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THIS WEEK ISSUE NO. 196 | SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

LOOKING BACKWARD: South Michigan Avenue, 1953.

SPOTLIGHT: Bobby Finan explains Whiskey Riot Fest.

THEATER: Golden Boy at the Irish Classical Theater Company, plus theater listings.

FILM: The Children Act, Lizzie.

ART: John Pfahl at Nina Freudenheim Gallery, plus gallery listings.

ON THE COVER: STACEY ROBINSON made this portrait of John Coltrane for the three-day celebration of Coltrane’s birthday at the Burchfield Penney. See page 12..

CENTERFOLD: Iris Kirkwood at El Museo.

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UPS: VONTAE DAVIS: Bills fans finally have been given the hero they’ve been seeking all these years, the guy with enough chutzpah to take one deep whiff of the home opener at New Era Field and do what we all want to do and just walk away. Two completely terrible and forgettable games into the season and all Bills fans have to show for it is two gorgeous late summer Sundays wasted. Vontae “Bartleby” Davis, you are our shaman; you have shown us the way. May we all be so strong. Former Bills lineman and great Twitter follow Chris Hairston shared this on Davis: “He doesn’t owe one player, coach, or fan anything for how he decided to do this. Best wishes to him going forward.” All this smoke being blown at Davis about his disrespecting the team is hilarious, especially given that in the same game in which he retired, reserve running back Taiwan Jones lost his helmet during a play and was drilled headfirst into the Wenro village site underneath New Era Field. Jones, roughly the same age as Davis, is making $880,000 this year, which of course doesn’t include any kind of health coverage after retirement. For reasons amusing and very real, Vontae Davis has forever etched himself into the vocabulary of Western New York, and that’s just awesome. CHRIS COLLINS decided this week, on advice from his lawyers, that he will stay in the race for the 27th Congressional District seat, earning a rare up from us. It had been reported that Collins would simply slide into a supposedly elected government position in his hometown, opening the ballot to whatever sweepstakes winner the local GOP party bosses vetted and anointed: Carl Paladino? Ray Walter? Stefan Mychajliw? But things are looking up for the citizens of Clarence: They will not have to endure the service of a man under federal indictment. Unless, of course, the citizens of the 27th District opt to send Collins back to Congress. Why is Collins staying? Because whatever ploy the local GOP leadership used to get Collins off the ballot was likely to draw a lawsuit from Democrats, and Collins’s lawyers worried that such legal action might jeopardize Collins’s release on bail in his federal case. We find it hilarious that in the end, as ever, Collins serves himself, spurning the local party brass, who were neither informed of nor pleased by his decision to run. What’s that saying about karma? Something like you lay down with dogs, then you make your bed and shit with fleas? Let the voters of the 27th decide: Chris “I am not a crook” Collins, or the moderate corporate lawyer from Grand Island, Nate McMurray, who, according to the same folks who lay down with Collins, is a “radical leftist” or a “left-wing extremist.” Buckle up.

DOWNS: US, The Public: We went a very Billsy 0-4 in our candidate endorsements for Democratic primaries last week. You should know by now we’re a lot like Sean McDermott’s group, looking for moral victories and things we can build on. We went back and looked at the tape, scoured our emails and texts, because it starts with us first. That 0-4, that’s on us. We need to put our candidate in positions to succeed, and when that doesn’t happen, we need to re-evaluate our entire process, dot every I, cross every T. We don’t accept failure in our group, and we don’t accept failure among ourselves individually. We’ve been having some very frank conversations internally, good conversations, and we’re moving forward.

Going to VONTAE on this second down, right here, right now. For third down, however, we go to attorney THOMAS BURTON: The lawyer, who frequently represents Buffalo police officers who are involved in incidents of violence, is suing Carmelo Parlato, a Buffalo real estate agent, for comments Parlato made on an article in the Buffalo News more than a year ago. Parlato hypothesized in a comments thread that the officers who killed Jose Hernandez Rossy in Black Rock on May 7, 2017 had stopped the victim to shake him down for drugs. In March of this year, Burton filed a defamation suit against Parlato on behalf of the two officers, Justin Tedesco and Michael Acquino, prompting many questions: Are commenters on Buffalo News threads liable for the opinions they express? And, if your intention is to tamp down a theory that casts a bad light on your client, is airing that theory and testing its veracity in open court good lawyering? Read the whole story at dailypublic.com. Do you have ups and downs to share? Email us at info@dailypublic.com.

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A still from the security camera footage of Rafael Rivera’s shooting.

THE RAFAEL RIVERA VIDEO BY AARON LOWINGER LAST WEDNESDAY, A two-year veteran of the Buffalo Police Department, Elnur Karadzhaev, shot and killed Rafael “Pito” Rivera in a parking lot on Plymouth Avenue at around 3:15am, and much of the speculation about the facts of the case hinges on the presence or absence of video footage of the event. At the time of this writing, several media outlets have viewed extensive surveillance footage. We at The Public obtained a raw one-minute-and-20-second clip of the incident last Thursday, and have declined to release the video thus far in accordance with the family’s wishes.

Rivera’s is the third so-called “police-involved” fatality featuring a young man of color in the last 18 months, the others being Wardel Davis and Jose Hernandez-Rossy. Rivera’s is the only one of the three to have been documented on video. Organizers and activists from several organizations, including PUSH Buffalo, responded to the deaths of Davis and Hernandez-Rossy with calls for police reform and justice for the victims, who were both unarmed at the times of their deaths. The irony that Rivera would be shot to death in the parking lot of the former School 77, which was recently reopened as a community center and housing project developed by PUSH Buffalo, also the lead tenant and anchor of the building, is not lost on anyone, especially not on organizer John Washington, who has been among PUSH’s loudest and most forceful voices in Common Council chambers and on the streets about what he and many others have characterized as a police accountability crisis in Buffalo. “Definitely the weirdest morning ever” is Washington’s naked response, captured on the video shared with The Public, as Rivera comes in to view, possibly tripping on a curb cut where the driveway to the parking lot connects with the sidewalk. Rivera then crawls up the driveway on all fours and Karadzhaev emerges from the shadows, gun drawn and in a firing stance. (The video contains no audio.) Rivera pauses on top of a sewer grate. Our partners at Investigative Post talked with a police source who said that at this moment Rivera is attempting to stuff a handgun through the holes of the sewer grate. Karadzhaev is maybe 10 feet from Rivera, and takes a few defensive steps backward, gun still trained on Rivera, who rises with a gun still possibly in his hand—the video we have is inconclusive. He takes a few running steps, his back to the police officer, and then there are two muzzle flashes from Karadzhaev’s gun; the second shot knocks Rivera to the ground. The encounter described in this paragraph occurs in about 10 seconds. Three other officers approach from the shadows as Rivera lies on the ground. None appear to have their weapons drawn. Karadzhaev handcuffs Rivera, who lifts his head slightly, then drops it again. The video we have ends there. According to Investigative Post and other sources, paramedics didn’t arrive for another five 4

