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three community meetings this month in which he has argued the advantages of a proposal to consolidate several school districts in the county—for example, the four separate districts in the Town of Cheektowaga and the Depew Union Free School District, which, Poloncarz says, could save $1 million a year by unifying into one, Williamsville-sized school district. He also champions smaller mergers between the districts of North Collins and Eden, and Alden and Akron. It’s a sensible idea in a region whose population continues to diminish: Eliminating duplicative administrative roles and engaging in shared purchasing, for example, are solid ways to hold the line on local taxes without sacrificing services. It also has the potential to be the leading edge of a progressive argument about the means to achieve across-the-board equality in public education. Among those tools are truly regional school districts, which embrace poor urban centers and rural areas as well as wealthier, whiter suburbs. KIM PEGULA finally gave Buffalo what has been missing for some years: a transparent
glimpse inside one of the area’s most important private citizens in a series of articles published by the Buffalo News. Most interesting to us are her comments dismissing the possibility of building a new stadium downtown as a near impossibility. There’s likely some gamesmanship at play in her statements, but we still applaud the cold water, however self-serving, that she threw on a project that would probably cost taxpayers upwards of $500 million. That amount of public money would be far better spent on Buffalo’s affordable housing crisis including a citywide lead remediation program and possibly even the replacement of the city’s original sewer lines, which leak untreated wastewater into our waterways every time it rains. Let’s invest that money in the health and safety of our children and their children instead of in an enterprise that encourages black players not to think for themselves.
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young daughter, Maria, and I happened upon a charming café called Buffalo Rome on an urban block of little distinction. My recollection is not clear on whether it was the first time I had sat in the café, but it was the first memory of meeting Victor Mirando. “That man looks like an artist,” observed Maria as we both watched the uncommonly handsome 30-something-year-old man in black gracefully wipe tables. Fully aware of our presence, I could tell he was as interested in us as we were in him. “My daughter thinks you look like an artist.” “I am,” he said with an ever so pleased smile.
BITS OF AN ARTIST AND MAGICAL REALISM Ahead of his time, Victor’s aesthetic combination of art, design, non-traditional music, quality food and drink, and the most diverse patronage around had not been “a thing,” as it is now. Not in the 1980s. Not in Buffalo. Romantic souls of all walks seemed to be drawn to the alluring vibe of Buffalo Rome. There, lunch hour life seemed to move at a Sunday brunch in Tuscany pace. The ever present cat found stretched out on the sunlit banquettes or looking for opportunities, often successful, to lick the butter on the table was classic of Victor’s nonchalance when it came to ordinances. To know of the place was like to be in on a secret welcoming handshake. However, if customers became disenchanted over the cat, the allowed smoking, or the wait time to get their food, Victor was A-okay with them going elsewhere— THE PUBLIC / MAY 31 - JUNE 5, 2018 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM
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At home, he sometimes cared for dogs of friends who were called out of town on jobs or teaching assignments. One dog, in particular, a cream-colored Labrador named Bookshelf, was his loyal companion and charge for years, yet, he always claimed, “He’s Chris’s dog,” despite the fact that he kept the pet as his own up until the dog grew old and weak with assaulting flatulence and grotesque warts. Several months after “Chris’s dog” died, in an uncharacteristic moment of sentimental release, Victor declared, “I miss Bookshelf.” Some years before rebuilding the new Buffalo Rome on Porter Avenue—a coffee shop version of the old place—Victor acquired a big old brick Italianate house, dilapidated and abandoned, on the West Side. By squatting in it, withstanding winters with a space heater, he singlehandedly, room by room, rehabbed it into a bed and breakfast, of sorts, for guests—visiting or staying. Rent, if he did collect any, it was often pay-whatyou-can. Up until last week: Victor, someone’s dog, whatever stray cat(s) or out-of-luck friend might be found living in the Jersey Street house or sipping a beverage under the crystal-chandelierlit grape arbor.
ENTWINED, CONTINUING SPIRITS I hardly knew Victor when he gave me my first paying design/build job. I was loitering around the newly reopened Buffalo Rome when he told me he needed a glass rack for the four-seat, slatecovered bar in the center of the cafe. He knew I was in the Design Studies program at UB, he said, “Design something, designer.” Something like that, anyway. There were no instructions, cues, or demands of any kind. I suggested a budget; he shrugged. “Sure.” After some thought, I went for a futuristicwith-the-edges-knocked-off look—mechanical, but shopworn. The rack was made of layers of shaped MDF, painted white and then distressed, with bolts showing and aluminum brackets connecting it to the wall. I installed it; he paid me, offering no feedback. Victor had created the whole cafe, every last detail with great care and a sharp eye, then, paid
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In the third version of Buffalo Rome, on Porter Avenue, there hangs a photo of the old Rome, the semicircular rack hanging in the middle of it all. I learned a lot from that job, taught by Victor mostly without him saying a thing. —Matt Kantar
He texted me the night of his passing to tell me that he was in the hospital but was fine. The last thing he sent after our intermittent text exchange was a cartoon of a tombstone with the epitaph “That Was Weird” on it. I thought it was a Vic joke, but it was a Vic goodbye. He was dead a few hours later. Damn. —Roger Waxler, now resides in Oxford, Mississippi
I was new in Buffalo, having just arrived to be a math professor at UB, and went walking around looking for somewhere to get an early afternoon breakfast and sit and work. I don’t remember if it was that day or several days later that Vic showed up and Lou, the waiter who worked there, introduced us and we quickly became an odd pair of friends. I was a short, squat, math professor and Vic was a tall, somewhat flamboyant artist/ restaurateur. We kept each other company during innumerable late breakfasts and dinners at Buffalo Rome and elsewhere. We once drove down to NYC in his red Miata only to find that the new alarm system didn’t work when we got there. Angry, he just parked it, illegally, with the top down, somewhere in the East Village while we went to find dinner and a bar. The hell with it. I guess,
There is a tall hedge on the west side. Around three o’clock in the afternoon, a cacophony of bird calls begins there. Should you approach the hedge, the noise stops and hundreds of sets of eyes peer out through the leaves. As you walk away, the screeching begins again. The birds are expecting to be fed. Sometimes they go down the alley, searching for their loving benefactor, and urging him to hurry home. He has been nurturing and nourishing people all day in his café. Now it is the birds’ turn to be taken care of, in the lush and verdant yard he created. They are waiting for Victor. He is not coming home. —Patricia Watson
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In the end, Victor’s many signature one-liners that he often used to summarize a situation will likely live on among those who knew him. One such adage, “private Idaho,” could be applied to anyone who lived in their head, stood alone on a topic, did their own thing, or was plain delusional. He built a world he wanted to live in and it was a wondrous place: Victor Mirando’s “private Idaho.” Read more (and add your own) recollections of P the late Victor Mirando at dailypublic.com.
