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two progressive candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, respectively, traveled through Western New York last week. Williams has been here before, both as a fair housing activist and a potential candidate; it was Nixon’s first visit as a candidate. Nixon held an economic roundtable with community leaders and progressive activists last Wednesday at Babeville’s 9th Ward. (It was meant to be at the Pucho Olivencia Community Center, but the center canceled at the last minute, under pressure from the Governor Andrew Cuomo’s political team, and so did another community center that was the second choice; it took Ani DiFranco, who doesn’t even live here anymore, to make a visitor welcome.) She also attended a Thursday evening potluck dinner hosted by Queers of Racial Justice, near Grant and Lafayette. There, a member of the group asked Nixon if she would run on another line in the general election if she lost the Democratic primary to Cuomo. She told that audience, many of whom wanted her to say yes, that to argue that there’s no difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is absurd. And, likewise, to argue that there’s no difference between Andrew Cuomo and any Republican is absurd. Not a straight-up no, but a reasonable answer, for which Nixon earns our respect. We’re not going to give the Buffalo Sabres a hard-earned thumbs up here for their ineptitude and dumb luck. We’re saving our applause for RASMUS DAHLIN, the super Swede who’s riding into town on a white horse to cure everything that ails our hockey wounds. Sabres hockey has been boring, stiff, depressing. No need for any of that anymore; the defenseman to end all defensemen is coming to defend our nets, hearts, and plummeting civic pride. Dear Rasmus, we have no idea what you look like or how to pronounce your name, but welcome to the imaginations of heartsick Buffalo hockey fans. In three years, when you’re old enough to drink in America, you’ll never have to buy a beer in this town.

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LEHNER’S TRAINING DIVE TOO HAZARDOUS BY DANIELA PORAT and help you.” To manage these risks, public safety diving professionals set a limit on how rapid a current they conduct training in. For some teams, it’s one to 1.5 knots.

EXPERTS SAY THE NIAGARA RIVER TWO OR THREE TIMES TOO FAST FOR A TRAINING DIVE ON THE DAY BUFFALO POLICE OFFICER CRAIG LEHNER DROWNED. IF TRAINING PRACTICES elsewhere are any

indicator, the Buffalo Police Department had no business sending Officer Craig Lehner into the rapid currents of the Niagara River last October. Depending on the agency, trainees for swift water diving elsewhere typically start out in water moving somewhere between one and four knots, or less than five miles per hour. But the Niagara River on the day Lehner trained—and drowned —was moving between eight and 12 knots, or up to nearly 14 miles per hour. Records obtained from the US Coast Guard showed that some divers on the scene were uncomfortable diving in the river’s swift current. Documents obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request show the Buffalo division of the Coast Guard was asked the day after Lehner went missing to identify “a more qualified dive team due to the significant current in the area.” “Local divers on scene were not comfortable diving in that current,” the document continues. Investigative Post reported in February that Lehner did not have crucial equipment to undertake such an advanced dive and that he had previously trained in mostly calm and confined water. Diving in a fast current like that of the Niagara River is a specialized skill that requires the right equipment and a lot of training. While none of the half-dozen public safety diving professionals Investigative Post interviewed wanted to speak specifically about the incident involving Lehner, the safety precautions and training procedures they describe for swiftwater diving differ from what goes in Buffalo. Robert Shields, captain of a public safety dive team in Rhode Island, said the faster the current “the more difficult it is to control yourself as a diver.” “Currents can pin you against an object, so whether it’s a branch, or a stump, or a car, under the water you can get pinned,” he said. “And if you don’t have the ability to break free, you’re kind of stuck there until somebody can come

Jeff Morgan, a public safety diver who has trained local, state, and federal law enforcement, as well as the military, said he trains in up to four knots of current. Experts advise the wearing of electronic communications while diving in swift water to facilitate easy and safe communication with colleagues above water. But Lehner lacked that equipment on his fateful dive. The Coast Guard doesn’t have dive teams at the ready to conduct underwater rescues. Its search and rescue operations are geared toward saving people at the water’s surface. Lehner, however, was diving about 25 feet underwater. Records show the Coast Guard sent a response boat soon after the Buffalo police dive team realized Lehner was trapped. Once the boat arrived, the police asked the Coast Guard to try to unsnag Lehner’s tether by moving it in different directions. Once they did, “it was discovered that the line was cut,” according to one of the records. “The missing diver’s secondary oxygen tank and mouthpiece resurfaced in view of where the tether line entered the water.” At least eight law enforcement and rescue agencies responded to aid the Buffalo police in its search operations the day of, or day after Lehner drowned. The state police and the Rochester Police Department deployed divers. The search for Lehner’s body went on for five days, with divers battling currents that ranged between eight to 15 knots, or up to 17 miles per hour. “The challenges the divers and sonar teams face today is the strong and variable current,” states a Coast Guard record. Lehner was found later that day, on October 17. His death triggered an outpouring of public grief rarely witnessed in Buffalo. The Buffalo police declined to comment for this story. Lehner’s family has filed a notice of claim, a precursor to a lawsuit, against the city and the police department, citing “negligence, recklessness and carelessness” in the training and supervision of the dive team. New York state’s Public Employee Safety and Health Bureau in the Department of Labor is also conducting an investigation. Daniela Porat is a reporter for Investigative Post, a nonprofit investigative journalism center focused on issues of importance to P Buffalo and Western New York. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / MAY 2 - 8, 2018 / THE PUBLIC

