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UPS & DOWNS: COMMON COUNCIL RACES ARE WIDE OPEN

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COMMENTARY: BLOOMBERG VS. THE GREEN NEW DEAL

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INVESTIGATIVE POST: THE UNDERFUNDING OF WATER QUALITY

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SPOTLIGHT: COME OUT AND JOIN THE BIG GAY SING!

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ON DAILYPUBLIC.COM: WHAT LEGISLATIVE AGENDA OUGHT WESTERN NEW YORKERS DEMAND FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY-LED STATE GOVERNMENT IN ALBANY? HOW DO WE MAKE SURE WE GET IT? THE PUBLIC’S BRUCE FISHER OFFERS A LIST. PHOTO BY JIM LOGAN VIA CREATIVE COMMONS

THIS WEEK ISSUE NO. 205 | FEBRUARY 14, 2019

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LOOKING BACKWARD: The Kensington Water Tower.

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FILM: Capernaum, plus capsule reviews and cinema listings.

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THEATER: A quick guide to what’s playing on local stages.

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CROSSWORD: Another devilish puzzle by Matt Jones.

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ART: Black Quantum Futurism at Squeaky Wheel.

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ON THE COVER: FRED STONEHOUSE’s Not Here is part of a three-artist exhibit opening Friday, February 15 at Revolution Art Gallery (1419 Hertel), 8-11pm.

CENTERFOLD: Travis Keller’s Fissure, from a new eight-artist show at the Kenan Center.

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UPS: The political cycle begins early this year, thanks to new state legislation that moves state and local primaries to June, to coincide with the federal primary schedule. The move means that petitioning to appear on ballots opens February 26, compelling incumbents and challengers alike to declare their intentions and plot their campaigns now. The races for BUFFALO COMMON COUNCIL seats are especially active, with two long-time incumbents—Lovejoy’s RICH FONTANA and Fillmore’s DAVE FRANCZYK, the longest servicing councilman in city history—announcing that they are retiring their seats. (Franczyk’s departure has been planned for some time; both men are interested in becoming city comptroller, the seat Mark Schroeder vacated to become commissioner of the state Department of Motor Vehicles.) BRYAN BOLLMAN, a long-time aide to Fontana, is said to be interested in succeeding his boss. A few other names have been bandied about, including TOD KNIAZUK, who has served on the staff of the Erie County Legislature and more recently as director of the Arts Services Initiative of WNY. New candidates to take over the Fillmore seat are popping up every day, but the two most prominent are GERHARD YASKOW, a real estate investor and former staffer (and candidate) for the Erie County Legislature; and Common Council staffer MITCH NOWAKOWSKI, a former intern in the Fillmore District office who seems to have Franczyk’s blessing, though there has been no formal endorsement. There are also challengers anticipated to each of the seven remaining incumbents: JOE GOLOMBEK in the North District (first elected in 1999), DAVID RIVERA in the Niagara District (first elected in 2007), DARIUS PRIDGEN in the Ellicott District (first elected 2011), CHRIS SCANLON in the South District (first elected in 2012), RASHEED WYATT in the University District (appointed in 2014, elected in 2015), ULYSSES WINGO in the Masten District (appointed then elected in 2015), and JOEL FEROLETO in the Delaware District (first elected in 2015). Expect to see challengers circulating nominating petitions in all of those districts.

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And that’s not even touching the race for city comptroller. Or Erie County executive. Or Erie County Legislature races. Or this spring’s City of Buffalo school board races. For updates on those, check out dailypublic.com.

This week and next, the OUR CITY COALITION—a cooperative of progressive-minded activists and activist groups—are hosting workshops aimed at helping candidates new to politics navigate the process of running for elected office, with a focus on Buffalo’s Common Council. For this effort, we salute the coalition, which received dozens of inquiries in response to a solicitation for prospective Common Council candidates interested in coalescing around a progressive platform.

With Fontana and Francyzk deciding not to run for re-election, the door is wide open to a slate of candidates looking to rescue that body from its recent reputation for docility. We need a Common Council that does more than provide constituent services, that also serves as a check on mayoral power. There isn’t one area of Mayor Byron Brown’s platform and governance that doesn’t deserve the scrutiny and discussion that a strong, progressive Council majority should provide, and for too long the Common Council has gone along to get along with the mayor, to the detriment of the greater good. The OUR CITY Coalition is reminding those cozy political affiliations that city residents demand better.

DOWNS: When accountability isn’t baked into the culture of a police force, the public ends up paying for it. Take into consideration the case of SHAUN PORTER, a man brutalized in the Buffalo city lockup for having the temerity to ask for an attorney. The assailant, MATTHEW JASKULA, a cellblock attendant working a double shift at the time, received an 18-month sentence for his role, but the two Buffalo officers who witnessed the event and did nothing to intervene or report it—JOSHUA T. CRAIG and ANTHONY D’AGOSTINO—are still on the force after being suspended without pay for an unknown length of time. The true nature of the discipline, if any, the two officers faced is unknown; as with so many incidents related to police violence, that detail seems covered by an undemocratic oath of secrecy. Buffalo police have continued to refuse to release video footage of the beating Porter took, despite being sued by the Buffalo News to do so; the video has been described in an affidavit, however, and it is damning: Porter has been offered $300,000 by the city, which can barely keep its roads in decent shape, to settle a lawsuit resulting from the 2016 arrest. Porter, who told us that he feared for his life, forgave his assailant in court, asked the judge for leniency, saying the man was only a “cog” in the system.

And it’s not just Buffalo: A Town of Tonawanda police officer, HOWARD SCHOLL, is under investigation for an apparent driving under the influence incident that resulted in a collision on Englewood Avenue last month.

Police and the town initially refused to release any information about the event, even as the it marked the second time Scholl has been investigated by the Erie County District Attorney, the first time for a fight inside a bar restroom. When the Buffalo News finally got the police reports, they noticed that the first version claimed Scholl’s wife was driving the car, while an amended report dated for February 7 said Scholl himself was driving. In any event, neither were given a sobriety test, unlike fellow Tonawanda police officer Corey FLATAU, who fell onto the hood of his car during such a test after going off the road in Wheatfield in December. Flatau apparently still has his job, but the embarrassment over the handling of Scholl’s apparent crime may lead to Scholl’s termination.

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MICHAEL BLOOMBERG VS. THE GREEN NEW DEAL

BY DEREK SEIDMAN THE GREEN NEW DEAL proposed by the likes of US Represen-

tative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement has dominated national discussion of climate policy over the past month. It’s an ambitious idea that pushes back against decades of neoliberal policy prescriptions—a massive federal jobs program to rapidly decarbonize the United States and promote economic and racial equity.

This makes the Green New Deal directly threatening to some.

The fossil fuel industry and conservative politicians are of course opposed to it. And it’s been roundly condemned from the airwaves of Fox News to the pages of the Wall Street Journal.

But there’s another, more subtle source of opposition to the Green New Deal: that of political centrists and professed climate advocates who oppose its radicalism and want to dilute its content so it’s less threatening to the political and economic status quo.

Enter Michael Bloomberg.

The billionaire business mogul, who is pondering a 2020 presidential run, made headlines last week when he criticized the Green New Deal as unrealistic. “I’m a little bit tired of listening to things that are pie in the sky, that we never are going to pass, are never going to afford,” Bloomberg said. “I think it’s just disingenuous to promote those things. You’ve got to do something that’s practical.” That same day, he announced that he planned to outline his own Green New Deal.

Bloomberg has crafted a reputation for himself as a climate leader.

But as we and others have argued, his climate politics are mixed at best.

Bloomberg is on record as an unapologetic advocate of fracking and natural gas. He personally invests his billions in fossils fuels.

He is a business libertarian skeptical of government regulation and corporate taxation—a fact no doubt tied to his assertion that a Green New Deal is unaffordable and therefore impractical. (It’s worth noting here that Bloomberg is worth around $48.5 billion.)

Now, Bloomberg is trying to discredit the Green New Deal because he opposes its New Deal-style ideas to address the climate crisis and advance social justice—and he’s trying to co-opt the popular idea for his much more conservative approach to climate policy.

