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COMMENTARY: 8 WAYS TO SPEAK ILL OF GEORGE H. W. BUSH
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INVESTIGATIVE POST: NO CHARGES IN DEATH OF RAFAEL RIVERA
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LOOKING BACKWARD: The J. N Adam & Company department store, 1935.
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THEATER: A quick guide to what’s playing on area stages.
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ART: What’s showing in local galleries and museums.
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FILM: Swimming with Men, Maria by Callas, The Mercy, Catcher in the Rye with Diamonds.
CROSSWORD: Another devilish puzzle by Matt Jones.
ON THE COVER: CHRIS HAWLEY is part of Camera Obscura, a collective that organizes pop-up photography exhibits ocused on the city. Read more on page 12.
CENTERFOLD: Muhammad Z. Zaman at Argus Gallery.
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THIS WEEK’S UPS AND DOWNS BY THE PUBLIC STAFF
UPS: It’s been an up and down week for Erie County District Attorney JOHN FLYNN. We’re penciling him in here for his office’s efforts in calling for police accountability with respect to Bills tailgater Nicholas Belsito. The UB student made the painful mistake of disrespecting Sheriff ’s Deputy Kenneth Achtyl after Achtyl responded with belligerence to Belsito’s reasonable question about where his arrested friend would be detained, breaking Belsito’s nose and giving him a concussion. Belsito, however, was able to borrow some luck in the form of his family’s ability to hire a lawyer to fight the charges, and lo and behold, the incident was captured on police body-cam video, the use of which Sheriff Tim Howard instituted in a pilot program as part of his election season dogand-pony show. Flynn’s assistant district attorney, upon viewing the video, dropped the charges and now Flynn’s office is investigating whether Achtyl and his partner, James Flowers, who was wearing the camera, lied about the incident in police reports. If the two deputies did lie, then Flynn will have successfully and happily backed himself into a corner, obligated to bring charges. Any reader of our pages will understand that police accountability is in short supply in Western New York, and while Flynn won’t be confused with a progressive any time soon, he needs to understand that trust between law enforcement and the community is a two-way street.
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Big up to US District Court Judge VALERIE CAPRONI, who levied a 28-month sentence on disgraced developer Louis Ciminelli. While we would have preferred a longer sentence to help keep the powerful in check in Western New York, we believe Caproni’s sentence sends the right message to developers and political operatives statewide: Public development dollars should not be treated as patronage opportunities. New Yorkers deserve and demand a transparent government and a level playing field. Three weeks in a row, folks, The Public has been BACK IN PRINT. Baby steps.
DOWNS: Your correspondent was driving down the I-190 South last Thursday afternoon when he saw the black helicopters kicking snow into the air and black-clad men rappelling to the ground near the SHORELINE APARTMENTS, a now abandoned public housing complex on Buffalo’s Lower West Side. The helicopters were spotted buzzing around downtown all afternoon, and explosions emanated from the complex—all part of an FBI training exercise that lasted three days in total, and which took neighbors (and passersby) utterly by surprise. NORSTAR DEVELOPMENT USA, the company that owns the Shoreline Apartments—and which plans to demolish the existing structures and build new on the site—gave permission to the FBI to use its property for the exercises, but neither Norstar nor the FBI saw fit to alert residents or elected officials that armed men would be descending from the sky. Nor that there would be bombs. (Buffalo Police and the nearby Waterfront School were given a heads-up, according to Norstar.) Norstar says it didn’t charge the FBI for use of the property, but, given its demolition plans, the explosives—which were used to break down walls in the abandoned structures during the training—probably were welcomed by the company. That’s problematic, though: Preservationists continue to fight the demolition of the Shoreline Apartments, and an appeal was filed in New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division just two weeks ago seeking to prevent Norstar from proceeding with its current plans. The appeal is in regard to an Article 78 action filed by preservationist Terrence Robinson and former Shoreline resident John Schmidt against Norstar and the city’s planning and preservation boards, arguing (among other things) that state environmental review laws were ignored in granting Norstar the go-ahead to knock down the complex. The original Article 78 action was dismissed without explanation; a hearing date has yet to be scheduled for the appeal of that dismissal. In the meantime, Norstar seems to have benefited from some free demolition work, courtesy of the FBI.
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Because Rafael “Pito” Rivera was armed at the time he was shot and killed by BUFFALO POLICE in September, it became the responsibility of JOHN FLYNN’s office to investigate whether to bring charges against police, and not the state attorney general’s, which had previously investigated the 2017 deaths of Wardel Davis and Jose Hernandez-Rossy and cleared the officers involved in both instances. The difference with Rivera’s case is there is video of the incident, which was made available to media in September but not released in deference to the family’s wishes. On Monday, Flynn released his findings and cleared Officer Elnur Karadzhaev of any wrongdoing. You can read more in Investigative Post’s report on the incident on page 6, but Flynn disclosed that he did not “look at Buffalo police policies and procedures in his investigation nor consider presenting the facts to a grand jury, because the case was so “clear cut.” Flynn’s based his determination on the eyewitness testimony of security guard who claimed that the armed Rivera turned toward the officer as he got up off the ground after falling. Within hours, attorney for the family Steve Cohen authorized the release of the video. The video is grainy and imperfect, but it’s still almost impossible to imagine a turning motion as Rivera stands up and runs away from the officers as he is shot from behind. Flynn’s justification reads almost like a football referee’s, who, after seeing incontrovertible evidence on video replay, insists on sticking with the “ruling on the field.” In this decision, it’s far more about feel than facts, and the failure here of one arm of law enforcement to keep another arm in check, and not to correct or address police policy and procedure, will have a lasting impact in the community. Do you have ups and downs to share? Email us at info@dailypublic.com.
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NEWS COMMENTARY 4. THE RACIST WAR ON DRUGS Bush the warrior was on a roll during the first two years of his presidency, also escalating the so-called War on Drugs. In 1989 he held a live televised address from the White House holding up a bag of crack seized by police in Washington’s Lafayette Park across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. The bust later turned out to be a PR event orchestrated by agents who lured a drug dealer into the park. Citing the high-profile arrest across from the White House, Bush called for “more prisons, more jails, more courts, more prosecutors” while maintaining the racist legal disparities that made Black drug users 12 times as likely to go to jail as white drug users.
5. THE “OCTOBER SURPRISE”
The 1989 inauguration of President George H. W. Bush. Image from the National Archives.
I WILL NOT SPEAK KINDLY OF THE DEAD BY MICHAEL I. NIMAN
SANITIZING BUSH’S STORY AMOUNTS TO HISTORICAL REVISIONISM. HERE ARE JUST 8 OF HIS OFFENSES. WE’RE SUPPOSED TO speak kindly of the dead. And we’re supposed to bury our dead presidents with the type of fanfare and reverence that the colonial forebearers of this nation’s white settlers reserved for royalty. Today, as we prepare to bury the nation’s 41stpresident, George H. W. Bush, the American press corps is carrying on this tradition, eulogizing him primarily by celebrating his polite demeanor and his successful self-representation of civility. Yes, the 41st president presented as a nicer person than the 45th, or his son, the 43rd. But for the people whose countries or lives were destroyed by his violent actions, he’ll always be a monster. Sanitizing his story amounts to historical revisionism. Below are just eight of the many reasons why, beneath the civility, George H. W. Bush was a detestable president.