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minutes and no one, not police not ambulance, and not fire administered first aid or any other life-saving measure to Rivera. As much as the video does show—most crucially, Karadzhaev refusing to physically engage the prone Rivera just a few steps away, and then Rivera being shot in the back after he rises and attempts to flee—there is much that takes place outside of the PUSH surveillance camera’s eye that will most likely be filled in solely by police accounts, which have proven unreliable and misleading in recent highprofile incidents. In the aftermath of Hernandez-Rossy’s shooting death, police initially claimed that Rossy had shot off Officer Joseph Acquino’s ear. When they didn’t find any gun, the explanation shifted: The airbag in Hernandez-Rossy’s car had deployed and severed Acquino’s ear. In March 2017, Antonio Gutierrez led police on a rush hour chase from Kaisertown into Seneca-Babcock at speeds around 100 miles an hour, finally colliding with a school bus. Our sources that claimed the police fired shots at Gutierrez, who was severely injured. Only months later did WGRZ’s Danny Spewak confirm it: The chase began with police opening fire on Gutierrez in his car on Weiss Street, and Gutierrez fleeing for his life. In the aftermath of Rivera’s shooting death, Deputy Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia had the following interaction with media, as reported by the Buffalo News: Gramaglia was asked whether the man was still running when the officer fired. “We’re still looking at the video. We’re reviewing that. Yes, the suspect was continuing his forward motion,” he said. When asked if the man was moving forward toward the officer, Gramaglia declined to provide any further details. Police would not say how many shots were fired or where the man was struck. Police called for first aid but the man died at the scene. Based on what we know now from the video, Gramaglia’s comments appear self-serving rather than objectively truthful. The New York State Attorney General’s investigations into the deaths of Wardel Davis and Hernandez-Rossy both recommended that Buffalo Police Department become accredited with the state to ensure they receive proper training, and that the department equip officers with body cameras. The department is in the process of becoming accredited, but still are not equipped with body cameras. The BPD recently concluded a pilot program in which about 20 officers tested body cameras for about four months, but are really no closer to the implementing them. The department

LOCAL NEWS has publicly balked at the cost for data storage, which it claims will cost as much as $2 million range annually. In 2016, for his master’s thesis at SUNY Buffalo State, Gramaglia—then a captain, now a deputy commissioner—examined the growing trend of police departments buying and implementing body cameras, in the course of which he conducted surveys of the Buffalo and Rochester police departments. In his introduction, Gramaglia writes, “Citizens want transparency and want to see what police are doing and how they do it. No longer will citizens take officers’ word for what happened as gospel, they want to see the video proof.” Notably, the cost estimates for data storage Gramaglia cites in his master’s thesis, while substantial, do not come close to the outer

A LETTER TO THE VOTERS OF THE 63rd DISTRICT FROM SHAQURAH ZACHERY

bound of $2 million annually his department is claiming now. By November, police will be moving into a new headquarters that went nearly $3 million and 78 percent over budget. In the meantime, an interaction such as this one between Rivera and Karadzhaev, who police say was responding to a 911 call reporting a man with a gun, may be subject to the same creative narrative building we’ve seen elsewhere— narratives authored by the police on the scene, by the department’s top brass, by the police union attorney, Thomas Burton, who invariably represents officers who become entangled in violence as heroes in fear for their lives. The strange and silent tenure of Commissioner Byron Lockwood, who has yet to make any public comment on the shooting death of P Rafael Rivera, continues.

Dear Voters, First and foremost I want to thank the people of our community for being engaged and participating in our Democracy. Our nation, state, city, and district depend on having citizens that are motivated to get out and be a part of our democratic process. I am thankful for the endorsements I received from The Public, The Challenger, and the First Amendment Club, and I respect the fact that in endorsing me, they took a position that was not supportive of the powerful political machine of our area. I also feel it is important that I say a very special THANK YOU to each and every person who supported this effort and was willing to stand with me. While the win did not come in the voting process, the VICTORY comes from having stood up and having the courage and the tenacity to take on the political machine and for having laid a foundation to continue efforts to mobilize our community. This is not a fight that ends on Primary Day. This is a battle that will and must continue, because the issues still remain. We as a community have an obligation to stand for what is right and to push forward in our efforts to educate, motivate, and engage our citizens. We must continue to hold elected officials ACCOUNTABLE, and we must continue to organize as a community to put in place a strategic organization that can do that with the power that comes from a united and collective mindset and purpose. I am humbled and grateful for all the love and support that I received from all the people throughout the 63rd District. I am honored by your belief in me as candidate and as a person. This was the first step in a journey and as I said from the beginning, I am not going anywhere. I am here to continue to fight for the people of this community and I am honored to be able to do so. We must continue on this path, because it is indeed the path to empowering and building the community that we all love so dearly. Again, thank you all from the bottom of my heart for all the support!

A vigil for Rafael Rivera at the site of his death on September 12.

With every best wish, Shaqurah

LOOKING BACKWARD: SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, 1953 Michigan Avenue, once connected directly to the Outer Harbor via the South Michigan Avenue Bridge, was one of the main traffic arteries into downtown Buffalo from the Southtowns. Here, in a photograph taken by Wilbur H. Porterfield on April 5, 1953, is the view looking east from this lift bridge. On the left is the elevator and plant of General Mills, formerly (before 1928) the Washburn Crosby Company. In the center is the Michigan Avenue Bridge, which would be destroyed in the Tewksbury incident of 1959. On the right is the Kellogg Elevator, built in 1910 as part of the Spencer Kellogg linseed oil factory. The City of Buffalo dismantled the South Michigan Avenue Bridge in 1964 and never built a replacement. - THE PUBLIC STAFF DAILYPUBLIC.COM / SEPTEMBER 19 - 25, 2018 / THE PUBLIC

THEATER ON STAGES

Fahrenheit 451 from Subversive Theatre Collective runs through October 6 at Manny Fried.

