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LOOKING BACKWARD: Burgard Vocational High School, 1930.
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NEWS: The Buffalo Billion verdicts change nothing unless procurement laws are reformed.
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ART: Harvey Breverman at the Burchfield Penney.
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END OF 2018 UPS AND DOWNS BY THE PUBLIC STAFF
UPS: Efforts to implement CASH BAIL REFORM in Erie County and New York State, which we’ve been tracking all year, got a huge shot in the arm in the form of THURMAN THOMAS, who was recruited to give testimony last week at an Erie County Legislature hearing by Legislator April Baskin. The pro football Hall-of-Famer spoke directly to the injustice of cash bail, and how his community suffers the results. “It’s important to me because I see all these laws don’t help us as a community,” he said. “We need to start helping our community a little bit more.” People arrested on minor charges can be held for weeks just for the inability to scare up a few hundred dollars. “You’ve got to get out. Hopefully you’ll still have your job to get your paycheck and pay the bills, and then you’ve got to pay the ten percent back to the bail bondsman,” Thomas said. “That’s a lot for a people who are not making a lot of money here in the inner city of Buffalo, and that’s where the problem is.” Thomas, who supported Carl Paladino’s gubernatorial run in 2010, is generally not outspoken on political issues, but he is arguably among the most recognized and influential African-American voices in Western New York. Welcome to the fight, number 34. You read it here first: Last week we reported that Republican Erie County Legislator KEVIN HARDWICK might jump ship and caucus with Democrats starting in the new year. Over the weekend he made it official, communicating to Erie County Republican Party chairman Nick Langworthy his intention to part ways with the Republican-Conservative-Independent caucus. “I want to be in a caucus where compromise is not equated to a sell-out and where I don’t need permission to speak to a member of another party. It’s silly,” Hardwick told the media. There’s more to it, of course: Hardwick is close to Democrat Peter Savage, whose retention as chairman of the Legislature was threatened by the defection of Democrat Tom Loughran to the Republican-Conservative-Independent caucus. Hardwick would like Savage to continue as chairman, and his defection to the Democrats guarantees that he will. (Langworthy, responding to Hardwick’s move, labeled Hardwick a “sellout”; oddly, he has not publicly attached that pejorative to Loughran, who wanted the chairmanship for himself.) Hardwick also has a bad relationship with Conservative Joe Lorigo, the minority leader, who joined Langworthy in pillorying Hardwick for working with Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and Democrats in the Legislature to get a 2019 budget done. Poloncarz is up for re-election in 2019, which is enough of a reason (and perhaps the only reason) for Langworthy and Lorigo to be furious at Hardwick for being collegial with the putative opposition party.
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DOWNS: Last Tuesday night, according to reports made by the police to media, a man named MARCUS NEAL WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY POLICE on the flat roof of a garage near the intersection of Military and Hertel. Buffalo police allege that the 47-yearold man stole items from Wegmans on Amherst Street and led police on a one-mile foot chase. The bizarre incident culminated in three officers confronting Neal on the roof, and with Neal allegedly threatening himself and officers with a knife, leaving 25-year-old Officer Joseph Meli no choice, according to police, but to shoot. “You match force with force,” Captain Jeffrey Rinaldo said. Rinaldo also claimed that officers did everything they could to de-escalate the situation with verbal commands and pepper spray, to no avail. The quality and quantity of use-of-force training offered by the Buffalo Police Department, including various de-escalation tactics, has been the subject of several years of reporting and criticism from the state attorney general’s office. As recently as last year, the department’s useof-force training didn’t go far beyond a simple, multiple-choice test with 10 questions, such as: “The use of pepper spray should be considered before the use of physical force, true or false.” That same report mentioned that the BPD had started to employ live, scenario-based training, with some indication that a training facility for such exercises would be built in the new headquarters that BPD has just moved into. (We’re told that move has incurred some serious cost overruns.) The problem is that there have been two recent and fatal encounters since September, and the officers in both incidents were relative rookies. Elnur Karadzhaev, who shot and killed Rafael “Pito” Rivera in September, joined the Buffalo Police Department in 2017, and Meli is in his first six months on the streets. And, by the way, where the hell is Commissioner Byron Lockwood on all this? After Rivera’s death in September, it was Deputy Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia making statements to the media, and now it’s Captain Rinaldo. The community deserves to hear from Lockwood himself, whose vision of community policing might not include chasing down a guy for over a mile with weapons drawn over stolen food. Some guy in Depew says he’s been THROWING AWAY OUR PAPERS because he didn’t like the piece we published two weeks ago critical of the late George H. W. Bush by columnist Michael I. Niman, who the guy from Depew, in a voicemail message, called “a real Jew.” We’re trying to track down the guy from Depew, who gave us his name but not his phone number, to tell him that’s against the law. Listen to his voicemail at dailypublic.com. Do you have ups and downs to share? Email us at info@dailypublic.com.
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NEWS INVESTIGATIVE POST
VA LIMITS BENEFITS FOR GOLD STAR FAMILIES BY SARA JERVING
DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS WITHIN VA HAVEN’T AGREED ON GUIDELINES, NEW DIRECTIVE LIMITS BENEFITS FOR SOME FAMILIES NEARLY 7,000 AMERICAN soldiers have died
fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere following 9/11. The federal government subsequently established programs for their children, but has befuddled and frustrated many families with confusing, and sometimes contradictory, eligibility guidelines.
