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LOOKING BACKWARD: Broadway Fillmore in the first half of the 20th century.

ART: Jeremy Boyle and Mark Franchino at Hallwalls.

CENTERFOLD: Cartoonist/ illustrator Thomas S. Sciolino has a show at Rohall’s Corner.

FILM: The Seagull. Checks dailypublic.com for capsule reviews and cinema listings.

CROSSWORD: Another devilish puzzle by Matt Jones.

ON THE COVER: JAMES PAULSEN’s Catwoman is part of a show of the artist’s work on exhibit at Starlight Studio & Art Gallery.

EVENTS: of Montreal, Dead & Company, and much more.

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UPS: The BORDERLAND MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL, a new festival that takes place September 22 & 23 in East Aurora’s Knox Farm State Park, just announced a killer lineup of Americana and roots music acts: the Revivalists, the Sam Roberts Band, Dr. Dog, John Oates (of Hall & Oates) and the Good Road Band, Margo Price, the Infamous Stringdusters, the Sam Bush Band, the Barr Brothers, Fruition, and Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, among others, including a roster of local talent, artists and artisans displaying their work, craft beer, and food. Festival co-founder Jennifer Brazill is an East Aurora native who has created and managed similar music festivals around the country; this is her first big venture in her hometown. She told The Public earlier in the year that Knox Farm inspired her as a setting. “We worked very hard to curate a lineup that would enhance the parks beautiful spirit while focusing on sustainability and community,” Brazill said in a press release that accompanied the lineup announcement. “We’re very excited to introduce new bands to the region and celebrate the already rich music tradition.” Should be a perfect cap to the region’s long summer season of outdoor music: Find out more at borderlandfestival.com. The WASHINGTON POST produced an excellent report and study into national trends of where homicides are prosecuted, breaking down and digging into the 50 most populous metro areas in the country, of which Buffalo was one. The report, titled “Murder with Impunity: Where Killings Go Unsolved,” revealed there is strong evidence that black homicide cases aren’t cleared as frequently as white homicide cases, and that cities often have concentrated geographies where murders either are or aren’t solved. Buffalo has three such zones on the East Side where unsolved murders are concentrated, and one zone on the West Side where cleared homicides are more likely to take place. While many cities, Buffalo included, blame gang-related homicides for driving the clearance rate down, the WaPo story shows many cities including Atlanta are far more successful in prosecuting murders regardless of possible gang affiliation.

DOWNS: Officers from the BUFFALO POLICE UNDERWATER RECOVERY TEAM did not participate in last weekend’s three-day swift water dive training alongside other local law enforcement agencies, according to our partners at Investigative Post. The training, which was held in Amherst and Tonawanda, took place eight months after Buffalo Police Officer Craig Lehner drowned in the Niagara River’s fast currents. (A BPD spokesperson did not respond to calls and a text from Investigative Post’s Daniela Porat inquiring as to why the department didn’t participate.) Over the past several months, Investigative Post has exposed the failure of the Buffalo police dive team to adequately train and equip Lehner for that fatal dive in the Niagara River last October. Last weekend’s program, led by Dive Rescue International, mixed classroom instruction with practice in the Sweet Home High School pool and diving exercises in the Niagara River by the City of Tonawanda. There, the water, though moving at a quick clip of four knots, provides a safe environment to train in swift water diving. The

ERIE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY: We usually leave the

bashing of ECWA to other media, who are so in the habit of targeting the morass of patronage and mismanagement that it hardly requires anyone else’s gimlet eye. But Monday’s report from the New York State Authorities Budget Office, which oversees state authorities, bears a look: The review of ECWA’s operations, performed between November 2017 and March 2018, reveals poor oversight of operations, opacity in its dealing with what ought to be public meetings and information, decision-making without adequate information, and sweetheart deals for politically connected commissioners and employees, including the outrageously generous exit package guaranteed to outgoing executive director Earl Jann, a Republican appointee (pictured above). The report recommends replacing ECWA’s entire board of commissioners: “Based on the historic issues with transparency and accountability at the Erie County Water Authority, we believe that the Authority would be best served by new leadership, that is more cognizant of its fiduciary responsibility to the Authority and the public,” ABO Director Jeffrey Pearlman said in a press release. “A new board will help to implement and enforce its policies in an P environment of transparency.”

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NEWS COMMENTARY was that there were big stories to be found in covering the small daily stories, that reporters should be out there, meeting people and sniffing out “enterprise” stories as they filed their “dailies.” The News is headed toward a new kind of journalism. It simply doesn’t have enough people to cover things that way anymore. It will be hard-pressed to stay on top of what’s happening in the bigger first-ring suburbs, and smaller communities will go a long time between seeing a reporter.

PERFORMING WITHOUT A NET The News is being reshaped. As of this writing, 16 people at the News have taken buyouts. Half were targeted buyouts, the other half voluntary. Of the eight targeted buyouts, two were parttime reporters and the other six were copy editors, page designers, and a clerk. The pressroom at the Buffalo News. Image courtesy cirelectric.com.

THE NEWS, ETC.: MORE ON CHANGES AT THE DAILY PAPER BY ELMER PLOETZ FYI, the Buffalo News is hiring.

In the wake of its recent buyouts, the News is hiring for six newsroom positions and at least two technical/business jobs. Reading between the lines, here are some observations on what it all may mean.

JOB OPENINGS None of the openings are in the eight positions the News targeted for buyouts last month. Most of them replace reporters who took voluntary buyouts. The openings are: Healthcare reporter: This position would fill the coverage area left open with the departure of Henry Davis. It’s described as “health care development reporter,” so the emphasis will be on covering the growth of the downtown medical campus, medical start-ups, and “how the health care industry is reshaping Western New York.” Enterprise reporter: Enterprise is a trendy way of saying investigative (see below). The ad says “the ability to use data and public records to identify trends and develop compelling stories is a must.” Enterprise editor: The ads says the News wants someone to “work closely with veteran

reporters to identify untold stories, both big and small, that reveal the surprising ways Buffalo and its surrounding communities are changing.” Data and freedom of information expertise is emphasized.

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Trending sports enterprise reporter: Think of this as someone to do what Tim Graham has been doing so well for the past several years, perhaps with an investigative edge. It effectively fills the desk vacated by either Jerry Sullivan or Bucky Gleason, but not that of both columnists.

It includes traditional investigative reporting, but it’s also “investigative” in a larger sense. Stories like Graham’s pieces on Darryl Talley and Bjorn Nittmo (look them up; they’re worth the sizable time commitment) are good examples.

Sabres sports reporter: This is a straightup replacement of John Vogl, who took a voluntary buyout. The ad says the person who fills it will have “opportunities for television and radio appearances,” so the paper is planning to build the new reporter as a brand, as it had done with Bills reporters Vic Carucci, Mark Gaughan, and Jay Skurski, as well as with Sullivan and Gleason. Deputy sports editor: This position fills the desk of Bob DiCesare, who took a voluntary buyout after 36 years with the News. Takeaways? A couple of jobs are gone. Two deputy sports editor positions have been vacated, only one is being filled. One enterprise reporter is replacing two columnists. The staff will almost assuredly get younger and could potentially get more diverse.

Enterprise is a big word with the people running the News right now. It’s a little nebulous to define, but here’s a try.