PLAYBILL = OPENING SOON

PLAYING NOW: FAHRENHEIT 451: In which Subversive Theatre

Collective, as is their wont, employs the transportive power of science fiction to plunge its audience into an ice-cold reality bath. Their adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian classic runs through October 6 at the Manny Fried Theatre, 3rd floor, Great Arrow Building, 255 Great Arrow Avenue, 408-0499, subversivetheatre.org GOLDEN BOY: The Irish Classical begins its

season with Clifford Odets’s 1937 play about a talented violinist who instead pursues fame and fortune as a boxer. It’s a brilliant and tragic story, delivered in Odets’s signature language, raw and musical. Starring Anthony Alcocer, Cassie Cameron, Rolando Martín Gómez, David Autovino, and Arin Lee Dandes. Through October 7 at the Andrews Theatre, 625 Main Street, 853-4282, irishclassicaltheatre.com. HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL: A stage adaptation of

the 1988 film, directed by Candice Kogut and starring a cast of young and talented actors. Presented by American Repertory Theater of WNY through September 22 at the Philip Sheridan Building, 3200 Elmwood Avenue, 697-0837, artofwny.org. PINKALICIOUS: THE MUSICAL: Dress your children

and yourself in pink for the return of this colorful kids’ musical, running through October 7 at Theatre of Youth, 8844400, theatreofyouth.org.

PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES: The Tony Awardwinning 1982 musical, in which the “pump boys” who operate a honky-tonk and the “dinettes” who run a neighboring diner put on an evening of country and rockabilly songs. Directed by Chris Kelly, starring Jaclyn Lisenby Brown, Jayson Clark, Joseph Donohue III, Maria Droz, Ryan Kaminski, and Andrew J, Reimers. Through October 7 at MusicalFare Theatre, in residence at Daemen College, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, 839-8540, musicalfare.com. PURLIE: A musical based on the 1961 Ossie Davis play Purlie Victorious, about a preacher who returns to his Georgia hometown to save his church and free his people from Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee’s plantation. Through October 7 at the Paul Robeson Theatre, 350 Masten Avenue, 884-2013, aaccbuffalo.org. SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET: The Kavinoky Theatre’s

production of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical is winning rave reviews. Starring Matt Witten as Sweeney Todd and Loraine O’Donnell as Mrs. Lovett, it runs through September 30 at the Kavinoky Theatre, 320 Porter Avenue, 829-7668, kavinokytheatre.com.

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AT THE SHAW FESTIVAL: THE BARONESS AND THE PIG: A Pygmalion-

like tale, but with a baroness instead of a patronizing professor. GRAND HOTEL: Tony-award-winning musical

based on the 1932 film based on the 1929 novel, set in 1920s Berlin. HENRY V: In which Prince Hal becomes a king, in

this production with World War I as a setting. THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW: The world premiere of

an adaptation of what is either the first or the sixth (depending on what edition you have) of C. S. Lewis’s The Narnia Chronicles. OF MARRIAGE AND MEN: Two shorts by Shaw on the subject of marriage: How He Lied to Her Husband and The Man of Destiny. O’FLAHERTY, V.C.: The Irish and World War I—it’s

complicated. A lunch hour one-act.

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR: Also set in World War I,

a musical comedy about the business of war. THE ORCHARD (AFTER CHEKHOV): Imagine 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. At the Shaw Festival, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagaraon-the-Lake, ON 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

AT THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL: AN IDEAL HUSBAND: Oscar Wilde’s comedy about

politics and blackmail. 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.” THE COMEDY OF ERRORS: Slapstick, mistaken identity, ribald puns, in one of Shakespeare’s first comedies.

One of Shakespeare’s later, grimmer tragedies. CORIOLANUS:

JULIUS CAESAR: This is not the Shakespeare

high schoolers should be asked to read first. LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT: Really just about the opposite, in every imaginable way, of The Comedy of Errors. Eugene O’Neill at the absolute top of his game dramatizing the bottom. THE MUSIC MAN: And the pendulum (with a capital “P” and that rhymes with…) swings again. Meredith Willson’s classic musical. PARADISE LOST: Inspired by Milton’s epic poem

about the struggle between good and evil. THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW: Dan Chameroy fills Frank-N-Furter’s fishnets. Drinks before, during, after the show. THE TEMPEST: Ban, ban, Ca-caliban has a

new master. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Christopher Sergel’s

stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel At the Stratford Festival, 55 Queen St., Stratford, P ON 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

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GOLDEN BOY AT THE IRISH CLASSICAL THEATRE

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BY GEORGE SAX

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IT WAS THE master comedy playwright George S. Kaufman (Dinner at Eight, You Can’t Take It with You) who playfully but pointedly tagged politically engaged dramatist Clifford Odets after the opening of his 1938 play Rocket to the Moon. “Odets, where is thy sting?” Kaufman waggishly wrote, playing off a famous Biblical line.

It’s a question that can spring to mind in connection with the Irish Classical Theatre’s current production of Odets’s 1937 play about conflicted desire and destiny, Golden Boy. Odets wrote it for the leftist Group Theatre, a company with which he has always been identified, although his varied career went on long after he left it. He has also long been regarded by many as passé, a period writer whose old-left attitudes and ideas haven’t transcended the tumultuous Great Depression era. The ICTC’s sometimes absorbing but uneven production provides ample evidence that this writes off Odets too carelessly and easily, reminding us of this play’s vibrance, bite, and sharpened feeling. It strongly implies Odets’s relevance in our own troubled era. The play’s golden boy is Joe Bonaparte (Anthony Alcocer), a young man on the cusp of his 21st year, and a gifted violinist. His barely working class father, also Joe (Rolando Martin Gomez), has secretly purchased a first-class musical instrument for twelve-hundred precious dollars as a birthday gift. But the youngster has his own secret, and ideas. He’s been training as a prizefighter, and has managed to secure a professional match. (Odets hasn’t given us an explanation of how Joe was able to keep his new pursuit a secret for so long; no matter.) His first stunned, then heartbroken father’s dreams of musical excellence are dissolved in Joe’s drive for riches, recognition, and respect, even if the last comes with the intimidation from his pugilistic weapons. It’s made clear enough that Joe is tired of occupying his modest, put-upon place in society. “People have hurt my feelings, I don’t forget,” he tells his pop. “You can’t get even with people by playing the fiddle.” Odets flipped the traditional narrative of the striving young artist who must buck a parent’s practical objections. Here, old Joe longs for his son to pursue transformative creativity even if the financial rewards are meager, but his hopes