1. THE WILLIE HORTON CAMPAIGN AD Let’s start with racism. The now infamous Willie Horton campaign ad successfully deployed by team Bush in the 1988 campaign for president featured images of Willie Horton, a Black man serving a life sentence for a felony murder conviction who escaped from custody while on a weekend furlough from prison, and went on to rape a white woman and brutally assault her fiancé. The governor who signed the furlough was Bush’s Democratic opponent, Michael Dukakis. The sitting president, Ronald Reagan, signed identical furlough requests. Most governors did as a routine matter. But the Bush team made this furlough central to their campaign using blurry high-contrast images of Horton that resembled wanted posters for runaway slaves in the antebellum South. 4
The Willie Horton campaign ad blew a powerful dog whistle awaking white racism and fear. The success of the ad spurred a generation of race-baiting ads by Republican candidates that have picked at the nation’s festering racism and undermined racial justice. Guided by Newt Gingrich, the new racist campaigns used coded us vs. them language to provide a veneer of plausible deniability to otherwise racist messages. A deniability that the crude Bush campaign lacked. Longtime Republican operative Roger Stone, most recently of Trump fame, at the time warned Bush and Republican National Committee Chair Lee Atwater, “It’s a racist ad” and “You’re going to regret it,” explaining “You and George Bush will wear that to your grave.” Atwater, before dying in 1991, apologized for the Willie Horton campaign ad. Bush never did.
2. THE INVASION OF PANAMA Barely one year into his presidency in December of 1989, Bush invaded Panama for the ostensible reason of executing an American arrest warrant against that nation’s populist strongman and leader, Manuel Noriega. Noriega, for his part, was a CIA asset during the period when Bush was CIA director prior to becoming Ronald Reagan’s vice president. Noriega also served the US as an asset during the Reagan-era Contra War against Nicaragua, when he was photographed meeting with Bush. By 1989, however, Noriega was difficult to handle. The invasion to arrest him cost the lives of as many as 3,000 Panamanians and destroyed the working-class Panamanian neighborhood of Chorrillo. The Bush administration named the war “Operation Just Cause.” The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights this year ordered the US to pay reparations for the war, though that’s not going to happen anytime soon.
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3. TARGETING CIVILIANS IN IRAQ Bush launched the Gulf War, first as Operation Desert Shield in August 1990, then intensified it as Desert Storm in January 1991. Ostensibly, the war was to restore the Kuwaiti monarchy to power after that nation was invaded by Iraq. Saddam Hussein, however, invaded Kuwait only after effectively receiving the green light to do so from Bush’s ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie. The war saw 88,500 tons of bombs fall on Iraq and Kuwait over the course of 43 days, initially killing as many as 13,000 Iraqi civilians and 20,000 Iraqi troops, most of whom were killed by bombardment as they fled Kuwait. The bombs targeted essential Iraqi infrastructure, such as water and sewage treatment facilities, food processing plants, agricultural facilities and the nation’s electrical grid and transportation infrastructure. As many as an additional 70,000 secondary Iraqi deaths resulted from this infrastructural damage. The sanctions that followed Desert Storm caused the premature deaths of as many as 500,000 Iraqis. Shiite and Kurdish rebels who Bush’s State Department encouraged to rise up in rebellion against the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein during Desert Storm were abandoned by the US once Iraq fled Kuwait.
As president, Bush used his office to obstruct justice and thwart investigations into the criminal activity of the Reagan administration, where he served as vice president. The October surprise refers to allegations that representatives of the Reagan campaign conspired with Iranian leaders prior to the 1980 presidential election. At the time, Iranian students were holding 52 American hostages in Iran, to the embarrassment of the administration of President Jimmy Carter. According to the allegations, Reagan campaign representatives cut a deal with Iran to hold the hostages until after the election, thus making Carter seem weak. Witnesses placed Reagan’s campaign chief and subsequent CIA director, William Casey, meeting with Iranian government representatives in Madrid during the 1980 campaign. But Bush, as president, thwarted the investigation by withholding important information regarding Casey’s whereabouts at the time he was supposedly in Madrid. Without this corroborating evidence, the congressional task force investigating the October surprise had to dismiss the allegations. In 2013, Lee Hamilton, who chaired the investigation, admitted that it might have ended differently if Bush didn’t withhold evidence. Investigative reporter Robert Parry, who passed away earlier this year, reported in 2013 that archivists at the George H. W. Bush library released documents to him revealing White House knowledge of the incriminating trip. Historians are hoping that with Bush’s death, more records from this period will be declassified. The hostages were held through the election and released on Reagan’s inauguration day. If a deal was made to stall the release of the American hostages, that would amount to treason, much like presidential candidate Richard Nixon’s moves to stall President Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam peace deal in order to affect the 1968 presidential election.
6. IRAN-CONTRA COVER-UPS What became known as the Iran-Contra Affair involved a complex chain of interconnected activities where the Reagan administration sold missiles to Iran while they were technically an enemy state hostile to the US. This was supposedly payback for the aforementioned hostage deal. The dark money from the missile sales was used to fund
BUSH’S PRESIDENCY SET US ON A COURSE TO ENDLESS WAR, ESTABLISHED A MODEL FOR RACIST DOG-WHISTLE POLITICS, UNDERMINED THE HUMANITY OF AIDS SUFFERERS, COVERED UP CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT AND WORKED TO UNDERMINE NOT JUST GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY, BUT ALSO THE RULE OF LAW.
COMMENTARY NEWS “Contra” terrorists (a.k.a. “liberation fighters”) waging war against the democratically elected Sandinista government in Nicaragua. This money was necessary after Congress cut off funds to the Contras because of bad press about unsavory activities, such as assassinating elected officials and bombing schools, clinics, busses and electric stations. Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh’s subsequent investigation of the Iran-Contra affair was obstructed by Bush, who, before leaving the White House, issued pardons to six targets of the investigation, most notably the former defense secretary, Caspar Weinberger, who was about to go on trial. According to Walsh, Bush’s pardon of Weinberger, “marked the first time a president ever pardoned someone in whose trial he might have been called as a witness, because the president was knowledgeable of factual events underlying the case.” Walsh, a Republican who previously served as United States deputy attorney general under President Eisenhower, accused Bush of “misconduct” in helping to cover up the Iran-Contra affair.
