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LOOKING BACKWARD: Engine No. 22, 1522 Broadway, circa 1900.

COMMENTARY: Attorney Art Giacalone reflects on the Buffalo Billion verdict.

CENTERFOLD: Esther Lan, from the 44th annual Hallwalls members show.

SPOTLIGHT: Meet First Ward’s Josh Mullin and Zak Ward.

CROSSWORD: Another devilish puzzle by Matt Jones.

ON THE COVER: MARIE PRINCE‘s School Room is part of a group exhibition at Artists Group Gallery (1 Linwood Avenue), on view through August 17.

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UPS: SUNLIGHT, THE BEST DISINFECTANT: A case investigated and tried by the Southern District of New York came back with guilty verdicts for all four defendants on corruption charges, including Buffalo developer and power broker Louis Ciminelli. We don’t imagine this is the end of bid-rigging and the at-times incestual relationship between electeds and developers, but it’s a cautionary tale. And hopefully the case, opened by former US Attorney Preet Bharara, emboldens prosecutors statewide to target corruption.

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Aspiring star-gazers in Western New York can once again look toward the heavens at the BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE. Visitors can enjoy the KELLOGG OBSERVATORY, housed under a new aluminized-steel rotating dome, and look through the refurbished and modernized eight-inch Lundin telescope, for the first time since 1999. The rooftop space also boasts a new glass enclosure featuring stairs and an elevator, making the space accessible for people with physical disabilities for the first time ever. The opening of the observatory, commemorated with a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday, completes the museum’s ambitious $8 million “See It Through” capital campaign which has helped modernize every aspect of the 1929 space. Marisa Wigglesworth, president and CEO of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, said the $1.8 million return of the observatory fits in well with the rapid growth of the City of Buffalo. She’s excited for the observatory to play its part in Buffalo’s scientific and cultural renaissance. “Looking through a telescope with your own eye into deep space and a remarkable view of the planets in our solar system is a remarkable experience unlike any other,” Wigglesworth said. “This is a huge milestone in our organization’s history and it took years to get to this day. We received so much support from the community and we’re really thrilled to finally open it back up to the public.”

DOWNS: It’s rare for government investigation reports to bleed from damning to scathing, but the state COMMISSION OF CORRECTIONS MEDICAL REVIEW BOARD did exactly that in its conclusion on the 2016 death of inmate INDIA CUMMINGS: “The medical and mental health care provided to Cummings by Erie County during the course of incarceration, and her care, custody and safekeeping by Erie County sheriff deputies was so grossly incompetent and inadequate as to shock the conscience,” reads the report, according to the Buffalo News. The details of how county staff, from both the sheriff ’s office and the county’s medical and mental health staff, failed to intervene as Cummings deteriorated physically and mentally over the 20 days between her arrest and her death are flat-out horrific. In response to Trump’s stunning concession of the new Cold War to Russia, CONGRESSMAN CHRIS COLLINS— our local hero, the first member of Congress to endorse candidate Trump in 2016—released a string of gibberish in support of his president. The statements include assertions that should be parsed individually: 1) The “left” wants to “nullify” Trump’s election with claims of “Russian interference.” That would be impossible and is being said or attempted by no one. 2) “Russian meddling did not make a difference in the election.” Whoa, buddy, you said just a sentence earlier that Russian interference was just a distracting claim, now it’s a fact? 3) “Mueller investigation” should come to a “conclusion.” If the investigation is still ongoing, how are you so confident there was no collusion or meddling? 4) “I urge the President to work with Congress” to prevent any future meddling. Great idea! Can’t wait to see your proposal, especially considering you’re in Congress! 5) “This is something” Obama failed to do. Read: The thing that’s not really a problem and shouldn’t even be investigated but should be solved with legislation is only real inasmuch as it can be blamed on the black guy who used to be president.

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NEWS COMMENTARY Not surprisingly, the New York Times focused its headline on Alain E. Kaloyeros, the former president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute— “Architect of Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion Project Is Convicted in Bid-Rigging Scheme.” But its readers did not have to wade too far into the article to find reference to the conspiracy and wire fraud convictions of “Louis Ciminelli of LPCiminelli.” So a good chunk of the world now knows what spell-check has been presciently alluding to for quite some time.

HAND-WRINGING AND HYPOCRISY It didn’t take long for a slew of rather predictable reactions to materialize on-line and in the media in response to the July 12 convictions. Here’s a sampling of headlines: “Cuomo opponents, watchdog groups pounce on Buffalo Billion verdicts.” “Nixon wants probe of Cuomo admin after crony found guilty in Buffalo Billion.” Alain Kaloyeros and Lou Ciminelli, both found guilty last week in the Buffalo Billion corruption trial. Photos courtesy of wgrz.com.

“Buffalo Billion verdict warrants further action.” “Cuomo distances himself from disgraced pal after conviction.” What caught my eye were the words Paul Shechtman, Louis P. Ciminelli’s attorney.

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REFLECTIONS ON THE BUFFALO BILLION VERDICT BY ART GIACALONE AS A CITIZEN, I wish that the convictions

handed down on Thursday in the Southern District of New York’s federal court shocked me. They didn’t. I’ve seen too much during the 29 years that I’ve been an observer of developmentrelated government decision-making. Zoning, land use, and construction decisions are made at what I view as the intersection of politics and greed. It’s an unattractive and discouraging place to be if you believe that citizens deserve both an open and fair process, and government officials who truly strive to function lawfully and in a manner intended to benefit society as a whole. I feel saddened, not vindicated, by the convictions. What is most troubling is a realization that the Lou Ciminellis of this world—and the compliant government officials with whom they interact—may truly believe that they’ve done nothing wrong. After all, that’s how the system has always worked. I have no profound recommendations. There are no magic wands to wave. We must intelligently exercise our right to vote, and select honest

and courageous representatives. But we human beings are flawed. Self-interest—whether it’s the developer’s greed or the politician’s desire for power—will always be a motivating force when choices are being made.

admittedly, may be of greater significance than others) relating to the Buffalo Billion verdict.

One thing is certain. The problem of corruption will not go away as long as publications such as the Buffalo News continue to express opinions like the one made in its July 14, 2018 editorial, “Corruption reigns”: “But it is important to draw a distinction between valuable economic development and the corruption that may come to play.”

The real world has finally caught up with my computer’s spell-checker.

I beg to differ. Whether we’re talking about decisions being made in Albany by the Cuomo administration, or in Buffalo under the auspices of Mayor Byron Brown and our very common Common Council, the ends do not justify the means. The integrity of the decision-making process— the how and why decisions are being made—is of equal, if not greater, importance than the outcomes of those determinations. Here’s a few other thoughts I have (some,

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I had noticed years ago that whenever I used the word “Ciminelli” in a document, the ubiquitous wavy-red line showed up under this well-known Buffalo family name. To my amusement, the first spell-check suggestion was always “criminally.” Now the proffered spelling option seems like more than just a quirky coincidence. There actually is an official, tangible connection between Ciminelli and illegal, unlawful, or illegitimate activity. News of the conspiracy and wire fraud convictions has not only been splashed across the front page of the Buffalo News. Thanks to the elephant-in-the-room throughout the month-long trial—Andrew Cuomo—interest in the story has far exceeded the boundaries of Mr. Ciminelli’s hometown.