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are dashed by Joe’s dissatisfaction and much ruder ambitions. Joe’s ascendent boxing career involves him with three people who will both help and betray him in their different ways: Tom Moody (Christian Brandjes), his down-at-the-heels manager; Lorna Moon (Cassie Cameron), Tom’s mistress; and Eddie Friseli (Eric Rawski), the gangster who menacingly muscles his way into part ownership of the young fighter. Throughout his career, Odets wrote about the pursuit and failure of the American Dream, the conflicts between social classes, and the disharmony financial success creates with integrity and self actualization. These concerns are in Golden Boy in spades. Odets often expresses them in his lyrically yearning style that’s often punctuated by hardboiled, pungent, semi-poetic dialogue. This play moves quickly, and Odets’s Hollywood influence is evident in the pace and in the script’s cinematic “fadeout” stage direction after a number of the short scenes. Historically, this style hasn’t been everyone’s cup of tea. I think it works when the appropriate mood is created. The ICTC’s production sometimes achieves this target and at others its aim is a little off. The able cast is mostly impressive but its tone can be a bit inconsistent with Odets’s. Gomez’s father is a standout. There’s a pathos and dignity in his performance, all the more impressive since he has to navigate his way with an Italian accent without sounding like Chico from the Marx Brothers. Cameron’s Lorna is mostly a success. She’s got the character’s mix of cynicism and longing down. Alcocer’s work is vigorous and heartfelt, although sometimes perhaps a little too robust. The battle for his soul that he feels inwardly occasionally can seem overwhelmed by too much forcefulness. All told, his version of Joe succeeds. At some points Fortunato Pezzimenti’s direction is a little more emphatic than necessary or advisable. At those few times the play’s melodramatic potential is privileged over Odets’s deeper felt, more subtle elements. But, if a few allowances are made, this production offers a rewarding experience, and for those who are unfamiliar with Odets’s work, an opportunity to discover a still resonant and relevant artist. P

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ART REVIEW autumn, whose essential message is so plain and poignant—gives a sense of desolation. Despair almost. Other somewhat tidier patterns, suggesting fountains, suggesting Victorian wallpaper. One suggesting espalier art, but not art in this case, but work of nature, or predominantly work of nature, it appears. Another suggesting a monster. A lush proliferation of dark ivy on a white wall that morphs into an animate but inhuman creature—gremlin, gnome, troll—with widespread beady eyes and unkempt bushy hair flying outward in both directions, and upward in likely—the photo cuts off at a point—some wild formation topknot. Another with ivy spreading downward somehow from the top of a wall—possibly overflowing from the other side—suggesting the hanging gardens of Babylon. A few feature graffiti elements. In one with obscenities—a familiar graffiti word and familiar graffiti image—the ivy seems to be attempting to spread to screen over the offensive material. In another more innocuous example—a cartoon clown image and inoffensive or just inexplicable literal matter, it seems, from partial and incomplete views of both graffiti categories—the natural and artwork elements seem to more peacefully coexist. And in the hanging gardens of Babylon example, the wall— or parts of it, large block components—must have been parts of a billboard previously. Professional product large capital

IVYTOWN WALL DRAWINGS BY JACK FORAN

JOHN PFAHL AT NINA FRUEDENHEIM GALLERY PHOTOGRAPHER JOHN PFAHL’S current exhibit at the Nina

Freudenheim gallery consists entirely of photos of ivy usually in dense cluster masses, and venturous scion strands stretching out from the mass, that morph before our eyes into scenes, scenarios, situations, figures, phenomena. In deep greens and bright to dull reds or browns—according to the season—on brick and block and board walls, painted white, or painted or unpainted red. In wildly disparate patterns and configurations. Several like abstract expressionist boldly gestural paintings. A single swipe of a paint-laden broad brush—like a house-painter’s brush—across an otherwise virginal canvas. Or enigmatic abstractions. Like some putative Clyfford Still work. Or like Rorschach patterns, inviting interpretations. One photo of two separated clusters of ivy on a white wall—one larger and higher, one smaller and

Ivy clinging and climbing in every direction—up, down, off to one side or the other—in profusions of thick foliage usually but not invariably. Sometimes just wispy plant stems and stalks denuded or mostly denuded of leaves. One such example resembles a map of a huge and complex river system. The Mississippi system maybe, with Missouri and Ohio tributary extensions, and extensions on extensions. Suggesting the pictorial genre landscape. Or landscape abstraction. Another scant and sere foliage example—mere late autumn seasonal effects, but the pathetic fallacy operates year-round, and particularly in the

Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): 27th Annual Jur= REVIEWED THIS ISSUE ied Regional Artists Exhibition juried by Scott = ART OPENING F. Propeack. On view through Sep 29. Tue1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts (1045 Elm- Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. wood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-2281855, photographics2.com/store/welcome-to- Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, our-studio-1045-gallery-store): Carlos Blanco NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): TueThu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9amArtero: BLANCO. On view through Sep 30. 10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Thu & Fri 11-6, Sat 11-4 and by appointment. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue BuffaAlbright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Ave- lo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works nue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albright- from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. knox.org): Robert Indiana: A Sculpture Retrospective, through Sep 23. The Swindle: Art Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, Between Seeing and Believing, through Oct 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8332. Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, through 4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Lux, the work of Muhammad Z. Zaman & Interstitial CastJan 6, 2019. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late ings by D.C.-based artist Liz Lessner. TueFirst Fridays (free) until 10pm. Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth FriAnna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, days till 8pm. Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annakaplancon- BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main temporary.art): Reed Anderson: DayBreak- St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Nest, an installation by er. On view through Oct 6. Wed-Fri 11am- Adam Weekley. Every day 4-10pm. 3pm or by appointment. ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery (148 Elmwood Avenue, BufArgus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY falo, NY 14201, photolangelle.org): One World: 14207): Myths and Maxims, Caitlin Cass. On Issues Across and Through Skins, photos from view through Sep 29. Sat 12-3pm. Buffalo to Africa by Johanna C. Dominguez. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffa- Tue-Fri 1:30-4:30pm, Fri 6-8pm, Sat 1-3pm. lo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Fred Fielding: New Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, Pastel Paintings, on view through Oct 26. 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833Opening reception Fri, Oct 5, 7:30-9pm. Tue- 4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Tue-Fri 10amFri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. 5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm.

