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CENTERFOLD: Stacey Robinson at Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology.

MUSIC: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at Town Ballroom on Saturday.

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resigned after a blockbuster expose in The New Yorker published on Monday revealed four women’s credible accusations against the state’s top cop of abuse and harassment in several of his personal relationships. Schneiderman is a former state senator; he was elected attorney general in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. His resignation leaves the AG race wide open, and the state legislature will select an interim AG to serve out his term. It is a shocking fall for the man whose office prosecuted everything from the Steve Pigeon crew’s electoral racketeering to the Trump University fraud, and who has worked since Trump’s election to lead other attorneys general in countermanding the dismantling of environmental and other regulations. When The New Yorker first released its article, Schneiderman released an odd statement about “role playing,” but within hours submitted his resignation after Governor Andrew Cuomo, among many others, demanded it; there was no way forward through this, given the seriousness of these on-the-record allegations. It is right and good that we hold our most powerful people— and in the case of Schneiderman’s public acts, our best political actors— to high standards.

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legislature approved a wage hike for workers. It’s hard to recruit and maintain talented social workers if the starting salary is only around $35,000 per year. The same can be said, however, of the county’s adoption and children’s services divisions, which did not see a commensurate pay increase despite facing similar problems of high staff turnover and low starting pay to work large caseloads when compared with other counties. Erie County needs to take this work seriously and recognize the difficulty and sensitivity of these jobs with higher wages. When the smoke has cleared over RUSS BRANDON’s resignation [*cough, dismissal*] of his position managing the Bills and Sabres, Kim Pegula appears to have ascended into those duties. It’s far too early to tell if she’ll do well in this role, but we don’t want to sell her short of being capable of running the business and community engagement side of One Buffalo. In a city that has a poor track record of developing leadership roles for women, it feels good that Pegula immediately becomes one of a tiny group of high-ranking sports executives. Here’s to more of that.

DOWNS: THE DIOCESE OF BUFFALO—again.

There seems to be no end to the horrors of this story. We hope it’s incompetence and not outright obfuscation by Bishop Malone and his staff at this point. They’ve tried to save face and appear to be transparent about sexually abusive priests who prey on children, but every such effort is met with reporting that appears to prove otherwise. We don’t know how local Catholics can continue to have confidence in Bishop Malone. Church leadership in New York has spent nearly $2 million in recent years on lobbyists to kill proposed legislation that would allow a one-year window for victims to pursue justice. It boggles the mind. Kudos to Matthew Spina and Jay Tokasz of the Buffalo News and to Charlie Specht of WKBW for their reporting on this story. MOΛΩN ΛABE is the name of a new takeout cafe, run by the good folks of Vasilis restaurants

and soon to open at the corner of Main and Ferry streets, in the building redeveloped by Republican developer Nick Sinatra. That Sinatra is a Republican is relevant only because the phrase “molon labe,” meaning “come and take them,” is a widely used slogan adopted by the sort of Second Amendment conspiracy hounds who believe the government is poised raid their houses and confiscate their guns. It it likely that the owners of Vasilis thought the Greek phrase, uttered by the Spartan hero Leonidas to the invading Persians when they asked him to lay down his arms, was merely a clever name for a Greek takeout joint. The P politically active Republican Sinatra should certainly have known better. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / MAY 9 - 15, 2018 / THE PUBLIC

NEWS INVESTIGATIVE POST in fear of the team relocating upon the death of longtime owner Ralph C. Wilson. Pegula and his wife Kim, who live in Boca Raton, Florida, also operate Pegula Sports and Entertainment in Buffalo, as well as several other professional lacrosse and minor league hockey teams. “He’s probably the single largest private sector investor we’ve had in this community in decades,” said Dottie Gallagher-Cohen, president of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, the area’s leading business organization. “I think we’re fortunate to have someone that committed to the region.” Pegula’s spending hasn’t been limited to Buffalo; of late he’s also made substantial investments in getting JKLM Energy off the ground in his native Pennsylvania.

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bulk of his hydrofracking business in 2010 for $4.7 billion. He used a chunk of the change to buy Buffalo’s two major league teams, and made it clear when he purchased the Sabres that he was in it for the sports, not the money. “If I want to make some money, I’ll go drill a gas well,” he quipped at a press conference. He started another fracking company—JKLM Energy, drawing on the first letters of his children’s names—and has been drilling the past three years around Coudersport, Pennsylvania, once known as the home of John Regis and his now-bankrupt Adelphia Cable.

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While widely regarded as a benevolent figure in Buffalo—or, Pegulaville, as some have dubbed the city—his fracking company is held in lower regard in some quarters in Coudersport. His fracking wells have punctured the quiet, pristine countryside and been cited for more violations of state regulations per active well than any operator in the state in recent years, according to a report released last spring. “The company has had repeated problems properly constructing and operating wells and was cited for polluting water, including groundwater contamination,” according to PennEnvironment, a watchdog organization critical of the fracking industry. An Investigative Post review of state records found inspectors have visited JKLM’s drilling sites 20 times in the past three years and cited the company for violations each and every time, assessing $508,317 in fines in the process. Violations include the improper design and construction of wells, use of unapproved chemicals, and contamination of water supplies. JKLM’s regulatory history is consistent with the middling track record established by East Resource Management, the company Pegula built into one of Pennsylvania’s larger fracking companies before he sold it eight years ago. The head of one fracking watchdog group said East

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A MAJOR INVESTOR IN BUFFALO Pegula got into the fracking business in 1983 with a $7,500 loan from friends and family. His sale of the company in 2010 to Royal Dutch Shell netted him about $3 billion as majority owner. He subsequently sold company assets in Ohio and West Virginia in 2014 for $1.75 billion to American Energy Partners. Pegula has spent a fair amount of his fortune on sports ventures. He first gave his alma mater, Penn State University, $88 million to build a hockey rink and start a Division I program. He then spent $189 million to acquire the Sabres in 2011 and later dropped $172 million, assisted by $57 million in taxpayer subsidies, to build the hockey-themed HarborCenter adjacent to the Sabres home rink. Pegula outbid Donald Trump to buy the Buffalo Bills for $1.4 billion in 2014, prompting a huge sigh of relief from a community that had lived