Here are some important things to know about Bloomberg’s climate record that should sound an alarm: • Bloomberg is a big supporter of fracking. He co-wrote a book where he declared that “fracking allows for the most efficient extraction of natural gas” and that “it makes sense to frack.” He’s extolled fracking as “good for our environment” in op-eds while lambasting the “loud voices at the extremes” who oppose it. He denounced New York’s fracking ban as a “misguided policy.” All this comes as fracking’s dire impacts on public health and the environment become evermore clear.

• Bloomberg supports the build out of new fossil fuel infrastructure. In 2017, he wrote that he didn’t want to stop the Keystone pipeline—“the oil is coming here one way or another”—and he writes glowingly about new fracked gas pipelines. Whereas most of the climate movement opposed new oil and gas infrastructure that will lock in carbon emissions for decades to come, Bloomberg stands on the other side, applauding such developments.

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• Bloomberg disingenuously frames natural gas as the alternative to coal. While Bloomberg opposes the coal industry, he does so while posing natural gas as the “good” fossil fuel alternative.

This is a false binary that says we need to choose between coal or natural gas. It sidelines another position: that we instead devote resources into developing renewable energy sources now instead of burning more fossil fuels.

• Bloomberg invests his wealth in fossil fuels. We don’t know how much and where—an opaque firm called Willett Advisors exists solely to manage his billions. But Willett has repeatedly signaled that it invests in fossil fuels, with comments like “we

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COMMENTARY NEWS are natural gas bulls” and “we invest a lot in the energy sector…we’ve certainly been on the more bullish side of the argument on oil.” The criticism of Bloomberg’s choice to invest in fossil fuel investments isn’t just a personal jab—though, as Naomi Klein has pointed out, while he talks a good game, “Bloomberg has made no discernible attempt to manage his own vast wealth in a manner that reflects these concerns.” At a time when fossil fuel divestment grows as a climate strategy, Bloomberg could send a strong signal to the world by announcing his own divestment.

• Bloomberg funds a host of Big Green groups that promote his climate reputation.

He has given tens of millions, for instance, to the Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund—much of this to fight coal even as Bloomberg promotes fracked gas. The EDF board has members tied to fossil fuels and has provided cover for an industry-dominated group that issues certifications for fracking companies.

Bloomberg co-wrote a book with the former Sierra Club head—the same book in which he extolled fracking—which garnered a rave review from the EDF head.

• Perhaps most of all, Bloomberg is at his core an anti-regulatory business conservative— he’s the 11th richest person alive and he

calls himself as an “unrepentant capitalist.”

While he supports measures to reduce carbon emissions, he prefers demandside policies that minimally impinge on corporate power—for example, he backs a carbon tax plan that even Exxon and BP support. He labels radical climate solutions as impractical, but believes we can solve our climate crisis without directly curbing the power and production of the fossil fuel industry, and while leaving our system, driven by the quest for private corporate profits, fundamentally untouched.

As Naomi Klein has argued, unregulated capitalism—and maybe capitalism itself—is in basic conflict with the kind of transformation we need to avoid climate catastrophe: a historic global effort that involves massive government spending and regulation to rollback the fossil fuel industry and rapidly transition towards renewable energy sources and a world of greater equity. This leans more toward the kinds of ideas that progressive backers of the Green New Deal support—and which Bloomberg hopes to derail.

Derek Seidman is a research analyst at the Public Accountability Initiative. LittleSis, a PAI project, is a free database detailing the connections P between powerful people and organizations.

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NEWS INVESTIGATIVE POST

WATER QUALITY PROJECTS UNDERFUNDED

BY SARA JERVING

AGING INFRASTRUCTURE

ONLY HALF THE projects eligible for state aid to improve sewage and drinking water systems received funding in recent years, according to a report issued Thursday.

The problem, according to Environmental Advocates of New York, is that the $200 million a year the state has allocated for the work falls well short of what’s needed.

“Those aren’t the odds we need to protect New York’s drinking water,” said Robert Hayes, the author of the report, during a press call.

“But at the moment, there simply isn’t enough funding to go around.”

Projects include upgrading wastewater treatment plants, replacing eroding water lines and separating stormwater sewers from wastewater sewers.

The state received 92 applications for projects under the program from local governments in Western New York between 2015 and 2017.

The state granted $54.5 million to 33 of these projects. Another 26 applications were deemed eligible, but not awarded funding.

Environmental Advocates of New York, an Albany-based non-profit, is calling for $1 billion in annual spending for these types of projects. Even that falls short of meeting the need, which the state estimated in 2008 would cost about $75 billion over twenty years.

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New York has one of the oldest and largest water infrastructures systems in the United States. It also has the largest documented need for wastewater infrastructure investments in the nation, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Watersheds Survey.

Many of the water mains in the state are over 100 years old. A water main break can lead to bacteria and other contaminants polluting drinking water. In Erie County, for example, there have been recent water main breaks in the Village of Depew and the Town of Hamburg.

Many of the state’s wastewater treatment plants don’t use technology to remove excessive nutrients from sewage. This can lead to toxic algae blooms, which pose threats to human health such as liver failure, respiratory paralysis and coma. More than 170 water bodies in the state reported harmful algal blooms last year.

Wastewater treatment plants also need to be upgraded to handle larger volumes of water.

During heavy rains, untreated wastewater is released into waterways. Last July, during a heavy rain, 16.3 million gallons of sewage were released in Western New York in one night into local creeks, rivers and Lake Erie.

A 2016 report form the Environmental Advocates of New York found that 3.8 billion gallons of sewage were discharged into New York’s water bodies between May 2013 and July 2017.

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“Ultimately, broken water infrastructure puts public health and clean water at risk,” said Hayes.

The state allocated about $200 million a year to the program in 2015 and 2016. The following year, Cuomo and the legislature allocated $1 billion to be used over five years.

INSUFFICIENT FUNDS

“There are a large number of fully eligible projects who have filled out all of their paperwork, and whose project designs are sound, that have been unable to receive a grant award,” said Hayes.

Recognizing that water infrastructure projects could be too expensive for many municipalities, Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature passed the Water Infrastructure Improvement Act in 2015. It provides grants to local governments for drinking and wastewater improvement projects.

Under the program, municipalities can receive a grant for up to 25 percent of the costs of a wastewater improvement project and up to 60 percent of the costs of a drinking water project.

The Environmental Advocates of New York report examined the first three grant cycles, from 2015 through 2017. There’s been a steady increase in the number of both applications and grant awards, and 53 of the state’s 62 counties have received grant funding.

Statewide, in 2017, $219.7 million in eligible projects did not receive funding.

“If we are really serious about protecting clean water and putting New York on a path to meeting our enormous water infrastructure needs, the state needs to step up and give much, much more to fund this program,” said Hayes.

Sara Jerving is a reporter with Investigative Post, a nonprofit investigative journalism center focused on issues of importance to P Western New York.

ON STAGES THEATER

Frost/Nixon opens Friday, March 1 at Irish Classical Theatre Company.

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IN AND AROUND BUFFALO: ALMOST, MAINE: Nine love stories set in a town that, weatherwise, feels a lot like Buffalo right now. A Valentine’s Day weekend production, running February 14-17, presented by Road Less Traveled Production and Shea’s 710 Theatre at Shea’s 710 Theatre, 710 Main Street, 847-0850, sheas.org/710.

COMEDYSPORTZ: Improvisational comedy presented by CSz Buffalo every Friday and Saturday at 4476 Main St., Lower Level, Amherst, 393-8669, cszbuffalo.com.

CSZ AFTER HOURS: The late-night (9:30pm) Saturday show by the improvisational crew CSz Buffalo runs a little more blue than the early show. Ongoing at 4476 Main St., Lower Level, Amherst, 393-8669, cszbuffalo.com.

LOVE LETTERS: A favorite by playwright A. R. Gurney. Through February 24 at O’Connell & Company, in residence at the Park School, 4625 Harlem Road, 848-0800, oconnellandcompany.com.

FROST/NIXON: Adriano Gatto plays talk show host David Frost and Jack Hunter plays Richard Nixon in this dramatization of the famed televised encounter.

Opens March 1 at the Irish Classical Theatre Company, Andrews Theatre, 625 Main Street, 853-4282, irishclassicaltheatre.com.