Enterprise essentially means going deeper, finding the real stories that matter to people that they may not have even known were there. Back in 2011, former Buffalo News editor-inchief Margaret Sullivan phrased it this way: “We call them enterprise because—unlike a natural disaster or an election—they would not exist without the efforts of an enterprising reporter.” But there are so many references to “enterprise” throughout the postings for the new jobs that it makes you wonder if it’s such a buzzword that it’s lost its meaning. Isn’t all journalism investigative at some level or enterprise after a fashion? It seems to me that what’s at risk of being lost is the day-to-day journalism of covering communities through local governments, school boards, and even cops, the real nitty gritty. One of the News’s old philosophies

The takeaway on that is that the News is investing less and less in its print product and its quality control. Anybody who has read the News regularly over the years has noticed a disturbing increase in typos, grammatical errors, and general mistakes. It’s a trend that goes back over a decade. When the News started encouraging reporter blogs around 2007, reporters asked, “Well, who do I have look at them before they’re posted?” They were told to have other reporters look at them or, essentially, just to post away. For most reporters, it was their first experience of not having the safety net of a copy desk to check for errors. Since then, copy editing has been on the decline everywhere in the newspaper industry, even at the New York Times. The Times went through a similar process to the News last year when it announced it was eliminating its standalone copy desk and its 100 jobs and inviting the staffers to apply for 50 new, redefined jobs. The number of copy editing jobs at the News had already fallen precipitously in the past decade, with those left behind frequently forced to “shovel copy” instead of giving stories the close reads they might have required. Don’t expect fewer errors.

THE UNION SAYS… Meanwhile, the Buffalo Newspaper Guild has issued its own statement about the personnel changes happening in the editorial department (that means anybody involved in content, not just op-ed). “There’s no sugarcoating what a blow this is to journalism in Western New York,” said Guild president Sandy Tan on the union’s web page. “We’re losing respected colleagues whose work has been invaluable to this newsroom and to this community.” According to the Guild statement, the current cutbacks represent a 16 percent loss in Guild

LOOKING BACKWARD: BROADWAY FILLMORE Broadway Fillmore is one of the storied neighborhoods of Buffalo, associated with Polish immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, later with African Americans, and today with a burgeoning Bangladeshi community. With a Belt Line stop and two major streetcar routes, the neighborhood became so densely populated in the early 20th century that its center—the corner of Broadway and Fillmore avenues—became a direct competitor to downtown Buffalo. Suburbanization led to the loss of nearly three quarters of its residents over half a century. This neighborhood built by and for working people has a better chance of survival with the recent creation of the Broadway Fillmore PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BUFFALO HISTORY MUSEUM.

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Meanwhile, while members of the Newspaper Guild/CWA made their exits at the News in a more or less civilized way with cake and goodbyes, non-union folk weren’t so lucky. In the past 10 days, two long-time nonunion employees were dismissed. One worked in marketing, the other as business system manager. One had 29 years experience, the other 41. The paper said being eliminated.

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ONWARD It’s been interesting diving back into writing and some reporting over the past couple of weeks. So I’m not ready to stop yet. I’ve decided to continue reporting on the media, plus whatever else I find of interest, under the label of “News, Etc.” I won’t guarantee how often I’ll be writing, but check back and see what’s here. If you’d like to get in contact with me or give your side of what’s happening, email me at eploetzfredonia@gmail.com. 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 P at the Buffalo News from 1985 to 2008. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / JUNE 13 - 19, 2018 / THE PUBLIC

NEWS LOCAL most colleges to have varsity programs in the next five years. As for Tespa, he hopes to continue using the platform to create the esports equivalent of the NCAA. “Looking forward, I think varsity teams will be the norm. It’ll be odd if there’s a college without one,” Rosen said. “Professional leagues have been established, like with ‘Overwatch,’ which has 12 teams all across the world who participate in a regular and postseason, just like any traditional sport. I think bringing that to collegiate esports scene is accomplishable and will really help cultivate that broad acceptance found in traditional sports.” Schools in the area are already starting to invest in esports. Daemen College became the first private institution in the Buffalo Niagara region to create an esports team as a part of their Games Club, and the college built an esports center for students in January. “Heroes of the Dorm,” a recent national collegiate video game tournament, included a team from UB, which lost in the finals.

THE INDUSTRY OF ESPORTS BY MAX KALNITZ

COMPETITIVE VIDEO GAME PLAYERS THINK THEIR LEAGUES, PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR, MIGHT SOON RIVAL PROFESSIONAL SPORTS ADAM ROSEN, WHO runs a network of college

video game clubs, says the general public is wrong about video game culture. It doesn’t promote violence or kill brain cells. Rather, it’s the “next big wave,” and, he says, parents should view gaming just like they view Little League, scouting, soccer, or ballet. For nearly five years, he and Tespa, the company he co-founded, has been fighting the gaming stigma and working to prove gaming is not a waste of time or reserved for loners who live in basements. It has all the attributes and learning potential of traditional sports, he says. “When I think about sports, it’s cultural. You grow up, you play in Little League and progress sometimes up to college or pro teams. It’s very familial—families really come together to support it,” Rosen said. “People recognize it as a force for good, a way to better yourself, and it’s a really close community. So because of that you have this really broad cultural acceptance and celebration of sports, and I think we have a huge opportunity to build the same thing.” The numbers and the money support him. The market for competitive video games that pit strong (and increasingly professional) gamers against each other is exploding. It even has its own name: esports. Last year, it was a $655 million industry. This year, it’s predicted to exceed that by 38 percent and jump to $905 million. In 2019, it’s expected to hit $1.1 billion in revenue. Tespa has more than 220 campus chapters in the US and Canada and hosts the Tespa Collegiate Series, a group of collegiate esports competitions which have awarded over $1.29 million in scholarships through events and tournaments.

not bigger than traditional sports,” Rosen said. “Traditional sports have the pro leagues, but also amateur and grassroots leagues, as well as a large fan base. We have this with esports already. As soon as people start to realize the ecosystem that already exists, more people will jump on board and viewership and players will increase. I’d say in the next five years I could absolutely see some of the more popular titles being as popular as the Buffalo Bills and Sabres.” As the industry continues to grow, so does America’s interest in the phenomenon. TBS’s ELEAGUE has broadcast esports on Friday nights since 2016, and fans of “League of Legends” watched 274.4 million hours of competition on the streaming website Twitch in 2017. The average weekly viewership for NFL games during the 2017-18 season was 14.9 million viewers. With a 16-game season, viewers watched roughly 238 million hours of regular season football last year, falling short to just one video game, which is close to reaching 300 million annual viewers. Like most professionals sports, esports has established leagues at the collegiate and professional level and broadcasts to hundreds of millions of viewers across the world. Robert Morris University in Illinois created a scholarship-sponsored team for the world’s most popular esports title, “League of Legends” in 2014. In four years, a national governing body—the National Association of Collegiate Esports—has formed and includes upwards of 50 varsity programs. In Buffalo, members of the gaming community are finding success in the esports industry. Allen “FantaFiction” Hu started playing Blizzard Entertainment’s popular video game “Heroes of the Storm” seven months ago for fun. Last month, he and his teammates traveled from Buffalo to Los Angeles to play for over $500,000 in scholarship prize money.

Rosen said he’s excited to see esports continue to grow into an even larger market with professional and collegiate leagues across the globe.

Hu, a junior at the University at Buffalo, participated in “Heroes of the Dorm,” the largest collegiate esports tournament in North America, which offers full college tuition to each member of the winning team. The team, “Improbabull Victory,” made up of five UB students, lost in the finals.

