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UPS & DOWNS: ALL DOWNS, IN FACT. C’EST LA GUERRE.

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INVESTIGATIVE POST: TRAFFIC TICKETS AND LICENSE SUSPENSIONS

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THEATER: FROST/NIXON AND ANGELS IN AMERICA

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CENTERFOLD: CAITLIN CASS: WOMEN’S WORK

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ON DAILYPUBLIC.COM: CARL MROZEK, A CONTRIBUTING VIDEOGRAPHER TO CBS SUNDAY MORNING AND OTHER NEWS PROGRAMS FOR OVER TWO DECADES, OFFERS A STUNNING PORTRAIT OF NIAGARA FALLS IN WINTER.

THIS WEEK ISSUE NO. 206 | MARCH 14, 2019

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LOOKING BACKWARD: The Chief Petty Officers Club, circa 1930.

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ART: Photographic Recall at the UB Anderson Gallery.

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EVENTS: Min Jin Lee at Babel, Bob Weir and the Wolf Brothers, and more.

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FILM: The Prince and the Dybbuk, Climax, Ruben Brandt, Collector, plus capsule reviews.

CROSSWORD: Another devilish puzzle by Matt Jones.

ON THE COVER: ANISHA FOWJIYA’s Balance Has Blossomed, part of a student-teacher exhibit at El Museo (91 Allen Street) on view through March 23.

SPOTLIGHT: 15 things to do on St. Patrick’s Day weekend.

THE PUBLIC STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GEOFF KELLY MUSIC EDITOR CORY PERLA MANAGING EDITOR AARON LOWINGER FILM EDITOR M. FAUST CONTRIBUTING EDITORS AT-LARGE JAY BURNEY QUIXOTE PETER SMITH

SPORT DAVID STABA PHOTOS JOHANNA C. DOMINGUEZ

ADVERTISING ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES CAITLIN CODER, BARB FISHER PRODUCTION MANAGER GRAPHIC DESIGNER DEEDEE CLOHESSY

COVER IMAGE ANISHA FOWJIYA

COLUMNISTS ALAN BEDENKO, BRUCE FISHER, JACK FORAN, MICHAEL I. NIMAN, GEORGE SAX, CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

CONTRIBUTORS CAITLIN CASS, ABNER DENNIS, ROB GALBRAITH

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LOCAL NEWS

THIS WEEK’S UPS AND DOWNS

BY THE PUBLIC STAFF

A SPECIAL, DOWNS-ONLY EDITION, FEATURING GUEST COLUMNISTS: Color us disappointed but unsurprised by the ERIE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE’s endorsement of BARBARA MILLER-WILLIAMS for Buffalo comptroller last week. While the comptroller’s seat hasn’t always been as hotly coveted as it is now, with multiple candidates eyeing a run—including the acting comptroller, VANESSA GLUSHEFSKI—it remains the only citywide-elected office besides mayor and thus an important check on the mayor’s power. There’s been some elaborate back-channel dominoes about which we can only speculate, but one of Mayor BYRON BROWN’s sharpest thorns in his side had been MARK SCHROEDER, who challenged Brown for mayor in 2017. Schroeder recently vacated the position because he was suddenly made an offer by the state he couldn’t refuse, to become the head of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Was awarding Schroeder this post meant to soften the blow dealt by Governor Cuomo onto Byron Brown, when he removed Buffalo’s mayor from the chairmanship of the state’s Democratic Party after only a year?

It sure feels that way now, as the Democratic Party endorsed Miller-Williams, a Brown loyalist, instead of Glushefski, who has accounting and law degrees and has rallied some ardent supporters in Buffalo’s progressive set. The Miller-Williams endorsement landed like a thud on social media, with little engagement beyond disgruntled Glushefski supporters asking how Democratic leaders could pass over a more qualified candidate who already is on the job, and whom the party nominated as their best choice for Erie County Comptroller in 2017. —THE PUBLIC STAFF KRISTINA JOHNSON, the chancellor of the State University of New York system, is quietly stepping down from the board of directors of AES CORP, an electric utility that has been DUMPING TOXIC COAL ASH from its power plant in GUAYAMA, PUERTO RICO. AES’s coal

ash disposal has created significant public health hazards for communities in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico where the dumping occurred. Johnson’s exit comes as AES faces increasing pressure over the coal ash as it seeks to renegotiate its power purchase agreement with PREPA, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Janet G. Davidson was appointed to the AES Corp board on February 22, 2019 and is standing in Johnson’s stead in the April 2019 election of directors at AES’s annual shareholder meeting. The appointment of Johnson’s replacement came only four days after Buffalo’s PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE reported on the conflict between her governance position at AES and SUNY’s humanitarian efforts in the wake of the 2017 hurricanes that devastated the island. It is unclear whether Johnson intends to divest herself of the 151,151 shares of AES stock that she owns, which had a value of $2,657,234 at the close of the market on March 6. —ROB GALBRAITH & ABNER DENNIS, PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE

The people who used to ride with the felonious political operative STEVE PIGEON are out and about, trying to take over bits and pieces of Cheektowaga town government and circulating petitions for a Democratic County Executive primary candidate, attorney PETER REESE, who is also helping to run the campaign of GERHARD YASKOW, one of about a half dozen candidates hoping to succeed retiring Fillmore District Councilman DAVID FRANCZYK. It’s nice that there are about seven people nostalgic for the good old days of conspiring with the fusion parties to ratfuck endorsed Democrats, which was Pigeon’s stock in trade both during and after his relatively brief but controversial chairmanship of the Erie County Democratic Party two decades ago.

Speaking of which, FUSION VOTING got some attention in the last few weeks because the Working FAMILIES PARTY—a lefty, union-funded fusion party that famously endorsed Cynthia Nixon over ANDREW CUOMO last year—decided to combat a Democratic push to abolish fusion altogether. Never mind that New York is one of only a few states that allow this practice, fusion voting is nothing but a way for political malefactors to cut dirty deals; e.g., endorsements in exchange for jobs. Fusion is what led to former Senate majority leader MALCOLM SMITH to go to jail. Fusion was the way STEVE PIGEON colluded with Republicans to screw over Democrats and make a living for himself as a political consultant.

Fusion is what enables the criminal “INDEPENDENCE PARTY” enterprise to continue to operate and confuse voters. Sure, voting is too restrictive in New York and the system could use an overhaul, but fusion is not some sort of voting rights bonus. It’s a conduit for criminality and graft, and has been for some time. People with longer memories will remember how the late rumor-monger JOE ILLUZZI would sell ads to politicians as part of a package that would a) prevent Illuzzi from printing nasty, false rumors about that politician; and b) buy the Independence Party line from a Springville barber who ran its local committee.

Brexit has turned into an utter shambles. With just days left before Article 50 triggers an automatic exit from the European Union, MPs yesterday rejected Theresa May’s clumsily negotiated exit deal for a second time. Brexit has turned out to have been brought about through what appears to be electoral fraud and cheating, assisted in part by Russians intent on striking back at the west for EU and US sanctions brought about in the wake of Russia’s illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula. It is against this shambolic backdrop that New York’s worst legislator, Assemblyman DAVID DIPIETRO of the Southtowns, has suggested BREAKING UP NEW YORK into several states. After all, what better way to counter the utter moral and political bankruptcy of your political party and ideology than to basically do two mini-Brexits, thus causing Western New York to lose its downstate subsidy and become Mississippi-on-the-Lake. Re-drawing the political map to make Western New York “redder than Texas” and poorer than Alabama. The rationale is, at least partly, an effort to force poor people who rely on programs like Medicaid to leave.