RAGTIME: Musical adapted from the E. L Doctorow novel. Through March 17 at MusicalFare Theatre, in residence at Daemen College, 4380 Main Street, 839-8540, musicalfare.com.

TALES OF THE DRIVEN: Subversive Theatre Collective co-founder Kurt Schneiderman’s play about speaking truth to power. Through February 23 at Subversive Theatre Collective, Manny Fried Theatre, 3rd floor, Great Arrow Building, 255 Great Arrow Avenue, 408-0499, subversivetheatre.org.

THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE: A stage adaptation of the John Cassavetes film. (Read more on page 12 in our events listings.) Opens February 15 and runs through March 10 at Torn Space Theater, 612 Fillmore Avenue, 812-5733, tornspacetheater.com.

TALLEY’S FOLLY: Lanford Wilson’s play about an unlikely romance in a small town.

Through March 3 at the Jewish Repertory Theatre, 2640 North Forest Road, Getzville, P 650-7626, jewishrepertorytheatre.com.

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ART REVIEW Exactly how this occurs does get complicated—arcane even— involving deep dives into quantum physics and vanguard ideas about space-time, and more sci-fi than straight science notions about time travel, into the past and into the future.

The BQF movement emerged out of inner-city Philadelphia.

The exhibit opening featured a panel discussion/conversation among movement founding figures Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips and moderator local Afro-futurist multidisciplinary artist Ineil Quaran. Multidisciplinary scarcely begins to describe Ayewa and Phillips. Ayewa is a musician and dancer—hard to characterize her work in this regard, but one of the videos in the show is of one of her dance performances, in a kind of urban junkyard setting, to a frenzied rhythmic a-melodic musical creation, interspersed with graphics of the planets and their orbits, and repetitive snatches of spoken vocal matter of a seemingly philosophical nature, but too fragmentary to get the sense of—and writer of non-fiction essays and sci-fi fiction, though with the proviso: “only true stories.”

Phillips also writes non-fiction essays and sci-fi, and lest anyone get the idea the movement, with its alternative reality elements and objectives, is whole cloth fantasy stuff, unrelated to the real world of real people and their problems, Phillips’s day job is as a housing attorney in Philadelphia, work involving endless legal system advocacy on behalf of clients usually on lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder, but also entailing constant drafting of proposals—another writing task—to revamp existing Philadelphia housing laws or create new ones to remedy situations detrimental to her clients and urban poor and oppressed people in general.

BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM AT SQUEAKY WHEEL

BY JACK FORAN Black Quantum Futurism is a new approach to living and experiencing reality by way of the manipulation of space-time in order to see into possible futures, and/or collapse space-time…to bring about that futures reality.

diaspora heritage characteristics that have worked so far—to the extent they have worked—to accomplish solidarity and survival of the black community versus forces of oppression to the point of gradualist genocide by the white majority community.

—Rasheedah Phillips

A program and strategy incorporating traditional and wellrecognized black heritage cultural aspects—music and dance and other arts, communal and ancestral memory, storytelling, religion, language, food—and some novel or possibly latent and unrecognized characteristics, such as in quantum physics and futurist categories. Amounting to an alternative way of perceiving reality to the Western—that is, European/American, the colonialist world—model based on linear time and threedimensional space, in shaping and creating black communal and personal ways forward.

THE CURRENT EXHIBIT at Squeaky Wheel is about Black

Quantum Futurism. It may not be as arcane as it sounds. But with some arcane features and aspects. Some of the quantum physics stuff. And futurism in general can get tricky. Peering into the crystal ball.

But an aspirational/inspirational program and strategy for survival and more for African-Americans in particular, based on African

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ing reception Fri, Feb 15, 7:30-9pm. On view through Mar 15. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm. = REVIEWED THIS ISSUE = ART OPENING Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Ave- NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Pasnue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albright- tel, Pencil & Paint, works in various media by knox.org): Htein Lin: A Show of Hands, open- Sandy Ludwig. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8aming Sat Feb 16Christine Sun Kim and Thomas 10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm.

Mader: To Point a Naked Finger, through April Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, 21; Humble and Human: An Exhibition in Honor NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works of Ralph C. Wilson Jr., through May 26; We the from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm.

People: New Art from the Collection, through Big Orbit Project Space (30d Essex Street, BuffaJun 30. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fri- lo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): days (free) until 10pm.

Ulysses Atwhen: Hoarder. Sat 12-6pm.

Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, anna- St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Tutelary, an installation kaplancontemporary.art):Mille Chen: Matter, by Obsidian Bellis. Every day 4-10pm. opening Thu Feb 21 with a recption 6-9pm. ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery (148 Elmwood Avenue, BufArtist’s talk on Thu Mar 14, 6pm.Wed-Fri 11am- falo, NY 14201, buenvivirgallery.org): Tue-Fri 3pm or by appointment.

1:30-4:30pm, Fri 6-8pm, Sat 1-3pm.

Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 14207, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com/ 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833argus-gallery): Chaz Buscaglia: Recent Por4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Community traits. Sat 12-3pm, or by appointment.

Space Exhibition, Dream Land: Amy Greenan, Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buf- Melanie Fisher, and Travis Keller. On view from falo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Calder’s Circus, Feb 22 through Mar 16. Opening reception Fri, through Mar 8. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am- Feb 22, 5-8pm. Lee Hoag: Amalgams; Sheila 3pm.

Barcik: From the Core, on view through March Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists 2. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716- Fridays till 8pm.

885-2251, wnyag.com): 23rd Annual Juried Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Members Exhibition, Traditional Works. Open- Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffa-

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So the futurism aspect of the program seems in part about alternative reality—sci-fi reality, a little or maybe a lot like alternative fact—but in larger part about imagining and envisioning a better future reality for succeeding generations.

Progress. Phillips talked about how her mother became a mother as a teen-ager, and she herself became a mother when she was fourteen, but her daughter is now in her twenties, having avoided teen-age motherhood and the extraordinary burden it represents to career and economic advance.

Exhibit items, in addition to the Camae Ayewa music and dance video, include: —An instructional video complete with exercises for manipulating time: “Recall a memory, then get inside the memory to actually re-experience it…take a specific thought from ‘past,’ ‘present,’ or ‘future’ categories and reverse direction… as you practice these exercises you should be able to slow down or stop time…”

—A poignant ritual and prayer sequence video on resurrecting— or consecrating—a potter’s field of unmarked graves.

—A video on the demolition of a high-rise housing project of the sort touted in the 1950s as the ultimate solution to inner-city housing and related social problems.

—BQF paraphernalia including several books/pamphlets on or about the movement. And lots of actual or depicted clocks.

The Black Quantum Futurism exhibit continues through P April 20.

lolib.org): Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City & WWI, 100th Anniversary of America’s Entry into WWI, on second floor. Building Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings, in the Grosvenor Rare Book Room. Catalogue available for purchase. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm.

Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): David Pratt: Fantastic Landscapes, through Jun 30; 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. Contradictions of Being: Composite Works by Harvey Breverman, through Feb 24; The Complexity of Life, by Jonathan Rogers, through Feb 24.. 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. 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. MonFri 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 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8562717, cepagallery.org): Liz Bukowski: Hallow Ground; Aitina Fareed-Cooke: Warriors; 2019 Members Exhibition, on view through Feb 23; Skyway Photo Competition Exhibit; Resilience Through the Lens, collaborative exhibit with Clean Air Coalition of WNY. Mon-Fri 9am5pm, Sat 12-4pm.

Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry: A Resource:Art Project (second floor of Hotel Henry, 444 Forest Avenue, Buffalo NY 14213, 716-882-1970, resourceartny.com): Charles Clough, Pam Glick, Jody Hanson, Joseph Piccillo, Jeffery Vincent, through Mar 9. Open to the public during business hours.

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

GALLERIES ART Duende at Silo City (85 Silo City Row, Buffalo, NY 14203, 235-8380, duendesilo.city): Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com): Jack Edson: A Focus on Collectors, through Mar 1. Collector’s tour Sat, Feb 16, 12-3pm (tour starts at 1pm). Tue-Fri, 10am4pm, or by appointment.