7. INDIFFERENCE TO AIDS Bush’s main crime here was an indifference to human life, which manifested itself in inaction as the AIDS plague continued on unabated. More focused on wars than on domestic affairs, Bush’s priorities did not include funding any meaningful action to stem the AIDS crisis either through research or treatment. His ignorant stance on the disease, which when uttered as president, contributed to false narratives, undermining any meaningful response to the crisis. Focusing on gay men, he argued that the disease vectors were behavioral. At the same time, in other parts of the world, poverty and not sexual orientation or intravenous drug use, were emerging as vectors. When AIDS activists reacted to his comments, Bush responded that “You can’t talk about it [AIDS] rationally.”
8. OPENING GUANTÁNAMO Bush also gave us the notorious off shore limbo of the Guantánamo Bay detentions. When Haitian refugees escaping the violence surrounding the 1991 coup in that country sought asylum in the US, Bush opened up a camp for them at the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. His purpose was similar to that of his son, George Jr., in that he wanted a place to hold people without allowing them on US soil under protection of US law. To Bush, the Haitians posed a threat unlike any other refugee group or migrant population. Of course, none of these instances of cruel and detestable behavior contradict the claims made in political obituaries about George H. W. Bush’s civil treatment of those whom he deemed worthy of civility. His treatment of Presidents Clinton and Obama, for example, are hallmarks of political civility. Amid the praise of that civility, however, we must not forget that he was also a despicable person whose presidency set us on a course to endless war, led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, established a model for racist dog-whistle politics, undermined the humanity of AIDS sufferers, covered up criminal activity at the highest levels of government and worked to undermine not just government accountability, but also the rule of law. This article first appeared at Truthout.org. Dr. Michael I. Niman is a professor of journalism and media studies at Buffalo State College. His previous columns are archived at mediastudy.com and are P available globally through syndication.
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NEWS INVESTIGATIVE POST “Meech” Davis, 20, in February 2017 and Jose HernandezRossy, 26, in May 2017. Investigations by the New York State Attorney General did not find officers at fault in those deaths. Flynn said Rivera was holding a gun in his right hand when he tripped and, as he got up, “turned toward” the officer. At that point, Karadzhaev fired six shots at Rivera, three of which hit him. One shot struck Rivera in his front right side, another grazed his forehead, and a third hit him in the back. “The video shows him turning briefly to the side and shows something coming out of his hand,” Flynn said. Flynn noted that a fully loaded handgun with 15 rounds was found next to Rivera’s body and said testing confirmed that only Rivera’s DNA was on it. Central to the District Attorney’s claim that Rivera turned toward the officer was the statement of an eyewitness who had been sitting in his car in the parking lot during the shooting. The guard, employed by PUSH Buffalo, said he was about 30 feet away when he saw Rivera run into the parking lot. “I looked and the guy in the red hoody was getting up off the ground with a gun in his right hand, as he was getting up he was turning toward the officer,” the guard was quoted as saying in a statement Flynn read to reporters. Flynn emphasized the shooting of Rivera was justified, and not like other police shootings in the U.S. in which officers have improperly used deadly force.
NO CHARGES IN RAFAEL “PITO” RIVERA SHOOTING BY MARSHA MCLEOD In addition, the family’s attorney said he plans to ask the state Attorney General to open an investigation.
RIVERA’S FAMILY SERVES NOTICE OF CLAIM, VIDEO OF INCIDENT IS MADE PUBLIC IN AN ANNOUNCEMENT Monday, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said the Buffalo police officer who fatally shot Rafael “Pito” Rivera in September did nothing wrong and will not be prosecuted.
The shooting was captured by a surveillance camera mounted to the headquarters of PUSH Buffalo, in whose parking lot off Plymouth Avenue the deadly shooting occurred on September 12. The video was not made public until Monday afternoon, when Steven Cohen, the family’s attorney, showed it at a press conference. His office provided a digital file of the shooting to Investigative Post.
That doesn’t mean the matter is settled, however.
The video shows Rivera rounding the corner of the parking lot a little after 3am when he trips and crawls a few feet. He gets up and continues to run away before he is shot by officer Elnur Karadzhaev, who then handcuffs him as he lies on the ground.
Rivera’s family has served a notice of claim, in anticipation of a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and police department.
Rivera is the third man of color to die in an encounter with Buffalo police in the past 19 months, coming after Wardel
“The officer had 16 rounds in his gun, one in the chamber and 15 in the magazine, and he did not fire off all 16 rounds, he fired off only six, so it’s not like the officer was reckless here and shooting off his entire gun,” Flynn said. The District Attorney said he did not look at Buffalo police policies and procedures in his investigation. He did not consider placing the evidence before a grand jury, because the case was so “clear cut.” Cohen, the family’s attorney, sees the video differently. He sees “a man gunned down without just cause,” and emphasized that Rivera was fired on as he was running away from the officer. He disputes that Rivera turned towards the officer before he was shot, or that he pointed a weapon at the officer. Cohen argued that because Rivera was running away, Karadzhaev did not act in accordance with Article 35 of the state penal law, which prohibits using deadly force unless an officer or another person’s life is in imminent danger. The family’s notice of claim also took issue with Buffalo police training—or lack thereof—on use of force, as Investigative Post has previously reported. Cohen complained that he has not been permitted to see key evidence from the investigation, including a copy of the autopsy and toxicology reports, witness statements, or any testing done on the gun recovered at the scene. He also noted that Rivera’s family was not contacted during the investigation, nor were they asked to present any of their evidence. It is unclear whether it’s normal for investigators to take such steps. Marsha McLeod is a reporter for Investigative Post, a nonprofit investigative journalism center focused on issues of P importance to Western New York.
LOOKING BACKWARD: MAIN STREET, 1935 “The store of today that is designed in the tempo of tomorrow. A new store—and a modern spirit of architectural design—that reflects the vigorous character of American life and industry as we know it today. A store whose beauty of line, simplicity of color, and freedom from superficial details of design will keep it a young store when another half century has rolled away. Today, in Buffalo, the new J.N. Adam & Co. store is an outpost on the architectural frontiers of the city. It reflects a style in modern architectural design that will be commonplace within a generation. It marks a new era.”
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BUFFALO HISTORY MUSEUM.