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The defendant was a 23-year-old black man, who was charged with misdemeanors including marijuana possession and trespass. At first, the judge decided that the defendant was eligible for the Release Under Supervision (RUS) program; he would not have to pay bail and would not be detained pretrial. The defendant then told the judge that he had been mistreated at the Erie County Holding Center the night before, while waiting for his arraignment. After the defendant was seated again, waiting for a RUS representative, he slouched in his chair with what the judge perceived as a negative attitude. The judge told him to sit up, and when he did not comply the judge called him back to the stand. The defendant complained again about his treatment at the Holding Center, and the judge stated, “If you’re acting like this in front of me, I can only imagine what you were doing at the Holding Center.” When the defendant protested, she continued, “If I want to put $100,000 bail on you for acting silly in here, I can do that.” Apparently due to the judge’s dislike of the young man’s demeanor, bail was set for $5,000 cash or insurance bond. And another: The defendant was a black man in his early twenties charged with misdemeanor drug possession. He was about to be released, until the judge realized she had overlooked the man’s out of state criminal history from 2015. She then set bail at $2000, cash or insurance bond, which meant he would have to pay at least $200 to a bail bondsman that he would not get back. He asked to speak directly to the judge and pleaded with her for a lower bail. He told her that he did not have family in the area and did not have $200. He stated that he was missing work to be arraigned and would lose his job if he wasn’t released. The man continued to explain that his out of state criminal history was from several years ago and that he had been on a better path since then. The judge interrupted him and said, “I’ve done all I can, bail is $2000.” That was the end of the discussion.

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The report also highlights racial disparities in the frequency of bail being set, and in the dollar amounts. In misdemeanor cases when bail was set, the “average bail for was $5,000 for Latino defendants, $4,800 for black defendants, and $3,580 for white defendants.” In 80 of the 240 cases observed, no bail was set at all and the defendants were released, and white defendants were 17 percent more likely to be released than black defendants, and 22 percent more likely to be released than Latino defendants. Also recommended by the report’s authors, Andrea Ó Súilleabháin and Colleen Kristich, is that local judges to implement alternatives to bail that are already in place, such as unsecured bonds or release P under supervision. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / MAY 2 - 8, 2018 / THE PUBLIC

ART REVIEW Merton chose a formally monastic lifestyle. Lax did not go that extreme, but lived on Aegean islands among fisher communities. He has been described as a hermit, but he rejected that description. A term he was more comfortable with was “solitary.” He needed time to himself, for his writing, for meditation, for prayer, but also needed regular interaction with ordinary people around him, in tune with the world around them, with the seasons, with the environment, in the islands case, the sea and its perils. Previously—before the Aegean islands years—he lived with circus troupes, accompanied them on their peregrinations, and wrote poetry about them, the jugglers, the acrobats, their skills, their grace, their perils. The exhibit materials include framed literary items—mostly poems—and photos, and vitrines containing some of their books and other published works. The weighting in Lax’s favor occurs in that all the framed literary items are original issues on brown paper of the broadsheet he and graphic artist Emil Antonucci produced on Antonucci’s hand-operation press for several years running in the late 1950s, early 1960s, entitled Pax, Latin for peace. The Pax materials are by various authors, including Merton and Lax (writing for his own publication under the pen name Peter Lewis) and members of their literary and social circle, the likes of Jack Kerouac, e.e. cummings, and Mark Van Doren. Pax graphics are by Antonucci and Ad Reinhardt, another Lax lifelong friend—from their high school days—and artistic exemplar. (Lax’s stark minimalist poetry seems somehow related to Reinhardt’s black paintings.)

Robert Lax (1915-2000), Untitled, 1970s. Robert Lax Archives. St. Bonaventure University.

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THOMAS MERTON AND ROBERT LAX AT BURCHFIELD PENNEY A CURRENT EXHIBIT at the Burchfield Penney is about two

extraordinary artistic and religious figures and lifelong soul mates on their roughly parallel but largely divergent spiritual and artistic quests, Thomas Merton and Robert Lax. They met as students at Columbia University in New York City, but both had substantial Western New York connections, specifically to Olean and St. Bonaventure University, where both taught at times, and Lax grew up—off and on—in Olean. Merton ultimately wound up a Trappist monk in a monastery in Kentucky, while Lax lived the latter half of his life on Greek islands, the final years on the island of Patmos, where St. John the author of the Book of Revelation composed that strange mystical prophetic screed, and before that for several years on Kalymnos (a name that means “beautiful song”). Two men so very much alike, and very different. Among the differences, that Merton, though he wrote many poems, was essentially a prose writer. While Lax, while he wrote copious prose—mostly in the form of personal journal entries, and letters to a wide variety of correspondents—cartons of this material now in archives at St. Bonaventure, cartons more at Columbia— was essentially a poet.

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Another key difference—it has been observed—that in their spiritual and artistic quests, Merton was more concerned with answers, Lax more with questions. (This difference possibly not unrelated to the prose versus poetry difference.) The exhibit covers both men, but is weighted slightly toward Lax, as the less famous of the two—so the path less trodden, while Merton studies became virtually an industry—but equally significant in their personal relationship, and equally or more significant than Merton as an artist. Lax tended to get less than his due attention in part because of the obstinately avant-garde character of his poetry—minimalist spare, lines of a word or two, or partial words, snaking down the page, sometimes syllable by syllable, including long poems of very few discrete words repeated like a mantra, and little syntax—but literary critics who did attend to his work could be effusive. Columbia professor and friend—but nonetheless judicious literary critic—Mark Van Doren called one of his works “a grand poem…Homer would have liked it.” British critic R. C. Kenedy, who wrote extensively and insightfully about Lax, called one of his works “one of the greatest poems in the English language,” and one of his books “in all probability, the finest volume of poems published by an English-speaking poet of the generation which comes in T. S. Eliot’s wake.” Partly also Lax got less than his due attention because he lived on remote islands. An apparent similarity between Merton and Lax that turns out to be a difference relates to hermit predilection.

