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THIS WEEK ISSUE NO. 198 | NOVEMBER 21, 2018
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INVESTIGATIVE POST: Power Authority subsidy programs lack recipients.
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FILM: Boy Erased, Johnny Gruesome, plus capsule reviews.
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LOOKING BACKWARD: The Buffalo Switchmen’s Strike of 1982.
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CROSSWORD: Another devilish puzzle by Matt Jones.
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THEATER: A quick guide to what’s playing on area stages.
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ON THE COVER: TYSHAUN TYSON’s The Commute, one of four murals unveiled this month at the Utica Street Metro station, a project coordinated through El Museo.
ART: What’s showing in local galleries and museums.
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THIS WEEK’S UPS AND DOWNS BY THE PUBLIC STAFF
UPS: Marijuana decriminalization of some form is going to come to New York, and while there’s plenty of well reasoned concern for the effects of marijuana use on public health and youth, it’s high time we got more real about drug use in this country. So a big up to Buffalo ASSEMBLYWOMAN CRYSTAL PEOPLES-STOKES, an early champion and sponsor of New York’s MARIJUANA REGULATION AND TAXATION ACT, which had its day on Monday in the Buffalo Common Council. According to the Buffalo News, Peoples-Stokes countered Erie County District Attorney’s objections (see below) with pointed and effective comments. “I don’t support people smoking cannabis, but here’s a fact: They do,” she said. “They already do, and they do in very big numbers. And they do in numbers so large that there’s already a multiple-billion-dollar industry, but it’s mostly underground. And it does call for the need for guns you want to keep out of the community, because people are protecting turf that they think belongs to them.” Then, responding to marijuana’s role in probable cause vehicle searches: “Law enforcement can smell cannabis in a car, and want to search it, but how many times do they do that after a Buffalo Bills game? Very rarely. But they do it on the East Side of Buffalo. We’ve got to try and find a way to stop law enforcement from wanting to enforce some laws in some communities that they don’t enforce in others.” Amen.
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The BUFFALO SABRES are showing some flashes of their improbable 2005-06 run to the conference finals: a plucky, fun team growing into themselves and loving each other on and off the ice. There are so many young players and high draft picks on the team—Dahlin, Reinhart, Eichel, Mittelstadt—and each one carries with him the ghost of a forgotten season this decade that slowly killed our appetite for hockey one brutal winter at a time. But this young team is burning sage all over this town, and maybe we’ll see some life injected back into the morgue at the foot of Main Street. We’re back in print, which is nice. For that we thank OUR SUPPORTIVE READERS (you know who you are) and OUR ADVERTISERS (who you can appreciate on these very pages).
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DOWNS: District Attorney JOHN FLYNN stepped in some mud Monday during the a hearing on New York’s proposed marijuana regulation legislation in Buffalo’s Common Council. Back in 2016, at a debate for DA candidates, Flynn called Vera Institute and Open Buffalo research on how marijuana policy disproportionately affected minorites “staggering” and even suggested in remarks after the debate that as DA he would urge officers to be lenient when dealing with marijuana. “If I say, ‘Hey, guys, ease up on this, you know, let’s not arrest everyone on sight,’” he told us at the time. “‘Let’s work in some diversion programs and get people out of the criminal justice pipeline and into other avenues.’ They might listen to me. And that’s my hope.” Fast-forward to this week, where Flynn literally said if we stop using marijuana as probable cause for traffic stops, we won’t be able to get as many guns off the streets. Here’s the quote from the News: “I am getting guns off our streets, with these kind of searches. If we eliminate that possibility, I am not going to get numerous guns off the street. I implore you, if this law passes, that there is some kind of carve-out…where law enforcement officers have some ability to be able to search the car and to be able to get the guns off the street.” Flynn is basically asking why there isn’t a carve-out in the Constitution to continue policing minority communities differently. To underscore that, in terms of Flynn’s own worldview, during the hearing he acquiesced that marijuana users are more peaceful than drinkers. “You’re not going to see many bar fights with guys smoking marijuana, I don’t think.” So which one is it, Mr. Flynn? Are weed smokers gun-toting thugs on Bailey Avenue or respectful kids from Tonawanda toking up at a Canalside concert with impunity? Flynn gave the community a free lesson on what implicit bias looks like. Let’s not stop our criticism of local prominent Democrats and their lack of understanding on racial issues there. MAYOR BYRON BROWN fired a rare (and calculated?) public salvo at his political opponents, namely Buffalo Comptroller Mark Schroeder and Assemblyman Sean Ryan, who have been critical of Brown’s wayward management of its public housing agency and capital budgeting process (in Schroeder’s case) and the free lunches it doles out to developers (in Ryan’s). In a sit-down with the Buffalo News editorial board, Brown, who called himself the “CEO of the city,” claimed he didn’t get enough credit for Buffalo’s turnaround, that such praise was reserved for Congressman Brian Higgins, County Executive Mark Poloncarz, and Assemblyman Ryan. “I wonder why that is,” Brown said. It’s a weird moment for Brown to grow a sensitivity to racial injustice. Here’s the “CEO” of a city that is being sued by civil rights groups for using putatively unconstitutional checkpoints almost exclusively in communities of color, a city whose police force arrests minorities eight times more than it arrests whites for marijuana, and whose police have killed three young men of color during confrontations with officers since 2017. Now, when confronting criticism that affects his personal political legacy, he wants to talk about racial injustice? Do you have ups and downs to share? Email us at info@dailypublic.com.
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NEWS INVESTIGATIVE POST The authority has continued to find takers for smaller allocations, but some other companies have had their allocations reduced after they failed to meet job commitments or other obligations. This year, 27 percent of the power set aside for local industry was unused—mostly power that’s unallocated, as well as power that customers have been awarded but are not yet using.
SLOWDOWN IN GRANTS When NYPA can’t find takers for all the power earmarked for local industry, it sells the excess on the wholesale energy market. The authority used to keep those earnings – something critics said was unfair. If the region can’t use all its allocated power, the argument went, it shouldn’t forfeit the resulting profits, too. So, since 2010, the earnings from those sales have instead gone into the Western New York Power Proceeds Fund. The sale of unallocated power used to bring millions of dollars a year into the fund, but falling energy prices have sharply reduced those earnings. In 2013, $8.2 million was deposited into the fund. Last year, it was just under $145,000.
SLOWDOWN IN NYPA SUBSIDY PROGRAMS BY CHARLOTTE KEITH companies receive power under long-term contracts with the authority, including major employers like Geico, Moog, and General Motors, along with companies lured to the region, in part, by the low-cost power, like Yahoo.
IT’S AN UNUSUAL PROBLEM: SUBSIDY PROGRAMS THAT CAN’T FIND TAKERS. THE NEW YORK Power Authority has two of them in Western New York. One provides low-cost hydropower to local industry, but a quarter of the pool of electricity lacks for customers and is sold on the wholesale market. The profits from the sale of this unallocated power are earmarked for a program that funds business activity and community projects throughout Western New York. But that money hasn’t been in high demand recently, either.
Roughly $4 million sits, unused, in the fund and the board in charge of awarding the money has canceled four of its last five meetings because of a lack of applications to consider.
Over the past few years, the power has offered companies less in savings than when energy prices were higher. In 2013, for instance, Niagara hydropower was about $210,000 cheaper, per megawatt, than electricity purchased at market rates. By 2017, the cost savings had shrunk to roughly $60,300 per MW. Despite the discount on offer, the Power Authority has long had difficulty finding customers for all of the power designated for local industry. The amount of unallocated power has increased in recent years, almost doubling in 2016, when two large customers—Chemours and Globe Metallurgical—shuttered their operations.
“Two big fish left. Replacing them is not an exact science,” said DeMichele, the authority spokesman.
“We’re open for business and we want people to apply. But we also want to make sure the money and power is having an impact,” said Paul DeMichele, a spokesperson for the authority.
