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BUFFALO IS CANCELED: OUR READERS’ NOTES ON THE SNOWSTORM

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THE GRUMPY GHEY: MAKING THE CASE FOR BOBBIE GENTRY

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CENTERFOLD: DAVID PRATT AT THE BURCHFIELD PENNEY

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SPOTLIGHT: A NEW DANCE PARTY: BIG MOOD AT DUENDE

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ON DAILYPUBLIC.COM: NEW ERA CAP COMPANY REMAINS DETERMINED TO CLOSE ITS DERBY MANUFACTURING PLANT IN MARCH. LOCAL LABOR ACTIVISTS ARE DETERMINED TO SHAME THE COMPANY’S CEO, CHRISTOPHER KOCH, INTO KEEPING JOBS HERE. READ HOW A SIMILAR SITUATION PLAYED OUT FOR A MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS VENDOR IN EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

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UPS & DOWNS: Some short takes on local news. Find more at dailypublic.com.

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LOOKING BACKWARD: Open hearth at Bethlehem Steel.

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ART: Ulysses Atwhen’s Hoarder at Big Orbit Gallery.

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FILM: Shoplifters, Cold War, Destroyer, Serenity, plus capsule reviews and cinema listings.

CROSSWORD: Another devilish puzzle by Matt Jones.

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EVENTS: Valentine’s Day with The Public and CBW, plus much more to do and see.

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LOCAL NEWS

THIS WEEK’S UPS AND DOWNS

BY THE PUBLIC STAFF

UPS: We like it when qualified people are promoted into public offices independent of political considerations, so we were happy to see VANESSA GLUSHEFSKI, an attorney and accountant, elevated to acting comptroller for the City of Buffalo.

The way forward to keep the seat won’t be easy for Glushefski, with a veritable shmazel of candidates and factions vying for the Common Council’s blessing for the interim role, including the Council’s own RICHARD FONTANA and possibly the son of majority leader David Rivera, JON RIVERA. Add to that list of hopefuls Assemblyman SEAN RYAN, an ally of both Riveras, who has made no secret of his intention to run for mayor of Buffalo the next time that seat is on the ballot, in 2021; the citywide-elected office of the comptroller offers a pretty good bully pulpit for someone who entertains that ambition. (If Ryan seeks the seat, expect Jon Rivera—a veteran political operative who played an active role in getting Ryan elected to the state Assembly—to withdraw from consideration.) Whoever gets the nod as interim from the Common Council will face a short cycle until the primary, where Glushefski—if she seeks election to the seat—might benefit from having already activated a citywide ground game in her competitive challenge to Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw in 2017.

However, Ryan has a strong political team, deeper political alliances, and greater name recognition by dint of his current elected office. Especially with a Common Council that would rather get along with the mayor than keep his power in check, Buffalo would be well served by Glushefski or Ryan, who—each for separate reasons—will feel unencumbered by fealty to the mayor when doing the job of watching the city’s purse.

And speaking of SEAN RYAN: Last week Ryan attended a gathering of public officials at the grave of SHIRLEY CHISHOLM in Forest Lawn to commemorate Chisholm’s historic race for president, which she launched on January 25, 1972. Chisholm served in the state Assembly and the US House of Representatives before becoming the first African-American woman to run for the presidency; she retired from politics, married a man from Buffalo, and died here in 2005. At last week’s gathering, Ryan announced that he would promote legislation to form and fund a commission to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Chisholm’s 1972 campaign, which might, at minimum, include erecting a statue of Chisholm in her adopted city of Buffalo—which has far too few public statues honoring women, African Americans, and progressive political heroes such as Chisholm.

What’d we say about Ryan running for mayor in 2021?

It snowed—a lot. BUT WE’RE STILL IN PRINT.

DOWNS: When CATHOLIC CHARITIES launched their annual fundraising appeal, they took the unusual approach of announcing $1.4 million in funds already secured, just under 10 percent of their total goal of $11 million. In previous years, the appeal was launched with the announcement of new or successful programming and never included any dollar amount already raised. Evidently, the message Catholic Charities is trying to send this year isn’t “Give to us, we do great work”—which they, in many cases, do—but “See, people do still support us.” In the wake of Catholic Charities’ abrupt termination of its foster care program rather than comply with policies protecting LGBTQ foster parents from discrimination, and of course the ongoing priest sexual abuse scandal, it’s clear that the diocese is worried about pulling in its usual contribution from the community. The Buffalo News has reported that $8 million has been earmarked for settlements to victims of sexual abuse, and that some victims have been denied “awards”—as the diocese likes to call them— for purely procedural reasons. With the state primed to enact child sex victims legislation, the dollar amount of owed money is sure to climb, and many habitual contributors have to be asking themselves who they’re really donating money to, this time around, and in whose name? We really feel for committed Catholics in Western New York who deserve far better leadership than they’re getting.

Last week, state Senator ROB ORTT of Niagara County—a Republican clearly frustrated by his relegation to the minority caucus in the state Senate—sent out a pair of huffy statements railing against legislation that state Democrats are using their legislative majorities to pursue. The first he called, in his statement, the “FREE COLLEGE FOR ILLEGALS ACT”; the second he called the “ABORTION ON DEMAND BILL.” Leaving aside the actual content of the bills to which Ortt takes exception, we note that those are not what the bills are called in either the Assembly or the Senate. So, what we want to know: Did Ortt purchase naming rights to these bills? And, if so, did he pay out of pocket or with campaign funds?

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BUFFALO IS CANCELED

BY THE PUBLIC STAFF • PHOTOS BY JOE GEORGE

SOME OF OUR READERS’ REFLECTIONS DURING AND ABOUT THE WIND AND SNOW THAT SHUT DOWN THE REGION FOR TWO DAYS. This edition of The Public was meant to be sent to our printer on Wednesday, January 30 and hit the streets the next day. Instead, like most Western New Yorkers, we spent a couple days keeping our houses warm and staring out the window at the fearsome power of the wind. We asked our readers to spend the downtime sending us some thoughts and images provoked by the storm and by this question: Where is Buffalo now? Here are some of those submissions.

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MY NAME IS Adam Bojak, age 35, and I am an attorney that focuses his practice on estate planning, elder law, and residential real estate—though I also do a lot of work on behalf of tenants, as fighting unfair and unjust landlords is a passion of mine.

Additionally, I am a member of the Buffalo chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, and I am active in a number of other

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organizing/non-profit groups in the region. My experiences with these myriad groups has given me a deep and complex perspective on the city of Buffalo and its inhabitants. So, my answer to the question “Where is Buffalo Now?” is this: On the precipice of truly progressive change.

On a city-wide scale, Buffalo’s negatives are well-known: thanks to gentrification and neoliberal real estate development, we have some of the fastest-growing rents in the entire country, while wages have remained almost entirely stagnant; we are one of the most segregated cities nationwide—thanks, again, to gentrification and decades of neoliberal policies; well over 30 percent of the city’s population lives in poverty, with more than 50 percent considered “rent overburdened” (paying more than 30 percent of their income on rent); and the budget for the police has ballooned by almost 50 percent over the last decade, all while the budget for our public schools has stayed put, ensuring many of our young people end up in the school-to-prison pipeline.

This year, however, we are faced with a significant opportunity: the entire county legislature, the entire city common council, and the entire city school board are all up for re-election. Every single seat. The people of this city have an important opportunity

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to make their voices be heard regarding the direction this city is going to take in the next decade or more, and whether we continue to allow the strangling of the poor and working classes to benefit the rich few, or we stand up and demand control of our future.

Many of the aforementioned groups are doing great work on the ground toward the goal of a more just Buffalo—one that serves the interests of ALL its peoples, not just those who can pay for it.

The OUR CITY coalition, made up of a broad cross-section of city activist and non-profit groups, has democratically assembled and presented a “People’s Platform” for all elected officials either to get on board with, or expect their position to be challenged electorally. What they must all remember is that they work for the citizens of Buffalo, and they answer to US at the end of day— NOT the other way around.

NOW is the time for the people of Buffalo to stand up and take back their city from those who are only here to profit at our expense. NOW is the time for us to get loud and demand that rich developers and businessman give back the millions in tax breaks they received while giving the city little — or nothing — in return. NOW is the time to tell our elected officials: “Do your

COMMENTARY NEWS job and serve ALL the people in this city — or we’ll find someone who will.”

Again, we have an amazing opportunity in 2019 to shape this city’s path forward.

The next Buffalo Billion will soon be on its way to Western New York; we must ensure it is used not to benefit those who already have money, but those that don’t. We are all standing at the precipice, side by side, peering over the edge; will we take the leap together?

—Adam Bojak, 35, attorney

BUFFALO IS CANCELED, so we stayed home

with the kids. We told them to sleep in. The house was warm. The 100-year-old apartment we rent has updated insulation, updated windows, and exactly one place where the draft pours through. We cover that spot with blankets. It’s fine. Our pantry is so full that we are deliberately eating down the stores.

My husband was making bread accordingly. I could not sleep so I woke early and shoveled the sidewalk. The snow was deep, the air was cold, but I got to return to warmth. The kids woke up and they started playing blocks in the living room. This is my world.

In Buffalo, we’ve found the makings of a truly good life. We have comfortable shelter, ample food, meaningful relationships, purpose in our work, and our kids have ample opportunity to thrive. Our neighbors are lovely. I drafted this essay while waiting for cookies to bake.

