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COMMENTARY: Doesn’t matter who replaces Collins; the GOP campaign strategy is set.

LOOKING BACKWARD: Washington & Ohio Streets, circa 1925.

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Wednesday’s child was all defiance: At his Wednesday evening press conference, which began about an hour and a half (the run time of your average Hollywood film) after it was scheduled, indicted Congressman Chris Collins insisted that, in the face of criminal charges of insider trading that also swept up his son and his son’s putative future fatherin-law, he would not resign, would not drop out of his race for re-election, and would not address the matter again outside of a court of law. That defiant stand, coupled with his self-portrait as a guy who’d martyred his money in search of a cure for multiple sclerosis, took seven minutes. At the end of the live coverage, a reporter could be heard saying, “I drove all the way from Batavia and you’re not going to take any questions?”

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Thursday’s child was largely silent: And then Collins seemed to keep his promise, issuing no statements and responding to no inquiries. But in phone calls, boardrooms, and emails, the local Republican intelligentsia were making a cold, cruel judgment.

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Friday’s child was hung out to dry: First, by shows of, at best, tepid support from former champions like Erie County GOP chairman Nick Langworthy, who wondered out loud how Collins could run race and fight the charges; and then by the unseemly enthusiasm of former allies to replace him, most notably Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw and developer Carl Paladino (because what New York’s 27th Congressional District needs is a representative who was actually, legally removed from elected office for unethical behavior). And let’s not forget Ed Rath, the Erie County legislator best known for having his father’s name on a county office building. There is literally no Republican officeholder who has flat-out said no to taking Collins’s place on the ballot.

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Saturday’s child would not resign: On Saturday, Collins did something he has never done in public life before, not even when he lost his bid for a second term as Erie County Executive: He conceded. He announced that he had suspended his re-election campaign. However, he also said he’d fill out his term. Worse for the Republicans scrambling to rub out his tarnished name, Collins recommitted himself to fighting the charges, which he calls “meritless.” If Collins would just plead guilty to some criminal act, GOP leaders could yank him from the ballot as unqualified, under state election law. Short of that, Collins’s old friends and enablers can only be rid of him if he dies, runs for some other office, or moves out of state. While Democrats—who would love to run against an accused felon—would not likely challenge his death in court, the other two subterfuges would draw lawsuits. Sunday’s child was talk show fodder: Only Omarosa’s book prevented the Sunday morning news shows and cable pundits from becoming one-note Johnnys. For which we give the show bookers and Omarosa an honorary down in an otherwise brilliant week. But what about his son and daughter? Cameron Collins was indicted with his father; he passed his dad’s inside information to his fiancé and her parents, who were invested in Innate Immunotherapeutics on the Congressman’s and his son’s advice. The fatherin-law told friends and relatives to whom he’d hyped the stock to sell; some of these are the unindicted co-conspirators who provided investigators with testimony and evidence leading to the indictment of Collins, his son, and his son’s putative future father-inlaw. The Congressman’s daughter, Caitlin, also held a substantial position in Innate Immunotherapeutics. (An Australian stockholder in the company has complained for years that the stock owned by Collins’s children was a ruse intended to thwart guidelines meant to make it difficult for one stockholder to gain outsized control of the company.) Why did Collins permit his daughter, the elder sibling, to take a big financial loss, while helping Cameron to save his allowance, thus leading him into a criminal conspiracy? And what kind of father does not instantly, at the drop of the first shoe, say, “Take me. I’m guilty. Let my son go.” But Tuesday’s child was ever thus: A stubborn sociopath, a self-serving cuss. He bought companies, dismantled them, broke unions, made money; Made crude jokes about lap dances, imagined himself funny. He named both his kids so they’d share his initials! (Why do we reward narcissism in elected officials?) He’ll plea bargain, just watch, and pay his way out with ease; Sell his Clarence McMansion and move to the Keys. He’ll pretend it’s beneath him, but he’ll silently seethe, Because beyond her grave, somehow, Louise Slaughter is pleased.

DOWNS: Honestly, it’s been a pretty good seven days. We’ll return to naysaying next Wednesday. .Do you have ups and downs to share? Email us at info@dailypublic.com.

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IT’S OUR ONLY GUARANTEE IN LIFE, SAYS MORGAN DUNBAR OF BUFFALO’S THRESHOLD SOCIETY, SO WHY ARE WE SO AFRAID TO TALK ABOUT DEATH? Morgan Dunbar found comfort in her mother’s repetition of this phrase throughout her youth. It reassured her to know that everyone was granted the same experience—just in different forms. She’d always been interested in death and life transitions, but she found her calling to her “soul work” as a transition priestess—more commonly known as a death midwife—following the death of her four-day-old son Kali Ra in August 2016. Kali Ra was born with severe brain damage, leaving his internal systems compromised, due to negligence from Dunbar’s birth team. In the moments after learning of her son’s situations, Dunbar came into her own. “I immediately just kind of assumed the role not only of grieving mother, but of death midwife,” she said. “He was on life support, and I played that role of facilitating that sacred experience for him, number one, and my family. It was very empowering, and it was a reclamation of this sacred ancestral work.” “I just had to keep going with that,” she said. “It felt so right.” Dunbar became certified as a perinatal bereavement doula and went on to be a part of the Art of Dying Institute’s Integrative

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Thanatology certificate program. She founded Lighthouse Liberation Transition Support Services, where she works with the dying and their loved ones through the transition from life to death. Her works focuses on honoring the dying’s wishes before and after death, assisting them in acknowledging and creating a legacy, performing healing rituals including anointing and shrouding the body, and providing spiritual, psychological and social support to the dying and their loved ones before and after death. At an Art of Dying conference, she attended a death cafe and decided to bring it to Buffalo. At death cafes, strangers gather to eat cake, drink tea, and discuss death. Cafes have no agenda, objectives or themes; rather, they offer a non-facilitated and group-directed conversation about the end of life. Jon Underwood created the death cafe in September 2011 in his house after multiple east London cafes refused to host an open discussion about death. Since the first cafe hosted by Underwood and run by his mother, Sue Barksy Reid, a psychotherapist, 6,733 official death cafes have been hosted in at least 56 countries. Dunbar attended a death cafe in Niagara Falls, then set a date in February 2018 for the first one in Buffalo. The response was overwhelming, with more than 50 attendees at the two-anda-half-hour session. She and her partner, MacNore Iman, have hosted a cafe once a month since. Attendees question why we are afraid of death, why we hide our grief, and how to address the grief of others. They also discuss their concerns with death: not having their wishes honored, being on life support and not in control of their

how to consciously live means we can learn to consciously die.

“Being more engaged with our mortality is an excellent way of engaging with life,” she said. “If we can deepen into the reality of our mortality, then we really learn to appreciate and be grateful for every day we have.”