FRACKING CAN DAMAGE THE ENVIRONMENT Natural gas is considered a relatively clean fossil fuel and bridge source of energy until renewables such as wind and solar power are produced on a mass scale. But extracting the gas can be environmentally messy. The gas resides in shale rock deep underground and is extracted through a process commonly referred to as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. To free the gas, crews drill a vertical, then horizontal shaft that can be up to a mile deep and another mile long. The shale rock is then blasted with a cocktail of water, sand, and chemicals. Gas is released from the rock and pumped to the surface, as is much of the wastewater, which is retained and either treated or injected underground. The fracking process can result in serious environmental problems that include the contamination of underground water, air pollution caused by drilling operations, and difficulties containing or cleaning the sludge water used in the drilling. Fracking can also raise havoc with residents living near drilling sites. Troutman, the journalist, lives about a mile from a JKLM drilling site near Coundersport and said fracking is disruptive. “You can hear, it’s almost like a high-pitched vibration sound, and you can actually feel a vibration inside the house while you’re in bed and that, coupled with the truck traffic all night long, makes it very hard to sleep,” she said. The fracking industry is heavily regulated in Pennsylvania, although many activists complain that the state Department of Environmental Protection is a lax enforcement agency. PennEnvironment, the nonprofit watchdog group generally critical of fracking, said in its report last year that regulators conduct fewer inspections than mandated by state law and frequently decline to issue violations when companies volunteer to correct problems. Nevertheless, fracking operators are frequently cited for violations, including companies owned by Pegula.

MEDIOCRE COMPLIANCE RECORD A review of studies and public records by this reporter in 2010 when working for the Buffalo News showed East Resource Management had a middling record of complying with environmental regulations. One study by the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association covering 2008 through August 2010 found the company ranked seventh worst among 45 companies, with 4.1 violations per well, compared to an industry average of 0.65. “The compliance history of the company when it was in his [Pegula’s] hands was mediocre at best,” Jan Jarrett, then president of PennFuture, an environmental protection advocacy organization based in Harrisburg, told the News in 2011. A sister company, East Resources Inc., had a better compliance record, and the combined records of the two Pegula companies worked out to a slightly better than average rate of violations, according to the News analysis. JKLM Energy, based in suburban Pittsburgh, has also been frequently cited by state inspectors since it began drilling operations in Potter County in 2015. While a relatively small operation, with

INVESTIGATIVE POST NEWS just 48 active wells, the company appears to have ambitious plans, as evidenced by the 120,000 acres it has leased. That’s more than three times the landmass of the City of Buffalo. Companies with larger operations have been cited for more violations by the state Department of Environmental Protection than JKLM. But PennEnvironment, in the report issued a year ago, calculated that JKLM had the most violations per active well, according to an analysis of data from 2008 to September 2016. JKLM averaged 0.97 violations per active well, according to the report. The second worst operator had 0.45 violations. “One violation per well on average means a consistent, ongoing problem,” said Adam Garber, a co-author of the study and deputy director of PennEnvironment. “It shows they have a serious problem.” An Investigative Post review of state records found inspectors cited JKLM for 62 violations during their 20 inspections from June 2015 to April of this year.

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In separate inspections, the state fined JKLM $36,000 for violations at different drilling locations cited in January and March 2017. Among the violations: failure to notify regulators of an accident, such as a spill involving drilling fluids. In total, JKLM has been cited at least four times for failing to report accidents, according to inspection reports.

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PAT BURKE: WHY I LOST, HOW I’LL WIN IN NOVEMBER BY GEOFF KELLY

THE SOUTH BUFFALO DEMOCRAT REFLECTS ON HIS SPECIAL ELECTION LOSS AND HIS PATH TO THE STATE ASSEMBLY NOW. TWO WEEKS AGO, Erie County Legislator

Pat Burke, a South Buffalo Democrat, lost a special election to fill the state Assembly seat vacated by Mickey Kearns when he was sworn in as Erie County Clerk. The victor was Erik Bohen, a public school teacher whose family has deep union and political ties in South Buffalo. Because Burke was endorsed by the Erie County Democratic Party, Bohen, a registered Democrat, took a cue from Kearns and ran on the Republican, Conservative, and Independence Party lines, promising Democrats in the district that he’d caucus with Assembly Democrats if he won. He did win. But Assembly Democrats won’t caucus with him, because he was elected with the help of Erie County GOP chair Nick Langworthy, conservative demagogue Carl Paladino, and a state-GOP-funded campaign that demonized Governor Andrew Cuomo. Assembly Republicans haven’t exactly adopted Bohen, either. Burke, for his part, is gearing up to challenge for the seat again this fall, when turnout will be more robust and Bohen will have to answer voters in the overwhelmingly MARQUIL / EMPIREWIRE.COM

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Democratic 142nd District for the company he kept this spring. We caught up with Burke last weekend to ask him to reflect on his loss in the special election and to look forward to this fall’s cycle. You had a number of at least apparent advantages in the special election: You’re a sitting elected official with some name recognition; you had the Democratic endorsement in a fairly Democratic district; you had money and manpower working for you courtesy one of the state’s most powerful unions, not to mention your own team. What happened? How did Bohen win? Who and what’s to blame? Bohen is from one of South Buffalo’s favored political families and I am not. I knew he would take at least three of the four highest turnout election districts in South Buffalo. That wouldn’t have been nearly enough to win, but if he could motivate Republicans to turn out in Orchard Park and West Seneca, he was going to have success. My instincts at every turn were to hit back. He refused to debate me and I should have called him out on it. He was dog-whistling about letting “criminals vote” and I should have called him out on that. He was claiming to be the union candidate when the only union