While we may have crossed paths in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the mid-1970s while attending Harvard Law School, I don’t know Mr. Shechtman. He certainly has had an impressive legal career. And his political connections run deep, including appointments by former New York Governor George Pataki as chair of New York State’s Ethics Commission and Commission on Lobbying. So Paul Shechtman’s words in the July 13 Buffalo News, under a black banner and the words “BUFFALO BILLION: THE VERDICT,” strike a chord: “I have never been more deeply disappointed in my professional life. I don’t think there was any evidence against Lou Ciminelli. The fact that 12 people saw it differently renders me speechless.” Lou Ciminelli’s high-priced New York City attorney appears to be feeling the same way that I have felt all too often while representing common folk in Western New York who dare to question the wisdom of a proposed development project. I have repeatedly experienced deep disappointment in my chosen career. Whether it was a city or town’s legislative body, a highly respected member of Congress, my own city councilmember, or a state Supreme Court judge. I have found it difficult to fathom how government officials could honestly view things so differently than my clients and I. Reporting on the Buffalo Billion verdict did provide one good laugh, thanks to the absurdity of the words attributed to Carl Paladino, Buffalo businessman and unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate:

LOOKING BACKWARD: ENGINE NO. 22, CIRCA 1900 Engine No. 22, 1522 Broadway, was built from 1890 to 1891 and designed in a Romanesque Revival style by August C. Esenwein. It is still a firehouse to this day, and is the city’s second oldest still in use, behind Engine No. 19 (built in 1887) at 209 Forest Avenue. Engine No. 22 predates the majority of buildings still standing in the Broadway/Bailey neighborhood, and may be the oldest surviving Esenwein-

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COMMENTARY NEWS A longtime critic of both Ciminelli and Cuomo praised the jury’s verdicts. “We’ve seen in Ciminelli’s case, greed took over in his life. You’d have to be a fool not to connect the dots back to Cuomo,” said Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, who unsuccessfully ran against Cuomo for governor in 2010. Paladino added that “there’s always going to be someone who wants to do a shortcut and develops a relationship with crooked politicians. This is just the tip of the iceberg for a guy like Cuomo.” The hypocrisy—or self-deception—evident in dear Carl’s comment is mind-boggling. As I posted more than four years ago—following a “New Urbanism” conference held in Buffalo— the relationship between Mr. Paladino and Mayor Brown is precisely why Buffalo’s residents should not expect any major change in the way local officials choose one project or neighborhood over another.

BEYOND BID-RIGGING Benjamin Weiser and Jesse McKinley, New York Times reporters, did a nice job succinctly describing the crux of the Buffalo Billion scandal: … [A]t the trial, the prosecution presented evidence that Dr. Kaloyeros and Todd R. Howe, a former lobbyist with ties to Mr. Cuomo, conspired to defraud Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, a nonprofit real estate arm of SUNY Polytechnic, by steering lucrative contracts to two firms whose executives were significant donors to Mr. Cuomo’s campaign. As part of the scheme, Dr. Kaloyeros and Mr. Howe tailored requests for proposals, or RFPs, to fit the specific qualifications possessed by the two companies — LPCiminelli, a Buffalo construction management firm, and COR Development, a Syracuse-area firm — and ensure that they be chosen by Fort Schuyler for the projects. LPCiminelli, for example, received a contract to build what became a $750 million solarpanel plant on the banks of the Buffalo River, while COR received contracts worth more than $100 million for other projects. Both firms were clients of Mr. Howe’s. There are subtler ways than the Buffalo Billion bid-rigging scheme that political contributions and crony capitalism taint the decisionmaking process. I’ve observed an unsettling correlation between major contributions to Andrew Cuomo and receipt of an “environmental free pass”—that is, approval of major construction projects without the time and expense of an Environmental Impact Statement (which is the most effective tool the public has to influence development-related

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Efforts to get South District Councilman Christopher Scanlon to explain this discrepancy have not been successful. Arthur J. Giacalone has been living, practicing law, and challenging authority in Western New York for four decades, and currently resides in the City of Buffalo’s Cazenovia Park neighborhood. He write about all these things P at his blog, With All Due Respect.

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NEWS COMMENTARY right behind the church and rectory, I rang the doorbell and was let in and directed up to his quarters by the church secretary. Silverio never said a word when I went for a third soda or a second bag of chips that were in a box on top of the mini-fridge in his personal bathroom. He was always really nice to me, never yelling or correcting me like my dad, coaches, and every other adult with whom I had contact. There was also the fact that my association with him elevated me and my family in the community. So when the wrestling started and he went for my balls—given the food, celebrity, the lack of yelling, and my youthful naiveté—I was hardly in a position to understand how I was being manipulated and certainly in no position to defend myself. As with the tickling in the car, my objections were smoothly deflected, as if somehow I was the one who was out of step.

P. A. Kane says he and his brothers were molested by their parish priest, Ron Silverio, in the early 1970s. Silverio eventually left the priesthood and became CEO of AIDS Community Services and Evergreen Health Services.

FEAR AND LOATHING A CATHOLIC PRIEST BY P. A. KANE

ALMOST 50 YEARS AFTER THE FACT, THE AUTHOR RECALLS HIS MOLESTATION BY HIS SOUTH BUFFALO PARISH PRIEST

THE BREACH I can’t remember if my younger brother and I found it strange or if we resisted his request that we sleep in separate beds, in separate rooms. What I do remember, what is burned in my psychic apparatus for all eternity, is him coming into the darkened room where I was pretending to be asleep, sidling up next to me on the sofa bed, and breathing on me. Hot, excited breath that filled me with a paralyzing terror as he pulled down my sweatpants and scrutinized my 12-year old body by the thin light of a flashlight before gently touching and stroking my genitals. In that bed, in those interminable minutes under the heat of his wheezing breath and that little flashlight, so alone and afraid, part of me died. Murdered by a priest who had infiltrated our family and played out his repressed sexual desires on innocent boys who thought he was their friend, who thought he treated them well because they were special, who thought he visited their house because his family was special. It was all a ruse.

THE SETUP We were playing in the street—a game called running bases that simulated a baseball rundown— and hardly noticed him as he walked by and up to the steps to our front door. After a moment he was let in, and my brother and I looked quizzically at each other. We called time on running bases to find out who had just entered our house. Inside, our dad was in his spot at the end of the couch. Sitting in the chair opposite him, dressed in shirt sleeves and slacks and being served a drink by my mom, was Father Silverio, the new, young parish priest who had baptized my baby sister several weeks earlier at Holy Family Church in South Buffalo. My dad was beaming at this unexpected visit. I knew not to interrupt their conversation but listened attentively, picking off demographic information: where he was from, what other parishes he had ministered to, how long he had been a priest. 6

We waited and listened, fidgeting and probably getting yelled at here and there. As he was leaving my brother and I stopped him on the porch and asked our burning question: What was he doing here? He looked us in the eye and said, “Visiting,” a totally unacceptable answer. He was the guy on the altar in those brightly colored robes commanding mass and speaking of life and death, heaven and hell. Why would he visit us? And where was the black uniform with the collar?

and then mixed again with regular milk. (Corn Flakes never tasted so good.) If our dad caught you drinking the milk straight out of the carton before it was mixed with the lumpy powder, there was hell to pay. We envied people rich enough to drink straight milk; if you had Pepsi or Coke, you were the Rockefellers. I remember being at a cousin’s first communion party and starting a third glass of soda and my dad yelling from across the room to put it down, embarrassing the shit out of me.

As we walked with him to his car he explained that he was new to the area and was making friends with some of the families in the parish. He assured us this was completely normal and that he was only required to wear the collar to conduct official church business. I was skeptical. Though I was young, unsophisticated, and unaware of the effort to put a more human face on the church as a result of Vatican II, our whole world was comprised of Catholics, and I had never seen or heard of such a thing—of being friends with a priest. That would be like being friends with the mayor. It didn’t happen to people who moved in our circles.

Silverio soon started to take my brothers and me, while totally ignoring our sisters, for ice cream. He let us get whatever we wanted—sprinkles, chocolate syrup, cherries, the works.

My instincts would be proved right. We must have cut quite an intriguing picture to Silverio that spring Sunday morning in 1972 when our whole family stayed after mass to see our baby sister baptized—tired, emotionally detached parents and 10 mostly obedient kids, six of whom were handsome blond boys ranging in age from three to 14. We presented a perfect amalgamation of size, devoutness, social ambition, and parental exhaustion for a predator to manipulate. And manipulate he did, showing up at our house regularly for dinner and having long conversations with our dad about the liturgy and history of the church. My father valued these conversations greatly, and Silverio’s visits to our house gave our family instant status in the parish. My older siblings were stars as part of the band at the folk mass on Sundays, in the church plays, at CYO. Though mostly in the background, I too felt the buzz of this church celebrity. All of this was not lost on Silverio. Also not lost on Silverio was how hungry we were. We weren’t hungry in the sense that we didn’t have enough to eat, because we always did. We were hungry in the sense that in a family of our size food was regulated, so everybody got their fair share. To save money we used powdered milk, which was mixed with water

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Eventually, he started to invite us to the church rectory. The first time was a January afternoon in 1973, when a bunch of us, including my teenage brothers, were invited by Silverio to watch a hockey game on TV, the Sabres versus the Bruins. It was a game we were all dying to see, since a month earlier the upstart Sabres took it to the mighty Bruins 7-3, with Jim Schoenfeld beating the shit out of Wayne Cashman after crashing through the boards where the Zamboni entered the rink. In the rematch, Phil Esposito killed the Sabres from the slot while I nearly got sick on the endless pizza and sodas Silverio provided. When the game was all but decided by Esposito’s hat-trick, Silverio started to wrestle playfully with the older boys. Though he was young and vibrant in his late 20s, the wrestling struck me as odd. Messing around, you maybe punched someone in the arm once in a while, but absent a serious conflict you tried to express your dominance by talking shit or beating somebody on the field of play, not fake wrestling.

