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LOOKING BACKWARD: New York Central Terminal on Exchange Street, ca 1930.

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NEWS: The upstate-downstate divide in the NYS budget negotiations.

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ART: Millie Chen at Anna Kaplan Contemporary, multiple openings.

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FILM: Reviews on Hotel Mumbai, Meme, plus capsule reviews.

CROSSWORD: Another devilish puzzle by Matt Jones.

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EVENTS: The Dead, First Friday art, John Popper, Hatebreed, and more.

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LOCAL NEWS

THIS WEEK’S UPS AND DOWNS

BY THE PUBLIC STAFF

UPS: Some promising news out of the state budget process has been leaking out. We admire Assembly Majority Leader CRYSTAL PEOPLES-STOKES’ advocacy pertaining to the potential legalization of marijuana in the state, demanding that legislation be structured with economic justice to minority communities in mind. As reported locally, ZEPHYR PARTNERS of San Diego are drooling over space on the BUFFALO OUTER HARBOR to construct a $200 million facility to grow and produce marijuana products. New York State has only one chance to open the market to a billion dollar industry overnight, let’s do it the right way and empower entrepreneurship and revitalization in communities that have been hit the hardest by a draconian, decades-long war on drugs. Also, it looks like a plastic bag ban is in the works.

If you’re still against the measure, please take a walk along the Scajaquada Creek in Buffalo between Delaware Park and the Niagara River and get back to us.

We’re going to stretch here a bit on comments made this week regarding a potential new BILLS stadium downtown and commend the PEGULAS for offering that if the Bills were to build a new stadium, it would be a relatively modest addition to the NFL landscape, “something’s that Buffalo style.” We could cue a litany of jokes that could fit under the heading of Buffalo style as it pertains to the performance of Pegulas two teams since assuming ownership of both this decade, but instead we’re more interested in pumping the brakes on the potential outlay of hundreds of millions of public dollars for a facility that is used less than fifteen days per year and is unlikely to bring back economic benefit. We hope the Pegulas realize the most Buffalo style thing of all would be to not build a new stadium at all, but to keep the Orchard Park stadium alive long enough to cycle through a half dozen more names. A new stadium downtown would most likely signal an end to the tailgate rituals for fans and families, and price many out of the experience all together. We think the Bills have a good thing going in Orchard Park, and we’d hate to see it landfilled in favor of some gleaming soulless monstrosity selling personal seat licenses and corporate boxes to a largely non-existent market.

DOWNS: The campaign of “Independence Party” Erie County Legislator LYNNE DIXON for County Executive is off and running, but we can’t get over her introduction video.

The video shows off Dixon’s chops as a former television reporter from a production standpoint, but the content is baffling.

At the 34-second mark of a two-minute video, Dixon pivots wildly to 9-11, showing an image of the twin towers burning. What the hell does the events of an 18-year-old attack have to do with a county executive in ERIE COUNTY? Well, Dixon expresses her nostalgia for the attack and its aftermath, because it brought people together. Her point being that she believes in her ability to bring the Erie County electorate together, just like in the aftermath of an unspeakable tragedy. That might be absurd enough of an argument to make, if one had accomplishments to hold up that could support such an idea, but Dixon’s video offers none. She’s been in the legislature since 2009, you think she’d have something—anything—beyond her a dubious label as an “independent” and the tragic, fear-mongering imagery of 9-11 to stand on. She’s lucky the video has been up a month and has just over 2,000 views.

We expect to have more to say about the police homicide of MARCUS NEAL last December on the roof of a BLACK ROCK garage in the coming weeks, but for now we just need to shake our heads at Buffalo Police. We can debate in the dark the merits of the official account of what happened in those fateful moments that lead up to rookie officer Joseph Meli fatally shooting Neal three times in the side and buttocks, but the truth it we’ll never really know if the shooting was justified. District Attorney JOHN FLYNN said during a press conference last week that he doesn’t believe police would lie, but we’ve seen plenty of recent cases involving dishonest police in local police forces. The thing that just doesn’t make sense is the huge show of force, including officers from a neighboring police district, to pursue a person who had allegedly shoplifted toiletries from Wegmans, and it didn’t make sense to Flynn either. “Do I agree that i seems a little much to have 10 police officers surround someone a mile away for stealing shampoo at Wegmans?” Flynn said.

“Yeah, I’ll concede that to a certain extent, but that’s not what I gotta focus on.” What he did have to focus on during the press conference was a blown up map of the Black Rock neighborhood where it all went down, and curiously, no picture of the three inch folding knife which was handled after the shooting by two officers on the scene.

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INVESTIGATIVE POST NEWS handled. This could include serious burns, bronchitis or eye damage. The inhalation of sulfuric acid as a mist or aerosol has been correlated with laryngeal cancer, a type of throat cancer.

WORKER SAFETY OSHA has taken enforcement action three times against the company. In 2011, three workers were hospitalized for burns after molten copper and water erupted in a steam explosion. OSHA fined the company $15,000.

