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special election to be held this Tuesday, April 24, quickly disavowed a negative mailer sent to voters on his behalf by NY Forward, a statewide group with ties to the state teachers union. The mailer tied the Democrat Burke’s opponent, Erik Bohen—who is running on the Republican, Conservative, and Independence party lines—to developer Carl Paladino and thus to Paladino’s “racist, sexist, homophobic” public statements, Paladino’s “emails with pornographic images and racist slurs,” and Paladino’s support for Trump. Paladin is indeed a sponsor of Bohen’s campaign to fill the seat vacated by Mickey Kearns, another Paladino ally, but Bohen didn’t say the things Paladino has said, he didn’t circulate the emails that derailed Paladino’s 2010 campaign for governor, and he’s not a Trump guy. Burke did the decent thing by quickly condemning the mailer, calling it “total garbage.” Bohen, in contrast, has said nothing about a scare mailer sent last week on his behalf by state Republicans featuring the glowering black-and-white visage of Andrew Cuomo, claiming that Burke will be a “rubber stamp” for the governor if elected. To each his own. NEW YORK FUSION VOTING MELTDOWN: New York State’s Conservative Party voted
last week to endorse Duchess County Executive Marc Molinaro for governor, instead of consolidating support around the putative Republican candidate, State Senator John DeFrancisco. As a result, DeFrancisco says he may withdraw from the race, because a GOP candidate can’t beat Governor Andrew Cuomo without the Conservative Party line. Meanwhile, the Working Families Party revealed the deep rifts in the labor movement by revolting against Cuomo and endorsing Cynthia Nixon for governor and New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams for lieutenant governor. As a result, Cuomo’s camp is trying to dump Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul from the ticket in favor of a new running mate, as yet unnamed, who will carry more credibility than does Hochul with downstate progressives attracted to Williams and Nixon. Thus the furious but short-lived effort this week by Cuomo’s team to insert Hochul into the race against Congressman Chris Collins, at the expense of endorsed Democrat Nate McMurray, who was having none of it. So many tangled parties and transactional alliances, so much chaos thus engendered—for more, move on to “Downs” below. Perhaps this light shed on the state’s fusion voting system will linger long enough to reveal its absurdity and lead to change. Here’s hoping.
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FLYNN ON JUSTICE SYSTEM REFORMS BY AARON LOWINGER
THE ERIE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY TALKS ABOUT BAIL REFORM, EVIDENCE REVIEW, MASS INCARCERATION, AND MORE. SINCE ERIE COUNTY District Attorney John
Flynn took office last year, criminal justice reform efforts have only intensified. Progressives and donors from a broad base have focused on district attorney offices nationwide as the wardens of America’s mass incarceration crisis. The numbers and social cost associated with mass incarceration are stark: America has five percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of its prisoners, and on almost every level of the criminal justice system, from marijuana arrests to money bail to solitary confinement, study after study show disparities that point to a justice system weighted against minorities. Some hot-button reforms are currently enjoying broad support nationally to address this. Among them are money bail reform, the strengthening of discovery laws so that defendants are given an opportunity to assess evidence pre-trial, and marijuana legalization efforts. Flynn recognizes his office’s role in all this. Last year, he attended a conference of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a center which aims to “consider a new paradigm of prosecution that measures success, not by conviction rates or plea conditions, but based on community-centered standards of safety, equity, and wellness.” He also joined and attended a conference for Law Enforcement Leaders, a national organization for police chiefs and prosecutors that has a mission of “reducing crime and incarceration.” We sat down with Flynn to discuss these matters and matters of police accountability last week. On all fronts, Flynn believes that his office can 4
do both: reduce crime and incarceration, partner with police and hold them accountable, enforce the law and give offenders a second chance.
But you talked about the racial disparities evident in marijuana arrests.
I spoke with you after a debate in 2016 at the Burchfield Penney where you had cited a Vera Institute study about marijuana arrest disparities. When I asked how you could address that, you said your plan was to communicate with law enforcement and ask them to ease up, to “not arrest everyone on sight.” Has your office been proactive on any level as far as marijuana prosecutions go?
Diversion is one thing, but in your partnership with local law enforcement is there a way to address those disparities?
We have. What I’ve done here in my year and a half now is I have been in numerous meetings with the Buffalo Police Department about the LEAD program. It stands for Law Enforcement Assistance Diversion, and the Buffalo Police Department and I are trying to get more information about this program to see if it would be applicable here in the City of Buffalo. The LEAD program is potentially a program that would focus on this issue. If someone was caught with small amounts of marijuana on them, instead of arresting that person, they could perhaps get services that they may need. Just because you have a small amount of marijuana on you doesn’t mean you have a drug problem, obviously. People use recreational marijuana all the time and don’t necessarily have a drug problem, I recognize that. But the individual, instead of arresting that person, the individual could get a diversion program prearrest and maybe get them a GED, maybe get them on the right track. So that’s something we’re looking into. The reality of the situation is that for almost all low-level marijuana offenses, individuals are getting an ACD: Their cases are getting dismissed. If they’re say out of trouble for six months, the case goes away. The lowlevel marijuana cases, the reality is those cases are not being prosecuted.
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The Buffalo Police Department, and not just Buffalo but all the police agencies in Erie County, can be cognizant of that fact that there are disparities, especially when it comes to marijuana arrests. I think that the Buffalo Police Department, with their community policing program that they have, can and is addressing some of those issues. We have new leadership in the City of Buffalo Police Department, there is an African-American commissioner now, and I have had numerous conversations with him. Buffalo’s new police commissioner, Byron Lockwood, has been vocal about community policing. He said that he wants every officer to be a community police officer. He’s trying to signal some sort of shift. Obviously the homicide clearance rates are very low. Since 2016, less than 25 percent of homicides in the city have been cleared. Have you had conversations with the commissioner about community policing, in particular about its ability to address homicide rates? Is there a connection between the lack of community policing and a low homicide clearance rate?
Absolutely. Here’s a couple things about those numbers. If you take homicides and you put them into different groups, the one group is, we’ll call it drug/gang-related homicides. Put that in one group. And put all the rest in another group. All the rest, the clearance rate is over 80 percent. It’s the low numbers on the drug/gang-related homicides that are bringing that clearance rate down. Individuals are afraid
when they have information about a drug/ gang-related homicide, they’re afraid to come forward. And so community policing addresses to a certain extent some of those fears, I think. If we have community policing officers on the ground, they can work with members of the community to assure them that we will do what we can to protect you. We have money here at the DA’s office that we get from Albany to relocate individuals. It’s not the federal program, we can’t move people to Arizona, obviously, there are certain parameters. But we could get them a new apartment here in the area, we will get them cell phones, we could pay for the moving costs, for the moving van. There are certain things we have money for that we can do to ensure their safety. And the community policing also brings about a trust factor. A lot of people don’t want to come forward because they view police as the enemy. The trust isn’t there. So by community policing you can build that trust up, hopefully, and get more people to come forward in the city about the gang-related homicides. Where does your office stand on cash bail reform? The state bar association has recommended an end to bail for misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies. Is this something your office is looking at?
What I have told my assistant district attorneys, not only in Buffalo City Court but in justice court, only ask for bail on the most egregious cases. So if there’s low-level misdemeanor, nonviolent felonies and the individual and has no prior history of missing court at all, there’s no reason to make a bail recommendation at all. We can remain silent, and we do. In the [town and village] justice courts, we’re not even in the courtroom when the judge sets bail. I tell our ADAs only go into court or make a note on the file—so that the judge can see—with a bail recommendation in the most egregious cases. The bail reforms that are being talked
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I would hear from the defense lawyers. I would hear from the defense bar, and I would hear from the judges as well. I can see every case where bail’s put on, but at the end of the day, my attorney can say on the record, “Judge, we don’t think that bail is appropriate.” The judge can still say at the end of the day, “Well, you know what, too bad. I’m putting bail on it.” At the end the day we don’t control it, the judge controls it. I have no way to track those cases at all. I’d have to physically pull every transcript. Unfortunately there’s no way to track that. From what I’m hearing from my bureau chiefs and from speaking to attorneys is that— especially in the City of Buffalo—most of the judges on the bench there are only using bail the way it should be used: not as a punishment, but to ensure that a person comes back to court.
