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woman. Ten years after they were exonerated by DNA evidence and another person was found to have committed the crime, Trump was still oddly demanding that they were guilty, just like when he maintained that the nation’s first black president, despite ample evidence to the contrary, was somehow Kenyan. The same year he called for the execution of the black teens, he opined on NBC News that it was blacks, not whites, who enjoyed a structural advantage in life, stating, “If I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I really believe they do have an actual advantage.” For me, like many New Yorkers, Trump was embarrassing background chatter we tried to ignore—part TV character, part ugly reality—a billionaire Archie Bunker whose family’s deep pockets demanded we take him seriously. And as a rising racist demagogue, perhaps we needed to take his annoying presence more seriously.

FROM SADIST TO DOPAMINE STAR With the new century and the rise of the “reality TV” entertainment genre, Trump stumbled onto new footing, riding his boorish “you’re fired” sadism to a higher level of stardom. Some economically vulnerable Americans, like those being humiliated by Trump on TV, exhibited a sort of collective Stockholm syndrome and grew to form his core fanbase. But among his fellow New Yorkers, the people who grew up with him and knew him best, there was no love for their Donald, with voters in his home county of New York voting nine to one against him in the 2016 presidential race. Having trained ourselves to ignore the Trumps, many of us didn’t stir when Donald Trump announced his presidential run in 2015 while going down, not up, on an escalator. Some of us tried to ignore him, but to much of the country he was dopamine, and to the media he was a cash-cow, bringing reality TV-sized audiences to the news cycle. By late 2015, Donald Trump started dominating online news aggregators. Ignoring Trump seemed impossible. But I still didn’t have to write about him. Besides, everyone else was already writing about him. Everyday. Everywhere. When the Republican primary reached its season finale and everyone else was voted off the island, Republicans, after a nanosecond of hesitation, shamelessly abandoned their history and values,

COMMENTARY NEWS tripping over each other to get with the new program, whatever it might possibly wind up being. Thus began the new age of Trump. And it’s been impossible to ignore away. By the start of 2018, “Trump Fatigue” and “Trump Fatigue Syndrome” had swept the nation, inflicting even members of Trump’s base. Everyone wanted the 2016 election to end. But because we let it happen, we seemed damned to live in its ceaseless purgatory. Trump, despite taking the White House, keeps running against Hillary Clinton while vandalizing our democratic institutions, seemingly just to troll the nation. Chaos theory worked. Keep the machinery of democracy overwhelmed on every front until we just can’t process the horrors fast enough. Attack the very notion of truth at every turn. Weaponize social media and go nuclear with data analytics. Raise the national stress level daily. Eventually we suffer Trump fatigue and tune out. And more Trump happens.

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We’ve also become addicted to Trump. Not just his fans—all of us. To use a trite metaphor, we’re drawn to him like a train wreck. We can’t look away. There’s an addictive neurological response. We compulsively check the news. If you hate the man or are terrified by the fascistic authoritarianism he has come to represent and celebrate, you’re searching the news for clues that his regime’s collapse is imminent. And every day there are stories that indicate Trump is done. Sorry, I wrote one before the 2016 election. These stories stimulate dopamine production and excite the pleasure center of our brains. But Trump persists, even occasionally reversing his descending poll numbers, and we get the opposite response. Our brains trigger the release of Cortisol, the massively disruptive stress hormone. This unpredictable potpourri of pleasure and stress underlies the architecture of addiction. It works the same way for Trump’s fans. Most see themselves as victims of a machine, and mistakenly see the corporatist Trump as the man who will destroy that machine. This is a culture war. Or a sporting match. Or just a fucking endless TV show that we’re all trapped within. Whatever. When Trump trolls the two thirds of the country that revile him, the one third that follows him luxuriate in the chaos and wash their brains with dopamine. The country is split into two opposing teams seeking opposing results but getting the same addictive brain responses. We’re all addicted to Trump. And like addicts, we eventually seek recovery. We get Trump Fatigue and want to opt out. When I was a kid, barely two decades after World War Two, we’d ask our parents, “What did you do to fight the Nazis?” Most families had their own Nazi-fighting lore. I understood that without that fight, I wouldn’t have been there to ask the question. I later learned that if odds played out as they statistically should have, my dad’s four years in the 8th Air Force should have sealed his death, and you wouldn’t be reading this column today. But we came together as a nation, despite war fatigue that would be incomprehensible to most of us today, and we fought on. Hopefully future generations will have the freedom to ask their parents and grandparents what they were they doing when Trump happened. When few of us speak out, we’re targets. When we all speak out, it’s democracy, and we might have a future. We can even do this together. You can be pro-gun, but Trump? Really? Is that you? You can be anti-abortion, but Trump? Is that really your idea of “pro-life?” Do you really want to gut clean air and water regulations? Do you really want to abandon your core values? Or is that the addiction talking? We can come together and defeat our Trump fatigue and end this purgatory. But it will only work if we do it with love. If the polarizing hate consumes us, we’ve lost. We must fight for what we love and the world we want to live in rather than against what we think we hate. Hate is too intimate. I’d like to say I’m done writing about the Trumps, but of course, that luxury is not an option. Dr. Michael I. Niman is a professor of journalism and media studies at Buffalo State College. His previous columns are archived at mediastudy.com and are available globally through syndication. P

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THE DEMOCRAT WHO IS FACING REPUBLICAN CHRIS COLLINS TALKS ABOUT HIS BACKGROUND, HIS AMBITIONS, AND HIS OPPONENT. WHEN NATE MCMURRAY walked into Spot Coffee last Monday to talk about his campaign to unseat Republican Congressman Chris Collins in Western New York’s 27th District, he was clearly agitated. Not just high-energy, which seems to be his resting state: He was worked up, and he told me why: He’d spent that morning fielding solicitations by Governor Andrew Cuomo’s political team to drop his candidacy and make way for Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul to enter the race.