LOOKING BACKWARD: THE LARKIN COMPANY The Larkin Company grew from a small soap maker in 1875 to the manufacturer of hundreds of household products, occupying nearly 65 acres of floor space and employing more than 2,000 Buffalonians by 1915. As its fortunes rose, the Larkin Company employed multiple employee welfare initiatives that were progressive for their time. These programs intended to grow the financial, educational, health, and leisure benefits of employees, and bond “Larkinites” to one another and the company. Depicted here is one of the Larkin Company’s “Americanization” classes, developed during the First World War to bring education and job training to its growing immigrant workforce. “This instruction,” claimed a 1918 company publication, “must eventually lead to better employees, better citizens, fewer accidents, better jobs, more prosperity, and bigger American Larkinites.” - THE PUBLIC STAFF DAILYPUBLIC.COM / MAY 31 - JUNE 5, 2018 / THE PUBLIC
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Buffalo News? That’s a question I’ve heard a lot over the past month. I haven’t worked there in nearly 10 years, but I’ve got friends who are still in the business and I keep an eye on industry trends, so I’ll try to parse it out as best I can. For years the News looked like the safest bet in regional journalism (sizable metropolitan dailies that aren’t the New York Times or Washington Post). The paper, thanks to its ownership by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Company, wasn’t burdened with the debt that had turned countless newspapers into money pits in the last 20 years. Its market penetration remained among the nation’s highest for a long time. Even the News’s late move into the digital world didn’t hurt it too badly. It was able to avoid some of the mistakes other papers had made.
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The News had also gone deeply into the printing business to make up for some of the ad revenue it had lost in recent years. It prints the regional edition of the New York Times and a number of other local publications (Pennysavers, college newspapers, etc.) But the perfect storm striking newspapers specifically and print publications in general didn’t skip the News. Every time a department store goes out of business (think Bon-Ton, for example), it can mean as much as a million dollars in lost advertising in a year. Those Sunday inserts don’t come cheap. And multiply it by all of the other businesses that have folded. Meanwhile, Craig’s List has claimed the classified ad market, car dealers are increasingly relying on their websites, and Google is claiming increasing percentages of the overall ad market. So when Trump’s tariffs on Canadian paper hit the fan (affecting not only the print edition of the News but its printing
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some days of the week. • Earlier deadlines and fewer reporters mean that local government meeting coverage, frequently the source of accountability reporting, is going to take a hit. It already has seen serious reductions over the past decade, with the region’s hinterlands getting scant coverage. • Other beats are likely to disappear. High school and local college sports may take a hit. Medical/health coverage is likely to decrease, given the buy-out of the paper’s main health reporter. • What was the Friday lifestyle section is going to be squeezed into the existing Sunday life section and the Monday money section is being squeezed into the Sunday business section.
the email sent from editor-in-chief Mike Connelly to the staff on May 7. The result is a lot of buy-outs, but from what I’ve heard not really optional buy-outs. The impression I’ve gotten is that it’s “take a buy-out or else.”
Whatever the effects, it’s not likely to make a better Buffalo News. There will be fewer people putting it together, and people tend to not to do more with less; they do less.
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Many of the problems afflicting the Buffalo News are predictable, given the media economic climate. But what’s happening in the sports section isn’t.
Well, the outlook isn’t good. Editor Connelly has said since he came to the News in 2012 that he wants to make the News a “digital-first” publication. His hires have overwhelmingly been digitally oriented. He has no love of unions, either, and is known for his abrasive—even vindictive—nature. Employees are ready for a rough ride. ▪ One of the worst possibilities is cutting back on daily print editions. That’s what has happened in Syracuse, Cleveland, New Orleans, and other cities with Advance Publications newspapers. Their home delivery has been reduced to three days a week. People in Lockport and Niagara Falls have already seen their Tuesday print editions done away with. It could happen here, particularly with rising paper prices, paper shortages, and low advertising sales for
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Something smells bad. Columnists Jerry Sullivan and Bucky Gleason and Sabres reporter John Vogl are all taking buyouts. One of the inside editors has been moved to a news staff reporter position. So what does that all mean? It should be understood that Sullivan and Gleason weren’t looking for buyouts. They other two moves weren’t being sought by the employees, either. Sullivan and Gleason were being removed from their columnist positions and were offered buyouts. They took them. The reason being given was that their columns were too negative.
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ONE BUFFALO SEEMS A BIT TWITCHY ABOUT CRITICISM. AND IF THE NEWS, WHICH HAS BEEN MAKING AN INCREASING AMOUNT OF ITS INCOME FROM PRINTING, WAS TO PICK UP, SAY, PRINTING OF BUFFALO SABRES GAME PROGRAMS OR BUFFALO BILLS MATERIALS…WELL, THAT WOULD BE GOOD FOR BUSINESS, RIGHT?