LOCAL NEWS endorsements he received were fixed by his family members—he didn’t receive his own union’s endorsement, he didn’t use the union bug on his literature, and we let that go too. He falsely claimed that Paladino was a personal friend and that they had no political relationship and we didn’t point out the obvious falsehood. He used Sheila Meegan’s help to secure political support in West Seneca even though she was extremely unpopular, and we said nothing. He was telling Democrats that he was really one of them while his mail was paid for by the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee. He was also in cahoots with Trump surrogates like Nick Langworthy, and again we didn’t call him out on it. In a tight special election, those things add up. If you’ve ever watched a football game where a team is up in the fourth quarter and instead of doing what made them successful, they fall into a soft zone coverage only to lose on the last play of the game? That’s what happened. Who’s to blame? Me. It’s my campaign and I went against my instincts. What would you have done differently, if you could turn back the clock? I would have kept to my original plan, used the 2012 Special Election as the base predictor for who would turnout, and I would have forced my opponent to pick a side. We allowed him to be everything to everyone. To Democrats, we let the narrative be cast that it was basically a primary. To Republicans, that Bohen was their guy. Letting a politician talk out of both sides of his mouth without consequence was an egregious error on our part. How are the upcoming primary and general election different from the special? How will you approach them differently? Everything is different. In the special election, he squeaked by with Republicans, Conservatives, and a clique of South Buffalo Democrats with personal connections to him and his family. He will have the advantage of incumbency, and he will try to use the narrative that the politicians in Albany don’t like him. That’s a popular theme to go with but it isn’t an accurate one. I’ll clean up the mistakes that were made and hopefully prevent some of the unforced errors that occurred in the last campaign. Bohen has not been welcomed into the Assembly by the Democrats he pledged to caucus with, and Republicans aren’t embracing him either. What’s your take on that? He seems to be presenting himself as a victim of politics. He worked with Carl Paladino, Republican Chair Nick Langworthy, Conservative Chair Ralph Lorigo, and the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee to get elected. He used anti-democratic, dog-whistle messaging to get elected. Democrats don’t trust him and they shouldn’t. Republicans aren’t taking him into their caucus because they know there is an election coming up and caucusing with the Republicans would make his message of being a “bleed blue Democrat” who was undercut by state and local Democratic officials null and void. Just take a look at far-right-wing Assemblyman Dave DiPietro’s Twitter page with an image of Trump clapping: “Congrats to Erik Bohen. Wow! What a victory! Looking forward to working with you. And big high five to you Mr. Chairman!” Or former legislator, Tea Party Republican, and Ben Carson acolyte Ted Morton, who was through the roof with joy on Bohen’s victory. This is a Republican hustle, and it’s obvious to anyone who is paying attention. P

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ART REVIEW actual first American edition, 1878, translator still unnamed, but penciled-in by some unknown hand on the title page. In further editions—after the work became famous—FitzGerald’s name is included, in print, on the title page. Later editions include a leather-bound pocket-book edition for World War I soldiers, and one publisher’s set of several separate versions of the poem, including one miniature version—a volume about an inch high by inch wide—complete with a little brassfitted magnifying glass to facilitate trying to read it. A second vitrine contains a whole series of Roycroft workshop editions, produced over the years 1899 to 1922, including several covered in sensuous suede leather, and a pocket-size version in smooth leather embossed with work title and last name of the translator. Plus a superb Vale Press, London, 1901, edition in handsome Renaissance-derived visual clarity paragon font, with Medieval-reminiscent decorative art. On the page opposite the title page, a tangle of grape vine tracery surrounding a woodcut illustration of an angel with a wine cup.

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What everyone liked so about it was the fluid eloquence of the FitzGerald translation, in conjunction with the powerful sentiment. Which is basically carpe diem. Enjoy the present moment, because it is transitory. But not quite the bleak classical Roman version carpe diem—wine, women, and song today, for tomorrow you die—but a more nuanced medieval Persian version. Enjoy the present moment—present beauty—because it is fleeting, but know and appreciate that part of what makes it beautiful is precisely that it is transitory. Mortality as the mother of beauty.

The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. —from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward FitzGerald

The Buffalo and Erie County Public Library excellent current exhibit on the Rubáiyát, features numerous deluxe and vernacular editions of the poem, and associated artwork, plus numerous informational panels on the poem and literary phenomenon.

Death is the mother of beauty… —Wallace Stevens IT RANKS WITH the Bible and Shakespeare in terms of number

of editions and copies printed, but wasn’t an immediate success, but languished on bookshop shelves and in remainder bins until poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti discovered it and passed it along to others of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood including John Ruskin, who averred, “I never did—till this day—read anything so glorious,” and William Morris, who published

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an exquisite edition of the poem, with illustrations by painter Edward Burne-Jones, and Morris’s own marginal decorative art. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám—translated by Edward FitzGerald—became a kind of cult poem. There were literary clubs devoted to it in London and Boston.

FitzGerald studied languages and literature first at Cambridge University, then later at Oxford, where he began Persian, and as an exercise, translating parts of a poetic manuscript supposedly by Omar Khayyám, an 11th-century mathematician and astronomer, who was said to have also written poetry. Among early editions on display are a facsimile of the first edition, published in Britain, in 1859, translator unnamed, and

ists 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 8am10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Feel Me, a multi-layered installation by Kyla Kegler, on view through Jun 15. Opening reception Fri, May 4, 7-11pm. Every day 4-10pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 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): Benjamin Minter, recent paintings and mixed media, through June 1. Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm. 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

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(Wine is a motif of the poem, as a vitalist substance, so metaphor of life, and associated with the enjoyment of life, and in finite quantity, as human life is finite. As is the cup a motif and metaphor, made of earthen material—like the human material— and formed into cup form—or human form, in the metaphor— by the hand of a creator, though eventually to be unformed— likely in the case of the cup, certain in the human case—and returned to matrix earth.) A third vitrine contains some notable large-format editions, with artwork by prominent illustrationists of the day—including Elihu Vedder, Willy Pogány, Edmund Dulac, and Arthur Szyk—in a range of styles and modes from Pre-Raphaelite to post-impressionist. Other translators tried their hand at the Rubáiyát, but stood little chance against FitzGerald’s felicitous rendering of quatrain after quatrain (and he had a head start on them). A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness— Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! Playwright Eugene O’Neill got his title there—with minor changes in wording and punctuation—for his only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! Among numerous other writers or artists who used quotes from or references to the poem. Both Agatha Christie and Stephen King used The Moving Finger for a title. And in a Peanuts strip, Lucy reads the book of verses, jug of wine quatrain to Linus, whose response is: “No blanket?” And the famous skull and roses Grateful Dead poster was a remake of a maybe slightly less famous original illustration for the Rubáiyát. Plus there were numerous parodies of the work. The library exhibit includes a parody version by no less a figure than Mark Twain. The FitzGerald version opens with the clarion call to the reader to “AWAKE!” (FitzGerald’s caps.) Twain advises the P reader to sleep in..