Soon enough, though, things changed. Alone in his quarters, the lighthearted tickling and wrestling became aggressive. His breath would become hot and heavy as he pressed his thick erect dick against me while pawing at my penis. During the wrestling he encouraged me to touch his penis, too, and I did maybe once or twice, but it felt wrong and unnatural. As horrible as all of this was, the most disturbing thing was the hot, heavy breathing and gasping. Deep and pugnacious, it was like no other sound I have ever heard before or since, and I can recall it as if it were yesterday, as if it were five minutes ago.

UPPING THE GAME I remember fighting back the tears when Silverio said goodbye to the parish at his last mass. I don’t know why he was transferred, but associate priests were constantly shuffled in and out of the parish all the time. Curiously, though, as I was on the way home from that last mass, walking behind a group of older boys from our street, one of them turned to me, laughing, and said, “Guess Father Silverio won’t be grabbing your balls anymore.” I didn’t know what to make of this comment, but it turned out not to be true. He would go to Mount Carmel parish in Niagara Falls, a 30-minute car ride to the north, and would be free to take my brother and I on overnight visits. It still made me feel special when Silverio came for us. At his new rectory in Niagara Falls, after the tickling and wrestling had momentarily run its course, there wasn’t anything to do there. We would maybe watch TV, play some board games, and at least one time I remember bringing my ice skates and going to open skate at the rink that was a short walk away. Of course, food was huge, and we would have fabulous dinners prepared by the rectory cook. Showering was also a big thing. At home we had one bathroom, and if you took more than a two-minute shower someone else would be shafted on the hot water and you never heard the end of it. At the rectory there must have been a 500-gallon hot-water tank because you could shower till your skin was peeling away. The price you paid was Silverio would come in the bathroom under some false pretense and casually pull back the shower curtain and ask if you had enough soap or some other bullshit. He would leer at your naked body for several long moments in a way that was wanton and lustful, discomforting and humiliating.

There were other odd things, too. Sitting in the front seat on the way to get ice cream he began to touch me (and others, I suppose) in the groin area. When I called him on it, he said it was just tickling, no big deal, almost as if this were the way everyone tickled and I were ignorant in some way. The day of the hockey game I saw nothing untoward in the wrestling but looking back I now understand this was probably the setup for when he got me alone in the coming days—a methodical, well planned setup.

It seems curious now that my brother and I never discussed, at least with each other, what was being done to us. Later on my brother reminded me of the way it was back then, when our parents and every other adult we had contact with directed us around in tight little boxes and didn’t really talk to us so much as they talked at us. The only time you were ever asked to express yourself was when you screwed something up. And, like the limits placed on our food, there were limits on the attention you received. So, if you didn’t have a gaping wound with blood pouring from your body, and you didn’t get bad grades or accidentally break a neighbor’s window, as far as my parents were concerned everything was fine, everything was perfect—an apple cart that is not upset is a good apple cart.

After the hockey game, Silverio extended a standing invitation to drop by the rectory any time I wanted, which I of course thought was bullshit—just something he said but didn’t mean. Sure enough, though, on a Saturday afternoon after some basketball in Mulroy Park, which was

Also, though today it might seem odd, we were never schooled about the impropriety of someone touching our bodies and didn’t understand it was wrong. Even if we had understood it, our ability to communicate was undeveloped. We could never hope to broach such a confusing and

COMMENTARY NEWS complicated subject. In the end Silverio’s rapacious sexual appetite got the best of him. He had been much more aggressive with my older teenage brothers, and not long after the nightmare I lived out on the sofa bed in the rectory, one of them went to our dad explained what was going on and it all stopped. And, it stopped, thankfully, before any oral acts or penetration occurred.

AFTER EFFECTS Going back over all of this and putting dates together, I now realize that, though subtle, the effects of the abuse appeared almost immediately. In fifth grade, as part of Mrs. Hayhurst’s experimental reading class, I was able to choose books from a small classroom library and read them independently in a corner of the room that had some carpeting and comfortable chairs rather than doing the traditional reading group thing. You were evaluated by way of short interviews and essays you wrote about the books you read. Radical stuff in 1973, and I not only loved it but was one of the top readers in the class. Then, all of the sudden in the last quarter of the year, which was when I started to visit Silverio at the rectory, I inexplicably stopped reading and became a malingerer. After knocking out about 10 books in each of the previous quarters, I barely got through two short ones on Marco Polo and Greek mythology. Both Mrs. Hayhurst and I were confused and exasperated that my reading had come to a virtual standstill. I had been exceeding expectations throughout the year and all of the sudden I just…I don’t know, became immobilized. Sixth grade, which coincided with Silverio’s transfer, was even worse. Not only was my intellectual curiosity gone, but I became a smartass and a bit of a punk and got caught shoplifting at JC Penney. My teacher called my parents several times during the year about my poor behavior and attitude, which was a first in my well-behaved, high-achieving family. Nothing— not being yelled at by my dad, not his silence— changed my poor behavior. By seventh grade the abuse had stopped and I rallied a bit. Almost an upperclassman, I did all right in school without much effort. More importantly I started to get the attention of girls, which was really valuable to my sense of self and confidence. Though the soft shiny lips of girls were just about the best balm one could hope for, there was still something very wrong. Besides one semi-dramatic, semi-tragic relationship in ninth grade, I could never really get close to anyone in those years. Innocence is the first casualty of abuse. Loss of innocence affects the choices we make and the boundaries we establish. Taken forever from the abused person is the choice to pursue relationships at a pace that is natural and comfortable. The ability to develop boundaries is also damaged since the power in an abusive relationship is in the hands of the abuser. Looking back now I can see how this played out not only in those first relationships but in all my relationships. In high school I was a reasonably good athlete, decent looking and kind of smart, but mostly I was a cocky, bravado-filled asshole of zero substance. And whenever I went out with a girl, that was who she got. I had no ability to have a thoughtful, rational (or as thoughtful and rational as you could have at 16) conversation with a girl, where you proceeded at a mutually agreed-on pace with mutually agreed-on limits. I was all swagger and bluster, but just below the surface the self-doubt and feelings of worthlessness were intense. Because of other bad behaviors my dad had stopped talking to me or acknowledging my existence, my mom was always working and so tired, my siblings were all living out their own dysfunctional dramas, and I had nothing but this bravado-filled façade. The one deep relationship I had I couldn’t hold because I didn’t understand limits or boundaries. Other problems started to arise too: I sometimes drank till I blacked out, I couldn’t concentrate or accomplish anything academically, and I got in my share of street fights. When the chance for emotional intimacy occasionally presented itself, I was like a wheel with 50 broken spokes and had zero ability to be vulnerable or trust. How was I going to get close to anyone after Silverio had manipulated and abused me and my whole family? Maybe it would

have been different if Silverio had owned up and had really been contrite instead of brushing me aside like I was nothing, like I was worthless, his only concern for himself. Who the fuck was I going to trust? My older sister had this group of beautiful smart girlfriends who used to come to the house. Though all of them were very attractive, the thing that was most alluring was how mature and together they seemed to be. I would hear them talk about calculus and the yearbook staff and going to college, and I wished that one of them would take me by the hand and just talk to me, tell me how to be together, how to have substance. But, they of course, didn’t tell me anything. Nobody ever told me anything. All I had was records. And, that was no small thing. The Who and Todd Rundgren were everything to me. They were best friends, letting me know I was not alone. Even today, when one of their songs pops into the rotation, I feel a physical change behind my eyes and an emotional sense that all is well, that somewhere there is light and something to hope for in this shitty world. Through my 20s there was a great deal of searching and more blackout drinking. Finally, as I was approaching 30, I met the person who would be my wife, and I got a good, stable, paying job. Though there are always challenges, we have stuck it out, never giving up on each other and believing in each other, for which I am so grateful. Maybe an even bigger healing influence has been having my own kids. Being a father has given me purpose in life. When the shit is hitting the fan and breaking down all around my kids, nothing gives me greater joy than to see it through with them, help them work everything out. Being present, giving my full attention to their needs, leaves me feeling like some grievous error in my past, some broken link in the cosmos, has been righted.