Art 247 (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, theart247.com): Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, = ART OPENING = REVIEWED THIS ISSUE NY 14209 wnyag.com): Joan Fitzgerald, Drawings in Ink. On view through May 11. Tue-Fri FF = FIRST FRIDAY 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. FF 125 Art Collective Tattoo Studio (125 Elmwood Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Jennifer Ryan. Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716Opening reception Fri, May 4, 6-8pm. 885-2251, wnyag.com): The Niagara Frontier FF Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Av- Watercolor Society’s Spring 2018 Members enue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albright- Transparent Watercolor Show, on view Apr 27 knox.org): Push + Pull, 2018 future curators through Jun 1. Reception and awards ceremony exhibit, through May 13. Introducing Tony Con- Sat, May 19, 2-4pm. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11amrad: A Retrospective, on view through May 27. 3pm. We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, 1965-85, on view through May 27. Matisse and NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Betty’s the Art of Jazz, on view through Jun 17. Pictur- annual staff, friends, and family show. Through ing Niagara, paintings by Stephen Hannock, on May 20. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat view through Sep 30. B. Ingrid Olson: Forehead 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. and Brain, through Jun 17. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffaopen late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. lo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works FF Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annaka- FF BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 plancontemporary.art): Rebecca Allan: Debris Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Feel Me, a multi-layFields, a solo exhibition on view through Jun 16. ered installation by Kyla Kegler, on view through Opening Fri, May 4 with reception 6-9 pm. Art- Jun 15. Opening reception Fri, May 4, 7-11pm. Evist’s talk Thu, May 3, 6 pm in the second floor ery day 4-10pm. lounge at Hotel Henry, Sat 12-4 or by appointment. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor,

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Though roughly equal numbers of their photos, which again are similar but different. Wall copy talks about how Merton’s photos were “made as Zen-based expressions to foster contemplation.” Nature subjects—granite rocks and tufts of grasses pushing up among them—and architectural vignettes—a window recess in a cheap construction industrial building, colonized by a tangle of scrub arboreal flora. Lax’s photos at once more simple and more complex. About black and white and shadow. Including the shadow of the photographer taking the photo. The artist behind the art. In passageways amid whitewashed stone walls on Greek islands. Stone passageways and stone steps. Metaphors of spiritual ascesis. And one photo of a shadow of a hand on a wall. Reminiscent of cave paintings hand images. The earliest ever assertion of the artist behind the art. This exhibit curated by Tony Bannon, Burchfield Penney director emeritus, and Paul Spaeth, St. Bonaventure University librarian and curator of the Thomas Merton archives, and founder and curator of the Robert Lax archives. The exhibit continues through August 26.

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2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Solo exhibitions by Chuck Tingley and Mizin Shin. Tue-Fri 10am5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint.com): MonFri 9am-5:30pm. FF Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology (1221 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 259-1680, buffaloartstechcenter.org): Our Community: Artworks from the Gerald Mead Collection, on view through May 28. Opening reception, Fri, May 4, 6-8pm. Mon-Fri 10am-3pm. 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; Sud-

denly 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). 10am5pm & 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 series Still. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter. org): CAC Members Exhibition. 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.

GALLERIES ART Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Think Big: The Artists of Autism Services, through Jan 14, 2019. Opening reception Sun, May 6, 2-4pm. 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): Vicious Cycle, Kate MacNeil, through Jun 15. The Unseen Marion Faller, through Jul 8. 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. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts. com): Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am4pm. FF Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com): Biff Henrich: The Structure of Things Part II. Opening reception, Fri, May 4, 6-9pm. On view through Jun 3. TueFri, 10am-4pm, or by appointment. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Andie Jairam: Kweku Anansi Fables. Wed-Sat 12-6pm FF Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 6750204, etjgallery.com): Happiness exhibit through May 26. Opening reception, Fri, May 4, 7-9pm. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm. FF Green Window City (Allentown, Buffalo, NY): Month-long installation in 13 storefronts (ACME Cabinet Company, Allen Street Dress Shop, Alley Cat, Caffèology, Hair by Jose, Freshly Dipped Clothing, Grindhaus Cafe, High Klass Hair, Hyatt’s All Things Creative, Les Jardins, Pawprints by Penny & Co., Rick Cycle Shop, and Salon Bandelian) in Allentown by artists Ani Hoover, Bob Melnyk, Bobby Allen, Caesandra Seawell advising Pelion Community Garden, Emma Percy, Janna Willoughby-Lohr, Jessica Widmer, Kayleigh Small & Sarah Barry, Leah Bogdan, Melissa Swiatek-Odien, Suzie Molnar, Tina Bethge-Kaczynski, and Virginia Melnyk. GO ART! (201 East Main Street, Batavia, NY 14020): Where Do I Go From Here? Shirley Nigro, in the Rotary Club Room Gallery. ThuFri 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Second Sun 11am2pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Tue-Fri 11am6pm, 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): “…. and what’s the use of talking” recent work by Kristina Siegel and Jörg Schnier. Wed 126pm, 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): 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. 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, 716-8825777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Peter Stephens: Oblique Logic, through May 15. 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. FF Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): FLORA: A group exhibit on view through May 27. Opening reception Fri May 4, 7-9pm. 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. FF Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod. com): Art Under the Stars at 64 College Street. 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. 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 11am4pm, 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): 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. FF 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.

FF UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries. org): Bracha: Pietà—Eurydice—Medusa, Bracha Ettinger, opening reception Sat, May 5, 6pm with gallery talk May 9, 4:30pm. Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017. Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic. Wed-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, on view through May 26. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Interior Design Program Student Exhibit. Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. WASH Project (593 Grant Street, Buffalo, NY 14213): Law Eh Soe, photographs from Burma to Buffalo. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 348-1430, wnybookarts.org): Pulp/fictions, group exhibition, on view through May 12. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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JIM STARLIN created Thanos—the central villain in Avengers: Infinity War—in 1973. This early drawing is from Starlin’s personal collection. The legendary comics artist will be at Sleeping Giant Collectibles (80 Clinton Street, Tonawanda) on Saturday, May 5. Read more on page 13 and at dailypublic.com.