Hochul represented the district (then the 26th) in Congress from June 2011 to January 2013, having won the seat vacated by Chris Lee’s resignation in a special election and then lost to Collins narrowly in the November 2012 general election. Cuomo is eager to shed Hochul as his running mate and replace her with a lieutenant governor candidate who will neutralize the downstate progressive appeal of challengers Cynthia Nixon and Jumaane Williams, both of whom won the endorsement of the Working Families Party this month and are mounting primary challenges to the Cuomo ticket for the Democratic line. Cuomo viewed the race against Collins as a lagniappe to give Hochul as he kicked her out the door. McMurray is vice president for development at Delaware North;

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SECURITY, IT’S GOING TO KILL OUR RURAL FARMS. Delaware North?” He said no, and I said I might be interested. I took the job on the spot. You were recruited into politics by Erie County Democrats, but the town where you settled, Grand Island, is a heavily Republican municipality. Yes, so I met with my now deputy supervisor, Jim Sharpe. Jim has been in the party for 40 years, struggling on Republican Grand Island, never winning races. I met him at Wendy’s and said, “What do you want me to do? I can get signatures…” He said, “I want you to run for supervisor.” I said, “Jim, nobody knows who I am.” And he said, “Well, it’s either you or me, and I’ve already run three times.” We won by two votes. And I’m going to sound arrogant, but we’ve done a lot of good with those two votes: cashless tolling; the West River Parkway Trail; we got conservation designations for hundreds of acres; $600,000 for Spicer Creek preservation. We’re going to get 16 megawatts of community solar on the island. This all happened the past couple years. This is stuff where I’m literally doing the paperwork myself. We don’t have a team. This is me figuring it out. This is me asking people. What would you do if you go to Congress? First of all, we’re in an emergency situation. The Congress has passed a tax bill that, by their own admission, is going to create trillions in debt. And that debt is not for some scientific achievement—it’s not to cure cancer or go to Mars. It’s not to fight some just war. This debt is for one reason only, and that’s for guys like Chris Collins to have another house in Boca Raton. This is not debt that we need. I read that in five years our interest on that debt is going to outpace our military budget. It’s crazy. So the first thing we need to do is repeal that and shore up Social Security, which is going to be the first victim of our debt. Think about if Social Security is gone. Think about what happens to Western New York. Did you know our rural hospitals depend on Medicare and Medicaid for 60 percent of their revenue? It’s going to gut Western New York—never mind that you can no longer deduct state and local taxes, which is going to drive even more people away. If we’re going to use our money for debt, it has to be debt that will increase the value of our country, which is infrastructure. In the past we laid millions of miles of copper wire and telephone wire. We strung electric power to the most rural communities of Appalachia. We did all that with government money. So the second thing is to invest in infrastructure, which is not just roads and highways but broadband. Broadband is the infrastructure of the future. We’re not going to be able to run the programs that I saw Samsung developing five years ago—the kind that need next-generation internet speeds—on copper wire that was made for telephones. The third thing is agriculture. Agriculture has got to be a national security issue. If we don’t grow food here, we have to get it from somewhere else. As soon as there’s one emergency, we don’t have that food. It is literally a national security issue. So crop insurance, milk insurance. Look at what farmers want in the farm bill: They want a steady supply of labor, because there are not enough people living in dairy country anymore; the second thing they want is to make sure that

nutritional bills are included in the farm bill, like WIC, like food stamps. Those programs are not in there now; farmers want them in there, because those programs supplement farmers. With the amount of arable land in this country…China isn’t like this. You can’t grow tomatoes in your backyard; the soil isn’t good enough. It’s mostly desert. We’re blessed with black earth that can grow almost anything. A place like that should be abundant, and no one in this country should go hungry, and no farms should be struggling. But we’re not investing in those farms, so they can be successful and we can sell that produce to other countries, so we can become an agricultural powerhouse. It’s the biggest industry in New York State and it’s considered an afterthought; it’s considered something we used to do a long time ago. Now, Chris Collins is fighting for tariffs to protect our farms, but really what we need to do is find markets for our farm goods. There are markets for US products. Trump is right about this: We need to be better at how we trade. I think we have been taken advantage of in trade deals. Tariffs are not the answer; better deals are the answer, and there are ways we can get them. One is we can leverage our national strength, which is agriculture. Assess Chris Collins for us. I think his demeanor represent how he feels about us, how he feels about working people. He doesn’t want to be seen with us, unless we pay. He’s only around when it’s campaign season. He just doesn’t care. And the fact that he just doesn’t care shows. Take that tax bill: Chris’s Republican colleagues in New York State, except for one, didn’t vote for it, because they knew it would kill New York State. Collins is representing us; he’s not a surrogate of the president or anyone else. He is supposed to represent us, first and foremost, and he’s not doing it. He voted for a bill that kills us—it’s going to kill Social Security, it’s going to kill our rural farms. So number one, he doesn’t care. Second, has his personal behavior represented someone who should be a congressional representative? We’re not talking about small peccadilloes or foibles; he was found to have violated House ethics rules—unanimously, by a bipartisan board. He acts like it’s no big deal. The fact that it hasn’t gone to criminal charges? Maybe its just a matter of time, we don’t know. Look at his tenure as country executive. I have not yet found one employee of his who has one good thing to say about him. He ran the county executive office with hackneyed bogus business talk and strategies, and all it did was undermine the city of Buffalo and Western New York. I believe my record in two years as Grand Island supervisor outpaces his. What can he point to? The one thing is the tax cut, and that tax cut does nothing but hurt most people in Western New York. For the people who do get benefits— except the very most elite among us—it’s a temporary taste. There’s a sunset provision that it goes away. It’s for the long-term benefit of Collins and his friends. So that’s what I think about Chris: He doesn’t care about Western New York. Read the full interview and more analysis of the 27th District Congressional race at P dailypublic.com.

