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COMMENTARY: NINE FORCES DRIVING THE RISE OF FACISM

PROFILE: MEET DENNICE BARR, FRUIT BELT ACTIVIST

SPOTLIGHT: THE GOLDEN GLOVES: THE NEW AND THE OLD

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UPS: This item defies categorization as an up or a down. (Let’s call it “more information needed.”) On January 14, the day before his annual State of the State address, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo removed Buffalo Mayor BYRON BROWN as the chair of the New York State Democratic Party, a position Brown held for just one year. In a statement announcing that Brown would be replaced by Nassau County Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs—who served as state chair from 2009 to 2012—Cuomo thanked Brown for his service but offered no reason for the change. More interestingly, there was no quote from Brown included in the statement, no acknowledgment of the honor of serving, of work well done, etc.—the kind of quote that typically would be written for Brown by the governor’s press people. Nor has Brown issued a statement of his own or responded to queries from reporters. And Brown did not attend Cuomo’s January 15 State of the State address, which is unusual for any high-profile elected Democrat in the state, let alone the state party chairman. In the absence of explanation, of course, speculation rushes in: Is Brown on the outs with the governor? If so, why? Or perhaps this has something to do with the legal woes of one-time Brown aide and political ally Steve Pigeon, who is due in court January 29 to receive his sentence for steering an illegal campaign contribution of $25,000 to Cuomo’s 2014 reelection campaign. Inquiring minds are, well, making inquiries. The father of a man fatally shot by a Buffalo police officer last month has retained two law firms to investigate his son’s death, according to Investigative Post reporter Marsha Mcleod. The firms, Neufeld Scheck & Brustin in New York City and Easton Thompson Kasperek Shiffrin in Rochester, are both well-known for their work on civil rights cases. (Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck are co-founders of the Innocence Project, which for the past 26 years has sought to free the wrongly convicted and imprisoned.) A representative of the New York City firm said the investigation is underway. The firm describes itself as “taking on only a small number of important cases.” On December 11, Officer Joseph Meli, 25, shot Marcus Neal three times—twice in the abdomen and once in the leg—after police said Neal charged officers with a knife on the roof of a garage in Black Rock. Neal, 47, died in hospital the following morning. Read more about these developments—including an interview with Neal’s uncle, himself a civil rights attorney— at dailypublic.com and investigativepost.org.

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DOWNS: Outgoing Buffalo Comptroller MARK SCHROEDER will be headed soon to far

greener pastures in Albany, his staff learned just before Christmas, and he leaves behind him the makings of a chaotic, politically fraught transition. Schroeder will become the commissioner of the state Department of Motor Vehicles, which pays about $120,000 per year—$35,000 more than Schroeder’s salary as city comptroller, a job he’s held since 2011. Schroeder has not formally resigned the comptroller’s job as of this writing, but that’ll happen soon, after which the Common Council will have 90 days to name an interim comptroller. Then there will be race this fall for a full, four-year term. In December, Schroeder hired Vanessa Glushefski—an attorney, CPA, and former candidate for Erie County comptroller—apparently with the intention of engineering the interim appointment for her. But that seems unlikely to happen, as Glushefski has little political support in the Common Council and none in the office of Mayor Byron Brown, who would not in any case help realize any plan fomented by Schroeder, whom he dislikes. Word coming out of Brown’s office is that he’d favor Erie County Legislator Barbara Miller-Williams, but that might be a bridge too far, even for a generally compliant Common Council: Miller-Williams has no relevant experience and is too close to Brown politically. She would be unlikely to serve as a balance to mayoral power. Lovejoy District Councilman Rich Fontana has long relished the idea of occupying the city comptroller’s office, so that’s a possibility. University District Councilman Rasheed Wyatt’s name has been dropped, as well, and Wyatt is close to Council President Darius Pridgen. We’ve also heard that Jon Rivera—the son of Niagara District Councilman David Rivera, currently at the Erie County Department of Public Works—has expressed interest in the job. An interim appointment would give any of these candidates a leg up in the race for a full term, a fact that may lead the Common Council to choose someone who will not run for the office this fall—a true interim—especially if the vacancy lingers beyond the opening of the petitioning process for candidates who intend to run for the seat this fall, which is not far off. The natural choice for that true interim would have been First Deputy Comptroller Anne Forti-Sciarrino, a veteran of the office, but she retired the same day that Schroeder told his staff he was leaving. So, where there might have been order, there is uncertainty. Do you have ups and downs to share? Email us at info@dailypublic.com.

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NEWS COMMENTARY campaigns and xenophobic dog-whistles often associated with the rise of fascism. Trump isn’t leading the party to fascism—he’s the product of a sustained GOP effort to subvert voting rights and democratic norms. By the time this New York City sideshow authoritarian ran for president, the Republican rank and file was well groomed to receive him and the fascism he represented. Here are nine forces that are driving this rise of fascism.

1. ADDICTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA Americans spend 11 hours per day in front of screens, much of it on social media platforms that are designed to be addictive. Using them activates the neurotransmitter dopamine, which leads to a tickling of the brain’s opioid receptors, alighting its reward center and luring users back for more. The platforms harvest your time and attention, working most effectively as smartphone apps. Facebook provides a good example how addictive platforms support the rise of fascism. They create a specialized experience for each of us in a universe that really is about you, filled with things you want to read and see, and, if it’s your preference, populated only by people like yourself. This is your Internet bubble and you won’t be disturbed by any reality that upsets your understanding of the world, xenophobic or detached from quantifiable reality as it may be.

NINE FORCES DRIVING THE RISE OF FASCISM IN 2019 BY MICHAEL I. NIMAN

IT’S NOT JUST TRUMP AND HIS ETHNONATIONALIST COUNTERPARTS AROUND THE WORLD. IT’S THE TOOLS THEY USE, TOO. THE NEW YEAR’S Day inauguration of avowed authoritarian strongman Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil signaled an ominous start to 2019. Brazil, as the fifth largest country by landmass (larger than the Australian continent), the sixth largest by population (larger than Russia), and the ninth largest economy (larger than Canada), represents global fascism’s biggest gain in recent history. The rise of Bolsonaro follows the recent consolidation of power by reactionary nationalists Recep Tayyip Erdoğa in Turkey, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, and Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines.

We start out 2019 with neo-Fascists and assorted other “populists” and ethnonationalists holding office in 11 European nations, scoring recent double-digit vote tallies in Finland, Sweden, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Marine Le Pen’s French ethnonationalist National Front garnered one third of that country’s 2017 vote for president. Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of Poland’s governing PiS Party, described migrants arriving in Europe as being physically different than Poles, with an ability to carry “various parasites and protozoa, which don’t affect their organisms, but which could be dangerous here.” Duterte celebrated New Year’s Eve boasting of his childhood molestation of his family’s maid. Bolsonaro praised genocide against Native Americans and told a fellow member of Brazil’s congress, on the floor of that house, that she wasn’t good

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enough for him to rape. He promised to jail his opposition. 2019 is promising to be ugly. In the United States, while Republicans lost ground nationally, reactionaries solidified domination of the party, with moderates and constitutionalists retiring or losing primaries in 2018. Despite a large popular vote loss, Republicans added two seats to their Senate majority, giving them continued power to appoint activist right-wing judges. After losing statehouse races in Michigan and Wisconsin, Republican legislatures in both states moved to curtail the authority of the incoming Democratic governors-elect, as they did two years earlier in North Carolina. Resistance to ceding power after losing an election is a critical warning sign of a failing democracy. Nationally, the party has been doubling down on its efforts to suppress voting while embracing propagandistic misinformation

The reality of fascism is that, historically, it has always sucked for damn near everyone falling under its authoritarian jackboot, including the dupes who supported its rise. How’d things work out in Germany, Italy, Chile, Argentina? Fascism is always embodied by repression of freedoms and kleptocratic corruption. The reality of what fascists do and how it plays out is never good news. Which is why quantifiable reality is fascism’s primary enemy. Propagandawise, rising fascists must crush reality. Thanks to data analytics, addictive social media platforms are now weaponized to do just that with pinpoint precision.