Finally, where the are TESLA’S SOLAR ROOFS? What are they doing in that gigantic building on South Park Avenue? — ALAN BEDENKO Read more about these stories at dailypublic.com. P

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NEWS INVESTIGATIVE POST

TRAFFIC TICKETS, CASH GRABS, AND LICENSE SUSPENSIONS

BY MARSHA MCLEOD money, the Common Council last year approved 13 new fees that, once fully implemented, will add $100 to almost all tickets.

OTHER STATES ARE RECONSIDERING LICENSE SUSPENSIONS FOR UNPAID TRAFFIC AND PARKING TICKETS, WHICH DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECT MINORITES AND THE POOR. WILL NEW YORK FOLLOW SUIT? NEW YORK IS one of at least 41 states that

suspend drivers’ licenses if they fail to pay traffic fines.

In 2016, the state Department of Motor Vehicles issued 53,648 suspension or revocation orders to drivers in Erie County, according to data obtained Investigative Post. This captures suspensions issued for any reason, but experts said the vast majority are related to traffic tickets.

“Suspending a license is a patently absurd remedy to someone who can’t pay traffic tickets,” Blake Strode, the executive director of ArchCity Defenders, a civil rights law firm based in Missouri, told Investigative Post.

New York’s practice of suspending licenses for unpaid fines has particular relevance in Buffalo.

The city in 2015 obtained permission to keep most of the revenue generated from traffic tickets.

Police began issuing many more tickets, which in turn increased City Hall’s revenue. To raise more

A lot of traffic enforcement has been concentrated in low-income black and Latino neighborhoods, where residents described having difficulty paying tickets. Indeed, Buffalo has one of the highest poverty rates in the nation among midsized cities.

In New York, a recently-formed coalition of several organizations, including the Fines and Fees Justice Center, the Bronx Defenders and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice has began advocating for the end of suspensions over unpaid traffic fines.

Some states are moving away from the practice altogether. Advocates have sought the end of suspensions for failure to pay fines, as opposed to unsafe driving.

In 2017, California became one of the first to do so, with Governor Jerry Brown signing a bill ending suspensions over unpaid traffic fines.

Eventually, anyone whose license was suspended for that reason was reinstated.

Legislators were initially indifferent to making change, recalled Elisa Della-Piana, the legal director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.

“We sort of got laughed out of the building,” said Della-Piana, referring to early efforts to discuss debt-related suspensions with legislators.

Their reluctance prompted a coalition to put together a report showing more than four million Californians were suspended at the time over

unpaid traffic fines.

In 2018, Tennessee made a similar change. This time, it came from a class-action lawsuit that argued suspensions over unpaid tickets violated drivers’ due process rights.

A US district judge ruled these types of suspensions had caused “constitutional and material injuries” to poor Tennesseans that were likely “irreparable.”

“Suspending the driver’s license of an indigent person because he has failed to pay his traffic debt is not only wholly ineffective, but powerfully counterproductive,” she concluded.

The verdict could 300,000 Tennesseans.

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“You’re just reducing people’s ability to earn and work, pay taxes, contribute to the society and their communities in a healthy way,” said Claudia Wilner, a senior attorney with the National Center for Law and Economic Justice who worked on the Tennessee case.

Wilner is also one of the attorneys representing Black Love Resists in the Rust, an organization in Buffalo that is suing the city for what it describes as a “systemic practice” of targeting black and Latino drivers for revenue generation.

One of the plaintiffs in that case, a 27-yearold mother of three, had her learner’s permit suspended after she was unable to pay $896 in traffic fines and a state-mandated surcharge.

She requested a payment plan from the city and was denied. About a year later, she used her tax refund to pay the fines and reinstate her permit.

In the last two years, other jurisdictions, including Washington, DC, Maine, and Mississippi, have stopped suspensions for traffic debts. Legal challenges are pending in at least four other states.

Many point to Ferguson, Missouri, as a catalyst for these changes. Following the 2014 fatal shooting by police of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, the US Department of Justice investigated the city’s police force. The Justice Department found that minor violations, mostly levied against black residents, could lead to “crippling debts” and license suspensions.

City officials had directed police to raise revenues through traffic and municipal code enforcement, the report found, and officers often issued numerous tickets on a single stop.

“That’s the sort of smaller, very serious injustices, that leads to a tearing of the community fabric,” said Strode, the executive director of ArchCity Defenders, which sued Ferguson over its policy of jailing people who could not pay debts.

Marsha McLeod is a reporter for Investigative Post, a nonprofit investigative journalism center focused on issues of importance to Western New York.

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LOOKING BACKWARD: CHIEF PETTY OFFICERS’ CLUB, CIRCA 1930 The Buffalo Naval Militia Boat House, more commonly referred to as the Chief Petty Officers’ Club, is one of the overlooked landmarks of the Buffalo waterfront. Built in 1930 and designed in a Colonial Revival style by New York State Commissioner of Architecture William E. Haugaard, it is a rare maritime building representing the interwar period in the City of Buffalo. The Chief Petty Officers’ Club closed in about 2010, and since then has been rehabilitated by the NYS Division of Military and Naval Affairs, but has not yet reopened for any public use. It is now called the Captain Frank J. Bailey Boat House for Buffalo’s longest serving commanding PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BUFFALO HISTORY MUSEUM.

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THEATER REVIEW

CHESS MATCH FROST/NIXON AT

IRISH CLASSICAL

BY M. FAUST SICK TO DEATH of politics? I can’t say that I blame you: These

days, who isn’t? But don’t let that put you off from the new production of Frost/Nixon at the Irish Classical Theater. Despite its subject, the man once reviled as the worst president in American history, it isn’t really a political play. Writer Peter Morgan has made a career delving into the people behind the public personae, from Queen Elizabeth (The Queen, The Audience, The Crown) to Idi Amin (The Last King of Scotland) and Freddie Mercury (Bohemian Rhapsody).

This glimpse into the soul of Richard Nixon takes place several years after he resigned the presidency. Eager to make his way back into the public sphere, with the first volume of his memoirs scheduled to be published, he and his advisors felt the time was right for him to give a substantial television interview.

They accepted an offer from David Frost, the British celebrity journalist who was then at a career low point. Nixon assumed that Frost would be a milquetoast who would accept his self-serving stories without challenging them. But Frost, who bankrolled the six-hour program from his own pocket, saw it as an opportunity to regain his luster and prove himself capable of more hardhitting subjects then the Bee Gees and Evonne Goolagong.

And to succeed, he knew that he had to get Nixon to do the one thing he had thus far refused to do, to the chagrin of his enemies: apologize for the behavior that led to his resignation.

Morgan’s play evokes the metaphor of a boxing match (this was the era of the big-ticket Muhammad Ali bouts). The first half depicts the preparations for the event, while the actual interviews (filmed over six meetings) feel like matches, in between which

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Adriano Gatto and Jack Hunter are Frost/Nixon.

the pugilists retreat to their corers to confer with their managers and trainers.