It was a gesture of thanks: two of them snowblew our sidewalk and driveway. The city that surrounds us has beautiful parks, a grassroots arts scene, and fantastic libraries. I read a book from aforementioned library before I fell asleep the night of the blizzard, my mind full of different ideas to consider. I know that many of my fellow residents might be falling asleep worried about their budget. I know that many of my fellow residents are piled under blankets because their house is drafty, or their budgets don’t have the space to fire the furnace. I know many of my fellow residents are hungry. I work in homelessness alleviation. Though I am on the policy side, I talk with many people on the phone who have nowhere to go and they are not sure what to do next. It is my job to help. It is also my moral obligation.

My daughter attends the public school that everyone wants their kids to get into. She tested in. This delighted me. Meanwhile, I know that while 65 percent of the school’s seats are fill by kids who tested in, according to the registration documents, the remaining 35 percent of the seats are fill by kids who are, in the following order of priority: siblings of students who live on specific streets, the other kids who live on those specific streets, the siblings of students who live elsewhere in the city, and everyone else. I noticed, reading that list, that these streets are all in white-majority neighborhoods.

I noticed, reading the Census, that most of the city isn’t white. I wondered if that means an East Side kid who scores just below the testing cut-off gets bumped by a kid who’s lucky enough to have parents who lived in the right neighborhood. I am told this process has something to do with its institutional history, but I am suspicious of the fact it continues to endure. We are the sixth most segregated city in the country. I have been a part of too many conversations with fellow white parents that discuss “bad schools” as though your moral duty ends after you decide not to enroll your kid there. We could be calling on processes that allow the inequity to persist. That would require the advantaged to be willing to give up some status. There’s only two ways to prestige: raise yourself up or push others down.

The advertisers lie: there is not One Buffalo.

There are lots of Buffalos, with different degrees of power and comfort. They exist in different neighborhoods perhaps only blocks apart. There is the Buffalo of private schools and yoga studios. There is the Buffalo of drafty apartments and food insecurity. There are Buffalos in between and beyond, with families that have their names adorning buildings and people who just want to be in a building, out of the cold, please.

Fortune has never been evenly distributed. I am here to tell you that it is a moral problem, that all policymaking in this city needs to have a focus on alleviating poverty and undoing opportunity hoarding. This city must belong to everyone.

The suffering caused by structural inequality casts a long shadow, if you choose to see it. If you are caught in it, you have no choice. I worry that, in our talks of renaissance, decision makers and publicists too often choose to look away.

We can pause business but we cannot pause the consequences of structural inequality. We could prioritize affordable housing, to reduce homelessness. We could prioritize living wages and prosecuting wage theft as larceny. We could prioritize making a public transportation system that would not systemically exclude the people who rely on it from most of the region’s jobs. We could prioritize the communitywide remediation of lead paint. I open the newspaper and see articles about the Buffalo Billion project, with went mostly to one project.

I remember reading a long discussion about public funding for a new sports stadium. This Buffalo renaissance seems to be more about the ways we resemble prestigious cities than the fortunes of every citizen who lives in it. We could work towards leveling power such that all citizens get a truly equal say, not the current system where some can leverage their wealth to advance their views and other people’s influence ends at their vote. The more grassroots the decision-making, the better off we will be.

I love living in Buffalo. I would love living here even more if my experience of Buffalo were more the universal one.

-Christine Slocum, 32, city resident

leadership, this is a moral failure.

As a resident of the Fillmore district, I have a lot of fond memories associated with the neighborhoods therein. Whether it’s riding on the back of my dad’s motorcycle at the Afrodogs Motorcycle Club as a kid, going shopping at the Broadway Market with my grandfather as a teen, or experiencing food truck Tuesdays or Allentown barhopping as an adult, I can’t help but smile. Each of those memories, however, are also bittersweet. Just as I can recall the beauty of the nineties, I can recall the degradation that has occurred in my neighborhoods over the 28 years I’ve lived in Buffalo. According to John Washington of PUSH Buffalo, Fillmore has more than 1400 vacant lots alone. Many of those lots once housed neighbors and small businesses at one point or another, and I can’t help but wonder if they’d still be occupied if those folks weren’t represented for the past 30+ years by someone with little regard for their wellbeing.

If the people we elect to represent us aren’t aware of their power or, even worse, are unwilling to use their power to fight with us, we must begin to ask: 1) why do we keep electing these “leaders”? and 2) Who fights with us?

We are overdue a change in Buffalo. We deserve leaders, people who understand their role in government and uphold their office with diligence and moral conviction. We deserve a council that won’t kowtow to the Mayor or pretend as if they are powerless for the sake of political expediency.

—De’Jon Hall, 28, community organizer

Who is They?

Council Member Ulysees Wingo (D-Masten) was present and seemed receptive to the ideas presented that day. However, things took an odd turn when an audience member concerned with rising fees associated with unpaid tickets decided to ask Wingo why the city continues to raise fees.

Council member Wingo, in what I guess was an attempt to address the audience member’s concern, decided to give the room a lesson in civics and municipal governance. Wingo began by describing the three branches of city government and their most basic function. He then tells the room that the city’s executive branch sets the fees for the city, not common council, and that all the common council can do is approve or deny.

While Mayor Brown’s administration has the ability to set ticket fees, those fees cannot go into effect without the acquiescence of Buffalo’s Common Council. To put it plainly, the council can say “no” to the mayor and set the terms (AKA set the fee) for which they would say “yes.”

Wingo’s civics lesson was frustrating, insulting, saddening, and, most concerning, rang with powerlessness. IF the entire council feels as powerless as Wingo described the city’s legislative body, then the people they represent might also feel apathetic and powerless as well.

After this exchange, I began to think about our Common Council members and what role they play in our everyday lives.

We live in a city with steadily rising rents and nearly 78 percent of our residents are tenants. But for some reason, our council has remained largely silent to the Brown administration’s unwillingness to enforce our city’s fair housing laws. Moreover, those who live in BMHA properties, such as the Commodore Perry homes and apartments, have been largely abandoned by this city’s leadership. One doesn’t need to look any further than a Nate Boyd Facebook live to see how our “leaders” have largely abandoned those in need. But somehow, when the mayor appoints new leadership to the BMHA board, they are almost always approved with unanimous consent by the Common Council. This is not

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THEY SOLD YOU. ON FRIDAY JANUARY 18th, the Partnership for the Public Good held their annual Community Agenda rollout. The 10 points on their agenda raised viable solutions for improving our daily lives included ideas such as: Fix-it tickets, Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD), Language Access through Department specific LEP plans, and improved NFTA services.

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They told us to borrow against ourselves, take out loans and “invest” tuition into their colonized higher education SYSTEM. This would help is they said. You’ll get a great job with this piece of framed tree bark. Then you graduate and realize THEY aren’t going to pay you much more than minimum wage to do what they told you cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to learn.

In other words: THEY RIPPED YOU OFF. They told you to punch in and out of work and give what you can to our 401ks, at least what little we get to keep after debt and bills. This money will come in handy and you “will” get to retire. But first you have to give them what they demand. A percentage of money you barely even have. They forgot to mention that amongst themselves, the bankers call 401k folks the “suckers at the table.” When the market crashes, your savings go with it. Not the bankers profits they stole from you.

They sold us a sandwich and said it was 100 percent real white meat. Hint: It’s not!

They said everyone will prosper until infinity, even though our planet’s resources are finite.

Hint: Everyone isn’t prospering, just THEM. They’ve been lying to you since you were a small child. They’ve been selling you dreams in little pieces at a time like your favorite drug dealer.

And YOU still think that THEY HAVE YOUR BEST INTEREST AT HEART. That’s why you’re still afraid to fall into the cracks of the system. You still envision THEM holding a safety net underneath you. When the reality is far more sinister. The system is not a safety net, it is a steam roller; and you would be blessed to slip in between one of the cracks on the roller as it attempts to crush you and the same dreams THEY SOLD YOU. —Desmond Abrams, 26, community organizer

There is no direct public transport route home

from my place of employment, so rather than wait for a connection I usually take either the train or bus about halfway. This evening I took the train which normally would have been packed during rush hour; today there was only one other person in the car. Exiting the station at Allen Street the wind blew with such force that I had to help the woman ahead of me push the door open. Stepping out into

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LOOKING BACKWARD: BETHLEHEM STEEL COMPANY The Bethlehem Steel Company, and the Lackawanna Steel Company before 1922, was the site of the fiercest and most violent labor struggles in Buffalo history. Steelworking was difficult and dangerous, and wages low and hours long. In this undated photograph by Hauser Bob, laborers pour steel ingots in the open hearth department. In 1941, the Congress of Industrial Organizations’ Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), later called the United Steelworkers of America, staged a successful strike that for the first time established a bargaining unit for Bethlehem Steel workers. It was the beginning of an era of union-management relations that would uplift thousands of working people into the middle class.- THE PUBLIC STAFF 6

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COMMENTARY NEWS frostbite as poem i am whole but the body always remembers what it means to be incomplete and no amount of snow can cushion the blow of yourself and the lost fragments they expect you to find. there is always the promise of new body until you forget what it means to heal and you lose who you were under possession of wind under guise of storm that assures rebirth. maybe adam was a piece of our breastbone and this blizzard is how we forget covering lies which cover truth which cover you and the voice you forgot you had and the voice i forgot i had swept away as a whisper by tempest’s hands.