The former American Brass plant on Military Road.

STRING OF VIOLATIONS AT BUFFALO PLANT

BY MARSHA MCLEOD While company and union officials said that the problems are currently under control, some neighbors expressed concerns when they learned about the company’s track record.

THE FORMER AMERICAN Brass plant on Military Road in North Buffalo keeps getting cited for federal and state environmental and safety violations.

The plant, now owned by the German company Aurubis AG, is over a million square feet and home to 650 workers. It produces about 160,000 tons of metal each year for use in cars, batteries, ammunition, and zippers.

Last year, state regulators fined the company $35,500 for 15 violations involving the mishandling of hazardous waste. The violations resulted in the US Environmental Protection Agency declaring Aurubis a “significant non-complier” between 2016 and 2018.

Three times since 2011, including as recently as earlier this month, the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration also cited the company for a total of seven “serious” worker safety violations. In total, OSHA imposed $37,260 in penalties for violations involving employee injuries and unsafe working conditions.

State regulators also told Investigative Post they are taking unspecified enforcement action after they learned in November of two spills of hazardous waste that the company failed to report.

“Healthwise, it concerns me,” said Edward Rogalski Jr., who has lived near the plant for almost four decades. “If I could tell the company one thing, it would be to straighten up!”

SULFURIC ACID SPILLS The Buffalo plant was built in 1906 and is the company’s only production facility in the United States. It’s located in a residential area across the street from the William J. Grabiarz School of Excellence, a public elementary and middle school.

Last November, the state Department of Environmental Conservation inspected the plant and found the company hadn’t reported spills of fluid containing sulfuric acid in February and July of 2018. In total, about 1,100 pounds of wastewater was spilled.

“That’s definitely concerning. If there are spills, we have to know about them,” said Jen Williams, who lives across the street from the plant.

The state told Investigative Post it is taking enforcement action against the company in response to the spills, but would not comment further.

Sulfuric acid, a highly corrosive substance, can pose a threat to workers if improperly

The company was also fined $9,000 in 2015 for three violations involving unsafe working conditions. The violations included not having safeguards to prevent exposure to electrical shock and failure to guard employees against a “rotating shaft.”

Last June, the company was ordered to pay $35,500 in response to what the DEC termed 15 “alleged violations” that included mislabeling hazardous waste, improperly storing hazardous waste, not properly training employees on how to handle hazardous waste, not having emergency plans in place in the event of a hazardous waste accident, and failing to take steps to prevent incompatible substances from mixing. These violations dated back to 2016.

This month, the company was penalized $13,260 for an incident in November where employees “were exposed to amputation hazards.”

Company officials said in an email statement that it’s committed to working with the DEC to become compliant with the law.

“The department’s inspections are a helpful tool to identify issues to address, and to help ensure that our operations maintain compliance,” the company said.

Dean Washburn, president of United Steelworkers Local 593, said the union is working with the company to ensure that employees are working in a safe environment.

Some of these violations come during a profitable year for the company which reported one of its best financial years in history last year.

The Buffalo plant had been considered as part of a potential sale of the company’s flat-rolled products business to Wieland-Werke AG, also a German company. European antitrust authorities blocked the transaction in February, however. The company said it might seek another buyer.

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

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LOOKING BACKWARD: EXCHANGE ST. STATION, 1930 When the New York Central Terminal is raised as a topic in Buffalo, what usually comes to mind is the station on Paderewski Drive.

Prior to 1929, the “Terminal” was actually located on Exchange Street near Michigan Avenue. Decades of indecision on where to locate a central station led finally to the New York Central Railroad constructing a new station on the East Side. Here, in about 1930, is the wreckage of the old station built in 1870 and abandoned in 1929. The station was demolished in 1935. - THE PUBLIC STAFF

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NEWS CITY & STATE

CITY & STATE

THE DOWNSTATE-UPSTATE DIVIDE, BUDGET EDITION

BY ZACH WILLIAMS NEW YORK CITY Democrats may dominate

the party’s majorities in the state Senate and Assembly, but their colleagues in the suburbs and upstate have needs of their own, complicating the equation for lawmakers both in budget discussion and beyond.

Property taxes, public financing of elections and congestion pricing are among the issues in the governor’s $174 billion proposed state budget that have exposed fault lines between suburban and upstate Democrats and their New York City counterparts.

Drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants and marijuana legalization – which may or may not be included in the budget – also pose challenges for a party that has faced questions about whether or not it will favor New York City interests at the expense of upstate and the suburbs.

Republicans have been eager to take advantage of political missteps by Democrats ever since the GOP’s big losses in the 2018 elections.

By exploiting regional tensions and alleging that Democrats are mismanaging the state’s finances, Republicans aim to increase the pressure on suburban and upstate Democratic lawmakers who might be more politically vulnerable than their New York City counterparts.

the power of the property cap, they have to think about it as an issue that has the combined pop in New York City of raising the subway fare and raising rents,” said Bruce Gyory, a Democratic political consultant.