The US Department of Veterans Affairs changed eligibility rules for these programs again last week, to the detriment of these “Gold Star” children of soldiers who died. The changes could save the federal government tens of millions of dollars, while costing individual Gold Star children who attend university up to an estimated $25,600 in benefits. The handling of these programs, some of it done out of offices in Buffalo, adds to the list of administrative snafus over the management of veterans benefits that has subjected the VA to strong criticism nationwide. “The VA makes mistakes all the time that cost students thousands of dollars,” Brad Baumgardner, coordinator of Veteran and Military Services at Buffalo State, told Investigative Post. “Interpretation of policy changes every day depending on who is in charge and who you ask on any given day,” he said. At issue is whether Gold Star children are eligible to receive both death and educational benefits. The VA, at different points over at least the past four years, has provided applicants with conflicting information as to their eligibility for certain benefits. As a result, the VA has approved benefits for some Gold Star children and denied them for others.
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CONFLICTING INTERPRETATIONS The problems revolve around three programs: • Fry Scholarships, named after a Marine sergeant killed in Iraq in 2006, provide funds for tuition and related costs. Eligibility is limited to family survivors of service members who died after 9/11. • A second education benefit, called Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance, helps to cover expenses such as tuition and books. It is a broader benefit, with eligibility expanded to include the survivors of soldiers disabled or killed in the line of duty in all American wars. The Fry Scholarship provides more assistance than this program. • A non-educational program, called Dependency and Indemnity Compensation, provides spouses and children of service members who died in the line of duty during service with a monthly payment. This death benefit also applies to families of permanently disabled veterans, after the service member dies. At issue is whether a Gold Star child can receive both the Fry Scholarship and death benefit at the same time, and whether they can receive the broader education benefit after they have exhausted their Fry Scholarship. Congress passed legislation in 2011 that prohibited piggybacking the two educational benefits, or pairing the Fry Scholarship with the death benefit. The legislation stipulated these changes would take effect August 2011. It was a move intended to save the government money. A Senate report published in 2010 estimated that eliminating the ability of Gold Star children to receive all three benefits could save the federal government $109 million through 2020.
“The process of dealing with the VA on these issues has been horrific,” said Kelly Crowley McMillan, an upstate resident whose husband died in Iraq in 2003. “There is not one good place to go to. You have to find out information by yourself.”
While the eligibility to receive all three benefits was written under the same section of the law, departments within the VA interpreted the effective date of the legislation differently, Investigative Post concluded after a review of documents. This prompted different departments within the VA to provide applicants with different eligibility criteria.
VA officials provided Investigative Post with a limited response to questions, while failing to answer most. They made changes to their guidelines after Investigative Post pointed out inconsistencies.
Some applicants were told that they could receive all three benefits if their parent died before August 2011, the Investigative Post review found. Others were told that they could not.
INVESTIGATIVE POST NEWS The VA this week adopted a uniform eligibility standard that prohibits Fry Scholarship recipients from also receiving the death benefit at the same time.
VA’s top benefits official at the time. The complaints also made their way to another top VA official, Robert Worley, then director of education services.
It sent an email to Gold Star families last Wednesday saying it had sent letters earlier this year that misstated the eligibility guidelines and that students cannot receive the death benefit while also receiving the Fry Scholarship.
Worley’s response, according to an email obtained by Investigative Post: “This is a good suggestion. The language will be revised in future versions in order to provide additional clarification for children required to elect a benefit program.”
Investigative Post questioned the VA several weeks ago about its conflicting eligibility rules. The VA subsequently changed its manual to adopt a single eligibility standard. A VA spokesperson then told Investigative Post it had a single eligibility standard while failing to acknowledge it made changes after we questioned the competing criteria. On Wednesday, in a post on a Facebook group for Gold Star widows, one widow wrote in response to the change in the manual: “Every child who WAS eligible, is no longer.”
Six months later, Thomas Alphonso, a team leader on the Policy and Regulation Development Team in the VA’s education service, wrote an email to the same employee who had lodged the initial complaint. “I know that it has been a long time and for all of this time the flawed [form] has been out there potentially causing trouble but I assure that we have been working on it along with several other high profile projects,” he wrote.
“I’m so disgusted right now. They changed it because everyone was catching on,” another widow said.
In a follow-up email, he asked the employee to not discuss efforts to fix the form with others in the VA: “can you keep this just between the two of us for the time being?”
APPLICANTS MISINFORMED
The VA waited until this October, nearly four years after the complaint was lodged, to correct the error.
The VA also provided incorrect information to applicants. For years, the VA’s application form for education benefits incorrectly stated that no Gold Star child was eligible for both the Fry Scholarship and the other education benefit. In 2014, an employee complained about this error and asked that the application be changed in an email to Allison Hickey, the
In the meantime, applicants who were unaware they were eligible for both educational benefits missed the opportunity to receive up to an estimated $44,000 in payments. For families trying to secure educational benefits, navigating this misinformation has been a headache. “It shouldn’t be this hard,” wrote a widow
of a soldier who died in Iraq in an email to a VA employee. “We want our children to get what they are supposed to get for education benefits…it’s that simple.”
TROUBLED TRACK RECORD The VA has a history of blunders involving benefits for veterans and their families. It’s been slow to process disability and pension claims submitted by veterans. At one point, the VA was taking nearly a year to year to process claims. The VA has also been criticized for withholding benefits from veterans it said were overpaid. This year, a group of senators introduced the Veteran Fair Debt Practice Act, which would prevent the agency from collecting funds in cases where the VA made a mistake or when repayment would cause the veteran financial hardship. In recent months, the VA said technical glitches caused delays in the payment of GI Bill benefits, including those for education and housing. Members of Congress called for an investigation and introduced a bill that would create a commission at the VA to audit education claims. “It’s time that the VA stand up and hold someone accountable for their failing actions,” said Texas Representative Jodey Arrington, during a Congressional hearing in November on the GI Bill delays. Sara Jerving is a reporter for Investigative Post, a nonprofit investigative journalism center focused on issues of importance to Western New York.