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ART REVIEW work by Picasso, a lithograph based on a 1911 painting, and a cubism and its discontents Georges Braque late work—some outlier pieces to the logical progression. An ominous full moon and clouds nocturnal scene by Albert Pinkham Ryder, and sunny New England play day in the snow scene by Grandma Moses. Segment two, entitled Abstraction, Hard Edge to Op, features a variety of non-representational abstract expressionist works including Joan Mitchell’s immersion in a garden of yellow flowers with scattered pinks and blues painting called Begonias; surrealist abstractionist Roberto Matta’s amalgam of vaguely biomorphic and mechanical forms piece called The Switch of Memory; and Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz’s combination hard edge and op work in a spectrum of red to blue tones, plus gold. And sculptures including a handsome black bronze tower built of what look like carpenter shop wood scraps by Louise Nevelson, entitled Night Column I; an Alexander Calder delicate little mobile, untitled; and sheet brass and hardware more complex version of a Moebius strip item by Mark di Suvero, also untitled. Segment three is called Pop to Postmodernism. Lots of fun items, starting with a huge sculptural pictorial open book of a work by Robert Rauschenberg. Scores of reproduced images solvent transferred on fabric, alternating with plain or colored mirror vertical strips (so the viewer can be in the work as well). The transferred images ranging from the Shroud of Turin face of Jesus to O.J. Simpson scampering over fallen Chiefs defenders, to technical illustrations, to pages of stock market quotations. While across the room, a Lesley Dill sculptural chair composed of steel wool strands, work worthy of Charlotte the spider. And two Richard Pettibone satiric homage to Picasso works, including a bicycle seat and handlebars evocation of a slightly more Ferdinand-like bull than Picasso’s longhorn, and painting of a Greek vase in red and black, together with Picasso-style drawings of some Ancient Greek figures, two males admiring or evaluating a courtesan.

OF THEIR TIME BY JACK FORAN

THE CASTELLANI ART MUSEUM HAS A NEW EXHIBIT THAT RECOUNTS THE HISTORY OF MODERN ART IN THREE CHRONOLOGICAL SEGMENTS, IN THREE LARGE GALLERIES. MODERN AMERICAN ART, mostly, but in the first segment,

entitled Hudson River School to Postwar Modernism, with distinctly European, particularly French, overtones. The Hudson River School an American invention, but which the Europeans seemed to notice, and picked up on with own their invention, Impressionism, which the Americans picked up on in turn. Among the works on show, a George Inness pastoral idyllic scene, Albert Bierstadt’s luminist spectacular vision Red Mountain Peaks, and John Henry Twachtman’s somber placid Lake Landscape, France.

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Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Push + Pull, 2018 future curators exhibit, through May 13. Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, on view through May 27. We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85, on view through May 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): 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 Fitzger-

Several examples from around the end of 19th century, early 20th century, of Americans going to Europe to learn how to paint. The most interesting case in point that of Grant Wood, thought of as the quintessentially American artist, based on the possibly single best-known American painting, his American Gothic, done in 1930. Wood is represented here by an undated but surely earlier work—from a period when he was studying painting in France— of a gothic arch portal of a French church. The item explanatory label includes a small depiction of American Gothic, and notes that Wood once commented that he “had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.” An irony is that what we think of as particularly American about American Gothic is the moralist severity of the depicted Iowa farmer man and woman, in the way they strikingly resemble gothic religious art statues; we are less likely to consider that gothic art is specifically French art, a subcategory of French art. Along the more or less logical progression path through postimpressionism and cubism—including a classic analytical cubist

ald, 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, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): The Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society, Spring 2018 Members Transparent Watercolor Show, on view Apr 27 through Jun 1. Reception and awards ceremony Sat, May 19, 2-4pm. 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 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main 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. 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

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A Jasper Johns lithograph overlaying numbers 0 through 9; a Cindy Sherman large-scale photograph of some nondescript subject matter—but something unpleasant, it looks like, something possibly decaying, beset by huge shiny flies, the only subject matter we can more or less decipher, attracted to whatever it is we can’t quite. Also, a Niki de Saint Phalle ceramic sculpture of two joyous dancers not mistakable in terms of body type for members of the New York City Ballet or the Joffrey. Also, an Andy Warhol screenprint of flowers (a little reminiscent of the Joan Mitchell painting in the previous gallery), and photographic series on the Andy Warhol glamour world, featuring in one instance a black Rolls Royce, in another, superstar art and show people the likes of Keith Haring and Liza Minelli. Education is unending. This excellent exhibit is up indefinitely. P

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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 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). 10am-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.