“For the people of this community, it’s really about being able to benefit from what’s naturally ours,” said Higgins, a Buffalo Democrat.
The Niagara Power Project, the fourth-largest hydropower plant in the US, began operation in 1961. The plant diverts water from the Niagara River, above Niagara Falls, and returns it into the lower portion of the river. It’s the biggest electricity producer in the state. Just over a quarter of the power generated at Niagara is earmarked for businesses located within 30 miles of the plant—mostly energy-hungry manufacturers and what remains of the chemical industry in Niagara Falls. More than 100 4
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Applicants must show a “clear economic benefit to the region” in order to win funding. In the fund’s first year, applications flooded in – more than 50, according to meeting minutes. Many were rejected. Between May 2013 and May 2014, NYPA records show, 39 applications were “not recommended” for funding. Some— restaurants, shops, medical offices—were ineligible under state law. Others were already receiving state subsidies and didn’t make a convincing case that they needed more. And others—like plans for a waterfront park, and proposed repairs to the walls of Forest Lawn Cemetery—didn’t demonstrate that they would create enough economic impact.
The amount of money the board has awarded in grants has steadily dwindled each year since 2013. The fund still has roughly $4 million left to award and, recently, the pace of applications has slowed to a trickle, meeting minutes show. The board approved nine grant awards in 2015, 10 in 2016, and, last year, just three.
Ensuring that Western New York receives its fair share of the economic benefits of the Lewiston plant has been a years-long struggle, led by US Representative Brian Higgins.
A DISCOUNT FOR INDUSTRY
Like customers for discounted hydropower, grant recipients must be located within a 30-mile radius of the Lewiston plant. The criteria for making awards, set in state law, offer support for various kinds of projects: expanding businesses, workforce development and entrepreneurship, infrastructure, agriculture and tourism. At least 15 percent of the grant money given out each year is reserved for projects related to energy efficiency, clean energy, or sustainability.
Almost $37 million in grants has been given out so far, to projects including the 43North startup competition ($19.4 million), the penguin exhibit at the Aquarium of Niagara ($1.75 million), and the Explore & More Children’s Museum at Canalside ($1.7 million).
Officials from the New York Power Authority told Investigative Post they’re doing their best to find takers for both the cash grants and discounted power.
If the current setup isn’t working as well as it could, Higgins said, “it should be reworked in state law to better take advantage of this great natural resource that we have.”
Source: New York Power Authority
Source: New York Power Authority
THE AMOUNT OF UNALLOCATED LOCAL POWER HAS INCREASED IN RECENT YEARS, ALMOST DOUBLING IN 2016, WHEN TWO LARGE CUSTOMERS— CHEMOURS AND GLOBE METALLURGICAL— SHUTTERED THEIR OPERATIONS.
This year, the board approved only one grant and canceled four out of five scheduled meetings because there weren’t enough applications to consider. DeMichele said the Power Authority has to ensure that the money given out will have an impact, also pointing out that any change to the criteria used in making grants, or to the fund’s structure, would require a change in state law. Higgins said that’s something worth considering. “It should be a never-ending challenge moving forward to get as much of that power back to the Western New York community,” he said. Charlotte Keith is a reporter for Investigative Post, a nonprofit investigative journalism center focused on issues of P importance to Western New York.
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WESTERN NEW YORK’S VERSION OF THE AMAZON DEAL BY CHARLOTTE KEITH In exchange, the company will create at least 25,000 jobs and invest more than $3 billion over the next decade. THE AGREEMENT THAT will place a new
headquarters for Amazon in Queens is the biggest economic development deal for a private company New York has ever seen, with a subsidy package that could add up to more than $2 billion.
Based on a preliminary estimate, each Amazon job could cost roughly $70,000—compared with $150,000 for each of the Tesla positions. At other major Buffalo Billion projects, the cost per job ranges from more than $900,000 (Albany Molecular Research) to $110,000 (IBM).
The full value of the incentives Amazon stands to receive is unclear, but it might still work out to be a better deal for taxpayers than Western New York’s own marquee economic development project, the Tesla factory in South Buffalo.
Another key difference is the structure of the deals.
On top of a $500 million state grant, and more than $1.5 billion in performance-based tax credits, Amazon will receive a property tax abatement and other benefits from the city.
On several Buffalo Billion projects, by contrast, the state shouldered the cost of building and equipping each facility upfront, before any jobs were created. The state still owns the lab,
Amazon’s state incentives will be paid out gradually and are performance-based, so the company will only get the full benefit if it meets its employment goals.
factory, and office space where each company is located—an unorthodox model, experts say, and a risky one. Economic development deals like these often attract the criticism that government is paying companies to do things they might well have done anyway—without a subsidy. In Amazon’s bidding war among cities, New York’s was not the most generous incentive package on offer, with Maryland and New Jersey offering far more in benefits. New York’s assets—an educated workforce, infrastructure, cultural appeal—experts say, likely did more to attract Amazon than the tax credits and grants. In the case of the Buffalo Billion, it’s less likely that some of the companies would have moved here without incentives. The initiative sought to seed new industries in the region—visual effects, software development, solar energy— and state officials hoped they would take root, encouraging other companies to follow and building industry clusters. So far, however, the spinoff has been limited. Charlotte Keith is a reporter for Investigative Post, a nonprofit investigative journalism center focused on issues of importance to P Western New York.
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AMHERST: 2BR 1.5BA Ranch w/ hdwd flrs, central air, part. fin. bsmt, fenced yard and garage. 119 Layton, $129,900. Mark DiGiampaolo, 887-3891(c) TONAWANDA: 3BR home w/ full bsmt. 190 Millwood, $154,900. Ryan Shanahan, 432-9645(c)
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ALLENTOWN: Multi-Use! Club, apts, ofcs, retail etc! Club, ofcs & att’d 3 unit bldg. Lrg parking lot. 26 Allen, $1,800,000. 887-3891(c) DELAWARE DIST: 3BR 2.5BA luxury condo w/ hi-end kit & 2 garage spots. 925 Delaware Ave #2C, $499,000. Susan Lenahan, 864-6757(c) ELMWOOD VLG: 3BR 1BA near Bidwell! Dbl LR w/ fp & built-ins, formal DR, den, eatin kit, fin 3rd flr. 532 Norwood, $299K. Susan Lenahan, 864-6757(c) ELMWOOD VLG: 3/2 Double w/ hdwd flrs, upd. kits & bths, garage, newer roof & windows. 36 Granger, $399,000. Susan Lenahan, 864-6757(c) LOVEJOY: 4BR w/ upd. kit, 1st flr mstr & extra fenced lot. 499 Benzinger, $59,900. Rich Fontana, 605-2829(c) NO. BUFFALO: Lrg 5BR 2BA Victorian used as ofc space. 2732 Main, $275,000. Mark DiGiampaolo, 887-3891(c) NO. BUFFALO: 3BR 2.5BA. LR w/ gas fp & French doors leads to porch, DR, upd. kitchen, part. fin. bsmt, mstr ste w/ lrg closet & gas fp, fin. 3rd flr. Newer roof, elec, paint. 40 Jewett, $424,900. Susan Lenahan, 864-6757(c) RIVERSIDE: Rental. Completely reno’d 3BR unit on 1st floor of multiple. Cat okay. 98 Royal, $1000+ util. Linda Crist, 812-9800(c) WATERFRONT: Rental. 2BR 2.5BA twnhse. Hdwd flrs, LR w/ fp & sliders to deck, granite kit, lndry rm. 432 Lakefront, $2500+. Robin Barrell, 986-4061(c)