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LOOKING BACKWARD: BURGARD VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, 1930 Burgard Vocational High School, 368 Kensington Avenue, was completed in 1930, the date of this photograph by Hauser Bob. The Art Deco building with Collegiate Gothic elements is among the most distinguished schools architecturally in Buffalo. As a vocational school, Burgard churned out pilots, aeronautical engineers, automotive mechanics, lithographers, machinists, and the like. In World War II, the school trained tens of thousands of civilians for national defense work, serving as a pipeline of “production soldiers” to plants such as Curtiss Wright and Bell Aircraft. The Buffalo Public Schools completed an ambitious restoration of Burgard Vocational High School in 2009..- THE PUBLIC STAFF
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CITY AND STATE
BUFFALO BILLION SCANDAL CHANGES NOTHING BY REBECCA C. LEWIS
HERE’S WHY: WITH DEMOCRATS IN CHARGE, PROCUREMENT REFORMS AREN’T A PRIORITY IN 2019. DEMOCRATS HAVE A long list of legislation
blocked by state Senate Republican that they hope to pass quickly with their new majority in the chamber. However, for at least one stalled bill, control of the chamber may not make a difference: procurement reform. Key legislation on procurement reform failed in the Assembly last year after passing in the state Senate, and it seems likely the bill will face a similar fate this year. Procurement reform entered the conversation in 2016 with the indictment of nine people involved in the Buffalo Billion bid-rigging scandal, including Governor Andrew Cuomo’s right-hand man Joseph Percoco and Alain Kaloyeros, the architect of Cuomo’s signature economic development program. Federal prosecutors charged that, among other crimes, the bidding process by the state to give out contracts for the Buffalo Billion program had been rigged to favor certain developers. Despite the indictments of those close to him, Cuomo never faced any criminal charges and pleaded ignorance, while promising improved oversight. But reforms have not materialized. One measure that Cuomo promised was the appointment of a chief procurement officer for the executive branch who would oversee and review all state contracts. No member of the state Legislature sponsored the governor’s draft bill, while thenstate Attorney General Eric Schneiderman suggested the creation of such a position would be unconstitutional. State Senator Jeff Klein eventually introduced a bill that closely mirrored Cuomo’s proposal, with additional language allowing the state Legislature to confirm Cuomo’s appointee. However, that bill also failed to gain any traction. 6
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Cuomo has since blamed the lack of action regarding procurement reform on inaction from the state Legislature. But while it did not move on his bill, lawmakers were trying to pass a different bill, drafted by the state comptroller’s office, that addressed the issue by removing oversight from the executive branch and returning it to the comptroller. Cuomo had previously removed audit powers from the state comptroller in 2011 for State University of New York and City University of New York contracts. The legislation would have restored those powers and expanded them, as well as instituting other contracting reforms. Cuomo strongly opposed the bill, and the two branches of government were left in a stalemate, with members from both parties in the state Legislature reluctant to pick a fight with the governor. That changed last year, when the state Senate passed the legislation, known as the New York State Procurement Integrity Act, with nearly unanimous support. The only two nay votes were Klein, who sponsored the other legislation, and state Senator Diane Savino, a Klein ally. The Assembly version of the bill had many bipartisan co-sponsors, yet the it never made it out of committee. Reinvent Albany President John Kaehny said that Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes, the bill’s Assembly sponsor and chairwoman of the Committee on Governmental Operations, where the Senate bill was sent, deliberately did not allow the bill to ever come up for a vote under pressure from Cuomo. “The governor hated it, and that’s enough to keep something from moving through the Assembly,” Kaehny said. Peoples-Stokes did not respond to a request for comment. A spokeswoman for Cuomo offered only a general response when asked about the specific legislation, the governor’s role in its failure to pass the Assembly, and potential action on
STATE NEWS
PROCUREMENT REFORM ENTERED THE CONVERSATION IN 2016 AFTER THE INDICTMENT OF ALAIN KALOYEROS, LOU CIMINELLI, JOE PERCOCO, AND OTHERS. BUT THUS FAR REFORMS HAVE NOT MATERIALIZED. other contracting reforms, saying he is “open to further steps” and he “look[s] forward to discussing them with the Legislature.” Kaehny said there will also be far less pressure on the state Legislature now that all the trials and sentencings are done. “He is going to simply say to [Assembly Speaker] Carl Heastie, as he did last year, ‘Why do you want to endanger other priorities for your caucus like criminal justice reform or rent?’,” Kaehny said. A spokesman for Heastie did not return a request for comment. The bill is also not an immediate priority for the new Democratic majority in the state Senate, according to state Senator Liz Krueger, who will chair the Committee on Finance. This was the committee the legislation passed through last year before being approved by the entire chamber. Speaking from the conference’s pre-session retreat, Krueger said that procurement reform was not a topic that had come up in conversation. “There’s like 500 minimum bills that probably should come up with the conference, and we’re doing 10 in two days…it’s not one of the top 10,” Krueger said, adding that she nonetheless thinks the bill is very important and would be open to carrying it. The state comptroller’s office will continue to push the reforms in the upcoming session as well. “We will propose procurement reform again this legislative session,” DiNapoli’s spokeswoman Jennifer Freeman said in a statement. “In light of the leadership change in the legislature, we will consult them on any possible changes.” Although Krueger would not speculate on whether or not Cuomo could block it, or how the Senate would respond if he tried to, Kaehny suggested that the appetite for conflict is low. “They’re going to want to deliver a big package of bills fairly quickly, which means peace with the governor,” Kaehny said. “I think [incoming Senate Majority Leader Andrea] Stewart-Cousins will work as hard as she can to maintain discipline within the caucus and keep their eyes on the prize.” A spokesman for Stewart-Cousins declined to comment and deferred to Krueger’s statements on the matter. Kaehny added that other contracting reform measures that Cuomo has more recently expressed support for may pass in the upcoming session. Specifically, a bill creating of a database of government subsidies and legislation that would forbid campaign contributions from companies with business before the state, both of which passed the state Senate but not the Assembly last year. But for the Procurement Integrity Act, Kaehny said maybe another year. “There has to be a willingness in the Assembly to go along, it won’t be enough to just pass things in the Senate,” Kaehny said. “Maybe season two of this show will produce something else.” Rebecca C. Lewis is an editorial assistant at City & State, a politics and policy journal with P which The Public shares content. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / DECEMBER 19, 2018 - JANUARY 2, 2019 / THE PUBLIC
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ART REVIEW
HARVEY BREVERMAN: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF BEING BY JACK FORAN
AN EXHIBIT AT THE BURCHFIELD PENNEY SAMPLES THE ARTIST’S WORK FROM THE 1970S TO THE PRESENT A FEW YEARS after he started teaching at UB, in 1965, Harvey Breverman was awarded a fellowship from the Dutch government for a year’s stint as a painter in residence at the Royal Academy in Amsterdam, home of the Rijksmuseum, locale of world great collections of works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Franz Hals, et al. At one point during that year, when colleague visiting artists were planning a trip to Italy to study and peruse Italian art for a while, Breverman chose not to join them, preferring to spend the extra time with Rembrandt and the other 17th-century Dutch masters.