El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org):Wed-Fri 126pm, Sat 1-5pm.

Expo 68 (4545 Transit Road, Williamsville, NY 14221, expo68.com, 458-0081): Stephen M. Russ: Buffalo ARTcitecture, on display through Mar 7.

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 11am7pm, Sat 11am-4pm.

Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Carl Lee: Myoptic, plus works by Rebecca Aloisio, both shows through Mar 1. Tue-Fri 11am6pm, Sat 11am-2pm.

The Harold L. Olmsted Gallery, Springville Center for the Arts (37 N. Buffalo Street, Springville, NY 14141, 716-592-9038). Wed & Fri, noon5pm, Thu noon-8pm, Sat 10am-3pm.

Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Lyla Rye: Elusive Space. Thorugh Mar 2. Wed 126pm, 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. Jewish Community Center of Buffalo, Holland Family Building (787 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14209, 886-3172, jccbuffalo.org): Mon-Thu 5:30am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am6pm.

Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220

North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm.

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

Kenan Center (433 Locust St., Lockport, NY 14094, 433-2617, kenancenter.org): Buffalo Arts Studio Invitational, work by eight artists in residence: Tricia Butski, Fotini Galanes, Bryan Hopkins, Travis Keller, Muhammad Zaman, Kathleen Sherin, Phyllis Thompson, Anne Stievater, Opens with reception on Sun, Feb 24, 2-5pm. 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 1900-2012, through Mar 3.

Maison Le Caer Downtown (Market Arcade, 617 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203 ): Peculiar Buffalo: Historical Photography 1900-2012, through Mar 3.

Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts. com): Tue-Sat 9:30-5:30pm.

Melting Point (244 Allen Street, Buffalo NY 14201): Floral Fantasy, photos by Richard Price. Through Feb 28.

Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 2827530, thenacc.org): Artists & Friends Exhibit, through Jan 27. Mon-Fri 9am5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm.

Nichols School Gallery at the Glenn & Audrey Flickinger Performing Arts Center (1250 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14216, 332-6300, nicholsschool.org/artshows): Mon-Fri 8am4pm, Closed Sat & Sun. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-8825777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Duayne Hatchett: Trowel Paintings, on view through Feb 15. Tue-Fri 10am–5pm.

Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove

Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-6523270, norbergsartandframe.com): Regional artists from the gallery collection. TueSat 10am–5pm.

Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): The Heart, a group exhibit through Feb 27. Wed-Sat,12-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse. com): Patty Angrisano Ossa, solo exhibit, through Feb 23. Thu, Fri & Sat 6-11pm. Live music Thu-Sat. Pine Apple Company (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, pacobuffalo.com): Love Notes: A Group Show. Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am-5pm.

Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment.

Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod. com): Art collective, including Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, Chris McGee, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Liebel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, John Farallo, Thomas Busch, Sherry Anne Preziuso, Michael Shiver, Madalyn Fliesler, Steve Siegel, Michael Mulley, et alia.

First Friday reception: Fri, Feb 1, 5-8pm. TueFri 11am-4pm and by appointment.

Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): 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.

Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Black Quantum Futurism (Camae Ayewa, a.k.a. Moor Mother, and Rasheedah Phillips, a.k.a. the Afrofuturist Affair) through Apr 20. 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 and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio. org) Flying Colors, group exhibition featuring Rebecca Aloisio, Janet Harrison, and Debbie Medwin. 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. 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. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. TueFri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm.

Undergrounds Coffee House and Roastery (590 South Park Avenue, Buffalo NY 14210, undergroundscoffeebuffalo.com): Oil Portraits by Tara Steck, on view through Jan 15. 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): Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm.

Weeks Gallery (Jamestown Community College, 525 Falconer Street, Jamestown, NY 14702, 338-1301, weeksgallery.sunyjcc. edu): Mon-Fri 11am-4pm, Sat 11am-1pm.

Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 3481430, wnybookarts.org): Combination of the Two: Ginny O’Brien & Michael Basinski. Through Feb 23. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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by Stephanie Young DoubleCross Press | 2018 | Poetry “sometimes I think what can I possibly say about anxiety and having a body / that my friends haven’t already,” Stephanie Young admits halfway through a whirlwind chapbook about illness, class anxiety, and the gendered indignities of both. And yet, It’s No Good Everything’s Bad (DoubleCross Press, 2018), a winkingly unfaithful “translation” of and meditation on Kirill Medvedev’s It’s No Good (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016), is singular in its specificity, from the abjection of the ER waiting room to the perverse pleasure of revealing the cost of one’s Forever21 dress to wealthy donors at a gala. Despite Young’s affinity for long, prose-like lines and citations, her sharp reflections on neoliberal institutions’ co-optation and negation of personal experience never feel overly academic or essayistic; when she writes, “I’m tired of speeches about storytelling’s special value in this moment,” you’ll nod, grateful to be reading poetry. When the poem builds to a manifesto pitch, imagining disenfranchised patients taking back the hospital in a reverie of stealth and survival, you’ll be even more grateful. This book hurts, but it is also a balm for those of us who have ever been too sick to make it to the protest.

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by Faye Chevalier Empty Set Press | 2018 | Poetry Twitter bots and Darth Maul, apocalyptic Bible b-sides and a sex robot named Roxxxy, language becoming programming and the body becoming machine—this is the world of Philadelphia-based poet Faye Chevalier’s first book, FUTUR.TXT. Driven by the feeling of the body in pain (“what is a body / when the she-machine / resists?” asks the poet in “fr|g|d”), the characters present here flirt with transforming into technology and back again. The poems mix the form and language of a friend’s text message, an academic’s dissertation, and a programmer’s hacking side-hustle to describe a universe of “heart-valves // socially-implanted / in th palms of consumer-hands.” As Chevalier points out, where T. S. Eliot tried to end the world, the poet Juliana Leslie “lives out the fact / tht it is already / over.” If the world is over, the poems in FUTUR.TXT show us how to live in what remains: like Roxxxy the sex robot, in “states of / pre-recorded // robot / bliss.”

Mosswalk CD Release Show 9pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St. $5

[INDIE] Proggy indie rock band Mosswalk will celebrate the release of their new record Mangata with a show at Nietzsche’s on Saturday, February 16. They’ll be joined by Soular Plexus and Witty Tarbox. -TPS

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 17 A Benefit for Jonah 12pm Community Beer Works, 520 Seventh Street $20 donation

SHAED FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22 7PM / REC ROOM, 79 W. CHIPPEWA ST. / $1.07-$10 [POP] DC-based electro-pop trio SHAED (as in, like, “throwing shade”) have been acquainted since

high school when lead vocalist Chelsea Lee began dating Spencer Ernst, who, along with his twin brother Max, now arrange Lee’s instrumental backdrop. Lee signed a solo deal with Atlantic in 2009, fresh out of high school, while the Ernst twins shopped their music around for a record deal but eventually ended up going to college instead. At University of Maryland, the twins formed a folkie duo called the Walking Sticks, and Lee, having ended her relationship with Atlantic, joined them. A shift from rootsy music to electronic dream-pop facilitated a name change, and now the trio is SHAED. “Trampoline,” from their second EP, Melt, has subsequently been used in a Macbook Air commercial, thus significantly raising the trio’s profile. Both the EP and “Trampoline” display impressive imagination, giving in to trendy electronic production techniques without over-saturating the tracks with unnecessary bells and whistles.

Our very own electro whiz, Suzanne Lee Bonifacio, will open the show with her musical project, Space Cubs, so get to the Rec Room early on Friday, February 22. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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[BENEFIT] Jonah is, like any three-year-old, a delightful kid: energetic, charming, full of joy.