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6PM / VARIOUS LOCATIONS It’s a week or two too early for the leaves and too late for St. Patrick’s Day, but there’ll be a different kind of green appearing all over Allentown this Friday to usher in the First Friday of Buffalo’s “out of doors and it’s okay” season. A month-long installation called Green Window City takes form, an experiment in creative sustainability made from upcycled materials diverted from the waste-tolandfill pipeline, however temporarily. Thirteen storefronts will be transformed thanks to around 15 artists, from Alley Cat to Hyatt’s back to ACME Cabinet. Elsewhere in Allentown and beyond is a host of First Friday events and openings. Standbys in warmer months: Art Under the Stars (Queen City Gallery) at 64 College Street in Allentown; further afield are Kyla Kegler’s Feel Me at BOX Gallery downtown, and Rebecca Allan’s Debris Fields at Anna Kaplan’s on Niagara Street. On Main Street, highlights are Biff Henrich’s photographs at Eleven Twenty Projects, and works from Gerry Mead’s collection at Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology. -AARON LOWINGER

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7PM / KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL, 3 SYMPHONY CIRCLE / $10-$20 [CLASSICAL] We’re lucky here in Buffalo to have our very own Gamelan Club. For those who

don’t know, gamelan is a style of traditional Indonesia music that’s made with xylophones, gongs, metallophones, and a variety of other percussion instruments. The sound that an entire gamelan ensemble can create is mesmerizing in its droning fullness and rich textures, which makes it perfect for the stage at Kleinhans Music Hall, a musical insturment in itself. The 23-piece Buffalo Gamelan Club, led by director Matt Dunning, will take the stage at Kleinhans on Friday May 4, for which they’re bringing in Javanese dancer and performer Pamardi Tjiptopradonggo for a performance that’s designed to showcase the traditional Javanese music with dance pieces from the royal Mangkunegaran Palace and the city of Solo. The audience will sit on stage with the orchestra for this special performance experience, part of Kleinhans “Centerstage” series. -CORY PERLA

WEDNESDAY MAY 2 The Go Rounds 7pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $8-$10

[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 Aircraft. -CP

Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band 7pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $15-$18

[COUNTRY] Reverend Peyton probably measures the term “big damn band” differently than you or I. His “big” has nothing to do with the number of members in his band—just three, including the Reverend himself—but more to do with the size of the sound, which is, in fact, big. You’d be surprised how much noise a washboard and a five gallon plastic bucket can make. Catch Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band at the Tralf Music Hall this Wednesday, May 2. -CP

to happen in the theatre district, and is one of the few open mic events catering towards poets. “Over the past few years, the community has moved onto mostly curated events, because of that there has been a lack of variety in open format events,” Rutkowski said. Rutkowski’s goal in mind is to strengthen the community by offering a necessary service for both new and seasoned poets to get behind the mic and in front of an audience to promote their talent. Rutkowski jumped into the performance aspect of poetry in 2016, though she has always written poetry. She started out performing at Pure Ink Poetry’s open mic events and was part of Buffalo’s 2017 National Poetry Slam Team. I first experienced her vigor almost a year ago, when I was pleasantly taken aback by her presence and performance at “There Will Be No Haikus Here,” an annual collaborative arts event created by poet Ben Brindise and me. Her stage presence has this sort of elegant demeanor, the perfect marriage of ferocity and delicacy that cuts through the bones in the most benign of ways. But don’t just take my word for it, experience her poetic flair and witness the talent of more local poets for yourself this Friday at Perks. -SARA ALI

Start Making Sense: A Tribute to the Talking Heads 9pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $14-$16

FRIDAY MAY 4 First Friday Poetry at Perks Downtown 6pm Perks Cafe Downtown, 777 Main Street

My admiration for Buffalo’s poetry community and women artists is no secret, given the theme of most my articles. So when I heard about the talented poet Skyler Rutkowski’s most recent endeavor, I was ecstatic. Come Friday, May 4, her new monthly series, Poetry at Perks, will launch. This event will be the first ever recurring poetry event

[TRIBUTE] For those who missed David Byrne’s masterful, creative, and enthralling performance at the UB Center for the Arts in March, or even if you were there and just need more Talking Heads in your life, we’ve got some good news. Start Making Sense, the seven-piece Talking Heads tribute band from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, returns to Western New York for a show at Buffalo Iron Works on Friday May 4. Expect all of your favorite hits and some deep cuts too. Special guest Ruby Dear opens the show. -TPS

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SATURDAY MAY 5 Buffalo Cherry Blossom Festival

on bass, and Harry Graser on keys. Catch the Tim Clarke Soul-Tet at Pausa Art House on Saturday, May 5. -TPS

11am Buffalo History Museum, 1 Museum Ct.

[FESTIVAL] The folks over at Music Is Art are spearheading this year’s music portion of the Buffalo Cherry Blossom Festival at the Buffalo History Museum this Saturday, May 5. That means festival-goers can expect music from Japanese rock band the Molice, who are signed to Music is Art founder and Goo Goo Dolls bassist Robby Takac’s label, Good Charamel Records. Indie rock band Mom Said No joins in too, along with DJ Sashimi. Expect spoken word poetry performances, mural painting, food trucks, boat rides, and more. Then, on Sunday, May 6 the festival shifts its focus from music to family activities including origami, puppet shows, an “instrument zoo,” and more. -CP

68 with American Nosebleed 7pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St. $12

[PUNK] It’s hard to say where a band like ’68 fits in. They came to be at the end of an era dominated by bands like Chiodos, Norma Jean, and Underoath, for whom they toured with as support, but too late to take full advantage of the wave of popularity that those bands enjoyed. That doesn’t mean that the ’68 won’t ride their own wave now, especially with the release of their latest record, Two Parts Viper, which met with solid reviews when it was released last year. The noise punk duo comes to Sugar City for a show this Saturday, May 5 with support from American Nosebleed, Squatch, and Out Last. -CP

Tim Clarke Soul-Tet 8pm Pausa Art House, 19 Wadsworth St. $5-$7

[JAZZ] The Tim Clarke Soul-Tet is a brand new Buffalo-based quintet that puts their own soulful spin on groovey, latin-inspired hard bop jazz tunes from the 1950s to the early 1990s. Clarke leads the group on trumpet and flugelhorn, with Darryl Washington on drums, Nelson Rivera on tenor sax, Ed Croft

SUNDAY MAY 6 Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center Opening 10am Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center, 825 Depot Avenue W.