2. BIG DATA The big data threat has risen as a by-product of our screen epidemic crisis. Social media addicts forgo privacy and give up their most personal data through posts, likes, and Internet use patterns. Google and Facebook are primarily in the business of not just harvesting but analyzing and thus monetizing this data to sell microtargeted advertising, knowing the innermost desires of each consumer. Your time you spent reading this column, swiping Tinder, playing Candy Crush, paying bills, or reading product reviews is all captured. Myriad Google services and apps spy on your every move. Literally. Your Internet-connected cars, smart TVs, household appliances, thermostats, and fitness trackers also contribute to your intricate data profile.

COMMENTARY NEWS Big data companies cross-reference and analyze this data, creating your unique psychographic profile—used to craft your irresistibly perfect dopaminergic bubble and effectively micro-market products and political ideologies specifically to you while predicting your future behavior. The techno-dystopian fascist potentials here are boundless. Recently we’ve seen this data deployed in sophisticated techno-propaganda operations to undermine quantifiable reality and divide us into tribes. Of course, you can monkeywrench this system by disappearing off the grid and walking in the woods. But chances are your car will narc you out or your hiking partner will post a Yelp review of the trail. At the end of the day, Amazon will market you boots. Artificial intelligence (AI) is making this all possible.

3. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The ability of data analytics giants to crunch billions of data point trails into billions of profiles is made possible by the same advances in computer processing speeds and memory that drives AI development. AI is supercharging robotics and threatening most professions. While xenophobes blame immigration for wage suppression and unemployment, in reality, it’s automation. And entire professions such as Uber driver or Amazon picker exist to lay the groundwork for their own robotic destruction. Decades ago, techno-utopian futurists predicted we’d only have to work a few hours per week. The current reality has workers with depressed earnings working multiple jobs. With more AI-driven robotics and millions of lost transportation, logistics, retail, medical, service, educational, and other positions disappearing, prepare to see more of the economic disruptions that tore the heart out of the American heartland and led to economic disenfranchisement and the rise of Trumpism. History shows extreme economic inequality as a driving force in the rise of fascism. AI appliances can take human jobs but they can never be human nor achieve self-realization, a consciousness or a soul. In its worst incarnation, AI can operate robotic weapons and kill humans—like programable sociopathic assassins killing without hesitation and never questioning orders. Second Amendment fans are no match for clouds of killer drone bots. Governments are currently in an AI arms race, with 2019 threatening to tip us into an AI juggernaut.

4. MEGA-MONOPOLIES Corporate monopolies have been rebounding since Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department relaxed anti-trust enforcement. The current consolidation of tech giants heralds a previously unimaginable rise of monopoly power, with Amazon, Google, and Facebook gobbling up and assimilating competitors, growing to control the very platforms upon which commerce and communication, including free speech, exist. Free speech is the life force of democracy. Monopolies that have the power to pull the plug on free speech, by their very existence, stand as an existential threat. Monopolies may now tolerate corrupted “democracies” that allow their existence. The question is, will they be as tolerant of resurgent democracies that threaten their power. Or, put more bluntly, can you count on Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post, now a subdued counterpoint to the Republican Party’s Fox News operation, not to cozy up to authoritarians when, say, a Sanders or Warren Justice Department applies anti-trust laws against Bezos’s Amazon monopolies. The history of European fascism in the 1930s and 1940s warns us that such conglomerates had no problem supporting fascism when it supported them. Let’s not forget the roles of IBM in providing technology supporting the Nazi Holocaust, or Ford and GM in arming the Nazi military. With monopolies purchasing

American political assets on “both sides of the aisle,” their unfettered growth and continued consolidation of power is all but guaranteed and the window of opportunity to rein them in is quickly closing. Whether they chose to support or oppose fascism will be pivotal. History has given us reason to worry.

5. MIGRATION XENOPHOBIA Global warming promises to send more climate change refugees fleeing famine, flood, persistent wildfires, deadly heatwaves, and rising oceans, while persistent poverty, the rise of fascist regimes, and the political collapse of civil societies are causing millions to join the migrations. The linguistic, cultural, and religious differences that migrants represent has become weaponized in the arsenal of fascists who work to sow fear of the unknown (xenophobia) in populations they wish to control. Syria provides an example. The 20112012 uprising against the repressive Assad government in Syria and the subsequent violent chaos brought on by seven years of a five-way war, caused six million Syrians to flee, with about a million heading to Europe. The arrival of these Arabic-speaking, primarily Muslim Syrians in Europe provided an opportunity for previously fringe ethnonationalists to sow xenophobia. Simply put, the Syrian war, fueled by foreign invaders, drove fleeing Syrians to Europe where neo-Fascists exploited their presence to undermine European democratic concepts of liberalism and multiculturalism. These fascist movements are now threatening the political cohesion of the European Union, in whose creation Europeans envisioned a united front against the resurgence of Fascism. 2019 promises to see more migrants and more fascists.

6. CORRUPT RELIGION Religion usually lies just beneath the surface of most violent conflicts. It’s a social construct that despots often use to dehumanize enemies and allow for their killing. While many religions preach tolerance, intolerance is almost always justified by religion as well—even by religions whose core values rhetorically celebrate tolerance. Religion today is often perverted and weaponized as an instrument of social control, with a sizable portion of the US population succumbing to identity politics and voting to undermine their own personal values and go along with a fascist agenda. Such herd voting sits at the foundation of Republican political power in the United States while a convenient “prosperity gospel” provides theological cover for “sinful” greed.

7. ATTACKS ON EDUCATION The best defense against fascism is an educated population with the ability to think critically. This is why newly formed democratic governments usually invest in education while authoritarians slash education. Education level is also a marked determining factor in voting in the United States, with more educated voters favoring Democratic candidates by significant margins in recent elections—which is a reversal from the 1990s. As a party with an established record of targeting demographic groups for voter suppression based on their voting patterns, educated voters are a Republican target. But education empowers people, making them more difficult to target for suppression. The obvious long-game is to suppress education availability by keeping college costs prohibitively expensive and college aid scant.

is the job of journalism, and it looks like bias to the untrained eye. The problem is that one group is doing almost all of the lying. So, if you report on lies, you’re essentially reporting on Republican lies, or just “attacking” Republicans. Reality is biased. The corporate news media in the United States is not in the business of keeping us informed. It’s in the business of capturing and selling our attention. If they appear biased, in this case by reporting the truth, they risk alienating viewers. To appear less biased, they rhetorically balance the White House’s most egregious lies against oversimplifications or rhetorical generalizations from their opponents. This causes a false equivalency—a “he said, she said” narrative with everyone fibbing— which has no bearing on the reality that one group is doing almost all of the lying. The end result is, instead of outrage and anger directed at the liars, we get a general antipathy toward politics, which leads to a disempowering apathy and yielding of the political area to fascists. We’ve got to demand better media—or make it ourselves—and stop patronizing media outlets that can’t quite call out liars and fascists.

9. PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS Donald Trump is trolling us every day. That’s who he is. I never wanted to write about him, but here we are. Republicans have been depressing for a while, but the Trump presidency brings their obnoxiousness to a historically unprecedented level, with dozens of outrages each week since CNN began promoting him as a serious presidential candidate in 2015. Trump and his enablers have declared a war, not on an ideology or a people, but on the future itself. With multiple new arms races, bellicose threats against world leaders, new alliances with fascists, and the emboldening of racists that want us dead at home, we can’t ignore the epidemic of stress- and trauma-related mental illness that is sweeping the nation and much of the world. So be aware of your mental health and the health of people around you. We are in the middle of an unprecedented crisis brought on by a sadistic bully and his enablers. Don’t just think that Donald Trump is a punk you can ignore way, and that he ain’t worthy of getting inside your head. He’s already there. And he’s the driving force behind the rise of fascism in the United States. To ignore him is to allow him. We can’t drop the ball in this struggle. The psychological distress we see in our communities can be disabling, and hence, a weapon in the fascist arsenal. Seek out solace in community and liberation in activism. We can move beyond the fascist threat and be stronger because of it. The complacency of the Obama years, where things slowly got worse while a brilliant personable orator captivated our hopes, are over. Rather then foolishly trust the old Democratic Party to fix the problems they were complacent in making, we’re hitting the streets with a level of vigor not seen in over a generation. So, hang in there. But not merely as a spectator.

8. FALSE EQUIVALENCIES As of this writing, the Washington Post’s fact checkers have documented 7,645 false or misleading statements (a.k.a. lies) made by President Trump since taking office. For Trump, and many of his enablers, lying comes as naturally as breathing. This creates a problem for journalists. Call out liars for lying, which

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 available globally through syndication. This article was adpated from a piece published previously at Truthout.org.

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Dennice Barr.

MEET FRUIT BELT ACTIVIST

DENNICE BARR BY CAITLIN HARTNEY

BARR HAS BEEN A FORCE IN HER NEIGHBORHOOD FOR DECADES, FIGHTING FOR THE WELL-BEING AND RIGHTS OF ITS RESIDENTS DESPITE A BITING lake-spun wind and skies

thick with the threat of first snow, Dennice Barr arrived at Spot Coffee on Chippewa last October by foot. We were meeting to discuss her grassroots activism. Barr was coming most immediately from a meeting of the Buffalo Parent-Teacher Organization, where the topic of conversation had been the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, which puts time and route restrictions on students who use the Metro system despite charging the district unlimited-use fares per child—restrictions that raise safety concerns and contribute to tardiness and absenteeism, parents argue. But Barr’s 18-minute-each-way trek began that morning in the Fruit Belt, where the 60-something-year-old has lived, on and off, nearly her whole life. Barr’s decision to brave the frigid weather wasn’t made in some fanatic commitment to fitness. It was the less unappealing of two options: wait up to 60 minutes for a bus in her neighborhood or hoof it in the cold. As a public transit-dependent city resident, Barr may be inconvenienced by limited weekend service, but she will not be throttled by it. That morning, though, Barr wasn’t so concerned with her own transportation troubles as she was that of her neighbors—the aforementioned students, the senior citizen of the Fruit Belt for whom walking is not an option, and the homeless trying to find refuge in subway cars and transportation centers. “The weather’s set in,” she said somberly as her mind travelled to the men, women, and children who live on Buffalo’s streets. She wondered out loud how executives and officials justify making six figures a year and taking bonuses and salary increases when the people they’re supposed to be serving are not getting served. “We just don’t value people anymore,” she lamented with a quiet dignity that pervades most of her speech. “We’re so concerned about property, property, property. We’ve lost our sense of what’s really important.” When asked if she thinks Buffalo of yesteryear operated with more humanity, she wavered between a definitive yes and cynical uncertainty. 6

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“All I know is that, in my lifetime, I need to see a difference.” Barr believes that a disregard for individual human life undergirds our city’s social ills. Rallying against that collective mindset and pushing back against its manifestations is thematic to her activism. The focus of Barr’s work isn’t the city’s relationship with the NFTA, although she is happy to fight the good fight for ridership rights when and where her insights and voice are needed. Her primary concern is the Fruit Belt and its denizens, and the resounding effects of City Hall’s decades of disinvestment in a community disfigured but not nearly broken by the ravages of “progress.” Barr lives in a Fruit Belt home that has been in her family for two generations and close to 75 years. When she was a child, it was owned by her aunt, Mama Kay—a fitting moniker for the woman who served as a mother figure to her during a period in life Barr describes as complicated. From the time she was four years old, Barr recalls spending significant time at the family homestead immersed in the rich tapestry of Fruit Belt life. After church on Sundays, the married couple across the street from Mama Kay’s played jazz records from the back of their home, the notes wafting through their shared airspace as sweetly as the scent of roasting cereal grains. In warm weather, neighbors would open their windows and doors to the music—a communal soundtrack to the quotidian chores and social calls that characterized the Sundays of her youth. “That’s where I think I really got that sense of community from,” said Barr. Today, the Fruit Belt looks and sounds differently than she remembers, even as other facets of the community remain intact. One half of the jazzplaying couple still lives across the street, for instance, but the records have stopped spinning. And even though Mama Kay is gone, her maternal spirit seems to live on in Barr. John Washington, director of organizing at PUSH Buffalo, first met Barr five or six years ago when they both were working with Citizen Action of New York to stop out-of-school suspensions in public schools. He got to know her best when he was assigned to work with the Fruit Belt Advisory Council to develop a campaign around getting a community benefit from the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, which sits adjacent to the Fruit Belt and has been a source of parking, infrastructure, and pricing woes for the neighborhood. He describes her as a second mother to himself and others. “The way she cares for especially young black men, and recognizes the need and that it takes

LOCAL NEWS a village,” he said in a phone interview. “She is a person who sees people, knows what people are going through in their lives, and tries little things to support them and help them show up with their full selves.” “If you walk the Fruit Belt with Dennice Barr,” he continued, “it’s going to take you an hour, because she is going to stop and talk to everyone she sees, and everyone knows her. She has relationships with absolutely every single person, from drug dealers to church leaders, whether they like her, or they don’t. Every single person stops to talk to her.” In addition to compassion, Barr displays peerless clarity of purpose, determination, intensity, and consistency, which Washington says has enabled her to break down barriers and get people to yield to the community’s demands when no one else could. “Elected officials, people on the medical campus, and developers respect her and know that she isn’t going away,” he said. “When she wants something, she demands it very clearly, framed in a very old-school, fair way. She has a real dignity and knows what her community deserves, and she doesn’t back off from that.” When Barr walks the Fruit Belt, she must be acutely aware of the testament of the physical landscape and all the ways it is at once different and the same. Well-looked-after homes near expanses of vacant lots and dilapidated properties speak to the pride of place that continues to suffuse the fabric of the neighborhood despite decades of redlining. Discriminatory disinvestment and unfair lending practices have plagued predominately African American neighborhoods like the Fruit Belt for decades, making it supremely difficult if not impossible for residents to buy homes or escape poverty. Redlining can also refer to insufficient municipal services. In the Fruit Belt, dozens of sinkholes have cropped up in recent years, often going untended by the city for unacceptable lengths of time. Barr attributes the problem to the medical campus and the massive waterflow it demands it puts on Fruit Belt’s aged water system, with residents suffering the consequences. “The city has come through, and they’re putting