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The J. N. Adam & Company department store, expanded and modernized, reopened with fanfare in 1935. The above copy from a 1935 newspaper ad captures a local spirit, even at the height of the Depression, of civic optimism. The store expansion was designed by Starrett & van Vleck, America’s premier department store architects in the early 20th century. Reminiscent of Erich Mendelsohn’s department stores in Stuttgart (1928) and Chemnitz (1929), it was Buffalo’s first hint of the emerging International Style. In 1960, the building became the home of AM&A’s, perhaps Buffalo’s most beloved department store. The building went dark in 1998, evaded an ECIDA demolition and redevelopment attempt in 2005, and was purchased in 2015 with plans for a mixed-use rehabilitation.- THE PUBLIC STAFF
ON STAGES THEATER CSZ AFTER HOURS: The late-night (9:30pm) Saturday show by the improvisational crew CSz Buffalo runs a little more blue than the early show. Ongoing at 4476 Main St., Lower Level, Amherst, 393-8669, cszbuffalo.com. HAMILTON: Holy moly, tickets are costly—but the show is that good. And you can enter a lottery each day to get tickets for a mere $10. Through December 9 at Shea’s, 847-0850, sheas.org. HER NOT ALL HER: A play by Austrrian writer Elfriede Jelinek about writer Robert Walser, the great Swiss modernist whose posthumous reputation far exceeded his ability to make a living during his difficult life. Presented by Torn Space Theater this weekend only, December 7-9, at the Adam Mickiewicz Library and Dramatic Circle, 612 Fillmore Avenue, 812-5733, tornspacetheater.com. MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY: Mr. and Mrs. Darcy, newlyweds, share their first Christmas together in this look at what happens after Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has concluded. Opens December 7 and runs through December 22 at Shea’s 710 Theatre, 710 Main Street, 847-0850, sheas.org/710.
A Charlie Brown Christmas continues through December 16 at Theatre of Youth.
PLAYBILL = OPENING SOON
IN AND AROUND BUFFALO: A CHRISTMAS CAROL: It’s year 36 for this classic production, opening December 7 and running through December 23 at Alleyway Theatre, One Curtain Up Alley, 852-2600, alleyway.com. A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS: The classic stage adaptation of the Peanuts holiday classic. This show sells out, so get tickets fast. Through December 16 at Theatre of Youth, 884-4400, theatreofyouth.org.
NUNCRACKERS: THE NUNSENSE CHRISTMAS MUSICAL: In which the beloved sisters of Nunsense record a cable access TV special in the basement of their convent. Through December 23 at O’Connell & Company, in residence at the Park School, 4625 Harlem Road, 848-0800, oconnellandcompany.com.
AT THE SHAW FESTIVAL: A CHRISTMAS CAROL: The stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’s holiday classic. At the Shaw Festival, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.
AT THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW: Dan Chameroy fills Frank-N-Furter’s fishnets. Drinks before, during, after the show.
At the Stratford Festival, 55 Queen Street, Stratford, ON 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.
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. Through December 19 at MusicalFare Theatre, in residence at Daemen College, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, 839-8540, musicalfare.com.
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COMEDYSPORTZ: Improvisational comedy presented by CSz Buffalo every Friday and Saturday at 4476 Main St., Lower Level, Amherst, 393-8669, cszbuffalo.com.
Information (title, dates, venue) subject to change based on the presenters’ privilege. Email production information to: theaterlistings@dailypublic.com
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ART GALLERIES
Sheila Barcik's works are at Anna Kaplan Contemporary through January 4.
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FF Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 8828700, albrightknox.org): Aria Dean, solo exhibition through Jan 13, 2019; Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, through Jan 6, 2019; We the People: New Art from the Collection, through Jun 30, 2019. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. FF Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annakaplancontemporary.art): Sculpture by Gary Szcerbanewiecz and works on paper by Sheila Barcik through Jan 4. Opening reception Fri, Dec 7. 6-9pm. Wed-Fri 11am3pm or by appointment. FF Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects. com/argus-gallery): Integration, works by Mohammad Z. Zaman through Jan 5. Opening reception Fri, Dec 7, 6-9pm. Sat 123pm, or by appointment. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Three Artist Friends: John Brach, Thomas Kegler, and Sean Witucki, on view through Dec 28. TueFri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): 24th Annual Artful Gifts, artworks meant for giving or collecting; Pictures, Songs, and Words, art by writers and musicians, on view through Dec 28. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo. com): Pastel, Pencil & Paint, works in various media by Sandy Ludwig. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm.
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Big Orbit Project Space (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Members’ show, through Dec 8. Sat 126pm. FF BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Upcoming: Tutelary, an installation by Obsidian Bellis. Every day 4-10pm. ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery (148 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201, photolangelle.org): One World: Issues Across and Through Skins, photos from Buffalo to Africa by Johanna C. Dominguez. Tue-Fri 1:30-4:30pm, Fri 6-8pm, Sat 1-3pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Annual Resident Artists Show and Sale, through Dec 22. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City & WWI, 100th Anniversary of America’s Entry into WWI, on second floor. Building Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings, in the Grosvenor Rare Book Room. Catalogue available for purchase. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm. Tue-Fri 10am5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Counting the Hours, through Feb 24, 2019; Square Route: Geometric Works from the Collection, through Mar 31, 2019; Charles Cary Rumsey: In Motion, through Apr 21, 2019; Salvaged: the Stitched Narrative of Jennifer Regan, through Jan 27, 2019; Contradictions of Being: Composite Works by Harvey Breverman, through Feb 24, 2019; The Complexity of Life, by Jonathan Rogers, through Jan 27, 2019; 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 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission
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$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. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120): 4th Annual Art Off the Wall Exhibition and Fundraiser to benefit the Carnegie Art Center. 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, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Think Big: The Artists of Autism Services, through Jan 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 11am5pm, 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. 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 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 5:30am-10pm, 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. Tue-Sat 9:30-5:30pm. 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. FF Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Gifts of Art ($10-$100), a diverse collection from local artists and craftsmen, through Dec 30. Wed-Sat, 12-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.