In his tweet announcing he was leaving, Sullivan said, “They felt my voice was becoming bad for business”:
I’ve accepted a buyout today after the News took away my column. They felt my voice was becoming bad for business. It’s been a privilege to cover Buffalo sports for 29 years. I wrote for the readers, who deserved a fair, objective and passionate perspective, even when it stung. — Jerry Sullivan (@ByJerrySullivan) May 29, 2018 Yet Sully and Bucky, as they have come to be known to readers and viewers, have been among the News’s most recognizable “brands” over the past decade or more (in Sully’s case, 29 years). After a Bills game, in particular, the audience may not have agreed with them, but it wanted to know what they thought. That’s why the News put them behind microphones and in front of cameras, eventually landing them on WGRZ-TV. The understanding in media today is that creating that kind of brand is what works. Those are the people who the audience know. It doesn’t matter how good most print reporters are, their pictures don’t run with their stories. Most people have no idea what they look like; when they leave, most people don’t notice. But the columnists are the ones whose photos look you in the face every morning
in your paper or on your tablet or phone. They’re the ones putting the events of the day into perspective, whether you agree with that perspective or not. Through most of this millennium Bucky and Sully have been the voice of the fans in a city frustrated by impotent professional sports franchises. Negativity also happened to be honesty. So why would the News push two of their most recognizable assets out the door? There are no skeletons in the closet. I’ve known both for roughly 30 years and the only thing they might be guilty of is an excessive passion for sports—something they share with a lot of Western New Yorkers. That leaves a couple of choices. Either the leadership at 1 News Plaza really is that stupid. Or perhaps pressure was coming from someplace like One Buffalo, where they seem to be a bit twitchy about criticism. And if the News, which has been making an increasing amount of its income from printing, was to pick up, say, printing of Buffalo Sabres game programs or Buffalo Bills materials…well, that would be good for business, right? Neither answer is a good one. Meanwhile, I wonder if The Athletic is recruiting anybody to cover Buffalo? I think the News may have just given them a gift. Elmer Ploetz is an associate professor at SUNY Fredonia, where he has taught journalism since 2008. He worked as a reporter and copy editor in sports and news at the Buffalo News from 1985 to 2008. P
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ART REVIEW Whereas MacNeil makes multiple monoprints by painting on a sheet of plexiglass, then press-printing the wet paint image onto paper—one monoprint—then repainting the plexiglass, changing the image slightly from the previous iteration, and press-printing again. Over and over, evolving the original image. For a total of 450 images—monoprints—in the current piece, all 450 of which are shown—the full evolution—in a rapid-sequence video, about a minute or so in duration. Alternately, some of the physical monoprints—numbers 121 to 299—there wouldn’t have been room for all of them—are displayed row by row and column by column across several gallery walls. McNeill’s images are architectural, by and large. Without a human figure. (Which may or may not be implied.) Progressing from first tentative sketch marks, to simple rectangular framework, to full-blown architectural structure—with pillars and cornices—but then something more problematical—lose the pillars, lose the straight lines and right angles—something more cave-like, more like a dream sequence—or nightmare—that then gradually transforms back—or seems to be about to—to more rational constructed space. Within the cave hollow, suddenly some verticals—support posts—and horizontals. End of video. End of sequence. Imprecisely recollected architectural setting as surrogate— it seems—for somehow associated imprecisely recollected emotional experience. Transmogrifying into abstract—so equally imprecise—representation of the experience itself. Possibly.
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CARLOS LLOBET AND KATE MACNEIL AT WESTERN NEW YORK BOOK ARTS CENTER MAYBE THERE’S A scientific name for it—though probably
not—the phenomenon—as notably in the initial intensity stages of being in love—of not being able to clearly recollect—despite all efforts and exertions—the face of the absent beloved. “Clearly” being the operative word. Not by any means a total failure to recall what she or he looks like. Not that you might not recognize him or her on subsequent actual encounter. Nothing like that. But instead of an integral and precise mental image of the loved one, a patchwork of partial images, incomplete, and unsatisfactory. But not just a loved one in a romantic sense, but anyone deeply beloved. Or anything similarly cared for, or cared about. A place, a time, a moment.
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FF = FIRST FRIDAY 125 Art Collective Tattoo Studio (125 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Jennifer Ryan. FF Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): The Swindle: Art Between Seeing and Believing, through October 28. Matisse and the Art of Jazz, on view through Jun 17. Picturing Niagara, paintings by Stephen Hannock, on view through Sep 30. B. Ingrid Olson: Forehead and Brain, through Jun 17. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annakaplancontemporary.art): Joey Goergen: Move Away From Everything, a solo exhibition on view through Jun 16. Sat 12-4 or by appointment. FF Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects. com/argus-gallery): Rebecca Allan: Debris Fields, on view through Jun 30. Opening reception Fri Jun 1, 6-9pm, artist's talk 7pm. Sat 12-4 or by appointment. Art 247 (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, theart247.com): Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Len Biszkont: Stories Told, on view through Jul 6. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): The Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society, Spring 2018 Members Transparent Watercolor Show, on view
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Artists Carlos Llobet and Kate MacNeil explore the phenomenon in an exhibit currently at the Western New York Book Arts Center. Entitled I’m trying to remember, pero nunca olvidaré. Llobet’s work consists of silkscreen-production materials, including a large black and white reiterated image of his late mother, plus colorful abstract pattern art reminiscent of tile decorations prevalent in his native Costa Rica—Arabic art in historical origin, filtered through medieval and early modern Spain, then to colonial Costa Rica—cut into strips—the black and white portrait of the mother, and the colorful tile decorative art—and woven—verticals and horizontals, warp and woof—into paper tapestry combinations of the one kind of imagery and the other. Similar but unique weave multiples, tied into one another by random extended vertical or horizontal strips. The portrait components thus fragmented and distorted, with redundant features and missing features. (A little like images in a fun house mirror, like in the Orson Welles movie.)