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a varsity esports program. After finishing second out of more than 300 participating teams—many from funded varsity programs— he feels confident UB could be a competitive powerhouse at the collegiate level. “There’s enough competition out there that it makes sense for UB and other schools in the area to start investing in esports,” Hu said. “It’s not just ‘Heroes.’ Some schools have teams for four or five games, and all of the students on those teams get full-ride scholarships. It’s honestly starting to catch up to college football and basketball.” Tespa studies found over half of college students now actively identify themselves as gamers. Whether students play casually or with the hopes of going pro, it’s evidence the stigma about video games is changing. The University at Buffalo doesn’t have a Tespa chapter, but has active Tespa members who host monthly competitions on campus. Students compete against each other for prizes and ingame-credits provided by the organization. Rosen said from small on-campus events to national tournaments, he views Tespa as platform for students to meet new people who share the same hobby. He added it’s only a matter of time before esports becomes a fundamental piece of the collegiate experience. Rosen said live esports events will continue to grow, becoming a major part of the gaming experience. With tournaments and regular season games selling out Rosen said investing in all aspects of the esports experience is key to furthering the industry. “Look at what we’re doing with ‘Heroes of the Dorm,’ where there are scholarships on the line. We’re taking these students, they’re flying across the country, they’re competing and representing their universities, and I think it’s tremendously positive,” Rosen said. “When you’re an administrator or a faculty at a university that doesn’t quite get gaming or esports yet, you can’t not look at HOTD and not get it. The fans shouting from the audience with faces painted in school colors, the analysts desk, the announcers, everything we know and love about collegiate sports we see in collegiate esports.” Rosen said at the pace the esports industry has grown since Tespa’s conception, he expects

Professional teams and players from Buffalo have also played in national tournaments for games including “Hearthstone” and “CounterStrike: Global Offensive,” and the third-ranking globally “Tekken 7” player lives in Buffalo. Many local pros practice at GameOn LAN, an internet café and gaming center located on Delaware Avenue in Kenmore, which offers players high-end equipment and a professional space to practice their game. Co-owner Josh Lonczak said since opening in 2015, he’s seen esports thrive in Buffalo. “There’s definitely a strong support for esports in Buffalo and it’s still growing,” Lonczak said. “The community’s interest and support hasn’t plateaued. We have a massive fighting game community, then you have the other side of the community—they show up for ‘CSGO’ and ‘Fortnite,’ which just announced $100 million in prize pools for 2019.” GameOn is currently the only LAN center in Buffalo, as others, like CyberJocks, have closed in recent years. Despite this, the center is getting itself and its players noticed on the global stage. The popular fighting game forum “Shoryuken” recognized the “Rumble in the Tundra” competition held at the center, prompting outsiders to view Buffalo as an esports hub, according to Lonczak. Hu appreciates Buffalo’s gaming community, but thinks it still has a long way to go. With a target audience of young adults and millennials, Hu thinks esports needs to be marketed as something that’s relatable even to older fans. “It’s a niche community; compared to other sports, it won’t be that big,” Hu said. “Unless companies can [reach a larger audience like traditional sports], it will only be something viewed by people that play games and enjoy them.” Lonczak agrees the community could be bigger, but encourages people to reconsider how they view the esports industry. He feels the growth the industry has made in the past four years is remarkable and if it continues “People are surprised when they learn about esports and how similar its become to traditional sports,” Lonczak said. “Look at Mark Cuban: He owns the Dallas Mavericks, but he also owns a professional ‘League of Legends’ team. Video games have become a platform for people to earn an impressive salary. It’s just as hard as making it as a traditional athlete. I think in the future, esports leagues will become the norm, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Buffalo have a professional team.” Max Kalnitz is the senior news editor at the University at Buffalo’s student newspaper The Spectrum and can be reached at P max.kalnitz@ubspectrum.com.

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beyond” and made the system the centerpiece of the district’s Smart Schools plan. Despite state requirements that the district consult with students, parents, teachers and members of the community before submitting its plan, it held its only public hearing on the cameras on a Wednesday afternoon in mid-summer. Again, unsurprisingly, no one came.

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How foolish is this system that will cost the Lockport district more than $500 per student? Its gee-whiz facial recognition technology is 100 percent ineffective unless the district and system operators are able to predict in advance who the school shooter will be, get hold of a good photo of him, and enter it into the system’s data base. Its much-bragged-about gun recognition capability can be rendered useless by stashing the weapon in a $15 backpack.

school district (just 4,600 students overall), next fall when our students return to class they will be greeted with something no other schools in the nation have, a $2.7 million system of high-tech facial recognition cameras. The story behind those cameras is a cautionary tale of what can happen when your fears over school security let you be taken for a ride by clever salesmen. In 2014 New York State voters approved a $2 billion “Smart Schools Bond” to finance capital investments to support technology education. The measure was sold as a way for districts to buy things like new laptops and faster broadband. But its drafters also included, almost as an afterthought, a provision allowing some of the funds to be used for high-tech school security. Enter SNTech, a small Canadian company struggling to sell surveillance cameras to casinos. Suddenly the company spotted a ripe new market just across the border. It redesigned its surveillance system and began pitching it as a high-tech solution to every school’s worst fear. The company explicitly targeted New York’s 14,800 public schools and the new special funds that schools could use to buy its system. Then the company went looking for its first buyer. The company’s approach to the Lockport District was clever to say the least. Out of the blue a “security consultant” named Tony Olivo approached the district offering his services ‘for free.’ He said he would look at the school district’s security needs and suggest a way forward (including how it could spend the funds allocated to it by the Smart Schools Bond). The district was delighted. As it turns out, however, Mr. Olivo is also a paid consultant with SNTech. It was the equivalent of being approached by a Toyota salesman who offers to give you unbiased guidance on what kind of car to buy. Unsurprisingly, his advice to the district was to pour almost all of its Smart Schools money into the company’s expensive and untested surveillance camera system. The district took the bait. Lockport’s superintendent, Michelle Bradley, gushed that the spy cameras were “above and

What the spy-grade cameras will do is open up a huge new threat to student and teacher privacy (the cameras will be capable of creating a searchable data base of who talks to whom in the halls) as well as suck up all funds that could have been used to prepare our students for the technologies of the future. Late in the process before the final plan was approved, these absurdities (including the consultant’s blatant conflict of interest) finally became public, but the Board of Education moved forward with the contract anyway. School district leaders, who can’t actually defend the specifics of the plan, reverted to sloganeering about “doing all we can to keep our children safe.” But school safety is not about good intentions or clever sales pitches; it is about hard analysis about what works and what doesn’t. So down the toilet goes $2.7 million in taxpayer dollars and lost education opportunity, and our students will only be safer in the district’s imagination. Fear can make us do foolish things. My daughter goes to Lockport High School and, like all parents, I desperately want her to be safe when she walks through the doors of her school each morning. But being safe and being seduced into an expensive system of fake security is not the same thing. The district’s plan is national news now, including on the front page of the Washington Post. Lockport used to be known for its locks on the Erie Canal. Now it will be known for something else—the school district that showed how to waste $2.7 million. Jim Shultz, founder and executive director of the Democracy Center, lives in Lockport New York. He can be reached by email at: P JimShultz@democracyctr.org.

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ART REVIEW kind of marquetry. Perfect-fitted segments of slightly differenthued dark wood in symmetric patterns. Also, electrical apparatus, in wood. Not the actual electrical elements. Industry-approved electrical cords and plugs and sockets. But wood junction boxes and conduit lines (what might ordinarily be half-inch or so lead pipe). Another sculptural piece is a fuse box or breaker box—or looks like one—wall-mounted, and with wood conduit lines extending from the top of it, one straight up to an actual incandescent light, four others up and then bending to the right and disappearing into an adjacent wall. The large panels with fluorescent or incandescent lights—there’s one of each type—lack switches. But the fluorescent one at least switches on and off of its own accord. (Possibly controlled by a motion switch. But a quirky one.) Fine-print media information on an accompanying flyer indicates that the top layer of the panel pieces—that the fluorescent and incandescent lights shine through—is actually paper, and that parts of the lights are pencil drawings. But it all looks like wood. (And paper is wood anyway.) As light art—art made with light—light as a medium—Boyle and Franchino’s work recalls that of proto and premier light artist Dan Flavin. (The Albright-Knox has some of Flavin’s work, with tinted fluorescent lights.) And duly pays homage to Flavin in another large panel piece, consisting of seven fluorescent lights in a minimalist abstract architectural tower form—tower representation—not wall-mounted, but leaning against a wall. It’s called Monument 1 for D. Flavin. A little reminiscent of the Empire State Building. Or possibly— because it leans—the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Or possibly— but no, I won’t say it. I wouldn’t propose such an obnoxious association—via over-elaborate bad pun, bi-lingual even—for such beautiful artwork.

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The two artists are currently from the Pittsburgh area, but Franchino has his undergraduate art degree from UB. Boyle, in addition to the visual artwork, is a musician, a founding and current member of the Chicago-based musical group Joan of Arc, whose album 1984 is scheduled for release this month.