—Sage Enderton, 17, student.

I GREW UP in the Big Apple, under the city lights with blaring horns and the sound of the train tracks above me; all the things that shouted home. My father was an immigrant, a kid who wanted to one day be able to give his children a future away from war-torn Bangladesh. My mother was a shy Albanian girl who filled her time reading Time magazines and watching sit-

coms, hoping she’d one day be swept away from her mundane life. They soon came together like the first two pieces of a never-ending puzzle.

They quickly realized New York City was too big for their tiny family. My father was working shifts in the taxi late at night only to work again in their corner store in the early morning. My mother worked in a suffocating office at a busy hospital. All for a meager pay where both of their dreams were slowing vanishing. Buffalo offered an escape.

Buffalo was a ghostly snow town in the year 2006.

The people were somber, no one beeped their horns, even the buses seemed to whisper when they came to a stop. This was a gray town to the people who came from a city of color. There were no people of color. My father saw that here he would be forced to sacrifice a dab of his culture for his children to fit in this strange environ. So I grew up having to learn three languages.

But when summer came and bright dandelions fluttered across our lawn, like a beautiful invasion, Buffalo became a new version of home.

More families who spoke my father’s native tongue migrated. I had neighbors who grew squash and tomatoes in their lawn only to soon harvest them into a curry. I wore my beaded dresses sent from Bangladesh more often. I made friends who gave me a taste of what it was like to not be American-born as I had been.

Their parents didn’t know a lick of English or anything of American culture, they only knew of rumors that boasted about America’s endless opportunities. My mother helped these families receive food stamps, got their children into schools, and helped them to apply for their other family in Bangladesh to come to Buffalo as well.

But these only made life sufficient.

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NEWS COMMENTARY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 Promising immigrant families are trapped in a humdrum cycle of life. They can all be found in neglected neighborhoods, comprising the East Side. Neighborhoods that don’t have their roads cleaned in a winter storm like this, where one can only hope it’s a firework and not a gunshot, where cops circle the area but to no avail. As Elmwood Village and the downtown area progress with more meaningful art pieces splattered on buildings and more welcoming small businesses sprouting on every corner, neighborhoods in the East Side deteriorate more into their shells. Canalside opens for another wintery evening of ice skating and hot chocolate, another homeless freezes to death in the Utica train station. But these neighborhoods don’t complain because its people have had it much worse before coming to Buffalo. However, we cannot accept sufficient.

Buffalo is constantly advancing on its art scene which I can appreciate coming from New York City, but there is a very apparent cleave within its community. The juxtaposition between the urban population is uncanny. While places like North Buffalo and the West Side are continuously flourishing, neighborhoods in the East Side have families who are struggling and can barely afford books for their child’s education. How can Buffalo take pride in its innovative accomplishments when all Buffalonians can’t share, or even relate to these benefits? There is a great divide in Buffalo, that I only began to pick up on after noting the trend in lifestyles of the immigrant demographic in Buffalo. We need to pick each other up and offer more attention to the neighborhoods in Buffalo that need it most. Becoming aware that there even is a conflict brings us one step closer.

P —Zanaya Hussain, 16, student

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THE GRUMPY GHEY COMMENTARY

THE GRUMPY GHEY

FANCY NEVER LET ME DOWN:

MAKING A CASE FOR BOBBIE GENTRY

BY CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

A BOX SET AND A TRIBUTE ALBUM

BY MERCURY REV MAY FINALLY GIVE THE ENIGMATIC SINGER/SONGWRITER HER DUE AS AN ARTIST I REMEMBER BOREDOM.

As I begin zeroing in on the big 5-0, I often find myself contemplating childhood. What made me tick? What were the earliest signs of my sexuality? There were many of those, but the truth is that as a kid, I was frequently bored. It’s pretty clear to me now that this was a byproduct of privilege: I had time on my hands. In contrast, when adults now tell me they’re bored, I’m speechless. I usually chalk it up to a mislabeled feeling…something they’d rather not deal with. Boredom as avoidance.

But in childhood, boredom led me to music. I wasn’t the least bit interested in sports or action figures or the Star Wars franchise. Mostly I just wanted to listen to records. Music could transport me somewhere else. It remedied my boredom. It fueled my imagination.

Since other kids weren’t much for serious listening until I reached high school, music was a solitary thing for me. There was a lot of daydreaming involved in listening to records. So many artists I favored sang about California, a place that took on a nearmythical status in my imagination. But not Bobbie Gentry, whose records I found in (and pilfered from) my dad’s collection. Her songs—oddball vignettes about the American South—were harder to relate to than the bi-coastal sensibility permeating much of the other material I listened to, but I found them enchanting all the same. I played her records constantly.

As a kid who was bored with the routines of a privileged Northeastern childhood, Gentry’s portal view into Southern family life was striking. It seemed as if people in the South were never bored. These were tales from farming communities where dads wore coveralls and labored. It wasn’t always pretty.

Kids were disciplined. They did their part and seemed to feel lucky to experience simple things that I took for granted. When they didn’t, it made for a good story, like in her tune “Lazy Willie”—apathy was ridiculed.

Gentry also made an effort to represent different classes in her music, thus exposing multiple vantage points on Southern living.

Gentry’s gift for zeroing in on certain details makes for some curious threads running through her tales. Fabrics and patterns recur in her songs and, as it turns out, she made most of her stage outfits herself. Pull her up on Youtube and have a look at some of the colorful pantsuits. As a kid, she had me pondering “blue polka-dotted silk” and “yellow polka-dotted Swiss,” and wondering what in the world a “checkered feed-sack dress” might look like.

Looking back, Bobbie Gentry was my first

gay icon. Her whiskey-smoked vocal timbre still stands out from the herd 50 years on. She remains singular and has become a symbol of early feminine strength in the male-gazedominated music industry.

Keep in mind, there was a loss of tradition permeating American family life in the 1970s, particularly on either coast. In contrast, Gentry’s songs harked back to a waning value system, celebrating things like getting dressed up on Sundays, the excitement of accompanying a parent to go to shopping in town, home cooking, family picnics, and hometown pride. And while much of it seemed wholesome on the surface, she tended—often, but not always—to try and expose the human underbelly in these tales, resulting in added intrigue, kitsch, and humor. Dark humor.

Sometimes it’s vague. In her tune “Casket Vignette,” a funeral home director is trying to help a woman choose the right fabric for her recently deceased fiancée’s coffin (“This is a popular, dusty-rose velvet, Miss Morgan / Or how about a satin brocade?”) and we’re slowly, subtly given the impression that she might be responsible for his death.

Gentry released seven albums in five years, from 1967 to 1971. All of them have been remastered and reissued as a knockout box set, The Girl from Chickasaw County (Universal/ Capitol Nashville), which arrived last fall and managed to make a bunch of year-end lists.

The UK-based Mojo proclaimed it the year’s best reissue, further cementing the British fascination with Gentry that, back in 196869, earned her a BBC TV show. (I can’t help but wonder if the Brits found her fascinating for some of the same reasons I did.) The live performances from that show are included in the box with a seemingly bottomless trove of outtakes, demos, and rarities that show all the various musical hats she tried on during the five years she recorded for Capitol. It’s impressive how many of them she was able to make work, even crooning The Beatles’ “Fool on the Hill” in Japanese and pulling it off. Additionally, there’s a shelved jazz album among the discards, something diehard fans have been waiting to hear for decades.

What stands out most, however, is that despite attempting to score hits with any number of covers written by Bacharach or Lennon & McCartney, her best performances are of her own material, many available now for the first time in delicate, pared-down arrangements. This elevates her beyond the mere “entertainer” status that seemed to befall her after she initially penetrated mass consciousness.

People wonder why she stopped recording in 1971, but to me it’s always been pretty obvious: She’d had enough of not being taken seriously as an artist. After releasing Patchwork in spring of that year, an ambitious concept album that took shape as a suite with numbered interludes, she’d poured her heart out. Supposedly, she also painted the self-portrait on the cover. And while it got solid reviews, the album failed commercially.

Additionally, she wanted full credit for the creative control she exhibited and hands-on production of her output but felt that she was repeatedly cheated out of that recognition.

Especially for a gal marketed as a country singer (even though that may not have really been what she was doing), that was a tough nut to crack. Rather than compromise, she just stopped recording. In retrospect, her choice was admirable.

Instead, she went on to stage a series of lucrative Vegas-strip variety shows. She wrote and arranged the music, designed the outfits, choreographed much of the dancing (sometimes collaborating with a larger troupe), and produced the whole affair, effectively turning around what seemed like a nose-diving career (at least, insofar as record sales were concerned). Gentry was a very smart—perhaps sometimes even shrewd— businesswoman. She had to be. And then in 1981, she disappeared from public view. Just walked away. Though rumored to live in a gated community outside Memphis, there’s no certainty regarding her whereabouts. She’d be 76 today.

It seemed a far cry from such auspicious beginnings. America had an intense reaction to her 1967 single, “Ode to Billie Joe,” a thick, four-and-a-half-minute heaping tablespoon of Southern gothic strange about the suicide of a mysteriously troubled young man… intense enough that the album of the same name bumped the almighty Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band out of the top spot in Billboard. But the single was placed last on the album, forcing those who bought the full-length to sit through a half hour of curious character sketches and other swampy delights, including a tune about pesky critters entitled “Bugs.” Gentry was capable of a great many things and she was determined that you witness them all.