In a promotional film for this production, director Brian Cavanagh talks about the difficulties of adapting Morgan’s play to the IRC’s theater in the round. Having seen the result, I can’t imagine it being done any other way. With minimal scenery and various characters providing narration, the show is fast moving and fluid, almost cinematic in the way it moves from scene to scene without pause.

resemble David Frost, but nails his slightly peculiar British intonation. Jack Hunter has the larger challenge of interpreting one of the most parodied characters of recent American history.

He succeeds primarily by adapting Nixon’s guttural timbre and staying away from physical mannerisms. It’s a well-written interpretation, providing understanding but not begging for sympathy, and Hunter makes the most of it. He and Gatto work in perfect sync in bringing to life a chess match between two opponents who know less about each other than they think.

The greatest hurdle that Frost/Nixon has to face is the casting of two such well-known figures. Adriano Gatto doesn’t much

Frost/Nixon runs through March 24 at the Irish Classical Theatre P Company. For tickets, visit irishclassical.com.

REVIEW THEATER

Steve Copps, Ben Michael Moran, and Kristin Bentley in Second Generation Theatre Company’s Angels in America. Photo by Mark Duggan.

ANGELIC VISITATION IN A LOW, DISHONEST DECADE SECOND GENERATION THEATRE COMPANY’S ANGELS IN AMERICA

BY GEORGE SAX TONY KUSHNER’S Angels in America: A Gay

Fantasia on National Themes doesn’t really contain Multitudes, but it is epic in its audacious, distinctive fashion. It’s an imaginatively soaring work, as fantastic in some scenes as its subtitle promises, but it’s also intimately scaled. It’s also adorned with camp wit and a little sophisticated comic schtick. And it’s politically trenchant.

Did I mention the climactic spectacle?

Kushner managed to interweave these varied elements in his 1990 play, set in 1985-86, into one of the most provocatively original experiences in modern American theater. And certainly one of the longest. Taken together, Angels’ two parts total about seven hours of playing time, and Second Generation Theatre Company very understandably mounted only part one, Millennium Approaches, for its admirable current production at the Smith Theatre. (The second part, Perestroika, is about 40 percent longer than the first.) This doesn’t matter as much as it might seem: The two parts do make a complete narrative, but they’re also different and part one, especially, can be experienced by itself.

Angels is centrally structured around two formally defined couples, and one virtual pairing. Prior Walter (Ben Michael Moran) is the long-term lover of Louis Ironson (Anthony J. Grande), who’s on the verge of leaving Prior because of his fears of his lover’s advancing AIDS. Joe Pitt (Steve Copps), a Republican Mormon lawyer and clerk to a federal judge in Manhattan, is married to Harper (Kristin Bentley), a valium-popping neurasthenic who’s afraid of almost everyone and everything and escapes into hallucinated travels near and far.

Joe has formed a relationship with a powerful patron, none other than the more-or-less real-life Roy Cohn (David Oliver), the notorious right-wing lawyer and political and business finagler. (Kushner’s Cohn is creatively fashioned, but some of his actual crimes and misdeeds are part of the package. Part of the late Cohn’s poisonous legacy is his role in advancing the career of one Donald Trump, lending the play an unforeseen contemporary significance.)

Cohn is the play’s only nonfictional character, unless you count the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg (Mary McMahon), the accused and probably innocent Soviet spy whom Cohn helped send to the electric chair. These pairs overlap and interact directly and indirectly. In a way, the ill, soon-abandoned, and (literally) haunted

Prior and the squalidly unethical Cohn are the play’s polestars even though they never meet, linked by a chain of personal events and the AIDS crisis.

That Kushner was never less than earnest in writing Angels is never in doubt, but he spiked the play with humor and wit that’s sometimes amusing and sometimes unsettling. Attend, for example, to Belize (Dudney Joseph, Jr.), a nurse, former drag queen, and Prior’s mordant friend, as he impishly summarizes a purple-prosed, bodice-busting historical romance novel for Louis in order to make a point about empty professions of love.

The obviously adept and resourceful director, Greg Natale, has had the skilled collaboration of an accomplished cast. Moran’s Prior may be a little too fey at first, but he’s succeeded in developing a poignantly sympathetic individual whose safety we worry about. Grande has taken an interesting, persuasive approach: He underplays, sometimes dryly but artfully, the self-defensive, unfaithful but tortured Louis.

To some extent, this is what the play calls for, but Grande has personalized the role with great control. Joseph makes quite an impact in his two scenes as Belize. (Like several other cast members, he plays more than one role.)

Bentley’s Harper is very appropriately forlorn and confused. Oliver can seem a little mild at first as the scabrously evil Cohen, but by the play’s end he’s a rivetingly dynamic figure.

Mary McMahon and Jacob Alborella stand out in smaller parts.

Natale and set designer Primo Thomas, for the most part, surmounted some real challenges in staging Millennium. Faced with a limited playing area, the restrictive, rudimentary resources of the company and the play’s daunting special effects demands they haven’t tried to finesse their way. They’ve been upfront about the problems; they haven’t tried to conceal them.

The effects and the split-stage dual scenes are presented without much attempt at the slick or the pretentious. This is an appealingly homely, technically rudimentary production that uses its limitations to make the audience concentrate on the spell the writing and acting cast.

Second Generation’s production of Millennium is a very worthy presentation of Kushner’s famous intimate epic. The play continues through March 24 at Shea’s Smith Theatre. For tickets, visit secondgenerationtheatre.com. P DAILYPUBLIC.COM / MARCH 14 - 27, 2019 / THE PUBLIC

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ART REVIEW “Rationalist” was the descriptive term applied to Italian fascist/ modernist architecture—Hitler would have just said “degenerate,” which would have been almost as unfair as when he employed that term for the modernist paintings and sculptures he hated because they were new and different—and the “contemporary German art” reference is apparently to the photos and video, overlooking for the moment the Italian artist in the exhibit, for the sake of brevity, at the cost of accuracy.

All as a way of coming to terms—for the Germans and the Italian as well—with their different national heritage indulgences in fascism and its crimes and iniquities. A kind of expiation by aesthetics—the “art” reference in the subtitle—it would seem.

But it’s more complicated than that. A lot more.

The problematical aspect of the fascist/modernist architecture seems mainly in its propagandizing function on behalf of the regime.

The crimes and iniquities. Whereas, substantial ambivalence and ambiguity as to the aesthetic character and quality of rationalist architecture. Which ultimately reflects Bauhaus principles. The stripped-down classicism. (Part of the lure of Italy for these artists’ photographic and video projects—was the ubiquitous presence— in Rome anyway, the locus of much of the work—for purposes of contrast and comparison—of ancient Roman regime actual classical remnants, plus later historical permutations of actual classical, such as the copious Renaissance baroque.)

PHOTO BY HANS CHRISTIAN SCHINK.

ITALIAN RATIONALIST ARCHITECTURE IN CONTEMPORARY GERMAN ART

BY JACK FORAN

To name the other artists—who have some 130 photos among them—of just about every conceivable sort of architectural and infrastructural view—the Germans: Günther Förg, Thomas Ruff, Eiko Grimberg, Johanna Diehl, Hans-Christian Schink, and Johanna Specker.

In my opinion, the most important of all the arts is architecture, because it includes everything else.