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AMHERST: 1BR condo. Lrg BR w/ walk-in; cov’d front porch. 4545 Chestnut Ridge #104A, $82,000. Roseann Scibilia, 903-1464(c) CLARENCE CTR: Priv. 4BR 4BA on 2+acres (nxt to 11 acres of protected land). Ingrnd pool w/ spa, expansive flr plan, lrg cov’d deck, mstr ste, upd. frnc, HWT & roof. 9220 Clarence Ctr Rd, $559,900. Molly E. DeRose, 430-2315(c) DEPEW: 4BR 1.5BA in desirable neighborhood w/ eat-in kit,1st flr BR, lrg bsmt rec rm w/ bar. 441 N. Creek, $149,900, 472-9936(c)
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EAST AURORA: LOT! 234’ x1956’ scenic, part. wooded w/ creek. Util’s at street. V/L Center, $699K. Mark Warnes, 449-1801(c) EVANS: 5BR 4.5BA Lakefront Estate w/ 5+acres & in-grnd pool. Kit w/ pantry, DR opens to LR w/ lk views, fam rm, party rm w/ hot tub, sauna & wetbar leads to pool. 7176 Lake Shore Rd. $975K. Susan Lenahan, 864-6757(c)
LOOKING BACKWARD: BUFFALO SWITCHMEN’S STRIKE OF 1892 “Social movements may have many ‘defeats,’ but in the course of the struggle the strength of the old order begins to erode.” —Howard Zinn The Buffalo Switchmen’s Strike of 1892 is one of the labor defeats that helped build a working-class movement in the United States. Five hundred fifteen railway switchmen struck to demand recognition of the Switchmen’s Mutual Aid Association by the Buffalo Creek, Erie, and Lehigh Valley railroads. Tensions were high, and a number of strikers set fire to a set of abandoned rail cars. Buffalo police sympathetic to the strikers refused to intervene. Governor Roswell Flower sent 8,000 state militia, shown here in Buffalo, to crush the strike. The militia was commanded by Brigadier General Peter C. Doyle, full-time agent of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Troops broke up mass meetings, clubbed workers, and imprisoned strike leaders. After failing to secure help from allied unions, organizer Frank Sweeney called off the strike after 15 days. All striking workers were blacklisted. The event, a great lesson in labor unity, led Eugene V. Debs to organize the American Railway Union in 1893. - THE PUBLIC STAFF
LOCKPORT: Working apple farm: 2 houses, store & barns w/ cld strg. 1000 Ruhlmann, $795K. Mark W. DiGiampaolo, 887-3891(c) ORCH. PK: Grand 4BR 4.5BA. Indoor pool w/ wet bar & bth. LR, DR, fam rm, mstr ste, garage/barn. 10 Robinhood. $1.245 mil. 864-6757(c)
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NEWS COMMENTARY That’s true in Europe. It’s true in Ottawa, where a bus rapidtransit system has just graduated into a streetcar system. It’s true in Hamilton, which once again voted in a city council that has a political mandate to build out a two-line system for about US $750 million. And downtown-centered systems work in Portland, Seattle, and in all the new places where they’ve been built.
WHY MORE BAD PLANNING? The proposed $1 billion UB-to-UB line, besides being budgeted at almost three times the per-mile cost of lines in Milwaukee and Detroit, and almost five times the per-mile cost in Oklahoma City, is not a city-centered project in a densely settled area. The NFTA proposes a seven-mile, single-line Niagara Falls Boulevard-Maple Road corridor in an area that is already underserved by buses, except for the existing UB intercampus bus. The NFTA plan would seek federal Transportation Department funding in the aftermath of the federal agency’s rejection of the suburban portion of the Detroit streetcar plan—rejected during the Obama administration, rejected by streetcar enthusiast Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who shepherded streetcar projects in Cincinnati and in Saint Louis, specifically because population density beyond Eight Mile Road was not high enough, and the line not close enough to walkable neighborhoods. The single long line proposal in Detroit’s suburbs didn’t meet federal criteria. The projects that got approved were all in the urban core.
STREETCARS ARE FOR DENSELY SETTLED CITIES BY BRUCE FISHER
THE NFTA PLAN TO CONNECT UB CAMPUSES WON’T WORK—HERE’S WHY, AND HERE’S WHAT TO DO INSTEAD THE ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITs of electrified transportation here deserve a formal study, but they would seem obvious because Western New York is home to the Robert Moses Power Project. Our buses should all be electric. Ditto our cars, including our self-driving Uber cars, should the engineers ever learn how to make autonomous vehicles pedestrian-friendly rather than pedestricidal. The New York State Power Authority can’t even give away power because huge industrial users have low-cost options—so now is the time for our public transportation agency to pounce.
Sadly, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) is making other plans. While the world has figured out that streetcars work beautifully in dense urban environments, the NFTA is proposing to engage the Buffalo area in a years-long process of seeking support for a one-line, suburban extension that probably won’t get approved for US Department of Transportation funding—certainly not so long as Donald Trump is president—but that looks a whole lot like plans that were nixed when Barack Obama was president. And we don’t have to spend a nickel of taxpayer money to read the report from the University of California’s Institute of Urban and Regional Development about public transportation systems: The NFTA is saddled with one of the most cost-ineffective rail systems of any transit network in the USA, mainly because lowdensity population dispersal—otherwise known as suburban sprawl—has made public transit a very costly proposition here. So why are we talking about putting a single streetcar line out Niagara Falls Boulevard to Maple Road instead of fixing the transportation deficits in the urban center? We’ll get to that.
THE ALLURE OF THE STREETCAR This year or early next year, Oklahoma City will get a 4.6-mile streetcar for $132 million. Milwaukee will soon complete a 2.5-mile streetcar for $128 million. Fort Lauderdale’s 2.8-mile system will cost $195 million by the time it’s ready in 2020, which is when Tempe, Arizona will get a three-mile, $186 million streetcar. There are a couple of other places—including the 14mile Queens-Brooklyn connector that will cost $2.5 billion to 6
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provide another transportation option within one of the most densely-populated places in North America, and an extension of the Washington. In each of these cities, streetcars are sited right in the center of the urban core. Transportation engineers who have worked on these systems are adamant: Since the advent of Uber, streetcars won’t work unless the walk from the sleek new surface train is a kilometer (just over half a mile) or less. They have to be convenient, and fares have to be low. Detroit’s new streetcar is hailed as a marvel for the three miles it travels up and down Woodward Avenue, but when the fare went from free to $1.50 ($3 for a day pass), ridership fell 40 percent. (In Buffalo, the fare is $2 one-way, $5 for a day pass.) Cities want them. They look great. Streetcars get riders who don’t like buses. Faraway Europe has had them continuously since the first electrified subway in Budapest in 1890, which is still operating and still beautiful, with its immaculate tiled stations and its wood-accented carriages. The streetcars there and everywhere else in Europe connect up to the underground metro where it exists in the big cities, and to the buses and to the inter-urban trains everywhere else. In Buffalo-sized cities from Krakow to Bordeaux, from Caen near the Normandy D-Day beaches to Montpellier on the Mediterranean, cities operate two to four streetcar lines in addition to their bus networks. Your city doesn’t have to be 2.8 million people, like Toronto with its streetcar fleet of “red rockets,” to enjoy streetcar success. But the only places where they make sense are in city centers.
THE PROPOSED $1 BILLION UB-TO-UB LINE, BESIDES BEING BUDGETED AT ALMOST THREE TIMES THE PER-MILE COST OF LINES IN MILWAUKEE AND DETROIT, AND ALMOST FIVE TIMES THE PER-MILE COST IN OKLAHOMA CITY, IS NOT A CITY-CENTERED PROJECT IN A DENSELY SETTLED AREA.
Streetcars in cities work. Spending $1 billion on a single sevenmile line to connect the Amherst and Buffalo campuses of UB will not work.
