a possibility, which it’s not. [Scoffs out loud to self.] All chortling and scoffing aside though, Kung Fu make a unique brand of electro-funk—equally as influenced by EDM as it is by Stevie Wonder—that their audience enjoys hearing almost as much as they enjoy performing. The five-piece band from New Haven, Connecticut returns to Buffalo for a show at Buffalo Iron Works this Thursday, March 29 with support from Gaithersburg, Maryland-based power-funk band LITZ. -CP

SATURDAY MARCH 31 Back Room Book Sale 12pm Rust Belt Books, 415 Grant St

[BOOK SALE] Since the sanctity of April Fool's Day has been colonized this year by some other holiday, this year's big blowout of books will take place on April Fool's Eve, on Saturday, March 31 at Rust Belt Books. The Back Room Book Sale is back as are the low, low price of $5 per bag of books. Rare finds, long postponed reading list items, eclectic gems, and pedestrian pulp all mish-mashed and waiting for you to discover them, don't disappoint! -AL

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Last Friday, Peach featured the experimental poem “Stellium: A Cluster, Or 4 Unanswered Letters From My Father (February 2016-April 2017)” by Jacq Greyja. “Stellium” is a fascinating work, something that allows the reader to interpret and reconfigure Greyja’s deceptively simple text to meet their personal narrative. The entire body of the poem reads as a running tally of words and numbers, presumably culled from the unseen titular “Unanswered Letters.” The most used word is “I.” The least used words are “she,” “son,” “daughter,” and “Mom.” Greyja’s method, forcing the reader to personally sift through the raw material of these “Unanswered Letters,” constructs something extremely personal and deeply devastating. No two readers’ versions of these letters will look the same.

9PM / BUFFALO IRON WORKS, 49 ILLINOIS ST. / $15

IN PRINT:

guest, Dirty Work is different—because it’s our Dan band. Featuring three out of four members

Annihilation

of Aqueous (Mike Gantzer, Dave Loss, Evan McPhaden) along with Ryan Nogle and uber-

By Jeff Vandermeer

talented young’un Harry Graser, this ought to be a tour-de-force of Buffalo musical quirk—

Farrar, Straus, & Giroux / 2014 / novel

aptly applied to the music of one of rock’s quirkiest 1970s bands. Check it out at Buffalo Iron

Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation is a horror novel presented in the voice presented in the voice of a nature documentary transcript. The book concerns a mysterious region of quarantined swampland, referred to simply as “Area X,” in which a series of deceptively subtle shifts in reality have necessitated increasingly doomed expeditions. Annihilation is written in a calm, detached voice that offers up imagery that is simultaneously beautiful, alien, and terrifying, “The shape spread until it was even where it was not, or should not have been. It seemed now more like a kind of obstacle or wall or thick closed door blocking the stairs. Not a wall of light — gold, blue, green, existing in some other spectrum — but a wall of flesh that resembled light, with sharp, curving elements within it and textures like ice when it has frozen from flowing water. An impression of living things lazily floating in the air around it like soft tadpoles.” Vandermeer also uses small, surprisingly effective inversions in simple nomenclature to put the reader in a state of unease, such as the eerie tunnel at the heart of the narrative that the central character refuses to refer to as anything other than as a “tower.”

Works on Saturday, March 31. Go early to check out the venue’s awesome selection of crafty

Annihilation is the first installment in a trilogy of books, but the way in which the vaguely Lovecraftian nature of Vandermeer’s prose and the surprisingly effective love story around the novel’s periphery coalesce, make it a self-contained and wholly unpredictable beast all its own.

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because they felt the sound they were achieving in the studio wasn’t well enough represented by caught up with them, and by the early aughties, “The Dan” was capable of a mighty impressive live performance, complete with a trio of backup gals and full-on brass section. It has continued

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[TRIBUTE] Covering Steely Dan is no joke. Fagen and Becker took the band off the road in 1975 their stage show, and they didn’t emerge in a live format again until 1993. Technology eventually

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that way, more or less, since then and will likely live on despite the death of Walter Becker last year. While other Dan tribute bands have emerged over the years, including the New England-

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Hatred, released early this March. Coming off a run of dates in the opening slot for Hatebreed, Twitching Tongues pulls into Town Ballroom on Sunday, April 1 to show off their new material and newfound chemistry as a quartet. Also on the bill: Detroit hardcore five-piece True Love, fellow Californians Vamachara, Selective Aggression, and Buffalo’s Clear Focus.