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JEREMY BOYLE AND MARK FRANCHINO AT HALLWALLS CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER SOME PRETTY UNCANNY artwork currently on show at Hallwalls. Extremely beautiful work. You can’t help liking it. But you can’t quite figure out what it is, either. How it does what it does. Work by the artist team of Jeremy Boyle and Mark Franchino.

Large and small wooden panels, carefully—lovingly—crafted. Portions of which are translucent. Portions that look precisely like light bulbs, fluorescent and incandescent. That seem to shine—radiate—through the translucent wood. You wonder if these are drawings somehow. Partly because some of them are called drawings. But that’s a bit of a misnomer. Insufficient

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nomer. Because then you notice a little switch—like a little light switch—on the side of the small panels anyway (which are really more like laminated wood blocks, about an inch thick). That turns out to be an actual switch that turns the light on and off. (The light that shines through the wood panel, or block. That looks like a light bulb.) You think the term trompe l’oeil. Tricks the eye, fools the eye. But it’s more than that. More like trompe l’esprit. Fools the mind. There are some panels, and there is some sculpture. A lawn chair. Of the ordinary fold-up sort. Aluminum tubing for the skeleton and armrests, and a weave of plastic webbing for the seat and backrest. Only in this case entirely of wood. Wood for the aluminum, and thin-sliced wood strips—woven again—for the seat and backrest plastic. And a standard lawn or garden accessory trash basket, with lid. But entirely of wood again. In another kind of exquisite artistry than the wooden lawn chair. A

Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): The Ni= ART OPENING = REVIEWED THIS ISSUE agara Frontier Watercolor Society, Spring 2018 Members Transparent Watercolor 125 Art Collective Tattoo Studio (125 Elmwood Show, on view through Jun 1. Tue-Fri 11amAvenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Jennifer Ryan. 5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Ave- Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffanue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albright- lo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): knox.org): Robert Indiana: A Sculpture Ret- River Reflections, by Linda Toomey through rospective, Jun 16-Sep 23. Matisse and the Jul 22. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Art of Jazz, on view through Jun 17. Pictur- Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. ing Niagara, paintings by Stephen Hannock, Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Bufon view through Sep 30. B. Ingrid Olson: falo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery. Forehead and Brain, through Jun 17. Tue-Sun com): Works from the collection. Thu10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) unSat 11am-5pm. til 10pm. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): DeStreet, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annaka- layed, collaborative exhibition by Evelyne plancontemporary.art): Rebecca Allan: De- Leblanc-Roberge, Megan Metté, and Mebris Fields, a solo exhibition on view through gan Scheffer. Closing reception Sat, June 9, Jun 16. Sat 12-4 or by appointment. 8-10pm. Sat 12-3pm. Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffalo, BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main NY 14207, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects. St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Feel Me, a multi-laycom/argus-gallery): Joey Goergen: Move ered installation by Kyla Kegler, on view Away From Everything, a solo exhibition on through Jun 15. Every day 4-10pm. view through Jun 16. Sat 12-4 or by appoint- Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th ment. Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, Art 247 (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): “Art is 14094, theart247.com): Wed-Sun, 10am- Why: Buffalo Public School Art Educators” 5pm. and “Fascination: Jump Start Student ExhiArt Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buf- bition” through Jun 15. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, falo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Len Biszkont: Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Stories Told, on view through Jul 6. Tue-Fri Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint. 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm.

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com): Benjamin Minter, recent paintings and mixed media, through June 1. Mon-Fri 9am5:30pm. 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, 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. M & T Second Friday event (second Friday of every month). 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free.

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): Jack Edson, on view through Jul in lobby gallery. Thu 129pm, Fri & Sat 12-5pm. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 2868200, 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 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Vicious Cycle, Kate MacNeil, through Jun 15. The Unseen Marion Faller, through Jul 8. MonFri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com): Wed-Fri 10:30am5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm. Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com): The Weimar Safari Guild: P.S. we

GALLERIES ART still have to find our way off this island. On view through Jul 20. Opening reception Fri Jun 15 6-9pm. Tue-Fri, 10am-4pm, or by appointment. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): What We Desire: Bria Green, Ari Moore, Joey Pietromicca. Through Jun 23. Wed-Sat 12-6pm Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 6750204, etjgallery.com): The Gifts from Mother Nature, through June 30. Tue & Wed 116pm, 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 Eileen Pleasure on view through Jul 5. Tue-Fri 12-9pm, 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. GO ART! (201 East Main Street, Batavia, NY 14020): Peru Children by Daniel Cotrina Rowe, Jun 14-Aug 4; UNWORLDLY Members’ Challenge Show on view through Sep 8. Opening reception for both, Jun 21, 6-8 pm. Coming: Framed by Lynn Kang, Jul 12Sep 8 with reception Jul 19, 6-8 pm. 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 noon8pm, 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, 688-4033, jccbuffalo.org): MonThu 5:30am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, SatSun 8am-6pm. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 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): Summer Salon: Vintage, on view through Jul 14. Tue-Sat 9:30am5:30pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 2827530, 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, 3326300, 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 103pm. 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. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse.com): Transfer, work by Monica Angle, on view through June 30. 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 11am6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 5230068, project308gallery.com): Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): 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. 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. 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 11am4pm Sat 11am- 5pm. Ró Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Meri Stiles, Melodious Swamp. 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. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Good Fortune by Altercation Dreamer Solutions, opening Thu Jun 14, 6-9 pm. On view: Jun 1020. Open by event and Fri 5:30-7:30.

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THURSDAY JUNE 14 Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami 7:30pm The Screening Room, Boulevard Mall, 1265 Niagara Falls Blvd (Suite 207) $8, $10

FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS THURSDAY JUNE 14 5PM / CANALSIDE, 44 PRIME ST. / $5-$35

EXHAM PRIORY From Darker Tides album Recommended if you like: Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Guns 'n' Roses

Buffalo-based hard rock band Exham Priory will release their new record, From Darker Tides, this weekend with a show at

[INDIE] NPR-resident critic and all-around pop music voice of reason, Ann Powers, once said that Fitz and the Tantrums is a band that communicates best in concert. We’re gonna bet that’s true, although they come from that weird school of LA logic where bands form and get lucky breaks out of thin air rather than first honing their craft in sweaty basements for a few years. Instead of holding that against them, we’ll look at the track record: FAAT have released three moderately successful albums in eight years, and they’ve stayed on the road pretty consistently throughout, packing houses and doing that foundation-laying work that usually comes earlier. In that time, they’ve also stayed on commercial radio and have been regularly invited to perform on TV. Fair enough. Last summer, they opened the Honda Civic Tour for OneRepublic. In the end, it’s pop with a vintage-soul twist, though singles like the recent “Fool” (drenched in autotune) contain all the modern production trimmings. Even if you’re not the type of person to play modern radio-pop in your home, it sounds pretty good in the car and perhaps even better in an open air setting like Canalside, where the six-piece will headline the Thursday night series on June 14. See if Ann Powers has a point—she’s often right on the money. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

the River Pub in Niagara Falls. The album chugs through nine aggressive, fun, and heavy hard rock tracks that call to mind 1990s rock bands like Soundgarden,

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Alice in Chains, and Guns n Roses. Hints of heavy metal and punk rock are peppered through the album, which opens with one of the highlights, “Another

chugging bridges, and some of the strongest vocals throughout. “Seasons of the Flies” gets into anthemic territory with wailing vocals, huge power chords, and followed by “The Irishman,”

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which moves into metal territory,

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emotional “Pale Goodbye,” and the Green Day-esque “Someday Never Comes.” The album ends on a darker, heavy metal tone with closer “Vacant Paradise.” Catch Exham Priory at their CD release show at the River Pub in Niagara Falls on Friday, June 15.

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8pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St.