in new hydrants and it’s beautiful, right? But if they’re not repairing what’s underneath the streets first, what difference is it going to make?” she wondered. For other problems, Barr blames an economy that no longer values the individual contributions of the people who comprise its workforce. “You are very much aware when you work at a site where you’re not valued, and your work is not valued. At some point, you’re going to get discouraged.” That disrespect and the discouragement it breeds, Barr contends, is contagious and permeating. If you’re hard-pressed to take pride in your work because your work doesn’t take pride in you, that indignity carries over into your self-perception and your interactions with others, which in turn compromises their dignity. It’s a vicious cycle that wears at the bonds of community. As president of the Fruit Belt Advisory Council, Barr has been working hard to disrupt the cycles and forces that have been holding her community back. Most recently, she was instrumental to the organization of the F.B. Community Land Trust, which last year secured an agreement with local officials to assume ownership of a number of cityowned parcels for the development of affordable housing and commercial enterprises. The transfer is part of a larger strategic development plan for the neighborhood that assures the Fruit Belt community a say in how the land is used. Barr, for one, would like to see the Fruit Belt once again be self-sustaining, with a community center that serves the precise needs of surrounding residents and a healthy retail and service economy like the wealthier, unmarginalized neighborhoods of Buffalo. The talent is there, she says, they just need help making a livelihood of it. Recent developments with the community land trust give her hope that the days of outsiders profiting off of her community are numbered. “It’s coming. And that’s a beautiful thing, because you know what? For my neighbor that lives across the street from me that’s probably in her late 80s or early 90s, I want her to see, in her lifetime, that her efforts and sweat equity have not gone to waste. I hear that clock ticking in my head all P the time.”

LOOKING BACKWARD: MILITARY ROAD SCHOOL, 1908 School No. 42, located at Military Road and Clay Street, is the oldest public school building still standing in the City of Buffalo. The “Military Road School” was erected in 1883 in what was then the rural outskirts of Black Rock. It was originally designed to house 50 students, was expanded with the annex at right in 1894, and by 1920 housed 370 students. In 1908, when this photograph was taken by the Department of Public Works, the school was determined to be overcrowded and unsafe. In a 1911 Buffalo Times account, one alderman called the school “a dilapidated old barracks” and “a disgrace to the city to house children in a place of that kind.” It is the only wood-frame public school to survive in Buffalo..- THE PUBLIC STAFF DAILYPUBLIC.COM / JANUARY 17 - 30, 2019 / THE PUBLIC

ART REVIEW of historic significance or one that prevailed in a sea battle might feature a commemorative plaque inset into the floor timber—there is a dedication or inscription hand-printed in magic marker. The dedication on the Leviathan is to “the real Leviathans,” the real world warships and ocean liners made over into troop ships, particularly “of World War I fame,” and the “military veterans of that time period,” going on to list some actual veterans, concluding with “Sen. John S. McCain.” Other dedications on other vessels. On the Alexandria, a flagship of the Layland Cruise Line—said to be modeled on the real world Cunard and White Star lines—to Edward Austin Kent of Buffalo, New York, who “died 4/15/1912 on the RMS Titanic, RIP,” among other notables including Shirley Temple Black and Fred Rogers. On the Romania, also operated by the Layland company, to the victims of 9/11, and the Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Pulse Nightclub mass shootings. And inscriptions. On the foredeck of the Diamond Isle III, a “party ship” operated by the Diamond Cruise Line, mythologist Joseph Campbell’s dictum, “Follow your bliss.” And on the Bella Contesss, operated by Grace Cruises, a slightly morose meditation from no less than Napoleon Bonaparte, “Everything on earth is soon forgotten except the memories we leave upon history…”

JUSTIN HIGNER'S BOATS AT THE CASTELLANI BY JACK FORAN Push pins, glue sticks (any color), colored glue, geographics [illegible word, possibly art], and office signs…and fun with art kit, and fun to paint kit, and fun with paper kit… —from an early career [undated] Justin Higner wish list letter to Santa AN UNUSUAL AND unusually interesting exhibit at the

Castellani Art Museum comprises a few score of artist Justin Higner’s huge collection of boat models that are more than models in that they constitute a whole imaginary world of ships and shipping enterprises, with elaborate histories that reflect real-world ships and the corporations that own and operate them, as well as the real-world histories of the models in the their making and subsequent vicissitudes, including remaking and renaming after mishaps, or maybe just repurposing for other maritime service, much the way actual vessels are repurposed as they age and obsolesce. Vessels of impressive proportions for models, over 12 feet in length in several cases. And no kit work here, but entirely freehand constructions, composed of a wide variety of materials from wood to plastic to papier mâché to string to tape to Christmas tree lights. Nor any fussy over-meticulousness in the fabrication of the models, despite painstaking attention to structural details inside and out, including cut-glass chandeliers in dining rooms and ballrooms on regular route liners and cruise ships, and here

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and there smallish reproductions of paintings by artists the likes of Charles Burchfield, James Vullo, and Jackie Felix. And stage performance areas, and art deco décor night clubs, and exotic theme barrooms. Swimming pools, even. The centerpiece vessel of the exhibit—one of the 12-footers— is the Leviathan. Initially a regular route passenger liner, made over into a troop transport ship for World War I and World War II service, then later into a cruise ship, and finally a hotel ship. (Fairly precisely on the model of the actual RMS Queen Mary, made over into a troop ship during both world wars, and after each military tour returned to regular route service, until finally retired from transport service altogether, and now permanently moored at Long Beach, California, near Los Angeles, where it functions as a tourist attraction restaurant and museum and hotel.) On most of the models, on the foredeck—where a ship

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While most of the boats on show look to be in excellent operating condition—some even appear to be in operation, with some darkish cottony material seeming to emanate from smokestacks— there are some wrecks as well. Reflecting real world of shipping actualities, but also real world of model-making and collecting actualities. When a model might somehow get left outdoors in the elements unprotected. Wrecks include the Aquar——-, the truncated name all that remains of the original name on the prow, part of which has been detached and removed in scrap salvage operations. And the Buckinghamshire, fictionally the shipwreck remnant of a storm at sea. In fact—the artist acknowledges—the model “was improperly stored out in the back garage and was gradually dripped upon over a number of weeks…” The exhibit includes a dozen or so videos of old newsreels or other documentary footage on historic ships in the making and operation that the artist avers were inspirational to the modelmaking project. This excellent show is called The Higner Maritime Collection: Twenty-Five Years of Ship Building by Justin Higner. (He himself isn’t much older than that. But started the project when he was ten. You get more done if you start early.) It runs until P March 17.

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tel, Pencil & Paint, works in various media by Sandy Ludwig. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. = REVIEWED THIS ISSUE = ART OPENING Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue BufAlbright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Ave- falo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery. nue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albright- com): Works from the collection. Thuknox.org): Aria Dean, solo exhibition through Sat 11am-5pm. Jan 13; Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, Big Orbit Project Space (30d Essex Street, Bufthrough Jan 6; We the People: New Art from falo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-bigthe Collection, through Jun 30. Tue-Sun orbit): Ulysses Atwhen: Hoarder. Sat 12-6pm. 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) unBOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main til 10pm. St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Tutelary, an installaAnna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, tion by Obsidian Bellis. Every day 4-10pm. Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annakaplancontemporary.art): Semi Fictions: Recent Paint- ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery (148 Elmwood Avenue, ing by Julian Montague, on view through Feb Buffalo, NY 14201, buenvivirgallery.org): TueFri 1:30-4:30pm, Fri 6-8pm, Sat 1-3pm. 15. Wed-Fri 11am-3pm or by appointment. Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 14207, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com/ 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833argus-gallery): Integration, works by Moham- 4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Lee Hoag: mad Z. Zaman through Jan 5. Sat 12-3pm, or Amalgams; Sheila Barcik: From the Core. Opening with reception Fri Jan 25, 5-8pm, by appointment. on view through March 2. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buf- Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. falo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Tue-Fri 11amBuffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette 5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, bufArtists Group Gallery (Western New York Art- falolib.org): Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen ists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY City & WWI, 100th Anniversary of America’s 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): Non-jur- Entry into WWI, on second floor. Building ied members Exhibition 2019. Tue-Fri 11am- Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from 5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Buildings, in the Grosvenor Rare Book Room. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, Catalogue available for purchase. Mon-Sat NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Pas- 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm. Tue-Fri 10am-

The only model with the name of an actual ship—and intended as a faithful representation of the actual vessel—is the Edmund Fitzgerald, ore freighter lost in a storm on Lake Superior the night of November 10, 1975, killing all 29 men aboard. It’s also the longest model on display, measuring 12 feet six inches.