—Benito Mussolini FIRST THERE WAS the Bauhaus. The German school and movement of modernist architecture and design founded just post-World

War I and active and influential through the 1920s and early 1930s. But Hitler detested modernism—in the arts and culture areas anyway—not so much when it came to industrial production and the German war machine—and when he came to full power in 1933, shut the Bauhaus school down. It didn’t put a halt to modernism, but was a bump in the road. In Germany at least.

In Italy—the other main fascist state through this whole period—a different story. With Mussolini at the helm, beginning from the early ‘20s. Modernism—all about efficiency, functionality, clean lines, with particular attention to architecture, as to processes and product alike—was key to Mussolini’s grand plan to transform Italy in short order from its prevalently old modes agrarian poverty ways to a progressive, productive industrialized state. So that architecture became a major propaganda tool for the fascist regime.

And so that if you want to view fascist/modernist architecture and infrastructure in the widest variety and array—and its legacy influence on post-fascist era urban development—you go to Italy.

A superbly complex exhibit currently at the UB Anderson Gallery consists of photos and video by six German artists and one Italian of fascist/modernist remnants and legacy throughout Italy. The exhibit is called Photographic Recall: Italian Rationalist Architecture in Contemporary German Art.

IN GALLERIES NOW

Works. On view through Mar 15. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 11am-3pm.

Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, = REVIEWED THIS ISSUE = ART OPENING NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): NaAlbright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Ave- ture Interrupted: Encaustic Monotypes and nue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albright- Mixed Media Drawings by Beth Pedersen. knox.org): Htein Lin: A Show of Hands, through Through March 17. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri April 28. Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mad- 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. er: To Point a Naked Finger, through April 21; Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue BuffaHumble and Human: An Exhibition in Honor lo, 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, BufJun 30. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First falo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orFridays (free) until 10pm. bit): Sat 12-6pm.

Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annakaplan- St, Buffalo, NY 14203): contemporary.art): Millie Chen: Matter. Artist’s talk on Thu Mar 14, 6pm. Wed-Fri 11am- ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery (148 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, 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 14207, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com/ Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, argus-gallery): Chaz Buscaglia: Recent Por- 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, 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 falo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Tue-Fri 11am- through Mar 16. BPS City Honors Internation5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. al Baccalaureate Senior Art Exhibit, Plates Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Art- and Pasta Preview: opening reception (M&T ists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY Fourth Friday), Fri, Mar 22, 5-8pm. Tue14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): 23rd An- Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Frinual Juried Members Exhibition, Traditional days till 8pm.

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Ambivalence and ambiguity particularly well illustrated in a video by the Italian artist, Caterina Borelli. It’s called The Date, and shows a pretty young woman putting on lipstick and makeup and we ultimately realize getting ready for a romantic occasion date that then has her getting into her car and heading out to what’s now called the Foro Italico, originally called Foro Mussolini, intended as the site of the 1940 Olympics (but there was a war going on in Italy at the time), but eventually the site of the 1960 Olympics (Wilma Rudolph, Cassius Clay, as Muhammed Ali was then called, Rafer Johnson in the decathlon, etc.). The main stadium there is surrounded by numerous monumental dimensions marble statues of athletes—all pretty much the same or similar impersonal heroic poses and facial expressions—one of which turns out to be the date—the object of the young woman’s affection—which she demonstrates by climbing up on the statue pedestal and nestling lovingly around one of the athlete’s marble feet, which is about as big—the foot—as the young woman herself.

A bonus feature is a sequence of a dozen or so Italian newsreel/ propaganda shorts from the time on the physical construction of the fascist regime prospective new Italy. Several new towns on drained swamp lands south of Rome. The EUR architectural complex white elephant—herd of white elephants—planned world’s fair site in Rome until once again the war intervened.

Footage with an authentic verismo look and feel, presaging postwar era Italian classic cinema. The Bicycle Thief.

Including several construction underway inspection tours by Mussolini himself, amid huge sycophant entourages and crowds of cheering workers, picks and shovels raised high in enthusiastic salute. Mussolini was bad, but not as bad as Hitler. Not as bad as Trump, I think.

The fascist architecture through post-fascist eyes exhibit continues P through May 12.

Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City & WWI, 100th Anniversary of America’s Entry into WWI, on second floor. Building Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings, in the Grosvenor Rare Book Room. Catalogue available for purchase. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm.

Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Contemporary Portraiture, 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; Square Route: Geometric Works from the Collection, through Mar 31; Charles Cary Rumsey: In Motion, through Oct 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): NT Central School District Student Spotlight 2019. On view through Mar 22. 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): Eyes on Ukraine: Five Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers. On view through May 11. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 124pm.

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): 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.

Duende at Silo City (85 Silo City Row, Buffalo, NY 14203, 235-8380, duendesilo.city): Sarah Lid-

GALLERIES ART dell: Through the Thicket. Thu & Fri 3pm-12am, Sat 12 pm-12am, Sun 12-7pm.

Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects. com): Tue-Fri, 10am-4pm, or by appointment.

El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 4644692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Elevate: A side-byside exhibition of work by Buffalo Public Schools teachers and students. Through Mar 23. WedFri 12-6pm, Sat 1-5pm.

Expo 68 (4545 Transit Road, Williamsville, NY 14221, expo68.com, 458-0081): Through the Rain: The Art of George Grace. On display through Mar 31.

Flight Gallery (Flying Bison Brewery, 840 Seneca Street, Buffalo NY 14210): Nancy J. Parisi, Seneca Street Drawings, through Mar 31.

GO ART! (201 East Main Street Batavia, NY 14020): David Miner Photography, I Love the USA, through Apr 6, reception on Thu Mar 21, 6-8 pm; Teachers Art Exhibit, through Apr 6; Juried Art Exhibit: Art of the Rural, Mar 14-May 4; Members’ Challenge Art Exhibit: Wonderland Mar 14Jun 8. Thu & Fri 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-4pm.

Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Alexandria Smith: Of Water and Spirit, through Apr 26.

Opening reception and artist's talk Fri Mar 15 8pm. 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, noon-5pm, Thu noon8pm, Sat 10am-3pm.

Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Adapt: new work by Dorothy Fitzgerald, On view through Apr 13. 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): New works by Kayla Ortiz. Open weekdays 7am-6pm, weekends 8am-6pm.

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. 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): Buffalo Arts Studio Invitational, featuring eight resident artists from BAS. 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 31.

Maison Le Caer Downtown (Market Arcade, 617 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203 ): Peculiar Buffalo: Historical Photography 1900-2012, through Mar 31.

Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Rixford U. Jennings (1906-1996), through Apr 20. Opening reception Fri, Mar 22, 6-9pm. 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, 282-7530, thenacc. org): 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): Maximilian Goldfarb, through Mar 22. 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.

Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Abstraction, a group exhibit, Apr 1-27. Wed-Sat,12-

5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse.com): Archipelago: paintings by J. Tim Raymond, on view through Apr 27. Thu, Fri & Sat 6-11pm. Live music Thu-Sat. Pine Apple Company (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, pacobuffalo.com): Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am5pm.

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

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): Supernatural: Fred Stonehouse, Daniel Martin Diaz, Craig LaRotonda, through Mar 22. Thu 12-6pm, Fri and Sat 12-8pm.

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

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 11am3pm. 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.

The Terrace in Delaware Park (199 Lincoln Parkway, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886-0089, terracebuffalo.com): Abstraction/Landscape, Michael Pijanowski through Apr 19. Opening reception Fri, Mar 22, 7pm. Wed-Fri 4-11pm, Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 11am-5pm.

UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries. org): Photographic Recall: Italian Rationalist Architecture in Contemporary German Art, through May 22; Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic; Electric Avenue (In Blue). WedSat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (103 Center for the Arts, First Floor, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Jillian Mayer: TIMESHARE, on view through May 11. Screen Projects: Ezra Wube. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm.

Undergrounds Coffee House and Roastery (590 South Park Avenue, Buffalo NY 14210, undergroundscoffeebuffalo.com): 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, 348-1430, wnybookarts.org): 11th Annual Edible Book Festival, Sat, Mar 30, 3-6pm. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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by Andrea McGinty Soft City Press | 2017 | multimedia zine “when someone i’m talking to pulls out their phone and i’m like thank god”—Andrea McGinty relates to us all in 32 pages with a collection of cleverly curated words and photos found on her phone. The digital era has us tangled in sentence fragments—from conversations, captions, notes, and tweets— that knot themselves together in a web of personal ambitions and aesthetics on each of our devices. McGinty has unraveled her own web by reconfiguring such fragments into a casually clever biography of our generation.

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JOSE GONZALEZ AND THE STRING THEORY TUESDAY MARCH 19 7:30PM / UB CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 103 CENTER FOR THE ARTS / $29-$49 [INDIE] A troubadour for the modern age, José González is also somewhat of a musical chameleon.

Much like his curious Swedish-Argentinean heritage, González has maintained a rich musical duality that has equal footing in indie folk and electronica. While his solo projects have stuck mainly with sparse, acoustic arrangements, his band Junip and his contributions to the down-tempo collective, Zero 7, have been steeped in a much more modern production value that reveals another side of him. His delicate, understated crooning is the link between them, creating a sense of intimacy that seems entirely appropriate with his acoustic work and comes as a delightful curveball in his other projects. González’s gig at the UB Center for the Arts Mainstage on Tuesday, March 19, is another hybrid—a collaborative project with the String Theory, a Berlin and Gothenburg-based artist collective, think tank, and experimental chamber orchestra that exists on the fringes of contemporary classical, electro, noise, and pop genres. After a successful European tour together last year, resulting in the release of a live album last month, González and the String Theory are touring the States together for the first time this spring, making the second stop of their trek in Buffalo after opening at Boston’s Symphony Hall the night before. Having originally met P. C. Nacht, the musical director and conductor of the String Theory, in 2009, the pair did a one-off recording of the song “Cycling Trivialities,” thus planting the seed for this more fully realized alliance. Since its 2009 inception, the group has teamed up with an impressive roster of artists across multiple genres, including Einstürzende Neubauten, El Perro Del Mar, Yello’s Dieter Meier, Tindersticks, and Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond. The dual tour allows González to present material from his trio of solo records (2003’s debut Veneer, 2007’s In Our Nature, and 2015’s Vestiges & Claws) in a brand new light as he accompanies himself on his signature nylon string guitar while the chamber orchestra expands on his compositions, building them into something altogether different but familiar at the same time. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

Greg Farley 7pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $7

[SINGER/SONGWRITER] Greg Farley has spent over a dozen years working alongside others, playing fiddle in the Felice Brothers while working odd jobs along the way — on a horse farm, waiting tables at a vegetarian restaurant, doing carpentry, tree care, woodworking, and operating a sawmill.

Touring more recently as a sideman for Conor Oberst, Farley used the money he earned on the road to finance his own record in dribs and drabs, finally releasing Taker Easy last fall. His style of so-called 'heartland rock' is delightfully un-auto-tuned and has a northeastern sensibility that recalls many other worthwhile singer/songwriters, Springsteen among them. Farely's in earnest, but he also has a good sense of humor, which comes across on his video for "Risk it All." He's at Mohawk Place on Saturday, March 16, joined by our own Little Summer and Tyler Bagwell. Doors are at 7:00 p.m. and it's a steal at $7. -CJT

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The resulting set, Lucky 13, was completed with a final single in mid-December and the band comes to Sportsmen's Tavern in support of it on Thursday, March 21 at 7:00 p.m. $10. -CJT

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Care, like everything under late capitalism, is so bound up with power, privilege, and access, that we inherently think of receiving care or needing care as a definitely passive, non-agentive subject position. Our cultural imaginary has no room for a kaleidoscopic, intersectional, mutual aid. Even the disability rights movement centers the same white, upper middle-class, ambulatory, stories of personal struggle. Leah Lakshmi PiepznaSamarasinha wants a collective, a disability justice movement, led and organized by disabled QTBIPOC (queer trans black indigenous people of color). They want us to do more, and they want us to listen to people with less power, and move slower and more deliberately, because we’re not free until every single one of us is free. And getting free often means giving and receiving care that moves around and outside of institutions like hospitals, schools, or governments, because more often than not, institutions are not enough. Leah Lakshmi PiepznaSamarasinha is a writer and an organizer who has spent years working with communities in the US and Canada, and their experiences have shown them how often the people most in need of care get left behind, for the sake of progress or economy. This book is a mixtape of how people who need care take care of each other, and are the best teachers for how, in our dystopic present and nearfuture, all of us will need to know innovative, emergent, and adaptive strategies for saving ourselves together.

[TRIBUTE] Fans of Peter Gabriel-era Genesis can rejoice in this Montreal-based prog outfit that celebrates the music of Genesis, roughly from 1969-1976. For its string of 25th anniversary shows, The Musical Box is performing a two-night stint at North Tonawanda's Riviera Theatre, Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16. As the only tribute band ever officially licensed and supported by Genesis and Peter Gabriel, The Musical Box has revisited the pageantry of specific tours in the past, even recreating the entirety of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in 2012. This time out, they're bringing a bit of everything, with selections from Lamb, Trick of the Tail, Wind and Wuthering, Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot and Selling England by the Pound, spread over three acts. Showtime is 8pm both nights. -CJT

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8PM / KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL, 3 SYMPHONY CIRCLE / $35, $30, $10 (STUDENT) [LITERARY] The signature events on Buffalo’s literary calendar are Just Buffalo Literary Center’s BABEL series, which for over a decade has brought some of the world’s best authors through town and molded itself into one of the most prestigious literary events in the country outside the confines of a college or university. As a sign of spring, BABEL is back with two events in the nest month, beginning with a Wednesday visit from the best-selling Korean-American author Min Jin Lee. Author of the best-selling novel Pachinko. Lee’s family emigrated to Queens in 1976 when she was just seven, and she attended Yale and received a law degree from Georgetown before turning to writing. Pachinko, which became a National Book Award finalist, earned her a Guggenheim fellowship, and topped many critics' lists of the best books of 2017, is a piece of historical fiction spanning multiple generations of a Korean family living in exile in Japan between the 19th and 20th centuries, through periods of frequent racial hostilities stoked by political aggression and rhetoric. That familiar place carved from the growing pains of an increasingly globally interconnected world that has recently incurred into American political discourse rather aggressively. Our friends at Just Buffalo tell us that, in its history, the BABEL series “perhaps never [has] a featured book that reached this level of runaway success.” So come out and hear this exciting new voice, one that can speak from experience to the moment that is itching the human

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[INDIE] Buffalo's Infringement Festival organizers are filling up not just one but TWO stages at Mohawk Place on Friday, March 22, providing you with an opportunity to spend the best $5 you've doled out in a while. Local vocal powerhouse Grace Stumberg will perform (folks might recall, Grace worked for a number of years as an assistant to Joan Baez), in addition to sets from pianogal Shannon Vanderlaan, the experimental electronica of Disraeli, local hip-hop artist Kelly Valuchi and the recently reformed Baby Machines (featuring Jess Collins of Orations). Also on hand will be Passed Out and The Scarecrow Show with something more akin to straightforward (but edgy) rock and roll. Infringement Festival really needs our help if it's to continue surviving, so pony up the 5 bones if you can and enjoy some of Buffalo's best musical talent. -CJT

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Tokyo Police Club 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $22-$26

[ROCK] Released in October, Tokyo Police Club’s fourth studio album, TPC, is receiving a lot of attention from critics and fans.