He is also fighting a rare form of pediatric cancer. Jonah's parents, who are well known in community activist circles, are having a difficult time keeping up with the attendant bills. To help them to help Jonah in this fight, folks are gathering for A Benefit for Jonah this Sunday, February 17 at Community Beer Works. The suggested donation is $20, but you can give more or less, whatever amount you can afford—just make sure it hurts a little. There will be 50/50s and a basket raffle, as well as live music and other entertainment. Circle up, folks: This is what community is for. -TPS

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 19 Chuck Prophet 8pm 189 Public House, 189 Main St. $12-$25

[ALT COUNTRY] Singer/songwriter Chuck Prophet, whose career began in the 1980s with the Tucson neo-psychedelic outfit Green on Red, has in recent years been presenting the work of his 2017 album, Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins, a sort-of-biographical treatment of the eponymous California rocker who was found dead in his car outside his Hollywood apartment in 1966, at age 23. It’s the kind of story the immensely entertaining Prophet was born to muse on. Catch him on Tuesday, February 19 at East Aurora’s 189 Public House, one of the finest venues in Western New York to hear intimate performances. -TPS

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Buffalo Common Council 101

Alex Prager’s Silver Lake Drive

6pm Market Arcade, Free

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[POLITICS] This could be a pivotal year for Buffalo's Common Council: The Lovejoy and Fillmore district councilmen are both stepping down, and there are candidates considering challenging incumbents in each of the other seven district as well. Among those candidates are many who have never engaged the political process before, which makes their candidacies both promising (for city government) and daunting (for them and those who would support them). It is for these folks that the OUR CITY COALITION—an umbrella group of activists and activist organizations—present Buffalo Common Council 101 on Wednesday, February 20 in the Buffalo Commons Classroom in the Market Arcade building downtown. The purpose is to teach wouldbe candidates and their supporters how to petition to get on the ballot for the primary election, which will be held in June this year instead of September, thanks to recently passed state legislation. (Petitioning begins at the end of this month.) Although the Council has developed a reputation for sleepiness and complacency in recent years, it need not be that: It has robust policymaking powers.

If you'd like to help create a legislative body that realizes its powers, attend this workshop.

RSVP to buffalocommons@cornell.edu. -TPS P

When I first opened Prager’s latest photo book, my first thought was that it was filled with images taken during the 1970s. Her style is very related to her being based in LA, and her photos have a cinematic look that seems to pay respect to old Hollywood.

Prager creates uncanny scenes through blank stares, uncomfortable crowd shots, and period specific clothing and hairstyles.

Using the time period to her advantage, she blurs the line between the real and the surreal. Her photos are perfectly staged and styled to feel as if they could have been grabbed directly from old Hollywood films, and her continued use of direct eye contact and strange angles give all of the photos the same eerie feeling. The women in the photos often look unnervingly fake, as if they had just stepped out of vintage fashion advertisements. Prager’s book captures an incredible collection of photos taken over the past ten years and makes the viewer question the nature of reality in the world that she creates.

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MARSHA AMBROSIUS SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23 9PM / TRALF MUSIC HALL, 622 MAIN ST. / $35-$45 [POP] Remember Floetry? The Brit duo of Natalie Stewart and Marsha Ambrosius caused a stir in

the late 1990s, building up to a signing with Dreamworks and the release of three albums, Floetic (2002), Floacism (2003), and Flo’Ology (2005). A mix of neo-soul and poetry, the duo put a unique spin on the fringes of hip-hop, merging the more soul-influenced sounds of artists like Erykah Badu and Jill Scott with spoken-word couplets. And while that might sound like a lot of mainstream hip-hop on paper, Floetry had a distinctive tone that helped them sell over a million and a half albums during their initial run. Ambrosius embarked on her solo career with a 2007 mixtape entitled Neo-Soul Is Dead for Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment, but decided to concentrate on production and co-songwriting credits in the years that immediately followed, waiting until 2011 to release her proper solo debut, Late Nights & Early Mornings. The disc debuted at number two on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, and since, two more celebrated albums, Friends & Lovers (2014) and Nyla (2017), have resulted in multiple award nominations and critical acclaim. The latter remains Ambrosius’s latest and it brings her to the Tralf Music Hall on Saturday, February 23. The early show (doors at 6pm, show at 7pm) is close to sold out, but a second show has been added with doors at 9pm and music starting at 9:30pm. Young’un Leah Jenea from season two of Fox’s The Four will open both shows. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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BAD BAD HATS SUNDAY FEBRUARY 24 7PM / THE 9TH WARD, 341 DELAWARE AVE / $10-$12 [INDIE] A Minneapolis-born group, Bad Bad Hats (amusingly, named after a character in the Madeline series of children’s books) makes indie pop that’s built around Kerry Alexander’s breathy warble. The band has proven it’s capable of more than the generic sound of its debut, It Hurts, in the five years since it was released on the Minnesota-based Afternoon label. Listening to “Write It on Your Heart,” the first single from Lightening Round, the band’s second full-length, out last August, it’s clear that big strides have been made. The production value has increased significantly, but with it comes a sound more sophisticated, rhythmically complex, and emotionally engaging than anything prior. Having recently lost original member Noah Boswell, the band carries on as a trio with Alexander, Chris Hoge, and Connor Davison. They’re back at Babeville’s 9th Ward on Sunday, February 24 before embarking on a string

of dates with fellow punk-pop enthusiasts, The Beths. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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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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PETER CASE THURSDAY FEBRUARY 28 7:30 PM / SPORTSMEN’S TAVERN, 326 AMHERST ST. / $15 ADVANCE, $20 AT THE DOOR [AMERICANA] It occurred to me recently, as I was reading yet another recounting of the life of the late

Alex Chilton, that Hamburg native Peter Case and Chilton share some of the same biographical arc: They were pretty close in age, Chilton born just a few years earlier; both revealed themselves to be prodigiously talented songwriters and rock musicians as teenagers; both achieved early commercial success, Chilton as a teenager with the Boxtops and Case in his 20s with the Nerves and the Plimsouls.

Both walked away from that early success, perhaps believing it’d always be there if they wanted it. There, perhaps, the biographical arcs diverge: While Chilton alternately labored at and self-sabotaged a career that would make him a mythic figure in the constellation of pop music, Case became the consummate journeyman troubadour, touring relentlessly with a guitar and a suitcase, turning out a dozen solo albums filled with beautifully crafted and presented songs, collaborating with and writing for a who’s-who of artists. He has never again scored the kind of radio hit he had with “A Million Miles Away,” but his solo records and guest appearances on others’ records, in combination with his touring, have a built him a steady and loyal fan base, who in turn provide him a decent living. (It doesn’t hurt when one of his songs is featured on True Detective or Friday Night Lights.) Case comes back to his native Western New York pretty often, and his audiences here are always full of folks-who-knew-him-when, even though he lit out of here as a teenager. His performance on Thursday, February 28 at the Sportsmen’s is bound to be crowded, so get tickets early. -GEOFF KELLY

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BY CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY IF THE IDEA of something called a Big Gay

Sing makes you chuckle, that’s good. When the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus staged the first Big Gay Sing in 2009, they wanted it to be over the top. Now, it’s a copyrighted concept that they loan to other choruses all over the world as a fundraising tool that doubles as a loose, let-your-hair-down event that’s meant to foster group spirit. The idea is to bring people together and celebrate in a shared knowledge of songs, because—when you’re able to let go of the ledge—singing is fun. And freeing. It’s good for your soul.

This is the fifth year that the Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus is presenting a Big Gay Sing.

In the past it’s been part of the official Pride Week lineup, but BGMC is going independent this time around, hosting the event at Roswell’s Hohn Auditorium and bringing in the talents of Ed Popil, a.k.a. Mrs. Kasha Davis, as emcee.

Davis, you may recall, was a contestant on season seven of RuPaul’s Drag Race and has long been a part of the Rochester drag scene.

Her witty one-woman show, There’s Always Time for a Cocktail, chronicles her journey from her youth in Scranton, Pennsylvania to her adult transformation into “International Celebrity Housewife, Mrs. Kasha Davis.”

For a singing event that’s all about spirit and less about skill (Can’t carry a tune? Don’t sweat it!), Davis will be doing her part to keep the Big Gay Sing lively and upbeat, featuring a program of tunes—gently led by a portion of BGMC— that attendees will surely recognize. At a time of year when Western New York is growing weary of winter, coming out for a night of comedy and song might be the best $15 you’ve spent since before Black Friday. We sat down with Davis, who regularly performs a Drag Story Hour at Rochester’s Blackfriar Theatre and has recently penned an autobiographical children’s book of her own, Little Eddie P. Wants to be a Star, which she will have on hand at this event.