5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 8786011, burchfieldpenney.org): Paul Vanouse: Labor, through Mar 31; Portraits From the Collection, through Jun 30; 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 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; 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, caffeology.coffee): Lo-Fi Memories, a ”Found Game Boy Camera” photography project curated by Stevie Boyar. Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120): Wed & Thu 6-8pm, Fri & Sat 12-4pm. Canvas Salon & Gallery (9520 Main Street STE 400, Clarence, NY 14031, 716-320-5867):

Upcoming: Michael Mandolfo: A Distant Voice, photographs, opening with reception Sat Jan 26, 6-9pm. Mon-Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 8am-5pm. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 2868200, castellaniartmuseum.org): The Higner Maritime Collection: 25 Years of Shipbuilding, through Mar 17; Of Their Time: Hudson River School to Postwar Modernism, through Dec 31, 2019; Fashioning Identities: Ethnic Wedding Dress in Western New York, through June 9. Tue-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Liz Bukowski: Hallow Ground; Aitina Fareed-Cooke: Warriors; 2019 Members Exhibition, all shows opening Jan 25, 6-9pm, on view through Feb 23. The Skyway Photo Competition Exhibit. Resilience Through the Lens, collaborative exhibit with Clean Air Coalition of WNY. 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 Mar 9. Open to the public during business hours. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com): Wed-Fri 10:30am-

GALLERIES ART 5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm. Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com): Jack Edson: A Focus on Collectors, through Mar 1. Opening reception Fri, Jan 25, 6-9pm. Tue-Fri, 10am4pm, or by appointment. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Wed-Fri 126pm, Sat 1-5pm. Expo 68 (4545 Transit Road, Williamsville, NY 14221, expo68.com, 458-0081): Leigh Chapman: Bloom Where Planted, on view through Jan 31. Flight Gallery (Flying Bison Brewery, 840 Seneca Street, Buffalo NY 14210): Ashley Johnson: #buffalove, though Jan 31. 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.Thu & Fri 11am7pm, Sat 11am-4pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Carl Lee: Myoptic, plus works by Rebecca Aloisio, both shows through Mar 1. 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): Coming: Lyla Rye: Elusive Space, Feb 1-Mar 2. Opening reception Fri, Feb 1, 6-9pm. 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, jccbuffalo.org): MonThu 5:30am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, SatSun 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, 617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203 ): Peculiar Buffalo: Historical Photography 1900-2012, through Mar 3. Maison Le Caer Downtown (Market Arcade, 617 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203 ): Peculiar Buffalo: Historical Photography 1900-2012, through Mar 3. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Dusk to Dawn, nocturne-inspired works by 17 regional artists. Through Feb 16. Tue-Sat 9:30-5:30pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 2827530, thenacc.org): Artists & Friends Exhibit, through Jan 27. 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): Yola Monakhov Stockton: Monuments of Our Time, photographs, through Jan 13. Mon-Fri 8am4pm, Closed Sat & Sun. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-8825777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Duayne Hatchett: Trowel Paintings, on view through Feb 15. Opening reception Thu, Jan 17, 6-8pm. Tue-Fri 10am–5pm. Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-6523270, norbergsartandframe.com): Regional artists from the gallery collection. TueSat 10am–5pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): Upcoming: The Heart, a group exhibit through Feb 27. Opening reception Fri Feb 1, 7-9pm. Wed-Sat,12-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse.com): Patty Angrisano Ossa, solo exhibit, through Feb 23. Thu, Fri & Sat 6-11pm. Live music Thu-Sat. Pine Apple Company (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, pacobuffalo. com): Wallphabet: An Assortment of Handpainted Letters by Yames. Wed & Thu 11am6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, 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): 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) Mon-Fri 9-4pm.

Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Open by event and Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries. org): Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic; Electric Avenue (In Blue). Wed-Sat 11am5pm, 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): Jillian Mayer: TIMESHARE, on view through May 11. Opening reception Jan 31 5-7pm. Screen Projects: Ezra Wube, through Jan 30. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. TueFri 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. MonFri 6am-5pm, Sat & Sun 7am-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833, villa.edu/campus-life/ gallery): Cheektowaga Schools Exhibit, student artists, through Jan 25. Mon-Fri 9am6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Weeks Gallery (Jamestown Community College, 525 Falconer Street, Jamestown, NY 14702, 338-1301, weeksgallery.sunyjcc. edu): Mon-Fri 11am-4pm, Sat 11am-1pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 3481430, wnybookarts.org): Combination of the Two: Ginny O’Brien & Michael Basinski, opening Jan 17 with reception Fri Jan 18 5-9pm. Through Feb 23. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. To add your gallery’s information to the list, please contact us at info@dailypublic.com P

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EVENTS CALENDAR

ASBURY HALL

D. L. HUGHLEY FRIDAY JANUARY 18 7:30PM / HELIUM COMEDY CLUB, 30 MISSISSIPPI ST. / $37.50-$70

AN EVENING WITH

GEORGE WINSTON

WED 3/13 $35 ADVANCE GA SEATED

BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN

[COMEDY] Comedian D. L. Hughley has been in the game for a long time. Among his many career highlights are his own sitcom, The Hughleys, which aired in the late 1990s, and his many film appearances, including The Original Kings of Comedy, Soul Plane, and Scary Movie 3. But it’s his standup routine that has kept him at the top of the comedy scene for years. His latest standup special, D. L. Hughley: Contrarian, was released on Netflix in 2018, and in it he hits on many hot button issues. Expect more of that when the 55-year-old comedian comes to Buffalo’s Helium Comedy Club for five shows this Friday, January 18 through Sunday, January 20. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

WED 4/3 $45 ADVANCE RESERVED SEATING

9TH WARD

G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23 7PM / TRALF MUSIC HALL, 622 MAIN ST. / $35-$99

PARSONSFIELD WED 1/23 $12 ADV/$15 DAY OF GA STANDING

VUNDABAR

W/NYLON OTTERS, VELVET BETHANY WED 1/30 $12 ADVANCE GA STANDING

NATIVE HARROW FRI 2/1 $10 ADVANCE GA SEATED

SEAN ROWE SUN 2/17 $15 ADVANCE GA STANDING

[FUNK] G. Love & Special Sauce have been making Western New York a habit for years now and it looks like 2019 is no exception. Nearly a year to the day from their visit to the Seneca Niagara Casino, the trio—originally from Philly—is back at the Tralf Music Hall on Wednesday, January 23. For the uninitiated, it’s a musical melting pot that evolved in the early 1990s as a hip hop splinter, incorporating elements of alt-rock and blues into the mix. Garrett “G. Love” Dulton and co. have managed to sustain a heavy touring schedule for 25 years now, and it’s their quarter century anniversary that’s the impetus for this string of dates. There’s a “Pop-off ” package available for eager fans, which includes sitting in at the soundcheck where a Q and A will also happen, early venue entry, a group photo and a limited edition poster. That’s $99, but regular GA tickets are $35. Hawaiian soul mavens Ron Artis II & The Truth will open and are not to be missed. Doors are at 7pm, earlier for “Pop-off ” ticket purchasers, who’ll receive further instructions via email.