[TRIBUTE] At the age of 77, who knows how many birthdays folk music hero Bob Dylan has left, so we might as well go all out in celebration of each new one. Nietzsche’s annual Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration takes place a couple of weeks after Dylan’s actually birthday, but it’s still in the general ball park, this Thursday, June 14. Expect musical tributes to come from Sam Marabella, Zak Ward, The Complete Unknowns, Steam Donkeys, and more. -CP

FRIDAY JUNE 15 Richard Lipsitz Memorial 1:30pm Kleinhans Music Hall, 3 Symphony Cir.

[MEMORIAL] We agree it's unusual to post a memorial event in a newspaper, but since it's a public memorial to Richard Lipsitz, Sr., it makes a little more sense. Lipsitz, who succumbed to illness at the age of 97 just months after his wife Rita passed in February, was a legend in Buffalo's legal and progressive communities. A brilliant lawyer who specialized in labor law and who looked at solutions to social ills beyond the courtroom, Lipsitz fought in World War II, ran for mayor of Buffalo unsuccessfully in 1953, and founded the Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria law firm. Friday's memorial at Kleinhans Music Hall (Seton Room) at 1:30pm isn't just about honoring one man's life, but understanding a piece of Buffalo history as spoken by those recalling the life and accomplishments of Lipsitz. -AL

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with heavy distorted guitars,

before driving through the more

Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration

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Round,” kick-starting the album

slow-burning guitar solos. It’s

[FILM] Born in Jamaica and raised in Syracuse, Grace Jones was a unique icon of the 1980s and 1990s, initially as a model and actress but most memorably as a musical performer, with dance club hits like “Warm Leatherette,” "Pull Up to the Bumper," and "Slave to the Rhythm." Though she just marked her 70th birthday, she hasn’t slowed down over the years, as charted in her 2015 memoir I'll Never Write My Memoirs. British filmmaker Sophie Fiennes (The Pervert's Guide to Ideology) spent four years filming her for the documentary Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, which includes both concert footage and an examination of the private woman behind the flamboyant stage performer. By the time of this publication, one more screening will remain, Thursday, June 14 at the Screening Room. -MF

[INDIE] of Montreal (stylized with a lowercase “o” if we let the band have its way) evolved from being part of the Elephant 6 Collective (a Colorado-based family of bands formed in the 1990s that shared a reverence for 1960s influences). But really, the only constant member at this point is frontman Kevin Barnes, though he has a fairly solid touring lineup which will likely be the band he brings to Babeville’s Asbury Hall on Thursday, June 14. One thing that’s clear: Over 15 albums in about 20 years, Barnes has revealed himself to be a stylistically restless and prolific workaholic who never does the same thing twice and takes some theatrical/prog cues from Gabriel-era Genesis. Sort of. His impending visit to Buffalo is in support of White is Relic/Irrealis Mood, out on Polyvinyl this past March, which is steeped in 1980s 12-inch dance pastiche —the results spread six songs over 40 minutes. But maybe the greater distinguishing factor about this record is the fact that he abandoned the format of laying down the basic tracks with a live band (i.e., together in a room), opting instead for more of a cut-and-paste layering process. The tunes are dense but fun and the tone is often dismissive and hilarious, which may or may not be the intention. Like most everything else he does, Barnes manages to make serious matters seem lighter by parodying them, not unlike David Byrne (though perhaps without as much authority given his comparatively twee vocal style). It’s hard to find issue with a songwriter for being so perpetually high-concept when it’s so very apparent how devoted they are to their craft, and Barnes is nothing if not a career artist. There’ll probably be some wigs and amusing outfits, too. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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[THEATER] If you’re going to see the Irish Classical Theatre’s production of Lady Windermere’s Fan before it closes on June 24—and you really should—then why not plan to go to Irish After Dark on Friday, June 13. It begins with a happy hour at the Irish’s cozy bar at 6pm; the play begins at 7:30pm; and after the play, there’s music by Buffalo singer/songwriter Kevin Sampson—and the bar remains open. Visit irishclassical.com to reserve a ticket; use the promo code “After Dark” and save $10! -TPS

Judah & the Lion 6pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. free

[INDIE] Folk-hop. That’s the genre-lane that’s been custom-cut for Judah and the Lion, the Nashville-based band with the oh-so biblical sounding name that’s managed to cultivate quite a fan base over the last two years and is headlining Town Ballroom for a radio-sponsored acoustic gig on Friday, June 15. The core trio of the band is guitar, banjo, and mandolin with shared harmony vocals, but the sound that’s helped them penetrate mainstream consciousness blends that Mumford-y musical jumping off point with hip-hop vocal styling and a glitchy electronic component. The resulting mashup moves Judah and company from the farmhouse porch to the urban club in one fell swoop. See how they manage it “unplugged”—tickets for this show are free, but they’re only available through 103.3 The Edge. Tune into the station for more details or visit wedg.com. -CJT

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Chelsea Hodson is a Libra sun. She told me so during the second conversation I’d ever had with her. This is important. In 2014, Hodson’s chapbook Pity the Animal was published by Future Tense Books. It isn’t common for chapbooks to receive as much attention as Hodson’s did, but her poetic essay was widely praised for its masterful prose and stunning insight into voyeurism and objectification. In it, she explores Marina Abramovic’s performance piece, The Artist Is Present, as well as sugar baby websites, her brief career as a fashion model, and the sexual dynamics of Grand Theft Auto. Since its original publication, Pity the Animal has been republished twice, first by Amazon and then by Emily Books, and secured Hodson’s place as an exciting new voice with a debut book rumored to be on the horizon. That book is finally here. Pity the Animal now appears as an essay alongside many other bewitching pieces in Hodson’s debut collection, Tonight I’m Someone Else, out with Henry Holt. In the collection, Hodson builds off of the themes in her chapbook and explores the many other roles her life as an object has taken: At one moment, she’s a biker’s girlfriend, and few male eyes other than his are allowed to meet hers; at another, she’s working the floor of her retail job in a bikini. Enter Hodson’s sun sign: These essays are sexy but they have stars in their eyes. They’re reckless and dramatic, but somehow concurrently tender and clean. Reading these essays feels like listening to Lana Del Rey’s hit song “Radio” over and over again on a drive alone at night. They pine and they sigh, and, oh my god, they are full of so much longing. “When he kissed me, it felt specific,” Hodson writes in the opening essay, “Red Letters from a Red Planet.” “Some men never loved me. I didn’t care. Their names sounded like answers, and I used them as such.” Hodson is also known for her performance art project, Inventory, in which she digitally catalogues every item she owns by photographing herself with each of them individually. In a similar vein, Tonight I’m Someone Else is also a catalogue of sorts—the roles in each essay serve as outfits hung up in Hodson’s closet of former selves. She blends these personal anecdotes with poetic insight and literary criticism in a style that feels very Maggie Nelson or Susan Sontag’s journals, with short vignettes that count on the reader to work a little harder at times to follow the connections that Hodson makes between her own experiences and those she studies in art.

Tonight I’m Someone Else is a debut unlike any other I’ve read in a long time. Hodson’s loving eye for detail and fresh observations on power and desire make me excited about writing and about having a body and about thinking of the ways my body exists in and interacts with the world. Hodson is touring on the back of its release and is coming to Buffalo on June 21 to read for us alongside local heroes Janet McNally, Matthew Bookin, and Julie Molloy. I really hope we see you there. —RACHELLE TOARMINO

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kississippi, gleemer, super american 6:30PM DOORS ◆ $15 ADV/$18 DAY OF SHOW

the real alabama rock ‘n’ roll, don giovanni records recording artists

lee bains iii and the glory fires stationwagon

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INTERVIEW: MICK FOLEY THURSDAY JUNE 14