Mrs. Kasha Davis will emcee BGMC’s fifth Big Gay Sing on Saturday, February 23 at Roswell’s Hohn Auditorium. Reception is at 6:30pm, tunes start at 7:30pm. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased through buffalogaymenschorus.com.

How has doing the Drag Story Hour enriched your life?

It’s absolutely my favorite performance to do in drag. Drag Story Hour inspires children of

all ages to accept and love their genuine selves and we focus on treating others who may be different with kindness. I was so inspired by the experience that I decided to write my own children’s book, which is autobiographical and can be purchased at my website, www. mrskashadavis.com. When I was a child, we didn’t have many examples of living your fullest truth openly and honestly, and I’m so proud to be a part of the Rupaul’s Drag Race movement because we get to share our stories on TV, in movies and on social media. Without exaggeration, this honesty is saving lives.

You get asked to do a variety of different kinds of events on the basis of your drag celebrity. What’s your favorite and why?

I love them all. I light up when presented with the opportunity to hit the boards and be a ham, but I honestly love meeting people who follow us crazy drag queens and hope to gain new friends who don’t along the way. Drag has a unique way of bringing people together and I’m proud to be a player in that game.

Has the There’s Always Time for a Cocktail show changed over the years that you’ve been doing it?

Cocktail is the story of my life, so thank God it keeps changing because I’m still living and breathing. I recently did a little weekend tour to test out the current content for future bookings. I am working on a P-town stint this summer so…fingers crossed! The purpose of me sharing Cocktail is with the hope that someone listening will of course be entertained, but it’s also to encourage acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, and ultimately to help people find a path toward loving their genuine selves. When I was a kid there were no open and honest stories of selfacceptance in the gay world, so I am delighted to share mine.

Outside of your own singles, what’s your favorite song to sing?

I only really sing “Cocktail”—the others are just silly and I’m not even sure I know the words. Ha! Actually I do love my mini-album called It Takes a Lotta Balls to be a Lady. They’re old broad-way songs that tickle my pickle.

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What do you think is the biggest misconception about professional drag?

My least favorite question is “So you can make money dressing up like that?” A wise friend told me recently that if you are following your heart and your passion, money doesn’t seem to become a matter of importance. Money will come when you are following your instincts and your heart.

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Seth Faergolzia’s Multibird

What’s left to cross off your professional bucket list?

The Dan White Band, Twenty Thousand Strongmen,

Broadway, RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars, and voice over work for Cartoons.

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Western New York isn’t somewhere outsiders would assume to have a lot of drag talent, and yet we seem to have it going on. Why do you think that is?

Polluted lake water? No, honestly we are definitely a competitive bunch but we are a family. And just like family, we love and hate one another—but in the end we actually have respect for one another. Come see Keke Valasuqez-Lord save the show in our Drag Me to Brunch shows monthly at Edibles in Rochester and you’ll see what I mean! February 24, March 10 and 31, and April 14. Visit www.

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FILM REVIEW

DOWN BUT NOT QUITE OUT IN A TERRIBLE PLACE CAPERNAUM

BY GEORGE SAX CAPERNAUM, THE TITLE of Nadine Labaki’s Oscar nominee (for Best Foreign Language Film) means something like “chaos“ in both Hebrew and Arabic. The title is all too apt, aesthetically and sociologically. The film is set in a part of Beirut, Lebanon that tourists never visit and that most of the city’s more privileged residents have probably rarely if ever entered.

It’s a teeming, physically and morally squalid world, a large Third World enclave that doesn’t seem connected to the rest of the city. In this dense, sometimes dangerous society Labaki’s very young, unlikely hero, Zain (Zain alRafeea), strives to survive.

In a way, Zain is a living symbol of this lumpen area. Asked his age by a court early in the movie, he replies he may be 12 but he’s not sure.

Zain’s birth was never recorded by his pennyante criminal parents, so he exists outside of official recognition.

Capernaum begins in a jail and courtroom and is bookended by the same setting at the end. Much of what transpires in between is a flashback detailing how he got there. Before

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

OPENING THIS WEEK ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL—A warrior cyborg struggles to remember her human past in this collaboration between director Robert Rodriguez and writer-producer James Cameron. Starring Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley, and Father Baker graduate Jeff Fahey. AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Market Arcade (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal VISIT DAILYPUBLIC.COM Walden Galleria

that begins, he tells the judge (Elias Khoury, a retired Lebanese jurist) that he wants to sue his parents.

Living a hardscrabble life with his parents, Zain is furious and dispirited when they effectively sell his 11-year-old sister Sahar into marriage to their landlord’s adult son despite Zain’s desperate efforts. Leaving this home, he is reduced to sleeping on a seat in a shabby amusement park’s Ferris wheel and begging for food. A young Ethiopian woman, Tigest (Yoadanos Shiferaw), who cleans in the park, takes him in and lets him mind her infant son while she works. Zain applies himself conscientiously to this new responsibility and the three of them function like a kind of family, makeshift like so much of what surrounds them. This tender respite for Zain will, of course, be cruelly interrupted.

Amid Labaki’s sprawling setting and the abruptly changing focuses of her probing, restless camera, the image of Zain’s face in close-ups, pensive or sad-eyed, yet resolute, is perhaps the most memorable. The young star was an illiterate Syrian refugee in Beirut

Adam Devine, and Priyanka Chopra.

Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson (The Final Girls). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Market Arcade (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria LORDS OF CHAOS—In 1987 Oslo, a teenager obsessed with promoting his Norwegian black metal band stages publicity stunts that start to go over the top. Starring Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer and Sky Ferreira. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund (Spun). North Park

Capernaum.

when he was cast. He couldn’t study a script, of course, or memorize lines in a conventional way, and some of his work here may be improvised, but in any case, it’s well-nigh perfect, possibly due in part to al-Fafeea’s own roots in actual circumstances resembling some of what’s portrayed in Capernaum. The whole cast, many of them non-professionals, is very effective.

Labaki’s central character is certainly heroic in his fashion, and his resolve and grasp of practical possibilities may lead you to feel, as I did, that he’d be the “man” to rely on in a crisis.

NEVER LOOK AWAY—In Germany’s contender for the Best Foreign Language Oscar, an artist (Sebastian Koch) who escaped from East Berlin tries to use his work to express his past. Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others). Dipson Amherst or Dipson Eastern Hills (tentative)

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA:

Labaki captures the beleaguered lives and precarious circumstances of her characters, but the film’s last moments can seem a bit of a departure. Zain’s court suit is almost a (Frank) Capraesque device and the very brief, tentative happy ending doesn’t quite fit.

That leaves a lot of closely observed, unusually powerful filmmaking.

Capernaum is tentatively scheduled to open Friday February 22 at the Dipson Amherst or Dipson P Eastern Hills theater.

THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)—Rob

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Reiner’s fractured fairy tale, adapt-

CASABLANCA—See above. 7:30pm.

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ed by William Goldman from his own novel, with a cast of comedians poking fun at children’s fantasy stories. Starring Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, Billy Crystal, Robin Wright Penn, Peter Falk, Peter

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14

Cook, Mel Smith, and Carol Kane.

CASABLANCA (1941)—Humphrey Bo- 9:30pm. Screening Room gart and Ingrid Bergman in what is by general consensus Hollywood’s FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 THE PRINCESS BRIDE—See above. ToTHE WANDERING EARTH—In this greatest romance, if not the allaround best movie of the studio night’s screening includes a trivia big-budget Chinese science fiction period. With Paul Heinreid, Claude competition. 7:30pm. movie, scientists devise a plan to Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Screening Room move the Earth to the orbit of a Sydney Greenstreet, S. Z. Sakall, and different star when it faces destrucDooley Wilson. Directed by Michael tion from an inflating sun. Starring Curtiz. 7:30pm.