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On bails being set in Erie County, I’ve heard rumblings of a study on bail. If it were to come out that there are disparities—racial disparities in Erie County where defendants with similar crimes and similar histories get different bail amounts based on race—how would you tackle that?
The judges. I would talk to all the partners involved in that. You would think it was the responsibility of the judges more than the ADAs, is that what you mean?
Well, I wouldn’t put all the blame on the judges, but at the end of the day you’ve got to remember the judges are the ones who are setting the bail. If I found out that my ADAs were—on similar cases, similar set of facts on an individual’s background and history— and they were recommending bail at higher amounts for African Americans than they were on Caucasians, well then that person would be in front of me right here, right now and I would be, like, “What the hell’s going on here.” But remember in a bail situation, all my office does is make a recommendation. The judge takes the recommendation or doesn’t take that recommendation. It all depends. My ADAs are only making recommendations for bail on misdemeanors or nonviolent felony offenses if there is a legitimate reason for it. Nationally, there’s a push for discovery laws to be strengthened and enforced. I’ve heard you want open file discovery in your office?
We’re doing that, yeah. How do you make sure that’s being provided to defense counsel?
Again, defense lawyers, I’ll hear about it. [He laughs.] I’ll hear about it. I’ll have a defense lawyer call me up, or call my first deputy up, and say, “Hey, this ADA didn’t give me all the stuff, I’m missing stuff.” I haven’t had one
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NEWS LOCAL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 phone call in a year now, since I’ve started this program. I haven’t had one phone call. I’m following up with my bureau chiefs. I’m reminding them, “Hey, make sure we’re giving the defense what they need.” That’s my philosophy and it’s working. On police accountability: You’re not special among other DAs in the country in that you’ve received campaign donations from police unions and their allies. I saw that PBA lawyer Tom Burton gave your campaign $4,500 and the Buffalo PBA gave you a combined $3,500, and at the same time your office is prosecuting Buffalo police officer Joseph Hassett for assaulting a defendant and then for also lying about it on a police report. Don’t these two parallel facts put DAs in an awkward position: assuring accountability on one hand and maintaining a strategic partnership with law enforcement?
Not if you’re upfront about it. Not if you let them know I am asking for your support of my candidacy because I believe I am the best candidate for district attorney. I believe that I can repair the relationships in law enforcement that I thought were severed before I got here. I feel that I have the wisdom, quite frankly, to do what is right by all sides. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you can be tough on crime and at the same time you give someone a second chance, or the third and fourth chance. I believe you can do both I believe. I’m doing both. If I tell law enforcement, “This is my philosophy, this is who I am, if you want to support my candidacy, I welcome your support. But let me be perfectly blunt with you, if one of your officers disgraces the uniform, or doesn’t act appropriately, I will prosecute them.” They know where I’m at. They know I have zero tolerance for police brutality. Zero. There was a CNN.com article published last summer that quoted you about Buffalo Strike Force officers Mark Hamilton and Michael Acquino. You were quoted as saying about them, “With these two guys, it’s always right.” Investigative Post reported last September a very different account. In a court decision, the now-retired Judge Thomas Franczyk called Hamilton’s testimony implausible.
He said: “In this court’s view the claimed observation of the drugs is more ‘inventive’ and than ‘preventive’” and “this court cannot help but think that the officers, having dealt with the defendant before, decided to play the odds that he was up to no good and would be in possession of contraband.” Do you disagree with Judge Franczyk and other observers quoted in the article?
I’m not going to say I disagree with a judge, but I can say that in my dealings with these two officers, when I made that quote, they had never done anything inappropriate that came to my attention. They had never done anything inappropriate at all. In this particular case here, I don’t remember the facts of that case at all. I can tell you this, not only with regard to these two officers, but any officers. Just because an individual is right all the time, up until a certain point, and after that point they do something wrong, I’ll hold them accountable. Plain and simple. I have no problem holding officers accountable. About accountability in your own office, not to malign anyone in particular, but just last month the appellate court sent back a decision on a suppression hearing because of false testimony of an officer. The appellate court found that the prosecutor either knew that the testimony was bad, or should have known.
Yes, I’m aware of this case. That happened before I got here. I have spoken to the attorneys involved in that case; they assured me they did not know the officer’s testimony was wrong, they assured me that they had no inclination at all that anything was amiss, and I am very confident in their assessment of the situation. We have regular, continuing legal education programs here in the office, and the next CLE that we have here, we’re going to bring this case up and remind everyone that, “Hey, these are the things that we have to be careful of, these are the things we have to watch out for, and again if you suspect that something is amiss here when one of your officers are testifying, then you have to do what you have to do to correct that situation.” That is a mantra that I am beating over and over again. I think that all my ADAs here know that they cannot allow an officer to testify untruthfully, and if I ever find one of my ADAs who willfully and knowingly permits an officer to testify untruthfully, there
will be severe consequences. And we talked about Joseph Hassett writing a false statement…
Allegedly, the case is still pending! Right. On that, though, there is some reporting that indicates that even before the election of a reform-minded DA, the Philadelphia DA’s office had a list of problem officers who couldn’t be counted on in court, or who made arrests as the result of faulty stops or searches. Does such a list exist in your office?
No. What we have is if any officer is being investigated by internal affairs or any other outside agency—take, for example, if the feds are investigating local police officers, could be Cheektowaga or anywhere—we then ensure that the entire office knows about that and we do not—to the extent we can—we do not allow those officers to testify while they’re pending an investigation. If they’re cleared by investigation, then they can come back and testify. But if anyone’s currently being investigated, then we try to do our best to not put that officer on the stand. For appearance purposes, for a number of reasons. And I’m confident that my ADAs are not going to allow any bad stop or bad search [or] the items of that bad stop or bad search to go forward in a prosecution. Even if an investigation finds that there was some wrongdoing previously by an officer, even if the Buffalo police—and I know you don’t deal with just Buffalo police—don’t get performance evaluations, you’re confident in that process?
I’m confident in this sense: If an internal affairs investigation is done, and I believe a thorough investigation was done and that investigation cleared the officer of any wrongdoing, then I pretty much have no choice but to abide by their own internal investigation. What if they are not cleared of wrongdoing but they are still on the force?
Then I’m going to have a discussion with the commissioner and see why is this happening. But there’s no list of such officers?
We would know about that.
It’s small enough that you would know about it?
Absolutely. I wouldn’t need a list of that. Those numbers are small. We’ll know about that for sure. How can you make sure, though? How can you make sure that no one in Erie County is going to jail as a result of a dishonest officer if you don’t have that out there so that defense attorneys would know?
Oh, we would have to tell the defense lawyers. It’s part of our discovery. For all of our witnesses, we have to notify the defense lawyers of any potential wrongdoing on their part. That’s part of discovery we do that. Unfortunately there are people in jail right now who are innocent. That’s a reality. My job is to ensure to the best of my ability that I prevent that from happening here in Erie County. A lot of what I’ve asked touches on a theme confronting district attorney offices across America: ending mass incarceration. Do you see that as a goal of your administration?
You can reduce crime and reduce incarceration. You can do both; I believe that. What I try to do is from a practical standpoint in this office is that I try to only recommend a jail for the most serious offenses. If there’s a situation where an individual can avoid going to prison and perhaps get on the proper track, I’m going to take that. Because there’s a lot of cases I have in my office that have this model right here: You have an individual who may be on the path to being a gang member. He’s starting to hang out with the wrong crowd; he’s just starting to get into it, on that path. And the individual may be 21, 22 years old. If I put that individual in state prison for say two to three years for, let’s say, a gun charge, a gun crime: That 21-yearold is going to go into state prison and he’s coming out two years from now at age 24, 25, he’s coming out a gang-banger, he’s coming out a hardened criminal. So I have an individual on that path who I could perhaps save and give him probation perhaps get him a GED and get him a job, then I have not only not put an individual in jail, but I have perhaps had an impact on this individual’s life where he has gone off that criminal path. I’m very cognizant of that, and I P do that every day.