Majorities of voters in the city and the suburbs support the cap – with nearly two out of three upstate voters feeling the same, according to the January Quinnipiac poll.

While chances are good that some type of extension will be included in the budget – Cuomo has said he would not sign a budget without a permanent extension – a failure to see the proposal through the finish line would not go down well with upstate voters, according to Chautauqua County Democratic Chair Norman Green. “Everybody in this area is all about keeping property taxes under control so we absolutely want to keep it in the budget,” he said. “Let’s not kick the can down the road and worry about it another year.” If the cap is not made permanent through the budget, then Republicans can campaign next year on how the Democrats kept it from happening.

MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Long Island lawmakers have spearheaded efforts to make the 2 percent cap on local property tax increases permanent. While state Senate Democrats passed such legislation early in the legislative session, the Assembly has yet to do the same. New York City Democrats in the Assembly are the reason why. The cap does not apply inside the city and has been seen as a bargaining chip by some lawmakers in negotiations over rent regulations and other issues.

It is not expected that marijuana legalization will happen in the budget. Among the biggest opponents to including it as proposed by Cuomo in his executive budget is Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes, who represents western New York. She wants to legalize recreational marijuana, but has insisted that it only happen if the associated revenues are invested in communities of color that were hurt by prohibition. A March 20 Quinnipiac University poll showed widespread support for marijuana legalization both in upstate, New York City and on Long Island. If it is not in the budget, though, there are doubts that many lawmakers would want to openly cast a vote in support of it, particularly if they see tough elections up ahead. “We have a lot of members who represent conservative areas who don’t think they can vote for a freestanding bill to legalize marijuana,” state Sen. Diane Savino told Cannabis Wire last week.

But extending the tax cap could make a big difference for the political longevity of Democratic lawmakers from outside the city, whether in the suburbs, on Long Island or upstate. “For politicians from New York City to understand

There is some opposition to the idea among Central New York voters, according to Luke Perry, a professor of political science at Utica College. “Marijuana legalization is not widely embraced,” he said, given the level of resistance in

Here are five key issues that might make such lawmakers think twice before getting behind their party’s legislative priorities.

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the area from law enforcement. On Long Island, both Suffolk and Nassau counties have moved toward blocking the sale of marijuana, at least temporarily, and upstate counties have made moves to do the same.

However, while legalization is often considered to be a progressive issue, there is some support among libertarian-minded voters who see it as a matter of personal liberty. “People as a whole, both Democrats and Republicans, are of the opinion that if people want to smoke in the privacy of their home or backyard they should be able to do it,” said Green, the Chautauqua County Democratic chairman. “It’s just not a big problem.”

PUBLIC FINANCING OF ELECTIONS Cuomo and some Democratic lawmakers are making a push to get public financing of elections into the budget. But earlier this month, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie cautioned that there are not enough votes in his conference to advance the measure, citing concerns about independent expenditures, problems with New York City’s campaign finance system, and concerns about how much it would cost. While public financing for elections has been gaining support in recent years, there has been no recent polling on the issue that breaks down its support by region in New York state.

If Cuomo succeeds in getting the proposal into the budget, it could become an issue for upstate lawmakers and their fiscally-minded constituents, according to Perry. “I don’t think that generally there’s as much inclination for that upstate as there is for downstate,” he said of public financing. “It’s an extension of the idea that your money is going to something that you fundamentally oppose.”

However, some upstate lawmakers might have more leeway to support public financing, depending on the district and how they campaigned in the 2018 elections. While some lawmakers might have to veer more towards the political center, those who campaigned on progressive platforms, like state Sen. Rachel May, who represents the Syracuse area, will have an easier time supporting progressive issues like campaign finance reform.

“She’s going to have less political problems than others in supporting a budget that is more liberal than in past years,” Perry said.

Progressive Democrats will likely get behind the proposal no matter where in the state they are from, but lawmakers who represent more centrist or right-leaning districts might have to think twice about how it will go over with their constituents – especially given its fiscal implications in a year when the state is facing an unexpected budget shortfall.

CONGESTION PRICING It appears increasingly likely that congestion pricing will be included in the budget, but that does not mean the issue is going away. A big source of opposition to congestion pricing has come from outer-borough New York City lawmakers who claim their constituents would be unduly harmed by plans to toll drivers who enter Manhattan’s Central Business District. However, Hudson

Valley lawmakers – whether or not they represent upstate – have demands of their own, specifically that their support of congestion pricing hinges on securing toll offsets for the George Washington Bridge, Lincoln Tunnel and the new Mario M. Cuomo Bridge.

A January Quinnipiac University poll suggests that resisting congestion pricing in favor of commuter-friendly concessions is a wise political move. Upstate voters are equally split on the issue, but a clear majority – 55 percent – of suburban voters oppose congestion pricing while 54 percent of New York City voters support it.