[OPENING] For decades before the Civil War, subversive white and Hodenosaunee activists around here worked with once-enslaved blacks in a shared enterprise of human liberation that delivered thousands of people to freedom in Canada. It’s a great story, it’s all true, it’s local, and it’s right down the street from the Niagara Falls Aquarium, directly across from the Whirlpool Bridge, and immediately adjacent to the brand-new Amtrak station. There’s a particularly poignant and focused presentation on the role played by the owners and staff of the old Cataract House hotel, operated by the Whitney family starting in 1825. Parkhurst Whitney exclusively hired African-American staff, who helped arrange border crossings for many enslaved people. With the opening of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center this coming weekend, this inspiring and dramatic story will be on display with detailed individual narratives, interactive exhibits, maps for walking tours, and a new accessibility for this and other attractions in the Niagara Falls area, thanks to the Discover Niagara free shuttle bus that will take visitors all the way from the Falls to Old Fort Niagara every 30 minutes. Entry to the Underground Railroad Heritage Center is through the Amtrak station, where large-format posters and signage explain the critical place of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls corridor. The drama that occurred in this entire border area became the political force that led to the war against slaveowners. The specific

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For our first May feature, we’re so grateful to have published three pieces from Brave Birds: Inspiration on the Wing by Maude White. Brave Birds is a collection of 65 magical cutpaper birds, created by Maude White and photographed by Laura Glazer. White is beloved in Buffalo due to previously living here; I learned of her work about five years ago when I’d run into her at Caffe Aroma, hard at work cutting inconceivably intricate creatures by hand. At Peach you’ll find her pieces, “The Kestrel,” “The Hummingbird,” and “The Swallow,” and if you’re as enchanted as the rest of us, the book is now available from ABRAMS.

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is pronounced the same, but takes two less letters to spell.” This is a rare shortcut for Blake, however, as he doesn’t take many shortcuts in his music at all. Instead, he crafts slowburning, low key art-folk songs that are at once folksy, humorous, and heartfelt. On his latest record, Recitative, released on the artists record label, SameRoom, the style can best be described as jazzy talk-singing—which comes off as both poetic and affecting. Robert Christgau, a pioneer of music criticism and one time music editor at the Village Voice recently described many of the song’s on Blake’s double album as “as instantly indelible as the Springsteen, Weill, Reed, and Van Morrison lifts woven in.” It’ll be a fun and intimate experience when Blake brings his band The Letters to Milkie’s on Elmwood for a show this Friday, May 4 with support from local favorites Pine Fever and Brass Pro and the Waterfront Revivalists.. -CORY PERLA

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The fifth and final installment of one our favorite journals, Spy Kids Review, is now available. Although all of us at Peach are sad to learn of the announcement that founder Joseph Parker Okay is retiring Spy Kids, we’re equally excited that Okay has plans to refocus energy into the journal’s publishing arm, 2fast2house, and its forthcoming collections. This final issue is a wonderful close to Spy Kids, and features work from 30 different poets, several of whom are previous Peach contributors. For instance, Carmen E. Brady’s poems are some of my favorites in the collection. “Fragrant and Unnatural” is a narration of being consumed by doom, and closes with the lines, “I’m so worried / after all, / when is there ever time to care?” Additionally, Alex Manley’s poem, “Opulent,” is one of countless others that I read over and over again; the playful lines, “We can live, laugh, love / to get a tension from strangers,” are ones that have stuck with me. -BRE KIBLIN

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is having another big moment right now: His character Thanos, whom he first introduced into the Marvel cosmos in 1973 in Iron Man #55, is the central villain of the new film Avengers: Infinity

War, which just posted the largest grossing opening weekend ever. The feather in the cap is fitting for the man who also created Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, and Shang-Chi, Master of King Fu; who breathed new life into Captain Marvel and the Silver Surfer; and who is, in his own right, as elemental to American comic book culture as Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, or Steve Ditko. Thanos is now a movie star, but he’s also the subject of a new series of graphic novels by Starlin. “Depending on what story I want to tell, he’s either the chief villain, or he’s the strange hero that nobody expected,” Starlin says of his creation. Wonder what Starlin thinks of cinematic adaptations of the Marvel and DC universes he has helped to shape? Ask the man himself when he comes to Tonawanda on Saturday, May 5—national Free Comic Book Day—thanks to the folks at Sleeping Giants Collectibles and Ominous Press, which is working toward bringing out a collection of Starlin’s

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site is a triumph for historic preservationists, too: The Heritage Center is inside the original Customs House, and it’s immediately adjacent to the former Suspension Bridge over which so many escaped to freedom. The Underground Railroad Heritage Center is officially open starting Sunday, May 6 with a day-long series of events including music, speeches, and food. With the free mobile app, visitors can have access to the self-guided walking and driving tours. Visit niagarafallsundergroundrailroad. org. -BRUCE FISHER

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TEENANGER SATURDAY MAY 5 8PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. / $7 [NEW WAVE] Look at a promo photo of the Toronto punk band Teenanger and it looks like they’re

SWAGGER THIEF Nevermeadow album Recommended if you like: Madlib, J Dilla, DJ Shadow The latest release from the “post-internet” Buffalo-based hip hop duo (or trio?) Swagger Thief is a 15-track record titled Nevermeadow. With loads of low-key guitar and grooving basslines, the mostly instrumental hip hop songs are as lush as they are chill and jazzy. The intro track, “The Firmament,” featuring Buffalo hip hop artist Bagel Jesus, is a stand out, as is the late album “Wise,” featuring Triple Tao.