A few years later, back at UB, Breverman became involved in the project and planning— with Gerald O’Grady and others—to establish a media studies program at UB, in the course of which he began hearing about and seeing and reading works of media—basically meaning film—artists and theoreticians inspirational to the media studies impulse. Most prominently, Russian film-maker and theoretician Sergei Eisenstein. His seminal ideas about montage— basically juxtaposition or collision of disparate images and ideas in a kind of Marxist dialectical narrative progression via thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. The two things—the preference and option for the Dutch masters over the Italians, and the interest in montage as a narrative technique— were of a piece. If he had chosen to go to Italy, what he would have seen is art that could properly be described as classical. A style or mode of art in general distinguished by the virtue of clarity. Of line, of meaning, of the intention of the artist in making it. Another possible descriptive, heroic. At its acme best and most characteristic, the art of Michelangelo. The great example, the statue of David. Or alternative great example, God and Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Art that captures a moment of supreme and everlasting significance. (A little like some ideas about the function of photography.) The art of Rembrandt and the Dutch masters by and large very different. Not classic in the full sense of classic. (An alternative term—though not a very good one—romantic.) Characterized by smoky line, smoky transitions, complexity,
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, 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. 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. Wed-Fri 11am-3pm or by appointment. Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com/ argus-gallery): Integration, works by Mohammad Z. Zaman through Jan 5. Sat 12-3pm, or by appointment. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Three Art-
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multiplicity, ambivalence effects. The great example—examples—Rembrandt’s lifelong project series of self-portraits. It’s not enough— or quite enough—to see just one of them. You have to see them all, or at least several. Because it’s a project about transience. And so mortality, the essential tragic (versus heroic) factor. (And so also, more like film than photography.) Of a piece with Eisensteinian ideas about montage. As a narrative technique that first and foremost respects and honors complexity, and multiplicity, producing ambivalence effects (where clarity would be tantamount to oversimplification), and incorporating temporality, process, progression (whether or not equivalent to progress). Narrative as a fractured continuum. The current superb exhibit of Breverman’s paintings at the Burchfield Penney gallery covers from the early montage effects period— early 1970s—to the present. Opening with a number of works in what he calls his “Discontinuous Sequence” series, as basically an alternative description of the montage idea. Multiple sketch-like renderings of UB faculty meetings regarding probably in some cases properly academic matters—launching the new media studies program, for instance—others surely about the anti-war turmoil enveloping the UB campus and community around that time. Including numerous impromptu portraits of many colleague faculty members at that time. Raymond Federman, Leslie Fiedler, Seymour Drumlevitch. Among several faculty powwow smallerformat works in the exhibit entryway corridor, a large-format oil-on-canvas work and kind of archetype example of the montage genre, called Conference. Three figures, indistinctly portrayed, around a makeshift conference table—you get the sense of hangers-on after a called meeting of some sort—and assorted unidentifiable or barely identifiable items including a stepladder and what look like temporary partition walls in the foreground and behind the men at the table, and in the distant background—but from the main subject matter you had the sense of an interior setting, in a room, in a building—a landscape or seascape perhaps, indistinct, but pretty clearly exterior setting. And curious and mysterious above all, hovering overhead, over the main scene men at the table and adjacent items, what after some looking at and thinking about it seems to be a huge heavy equipment demolition project clamshell loader apparatus— of the sort that would be suspended from a crane—as if about to scoop everything up—the
ist 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 8am10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Big Orbit Project Space (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Sat 12-6pm. BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Tutelary, an installation by Obsidian Bellis. Every day 4-10pm. ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery (148 Elmwood Avenue, Buf-
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Harvey Breverman, Discontinuous Sequence Series: Charter.
men, the table, chairs, the nondescript items— so as to haul it all off to the trash yards. Image of transience—it seems—if ever there was one. But to each his own interpretation is part of the point with this art. Other series, other subject matters. In elaborations and permutations of the basic montage technique. A stunningly beautiful Holocaust commemorative series in a rich mix of somber darkish hues and shimmering reds and golds, and imagery including secular and synagogue architecture, copious fire, Jewish ghetto streetscapes, on fire, railroad tracks converging toward a concentration/ extermination camp gateway transmogrifiying into what looks like a synagogue structure, on fire, scraps of Holocaust prisoner uniforms, barbed wire, and various enigmatic ancillary items, a prosthetic arm, and tefillin Jewish prayer ritual accoutrement. The model actual prosthetic arm and tefillin are in a vitrine along with some other occasional imagery items. Including a not-so-enigmatic in the context plastic German Luger pistol.