FOR MORE FILM LISTINGS & REVIEWS >> Screening Room Guangjie Li, Chuxiao Qu, and ManMY BLOODY VALENTINE (CanaTat Ng. Directed by Frant Gwo. Regal HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U—Horror seda, 1981)—Early entry in the quel. Starring Jessica Rothe, Israel Walden Galleria wave of holiday-themed Broussard, and Phi Vu. Directed by slasher movies that folOPENING FEBRUARY 22 : Christopher Landon (Happy Death lowed the success of Day). Dipson Flix, Maple Ridge CAPERNAUM—From Lebanon, this Halloween. Starring (AMC), Market Arcade (AMC), Re- nominee for the Best Foreign Lan- Paul Kelman, Lori gal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, guage Oscar follows a boy whose Hallier, and Neil VISIT DAILYPUBLIC.COM FOR MORE FILM LISTINGS & REVIEWS >> Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal life is so difficult that he brings a Affleck. Directed Walden Galleria lawsuit against his parents for the George Mihalka ISN’T IT ROMANTIC—Starring vehicle crime of bringing him into the world. (Pick-Up Summer). for Rebel Wilson as a cynic who Directed by Nadine Labaki (Where Part of the Thursday finds herself stranded inside a ro- Do We Go Now). Dipson Amherst Night Terrors series. 7:30, 9:30 mantic comedy. Liam Hemsworth, or Dipson Eastern Hills (tentative) pm. Dipson Amherst

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CHISHOLM ’72: UNBOUGHT & UNBOSSED (2004)—Documentary about Brooklyn congressional representative Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 campaign for the Democratic nomination for US president, the first such substantial effort by ether a woman or a person of color. Directed by Shola Lynch. Free and open to the pubic. 11:30am.

North Park HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)—In adapting the classic newspaper comedy The Front Page, Howard Hawks worked with the actors to interlock the dialogue, making it run at a furious pace, and he changed the central character of reporter Hildy Johnson to a woman, which makes all the difference. Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, and as fine a collection of character actors as were available at the time. 5pm. Screening Room

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN—From PBS’s “American Experience” series, a docudrama exploring the events leading up to and following the first killing of an American president. Narrated by Chris Cooper. Directed by Barak Goodman. Free and open to the pubic. 11:30am. North Park

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18 THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE (1976)— John Cassavetes’ seldom-screened film starring Ben Gazzara as a strip club owner forced into a killing to pay off his gambling debts. Co-starring Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel, Robert Phillips, and Haji. Presented

by Cultivate Cinema Circle in conjunction with Torn Space Theater, whose artistic director Dan Shanahan will introduce the film. 7pm. Hallwalls

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)—Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning role as an African river rat persuaded by a missionary spinster (Katharine Hepburn) to go up against a Nazi ship. Directed by John Huston (The Maltese Falcon). Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. 7pm. Dipson Amherst THE PRINCESS BRIDE—See above. 7:30pm.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 MY FAIR LADY (1964)—Alan Jay Lerner’s adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Winner of eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Director (George Cukor), and Actor (Rex Harrison). Co-starring Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and Jeremy Brett. 7pm. Dipson Amherst

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22 THE PRINCESS BRIDE—See above. 7:30 pm.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970)— James Franciscus is sent in search of Charlton Heston in what was supposed to be the only sequel to the 1968 hit: Little did they know. With Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison, Paul Richards, Victor Buono, James Gregory, and Jeff Corey. Directed by Ted Post (Hang ‘Em High). 11:30am.

North Park

My Fair Lady (1964).

LOCAL THEATERS AMHERST THEATRE (Dipson) 3500 Main St, Buffalo (834–7655) AURORA THEATRE 673 Main St, East Aurora (652–1660) EASTERN HILLS MALL (Dipson) 4545 Transit Rd, Williamsville (632–1080) FLIX (Dipson) 4901 Transit Rd, Lancaster (668–FLIX) FOUR SEASONS CINEMAS 2429 Military Rd, Niagara Falls (297–1951)

Celebrate Valentine’s Day week with Humphrey Bogart , the least likely romantic star in Hollywood history, in Casablanca and The African Queen.

A BREAD FACTORY (Part One & Two)—Likely to be the film event of the season, if the reviews by critics who have already seen Patrick Wang’s epic two part film are to be trusted. A struggling art space threatened by a better funded but vapid competitor is the backdrop for an exploration of community that has drown comparisons to the work of Robert Altman, Jacques Rivette, Christopher Guest, Edward Yang and Richard Linklater. Familiar faces in the ensemble cast include Tyne Daly, Janeane Garofalo, Glynnis O’Connor and Brian Murray. Each part runs two hours; they will be separated by a dinner break. Presented by Cultivate Cinema Circle.

Hallwalls

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24 BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES—see above.

11:30am. North Park

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (Breathless, France 1959)— Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature film, scripted

by Francois Truffaut, is a loving tribute to American “Poverty Row” movies made to repudiate the stale French “Cinema of Quality.” Jean-Paul Belmondo is a petty thief with a Bogart fixation and a romantic streak for an American girl (Jean Seberg) that proves to be his undoing. Presented by the Buffalo P Film Seminars. 7pm. Dipson Amherst

LOCKPORT PALACE THEATRE

REGAL TRANSIT

2 East Ave., Lockport (438-1130)

Transit and Wehrle, Lancaster (633–0859)

MAPLE RIDGE (AMC)

REGAL WALDEN GALLERIA

4276 Maple Rd, Amherst (888-262-4386)

Galleria Mall, Cheektowaga (681-9414)

MARKET ARCADE (AMC)

RIVIERA THEATRE

639 Main St (803-6250)

67 Webster St, North Tonawanda (692-2413)

MCKINLEY MALL CINEMA (Dipson)

THE SCREENING ROOM in the Boulevard Mall,

McKinley Mall, Blasdell (824–3479)

880 Alberta Drive, Amherst (837-0376)

SQUEAKY WHEEL

NORTH PARK

617 Main St., Buffalo (884-7172)

1428 Hertel Ave., Buffalo (836-7411)

SUNSET DRIVE-IN

REGAL ELMWOOD

9950 Telegraph Road, Middlesport (735-7372)

2001 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo (871–0722)

THE PRINCESS BRIDE—See above. 7:30 pm.

Screening Room

HALLWALLS

REGAL NIAGARA FALLS

341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo (854-1694)

720 Builders Way, Niagara Falls (236–0146)

HAMBURG PALACE THEATER

REGAL QUAKER CROSSING

31 Buffalo St., Hamburg (649–2295)

3450 Amelia Dr., Orchard Park (827–1109)

CLOSED FOR THE SEASON TRANSIT DRIVE-IN 6655 S. Transit Road (Route 78), Lockport (625-8535) CLOSED FOR THE SEASON

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ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Lancaster Ave. 3 BR upper w/2 porches, natural woodwork, w/d hookups. No pets, no smoking. $1100+utilities. Apartment of the week. 716-883-0455.

--------------------------------------------------NORWOOD BTWN SUMMER & BRYANT: Freshly painted 1BR, carpets, appliances, mini-blinds, parking, coinop laundry, sec. sys. Includes water & elec. No pets, no smoking. $695+sec.

912-0175.

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FOR RENTALLENTOWN WEST, DOWNTOWN: Spacious, 2-floor townhouse, 2+ bd, washer/dryer, dishwasher, patio, yard, marble fireplace, $1200+. 855-3321.

ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Lancaster, lg bright 2BD upper, hrdwd flrs, laundry, parking. $1200 incl all. 884-0353.

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2 BR, study, porch, appliances, must

D’YOUVILLE AREA: 2 BR, porch, water, trash. No smoking/pets. $590 security. 475-3045.

see. No pets/smoking. $1,350+util.

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ALLENTOWN: Main Street 3-room studio, Victorian, hardwood floors, near medical campus. Off-street parking, private entrance, 700 + sec, and reference. Electric included. No pets/smoking. 1 or 2 people, owner occupied. 883-1800.

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

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ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Storefront/office

BAYNES/MANCHESTER PL: Large 3BR upper, hdwd floors, with appliances incl. w/d and parking. $1050.

Text 316-9279.

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NORTH BUFFALO: Immaculate 2 BR: C/A, fresh decor, fireplace, hrdwd flrs, eatin applianced kit, office, porch+parking.

MUST SEE. $895+ 875-8890.

----------------------------------------------------LINWOOD: Large, bright 2 BR, entire floor of a brick mansion, 1,300 sq ft.