For some Democrats outside the service area of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the issue is moot. “I defer to my downstate colleagues on this,” said Assemblywoman Jamie Romeo, who represents part of the Rochester area. But Democrats in the Hudson Valley or on Long Island could face criticism down the road on the issue, even if they get the carve-outs and additional funding they have demanded.

Republicans are out of power and have no qualms taking an absolutist approach to the issue despite the funding needs of New York City’s subway system. “Residents of my district and areas across the state will bear the congestion pricing burden,” said Republican Assemblyman Colin Schmitt, a possible future challenger of Democratic state Sen. James Skoufis. “Congestion pricing in the end hampers the city’s economy and punishes those who work and support it. It’s a lose-lose if you look at it with clear eyes.”

DRIVER’S LICENSES FOR UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS Among the most divisive issues among Democrats is the idea of letting undocumented immigrants get driver’s licenses. New York City voters are split down the middle on the issue, but nearly twothirds of suburban and upstate voters oppose it, according to the March Quinnipiac poll. Suburban and upstate lawmakers have accordingly been less vocal on the issue, reportedly at the governor’s behest. Only a few non-New York City state senators have co-sponsored legislation that would grant the licenses and none of them have been from Long Island. “For me personally, I haven’t made up my mind,” said state Sen. Monica Martinez, who came to the U.S. as an immigrant at a young age. “There are too many unanswered questions.”

Activists remain optimistic that the bill will pass this session and are highlighting how driver’s licenses for undocumented people will raise revenues and increase public safety. But Republicans have made clear that they will draw a connection between the issue and the party’s wider objections to broadening protections for undocumented immigrants. “Today, it’s college tuition,” Republican state Sen. Robert Ortt said in January. “Tomorrow, it’s driver’s licenses. And one day, it will be voting rights. And those are all things that I find not only abhorrent, but actually are meant to undermine federal law.”

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ON STAGES THEATER

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IN AND AROUND BUFFALO: 1984: The planned production of To Kill a Mockingbird was forestalled by threats of legal action from some Broadway bigwigs, but never fear: The Kavinoky has quickly substituted this stage adaptation of Orwell’s chilling dystopian novel.

Through April 7 at the Kavinoky Theatre, 320 Porter Ave 829-7668, kavinokytheatre.com.

THE ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD PELKEY: The inimitable Jimmy Janowski plays nine characters in this solo performance. Presented by Buffalo United Artists through March 30 at Alleyway Theatre, One Curtain Up Alley, 852-2600, buffalounitedartists.org.

AFTER THE FALL: A thinly veiled autobiographical drama

by Arthur Miller. Through April 6 at at Subversive Theatre Collective, Manny Fried Theatre, 3rd floor, Great Arrow Bldg, 255 Great Arrow Ave. 408-0499, subversivetheatre.org.

BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY: Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2015 Pulitzer-winning play about a disabled former New York City cop and the hard-luck kids he’s taken under his wing.

Through March 31 at Road Less Traveled Productions, 456 Main St, 629-3069, roadlesstraveledproductions.org.

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.

847-0850, sheas.org/710.

THE SECRETARY: A comedy by Kyle John Schmidt that imagines women of a small town arming to protect themselves from those who actually present a threat of violence to them. Presented by the Brazen-Faced Varlets at Alleyway Theater, 1 Curtain Up Alley, 598-1585, varlets.org.

THE SIDEWALK STAGEPLAY: Drama by local playwrights Edreys Wajed and Paulette D. Harris, through April 7 at the Paul Robeson Theatre, 350 Masten Ave, 884-2013, aaccbuffalo.org.

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THE JUNGLE BOOK: Join Mowgli, Baloo, Shere Khan, and others, through Apr 7 at Theatre of Youth, 203 Allen St., 884-4400, theatreofyouth.org.

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MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET: The jukebox musical that imagines a recording session that unites Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash. Through March 31 at at Shea’s 710 Theatre, 710 Main St,

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ART REVIEW

MILLIE CHEN AT ANNA KAPLAN CONTEMPORARY

BY JACK FORAN “Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come…”

these tools allowed her to create an optimistic public face,” Chen says in an artist’s statement accompanying the artworks.

—Hamlet

Which are paintings and drawings for the most part using the make-up materials her mother left behind as the paint. Some occasional use of egg tempera admixed with the make-up materials, as a binder.

HOW DOES ONE mourn? Artist Millie Chen’s works currently on show at the Anna Kaplan Contemporary gallery are Chen’s way. And a meditation on mortality precisely in the vein of Hamlet’s meditation.

The title of the show is Matter. We mourn absence, but absence is literally nothing. The occasion of mourning is likely more often presence. The presence of relics. Things the absent person left behind.

Relics in this instance—after the death of the artist’s mother—consisting of cosmetic makeup items—face cream, foundation powder, eyebrow liner, blush, and lipstick—her mother applied assiduously daily. “My mother never went out or received visitors without putting on, at the very least, lipstick and eyebrow liner—

The paintings are generally in an appropriate to the mortality topic and message minimalist mode. And patterns that represent or reproduce the mother’s actual procedures in applying the make-up materials. (So works that appear abstract, but are in fact representational.)