THE FEAR OF DEATH In Western cultures, discussions of death and dying and subsequent grief are viewed as taboo. But, it wasn’t always this way. Prior to the Civil War, people held a much closer relationship with death. From 1800 to 1840, the average life expectancy was 44.4 years, which dropped to 40.8 years from 1840 to 1859. And, in the 1800s, child mortality rates exceeded 30 percent. Homes featured a parlor, which was meant for vigils and viewings before a person’s burial. While men built the coffins, women directed the funeral process, bathing and anointing the body before shrouding it and organizing the vigil period. But with the Civil War, death came more frequently. Bodies needed to be shipped long distances, and a new technology preserved the dead on their journey to their loved ones— embalming. The practice gained in popularity following President Lincoln’s assassination, when his body toured the country by train. Citizens saw how his body was preserved and began gravitating towards embalming. Athome funerals decreased as the dead were taken from the home, and funeral homes began to grow. The parlor was rebranded as the “living room” by the Ladies’ Home Journal. Embalming removed death from the home, taking people “from dealing with death all the time and seeing death all the time and interacting with it…to today where it’s all closeted and hidden away, and we’re afraid of it,” Dunbar said. Death transitioned from an everyday reality and a valued part of life, to a taboo that people fear and refuse to discuss.

FEATURE NEWS “People turn away from conversations about death,” Dunbar said. “People literally hire other people to handle death for them, and so any opportunity that we have to kind of practice and work with this, we reject this.” The rejection of our own mortality can make death harder. The obsession with our own expectations and how things “should” go means we sweep mortality under the rug, not to be discussed until it’s too late. If a person doesn’t deal with disappointment well or avoids the discomfort arising from pain and sadness, the end of life can be challenging for them. Saying no to death, pain, and the reality that there might be something to learn from death and dying makes people cling to their bodily possessions and reality. “Death is about opening up,” Dunbar said. “Death is actually an opportunity to deepen into the real you. It takes away all the facades and all the layers of who we think we are, and it leaves what we actually are.” Having conversations about death and broadening our perspectives about the end of life, in every form, allows a conscious, momentby-moment practice of curiosity for life and living in the present. Dunbar’s work through her death midwife services and the conscious dying movement is an effort to help people get in touch with consciously living so they don’t form expectations for the end of life, which leads to fighting the inevitable. “Expectation is suffering,” Dunbar said. “When you take away your expectation of how something ‘should’ go, you’re opening to what is.”

FUNERAL DIRECTORS AS BABYSITTERS Dunbar wants to change the expectation of how to handle death after a person has transitioned. The modern, prescribed response to the death of a loved one distances families from a healing mourning process, she said. Typically, families work with a funeral home to arrange viewing periods and final disposition of the body. If a viewing is scheduled, the body is embalmed and the funeral home hosts a scheduled vigil period for loved ones to attend. It is legal in every state for families to care for their loved ones at home from death until final disposition, but New York is one of ten states that requires a funeral director to be involved and essentially supervise all after-death care of the body, which impacts or eliminates a family’s right and ability to have an at-home funeral. “Legally, you can keep a body at home,” Dunbar said. “Legally, you can spend as much time as

you want with a body, as long as that body is refrigerated and kept cool. But, good luck trying to find a funeral director willing to open up to that different way of doing things.”

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Plus, funerals are expensive, costing an average of $12,000 in the United States. Cremation or immediate burial, which cost an average of $2,000, are still out of reach for some. “I think when companies and business started to have an opportunity to make money, when capitalism reared its ugly head in the death work, we came to understand an entire industry that stands to profit from our death,” Dunbar said. “The funeral industrial complex has completely choked the life out of any kind of family-directed transition work that used to be extremely healing for people.” Dunbar said it’s reassuring to have someone to call to facilitate the disposition of a body or guide families and friends through the postdeath process, but she feels our automatic response shouldn’t be giving away a “potentially transformational experience that’s gifted to all of us.” She plans to use the Threshold Society to educate funeral directors about the conscious dying movement and new ways of conducting post-death rituals. With cremations on the rise and expensive funerals—accompanied by expensive and environmentally taxing embalming processes and caskets—decreasing, funeral directors almost need to find a way from their practice dying out, which means embracing green funerals and burial movements, as well as family-directed vigils. Moving toward at-home funerals doesn’t make things better or make the experience of death more positive, but it does give people options for honoring their dead and greater time to mourn the body and confront death head-on. “Death never happens on our terms,” Dunbar said. “So, the one thing that we can do to have some semblance of, not control, but some semblance of peace with the experience is to be able to take our time with it and not be rushed through it.” And, bringing death back to the home offers an opportunity to interact with death and embrace the dying process not as a tragedy, but as a lesson in life. “To think that every single time life gives us these opportunities to familiarize ourselves with death, we hand it off to someone else and see it as tragedy,” Dunbar said. “Where it could function for us in a way that every time we get this new experience, if we could just take that opportunity to deepen into the inevitability of our mortality and get a little bit more comfortable with it.” That familiarity with death and embrace of the

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dying process opens us to a conscious living experience: not just knowing that we are alive and the opportunities life gives us, but living mindfully and accepting everything that comes our way in our lifetimes. Living consciously and embracing death and the lessons it offers doesn’t make it easier to endure the death of a loved one and feel grief, but it could make us more likely to acknowledge our feelings of disappointment and frustration and less beholden to them. “When we can be invited to open to all of the gifts of an experience and not just see it one way, that ‘this is a horrible thing that shouldn’t happen,’ and not really allow our mortality to be a daily reminder of the sacredness that we were blessed to ever have any interactions with our loved one at all,” Dunbar said. By working to spread the idea of consciously dying, Dunbar spreads the concept of consciously living. She believes that if you don’t confront your own mortality, you fall into a pattern of not living your life to the fullest. And, acknowledging our death and trying to understand our dread for it, whether it be the pain, the unknown afterlife or our fear of being forgotten, we can begin to feel the gifts that death brings us: a renewed zest for life, our inner strength and the beauty of loving people and learning from them. “People are afraid of something so natural— completely rejecting it, don’t want to look at it,” Dunbar said. “It’s just like these parts of ourselves that we don’t want to feel grief fully, we don’t want to go down into the depths of our psyche and feel sorrow. But, it’s a beautiful thing because that’s where you see where your power P is—when you can survive these things.”

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NEWS COMMENTARY the eight western New York counties to select Collins’ replacement—a wholly undemocratic and opaque process. Chances are the chairs are looking for someone with name recognition in the district who can quickly and easily attract the financing needed for the run. There are close to 20 names floating out there for Collins’ replacement. Some of them you know, some you probably don’t. But over the weekend, shortly after Collins announced he’d drop out (I predicted it’d be Friday), a slew of thirsty GOPers were tweeting and posting “I’m all in for #NY27.” Notables from Buffalo include the aforementioned Ed Rath, Assemblyman Ray Walter, State Senators Rob Ortt and Mike Ranzenhofer, disgraced racist developer Carl Paladino, and Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw. I don’t care whom the Republicans pick, because it doesn’t at all matter. The campaign strategy has already been polled and formulated. All they have to do is plug in an avatar for the carefully crafted pro-Trump/antiPelosi messaging that attacks family man and in-house corporate lawyer— Democrat Nate McMurray—as some sort of antifa radical. Mychajliw, especially, is trying to paint McMurray as some sort of Marxist guerrilla rebel leader slightly to the left of Che Guevara who will feed you a Venezuelan existence. Imagine: a supporter of Donald Trump’s robotically PHOTO BY BRENDAN BANNON

parroting someone else’s talking point about McMurray’s demeanor. To call it insane would be an grave insult to insane people.