doing some nihilistic impression of the cast of Friends, except they all look like they’ve been smoking too much weed, and that if it came down to it, they wouldn’t really be there for you. It does, however, look like it hasn’t been their day, their week, their month, or even their year, at least judging by their profoundly indifferent, vacant facial expressions. Maybe it was their year, though, as their latest record, Teenanger, which was released in July of 2017, caught the attention of the Toronto music scene and beyond. And as good as the Friends theme song is, the music of Teenanger is better; jangly, punky new wave music made for blaring while you’re in the car with the windows down, or for smoking cigarettes to even though you don’t smoke cigarettes but you do anyways so you can take a longer break at work. Listen to their latest self-titled record, then go see Teenanger at Mohawk Place on Saturday, May 5. Support comes from Hot Tip and Saturn V. -CORY PERLA

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[WORLD MUSIC] Two master percussionists, Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph, combine together to form the band Karuna. Karuna is a Buddhist term for compassion, and while Drake and Rudolph beat the shit out of their drums, they do so with an extreme love of rhythm that radiates into their audience. The two musicians have known each other since they were teenangers in Chicago, which could explain their deep rhythmic connection, and though they’ve toured the world together in various bands, this is their first tour as a duo. Catch Karuna at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center on Sunday, May 6. -CP

TUESDAY MAY 8 Bullet for My Valentine 6:30 pm Rapids Theatre, 1711 Main St. $27.50-$32

[METAL] Outrageous haircuts and sleeveless black t-shirts aside, Bullet for My Valentine are a band that, like it or not, have helped define metalcore music in the early 2000s. The band’s debut album, The Poison, released in 2005 on Trustkill records, has sold a million copies to date, thanks to it’s melodic emo-metal sound. Since then the band has released four records including the thrashier Scream Aim Fire, and their latest, 2015s The Venom. With a record coming out later this summer, expect to hear some new cuts from the four-piece Welsh band when they come to the Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls on Tuesday, May 8 with support from Orlando, Florida-based metal band Trivium and Asbury, New Jersey’s Toothgrinder. -CP

WEDNESDAY MAY 9 Stone Temple Pilots

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ALPHA HOPPER "Denver Airport" single Recommended if you like: Ty Segall, Naomi Punk, La Machine “We waited until one of the Hoppers were literally sitting inside an alien spacecraft, within the New World Order bunker, beneath the Denver Airport to share with you a previously unreleased track from the Last Chance Power Drive session, entitled 'Denver Airport.' This is all 100% true. Happy 420,” is the Facebook post the band posted along with this B-side single. There’s not much else you’ll need to know about this one. A bunch of fuzzy weirdness from the Buffalo-based noise-punk group Alpha Hopper.

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Sunflower Bean‘s sophomore set, Twentytwo in Blue, is liable to show up on some year-end lists. The New York City-based trio wowed with their 2016 debut, Human Ceremony (and played a wellattended gig at the Tralf in August of that year, opening for—and inadvertently upstaging—Best Coast). But it’s amazing what a few years of life experience can bring. While Human Ceremonywas compiled from material written in their teens (making it all the more impressive, actually), Twentytwo in Blue is so forward moving, it almost sounds like a different band. The scrappiness of Ceremonyis hard to find, save perhaps on the closer, “On No, Bye Bye,” but fret not—it’s replaced with some seriously refined goodness. Not refined to the point of lacking in emotional sincerity, though. You can definitely sense the passion that went into making this record. The production value has risen—Julia Cumming’s airy soprano benefits greatly from working with co-producers Matthew Molnar and Jacob Portrait, who understand how to help her sound her best. Since its February release, there have been recurrent comparisons to Fleetwood Mac. But flattering as that is—and despite the fact that lead single, “I Was a Fool” follows a similar chord progression to “Dreams” and guitarist Nick Kivlen sounds like he’d learned a thing or two from Lindsey Buckingham— it’s a lazy comparison. Sunflower Bean hasn’t quite moved into the corporate, major-label arena. Cumming will cop to being influenced by Tusk, but really, Twentytwo in Bluehas more in common with something by the Pretenders, perhaps, stepping down from their punky early days into the spirited-but-moody pop that framed their most commercially successful material. “Crisis Fest” is a better example of this: garage-y guitars married with Runaways-like girl group punch, buoyed by a vaguely political sentiment. The track Twentytwo, a gorgeous vehicle for Cumming’s pipes, provides a telling snapshot of life at 22 (the age of all three Bean members—Cumming, Kivlen and drummer Jacob Faber), mixing a sense of restlessness with independence…whimsical dreams are tempered with the dark loom of reality. That restlessness and the rock-and-a-hard-place feel of being in ones early 20’s is really what informs the album, and Kivlen lends vocals here and there, adding variety and helping shift viewpoints. “Memoria” throws some jangle-pop into the mix, and it seems like they try something different on each track, the twangy neo-psychedelia of “Sinking Sands” and even fuzzier “Human For” being the farthest afield. There’s nothing wrong with trying new things, since 22 can also be an age of experimentation. Thankfully, these three are wise beyond their years and seem to know when to quit while they’re ahead—there isn’t a failed experiment in the bunch. See how it sounds live at Mohawk Place on Sunday, May 6 with London fem-trio Dream Wife and P our own psych-quartet, Deadwolf. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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[ROCK] It's been a long, hard ride for Dean and Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz, the musical core of Stone Temple Pilots. Brilliant but deeply troubled vocalist Scott Weiland helped brand the band's sound and catapulted them to superstardom, but Weiland seemed determined to tear down what the quartet had worked so hard to build, despite sporadic efforts to turn things around. A later stint with Linkin Park's Chester Bennington singing for them ended before his tragic suicide, but both vocalists that'd fronted STP were dead by last summer. Since Bennington had bowed out in late 2015 (just a month prior to Weiland's death), the search for a new front man was already well underway. Now with Jeff Gutt (of X Factor fame, oddly enough) as STP's vocalist, the band is on the road in support of a new self-titled album that dropped on Rhino in mid-March. The only way the new STP album doesn’t work is if you're looking for it to match Weiland's best material, which isn't a fair expectation. That said, Stone Temple Pilots rocks rather righteously (reminding, in parts, of 2001's Shangri-La-De-Da) and it beats the hell out of the directionless self-titled album they eeked out with a supposedly clean Weiland in 2010. Since he's going to fall under extreme scrutiny, it's a relief to report that Gutt tackles some of Weiland's finer vocal qualities very well, bending notes with plenty of snarl and swagger, channeling that grunge-inspired bellow that originated with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, which so many talented vocalists, Weiland included, have emulated since. But It’s also important to remember that Scott Weiland was one of a kind: There's no real replacement to be made. So, STP is a different band now, albeit one that sounds pleasingly enough like the original. That's going to have to suffice if you choose not to tune out, which is always an option. They're headed to Town Ballroom (with plenty of old material in the set) on Wednesday, May 9. Richmond's Camp Howard P is in the opening slot. -CJT