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ART REVIEW objects also relate to the new interpretation and definition. Meanwhile, among the art objects—old definition, basically— are some stunningly beautiful and poignant works in a range of moods and modes from painterly figural—Faith Ringgold’s black female role models multiple portraits mural For the Women’s House, i.e., the Correctional Institution for Women, Riker’s Island, New York City, or Emma Amos’s demure self-portrait sniffing flowers, in a circle in a square, reminiscent of Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man—to pattern abstract—Virginia Jaramillo’s Visual Theorem tattered fiber and earth pigments work, with a tactile quality evocative of ancient papyrus, or Faith Ringgold’s sensuously colorful Feminist Series #10/20: of my two handicaps. Works ranging from comical sardonic—Ayoka Chenzira’s Hair Piece: A Film for Nappyheaded People—to deadly serious about the persistent over the decades deadly issue we recently found an apt slogan for, i.e., Black Lives Matter, Elizabeth Catlett’s sculptural work Target, a portrait head of a black man, with gunsight circle and crosshairs inches in front of his face—to seething with righteous anger, Howardena Pindell’s video Free, White and 21, staged interview of a black artist (Pindell) with a white curator (Pindell in whiteface), who explains to the artist that for her work to be recognized and accepted by the art world powers that be, it needs to better conform to white art practices and principles— to purely celebrational, of black culture, black experience, black family, Carrie Mae Weems’s album of candid photos of her own extensive family in various interactions. Portraits of love and joy, amid whatever social and economic vicissitudes.
Lorna Simpson, Rodeo Caldonia, 1986. From left: Alva Rogers, Sandye Wilson, Candace Hamilton, Derin Young, Lisa Jones.
WE WANTED A REVOLUTION BY JACK FORAN Over the years, scholars have read the contemporary Feminist Movement in the United States, and rights movements at the end of the twentieth century generally, as building on the successes of the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. However, more recent scholarship sees earlier black left feminism as setting the stage for the more visible feminist work of the 1970s. —Kellie Jones Back home in New York…I gathered all the young women I knew who were flirting with the art thing and held a meeting. A meeting, because that’s what black women do; we call meetings, form clubs, and get things done. And for those who don’t know this to be true, one early example is the black women’s club movement that sprang up across the country in the late nineteenth century, and how it mobilized to aid women of little means. —Lisa Jones IT TURNS OUT there were two feminist movements. And
neither actually had much use for the other. There was the one we all know about. Call it the mainstream feminist movement. Composed overwhelmingly of middle-class, well-educated, white women. The other one we’re not so familiar with. Composed of black women with all the social and economic disadvantages traditionally associated with that category. And among important differences, that the black movement got
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started earlier than the mainstream movement—more like the 1950s than the 1970s, but arguably way before the 1950s— and that it was more comprehensive than the mainstream movement—first of all, just in including black women, but then poor and disadvantaged women in general, worldwide, which is to say, significantly, throughout the third world—and also that the black women’s movement, in its origins, had a substantial connection to artmaking. Which artmaking could be interpreted very differently from mainstream middle-class ideas about art and artmaking. Not always was, but could be. But different or not, black women artists were no more welcomed into the mainstream art world, than they were welcomed into the mainstream feminist movement. Which is the reason they needed their own movement, as regards feminism, as regards art. So that one effect of the black women’s movement was the creation of new modes and definitions of art, which were often as much about community—the movement itself—sisterhood—as about art objects, art product. The Albright-Knox current exhibit We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 presents numerous art objects— paintings, sculptures, prints, posters, videos—by the subject radical black women—along with copious documentation materials—photos, letters, newsletters, announcements, magazine articles, magazine covers, in vitrines located throughout the exhibit—to attempt to also expound the movement process. And even suggest—as much as possible, as much as feasible—the new interpretation, new definition, of what is art. A few of the
pointment. 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 through May 11. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716885-2251, wnyag.com): 22nd Annual Juried Members Exhibition, modern works installation, juried by Zach Boehler. On view 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 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. 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,
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Around the time the black women’s clubs relevant to the present exhibit were getting started, the officialdom art world was deeply in thrall to abstract expressionism, an appropriately non-political art mode—or at least the politics could be readily disguised beneath a scrim curtain of artwork inscrutability—for the politically fraught Cold War era. In reaction and contrast to officialdom art and the galleries and institutions and funding sources that so systematically excluded them, but more importantly that the black women artists had something to say, loud and clear and unmistakably—and that was ultimately political—the work on show in this exhibit is by and large and for the most part representational, plain-spoken, manifest as to the meaning and attitude of the artist. So that it is remarkable that the new definition art that ultimately emerged from the black women’s movement is obstinately inscrutable, abstract, abstruse, and most surprisingly, nonpolitical. Work in particular of the regularly collaborative team of sculptor and performance artist Senga Nengudi and dancer Maren Hassinger. Sculptures consisting of stretched nylon—like exposed nerve fibers, or antennae in all directions—and sand counterweights. In combination or not with performance art about—as much as about anything, it would seem—ephemerality. Transience, mortality, brightness falls from the air. Particularly about gestures. Not gestures of the sort we talk about when we talk about gestural painting, that leave a trace in the paint on the canvas, but gestures that leave no trace. That disappear, maybe P scarcely seen, or scarcely understood, and unrecorded. The most notable scrutability feature of the work being the communitarian aspect. Enactments of black sisterhood. Another performance artwork mostly about black sisterhood extensively documented in the exhibit is called Rodeo Caldonia, by Lisa Jones and Alva Rogers and other collaborators. Lisa Jones also has an essay in the exhibit catalog, as does her actual sister, Kellie Jones. (Not to paternalize, or maternalize, but it seems of interest and worth mentioning that Lisa and Kellie Jones are daughters of the poet couple Amiri Baraka and Hettie Jones.) The exhibit continues through May 27.
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. com) 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. 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): Messages/Visual Platform, through April 29; Philip Koch: Time Travel in the Burchfield Archives, through July 29; Merton & Lax: Image and Word, through August 26; Suddenly I Awoke: The Dream Journals of Charles E. Burchfield, through July 29; Opems: Verbal Visual Combines, Michael Basinski, on view through Jun 24. Images (of
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5777, 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): Wed & Fri, 12-5pm. Thu 12-8pm, Sat 103pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): Nature Photography by Hannah Brenner. Wed-Sat,12-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. 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 11am4pm and by appointment. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Impotent Gods work by Anthony Freda and Nick Chiechi. 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. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Interior Design Program Student Exhibit, through Apr 27. MonFri 9am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. WASH Project (593 Grant Street, Buffalo, NY 14213): Law Eh Soe, photographs from Burma to Buffalo. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 3481430, wnybookarts.org): Nurtured Memories, work by Phyllis Thompson, on view through Apr 18. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.
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[ROCK] The music of Frank Zappa was, and continues to be, extremely challenging. The experimental musician wasn’t afraid to grapple with new technology, tackle heady concepts, or wrestle with complex song structures throughout his nearly four decadelong career. His son Dweezil Zappa is not, and never has been, afraid of the challenge of recreating his father’s music. Throughout his career, the now 48-year-old Zappa has presented his father’s music to new audiences, and has also used it as a jumpingoff point for his own original music. On his latest tour, dubbed Choice Cuts, Dweezil Zappa will deliver his dad’s “meatiest tracks” from the 1960s and 1970s and beyond—from the Mothers of Invention to the classical, orchestral stuff the elder Zappa explored later in his career. Catch Dweezil Zappa live at the UB Center for the Arts on Wednesday, April 18. -CP
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MEDUSA residuals album Recommended if you like: Kanye West, Grimes, Anohni Medusa is a experimental pop artist from Buffalo, New York. Her latest album is titled residuals and was released last month. The 13-track record features synthy, strange pop songs that vary in intensity and darkness. Highlights include hyper-pop opener “gas can playlist,” downtempo tone-setter, “caligula,” and dark, Yeezus-esque hip hop track “feelgoodmusic.” Stream Medusa’s residuals on Bandcamp today.