A piece called Foundation I, in a cosmetic foundation material (“Hydrate & Smooth”), applied in concentric circles. Another called Foundation II, in a different foundation material (“Matte & Poreless”), applied in swirls. One called Blush I, in egg tempera and blush material (“Blushing Glow”), and one called Blush II, in egg tempera and a different blush (“Medium Beige, Pink Blush”), both

Foundation I.

in overlapping concentric wave patterns—as if you throw two stones into a quiet pool of water, the way the emanating different wave patterns overlap and interfere—and gradations of depth of color, of tone. Most of the works are on 10-inch-by-10-inch-by-¾-inch-thick clayboard, little hardboard panels.

Also some larger-format “calendars” featuring each one about a year’s record of the mother’s day-by-day selection and application sequence of make-up materials, in a unique color-coded data notation system using the actual makeup materials.

Also some pencil drawings—against monocolor backgrounds of make-up materials—of non-make-up items related to personal embellishment. Such as a hand mirror—

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IN GALLERIES NOW = ART OPENING = REVIEWED THIS ISSUE FF = FIRST FRIDAY FF Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Htein Lin: A Show of Hands, through April 28. Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader: To Point a Naked Finger, through April 21; Humble and Human: An Exhibition in Honor of Ralph C. Wilson Jr., through May 26; We the People: New Art from the Collection, through Jun 30. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm.

Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annakaplancontemporary.art): Mille Chen: Matter. Through Apr 5. Artist’s talk on Sun Mar 24, 4pm. WedFri 11am-3pm or by appointment.

Argus Gallery (1896 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com/ argus-gallery): Chaz Buscaglia: Recent Portraits. Sat 12-3pm, or by appointment.

Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 11am-3pm.

Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716885-2251, wnyag.com): Western New York Artists Group 23rd Annual Juried Members Exhibition, Modern Works installation. Juried by: Robert Hirsch. On view through Apr 19. TueFri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm.

Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): 14th Annual Staff Family and Friends Exhibition.

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Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am10pm, Sun 9am-2pm.

Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm.

Big Orbit Project Space (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Sat 12-6pm.

FF BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Inflatable Sculptures by City Honors students. Opening reception Thu Mar 28, 4-8pm.

FF ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery (148 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201, buenvivirgallery.org): In Between the Middle, #notwhite collective.

Opening reception Fri, Apr 5, 6-9pm. Tue-Fri 1:30-4:30pm, Fri 6-8pm, Sat 1-3pm.

Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Community Space Exhibition: Dream Land: Amy Greenan, Melanie Fisher, and Travis Keller. On view from through Mar 16. BPS City Honors International Baccalaureate Senior Art Exhibit, Plates and Pasta Preview: opening reception (M&T Fourth Friday), Fri, Mar 22, 5-8pm.

Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm.

FF Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, buffalobigprint.com): Modular Interactive Paintings in Energy Symbols by Ross Drago. Opening reception Fri Apr 5, 6-9pm.

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,

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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.

FF Caffeology Buffalo (23 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY, 14201, caffeology.coffee): Emily Finlan: Ghost Girl, opening Fri, Apr 5, 6-9pm.

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. Mon-Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 8am-5pm.

Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): The Higner Maritime Collection: 25 Years of Shipbuilding, through Mar 17; Of Their Time: Hudson River School to Postwar Modernism, through Dec 31; Fashion-

traditional vanity symbol, memento mori symbol—and a hair brush, and an unusually elegant-form scissors. What would have been a family heirloom.

Plus three drawings showing the scissors in use.

In two cases, manipulated by aged hands— presumably the mother’s—in one cutting chives, in the other cutting a fingernail. In the third case by younger hands—presumably the artist daughter’s—cutting hair—presumably the mother’s.

So a bit of a self-portrait of the artist. Implicating the artist as well in the mortality meditation.

(As if this were a question.) Implicating us all.

To this favor we will all come.

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ing Identities: Ethnic Wedding Dress in Western New York, through June 9. Tue-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

FF CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): ANGO’TG: installation by Julia Rose Sutherland; Horizon: Beyond the Boundary of Sight, Nathan Ely. Both shows open with reception Fri, Apr 5, 6-9pm. Eyes on Ukraine: Five Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers, on view through May 11. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm.

Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry: A Resource:Art Project (second floor of Hotel Henry, 444 Forest Avenue, Buffalo NY 14213, 716-8821970, resourceartny.com): Open to the public during business hours.

Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com): Wed-Fri 10:30am5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm.

FF Duende at Silo City (85 Silo City Row, Buffalo, NY 14203, 235-8380, duendesilo.city): Sarah Liddell: Through the Thicket. Thu & Fri 3pm-12am, Sat 12 pm-12am, Sun 12-7pm.