The Canadian band’s album, their fourth, has been nominated for a Juno award for Alternative Album of the Year. To the delight of fans, the band has made a sort of return to their roots on this record with jangly guitars taking the place of synthesizers and more oomph than pop. Catch Tokyo Police Club at the Town Ballroom on Saturday, March 23 with support from Dizzy. -TPS

SUNDAY MARCH 24 The Interrupters 6:30pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $24/$26

[SKA] The intersection of ska, punk, and pop remains alive and well in this LA-based quartet featuring three brothers (Kevin, Justin, and Jesse Bivona) and singer/ songwriter Aimee Allen, known here as "Aimee Interrupter." Sticking to the basics keeps the band bouncing, which is plainly obvious on the lead single, "She's Kerosene," from the Interrupters' latest album for Epitaph's Hellcat imprint, Flight the Good Fight. For their upcoming gig at Town Ballroom on Sunday, March 24, make sure the soles of your Doc Martens have plenty of spring in their step. Madison, Wisconsin's Masked Intruder will open in support of their new album, Masked Intruder III, out this month, along with a set from UK-based Ratboy. Doors are at 6:30pm, $24/$26. -CJT

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[ROCK] The outrage surrounding developments with Fleetwood Mac over the last year has been palpable, but don’t let that cheat you out of enjoying what this legendary band still has to offer. It has all happened before, in fact. Sort of. The tour for 1987’s Tango in the Night included guitarists Rick Vito and Billy Burnette in Lindsey Buckingham’s stead, but—talented as those two are—they can’t hold a candle to new Fleetwood Mac members Mike Campbell and Neil Finn. Rather than hiring a pair of no-name session players, the Mac chose to invite a pair of seasoned vets into their fold, thus allowing the band’s overall personality to morph a bit…and sometimes, change is good.

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TWIZTID THURSDAY MARCH 28 6PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST.

[HIP HOP] In January of 2017 Juggalos marched on Washington to protest their designation by the FBI as a gang. Twiztid was there marching for the cause, but to no avail; the FBI denied the appeal from the group and their underground faction of face-painted hip hop fans. Nonetheless, the duo marches on, now on tour and scheduled to invade Mohawk Place for a show on Thursday, March 28. The Detroit-based hip hop group formed in 1997 and quickly signed to the Insane Clown Posse-run label, Psychopathic Records.

Since then the duo, Jamie Madrox and Monoxide, have been fairly prolific, releasing a dozen studio albums, and numerous EPs and compilation albums. Their next album, Generation Nightmare, is due out in April, but for this show the band is promising to deliver an event themed around a certain classic “era” from their P past. Support comes from Optic Oppression and Bluud Brothers. -CORY PERLA

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 27 Malcolm Holcomb 7:30pm Sportsmen’s Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $10

[ROOTS] Now 63, North Carolina's Malcolm Holcomb has quietly released a string of 13 albums that have those in the know calling him an "American treasure." Born and raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains, he's a songwriter's songwriter, highly regarded for his ability to conjure vivid imagery, and recognized by genre contemporaries like Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, and Jeff Tweedy. This is further exemplified by his having shared stages with Merle Haggard, Richard Thompson, John Hammond, Leon Russell, Wilco, and Shelby Lynne, among others. Recorded in Boston, his latest, Come Hell or High Water, features collaborations with Iris Dement and Greg Brown, and it's what's bringing him to play at Sportsmen's Tavern on Wednesday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10. -CJT P

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for one reason, and that’s to find out where to drink on St. Patrick’s Day, so let’s get straight to the point. Your two major attractions are, of course, the Old Neighborhood Parade in South Buffalo and the Buffalo St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

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There are rumblings that this may be the last Old Neighborhood Parade if organizers can’t find another sponsor—it’s currently organized by the Valley Community Association and sponsored

by Labatt Brewing Company, Powers Irish Whiskey, and a few gracious benefactors—so if this is your go-to parade, get down there because it might be your last opportunity. And maybe consider volunteering, or even better, helping the organization to secure corporate sponsorship for next year, if you care to see it continue. The Old Neighborhood Parade happens Saturday, March 16 at noon and marches through the Old First Ward.

party at the new Labatt Blue Draft Room. Starting at 10am they’ll have food, prizes, a tasting of their new Citra brew, which they’re launching at this event, and music from Strictly Hip. From there, head to the Allentown St. Patty’s Bar Crawl, which begins at 5pm. Hit up Falley Allen, Alley Cat, Savoy, Exchange, Fat Bob’s, DBGB, and Colter Bay to drink and win prizes. Following that, head to the Tudor Lounge for some drinks and live music from a few local bands starting at 7pm. At

8pm there’s what’s becoming Thin Man’s annual event, Punk Rock St. Patrick’s Day with Supper-Tugger.

On Sunday, start the day at either Expo Market or Community Beer Works. Expo will be serving up green food—eggs, waffles, bacon etc.—as well as some Irish dancing, live music, and kegs of beer. Community Beer Works, on the other hand, will have Reuben Breakfast Sammys, Tipico Coffee, and craft beer. CBW will be running an unlimited free shuttle to and from the parade. Once you’re on Delaware, head over to Babeville to get a nice view of the parade and stay for a celebration with the Observers, Crickwater, and Middlemen. If you want to stay near the parade route, there’s live music from Shaky Stage at Nietzsche’s in Allentown starting at 5pm.

Alternatively, if you’re steering clear of the parade route, you can head to either Mr. Goodbar or Buffalo Ironworks to catch alternative rock. Rust Belt Brigade, Cooler, and more set up at Goodbar, while Ponder and Mosswalk throw their St. Paddy’s Day celebration at Ironworks. Finally, end your St. Patrick’s Day Run at DBGB for the “Best St. Paddy’s Day Party in Town,” featuring the Buffalo Wrecking Crew, a bunch of great DJs, and a bunch of food dyed green. If you’re really, really in the St. Patrick’s Day Spirit, you can head over to Seven Seas Tattoo on Elmwood on Sunday where they’ll be doling out relatively cheap St. Patrick’s Day-themed flash tattoos. Maybe avoid that one if you’ve already had too much to drink. That P goes for driving, too.

The next day, Sunday, March 17, is the Buffalo St. Patrick’s Day Parade, which heads down Delaware Avenue at 2pm.

Before, after, and in between parades there’s a whole lot to do near by too. If you’re starting on Friday, head to the 7th Annual Live at O’Larkin event in Larkin Square. Expect music by McCarthyizm, the Greater Buffalo Firefirghters Pipes and Drums band, and Irish dancing from Clann Na Cara Irish Dance. Food trucks and craft beer will be there in abundance too.