through Jun 1. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm. FF Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): River Reflections, by Linda Toomey through Jul 22. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Big Orbit (30 Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Delayed, collaborative exhibition by Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge, Megan Metté, and Megan Scheffer. Closing reception Sat, June 9, 8-10pm. Sat 12-3pm. FF 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. Every day 4-10pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Art Is Why: Buffalo Public School Art Educators and Fascination: Jump Start Student Exhibition through Jun 15. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint.com): 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): 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,
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In addition, a few Llobet weave works—transitioning more toward MacNeil mode—without portrait elements. Just abstract patterns and non-pattern abstracts. Reminiscent of MacNeil’s cave phase. And in a single collaborative work, MacNeil transitioning more toward Llobet mode. A large weave work in a variety of abstract patterns and non-patterns, and occasional pictorial elements. But non-human pictorial—more like monsters, demons, dragons— from old woodcuts or engravings. MacNeil and Llobet are fellow UB studio art program MFA candidates. Both are primarily painters and printmakers, but MacNeil has been extending her work into installation and performance art. Llobet has been extending to street art, mural art, public art. Their WNYBAC exhibit continues through P June 2.
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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, WayPoints, 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 New Beginning: Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, through Sep 23. 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Café Taza (100 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Momentary Canvas, aerial photographs by Jim Cielencki. Caffeology Buffalo (23 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY, 14201): Rachel D’Alfanso, paintings from the series Still. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter. org): All the Cities We Have Been, works on paper by Joshua Nickerson, through June 23. 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 collec-
tion, through July 29; The Lure of Niagara: Highlights From the Charles Rand Penney Historical Niagara Falls Print Collection, through Sep 9; Of Their Time: Hudson River School to Postwar Modernism, through Dec 31, 2019. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8562717, cepagallery.org): Vicious Cycle, Kate MacNeil, through Jun 15. The Unseen Marion Faller, through Jul 8. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. FF 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. Checkin 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. On view through Jun 3. TueFri, 10am-4pm, or by appointment. FF El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): What We Desire: Bria Green, Ari Moore, Joey Pietromicca. On view Jun 1-23. Opening reception, Fri, Jun 1, 7-9pm. Wed-Sat 12-6pm Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm. Expo 68 (4545 Transit Road, Williamsville, NY 14221, 716-458-0081, Expo68.com): Re-imagine / Re-purpose, works by Dianne Baker, Tim Brooks, Joan Hambleton, and Ei-
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EVELYNE LEBLANC-ROBERGE, MEGAN METTÉ, AND MEGAN SCHEFFER AT BIG ORBIT A DOORBELL TO nowhere. A skittish ballet of tacks across a
wall. A disembodied hand swiping over and over on a blank iPad. Delayed, a collaborative exhibition by artists Evelyne LeblancRoberge, Megan Metté, and Megan Scheffer, presents works that revel in their own absurdity. Deceptively simple in content and elegantly installed in Buffalo’s Big Orbit Gallery, the show is both delightful to take in and deeply affecting. The artists, based in Buffalo and Rochester, begin the show with a question: “Are we suspended in a constant state of waiting?” Their works spin this question out across a diverse range of media—photography, video, drawing, sculpture, and sound. Many of the pieces emerge from a place of boredom, capturing what happens when one’s thoughts begin to wander. Delayed creates an environment in which the mind can play tricks on itself, recasting the mundane as something whimsical, beautiful, and sometimes unsettling. Leblanc-Roberge’s works have often presented unique takes on classic tromp l’oeil illusions, and it is in her contributions to the show that the perceptual trickery is most apparent. There’s the iPad video of the swiping hand, but particularly captivating are two other videos from Les attentes—The Waiting, a series of works that deconstruct the artifice of standard waiting room decor. In one video, the image of a potted plant, spread across several sheets of paper, wafts in a breeze and slowly drifts away. In the other, a pair of hands keeps reconfiguring a set of tiny chairs. It is an exercise in futility, at once charmingly playful and existentially bleak. Leblanc-Roberge’s other piece comes from the series Wall+Paper, which emerged from her correspondences with people serving life sentences in prison. According to the artist, some inmates described the sky, sometimes visible only through a small window, as just another wall. In The Opacity of the Sky, Leblanc-Roberge takes the description to heart: a lush cloudscape, spanning the entirety of the longest wall in the gallery, is rendered flat by the addition of crumpled scraps of paper and some improbably perched birds. Metté, primarily a photographer, has focused much of her work on domestic spaces, using abstraction and careful framing to critique the idea of the perfect home. The images in her series Press, however, are caught between interior and exterior, with outdoor plants defamiliarized by the insertion of frosted glass windows and other transparent surfaces in front of the camera. The artist explains that the intent is to reassert control over her
leen Pleasure on view Jun 2-Jul 5. Tue-Fri 129pm, Sat 10am-9pm, Sun 12-5pm. Galerie PACT (Former St Francis Xavier School, 147 East Street, Buffalo, NY 14207): Michael Bevilacqua: EXHziTIbitio. N. Title. [A.r E—A X ] Gymnesia, on view through Jun 30. Wed-Sun 11am-4pm, Thu 1-7pm and by appointment: melissa@galeriepact.com, 716-491-8901. FF GCR Audio & Music is Art (564 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY ) Spoiled, Jess Pfohl. Friday, Jun 1, 5-10pm. GO ART! (201 East Main Street, Batavia, NY 14020): Where Do I Go From Here? 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): Jeremy Boyle and Mark Franchino: five. On view through Jun 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. Artist also offering painting workshops. Wed & Fri, noon-5pm, Thu noon-8pm, Sat 10am3pm. FF 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
environment, transforming the passive state of waiting into an active state of creativity. The images, artfully arranged on the wall and floor, feel like portals to other worlds, an escape from the sterile gallery environment, yet they are also made distant by the haziness of the glass. Vent, a companion sound piece, feels equally suspended between inside and outside. Created using sounds recorded in and around the gallery itself, the piece is dominated by the oppressive sounds of the gallery’s HVAC system, transformed into a mesmerizing drone. Traces of organic sounds from the outside world are occasionally allowed to sneak through. Scheffer often uses her work to respond to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). In her contributions to the show, waiting becomes a matter of individuality, a state of suspension between categories in the face of the impulse toward labeling and cut-and-dry diagnoses for mental health issues. For A Subjective Manifestation of a Pathological Condition, the artist constructed a bed of dandelions on the gallery floor. Scheffer notes that the dandelion, not quite a flower but not completely a weed, encapsulates the limits of categorization. In A Reductionistic Anachronism, a grid of dozens of ink drawings create a dizzying network of swirling lines. The work is too big to take in as a whole, yet individual details are equally elusive, as the lines become tangled in a chaotic web.