GALLERIES ART FF 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. FF 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. FF 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, Steve Siegel, Michael Mulley, et alia. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. FF Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Joe Vollan: On Behalf of the Under Enthusiastic. Thu 12-6pm, Fri and Sat 12-8pm. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051, riverartgalleryandgifts.com): Wed-Fri 11am-4pm Sat 11am- 5pm. 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) Starlight Holiday Exhibit and Market, on view through Dec 31. 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. Weeks Gallery (Jamestown Community College, 525 Falconer Street, Jamestown, NY 14702, 338-1301): Patrick Robideau: Hidden Room, installation on view through Dec 9. Mon-Fri 11am-4pm, Sat 11am-1pm. 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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[ART LECTURE] The Tree of 40 Fruit is an ongoing series of hybridized fruit trees by contemporary artist Sam Van Aken. Each tree Van Aken has sculpted through grafting produces more than 40 types of stone fruit (peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, etc.) and the attendant variety of blossoms. Van Aken presents his multifaceted project—various parts science, art, conservation, and archive— at a special installment of the Art & Science Cabaret series at Hallwalls on Thursday, December 6. Van Aken's talk is presented by Hallwalls, the Buffalo Museum of Science, Coalesce Bioart Lab, and UB College of Arts & Sciences. -TPS
Whiskey Myers 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $20-$25
[ROCK] Texas-based rock band Whiskey Myers make their second trip to Buffalo this year for a show at the Town Ballroom on Thursday, December 6. The six-piece southern hard rock band have released a number of records since forming in 2007, but their most recent, 2016’s Mud, took off after being featured on the series Yellowstone on the Paramount Network. Support comes from Bishop Gunn. -CP
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[COMEDY] Comedian Jessimae Peluso comes to Helium Comedy Club for a special event this Thursday, December 6. Fans may recognize her from a couple of MTV shows including Failosophy and Girl Code, on both of which Peluso delivered one liners and witty comments as part of a panel of comedians and personalities. Her hilarious and sometimes controversial tweets are what have kept her fans engaged, though. See how this all translates to the stand up stage this Thursday. -TPS
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[HOLIDAY] Sugar City, located on Niagara Street will hold a holiday flea market on Saturday, December 8. Expect to find records, CDs, DVDs, musical gear, housewares, clothing, jewelry, and tons of off-beat, vintage, and fun items. -TPS
Locust Street Art of Chili Fundraiser 3pm Locust Street Art Gallery, 138 Locust Street $5
BUFFALO GAY MEN’S CHORUS PRESENTS: OUR GROWN UP CHRISTMAS LIST SATURDAY DECEMBER 8 7:30PM / UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, 695 ELMWOOD AVE. / $20 [HOLIDAY] Last weekend the Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus opened their Christmas concert series,
Our Grown Up Christmas List, with a bang, filling up Westminster Presbyterian Church for a holiday celebration that you don’t want to miss. And you don’t have to! The chorus is performing it twice more: on Saturday, December 8, 7:30pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Elmwood Village (605 Elmwood) and Sunday, December 9, for a 3pm matinee at Williamsville’s North Presbyterian Church (300 North Forest Road). This is a fun, festive program of holiday favorites—some with a modern spin—that’s suitable for the whole family. BGMC is excited to be partnered with the Greater Buffalo Friends of Music who’ve helped outfit each of this season’s shows with special musical guests. For the December 8 concert, BGMC is joined by the Buffalo Silver Band, a professional group with origins from a century back as the Hungarian Baptist Band, which specializes in marrying brass with percussion. Sunday’s concert will feature the Williamsville South Jazz Ensemble, conducted by Matthew S. Cool, who’s became an adjunct professor of music at Canisius College and is also the founder of the Canisius College Concert Band. Tickets for either show are $20 and can be purchased through www.buffalogaymenschorus.com (scroll down to the events section) or at the door. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY
[FUNDRAISER] Locust Street Art is a gem, providing low-cost and free art classes, as well as exhibition opportunities, for children and adults from its location on the south end of Buffalo’s Fruit Belt. Locust Street has a First Friday event this week, an exhibit of black-and-white photographs made my workshop students and a tour of the photographic facilities, along with live music and refreshments, titled Dark Beer: Dark Room. Whether or not you make it to that, you ought to stop by on Saturday afternoon, December 8, for the Locust Street Art of Chili Cook-off Fundraiser, 3-6pm. It costs just $5, but prepare to leave some more dollars behind to support this fantastic organization. -TPS
Headstones 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $35-$39
[ROCK] Alt-rock band Headstones make a return to Buffalo for a show at Town Ballroom on Saturday, December 8 as part of their “The Picture of Health” tour. The Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario formed in 1987 and quickly hooked fans with their raw, punk rock-inspired musical style. In 2003, the band went on hiatus, and after almost a decade reunited. Since then, the five-piece band has released a handful of studio albums, including their latest, 2017’s Little Army. -TPS
Pyramid Ugly Sweater Taco Party 10pm Gypsy Parlor, 376 Grant St. $5
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SUNDAY DECEMBER 9 Shinigami 6pm Rec Room, 79 W. Chippewa St. $10
PARKER GISPERT TUESDAY DECEMBER 11 7PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. / $10
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[INDIE] One third of the garage-rock band the Whigs, Parker Gispert comes to Mohawk Place for a solo show on Tuesday, December 11. As singer of the Athens, Georgia based band, Gispert lead the glammy indie rock band through tenacious albums like Mission Control and slick records like In The Dark, building a following that lapped up the band’s jangly and sometimes intense music. It’s unclear what the status of the Whigs is as of now—and perhaps that’s why we’re seeing Gispert out on tour as a solo singer/songwriter act. In November the 36-year-old musician put out his debut solo album, Sunlight Tonight, which is full of the kind instrumentation you’d expect to hear when you hear the words “solo project”—acoustic guitars, more intimate productions, slower tempos, and sunny melodies define the eight-song album, which was, naturally, recorded on a farm—but these characteristics might not be what fans of Gispert’s original band might expect. Prepare for something a new when Parker Gispert comes to Buffalo’s Mohawk Place along with openers Stationwagon and P Andrew Kothen. -CORY PERLA
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[HIP HOP] Not to be confused with the heavy metal band or the hard rock band by the same name, Shinigami is a hip hop artist who blends aspects of pop-punk, emo, trap, and even post-hardcore into his emotional hip hop music. It’s genre-bending emorap with highly personal lyrics and low key beats, which the young rapper has honed on his latest record, 2018’s I Will Never Be a Memory. Catch Shinigami at the Rec Room on Sunday, December 9 with like-minded artists Familypet and 93feetofsmoke. -CP
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 12 Grant Farm 8pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $10
[AMERICANA] Hailing from Boulder, Colorado, Grant Farm is a self-proclaimed “cosmicAmericana” band. What that means is this four-piece band takes their Americana roots and extends them deep into jammy, spacious territory. Catch Grant Farm at Buffalo Iron Works on Wednesday, December 12 with support from Jon Stickley Trio, and Tyler P Westcott of Folkfaces. -CP
SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW
14.5 MINUTES ON THE HORN WITH JOHN WATERS BY CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CELEBRATED FILMMAKER, WHO BRINGS HIS CHRISTMAS SHOW TO BABEVILLE THIS FRIDAY INITIALLY, I WAS thrilled at the thought of speaking with John Waters. A film director seemingly without borders, especially 45 years ago before we were a nation desensitized, Waters made trashy behavior into science. And entertainment. Beginning with shoestring budgets and a cast of misfit regulars that went on to become cult celebrities (Divine, Mink Stole, Cookie Muller, Edith Massey), Waters took the off-color underbelly of humanity and gave it its close-up. While many looked away in horror, it only took about a decade before he started getting offered real budgets for his films and began using actual celebrities in them. The rest is well documented history. His mainstream breakthrough, Hairspray, got remade with John Travolta (in drag) and went on to become a hit on Broadway…from shock to chic.
So, yes, I was over the moon that this iconic figure from my youth—the man responsible for the scene in 1977’s Desperate Living during which Grizelda, a morbidly obese nurse, kills the husband of the woman in her care by sitting in him and smothering him*—would be granting me an interview. It’s the stuff that arts-journalism dreams are made of. But not so fast. Without divulging too much, it was brought to my attention that the interview would need to pertain to Christmas and Christmas only. As someone that wanted to ask him about the trajectory of his career and why, for instance, he’s no longer producing original films, I was crushed. Christmas seemed like a very limited topic and, quite frankly, it all felt a little Grinch-y to me. But in the end, everyone’s favorite pencil-moustache’d master of disaster, now 72 years old, was charming and fun to chat with. I made Christmas lemonade. Hey, John, how’s it going? Where are you today? How’s the weather?