WHO WILL REPLACE COLLINS? seems to be that Collins can’t simply move out of state, so there are talks underway for Collins to be either appointed to some other elected position, or to run for some minor position such as Clarence town council or town justice.

IT’S DOWNRIGHT irresponsible for Representative Chris

Collins—currently under arrest and out on bail due to federal felony indictments arising out of insider trading—not to resign his office. To the extent he was really representing his constituents in New York’s 27th Congressional District at all, it’s become quite clear that his priorities have shifted from “public service,” such as it was, to self-preservation. At least he (finally) had the self-awareness to drop out of the race. Now, everyone is talking about the process to replace him on the ballot—an exercise that will be far more difficult than anyone realizes, given the late date. The consensus

awkwardly from his putative 2019 Erie County Executive race by simply replacing “Poloncarz” with “McMurray.” Mychajliw tells you absolutely nothing about what he’s for, except one thing: Donald Trump. They love to invoke Nancy Pelosi, who has as much influence on the average Western New Yorker’s day-to-day life as, say, the Ancient Aliens guy, but these people need to play to the WBEN-listener rubes who hate Democratic women from the coasts, for whom they have choice one-word nicknames.

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IT DOESN’T MATTER—THE CAMPAIGN SCRIPT IS ALREADY WRITTEN: JUST INSERT ALT-RIGHT TRUMP AVATAR.

With his oddly aggressive table reads of this season’s script, Mychajliw pivots

Many of these guys are going to flirt with the racist alt-right, if, like Paladino, they aren’t full-blown members already. It’s curious to watch the guy who’s been a household name in Buffalo for about 20 years punch down so hard and so falsely against McMurray,

Generally speaking, it’s easy to boot a lawyer off a ballot because they can be shunted off to literally any judicial race anywhere in the state. A non-lawyer can serve as a town judge, so it is possible that Collins gets moved into a town judgeship race in Clarence. The town’s Republican committee is a pretty strong monolith, which can probably take the hit of acting as a safe haven for an accused felon. Ed Rath’s Erie County Legislature seat has also been floated as an example, as well as the possibility that a town councilman sacrifices his office so that Collins can run for it, for the good of the party.

who was an unknown until last Wednesday morning. The Republicans

That would then, ostensibly, allow the Republican chairs in

their trust in him to blame for this mess he’s handed to them.

know they’re at risk, and if Trump is as popular in the district as they say, it makes little sense for them to go so laughably negative so fast. Maybe McMurray’s doing better than even he realizes. So, whom will the Republicans pick? It doesn’t matter. By all rights, the default Republican candidacy should belong to WBEN commentator David Bellavia, who has been patiently waiting through Chris Lee, Jane Corwin, and Chris Collins. But money talks and decorated soldiers walk, so it’s likely to be someone from the Buffalo area. There will be litigation, and the Republicans have only Chris Collins and

LOOKING BACKWARD: WASHINGTON STREET AT OHIO, CIRCA 1925 By 1925, even as the adjacent port still burgeoned with lake traffic, the Canal District was woebegone. Here, in a photograph taken around that year, is the northwest corner of Washington and Ohio streets. (Ohio Street between Main and Illinois streets was renamed to South Park Avenue in 1939.) This block now occupied by Key Bank Center was a mix of restaurants, speakeasies, flop houses, and a number of maritime businesses—including W. A. Case & Son Mfg. Co., which specialized in heavy copper smithing for steamboats and locomotives. A nearly collapsed corner building saw remaining value as a billboard location. Many of these buildings survived well into the late 1960s, when they were demolished to create surface parking for Memorial Auditorium. - THE PUBLIC STAFF PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BUFFALO HISTORY MUSEUM.

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PLAYING NOW: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more / Men were deceivers ever,- / One foot in sea and one on shore, /To one thing constant never.” Frankly, we prefer comedies with a little crossdressing. But with lines like that? Don’t miss it. At Shakespeare in Delaware Park through August 19, 856-4533, shakespeareindelawarepark.org. STATIONS: Multimedia theatrical installations presented by Torn Space Theatre as part of the ongoing Response Festival. Stations is by Dan Shanahan and Melissa Meola and takes place August 17-19 at Silo City; tickets are $25 or $75 VIP, doors at 7:30pm and performances at 8pm. (VIP boat reception at 7pm.) Read more at dailypublic.com and reserve tickets at tornspacetheatre.com.

The Cherry Orchard re-cast with a Punjabi Sikh family who are trying to protect their orchard in the Okanagan Valley. STAGE KISS: Exes in “real” life are cast as lovers on stage in the comedy by Sarah Ruhl. Playing now at the Shaw Festival, 10 Queen’s 7429, shawfest.com.

AT THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL: AN IDEAL HUSBAND: Oscar Wilde’s comedy BRONTE: THE WORLD WITHOUT: ”Three sisters live in poverty with their ailing father and dissolute, dying brother, jealously guarding the secrets of their disappointed hearts.”

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ART REVIEW 11 siblings, so grew up in a world where you didn’t get much space to call your own. Six brothers sharing one bedroom. For another, he started out his art career in textile design. “So what I was always interested in was detail,” he said. Also, a religious background—he spent a year as a young man in the seminary— relating to an enduring fascination with relics, the idea of relics. His work in the show is in homage to Shea’s Buffalo theater. Under an old camera lens about an inch and a half in diameter, some relics actually of that grandiose structure, such as a small chip fragment of the fresco application faux marble (acquired legitimately from discard material following renovation work at the theater). Zach Pritchard talked about making his cast aluminum sculptural piece, that started as a notebook sketch that he then gradually conceptualized and produced in three dimensions, out of a vague but ineluctable impulse to make it more palpable, more real, it sounded like he was saying. The finished piece—a sort of stalk or shaft affair that thins at it rises, bending once or twice, and marked all over with deep impression thumb or finger marks— is “all about imbalance, uncomfortabilty, from every direction,” according to the artist. And painter Larry Rosnuk talked about his work, a large painterly expressionist—with impressionist and surrealist elements—depiction of a ship docked at night along a quay, and about himself, his struggle to transform from a geophysics engineer to an artist, after he realized that was his authentic— even if possibly less lucrative—vocation. “The struggle to free up,” as he put it, “I was an uptight engineer.” It involved a move for a period to England from his native Canada, then eventually relocating back to Canada, where he now lives in Port Colborne.

Dennis Bertram, Deer Slayer.

On a recent Saturday afternoon, artist Jan Agati Abbarno talked about her dense turbulence marker drawing and collage cutout work called Steampunk, the exhibit prize winner in the Chaotic Abstraction category. A work about technology somehow. Her sense of anxiety—discomfort, foreboding—in the face of the technology all around us today. “I’m not having a great transition into technology,” she said. “I’m churning.” The piece does seem to express churning.

Collage artist Joyce Hill’s work in the show—called Chances Are—is about a movie her daughter is involved in producing about gangsters and gambling. The artwork has a properly aleatory feel. Some photos of places Hill has been to, such as New Orleans, and a photo of the moon, and here and there some actual dominoes. Asked to talk about how much preliminary planning goes into such a work, not much at all, apparently. “I’m very spontaneous,” she says. “I start out with no preconceived format at all.”