Later, she scored another big hit with, “Fancy,” the call-girl rags-to-riches epic that Reba McEntire covered in 1999. In between, Capitol paired her with Glen Campbell, and they sold well as a package, recording an album of duets. But despite the pair’s success with crooning sweet lullabies and love songs, it lacked the mix of grit and left-field humor that made Gentry so memorable.

Throughout grade school, I instinctively knew that listening to Bobbie Gentry was uncool.

My enthusiasm for her outfits (check out the cover of Touch ‘em With Love), her voice, and her kitschy tales seemed like a big gay “tell,” not to mention something hard to justify at a time when new wave, punk, and synth-pop were starting to reign supreme. But in college, often lubricated with much Dutch courage, I found I no longer cared what people thought of my interest in her, and I began trying to coerce reactions from close friends. “That Gentry’s no stunning talent,” I recall someone saying. Tough crowd. It became routine for me to include her songs on mixtapes—there would be no escape.

Imagine my feelings of validation when, just a month after the aforementioned box set came out, Buffalo’s own Mercury Rev announced they’d recreated her second album, The Delta Sweete, with a cast of guest vocalists including Norah Jones, Lucinda Williams, Margot Price, Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star), Phoebe Bridgers, and Beth Orton, among others.

Early teasers indicate that the band has successfully adapted the material to their own swirling-fuzz aesthetic, but the vocal melodies keep the songs anchored in something tangible. Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete by Mercury Rev will be released February 8 on Partisan Records. Although it might not be in the form of her choosing, this is just the kind of artistic nod that Gentry craved back when she stopped recording. Better late than never.

I did eventually get to visit California, by the way. When we made our way to Palm Springs in 1975, I kept asking my mother where Carole King was (apparently, the vastness of California wasn’t a factor in my Golden State fantasy). Unable to produce Carole King, my mother did manage to get an autograph for me out of a hassled-seeming Tony Orlando (another childhood hero, especially during the time of his TV variety show) while he attempted to eat a cheeseburger in a now defunct chain called Sambo’s. Unbeknownst to me at the time, Carole King would soon leave California to live on a ranch in Idaho—she craved a more rural, backto-basics approach to living, a return to something that was getting lost in modern American family life. It’s not unlike what I heard coming through the music of Bobbie Gentry, a contrast between the life I knew as a privileged mini-New Yorker and something P a bit more earnest.

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ART REVIEW based on the component actual money values.

Oblique references in these works to Warhol, and closer to home to Tony Conrad. The monotone painted mattresses visually reminiscent of Conrad’s very-slow-motion movie paintings— monotone painted canvases undergoing—like painted surfaces universally—gradual fading or darkening—light exposure effects—over years, decades, eons. But also as to the selling—in several senses of the word—of the slow-motion-movie concept and artworks to venues such as the Albright-Knox, which owns one or more of them.

Another mattress work, along with the four actual money examples, uses fake money—five-dollar bills that look real at first glance but are phony, and marked “for movie use only.” Another movie reference, and sardonic comment on the fungibility matter. (The “alchemy” word in this case is in mandarin Chinese, so I’m told.)

The rest of the exhibit a pretty mixed bag of items with tangential reference sometimes to money and/or art. The title of the exhibit is “Hoarder.” You get the sense of somebody with a strong hoarding instinct—or maybe it’s a gene—finally having gotten around to cleaning out his basement or attic, and these are some of the items discovered or rediscovered in the process.

ULYSSES ATWHEN AT BIG ORBIT

BY JACK FORAN MONEY AND ART. Two of the toughest topics period. Both

mysteries. At opposite ends of the spectrum, so to speak. But strangely and intimately related. For one thing, as fungible.

Convertible the one into the other. So that banks and oil barons buy artworks as investments.

And so it’s a bold move by artist Ulysses Atwhen to take on both topics at once in his current exhibit at the Big Orbit gallery. As to the mystery aspect, quality, character. Also as to the fungibility.

The Greeks invented money. Metal coins. You take a little piece of metal. It has some value. Use value you could say. You could use it for something. Make something out of it. Let’s say it has a value of x. Then you strike it with some other harder piece of metal, maybe with some kind of relief or incised image on it, so that it makes a mark on the original piece in the form of the image, but in counter-relief or counter-incised. Immediately the struck piece of metal changes value. Maybe to 3x. Maybe 6x.

Whatever you say, or someone says, or the polity says. Some sort of authority figure or entity.

Art also—but particularly modern art—is—or often is—the product of a similar fiat creative action. And also—particularly modern art—requires some sort of authority figure, for validation. Somebody had to say—convincingly somehow—that

the Brillo boxes Andy Warhol was turning out were different— aesthetically different—from the Brillo boxes the grocery store was throwing out on trash day. Or for that matter, aesthetically different from the plain boxes he started with, and painted the Brillo logo on. Just like the actual Brillo logo.

The Ulysses Atwhen money and art pieces comprise four actual bed mattresses transformed for present purposes into painting matrix canvases, painted monotone off-white, attached to which are actual paper money bills of different currencies and monetary denominations—but in each mattress work, all the same currency and same denomination—Greek five-euro bills in one case, in the others Chinese yuan, Indian rupees, and Brazilian reales— arranged in each case to spell out the word “alchemy,” the artist’s summary assessment apparently of the money creation matter, but also perhaps the art creation matter. But certainly the art valuation matter.

Meanwhile, the incorporation of actual money in these works facilitates—to a point at least—the valuation/fungibility matter.

The installation includes a computer monitor flashing minuteby-minute exchange rate differences for relevant currencies— euros to yuan, euros to U.S. dollars—plus a complicated formula for calculating fair price values for the individual mattress works,

IN GALLERIES NOW

885-2251, wnyag.com): Non-juried members Exhibition 2019. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm. = REVIEWED THIS ISSUE = ART OPENING Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, FF = FIRST FRIDAY NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Pastel, Pencil & Paint, works in various media by FF Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Av- Sandy Ludwig. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8amenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albright- 10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. knox.org): Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader: To Point a Naked Finger, Jan 26 through Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, April 21; Humble and Human: An Exhibition in NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works Honor of Ralph C. Wilson Jr., Feb 2-May 26; Gi- from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. ant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, through Jan Big Orbit Project Space (30d Essex Street, 6; We the People: New Art from the Collection, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-bigthrough Jun 30. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late orbit): Ulysses Atwhen: Hoarder. Sat 12-6pm.

First Fridays (free) until 10pm.

FF BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Tutelary, an instalBuffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annakaplancon- lation by Obsidian Bellis. Every day 4-10pm. temporary.art): Semi Fictions: Recent Painting ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery (148 Elmwood Avenue, Bufby Julian Montague, on view through Feb 15. A falo, NY 14201, buenvivirgallery.org): Tue-Fri conversation with Montague takes place Tue, 1:30-4:30pm, Fri 6-8pm, Sat 1-3pm.

Feb 5, 6pm. Wed-Fri 11am-3pm or by appointBuffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th ment.

Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, FF Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffa- 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Lee Hoag: lo, NY 14207, 882-8100, eleventwentyproj- Amalgams; Sheila Barcik: From the Core, on ects.com/argus-gallery): Chaz Buscaglia: Re- view through March 2. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat cent Portraits. Opening Reception Fri, Feb 1, 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm.

5-8pm. Sat 12-3pm, or by appointment.

Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buf- Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffafalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Tue-Fri 11am- lolib.org): Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City 5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. & WWI, 100th Anniversary of America’s Entry Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists into WWI, on second floor. Building Buffalo: Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716- Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings,

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Some vintage bingo game equipment, including a huge illuminated numbers board and control panel with a zillion toggle switches to switch on individual numbers, and glass box with dancing ping-pong balls for random numbers selection.

An appropriation art piece, being this artist’s remake—by the addition of handwritten legend—of artist Felix GonzalezTorres’s work on paper owned by the Albright-Knox and reproduced in multiples for general distribution. And other movie reference items—a non-functioning projector aimed at a spool of film on a hook on a wall.

Also, a small classroom-like setup with desks and a blackboard, and smaller classroom-like setup as a prototype. Also a 1950s-era modernism sofa mounted high on a wall, and in the space below the sofa, the legend in bold letters: “Art Goes Here.” And an even more enigmatic piece including a turntable and a video camera—mounted high on walls, much like the sofa—recording and projecting the turntable movement.

When I visited I was told new items would be added, and some of old ones possibly retired during the run of the show. (Basement or attic cleaning isn’t accomplished in a day. New stuff turns up.

That’s part of the point.)

The show continues through February 23. (You get more done P if you start early.) It runs until March 17.

ULYSSES ATWHEN: HOARDER THROUGH MARCH 17 BIG ORBIT GALLERY 30D ESSEX STREET, BUFFALO NY CEPAGALLERY.ORG/ABOUT-BIG-ORBIT

in the Grosvenor Rare Book Room. Catalogue available for purchase. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm.

Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Av-

enue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): David Pratt: Fantastic Landscapes, through Jun 30, with opening reception Fri, Feb 8, 5:30-7:30pm; Paul Vanouse: Labor, through Mar 31; Portraits From the Collection, through Jun 30; Small Paintings From the Collection, thorugh 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):Bottling Quantities of Night, works by Malcom Bonney. Opening reception Thu, Feb 7, 6-8pm. Wed & Thu 6-8pm, Fri & Sat 12-4pm.