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8PM / HELIUM COMEDY CLUB, 30 MISSISSIPPI ST. / $25-$75 Pro wrestling fans like to debate who the true “tough guys” of the business are—those who could beat up anyone in a legitimate contest or real-life situation. The most common chart-topper is Tongan powerhouse Meng, who, according to legend, has effortlessly popped out eyeballs and bit off noses in real fights. More relatable to the common man, perhaps, is a wrestler like Mick Foley, who is known for the shocking damage that’s been inflicted on his body much more than anything he’s done to a foe. It makes sense, then, that Foley would connect so intimately with wrestling fans, who can empathize with the sacrificial nature of Foley’s work. Ever giving to his greatest rival, Foley points to the Undertaker when he thinks of real toughness in pro wrestling. “They say there’s nothing tougher than true gentleness and nothing is more gentle than true toughness. And sometimes it takes great toughness to love unconditionally. That’s probably taking things in a different direction, and I’ve heard all the stories about guys clearing out bars—but for my money, the Undertaker showing up that night [at Hell in a Cell] with a broken foot in one of the most dangerous situations ever devised, making the most of the situation and never letting on to the public that he was anything less than 100 percent was about as great of an example of toughness as you can get,” Foley said in an interview with The Public. That legendary 1998 Hell in a Cell match, a touchstone moment preserved in pop culture lore, is the sole topic of Foley’s 20 Years of Hell storytelling tour, which comes to Helium Comedy Club on June 14. The Hell in a Cell match with the Undertaker was an unprecedented spectacle of violence for mainstream pro wrestling. Foley, as his twisted Quasimodo-meets-Hannibal-Lecter Mankind character, was thrown off of the 20-foot-tall cell through a ringside announcer’s table in a historically dangerous moment. Foley’s continuation of the affair, which included an even more excruciating plunge through the ceiling of the cell into the ring, was both superhuman and void of humanity. Foley, who pioneered the “retired wrestler tells stories on stage” genre that many of his peers have latched on to over the past decade, says a favorite musician inspired him to focus on one specific topic for his current tour. “I was just inspired by Bruce Springsteen doing the tour of The River and I thought I would like to do something to commemorate a specific event so the fans would have a better idea of what to expect,” he said. “To this day they really don’t know what they’re going to be seeing. I’m very thankful that they have faith in me, because I think some of the fans think I’m going to show up in a bow tie and tell bad one-liners. But it’s a storytelling show, and making it specific to one match really allows me to take people for a ride.” In many ways, the liberal and personally reserved Foley is an outlier in the pro wrestling world. In a realm where the biggest egos and most pumped up physiques muscled their way to the top, how did Foley, a man of modest spirit and body, become a top-tier legend in the industry? It’s a question he often asks himself. Mick Foley performs his 20 Years of Hell show at Helium Comedy Club on Thursday, June 14. Ticket information is available at buffalo.heliumcomedy.com. -KIP DOYLE

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two major national ska acts converge on the ‘hawk!

the toasters mustard plug the abruptors, the toy box brigade

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major arcana 8PM ◆ $5

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san antonio progressive grunge trio

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armcannon, crippled mess 8PM ◆ $5

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albany folk-punk

a judgmental swarm of bees sunday brunch, worse things, milo duhn, south jersey indie rock aw shucks 8PM ◆ $5

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j.d. wilkes

w/the legendary shack shakers unplugged

chuck mead, kickstart rumble 8PM ◆ $15 ADV./$18 DAY OF SHOW

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6pm Eleven Twenty Projects, 1120 Main St.Free

12:30PM CANALSIDE, 44 PRIME ST. $35-$55

[ART OPENING] The Weimar Safari Guild is a creative collaborative comprising David Mitchell, Jon Eisenberg, and Joseph Stocker—the latter two being the founders of Bureau, the custom clothier on Elmwood Avenue, and Mitchell being a local art star of surpassing renown, whose day job is artistic director of CEPA Gallery. Their show, titled P.S. we still have to find our way off this island, includes video, sculpture, and photography, as well as a multi-channel audio installation. The show is up at Eleven Twenty Projects until July 20, but you’ll want to experience it at the opening reception on Friday, June 15. -TPS

[INDIE] Alternative Buffalo 107.7 has a pretty loaded line up of alt rock, indie rock, and emo arranged for their annual summer bash, Kerfuffle, which takes place this Saturday, June 16. With a bunch of highly recognizable names on the bill, it’s almost tough to tell who the biggest draw is, but the radio station has dubbed L.A.-based alt rock band AWOLNATION headliners, though emo band Taking Back Sunday is likely to garner a pretty big response from local fans too. Headline support also comes from hard rock band Manchester Orchestra, party pop duo Matt & Kim, synth-pop duo Marian Hill, EDM outsider Robert DeLong, and more. All in all nine bands will take the stage for an entire day of music this Saturday at Canalside. -CORY PERLA

The Toasters with Mustard Plug 7pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $14-$17

[PUNK] It’s a punk rock and ska throwback this Friday, June 15 at Mohawk Place. After 37 years, the Toasters are still at it and they’re bringing along their friends and fellow ska veterans, Mustard Plug along for the ride. Additional support comes from the Abruptors and the Toy Box Brigade. -CP

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5PM / ARTPARK, 450 SOUTH 4TH ST. / $12-$27 [AMERICANA] Multi-instrumentalist Bruce Hornsby may never have eclipsed the commercial success of his 1986 RCA debut, The Way It Is, but his career as a touring musician has remained quite fertile. Morphing between different bands and collaborations, including a well documented stint in the Grateful Dead, Hornsby is a musical chameleon that refuses to stop working, often juggling multiple projects at once. His latest album with The Noisemakers, who will accompany him at Artpark on Tuesday, June 19, is entitled Rehab Reunion (429 Records, 2016) and is notable in that he doesn’t play any keyboards on it. Instead, Hornsby is on the dulcimer – just one more surprise in his ongoing musical circus. Also on the bill at Artpark on Tuesday are the Wood Brothers, supporting One Drop of Truth from earlier this year. Despite being recorded piecemeal in multiple different studios over a year with four different mixing talents, the album presents as cohesive a collection of Wood Brothers tunes as any. This attests to the trio’s chemistry — two-thirds familial — which as grown increasingly well-honed over the last dozen years. It’s an Americana-steeped night to remember in Lewiston. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

SATURDAY JUNE 16 Buffalo Living Tour 9:15am Various Locations,

[REAL ESTATE] The good-weather version of Buffalo is awash in quality tours geared towards visitors or those looking to deepen their understanding of local history, but no such tour is quite like the Buffalo Living Tour, a daylong showcase of new upscale apartment locations through the city for prospective tenants, investors, or simply nosy Good Neighbors. It kicks off at the new-build Axis 360 building newly looming over the intersection of Main and LaSalle Avenue and then continues down Buffalo's Main Street spine into downtown with a total of eight locations with the ninth being Shea's Seneca in South Buffalo. Free shuttles leave every 15 minutes from Axis 360 at 89 LaSalle Avenue on Saturday morning beginning at 9:15am, or you can opt to bike the whole route. -TPS

BRUCE HORNSBY & WOOD BROTHERS TUESDAY JUNE 19

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7PM / DARIEN LAKE, 9993 S ALLEGHANY RD / $45-$149

4pm Artpark, 450 South 4th St.