A sampling of other interesting work: Rich Tomasello’s huge papier-mâché military tank exhibit centerpiece; Dennis Bertram’s noir realist impromptu butchering scene, entitled Deer Slayer; Chase Lobley’s wonderful fighting paper dinosaurs stop-motion animation video; excellent pencil drawings such as Esther Lan’s Me and My Mirror self-portrait with attitude, Erin Finley’s Hulkmania Cinderella figure at the end of a rough day apparently, and Hetta Gardner’s Self-Portrait; Barbara Hart’s acrylic on canvas Garden Party portrait of an adolescent young women who seems to not want to be there; Brian Milbrand’s Untitled Film Still #10 paint and acetate amalgam in a light box, with the look of a Petri dish experiment gone awry; Kurt Treeby’s yarn and plastic and canvas and LED lights representation of the former magnificent Niagara Falls Wintergarden as a Kleenex dispenser, or maybe just Kleenex, but anyway a throwaway; Bob Hoffman’s diptych of two thematically similar photos, one from 1968, of anti-Vietnam War protests, one from 2018, of an antiTrump immigration policy protest; and Rosemary Lyons’s also timely mixed media floral suggestion abstract with this legend: “The priest grabbed me by the waist and pushed his penis up against my ass.”

Kari Achatz, originally a painter lately getting more into photography, talked about her penchant for old architecture—

Small assemblage artist Gerald Mead talked about why he makes such diminutive art. For one thing, he explained, he is one of

That’s 18, 150 more to go. The Members’ Show continues P through August 31.

HALLWALLS MEMBERS' SHOW BY JACK FORAN THE GARGANTUAN ANNUAL summer feature Hallwalls

Members’ Show. This year, a daunting 168 works by 168 artists. Help is provided, however, by way of an ancillary feature series of artists’ talks, Saturday afternoons, starting at noon, throughout the run of the show. A half dozen 10-minute talks by a half dozen artists, about their piece in the show. What they’re trying to say or do with the piece. How they came up with the idea for it, how they produced it. Whatever.

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Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Robert Indiana: A Sculpture Retrospective, Jun 16-Sep 23. Picturing Niagara, paintings by Stephen Hannock, on view through Sep 30. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annakaplancontemporary.art): Guaranteed Painkiller, drawings and sculpture by Michael Beitz. On view through Aug 4. Sat 12-4 or by appointment. Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207): Power & Progress: Buffalo’s Black Rock Lock. On view Aug 3-31. Thu 5-8pm, Fri 11-3pm, Saturday 11-3pm. Art 247 (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, theart247.com): Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Marie Hassett, On the Edge, fiber collage works. On view through Aug 31. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716885-2251, wnyag.com): Trilogies XXIX: George

the Central Terminal building, the grain silos—and her work in the show entitled Deconstructing Complacency. In a medium she calls “photosculpture,” consisting in this case of an underlayer photo of a silos portal, and partial overlayer sheet meticulously incised with lacy patterns of geometric forms in the central part, surrounded by organic forms, leaves and grass. “Nature always wins,” she says.

Gilham (oil paintings), Marie Prince (acrylic paintings), Henry Schmidt (sculpture). On view through Aug 17. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): TueThu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Repetition, Autism Services, Inc. show with work by John Overton Burns, Erich Haneberg, Keith Minchen, James Marino, Robert Lewis, Andy Chou, and Dan Carey. Blue Plate Gallery (69 Keil Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120): Jan Dylewski: In This Context. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Lux, the work of Muhammad Z. Zaman & Interstitial Castings by D.C.-based artist Liz Lessner. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, 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 Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-

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4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Connections exhibit featuring Lux by Muhammad Z. Zaman and Interstitial Castings by Liz Lessner. TueFri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint. com): Vessels. Ryan Hoerner (Cryptic Crayon) debuts his latest melted-crayoncreations: from landscapes to outer space. On view through Aug 31. Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm. Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology (1221 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 259-1680, buffaloartstechcenter.org): COWABLAMMO! by Taramarie Mitravich. Opening Sat, Aug 4, 6-10pm. Mon-Fri 10am-3pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City & WWI, 100th Anniversary of America’s Entry into WWI, on second floor. Building Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings, in the Grosvenor Rare Book Room. Catalogue available for purchase. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm.Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Messages/Visual Platform, through 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): Detail Distilled, by Quincy Koczka. Canvas Salon & Gallery (9520 Main Street STE 400, Clarence, NY 14031, 716-320-5867): Casey Okonczak, through Sep 2018. 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. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Think Big: The Artists of Autism Services, through Jan 14, 2019. The Lure of Niagara: Highlights From the Charles Rand Penney Historical Niagara Falls Print Collection, through Sep 9; Of Their Time: Hudson River School to Postwar Modernism, through Dec 31, 2019. Tue-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

GALLERIES ART CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): COMING HOME: Reentry After Incarceration, Errol Daniels photography. Mon-Fri 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): FLATSITTER: Goat Mountain Revival. On view Aug 3-18. Unveiling/Closing Reception: Thu, Aug 16, 5-9pm. RSVP at rsvp. flatsitter.com. Tue-Fri, 10am-4pm, or by appointment. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Members’ Exhibition cake reception, Fri Aug 3, 6-9pm. Wed-Sat 12-6pm Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm. Expo 68 (4545 Transit Road, Amherst, NY 14221, near JCP, Eastern Hills Mall): Arrivals & Departures, works by Barbara Mink. On view through Sep 6. Gallery hours: Tue-Fri 12-8pm, Sat 10-8pm, Sun 12-5pm. 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. Thu-Fri 11am-7pm, 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 on view through Sep 1. Tue-Fri 9:30am-4pm, Sat 9am2pm. 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 10-3pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.

com): SUMMER SCAPES, a group exhibit, on view Aug 1-31. Wed-Sat,12-5pm, 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. 8am-7pm daily. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse.com): illusory a solo exhibit by Laurie A. Tanner. 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): Another Life: Paintings by Barbara Hart. Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): Connection: An Art Therapy Exhibition on display through Aug 31. Closing reception on Friday, Aug 31, 6-9pm. Sat 122pm. 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): Sonic Splendor group show fusing the world of music and art. Thu 12-6pm, Fri and Sat 12-8pm. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051, riverartgalleryandgifts. com): Wed-Fri 11am-4pm Sat 11am- 5pm. Ró Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Meri Stiles, Melodious Swamp. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. The Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History (311 Curtis Street, Jamestown, NY 14701, 716-665-2473, rtpi.org) The Extinct Birds Project by Alberto Rey, featured Aug 17-

Dec 14. Opening reception Fri, Aug 17, 5-7pm with gallery talk and book signing. Rust Belt Books (415 Grant Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 716-885-9535): Every Picture Tells a Story, photographic portraits by Richard Price, on view Aug 1-31. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Yvette Granata | #d8e0ea: post-cyberfeminist datum. On view through August 25th, 2018. Tue-Sat, 12pm5pm. 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): Open by event and Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries. org): Bracha: Pietà—Eurydice—Medusa, Bracha Ettinger, on view through Jul 29. Claire Falkenstein: Time Elements, Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries. org): Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, on view through May 26. No Plan for the Future, SCREEN Projects by virocode on view through May 26. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): 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. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. To add your gallery’s information to the list, please P contact us at info@dailypublic.com