I’m well, thanks. I’m in Baltimore. It’s a beautiful day, fells a little like fall…I never really notice the weather unless it stops me. I did an interview years ago with Debbie Harry and she gave me a really hard time for asking her about the weather. I was just trying to break the ice, but she was having none of it and seemed genuinely annoyed that I’d asked. So, I wanted to ask you about Black Friday and the mob-scene mentality it inspires. What do you make of it?
I can’t imagine what the motivation is. It’s something I’ve never understood. Why would you want to get up at four in the morning
and go down to the store for one thing on sale? Never understood it. I hate shopping malls any time of year, all year, every year. I’m not against retail, I do like retail stores, but it’s unfathomable to me why anyone would want to put themselves through all that. My nieces and nephews always go and they talk about it at Thanksgiving and I feel like they’re talking in a foreign language. All I can think is, “Why do you have fun doing that?” I guess if you had good drugs or something, or maybe if there was a prize, but it’s all bait-andswitch, it seems to me. Frankly, there’s nothing I want that much. I keep waiting for a Black Friday death toll.
I guarantee you I won’t know the people that die. And maybe that sounds elitist, but no one I know would ever do that, and I’ve worked hard to get to the point in my life, after 50 years, that I’m not around people that would engage in that behavior. What can you tell me about your collection of Christmas tree ornaments? I’ve been told it’s very eclectic.
I have lots of ones that fans have made me. People send me stuff, balls with my favorite writers on them, my favorite porn stars. I’ve always said you should take ugly pictures of your relatives and glue them onto ornaments…it’s a real icebreaker. Don’t forget to include yourself! I have a Jeff Stryker Christmas ball and someone made me a MOVE Christmas ball—they’re a backto-nature group in Philadelphia that I think got a really bad deal. I have Ivy Compton Burnett, writers like that. I don’t think that many people have James Purdy Christmas tree ornaments like I do. Your annual Christmas card has become famous as well, and it’s hotly anticipated. Do you spend the entire year plotting it out? Or is there a bottomless vat of ideas you pull from?
I’ve just started signing this year’s cards. There are 2,000 of them. I’ve got about half done. The people that work for me start pressuring me about it in July because we have to get them made, I’ve got to sign them all, the envelopes and the labels—it’s a big production. Usually by late summer I’ve figured it out. I’ve got a folder of ideas, but I wouldn’t say there’s a surplus of them, so it’s still a fresh idea every year. It’s always there, another thing I’m always thinking of and working on. Since your Christmas show is becoming tradition, I imagine you probably reuse some of the same material each year? Is it cathartic to retell the same stories?
I do a huge amount of revising each year; I practically rewrite the whole thing. I would say that the skeleton might be the same, but that’s really, like, a bare-bones framework, and there’s plenty of new stuff that gets worked in. All of the
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jokes and the things I talk about are very different from the year before. It changes significantly. I work on that in the summer as well. I’m not sure I understand what you mean by cathartic? Well, like the story about the Christmas tree that fell on your grandmother, which you reimagined for Female Trouble. I could identify with your childhood reaction to it, wondering if the gifts would be okay. I wondered if you still get a charge out of talking about it.
Well, you didn’t hear that this year, did you? Because it’s not in the show anymore. I do retire jokes. Fair enough.
But that’s what I’d call a shared story—it happens a lot. And it’s usually liquor or the dog. For me, it was exciting and I thought it perked up Christmas. I mean…it was drama! And she wasn’t hurt or anything, she thought it was funny later. I mean, she wasn’t pinned under it like we did it in Female Trouble…I exaggerated. But trees do fall over, and I think people should rig their trees to fall over almost like it’s a joke-shop Christmas. It’s a great gag. You know, the last person opening their presents and dinner is ready…just have the thing fall over. I also firmly believe that the day after Christmas you should take all your decorations down—it’s over, next. I do like it when all the dead Christmas trees are out in the alley trash. I had a friend, this kinda gearhead I used to know, he’d take me out and put a video camera on side of the car and we’d drive down the alleyway and light them all on fire while he filmed it. It was fun. It was also many years ago. Your enthusiasm for Christmas makes me think there must have been a film idea about the holiday along the way somewhere. It’s made it into several of your films in passing, but was there ever a John Waters Christmasspecific film?
It got developed! We got a development deal to make the whole movie. It was called Fruitcake, and it was a children’s Christmas adventure, but it never got made. It was the last big development deal I got for something completely original.
It went through a lot of different treatments and at one point we were even talking to some animation people. Think it’ll ever get resurrected?
You never know what’s going to happen. My old movies have turned into many different projects—they come out again, get re-released, remade, restored. Everything is possible. I learned that a long time ago. Who knows, maybe we’ll get Hairspray in Space. Sometimes I think Christmas should be eradicated. I’s become such an ugly parody of everything that’s wrong with our culture. But how could we get rid of it? Where would we event start?
Cockroaches, Keith Richards, and Christmas will be the last to go. Honestly, though, I think the best point of it is to see your family and have a meal together. I have a Christmas party every year, but it’s not a celeb party, it’s for my oldest friends in Baltimore, and most of them aren’t in show business. I think it’s important to go back home somewhere and be reminded of what you’ve come through—good or bad— and that you’re still alive. This year could be tough, though, because when people go home, this year in particular, it can be so politically divided. I feel as if this year I know a lot of people that are scared to go home, because you can’t talk about anything going on in the world, so you’re sitting around in silence opening the presents. I’ll talk in my show about how to deal with that. I have advice for everything that can go wrong at Christmas, because a lot of things can. And will. *Grizelda doesn’t just smother him. Rather, she sits on him and grits her teeth, making a grunting noise as she shifts her weight from side to side, grinding down and eventually killing him. It’s P extremely satisfying.
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FILM REVIEW
Swimming with Men.