falo, 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 8:30am6pm, Sun 12-5pm. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Genius Loci: Burchfield’s Spirits of Place 1921-1943, through March 31; Display: Sculpture by Anne Currier, through April 28; Counting the Hours, through Feb
Another series of Jewish ghetto street scenes— buildings on fire as often as not—and related still-lifes, called “A Finstere Medina,” which exhibit curator Tullis Johnson told me means “a dark place, a horrible place.” How Breverman’s grandmother described Poland under the Nazi occupation. Another series in monotone orange consists of collage composite versions of the cities of Venice, Istanbul, and three Jerusalem examples, in each instance as if in a process of collapse and destruction. Substantial fires burning apparently out of control in multiple locations in the Istanbul and the several Jerusalems. No visible fire in the Venice, but what looks like Biblical fire and brimstone raining down from the sky. And a ghost image of Leslie Fieldler contemplating one of the Jerusalems, ghost image of Raymond Federman contemplating another. Sub specie aeternitatis, as it were. All things passing. The exhibit is called The Contradictions of Being: Composite Works by Harvey Breverman. It P continues until February 24.
24; Square Route: Geometric Works from the Collection, through Mar 31; Charles Cary Rumsey: In Motion, through Oct 27. Salvaged: the Stitched Narrative of Jennifer Regan, through Jan 27; Contradictions of Being: Composite Works by Harvey Breverman, through Feb 24; The Complexity of Life, by Jonathan Rogers, through Feb 24; 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. M & T Second Friday event (second Friday of every month). Mon-Sat 10am-5pm & 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. 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, 716-320-5867): Cloud Burst, artwork by Kathleen Sherin.
GALLERIES ART Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Think Big: The Artists of Autism Services, through Jan 14. The Higner Maritime Collection: 25 Years of Shipbuilding, through Mar 17; 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, 8562717, cepagallery.org): Resilience Through the Lens, collaborative exhibit with Clean Air Coalition of WNY. Opening reception Thu Dec 20, 5-8pm. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry: A Resource:Art Project (second floor of Hotel Henry, 444 Forest Avenue, Buffalo NY 14213, 716-8821970, resourceartny.com): Charles Clough, Pam Glick, Jody Hanson, Joseph Piccillo, Jeffery Vincent, through Spring 2019. Open to the public during business hours. 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): Tue-Fri, 10am-4pm, or by appointment. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Chris Lee: UImmutable—Mutant Notations, through Dec 22. Wed-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 1-5pm. GO ART! (201 East Main Street Batavia, NY 14020): Members’ Challenge Exhibit “Heat Wave” in the Batavia Club Gallery, Tavern 2.0. On view through March 9. Artist reception, Thu, Dec 20, 6-8 pm. Thu & Fri 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-4pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Guy Richards Smit: Guilty of Everything, through Dec 22. Tue-Fri 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): Home Again, a group exhibition exploring the meanings of home, through Dec 29. Wed 126pm, 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. Maison Le Caer Hertel (1416 Hertel Ave, Buffalo, NY 14216): Peculiar Buffalo: Historical Photography 1900-2012, through Mar 3. Opening reception, Wed, Dec 19, 6-9pm. Maison Le Caer Downtown (Market Arcade, 617 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203 ): Peculiar Buffalo: Historical Photography 1900-2012, through Mar 3. Opening reception, Fri, Dec 21, 5-8pm. 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): Violet Gordon’s Art, through Jan 26. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm. Nichols School Gallery at the Glenn & Audrey Flickinger Performing Arts Center (1250 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14216, 332-6300, nicholsschool.org/artshows): Work from the collection. Mon-Fri 8am-4pm, Closed Sat & Sun. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-8825777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): TueFri 10am–5pm.
Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-6523270, norbergsartandframe.com): Regional artists from the gallery collection. TueSat 10am–5pm. 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. 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 ThuSat. Pine Apple Company (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup. com/store/pine-apple-company): Close to Home, Dana Tyrrell and Tom Holt, through Dec 30. Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod. com): Art 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. 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, through Jan 6; 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): Screen Projects: Ezra Wube, through Jan 30. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, 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. 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): Mon-Fri 11am-4pm, Sat 11am1pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 3481430, wnybookarts.org): Wed-Sat 12-6pm.
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19 PUBLIC APPROVED
Get Wreck 8pm Savoy, 149 Elmwood Ave.
[HIP HOP] Get your 1980s and 1990s hip hop fix at Savoy in Allentown on Wednesday, December 19. DJs Bump & Touch will throw down some old-school hip hop, funk, and breaks, on two turntables and a mixer. -CP
THURSDAY DECEMBER 20 Community Beer Works Christmas Office Party 7pm Community Beer Works, 520 Seventh Street Free
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DOYLE FRIDAY DECEMBER 21 7PM / BUFFALO IRON WORKS, 49 ILLINOIS ST. / $20 [ROCK] Since ending Gorgeous Frankenstein with his former wife and ex-professional wrestler,
Stephanie Bellars, one-time Misfits guitarist Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein and Cancerslug frontman Alex Story have gone on to form the simply named Doyle. And while the name has changed, the horror-punk-metal motif has not. Since that’s what the made-up-and-muscled Wolfgang von Frankenstein has always done best, no complaints there. Once formed in 2012, the band has gone through a series of lineup changes (they originally had former Misfits drummer Dr. Chud) and released a pair of albums, the latest of which, Doyle II: As We Die, dropped last year. It’s all doom, gloom, and boom with these guys, and that’s how we like it. An unusual choice for Buffalo Iron Works on Friday, December 21 where things get going at 7pm. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY
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[HOLIDAY PARTY] This may be the ideal holiday office party: There will be screenings of three classic holiday films—Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas, National Lampoon’s Vacation, and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians—so you don’t need to talk with anyone. There will be plentiful and wonderful food and drink. And it’s not your office, so you can behave any which way you’d like. The featured beer is Spruce Vilanch, redolent with esters of Colorado white spruce; there will be eggnog behind the bar, too, and a kitchen churning out good things to eat, and a free drawing for a case of CBW beers. It’s Thursday, December 20, 7pm until midnight, at Community Beer Works. Go have yourself a time. -TPS
FRIDAY DECEMBER 21 Rise Up: Holiday Movement Dance Party 8pm Gypsy Parlor, 376 Grant St.