LET’S ELECTRIFY THE CORE Congressman Brian Higgins has it right: The NFTA needs to focus its efforts on serving the transit-dependent in the urban core. Let’s take that one step further: Let’s seize the opportunity to deploy locally generated green power, specifically electricity, in the service of green transportation. There is every reason to deplore the unspoken assumptions (let us be polite and demure and call them cultural assumptions) that are implicit in the NFTA’s pursuit of a link between the two UB campuses. Precisely now, while real estate in East Buffalo and West Buffalo and Northwest Buffalo is still undervalued relative to the rest of the region; precisely now, while electric power generation is looking for customers; precisely now, when we observe that climate scientists are well-beyond urging to virtually screaming that we replace fossil-fuel dependent transportation with green transportation before 2030; precisely now, when we begin to wake up to our Comparative Advantage of being a climatechange refuge rather than a fiery California, a drought-stricken Midwest, or a hurricane-ravaged Southeast—now is the time for an investment that will endure for the rest of the century. That investment should be in re-creating the pre-World War II electrified surface transportation network of Buffalo, a streetcar network, in the place where the opportunity for density is greatest, and where, paradoxically, the very transit-dependency of the current population is an asset, not a liability, but a huge asset. From the Berkeley report: “Rail…has economies of scale at higher passenger volumes and is generally less affected by traffic congestion than bus. When rail provides passenger miles more cheaply than bus, transit agencies save money by switching to rail.” But as that report and many others point out, the experience of rail-focused cities is that the transit option has to be convenient for people who are likely to continue to use, or to start to use, transit that is less than half a mile from home, work, school, recreation. That’s a description of the city, and of the densely-settle first-ring suburbs. It’s not a description of the Niagara Falls BoulevardMaple Road corridors. And the SUNY campuses already have a bus system. It’s time to rethink our transit priorities. There is no costeffective way to serve the low-density suburbs with green public transit. But there is a great opportunity to leverage the remaining density of the urban core to attract investment. The prospect is positively electrifying. Bruce Fisher teaches at SUNY Buffalo State and is director of the Center for Economic and Policy Studies. His latest book, Where the Streets Are Paved With Rust: Essays From America’s Broken Heartland (The Public Books/Foundling Press 2018) is available P at Talking Leaves Books and at foundlingspress.com.
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THEATER ON STAGES
Just one weekend left to see BUA’s Afterglow at Alleyway Theatre.
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crew CSz Buffalo runs a little more blue than the early show. Ongoing at 4476 Main
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IN AND AROUND BUFFALO: AFTERGLOW: One act, a couple in an open relationship, and a third whose invitation to share the couple’s bed leads to an exploration of love and loyalty. Presented by
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November 24 at Alleyway Theater, 1 Curtain Up Alley, 886-9239, buffalobua. org.
Lower
Level,
Amherst,
393-8669, cszbuffalo.com. A DOLL’S HOUSE PART 2: In Lucas Hnath’s award-winning
“sequel”
to
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Doll’s
House, we pick up the story of Henrik Ibsen’s Nora 15 years after she walks out the door. Through November 25 at the Kavinoky Theatre, 320 Porter Avenue, 829-7668, kavinokytheatre.com. SIVE: John B. Keane’s 1959 play about a
AUGUST WILSON’S KING HEDLEY II: In part nine in Wilson’s 10-part The Pittsburgh
Cycle, an ex-con tries hopelessly to rebuild his life in Reagan-era America. Through
St.,
December
2
at
the Paul
Robeson Theatre, 350 Masten Avenue,
beautiful young woman from a dirt-poor County Kerry family was initially rejected by the Abbey Theatre as “blasphemous” and “pornographic.” Through November 24 at the Irish Classical Theatre’s Andrews Theatre,
625
Main
Street,
853-4282, irishclassicaltheatre.com.
884-2013, aaccbuffalo.org. CHRISTMAS OVER THE TAVERN: An all-new musical holiday story about the Pazinzki family by playwright Tom Dudzick, author of the much beloved Over the Tavern.
AT THE SHAW FESTIVAL: A CHRISTMAS CAROL: The stage adaptation of
Charles Dickens’s holiday classic.
Through December 16 at MusicalFare
At the Shaw Festival, 10 Queen’s Parade,
Theatre,
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, 1-800-511-7429,
in
residence
at
Daemen
College, 4380 Main Street, Amherst,
shawfest.com.
839-8540, musicalfare.com. COMEDYSPORTZ: Improvisational comedy
AT THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL:
presented by CSz Buffalo every Friday and
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW: Dan Chameroy fills
Saturday at 4476 Main St., Lower Level,
Frank-N-Furter’s fishnets. Drinks before,
Amherst, 393-8669, cszbuffalo.com.
during, after the show.
CSZ AFTER HOURS: The late-night (9:30pm)
At the Stratford Festival, 55 Queen St., Stratford,
Saturday show by the improvisational
ON 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.
Playbill is presented by:
Information (title, dates, venue) subject to change based on the presenters’ privilege. Email production information to: theaterlistings@dailypublic.com
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Big Orbit Project Space (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/aboutbig-orbit): Members’ show, through Dec = ART OPENING = REVIEWED THIS ISSUE 8. Sat 12-6pm. Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Ave- BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 nue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albright- Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Upcoming: Tuknox.org): Aria Dean, solo exhibition through telary, an installation by Obsidian Bellis. Jan 13, 2019; Giant Steps: Artists and the Opens Dec 1 with a reception, 8pm-mid1960s, through Jan 6, 2019; We the People: night. Every day 4-10pm. New Art from the Collection, through Jun ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery (148 Elmwood Avenue, 30, 2019. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Buffalo, NY 14201, photolangelle.org): Fridays (free) until 10pm. One World: Issues Across and Through Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Skins, photos from Buffalo to Africa by JoStreet, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annaka- hanna C. Dominguez. Tue-Fri 1:30-4:30pm, plancontemporary.art): Sculpture & Drawing Fri 6-8pm, Sat 1-3pm. by Roberley Bell, through Nov 23. Wed-Fri Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th 11am-3pm or by appointment. Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffalo, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): AnNY 14207, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects. nual Resident Artists Show and Sale, com/argus-gallery): New Works in Black & through Dec 22. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat White, group exhibit curated by Curtis A. 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Bell, through Dec 1. 12-3pm, or by appoint- Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, ment. NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, com): Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm. Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Three Art- Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Laist Friends: John Brach, Thomas Kegler, and fayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858Sean Witucki, on view through Dec 28. Tue- 8900, buffalolib.org): Buffalo Never Fails: Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. The Queen City & WWI, 100th AnniversaArtists Group Gallery (Western New York ry of America’s Entry into WWI, on secArtists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY ond floor. Building Buffalo: Buildings from 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): 24th An- Books, Books from Buildings, in the Grosvenual Artful Gifts, artworks meant for giving nor Rare Book Room. Catalogue available or collecting; Pictures, Songs, and Words, art for purchase. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun by writers and musicians, on view through 12-5pm. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10amDec 28.Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. 2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 ElmBuffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuf- wood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878falo.com): Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am- 6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Counting the 10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Hours, through Feb 24, 2019; Square Route: Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buf- Geometric Works from the Collection, falo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery. through Mar 31; Charles Cary Rumsey: In com): Works from the collection. See Buf- Motion, through Apr 21. Salvaged: the falo Center for Arts and Technology. Thu- Stitched Narrative of Jennifer Regan, Contradictions of Being: Composite Works by Sat 11am-5pm.
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Catherine Willett at Argus Gallery.
Harvey Breverman; Enough Killing, through Oct 28; The Complexity of Life, by Jonathan Rogers, through Jan 27; Burchfield’s Arboretum, through Dec 2. Under Cover: works from the collection with lids, through Dec 30. Where the Streets Are Paved With Rust, images from Bruce Fisher’s book of essays of the same title, through Jan 27, 2019. M & T Second Friday event (second Friday of every month). Mon-Sat 10am5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free.
Caffeology Buffalo (23 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY, 14201): Lo-Fi Memories, a ”Found Game Boy Camera” photography project curated by Stevie Boyar.