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Dustin Lynch

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[COUNTRY] Signed to indie country label Broken Bow prior to its recent acquisition by BMG, Dustin Lynch is a Tennessee native who's enjoyed a ton of country radio airplay over the course of eight massive hit singles (three platinum and three gold) and three albums, plus a handful of ACA and CMT award nominations. Touring behind last year's album Current Mood, Lynch comes to Seneca Niagara Events Center for a gig on Saturday, March 31 that's bound to be a hayride of a good time. The Meet and Greet is apparently sold out, but seats are still available at press time. -CJT

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Strange Standard, The Bees Trees, Glitch, and Hyzerflight 8pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St. $5

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[ROCK] If you missed out on grabbing tickets to see over-the-top guitarist Buckethead at Buffalo Iron Works for his sold-out show scheduled for Monday, April 2, then here’s a chance to redeem yourself. Buckethead has added a second show, the next day, Tuesday, April 3. The mysterious,

Held in honor of Trans Day of Visibility, celebrating the many talents in our gender-diverse communities: Bring your instruments, your poems, your bodies, your art! You can sing, read a monologue, tap dance, juggle—all types of performance artists are encouraged to join in the fun. Allies are welcome to attend, and there may be some snacks, but participants are encouraged to eat beforehand.

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masked, and bucketed guitarist is as prolific he is virtuosic. Since 2011 alone the 48-year-old guitarist, real name Brian Carroll, has released 274 albums. Let that sink in. 274. Albums. Of music. The majority of the albums fall into the artist’s solo Pike series, which he began releasing in mass as he went on hiatus from touring in 2012. Rumors even spread that the infamously private artist had passed away and that his personal archive was simply emerging. Luckily for fans, Buckethead is not dead. In 2016, the eccentric artist—who has collaborated with everyone from Les Claypool to Iggy Pop and whose origin story alleges he was raised by chickens—made his return to touring to the excitement of his many fans. He’ll make his long awaited return to Buffalo for the pair of shows at Buffalo Iron Works this week. A word to the wise: Grab tickets now before they sell out again. -CORY PERLA

[ROCK] NYS Music brings another weird and wonderful line up to Nietzsche’s this Saturday, March 31. Cleveland-based soul/funk band The Bees Trees will be joined by video game mashup band Glitch (have you ever imagined with the Mario Underground theme would sound like played by a full band? If yes, then this is for you), bluesy rock band Hyzerflight, and rock band Strange Standard. -TPS

Little Mountain Band 9pm Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar, 253 Allen St

[FOLK] Five-piece Americana band Little Mountain Band will bring special guest Meesh with them for a show at Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar this Saturday, March 31. The show comes as part of DBGB’s regular music series. -TPS

Remember Tomorrow Release Party with Basha 10pm Preservation Pub, 948 Main St. $5

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Bass DJ Basha will celebrate the release of a new LP titled Remember Tomorrow this Saturday, March 31 at Preservation Pub in Allentown. He’ll bring with him a whole bunch of friends including DJs K-Rog, JennaBeatz, Moumenon, Solos, and more. Expect some killer drink specials too. -CP

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[PUNK] Florida-based “gore pop” band with an appropriately outrageous name, Period Bomb, come to Buffalo for a show with fellow bloody band, Kutztown, Pennsylvania’s Bleeders, this Sunday, April 1 at Mohawk Place. They’ll be joined by Buffalo alt-punk band Tina Panic Noise. -CP

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[EXPERIMENTAL] Radio Wonderland, the experimental electronic music project by Brooklynbased artist Joshua Fried, doesn’t just take electronic music to its natural extremes, it demolishes it entirely and doesn’t even attempt to put it back together in a familiar way. On stage Fried is dressed

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fragments of words, or the essence of a pop melody, distorting, shifting, and repeating these bits ad infinitum. It’s not just the choice of sample material that makes this transcend our idea of what music can be, but the way he does it physically on stage. Watch Fried sample a Rent-A-Center commercial and then pitch shift the sample with a steering wheel controller mounted on a bar stool, or use a boombox tuned to conservative talk radio as source material with which to fuck with. During his live sets, some audience members dance, as much of it eventually forms into something that approaches minimalist electronica music, but most onlookers seem to lose themselves in it, standing still, staring, and listening. It’s a mesmerizing performance that cannot be done justice with studio recordings or even live recordings. Catch Radio Wonderland live at Mohawk Place