view through May 28. Mon-Fri 10am-3pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8588900, buffalolib.org): Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City & WWI, 100th Anniversary of America’s Entry into WWI, on second floor. Building Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings, in the Grosvenor Rare Book Room. Catalogue available for purchase. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm.Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Messages/Visual Platform, through Jul 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. 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. 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 series Still. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter. org): CAC Members Exhibition, through May 19. 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 125pm. 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. 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.

GALLERIES ART Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts. com): Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am4pm. Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects. com): Biff Henrich: The Structure of Things Part II. On view through Jun 3. Tue-Fri, 10am4pm, or by appointment. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Real? Real!, affordable housing designs by the UB Small Built Works Program, opening Tue, May 15, 7-9pm, with a talk at 7:30pm. Also showing the Old First Ward Benches Project and the newly retored gallery! Wed-Sat 12-6pm Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, 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. 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. Georgette (69 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Ode to the Independents artist’s PopUp Exhibition. Work by Keith Harrington, Andy Krzystek, Ashley Johnson, Christina Laing, Alicia Malik, CJ Szatkowski, Chuck Tingley, Rich Tomasello, Kevin Kline, Jesse Witt and Thomas Webb. Fri, May 11, 8pm-12am. GO ART! (201 East Main Street, Batavia, NY 14020): Where Do I Go From Here? Bisque exhibit by Shirley Nigro in the Rotary Club Room Gallery. Thu-Fri 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Second Sun 11am-2pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Jere-

my Boyle and Mark Franchino: five. Opening reception and artists’ talk Fri, May 11, 8pm. On view through June 29. 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, norberg-

sartandframe.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): FLORA: A group exhibit on view through May 27. Wed-Sat,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): 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): Studies in Paper Plastic Canvas, Sussan Giallombardo, through May 11. 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. Open by event and Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries. org): Bracha: Pietà—Eurydice—Medusa, Bracha Ettinger, on view through Jul 29 with gallery talk May 9, 5:30pm. Claire Falkenstein: Time Elements, 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. No Plan for the Future, SCREEN Projects by virocode 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): I’m trying to remember, pero nunca olvidaré, a collaborative exhibition on view May 17 through Jun 2. Opening reception Thu, May 17, 5-8pm. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. To add your gallery’s information to the list, please P P contact us at info@dailypublic.com

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BRUCE FISHER: WHERE THE STREETS ARE PAVED WITH RUST FRIDAY MAY 11

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5:30PM / BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER, 1300 ELMWOOD AVE / FREE [BOOK SIGNING] In the preface to his first book of essays, 2012’s Borderland (SUNY Press), Bruce Fisher writes, “When I left home at seventeen, I

BOLD FOLLY Eighty Dollar Kleenex ep Recommended if you like: The Flaming Lips, Lightning Bolt, Shellac Released in March, Eighty Dollar Kleenex is the latest EP from Buffalo weirdo-rock band Bold Folly. The album ricochets through disintegrating rock to grilled and charred punk, and mathy noise rock. Breaking through the punk spasms are windows of melodic harmony that release tension and light up the tracks, which were recorded at Mammoth Recording Studio in Buffalo. Highlights include the raw, driving album opener “Smile at the Police” and the catchy, weird album closer “Green Headed Duck.”

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moved to the city. Then I left a small city for one of America’s great cities, and there embraced the established tradition of big-city life, and got myself a place in it as a big-city journalist.” That first, small city was Buffalo, where the Southern Tier native had attended Calasanctius High School, from which he moved on to the University of Chicago, then to a career in journalism, and from that quickly into a career in politics, which led him from Chicago to Washington, DC, and eventually to Buffalo’s City Hall and Erie County’s Rath Building. When his career in politics came to an end, in 2007, he returned to journalism, this time bringing to bear all he had learned along the way to study of the economics, politics, and social fabric of the region in which he was raised and to which he had returned as an adult. Fisher’s second book, Where The Street Are Paved With Rust: Essays From America’s Broken Heartland (The Public Books, 2018), is the latest manifestation of that work. The book—a collaborative publication between The Public and Foundlings Press—reflects Fisher’s understanding of this region’s history and traditions, the threats to it posed by national and global economic and environmental trends, the reactions to and opportunities presented when fronts break over one another. Fisher seems always to be writing, in one way or another, about frontiers—about the encounter of the old and the new, the established and the inexorable. The surface conflict—between real-estate developers and neighborhood activists, say, or between smart-growth advocates and the local banking establishment—always gives way to a greater conflict and a greater context. Fisher will be discussing and signing copies of his books at two events this week: on Friday, May 11 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s Second Friday event, 5:30-8pm, and next Wednesday, May 16, at Talking Leaves Books, 7-9pm. Pick up a copy, chat with the author, and find out what’s next from The Public Books and Foundlings Press. -GEOFF KELLY

PHASE II PRESENTS MAREENA, PLURAL, AND JUSTIN CUDMORE FRIDAY MAY 11

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10PM / FIERTE, 26 VIRGINIA ST. / $17-$27 [TECHNO] Aural Shift’s Phase II party coming up this Friday has claimed status as an official Movement Festival Pre-Party. For those who don’t know, Movement Festival is one of the biggest techno and house festivals in the world, which takes place in the birthplace of techno, Detroit Michigan on Memorial Day weekend. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of folks will make the five-hour trek from Buffalo to Detroit for the festival, and Aural Shift will prep us for the trip with a bunch of dark, futuristic, gritty grooves shipped in from around the world. The top spot goes to Berlin’s Mareena will drop a set of acidic techno—the kind of stuff she’s showcased in mixes for Tresor and Unrush. She’ll be joined by Columbus, Ohio techno vet Plural, known for his releases on Metroplex Records, the label formed by techno innovator and originator Juan Atkins. Last but not least comes Justin Cudmore whose 2017 EP Forget It, released through The Bunker New York, revealed hints of Omar S, Mr. Fingers, and Model 500—positioning him one to watch in a new generation of techno producers. All three are lined up for the Phase II, which will take place at Fierte this Friday, May 11. Get your tickets early or pay more later. -CORY PERLA