Caffeology Buffalo (23 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY, 14201): Rachel D’Alfanso, paintings from the series Still. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter.org): CAC Members Exhibition. Opening reception Thu, Apr 26, 6:30-8:30pm 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, 286-8200, 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 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8562717, cepagallery.org): The Unseen Marion Faller. Kate MacNeil: Vicious Cycle, through Jun 15. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry, A Resource:Art Project (444 Forest Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14213, facebook.com/resourceartny): Solo installations by Rebecca Allan, Jack Drummer, Gigi Gatewood, Julian Montague, Eric Magnuson, Gary Sczerbaniewicz curated by Resource:Art. On view through mid-May. Check-in at second floor front desk.

GALLERIES ART Daemen College, Tower & Karamanoukian Galleries of the Haberman Gacioch Art Center (Daeman College Center for Visual & Performing Arts, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY 14226, 839-8241): 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. East Aurora Art Walk: Friday evening April 27, 2018 from 4-9pm. Free to the public. Participating venues: Ashwood Artisans, August Market, East Aurora Art Society, EA Co-Op Market, Kornerstone Café, Mambrino King, Meibohm Fine Arts, MUSEjar, Norberg’s Art and Frame Shop, redFish Art Studios, Reflection Mind, Body & Soul, Rowandale Farms’ Artisan Center, Roycroft Power House, The Roycroft Inn, The Source, Will Faller Art &amp; Antiques, Studio on Main and Urban Design. A complimentary trolley service between venues will be available on Friday evening. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Andie Jairam: Kweku Anansi Fables. Opening reception Fri, Apr 6, 7-9pm. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): Member’s exhibit through Apr 28. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 114pm. 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. ThuFri 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Second Sun 11am2pm. Reception Apr 15, 6-8 pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Artisanal Capitalism, work by Vandana Jain, on view through Apr 27. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. The Harold L. Olmsted Gallery, Springville Center for the Arts (37 N. Buffalo Street, Springville, NY 14141, 716-592-9038). Reflection of Nature and Spirit, by John Merlino, on view through Jun 2.

Opening reception May 5, 6:30-8pm. Artist also offering painting workshops. Wed & Fri, noon5pm, Thu noon-8pm, Sat 10am-3pm. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Red List, 50 works about endangered psecies by Adele Henderson. Opening reception Fri Apr 27 6-9pm. Wed 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Fri, 6-9pm 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, 6884033, jccbuffalo.org): Donors Art Show, on view through Apr 30. Mon-Thu 5:30am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am-6pm. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. TueSun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts. com): Nancy Treherne Craig: Eyes Open, on view through May 26. Opening reception Fri, Apr 27, 4-9pm. Tue-Sat 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 12-4pm. 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, 716-882-5777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Peter Stephens: Baroque Logic. On view through May 16. TueFri 10am–5pm. Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-652-3270, norbergsartandframe.com): Regional artists from the gallery collection. Tue-Sat 10am–5pm. Harold L. Olmsted Gallery, Springville Center for the Arts (37 N. Buffalo Street, Springville, NY 14141, 716-592-9038, SpringvilleArts.org): Wed

& Fri, 12-5pm. Thu 12-8pm, Sat 10-3pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Nature Photography by Hannah Brenner. WedSat,12-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse.com): Evanesence, work by Paula Sciuk, on view through April 28. Thu, Fri & Sat 6-11pm. Live Music Thu-Sat. Pine Apple Company (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/store/ pine-apple-company) Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, 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. 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): Artifacts of Time, student artists from Stanley G. Falk School. Opening reception Thu, Apr 27, 6-8 pm. On View Apr 23-Apr 27. Mon-Fri 9-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Charming Chillers: Movie Poster Designs by Cassie Chu. May 6-12. Opening reception Sun, May 6, 6-9pm. Open by event and Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries. org): Light, Line, Color and Space, new acquisitions from among hundreds of recently acquired gifts to the permanent collection. On view through Apr 15. Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017. Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, on view through May 26. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Interior Design Program Student Exhibit Apr 13-27. Mon-Fri 9am6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. WASH Project (593 Grant Street, Buffalo, NY 14213): Law Eh Soe, photographs from Burma to Buffalo. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 348-1430, wnybookarts.org): Pulp/fictions, group exhibition, on view through May 12. Opening reception Thu, Apr 26th, 5-8pm. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. To add your gallery’s information to the list, please P contact us at info@dailypublic.com

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WEDNESDAY APRIL 25 PUBLIC APPROVED

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 Flagship. -CP

THURSDAY APRIL 26 Popa Chubby

BEAMS THURSDAY APRIL 26 WITTY TARBOX "Pabst Blue Rhythm" video

8PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. / $7 [INDIE] The relatively young indie-folk band Beams, hailing from Toronto, have a clever way of

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pulling together the past, present, and future in their music. They’ve done this by working with

The Black Angels, Foxygen, Dr. Dog

producers like Peter Moore, who has worked with Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and John McEntire, who has worked with Broken Social Scene and Tortoise. They’ve done this by covering Kate Bush

Western New York-based

and creating weirdo-futuristic music videos from their usually stripped back folky indie rock songs

psychedelic rock band Witty

that often bring banjos, xylophones and other nontraditional rock instruments into the mix. Led