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BY CORY PERLA artists come together to work on one project. In this case they are Buffalo-based musicians Suzanne Bonifacio, who has performed locally as Space Cubs, and Shawn Lewis, popularly known as Lesionread, who have teamed up to flesh out Bonaficio’s solo project into a full band along with Ken Culton and Adam Pressley. Both Bonifacio and Lewis are musicians who come from the more experimental end of the electronic music spectrum—Bonifacio as a solo artist behind a computer screen cranking out dark, broken, magical beats reminiscent of early Caribou and Four Tet, and Lewis dressed in a one-piece red body suit, leveling up his ecstatic electro party music, sending cardboard robot mascots and GoPro cameras into his crowd. What they’ve created now, under Bonifacio’s alias Space Cubs, is different still than anything either has made; strange, ambient, jazzy and organic and electronic all at once. A few weeks ago the band debuted their new record What Iffwith a show at Mohawk Place, and this Friday, May 4 they’ll return to the downtown venue for a show with the Chicago-based experimental indie rock band OHMME. This week we spoke with Bonifacio about the pivot from solo project to full band, and the challenges and joys involved in adopting an philosophy toward her music.

What Iff is the first record with the new lineup. Yeah, yeah, this is the first thing we’ve put out as a band. The song “What Iff ” was the first song we started working on together. How did the partnership with Shawn Lewis a.k.a. Lesionread come about? I was living in North Carolina but was moving back up here and he found out, so he reached out to me and asked if I would do part of his tour with him. I ended up touring with him for a week and we started making music together just because we were hanging out a lot. I toured as Space Cubs by myself, and then we toured as Lesionread. It was only four shows, but it was enough to get to know each other better and start making some stuff. Then we did a split [record] together the next summer, so half the songs were his and half the songs were mine. We’ve kinda just been working together all year. I was looking for people to play with and he was still doing Lesionread and he was helping me try to find people, and finally he was, like, “Let’s just do this.”

How has this changed your approach? The new stuff is a lot…I don’t want to say happier, but kind of happier in a way, but also, it feels a little more settled. Stuff we’re working on now is more chaotic and dark again, but not really similar to my old stuff in a pretty way. New, new stuff is a lot of talky singing type stuff. A lot of the stuff Shawn starts working on is very atonal, so when I feed off of that it comes out kind of talky. [What Iff]is more laid-back and chill. Compared to your previous music, which had more of an electronic vibe, the new stuff has more of a jazzy, ambient vibe. Yeah, yeah. Having Adam [Pressley] involved in that writing process, it’s changed a lot of things as far as giving it more of an organic feel. Especially with “Quitting” and “What Iff,” he added so much. “Quitting” almost has like a little bit of a slidey folky vibe, almost Southwestern sounding. Which is cool. I didn’t anticipate it turning out like that.

that it’s good to, I don’t want to say compromise, but sort of put yourself aside and think about what works the best for a certain piece.

We want to put out another long section of songs soon, most of them with kind of a darker tone, then we’re hoping to do a three week tour in the summer. We’ll see. I tend to get ahead of myself but I’ve been trying to focus more on every show as a separate thing. We definitely want to play more in Buffalo. We’re working with some people in Philly who are putting our tape out; their label is called Super Whimpy Punch. They’re coming up and helping us, which is super great. So we’re getting a lot of good support.

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How does it feel going from more of a solo thing to a full band? It’s really great as far as the live setting goes. I really wanted to be freed up from being behind a computer and everyone has been really amazing about giving me room to do that. It’s been great with the writing process too because I can focus, hone in a lot more, taking extra time with the vocals and experimenting with new things. Shawn and I have very different work flows. Shawn is very detailed in his sound production. It’s been cool to experiment with that. Is it a challenge to change the way you write music? It’s interesting because I haven’t been listening to as much music as I used to. When I was in high school I’d listen to as much music as I could and soak everything in all of the time, but I don’t do that as much anymore. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been making more music or what it is, but I guess what I mean to say is when I really connect with something I can tell the ways it influences me more now. It’s definitely been a challenge as far as ultimately sacrificing for the vision of the piece. When you play with people it’s everyone’s vision combined. We talk a lot about making sure it’s shared and that we all kind of have a say. And keeping in mind the end product, not necessarily what one person wants, but what we can all agree on. Keeping that in mind is important as a band and I’m realizing

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Two such films open in local cinemas. Unavailable for screening by press time, A Bag of Marbles (Un sac de billes) is an adaptation of a 1973 memoir by Joseph Joffo, a Jewish boy in Paris at the time of the Nazi occupation who with his brother was able to escape on foot from Paris to safety in Nice. Directed by Christian Duguay, the film opens Friday at the North Park.