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[CLASSICAL] “What the classical guitar actually is known for is the tone of the instrument just being so special,” said Xavier Jara, teaching a masterclass in guitar at Oberlin College in Ohio. The 25 year old classical guitarist will match the special tone of his guitar, as played with his virtuosic talent, with the acoustic perfection of the main hall of Kleinhans for a concert on Tuesday, April 3. For the performance, the award winning guitarist will play pieces that span the Baroque period to today with the audience seated on stage surrounding him. -CP

WEDNESDAY APRIL 4 Mad Dukez & Chuckie Campbell 8pm Gypsy Parlor, 376 Grant St. $5

[HIP HOP] Buffalo-based hip hop artists Mad Dukez and Chuckie Campbell will be back in action in their home town after a 12-city tour. Cambell will bring along The Black Den as his backing band for this one. Expect additional sets by Short Moscato, Toneyboi, and GTW, as well as comedy between sets by Jesse Winterhalter, Sam Minney, Ryan Henry, and Spencer Carr. Check it out Wednesday, April P 4 at the Gypsy Parlor. -CP

SPOTLIGHT COMEDY occasional shows currently. Kurdziel values the Buffalo music community and realizes the musicians in Buffalo are the ones that keep the scene alive, energetic, and unified.

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“When you get into that community, you stay in it,” said Kurdziel. “It’s really the music community, they let you in if you take it seriously, and you don’t leave.” As Kurdziel’s radio and playing career continued to evolve, he added another element to his resume, this time in comedy. When Kurdziel started doing radio, he wanted to produce and write funny content and bits, and always dreamed of working with Shredd & Ragan, realizing their immeasurable talent and place in the Buffalo radio community. Comix Café, which closed its doors in 2007, used to be home to a comedy night every Thursday, which Kurdziel would host. Kurdziel would give away prizes and interact with the audience, but he didn’t tell jokes. One of the comedians there encouraged him to start performing jokes, and when Comix Café closed, Kurdziel went on to do open mic nights. He started performing in 2007, and though at first the reaction from the audience wasn’t what he had hoped for, that was an important springboard. He was determined to work on this new craft and take it to a new level.

103.3 The Edge’s James Kurdziel: radio guy, comedian, musician, and family man.

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autographed electric guitars from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, and Brand New. Posters and framed records from Death Cab for Cutie, Goo Goo Dolls, and the Struts along the perimeter. This isn’t the setting of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame or the Hard Rock Café— this is James Kurdziel’s office. Each relic shows the wisdom, memories, and experiences that Kurdziel has gained through many years and many roles. Kurdziel wears many hats—father, comedian, musician, and on-air personality and program director for 103.3 The Edge, just to name a few. These are all roles about which he is passionate, and he especially loves that he is able to do these in the city that he loves. Growing up in Buffalo, Kurdziel always knew he wanted to go into radio. At eight years old, his mind was made up, and nothing would get him to waiver from his end goal. Though some doubted that he would be able to succeed in the radio world, Kurdziel had one overarching supporter, his mother Carol. Even when Kurdziel himself started to hesitate and thought he would need a backup plan, Kurdziel’s mother told him he didn’t need a second option, that he would make it in radio. Though Kurdziel’s mother passed away before Kurdziel graduated from Canisius College with his digital communications degree, her positivity and the motivation she provided her son lives on. Kurdziel was just promoted to vice president of rock/alternative for the Northeast Region at Cumulus Media. Kurdziel started at The Edge as an intern in 1999 and has remained with the station ever since. He interned with longtime morning show jocks Shredd & Ragan, and was humbled and ecstatic to be hired soon thereafter. His passion for radio and what it does for Buffalo radiates from everything he does. Anyone who has ever turned on The Edge has either heard Kurdziel’s show during the week or has listened to something directly impacted by him. “My hope in it is that people hear it and they understand that local radio is still what’s making local culture happen,” said Kurdziel.

Comedian Mitch Hedberg encouraged Kurdziel. Kurdziel brought Hedberg in to perform in North Tonawanda, and after the show, Hedberg told Kurdziel that everyone should try comedy at least once, though Kurdziel was unsure of his talents at first. “’You’ll be good because everything is good,’” Kurdziel says Hedberg told him.

He loves everything that comes with radio— the events, the shows, creating and producing content, being on the air, bringing bands in the studio, the annual Edgefest festival, coaching on-air talent, podcasts, and the partnerships. He loves being able to contribute to all of those pieces, and to do so in his hometown.