Tarbox released their first music

by Anna Mernieks and Heather Mazhar, the seven-piece band has released two albums since 2013,

video and first single from their

including their most recent, Teach Me to Love, which was released in February of this year. Catch

upcoming EP, The Adventures

the psych-folk band when they come to Mohawk Place on Thursday, April 26 with support

of Schmitty: issue #1 v RARE,

from local indie-pop band dreambeaches and folk artist Katie Weissman. -CORY PERLA

earlier this month. The single is

[ROCK] Popa Chubby a.k.a. Ted Horowitz makes blues with a sense of humorous swagger, as his stage name suggests. After scoring a mid-1990s deal with Sony/Okeh, Horowitz took up residence on the Blind Pig roster and has, in more recent years, selfreleased his records—of which there are more than 25. There are plenty of electric blues players out there performing in smaller halls, but Horowitz brings enough personality to his show to make him stand apart. Expect an oddball assortment of covers—maybe the Stones, Sabbath or Hendrix, mixed with Robert Johnson and James Brown—amid his originals. And most surely, he'll do his early-rock-infused version of Harold Arlen's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." At the Tralf Music Hall on Thursday, April 26. -CJT

FRIDAY APRIL 27 Hop Hop EP Release Show 8pm Milkie’s, 522 Elmwood Ave $10

titled "Pabst Blue Rhythm" and is paired with a video-game-

6pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $16-$19

PUBLIC APPROVED

inspired music video directed by artist Brandon Kempisty.

[POP] Buffalo-based experimental pop artist Hop Hop returns to Buffalo to celebrate the release of her new EP. A new live band joins the artist for a late night set at Milkie’s on Elmwood this Friday, April 27. Expect music from DJ Handsome Dan and DJ Reason, as well as a photo booth. -CP

Smokepurpp

The song, with a title referencing

7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $20-$50

cheap beer, is a driving

[HIP HOP] Lil Pump associate (accomplice?) Smokepurpp is on tour on the heels of his latest mixtape, the divisive Bless Yo Trap, released just last week. Though with fewer facial tats than his partner in rap, the 20-year-old, who hails from Miami, Florida, shares Pump’s love for lean, gunz, and ignorant trap beats, as evidenced on the new mixtape, produced by young Canadian hip hop producer Murda Beatz. The quintessential Soundcloud rapper brings his tour to the Town Ballroom on Friday, April 27 with support from Comethazine and Larry June. -CP

psychedelic rock track with wailing guitar solos and crashing drums. The video features videogame-ized sprites of the band members, who’ve been sucked into a Q-Bert video game machine and eventually spat

Retro Rewind All Star Jam

out inside of downtown Buffalo

6:30pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $25-$30

bar Lockhouse Distillery, where the band regroups for a muchneeded shot of vodka. Catch Witty Tarbox at their EP release show this Saturday, April 28 at Mohawk Place (more info on page 14).

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LET'S GET LIFTED! THURSDAY APRIL 26

[DANCE PARTY] The first ever Retro Rewind All Star Jam happens this Friday, April 27 at Buffalo Iron Works. The event features a few hometown favorites, including C.O.Jones, Nerds Gone Wild, and Vinnie Derosa Trio, as well as a friend from the north, Toronto’s Alyssa Gill. Expect a bunch of funk, pop, and rock from the 1970s and 1980s. -TPS

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party. DJs Bump and Touch—a.k.a. Sike and Chris Baran—plan to keep you lifted through the weekend with a never ending mix of classic, deep, obscure, funky, fun, and flavorful funk, disco, and soul at The Public’s monthly party at Hardware Cafe in Allentown that we call Let’s Get Lifted. It’s not just a suggestion—to get lifted, that is—it’s a command, an obligation, a duty, a necessity, if you will, as the winter fades away. Say goodbye, flip it off, purge your soul, dance yourself clean as it were, and so on, this Thursday, April 26. That’s my plan, at least. Join in, it’ll be fun. Look for us roughly every last Thursday of the month at Hardware. Oh yeah, and it’s free. -CORY PERLA

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[TRIBUTE] Known for his tribute to Simon and Garfunkel, singer/songwriter AJ Swearingen returns with a new show, this time with guitarist and vocalist Jayne Kelli, that covers much more territory. The duo’s show, Fire and Rain, delves deep into the music of 1970s singer/songwriters such as

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AT PEACH: Yesterday we published “Things I don’t remember,” a poem by Buffalo-based poet and the coordinator of Just Buffalo’s Writing Center for teens, Robin Lee Jordan. The poem begins with instructions for a word association exercise, giving dignity to the image of a hot dog tree, and what follows is a wild and edgy convergence of poetry and play. As Jordan maps out bits of memory and dream, the poem takes on a visual form akin to a graphic organizer, with bubbles and brackets of interruptions, mimicking the nonlinear nature of thought. The tone of the finished product is dark yet eerily familiar, like chasing the tail end of a nightmare halfway throughout the day; “the way your ex felt,” Jordan writes, “Imagine biting his shoulder because his hands, probably cold, have forgotten you.” This poem is very important to us not only because it’s a killer poem but because it led to a conversation that inspired our forthcoming Us Too project that will be published later this year. Us Too will be an anthology of poems withdrawn from publications that have been exposed as predatory, and “Things I don’t remember” will be included among them.