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From Hungary, 1945 takes place at the end of the war and asks the question, “Now what?” Specifically, for the residents of a small village, how are they to deal with their involvement in crimes that were committed in the name of the war? (That the village, which did not see fighting directly, is under

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the bullying observation of Russian soldiers reminds us that the near future has its own horrors in store.) Taking place over a few hours on an August day, the movie opens with Istvan (Peter Rudolf ), the prosperous town clerk, preparing for what he assumes will be a consolidation of his authority here. The radio announces the bombing of Nagasaki, elections have been announced, and his son Árpád (Bence Tasnádi) is marrying a local girl selected by papa. The whole town is invited to the celebration: What could go wrong? Plenty. The morning train brings the unexpected arrival of two strangers. If this is starting to sound like a remake of High Noon, this is the point at which it veers from that template. The strangers are Jews, a father (Ivan Angelus) and his adult son (Marcell Nagy). They hire a cart to carry the boxes they brought with them,

and proceed with it on foot to—where? As the locals speculate on the strangers’ mission, it becomes clear that many of them are party to a secret that they would prefer to forget. It seems that when the Nazis came looking for Jews, their neighbors took advantage of the situation. As an exploration of the corrosiveness of collective guilt, 1945 benefits from its leanness. Shot in luminous black and white, a look for which Hungarian filmmakers seem to have a particular affinity, the film’s 90 minutes are unhurried but inexorable. Based on a short story by Gábor T. Szántó, who adapted the screenplay with director Ferenc Török, the movie might have spent more time developing its characters and their varying culpabilities, but it didn’t need to, instead making its accusations with elegant concision. It opens Friday at the P Eastern Hills Mall cinema.

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FOR RENT ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Beautiful 2nd floor 1 BR, hardwood floors, appliances included, street parking, laundry hookups in basement. Walking distance to shopping, restaurants, parks, etc. No smoking. No pets. Available now - $700 + util. First month and security due at lease signing. Contact Marc @ 716-864-1203. --------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Newly updated 3rd floor apt, stainless steel appliances, driveway parking, washer and dryer in apartment. Walking distance to shopping, restaurants, parks, etc. No smoking. No pets. Available now. $975 + util. First month and security due at lease signing. Contact Marc @ 716-864-1203. -------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE, COLONIAL CIRCLE: Updated Victorian upper,1500 sq ft, 2 BR, A/C, new appliances, dishwasher, washer/dryer. Beautiful wdwrk, hrdwd flrs, pocket drs. Private porch & balcony. No pets, No smoking. $1350. 716-885-6958. --------------------------------------------------ALLENTOWN/COTTAGE STREET: Super 1 BR cottage apartment on Cottage Street in the heart of Allentown w/ updated kitchen, appliances, hardwood floors, laundry hookup, yard, etc. Superior condition & super location. Call Reeves: 716-884-2871. --------------------------------------------------NORWOOD OFF LAFAYETTE: Super 1 BR in heart of Elmwood Vilage, appliances, laundry facility, etc. $850 includes all. Call Reeves: 716-884-2871.

BIDWELL-ELMWOOD: 2nd floor 2 BR. No smokers, no pets. Utilities included. $950. 885-5835. --------------------------------------------------SOUTH BUFFALO-MCKINLEY PARKWAY: 3-BR lower. Carpeting, appliances, no pets. $800 + sec. 697-9445. ---------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE, COLONIAL CIRCLE/LIVINGSTON: 2BR apts, hardwood floors, skylights, porch, off-street parking, coin-op basement laundry, $1095/$1150. No pets, no smoking. All included, must see. 912-2906. --------------------------------------------------BRECKENRIDGE: Large 2BR lower. Appliances, hardwood, porch, yard. $760+. 435-8272. --------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Richmond Ave. 2 story, 1+ BR, appliances, laundry, off-street-parking, porch, hardwood + granite. No smoking. $895+. 882-5760. ---------------------------------------------------

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. --------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE 2 bedroom upper, newly renovated, front porch, appliances, laundry. $895 inc water. Must see. Call 913-2736. -------------------------------------------------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. 2 BR, study, porch, appliances, must see. No pets/smoking. $1,350+util. rsteam@roadrunner.com or 716-886-5212.

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-------------------------------------------------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 --------------------------------------------------

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

BIDWELL PKWY 850 SQFT, 1BR/1BA, Laundry, Hardwood Flrs, No Smoking, $975/mo incl heat+H2O. 882-3292

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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.

RIVERSIDE AREA: 2BR $550/4BR $770 + utilities. Between Tonawanda & Ontario. Call 415-385-1438.

1001 LAFAYETTE Large 2BR, offst pkg, 3rd fl, elec. incl., no pets/ smkg, WD connect avail, clean, $760. 698-9581.

ELMWOOD VILLAGE/ANDERSON PL, lg upper 2 + BR, wdwrk, hrdwd flrs, all appliances, in unit lndry, 1100 + util, no smoking/pets, call/text 716-881-3564.

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BUFFALO STATE AREA: 3BR single family home $950-1200 + utilities. Call 415-385-1438.

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

RICHMOND-LEXINGTON AREA: Spacious 2 BR with hardwood floor, updated utilities. Available now. 975+utilities. Call 480-2966.

ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Lancaster, lg bright 2BD upper, hrdwd flrs, laundry, parking. $1200 incl all. 884-0353.

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--------------------------------------------------NORTH BUFFALO: 251 Hartwell Rd (off Delaware), spacious, A+ condition 2 BR + office, central air, oak floor, porch, parking pad. Must see.. $950. 875-8890. ------------------------------------------------PARKSIDE NEAR ROBIE: 1BD apt, all utilities included. $800. 386-344-5209.

--------------------------------------------------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.

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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THE ARTS OPEN AUDITIONS: Perform offBroadway this summer with the National Theatre for Student Artists. High school and college students are invited to audition for our 2018 summer productions on May 19 at the Oakbrook Clubhouse (100 Oakbrook Drive, Williamsville). Full and partial scholarships available. Musical theatre students should arrive at 12 PM and be prepared to sing 32-bars a cappella. Drama students should arrive at 4 PM (no preparation necessary). All productions will be staged at the Theatre at St. Peter’s in NYC this July. Visit nationalstudenttheatre.org for more information. ------------------------------------------------CALL FOR WORK: Art Crawl, May 5. Springville, NY. Seeking all mediums, installations, musicians, demonstrations. Info at: Crawl.SpringvilleArts.org ------------------------------------------------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.

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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 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

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