Kurdziel devoted himself to the craft, and in 2008 he started writing material and spending time with Matt Bergman, Brian Herberger, Rob Lederman, Rick Matthews, Shaun Murphy, and Josh Potter, all local comedians he considered mentors. Kurdziel continued to grow and improve his form.

“I love it here,” said Kurdziel. “It’s important to me. All the things that I like to do, I like for it to find its way back here.”

When the monthly Edge Comedy Night began at Helium Comedy Club, Kurdziel embraced the opportunity to use the club as a vehicle for showcasing local talent., and to put fellow comedians in front of bigger crowds and give them the stage time they deserve.

The people he works with keep him thriving, and in he enthusiastically talks up the accomplishments of his entire on-air personality team. Kurdziel himself was awarded the “30 Radio Professionals Under 30” award twice, The Edge has won “Station of the Year,” and Shredd & Ragan won “Best Radio Show in Buffalo.” He’s grateful to be a part of all of those awards and to see how hard his colleagues have worked to earn that recognition. Aside from the music he broadcasts live on the airwaves during the week, he makes music outside of the studio too: He started playing in a band with his friend Ryan, who was a fellow intern at The Edge. The intent of their band, Agent ME, was to be as Buffalo-centered as possible. They played frequently between 2002 and 2010 at various venues in North Tonawanda, Mohawk Place, Nietzsche’s, Showplace Theater, and Music Is Art. The band also played various high school tours as part of anti-bullying and depression awareness campaigns. The band continues to play

At an Edge Comedy Night show, one can find Kurdziel talking about parenthood and life with a teenage daughter, life in South Buffalo, and his family—all topics that he wants to be relatable to the audience. Kurdziel continues his radio career, his performing career, and his comedy because he wants to see good things happen in Buffalo, and is fully invested in this city. “I want people in other cities to know that you can be in Buffalo, and do really well and live and love Buffalo,” Kurdziel said. The next Edge Comedy Night is March 28 at Helium Comedy Club. Kurdziel will be headlining, with performances from Matt Bergman and Cody Colin Chase. The next Edge Comedy Night dates after that are April P 25 and May 23.

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FILM REVIEW and padding that make him resemble Homer Simpson, plays Nikita Khrushchev, head of the Communist party. Though we all know that he became the next premier, in 1953 he was seen as a mere politician, unlikely to rise to power: He’s more concerned with cementing his stature through jokes and backslapping. The likely heir is Georgy Malenkov, Stalin’s deputy, played by Jeffrey Tambour as a spineless popinjay in ridiculous suits. The schemer is Lavrentiy Beria (UK stage star Simon Russell Beale), spymaster with as much blood on his hands as his boss, who hopes to manipulate Malenkov to his own ends. Michael Palin is diplomat Vyacheslav Molotov, a true believer in Stalinism even though he had just been named to Stalin’s enemies list before his death. Less directly involved but the source of some of the film’s funniest scenes are Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov ( Jason Isaacs), who as head of the army and a hero credited with defeating the Nazis may be the only person within shouting distance of the Kremlin with a secure position, and Stalin’s alcoholic son Vasily (Rupert Friend), a threat to no one but himself. Iannucci specializes in the comedy of discomfort, a style he makes work because he doesn’t feel the need to make any of his characters likeable. As plans unfold and collapse, the humor comes from the fact that all of these schemers are terrified of everyone around them, with good reason. (Stalin housed all of his ministers in luxury apartments close to the Kremlin, the better to maintain control over them: By the time we’re introduced to them, these rats have spent years living in close quarters with others who would have had no compunction about stabbing them in the back if it served their purposes.)

Paul Whitehouse, Steve Buscemi, and Jeffrey Tambor in The Death of Stalin.