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7PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $12-$14 [POP] Age 23 may seem like a very young age to already be a major label refugee, but things happen

worked in campaigns for Calvin Klein and Estee Lauder, among others. She also dated Ed Sheeran for a spell (“Nina,” “Photograph,” and “Friends” are all written with her in mind). Maybe Nesbitt wants to keep her music separate from her other career, but whatever the reason, she’s busy branding herself as a singer/songwriter in these parts, which means a live date in Buffalo at the intimate Leopard Lounge inside Town Ballroom on Sunday, April 29. She’s working up to a release for the indie label Cooking Vinyl and will likely perform new tunes alongside more well known ones like

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Last year, the Columbusbased small press and independent bookseller, Two Dollar Radio, published poet Hanif Abdurraquib’s first essay collection, T hey Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us. The collection, driven by music and how it both reflects and influences a culture, is a poignant critique that takes the pulse of present-day America. A poet first, Abdurraquib has a magnetic sense of the big picture as well as an ability to lovingly search for meaning; of Prince’s 2007 Super Bowl halftime show, he writes, “There are times when the night pushes against the clock and time slows down: when you lock eyes across the room with someone who you think you could love.” His prose is full of these moments of magic, layered into sharp, careful, and gentle critiques of American culture. Abdurraquib is coming to Buffalo for the July installment of the Silo City Reading Series, and in the meantime, Buffalo readers will gather next week for Just Buffalo Literary Center’s quarterly book club, Rowhouse Reads, to discuss the collection. —RACHELLE TOARMINO

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experienced his share of woes, from the death of bandmate/bassist Bobby Sheehan to his 1992 motorbike accident (which put him in a wheelchair for a spell), to a near fatal heart attack in 1999 brought on by obesity. Popper has since slimmed down, and Blues Traveler has continued to make music as an indie band. Perhaps known best for his harmonica playing (and the vest he used to wear with custom pockets for many of them), he’s an odd duck for someone with a jam-band fan base—an avid weapons collector, he also leans Republican. That said, he performed at a Bernie Sanders rally in 2016. His solo shows consist of almost all Blues Traveler material, so worry not about whether he’ll perform the material you’re most familiar with when he comes to the Tralf Music Hall on Sunday, April 29 with singer/songwriter Katrina Woolverton in the opening

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WHY NOT JOIN THE VARSITY GAY LEAGUE? In the summer of 2007, VARSITY GAY LEAGUE was created as an alternative for the monotony of the bar scene. Varsity Gay League's goals are to provide inexpensive sports leagues, recreational activities, and social events for the LGBT+ community and our straight allies! We are a non-discriminatory organization focused on support and fun. We cater to residents across the United States. With 13,000+ members and counting— join the fun! On THURSDAY, JUNE 14, Varsity Gay League (VGL) will begin its first official KICKBALL season in Buffalo. You do not have to be on a team to join. In fact, most people first join as a free agent as this is a great opportunity to meet new friends. If you’re looking to meet new people, have some fun and are up for some friendly competition, Kickball will be starting at Houghton Park officially on June 14. Prior to the official start of the season there will have days of open play where anyone can come out and participate. There will also be a mixer on FRIDAY, MAY 4, and a kickoff party on FRIDAY, JUNE 8 that will be held at the sponsor bar, FIERTÉ BAR, on Virginia Place. In addition, each week after our games, we will be holding an after party at Fierté as well.

MINUS THE BEAR TUESDAY MAY 1 7PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $25-$29 [INDIE] When Minus the Bear released their third full-length, Planet of Ice, in 2007, reactions

were mixed—as they have been, pretty much, with everything they’ve released since turning the corner from their prog-absurdist early work to something a bit moodier and more personal. Now a decade later, Ice has sold out four vinyl pressings and continues to be regarded as a career high point for MTB, who just finished touring last year’s ambitious Voids, their first album without drummer Erin Tate. To celebrate the album’s 10-year anniversary, the Seattle-based quartet is playing it in its entirety on a tour that stops at Town Ballroom on Tuesday, May 1. Looking at the full length records they’ve made since, Planet of Ice remains the best hybrid of what MTB was, in its early years, and what it’s become since, which is probably why it resonates so heavily with longtime fans. With Omni and Infinity Overhead, (Dangerbird, 2010 and 2012, respectively) MTB became a slick outfit built on impressive musicanly chops, with a live sound mix so clean you could eat off of it. Overall, these are good qualities. But the tone of the songs is no longer “fun” in the collegiate-silliness sense of the word. When MTB started, the members were in their mid-20’s. Suffice to say, life gets more serious as you get older. At 42, it’s probably difficult for Jake Snider to stand by a tune like “Thanks for the Killer Game of Crisco Twister.” But MTB stands by Planet of Ice, and with memorable melodies like “Knights” and “Throwin’ Shapes,” as well they should. Joining them on Tuesday are fellow Suicide Squeeze label-mates, the Coathangers, a fem-trio from Atlanta with plenty of hyper new wave energy and punky sneer, plus Santa Rosa’s the New Trust. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

[JAZZ] The final installment in Pausa Art House’s National Jazz Appreciation Month is a tribute to the 2018 featured jazz artist, Norman Granz featuring Sal Andolina, the principal clarinetist and saxophonist for the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Granz, a jazz musician, record producer, and civil rights activist, produced the Jazz At The Philharmonic Sessions in Los Angeles in the late 1940's and 1950’s, which featured many of the top jazz artists of the period from Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, and Duke Ellington to Billie Holiday, Count Basie, and Charlie Parker. Saturday, April 28 at Pausa Art House. -TPS

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[INDIE] Buffalo-based surf rock band Witty Tarbox will celebrate the release of their first studio EP, The Adventures of Schmitty: issue #1 v RARE, with a show at Nietzsche’s this Saturday, April 28. The record and the band’s accompanying music video for their single, “Pabst Blue Rhythm,” combines their loves for comic books, video games, and of course beer, in the form of head bobbing, surfy indie rock grooves. Get there early and stay late to catch Handsome Jack and Mosswalk. The first 25 people in the door will get a free hard copy of the EP. -CP

SUNDAY APRIL 29 Made Violent 7:30pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $12-$14