FF Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com): Blake Baxter: Points in Time, through May 3. Opening reception, Fri Mar 29, 6-9pm. Artist Talk Thu May 2, 7pm. TueFri, 10am-4pm, or by appointment.

FF El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Elevate: A side-by-side exhibition of work by Buffalo Public Schools teachers and students. Wed-Fri 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

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

FF GCR Audio Recording Studios (564 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14201): Adam Mojeski and Bob Kotas: Board. Fri, Apr 5, 6-10pm.

GO ART! (201 East Main Street Batavia, NY 14020): David Miner Photography, I Love the USA, Feb 28-Apr 6, reception on Thu Mar 21, 6-8 pm; Teachers Art Exhibit Feb 28-Apr 6; Juried Art Exhibit: Art of the Rural, Mar 14May 4; Members’ Challenge Art Exhibit: Wonderland Mar 14-Jun 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, noon5pm, Thu noon-8pm, Sat 10am-3pm.

FF 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 127pm, Fri, 6-9pm Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays.

FF The Intersection Cafe (100 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14201): New works by Kayla Ortiz.

Open weekdays 7am-6pm, weekends 8am6pm.

Jewish Community Center of Buffalo, Holland Family Building (787 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14209, 886-3172, jccbuffalo.org): MonThu 5:30am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, SatSun 8am-6pm.

Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm.

Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the

United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm.

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.

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

Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts. com): Rixford U. Jennings (1906-1996), Mar 22 through Apr 20. 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 8am4pm, Closed Sat & Sun. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-8825777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Maximilian Goldfarb, through Mar 22. Tue-Fri 10am– 5pm.

Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-6523270, norbergsartandframe.com): Regional artists from the gallery collection. TueSat 10am–5pm.

Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Ave-

nue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): Abstraction, a group exhibit, Apr 1-27. Wed-Sat,12-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

FF 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. FF Pine Apple Company (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, pacobuffalo. com): Cirque: Ceramic work by Reann Nye. Opening reception Fri, Apr 5, 6-9pm. 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.

FF Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod. com): Art by: Neil Mahar, 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, Kenn Morgan, Michael Mulley et alia on view through May 2. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment.

FF Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Michael Mararian, Edgar Marquez, Gabi de la Merced: On the Edge of Oblivion. Opening reception Fri, Mar 29, 8-11pm. 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) Automatic, a side-by-each exhibition featuring the artwork of Jennifer Ryan, Shir-

ley French, & Sonya Lewis. Hallway: Artwork

by Stacie Lembke & John Price. Blue Sink: Solo exhibit featuring John Budney. On view through April 12. 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. WedFri 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): First Year MFA Exhibition Opening Reception, Thu, Mar 28, 5-7pm. Jillian Mayer: TIMESHARE, on view through May 11. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 1-5pm.

Undergrounds Coffee House and Roastery (590 South Park Avenue, Buffalo NY 14210, undergroundscoffeebuffalo.com): Mon-Fri 6am5pm, 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): Possession, an exhibition by Julio Enriqm.

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Is sex an escape from the drudgery of capitalism, or just another circuit through which power and exploitation act on our bodies? LA Warman’s Whore Foods is uninterested in easy answers as it plumbs the erotic potential of a notoriously classstratified 21st century workplace, “Organic Grocery Store.” In a series of vignettes as inventive as they are hot, the cashier protagonist seduces and fantasizes about her despondent coworkers, her Lululemonsporting customers, and even, in one delightfully top(ple)-the-corporation scene, a cash register conveyor belt. The sources and meanings of lesbian desire here are as varied as the organic yogurt aisle: Sexual encounters range from the transactional to the transcendent, and are infused always with liability and longing, often with humor, and sometimes with truly moving pangs of care. Warman shows how pursuing pleasure in this space can mean making something outside of its usual operations of extraction and surveillance—“We took this,” the narrator says after an orgy in the fruit-cutting room.

“Most sex has a rhythm. Ours is not the cash register. Ours is not Conscious Capital.” The tragedy and the triumph of these stolen intimacies are the same: Always, in the end, we go back to work.

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Halfway through Seattle-based writer Richard Chiem’s first novel, King of Joy, the story cuts abruptly from its highest point of tension (without spoiling anything, the scene involves copious amounts of champagne, a pack of sleeping dogs, a sprawling basement porn set, and a broom with a handle of solid gold) to its calmest, most blissed-out plateau: Corvus, our movie theater attendant-turned porn actress protagonist, dancing by herself for “the thrill of no special occasion.” In a review for The Stranger, Suzette Smith describes moves like this in King of Joy as “all the boring parts of porn”—to be fair, the plot does involve the adult film industry without including the sexually explicit scenes Smith seems to crave.

But to clamor for more NSFW thrills is to criminally misunderstand the driving force behind the novel: the writing itself. Chiem’s prose, sparse yet dreamy, is perfectly tuned to mine the leveling effects of trauma and grief in a world defined by the wild excess of drugs, private islands, experimental theater, and a hippopotamus named Valerie. It’s a dark book, but it’s never quite a nightmare—think Denis Johnson if he listened to Robyn. King of Joy was included in The Millions’ Most Anticipated 2019 list, and deservedly so. Like Corvus, dance with this one alone—a new book by Richard Chiem is a special occasion.