POLITBORO HIJINX THE DEATH OF STALIN BY M. FAUST AT THE HEIGHT of his career in 1960, while doing location

shoots for The Apartment, Billy Wilder was thinking about the precarious state of world politics and wondering how he might address them from his particular comic perspective. He came up with the idea of letting the Marx Brothers loose in the United Nations building. The brothers liked the idea, but Harpo had a heart attack, Chico died, and the movie was never made. Wilder found another outlet for his political satire, Coca Cola capitalism, in the brilliant farce One, Two, Three. Had that Marx-Wilder collaboration been made, it would have looked a lot like The Death of Stalin, the new film by Armando Iannucci. He’s best known in the US for his HBO series Veep,

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OPENING THIS WEEK THE DEATH OF STALIN—Black comedy by Armando Iannucci (Veep) featuring an ensemble cast as the members of Stalin’s politburo struggling for power after his unexpected death. Starring Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Palin, Simon Russell Beale, Jason Isaacs, Paul Whitehouse, Andrea Riseborough, Rupert Friend, and Paddy Considine. Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills FLOWER—Zoey Deutch as a sexually precocious teenager in what Variety calls a “vile comedy about a teenager with out-of-control daddy issues.” With Kathryn Hahn, Tim Heidecker, and Adam Scott. Directed by Max Winkler. Regal Transit LOVELESS—This Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film critiques contemporary Russian society through the story of a couple engaged in a bitter divorce whose son disappears during one of their fights. Starring Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, and Matvey Novikov. Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan). Dipson Amherst READY PLAYER ONE—‘Cause Steven’s still preoccupied/With 1985. Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, and Lena Waithe. Directed by Steven Spielberg. AMC

but Great Britain has enjoyed three decades of brilliant comedy from the Scottish writer-director. (Yes, Scottish. His father was an Italian émigré—the US isn’t the world’s only melting pot.) If you have a subscription to Hulu, watch The Thick of It, his BBC series that was the inspiration for Veep (and the spinoff film In the Loop): It is hands down the funniest political satire I have ever seen. Adapted from a French graphic novel, The Death of Stalin is set in 1953 in the months after the title event, as the top leaders in the Communist leader’s government struggle for power. These are played by as top-flight an ensemble as you’re likely to find in a movie this year. Steve Buscemi, with a shaved head

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ALTERNATIVE CINEMA BLACK GIRL (Senegal, 1966)—Eager to improve her life, a Senegalese woman takes a job with a French family in Dakar, but finds only racism when they bring her back with them to the south of France. Ousman Sembène’s debut was the first feature film made in sub-Saharan Africa. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)— Likely to be the number one answer if Family Feud ever asks, “What movie makes you say, boy, they don’t make ‘em like that anymore?” Winner of seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Director (David Lean), and Actor (Alec Guinness). Co-starring William Holden, Jack Hawkins, and Sessue Hayakawa. Fri 7:30pm, Sat 7pm. North Park GASLIGHT (1944)—Classic psychological thriller starring Ingrid Bergman as an innocent heiress whose husband tries to drive her into insanity. With Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotton, Dame May Whitty and Angela Lansbury. Directed by George Cukor (My Fair Lady). This free screening is sponsored by Madwomen in the Attic, a local mental health organization, which will conduct a post-show conversation. Tue 7pm. Screening Room THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD (1965)— Max von Sydow is Jesus Christ in the ultimate Hollywood Bible epic, all three hours and 45

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minutes of it. The cast is filled with stars who pop up for a single scene— Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, John Wayne, Angela Lansbury, Dorothy McGuire, Sal Mineo, Claude Rains, Carroll Baker—as well as a lot of people who went on to TV fame: Martin Landau, David McCallum, Telly Savalas, Robert Blake, Jamie Farr, David Hedison, Russell Johnson. Oh, and Donald Pleasence as Satan. Directed by George Stevens, with uncredited help from David Lean and Jean Negulesco. Sun 7pm. North Park 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 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). Tue, Fri 7:30pm. Screening Room REAL GENIUS (1985)— Ahead-of-itstime teen comedy starring Val Kilmer as the leader of a group of genius students who don’t know that their work is being used to develop a new weapon for the military. William Atherton, Gabriel Jarret, Michelle Meyrink, Jon Gries, and Patti D’Arbanville. Directed

This may sound like thick going, and there’s no question that the more you know about the milieu going into it the more you’ll get out of it. Iannucci and his co-writers don’t linger on the horrors of the era, largely because they assume viewers will be at least generally familiar with them but also because there’s only so much they can put into a 100-minute movie. But in the end you wish that this had been made as a series for television: So much more could have been done with the material and the characters with more space. Still, even if the motivations and events aren’t always clear, the performances are often hilarious. No one in the cast bothers with a fake Russian accent, nor does the dialogue attempt to mimic an earlier time. If parts of the film feel, as some critics have complained, like a bunch of unchecked teenage boys squabbling, it’s hard to argue that that’s not an apt depiction of P politics through the ages.