Canvas Salon & Gallery (9520 Main Street STE 400, Clarence, NY 14031, 716-320-5867): Michael Mandolfo: A Distant Voice, photographs. Mon-Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 8am-5pm.

Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, 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; Fashioning Identities: Ethnic Wedding Dress in Western New York, through June 9. Tue-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

FF CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Liz Bukowski: Hallow Ground; Aitina Fareed-Cooke: Warriors; 2019 Members Exhibition, on view through Feb 23. The Skyway Photo Competition Exhibit. Resilience Through the Lens, collaborative exhibit with Clean Air Coalition of WNY. MonFri 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.

GALLERIES ART Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts. com): Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm.

Duende at Silo City (85 Silo City Row, Buffalo, NY 14203, 235-8380, duendesilo.city): FF Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com): Jack Edson: A Focus on Collectors, through Mar 1. Collector’s tours Sat, Feb 9 and Sat, Feb 16,12-3pm (tour starts at 1pm). TueFri, 10am-4pm, 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): Stephen M. Russ: Buffalo ARTcitecture, on display through Mar 7. Opening reception Sat, Feb 2, 5-7pm.

Flight Gallery (Flying Bison Brewery, 840 Seneca Street, Buffalo NY 14210): Ashley Johnson: #buffalove, through 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 11am-7pm, 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 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): Lyla Rye: Elusive Space. Opening reception Fri, Feb 1, 6-9pm. Thorugh Mar 2. Wed 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Fri, 6-9pm Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays.

The Intersection Cafe (100 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14201): Alyssa Capri: Dream Spaces through Feb, opening reception Fri Feb 1, 6-8pm.

Jewish Community Center of Buffalo, Holland Family Building (787 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, 14209, 8863172, jccbuffalo.org): 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. TueSun 11am-4pm.

Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm.

Kenan Center (433 Locust St., Lockport, NY 14094, 433-2617, kenancenter.org): William W. Storrs Retrospective Exhibition. Tea and Tour on Sun Feb 10, 1-3pm ($20 members, $25 nonmembers, RSVP required). Through Feb 17.

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 19002012, 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. TueSat 9:30-5:30pm.

FF Melting Point (244 Allen Street, Buffalo NY 14201): Floral Fantasy, photos by Richard Price.

Opening reception Fri, Feb 1. Through Feb 28.

Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 282-7530, thenacc. org): Artists & Friends Exhibit, through Jan 27.

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): Mon-Fri 8am-4pm, Closed Sat & Sun. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-882-5777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Duayne Hatchett: Trowel Paintings, on view through Feb 15. Tue-Fri 10am–5pm.

Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-652-3270, norbergsartandframe.com): Regional artists from the gallery collection. Tue-Sat 10am–5pm.

FF Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): The Heart, a group exhibit through Feb 27. Opening reception Fri Feb 1, 7-9pm. Wed-Sat,125pm, Sun 1-5pm.

FF 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. FF Pine Apple Company (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, pacobuffalo. com): Love Notes: A Group Show, opening Fri, Feb 1. 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.

FF Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod. com): Art collective, including Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, Chris McGee, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Liebel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, John Farallo, Thomas Busch, Sherry Anne Preziuso, Michael Shiver, Madalyn Fliesler, Steve Siegel, Michael Mulley, et alia. First Friday reception: Fri, Feb 1, 5-8pm. Tue-Fri 11am4pm and by appointment.

Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Joe Vollan: On Behalf of the Under Enthusiastic. Thu 126pm, Fri and Sat 12-8pm.

River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051, riverartgalleryandgifts. com): Wed-Fri 11am-4pm Sat 11am- 5pm.

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History (311 Curtis Street, Jamestown, NY 14701, 716665-2473, 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, 12pm-5pm. TueSat, 12pm-5pm.

Stangler Fine Art (6429 West Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127, 870-1129, stanglerart.com): Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Closed Sundays.

Starlight Studio & Art Gallery (340 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio.org) Flying Colors, group exhibition featuring Rebecca Aloisio, Janet Harrison, and Debbie Medwin. Opening reception Fri Jan 18, 6-9pm. Mon-Fri 9-4pm.

Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Open by event and Fri 5:30-7:30.

Trend Up (85 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201): Richard Angelo Runfola, on view through Feb. Opening reception, Fri Feb 1, 6-9pm.

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 Thu, Jan 31 5-7pm. Screen Projects: Ezra Wube, through Jan 30. TueFri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 1-5pm.

Undergrounds Coffee House & Roastery (590 South Park Ave, 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, villa.edu/campus-life/gallery): Cheektowaga Schools Exhibit, student artists, through Jan 25. Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat 10am5pm.

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, 348-1430, wnybookarts.org): Combination of the Two: Ginny O’Brien & Michael Basinski. Through Feb 23. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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and boys and girls, we are in luck with the February installment of First Friday. Starting with the Albright-Knox, there will be several discussions (6pm & 7pm) on the We the People: New Art from the Collection exhibition as well as a screening of Loving Vincent, as well jazz in the cafe during happy hour and some food and drink samplings from Remedy House cafe. Elsewhere around town are Chaz Buscaglia’s iconic portraits—you’ve seen them on our covers

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usual, will be in Allentown between 6 and 9pm. At Pine Apple Company, a Valentine’s Day invitational group show called Love Notes; a solo show by Lyla Rye called Elusive Space at Indigo Gallery; photographs by Richard Price at the Melting Point; Dream Spaces by Alyssa Capri at the Intersection Cafe, and Richard Angelo Runfola at Trend Up / Ms. Eye Candy. In the middle of it all, a darling Peach Mag pop-up poetry reading will pop off at the Allen Street Dress Shop (7-9pm, 89 Allen Street) featuring the talents of Kevin Thurston, Meghann Boltz, Oli Wiggins, Robin Lee Jordan, Sarah Jane Barry, Sage Enderton, Trinity Ridout, and open mic readers. But that’s not all! Our friends at Community Beer Works are holding a cabin-fever-kicking First

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Friday After Party (520 7th Street) with beer specials, a new cocktail menu, and performances by Kerry Fey and the Stripteasers. So do the right thing, Buffalo. After drinking a six-pack, shoveling out your neighbors, and letting your kids drive you crazy for two days, spend the night out. A full list of openings and current open shows along with time and address information can be found in our In Galleries Now. -AARON LOWINGER

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[ROCK] Call it a blues-rock power trio. Formed after two decades of working together on projects far and wide, guitarist/singer Paul DesLauriers, bassist Greg Morency, and drummer Sam Harrisson decided a few years back to focus their energy on this outlet, which is based in Montreal. They’ve gone on to win some coveted awards in the world of Canadian blues, and the trio’s most recent album, Relentless (2016), made appearances on blues album charts in both Canada and the USA, garnering some impressive reviews along the way. Blues Music Magazine‘s Charlie Frazier declared, “DesLauriers’s fiery guitar playing throughout, combined with Harrisson’s polyrhythmic drumming under Morency’s sinewy bass lines, makes this CD sound like a thick, juicy blues stew.” The stew, surely even thicker now a couple years later, will be served at the Tralf Music Hall on Thursday, January 31. -CJT

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9pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $7

[HIP HOP] Rage Space is a new hip hop event geared toward booking up-and-coming hip hop acts in Buffalo. The first of what is slated to be a regular event features acts like Spaceboud, 14 Trapdoors, Freak the Mighty, Rodagues, F1rst Class, and Don Zzombie.

Expect to find DJs Lil Gabby and Toneyboi and hosts Koolie and Deadpool too. Catch Rage Space at Mohawk Place on Friday, February 1. -CP

Kluster Phunk and Kaleidoscope Sky 10pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St. $5

[JAM] A jam band with a twist of reggae, Kluster Phunk comes up to Buffalo from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania for a night of jamming improv and musical exploration.

They’ll be joined by reggae rock band Kaleidoscope Sky for this one, Friday, February 1 at Nietzsches’s in Allentown. -CP

7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $15-$75

[FUNK] “Horns, synths, drums” is what it boils down to for Brasstracks, the future funk duo from New York City. Their latest record, For Those Who Know Pt. 1, ratchets up their jazzy, electronic-tinged funk sound—inviting Robert Glasper along for a good chunk of it.

Catch Brasstracks live at the Town Ballroom on Monday, February 4 with support from Kemba and Pall. -CP

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by Marina Blitshteyn sunnyoutside press | 2019 | poetry Out this month is Sheet Music, the new chapbook of poems by Brooklyn-based, Buffalo-bred, Soviet Unionborn and -fled poet Marina Blitshteyn.

Drawing from the words and images of Coco Chanel, Igor Stravinsky, Gertrude Stein, Hermann Hesse, and more, Blitshteyn’s new chapbook examines solitude and relationships, domesticity and sexuality, and adult life and womanhood. In sharp and lean prose, the collection stands as a soundtrack not of coming to an understanding but of asking questions: Is there a distinction between work and love, art and artist, art and life? A sampling of lines that will break your heart: “Loving the line is loving the hand that bends it,” “How beautiful the woman looks next to silence,” and “You mean you don’t want to, she tells him. The wife or mother or lover or child of the man.”