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ALBERTO REY opens a new exhibit and debuts a new book, both titled The Extinct Birds Project, o

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on Friday, August 17, 5-7pm, at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History (311 Curtis Street, Jamestown). This piece is called Bachman’s Warbler. Read more about the book and Rey’s artwork at extinctbirdsproject.com. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / AUGUST 15 - 21, 2018 / THE PUBLIC

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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 15 Live at Larkin: New Orleans Night 5pm Larkin Square, 745 Seneca Street free

[JAZZ] Celebrate the Big Easy at New Orleans Night in Larkinville. The New Orleans-themed night, presented by Big Easy in Buffalo is part of the Live at Larkin concert series and will feature John Papa Gros with Buffalo Brass Machine, next Wednesday, August 15 in Larkin Square. -TPS

Julie Lambert 7pm Various Locations,

MIRANDA LAMBERT AND LITTLE BIG TOWN THURSDAY AUGUST 16 7PM / DARIEN LAKE, 9993 S ALLEGHANY RD / $24-$93

CAGES

[COUNTRY] As country music summer packages go, this is the big winner for 2018, especially if

Inside a Ringing Chord album

you’re a fan of harmony vocals over solo showboating. Both critically lauded artists, Miranda

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Lambert and Little Big Town together tout a combined 36 ACM Award wins, 21 CMAs, and four

The latest album from Buffalo experimental noise duo Cages

Grammys. The reigning eight-time consecutive ACM Female Vocalist of the Year, Lambert released an ambitious, 24-song double album, The Weight of These Wings, in November 2016. Despite the

[JAZZ, FOLK, ETC.] Had she remained in Buffalo, East Aurora native Julie Lambert would certainly have become a local music celebrity. Alas for us, happily for Lambert, we lost the singer many years ago to southern France, where she has continued to hone her musicianship and her catalog, which ranges from jazz standards to (very) old as well as newer folk and originals. Maybe you remember Lambert and her enchanting voice from many moons ago; maybe you never had the pleasure. In either case, Lambert is in town visiting family and has booked three shows in East Aurora this week, and you ought to try to make one: Wednesday, August 15 at 42 North Brewing, 7-10pm; Thursday, August 16 at the Roycroft Inn, as a guest of Rob Montone’s Lizard Lounge Society, 7-10pm; and Sunday, August 19 at 189 Public House, also 7-10pm. At the 42 North and 189 Public House shows, expect Lambert to be joined by a cadre of musicians comprising local friends and members of the almost freakishly talented (and very large) Lambert family. -TPS

is titled Inside a Ringing Chord.

album’s length (double albums often don’t chart well), it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country

The album, which was released

Albums chart. At over 90 minutes, it’s gone on to reach platinum-selling status. Little Big Town’s The

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on August 1, is six tracks and

Breaker has sold more modestly despite Taylor Swift having penned the album’s first single, “Better

Bowie Live

full of intense, complex, and

Man,” which almost went gold by itself. But LBT has a strong cache of singles and a captivating gift

texturally rich avant-garde string compositions. Cages,

for straddling genres, moving between typical modern country idioms and something more like mid-

which is the duo of Nola Ranallo

period Fleetwood Mac. Lambert and Little Big Town bring The Bandwagon Tour to Darien Lake

and David Bailey, employed a

on Thursday, August 16. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

massive team of local talent to

7pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $20-$25

[TRIBUTE] It takes some guts to call yourself the “Ultimate David Bowie Tribute,” but that’s just what Bowie Live claims to be. Musician Chris Theoret takes on David Bowie and comes as close as possible to the real deal. Catch Bowie Live at the Tralf this Friday, August 17. -TPS

help them compose and arrange

Kevin Farley

the material, including cellist TJ Borden. The songs range in length from

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around four minutes to more than 20 minutes, beginning with the sinister, tone-setting opener, “Savasana,” the title of which refers to the corpse pose in yoga. This moves into the 20-minute, haunting string and voice odyssey “D.I.E.?” That’s followed by the lush, emotional though terrifying “Disappearing Wall,”

8pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $17-$70

[COMEDY] There’s no doubt this dude is a Farley. Everything from his barrel-chested posture, the tone of his voice, hair, style, and energy—everything about Kevin Farley is recognizable. The younger brother of Chris Farley, Kevin first became known for portraying Doug Linus in the fictional boy band 2ge+her. He also appeared in classic Chris Farley movies such as Tommy Boy and Black Sheep. Catch Kevin Farley at Helium Comedy Club this week, where he’ll play five shows, Thursday, August 16 through Saturday, August 18. -CP

which seems to wear a pop song

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as a disguise to hide something horrifying lurking underneath.

The Lacs

“Something to Carry in the Dark” is as close to a respite from the terror as it comes up to this point, before the musicians move into a more meditative, mesmerizing, and droning section dubbed “Sufferer.” The album closes with

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the devastating 23-minute “Devil.”

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Tragic Kingdom, while my taste in music developed. I still hear cuts from that record, like “The

the CD.

Impression That I Get” and “Royal Oil,” on the radio, which is astounding considering ska music is typically thought of as underground music. The genre might have peaked in the mainstream

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with that record, though, and 21 years on, the nine-piece band, led by vocalist Dicky Barrett, is still playing in front of sold-out crowds. And for a band with so many members, it’s nice to know that a good chunk of them are still around from the band’s Boston-based beginnings, including bassist Joe Gittleman, sax player Tim Burton, and dancer Ben Carr. Catch the Bosstones at Canalside as the final concert of the year in the Canalside Live concert series, this Friday, August 17. Canadian alt-rock band, Lowest of the Low opens the show -CORY PERLA

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[POP] Love it or hate it, this is what happens when Southern country boys grow up listening to hip-hop. The Lacs—short for “loud ass crackers” (le sigh!)—consists of Georgia’s Clay Sharpe and Brian King, and since 2002, they’ve been slinging their genre-busting blend of Southern-fried rock and rhymes. Impressively, they’ve cobbled a career on their own terms, self-releasing their first three discs and, most recently, creating their own label: Dirt Rock Empire. In between, the pair recorded a half dozen albums for Backroad Records, a subsidiary of an indie label owned by likeminded countryrapper Colt Ford. Their latest, simply titled Dirt Rock, dropped in May and brings the duo to Buffalo Iron Works on Friday, August 17. Ohio’s Carter Winter will open with a more traditional country-sounding set. -TPS

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[PARADE] Buffalo's summer parade season is blessed with a lively opener, the Pride Parade, down one city thoroughfare, and a raucous closer, the Puerto Rican and Hispanic Day Parade, which will wend noisily up another this Saturday, August 18. The parade steps off in Niagara Square at 1pm and proceeds up Niagara Street to LaSalle Park, where festivities will have begun the night before and continue through Sunday. The music and dancing are flamboyant, the floats and decorated vehicles delightful, and the politicians running for office this fall plentiful. The whole neighborhood turns it on this weekend, and the LaSalle Park festivities are not to be missed. -TPS