SWIM AND SYNC SWIMMING WITH MEN, MARIA BY CALLA, THE MERCY, CATCHER IN THE RYE WITH DIAMONDS BY M. FAUST IT’S ALL WELL and good to decry the lack of
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originality in movies, and people have been doing that probably since the premiere of the world’s second movie, whatever that may have been. But there’s something to be said for the safe and familiar, especially in the wintertime when you might be looking for nothing more for your ticket dollar than some easy jokes in a warm room; the kind of movie where you won’t miss a lot if you doze off for a few minutes. And thus Swimming With Men, which I might describe as The Full Monty with more clothing except that there’s probably more male epidermis on display here than there was in that 1997 hit about amateur strippers. That’s because this octet of middle-aged blokes spends most of the film in bathing suits, practicing the art of synchronized swimming. Our entré into their ranks is Eric, a senior accountant who has reached the top of his profession, lives in a lovely house with his family, and is bored to tears with his life. He is played by Rob Brydon, a British TV star known in the US as Steve Coogan’s dining companion in the three The Trip movies. Stripped of the chance to imitate Al Pacino or Michael Caine, Brydon plays it straight to the point where you wonder if he isn’t headed for suicide after he engineers a breakup with his wife ( Jane Horrocks, whom you may remember as Bubble on Absolutely Fabulous). Instead he is giving a reason to live when he uses his skill with numbers to repair the sloppy structure of the synchronized swimmers at his gym. I’m sure there are places where synchronized swimming is taken seriously and not regarded as something to giggle about. But those places are probably all high schools, and the swimmers are not middle-aged men. (It certainly doesn’t help that most of you reading this will by now have recalled the old Saturday Night Live short film directed by Christopher Guest featuring Martin Short and Harry Shearer as synchronized swimmers.) As directed by Oliver Parker, Swimming with Men is a low-key affair, never going too far beneath the surface of its characters’ traumas or making too much fun of their sport, the pursuit of which takes them to the world championship in Milan, Italy. That this finale doesn’t display more than a touch of Busby Berkeley-esque invention is a disappointment, true. But the film manages to send you off smiling after an endearing post script set on dry land, which I will not ruin for you. Opens Friday at the North Park Theater. *** IT GOES WITHOUT saying that opera buffs will
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of quotes from letter she wrote (read by Joyce DiDonato) and interviews she gave mixed with footage of her on and off stage. This includes a handful of performances of full arias, unlike the usual practice for documentaries about performers that limit themselves to snippets of their work. If you’re not already a fan, though, you won’t find much here to draw you in. Volf assumes that you already have a grounding in La Diva; it was well into the film before I realized that the middleaged man who showed up in so many of her public appearances was in fact her husband. (When he is referred to by as Battista, I wondered when in the 1950s she had performed in Cuba.) You’re also expected to understand that her relationship with Aristotle Onassis was not as platonic as she is heard claiming. And if you’re not already a fan of opera, well, that’s all there was to her life, at least as seen here. *** YOU WOULD EXPECT a film starring two Oscar
winners (Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz) to get a bit more attention than The Mercy, which is sneaking into American theaters nearly a year after its British premiere. That’s probably because American audiences are likely to have a different reaction to this drama based on the true story of Donald Crowhurst, the British amateur sailor who in 1969 tried to sail around the globe by himself. We hear a premise like that and expect a certain kind of movie, unlike British viewers who remember the actual story and it’s downbeat conclusion. If you’re tempted to see this well-acted but dour drama, you might best be advised to read up on Crowhurst first: you still may not like it, but at least you’ll better be able to appreciate the kind of movie that director James Marsh (The Theory of Everything) has made. *** I HAVE NOT previously had a chance to weigh
in on Catcher in the Rye with Diamonds, Greg Sterlace’s imagining of the three days Mark David Chapman spent in Manhattan before he killed John Lennon. It will be screened this Saturday night at the Screening Room. No admission will be charged, and I won’t belabor the reason for that, which is the same reason why you won’t have many other chances to see the film: There are drawbacks to ignoring copyright law. You have to admire the sheer chutzpah of making a movie that will definitionally never be able to turn a profit, or even to return a single cent of its costs. But aside from that, it’s a smart piece of work, ensuring that you’ll never be able to think of Holden Caulfield again without hearing a soundtrack by John Lennon. I have to admit that I have never been a fan of the book or of its whiny protagonist, but the script by Sterlace and his wife Paula Wachowiak, and the portrayal of both Caulfield and Chapman by John F. Kennedy, makes me look at the character in a way I never did before. Arrive early so you won’t P have to stand!
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AT THE MOVIES A selective guide to what’s opening and what’s playing in local moviehouses and other venues
OPENING THIS WEEK AT ETERNITY’S GATE—Willem DaFoe as Vincent van Gogh in a new biography directed by Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). Co-starring Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, and Emmanuelle Seigner. Dipson Eastern Hills MARIA BY CALLAS—Documentary about the opera singer consisting of readings from her letters and interviews she gave before her death in 1977. Directed by Tom Volf. Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills THE MERCY—Colin Firth as Donald Crowhurst, the British amateur sailor who tried to circumnavigate the globe by himself in 1969. With Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis, and Mark Gatiss. Directed by James Marsh (The Theory of Everything). Reviewed this issue. Regal Quaker, Regal Transit MIRAI—Upset at the arrival of a new sister, a four-year-old boy finds escape in a garden that lets him travel through time in this Japanese anime. Directed by Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars). Both the subtitled and English dubbed versions will be shown; contact the theater for details. North Park SCHINDLER’S LIST—25th anniversary reissue of Steven Spielberg’s film starring Liam Neeson as the German businessman who turned his factory into a refuge for Jews under the Nazis. With Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, and Embeth Davidtz. Dipson Amherst SWIMMING WITH MEN—Comedy starring Rob Brydon as a middle-aged account who finds relief from his midlife woes in an amateur synchronized swimming team. With Jim Carter, Jane Horrocks, Rupert Graves, and Daniel Mays. Directed by Oliver Parker (An Ideal Husband). Reviewed this issue. North Park
ALTERNATIVE CINEMA THE BLOB (1988)—This remake of the 1958 camp classic is a smart exercise in combining homage and new technology, treating the
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material with tongue in check but not so far as to ruin a good monster movie for viewers who never saw the original. Starring Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey DeMunn, Candy Clark, Joe Seneca and Del Close. Directed by Chuck Russell (The Mask). Part of the Thursday Night Terrors series. Thu Dec 13, 7pm. Dipson Amherst CATCHER IN THE RYE WITH DIAMONDS—Free screening of local filmmaker Greg Sterlace’s mashup of Holden Caulfield and Mark David Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon. Sat 7pm. Screening Room DARK MONEY—Sundance award-winning documentary tracing the effects of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which opened the floodgates to huge amounts of untraceable corporate money into the elections process. Directed by Kimberly Reed. Free and open to the public. Wed Dec 12, 7pm. Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St. FARGO (1996)—This series of films by the Coen Brothers concludes with their bestknown movie, starring Oscar winner Frances McDormand as a pregnant sheriff whose Minnesota beat is upset by murders linked to a car salesman (William H. Macy). With Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Harve Presnell, John Carroll Lynch, and José Feliciano. Weds Dec 12, 7pm. Dipson Eastern Hills IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)—Jimmy Stewart gets to see what life for his friends and community would have been like had he never lived in Frank Capra’s holiday classic. Co-starring Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Frank Faylen, Ward Bond, Gloria Grahame, H. B. Warner, Frank Albertson, Sheldon Leonard, and Charles Lane. Sat-Sun 11:30am. North Park LOST IN PARIS (France, 2016)—A Canadian librarian in Paris for the first time is helped after she loses her passport and money by a homeless man in this French tribute to the era of silent comedy. Directors Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel co-star with Emmanuelle Riva and Pierre Richard. Presented by the Roycroft Film Society. Sun 4pm. Parkdale Auditorium, 141 Girard Ave., East Aurora, roycroftcampuscorp.com THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)—Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in the 1965 Academy Award winner for Best Picture. It beat out Darling, Doctor Zhivago, Ship of Fools, and A Thousand Clowns. Go figure. Fri P 7pm. Screening Room
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HELP WANTED 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.