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A combination of the letters O and W—but the W partially obscured, so that it looks at first glance like a V—reminiscent of the Robert Indiana iconic LOVE painting or alternately sculpture in the Albright-Knox Indiana exhibit.

lower—in some kind of amicable dialogue. Or maybe hostile. Maybe some kind of dressing down—reprimand or reproval— of a parent or other authority figure to a child. Some kind of unpleasant power relationship enactment. Others with multiple horizontal runner offshoots from the matrix cluster, like adolescent offspring striking out on their own from the safety and security of the parental nest.

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letters barely show through a subsequent coat of white paint.

The John Pfahl show is entitled Ivytown Wall Drawings. It continues through October 16

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Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint. com): Richard Angelo Runfola, Manifest Exploration. Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm. 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): Salvaged: The Stitched Narrative of Jennifer Regan, through Jan 27, 2019; Ten Years In, BPAC retrospective, through Oct 28; Enough Killing, through Oct 28; The Complexity of Life, Jonathan Rogers, through Jan 27; Burchfield’s Arboretum, through Dec 2; A New Beginning: Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, through Sep 23. M & T Second Friday event (second Friday of every month). MonSat 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 30.

The Cass Project (500 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14204, thecassproject.org): Nous, by Fotini Galanes, on view through Oct 26. MonFri 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 Higner Maritime Collection: 25 Years of Shipbuilding, through Mar 17, 2019; Of Their Time: Hudson River School to Postwar Modernism, through Dec 31, 2019. Tue-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8562717, cepagallery.org): Fast, Cheap, and Easy: The Copy Art Revolution. Coming Home: Reentry After Incarceration, Errol Daniels photography. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Czurles-Nelson Gallery (Upton Hall, Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222): Bodies and Spaces: Marc Duquette, Sandy Bartz, and Brian Porter. On view through Sep 27. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts. com): Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am4pm. Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects. com): Do Not Mistake Our Softness for Weakness, Shasti O’Leary Soudant, through Oct 19. Tue-Fri, 10am-4pm, or by appointment.

GALLERIES ART El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Chance Operator: Iris Kirkwood, Shawn Lewis on view through Sep 29. Wed-Sat 12-6pm Expo 68 (4545 Transit Road, Amherst, NY 14221, near JCP, Eastern Hills Mall): There Is Life Here: an immigrant’s story, works by Markenzy Julius Caesar. On view through Oct 4. Gallery hours: Tue-Fri 12-8pm, Sat 108pm, Sun 12-5pm. GO ART! (201 East Main Street, Batavia, NY 14020): The Traveling Ghost: a photographic exhibit featuring abandoned buildings found in Western New York on view through Nov 3. Opening reception, Thu, Sep 20 6-8pm. ThuFri 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Second Sun 11am-2pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Sculpture by Fabienne Lasserre. 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). Wed & Fri, noon5pm, Thu noon-8pm, Sat 10am-3pm. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Indigo Celebrates 10 Years. Wed 12-6pm, Thu 127pm, 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): Lawrence Ross: Photographs From Near and Far. On view through Oct 30. Mon-Thu 5:30am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am-6pm. Jewish Community Center of Buffalo, Holland Family Building (787 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14209, 886-3172, Hours: jccbuffalo.org): Photography Caravan: Images of Jewish Buffalo, on view through Oct 31. 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. TueSun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Kenan Center (433 Locust Street, Lockport NY 14094, kenancenter.org): Nature’s Microcosm, featuring work by Wendy Caldwell Maloney, Cindi O’Mara, and Paula Sciuk, guest curated by Gerald Mead. Through October 7. Mon-Fr 125pm, Sat & Sun 2-5pm. 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): Constance Payne: Hounds & Horses, on view through Oct 13. Tue-Sat 9:30-5:30pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 282-7530, thenacc. org): Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm. Nichols School Gallery at the Glenn & Audrey Flickinger Performing Arts Center (1250 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14216, 332-6300, nicholsschool.org/artshows): Work from the collection. Mon-Fri 8am-4pm, Closed Sat & Sun. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-8825777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): John Pfahl: Ivy Wall Drawings, on view through Oct 16. Tue-Fri 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. Tue-Sat 10am– 5pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): Somewhere in Buffalo, a group exhibit on view through Sep 28. Wed-Sat,125pm, Sun 1-5pm. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse.

com): Silo City Dreams, exhibition by Catherine Linder Spencer. On view through Oct 27. 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): Another Life: paintings by Barbara Hart. Wed & Thu 11am6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery. tripod.com): Art collective, including 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, Michael Shiver, Madalyn Fliesler, Michael Mulley, et alia. TueFri 11am-4pm and by appointment. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Thu 126pm, 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 through Dec 14. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): The North Is a Lie: Nitasha Dhillon, Rhys Hall, and Elisa Peebles. On view through Dec 8. 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): SUPERSOAKER, artwork by John Budney, Emily Churco, Sherri Miller, and Mario Fanone, a Side-By-Each Exhibition series curated by Kyle Butler. On view through Oct 15. Opening reception Fri, Sep 21, 6-9pm. MonFri 9-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Works by Esther Lan. Open by event and Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries. org): Ernesto Burgos: Implications; Collected Views: I Am Here; Kambui Olujimi, Zulu Time: on view Sep 16-Dec 2. Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic; Electric Avenue (In Blue). Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (103 Center for the Arts, First Floor, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape, multimedia exhibition of 18 artists, guest curated by Jennie Lamensdorf and UB’s Joan Linder. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Undergrounds Coffee House and Roastery (590 South Park Avenue, Buffalo NY 14210, unRectangle dergroundscoffeebuffalo.com): Breathing, artwork by Jennifer Ryan. Opening reception Sat Sep 15 6-9pm, with pop-up shop by BKindCity and a free drink for donations of nonperishable food. Mon-Fri 6am5pm, Sat & Sun 7am-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Mon-Fri 9am6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 3481430, wnybookarts.org): embroidered, an exhibition by Debra Eck, through Oct 27. WedSat 12-6pm. .