[PARTY] 'Tis the season in Buffalo, and by season we mean indoor dance party season, and the Rise Up party is on our list. Why? Because it's on the longest night of the year this time and it's brought to us by many great people who serve as a glue in our community by their good works and actions. This installment of the Holiday Movement Dance Party is coming to Gypsy Parlor this Friday, with some usual movement stylings from Lonnie B, DJ Dialectic, Ismail, with the Rise Up Drummers and talent from the Heat Factory. -AL
Clash City Rockers: 17th Annual Tribute to Joe Strummer/Clash 7pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $15-$20
[TRIBUTE] Gone for almost two decades now, punk legend Joe Strummer of the Clash remains a relevant inspiration to musicians around the world. In celebration of his legacy, Mohawk Place will host the 17th annual Tribute to Joe Strummer and the Clash. Strummer, who died in 2002 at the age of 50, was an icon of anti-authoritarianism, and the Clash are considered punk rock pioneers. The band’s 1979 double album, London Calling, ushered in a more raw, combative punk era that followed a generation of hippie music. Celebrate all things Strummer at the 17th Annual Tribute to Joe Strummer and the Clash this Friday, December 21. A portion of the proceeds of this event will be donated to the Joe Strummer Foundation. -CP
STEVE-O FRIDAY DECEMBER 21 7:30PM / HELIUM COMEDY CLUB, 30 MISSISSIPPI ST. / $25-$55 [COMEDY] Eight years removed from the last Jackass movie, Steve-O is 10 years sober and
touring the standup comedy circuit. If you skip to the 42-year-old’s website, you’ll see that he’s still dedicated to pranking unsuspecting victims, and to performing and hosting insane stunts— including jumping off a bridge from a trampoline mounted on a pickup truck, and persuading an apprentice to skateboard into a field of cacti, and generally hanging around in the nude. He won’t have his trampoline or cacti on the live stage, and he probably won’t be butt-naked for this one, but the 44-year-old comedian will have his arsenal of shocking and gross stories from Jackass and beyond when he comes to Helium Comedy Club for four shows, this Friday, Dec 21 and Saturday, December 22. -CORY PERLA 12 THE PUBLIC / DECEMBER 19, 2018 - JANUARY 2, 2019 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM
Jacob Jay/Dalton Sharp Quintet 8pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $10
[JAZZ] Jazz group the Jacob Jay/Dalton Sharp Quintet will set up in Babeville’s 9th Ward for a performance on Friday, December 21. The band, which features Jacob Jay on trumpet, Dalton Sharp on saxophone, pianist Jake Malone, bassist Mary Dicioccio, and drummer Jacob Payne, will be joined by vocalist Shaun Doyle for this special show. -TPS
SATURDAY DECEMBER 22 After Funk Tribute to James Brown 9pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $15
[FUNK] Toronto-based funk band After Funk return to Buffalo for a special show this Saturday, December 22 at Buffalo Iron Works. Set one from the “funk family” will be
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GHOST STORIES: FATHER OF TWO & CHADKID FRIDAY DECEMBER 21
Buffalo’s Premier Live Music Club ◆ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19 ◆
10PM / THE UNDERGROUND NIGHTCLUB, 274 DELAWARE AVE. / $5
california industrial black metal
psyclon nine ex-shiny toy guns, mxms,
[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] “Celebrating queer holiday cheer” is the tagline for this electronic dance
music party at the Underground Niteclub. Expect some percussive, deep, and dark tracks from
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the artists performing at this new dance party dubbed Ghost Stories. Artists Father of Two
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and ChadKid will both come in from Pittsburgh for this techno, garage, and bass-focused night.
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Father of Two, real name Brian Bohan, is one of the promoters behind the queer dance, party
happy hour: stress dolls 5PM ◆ FREE
In Training, which happens monthly in Cleveland. The rising artist will be joined by techno
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DJ ChadKid, who has played sets at Pittsburgh’s popular Hot Mass events and at festivals like
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Honcho Summer Campout. Organizer and promoter Séance opens the night, this Friday, December 21. -CORY PERLA
7PM DOORS/8PM SHOW $15 ADV/$20 @ DOOR
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from the wilds of the mojave desert: singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, tv & film composer, and syndicated radio show host
ben vaughn church key social,
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The Sidney Fineberg Tribute and Rockin’ Fundraiser:
[HOLIDAY] It’s a Festivus for the rest of us! One of the biggest, most anticipated holiday parties
of the season is upon us, so prepare for the feats of strength and make sure your grievances are in
the baby machines, monkey wrench, Du Yu Remember (Husker Du Tribute), Cowboys of Scotland, The Painkillers, DJ Oldskool
order, because I got a lot of problems with you people and now you’re going to hear about it. Gather round the high-strength aluminum pole and let us celebrate this nondenominational holiday with a contribution to the Human Fund. Newcomers, of course, are welcome. “I am still working on these,”
8PM ◆ $5
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said Festivus organizer Sean Heidinger, in response to a series of questions sent to him. Despite that response, what we do know is that Festivus 5.0 will take place at Hydraulic Hearth on Sunday, December 23 and will feature a couple of Seinfeld-themed beers from Community Beer Works, music from DJ Sike, and a “Best Dressed” competition for those who feel the urge to dress as their favorite Seinfeld characters. There will also be a Feats of Strength event in the form of a steinholding competition, as well as the Airing of Grievances, which will be read aloud throughout the
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DEC 21
happy hour w/jony james 6PM FREE
tina panic noise 10PM $5
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anime villian 9PM $5
THURSDAY
DEC 27
holiday jazz hang w/mark filsinger, elliot scozzaro, brendan lanighan 9PM $5
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9PM $5
happy hour: the fibs 6PM FREE
ampevene, tortoise forest, sentinel 6 10PM $5
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Buffalo Infringement Festivus
w/ StoCk!, Second Solution, Astrabula, Ghost Water, Curtis Lovell, Type Relevant, Cardboard Homestead, Airing of Grievences,
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New Year’s Eve PARTIES BY CORY PERLA AFTER A LONG, BUSY holiday, sorting through a whole bunch of New Year’s Eve parties might not be a top priority, so we did the work for you and picked out a few of our favorites this year. There’s a little something for everyone here, but choose wisely, because this party could set the tone for your whole year.