North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Main Street Gallery (515 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203): Online gallery: BSAonline.org. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts. com): 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): TueFri 10am–5pm. Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-6523270, norbergsartandframe.com): Regional artists from the gallery collection. TueSat 10am–5pm. Harold L. Olmsted Gallery, Springville Center for the Arts (37 N. Buffalo Street, Springville, NY 14141, 716-592-9038, SpringvilleArts.org): Wed & Fri, 12-5pm. Thu 12-8pm, Sat 10-3pm. FF Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): BEAU FLEUVE, a group exhibit. On view Jun 1-30. Opening reception Fri, Jun 1, 7-9pm. Wed-Sat,12-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. FF Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaartP house.com): Transfer, work by Monica An-
Each piece in Delayed is distinctive in its own way, yet the exhibition functions well as whole. Beyond the thematic resonance between the works, there is also a shared vocabulary of imagery— plants, grids, optical illusions—that lends the show a remarkable sense of cohesion. Big Orbit Gallery, a CEPA Gallery project space, is free and open to the public on Saturdays from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. A closing reception for Delayed will be held on Saturday, June 9, 8-10pm. P For more information, visit cepagallery.org.
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gle, on view through June 30. Thu, Fri & Sat 6-11pm. Live Music Thu-Sat. FF 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, Fri, Jun 1, 6-10pm. 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. FF Resource:Art (445 Rhode Island Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 716-249-1320): LIBERTY, a pop-up exhibition of the work of visual artist Ryan Arthurs. With additional hours Jun 1 & 2, 6-8pm. FF Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Inside Out, work by Gretchen Lewis, on view through Jun 22. Thu 12-6pm, Fri and Sat 128pm. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051, riverartgalleryandgifts. com): Wed-Fri 11am-4pm Sat 11am- 5pm. Ró Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Work by Catherine Willett. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Sisti Gallery (6535 Campbell Blvd., Pendleton,
NY 14094, 465-9138): Honoring Watercolor, works by Rita Argen Auerbach and Charles E. Burchfield. Fri 6-9pm, Sat & Sun 11-2pm. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): 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): James Paulsen and Dana Graap. MonFri 9-4pm. FF Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Chroma: photographs by Emily Sniegowski. 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. 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): 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): Mon-Fri 9am6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 3481430, wnybookarts.org): I’m trying to remember, pero nunca olvidaré, through Jun 2. Found Text Traces, Catherine Linder Spencer. Opening Reception Thu, Jun 7 5-8pm. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. To add your gallery’s information to the list, please P contact us at info@dailypublic.com.
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ALYSSA CAPRI’s exhibit, titled VALUE by Alyssa Capri, opens Friday, June 1 at Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda), with a reception, 7-10pm. Read more at dailypublic.com.
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AHA! The Annual Hallwalls Auction 7pm Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave. $50 each, $90 a pair
PRIDE WEEK CONTINUES THURSDAY MAY 31 - SUNDAY JUNE 3 5PM / VARIOUS LOCATIONS, [GAY PRIDE] Pride Week in Buffalo continues this week with several events, starting Thursday, May 31 with Out for Business—a special edition of the monthly LGBTQ networking event— which will take place on the rooftop of the Curtiss Hotel at 5pm. On Saturday, June 2, the annual Dyke+ March will commence down Elmwood Avenue, beginning at 1pm at the Unitarian
FRIGID GIANT AND CEE GEE Green Giant album Recommended if you like: Eminem, Homeboy Sandman, Ka Two Buffalo-based hip hop makers, Columbus “Cee Gee” Green and Frigid Giant a.k.a. Kevin Delgado, teamed up to release a new album earlier this month titled Green Giant. The 11-track album features production by Cee Gee and Frigid Giant, and lyrics and rhymes by Frigid Giant. The album begins with Frigid Giant rapping smoothly and sharply over Cee Gee’s classic hip hop beat, stand up bassline and low key guitar melody on “Enter: The Green Giant.” “All Blood Runs Red” has Giant rapping ominously over demolished beats before moving into “No Superstitions,” which flows like a classic Eminem hit. “Blue Dream,” a mid-album highlight, comes with features from a pair of Buffalo rappers, Genecist and Mad Dukez, who rap over a King Geedorah-esque sci-fi-inspired beat. The album wraps with a bonus track titled “Big Lebowski,” a head-bobbing, golden era hip hop-inspired personal statement in the form of an ode to the Dude. The record comes complete with comic-book-inspired artwork featuring a massive monster that appears to be a mash up of the two musicians—illustrated by Delgado, who is also visual artist by day. Stream the album in full on Bandcamp today.