[TRIBUTE] When John Mayer joined forces with Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann to form Dead & Company (along with Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti), many figured it wouldn’t last. The addition of Mayer, known mainly for his guitar-driven-but-breezy radio pop, struck older Dead enthusiasts as blasphemy (he essentially fills in for Jerry Garcia) and…hadn’t they just done a series of farewell shows in Chicago? Perhaps those shows were done with this in mind: a new era for what remains of the Grateful Dead. And it has been a roaring success. ROARING. Perhaps the biggest surprise remains Mayer’s competence as a bluesman with capable improv chops, not to mention a penchant for blue-eyed soul vocals that sweeten those rickety GD harmonies of old. Hard as it may be to believe, the Grateful Dead remains alive and well in this latest incarnation— and the shows continue to sell out. Tuesday, June 19 at Darien Lake P Ampitheater. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

[JOYCE] The annual local celebration of single, rather ordinary date immortalized in 20th century letters will be honored this Saturday at Artpark in conjunction with the Summer Soltice Festival also being held at the same location. The Bloomsday event will run from 4-7pm and will include staged readings, songs, and as always a few tricks and dirty jokes hidden along the way to commemorate the adventures of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's mastepiece 1922 novel Ulysses. -AL

We’ll Always Have Casablanca: Flashbacks in the Fog 7pm Rust Belt Books, 415 Grant St $10

[THEATER] So, here’s the truth: There’s no previewing a theatrical event at Rust Belt Books, that Grant Street oasis. We can tell you what we’re told to tell you about We’ll Always Have Casablanca: Flashbacks in the Fog—that local playwrights and actors will present vignettes that call on flashbacks, both cultural classics and new inventions, and that these presentations will possibly incorporate marionettes and multimedia elements. (Some titles: “We’ll Always Have Casablanca by Michael Fannelli, “He Is…He Said” by Mark C. Lloyd, “Dominatrix of a Salesman” by Darryl Schneider, “PAC From the Future” by Jon Elston.) But we can’t tell you what will happen. You need to just go. Performances the next two Saturdays, June 16 and 23, at 7pm, and the next two Sundays, June 17 and 24, at 2pm. Presented by Buffalo Writers’ Theater. -GK

Sloan 9pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $30

[ALTERNATIVE] Last time they came to town, Canadian alt rock band, Sloan played their hit 1996 album One Chord to Another in its entirety. This time around, expect to hear cuts from across their entire discography, including their latest, this year’s 12, when the four-piece band comes to Buffalo Iron Works for a show on Saturday, June 16. -CP

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Bad Bad Hats

Gusto Vinyl Happy Hour: Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue”

Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore

7pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $10-$12

[POP] A Minneapolis-born trio, Bad Bad Hats makes indie pop that's built around Kerry Alexander's breathy warble, but the band has hinted at being capable of more than the generic sound of its debut, It Hurts, in the five years since it was released on the MN-based Afternoon label. Listening to "Write It on Your Heart," the first single of the forthcoming Lightening Round, the band's second full length due out in August, it's clear that big strides have been made. The production value has increased significantly, but with it comes a sound more sophisticated, rhythmically complex and emotionally engaging than anything prior. Hopefully they'll be road-testing some more of the new songs when they play at Babeville's 9th Ward on Sunday, June 17 with our own HoneyCOMA. Doors are at 7pm, $10/$12. -CJT

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7pm Sportsmen’s Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $7

[MUSIC] Never let it be said we don’t give due credit to our colleagues at the Buffalo News when they do something great. The new monthly Gusto Vinyl Happy Hour series at Sportsmen’s Tavern is definitely great: Each month, Buffalo News music critic Jeff Miers and 97 Rock DJ Anita West pick a classic record, play parts of it, and open the floor to a discussion of the record. Then a group of musicians take the stage to play selections from the record, too. This month is installment number two, and it’s a doozy: Miles Davis’s seminal Kind of Blue, one of the great jazz records of all time. The live ensemble comprises Jay Moynihan on sax, Jim Bohm on trumpet (bless his heart), Bobby Jones on piano, and Declan Miers (that’s Jeff’s unbelievably talented son) on bass. It takes place this Monday, June 18, and there's a $7 door charge. -GK

7pm Sportsmen’s Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $40

[ROOTS MUSIC] You cannot pack more rockand-roll—infected by whatever you’ve got: country, punk, blues, old-timey music—on to one stage than will roll out of the tour bus that carries Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore to the Sportsmen’s Tavern on Wednesday, June 20. I suppose any musician who’s been touring and recording for 40plus years earns the adjective “legendary,” or at the very least "long-lasting," but these two have earned their stripes from their very beginnings, Alvin as a founder of the punk outfit the Blasters and Gilmore with the Flatlanders. Alvin and Gilmore are touring in support of a new collaborative album, Downey to Lubbock, coming out this month on Yep Roc Records. (The title refers to the towns in California and Texas in which Allvin and Gilmore, respectively, began their mausical careers.) The record is the fruit of time spent together touring last year: They liked each other’s company so much they headed into the studio, and now they’re on P tour together again—lucky us. -GK

SPOTLIGHT MUSIC always pinpoint exactly what it is. It seems to be the feeling that’s created between the four of us. Sometimes if we’re improvising we’ll get on these weird telepathic wavelengths and it’s just fun. All four of us work really hard musically, on our own individually, to become better musicians every year and to keep pushing our boundaries and bring in influences outside of what people might expect of us, but ultimately we really try to work together and create something as a unit and try to be a team. So much of that comes from friendship. We try to do stuff that will make each other smile on stage. Is there a challenge to maintaining such a tight friendship?

Aqueous (L-R): Evan McPhaden, Rob Houk, Mike Gantzer, David Loss. Photo by Nick Sonricker.

AQUEOUS BY CORY PERLA EACH FESTIVAL SEASON, Buffalo-based jam

band Aqueous see their name inching closer and closer to the top of some pretty major festival bills. This summer, most notably, they’ll play two sets at one of the city’s most anticipated local festivals, Cobblestone Live!, on July 27 and 28 in the Cobblestone Distrcit alongside headliners Broken Social Scene and fellow jam bands like Turkuaz. In May the band played at Summer Camp music festival in Chillicothe, Illinois with acts like moe., Umphrey’s McGee, Diplo, and Cypress Hill. In July, just before Cobblestone Live!, they’ll set up at Electric Forest in Rothbury, Michigan, where they’ll share the festival stage with acts like the String Cheese Incident, Bonobo, Cut Copy, and Bassnectar. “Electric Forest is chaos. That’s one of the biggest festivals we’ve played,” says Aqueous guitarist Mike Gantzer. When I meet up with Gantzer at his house on the West Side of Buffalo to chat about his band— which also includes bassist Evan McPhaden, drummer Rob Houk, and guitarist Dave Loss— he’s a week off from the band’s spring tour. They went on what he calls a light tour, 25 to 30 dates, so that they could finish up recording a new album. During our meeting, he tells me a little bit about his favorite recent festival experiences. At last year’s Summer Camp music festival, Gantzer joined members of Umphrey’s McGee for a Green Day tribute. They played as a trio during a late-night jam. “I didn’t know what to expect,” says Gantzer. “It was like a three in the morning thing in a tent and there were a couple thousand kids moshing to Dookie.” Running up to the festival, the band was on tour with Umphrey’s McGee, so Gantzer would rehearse Green Day songs with them in their spare time. He also found himself practicing alone, re-learning some of the songs he first learned to play on guitar in high school. “‘Brain Stew’ was probably the first song I ever learned to play, and I didn’t even play it right,” Gantzer says, sipping from a cup of tea, sitting in his living room, an XBox controller on the couch next to him. Touring with a band like Umphrey’s McGee, let alone jamming with them on stage is a big deal to Gantzer, who grew up listening to the band, which has become synonymous with jam music. “We try to play it cool and quietly appreciate moments like that, but it’s definitely a big deal for us. I grew up listening to that band. When

we were younger we listened to a lot more of the jam band stuff, like Umphrey’s and moe. and Phish and stuff. We don’t as much anymore just because of a natural evolvement of where our interests went musically, but that’s where a lot of our roots are.” The term “jam band” has become a loaded term that for some evokes scenes of drugged-out hippies mindlessly swaying in a field, listening to the endless noodling of a band taking themselves too seriously. But, of course, many fans of the genre view the term differently—they see as a group of musicians, sometimes virtuosic in talent, working together to create new sounds, much of the time on the fly in a live setting. “The term can be used in a negative way,” says Ryan Bress, Aqueous’s sound and lighting technician. “In the jam band scene there a lot of bands that can taint the term because it’s sometimes used to refer to bands that like to noodle a lot or don’t have that much structure. Aqueous does a great job of being more structured. The way that they jam is not so much noodling, but well constructed jams in the sense that they’re really good at knowing when they’ve exhausted a certain groove.” This week we talked to Gantzer about his thoughts on the term, how his band uses sign language on stage, their growing legion of super fans, drugs, and the bromance that is Aqueous. Do you embrace the term jam band?