Bonus: The chapbook was put out by Buffalo’s own sunnyoutside press, a small press that designs and prints with thoughtfulness and care, evident from Sheet Music’s handbound spine and choice of an effervescent cover to the idiosyncratic note at the back of the book informing the reader of the typefaces and printing press.

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by Otessa Moshfegh A Perigee Book/Penguin Group | 2018 | novel

“I’d be renewed, reborn. I would be a whole new person, every one of my cells regenerated enough times that the old cells were just distant, foggy memories. My past life would be but a dream, and I could start over without regrets, bolstered by the bliss and serenity that I would have accumulated in my year of rest and relaxation.”

Released last summer, Ostessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a darkly comic look into the world of privilege and how unfulfilling wealth and beauty can be. Desperate to escape her life, the unnamed character in the novel embarks on a pharmaceutical hibernation where she plans to take prescription pills of all varieties to help her sleep for an entire year.

The book is chock full of unlikable characters, including the narrator herself, her hack doctor who prescribes her boatloads of medications, her incredibly desperate friend Reva, her toxic ex-boyfriend Trevor, and the ridiculous artist Ping Xi who uses her experiment as the subject of his new art piece. This book is a must-read for those of us facing another bleak Buffalo February.

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effort that borrowed equally from British folk and So-Cal influences, Sorores was a significant creative expansion, mining artsy musical corners for a much more diverse blend of psychedelia, jazz, and pop.

If the advance single is any indication, Happier Now will be a tighter, more groove-based affair—and there’s nothing wrong with that. Check out vocalist/guitarist Devin Tuel lending her folksy pipes to the upbeat, hook-laden “Can’t Go On Like This” and you’re likely to agree: It’s a winning combination. Native Harrow’s winter tour kicks off with a show downstairs at Babeville in the 9th Ward on Friday, February

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[NEWS] Earlier this month on the day Roger Stone was arrested and subsequently released on bond, he appeared before a throng of demonstrators chanting "Lock him up!" He defiantly raised two fingers at the end out outstretched arms—the Richard Nixon salute—and, by all outside appearances, appeared to be having one of the best days of his life. He appeared also appeared on numerous TV and radio talk shows. Stone's reaction was a shocking moment for those who had not yet seen the award-winning Netflix documentary Get Me Roger Stone.

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On Tuesday, February 5 one of the directors of the film and former editor at City & State Morgan Pehme will appear at the Burchfield Penney Art Center to screen the film and take questions from Investigative Post's Jim Heaney. -AL

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[COUNTRY] Back before Austin, Texas blew up as the progressive oasis and arts capital of the Lone Star State, Marcia Ball was the frontwoman for a band called Freda and the Firedogs. Their 1972 debut remains a snapshot of a Southern American culture unadorned by pretenses—a time when a woman singing about sending a guy to “Fist City” if he gets too fresh was considered feminism. It took six years for Ball to release her solo debut, Circuit Queen, and she’s been at it ever since. In the ensuing 40-plus years, she’s steered more toward a bluesy tones from her progressive country beginnings, and her blend of zydeco, swamp blues, and boogie woogie, married with her two-fisted piano playing, make her quite unlike any other gal in the business. As she approaches 70, Ball’s show still brims with impressive energy, so don’t miss her return to Sportsmen’s Tavern on Wednesday, February 6. -CJT

art form. With that in mind, Frames Per Second is poetry captured in motion. But it’s also incredibly accessible and full of ear candy with flourishes of sound that dabble in delicious yacht-rock goodness while veering towards something more psychedelic elsewhere. If you’ve got a soft spot for groove-based music and are not shy about shaking your ass, Lotus’s two-night-stand at Town Ballroom is a nobrainer night of sweaty delight to kick away those February blahs. Maine’s Jaw Gems will open with set of sample-based electronica mixed with a live rhythm section that’ll whet your musical appetite for the main course. Friday, February 8 and Saturday, February 9. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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ROBERT DELONG TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12 8PM / BUFFALO IRON WORKS, 49 ILLINOIS ST. / $20 [ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Robert Delong is an outsider as far as the electronic music scene goes. Though his live sets are packed with house and dubstep beats, he often performs with a live band and also plays drums and keyboards and sings during his beat-heavy performances. The Los Angeles-based musician comes off as more of a pop star and multi-instrumentalist than your typical big-stage EDM act, though his music still takes on many of the characteristics, with looping melodies, huge bass drops, and buzzing electronic synths. Since releasing his debut record, Just Movement, in 2013, the 32-year-old musician has cultivated a community of committed fans who often show up to his concerts with their faces painted with an orange X—the artist’s symbol. His latest album, 2018’s See You in the Future, has spawned a number of hits, including possibly his biggest, “Favorite Color Is Blue (featuring K.Flay),” which fans can expect to hear when Delong returns to Buffalo for a show at Buffalo Iron Works on Tuesday, February 12,

presented by 107.7 Alt Buffalo. Support comes from pop singer Morgxn. -CORY PERLA

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[ART] The twice annual drawing rallies that Hallwalls organizes at Asbury Hall have been among the city’s most enduringly popular art parties since they began in 2012.

(This is number 15, if you’re keeping score at home.) The Mid Winter’s Draw works like this: The doors to Babeville’s beautiful Asbury Hall open on Wednesday, February 28 at 7pm; at 7:15pm sharp, a coterie of 36 local artists start producing art, live, right in front of your eyes, as you wander about, cocktail in hand, conversing with friends and listening to music provided by DJ Undersound. After 45 minutes of drawing, the pieces are put up for silent auction, and another 45-minute drawing rally begins, followed by another silent auction. That’s a total of 36 original works by local artists available for purchase, often cheaper than they ought to sell for (bidding for each piece begins at $39), with the proceeds benefitting Hallwalls, a linchpin in Buffalo’s remarkable cultural machine. It’s a lot of fun, and a great way to meet artists and collect their work. If you’ve never been, go.

If you’ve been before, well, we don’t need to tell you. -TPS

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exactly—or at least it’s not candlelight-dinner-for-two-on-Valentine’s-Day love. Whatever you want to call it, we do think a lot about that little community-minded microbrewery, and thinking about them makes us feel we-don’t-know-what. We want to be with them on that special day, understand, but we hope to have company. So, you know, the evening isn’t awkward, or overdone, or something it’s not. So we’re throwing a Valentine’s Day party called Lovers & Friends at CBW on Thursday, February 14—actual Valentine’s Day—with music by DJ Crespo, flowers and sweets, a photo booth (tentatively titled “Public Displays of Affection”), and other entertainments. There will be drink and food specials, and other fun activities for folks who want to get out for the holiday but, like us, don’t necessarily want to make a federal case of it. And, if you feel that way about us—no pressure, of course, we love you no matter what—we’ll be raising a little money to keep The Public going, too. Join us, won’t you? -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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February 14. The duo, drummer Tim Fogarty and guitarist Kristian Dunn, return to Buffalo in support of their latest album, Banker’s Hill, which was released in August. Their distinct style not only comes out through their sound—a mix of electronics, guitar loops, and mechanical drums—but in the way they deliver it, with Dunn on a double neck guitar and Fogarty behind a humongous drum kit. Bunker’s Hill, which the duo has described as “meditation in motion,” dives into many of the themes that the band have obsessed over throughout their career, experimenting with the meaning of beauty and music itself. Catch PHOTO BY MARK OWENS

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 7 Malcolm Bonney: Bottling Quantities of Night 6pm Carnegie Art Center, 240 Goundry Street N. Tonawanda Free

[ART OPENING] Big shout-out to uber-rich Andrew Carnegie, who spread his money around, ensuring that his name would be associated with libraries, universities, community centers, and other nice things.

A handsome Scotsman with a bushy white beard, we can also assume that if he was around today, Andrew would be flying around in a Gulfstream jet and own the Pittsburgh Steelers, all while being a patron of the arts.

Which brings us to the Carnegie Art Center in North Tonawanda, located in the former 1904 Public Library. The Carnegie has made great strides in raising its profile in the arts community, becoming a regional jewel. On Thursday, February 7, the Carnegie will feature a solo exhibit of artwork by another handsome Scotsman, Malcom Bonney. His very large paintings fill the gallery with color and layered complexity that first shocks, then sucks in the viewer into Bonney’s journey of intellectualism and fantasy world. His paintings and sculpture are featured in numerous museums and private collections in five out of six continents. Andrew would be proud to host the enormously talented Bonney and very proud of the many volunteers who have kept his vision accessible to the public.

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[COMEDY] Stand up comedian Drew Lynch will perform at Buffalo’s Helium Comedy Club this Thursday, February 7 through Saturday, February 9. The 27-year-old comedian from Los Angeles was a finalist on season 10 of America’s Got Talent and has since appeared on Maron and Conan and amassed over a million subscribers on YouTube with his many comedic endeavors from animated shows to comedy sketches. -TPS

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8 The Dirty Nil 7pm Rec Room, 79 W. Chippewa St. $1.07

[ROCK] With album titles like Higher Power and Master Volume, one can assume the Dirty Nil are dead set on making some noise.