"Angels" single Recommended if you life: Mumford and Sons, Iron and Wine, Andrew Bird The new single from Buffalo’s the Farewells is an emotional acoustic alt folk track that’s lush with layers of guitars and strings. The focal point, however, are the soulful vocals of singer Ryan Howze, who moves through the song with precision. The interesting mix of alt rock stylings and acoustic instrumentation create a familiar yet fresh sound. Look for the band’s EP this spring.

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FRIDAY MAY 11 The Used 6pm Buffalo RiverWorks, 359 Ganson St. $29.50-$33

[EMO] On the heels of removing former Saosin guitarist Justin Shekoski from the band—reinforced by then filing a restraining order due to some strange threats he’d made since—2018 got off to a strange start for posthardcore outfit the Used. Having released a new album, The Canyon, last fall, the quartet was forced to reschedule their European tour in the wake of these changes, but the show must go on—and so it does, with Hell or Highwater’s Joey Bradford welcomed into the fold. The newly minted lineup will play on what’s slated to be the final Warped Tour this summer, but not before hitting Buffalo on a string of headlining dates this Friday, May 11, with Akron five-piece Red Sun Rising and California trio the Fever 333 in the opening slots. Formerly slated for Town Ballroom, this show is now at Buffalo Riverworks. Doors are at 6pm. -CJT

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Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad

9pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $18

[REGGAE] Rochester-based reggae band Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad have been one of the most consistent reggae bands out there. They’ve hit the top five of the Billboard reggae charts a few times, including in 2016, when they released their latest album, Make It Better, which debut at #1. The album has recently been released on cool translucent blue splatter vinyl, so hopefully they’ll have a few on hand when they play Buffalo Iron Works this Friday, May 11. -CP

The Blind Spots 10pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St. $5

[ROCK] Female fronted pop-rock band from Ithaca, the Blind Spots come to Nietzsche’s for a concert on Friday, May 11. They’ll be

joined by a couple of top-notch Buffalo-based groups including the revamped indie rock band Ponder, and three-piece alt rockers the Good Neighbors. -TPS

SATURDAY MAY 12 Wat You Mean? Poetry Slam 6:30 pm The Barrel Factory, 65 Vandalia St. $15-$20

[POETRY SLAM] Come Saturday, May 12, the biggest poetry slam Buffalo has yet to witness will grace the historic Barrel Factory in the Old First Ward. Wat You Mean? Poetry Slam will bring poets from across the country to compete in a slam, boasting a total prize pool of $3000. Local slam poet, literacy advocate, and slam coach Ten Thousand created and organized the event, which he anticipates will be a “knock down, drag out slam like none other.” Twenty five poets will enter and one will leave with the grand prize. Pure Ink Poetry founder Brandon Williamson will host the event. Following the slam will be an after party featuring DJ Sike. -SA

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Last Friday, Peach published four short flash stories by Edward Mullany. Mullany has a matterof-fact writing style that belies a deeper spectrum of feeling and understanding beneath its surface. The stories are almost all composed of a single run-on a sentence each, giving the work a stream of consciousness quality in which the reader is able to chart the same emotional journey as the narrator. The entirety of “Piano Lessons” reads, “At a certain time in my life, when I was already an adult, I decided to take piano lessons, thinking, I suppose, that if I did something new, and disrupted the pattern or habit that my days seemed to have assumed, I might feel a little happier than I’d been feeling, though after a few lessons at the apartment of the old woman whose advertisement I’d seen on a bulletin board at a café in the neighborhood in which she lived, and that I sometimes happened to be in, I realized the lessons were not making me happier, but were making me sadder. And so I stopped taking them.“

*** Yesterday, Peach featured a short prose piece by Shane Kowalski. Titled “I Open I Wince,” the piece has a sardonic surreality to it that manages to walk keenly between humor and despair. The opening line, “Two people almost die in a car accident, then they become my parents,” perfectly sets the tone. There is a bleak logic to the progression of anxieties here and we’re excited to read more from Kowalski in the future. —MATTHEW BOOKIN

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eight years and first since reuniting in 2015. It’s also the first album since 2008’s Lost in the Sound of Separation to feature founder, drummer, vocalist, and the band’s most recognizable member, Aaron Gillespie. The 34-year-old vocalist left the band in 2010, and, after releasing a subsequent album, Ø Disambiguation, Underoath broke up in 2013. Though that two-year gap may not seem like much, it’s really been nearly a decade since Underoath has been whole. Erase Me begins with a lo-fi drum beat quickly coming into focus—perhaps signifying Gillespie’s return—as it bursts into frantic, bombastic post-hardcore on “It Has to Start Somewhere” that makes it pretty clear that they’re picking up where they left off. The Tampa, Florida-based band will return to Western New York for a show at the Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls on Saturday, May 12 with Dance Gavin Dance, Veil of Maya, and Limbs. -CORY PERLA