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FILM REVIEW effective: An idea like turning the camera upside down for the finale sequence sounds simple, but bears surprising fruit.

Opening this Friday at the Dipson Amherst. *** EXPLICIT AS NOÉ’S references may be, they pale in comparison

to those on display in Ruben Brandt, Collector, the feature debut of Hungarian animator Milorad Krstic, who has packed his frames with references and recreations of most of 20th-century art and a fair share of its cinema as well. The story is straight out of the swinging sixties (by way of Michael Powell’s infamous Peeping Tom): A young psychotherapist, Ruben Brandt, is so obsessed (for reasons he doesn’t understand) with a dozen famous modern paintings that he is compelled to steal them, with the aid of a team of international art thieves.

Their nemesis is an American agent with obsessions of his own: He lives in a room filled with knives used as movie props. One of many guessing games you can play as you watch is figuring out the actual movie the fake names labeling them are based on.

An easy one: a straight razor from A Granadian Cat = Un Chien Andalou. Challenge your friends!

Krstic’s character designs are non-naturalistic—not many of the supporting cast has only two eyes—and I’d bet the rent that he watched Yellow Submarine a lot when he was a teen. (He was born in 1952.) It’s the kind of movie that, if you’re on its wavelength, you can probably watch over and over again, coming away from it exhausted, exhilarated or both. Opening Friday at the Dipson Eastern Hills.

Climax opens March 15 at Dipson Amherst.

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the movies.

Gaspar Noé has been outraging and provoking international audiences on a par with Lars von Trier for the past 20 years, since the release of his first feature, I Stand Alone, about a butcher whose inability to deal with the modern world drives him to a paroxysm of violence. His subsequent features— Irreversible (2002), chronicling in reverse a brutal rape and the revenge it sparks; Enter the Void (2009), a dream-epic in which the spirit of a murdered drug dealer wanders the world; and the sexually graphic Love (2015)—have increased the reputation of the filmmaker, who was born in Argentina but works in France.

His newest, Climax, is the first to have any kind of screening in Buffalo.

If you’re familiar with his oeuvre, you’ll get the wrong idea from the title. (It’s his first film to receive an R form the MPAA: The

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

OPENING MARCH 15 CAPERNAUM—From Lebanon, this nominee for the Best Foreign Language Oscar follows a boy whose life is so difficult that he brings a lawsuit against his parents for the crime of bringing him into the world. Postponed from February: Reviewer George Sax praised the “closely observed, unusually powerful filmmaking” of director Nadine Labaki (Where Do We Go Now), and 12-year-old star Zain al-Rafeea, an illiterate Syrian refugee in Beirut 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 his own roots in actual circumstances resembling some of what’s portrayed here.” Dipson Eastern Hills CAPTIVE STATE—Life in Chicago ten years after aliens arrive to save us from ourselves. Starring Vera Farmiga, Machine Gun Kelly, and John Goodman. Directed by Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the

others all went out unrated.) Set in a single building, it begins with a dance sequence by a young urban troupe that has gathered here to rehearse. As it concludes, they celebrate with a party. But someone has drugged the sangria, and the spirit of comradeship is soon stripped away to reveal the ugliness lurking with these 20 souls.

Noé may have restrained his propensity to rub the ugliness of humanity in viewers’ faces here, but that’s relative: his premise, learned form parties of his own youth, is that given a little substance even the nicest people can turn into psychopaths. But if Climax is a horror film it’s an arty one, more concerned with finding cinematic ways of involving the viewer than in explaining what the viewer is watching. (A prologue sequence in which we watch audition tapes of the cast is seem on a television set perched between piles of film books and video tapes, allowing Noé to be explicit about all of his sources, primarily Dario Argento’s Suspiria.) It’s not for all tastes, but it’s certainly

Planet of the Apes). Dipson Flix, Maple Ridge (AMC). Market Arcade (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria CLIMAX—A celebration party for a dance troupe turns deadly after someone spikes the sangria with drugs in this new film by infamous French auteur Gaspar Noe (Irreversible). Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst FIVE FEET APART—This drama about two teens hospitalized with cystic fibrosis has already been criticized by one internet commentator as “disease appropriation” because neither star Haley Lu Richardson nor Cole Sprouse actually has CF. Once upon a time I would have assumed that was a joke. Directed by Justin Baldoni.

Dipson Flix, Maple Ridge (AMC). Market Arcade (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE PRINCE AND THE DYBBUK—Documentary investigating the life of Michal Waszynski, a Polish filmmaker who went on to great success a producer in Italy, but whose greatest fictional creation was his own life. Directed by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski. Reviewed this issue. North Park RUBEN BRANDT, COLLECTOR—From Hungary, an animated feature about a psychotherapist obsessed with obtaining the great paintings of the 20th century. Directed by Milorad Krstic. Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills

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Prince and The Dybbuk investigates the mysterious life of Michal Waszynski (1904-1965). Before World War II, Waszynski was the leading director of the Polish film industry, responsible for as much as 25 percent of the feature films made there. After the war he moved to Italy, passing himself off as a prince and living la dolce vita as an executive producer on Hollywood epics like El Cid, 55 Days at Peking, and The Fall of the Roman Empire. But he was born Moshe Waks in Ukraine, and his struggles with his true identity came out in his most famous work as a director, the 1937 production of The Dybbuk, from the Jewish legend of a evil spirit of a dead person that possesses a living person. Made with a cast of Yiddish theater performers, the film sparked Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels to new heights of invective against the Jews. To what degree Waszynski felt responsible for making things in Poland even worse for his people is one of the intriguing questions this documentary opens without quite being able to answer; his closeted sexuality is another. But filmmakers Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski make what they don’t know intrinsic to their film, whose aura of mystery makes it fascinating viewing. They are helped immeasurably by atmospheric clips from The Dybbuk, a film that still exists but is sadly very difficult to see. Playing through the week (afternoon P shows only) at the North Park.

OPENING MARCH 22 GLORIA BELL—Julianne Moore stars in Chilean director Sebastián Lelio’s remake of his 2013 film Gloria, about a single middle-aged woman who lets her love of dance get her through a lonely time of life. With Alanna Ubach, Sean Astin, John Turturro, and Jeanne Tripplehorn.

North Park JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL—34th edition of the yearly film festival, running through March 28. For details and tickets visit bijff.com. Dipson Amherst US—A new horror film from Jordan Peele (Get Out). Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Elisabeth Moss, Anna Diop, and Winston Duke. Area theaters THE WEDDING GUEST—Dev Patel stars as a British Muslim making a mysterious journey across Pakistan and India. The premise may sound vague, but I would go to see anything directed

by Michael Winterbottom, the British filmmaker whose wide-ranging oeuvre includes The Trip trilogy, The Killer Inside Me, On the Road, A Summer in Genoa, A Mighty Heart, and 24 Hour Party People. Dipson Eastern Hills (tentative)

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA: Thursday, March 14: CAT VIDEO FEST—People who watch even more cat videos that you have when you’re supposed to be working (that’s right, you’re not fooling

anyone) curated this compilation of the best of them as a benefit for animal welfare organizations. Proceeds from this screening will help benefit Ten Lives Club; adoptable cats will be in the lobby after the show. 7pm. North Park CLUE: THE MOVIE (1985)—The first film adapted from a board game was this enjoyable comedy written by John Landis. Starring Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, and, because it was the 1980s, cameos from Lee Ving and Jane Wiedlin. Directed by Jonathan Lynn (Nuns on the Run).