THE UNSEEN MARION FALLER FRIDAY APRIL 20 7PM / CEPA GALLERY, 700 MAIN ST / FREE [ART OPENING] “My work is about how individuals and communities visually express their values,
their interests, and their sense of what is important and beautiful,” the late documentary photographer Marion Faller said of her work, discussing specifically a group show in which she took part addressing the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. “The subject matter is usually close to home—homes, yards, small businesses, and community buildings such as schools or churches.” The focus on the reflection of the personal turned toward the community is evident in a new show (and sale) of Faller’s work opening at CEPA Gallery this Friday, December 20. Curated by Dean Brownrout of Dean Brownrout Modern/Contemporary, The Unseen Marion Faller is the most comprehensive exhibit of the longtime UB instructor’s work since her death in 2014, and includes the series Rites of Passage, a collaboration with her husband, the late Hollis Frampton, whose fame as a pioneer in avant-garde film was well matched by Faller’s considerable reputation as a photographer. -THE PUBLIC STAFF
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[ROCK] Most folks only familiar with David Lindley's name in passing associate him with Jackson Browne—the lap steel sideman, the guy with the big hair who solos on "Running on Empty." Lindley has also toured extensively with Browne, most recently as a duo, resulting in the 2010 co-billed live release Love Is Strange. Lindley has also played in touring bands for the late Warren Zevon, Linda Ronstadt, Curtis Mayfield, and Dolly Parton, among well over a dozen others. The key to his success is an unsurpassed instrumental prowess that's seldom found in the rock canon: Lindley can play just about anything with strings on it. In a 2005 career-spanning cover story that ran in Acoustic Guitar, he was dubbed a "maxi-instrumentalist," since "multi-" doesn't quite cut it. In more musicianly circles, he's known for taking cheaper socalled "department store instruments" and incorporating them into his arsenal for the very specific tones they may produce (and/or altering them to elicit particular mutations). Now 72, he's made it his business to expand his palette to include musical idioms that span the globe and has branched out into some percussion. Those more familiar might also know of his pioneering, genre-bending work in late 1960s with Kaleidoscope (signed with Epic for four albums) and his own band El Rayo-X, whose 1981 debut was produced by Browne. Lindley will dazzle at Sportsmen's Tavern on Wednesday, April 19—a rare, intimate chance to see one of classic rock's most celebrated session men in action. -CJT
FRIDAY APRIL 20 Brian Posehn
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[COMEDY] Before a previous visit to Buffalo, comedian Brian Posehn quipped to The Public that he’s not really a winter person and that he hoped it wasn’t winter in Buffalo at the moment. It was August at the time. This time around it’s April, and unfortunately for Posehn, it could certainly feel like winter here. Hopefully the famously nerdy heavy metal music fan and comedian won’t let it effect his self-loathing, biting comedic style. Posehn comes to Buffalo for four shows, this Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21 at Helium Comedy Club. -CP
Recommended if you like: Bon Iver, The Mountain Goats, Bright Eyes The latest album by Buffalo singer/songwriter Darth Nater is titled A Century Ago and was released a few weeks ago. The album features 12 tracks that bounce between funny, clever, sad, and goofy. The album comes with the description “12 songs inspired by people, places, and events from the year 1917,” and delivers songs about Our Lady of Fatima, the Dallas Love Field airport, and various turn-of-thecentury technologies. Stream Darth Nater’s A Century Ago on Bandcamp now.
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THE MOUNTAIN GOATS FRIDAY APRIL 20 7PM / ASBURY HALL, 341 DELAWARE AVE. / $25 [INDIE] It took me a moment to understand the connection between the Mountain Goats, the
folky indie rock band from North Carolina, and goths. Goths as in outsiders—teased-out-blackhair-having, black-clothes-wearing, overzealous fans of Joy Division and the Cure. The reason we’re here contemplating this is because the Mountain Goats have titled their 16th album Goths. Upon closer inspection, the album follows the singer of a goth band in 1980s California. Aside from the melodramatic and dark opening track, not much else on the album can be considered goth in and of itself, but the band’s primary songwriter, frontman John Darnielle, really hones in on the theme in his lyrics, which explore—in his usual folksy, humorous, and clever way—death and its driving force. Though inspired by Darnielle’s and his band’s adolescent love of bands like Joy Division and Bauhaus, there’s no guitar on the album at all, and in fact it comes much closer to Hall & Oates than Siouxsie and the Banshees—perhaps in a way that perpetuates Darnielle’s affinity for clashing tones in his music. Of course, this soft rock, guitarless approach—which works perfectly on this record—isn’t characteristic of most of Mountain Goats music, which they’ve been making since 1991. At their live show, audiences can expect a pretty varied selection of the band’s favorites spanning mostly the previous 15 years of their existence. Catch the Mountain Goats live at Babeville’s Asbury Hall on Friday, April 20 with support from Dead Rider. -CORY PERLA
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Keller Williams 9pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $20
[JAM] It's been said before, and it's a fitting description: Keller WIlliams is a one-manjam-band. He's a bit of a deadhead to begin with, and his mix of musicianly chops with absurdist humor (not to mention various stints touring with Umphrey's McGee, Ratdog, the String Cheese Incident, i.e. the Keller Williams Incident, and others) has kept the interest of the jam band community for two decades. His musical hodgepodge is something he jokingly calls ADM—Acoustic Dance Music. Williams's oft-amusing tales hark back to Junta-era Phish but with a streetwise, urban spin. Over the years, he's performed in a trio format, in his dance-y quartet Kwahtro, in More Than a Little, which is a more heavily R&B-spiked outfit, and in bluegrass ensembles covering the music of both the Grateful Dead and Tom Petty. He's also taken fellow deadheads to church with his Grateful Gospel revue. When he performs solo,
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AT PEACH: Last Friday, Peach published two poems by el pearson. pearson’s style goes beyond brutal honesty into a realm of self-actualizing internal examination. Both poems grapple with sobriety and the various minute victorious and torturous failures inherent within the drive toward it. The first poem, “on the third day you will wake up and realize it’s already too late”, is filled with the anguished despair of a bout of sobriety dashed to pieces before it’s barely even started. pearson’s second poem, “our lady of perpetual mistakes”, reads simply and powerfully, “desperately clawing myself from one evil to another / once you get clean there’s still the rest of your life.”
IN PRINT: Animals Eat Each Other By Elle Nash
Dzanc Books / 2018 / Novel Elle Nash’s debut novel is a tightly wound coil of razor wire prose. Animals Eat Each Other is told from the perspective of an initially nameless narrator, a young woman just out of high school who finds herself drifting aimlessly through the motions of her desolate hometown as she “did not know yet what it was like to be needed all the time.” This seemingly universal feeling of purposelessness brings her into the orbit of Matt and Frankie, two young unwed parents looking to incorporate the narrator into their relationship in a series of increasingly sinister ways. As the polyamorous relationship becomes increasingly dark and dangerous, the narrator finds herself dissolving into the needs of both Frankie and Matt, becoming a pet and a scapegoat for their fears and fantasies. “How does an obsession grow? Slowly, like a mold? The spores settle unseen and then blooms form, devouring any open brainscape. The genitals become infected quickly. I’m not sure how this process works exactly. A feedback loop. Mycelium reaches out, ridge by beating ridge, a thought, a heart rate rises, a feeling like sex or love, then another thought. Each pulse a quickening like river beneath the soil.” This is a portrayal of intimacy so desperate it leaves a bruised timeline across the lives of its characters. In Animals Eat Each Other, Nash has written a love story of disintegrating identity that hurtles forward with the taught tension of a mystery novel and the fury of a drunken breakup letter. — MATTHEW BOOKIN
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11PM / TBA / $15-$20 [ELECTRONIC/DANCE] The next edition of the underground electronic music party known as
Strange Allure will feature two selectors from Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the form of Gene Tellem and Kris Guilty. Expect deep, deep techno tones and left-field house anomalies from Tellem, who released her stunning EP Who Says No on hometown imprint Sounds of Beaubien Quest late last year. Kris Guilty comes with a similar but more tech-house-oriented vibe, illustrated by the many cosmic mixes he’s presented for hometown shows like Tuff Love Radio and Boccara that dig through everything from Marcellus Pittman to Sun Ra. They’ll be joined by Strange Allure’s New Sphere Electric this Saturday, April 21. The party is, as usual, set up at an undisclosed location. Location details will be released the day of the show via email for ticket holders and email subscribers. For tickets, ask around. It’s likely that there will be no tickets available at the door for this one -CORY PERLA
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7PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. / $5 [INDIE] A few years ago, NPR launched a series of live video performances by well known bands
in small, ordinary spaces that they called Tiny Desk Concerts (presumably because you’d likely be watching or listening to the concert while at your desk at work). These Tiny Desk Concerts came from artists like Iron & Wine to T-Pain, Yo La Tengo, Adele, and many in between. A couple of years ago, NPR decided to open up this opportunity to unsigned, independent artists from all over the country. Many local music acts enter the contest and for the last several of years, Mohawk Place has been hosting a showcase of a selection those who have entered. The idea is for the band’s to submit a video of one of their songs that’ll be nominated for a chance to win record their own Tiny Desk Concert at the NPR studios in Washington, DC and to perform at an NPR event at SXSW in Austin. Not all of the local bands participating are on this year’s lineup for various reasons, but the lineup includes at least eight Buffalo-based acts, including Ian McZCuen, Small Smalls, Mark Mincarelli, Leyda, Elsa Mae Be, Bethany Rhiannon, 14 Trapdooprs, Transindental Karmacist, and others. The local 2018 NPR Tiny Desk Contest Concert takes place this Sunday, April 22 at Mohawk Place. -THE PUBLIC STAFF