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Universalist Church at the corner of West Ferry and Elmwood, and ending at Bidwell Parkway. On Saturday, June 3 the parades continue with the annual Pride Parade. This year’s theme is Icons and Heroes—which could mean anything from local heroes of the LGBTQ community to iconic queer artists, or champions of the movement in general. If you plan on marching in the parade, organizers suggest you arrive at the staging area, lots R13 and R14 at Buffalo State College (1300 Elmwood Avenue), no later than 10am due to increased participation. The parade will depart at noon and head south down Elmwood Avenue, ending at Allen Street. If you’re not the marching type, then join the crowds of spectators along Elmwood Avenue. The Pride Week finale, the Pride Festival, will take place immediately following the parade, at 1pm at Canalside. Expect entertainment from Kameron Michaels of RuPaul’s Drag Race fame, music from Los Angeles-based vocalist, songwriter, and trumpeter, Spender Ludwig, and a dance floor curated by DJ Citizen Jane. For more info visit buffalopridefestival.com. In addition to the official Buffalo Pride Week programming, there will be a street festival as part of the Allentown First Friday Walk on Friday, June 1. Sponsored by Block Club, Remedy House, Community Beer Works, and the Pride Center of WNY, the block partyesque event, Exist, will feature performances and artwork by a bunch of LGBTQA+ artists including Mickey Harmon, our cover artist for this week’s issue. Exist will feature gallery programing in a variety of Allentown venues including Pine Apple Company, Caffeology, Buffalo Big Print, Buffalo Melting Point, GCR recording studio, and (further afield) Project 308 Gallery, which will each host a different performance or art installation from an artist or artists. In the event of inclement weather the event will be held at the Gallery in the Market Arcade, 5pm-8pm. -THE PUBLIC STAFF
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[FUNDRAISER] Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center has been providing aha! moments to this writer for going on 35 years. (The first, as a teenager, being the discovery of transvestite comediennes and They Might Be Giants; the latest being, as I write this, that “AHA!” is an acronym for “Annual Hallwalls Auction.”) For others, longer than that. Hallwalls marks its 43rd year in the contemporary art constellation with its annual fundraising auction on Thursday, May 31 at Asbury Hall in Babeville. Forty-two works by 40 artists—some local (such as Bruce Adams, whose art graced last week's cover of The Public) and some from elsewhere (such as Hallwalls co-founder Robert Longo)—will be auctioned live. There will be music by DJ Undersound and cocktails by Buffalo Bar Biddies. It is a fantastic evening, and every penny raised helps keeps the light on at one of the region’s essential cultural institutions. Read more and peruse the catalog at the Hallwalls website. Reserve your tickets there, too: $50 each, $90 a pair. -GK
Zach Deputy 7pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $12-$15
[FUNK] In from Savannah, Georgia, oneman-band, Zach Deputy, returns to the Tralf Music Hall for a show on Thursday, May 31. The soulful multi-instrumentalist is known for his one-man live shows during which he uses complex live loops to create sunny, funky jams. His latest album, Wash it in the Water is a combination of Southern funk and Island-y soul, so expect it to get heated inside the Tralf this Thursday. -CP
Daniel Franzese 8pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $15
[COMEDY] Though Mean Girls is blowing up right now as a Broadway play, it was, of course, a movie first. In that movie, Daniel Franzese played the awkward, “too gay to function” character Damian. His stand up act is a bit less awkward, and a lot goofier—and hopefully you’ve seen him playing an Italian mom on Youtube. Catch Daniel Franzese at Helium Comedy Club on Thursday, May 31 for a special one-off show. -TPS
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FRIDAY JUNE 1 Ghostpool, Talking in My Sleep, Petal Books, Apologies Unspoken 7pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $10-$12
[PUNK] Buffalo pop punk band Ghostpool takes the top slot at Babeville’s 9th Ward for a show presented by After Dark on Friday, June 1. They’ll be joined by Talking In My Sleep, Petal Books, and Apologies Unspoken. -TPS
Ambush Pride Party 7pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $10
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[GAY PRIDE] One of Buffalo Pride Week’s auxiliary parties, the Ambush Pride Party, takes place this Friday, June 1 at Buffalo Iron Works. Expect an all-out dance party with music from DJ Whitney Day, DJ Marymac, DJ Milk, and DJ Kiki. -TPS
7PM / RAPIDS THEATRE, 1711 MAIN ST., NIAGARA FALLS / $25-$30 [HIP HOP] Layzie Bone, Flesh n Bone, Wish Bone, Krayzie Bone, and BizzyBone—why, whoever
could they be but Bone Thugs n Harmony. The band, from Cleveland, Ohio, hasn’t missed a beat, consistently releasing music since their 1993 debut, Faces of Death, which was released under the name B.O.N.E. Enterprise. But it was their 1995 Ruthless Records release E. 1999 Eternal, produced by Eazy-E, which put them on the hip hop map. The album’s lead single, “The Crossroads,” was dedicated to Eazy-E, who died from complications due to AIDS four months prior to the album’s release. The song became a hit of the most massive proportions, and the album was nominated in the Grammy’s first ever Best Rap Album category. They followed that up with The Art of War and BTNHResurrection in 1997 and 2000 respectively, which both went platinum. Since then, they’ve consistently released full-length records, most notably 2007’s Strength & Loyalty, which featured production from will.i.am, and guests Fleetwood Mac, Mariah Carey, and Swizz Beatz, among others. Their latest album, New Waves, was released in 2017 and features a modern production style, with clubby hip hop beats and sentimental lyrics. Catch Bone Thugs n Harmony at the Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls on Thursday, May 31. -CORY PERLA
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SATURDAY JUNE 2 Ben Vaughn 5pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $5