7:30pm. Screening Room THE HOWLING (1981)—John Sayles co-wrote this classic horror comedy about a California encounter group that is secretly a coven of werewolves. As directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins), it’s filled with horror movie references references (many of the characters are named after the directors of Universal horror movies) and in–jokes that make it everything American Werewolf in London wanted to be.

Starring Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Belinda Balaski, Kevin McCarthy, John Carradine, and Slim Pickens; look for Sayles as a morgue attendant, Roger Corman in a phone booth, and Forrest J. Ackerman in a bookstore run by the late, great Dick Miller. Part of the Thursday Night Terrors series. 7:30pm. Dipson Amherst

IN THEATERS FILM PERFECT BLUE (Japan, 1997)—In one of the first anime features made exclusively for an adult audience, a retired pop singer turned actress is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past. Directed by Satoshi Kon. 9:40pm. North Park WESTERN (Germany, 2017)—German construction workers employed on a hydroelectric plant in a remote part of Bulgaria provoke tensions when one of their crew begins to fraternize with the local residents. Part of Cultivate Cinema Circle’s series “Post-Colonialisms: World Cinema and Human Consequence.” 7pm. Hallwalls

Friday, March 15: CAT VIDEO North Park

FEST—See

above.

5:30pm.

CLUE: THE MOVIE —See above. 7:30pm. Screening Room THE LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)—Opening a week-long presentation of Peter Jackson’s trilogy of films based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy. Starring Sean Astin, Sala Baker, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Marton Csokas, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Liv Tyler, Hugo Weaving, and Elijah Wood. 7:30pm. North Park

Saturday, March 16: CAT VIDEO FEST—See above. 6pm. North Park CLUE: THE MOVIE —See above. 7:30pm. Screening Room THE LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)—See above. 7pm. North Park SCHOOL OF LIFE—From France, a family comedy-drama set in 1930 starring François Cluzet as a poacher who tales a neglected young boy under his wing. With Jean Scandel and Eric Elmosnino. Directed by Nicolas Vanier (Loup). 11:30am. North Park

Sunday, March 17: CLUE: THE MOVIE —See above. 1pm. Screening Room THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002)—See above. 7pm. North Park SCHOOL OF North Park

LIFE—See

above.

11:30

am.

Monday, March 18: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002)—See above. 7:30pm. North Park

Tuesday, March 19: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002)—See above. 7:30pm. North Park

Wednesday, March 20: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE

LOCAL THEATERS

KING (2003)—See above. 7:30pm. North Park STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)—Raymond Chandler wrote the screenplay from Patricia Highsmith’s novel for this classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller about two men who pass the time on a train formulating a perfect murder plan. But when they get off, one of them takes it seriously. Starring Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, and Leo G. Carroll. Part of the Noir Essentials series.

7:30pm. Dipson Eastern Hills

Thursday, March 21: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)—See above. 7:30pm. North Park Friday, March 22: OFFICE SPACE (1999)—It’s hard to imagine what the marketing team at 20th Century Fox did to kill this cult classic’s theatrical release (it went to theaters but flopped), but Mike Judge’s first live-action film, based on his own experiences in soul-killing offices, may be the most mercilessly hilarious film about work ever made. If you work in an office and you’ve never seen it, you’re in for a treat.

Starring Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Stephen Root, Gary Cole, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, Diedrich Bader, John C. McGinley, and Paul Willson. 7:30pm. Screening Room Saturday, March 23: HOOSIERS (1986)—Gene Hackman as a disgraced coach trying to get back in the game by working for a small town Indiana team.

Dennis Hopper was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role as Hackman’s assistant. Co-starring Barbara Hershey and Sheb Wooley (of “The Purple People Eater” fame).

Directed by sports movie specialist David Anspaugh (Rudy). 11:30am. North Park THREE STOOGES FILM FESTIVAL—Celebrating its 28th year of eye gouges, head smacks and nyuk-nyuks. Preceded at 7pm by a concert with the mighty Wurlitzer organ. 7:30pm. Riviera Sunday, March 24: HOOSIERS—See above. 11:30am. North Park Tuesday, March 26: OFFICE SPACE (1999)—See above. 7:30pm.

Screening Room TIME TO DIE (Mexico, 1966)—Gabriel García Márquez wrote the screenplay (adapted from his story) for this classic Mexican drama about a man trying to rebuild his life after being released from jail but unable to escape his past. Starring Marga López, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, and Enrique Rocha. Directed by Arturo Ripstein (Deep Crimson). Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. 7pm. Dipson AmP herst

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62 One in the red

33 Consenting vote

1 “In ___” (Nirvana album of 1993)

63 Volcanic dust

34 Gold, in Latin

6 506, in Roman numerals

64 “The Death of Actaeon” painter

35 Monetary stand-in

65 ___ buco (Italian veal dish)

36 Onion peels

66 ATM charge

38 Award co-presented by the American Theatre Wing

9 Breaks down 13 Diminished 15 Youngest woman to serve in Congress, initially 16 “___ for Steve” (Morley Callaghan short story) 17 Coen Brothers movie of 1991

67 Word of the future?

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39 State hwy.

40 Hand down to heirs

1 Flash drive letters

44 Food court pizza chain

2 “___ Carter V” (Lil Wayne album of 2018)

45 Get a victory

20 Internet annoyance 21 Lazybones

3 Goof

22 Lenny’s friend on “The Simpsons”

4 Sounding like a clunky engine

25 2007 T-Pain song feat.

Yung Joc

5 ___ about (approximately)

28 Garden pests

6 Every 24 hours

30 March Madness org.

7 Actor Max ___ Sydow

19 Zip

31 Queen of Quebec?

32 Sandcastle tool

8 “Ew!”

46 Go around, as an issue 47 “The Jungle Book” bear 48 Affirms as true 49 Formal ceremonies 50 “___ shoe fits ...”

51 No, in Scotland 55 Triple Crown category in baseball

34 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” disguise

9 Actress Bullock of “Bird Box”

37 Good value, slangily

10 Central Florida city

41 “___ y Plata” (Montana motto)

11 City in the Black Forest, when doubled

59 Actress Vardalos

42 “Tres ___” (“Very well,” in Paris)

12 Inspire, as Kondoesque joy

60 Penn of the “Harold & Kumar” films

43 Bindi and Robert Irwin’s mother

14 Radio features, once

44 Crawl around?

18 It might give you chills

61 Show with Ego Nwodim, briefly

46 Bedazzler item

21 “Princess ___” (Gilbert & Sullivan operetta)

47 Color categorized as #DA1884 and Pantone 219C and trademarked by Mattel 52 Diamond experts?

58 Take advantage of

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22 ___ loading (marathon runner’s strategy) 23 “... partridge in ___ tree”

53 Bird-related

24 Horned charger

54 Laissez-___

26 Part of SOTU

56 Tolkien trilogy, to fans

27 “Because Freedom Can’t Protect Itself” org.

29 ___ Jam Records

57 Islands off the North Carolina coast, or the theme of this puzzle

57 Ungainly one

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