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7PM / SPORTSMEN’S TAVERN, 326 AMHERST ST. / $20 [FOLK] Mary Gauthier wasn’t looking to get into a political discussion with her new disc, Rifles & Rosary Beads. If anything, her intentions were to transcend our petty bickering—maybe even unify some listeners—while staying true to her craft of storytelling in song. “The politics of it all will just lead to division and arguments,” she said over the phone from Nashville, which the 56-year-old former Bostonian now calls home. “But the stories are where we can find each other again. I don’t have big answers to the complex questions about military service, but the nobility of service is one of the things I would honor as a songwriter and as someone who cares about nobility on the whole. I have my beliefs, of course. It’s not a big secret: I’m an unabashed, out, leftist lesbian. But I don’t want that to get in the way of how I understand the suffering of our soldiers and my ability to tell their stories.” Gauthier (go-shay) has released a string of dark, hard-hitting Americana collections that have consistently earned her gads of critical accolades, but the narratives can be tough to take—this is not the stuff of passive listening and there isn’t much ear candy to be had. Rifles & Rosary Beads, which she self-released in January and brings her to Sportsmen's Tavern on April 23, takes a unique, approach to telling some of our veteran’s stories at the intersections of service, faith, mental health and loss. At the urging of a friend, she attended a retreat focused on songwriting with soldiers. It was something she approached fearfully, and she admits that she really didn’t know much about the military prior to this experience. “So I went and I did it and I fell in love with it,” she said. “Now I’ve been at it for five years, so I’ve accumulated a big pile of songs. A year ago I realized I had to make a record of some of them. In the end, they’re soldiers, not songwriters…I sit with my guitar and ask them questions, they tell me their stories. We give them a co-write because it’s their story, their experience, their heart and soul.” There’s some fictionalizing that goes into the process as well, which Gauthier says allows her to better access emotional truths that work to elicit empathy. But the results aren’t terribly sentimental, either, which is a thread running through all of her work. “We’re not doing journalism,” she said. “The desired result is a great song, and the soldiers understand that. They know that it doesn’t have to be a factual narrative in order to portray an emotional truth. It’s an artist’s distinction.” Though she shares the wisdom she’s gathered over the years by teaching at numerous songwriting workshops throughout the year, Gauthier herself remains teachable, both in music and elsewhere in her life. It’s an important ingredient in what makes the stories she tells so consistently high-impact, and Rifles & Rosary Beads is no exception. “We have a lot of people who have served that are suffering, and we should help them,” she said. “Whether we agree on the politics is something we must put to the side. We lost our unified front with Vietnam. Our soldiers fucking need us, and if we can help them, we should. That whole concept of ‘you support a soldier, you support a war’ is false logic. We all have stereotypes about who our soldiers are, but a lot of these folks joined up because they needed a job, it’s not patriotism that drew them in. So, we don’t really know who they are anymore, we just think we do. The truth is that our nation is actually being served by a very diverse military. All of those stereotypes are useless. I had them too, and I was ignorant…kinda dumb. Because I didn’t find that guy I was looking for when I went there.” Mary Gauthier comes to the Sportsmen's Tavern on Monday, April 23. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY
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7PM TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. $32.50 [ROCK] This show can only be described as a dream come true for 1990s alt rock fans. The Afghan
Whigs and Built to Spill both helped define the indie rock side of things in the early 1990s, and paved the way for a whole movement in emo music. Probably the most notable factor of this coheadlining tour is that the Afghan Whigs are performing without their guitarist Dave Rosser, who passed away from colon-cancer shortly after the release of the band’s latest album, In Spades, which he recorded guitar on. Rosser, a long time friend of Whigs lead singer Greg Dulli, joined the band in 2014. Built to Spill’s latest album is 2015’s Unthethered Moon, hailed as their best since 1999’s Keep It Like a Secret, which the band performed in full at last year’s Riot Fest in Chicago. On this tour, both bands have been playing their classic 1990s material as well as their new material. Catch P the co-headlining tour this Tuesday, April 24 at the Town Ballroom. -CORY PERLA
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 as he will at the Tralf Music Hall on Friday, 4/20, he builds each song with loops and pedals—not a new approach, but he does it better than most of his contemporaries, spiking the tunes with jazzy textures and funky panache with occasional forays into bluegrass. Not only is his musical dexterity astonishing, he's damned entertaining to watch as well. The sheer volume of projects he has going makes for a prolific output, and last year was no exception—he simultaneously released the Kwahtro album Sync along with Raw, an acoustic collection of guitar songs inspired by a tour with Leo Kottke, which features just the man and his instrument, no loops, no pedals. He'll surely be bringing the party for 4/20; you just need to show up in comfortable dancing shoes. -CJT
The Smoking Dead 10pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St. $5
[JAM] If you’re looking for a 420 celebration, head over to Nietzsche’s on Friday, April 20, for the Smoking Dead and company. The Smoking Dead is a local super group of sorts, featuring members of Lazlo Hollyfeld, Scarlet Begonias, Gravy, and Intrepid Travelers playing their Grateful Dead favorites. They’ll be joined by reggae-rock jam band Kaleidoscope Sky for, if you do it right, a night you’ll never remember. -TPS
SATURDAY APRIL 21 An Evening of Acoustic Improv Sounds with Foster and Bennett 7:30pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St. $5 [EXPERIMENTAL] Virtuosic Ben Bennett, with his patented mouth made of rare cloth, and spirited Michael Foster, whose sound marries clay with more clay, have become one. Imagine a set of men; one gathering broken egg shells with his bottom jaw, the other taping masks to the eggs. Step out of your genial haven of comforts and come witness the live birth of something terrifying and real: It’s An Evening of Acoustic Improv Sounds with Foster and Bennett. The duo will be joined by the magical “no-introduction-required” Steve Baczkowski, after sets by Justin Von Strasburg and Esin Gunduz, and Bill Sack with a Living Banjo. This Saturday, April 21 at Sugar City. -TPS
Rufus Gibson Presents: Positive Language and Post Script 10pm Gypsy Parlor, 376 Grant St. $5
[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Resident DJ Rufus Gibson brings his monthly deep house party back to the Gypsy Parlor on Saturday, April 21.
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This month features Gibson, as well as a couple of West Coast DJs in Postivie Language, and Post Script, in from San Diego for this one. Expect a bunch of house, techno, deep house, and tech house until the lights go on at 4am. -CP
SUNDAY APRIL 22 B.O.B. 7:30pm Rapids Theatre, 1711 Main St. $25-$30
[HIP HOP] B.O.B. became famous as a producer for hip hop artists like Waka Flocka Flame, Iggy Azalea, Killer Mike, and Techn N9ne, but more recently his production reputation has been eclipsed by his flat Earther beliefs. Those views have leaked into his music, with songs with titles like “Flatline” and a mixtape titled “EARTH.” Whatever you think about his beliefs, it’s bound to be an interesting show this Sunday, April 22 at the Rapids Theatre. -CP
MONDAY APRIL 23 Curtis Lovell 7pm GCR Audio, 564 Franklin Street $20
[EXPERIMENTAL] Curtis Lovell is inviting
spectators to come watch an intimate live recording at GCR Audio at 564 Franklin Street on Monday, April 23. Her unique performance combines the powerful, healing sounds of her timeless voice with a microphone, a looper, and an amp. Drawing on influences, such as Ella Fitzgerald and Fela Kuti, Lovell takes her audience on a journey of sound with unreleased original music. Doors for this one-of-a-kind event open at 7pm. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at the door or online at curtislovellunplugged. brownpapertickets.com. -VO
WEDNESDAY APRIL 25 Blue October 7pm Rapids Theatre, 1711 Main St. $25
[ROCK] Texas-based rock band Blue October returns to Western New York for a show at the Rapids Theatre on Wednesday, April 25. The five-piece band, formed in 1995, has released eight studio albums, and are preparing for the release of their ninth album, I Hope You’re Happy, later this year. Fans should expect to hear some from the band at this show presented by 103.3 the Edge. Support comes from rock band P Flagship. -CP
SPOTLIGHT ACTIVISM petitions for the state legislative bill for the Marijuana Regulation Taxation Act, so in that regard, I am building movement for a single issue. But I also see it as a way to get my message across to the people answering the door, if they’re willing to listen. When people are going door to door for politicians, a lot of times they’re just doing it to figure out will that person vote, who will that person vote for, and then maybe drop off some literature, brochures. But a lot of times they’re not asking that person what they feel about that issue, and if they’d be willing to help in any way for that issue. I’ve gotten a few responses that way. A lot of people are apathetic. A lot of people are discouraged. They might see me and say, “You’re only a Green Party, so I’m not interested.” What kind of update can you give us on legislative efforts on the state and local levels?