Something Funky:
takes the Rusted Root template and expands on it, mixing new material with Root faves that are presented in an updated format.
Something Electronic:
The results are high-spirited in the Rusted Root tradition, but delivered with a renewed freshness and sense of purpose. The Pittsburgh-born band’s New Year’s Eve parties at Buffalo Iron Works have become the stuff of tradition, and Glabicki isn’t one to disappoint—come out and usher in 2019 with his contagious energy, delivered through a mix of old tunes and new, likely with some covers sprinkled in. Ohio-to-Nashville transplants the Summit will open with a set of charged, swamp-tinged bluesrockers. The party gets started at 9pm, $30 at the door—a good price for a New Year’s Eve celebration. – CJT
Something Retro:
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If the first thing that you want to hear at the stroke of midnight is some big, booming bass music, then this is the event for you. Sound Solution and Rinse 716 are importing a bunch of massive drum & bass, dubstep, techno, trance, and house DJs for this huge two-room electronic music dance party. Expect sets from the bass music masters Dangerous and Dritbox, both in from the UK, and dubstep smashers Blackmask from Germany. There’ll also be a room dedicated to house, techno, and trance, if that’s what you prefer, with sets by Xotec, Pulse Junkie, Ask Nice, and more. All in all there’s more than a dozen DJs lined up for this one set to take place at MainPlace (formerly Surrender) near UB South Campus on New Year’s Eve.
AQUEOUS NEW YEAR’S EVE AT THE TOWN BALLROOM 7pm, $25-$85
The Buffalo News recently called them “The Biggest Band to Emerge From Buffalo in 20 Years.” Whether that’s true or not, Aqueous is the real deal. Their devoted fan base eats up everything they put out there—typically live recordings of the band’s performances, which often and quickly move into spacey, jammy territoriy as the four-piece band explores their improvisational side. They also like to sneak in some clever covers, which they always put their own spin on, sometimes extending them, well, almost indefinitely. One of my favorite Aqueous moments was their cover of the Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 2,” at Cobblestone Live over the summer. A performance on New Year’s Eve is starting to become a tradition for the band, so don’t miss it when they set up at the Town Ballroom to ring in the new year.
Something Weird:
Something Rockin’: TRANSMISSION NYE DANCE PARTY AT MOHAWK PLACE 10pm, $5
UPROOTED WITH MICHAEL GLABICKI AT BUFFALO IRON WORKS 9pm, $25
Rusted Root has gone on hiatus, but that’s okay since frontman Michael Glabicki has other plans. His solo project, Uprooted,
Okay, so their whole set isn’t retro per se, but the folks from Transmission Dance Party play enough cult classics, obscure oldies, and deep cuts that it’s fair to say that their set can transport you back in time. Next to stuff by the Cure, the B-52s, Prince, the Clash, and Echo and the Bunny Men, they’ll also play cuts from Arcade Fire, Chairlift, and Chrvches, but only stuff that fits in with the retro 1980s vibe that they’ve curated so miticulously. If you’re down to dance with a bunch of folks in jean jackets and ripped leggings drinking PBRs and just having a good old time listening to glistening 1980s underground music, Mohawk Place is the spot for you this New Years Eve for Transmission Dance Party.
NEW YEAR’S EVE AT NIETZSCHE’S 8pm, $5
This solid lineup of bands has some cosmic weirdness to it, starting with headliners, Space Cubs, who deliver pop music drenched in oozing electronic textures and odd, jazzy instrumentation. They’ll be joined by psychedelic garage rock band Deadwolf, who recently released a stellar full-length record titled Heavy Heart. Indiegrunge three-piece SMUG add some heavier, pop-tinged rock, while Coral Collapse bring the dreamier end of the indie rock spectrum. Finally, Velvet Bethany round out the lineup with some distorted, fuzzed-out punk. Catch this one at Nietzsche’s, P presented by Yace Booking.