BRASSBAND, DIXIELAND, AMERICANA & BURLESQUE 6 SATURDAY JANUARY 26 8PM MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. $15 Brassband,

Dixieland,

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FRIDAY JANUARY 18 Crash Test Dummies 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $32-$38

[ROCK] Alternative rock band, Crash Test Dummies, return to Buffalo for a show at the Town Ballroom on Friday, January 18. The appearance comes in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the band’s seminal album, God Shuffled His Feet, which spawned strange, quirky hits like “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.” The Canadian band comes to town as their “most well known lineup” including Michel Dorge, Ellen Reid, Brad Roberts, and Dan Roberts. -TPS

SATURDAY JANUARY 19 PUBLIC APPROVED

Leyda 8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $6

[INDIE] Start-up indie-pop band Leyda will celebrate the release of their second EP in two years this Saturday, January 19 at Mohawk Place. The five-piece band is led by one-name frontwoman Saffi, who sings and plays piano and clarinet. Leyda will be joined by VHS Era, Zan & the Winter Folk, and The Etchings. -CP

SUNDAY JANUARY 20

name for this one. Expect all of the above and

Women's March

ELISE DAVIS

on Saturday, January 26. The old-timey

WED 2/20 $10 ADVANCE

the Fredtown Stompers, 12/8 Path Band,

music event will feature music by Folkfaces, and Pine Fever as well as burlesque from the Stripteasers. This sixth annual edition

of the event will also feature a small artist village featuring art from Queen City Gallery, Joe Ski, and Kat Solecki. To top it all off, the whole thing is a benefit and food drive for Friends of the Night People, so bring some

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[FUNDRAISER] Time flies: It’s been 10 years since the founding of FC Buffalo, our city’s representative team in the National Premier Soccer League. The team and its owners will mark the decade with a fundraising party on Sunday, January 20 at Town Ballroom. There will be food and drink, of course, raffles and games—the usual Western New York fundraiser fare. The marquee prizes are an incredibly cool bubble hockey game and a weekend at the races at Batavia Downs. Lots of games tickets will be passed out, too. Come out and support your team. Get $5 off admission with a coupon at dailypublic.com. -TPS

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en’t dramatically different, which isn’t a bad thing. But there’s a sense of ease—swagger, almost—running through Drop that makes for the most pleasurable listening of the half-dozen albums the unit has made since frist emerging in 2005. While writing credits are split evenly, it’s likely that vocalist Oliver Wood developed most of these narratives, veering from stories about Mother Nature to ones about human nature and linking the two in clever ways that reveal his imagination. Water, both as a reality and as a metaphor, recurs throughout, even seeping its way into the title. Wood Brothers live shows tend toward a jaw-dropping skill-set display and, after a string of dates opening for Tedeschi-Trucks Band last year, these guys should be limbered up for some fine performances. Catch them at Town Ballroom on Tuesday, January 22 with singer-songwriter Priscilla Renea in the opening slot. Renea has a ton of pop and R&B co-writing credits to her name, keeping her busy enough that nine years passed between her Capitol debut and her new indie release, Coloured. -CJT

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[INDIE] English indie rock band Catfish and the Bottlemen will play a special unplugged set at the Rec Room on Wednesday, January 23. The popular four-piece alternative rock band are in between albums—their last was 2016’s The Ride, which was released on Capitol records, so don’t be surprised if they end up working out some new material on stage. The show is free, but the only way to gain access is to win tickets through 103.3 The Edge, so tune in for details. Buffalo-based indie rock band The Eaves open the show. -CP

[ROCK] As an offshoot of Medeski, Martin, and Wood, one would expect the Wood Brothers to let loose a bit from their contained rootsy folk, and with 2015’s Paradise, they did it. At least a little. Last year’s One Drop of Truth continues that trend, serving a freed-up feel that can only come with the sort of group chemistry that builds over time. In this case, they purposefully shook it up, self-producing for the first time and recording in spurts over the course of a year in various Nashville studios while also employing four different mixing talents to handle the finished songs. Curiously, the results ar-

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have been delivering a tasty blend of roots music since forming outside Ithaca in 1989. Along the way they’ve recorded with Jim Lauderdale and Bela Fleck, while vocalist Tara Nevins toured in Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann’s band BK3 back in 2009. It’s the skilled blend of folk, country, and rock, infused with elements of Cajun/Zydeco music and flourishes of reggae that make this five-piece a consistent festival draw. That, and the musical intimacy that develops from 30 years of touring together. This time through, they’re supporting last year’s Dancing in the Street — their first new music since 2013. The disc was recorded with producer/engineer and former Island Records VP Rob Fraboni (Dylan, Clapton, the Band, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys) at his Sonic Ranch—the world’s largest residential recording studio, which happens to be located right by El Paso’s Mexican border, right where so-and-so is looking to build his wall. This is joyous music, often delivered with an important message, that’s a melting pot of influences from all over the world. There’s something satisfying and defiant about knowing it was recorded at the ground zero of our so-called leader’s ongoing temper tantrum. Donna the Buffalo returns to the Tralf Music

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lately: Dave Ruch on guitar, Jim Whitford on bass, and Jim Celeste on drums. Throw in Joe Bellanti on keyboards and accordion and you've got Dave Ruch & Friends, who will warm up Buffalo Distilling Co. on Friday, January 25. These veterans can (and will) play just about anything that comes to their minds, but expect a solidly Americana vibe, beautiful musicianship, and killer vocals from all four. -TPS

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[JAZZ] The Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Art of Jazz series kicks off the new year on Sunday, January 27 with the Joe Lovano Trio. Lovano, a master of the tenor sax, has toured and recorded with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Mulgrew Miller, Ed Blackwell, Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, John Scofield, and Jim Hall. He appears here as a leader, though, with Carmen Castaldi on drums and Marilyn Crispell on piano. There's a pre-concert talk at 2pm by Art of Jazz coordinator Bruce eaton on jazz history's legendary trios. -TPS

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[POP] In order for something like this to work, it needs to be done well. While we can’t vouch for this particular production, it's received a series of four-star reviews and has gained enough momentum elsewhere to tour the US later this year. Through film clips and photo stills, the show establishes a narrative that follows the duo from their school-chum beginnings as Tom & Jerry, up through 1981's The Concert in Central Park, with a live band and talented vocalists. While the oft-estranged duo managed to put differences behind them and tour in 200304, this might be the best (and only) way that remains to enjoy their music in a live setting—especially given Paul Simon's official retirement last year. Tuesday, January 29 at 7:30pm at UB Center for the Arts' P Mainstage Theatre. -CJT

ambient and experimental music than it does techno. There are most certainly aspects of techno and house at the foundation of his music, but kaleidoscopic sound collages and atmospheric rhythms often take the forefront, making for transcendent sonic achievements which have manifested themselves across records like his 2013 debut Colonial Patterns and 2016’s For Those of You Who

Have Never (And Also Those Who Have). Hailing from New York City by way of Kansas City, the rising artist has released records on Oneohtrix Point Never’s label, Software Records and Anthony Naples’ Proibito label in the few years he’s been active. This month he’s the headlining artist for the next Strange Allure party, which happens on Saturday, January 26. For this, the 20th volume of the underground party series, he’ll be joined by Friends of Music and DJ Nasor. The party is, as usual, set up at an undisclosed location. Location details will be released the day of the show via email for ticket holders and email subscribers. For tickets, ask around. Limited tickets available at door. -CORY PERLA

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Samir Alowbali in the ring.