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In Blind Landing Experimental Unit [BLEU], Alex Webb explores the 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident, also known as Britain’s Roswell—a site that has become subject to myriad conspiracy theories over the years.

With a combination of abstracted detail shots and subject representational imagery, Webb examines the incident through subjects associated with surveillance cameras; the only writing found in the pages is a printed copy of a redacted government report detailing the incident. The images’ lack of context pushes the viewer-reader to look for more information in the content, leading us to come up with our own theory of what happened. Webb’s sequencing and selection of surveillance images creates a vague account of the event, and each of the photographs has a similar sense of ethereality, resulting from his use of lighting, color, and time. It’s the supplemental imagery that brings us back to the subject at hand. This book is a beautiful exploration of the mythology surrounding Britain’s Roswell, and is successful in what it leaves to the imagination.

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electronic music party dubbed Risorgimento. The line up is full of some national talent and Buffalobased talent alike with Detroit-based house music selector Chuck Daniels taking the top slot. Daniels is known for his deep Detroit-techno style and his record label, Sampled Detroit which has not only released his own deep house music and cuts by artists like Derrick Carter, Jason Hodges, and others, but has hosted some of the finest house-music based events in his hometown of Detroit. Daniels will be joined by Buffalo-based DJ and promoter Rufus Gibson, as well as Bflo Lydia, Abstyles, JP and more. Expect high end sound and lighting too. The location for this one has yet to be announced, but the date is locked in: Saturday, April 6. For location details, grab advance tickets.. -CORY PERLA

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across 13 tracks, their latest album, 2016’s Concrete Confessional drives home lead singer Jamey Jasta’s intensely political lyrics piled on top of blistering hardcore beats and heavy metal guitars. Confessional is the seventh album in the band’s discography, which spans over 20 years and includes benchmarks like 2002’s Perseverance and their 1997 debut Satisfaction is the Death of Desire. Catch Hatebreed at the Town Ballroom on Tuesday, April 9 with support from Obituary, Terror, Cro-Mags, and Fit For An Autopsy. -CORY PERLA

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TUESDAY APRIL 2 The Dead 7pm Roycroft Inn, 40 S Grove St.

[LITERATURE] This is, frankly, an event that requires much of its audience to be a great as it should be. Happily (and that's the last adverb you'll read here), no one is coming who isn't interested by the idea: to begin with, some talk about James Joyce, Ireland, and Dublin, followed by a careful reading of Joyce's masterful short story "The Dead"— which is funny and grim and perfect. That there will be few skeptics in the crowd might dismay Joyce himself, who exalted skepticism, as it may the evening's guide, Mason Winfield, a literary historian of local folktales and stories of the supernatural, who loves a good argument and is, withal, a charming host. Winfield's salon takes place Tuesday, April 2 at the Roycroft Inn. -GK

THURSDAY APRIL 4 Gerard Malanga at the Albright-Knox 7:15pm Albright-Knox Elmwood Ave

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[ARTIST’S TALK] In June 1963, the 20-yearold Gerard Malanga took what he has famously called “a summer job that lasted seven years” as an assistant to Andy Warhol.

And who wouldn’t drop out of college to help an already iconic American artist navigate his most creative, prolific, and consequential period? Malanga—a poet, photographer, and filmmaker, among other artistic pursuits—acted in Warhol’s films, assisted in his silkscreen painting process, and choreographed the music of the Velvet Underground with Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable traveling mutimedia installation.

As a poet, Malanga counts among his ardent fans the late Bob Creeley, who said of Malanga, “He has moved with deftness and great authority in the various worlds of art and pop, and never lost either his wits or his footing.” Malanga will give a talk at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on Thursday,

April 4, in conjunction with a screening of his short film, Gerard Malanga’s Film Notebooks, which includes rare footage of his working life in the headiest years of Warhol’s Factory, which Malnaga documented and archived assiduously. He will read selections from his new book, Cool & Other Poems. Bonus: You can also see Malanga the night before, on Wednesday, April 3, 5:30-7:30pm, at CEPA Gallery (617 Main Street), where the program will center Malanga’s photography, whiich has, per Creeley’s assessment of his poetry, neatly circumscribed pop and the avant-garde. -GK

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educator whose work has been performed on stages and at festivals both locally and around the world. On Friday evening, April 5 (7:30pm) and Saturday afternoon, April 6 (2pm), the Burchfield Penney Art Center will host a program of Aceto’s choreography— largely performed solo by Aceto, joined in two works by members of UB’s Zodiaque dance Company—to the music of Johannes Brahms, Klezmer Kaos, composer Emma O’Halloran, Buffalo composer and musician John Smigielski, and a breath score. -TPS