Email inquiries should be sent to Dr. Daniel Bassin at danielbassin@ buffalouu.org
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EXPERIENCED COOK: Experienced cook wanted. Call Joe @ 716.308.6870 for more details.
Dr. Daniel Bassin
------------------------------------------------BOOKKEEPER: Looking for an experienced man or woman bookkeeper/ payroll, needed urgently. Part-time 2-3 hrs, $40 per 2 hours. For more info kindly email: justin.smith3433@gmail.com. ------------------------------------------------INTERPRETER/TRANSLATOR: Do you enjoy helping others? Do you speak fluent English and at least one other language? Consider a job as an interpreter or translator. We are accepting applications for all languages, but currently are giving preference to individuals who speak Karen, Karenni, Burmese, Tigrinya, Farsi Dari (Afghan Persian), Nepali, Bengali, and Rohingya. Interpreters enable communication between two or more individuals who don’t speak the same language. If you are professional, punctual, self motivated, experienced, and communicative, consider applying today. Daytime availability, reliable transportation, and work authorization are required. Prior interpreter training is preferred. To apply please visit jersbuffalo.org/ index.php/employment or contact us at (716) 882-4963 extension 201 or 207 with any questions.
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THE ARTS FREE YOUTH WRITING WORKSHOPS Tue and Thur 3:30-6pm. Open to writers between ages 12 and 18 at the Just Buffalo Writing Center. 468 Washington Street, 2nd floor, Buffalo 14203. Light snack provided. -------------------------------------------------CALL FOR WORK: Parables Gallery & Gifts, 1027 Elmwood Ave, Bflo. Artists & craftsmen all mediums welcome. For more info go to: parablesgalleryandgifts.com. -------------------------------------------------FESTIVAL SCHOOL OF BALLET Classes for adults and children at all levels. Try a class for free. 716-9841586 festivalschoolofballet.com.
SERVICES BLUE BRUSH STUDIOS PAINTING AND HANDYMAN SERVICES: Call 262-9181 or visit bluebrushstudios.com.
AGES 5-17 learn meditation, ESP games, healings. Williamsville. Begins 5/19. 807-5354 Marina Liaros Naples www.meeting-ike-series.weebly.com -----------------------------------------------RETIRED PSYCHOLOGIST available to assist adults in light daily living. Please call for details at 883-3216.
LEGAL NOTICES SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS: SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF ERIE, INDEX NO. 807326/2017 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, Plaintiff, vs. JOSEPH HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; AUDREY HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; MICHAEL HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JOANNA HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JOHN HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JEFFEREY HUNTZ A/K/A JEFF HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; MICHELLE SIMMONS, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; MARY E. DYSON; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; ‘’JOHN DOE #1’’ through ‘’JOHN DOE #12,’’ the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint,
recorded on September 9, 2009, in Record Book 13464 at Page 1059, of the Public Records of ERIE County, New York, covering premises known as 383 HOPKINS STREET, BUFFALO, NY 14220. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. ERIE County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE: YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.
900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675
-----------------------------------------------NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Diamond Concierge LLC. Articles of Organization filed with DOS on 09/14/2018. Office: Erie county. DOS designated as agent of the LLC upon
YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.
whom process against may he served.
RAS BORISKIN, LLC
LLC, 50 Fountain Plaza, buffalo, NY
DOS shall mail copy of process to the
Attorney for Plaintiff BY: IRINA DULARIDZE, ESQ.
14202. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNIFER FUENTES
RICH STANTON
LUIS CLAY
DAWN SINGER
GLENN MURRAY
MATT KENNY
ALEX MEAD ZACH TERRANCE PAUL BURT
DEBORAH LYNN WILLIAMS LAURA BERRADY ALLIE BRADY
J. LAVEL WARD KATHLEEN MCMORROW HEYWORTH LORI MICHAELS GINA FOSTER VELVET AL JENNIFER ROSS
SCOTT SWIEZY WILLIAM SIDEL CAESANDRA N. SEAWELL
HARRY DELANO
MICHELLE DEMPSEY
GEORGE A. FITZPATRICK
JASON TROST
ANTHONY BANNON
CAITLIN DEROSE
Defendants. To the above-named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $45,838.00 and interest,
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52 Bread served with aloo gobi
1 Countrified
54 Takeover try
7 Allison Janney sitcom
55 Prefix meaning “one billionth”
10 Haydn’s nickname 14 Fleecy fabric
56 Buddy cop show of the 1970s
15 Yoko who turned 85 in 2018
60 Look sullen
16 Racetrack shape 17 Get louder 20 “GymnopÈdies” composer Satie (or “Jeopardy!” and crossword champion Agard) 21 Hesitant sounds 22 “Right Now (Na Na Na)” rapper
27 “Once upon ___ ...” 28 Clip hedges 29 1912 Nobel Peace Prize winner Root 30 Trio of trios 31 “Everybody gets a car!” impresario
61 “Jellied” British fish
32 “Mr. Show” costar David
62 “Certainly, Monsieur!”
33 “English Toffee” candy bar
63 March participants? 64 7-Across partner, maybe 65 Phrase before “Go
34 Carpenter or Ride, e.g. 38 Dale’s cartoon pal 39 Pack of cards 41 Soundly defeated
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42 Pointer, for one
23 Considered groovy, man
1 “___ T for Teen”
44 They’ll look over W-2s
24 Slo-___ fuse
2 Aboriginal name for Australia’s Ayers Rock
45 Something stored in the cloud?
3 Parsley bit
49 Los ___, California
26 ___ in “Charlie”
4 Do horribly
50 As scheduled
29 Fountain reward of myth
5 Closely monitored hosp. area
51 Like a game for the record books, perhaps
32 Alpine cottage
6 Juliet, for one
35 Haven’t yet paid
7 Mineralogist with a scale
53 They can be fine or graphic
36 Balletic bend
8 Number of times the Milwaukee Brewers have appeared in the World Series
25 AKA, in the business world
37 Varnish ingredient 38 Jim Acosta’s network 39 Golden Globes category 40 Solemn promise 41 Some people’s preferred pronoun 42 One not responsible for the bad news
55 Night, in Nice 56 Getaway spot
9 Not fixed
57 Bunch
10 Sport involving horses
58 House support
11 Friendly, like some relatives
59 Artist’s selection
12 “Jackie Brown” actress Grier
43 Hit the mother lode
13 It’s made with warm fermentation
46 “Shameless” network, for short
18 “___: Ragnarok”
47 Baby anteater
54 Like a worn tire
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19 Adequate
48 Noah’s ride
24 Vitamin also known as PABA
49 Suffix in geometry
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