THE FALLOUT As we know, pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder where an adult is sexually attracted to children, whereas gay and lesbian people are sexually attracted to people of the same sex. Yet, there is still a dumb and persistent effort by anti-gay activists to show a link—despite 40 years of research, duplicated dozens times— between homosexuality and abusive pedophilia. Researchers have found showing pictures of young boys to gay men did not arouse them any more than pictures of young girls aroused straight men, meaning gay men are no more attracted to children than straight men. I believe this research to be completely accurate. A few years after everything came to a head with us, Silverio left the priesthood and, to the best of my knowledge, has lived his life as a gay man. Through the web of mutual friends from the parish, we learned bits of his history. I can’t say how accurate any of these second-hand stories are, but from what we were told, Silverio actually knew he was gay at a young age. When he informed his family, they pushed him to enter the seminary, thinking the priesthood and the vow of celibacy would provide cover or a cure for what were considered base, perverted desires in those days. I can’t say what was in Silverio’s mind, but it is reasonable to speculate that the allure of the flesh was great, and, like a lot of sexually stifled priests, he acted on his desires in a perverse, hurtful manner. As odd as it may seem, I have compassion for the sexually stifled Silverio in 1970s closeted America, some measure of understanding and even forgiveness. Other than the priesthood, where was that poor bastard going to go? When he figured out he was gay, probably in the late 1950s, still a boy of 12 or 13, he was shunned by his family and sent away. Who was he going to turn to? Who was going to support him? It had to be an awful existence, not just for him, but for all gay people hiding and repressing their sexuality, being scorned and rejected by larger society. But to prey on young boys—how does one make that leap? How does a supposed man of God plunder innocent and naive boys to try to satisfy his own base desires? For that depravity, which robbed me of my church, trust, and belief, I have no compassion. I’ve come to view Silverio as a predator rather than a pedophile, and I believe we, as a society,

need to do a much better job trying to understand sexual deviance. We don’t like to admit it, but there is a biological compulsion that produces a pedophile’s attraction to children. As a society we have tended to think of deviant sexual behaviors as moral failings, lifestyle choices, or the price of a valueless society, and the easiest thing to do is to just lock these people up and throw away the key. But, I think it’s a mistake to just jail pedophiles, no matter how great our desire for vengeance. Locking them away does next to nothing to address the problem of pedophilia. Dealing with the horrific violence done to children this way only serves to perpetuate the problem and create an endless stream of new victims. A smart, forward-leaning, compassionate society would try to understand the root causes and go about the business of mitigating and eliminating its effects as much as possible. Short of that, we are just chasing our tails and needlessly hurting countless children and would-be pedophiles. What I can’t get past is the infuriating responses from both Silverio and the institution that enabled him to abuse us. When it was over, Silverio more or less absolved himself. He never really offered any kind of apology. We had a conversation, and my memory of the details are sketchy, but I remember feeling it was all about him and what he was going through. I got an explanation, not an apology, and it was total bullshit. My parents had little to offer beyond asking, almost in passing, if I was okay. A little embarrassed, I, of course, said I was fine. What else was I going to say? That’s the way it went being in a family of 10 kids. What happened to you wasn’t all that important, especially when it might force someone to be accountable for their actions. Or if it made your parents question the people and the institution they’d believed in all of their life. And what about that institution? The stunning lack of courage by the Catholic church, whose foundations are built on one of history’s most courageous figures, is incalculable. Since these sexual abuse scandals began to come to light in the early 2000s, the church has hidden behind protocols established by the Vatican that allows it to claim transparency from behind darkened windows in Rome. They look out for their brand as if they were a Fortune 500 company, offering fake apologies, hiding settlements like Cayman Island oligarchs, while trying to bury those who would hold them accountable. That is why, almost 50 years later, I am coming forward: the refusal of the church to adequately provide closure to this recurring nightmare, which I am forced to relive every couple of years as they duck and cover from their responsibility and fail to provide just compensation to victims. I’m sick of this and I want it to end. Rather than just sit here, eternally pissed off, I am now adding my voice to the chorus of voices who demand the fucking Catholic church make this shit right. Even with the blight of the never-ending scandal, my present life is stable and rich in many ways. My wife and I are seeing our kids through the latter stages of college. Though I never quite made it through to a degree, I did learn to love books. And, as a result of a lot of reading and life slowing down, I started to write myself and had my first novel published in 2016, and I have several other writing projects in the works. Absent the abuse and a few other pieces of the puzzle this all may have happened for me decades earlier. But, I’ll take this present life that is so busy and full of meaning and purpose.

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As for my brothers, they have had their share of ups and downs, but have come out on the other side doing quite well, with their own stories to tell. And, despite the numerous scars, I believe in Dr. Martin Luther King’s maxim: the arc of moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Along with my brothers and other lost abused souls, I am here to demand our justice. I am here to insist on a full accounting in the light of day by the church and the predators that abused us. I am here to reclaim what was taken from us when we least able to protect ourselves. I am here to wash away the shame, humiliation and lost potential. I am here to be made whole.

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ART REVIEW genuinely three-dimensional than the fishermen’s net piece, or analogous elastic sheet space-time representations—are apt examples of the three-dimensional models required. With hornlike gaps and fissures. Other sculptural works include sundry dense tangle arrays of copper tubes and wires and occasional added glass or small stones, as possible variations on the space-time and sculpture as enclosed space themes. Plus two very different manner and materials works, consisting of bamboo poles and segments of canvas, though again in tangle arrangements. Evocative of wreckage remnants of South Pacific waters primitive sailing vessels. Which is apparently not how Falkenstein thought of them, however, based on the titles she gave them. In the one case, Battle of Little Big Horn, in the other, Emblem I. Wall-hanging works include a series of etchings plus embossment effects in a range of print element modes from overall murky black to virtually non-printed matrix paper white, and embossment effects from multiple concentric circles to idealized roadmap networks to chaos assemblages of wire segments and snippets. And paintings in oils and acrylics, featuring torrent displays of cuneiform morphing to teardrop markings in overall patterns ranging from raw energy dynamism to paisley forms. And series of India ink on paper drawings featuring similar cuneiform to teardrop markings in similar exotica large-scale patterns.

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CLAIRE FALKENSTEIN AT UB ANDERSON GALLERY WE NORMALLY THINK about sculpture as three-dimensional volume in space. Artist Claire Falkenstein thought about it more as space itself. Or really, space-time. As cosmologists during the past century formulated thought about the physical universe. The current show of her sculptural and other genre art at the UB Anderson Gallery is called Time Elements.