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[ROCK] Naming your band after Marlon Brando’s biker gang from the 1953 film, The Wild One, casts a leathery, engine-revving tone that has stayed the duration for California’s Black Rebel Motorcycle Club—and there’s nothing wrong with that. Essentially the brainchild of once-teen-

friends Peter Hayes (who’d done a stint in a mid-1990s version of Brian Jonestown Massacre) and Robert Levon Been—son of the Call’s frontman, Michael Been, who died backstage at a 2010 BRMC gig while working as their sound engineer—the trio nearly became a band that didn’t do Stateside tours because of ongoing issues with Brit drummer Nick Jago. Jago, who has had trouble maintaining his work visa, was in and out of BRMC beginning in the mid-aughties, dogging a period of time during which they could’ve risen to greater prominence with travel woes and distractions. For the last decade, the Raveonettes’ touring drummer Leah Shapiro has stuck with BRMC, despite a health issue that’s impacted her rhythmic perception. Their new album, Wrong Creatures, dropped in January, and it finds them sticking with the classic-rock-cum-garage stew that’s always been their stock-in-trade, straddling the lines between punchy energy and shoegaze transfixion. In itself, that’s an act of defiance, which is an integral part of rock-and-roll chemistry, but just what it is that BRMC is rebelling against remains non-specific. Perhaps that’s the whole point. Opening for them at Town Ballroom on Saturday, May 12, is the Dandy Warhols’ Peter G. Holmström in his side project, Pete International Airport. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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The Israeli painter Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, internationally renowned for her artwork as much as for her prolific and path-breaking essays on art, ethics, psychoanalysis, and feminism, is in Buffalo until May 18 thanks largely to generous support from the UB Creative Arts Initiative, the UB Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, and UB Art Galleries. Buffalonians will have several opportunities to engage with the many facets of her artistic and ethical practice. The centerpiece of Ettinger’s residency is an extensive exhibit of her artwork at UB Anderson Gallery, BRACHA: Pietà—Eurydice—Medusa. This is the first—and long overdue—museum exhibition of her work in the United States. Visitors will find UB Anderson Gallery transformed, its usual white walls now painted a deep shade of violet, specially chosen by the artist. The color echoes the leitmotif of purple that travels across the one hundred paintings, drawings, notebooks, and videos included in the exhibition, so that the viewer is quickly drawn into the intimate space of Bracha’s artwork. Both abstract and hauntingly figurative, as the title of the exhibition suggests, this work draws upon mythological sources to make sense of personal and historical traumatic experience. Earlier works begin with archival photographs linked to the experience of her family during the Shoah or to specific events, such as the Ponary massacre. More recent works emerge from the resurgence of shellshock that goes back to remarkable events, in 1967, when the artist as a young woman led an operation to rescue the survivors of a sinking battleship. Whereas the identifiable specificity of these events often recedes, like Eurydice, they remain submerged in the layered surface, just out of reach, welcoming the viewer into a distance that can never be crossed. The exhibition is on view at UB Anderson Gallery, 1 Martha Jackson Place, through July 29.

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[TRIBUTE] A bunch of talented local musicians will bring their Beatles cover band PastMasters to Mohawk Place for a show on Saturday, May 12. Expect to hear Rubber Soul, Yesterday & Today, and Revolver (the American versions) in their entirety. -TPS

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[CLASSICAL MUSIC] This weekend at Kleinhans Music Hall, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus present a treat: a performance of Carl Orff’s powerful and magical Carmina Burana, the composer’s adaptation of a collection of secular medieval poems. It is, apart from his musical education program for children, the work for which Orff is most famous, and rightly so. Also on the program is BPO principal trumpeter Alex Jokipii doing a turn as soloist in Jaako Kuusisto’s Trumpet Concerto, all under the direction of BPO musical director JoAnn Falletta. There are performances on Saturday, May 12 at 8pm and Sunday, May 13 at 2:30pm. -TPS

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[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Music by everyone from Jamie xx to Grimes, Blood Orange and Mount Kimbe from a few popular folks in the local music scene including Ben Parsons, Tom Burtless, Allison Lavis, and Bryan Johnson. The next edition of Dance Yrself Clean: A Hipster Dance Party happens this Saturday, May 12 at Hardware Cafe in Allentown. -CP

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[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Techno, house, and tech-house all night long brought to you by the folks at Pyramid. This week’s event features Greg Gow, a Toronto native and resident DJ at Coda night club in Toronto with a penchant for Detroit techno. Catch him along with Pyramid’s Charlie Abbott and Kyle Moody at the Gypsy Parlor on Saturday, May 12 for a late-nighter. -CP

SUNDAY MAY 13 Second Sundays @ Skateland 2pm New Skateland Arena, 33 E Ferry St $7 + $1.50 skate rental

[SKATE PARTY] Swinging into the summer months with wheels on hardwood, the Well Rounded Peoples Party comes back on the second Sundays of May through July, starting this Sunday at Skateland. It’s a family-friendly afternoon event, running from 2-5pm with jams, grooves, and ballads curated by the ever in-demand DJ Sike. The Lomo Lomo food truck will be parked outside next to the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library’s Bookmobile, and the local hip hop advocacy collective, Rebel Radio 716 will be broadcasting live on their stream at rebelradio716.com. -TPS

MONDAY MAY 14 The Bunny the Bear 5pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $12-$15

[HARDCORE] As far as the Bunny the Bear goes, the Bunny has stayed consistent while the Bear has roamed. Since forming in Buffalo in 2008, the Bunny, a.k.a. Matthew Tybor, has

written and released a lot of music—seven albums in that time—with the help of a rotating cast of band members, including The Bear, his other half who has been played by four different members over the years. We’re back around to Bear 3.0, at least for now, in vocalist Joseph Garcia. The band returns to Buffalo for a show at Buffalo Iron Works on Monday, May 14 with support from It Lies Within. -CP

WEDNESDAY MAY 16 Jake Miller 7:30 pm Rapids Theatre, 1711 Main St. $22-$37

[POP] Florida's Jake Miller understands the power of visual allure, using YouTube (and his easy-on-the-eyes appearance) to his great advantage: the 25-year-old singer-cum-rapper eventually landed a deal with Warner Brothers on the strength of leveraging his video presence. But Miller isn't afraid to work hard, having since gone indie and putting some rigorous touring under his belt behind last year's 2:00am in LA and the new Silver Lining, out in March. His urban-pop hybrid is alive and well on his Hit and Run Tour, which stops at the Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls on Wednesday, May 16. -TPS

THIS, the Great Lakes, Citizen Jane, and Church Girls 8pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St. $5