[ROCK] Hometown garage-rock heroes Made Violent return to Buffalo for a show this Sunday, April 29 at Mohawk Place. Late last month, the band released their latest record, Squeeze, a fun, light hearted, and driving straight-up-rock n’ roll record that’s been a few years in the making for the band that formed in 2012. They’ll be joined by fellow hometown indie rock bands Ugly Sun and Cold Fronts. -CP

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[PUNK] Pure night of 716-based punk, hardcore and beyond is lined up for Sugar City this Monday, April 30. Sludge metal band Dirt War takes the top slot alongside hardcore band Pure Heel, and punks Grain Assault. -TPS

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[ROCK] Deer Tick released two volumes of self-titled records last fall. Deer Tick Vol 1 and 2

could be seen as the two sides of the band over their 14-year career—Vol 1, the stringy, acoustic, rootsy side, and Vol 2, the garage rocking, fiery side. Formed as a solo project for frontman John McCauley in 2004, the band gradually took form as a four-piece after the 2007 release of debut album War Elephant, which was released on the band’s long-time label, Partisan Records. A string of well-received indie rock records followed, which strung together rock-and-roll, folk, and postpunk with McCauley’s lyrics that bounce from themes of heartbreak and frustration to acceptance and loyalty. The Providence, Rhode Island-based band brings their show to Buffalo Iron Works

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[INDIE] Hailing from Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Go Rounds are a four-piece psychedelic rock band. Their latest release is titled code, and features seven tracks, the first three of which were recorded in studio, while the latter four were recorded at a couple of live gigs. The difference in recording method isn’t very noticeable as the listener meanders through the band’s colorful, light indie rock songs that land somewhere between Real Estate and Dr. Dog. Catch the Go Rounds live at Babeville’s 9th Ward on Wednesday, May 2 with hometown favorites, indie rock band P Aircraft. -CP

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10 TIPS FOR A FLAWLESS WEDDING FROM BUFFALO EVENT ESSENTIALS quickly that taking the leap into your own business is the toughest part. Bridget Mansour took the leap this year, leaving her job of nine years as an event planner for a major local sporting event, to start her own wedding design and planning company, Buffalo Event Essentials, with her husband Mario, who is a professional artist. “This is our passion,” says Bridget Mansour. Their specialty is the flower wall, an eight-foot-by-eight-foot wall of flowers, which they refer to as a “big splash statement centerpiece” that guests can take pictures in front of. “Pair that with some votive candles and you can ball on a budget,” says Bridget Mansour. They have a menu of different flower walls to choose from, but they also build custom flower walls, picking colors and designs based on their clients wishes. The process of building each flower wall takes about a day. In addition to their decorative options like the flower wall, they offer wedding coordinator services. “I will be thinking for the bride so she can just enjoy her day worry free,” says Bridget Mansour. On top of that, their office at 910 Niagara Falls Boulevard is essentially a one-stop-shop for a couple planning their wedding. They share office space with a videographer, a wedding photographer, and a wedding DJ. “The really cool part about it is everyone specializes in their own thing; they study what they do.” says Mario Mansour, who before starting this company with Bridget, worked as a wedding artist, creating customized paintings on the spot, which guests at the wedding would contribute to. Mario learned a lot from that experience, and the couple learned quite a bit from their own wedding less than a year ago, too, for which they built their first flower wall. “We learned a lot from our own wedding; which vendors to go to and which vendors to not go to. If a vendor you like isn’t coming to your price, just get to know them and develop a repetoire with them and see where it goes. That’s pretty much the basis of our business. We brought all of the good things that we loved about our wedding and hope to incorporate them here without overpricing it.” They’ve got a few more tips too, which they’ve decided to share with us this week. Below you’ll find 10 tips for putting together a flawless wedding in Buffalo from our friends at Buffalo Event Essentials.

7. FOLLOW YOUR INTUITION.

Before the wedding planning begins, identify the people who will be involved in planning. Some friends or family will want to be a part of your special day, which is great! However, the more people involved, the more opinions added. Make sure you and your fiancé are on the same page and make the major decisions together. It is super helpful to give friends and family specific tasks so they can concentrate on one detail and excel at it!

You will be making so many decisions throughout your wedding planning. If you or your fiancée have a ‘bad feeling’ about something, talk it through and think of alternative options. Your gut instincts should not be ignored. Make sure you feel good about your wedding dress, photographer, videographer venue and DJ— they are contributing to the most exciting day of your life!

Excel sheets and word documents will make planning easier. Keep track of your big ideas, budget, timeline, and wedding lists. Since these documents will be ever changing, set up a Google doc with your fiancée so you both can share and edit the information.

3. BALLIN ON A BUDGET? Pair a few statement centerpieces like a super tall vase or a unique candle holder with standard votive candle holders to create variety and dimension.

8. HOW TO TIP YOUR WEDDING VENDORS On your wedding day, designate someone to handle tipping all of the vendors. You don’t want to be running around worrying about that— you’ll be too busy on the dance floor.

9. SEE YOUR VENUE IN WEDDING MODE. Ask the venue coordinator if you can check out an upcoming wedding. Pay attention to the flow of the people, the layout of the tables and the positioning of the vendors (DJ, photobooth, etc). Don’t be afraid to switch up your own layout if it makes better sense to you!

4. STAY PRESENT.

10. DON’T GET CAUGHT UP IN WEDDING DAY DETAILS.

When there are so many moving parts and a lot to keep track of, your mind will swirl and you may feel overwhelmed. If that is the case, take a break from your tasks and remind yourself of the greatness that will come out of it all; you are marrying your best friend.