Hardwood floors in BRs and LR. Offstreet parking, laundry. Convenient to UB, Canisius, Medical Campus. $975 includes all utilities. 1 month security, lease, no pets, no smoking. 886-1953.

---------------------------------------------------ROOM FOR RENT: $450/month, private bath, all utilities, kitchen, laundry, parking privileges, located off NF Blvd in Amherst, 440-0208. No smokers.

------------------------------------------------DELAWARE PARK: Beautiful 1BR. Appliances. Laundry. Hardwood.

Granite. Porch, ceiling fan. $950 includes utilities. No pets/smoking.

866-0314.

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or

716-886-5212.

Karen, Karenni, Burmese, Tigrinya, Farsi Dari (Afghan Persian), Nepali, Bengali, and Rohingya. Interpreters enable communication between two or more individuals who don’t speak the same language. If you are professional, punctual, self motivated, experienced, and communicative, consider applying today. Daytime availability, reliable transportation, and work authorization are required.

Prior interpreter training is preferred.

To apply please visit jersbuffalo.org/ index.php/employment or contact us at (716) 882-4963 extension 201 or 207 with any questions.

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

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for rent. 600 sq ft, $800 electric included.

FREE YOUTH WRITING WORKSHOPS Tue and Thur 3:30-6pm. Open to writers between ages 12 and 18 at the Just Buffalo Writing Center. 468 Washington Street, 2nd floor, Buffalo 14203. Light snack provided.

716-803-3046.

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COMMERCIAL

stub, excellent condition. $5 or best offer.

CALL FOR WORK: Parables Gallery & Gifts, 1027 Elmwood Ave, Bflo.

Artists & craftsmen all mediums welcome. For more info go to: parablesgalleryandgifts.com.

716-579-0059.

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HELP WANTED

FESTIVAL SCHOOL OF BALLET Classes for adults and children at all levels. Try a class for free. 716-9841586 festivalschoolofballet.com.

FOR SALE THOM YORKE 12/1/18 Cleveland ticket

PROFESSIONAL BODY PIERCER AT BUSY SHOP. Must have 2-3 yrs exp., viewable portfolio, good customer service, reliable. Full-time position in Lackawanna, NY. Not an apprenticeship! Call/text Lin 716-9826015 or call shop at 716-822-5358.

SERVICES BLUE BRUSH STUDIOS PAINTING AND HANDYMAN SERVICES: Call 262-9181 or visit bluebrushstudios.com.

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NON-PROFIT SUPER-MARKETEER NEEDED: A major part of the fun involved will initially be helping to define the job. It is very unlikely that it will ever pay much, and so it is most likely that the person who gets it will have other sources of income. If this sounds at all interesting to you, please check out thiselectionmatters.org, and then write to Box 861, Buffalo 14203 to find out more.

AGES 5-17 learn meditation, ESP games, healings. Williamsville. Begins 5/19. 807-5354 Marina Liaros Naples www.meeting-ike-series.weebly.com -----------------------------------------------RETIRED PSYCHOLOGIST available to assist adults in light daily living. Please call for details at 883-3216.

LEGAL NOTICES

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS: Updated large 3BR. Off-street parking, appliances, semi-furnished, water, garbage.

Laundromat across street. Bus stop in front, close to metro. 716-553-2570.

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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS:

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

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF ERIE, INDEX NO. 807326/2017

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Plaintiff,

LOVEJOY AREA: Beautiful 2 BD with appl,carpet,porch,laundry,parking,no pets, 650 + deposit 406-2363, leave message

BOOKKEEPER: Looking for an experienced man or woman bookkeeper/ payroll, needed urgently. Part-time 2-3 hrs, $40 per 2 hours. For more info kindly email: justin.smith3433@gmail.com.

vs.

-------------------------------------------------OXFORD/WEST FERRY: Private 3rd flr 2 BR, newly updated, w/appliances, off street parking. Convenient to medical corridor, Canisius College, bus routes.

875 + utilities. 716-254-4773.

-------------------------------------------------HERTEL AVE/N. BUFFALO: 3 BR upper. $900+utilities & sec dep. No pets, off-street pkng. Call 716.308.6870

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NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC,

JOSEPH HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; AUDREY HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; MICHAEL HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JOANNA HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JOHN HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; JEFFEREY HUNTZ A/K/A JEFF HUNTZ, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; MICHELLE SIMMONS, AS HEIR AND

DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH A. HUNTZ A/K/A JUDITH A. DYSON; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; MARY E. DYSON; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; ‘’JOHN DOE #1’’ through ‘’JOHN DOE #12,’’ the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

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

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRENDAN BANNON

KELLY JEAN DIDEOMENICA

ERWIN RAKOCZY

SARAH QUINTAL

MARQUITA LLOYD

MIKE SENTMAN

ERIKA STAHL

KIM SABEN

JORDANA HALPERN

RALPH MARINO

ANJI MALHOTRA PETER HUBBARD DAN TWIST JAMESON HAMPSON

DOROTHEA BRAEMER

MENA BURTCH-CERDA GIN ARMSTRONG

MCKAYLA MULKHERN

CONSTANCE BAOKYE JOE GENCO COLIN DABKOWSKI TOM PUCKETT COLETTE MONTAGUE BOB CROWELL GORDON BALLARD PRITCHETT SCOTT NATALIE BROWN JENNIFER ANNE BARONE MICHAEL WILSON PETER HALL JULIE KITTSLEY MELISSA CAMPBELL KC KRATT JENNIFER RYAN

NOTICE: YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING 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.

ETHAN AXELROD

CAITLYN LAWTON

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.

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.

MAEVE K. MCDOUGALL

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ACROSS 1 Advanced degrees 5 Thesaurus innovator Peter Mark ___ 10 Hit all the buttons at once, in arcade games 14 Temptation 15 Saint Teresa’s home 16 “The Joy of Cooking” co-author Rombauer 17 Regular “QI” panelist Davies

62 Notre Dame’s Fighting ___ 63 Diamonds, for one 64 “It slipped!”

36 Jai ___ (fast-paced game)

65 Animal whose droppings are used for kopi luwak coffee

37 “American Pie” actress Suvari

66 “___ Wonderful Life”

39 Kitten’s sound

67 Russian refusal

42 Supporter of the 1%, say

68 Reflex test sites 69 “The Giving Tree” author Silverstein

18 Back-country 19 Phone feature, once

DOWN

20 Side-to-side movement

1 Tony candidate

21 Judge on two versions of “The X Factor”

2 Island dance

23 Any miniature golf shot 25 ___ seat (air passenger’s request) 26 Went on sabbatical, perhaps

3 Texas hold ‘em, e.g.

6 Egg, to biologists

51 Ski area

7 ___ d’Italia (cycling event)

34 Cheese with a red rind

10 Delivery assistant

38 Preferred pronoun, perhaps

11 First sign of the zodiac

44 Big name in kitchen wrap 46 Newton’s first, alternately 49 Pine tree substance 52 Listed thing 53 Historical peak

48 Work shift for some

50 George Jetson’s son

9 Absorbent powder

43 1980 “Dukes of Hazzard” spin-off

47 “32 Flavors” singer DiFranco

5 Once-in-a-blue-moon event

33 Hunk of dirt

41 “99 and 44/100% ___” (old slogan)

45 “Scooby-Doo, Where ___ You?”

49 Sell out, in a way

8 Brio

40 Hoppy drink

44 “Family Guy” creator MacFarlane

4 JFK, once

32 One who keeps their buns moving?

39 Bullwinkle, for one

35 Only Ivy League school called a college (not a university)

12 Fries size 13 Berry scheduled to be in “John Wick 3” 21 Headliner 22 Bumbler 24 “Aloha Oe” instrument, for short

54 Head Stone?

55 “___ Brockovich” (Julia Roberts film) 56 Apiary feature 57 “Oh, OK” 59 Informed 60 “And others,” briefly 63 “Pretty sneaky, ___” (Connect Four ad line) LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

26 Shortening used in recipes?

27 Island of Hawaii 28 ___ Lodge (motel chain) 29 Cool and distant

58 Have debts to pay

30 “Arrested Development” actress Portia de ___

61 Shipmate of Picard, Riker, Worf, et al.

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