Love, the new album from Beyoncé and Jay-Z—which was released under their new alias, the Carters—features a scene in which a group of black men in hoodies and leather jackets kneels as the camera zooms in. As this happens on screen at the midpoint of the video, Jay-Z raps in his first verse: “I said no to the Super Bowl. You need me, I don’t need you.” Which creates an odd and compelling dynamic as he and his wife, Beyoncé, continue their massive summer tour of NFL stadiums, dubbed On the Run II. Beyoncé, of course, did play a Super Bowl halftime show, in 2013, three years before former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began his famous kneeling protest, which is alluded to in the “Apeshit” video. That year, Kaepernick came to Buffalo to play at New Era Field,

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[PUNK] Over-the-top punk band, Green Jellÿ returns to Mohawk Place for a show this Saturday, August 18. Founding member Bill Manspeaker, the only original member of the band, brings his wacky, unorthodox punk band back to his hometown for this one. Formed in Kenmore in the early 1980s, the band grew in popularity after opening for legendary punk bands like the Ramones and the New York Dolls. Over the years, Manspeaker has used the band’s uniquely spectacular image to attract the attention of people like Maynard James Keenan of Tool, with whom he has collaborated. This Saturday’s show will be jam packed with talented with support coming from Lazy Ass Destroyer, Wyatt Coin, Exham Priory, the Toy Box Brigade, Buried Beneath Concrete, and Three Green. -TPS

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In fact, he said that Buffalo was one of the harshest and least welcoming cities to him. Of course, the Carters’ appearance this Saturday, August 18 at the New Era Field will be much more welcomed by fans in Buffalo— who will be paying between $46 and $800 for tickets to go apeshit as the billionaire power couple play upwards of 50 songs from their massive twin discographies, which include mega hits like “Big Pimpin” and “Crazy in Love”—despite their approval of the NFL protests. -CORY PERLA

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[FUN] This one kind of speaks for itself. Booze, beach, beats—what else is there really? Music comes from Deadwolf and DJ Crop Top. Dress like you’re at the beach and maybe you’ll win King or Queen in the Shitty Beach contest. Expect drink specials and all that good stuff, and on top of that, feel good that your $5 donation at the door goes to benefit the Pride Center of Western New York. This Saturday, August 18 at Lockhouse Distillery. -TPS

environmental activist, Seth Bernard grew up amid farming culture at Northern Michigan’s Earthwork Farm. His music reflects his background with earthy textures, and his passion for peaceful environmental reform is a recurring theme in his work. In 2001, he founded Earthwork Music, a Michigan-based collective of indie artists who are focused on environmental advocacy, social justice, creative empowerment, and community building. Since then, he’s gone on to serve as the director of the Musical Ambassador

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and with those in Michigan. Earlier this year, he helped launch the Clean

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Water Campaign, an organization committed to helping elect clean water candidates for 2018, a very serious issue in his home state. Bernard just released his new Eggtones for Directions last month. Johnny Irion is perhaps most well known for his work with wife Sarah Lee Guthrie; the duo’s 2013 disc Wassaic Way was produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy. Irion’s latest solo record, Driving Friend, came out in May. Bernard and Irion make for a captivating, folksy double bill at Babeville’s 9th Ward on

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[ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL] Sometimes it takes a little reminder to visit Griffis Sculpture Park at least once before summer ends. (Or, for that matter, at least once each season.) That's what the annual Griffis Sculpture Park Summer Festival, which takes place on Sunday, August 19, is meant to be: a reminder. It will remind you of how glorious this season is, and how beautiful the hills and forests of Ashford Hollow and surroundings. It will remind you that a life spent in pursuit of and appreciation for art and music is a life well lived. It will remind you to forget, for just one lovely afternoon, that the nights are growing chilly. The featured musical act is the roots rock band Driftwood. Performances by the Probables, Kaleidoscope Sky, and (as ever) the Slyboots School of Music, plus poet Autumn Echo. Their will be plenty of food, beer, and wine for sale on site. And then, of course, there are the abundant walking paths and the sculptures of Larry W. Griffis, Jr., who created the 425-acre park in 1966. Proceeds benefit the Ashford Hollow Foundation, run by Griffis's children and grandchildren, which

maintains and operates the sculpture park and the Essex Arts Center in Buffalo, and provides arts education programs for kids. Tie a string around your finger: Don't forget. The weather is supposed to be perfect. -TPS

MONDAY AUGUST 20 Marcia Ball 5pm Sportsmen';s Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $30-$35

[BLUES] Back before Austin, Texas blew up as the progressive oasis and arts capitol of the Lone Star State, Marcia Ball was the front gal for a band called Freda and the Firedogs. Their 1972 debut remains a snapshot of a Southern American culture unadorned by pretenses and airs—a time when a woman singing about sending a guy to "Fist City" if he gets too fresh was considered feminism. It took

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six years for Ball to release her solo debut, Circuit Queen, and she's been at it ever since. In the ensuing 40 years, she's steered more toward a bluesy tones from her progressive country beginnings, and her blend of zydeco, swamp blues, and boogie woogie, married with her two-fisted piano playing, make her quite unlike anyone in the business. At 69, Ball's show still brims with impressive energy, so don't miss her at Sportsmen's Tavern on Monday, August 20. -CJT

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 22 Live at Larkin: The Nth Power 5pm Larkin Square, 745 Seneca Street free

[FUNK] Funk band the Nth Power will take the stage at the next edition of Live at Larkin. The soulful three-piece funk group features

Nikki Glaspie, who, in addition to touring with the funk band Dumstaphnk, toured the world as Beyonce’s drummer. Catch the Nth Power with Funktional Flow at Larkin Square this Wednesday, August 22 for the free concert. -TPS

O.A.R. 5pm Artpark, 450 South 4th St. $14-$47

[JAM] With elements of roots rock and pop, and jam band leanings O.A.R. have been at it for more than 20 years, growing a substantial fanbase as they've toured relentlessly. The five-piece jam band from Rockville, Maryland will return to Western New York for a show at Artpark on Wednesday, August 22 on a tour, the namesake of which comes from the band’s new single, “Just Like Paradise.” Support comes from singer/songwriter Matt P Nathanson. -TPS