Her preferred term to talk about her three-dimensional works was not “sculptures” but “structures.” Much as we talk about the structure of the universe. The works on show include sculptures and framed wall-hanging items including paintings and complicated embossed etchings or lithographs. The sculptures are mostly composed of what look like scrap segments of copper tubing and copper wire of various sizes and gauges—all deeply patinaed to rich reddish brown hues—wired and welded into three-dimensional structures, sometimes with dollop additions of what would have been liquid to viscous state glass at the time of application, now hardened and intermingled and coalesced with the copper materials as primarily a striking visual element but also structural further bonding element of the copper basic components. Art world or real world formal or conceptual referents to

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Falkenstein’s works are hard to come by. Attesting to the unique originality of the works, but also making it hard to say just what she might have been trying to communicate with the works, beyond formal uniqueness. But the space-time idea—as difficult as that idea is to try to grasp in itself, and imperfect as any visual representation of such an abstruse idea must necessarily be— keeps recurring. Three sculptural works near the beginning of the exhibit with seeming affinities—all are composed of just networks of copper wires, no tubes, no glass—seem to relate to each other as variants of the space-time idea. Two are on low pedestals, one is suspended overhead. The suspended overhead piece is vaguely evocative of a cast fisherman’s net outspread in mid-air momentarily before dropping into the water, but also of two-dimensional elastic sheet drawing representations of the multi-dimensional—four dimensions at least—cosmic space-time situation. Grid networks to illustrate—albeit imperfectly—space-time curvature effects— depressions, distortions—of gravitational cosmic bodies. Stars, planets, galaxies. Alternatively, under even more severe gravitational forces, causing more severe space-time curvature effects, the twodimensional elastic grid may transform to a more authentically three-dimensional representation, featuring horn-like gaps and fissures in the elastic fabric, connecting to further emanations and extensions of the fabric in further space-time planes. At which point, genuinely three-dimensional models—sculpture versus drawing—would be required to begin to illustrate the space-time situation. The two other works in the group of three—both more

Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Len Biszkont: Stories Told, on view through Jul 6. Tue-Fri = REVIEWED THIS ISSUE 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. = ART OPENING Artists Group Gallery (Western New York 125 Art Collective Tattoo Studio (125 Elmwood Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Jennifer Ryan. 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): Trilogies Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Ave- XXIX: George Gilham (oil paintings), Marie nue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albright- Prince (acrylic paintings), Henry Schmidt knox.org): Robert Indiana: A Sculpture (sculpture). On view through Aug 17. TueRetrospective, Jun 16-Sep 23. Picturing Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Niagara, paintings by Stephen Hannock, on view through Sep 30. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. River Reflections, by Linda Toomey through Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Jul 22. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annaka- Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. plancontemporary.art): Guaranteed Painkiller, drawings and sculpture by Michael Beitz. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue BufOn view through Aug 4. Sat 12-4 or by ap- falo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery. com): Works from the collection. Thupointment. Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffalo, Sat 11am-5pm. NY 14207, eleventwentyprojects.com): Move Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Away from Everything, Joey Goergen. On 14222, view through Jul 6, closing reception Thu, Sat 12-3pm. Jul 5, 6-9pm. Blue Plate Gallery (69 Keil Street, North Art 247 (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY Tonawanda, NY 14120): Jan Dylewski: In This 14094, theart247.com): Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm. Context.

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Another sculptural series consists of seven small table-top works of just copper tubing segments—usually four to six segments per piece, in apparent haphazard jumble arrangements—and generous dollop added glass, but not so as to threaten the visual and emotive dominance of the darkly patinaed copper tubing. Somewhat evocative of Chinese ideograms. That we may not understand the meaning of, but recognize as language, a system of communication—the ideograms and the artworks alike— whether or not we understand what they mean. Or better, to whatever degree we understand. The table-top sculptures—that evoke ideograms—could stand as a fit metaphor for Falkenstein’s work as a whole. Falkenstein was a significant figure in twentieth-century American and indeed world art, particularly regarded for the wide range of her experimentation in a broad range of media. She worked in California—San Francisco area—in the thirties and forties, Paris in the fifties and sixties, then back to California— Los Angeles area. She died in Venice Beach, California, in 1997, age 89. The Claire Falkenstein exhibit continues through July 29.

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Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Tue-Fri 10am5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Under The Influence, an installation by MJ Myers. Every day 4-10pm. Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint. com): Starr Ockenga, The Thing Itself. Through Jun 30. 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, in the Grosvenor Rare Book Room. Catalogue available for purchase. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm.Tue-Fri 10am5pm, 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; Cargo, Way-Points, and Tales of the Erie Canal, through Jul 29. Wright, Roycroft, Stickley and Roehlfs: Defining the Buffalo Arts and Crafts Aesthetic, through November 26. Under Cover: objects with lids from the permanent collection, through Apr 29. 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, Where These Dreams Go. On view through Aug 24. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm.

GALLERIES ART 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): Biff Henrich: The Structure of Things Part II. On view through Jun 3. TueFri, 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. On view Jun 1-23. 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. 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. Framed by Lynn Kang, Jul 12- Sep 8 with reception Jul 19, 6-8 pm. Thu-Fri 11am7pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Second Sun 11am-2pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Hallwalls 44th Annual Members Exhibition. On view through Aug 25. 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). Artist also offering painting workshops. Wed & Fri, noon5pm, Thu noon-8pm, Sat 10am-3pm. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Especially Now: Work by Jacqueline Welch. Through Jul 28. Wed 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Fri, 6-9pm Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays. Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo Bunis Family Art Gallery (2640 N Forest Road, Benderson Family Building, Amherst, NY 14068, 688-4033, jccbuffalo.org): Mon-Thu 5:30am10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am-6pm. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. 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: Modern Part 2 opens Jul 21 on view through Sep 1. Opening reception Sat, Jul 21, 10am–2pm. Tue-Fri 9:30am-4pm, Sat 9am-2pm. 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, 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 103pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): BEAU FLEUVE, a group exhibit. On view Jun 1-30. Drawings by homeless men, a group exhibit Jul 1-29. Wed-Sat,125pm, Sun 1-5pm. Pastry by Camille’s Maison Le Caer (1416 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, New York): Inaugural Exhibition: Mark + Olive Freeland: 100% Confectionate. On view Thu, Jun 21-Jul 26. 8am7pm daily. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse. com): Thu, Fri & Sat 6-11pm. Live Music ThuSat. 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, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): Art by Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, Chris McGee, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Liebel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, John Farallo, Thomas Busch, Sherry Anne Preziuso, Tony Cappello, Michael Mulley. First Friday extended hours. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Alio Modo, work by David Brinley, on view through Jul 28. 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): Meri Stiles, Melodious Swamp. Tue-Sat 11am6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Yvette Granata | #d8e0ea: post-cyberfeminist datum. On view through August 25th, 2018. TueSat, 12pm-5pm. 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): THE GANG’S ALL HERE! Starlight Studio & Art Gallery Annual Summer Open House. Fri, Jul 13, 6-9pm. Mon-Fri 9-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Cause Arts Silent Auction 1.0]. Open by event and Fri 5:307:30. 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. WedSat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, on view through May 26. No Plan for the Future, SCREEN Projects by virocode on view through May 26. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, 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, 348-1430, wnybookarts.org): Found Text Traces, Catherine Linder Spencer. WedSat 12-6pm.

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10PM / GYPSY PARLOR, 376 GRANT ST. / $5 [HOUSE] If you’re into deep house, do yourself a favor and check out DaRand Land’s S&T Podcast mix from last year, which is up on his Soundcloud page. This guy absolutely personifies deep house throughout the hour long mix, moving from moody esotericism, to locked up grooves, and deep, rapturous synths. Land has been a presence in the house music scene since the late 1990s, moving from his hometown of Buffalo to Detroit and back again. In that time he has released timeless, highly sought after deep house records like 2000s Blessings, and 2001’s Calming Effect, drawing inspiration from early house acts like Marshall Jefferson and Fingers Inc., while adding darker, deeper, moodier layers. Buffalo-based house promoter Rufus Gibson continues a solid string of bookings for his monthly party at the Gypsy Parlor with DaRand Land, this Friday, July 20. -CORY PERLA

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WEDNESDAY JULY 18 Live at Larkin: Upstate Rubdown 5pm Larkin Square, 745 Seneca Street free

[FOLK] Fronted by three vocalists, Melanie Glenn, Mary Kenney, and Allison Olender, the Hudson Valley-based folk band, Upstate Rubdown, brings blue grassy goodness wherever they go. Join them for a show in Larkin Square as part of the free Live at Larkin concert series, on Wednesday, July 18. PA Line opens the show. -TPS

Height Keech 6:30pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St. $7

[HIP HOP] Height Keech is no joke. The Baltimore-based artist has toured with better known acts like Beach House and Future Islands, making a name for himself with his eccentric indie rap style that dips into some somewhat unusual production designs. Check out his Cold Rhymes Records released “Mind Moves the Mountain” to get a taste, then check him out at Sugar City on Wednesday, July 18 at Sugar City with Kate Ferencz, Mister, and Welks Mice. -CP

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Maggie Koerner 8pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $15

[BLUES] Louisiana native Maggie Koerner has been working hard the last few years building a following for her blues-tinted songwriter fare. In 2016, she released the Dig Down Deep EP, which showcased her gift for organic, earthy singing, delivered with a touch of Southern drawl. Sometimes the best way to get a feel for a new artist's style is to hear them cover a song you're already familiar with—so check out Koerner's take on Sheryl Crow's "The Difficult Kind" from 1998's The Globe Sessions. She's at Buffalo Iron Works tonight, Wednesday, July 18. -CJT