[INDIE] A solid line up of indie and alternative rock is set up for Nietzsche’s this Wednesday, May 16 thanks to the folks over at NYS Music. Come early and stay late for rock band THIS, folk punks the Great Lakes, Toronto-based folk-pop band Citizen Jane, and post punk P band Church Girls. -TPS

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Elmwood, 180 Smoke Vape Store, isn’t exactly like walking into your typical vape store. It feels more like walking into an Apple store with its sleek countertops, matching mod stools, and glass cases full of vaping accessories. Behind the counter is a huge array of what I guess you’d have to call craft vape juice. The company makes its own juice and almost strictly sells that. The proprietor of the new store on Elmwood is Joel Rudewicz, who is sitting at a desk near the back of the store when I come in to meet him. He’s working on a syllabus for a couple of classes he’s teaching at ECC on the history of technology and American history. His background is in history—he’s got a master’s degree in history from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom—but he fell into the world of vaping while living in Toronto. Rudewicz is from Buffalo, but eventually made his way to Toronto, where he began working with the company in 2015. Earlier this year he moved back to Buffalo and opened 180 Vape Store on Elmwood Avenue. The company was founded in 2012 by a small group of people from Toronto, including a heart surgeon, Dr. Gopal Bhatnagar. “It first started as a way to get into an emerging market, but also, Dr. Gopal for many years saw a lot of patients with heart problems and found out a good way to make a little money and bring people into a new technology that seemed to provide harm reduction for them,” says Rudewicz. Last summer, the FDA announced a new plan for tobacco and nicotine regulation. Part of the goal of the new plan is both to regulate and encourage the development of “innovative tobacco products that may be less dangerous than cigarettes.” The FDA says the key to their approach to curbing tobacco use is to make the public aware that tobacco is “most harmful when delivered through smoke particles in combustible cigarettes.” In this sense, the FDA agrees that any form of nicotine ingestion that does not involve actual smoke particles is safer, and obviously this is where vaping comes in. After being away from Buffalo for several years, Rudewicz saw opportunity in a city that seemed like it was making a comeback. “I wanted to move back to Buffalo and I saw that Buffalo was doing better, stabilizing, if you will. I don’t know if it’s booming but it’s not doing as bad as it had been for decades. I viewed this as a great opportunity. Buffalo is coming back. There’s more foot traffic, more investment,” says Rudewicz. 180 Smoke Vape Store is one of the biggest vape companies in Canada, with more than a

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dozen stores, and they manufacture their own e-liquid. Rudewicz helped develop some of the companies manufacturing processes while working in Toronto. “We manufacture our own e-liquid so we can say with responsibility what’s in it and that all the ingredients are high in quality,” says Rudewicz. His store is the first store that the company has opened in the United States. Technically his job title is head of US operations, says Rudewicz. “And if we ever have any more operations it might be a more significant position, but right now it’s just this one store,” he says smiling. In the future the company hopes to expand not only in Buffalo but across the country. They hope to start manufacturing their e-liquid in the United States, perhaps in Buffalo. Rudewicz’s focus is mostly on helping cigarette smokers make the switch over to vaping. Below he’s provided a few tips for making the switch. Picking the right device A lot of people come in and look at these devices and it confuses the hell out of them, and they don’t know how they work or what to do with them. We try to find them a device which not only fits their budget but fits their hand, fits their pocket, and fits their lifestyle. The device is important because you want something that will last you the entire day. If you get too small a device, your battery is going to keep dying over and over, you’re going to be refilling it over and over, and people get frustrated so they just smoke a cigarette. If we find them the right device, they won’t ever get frustrated. If we teach them how it’s used, how to fill it, how to keep it in good mechanical order, then they don’t have troubles. Picking the right flavor Just as important as which device you get is the type of flavor. There is no tobacco involved with any e-liquid manufacturing. The e-liquid isn’t derived from tobacco, so we have flavors that we call tobacco but there is no tobacco in it. It’s not like just buying a pack of Camels, you have to

find something that really clicks with you. Are you going to get sick of vaping cotton candy all day? Do you want something that tastes like cigarettes? Sometimes people don’t, they just want to get away from it altogether.

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Know how it works The devices all have the same basic components: They consist of a battery, which powers the device, a tank, which holds the liquid, and then inside there is something called a coil—a metal coil wrapped in cotton which heats up and aerosols the liquid. There’s no chemical change of the liquid, unlike cigarettes where there is combustion and chemical changes. Although nicotine alone is super addictive, to your body it’s not much more harmful than caffeine would be. Know what’s in your liquid Our liquid is a very straight forward liquid. It contains propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin. Those are the same things they use in smoke machines at rock concerts, the same thing that’s in a nebulizer for an asthma patient. That’s the visual vapor you’re seeing and those are known to be very inert. There’s also food flavoring, just like you’d put in any sort of food. We use natural flavorings and when we can, organic. And nicotine if you want it in there. Find your nicotine level All of these liquids come in many different nicotine levels from 0 to 18 milligrams. This allows people to switch to vaping and find a level that’s good for them in a strength. The nicotine translates to the amount of what they call throat hit that you get, but it also allows people who, if they want to eventually kick the habit of nicotine to cut their nicotine down slowly after a while. Vaping is lumped in with smoking but really they’re night and day. You’re breathing something in and exhaling it out but that’s where the similarity ends. The nicotine is there too, sure, but you don’t need nicotine if you P don’t want it.

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Yonaton Shiray in Foxtrot.