We always pressure the state legislature to at least bring it up for a vote, the MRTA [Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act]; we haven’t seen that. All we’ve seen is an Assembly hearing, which talked about the arrest aspect, the criminal justice reform side, and it didn’t lead to a vote within the committee. It’s hard to really get a response on the State Senate side, in terms of Catherine Young is the chair of the Finance Committee where MRTA has landed. We’ve tried to get a response from her office, and whenever I call her office, it’s pretty much just get me off the phone, deflect, and say, “Oh, we don’t have a position on that.” And what about in the City of Buffalo? Anthony Baney, crusader for marijuana law reforms.
ANTHONY BANEY BY AARON LOWINGER YOU MAY NOT know who Anthony Baney is,
but rest assured that the members of Buffalo’s Common Council and a handful of county officials and legislators know him quite well.
For years, efforts to reform antiquated marijuana laws on the state and local level have been organized in part by a young Tonawanda factory worker named Anthony Baney. When we got an email press release about a prolegalization rally this Friday from WNY NORML, the local chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, we reached out to Baney to see if he was behind it. He was. And when we said we wanted to speak with him, he first offered us a medical marijuana patient in his network who could speak to their experiences. Above all, Baney is a facilitator, a person who seeks positive connections among like-minded people, a grassroots organizer who doesn’t think there’s anything radical about what he believes and isn’t dismayed by the machinations of party politics. He’s run on the Green Party line three times for public office, and he’s eyeing a fourth in the 140th District of the New York State Assembly. When asked about whether he’s discouraged by the appearance of a Chris Collins surrogate on the Green Party line in the Congressional race and how it could affect the legitimacy of the local Green Party, he’s not concerned: That’s just politics. We talked with Baney about his efforts, his campaigns, and what to expect at this Friday’s rally. Where did it start for you, becoming a marijuana activist?
Occupy, I would argue. And the reasoning behind it was that the majority of people support reform. I do think it’s an issue that 99 percent of people would like to see reform on.
I’ve gone office to office to try to get support for a resolution to support the MRTA or at least to have a lower level enforcement priority at the city level. So far, [Councilman] Wingo seems to be the most open-minded. I was in his office. We did have a draft for a resolution but I don’t know when he’s going to submit it. Other councilmembers aren’t actively against it. It seems to be more that they’re open-minded to have that discussion.
What part specifically?
Have you had any luck with any other city officials? The new police commissioner, for example?
I do think that 99 percent of people would actually like to see people not be arrested for small-time possession.
That’s a great question. I do need to write a letter to the new commissioner, and I had suggested that our group do that.
So you were at Occupy. Can you talk about what impact that had on you?
I stayed down there from October until January. It just showed me that the best way to organize people is by dealing with an issue that people actually care about. You’ve run a few races in the last few years with the Green Party.
I ran for [Erie] County Legislature in 2015, I ran for Assembly in District 140 in 2016, and then last year I ran for [Erie] County Legislature, and this year I plan on getting petitions filed to run for Assembly again in District 140, Robin Schimminger’s district. How it been worth it for you to run races that are by design completely under the radar?
I just don’t have the money. I don’t take donations, I tell people to donate to the Green Party. I don’t have money to organize volunteers or to have enough literature to send out mailers. Obviously, stamps cost money. But when I do go to door to door, and people are willing to engage in conversation, the majority of people agree with the issues I talk about. It’s just trying to get an actual organization to have volunteers going door to door making sure the people know not only are these issues being talked about but there’s a candidate they can actually vote for to stand behind those issues. You can’t win these races, so what are getting out of them?
When I go to door to door, I do bring the
Cynthia Nixon’s campaign and her attitudes about marijuana seem to have backed Governor Cuomo into a kind of corner. How do you think it plays out?
A lot of polls are showing that the governor has a commanding lead over Cynthia Nixon, so I almost have the idea that the governor is going to sit pat and advocate for the study that he had proposed in the last year, as a way of making it look like the governor has changed his position. If anything, I think the governor will put more pressure on conducting this study sooner than later.
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We’ll just be organizing, having a little rally, nothing with music or entertainment. Just coming together to discuss how we can better organize especially for next year if we can actually have music again and kind of bring in more people, so that we can actually put some legitimate pressure on the Council to act and try to put some pressure on the State P Legislature to act.
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FILM REVIEW a recent cable series. For the first stretch of the movie he doesn’t say anything, and it’s such a delight to watch the actor shuffling around in a Quasimodo-like posture, cigarette dangling out of his mouth, face displaying a vague dissatisfaction, that I hoped he would go through the entire film mute. Lord is played by Armie Hammer, an actor whose almost excessive handsomeness has always reminded me of contract players of the end of the studio era, guys like Rock Hudson and John Gavin who were hired on the theory that they could be taught to act as long as they already were born with the looks. I’m still not sure Hammer has it in him to be a first-rate actor, but he’s perfectly cast as a complete opposite to Rush, and the interplay between them is a delight. Armie Hammer and Geoffrey Rush in Final Portrait.
SITTING AND KILLING FINAL PORTRAIT, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE BY M. FAUST I HAVE NEVER seen a film by Stanley Tucci that I haven’t loved.
Tucci is of course best known as an actor, but he has also directed a handful of films, beginning with his best-known, Big Night (1996, co-directed with Campbell Scott), about two brothers who own an Italian restaurant. After the slight but entertaining comedy The Imposters (1998), he made another gem, Joe Gould’s Secret (2000), based on the work of New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell. I was afraid that he had left directing behind him, though imdb.com tells me that there was another movie, Blind Date, in 2007. But his new film, Final Portrait, makes me hope that the fat salaries he (presumably) got for those Hunger Games movies will give him a cushion to do more work behind the camera. Adapted from a memoir by American writer James Lord, Final Portrait recounts the time in 1962 he spent sitting for a portrait by his friend, the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. Told it will take only a few hours of sitting, over an afternoon or maybe two, Lord finds that the skills of his friend, a noted sculptor who in his later years turned to painting, do not include time management. Days stretch into weeks as Lord watches Giacometti compose, construct and then blot out his work, time after time.