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know who Jim Lauderdale is, you’ve likely Date his _______________________ heard music in your travels—maybe even on ABC’s Nashville. Nearly 30 albums in and Issue: ______________________ he’s proven himself an Americana master of AARON / Y18W28 twang, associating with other revered players like Buddy Miller, ERRORS Roddy Crowell, andON the boys IF YOU APPROVE WHICH ARE from Hot Tuna. In 2016, he was honored at the THIS PROOF, THE PUBLIC CANNOT Americana Honors and Awards show BE with the “WagonMaster Lifetime Achievement Award.” HELD RESPONSIBLE. PLEASE EXAMINE THE AD AsTHOROUGHLY a country troubadour, keeps his EVEN IF THELauderdale AD IS A PICK-UP. music deep-voiced, string-based, and simple. THIShePROOF MAY ONLY BE USED FORnone of that And also keeps it real: There’s countrified hit-radio/auto-tuned crap happening PUBLICATION IN THE PUBLIC. here. He’ll play two sets at Sportsmen’s Tavern on Thursday, July 19—the first one solo, the second with Twang Gang backing him. -CJT

SUNDAY JULY 22 Kesha and Macklemore 6pm Darien Lake, 9993 S Alleghany Rd $29.50-$115

[POP] Things that make ya go "hmmm." Either of these artists could have toured by themselves this summer, but have instead decided to package it up with a curious cobill dubbed The Adventures of Kesha and Macklemore. Okay, we'll bite. So, upon closer inspection, it's not that random. They both had gimmicky breakthroughs—her with "TiK ToK" and him with "Thrift Shop"—and have since gone on to represent empowerment, pride and independence in a series of turns that only modern American pop could deliver. Kesha's lawsuit against Dr. Luke remains an ongoing thing, by the way, but the killer reviews of last year's Rainbow qualify her as a bona fide pop artist and not some flash in the pan. Reviews from other cities tell us that the show has some fun production value, costume changes, and a run time that doesn't skimp: the show clocks in just shy of three hours. We'd aim to arrive by 6pm for a 7pm start time at Darien Lake on Sunday, July 22. Tickets run from $29.50 up to $115—more if you'd like one of the remaining VIP packages, which run about $275. -CJT

JP Sears 8pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $25

[COMEDY] Faux guru (or is he for real? Who knows!) JP Sears wants to take you on a spiritual journey—a quest, a voyage. The internet comedian turned on-stage personality is a selfproclaimed emotional healing life coach, and if you don’t watch out, you might just come away from his show a little more enlightened. Check him out this Thursday, July 19 through Saturday, July 21 at Helium Comedy Club. -CP

SATURDAY JULY 21 BPO at Canalside 5pm Canalside, 44 Prime St. $24.63

[POP] The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra will set up at Canalside for a special show this Saturday, July 21. Led conductor Stefan Sanders, the BPO will perform songs from popular movies including Harry Potter, Star Wars, the Incredibles, Hook, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Ghostbusters. -TPS

TUESDAY JULY 24 Gov’t Mule with Lukas Nelson 6:30pm Artpark, 450 South 4th St. $12-$17

[ROCK] Fresh off a series of dates with the Avett Brothers and the Magpie Salute, which included at least one show that was dedicated to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon (dubbed for these purposes Dark Side of the Mule), Gov’t Mule comes to Artpark for a show on Tuesday, July 24. The Southern rock band, which formed in 1994 and features guitarist Warren Haynes of the Allman Brothers Band, are touring in support of their 11th studio album, Revolution Come…Revolution Go. They’ll be joined by rocker Lukas Nelson, out of Los Angeles. Lukas Nelson, the son of country music legend Willie Nelson, is joined by backing band, Promise of the Real, who have also been Neil Young’s backing band since 2015. -CP

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AT PEACH: Last Friday, Peach featured Inam Kang’s shortlisted poem, “the feds don’t know i’m a scorpio.” Kang’s poem communicates alienation with a quiet sense of humor that belies a great sadness beneath the surface. Lines like “calling on my age, / my money, / my good song — / i reign on the weight of that alone. / come for me, come for me / i’m your last stop before you hit / the moon” transform an endless accumulation of personal prejudice and anxiety into something universal, perhaps even triumphant. As that sense of triumph extends to a place far outside of a singular viewpoint, Kang shows the reader an endless cycle of defeat, the transitory nature of victory over that which would hold us down, and the ways confronting and acknowledging the cycle can lend us a sense of where we should place our hope and faith. “i wonder if people still write about the earth,” he writes, “about things they’ve completely given up / on saving.” —MATTHEW BOOKIN

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7PM / THE 9TH WARD, 341 DELAWARE AVE / $10-$12 [INDIE] Once in a great while I’ll hear an indie-band with those tricked-out, over-produced, precision-tuned vocals and I won’t be able to resist. Knox Hamilton‘s “Washed Up Together” is one of those rare happenings. A trio from Little Rock, Arkansas, the men of Knox Hamilton (Boots Copeland on vocals, bass and guitar, Drew Buffington on guitar and Cobo Copeland on drums) have been making music together for quite some time considering that Boots and Cobo are brothers. The sons of a musically encouraging pastor, the Copeland brothers bring an element of bright light to the band’s full length debut, The Heights, which dropped last year. It’s not the stuff of cerebral listening or terribly clever wordplay, but if you’re looking for some decently executed fluff, there are worse turns to be taken. The Heights makes for some tax-free summer listening, which means the trio’s upcoming show downstairs at Babeville’s 9th Ward on Monday, July 23, is right on time. Dubbed The Beach Boy Tour, the bill also features Brother Sundance (A.K.A. Rylan Talerico, whose debut EP Honey has racked up some impressive streaming numbers) and the Buffalo debut of Arkansas singer-songwriter Joseph Tilley. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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The Crown Ain’t Worth Much is the first full-length collection of poetry by Columbus, Ohio-based cultural critic and poet Hanif Abdurraqib. The collection is an intensely lyrical blend of pop culture and the autobiographical. The poems meditate on family, love, death, loss, and race. “When people pay / money to watch, we call this sport. When people spill from their / apartments / into a dim alley or a decaying school yard to watch, we call this the / ghetto.” Abdurraqib uses language masterfully as a musical vehicle that propels the reader down the page and onto the streets of the eastside of Columbus, into the punk clubs and chairs of black barbershops and the summers of his youth where “anything can be a gun if the darkness / surrounding it is hungry enough…” These are poems of unflinching strength written by one of the most exciting young writers working today. It’s a book of soulful reflection on what’s happening in our cities today and what it’s like to be in those cities as a black man. Abdurraqib will be reading in Buffalo this Saturday as featured poet for Just Buffalo Literary Center’s SILO CITY READING SERIES. He will share the silos with poet Tom Dreitlein, hip-hop poet & singer dev11n, and light sculpting installation artist Carlie Rickus. —NOAH FALCK

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THE STRUTS TUESDAY JULY 24 7:30PM / RAPIDS THEATRE, 1711 MAIN ST. / $25-$30 [ROCK] There are a lot of fakers out there, but the Struts don’t seem to be one of them. The glam-rock band from Derby Derbyshire, England bring an enthusiasm and energy to their live shows that just feels authentic—inspired by bands like Aerosmith, Queen, and Def Leppard—from their 1970s-inspired glam rock getups to their orgasmic guitar solos. Their hits, like “Could Have Been Me” and “Kiss This” from their 2014 debut full length album, Everybody Wants, don’t seem pre-packaged or cookie-cutter radio-fodder but solidly constructed pop-rock with some heart. Though the band has been around since 2009, they’ve released surprisingly little material, so don’t be suprised if you hear some new stuff when the Struts come to the Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls for a concert on Tuesday, July 24. -CORY PERLA

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Summer Concert Series: Randle and the Late Night Scandals

metal cover of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” in 2001, the band has released a few sporadic albums, their last being 2015’s Always and Forever. -CP

7pm Bidwell Park, Elmwood Ave at Bidwell Parkway free

[FUNK] The Elmwood Village Association’s Summer Concert Series continues this week with a concert from funky indie rock band Randle and the Late Night Scandals. Expect a mix of rock ’n’ roll, blues, and funk from the eclectic group, this Tuesday, July 24 at Bidwell Park. -TPS