Canvas Salon & Gallery (9520 Main Street STE 400, Clarence, NY 14031, 716-3205867): Cloud Burst, artwork by Kathleen Sherin. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 2868200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Think Big: The Artists of Autism Services, through Jan
GALLERIES ART 14, 2019. The Higner Maritime Collection: 25 Yerars of Shipbuilding, through Mar 17, 2019; Of Their Time: Hudson River School to Postwar Modernism, through Dec 31, 2019. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Fast, Cheap and Easy: the Copy Art Revolution, through Dec 15. 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): Figment, W. C. Maggio, through Dec 15. Tue-Fri, 10am-4pm, or by appointment. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Stephanie Rothenberg: Trading Systems: Bio-economic Fairy Tales. Wed-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 1-5pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Guy Richards Smit: Guilty of Everything. TueFri 11am-6pm, 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 12-7pm, Fri, 6-9pm Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays. Jewish Community Center of Buffalo, Holland Family Building (787 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14209, 886-3172, Hours: jccbuffalo. org): Thoughts Along the Way, Daniel Rodgers, through Dec 28. 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): Tanya Zabinski: Around the Seasons, through Dec 22. Opening reception, Sat, Nov 24, 10am-5pm. Tue-Sat 9:305:30pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 282-7530, thenacc.org): Mon-Fri 9am5pm, 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. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): City Scapes, a group exhibit, through Nov 30. Wed-Sat,12-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse. com): The Group 263 Art Exhibition, through Dec 29. Thu, Fri & Sat 6-11pm. Live Music Thu-Sat. Pine Apple Company (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/ store/pine-apple-company): Wed & Thu
11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery. tripod.com): Art 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. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Joe Vollan: On Behalf of the Under Enthusiastic, opening reception and gallery 2nd year birthday bash on Fri, Nov 23, 8pm-midnight, with music by DJ Dr. Wisz. Thu 12-6pm, Fri and Sat 12-8pm. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051, riverartgalleryandgifts.com): Wed-Fri 11am4pm Sat 11am- 5pm. 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 Jan 12. 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): Mary Louise Wyrick and Michelle
Miller, a Side-By Each Exhibition curated by Kyle Butler. Upcoming: Starlight Holiday Open House, Fri Dec1 . Mon-Fri 9-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Dylan England: Lawn Order through Nov 30. 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 through 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 11am5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Undergrounds Coffee House and Roastery (590 South Park Avenue, Buffalo NY 14210, undergroundscoffeebuffalo.com): Oil Portraits by Tara Steck, on view through Jan 15, 2019. Mon-Fri 6am-5pm, 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): Stupid Suburban Guy and Other Drawings, an exhibition by Daniel Galas. On view through Dec 8. WedSat 12-6pm.
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HARVEY BREVERMAN is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of Art at UB. His current show at the Burchfield Penney Art Center is called The Contradictions of Being. This piece, Triumph, is from Breverman’s Discontinuous Sequence series.
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LAZLO HOLLYFELD PLAY THE TALKING HEADS WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 21
PUBLIC APPROVED
9PM / MCGARRET’S, 946 ELMWOOD AVE.
As far as I’m concerned, to hear Lazlo Hollyfeld play Talking Heads covers the night before Thanksgiving is as much a holiday tradition as turkey and stuffing. The indie rock band has been setting up shop on the Wednesday evening before the big feast at McGarret’s on Elmwood for a number of years now to deliver a perfectly executed set of Talking Heads classics, deep cuts, and favorites as a packed crowd gathers around the center bar, catching up with friends from out of town and dancing into the night. Led by singer Sonny Baker, the band has a deep catalog of original indie rock music, but have never been afraid to cover artists that inspire them, from the Talking Heads to LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire, and Radiohead. Catch their annual tribute to the Talking Heads on the day before Thanksgiving, Wednesday, November 21. -CORY PERLA
WESTSIDE GUNN FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23
PUBLIC APPROVED
7PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $22-$25 [HIP HOP] In July, when he released his second album, Supreme Blientele, Pitchfork called
Westside Gunn an “ascendent Buffalo rapper.” It seems as though that ascension hasn’t plateaued yet, as earlier this month the 36-year-old rapper released his latest mixtape, Hitler Wears Hermes
6—his second mixtape of the year—to exceptional reviews. All of this and the brothers of Griselda Records, Gunn and Conway the Machine, haven’t even dropped their Shady Records debut yet. They were, however, spotted in the back of the infamous Eminiem Trump diss video that was released one year ago, adding even more fuel to the hype fire. The rapper’s returns to perform in his hometown of Buffalo are rare enough to warrant dropping everything and heading out to the Town Ballroom the day after Thanksgiving, Friday November 23, to catch this one. Special support from Machine Gun Black. -CORY PERLA
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 21
Out on the Tiles and Thurman Brothers
Cute Is What We Aim For
[ROCK] Perhaps the perfect classic-rock party soundtrack for the night before Thanksgiving, the Tralf Music Hall is hosting a pair of skilled Western New York cover bands. On Wednesday, November 21, Out on the Tiles (named for a track on Led Zeppelin III) will perform Led Zeppelin IV in its entirety, followed by the Thurman Brothers doing An Evening with the Allman Brothers from the early 1990s. Seems like it’d be hard to screw this up. -CJT
6pm Rec Room, 79 W. Chippewa St. $20
[EMO] Cute Is What We Aim For is back after a two-year hiatus, but I guess you can’t really call it a reunion, because lead singer Shaant Hacikyan is the only original member of the band left. Until this tour, the band hadn’t performed live since a controversial tweet from Hacikyan that stated “most claims of sexism and racism are total bullshit,” which predictably led to some intense backlash. In a recent press release for the tour, the singer stated: “We have a great lineup for this tour and we’re purposely doing smaller, intimate rooms so the energy should be awesome!” Cute Is What We Aim For comes to the Rec Room for a show on Wednesday, November 21 with support from MAKEOUT, Minshara, and Brightside. -CP
7pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $20
Junksgiving with Space Junk, Junkyard, and Neon Veins 10pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St. $5
[JAM] Nietzsche’s is as solid a choice for the night-before-Thanksgiving revelry as you’ll find if you’re looking for live music. Expect music from Space Junk, Junkyard, and Neon Veins for this show dubbed Junksgiving. -TPS
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23 Tom Green 7:30pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $26-$113
[COMEDY] Prankster, goofball, weirdo—call him what you’d like, but Tom Green is a funny guy. The Canadian comedian rose to prominence with his juvenile, low-brow MTV show the Tom Green Show, but really turned heads when he did a serious documentary on his testicular cancer. In the years since
his hit TV show, Green has hosted a handful of radio shows and podcasts, his own TV talk show, and a web series, but all along the way he’s stuck to his passion, standup comedy. Catch the 47-year-old comedian live at Helium Comedy Club in Buffalo this Friday, November 23 through Saturday, November 24 for four shows. -TPS
Night Slaves LP Release Show 8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $10
[EXPERIMENTAL] New music from Night Slaves comes this Friday, November 23 at Mohawk Place when the industrial electronic duo release their third album. The duo, John Toohill and David Kane, will perform their new album, titled III, in its entirety for the first time at the show. They’ll be joined by noise group Skin Shit, featuring Nola Ranallo of CAGES and Mark Kedzierski of God of Gaps, as well as post-industrial noise music project Uncertain. -CP
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LIVEMUSICEVERYNIGHTFOROVER30YEARS! WEDNESDAY
NOV 21
junksgiving:
space junk with special guests
junkyard theory & neon veins 9PM $5
THURSDAY
NOV 22
thanksgiving day:
philly & the jjs 9PM FREE
happy hour: shaky stage
FRIDAY
NOV 23
SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY SATURDAY NOVEMBER 24
6PM FREE
sentinel 6, glitch video game band, spacey stacey
(ALL DAY) / VARIOUS LOCATIONS,
10PM $5