You don’t need to have any knowledge or even interest in art history to enjoy this. For one thing, Giacometti is played by Geoffrey Rush, still bearing the unruly mop of hair he sported as Albert Einstein on
AT THE MOVIES A selective guide to what’s opening and what’s playing in local moviehouses and other venues
BY THE PUBLIC STAFF
OPENING THIS WEEK FINAL PORTRAIT—Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills I FEEL PRETTY—Amy Schumer, whose career has nowhere to go but up after Snatched, as an insecure woman who wakes up after a bump on the head believing that she is gorgeous. With Michelle Williams, Emily Ratajkowski, Aidy Bryant, Busy Philipps, and Tom Hopper. Directed by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein. Area theaters ITZHAK—Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst OH LUCY!—Culture-class comedy-drama about a middle-aged Japanese woman (Shinobu Terajima) who feels so liberated by her English language course that she follows her teacher (Josh Hartnett) to California. Directed by Atsuko Hirayanagi. North Park SUPER TROOPERS 2—Seventeen years is a long time to wait for a sequel: Apparently the Broken Lizard guys have been trying to do it since 2008, and it took an Indiegogo campaign to finally get things rolling. (And the studio still couldn’t be bothered to preview it.) Co-starring Emmanuelle Chriqui, Lynda Carter, Rob Lowe, Marisa Coughlan, Fred Savage, and Jim Gaffigan. Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar. Area theaters TRAFFICK—Paula Patton and Omar
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So too is the setting of Paris in the early 1960s, before celebrity culture took over Europe: It may not have actually been this agreeably grimy, but it’s how we would all like to think it was. It’s a most unstodgy movie about that dullest of dramatic premises, the Artistic Process, a movie that will turn even one of these endless winter days into the equivalent of a spring afternoon. ••• FOR SOME YEARS I have suspected that if you were to take any
given action scene from a modern movie, with its jagged camera work and whiplash editing, and break it into its component shots, you would find that it does not so much show us something happening as suggest it. I suspect this is true in larger ways, on a story level: that there are often details we’re never given but merely assume because it’s a simple genre with pretty basic rules. I picture an editing room in which the editor, clearly an old school guy, argues that a certain shot has to stay because it explains something that will happen next, only for the director to say, nah, it just slows things down, and the audience will get it. That may not actually happen in Hollywood blockbusters, but it’s essentially what director Lynne Ramsey has done in You Were Never Really Here. Adapted from a short novel by Jonathan Ames, the film stars Joaquin Phoenix as Joe, a guy you call when you want something done that you can’t go to the police for. His specialty seems to be rescuing young girls who have been caught up in sex trafficking. Joe is a former FBI agent and Iraq War veteran who is haunted by all the bad stuff he has seen, as well as by his abused childhood. His job lets him restore some moral balance to the world, or at least work off some of his demons. Right here I’m going to stop and admit that I pulled most of these details from reviews of the Ames book, which sounds like just the kind of thing that fills up airport bookracks around the country. Whatever you think of it, we all know the genre, and Ramsey (who adapted the screenplay) knows that we know it. So she elides all the details, or as many as she possibly could. When Joe goes into a building to free the girls working there (not the only scene in the movie that will remind you of Taxi Driver), we get only suggestions of violence a montage of security camera footage. The same with his tortured flashbacks: we see an angry man and a scared boy, so we assume this must be a memory of Joe’s childhood. Defenders of the film (it was received rapturously at Cannes, where Phoenix was named Best Actor) praise its leanness, saying it tells us
Epps as a couple whose romantic mountain vacation is interrupted by a violent biker gang. With Laz Alonso, Roselyn Sanchez, and William Fichtner. Directed by Deon Taylor. Area theaters YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE—Reviewed this issue. Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria
ALTERNATIVE CINEMA CAMILLE (1937)—As the Parisian courtesan of Alexandre Dumas novel who must choose between the young man who loves her and the rich man who desires her, Greta Garbo delivers what is probably the most famous death scene in Hollywood history. Directed by George Cukor (My Fair Lady). Fri 7:30pm. Old Chestnut Film Society, Phillip Sheridan School, 3200 Elmwood Avenue, oldchestnut.com GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (Japan, 1988)— From Hayao Miyazaki’s production company, this story of two children trying to survive in Japan during World War II was one of the first anime to tackle serious issues. Thu 9:30pm. North Park THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)—Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire, and Lee Strasberg in that rarity, a sequel better than the original. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The Saturday screening is preceded by an Italian dinner buffet beginning at 6:30pm; contact the venue for tickets. Fri, Sat 7:30pm. Screening Room IMITATION GIRL—Reviewed this issue. Thu, Sun, Tue 7:30pm Screening Room THE LORAX (2012)—Dr. Seuss’s environmental fable, brought to computer animated life by the creators of the
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everything we need to know with minimal effort. But where’s the merit in that when what we are left to fill in are details of a lurid, depressing story? And doesn’t the fact that we’re able to recognize the music without being able to make out the lyrics simply mean that we’ve heard this song way too often? It seems to me that Ramsey’s achievement here is to take an unpleasant genre exercise and make it into one that is merely frustrating.
Despicable Me movies. With the voices of Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, and Betty White. Sat-Sun 11:30am. North Park LOVE AND BANANAS—Actress Ashley Bell directed this documentary chronicling her participation in a mission in Thailand rescue a 70-year-old captive blind Asian elephant and bring her to freedom. Mon-Thu 9:30pm. North Park MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001)—David Lynch’s most accessible realization of his peculiar vision, a noirish masterpiece abut an amnesiac actress searching Los Angeles for clues to her identity. Starring Naomi Watts and Laura Harring. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Dipson Amherst NIGHTMARE CITY (Italy, 1980)—A.k.a. City of the Walking Dead. Standard Italian Dawn of the Dead-inspired mayhem, You either have a liking for these things or you don’t. Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Francisco Rabal, and Mel Ferrar. Directed by Umberto Lenzi (Cannibal Ferox). Part of the Thursday Night Terrors series. Thu 7:30pm. Dipson Amherst TROLL 2 (1990)—The bottom of the barrel of the late 1980s genre of Gremlins ripoffs has in recent years won a cult following as a so-bad-it’s-good gem, so much so that it’s the subject of a documentary, Best Worst Movie. Directed by Claudio Fragasso (Monster Dog). Sat-Sun 9:30pm. North Park
CONTINUING BEIRUT—Jon Hamm as an alcoholic former diplomat called back to the middle East in 1982 to deal with a kidnapping. Co-starring Rosamund Pike, Mark Pelli-
TONY TUESDAYS AT HALLWALLS THE CURRENT CITYWIDE celebration of the life and work
of Tony Conrad reaches one of its high points this week with a program of significant works of the New American Cinema to which he contributed in the early 1960s. Chief among these is Jack Smith’s notorious Flaming Creatures (1963), a comic celebration of pansexuality and Hollywood fetishism whose reputation for obscenity (despite a decision in its favor by the United States Supreme Court) has kept it away from the mainstream public to this day: You can only see it on a 16-millimeter print like that one that will be shown here. (Lest you get the wrong idea, Smith felt that the worst part of the censorship trials was that it kept viewers from seeing the fun with which the film was made.) Conrad, who was Smith’s roommate, contributed the sound design, as he did for Smith’s Scotch Tape (1962), Ron Rice’s Chumlum (1964), and Joan of Arc (1967) by Piero Heliczer, also part of the program. The evening concludes with Eye of Count Flickerstein (1967), Conrad’s follow-up to his Flicker. The program is a must-see for any serious student of modern film: chances to see these films as they were intended to be seen don’t come along very often. -M. FAUST TONY TUESDAY 4: NEW YORK UNDERGROUND TUESDAY, APRIL 24 @ 7PM HALLWALLS CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER 341 DELAWARE AVE • BUFFALO, NY 854-1694 • HALLWALLS.ORG
grino, and Shea Whigham. Directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist). Dipson Eastern Hills, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit BLACK PANTHER—The first big-screen depiction of the superhero created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1966 is at its best when it functions as an epic fantasy film. Chadwick Boseman stars as T’Challa, the king and protector of the fictional African nation of Wakanda, secretly the most sophisticated and technologically society on earth thanks to Vibranium, a metal which literally fell from the sky. T’Challa possesses mystical powers in addition to those granted him by the cat suit he wears, which combines the aesthetics of Batman and the gimmickry of Iron Man. His nemesis is Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), more black militant than Lex Luthor, who dethrones T’Challa and seeks to overthrow the rest of the world. Director/co-writer Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) delivers a colorful spectacular with a mostly black cast. It is the most culturally significant entertainment yet from Marvel, and from Disney. With Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis. —Gregory Lamberson AMC Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria BLOCKERS—Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, and John Cena as parents plotting to prevent their teen-aged daughters from having sex on prom night. The directorial debut of Kay Cannon, who wrote the Pitch Perfect movies. AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria CHAPPAQUIDDICK—Speculative docudrama about the 1969 incident in which a young woman drowned after an ac-
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IF YOU HAVE Entertaining Alan Alda in a scene from Alison
Chernick’s Itzhak, her documentary about Itzhak Perlman, the eminent violinist jokingly offers a deprecating self-characterization. Seated in the kitchen of his New York home, after serving the actor some of his “garbage pail” soup, Perlman says that as he’s aged, he’s decided he “doesn’t like anyone.” And then he laughs.
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His merriment and much of this movie plentifully belie that baldly inaccurate sentiment. And Chernick offers ample evidence of the regard and affection he’s engendered in his career. David, a professional violinist, and my companion at a special preview of the film, noticed one instance of this. During a briefly shown rehearsal with an orchestra, he noted the happy faces of the younger musicians, and whispered, “Symphony musicians usually don’t smile much.” Apparently, these were happy to be in Perlman’s presence. Chernick has provided generous examples of Perlman’s expansive, welcoming persona and his more private personality, and she doesn’t avoid his opinionated and stubborn sides.