Alien Ant Farm 8pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $20

[ROCK] Grammy nominated (yep) hard rock band Alien Ant Farm return to Buffalo for a show at Buffalo Iron Works on Tuesday, July 24. Since their break-out hit, a nu-

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[POP] You can bet that this will be one of the more popular Live at Larkin concerts this summer. The downtown concert series continues with a special tribute to Prince and Michael Jackson. Eric Crittenden will lead his band through some of the biggest hits of all time, Wednesday, July 25 at P Larkin Square. -TPS

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THE VANS WARPED TOUR WEDNESDAY JULY 25 11AM / DARIEN LAKE, 9993 S ALLEGHANY RD / $45 [PUNK] The final edition of the Vans Warped Tour comes through Western New York on Wednesday, July 25 at Darien Lake. For those of us who grew up on emo and pop-punk, it’s obviously the end of an era which began in the mid-1990s. Billed as “punk rock summer camp,” and launched by Kevin Lyman in 1995, the tour has hosted everyone from NoFX to Eminem, eventually making its way to London, Australia, and Japan. Bands like Anti-Flag and Less Than Jake have been staples of the festival, appearing almost a dozen times over Warped Tour’s 23 years, but the festival was still known for its wide variety of acts from year to year. Buffalo’s own Every Time I Die played the festival eight times, helping to expose the band to fans across the country. But, in 2017, Lyman noted a decline in ticket sales and fewer bands participating as reasons why the festival would end in 2018. So here’s your last chance to catch the legendary Warped Tour. The Darien Lake stop will, once again, feature Every Time I Die, as well as Reel Big Fish, Silverstein, Less Than Jake, Simple Plan, Twiztid, Senses Fail, and many others. As my mom would always tell me the high school version of me before sending me off to La Salle Park or Darien Lake for a whole day of punk music, just don’t get hurt in the mosh pit. -CORY PERLA

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JENNY LEWIS WEDNESDAY JULY 25 7PM / ASBURY HALL, 341 DELAWARE AVE. / $25-$30 [ROCK] Jenny Lewis‘s musical journey is a captivating one for those willing to listen. Her last album, 2014’s The Voyager, found her still signed to Warner Bros.—an awesome show of faith for a major label since Lewis’s albums aren’t huge sellers. But The Voyager was produced by Ryan Adams, and it showed Lewis in a light not captured on either of her two prior solo albums (2008’s Acid Tongue and 2006’s big indie hit, Rabbit Fur Coat), bringing her a bit closer to the polished pop of her prior band Rilo Kiley’s swan song, Under the Blacklight (2007). Adams seemed able to help Lewis bring her musical personality forward while allowing for a degree of polish that might help her break through to a larger audience. Which means that the storytelling remained eclectic, candid and page-turning-addictive, while the soundtrack served up just a pinch more ear candy. Lewis’s penchant for oddball tales delivered with her signature mix of dead-seriousness and deadpan panache is her most stunning asset (her sweet-spot crooning is a close second), and The Voyager brought all of it together and tied it up with a bright, toe-tapping bow. For her upcoming gig at Babeville’s Asbury Hall on Wednesday, July 25, Lewis will be road-testing some new tunes (rumored to be played on the piano) while also dusting off a hearty sampling of Rabbit Fur faves, a few Acid Tongue selections and, potentially, a trio of Rilo Kiley tunes. Lewis is nothing if not sassy, which is something anyone could see in her freckled face going back to her acting debut as Shelly Long’s kid in Troop Beverly Hills. But her transformation from a cute screen-test kid to the vintage-clad, adventuring singer-songwriter-bandleader she’s become is transfixing, and while there have been long stretches between albums, she tends not to disappoint when the time comes to release something new. If anything, the lulls between records are proof that Lewis isn’t in this to be “The Moneymaker,” which happens to be the title of a more well known Rilo Kiley tune. Instead, she seems interested in making music she can stand by—something we could use more of in this world. She’s also a member of a new wave-y fem-trio called Nice As Fuck and has been known to write some soundtrack tunes once in a while. Opening for Lewis next Wednesday is Cut Worms, the musical project of Max Clarke. Clarke’s full length debut as Cut Worms came out this spring on Jagjaguwar, entitled Hollow Ground, and reminds a bit of Elliott Smith with psych-pop influences P and a lo-fi edge. Doors are at 7pm. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY 14 THE PUBLIC / JULY 18 - 24, 2018 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM

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FIRST WARD BY CORY PERLA AFTER LESS THAN a year together, First Ward,

an indie rock band full of heavily experienced local musicians, are starting to make some moves. They’re wrapping up the recording of their debut EP and looking forward to some pretty big shows this summer, including a slot on the Cobblestone Live music festival as an opening act for the critically acclaimed Canadian indie rock band Broken Social Scene.

Today I’m meeting with First Ward’s Josh Mullin and Zak Ward, bassist and guitarist, respectively. We’re at Lockhouse Distillery in the Cobblestone District, not far from the Old First Ward neighborhood—the partial namesake of the band—and within view of the outdoor concert area where the band will perform as part of the Cobblestone Live music festival. The band includes a whole bunch of experienced local musicians: Ward, who has played in indie rock band Son of the Sun among other bands; bassist Mullin, formerly of the popular Buffalo-based rock band Last Conservative; keyboard player and “Swiss Army knife” Kevin Sampson of the Innocent Bystanders, the Jealous Unknowns, and probably a few other projects too; guitarist Dave Harris, who they call “the Kid”—a semi-recent transplant to Buffalo; and drummer Jeff Schaller, a prolific drummer involved in many local bands, right now most notably the 1990s rock cover band Soul Patch. “We’re super excited about it,” says Ward about their upcoming festival slot. “When Cobblestone came out last year, we weren’t quite ready, so as soon as we knew it was coming back this year we were on it. They gave us a great slot and a great shot, so hopefully we can put on a good show.” Ward is a full-time musician who comes from a family of artists. His parents owned a theater and he grew up as an actor. “The line of art and work has always been blurred for me,” he says. “It was always like, yeah, you do your art and you get paid to do it—you don’t get paid well, but you figure it out. I’ve never been good at anything else so I’ve been slowly conditioned into this lifestyle.” His latest band formed after the demise of his former band, Son of the Sun. “I spent like two years trying to figure something out after that,” Ward says as he sips from a mini Miller High Life pony. Nothing happened. Naturally, as soon as he was

ready to give up, things started coming together. He got a message from Mullin about starting a new project. They began to work together, with Mullin originally on drums. Eventually Mullin moved to bass and they brought in drummer Steve Tripi, now of the Eaves, followed by drummer Pete Metzler, and finally Schaller. Ward makes a reference to Spinal Tap, though none of their drummers exploded into a flash of green light. “Our fun, creative guitar player Dave wandered into my living room kind of on accident and started noodling on guitar,” says Mullin. “I said, ‘Think I found our guy.’” The beginning of 2018 is when they really started to settle into a permanent lineup, with Sampson on keyboards and backing vocals. Everything about the band has kind of fallen together, they tell me. They started off the year with a pretty big show, opening up for the Trews at the Town Ballroom. Obviously, any band likes to play a big show, but this particular band not only likes it but seems to thrive in such situations. Where some bands might fold under the pressure, they tell me that they find the big stage more comfortable than, say, a small stage where they’re playing in front of a few friends and family. “I’m terribly awkward in social situations. I’m way more comfortable on stage,” Ward says. “We like big shows because it’s difficult playing for nine people who all know you. When you’re performing, you shouldn’t be thinking, when I see someone, I go, ‘Oh, that’s John.’ It pulls you out of it for a second.”

First Ward, L-R: Dave Harris, Josh Mullin, Zak Ward, Kevin Sampson, Jeff Schaller. Photo by Josh Mastroianni.

says Ward adjusting his black porkpie hat. They really consider themselves a live band first, and that’s evident on the band’s demo, Live at Raven. “We went to do a video shoot and we thought it would be cool to have all of our friends shoot a video. Turns out none of our friends know how to shoot video,” says Ward as he shows me the proper way to do it with his own cell phone. It’s horizontal. Record horizontally. The friend whose house they were recording at set up a few mics just for the fun of it and the recording turned out great. “We weren’t even planning on recording audio for that,” says Mullin. “It turned from a video shoot into a demo session.” The songs move from moody indie rock, to dreamy, slow motion jazzy stuff, and straight-up alt-rock burners.