[SHOPPING] There’s no getting around it, even if the thought of going to Walmart at midnight on Friday or whatever crazy time the corporate overlords deem
suitable to end a perfectly good, basically commercially vacant and totally inclusive holiday like Thanksgiving, Black Friday is a big deal and a key indicator of
SATURDAY
NOV 24
10PM $10
the overall health of the economy. And we’re here to tell you that the greatest power you have in your community is where and how you spend your money, so get out there this Saturday to the nearest local business district: Elmwood Village, Allentown, Hertel Avenue, Williamsville, East Aurora, Village of Hamburg, Downtown Buffalo, Abbott Road and spend like a drunken sailor up and down small businesses. Keep your precious money in the hands of your neighbors, whenever possible. Not only will you most likely find better gifts, but you’ll be making this small business proud. -THE PUBLIC STAFF
MONDAY
NOV 26
7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $32-$202
WEDNESDAY
Steam Donkeys 27th Reunion 9:30pm Sportsmen’s Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $10
[HONKY-TONK] It’s the third annual 25th birthday bash for Buffalo’s favorite purveyors of cosmic country: The Steam Donkeys, who were inducted this year into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame, hold court this Friday, November 23, in their natural habitat, the Sportsmen’s Tavern. Expect old friends in the audience and on stage, and pick up a copy of the band’s latest album, Everchanging, for yourself or for a loved one far from home. The show likely will go late. -TPS
[ROCK] Formed in 1991, Lowest of the Low is considered a seminal force in the 1990s Canadian alterna-canon, and the edgy jangle-rock of the band’s debut, Shakespeare My Butt, gained nearuniversal critical accolades while generating quite a bit of radio airplay. The band was heavily shopped by major labels, and they eventually compromised with a distribution deal through A&M for the follow-up, 1994’s Hallucegenia. Since then, they’ve broken up and reunited multiple times. Frontman Ron Hawkins has released solo material along the way, recording additional work with his band the Rusty Nails and collaborating with Do Good Assassins. Two new LOTL tracks surfaced back in 2015, and a new fulllength album, Do the Right Now, was finally released last year, which is the catalyst for the band’s upcoming gig at Town Ballroom on Saturday, November 24. -CJT
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 24 Buffalo Women’s Gifts
Steve Wilson 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $32-$35
[POP] Enigmatic Brit Steve Wilson, perhaps best known as the central figure in Porcupine Tree, is on tour this year supporting his fifth solo disc, To the Bone, also his debut for Caroline International, which dropped in 2017. Apparently inspired by the progressive pop of his youth—in particular, Kate Bush's Hounds of Love, Peter Gabriel's So, Talk Talk's The Colour of Spring, and The Seeds of Love by Tears for Fears—the resulting album is unusually upbeat relative to his previous work. For an artist who has always equated sadness with beauty, Wilson is out on a limb. But take it with a grain of salt, because although these songs may veer toward a more contented sheen, Wilson is still calling all the shots and doing things very much his own way, covering difficult topics and complex emotional states, just perhaps a bit truncated and with punchier choruses. For two tracks, he wrote in parts for previous collaborator Ninet Tayeb, an Israeli musician who also appeared on his Hand. Cannot. Erase. album. Their work together on "Pariah" and "Blank Tapes," along with the single, "Permanting," make for To the Bone's high points. Wilson is at Town Ballroom on Tuesday, November 27. -CJT
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 28
10am Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave.
[SHOPPING] This time of year, Buffalo’s weekends fill up with opportunities for shoppers to support local small businesses, vendors, and craftspeople with their holiday gift budgets, and there’s a longstanding such market popping up this Saturday at Asbury Hall. Buffalo Women’s Gifts, as the name implies, is a space for shoppers to buy unique, handcrafted items created by gifted area women. So come, grab a cocktail, and check out the wares and support this longstanding annual event, open 10am-6pm. -TPS
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 25 Sam Cooper 7pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $10
[INDIE] Homegrown indie rock singer/ songwriter Sam Cooper will perform at Babeville’s 9th Ward on Sunday, November 25. Expect to hear cuts from his upcoming album Careless Love. -TPS
jazz happy hour w/john bacon trio 5:30PM FREE
NOV 28
Lowest of the Low
buffalo afrobeat orchestra
esmay’s 28th with sentinel 6 & Dusty bits 9PM $5
THURSDAY
NOV 29
grosh, tortoise forest 8PM $5
FRIDAY
NOV 30
happy hour: the fibs 6PM FREE
paxtor, the observers, shoot ya string band 10PM $5
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6PM. ANN PHILIPPONE
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EVERY MONDAY FREE
8PM. SONGWRITER SHOWCASE 9PM. OPEN MIC W. JOSH GAGE
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Pink Talking Fish 9pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $18
[JAM] Pink Talking Fish is the mashup you never knew you needed. Let’s break it down: this four piece band specializes in the music of Pink Floyd, the Talking Heads, and Phish. It’s hard to not find something to like in this set, so head down to Buffalo Iron Works for this P one on Wednesday, November 28. -TPS
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WORLD'S LARGEST DISCO SATURDAY NOVEMBER 24 9PM / BUFFALO NIAGARA CONVENTION CENTER, 153 FRANKLIN ST / SOLD OUT [DANCE PARTY FUNDRAISER] If you don’t have tickets in hand to the World’s Largest Disco, you
the disco era. A killer multimedia show and sound system. Memorabilia, food, drink—everything a party needs. They say that the night before Thanksgiving is the biggest bar night in Buffalo, but
need to scour the city. You need to lean on friends and acquaintances who had the forethought to
the region’s biggest party (it’s not even close) is the World’s Largest Disco. And it’s all for a good
purchase tickets in August, when they routinely sell out. You must cajole, bribe, steal, whatever it
cause: In its 25 years, the volunteer-run World’s Largest Disco has raised more than $5.5 million
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[ROCK] Lindsey Buckingham is taking the high road. The 69-year-old guitarist and singer-
songwriter was ousted from his anchoring spot in Fleetwood Mac on the eve of the band announcing a massive 50th-anniversary tour last spring. Since then, while fans engaged in contentious debate, the remaining members of Fleetwood Mac made a (rather flaccid) public statement. But Buckingham has remained stoic, making only a few choice comments and quietly filing a lawsuit for breach of contract. Most importantly, rather than sitting at home and brooding, he also booked an extensive solo tour, which brings him to the Riviera Theatre in North Tonawanda on Tuesday, November 27. The tour coincides with the release of an anthology that provides a stunning overview of his work apart from Fleetwood Mac. Say what you will about the split, but let the official record speak for itself: On both occasions that Lindsey Buckingham has exited Fleetwood Mac, it has taken not one but two people to replace him.
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ALBERTO REY’S EXTINCT BIRDS PROJECT BY AARON LOWINGER
THE ARTIST, KNOWN FOR HIS EXPLORATION OF WATERWAYS AND AQUATIC LIFE, TURNS HIS ATTENTION TO BIRD SPECIES THAT ARE NO LONGER WITH US AS AN ARTIST, Alberto Rey starts locally, works globally.
His 2014 project on the plight of the Scajaquada River, for instance, was exhibited a few hundred feet away from his subject waterway at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Yet the exhibition, on the history, politics, and layers of failed planning that put this Niagara tributary on life support, rings familiar to polluted rivers and creeks all over the world. His work on the Scajaquada opened the door for a years-long, similarly framed project on the sacred Bagmati River in Nepal, resulting in a wide-ranging work that included Nepalese student art, a documentary video, and a book and gallery exhibition that used Rey’s artistic talents to make the scientific data and policy accessible to anyone. Rey’s latest and stunning comprehensive artistic project, the Extinct Birds Project, employed a familiar local entry into a universal topic. Wearing his other hats as fly-fishing guide and educator, Rey found himself in Jamestown’s Roger Tory Peterson Institute in 2015 to give a workshop on how to incorporate fly-fishing into education. During a tour of the collection, the RTPI’s Jane Johnson began pulling drawers out of a cabinet in a climate-controlled room. “On the clean white paper that covers the drawer were the bodies of seven extinct birds and around a dozen other threatened species,” Rey recounts in a project description on his website. “I was transfixed by the skins. A tremendous veil of sadness laced every one of the specimens and countless questions immediately ran through my mind: How did these get here? How did they get the birds?”