NEW AND OLD BUFFALO COLLIDE AT GOLDEN GLOVES BY AARON LOWINGER IN 1947 THE Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament brought

out 13,176 into the still new Memorial Auditorium. The Courier Express, which sponsored the tourney, claimed the championship bouts set an early attendance record for the Aud. Seems like a different world, a different city than today’s Buffalo; an economy based on manual labor supplied by various European ethnic enclaves, northward-migrating African Americans whose sons comprised the hopeful contestants in the Golden Gloves. In today’s Buffalo, the most prevalent vestige of boxing culture appears in office workers shelling out to fitness clubs and gyms for boxing classes and personal training. Some of the benefits of the total body fitness that boxers endure without getting punched in the face. Or liver. But boxing, the sort where some as young as single digits suit up in reds and blues, headgear and gloves, persists in a handful of gyms throughout the city. Most are limited by financial resources, gym availability, trainer and sparring availability, and usually all of the above, resulting in tribal disputes among trainers, gyms, and fighters over the crumbs.

Buffalo Boxing Club opened last year with a mission to change all that and offer Buffalo boxers and trainers a space to work on their craft in a large storefront on Elmwood Avenue in Kenmore with little else besides an elevated ring, heavy bags, the national flags of some of the members, black and white sticker posters of classic fights, and a water cooler. On a recent weekday night visit, around 20 people from almost every walk of Buffalo life were hanging in the gym, working out, and getting in some sparring.

both dig the competitive, collegial atmosphere of the gym. “I just feel like I have a great time when I come here and work out,” she said. “Like everybody’s here to work towards something and you just feed off of that. Everybody helps each other out. Right. And I feel like there’s no judgment. Like you’re just here to learn and do better.” Hoflich, with an 0-4 record in amateur fights, is entered in the Gloves for the first time and hopes to get a fight if there’s a match at her weight.

A very loose vibe in the gym, lead by its relaxed owner, Joe Mahiques, who invested in the club and the sport locally as a hobby. Business with his main endeavor—Allentown Pizza— was going well, but he had a dream to give area boxers a training experience above what they’ve been able to access.

In the gym trimming down to 114 pounds is a young man primed to assume the mantle as one of the best pound-for-pound amateurs in the tournament, which draws fighters from throughout Upstate New York, Samir Alowbali. Alowbali’s family is part-owner of a former corner store that recently expanded into a 12,000-squarefoot supermarket at the corner Bailey and Kensington avenues, where Alowbali puts in 10 to 12 hour days, trying not to eat too much of the food he prepares as he ramps up his training.

Four fighters who regularly train at the Buffalo Boxing Club are set to compete in the Golden Gloves. Splitting time between the Kenmore club and the longtime gym in the Northwest Community Center is 16-year-old Diaa Zabadani. Resident of Black Rock by way of Damascus, Syria, Zabadani found his way to boxing through the principal at Lafayette International High School, John Starkey, who established a boxing program with several area gyms. Zabadani said he’s the only one of 50 still active in boxing since the program started in November 2017. Zabadani credits boxing for helping him manage his emotions and get to know Buffalo. “As you can see the gym is bringing the community together,” he said, nodding to a group of four men training and speaking Russian. “I meet new people everyday and I learned a lot of things.” A sophomore currently, Zabadani says he’s at the top of his class with a 99 average, and wants to study international law. “He’s the best guy in the world,” Mahiques kept repeating about Zabadani. In the meantime, Zabadani will see his first fight at the Golden Gloves later this month. When asked if his parents will be there, Zabadani said no way. “My mother thinks it’s a big issue. She does not want me to box because I’m her favorite child. I’m the middle one and she always gets afraid when I get hit or something.”

Diaa Zabadani.

Last year was the first live action for 29-year-old mail carrier, Anthony Faulise, who dropped a split decision in last year’s tournament finals. He’s been training steady for two years, has a love for the sport that he doesn’t seem to understand himself. “I don’t know, I like getting hit and like hitting people. It just like releases all that stress from the day, all the B.S. going around you and all of life. You just can come in and let it out and then you’re hugging each other after beating each other up. There’s something weird about it that I just love.” Faulise came to Buffalo Boxing Club from another area gym with Erin Hoflich, a precious metals commodities trader by day, who

He’s 22 years old now, three years into training, and lost in the national finals last year, but he’s feeling like he’s getting closer to something. “I definitely want to go pro,” he said, meaning leaving the unpaid amateur ranks behind and become a prizefighter. “I put in so much time with boxing, it’d be kind of disappointing just to not go all the way with it.” And his hardworking Yemeni parents who were dead set against him fighting to begin with are starting to come around. “My mom is still kind of against it, you know? But she kind of evolved. She went from ‘You shouldn’t be doing this sport’ to ‘You know what, I hope you make something of this sport.’ And my dad kind of went, like, ‘Stop wasting your time with this’ to ‘You want to go all the way? Just go.’” Like Diaa Zabadani’s parents, however, you won’t catch them ringside at Riverworks on the January 27. “My mom doesn’t want to see me get hurt or anything. And my dad, no, he never has the time, he’s either working or he’s at home.” The attendance at the Gloves on January 27 won’t be anything close to what it was in 1947, but it still offers a similar experience: bite-size slices of present Buffalo lives challenging themselves and P putting it all on the line in pursuit of a dream.

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FILM REVIEW That last would once have roused the ire of the film community: You may remember the hue and cry that greeted Ted Turner’s attempts to colorize classic black-and-white movies in the late 1980s. But this is different. For one thing, the technology is far superior. And what Jackson was working with was documentary footage that attempted simply to capture what the eye saw. That’s different from a Hollywood film in which the director of photography, the lighting designer, the costumers, makeup artists, set designers, and everyone else was working with a knowledge of how their work would appear on black-andwhite film. Jackson, by contrast, had the desire and the ability to recreate the experience of war the way those who fought it saw it. More importantly, he wanted to bring the faces and bodies of those soldiers to life in a way that would not allow the viewer to disengage from them. And at that he succeeded spectacularly. As vivid as his footage is, though, arguably what fully brings the experience to life is the soundtrack, composed of voice recordings with men who fought in the war. He has taken the voices of more than 100 interviewees compiled in the decades after the war and woven them into an almost seamless commentary on what we are seeing. Given the amount of material he was given to whittle

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Yet Warner Brothers won’t give it a proper theatrical release, limiting it to special event screenings in limited cities. It will be at the Dipson Amherst next Monday, January 21, for two shows only. Advance tickets are available at the theater’s website: If you want to see this in a theater, you would be well advised not to wait until the day of the show to your tickets.

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so far as to employ lip-readers to figure out what anyone visibly speaking on camera was saying so that he could have an actor speak those lines. What They Shall Not Grow Old is not is grim, at least not as grim as you might expect. Jackson has said that it was important to him

BY M. FAUST FOR AS LONG as I’ve been writing about movies, I have never understood the thinking of the people who market and distribute them. Take the case of They Shall Not Grow Old, Peter Jackson’s documentary using lavishly restored footage of soldiers from the First World War. It has received rave reviews, and public interest in it is extremely high. The billions of dollars Jackson made with his six Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films alone should be enough to make the marketers swoon.

down, the effort must have been Herculean. Jackson even went

to find the humor in these lives, because that was all they had to

Jackson, whose grandfather and great-uncle died in the war (the former after more than 20 years of suffering from his injuries), set out not to provide an overview of the war but to bring to life the men—boys, really, for the most part—who fought and died in it. He was commissioned by the BBC and Imperial War Museum to take hundreds of hours of film in their archives, most of which had never been seen by the public, and turn it into a 30-minute documentary to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the end of the war.

hold themselves together under utterly awful conditions. Given

He was a wise choice. His experience in special effects technology over the past 20 years made him aware of everything that could be done to restore this grainy old footage to a condition that would engage modern audiences: restoring the image quality, adjusting the speeds, and colorizing it.