[ROCK] Ben Vaughn has made a career writing music for your favorite TV shows. From Third Rock From The Sun to That 70s Show, his theme music compositions are as memorable as the shows themselves. As a music producer, he’s made records with artists like Ween and Nancy Sinatra. As a touring artist, Vaughn plays his own brand of rootsy rock and pop music, which the Philadelphia native will put on display at Mohawk Place this Saturday, June 2. Support comes from former girlpope and Backpeddlers frontman Mark Norris. -CP
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IN PRINT + IN TOWN: blud by Rachel McKibbens Copper Canyon Press / 2017 / poetry collection
blud is the latest collection from Rochester-based poet and activist Rachel McKibbens. The collection is a fierce, lyrical exploration of abuse and trauma. An ode to survival, the poems howl with violence and honesty, and use poetry as testimony. The collection is loaded with expressive, haunting tensions and explosive imagery. Proclamation poems with beautiful rhythmic music: “To my daughters I need to say: / Go with the one who loves you biblically. / The one whose love lifts its head to you / despite its broken neck. Whose body / bursts sixteen arms electric / to carry you, gentle / the way old grief is gentle.” It is a fearless and necessary book that could—and very likely already has—saved lives.These poems may best be understood and fully realized when read aloud or heard read aloud by a friend. Better yet, come hear McKibbens read them aloud herself in Buffalo this Saturday as the featured poet at the kickoff of Just Buffalo Literary Center’s Silo City Reading Series.She will share the silos with poet Marina Blitshteyn, LA-based musician Tim Rutili of the band Califone, and Buffalo-based photographer, installation, and book artist Joel Brenden. —NOAH FALCK
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first single from the record, “Sundried Mind” earlier this month. The track, a sunny indie rock tune with a shifting, psychedelic foundation, is a microcosm of the record as a whole, which is a cohesive blend of dreamy indie pop, garage rock, and fuzzy 1960s-inspired rock with a Bruce Springsteen cover thrown in for good measure. The album was recorded mostly at GCR studio with the Goo Goo Dolls Robby Takac at the helm as producer and audio mixer Ted Young—who has worked with artists like Kurt Vile, Mick Jagger, and Andrew W.K.—at the boards. Buffalo-based visual artist Philip Burke, whose work—usually colorful, psychedelic, illustrations—has been featured extensively in Rolling Stone magazine over the years, created the artwork for the album. “We feel really good about [this record],” says drummer Dave Muntner. “We were distanced from the music but now we’re relearning the songs to play them live in a new way and so we’re having a new relationship with the music. It feels good.” -CORY PERLA
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[POETRY] Just Buffalo’s Silo City Reading Series kicks off this Saturday, June 2 with poetry readings, live music, and art installations inside of Silo City’s historic Marine A silo. Poets Rachel McKibbens and Marina Blitshteyn will deliver readings; musician Tim Rutili of Califone and Red Red Meat will perform; and an installation by photographer and artist Joel Brenden will be on display. This will be the first of three Reading Series events to take place this summer at Silo City. -TPS
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[JAM] Jam supergroup Everyone Orchestra congregates at Buffalo Iron Works for a run of two shows this Saturday, June 2 and Sunday, June 3. This version of the group is made up of members of several regional jam bands including Turkuaz, Aqueous, Pigeons Playing Ping Poing, and Yes Darling. Founded in the early 2000s by conductor Matt Butler, Everyone Orchestra features a rotating cast of musicians, who play shows which are mostly improvisational. In the past, the group has included members of Phish, the Grateful Dead, Gov’t Mule, Pink Floyd, and many other immensely popular bands. -CP
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[GAY PRIDE] To quote the Stripteasers in a tease for their upcoming show on Facebook: “We got a fever. And the only prescription is more Gayness!!!!!” It doesn’t get much more straightforward than that. Join the burlesque troupe for this Pride weekend fling, Pride Fever, at Nietzsche’s on Saturday, June 2. Expect burlesque from the Stripteasers and music from Velvet Bethany, Similar Items, the Danzig tribute band Shanzig, and Americana rockers Pine Fever. -TPS
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[RAP] Horrorcore rapper Tech N9ne is as prolific as horrorcore rappers get. His debut album 1999, The Calm Before the Storm, came after several years spent in several various rap groups, but since then his releases have come like a monsoon. The Kansas City-based rapper has released 20 studio albums since Calm, most notably his 2011 album All 6’s and 7’s, which has become a fan favorite; his 2015 record Special Effects, which features everyone from Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, to 2 Chainz, and Eminem; and his latest, Planet, which was released in March of this year. Catch Techn N9ne as he returns to Buffalo for a show at the Town Ballroom on Saturday, June 2 with support from Krizz Kaliko, Just Juice, Joey Cool, and King Iso -CP
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[METAL] A whole bunch of grindcore, death metal, and hardcore will be on display at Sugar City on Monday, June 4. Grindcore band Chepang, out of New York City bring a double drummer assault as the headliners. Support comes from death metal duo, Test, Buffalo-based grindcore band Healer, local hardcore band Gun Candy, and Rochester crust punk band P Hallucination Realized. -CP
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MEDUSA BY CORY PERLA WHEN 23-YEAR-OLD Jennifer Fagotti vents
her personal frustrations with bass-splitting freestyle performances, you can’t help but think that her visceral lyrics would scare even some of the most deplorable offenders of the #metoo movement. “When I describe my music, the first words that come to mind are ‘massive’ and ‘evil,’” says Fagotti, channeling her namesake, the mythical Medusa. “I want to be able to turn the people that wronged me to stone,” she says. Her onstage persona emerged years after living in fear of a stalker while residing in Alfred, New York. Rather than supporting her in her plight, an ex-boyfriend and many close confidants began to blame her for her own victimization and fear, even going as far as accusing her of lying about the situation for attention.