Yes and no. I think that the general understanding of that term is kind of negative in connotation. People assume a lot when people hear that term. You can get grouped in with a lot of things. I think specifically with Aqueous, we’re not a lot of those things. So I’m careful with using the word. I’m definitely not offended by it, because in so many ways, Aqueous is a jam band. There’s no way around that. That’s mostly, I think, in our live show. We took a lot of the cues from that culture. We’re playing two sets every night, doing a lot of improvising within song structures. I definitely think that’s where we were born out of, but I think sometimes people think of jam bands as like a band playing an A minor chord for 30 minutes and just noodling over it, and I hope to God that’s not what we are. What is the defining feature of Aqueous?

Honestly, I think it’s our friendship. I’m starting to understand that there’s this intangible thing that our fans seem to latch onto and they can’t

You see it with bands all the time that they have this great thing on an artistic level but just don’t get along as people. You see that with so many different bands, big and small. Of course, over the course of 10 or 11 years, you’re going to have ups and downs. Even with people you’re really close to you, can hate them for a minute or feel frustrated, but to be honest we started this young enough that a lot of the pitfalls that a band faces in those early years, we traversed those early on. By the time things were getting serious, with touring, playing bigger shows and festivals, we were pretty darn good friends. I think we passed a threshold around the age of 24 or 25 where we were going to be friends forever. Your trajectory as a band has been so steadily upward. There hasn’t been that explosive moment yet, but each year I see your names further up on festival bills.

We’re just starting to see our work pay off. We average between 115 and 150 shows a year, so we’re out there. I think it’s just hustle. We keep it interesting for ourselves and our fans and that was another cue we took from some earlier jam bands—always be mixing it up, change up set lists, and keep things fresh. Always be working on new material, always keep people guessing, so to speak. I think that has helped us grow. How do you keep it mixed up for the fans? How many originals do you guys have?

I would say in terms of originals we’re somewhere between 40 and 50 that are in rotation. In a typical headlining Aqueous show we might play five to six songs per set. The compositions themselves, when you whittle it down to a studio version they’re typically between five and nine minutes. But when you’re improvising during a live set, suddenly an hour and 15 minutes is gone in four or five tunes. That’s a beautiful thing about the jam scene; we don’t have to go out and play the same 18-song setlist every single night in the same order. Part of my role, and something I spend a lot of time on, is writing our setlist. I spend a lot of time analyzing what we played in a city or region the last time we played there to make sure we either do no repeats or are really careful not to give people even a close to similar experience as they had last time.

track of a lot of it. We send them the setlist with annotations and notes every night and they database it on our website. If you go to aqueousband.com, there’s a tab that says setlists and it has every single show from 2006 or 2007 on. Every time we play there is a whole notes section. During improv sections all sorts of funny weird stuff can happen. In Rochester, during a set break we were joking around singing a Randy Newman song, “Short People,” and we were like what if we just threw this in just for a second? So we kind of learned it in our 15-minute break and threw that into the middle of one of our songs. So when you go to write out the setlist after the fact, we make note of where that was played. It’s actually more common for us to just work in stuff like that off the cuff, though, usually in a silly way. We take the music side really seriously, as far as our musicianship goes, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Do jams ever derail?

As the years pass you learn to recover from moments like that, but those moments become inevitable. A lot of times it’s weird stuff like gear breaking in the middle of important moments. If something goes wrong on a gear level, we have hand signals that we use, which we use for improvising anyways. We have different hand signals—like a signal to stay on the chord that we’re on, or to keep something going. Typically it’s like one person misses a cue and usually you know what’s happened pretty quickly—like if we are calling for a change and you missed it, you can just jump to the next change. Let’s talk a little bit more about how communication happens on stage.

We use a bunch of sign language. Like actual sign language or your own version?

A mixture of actual sign language that a deaf person would use and our own little symbols that we’ve come up with. We’ll use the first couple letters of the sign language alphabet to signal key changes—A, B, C, D. A closed fist will be like the signal to tighten up. A lot of it is playing with dynamics. We recently started experimenting with a talk-back microphone. We all have in ear monitors so we can hear each other and I’ll use a talk-back mic—like a normal stage mic that’s behind me—so I can talk to my bandmates. The audience can’t hear it but they can. To be honest, 90 percent of the time we’re just using it for jokes and to screw with each other just for fun, but when you talk about moments that get derailed, that’s the most efficient way to handle that. I can be, like, “Hey, stay on this chord change, holy shit, I have to fix my stuff.” But on our best nights we don’t need any of that; our improvisation just comes out, and it’s incredible.

You keep close track of your setlists.

It’s funny because our fan group does that. So we have to keep up with them. They love the stats. We have fans that keep track of how many shows they’ve seen, what percentage of the time they hear a particular tune. It’s really cool. You’ve gotten to the point where you have super fans that need to have a live show stream of a show the next day. What’s that like?

It’s great! We started working with a website called Nugs.net, which is a streaming service kind of like Spotify, but specifically for live music. Our sound and light engineer, Ryan Bress, multi-track records and mixes every single show and puts it out within a few days. That’s a lot of work but it’s great for the fans because besides the people who are in the audience from club to club, there’s also all of these people online who are following every single show, so you have to change it up. It’s been challenging but it’s a great challenge. That’s a great place to be in because it pushes you to think outside of your boundaries.

What inspired the hand signals?

It came out of necessity. We needed a better way to communicate with each other. There’s bands that we’ve seen do that over the years. I never really knew what they were doing and it kind of occurred to me later how good of a system that is. Nonverbal communication became critical. Your last show in Buffalo was on New Year’s Even at the Town Ballroom and your next show will be at the Cobblestone Live! Festival in July. That’s a long time between hometown shows.

Is that a lot to keep track of?

We’re touring so much these days that we only get to Buffalo two or three times a year. Which is a far cry from where we started. I was looking for fun today on our website, and as we were building the band we played Nietzsche’s 32 times. Doing Town Ballroom on New Year’s sold out, so that was a huge deal for us. That’s like the venue. It’s weird, identifying so much as a Buffalo band and having so much pride from being from this city, we don’t get to spend as much time in it as we’d like.

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GIVING US THE BIRD THE SEAGULL BY GEORGE SAX REVIEWING SIDNEY LUMET’S straightforward adaptation

of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962), the eminent film critic Pauline Kael rhetorically asked what was so wrong about a faithful record of a great play. There was a real benefit, she thought, in making such a work available to audiences who wouldn’t otherwise have that opportunity. So what if such “transcriptions” were called anti-cinematic. Such complaints, she seemed to suggest, were academic carping. Michael Mayer’s new version of Anton Chekhov’s groundbreaking play, The Seagull, hardly reflects that sentiment. In fact, it doesn’t reflect it at all. He’s followed the now-standard approach of opening up a theatrical work for the camera and the screen. This has often worked well enough, with plays by authors from Tennessee Williams to Alan Bennett, but the successful cases usually involved some restraint and feeling for the source. Here, Chekhov’s renowned subtleties and singular mix of ambiguity and pointedness are too often challenged and flattened by technique. His tragicomic portrayal of uneasy and traumatic relationships are, with annoying frequency, overwhelmed by Mayer’s busy, distracting direction. One might have expected that Mayer, a successful stage director (Spring Awakening, Hedwig and the Angry Inch) would bring more finesse and understanding to his direction. Instead, he’s unduly devoted himself to briskly propelling his movie along, losing too much of Chekhov’s flavor and tenor along the way. He had a gifted, unusually capable cast to work with and the actors have been able to capture moments when the Seagull’s sad, stymied characters come across with Chekhov’s combination of poignance and irony. There is, first of all, the inestimable Annette Bening as Irina Arkadina, star actress and prima donna in the Moscow theatre of the 1890s. Called back to her rural childhood home by the illness of her elder brother Sorin (Brian Dennehy, deftly understated), she’s confronted by her rebelliously resentful son Konstantin (Billy Howle). He acts out his oedipally tortured connection to his mother, and his sense of her neglect, in part, by writing a radically “advanced” play that challenges her prominence in the conventional theatre.

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