And they achieve that goal often with filthy hard rock licks, driving power rock rhythms, and instantly contagious hooks. The threepiece alternative rock band from Hamilton, Ontario come to visit this Friday, February

P them at Buffalo Iron Works with support from Buffalo-based indie rock band Aircraft. -CORY PERLA

8 at the Rec Room with local support from Parade Chic and SMUG. At a $1.07 per ticket, this is a bargain brought to you by Afterdark and Alt Buffalo 107.7, but make sure you get your tickets ahead of time. -TPS

Sugar City’s Soul Night 10pm Milkie’s, 522 Elmwood Ave $5

[SOUL] Soul Night is back just in time to find a date for Valentine’s Day. This time around DJs Handsome Dan, Haüsfly, and Pat K will be spinning nostalgic jams from the glory days of soul. Expect plenty of classic hits and some deeper obscure cuts too, both of should be enough to keep folks dancing all night. Not only will you get a huge amount of soul music for your dollar, but you’ll also be happy to know that this fun dance party is a fundraiser for the DIY art space located at 1239 Niagara Street. Check out Soul Night on Friday, February 8 at Milkie’s on Elmwood. -CP

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9 John Valby 8pm Riviera Theatre, 67 Webster Street $20

[FOLK] John Valby, now 74, is a dying breed. But it's too late to change gears now—and would anyone really want him to?

I guess there are those that disapprove. Be a scrooge about it if you must, but the Western New York-based musical comedian's bread and butter has always been what we might call "the naughty limerick." Taking familiar melodies and swapping in vulgar lyrics for

the originals is something forever ingrained on our culture (it starts, after all, on the playground…or, at least, it used to), and Valby is a master. With 50-some recordings to his name and the ability to continue making a living on the road, he still has an enthused audience. Imagine a back alley Tom Lehrer with a foul mouth in a tailed white tux jacket and you've got the idea. This is not for the easily offended, the faint of heart, or activists who thrive on the politically… over-careful ("correct" seems like a stretch sometimes). But if you're the type of person who finds early South Park hilarious and lives life with an equal opportunity insult policy (i.e., nobody is safe and the "c-word" doesn't set you off), Valby is your man.

There'll be plenty of singing along and the beverages will flow at the Riviera Theatre in North Tonawanda on Saturday, February 9, when the infamous Dr. Dirty will be joined by the Eye Candy Vixens Burlesque revue.

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SPOTLIGHT MUSIC For Big Mood, they’ve been able to build off of the foundation laid by parties like Strange Allure, allowing organizers to easily direct dancers to something new.

“This came together really quickly and easily,” says Gruder.

What’s different about this party is that it focuses on local DJs, which not only elevates the scene but also makes it a slightly lighter lift for the crew of organizers who bring every last bit of gear to Duende, from turntables and video projectors to a quadraphonic sound system.

“This is about booking local talent that we want to see. There are plenty of people who make some really cool noise in the city and you don’t get to see them hardly at all. This is a good platform for that,” says Gruder.

Another difference is that, unlike the majority of parties in Buffalo that begin at 11ish and go until 4am or 5am, this party starts promptly at 9pm and ends firmly at 2am. In fact, the 2am closing time is an exception that the folks at Duende make just for this party.

“It started off as a limitation that made itself very clear to be a feature. It’s not a bug. It’s really great. People come and they get the most of it,” says Gruder. “I was nervous about starting at nine, but people show up and have fun.”

The same goes for the venue’s relatively small capacity, which ensures a full room.

“That’s when the magic happens,” says Miller.

For the third edition of Big Mood, Saturday, February 9 at Duende, expect to catch an opening set from Gruder as Peace Dept., as well as sets from Lina Thrash and Pure & Supreme. P Sherri Miller, a.k.a. Mutualism.

BIG MOOD

BY CORY PERLA IT’S 9PM ON a Saturday in the winter in Buffalo, and we’re headed to a new dance party to hear some house and techno DJs play music in a converted industrial office building surrounded by grain silos. The only thing that doesn’t scream “Buffalo” about this whole night is that we’re headed out at 9pm instead of 11:30pm, and that there is an actual chance we’ll be safe in bed by 3am—even taking into account a late-night snack at Towne or Jim’s. We show up to the party when doors open, because although this is the first edition of this party, it’s about to sell out.

We are nearly the last to be let in the door. The headliner tonight for this party dubbed Big Mood is a local named Alex Morrison, who delivers a frantic, ecstatic, and bassy set of house and techno that keeps the dance floor in a state of hyper-aliveness all night.

The organizers of Big Mood are familiar to those paying attention to the electronic dance music scene in Buffalo. They are the same people involved in putting together other parties, like the underground party Strange Allure—which features buzzworthy national house and techno DJs like Grant, Octo Octa, Basic Soul Unit, Volvox, and most recently Huerco S in a secret location each time—and the people behind parties like Ghost Stories, Redux, and Real Love. For the purposes of this interview, Gruder and Miller are the representatives of this group of individuals which also includes Alex French, Sean Feiner, Mario Fanone, Alex Morrison, Frank Napolski, Jordan Nittoli, and Dan Neveu.

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Big Mood takes place at the Cantina at Duende, a new bar made of old materials located in Silo City. The building, which was built in 1928, was once the administration building for the American Malting Company. It’s an exciting place for a party like this— secluded enough to allow for as much noise as warranted, but also, despite its relatively low official capacity of 80 occupants, open and spacious feeling with a wall of windows that look out at the industrial silos. It’s a perfect place for a singer/songwriter or small bluegrass band to set up, and often enough that is the entertainment found at Duende, but it also happens to be a great place to crank up the bass and let loose.

“It’s a really cool Buffalo location,” says one of the many Big Mood organizers, Josh Gruder, who, along with fellow organizer Sherri Miller, chats with me in another local watering hole on Elmwood, Nine 29, formerly Mezza, which we stumbled into after trudging through the snow looking for the right place.

“There really wasn’t any other place,” says Miller about Duende.

“Once we found Duende, we realized we could do what we wanted to do,” says Gruder. “It was really hard to find a legitimate venue in Buffalo that would even want such a thing or be able to do it any justice.”

Kevin Cain, the bar manager and artistic director at Duende— who attendees can behind the bar mixing drinks from the special Big Mood menu at each event—was immediately on board with the event.

“It became pretty clear to me that they wanted to do something special, says Cain. “We wanted to support that scene in Buffalo.

It needs support from more legitimate venues.”

A small but dedicated scene of techno and house DJs, promoters, enthusiasts, and party organizers have turned at least a portion of their energy toward this new house and techno-focused party that makes a point of featuring local talent.

Josh Gruder, a.k.a. Peace Department.

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FILM REVIEW mid-1960s. It was loosely inspired by Pawlikowski’s own parents, who couldn’t live together yet couldn’t live apart.

As the film opens, Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) is an aspiring composer working for the Polish government to put together a troupe of folk singers and dancers. One small town audition brings him into contact with Zula ( Joanna Kulig), who is almost as talented as she is ambitious. In the film’s luminously gorgeous blackand-white photography, she looks to be the image of a film noir femme fatale, and she is the most mysterious aspect of a story in which she and Wiktor rise and fall, separately and together, in their homeland, as exiles in Paris, and other locations behind the Iron Curtain until their story comes to an end.

The Shoplifters.

CABIN FEVER RELIEVERS SHOPLIFTERS • COLD WAR • DESTROYER • SERENITY

BY M. FAUST ANNOYING AS IT is that cities the size of Buffalo don’t get to

see many of the awards season favorites while national critics are adding them to their year end best of lists, the upside is that they tend to get to our theaters during weeks like this, when they provide an excellent cure for cabin fever (as well as an excuse to enjoy a heated theater for a few hours).

A story from the BBC today reports the rising number of elderly in Japan’s prisons. Most of them get there because of petty crimes, committed because they see prison as the only alternative to fending for themselves on insufficient state pensions.

That tattering of the Japanese social support system is the background for Shoplifters, the new film from the masterful Hirokazu Kore-eda, winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes and a nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. As with many of Kore-eda’s films, it looks at a family struggling to survive under difficult circumstances.

the police. Still, there is something off center about this family, which is revealed in the final section of the film.

Kore-eda elicits poignant performances from everyone in his ensemble, chose to accentuate the positive rather than dwell on the hardships. The bungalow where they live, surrounded by ugly newer apartment buildings, represents an older and clearly better Japan, even if what was honorable about that way of life has been reduced to the meanest circumstance. In the film’s most touching moment, Osamu is asked why he introduced young children to the crime of shoplifting (one not taken lightly in Japan). His answer: “I didn’t have anything else to teach them.” Now playing at the Dipson Eastern Hills. *** AGAINST Shoplifters for the Best Foreign Language Oscar is Cold War, from Poland, also nominated for Best Cinematography (Lukasz Zal) and Best Director (Pawel Pawlikowski). It richly deserves to win in every category, though I would have to be the Oscar voter choosing between this and Shoplifters.

*** IF NICOLE KIDMAN didn’t get an Oscar nomination as Best

Actress for Destroyer, making its belated local debut this week at the Flix Theater in Lancaster, it clearly wasn’t because she and director Karyn Kusama weren’t trying. Like Charlize Theron in Monster, the film that netted her an Oscar, Kidman and the film’s make-up folk work overtime to bury her natural beauty for the role of a severely damaged character, a police detective whose life was ruined by a bad decision she made nearly two decades ago. With a complexion that looks like she’s been sleeping on the beach for all that time, a fright wig and a Clint Eastwoodish growl, she’s barely recognizable. (In case we still had any doubt, she’s accompanied by a musical theme that seemed to me reminiscent of Bernard Herrmann’s score for Taxi Driver.)