On the most important day of your life, which you and your fiancée have been planning for a long time, do not get caught up in the details. Your day will run smoothly and your guests will not notice the details that didn’t happen. Your job is to enjoy your day and focus on each other. P

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pressed “stop” on my DVD player and went back to the beginning. I also did something I don’t usually do when reviewing a film—I read the production notes, the background information provided by a film’s distributor for reviewers. I don’t like to do that because I prefer to experience a movie as much as possible on its own terms, with no preconceptions or knowledge about what’s going to happen. But in this case it was necessary, as I’d gotten halfway through the movie with too many questions about what was going on to be able to continue. The synopsis is pretty simple. After a middle-aged man dies unexpectedly, his two sons and widow have difficulty dealing with their grief. Suzanne (Andie MacDowell) tries to throw herself into her work, and begins a new relationship with a man who has lost his wife. Oldest son Nicholas (Chris O’Dowd) has trouble maintaining his own relationships, and is unable to cope with his mother’s attempts to move on. Younger son Chris ( James Adomian) drinks a lot. (Well, to be fair they all do.)

stars like MacDowell and O’Dowd so that we have a sense of them within the story: I didn’t realize that Nicholas was cheating on his girlfriend with another woman until I rewatched it. Maybe the most damaging factor is that Harbaugh does nothing to establish that the paterfamilias, first seen in reasonably good health at a family gathering, is such an emotional touchstone to his wife and sons. Without that, it’s hard to connect to the difficulties they have in moving on. This may have been clear to Harbaugh because he’s making a film about the death of his own father, but most of us in the audience didn’t know the guy. Full disclosure: Love After Love has a rating of 84 percent from metacritic.com and 95 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, so don’t just take my word for it. (But I’ll bet all those critics read the production notes in advance.) It opens Friday at the Eastern Hills Mall Cinema. ***

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As his co-writer Eric Mendelsohn describes the process, “The idea that we worked from was chaos and events. Rather than the way that traditional stories are told, we would create whirlwinds of events where behavior will inform the audience where they are in the story, instead of dialogue.”

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Charlie Plummer in Lean on Pete.

A BOY, A HORSE, AND A QUEST LEAN ON PETE BY GEORGE SAX A LARGE PORTION of the credit for Andrew

Haigh’s affecting and memorable Lean on Pete goes to its young star, Charlie Plummer. Over the last 80 to 90 years, there’s been a lot of comment and opining about screenacting “naturals,” actors whose work seems unaffectedly effortless, and whom the camera seems to favor. Whether or not Plummer is one of these, his work in this picture is so naturalistically convincing that it may be too easy to forget he’s working, and the effort and control he must have invested in his role. He looks and sounds perfectly like a reserved, unreliably articulate and uncertain 15-year-old adolescent, but this is the product of art, not just nature and luck. Plummer plays Charley, a kid who has been dragged by Ray (Travis Fimmel), his cheerfully immature, good-time-seeking father, from Spokane, Washington to Portland, Oregon. Charley’s unbalanced mother split when he was very young. Now, uprooted and dropped in a strange new place, Ray (whom he does love), is about all he has left. Until he discovers a nearby racetrack, an exotic facility to Charley. Wandering around, he’s hailed by Del (Steve Buscemi), a horse owner who needs help changing a truck tire. On the spur of the moment he hires Charley as stablehand and dogsbody. The newly happy lad has no frame of reference, but this is a racing‑world backwater, where quarter horses run at county fairs and at even lower-ranked, makeshift tracks. Del is a sharp-tongued, cynical small timer, but he recognizes Charley’s innocence and hard work and evinces a limited, tolerant approval of the kid. Charley, in turn, is happy with his humble position, as he bonds with Lean on Pete, one of Del’s several horses. Bonnie (Chloë Sevigny), Del’s jockey, warns Charley that the horses aren’t pets: “They’re here to race.” But when Del, after overworking and drugging Pete, decides to send him to the slaughterhouse,

Charley, now even more alone because of a violent event, acts. He steals Pete and Del’s truck and takes off to find an estranged aunt he thinks is in Wyoming. Thus begins a daunting eastward odyssey across difficult geography. Charley and Pete encounter a number of characters, hostile and helpful, in this swath of Trump’s America. Adapting Willy Vlautin’s 2010 novel of the same title, Haigh has made more than an offbeat, quietly harrowing coming-of-age movie. He’s fashioned an episodic narrative social portrait of a sort not usually found in American movies. This is an America where people lead marginalized, sometimes desperate and dangerous lives. Charley and Pete meet both nastiness and rough-hewn kindness. Haigh’s observational skill in conveying the speech and behavior in this world is acute. (He’s managed to remain faithful to Vlautin’s novel even though he’s had to considerably simplify it.) His movie is spare, without hyped energy or ostentatious devices. There isn’t one melodramatic moment, nor a musical score until the very end. Pete does contain one or two implausibilities, but they’re partly imported from the novel, and Haigh has maintained the book’s tone, aided by Magnus Jonck’s clear but elegant photography. Haigh has also managed to convey his sympathy for his varied characters, even when he has to portray their deficiencies and nastiness. Buscemi’s Del, for example, is hard-bitten, bitter and occasionally unfeeling, but he’s not without a modicum of realism about his lot. “I used to like horses, too,” he tells Charley at one point. Lean on Pete is realistic about life’s limitations and pressures. And, unexpectedly, it’s not only absorbing but it provides some real emotional satisfaction. Opens Friday at the North Park P and Eastern Hills Mall Cinema. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / APRIL 25 - MAY 1, 2018 / THE PUBLIC 17

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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 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

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