The attention to the collectors in your project really stuck out to me. Why were you drawn to the collectors themselves even as, for some of these birds, they’re part of the reason why these birds aren’t around anymore?
So I had a lot of questions, and I started thinking about what kind of person collects these birds, especially when they’re going extinct or they’re rare or whatever the case may be. The goal of the book was to personalize not only the specimens but also the process that the bird went through to get to its final state. I didn’t want to just talk about species in general; I wanted to follow that specific bird that I painted. What happened to that bird? How did that specific bird end up in front of my camera, in front of my painting? And I think the collectors themselves are an important part of that process. I could have talked more about them but I wanted it to be about the birds. The collectors are part of it, but I don’t want too much emphasis to be on the collector. Right, and reading the book, I had no idea how many collectors there were. It’s fascinating to imagine this age lived through recently in human history where we had these people in swamps and rainforests and deserts of the world collecting animal species that were new to science. It’s hard in 2018 to even imagine that. We talk now about how the depths of the oceans are relatively unexplored, but it wasn’t that long ago that the world was teeming with unknown species, and the book really brings that out the human story.
It connects the birds to us. It connects the birds to humans, more clearly to institutions, that we would think would be respectful their welfare, and so it seems like no one was looking out for them. Which is kind of unfortunate.
of it. There’s an argument sometimes used that says that by collecting these birds from the past, they were able to tell what they ate, this, that, and the other thing. The collectors, they just skinned the birds and just threw away the guts the brains and everything. So what the museums got, it was just the plumage and what was left on the outside. Everything else was inside. The paintings themselves of the birds: Are they any different then projects you’ve undertaken before? Was there a different process involved?
Well, first of all, I’ve never painted birds or even draw them before, so this is my first venture into birds. My other work mostly involves bodies of water and indigenous fish species in those waters, or fish species in general that are found in those waters around the world. So it’s always been about conservation and what makes these bodies of water important. This was different in a lot of ways. Certainly the animals were different that were being investigated. But the subject matter—the conservation, the environmental impact of investigating that,—is very similar. This whole process of what I’ve been doing for the last 20 years is more or less how to use art to make complicated scientific data issues related to urban migration and other issues that affect our environment in a way that is accurate but clear to the average person. Anything else you want to tell us about this project before we let you go?
Somebody asked me at the first lecture I did about the paintings if I was emotionally connected to the birds, and I almost had to stop, because it became a bit emotional. With each bird, this really became a devotional process, a devotional exercise for me. It was important to me that they were accurate; it was important to me that they were this kind of solemn depiction of an animal that there is no more of. And I didn’t realize how much that was until at the end, when each painting was finished and I felt right, but they are for me P almost religious artifacts.
In September, Smithsonian reported that 187 species of birds have gone extinct in the past 500 years, with 90 percent of those species coming from islands. Rey’s Extinct Birds Project, which features paintings drawn to scale of a burnt match and extensive research into the natural histories of the birds as well as the specific history of his subject specimens, is on display at the RTPI until January 12, 2019 and available as a solemn coffee table book as well.
And at the same time are you grateful that such a collection exists like the one at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute so that so that natural history can be explored that way, tangibly.
Talk a little bit about the genesis of the project. How did you get interested in bird extinction?
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I knew very little about birds aside from the passenger pigeon, I’m not a birdwatcher or any of that. As I learned more and more about these birds and what happened to them and to the collectors that collected them, it was really fascinating. I remember every morning when I woke up I couldn’t wait to go downstairs and start researching the birds for the book. I had spent eight to 10 hours every day writing and researching, and I couldn’t wait, it was just so fascinating to see what happened to them. And for most of them, for most of the birds that went extinct, it was three things that affected them and are continuing to affect the birds now, so it’s not like we’ve learned a great deal from our history. And the three things are habitat destruction; invasive species, which are usually the rat, the cat, or cattle who destroy the ground and nest sites; or over-collecting by either private collectors or collectors for museums and hunters and that type of thing.
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Absolutely. There’s an argument that you needed a lot of them, of the same species, to tell that there were such species. I think that’s one part of it. The other part is the over-collecting
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CURING THAT WHICH ISN’T AN ILLNESS BOY ERASED BY GEORGE SAX JUST WHEN IT had begun to seem that years of climate change had made it safe to come out,
there comes news to remind us that it still isn’t for some, perhaps a lot of people. A recent report about a Canisius College sophomore whose parents disowned her when they learned she is gay, a response that directly and indirectly jeopardized her scholarship, cross-county team membership, and student status, is a reminder of enduring fears and hatreds. The student’s parents demanded she seek counseling. Writer-director Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased portrays the experience of a young gay male who underwent “counseling” at a gay conversion program in Arkansas. Jared (Lucas Hedges) is a talented athlete, scholar, and aspiring writer in his first year of college who is betrayed by a guiltridden, unstable classmate after they have a sexual encounter (that amounts to a rape), the innocent Jared’s first. The perpetrator outs him to his parents, with expectable results. Feeling guilty and overwhelmed by the ultimatum of his Baptist preacher father (Russell Crowe) and his tacitly agreeing mother (Nicole Kidman), Jared agrees to enroll at Refuge, a Christian-based conversion therapy program headed by Victor Sykes (Edgerton). It features a Maoist-like insistence on confession of sin, constant monitoring of even incidental behavior for signs of sodomitic susceptibility, and almost comically heavy handed tutoring in “masculine” comportment (for example, how to correctly place your hands on your hips in a non-sissy way) led by an aggressively grim martinet (played by the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea). These sequences are more repellently absurd than funny. (They may recall some of the scenes in another recent gay-conversion movie, The Miseducation of Cameron Post.)
Lucas Hedges and Theodore Pellerin in Boy Erased.
The scenes in Refuge are really the heart of Boy Erased and the best written and directed, which eventually is a problem for the film. It’s often involving as it chronicles the indignities and abuse imposed on Jared and his peers, but the picture is unbalanced. It has a vagueness and a sense of incompletion. Edgerton adapted Garred Conley’s 2016 memoir and inevitably has focused on his story, but here that story’s family content doesn’t feel real or compelling enough. We don’t get a sense that Kidman and Crowe are a loving long-time couple, and since the mother’s emotions and decision prove crucial, this is a felt absence. Likewise, the final confrontation between Jared and his father comes across as too cool and subdued, and, ironically, a little unfair to the parent. Edgerton seems to have had some difficulty trying to edit and dramatize the book’s material. Boy P Erased is too careful and even-toned when it needs to have emotional force and insight.