Despite the horrors it eventually portrays (as unflinchingly as

the endless detail of ill-fitting clothing, non-existent sanitation, lice, food, latrines, brothels, rats, and on and on, you come away with the impression that the Germans they faced across the trenches were the least of their worries. It’s no surprise that many of the voices we hear speak of empathy for the Germans, who were in every important way in the same situation as them.

everything else), They Shall Not Grow Old is finally not a film about war. It is a film about soldiers, and one of the best ever made on the subject.

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IN THEATERS FILM

AN EVENING OF SHORT FILMS WITH TERRY JONES The Native American filmmaker will present eight of his short films. The program includes a Q & A and traditional Iroquois roast corn soup. Free and open to the public this Thursday, January 17 at 5pm at the Screening Room, 880 Alberta Drive, Amherst.

AT THE MOVIES

a century after it was made. In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against in-

A selective guide to what’s opening and what’s playing in local moviehouses and other venues.

tolerable conditions, which spills over into a street demonstration in Odessa that is brutally brought down by the police. Sat, Mon 5:30pm. Screening Room A BREAD FACTORY (Part One & Two)—Likely to

OPENING THIS WEEK GLASS—M. Night Shyamalan’s sequel to both 2016’s Split and 2000’s Unbreakable. Starring James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson, Bruce Willis, and Samuel L. Jackson. Dipson Flix, Maple Ridge (AMC), Market

Arcade (AMC), Regal Elmwood Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Walden Galleria

be the film event of the season, if the reviews by critics who have already seen Patrick Wang’s epic two-part film are to be trusted. A struggling art space threatened by a better funded but vapid competitor is the backdrop for an exploration of community that has drown comparisons to the work of Robert Altman, Jacques Rivette, Christopher Guest, Edward Yang, and Richard Linklater. Familiar faces in the ensemble cast include Tyne Daly,

OPENING JANUARY 25:

Janeane Garofalo, Glynnis O’Connor, and Bri-

SERENITY—The least interesting trailer of

an Murray. Each part runs two hours; they will

recent months has to be the one for this

be separated by a dinner break. Presented by

noirsh-looking drama starring Matthew Mc-

Cultivate Cinema Circle. Sat 3pm, 7pm. Hall-

Conaughey as a fishing boat captain with

walls

a mysterious past that catches up with him

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)—

when his ex-wife (Anne Hathaway) shows

As the titular western outlaws of the early

up looking for help. Give it the beneit of

1900s, Paul Newman and Robert Redford rob

the doubt given that writer-director Ste-

one train too many and have to outrun a pos-

ven Knight (Locke) has created some of

se that is determined not to let them escape.

England’s more interesting recent shows, including Peaky Blinders and Taboo. With Diane Lane, Jason Clarke, and Djimon Hounsou. Area theaters

Even the sourest Monday morning critic of the Oscars wouldn’t begrudge the ones this eternally popular film won, for best script (William Goldman), cinematography (Conrad

STAN AND OLLIE—Steve Coogan and John

Hall) and song (“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My

C. Reilly as the beloved film comedy team

Head.”) With Katharine Ross, Strother Martin,

Laurel and Hardy, seen late in life as they

Henry Jones, Jeff Corey, George Furth, Cloris

embark on a tour of England in the hope of

Leachman, Ted Cassidy, and Kenneth Mars.

reviving their faded film career. With Shirley

Directed by George Roy Hill. Fri Sat Wed Sat

Henderson, Nina Arianda, Danny Huston, and

1/26 Sun 1/27 7:30pm, Wed 12:30pm. Screen-

Rufus Jones. Directed by Jon S. Baird (Filth).

Area theaters

AVAILABLE NOW FROM THE PUBLIC BOOKS AND FOUNDLINGS PRESS:

ing Room CHRISTINE (1983)—John Carpenter’s adapta-

WHERE THE STREETS ARE PAVED WITH RUST Essays by Bruce Fisher about Rust Belt economies, environments, and politics. The financial decline of the middle class is the issue of our time. Bruce Fisher’s Where The Streets Are Paved With Rust is a must read for anyone

seriously trying to understand why it happened and how to fix it. —Ted Kaufman, former United States Senator and advisor to Vice President Joe Biden

To understand Rust Belt politics, you can’t do better than to read Bruce Fisher’s excellent essay collection. —Catherine Tumber, Senior Research Associate with Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Fellow with the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth’s Gateway Cities Innovation Institute, and author of Small, Green, and Gritty

Available at TALKING LEAVES BOOKS 951 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo tleavesbooks.com Also available through https://gum.co/SCKj or foundlingszine@gmail.com

tion of Steven King’s novel about a killer 1957

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA

Plymouth Fury inaugurates a new series of

BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (USSR, 1925)—Sergei Ei-

Thursday Night Terrors. Starring Keith Gor-

senstein was the inventor of much of what we

don, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert

recognize as film grammar, and his historical

Prosky, and Harry Dean Stanton. Thu 1/24

epic of revolution remains powerful nearly

7pm. Dipson Amherst

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ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Lancaster Ave. 3 BR upper w/2 porches, natural woodwork, w/d hookups. No pets, no smoking. $1100+utilities. Apartment of the week. 716-883-0455. --------------------------------------------------NORWOOD BTWN SUMMER & BRYANT: Freshly painted 1BR, carpets, appliances, mini-blinds, parking, coinop laundry, sec. sys. Includes water & elec. No pets, no smoking. $695+sec. 912-0175. ---------------------------------------------------

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ROOM FOR RENT $400 Per Mo. Incl. util./kitchen privileges Commonwealth off Hertel, 390-7543.

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LINWOOD: Large, bright 2 BR, entire floor of a brick mansion, 1,300 sq ft. Hardwood floors in BRs and LR. Offstreet parking, laundry. Convenient to UB, Canisius, Medical Campus. $975 includes all utilities. 1 month security, lease, no pets, no smoking. 886-1953. ---------------------------------------------------ROOM FOR RENT: $450/month, private bath, all utilities, kitchen, laundry, parking privileges, located off NF Blvd in Amherst, 440-0208. No smokers. ------------------------------------------------DELAWARE PARK: Beautiful 1BR. Appliances. Laundry. Hardwood. Granite. Porch, ceiling fan. $950 includes utilities. No pets/smoking. 866-0314. -------------------------------------------------UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS: Updated large 3BR. Off-street parking, appliances, semi-furnished, water, garbage. Laundromat across street. Bus stop in front, close to metro. 716-553-2570. -------------------------------------------------LOVEJOY AREA: Beautiful 2 BD with appl,carpet,porch,laundry,parking,no pets, 650 + deposit 406-2363, leave message -------------------------------------------------OXFORD/WEST FERRY: Private 3rd flr 2 BR, newly updated, w/appliances, off street parking. Convenient to medical corridor, Canisius College, bus routes. 875 + utilities. 716-254-4773. -------------------------------------------------HERTEL AVE/N. BUFFALO: 3 BR upper. $900+utilities & sec dep. No pets, off-street pkng. Call 716.308.6870

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.

THE ARTS CALL FOR ARTISTS: The 20th Annual Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts is seeking Artists, Craftspeople, Musicians, Dancers, Community Groups, Food Vendors and more. For information and to apply, please go to: https://elmwoodartfest.org. The Festival always takes place on the weekend before Labor Day weekend. -------------------------------------------------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.

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, Defendants.

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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.

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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. -------------------------------------------------EXPERIENCED COOK: Experienced cook wanted. Call Joe @ 716.308.6870 for more details. ------------------------------------------------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

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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

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, 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.

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