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[ROCK] In an interview last year with The Public, Charlie Starr, vocalist and guitarist of rock band Blackberry Smoke, talked about the band’s approach to making new music. “For us, we’re not willing to sacrifice our integrity to do it, but I feel as if I’ve watched other folks dumbing down their music in hopes that it’ll be accepted on a broader level.” Since then, the band has released a new record, Find a Light, and though much of the music on the record—which was released on the band's imprint, 3 Legged Records—is simple and straightforward, it does anything but betray the band’s established, hard country-rock sound. Blackberry Smoke brings their Find a Light tour to the Town Ballroom on Wednesday, September 19. -CP

EYEHATEGOD 7pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $20-$23

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7PM / BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER, 1300 ELMWOOD AVE [JAZZ] John Coltrane would have turned 92 this Sunday, September 23, but there was never much chance that he would live that long: He died at 40 of liver cancer, or possibly hepatitis, or both, the wages of his long tangle with heroin. Not that the saxophonist had a brief career—he was playing professionally by 19 and was turning the jazz world on its head by his mid 20s. This weekend—from Thursday, September 20 through Saturday, September 22—the Pappy Martin Jazz Collective will host its annual celebration of Coltrane’s birthday at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. On Thursday at 7pm there’s a lecture by SUNY Buffalo State professor Chuck Mancuso, with George Caldwell on piano. Caldwell’s trio will perform Friday evening with acclaimed saxophonist Rob Dixon and guest appearances by Ahmad Pleasant and Amari McDade. And Saturday’s full-day program includes a noon performance by the Progressions Quartet, screenings of two short films about Coltrane, and then evening performances by the Greg Millar Quartet, followed by Gary Bartz with the Curtis Lundy Trio. There’s much more in store, as well, all in remembrance of a colossus. If you’re a jazz fan or just Coltrane curious, park yourself at the Burchfield all three days. Visit burchfieldpenney.org for ticketing information. -GEOFF KELLY

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[METAL] Sludge metal band EYEHATEGOD are now a four-piece. The New Orleansbased band, who have been making dark, metallic, punk-inspired music since the early 1990s, announced this summer that longtime guitarist Brian Patton was leaving the group. Rather than replace Patton, the band has chosen to move forward as a four-piece rather than a five-piece. The bright spot is that Patton isn’t leaving due to creative differences with the band, who haven’t released a full-length record since their lauded 2014 self-titled record. He’s leaving to spend more time with his family and new-born child. Frontman, Mike Williams, commented on the split, saying “It’s for a good cause, but he couldn't tour with us anymore. But it's fun being a four-piece; I like the sound and the vibe and everything. So it's kind of like a new era of the band." Hopefully that means it’s still possible that the band has some new, inspired music coming down the pipe. Catch EYEHATEGOD at Buffalo’s Mohawk Place on Wednesday, September 19 with support from Washington DC doom metal band the Obsessed and locals Malarchuk, Sons of Ghidorah, and Makeshift Graves. -CP

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20

BORDERLAND MUSIC + ARTS FESTIVAL SATURDAY & SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 22 & 23 [ROCK] Knox Farm State Park, which sits on 633 acres of farmland, grasslands, wetlands, hayfields, and woodlands, will be the setting of a new fall music festival this weekend, Saturday, September 22 and Sunday, September 23. The Borderland Music + Arts Festival features a pretty jam-packed lineup of well known musicians and artists, but it’ll also feature craft beer, and a whole schedule of rustic workshops. Of course, the musical lineup is the focus and it includes some big names from John Oates of Hall & Oates—who’ll perform his solo Americana music with his band, the Good Road—to psychedelic rock band Dr. Dog and alt rockers Sam Roberts Band. It’s also likely to get a bit jammy with headliners Oteil & Friends—made up of a slew of musicians who are friends, collaborators, and tributaries to the Grateful including leader Oteil Burbridge who is a founding member of Dead & Company and former bassist of the Allman Brothers. On top of that there’ll be two smaller stages of regional and local acts, and workshops that range from boat-building to spoon-carving. For more info, visit borderlandfestival.com. -CORY PERLA

Blackberry Smoke 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $29.50-$34

6PM / VARIOUS LOCATIONS, / $10-$100 [FESTIVAL] Somewhere between an arts festival and an academic conference, the fifth annual Humanities Festival offers a weekend of talks, panels, and performances around the theme of revolution. Undertaken by UB’s Humanities Institute, the festival aims to bring the institute's mission off the campus and into the community with a schedule that kicks off on Thursday, September 20 at the Buffalo Central Library. Safiya Umoja Noble (author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism) and Siva Vaidhyanathan (author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy) will lead a discussion on social media and its complicated and sometimes deleterious impact on democracy. On Friday, September 21, Angie Thomas, the festival’s keynote speaker and author of the best-selling young adult novel The Hate U Give, which explores the American phenomenon of police shootings of unarmed people of color, will give a talk about turning the personal into activism at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. And Saturday’s schedule across the street in Rockwell Hall runs a gamut of hot-button social issues facing down the country as it heads into a decisive midterm election, including #metoo, climate justice, and the state of Buffalo at its current crossroads, with poetry and a performance of Dan Hoyle’s “journalistic theater” piece Border People. Tickets can be purchased for the entire weekend or a la carte for individual events through at buffalohumanities.org. -AARON LOWINGER

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[COMEDY] Taking a slight detour from his previous touring performances, Eddie Izzard has developed this show as a byproduct of his book, Believe Me, released last year. It's Izzard's first literary foray, and Bill Gates chose it for one of his 5 Amazing Books I Read This Year list. As he's proven so adept at doing, he uses humor to both soften and punctuate difficult topics—in this case, a childhood interrupted by the loss of his mother, adventures at boarding school, and issues of sexuality. From there, he links up with his career thus far, combining comedy, film, politics, philanthropy, and more. While autobiographical elements have always played a part in his shows, Believe Me feels like a culmination of all that's come before, truly placing Izzard in his element when he comes to the UB Center for the Arts Mainstage on Thursday, September 20. -CJT

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Oteil Burbridge.