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CONTINUING ANNIHILATION—If David Cronenberg, the master of biological horror, had been inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the result might have looked like this. Natalie Portman stars as a cellular biologist who joins a team of scientists sent by the military to investigate what they are calling “the shimmer,” a region in the southeastern US that is bound by unusual lights. From within that area, no communications have been possible, and no team sent into it has emerged. And it’s growing. The less you know the better, other than that writer-director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) spent his production funds wisely with a crew that was capable of bringing to life a unique vision. The movie may be cerebral, but it also packs a gut punch: There’s a bear that is the stuff of nightmares. Garland may not have answers for the questions that interest him, but that’s never been a bad thing in science fiction. Co-starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Benedict Wong, and Oscar Isaac. —M. Faust Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

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DAN O’CONNOR

CRAIG LOCKE

TED POWELL

PETER KOCH

DogSentials LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/11/2017. Office: Erie County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 731 Columbus Pkwy, lwr, Buffalo, NY 14213. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

CARYN GUNDERSON (BIG 4-O!)

JAX DELUCA

GREG STERLACE

MICHAEL NOWICKI

SHERYL SMITH

REBECCA REILLY

RACHEL COHEN

TINA DILLMAN

LAUREN KOSTEK

JEFF MILBRANDT

ANDREW BORCHIK

JULIA HALL

CINDY LOVE

AMANDA AMICO

RITA ARGEN AUERBACH

MARLA CROUSE

JOHN BUCKLEY

ANNI KATE

NATALIE KING-LYONS

MARIKA WOODS

PAT PENDLETON

NANCY HUTCHINGS

ADAM GREENBERGER

COLLEEN O’MARA

------------------------------------------------NOTICE OF FORMATION of a DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Name of LLC: Blue Table Chocolates, LLC Date of Filing Articles of Organization with NY Dept of State: Aug 10, 2017. Office of the LLC: 345 W Ferry St., Buffalo, NY 14213. The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of process to the LLC at: 345 W Ferry St., Buffalo, NY 14213. Purpose of LLC: any lawful act or activity. ------------------------------------------------NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Name of LLC: Fresh Fix, LLC Date of Filing Articles of Organization with NY Dept of State: March 22, 2016. Office of the LLC: 425 Richmond Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222. The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of process to the LLC at: 425 Richmond Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222. Purpose of LLC: any lawful act or activity. No specific duration attached to LLC. ------------------------------------------------NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Name of LLC: Elk Tree Holdings, LLC Date of Filing Articles of Organization with NY Dept of State: May 23, 2017. Office of the LLC: 700 Main St, Fl 5., Buffalo, NY 14202. The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of process to the LLC at: 700 Main St Fl 5., Buffalo, NY 14202. Purpose of LLC: any lawful act or activity. No specific duration attached to LLC.

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66 Change two fives into a ten?

35 DIY crafter’s site

10 December drink

67 The night before

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68 Kimono sash

36 Dennis’s sister, on “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”

14 Gran finale?

69 “The Crying Game” star Stephen

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71 “Hang on just a ___!”

38 Wrestler John with an “unexpected” internet meme

72 Pay stub amount

39 Rowing machines, casually

70 “That’s right”

18 Motel room perk, as promoted years ago 20 Novelist DeLillo 21 ___ Mahal (Indian beer brand)

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2 About 30% of the world’s land mass

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Celebrate Spring in the Old First Ward!

SATURDAY, APRIL 7 All events are free and open to all. 1 pm - 4 pm: The Old First Ward Community Center (62 Republic St., Buffalo) and Undergrounds Coffee House & Roastery (580 South Park Ave., Buffalo) will host family-friendly activities and performances, including the Buffalo Zoomobile, the Buffalo & Erie County Library on Wheels, Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Preserve, and programming by Young Audiences of Western New York. Waterfront Memories and More Museum at Mutual Riverfront Park (41 Hamburg St., Buffalo) will be open for visitors. 4 pm: The Buffalo Brass Machine will lead the way as the “boom ball” will be rolled from the community center to Riverfront Park and launched into the Buffalo River. All are welcome to join the parade! 5 pm - 11 pm: Live music from the Blues Society of WNY and the Sportsmen’s Americana Music Foundation will be happening at The Barrel Factory (65 Vandalia St., Buffalo) and Gene McCarthy’s (73 Hamburg St., Buffalo). There will be food and drink specials at these locations and Undergrounds as well. 8:30 pm: Fireworks in the sky over the Old First Ward

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