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She’s worked to create a suggestive cinematic portrait of Perlman’s gifts and artistic triumphs, as well as his personal history. There are interviews, recent and archival, film and video of his performances. She spent a lot of time just following him through various settings and observing with her camera. She listens as he talks, expressing his ideas and reactions, at home and elsewhere. Chernick has made obvious efforts to strike some kind of balance between the artist and the man, but the movie, perhaps inevitably, is most emphatic and accessible when it’s giving us the latter.
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An unavoidable and crucial aspect of Perlman’s life has been his unending battle with the effects of his childhood polio. The illness has left him in leg braces and much of the time in a motorized chair. An intermittent series of shots shows the serious burdens and obstacles he can face, ranging from airport searches of his braced legs, to the sometime difficulty of finding a public restroom and the problems in navigating New York City’s snowbound streets.
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The movie doesn’t unduly dwell on it, but there’s a particular, perhaps embittering history that the violinist relates: His experience in his native
Israel, and later in America, of those who discounted his artistic endowment and potential because of his disability. He and his wife Toby reflect on what may have been the most important factor in his appearance at the age of 13 on Ed Sullivan’s TV show: Sullivan, they think, saw “a poor little cripple boy,” not a musician. Perlman’s resentment and grit are detectible here. In that kitchen klatch, Alda reveals to Perlman that he too had polio as a child, but, the son of a successful actor-father, he received intensive treatment to remediate it. This may or may not have helped, but Perlman notes his hardpressed family couldn’t provide it. Chernick doesn’t skimp on Perlman’s artistic importance. There are generous excerpts from decades of live performances, and a couple of instances when he picks up an instrument and plays an impromptu selection for the filmmaker, and us. At several junctures he tries to articulate the essence of excellence in performance. (My companion appreciated hearing Perlman struggle to express the nature and importance of musical “color,” an often mentioned but obscure concept.) The Perlman depicted here also comes across as curiously apolitical, or circumspect. He travels and meets heads of state, including Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, an often reviled and feared man around the world. But unlike an early advocate for Perlman, violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who often addressed political and social questions, he doesn’t comment here on this or any other topic from the war-torn, hate-infected Middle East. Nevertheless the intelligence, the charm, the courage, and the inspiration and pleasure his art gives, make him an alluring figure. At the movie’s very end, he and the Klezmatics perform a sinuously swinging Klezmer tune P that had me wishing it was longer.
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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. -------------------------------------------------NORWOOD BTWN SUMMER & BRYANT: Freshly painted 1BR, carpets, appliances, mini-blinds, parking, coinop laundry, sec. sys. Includes water & elec. No pets, no smoking. $695+sec. 912-0175. -------------------------------------------------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. -------------------------------------------------RIVERSIDE AREA: 2BR $550/4BR $770 + utilities. Between Tonawanda & Ontario. Call 415-385-1438. -------------------------------------------------BUFFALO STATE AREA: 3BR single family home $950-1200 + utilities. Call 415-385-1438. -------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Lancaster, lg bright 2BD upper, hrdwd flrs, laundry, parking. $1200 incl all. 884-0353. --------------------------------------------------UB SOUTH CAMPUS MAIN ST: 1,100 sqft 1brm Heat, Utilities, Appliances, Washer, Dryer, Parking, Furnished, NOW $800 812-6009; ron1812@aol.com. -------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Ashland Ave. 1 Bedroom, Carpeted Studio ,Utilities Included. 716-882-7297. --------------------------------------------------LINWOOD: Super 3 bedroom 2 bath w/2 car garage. $1200 total ($400 per 3 roommates). 884-2871. --------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE Elmwood@ Auburn upper 1 bdr. Stove, refrigerator. Front porch. No pets. Must see. Call 864-9595.
LAFAYETTE, 3 bdm, 2 bath, newly renovated, w/d hook-ups, steps to Elmwood $1195+, 984-7777, 812-4915 -------------------------------------------------BLACK ROCK Marion St. 1 bdrm, $650. Available on 7/1/17. Includes: cable, wifi, laundry, parking. Month-to-month, no smoking or pets. jph5469@gmail.com. ----------------------------------------------------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. --------------------------------------------------BIDWELL PKWY 1400 SQFT, 2BR/1BA, Laundry, Hardwood Flrs, No Smoking, $1375/mo incl heat+H2O. 882-3292 -------------------------------------------------BIDWELL PKWY 850 SQFT, 1BR/1BA, Laundry, Hardwood Flrs, No Smoking, $975/mo incl heat+H2O. 882-3292 --------------------------------------------------1001 LAFAYETTE Large 2BR, offst pkg, 3rd fl, elec. incl., no pets/ smkg, WD connect avail, clean, $760. 698-9581. --------------------------------------------------UB SOUTH ROOMS renovated & spacious, incl. util + wifi, W/D, pkg, .2 mi. to campus. $495 & $595. 236-8600. --------------------------------------------------D’YOUVILLE GRAD STUDENT seeks female roommate. $600 per month fully furnished 1700 ft apartment. Walking distance to D’Youville, Elmwood, Allen Street. private bedroom, share common living areas, all utilities included, owner occupied. WIFI included. 919-830-3267 Elizabeth. 716-536-7119 Landlord Lisa. --------------------------------------------------CHEEKTOWAGA: Meadowbrook Pkwy. Lower 2BR, one-car garage, washer h-ups. Avail now. $700 + utl. Call/text908-2753.
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------------------------------------------------CALL FOR WORK: Parables Gallery & Gifts, 1027 Elmwood Ave.Bflo. “FLORA,” May 1-30. 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. -------------------------------------------------
LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF SUMMONS: SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF ERIE PLAINTIFF DESIGNATES ERIE AS THE PLACE OF TRIAL SITUS OF THE REAL PROPERTY SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS MORTGAGED PREMISES: 383 HOPKINS STREET BUFFALO, NY 14220 SECTION: 133.38 BLOCK: 5 LOT: 52 INDEX NO. 807326/2017 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, PLAINTIFF, VS. JOSEPH HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; AUDREY HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; MICHAEL HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JOANNA HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JOHN HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JEFFEREY HUNTZ A/K/A JEFF HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; MICHELLE SIMMONS, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; MARY E. DYSON; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; ‘’JOHN DOE #1’’ through ‘’JOHN DOE #12,’’ the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in
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CALL FOR WORK: Art Crawl, May 5. Springville, NY. Seeking all mediums, installations, musicians, demonstrations. Info at: Crawl.SpringvilleArts.org
SOUTH BUFFALO ART STUDIO offers skills-based classes in drawing & painting, private or group, Jerome Mach (716) 830-6471 or jeromemach@ yahoo.com.
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. ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Norwood Ave.
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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.
AUDITIONS: Artpark opens its stage to all citizens of Western New York and announces a second casting call for its new musical production of THE ODYSSEY, adaptation/music/new lyrics by TODD ALMOND, conceived by LEAR DEBESSONET. The Artpark production will be directed by Roger Danforth, starring: Terence Archie* (Broadway’s Rocky), and performed on August 4th at 8pm and 5th at 1pm, 2018 (Rehearsals start July 9th). THE ODYSSEY is a 90-minute original musical adaptation of Homer’s classic story and will bring together hundreds of Buffalo-area citizens, joining the best professional talent with leading local cast, creative team and community groups. We are looking for actors of all ages, genders and ethnicities, including senior citizens, choristers, theatre students, musicians, dancers, and performers with any special talents. Our goal is to place the entire Western New York Community on stage. No role has specific vocal requirements; all roles are flexible and will be created from the group of performers hired. We welcome everyone; both physically-abled and persons with disabilities. All ethnicities are desired and welcomed. Auditions will be held April 14th, from 2-5 PM at ARTPARK Mainstage. Please contact Susan Stimson with any questions susan@ artpark.net.
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.
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or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. To the above-named Defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $45,838.00 and interest, recorded on September 9, 2009, in Record Book 13464 at Page 1059, of the Public Records of ERIE County, New York, covering premises known as 383 HOPKINS STREET, BUFFALO, NY 14220. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. ERIE County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: August 15, 2017 Westbury, New York RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: IRINA DULARIDZE, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675
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