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NO IRA? NO PROBLEM THE MULE BY M. FAUST NEVER BELIEVE ANY performers when they
say they’re going to retire. Okay, maybe ABBA: If they could turn down a $1 billion offer to do a reunion tour, I guess they really mean it. But for anyone else who plays to the paying public for a living, retirement generally only means kicking back until they either get bored or an interesting offer comes along. Clint Eastwood has of course been going strong as a director, but he was supposed to have retired from acting a decade ago after Gran Torino, a movie that certainly looked like a career-ending statement. But there he was back onscreen as a baseball agent in 2012’s Trouble with the Curve, and here he is again as a 90-year-old drugrunner in The Mule. Nick Schenk (who also wrote Gran Torino) based his script on a true story about an elderly horticulturist in need of money who
fell into a job transporting drugs for Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel. It’s only a loose adaptation, and Schenk doesn’t seem to have been terribly concerned in any of the things that would seem to be most interesting about this story. For one thing, Earl Stone’s age hardly enters into it: He could as well be 80, or 70, or even 60. Nor do we get many details about the job, which apparently doesn’t require him to cross the Mexican border. (Why the cartel is willing to pay such big bucks to drive drugs from Texas to Chicago is a mystery.) For a good chunk of the film, it seemed like one of those movies that Eastwood the director took on simply because it was the time of year when he makes a movie and he didn’t have any better script on hand. It rambles on amiably enough, as Earl keeps finding new uses for the easy money the job offers. Eastwood may be too fond of
Clint Eastwood in The Mule.
But the money he is earning allows him not only the chance to mend old wounds, but the ability to see just how deep those wounds run. The scenes he plays at his wife’s deathbed are as good as anything he has ever done as an actor, and might even net him an Oscar nomination despite the weaknesses of the rest of the movie. (How much he drew on his own history for this is, of course, open to speculation.) It’s not a great movie, not by a long shot, but there’s great stuff in it from an American filmmaker who is P still full of ambition and surprise.
presenting the old guy’s flaws, especially the kind of casual racism that his generation didn’t realize was offensive, but it’s hard to resist the sight of him tooling along in his truck whistling “More Today than Yesterday.” It isn’t until The Mule’s third act that we see what drew Eastwood to this material. Earl has a bad history with his family, having neglected his ex-wife (Dianne Wiest) and daughter (played by his own daughter Alison) in favor of—well, anything that would get him out of the house.
SHOOTING THE FUTURE VOX LUX BY ED GRANT IF YOU’VE BEEN looking forward to seeing
this new Natalie Portman movie that has been getting a heavy art house push in the cities where that kind of thing matters, you may be surprised to learn that it’s already here, dumped into one local suburban multiplex last weekend with no advance notice. Audience interest is presumably keyed to a storyline rooted in a school shooting and an ad campaign that makes it look like one of those rock fantasies of the 1970s or 1980s. (I thought of Hazel O’Connor in Breaking Glass.). Sad to say, it’s an uneven mess narratively, a blurry meditation on fame. (The tagline “a 21st century portrait” is one of several pretensions it sports.) The film is constructed in two parts, telling of
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the rise, fall, and attempted comeback of a singer whose initial success is tied to a terrorist attack that shocks the nation. The first half, featuring Raffey Cassidy in the lead role, is somewhat gripping, but the second, with Portman as an older (and utterly unsympathetic) version of the character, is very poorly thought out. Portman tries her best as the extremely unlovable pop star, but the two Brits in lead roles steal the most attention: Cassidy, who also plays Portman’s daughter in the second half, and Jude Law with a very New Yawk accent as her manager. Filmmaker Brady Corbet spoke after a Manhattan screening I attended over the weekend, but the 30-year-old couldn’t really explain what he was after by way of a message, other than that he was attempting something timely and relevant. No questions from the
Natalie Portman and Raffey Cassidy in Vox Lux.
audience were permitted. (Portman was also
I wouldn’t go for the all-too-obvious “Vox
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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,
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.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY
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THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $45,838.00 and interest, 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.
OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) COURT. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: IRINA DULARIDZE, ESQ. 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 whom process against may he served. DOS shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 50 Fountain Plaza, buffalo, NY 14202. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
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23 Age Bilbo Baggins turns at the beginning of “The Lord of the Rings”
58 No-good heap of junk, euphemistically
25 Morticia’s husband
14 Buster’s stance, maybe
59 “Sizwe Banzi is Dead” playwright Fugard
27 Ending for ham or young
16 MacGowan of the Pogues
60 Handel pieces
29 Pine product
62 Disney princess from New Orleans
32 Spicy spread
63 1990s Nintendo cartridge attachment used for cheat codes
34 It may be mopped
1 Competition with bonus questions 9 “Let’s do this!”
17 “Animal” band whose name was inspired by InN-Out Burger signage 18 Staves (off) 19 Word after fake or spray 20 “Grey’s Anatomy” actress Ferrer 21 Mid-sized string ensemble 22 “... so long ___ both shall live”
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25 Canadian novelist (and partner of Margaret Atwood) Gibson
2 Anxiety
26 Closes up 28 Jared of “My So-Called Life” 30 Bluster
3 2017 biopic that won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar 4 West Coast red, briefly 5 Ram
33 Verbose 35 Comment in a Johnny Paycheck song title 39 Scans over 40 Copier mishap
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42 First (and last) king of Albania
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65 Pennsylvania Dutch symbols on barns
24 ___ Plaines, Illinois
31 SFO posting PHOTO BY TOM SICKLER
64 “Melrose Place” actor Rob
46 Stuttgart sausage
6 “No turn ___” 7 “Night” author Elie 8 Frank who won a Pulitzer for “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” 9 Words between a letter and a word starting with that letter
35 Watch from the bleachers 36 Some Danish cheeses 37 Collapsible wear for some music fans 38 Word on two Monopoly spaces 41 Hanukkah centerpiece 45 Generic 47 Rodeo skill 48 Certain winner 49 Cornhole plays 51 Mallorca y Menorca, e.g. 53 Glove material 56 Workout on the streets 57 Pen occupants 61 Washington-based sporting goods store
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50 Bring by the truckload
11 Afro-Cuban religious practice
52 Former Cambodian premier Lon ___
12 Immediately available, like video
54 Disney tune subtitled “A Pirate’s Life for Me”
13 Golden Years resources
55 Cafeteria stack
15 “The Puzzle Palace” org.
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