The 13-track record bounces between tweaked out hyper pop, downtempo synthwave, and dark hip hop, channeling inspiration from the likes of Kanye West and Grimes along the way. Coming up for this up-and-coming feminist underdog is a highly anticipated showcase at Mohawk Place on Friday, June 1 alongside fellow local heavyweights, Deadwolf, Sofa Kingz, and Space Cubs. In terms of musical goals for the near future, Fagotti’s biggest is to be able to tour across the country, “I want to be playing at tours and festivals for the next ten years, that would be my ideal situation,” she says. “I want a double-decker tour bus, where I live on the bottom level and my four cats live on the top level. That would just be too awesome.’
Years later, she would become inspired by the mythical story of Medusa and the idea that she was defending herself through the use of deadly powers. “To me, Medusa is like a goal,” says Fagotti. “It’s the way that I would like to be. Just take no shit—do no harm—but don’t let anyone hurt you or let anything slide.” The persona has shaped her personality on the stage and in her music. On her debut LP, titled residuals, Fagotti combines modern, dark pop synth music with references to early 2000’s cartoons like Danny Phantom and Avatar: The Last Airbender to portray her true feelings towards the men drowning in their own toxic masculinity in some of the best diss lyrics heard from a Buffalo rap artist in a long time.
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THE RIDER, BEAST BY M. FAUST AT THE BEGINNING of The Rider, a young man (Brady Jandreau)
far more successful than Clint Eastwood’s recent The 15:17 to
wakes up, goes to the bathroom, looks at himself in the mirror,
Paris, in which the three young Americans who foiled a terrorist
and removes a bandage covering part of his skull. This takes a
attack on a French train play themselves in a recreation of that
little doing, as the bandage was stapled there. Underneath, metal
story. As we watch Brady, who lives in a trailer with his sister
sutures protrude from a shaved patch of his head.
and father in an area of South Dakota that, for all its beauty
This is not a special effect. Jandreau was a rodeo rider of rising fame until a horse threw him and stomped on his head. Those sutures hold on a metal plate that was used to repair his skull. You may be amazed to learn that you can get your skull crushed by a horse and live to tell about it. What amazing luck, you
(well captured by cinematographer Joshua James Richards), may as well be the middle of nowhere, struggle to find a way to make a living, we come to understand the pull that the life of a cowboy has on him. ••• THE BRITISH FILM Beast is somewhat less successful in bringing
Working with horses is what he feels he was born to do. If he
us into the head of a person who makes what can only be described
listens to the advice of doctors who tell him he can never ride
as bad choices. She is Moll ( Jessie Buckley), a young woman
again because another blow to the head would likely kill him,
living with her family on the island of Jersey, off the southeast
what is left in his life?
coast of England. Though her life initially appears peaceful,
just looking for an evening’s entertainment. It’s one of the best parts of writing about movies that you occasionally come across a film that moves you when you weren’t expecting it. Not quite a documentary, The Rider was directed by Chloé
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we soon see that all is not well. She seems much younger than her 27 years, largely because her repressive mother (Geraldine James) treats her like a child, having taken her out of school as a teenager. Chafing at her restrictions, Moll finds escape when she meets a young man, Pascal ( Johnny Flynn), a loner who poaches on the local estates. That her family doesn’t like him pushes her
Zhao, a young Chinese filmmaker who has a fascination with
closer to him, an equation that has an even stronger effect when
the image of America’s West. I mention that she is Chinese
he is suspected of a series of murders.
only VISIT becauseDAILYPUBLIC.COM it so often seems that filmmakers who were notLISTINGS & REVIEWS >> FOR MORE FILM Is he the beast of the title? We’re inclined to think so, especially born in this country have produced some of the most discerning as Moll seems to fit the place of the beauty: Actress Buckley may portraits of that region. She met Brady before his accident, while not be classically beautiful, but with her flaming red curls and working on an earlier film, and became fascinated by his way of off-center smile, she fits the definition of a movie star, someone life. The accident and his attempts to rebuild his life gave her you can’t take your eyes off of when they’re on the screen. Her dramatic structure for a film, one in which Brady plays a loosely increasingly unhinged performance is reason enough to see the VISIT DAILYPUBLIC.COM FOR MORE FILM LISTINGS & REVIEWS >> fictionalized version of himself. film, as is the assured direction of newcomer Michael Pearce,
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I’m not sure why Zhao didn’t go for a straight documentary;
even if his skills as a writer are less obvious. The finale made me
my guess is that it allows her to make shortcuts by dramatizing
feel less like I wanted to go back and rewatch the film as that I
actions that could only otherwise be talked about. The result is
needed to, which is not at all the same thing.
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shorter-than-Ford’s shoulders. The script by
by Harrison Ford in four Star Wars films and
Lawrence Kasden, an old pro at the Lucasfilm
by Alden Ahrenreich in this Disney prequel
franchise factory, and his son Jonathan, lacks
barely managed to capture Memorial Day
momentum or tension, and the direction (Ron
weekend, a box office disappointment for the
Howard took over after original directors Phil
House of Mouse. Solo: A Star Wars Story is the
Lord and Christopher Miller were famously
fourth Star Wars entry ordered by Kathleen
fired with only a few weeks of filming left) has
Kennedy at Lucasfilm, and the second released
a slapdash feel, with poorly staged action and
in the last five months. It’s an origin story that
ugly cinematography. Woody Harrelson has
never needed to be told. How did Han Solo
some fun as Han’s criminal mentor, but Emilia
get his blaster? How did he meet Chewbacca?
Clarke fails to generate the sparks Carrie Fisher
Will we see him win the Millenium Falcon
did with Ford as the love interest. A few grace
from Lando Calrissian (a charismatic Donald
notes will please some fans, but it’s a tired,
Glover) in a card game? Those questions and
lackluster affair that seems to have failed its only
others you probably never asked are answered.
real purpose, which was to generate revenue for
Ahrenreich exhibits boyish charm as our anti-
Disney.
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