Mullin has his fair share of big show experience too. In Last Conservative he played arena shows, even opening for Bon Jovi here in Buffalo. “I feel more comfortable on stage than I do in this very moment,” Mullin says with a grin. “That’s when my brain stops spinning and it becomes all instinct.”

One of the highlights is a song called “Lost,” a dreamy indie rock song, which Ward says is in one way about not being sure where you’re going in life, but in another way is about the very modern idea that, because of technology, it’s almost impossible to be truly lost in a physical sense.

The band recorded their yet to be released debut EP at a studio called Temperamental Recordings in Geneseo with producer Mike Brown. The recording studio is located in a 190-year old Methodist church.

“You can be located 24 hours of every day, and that’s kind of overwhelming. Sometimes it’s good to go get lost. It’s good to be in the unknown. It’s good to be unsure.”

“It has a collection of thousands of instruments. When I told these guys about it I said, ‘This guy’s got a menagerie that we have to go check out.’ When you walk into it, it blows your mind,”

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One of the mottos of the band, Ward tells me, is to make the most with the least,. “I play music full time, Jeff plays in five or six different bands, Josh is always running around, he works for every bar in Buffalo essentially.” Mullin is on his phone right now, actually. He checks his phone regularly during the interview, but not in a rude way. More in a this-is-necessary type of way. “I’ve become incredibly good at multi-tasking and it’s horrible,” he says. Mullin is the general manager of Thin Man Brewery and they’re opening a new backyard bocce ball court tonight. He wants to make sure everything is in its right

place. Ward is also on tap to perform a solo set at the brewery, which seems to be a regular occurrence. He’s got his acoustic guitar on his back in a soft black case sitting next to him as we chat. Ward’s comment about doing the most with the least leads us into a conversation about the band’s ideals, their philosophies, and their values. Having to work in small windows of time can have their pros and cons. It’s nice to have more time to work, but having limits “distills” their creativity into a more potent form. “It forces us to be efficient,” says Mullin. “We want to play music more than anything else. We want to be in a band that plays at a professional level.” As previously mentioned, there’s a lot of experience in this band—they’ve toured, recorded, played shows big and small, so they know how to buckle down and get work done. At the same time, even though a few of them are career musicians, the band is as much a refuge from every day life as it is “work,” which, of course, neither of them want to call it. But going through the ups and of three or four bands and going through three or four bands worth of band drama, Ward has learned a few things. “There’s this thing that happens when you’re a musician and you go on tour and you put it all on the line and you get close to something and then it falls apart. Then you pick yourself up and you do it all again. Then it falls apart again. That’s where we’re all at. So honesty, and sincerity are keys for us,” he says before finishing the last sip of his beer. “I’m 36, I’m not an old man, but there’s a lot of dudes that have been in two or three bands that thought they were going to get signed and had all these big plans and then nothing happened. They’re bitter, they’re angry. They don’t want to do it again. I know guys who put their guitar down after that happened. That’s the biggest thing it’s taught me, is just keep working.” P

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FILM REVIEW

CATCHER IN THE RYE WITH DIAMONDS BY M. FAUST GREG STERLACE SAYS that Catcher in the Rye With Diamonds is his fifth movie, so I’ll take his

word for it. I can only recall three others—Ross and Gwen, Failure, and Sweet Jesus—and I can’t go to imdb.com to look up the fifth title because Sterlace doesn’t have an imdb page. That indicates a lack of ego that is awfully rare in the movie world, even more so when you consider that Sterlace otherwise spends his time singing in bands and hosting a public access TV show that has been on the air pretty much as long as there has been public access. Oh, and writing books—he has at least three for sale on Amazon. Years in the making, Catcher in the Rye With Diamonds looks at the intersection between Mark David Chapman, who shot John Lennon to death in front of Manhattan’s Dakota apartment building in 1980, and the J. D. Salinger novel that Chapman claimed to have been obsessed with at the time. “It’s about Chapman looking back now [from Wende Correctional facility in Western New York] at how he was feeling when he shot Lennon,” Sterlace says. “It’s a double period piece [1980 and 1951] in color and black and white. It’s a Christmas movie that I hope will be a holiday perennial for years to come.* We shot the footage at the Dakota exactly 34 years to the day of the murder. There is footage in the movie of the door man at the Dakota looking surprised that we were at the Dakota with our actor [ John F. Kennedy] dressed as Chapman and holding a copy of Double Fantasy.” John F. Kennedy? “Yes, that’s his real name. It fits in a weird way that he plays Mark David Chapman because both names are tied to assassination.” The movie also features such familiar faces as Richard Lambert (who also appeared in Marshall and had the title role in Sterlace’s Sweet Jesus), Tony Billoni, and Gwen Kiersz. “She’s the only person in all my movies, Sterlace says.” Shot in multiple locations including Buffalo, Manhattan, and Akron, Catcher in the Rye With Diamonds represents a step up in ambition for a Sterlace production. He especially credits the work of editor Lori Michaels and cinematographer Emil Novak. But for all that, it’s a low-budget production. How low? “It was just a little money spent on going to NYC and Paula buying costumes for wardrobe. We’re planning on not recouping on production costs. We just want as many people as possible to see it.” To that end, Catcher in the Rye with Diamonds will have its only planned screening at the North Park Theater next Saturday, July 28, at 11:30am. Admission is free, as is the after party at Revolution Gallery, where there will be a cash bar and music by Bad Ronald. * I’m not sure whether he’s kidding about this.

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60 Cleveland player, for short

32 Fanciful

61 Got out, or followed the same path as the theme answers? 66 Gibbon, for one 67 Tooth type 68 Spine-tingling

35 He cohosts “America’s Game” 37 Bon Jovi’s “___ on a Prayer” 38 Novelist Loos 39 Boston team, briefly

17 They read a lot of stories out loud

70 Goes after flies

41 Paltry

19 Historical division

71 Bottom-of-the-bottle stuff

42 Any of the kids searching for One-Eyed Willy in a 1985 flick

20 French vineyard classification 21 Feeling not-so-great 22 Be blustery 23 Ruler who lost her head in 1793

DOWN 1 Web portal with a butterfly logo 2 Plucked instrument

28 St. crosser

3 “Give me some kitten food”

29 Cone or Cat preceder

4 Joe of “Home Alone”

30 Ripken of the Orioles

5 Long looks

31 Stamp for an incoming pkg.

6 Party org. gathering last held in 2016 in Philadelphia

33 Football broadcaster Collinsworth

7 Take another swing at 8 Speed skater ___ Anton Ohno

40 Food and wine publication that went completely online in 2009

9 Flavor for some knots?

43 Cosmetician Lauder

11 Orange character from the ‘80s who appears in “Wreck-It Ralph”

44 Orange-roofed chain, familiarly

10 Mercedes roadsters

45 Nefarious

12 Sacha Baron Cohen character

46 Genesis craft

13 Music festival area

48 “You’ve Got Mail” company

18 Subtle meaning

47 Onetime capital of Poland 49 Domineered, with “over” 51 Like the main point 52 Giraffe relative with striped legs 53 Was delirious 54 Undefeated boxer Ali 55 Pester with barks 56 Word after smart or mineral 61 Text type 62 7, on a rotary phone 63 Cinnabar, e.g. 64 Costume shop purchase 65 “Castlevania” platform LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

22 English-speaking country of Central America

BRENNON HALL

50 Addams Family cousin

23 Selma’s sister

DAN SCHWACH

51 Phrase often seen after a married or professional name 57 Passable

25 Director’s option

58 Battery option

26 Part of WNW

ROBERT HARRIS

34 “As I see it,” in a text

69 Pot top

36 Purplish flower

KYLE MEAKER

JUSTIN KARCHER

15 Tibet’s neighbor 16 Questionable Twitter poster, perhaps

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEVIN O’BRIEN CAIN

14 Actor Ulrich

DAVID SHEFFIELD

EVAN JAMES

NAOMI LOWINGER

11 Some NFL All-Pros

59 Nest egg, initially

24 Some Chevy hatchbacks

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