DANCE, FOOL, DANCE FOXTROT, A BAG OF MARBLES

Awards, Foxtrot seemed to be a shoo-in for a Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language films. That it didn’t get one surprised many observers, some of whom wonder if the vituperative campaign that Israel’s Minister of Culture has been leading against the film (despite not having seen it) had anything to do with the snub. It’s a shame because an Oscar nomination, and likely a win had it been in the running, would have brought a wider audience to what is the best film I’ve seen so far this year, by a wide margin. Surreal, mysterious, and emotionally gripping, Foxtrot is a masterful piece of cinema. The film unfolds in three segments that are, at first, uncertainly connected. The first begins in the spacious and spare apartment of the Feldmans, Michael (Lior Ashkenazi) and Daphna (Sarah Adler). When she answers the door one day to see soldiers, she faints dead away: As the mother of a son in the army, she knows they can only be bringing the worst possible news. For the bulk of this part of the film we study Michael, who is nearly paralyzed by grief and rage. A star of the Israeli cinema, Ashkenazi fits the definition of a movie star: Even when he’s not doing anything you can’t take your eyes off him, though of course the character’s stillness doesn’t mean the actor isn’t at work. In their performance of a task they have clearly been trained in, dealing with grieving parents, the soldiers (and the camera) treat him like a caged animal. They seek not so much to help him as to contain him.

director Samuel Maoz, whose best known film, Lebanon (2009), takes place entirely inside an army tank, is not attacking the military. He is examining the nature of contemporary Israeli culture, caught between an imposing past and an impossible present, asking how his countrymen arrived at where they are. The final part of the film, which initially seems to be little more than an epilogue, returns to Michael with a bitter irony out of a Greek tragedy, suitable to a film named after a dance that always takes the dancers right back to where they started from. It opens Friday at the Dipson Eastern Hills Mall Cinema. ••• NOW PLAYING AT the North Park, A Bag of Marbles is the second adaptation of the memoir by Joseph Joffo about his experiences as a boy in France during the German occupation. (The first was made in 1975 by Jacques Doillon, who in 1996 had an international hit with Ponette.) The youngest of four sons of a Jewish barber (Patrick Bruel), his carefree life is disrupted when their father decides that they must flee Paris for the relative safety of Nice. And because it is too dangerous for them to travel as a family, they must separate, with Joseph accompanying his older brother Maurice. Joffo’s story recalls Hope and Glory in that it presents the perspective of a young boy who came through the war relatively unscarred; there’s always room for a story of this time that isn’t too horrifying to bear. But for the insight it offers into survival in this worst of all possible worlds, it lacks dramatic impact; the story is episodic, apparently constrained by a low budget, and doesn’t really engage us until two events at the conclusion that show what Quebec director Christian Duguay might have been able to do with a bigger budget and a P tighter script.

Just when we have settled in for a tale of a father’s crusade for justice, the second part of this triptych takes us somewhere else entirely, to observe young Jonathan Feldman (Yonathan Shiray) at the desert post where he is stationed with three other soldiers. It starts with a laugh we weren’t expecting, followed by a dance sequence we were expecting even less. By the time one soldier begins to tell the others a story about the family Bible that has been handed down through the generations, we know better than VISIT DAILYPUBLIC.COM FOR MORE FILM LISTINGS & REVIEWS >> to expect the anecdote to go where stories like that usually do.

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Like a chamber version of Catch-22, the absurdity of this part of the movie reframes what came before it. Drafted to serve their country, these young men spend days of sheer pointlessness, living in a water tank that is literally falling over. Their only task is to check the identification papers of Palestinians who drive on VISIT DAILYPUBLIC.COM FOR the desert road where they are perched.

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There is a tragic event that seems to be the source of the Israeli minister’s contempt for the film, demonstrating that she has entirely missed the point of the film. (That can happen when your tirades are based only on second-hand information.) Writer-

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Louis Garrel and Stacy Martin in Godard Mon Amour.

THE SINCEREST FORM OF ABUSE GODARD MON AMOUR BY ED GRANT JEAN-LUC GODARD is one of the most

important filmmakers of the last 60 years of cinema, but you’d never know that from the misconceived and tedious Godard Mon Amour. The film, which opens Friday at the Dipson Amherst, is a curious mix of biography and homage that slavishly copies Godard’s most famous visual innovations while depicting him as a barely tolerable grouch of uncertain talent. Director Michel Hazanavicius swept the Oscars with his last film, The Artist (2011), a recreation of the visual style of classic silent cinema. His goal here seems to be to do the same thing with the oeuvre of Godard, and he’s generally on target in recreating Uncle Jean’s primary colored production design, his groundbreaking editing, smooth camerawork, and inventory of visual effects (from oblique framing to using negative images for certain scenes). Hazanavicius even recreates moments from many of Godard’s best-known films—Contempt, Alphaville, Band of Outsiders, and La Chinoise. But instead of using the Old Master’s techniques in a new context, Hazanavicius chose to adapt a fictionalized memoir by Godard’s ex-wife, actress Anne Wiazemsky (who died last October). The book hasn’t been translated into English, so we can only speculate if it contains the same harsh portraits of Godard and Wiazemsky found in this film. Hazanavicius focuses on the period in which Godard married Wiazemsky and became a militant Marxist, cutting all ties with the mainstream French film industry. In this version of events, every character is unlikable, even Wiazemsky, who is depicted as a shallow child of privilege, indulging in protest and studying Leftist politics as part of a late 1960s “trend.” There are several ways in which Hazanavicius

tailors his material to make it so spectacularly lackluster. Among them is the fact that Godard was constantly filming features during this period (as he continues to do to this day, at the age of 87). But Godard Mon Amourmakes it seem as if his Marxist period was a “retirement” of sorts, where his only encounters with a film camera were to shoot footage of protests. Focusing on Godard and Wiazemsky’s relationship to the exclusion of all else, Hazanavicius ignores or downplays all kinds of major events that occurred in the months covered here, including the very famous incident in which protests led by Godard and fellow New Wave filmmaker Francois Truffaut resulted in the closing of the 1968 Cannes Film Festival. Instead we endure sequences in which Godard is doctrinaire in his pronouncements and wonder why Wiazemsky ever fell for such an old crank. The performers do their best with what they’re given. Louis Garrel (The Dreamers) has been made up to look like Godard in 1968 but exchanges JLG’s real-life, moderate speech impediment for a sibilant Sylvester the Cat slur throughout. Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac) tries to breathe life into the pouty, long-haired Wiazemsky while looking nothing like her— her makeup, costuming and perky bob make her look more like other Godard actresses (Chantal Goya from Masculin-Feminin and his first wife and muse Anna Karina). Godard fans are most likely to appreciate what’s on display here, but they would be better served watching or rewatching any of his classic films than going to see Godard Mon Amour.

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