[SKA] Self-styled “satanic ska” band Mephiskapheles comes in from New York City for a show at Buffalo’s Mohawk Place on Thursday, September 20. The hardcoreinspired ska band formed in the early 1990s before breaking up in 2001. They reformed in 2012, founding member Brian Martin returned to the band in 2013, and the band recorded a self-titled album in 2015. Support comes from the Abruptors and Buffalo Brass Machine. -CP

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[ROCK] With a 1966 hit single under his belt (“In Love”), Buffalo native Tony Galla went on to sing for the band Raven from 1967 to 1970, touring with some counterculture icons and signing to Columbia with some help from Jimi Hendrix. Since then he’s carved a successful career for himself as a celebrated solo vocalist. Releasing albums over the last 25 years that have alternately been steeped in modern blues or celebrated his Italian heritage, Galla has managed a dual career in visual media, appearing on the X Files, on The L Word, and in Mambo Kings among others. Galla has all the markings of a classic crooner, something Buffalo has known all along, which is why he’s playing a trio of homecoming shows at Sportsmen’s Tavern, beginning Thursday, September 20, with additional shows Friday night, September 21 and a matinee on Saturday, September 22. Show times are 7:30pm, 8:30pm and 3:30pm, respectively. -CJT

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[BLUES] Although Ana Popovic hails from Belgrade, Serbia, her musical affinity is for American blues, something handed down by her father. Before going solo, she fronted the band Hush, melding a blues sensibility with funk grooves that proved to be a hot European touring commodity until disbanding in 1998. Her solo career eventually landed her in Memphis, where she has since made her home and where her second album, Comfort to the Soul, was recorded. 2016's ambitious triple album, Trilogy, was divided among three genres—funk, blues-rock, and jazz—and featured Joe Bonamassa and Robert Randolph among other big-name guests. A new, Nashville-recorded album was just released last week entitled Like It On Top, produced by Keb Mo. Hear what the new material sounds like on Sunday, September 23 at the Tralf Music Hall for a special reserved seating show with unannounced special guests. -CJT

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[PUNK] Fans of bands like Blink 182, New Found Glory, and Green Day should line up for this show. Welsh band Neck Deep are pop punk’s current torchbearers, and in classic pop punk fashion, they’ve just released a cover of a pop song from the 1990s with their cover of Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn,” which was recorded for a compilation titled Songs that Saved My Life, a suicide prevention awareness campaign. The band, formed in 2012 is on their second tour of the US in support of their 2017 record The Peace and the Panic. Catch them at Buffalo’s Town Ballroom on Tuesday, September 25 with support from Trophy Eyes, Stand P Atlantic, and WSTR. -CP

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WHISKEY RIOT FESTIVAL BY CORY PERLA EARLIER THIS YEAR, Bobby Finan helped launch a whiskey

festival in Buffalo. It was a success, despite a cease-and-desist letter from another popular whiskey festival with a similar name—so much so that his team, which includes his sister Margaret, who works on the festival full-time, and event organizers Step Out Buffalo, has decided to do it again less than a year later. This time the festival has been re-branded—it’s now called Whiskey Riot Festival—and it takes place not just in Buffalo but in Rochester and Albany, too, with the goal of moving into even more cities next year. If you’re here in Buffalo, you can head to Whiskey Riot Festival on Saturday, September 29. But if you’re planning to go, here’s a word to the wise: Buy tickets ahead of time, even if it’s the day of the festival, because due to regulations, they can’t sell tickets at the door. Finan is founder and head distiller at Tommyrotter Distillery, a Buffalo-based distillery which opened in 2015. The brand is known mostly for their award-winning American Gin, but they’re now trying to break into the world of whiskey and are hoping that their new Whiskey Riot Festival will be their jumping-off point. This week we spoke with Finan, 27, about the whiskey industry and how to dive into his festival whether you’re an experienced connoisseur or still developing your palate for whiskey. I know we’re here to talk about whiskey, but first let’s talk about your vodka and gin, because I know that those were the first spirits that Tommyrotter launched.

Gin and vodka are super close in production…most people don’t know this, but gin is the original flavored vodka. It’s the exact same thing as vodka—it’s just a neutral spirit. You make a vodka and then you distill it one more time and infuse the essential oils of botanicals, namely the essential oils of the juniper berry—that’s the one legally required component to make something a gin. Ours falls into the New American category. We have nutmeg, cinnamon, citrus, cardamom, and, on top of that, juniper. So it’s very unique tasting. You can drink our gin in winter, which is really good when you live in Buffalo. How is the process of making whiskey different?

Whiskey is a totally different beast. People say all of the time to us, “Oh, I don’t like whiskey, I just like bourbon,” or, “I don’t like whiskey, I just like scotch.” That’s kind of a silly thing to hear because whiskey is a category like beer, and then bourbon and rye are all subcategories. Basically, all a whiskey is, is a distilled spirit product that is distilled from grain—think barley, wheat, rye, and corn. You’re fermenting that into a beer. You distill it and pull out the hard liquor to a more concentrated form. In whiskey you don’t want to get a pure neutral product like you’d get with a vodka, you want the flavor of the grain there. Then you take that distilled spirit

and put it in a barrel, and the type of barrel is a function of what type of whiskey you’re making. Bourbon has to be aged in brand new, white American oak charred barrels. That’s what makes the whiskey actually brown, otherwise it would look like vodka but taste very different than vodka. We’re very transparent about this, and a lot of people get up in arms about it, but right now we aren’t distilling our own whiskeys. We’re sourcing from other distilleries around the country and making our own blends. That’s kind of become the norm in the craft distilling world. Typically, as you become bigger, you start backward integrating and making your own stuff, and adding that to the blend over time so that maybe at year 10 or so, you’ve got a product that’s completely your own stuff. Bobby Finan.

What is the decision to do it that way based on?