“Featuring a great cast, a badass rocking soundtrack, and a main character with ‘franchise’ written all over him, it’s a flick that horror movie nerds will love. Virtually perfect. 10 out of 10.” (411Mania) “Writer/Director Gregory Lamberson (Slime City) really delivers a top notch terror pic with Johnny Gruesome; it’s funny, gory, ghoulish, and above all eerily entertaining! Five skulls out of five.” (Horror Fuel) “An enjoyable thriller laced with black humor…” (Voices from the Balcony) “Johnny Gruesome is a fast-paced gorefest that looks good enough for cinemas.” (Horror Society) “…loads of fun, had some cool death scenes and awesome gore…a fun little revenge flick.” (Horror News) “Light-hearted but with just enough death to satiate the appetite of horror fans, JOHNNY GRUESOME is a rockin effort.” (Horror Cult Films)
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“Johnny Gruesome is a rocking good time.” (Indie Horror Online)
JOHNNY GRUESOME BY M. FAUST When Gregory Lamberson isn’t reviewing genre movies for this publication, he has about a million other ways to spend his time, including writing novels, running the excellent Buffalo Dreams film festival (just concluded but returning nest year in late August), and of course making movies. His latest, Johnny Gruesome, has been gestating since 1984, when he wrote the first version of the screenplay at the age of 19. In the years it took Lamberson to work his way up to the budget he needed to realize his vision for the film, he adapted the story into his first novel, in 2008. Johnny Gruesome is now available to rent or buy as a digital download on Amazon Prime, iTunes, Vudu, and other platforms. It wouldn’t be fair for us to review the work of one of our own, but here’s what other critics have had to say about it: “…a quickly paced and fun supernatural revenge flick that has a great soundtrack, excellent makeup and perfectly cast characters with personalities.” (Morbidly Beautiful)
AT THE MOVIES A selective guide to what’s opening and what’s playing in local moviehouses and other venues
OPENING THIS WEEK CREED II—Or Rocky VIII, if you want to think of it that way, with Rocky’s protégé squaring off against the son of Rocky IV‘s Ivan Drago. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Florian Munteanu, Dolph Lundgren, and even Brigitte Nielsen. Directed by Steven Caple Jr. (The Land). Dipson Flix, Maple Ridge (AMC), Market Arcade (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Ni-
agara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE FRONT RUNNER—Hugh Jackman as Senator Gary Hart, whose 1988 presidential bid was derailed by a Republican sting, setting the path for modern tabloid politics. With Vera Farmiga, J. K. Simmons, Mark O’Brien, and Alfred Molina as Ben Bradlee. Dipson Eastern Hills, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit GREEN BOOK—Fact-based story starring Mahershala Ali as pianist Don Shirley, who for a tour of the South in the 1960s was required by Jim Crow laws to be accompanied by a white driver (Viggo Mortensen). With Linda Cardellini and Sebastian Maniscalco. Directed by Peter Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber To). Dipson Amherst
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“Part high school melodrama, part zombie revenge bloodbath, and part camp comedy, Johnny Gruesomeis a Bud cracking bonfire of blood that will have you throwing horns until the sun comes up.” (Flixist) “Lamberson Writes and directs a comedically charged gore fest, whose reliance on amazing practical effects and a penchant for creative murder sequences make for one hellishly wild ride.” (Bro Knows Movies) “Lamberson films gruesome comedy and horror like few can.” (Without Your Head Horror) “The story is cool, retro, and full of amped up emotion and indie gore.” (A Southern Life in Scandalous Times) “A cleverly funny and delightfully gory trip.” (Fan Girl Nation) “Johnny Gruesome is a lot of things, but most important of them all, is that it is so much FUN! This film is a perfect blend of gore, jump scares, gut-wrenching violence…and so much to laugh about!” (Tranwreck’d Society) “There is, at all times, something interesting happening. The humor ranges from cute to delirious, the gore looks great, the acting is decent…This is a colorful and innocent zombie/revenant/ghost P movie in a sea of much darker supernatural slashers.” (Tales of Terror)
ROBIN HOOD—In an actual hoodie this time. Starring Kingsman’s Taron Egerton, who has never once made me think of Errol Flynn, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, Eve Hewson, Jamie Dornan, F. Murray Abraham, and Tim Minchin as the first skinny Friar Tuck. Directed by Otto Bathurst (Shoreditch Twat). Dipson Flix, Maple Ridge (AMC), Market Arcade (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria
ALTERNATIVE CINEMA ELF (2003)—Will Ferrell as a foundling raised as an elf who goes in search of his real father (James Caan) after he gets too big for Santa’s Workshop. Any film with Edward Asner as Santa Claus and Bob Ne-
whart as his head elf can’t be all bad, and a pre-TV Zooey Deschanel brightens up things considerably as the requisite love interest. Directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man). Free and open to the public. Sat 11am. Aurora Theatre THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1939)— Basil Rathbone’s first appearance as Sherlock Holmes, setting the standard by which all future (and previous) portrayers were to be measured. With Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie, Lionel Atwill and John Carradine. Directed by Sidney Lanfield (My Favorite Blonde). Wed 12:30pm. Screening Room THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT—One-time only screening of the director’s cut of the new Lars Von Trier film, following a dozen years in the development of a highly intelligent serial killer (Matt Dillon). With
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NORTH BUFFALO: 251 Hartwell, off Delaware, 2BR + den upper, living room, dining room, kitchen, parking pad, appliances, storage, porch, air conditioning. $895+utilities. 875-8890.
for rent. 600 sq ft, $800 electric included.
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NON-PROFIT SUPER-MARKETEER NEEDED: A major part of the fun involved will initially be helping to define the job. It is very unlikely that it will ever pay much, and so it is most likely that the person who gets it will have other sources of income. If this sounds at all interesting to you, please check out thiselectionmatters.org, and then write to Box 861, Buffalo 14203 to find out more.
ORGANIST/ACCOMPANIST: The Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo announces an immediate need for an Organist/Accompanist to play at our services and work with our choir. This quarter-time position fills a leadership role within our vibrant music program which includes a half-time Music Director, and parttime Soloist/Section Leaders for the four choral sections. Base pay is competitive, and our music season involves several opportunities for additional paid work. The Organist/ Accompanist provides keyboard (organ, piano, harpsichord) solo music and accompaniment for congregational singing at worship services and accompaniment for the choir during rehearsals and worship services. Availability for our Thursday evening rehearsals and Sunday morning services is a must.
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FOR RENT KLEINHANS: Large 4BR, 3.5 bath. Yard, porch, driveway 1400+ utilities/ month. 622-2153.
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LINWOOD: Large, bright 2 BR, entire floor of a brick mansion, 1,300 sq ft. Hardwood floors in BRs and LR. Offstreet parking, laundry. Convenient to UB, Canisius, Medical Campus. $975 includes all utilities. 1 month security, lease, no pets, no smoking. 886-1953. ---------------------------------------------------ROOM FOR RENT: $450/month, private bath, all utilities, kitchen, laundry, parking privileges, located off NF Blvd in Amherst, 440-0208. No smokers. ------------------------------------------------DELAWARE PARK: Beautiful 1BR. Appliances. Laundry. Hardwood. Granite. Porch, ceiling fan. $950 includes utilities. No pets/smoking. 866-0314. -------------------------------------------------UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS: Updated large 3BR. Off-street parking, appliances, semi-furnished, water, garbage. Laundromat across street. Bus stop in front, close to metro. 716-553-2570. -------------------------------------------------LOVEJOY AREA: Beautiful 2 BD with appl,carpet,porch,laundry,parking,no pets, 650 + deposit 406-2363, leave message -------------------------------------------------OXFORD/WEST FERRY: Private 3rd flr 2 BR, newly updated, w/appliances, off street parking. Convenient to medical corridor, Canisius College, bus routes. 875 + utilities. 716-254-4773. -------------------------------------------------HERTEL AVE/N. BUFFALO: 3 BR upper. $900+utilities & sec dep. No pets, off-street pkng. Call 716.308.6870 -------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Lancaster Ave. 3 BR upper w/2 porches, natural woodwork, w/d hookups. No pets, no smoking. $1100+utilities. Apartment of the week. 716-883-0455.
NORWOOD BTWN SUMMER & BRYANT: Freshly painted 1BR, carpets, appliances, mini-blinds, parking, coinop laundry, sec. sys. Includes water & elec. No pets, no smoking. $695+sec. 912-0175. --------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Lancaster, lg bright 2BD upper, hrdwd flrs, laundry, parking. $1200 incl all. 884-0353. ------------------------------------------------ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Norwood Ave. 2 BR, study, porch, appliances, must see. No pets/smoking. $1,350+util. rsteam@roadrunner.com
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716-886-5212.
716-803-3046.
HELP WANTED
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Email inquiries should be sent to Dr. Daniel Bassin at danielbassin@ buffalouu.org
EXPERIENCED COOK: Experienced cook wanted. Call Joe @ 716.308.6870 for more details.
Applications can be sent to:
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Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo
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.
Dr. Daniel Bassin
695 Elmwood Ave. Buffalo, NY 14222
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AMBER DIXON
70 ___-pitch softball
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25 “I Am America (And ___ You!)” (2007 Stephen Colbert book)
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