Which only raises the point, why not hire an actress who didn’t have to go to such extremes to fit the part? She gets a few good scenes to play, particularly with her onscreen daughter. But while the plot, in which the old case is brought back to life by the reemergence of a villain involved in it, has a nice twist at the end, that doesn’t make up for the fact that the story otherwise doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

COMPETING

The parents Osamu (Lily Franky) and Nobuyo (Ando Sakura) work at back-breaking jobs, he as a day laborer on construction sites that offer no benefits, she at an industrial laundry. They share a small, cramped house with Grandma (veteran star Kiki Kilin in her last film), who has a small pension. Grandma’s younger daughter Aki (Matsuoka Mayu) works behind a window in a peep show. Osamu supplements their meager income by taking young Shota ( Jyo Kairi) out on shoplifting excursions. Hard as their lives are, though, they make room for a five-year-old girl, Juri (Sasaki Miyu), who is in need of shelter from her real parents.

(If you enjoy handicapping this category, you’ll be able to see every nominee in a local theater before the Oscars are presented on February 24: Roma opens theatrically at the North Park starting next week; Capernaum from Lebanon opens at a theater to be determined the following Friday; and the German Never Look Away, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others), opens on February 22.)

Kore-eda establishes the nature of this family in a mosaic of short, unhurried yet focused scenes that are neither mawkish not melodramatic. Even if she has been kidnapped, we don’t doubt that Juri is better off here than she was with her real parents, who over the course of a year don’t even report her missing to

Like Kore-eda, Pawlikowski (named Best Director at Cannes) is a modern master at the peak of his game. You may remember his last film, Ida, winner of the Best Foreign Oscar. Cold War is a love story of sorts that plays out in Poland and Paris from the end of World War II through the height of the titular struggle in the

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Cold War runs for less than 90 minutes, though it contains enough material for a story at least twice that length. Again like Kore-eda, Pawlikowski movies history along with great economy and visual panache. (His use of the squarish Academy ratio, seemingly extinct now that we all have widescreen television sets, seems odd, perhaps part of a plan to make a film that looks like it could have been produced 60 years ago, but he composes for that reduced frame beautifully.) Leaps in time are announced by onscreen titles noting the year, and especially in the final reel I was jarred to realize how much story he elided in those jumps, particularly a turn reminiscent of the classic epic Doctor Zhivago.

Is Pawlikowski being modest, unwilling to bore his audiences?

He doesn’t come close to doing that. Now playing at the Dipson Amherst Theater.

*** BEFORE IT OPENED last week, I remarked that the

unpreviewed Serenity had the least interesting trailer of recent months, touting a noirish-looking drama starring Matthew McConaughey as a fishing boat captain with a mysterious past that catches up with him when his ex-wife (Anne Hathaway) shows up looking for help. Having seen the film, I now understand the dilemma of the editor who had to cut that trailer: It’s not the kind of film that you can boil down into two minutes of explanatory clips. The first hour or so of the movie seem like familiar genre stuff, but are obviously off-center, giving it an almost hallucinatory quality that progressively drew me in, eager to see where it was going. Unfortunately, that destination was a disappointment. But that’s not to say that I didn’t largely enjoy the ride provided by writer-director Steven Knight (Locke), creator P of such British TV hits as Peaky Blinders and Taboo.

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

OPENING THIS WEEK COLD WAR—Oscar-nominated drama set over three decades of post-war Poland, as the love between a singer and a musician takes them back and forth over political barriers. Starring Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, and Cédric Kahn. Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida). Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst DESTROYER—A de-glammed Nicole Kidman stars as an emotionally crippled police detective unable to come to grips with an incident 17 years ago that left her partner dead. Co-starring Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Scoot McNairy, and Bradley Whitford. Directed by Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body). Dipson Flix THE GANDHI MURDER—Docudrama about the events leading to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Starring Stephen Lang, Luke Pasqualino, Joseph K. Bevilacqua, Om Puri, and Vinnie Jones. Directed by Karim Traïdia and Pankaj Sehgal. Regal Elmwood

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA: Friday, February 1 WAKE UP!—Horror thriller about a psychiatrist whose examination of the diary of a girl who killed her family brings him dangerously close to her disturbed state of mind. Starring Kelly Frances Fischer, Scott Broughtonm and Traci L. Newman. Directed by Joe W. Nowland. 7:30pm.

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Saturday, February 2 THE FROG PRINCE (Israel, 1988)—Aileen Quinn, the movie’s original Annie, in her only other film appearance in this rarely screened entry from the “Cannon Movie Tales” series of Grimm’s fairy tales adaptations. Co-starring John Paragon, Helen Hunt, and Clive Revill. Directed by Jackson Hunsicker. 11:30am. North Park GREAT GREAT GREAT—A couple’s five-year relationship seems to be going along great until they decide to become engaged. Starring Sarah Kolasky, Dan Beirne, and Richard Clarkin.

Directed by Adam Garnet Jones. http://www. greatgreatgreatmovie.com. 5:30pm. Screening Room WAKE UP!—See above. 7:30pm. Screening Room

Sunday, February 3 THE FROG PRINCE—See above. 11:30am. North Park

Tuesday, February 5

MISS BALA—Remake of the Mexican film about a beauty pageant contestant drawn into the operations of a drug cartel. Starring Gina Rodriguez, Anthony Mackie, Ismael Cruz Cordova, and Matt Lauria. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight). Dipson Flix, Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962)—Like Night of the Living Dead, this is a classic of low-budget regional cinema from an industrial filmmaker (Herk Harvey) who, unlike George Romero, never made another movie. Candace Hillgoss stars as a woman who survives a car wreck only to be trapped in a small town where she is haunted by apparitions. 9:15pm. Screening Room

SHOPLIFTERS—From Japan, this Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year looks at a “family” composed of people who band together out of economic necessity. Starring Lily Franky, Sakura Andô and Mayu Matsuoka.

Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda (Our Little Sister). Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills

A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1932)—The first film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s novel, starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes as the American ambulance driver and English nurse who fall in love in Italy during World War I. Directed by Frank Borzage (The Mortal Storm), the master of the Hollywood melodrama. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. 7pm. Dipson Amherst

THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD—Peter Jackson (the Lord of the Rings trilogy) led a team of technicians that meticulously restored and colorized footage of British soldiers in the trenches of France during World War I, and dubbed the results with audio interviews from more than 100 soldiers of what was supposed to be “The War To End All Wars.” The result is one of the most moving documentaries about soldiers ever made. Regal Transit JIMI HENDRIX: ELECTRIC CHURCH—Concert documentary of the guitarist’s July 4, 1970 Georgia performance in front of more than 300,000 fans. Directed by John McDermott. North Park OPENING FEB. 8: 2019 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS—Two programs featuring the nominees for best live action short film and best animated short film.

Dipson Eastern Hills COLD PURSUIT—Liam Neeson steps in for Stellan Skaarsgard in this remake of the 2014 Norwegian thriller In Order of Disappearance, as a snow plow driver who calls upon unexpected resources to avenge the death of his son at the hands of a drug lord. With Emmy Rossum, Julia Jones, Laura Dern, Tom Bateman, and William Forsythe. Directed by Hans Petter Moland, who also helmed the original. Regal Quaker EVERYBODY KNOWS—Family secrets are unveiled by an investigation into a missing teenager in the first international production from Oscar-winning Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi (A Separation). Starring Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, and Ricardo Darín. Dipson Amherst ROMA—Nominated for 10 Academy Awards (including Best Picture), Alfonso Cuarón’s universally admired drama chronicling the life of a domestic servant in a Mexican household of the 1970s finally gets a local theatrical booking. North Park THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD—See above. Dipson Amherst

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WAKE UP!—See above. 7:30 pm. Screening Room

Wednesday, February 6 GREAT GREAT GREAT—See above. Star and co-writer Sarah Kolasky will be present for this screening. 7:30pm. Screening Room

Thursday, February 7 ZAMA (Argentina, 2017)—In the late 18th century, a Spanish officer assigned to minor duty in one of that country’s South American colonies struggles in vain to attain a grander life as he seeks promotion. This acclaimed new film by Lucrecia Martel (The Holy Girl) inaugurates “Post-Colonialisms,” a new Cultivate Cinema series exploring the repercussions of the control and exploitation of colonized people. 7pm.

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Friday, February 8 CASABLANCA (1941)—Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in what is by general consensus Hollywood’s greatest romance, if not the all-around best movie of the studio period. With Paul Heinreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, S. Z. Sakall, and Dooley Wilson. Directed by Michael Curtiz. 7:30pm. Screening Room

Saturday, February 9 CASABLANCA—See ing Room

above.

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Tuesday, February 12 MY MAN GODFREY (1936)—As a homeless man hired to be the family butler on the whim of their flighty daughter (Carole Lombard), William Powell heads what is probably the best ensemble performance of any Hollywood screwball comedy: even the smallest parts are delightful. With Eugene Pallette, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Jean Dixon, Alan Mowbray, and Mischa Auer. Directed by Gregory La Cava (Stage Door). Presented by the Buffalo P Film Seminars. 7pm. Dipson Amherst

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

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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

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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, Defendants.

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CHRIS STEVENSON

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VASILIOS MARKOUSIS

MARY JULIAN

JUDITH CARRINGTON

ELIZABETH MANCINI

ELMER PLOETZ

AARON INGRAO

To the above-named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $45,838.00 and interest, 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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