If you think about it from an investment standpoint, to buy all of the equipment, buy all of the barrels, spend all of the time to make a product that is going to sit for three or four years when you don’t even know if it’s going to taste good at the end of that time, and then have to be making it at an increasing rate that whole time, so that if demand should pick up at year five you’ve got enough to supply—it’s a pretty scary prospect to just kind of be making it, going in blind. We’ve seen in the past, craft distilleries will put out a product that they’ve made themselves that’s very young tasting, and it tastes a little rough and it ends up damaging their brand. So we’re kind of following the High West, Whistle Pig, Templeton Rye, Angel’s Envy, all those kind larger craft brands in that we’re sourcing and blending but we do fully intend to start making our own stuff in year five. Our American Whiskey, which is our core whiskey product, which is a blend of two types of bourbon and a Tennessee whiskey, those three whiskeys are blended and further aged in red wine barrels to kind of round them out. Now that we’ve got the basics down, let’s talk about Whiskey Riot Festival. How did this start?

It has pretty humble origins. We were sitting in our bunker office at Tommyrotter, and thinking, “Everyone thinks we’re just a gin company. How are we going to get the word out there that we have a whiskey coming out?” We wanted to do something really big that gets tons of people in one place where we can show them our whiskey, and that’s where the idea for the whiskey festival came from. In the liquor industry, it’s very expensive to get in front of people. We were, like, there’s got to be a cheaper way to do this and make it affordable for the brands, ourselves, and the whiskey drinkers. We decided to throw Buffalo Whiskey Fest with Step Out Buffalo. We started selling tickets for it in November 2017, and we sold about 1,200 tickets in seven days. The event was January 2018. We executed that event and it went incredibly, but a week before the event we got a cease and desist order from the people that run WhiskyFest in New York, so we changed our name to Whiskey Riot Festival and kind of re-branded.

So less than a year later, the next whiskey festival is set to happen, this under the new name. And instead of one festival, it’s three festivals in three cities.

September 15 in Rochester, Buffalo on September 29, and Albany on October 28. We have about 50 brands at each event. It’s much larger than most other whiskey festivals all over the country, with the exception of WhiskyFest in New York City. Other than your own, is there a favorite whiskey that you’re going to go straight to at the festival?

I’m excited about Filibuster Distillery that’s coming up from Washington, DC. I’m a total geek with this stuff. They do really cool blends and barrel finishes that are pretty zany. And then if I threw one more on there, I would have to say Pendleton Whiskey, which is coming in from the Pacific Northwest. If I’m someone who likes whiskey but I’m not a connoisseur, how should I approach this festival?

It’s the best opportunity for someone who is, we jokingly say, “whiskey curious,” who wants to learn about whiskey but you might be intimidated by whiskey and you don’t know a ton about it. If you’re that person, these events are fantastic for a couple of reasons: First of all, the pure economics of it. If you wanted to try 50 whiskeys, the average whiskey bottle is $35 or so, some get to $50 to $70 a bottle. It could cost you thousands to try this stuff, or you’d have to mooch off of a rich friend with a collection. Here you can pay $45 and try a ton of bottles, even if you want to try different categories and learn the difference between a rye, a Japanese single malt, and a Scottish single malt. The people who are running these tables and pouring these samples are all whiskey experts. They work directly with these brands and are in some cases the owners and distillers of these brands. They can speak with excruciating detail on the nuance of that product and about the general category. On the other end of the spectrum, if I have a pretty developed taste for whiskey, what’s at this festival for me?

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The representatives of each brand can go into such detail that you’d never be able to find on the internet and that you wouldn’t be able to get unless you went and visited these distilleries. You can have conversations with those folks and the representatives love when people are asking those questions because when people start asking serious questions you’re, like, “Oh, this person knows what they’re talking about, I can really tell them what makes our brand stand out and go into greater detail.” That’s there, absolutely, if you’re P interested in it.

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SHE’S NO SOLOMON THE CHILDREN ACT BY GEORGE SAX THE OLD STORY goes that director Howard Hawks bet Ernest Hemingway that he could make a successful film of Hemingway’s least important novel. Hawks came up with To Have and Have Not (1945), which had almost nothing to do with the same-titled book, as Hemingway observed more than once.

Authors have long complained about the way movies treat, or mistreat, their books. The prominent British novelist Ian McEwan is at least somewhat limited in the scope of any complaints he may have about the new movie version of his novel, The Children Act, since he wrote the screenplay. Richard Eyre’s movie is intellectually and morally provocative and emotionally engaging for much of its length. It’s also puzzlingly incomplete. Emma Thompson stars as Fiona Maye, a British family law judge who is deciding whether Adam (Fionn Whitehead), a 17-yearold youth critically diagnosed with leukemia, can be ordered to submit to a blood transfusion. Adam and his parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses and their faith forbids transfusions, even if, as in this case, the patient’s life is at stake. Fiona takes the very unconventional step of visiting the boy at the hospital to try to ascertain his ability to make a mature, independent decision. The encounter of judge and young patient will have unusual and unforeseen

consequences that are both moral and personal. Thompson’s expert performance sustains an impressive subtlety and control as the movie depicts the jurist’s carefully achieved order in her personal life and career. At home, her very neglected husband (Stanley Tucci) candidly confronts her with his contemplated extramarital affair, even though he loves her. Fiona reacts with surprise and vindictiveness. And Adam’s post-court decision fate begins to impinge on her in disturbing ways. Eyre’s (The Older Man) direction is fluid and engaging, the photography (Andrew Dunn) is handsome and Whitehead, who made his debut last year in Dunkirk, contributes a poignantly appealing and eventually gripping portrait of Adam. But the movie feels incomplete and abrupt in its ending. The interactions between Fiona and Adam are primarily portrayed from her point of view, and what this all means to him isn’t obvious or even adequately implied. At the end, we’re supposed to sympathize with Fiona’s acceptance of her insufficiently sensitive response to both the boy and her husband’s needs but the resolution is too skimpy and unrevealing. The Children Act is involving until it avoids the questions it has raised. Opens Friday at the Dipson Eastern Hills and P North Park theaters..

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HOW TO GET TO BORDERLAND? WELL, CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF EAST AURORA IS NOT THAT FAR. FROM DOWNTOWN BUFFALO, YOU ARE LOOKING AT AN 18-20 MINUTE DRIVE. HERE ARE THE BEST WAYS TO GET THERE....

Drive Hop in a car with a few of your friends and head to Borderland.

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