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DRESSED TO KILL MCQUEEN, CRAZY RICH ASIANS, BLACKkKLANSMAN BY M. FAUST AT THE RISK of sounding more like an oaf than usual, I do not

understand the world of fashion. Not at all. I know that there are people who can afford to spend a lot of money on expensive clothing, and I understand that. I realize that if you’re spending a lot of money on a piece of clothing, you want it to be as unique as possible, and that the quest for singularity can lead into the realm of the bizarre. You say to-mah-to, I say to-may-to. But I don’t understand the point of fashion lines that could only conceivably be worn by people who spend much of their time at the kind of nightclubs that only exist in a handful of the world’s cities. At one point in the new documentary McQueen, the late designer Alexander McQueen is heard saying, “Fashion is a big bubble, and sometimes I feel like popping it.” That goes a long way to explaining his shows, which as shown here existed more as theatrical presentations than as displays of work for sale. The titles alone are indicative: “Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims,” “McQueen’s Theatre of Cruelty,” “The Birds.” In one, “Highland Rape,” models were dressed and made up to look as if they had just suffered that most horrible experience. As his career progressed, McQueen got further away from the very idea of the “catwalk.” His 2001 show “VOSS” had for a centerpiece a large display of mirrored glass, requiring the audience to a stare at itself for an hour. Another put a model in a bulky white dress between two robots, all on spinning platforms, the robots eventually spraying her with paint. If you’re saying to yourself, “Gee, that sounds kind of cool,” by all means see the film, which opens this Friday at the Dipson Eastern Hills. I’ll admit: A lot of this stuff is pretty cool to see. Born and raised in the working class East End of London, McQueen had no formal education and was free to indulge his odd visions in unique ways. The nexus between his work and the personal demons that led him to commit suicide at the age of 40 aren’t always clear, but they make for consistently vivid cinema. It doesn’t hurt that the film is scored by Michael Nyman, or at least by Nyman tunes that you’ll recognize from The Piano and the films of Peter Greenaway. The movie oddly never mentions McQueen’s work in the music business, designing stage clothing for Lady Gaga, Bjork (for whom he also directed a music video), and David Bowie.

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As far as clothing, the stuff that you or I might actually put on to cover ourselves when we leave our houses, his brand still exists and you can visit it online. I personally can’t imagine ever spending $1,800 for sweatpants, but I guess someone out there does. *** IF YOU ARE one of those people, you might also be the market

for Crazy Rich Asians, which no less than Forbes magazine derides as “wealth porn.” A thuddingly dull and predictable romantic comedy of the Cinderella subgenre in which an NYU economics professor has to adjust when she discovers that her boyfriend is the scion of an immensely rich family, it is notable for featuring a cast of Asian and Asian-American performers in a story about same. My reaction to this is that same that it was to Black Panther: I guess it’s great that commercial films are being made to appeal directly to groups that have previously been relegated to Hollywood’s sidelines, but I can’t get excited that they’re being marketed the same generic crap as the rest of us. *** SPIKE LEE’S BlacKkKlansman shows that entertainment and

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David Washington), a black man who in the early 1970s joined the Colorado Springs police department. That took a certain amount of nerve—he was the first non-white cop in the city. But he topped that by setting out to take down the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, in which his first step is to join it. The title is a bit of a cheat. It might lead you to picture a Mel Brooks-ish comedy with Stallworth showing up at Klan meetings and refusing to take off his white hood. In fact, he partners with a white cop named Flip (Adam Driver) for a dual portrayal: Stallworth will play the part on the phone, Flip will be the one who shows up in person. (A reasonable person might well ask why not just have Flip do the phone part as well, but of course suspension of disbelief is central to the cinematic experience.) That the half-dozen members of the local Klan are hicks who seem to pose a threat only to themselves gives rise to a certain amount of comedy. (So does the casting of Topher Grace as Grand Wizard David Duke.) But if we have learned anything in the last year (and Lee’s film is never unaware of its relevance P to the present moment), stupidity does not render people undangerous. Lee has always had a special skill for leaping nimbly between such gaps, and while BlacKkKlansman has its moments of anguish and anger, it never feels like a polemic. It’s a P terrifically entertaining movie.

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WEST SIDE: 3BR carriage house, corner Richmond and Connecticut. Water included, off-street parking. Move-in condition 6/15. $1150 + util and security. Call/text Kevin: 716-400-4159. -------------------------------------------------LEWISTON: Niagara University students: Large, clean, updated house, 2BR 1Bath. New kitchen & appliances. Steps away from campus. 9-month lease. Owners live in house during summer. Two students only! $2,000 per semester, per student + utilities. Call/text Bob: 702-580-8907. -------------------------------------------------HERTEL AVE/N. BUFFALO: 3 BR upper. $900+utilities & sec dep. No pets, off-street pkng. Call 716.308.6870

HELP WANTED BARTENDER: Now hiring part-time evening bartender. Light cooking duties. Call Joe @ 716.308.6870 for more details.

Enthusiastic theatre-lovers with a desire to provide an excellent patron experience desired. Six show season, one assignment per show.

PLEASE CONTACT Brian Cavanagh at

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------------------------------------------------BOOKKEEPER: Looking for an experienced man or woman bookkeeper/ payroll, needed urgently. Part-time 2-3 hrs, $40 per 2 hours. For more info kindly email: justin.smith3433@gmail.com. ------------------------------------------------INTERPRETER/TRANSLATOR: Do you enjoy helping others? Do you speak fluent English and at least one other language? Consider a job as an interpreter or translator. We are accepting applications for all languages, but currently are giving preference to individuals who speak Karen, Karenni, Burmese, Tigrinya, Farsi Dari (Afghan Persian), Nepali,

ELMWOOD AVENUE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS VOLUNTEERS...Many hands make light work! The Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts is looking for volunteers to assist in all areas of the festival! Some of these areas include Kidsfest, Cafe, Artist’s Row, Cultural and Environmental Row, and Site Crew. The festival takes place on Saturday, August 25th and Sunday, August 26th from 10am-6pm. Morning, afternoon, and full day shifts available. Please contact Katherine at (716) 812-8262 or eafvolunteering@ gmail.com if you are interested.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY:

Name of LLC: 242 IDEAL LLC

Name of LLC: 32 ALAM0, LLC

Name of LLC: 89 SAGE LLC

Name of LLC: 120 LONGNECKER LLC

Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept of State: JULY 24, 2018

Office of the LLC: 1814 William St., Buffalo, NY 14206

The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 1814 WILLIAM ST., BUFFALO, NY 14206

Purpose of LLC: Real Estate Investment

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY:

Name of LLC: 152 LEWIS LLC

Name of LLC: 73 WEYAND LLC

Name of LLC: 25 CHAUNCEY LLC

Name of LLC: 247 IDEAL, LLC

Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept of State: JULY 24, 2018

Office of the LLC: 1814 William St., Buffalo, NY 14206

The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 1814 WILLIAM ST., BUFFALO, NY 14206

Purpose of LLC: Real Estate Investment

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY:

Name of LLC: 1927 SENECA LLC

Name of LLC: 1610 SOUTH PARK LLC

Name of LLC: 1238 BAILEY LLC

Name of LLC: 409 WILLETT LLC

Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept of State: JULY 24, 2018

Office of the LLC: 1814 William St., Buffalo, NY 14206

The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 1814 WILLIAM ST., BUFFALO, NY 14206

Purpose of LLC: Real Estate Investment

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY:

Name of LLC: 1814 WILLIAM LLC

Name of LLC: 36 GEARY LLC

Name of LLC: 28 DISMONDA LLC

Name of LLC: 1150 LOVEJOY LLC

Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept of State: JULY 24, 2018

Office of the LLC: 1814 William St., Buffalo, NY 14206

The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 1814 WILLIAM ST., BUFFALO, NY 14206

Purpose of LLC: Real Estate Investment

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY:

Name of LLC: 62 POMONA LLC

Name of LLC: 105 SOUTHSIDE LLC

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF AN LLC:

Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept of State: JULY 24, 2018

Name of LLC: Normel Paintball, LLC. Office of the LLC: Erie County

Office of the LLC: 1814 William St., Buffalo, NY 14206

Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept of State: June 27, 2018

The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 1814 WILLIAM ST., BUFFALO, NY 14206

Purpose of LLC: Real Estate Investment

for that purpose. This communication is from a debt collector. NOTICE: The nature of the action is a collection matter for a consumer credit transaction and the relief sought is judgment against Defendant Dayontra Giles in the amount of $16,773.46, together with interest, costs and disbursements of the action. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Frank A. Sedita III, Judge of the Supreme Court Erie County, dated June 20, 2018 and filed with the Office of the Clerk of the Supreme court on June 25, 2018, in the Erie County, resulting out of a Motion for Service by Publication filed with the Erie County clerk on April 27, 2018. ------------------------------------------------PUBLIC NOTICE: BUFFALO HOUSING ASSOCIATES WILL BE CLOSING THE 1, 2, & 4 BEDROOM WAIT LIST AS OF JULY 20, 2018. THE 3-BEDROOM WAIT LIST REMAINS CLOSED AS OF MARCH 31, 2017. Buffalo Housing Associates will NOT accept any housing applications for ANY bedroom size after July 20, 2018. As of June 19, 2018, Buffalo Housing Associates has 98 one bedroom Housing Waiting List Applications, 124 two bedroom Housing Waiting List Applications, 28 three bedroom Housing Waiting List Applications, and 43 four bedroom Housing Waiting List Applications. We thank you for your interest. To all applicants who have submitted a Buffalo Housing Associates Housing Waiting List Application, you may check on your housing application by calling (716)881-2233 or visiting the Leasing Office, located at 491 Connecticut St., Buffalo, NY 14213. EHO. ADA.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY:

PLAINTIFF’S ADDRESS: 300 ERIE BOULEVARD WEST, SYRAUCSE, NY 13202 DEFENDANT’S LAST KNOWN ADDRESS: 119 HILL STREET, BUFFALO, NY 14214 THE BASIS OF VENUE IS: DEFENDANT RESIDES IN THE COUNTY OF ERIE TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED, TO ANSWER THE COMPLAINT IN THIS ACTION AND SERVE A COPY OF YOUR ANSWER ON PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW AS NOTED BELOW. Upon your failure to answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint, together with the costs and disbursements of this action.

Muziqly Devine Entertainment LLC Articles of Organization filed with the NY Dept of State on 6/26/18. Office Location: Erie County. The Secretary of State of N.Y has been designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 362 Northland Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14208. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose. -------------------------------------------------NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Name of LLC: LIKE IT OR NOT, LLC

Norina A. Melita

Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept of State: MAY 21 2018

Solomon and Solomon, P.C.

Office of the LLC: Erie County

Attorney for Plaintiff

The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 207 LAFAYETTE AVENUE, BUFFALO NY, 14213

Dated: 8/1/2018

5 Columbia Circle Albany, New York 12203 (518) 456-7200 NOTE: THE LAW PROVIDES THAT: (a) If this summons is served by delivery to you personally within the state of New York, you must appear and answer within TWENTY days after such service; or If this summons is served by delivery to any person other than you personally or is served outside the State of New York or by publication, or by any means other than personal delivery to you within the State of New York you are allowed THIRTY days after SERVICE IS COMPLETE TO ANSWER.

This is an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used

Purpose of LLC: BREWERY -------------------------------------------------

The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 15 Beard Avenue Buffalo, NY 14214 Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose

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Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept of State: JULY 24, 2018

Office of the LLC: 1814 William St., Buffalo, NY 14206

The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 1814 WILLIAM ST., BUFFALO, NY 14206

Purpose of LLC: Real Estate Investment

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY:

Name of LLC: 19 LESTER LLC

Name of LLC:114 LAKE LLC

Name of LLC 5068 STEWARTLLC

Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept of State: JULY 24, 2018

Office of the LLC: 1814 William St., Buffalo, NY 14206

The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 1814 WILLIAM ST., BUFFALO, NY 14206

Purpose of LLC: Real Estate Investment

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ACROSS

58 “Automatic for the People” group

1 CNN chief White House correspondent Acosta

59 Trivia magazine started in 2001

4 Disinterested 9 Ax handles

63 Org. that’s (supposed to be) concerned with pollution

14 ___ pro nobis

66 Patient waiter

15 Grammar concern

67 “Helps stop gas before it starts” product

16 ___ the side of caution 17 “Humbug!” preceder 18 Harry’s kin

70 First two words of some political yard signs

22 1990s Wink Martindale game show that paid off contestants’ obligations

71 TV alien with a reboot announced in August 2018 (as found in the long answers)

BRETT PERLA ANTHONY PALUMBO

24 Italian racecar

NANCY HEIDINGER

28 Levy

DOUG CROWELL

30 St. George’s state

ALEJANDRO GUTIERREZ KRISTEN BOJKO KRISTEN BECKER CHRIS GALLANT

31 Difficult responsibility 34 More sick, in old hip-hop slang, or ... more sick, in general

MOLLIE RYDZYSNKI

35 Long-running roleplaying video game franchise

SUZANNE STARR

38 Take to the skies

CHARLES VON SIMSON

39 Place to go play

EKREM SERDAR

JOSHUA USEN HOLLY GRAHAM

40 ATM maker bought by AT&T in 1991

MARK GOLDEN

43 Dress code loosening

JOSEPH VU

45 Without toppings

STEPHANIE PERRY DAVID SHEFFIELD

48 Suffix after tera- or peta-

JOANNA

49 Provided party music

EVAN JAMES

50 Bela of horror films

MARCIE MCNALLIE

52 Ocean liner’s route

KARA

54 Ultravox frontman Midge

ROB MROWKA AMBER JOHN (EXTRA LOVE)

69 Light bite

20 Honey ___ (Post cereal, as renamed in 2018)

23 Cable company alternative to streaming, for short

TRE MARSH

68 “Neither fish ___ fowl”

55 1980s Secretary of State Alexander

26 Some meat alternatives 27 Location of a nursery rhyme’s three men 29 It’s not what the P stands for in TP (unless the T is “two”?) 32 Retract, as regrettable words 33 One way to walk tall? 36 One generating a lot of interest 37 Charge for a spot 40 Capital of Chad 41 Pulitzer-winning San Francisco columnist Herb 42 Sydney suburb, or a California-based carsharing rental company 43 A.F.L. merger partner

DOWN 1 Interview goal 2 Science writer Flatow 3 Reddish-brown wood 4 Blew up 5 Bear, to Bernal

44 Running in neutral 45 Tests the depths 46 Entice 47 Meeting outline 51 Different ending? 53 Pyromaniac’s crime 56 “One ___ land ...”

6 Parker Jr. of the “Ghostbusters” theme song

57 Show with Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester

7 “Zounds!”

60 Private eye, informally

8 Remove, to a proofreader 9 Antagonist in “The Year Without a Santa Claus” 10 Sleeve tattoo locale 11 Waste time frolicking, old-style

61 ___ in “Oscar” 62 ___-Caps (movie candy) 64 D.C. sort 65 Dog noise LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

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