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Gary Lewis & the Playboys

[POETRY] Just one alone would have made history, but the last election cycle brought two Native American women into Congress for the first time. Maybe there's something in the air with regards to celebrating and recognizing Native voices, or the realization that we just don't hear them enough, but Just Buffalo Literary Center is bringing in two poets to speak to the moment next Thursday for their Studio series. Canisius College's Eric Gansworth, author of many volumes of poetry and fiction including If I Ever Get Out of Here and Extra Indians and enrolled member of the Onandaga tribe will be joined by Layli Long Solider, a recent finalist for the National Book Award for her work WHEREAS, where she writes: “I am a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” -AL

[NOSTALGIA] Son of legendary comedian Jerry Lewis, Gary Lewis and the Playboys (named for their tendency to show up late for rehearsals) are perhaps best remembered for their debut 1965 single, "The Diamond Ring." This began a string of hits over the next few years, ("Count Me In," :Save Your Heart for Me," "Everybody Loves a Clown") until they disbanded in 1970. Although they're an American band, they're often thought of alongside Herman's Hermits and Gerry & the Pacemakers — early players in the British Invasion with a less menacing image than the Beatles or Rolling Stones.

The current incarnation of Gary Lewis & the Playboys, which still features Gary Lewis, will perform at the Tralf Music Hall on Saturday, April 6, presented by the 'WECK Radio 60's Celebration, with Terry Sylvester of The Hollies on the bill. -CJT

FRIDAY APRIL 5 Made of Motion: Melanie Aceto Contemporary Dance 7:30pm Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Ave $20, $10 for students and BPAC members

[DANCE] Dancer and chorographer Melanie Aceto is among a corps of regional treasures in the larger dance world, an artist and

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[FUN] If the sound of glass breaking, the words “Oh you didn’t know?” blaring over the loud speaker, or the sound of the bells tolling over heavy metal guitars gets you excited, and that’s the bottom line, then suck it, because this party is for you. Oh yeah.

This party is the cream of the crop: expect four hours of classic wrestling intro music from stars of the WWE, WCW, NXT, ECW, and Impact delivered by DJ Vince Bischoff. Get your roody-poo, candy ass over to Milkie’s on Elmwood for this Wrestling Theme Song

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SUNDAY APRIL 7 Zomboy 8pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $26-$30

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] English DJ Zomboy, returns to Buffalo on Sunday, April 7 for a show at the Town Ballroom. The bass music producer, who has released records on Never Say Die Records—the label which has produced artists like Skrillex, Flux Pavilion, Datsik, and Excision—is on tour in support of his latest EP, Rott & Roll Pt. 1. Expect a rollercoaster of a set for this one. Support comes from Space Laces. -CP

WEDNESDAY APRIL 10 Robin Trower 7pm Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave. $40/$45

[ROCK] British guitarist Robin Trower may not have been with Procol Harum when "A Whiter Shade of Pale" was recorded, but he joined the band soon enough afterwards that he was able to ride that wave of initial success with them. After 5 albums, he walked away in 1971 to pursue a solo career that's paired him with former members of Jethro Tull and Cream, among others. He is perhaps best known for 1974's Bridge of Sighs, his second solo album, which was produced by former Procol Harum bandmate, organist Matthew Fisher. The album was a commercial success and several songs from it remain set list staples, but Trower, now 74, has gone on to record over 20 albums since. The latest, Coming Closer to the Day, was released just last week and features some of his own vocal work (though on tour, vocals are handled by Richard Watts) and is said to eschew modern flash in favor of a more soulful, contemplative and bluesy feel. To make the album even more personal, he plays all the instruments on it except drums. Coming Closer by Day brings Robin Trower to Babeville's Asbury Hall on Wednesday, April 10 with fellow bluesman P Eric Jerardi in the opening slot. -CJT

SPOTLIGHT MUSIC opener “All the Honey,” it’s clear that Collins and company have developed a greater musical chemistry since their debut. “Shadow Self ” raises goose-flesh with its early R.E.M.-style, pitchy guitar melody and Collins’s recurring, plaintive wail, while “False Face” might be the most buoyant pop tune they’ve come up with yet. Overall, the albums crackles with non-specific tension, propelled by vignettes about illusions and ensuing confusion, a hazy veil of reverb adding just the right amount of blur to the edges. The slow-building “Radio Silence” and closer ”Cracking the Safe” project an eerie otherworldliness, the latter featuring an unusually soulful vocal that hints at broader possibilities for Collins’s singing voice.

Despite the promising outcome, however, the band was initially unhappy with the record in its rawest form. Three mixes later, the quartet (with Aaron Ratajczak on keys, who will play with them at Friday’s show) is feeling a sense of accomplishment, but it’s hard-earned.

“I can’t speak for everyone, but things just weren’t clicking for me in the studio like they normally do,” said Draper in a separate conversation. “I felt like the recordings didn’t capture how the songs felt when we played them live. Some of my favorite ones lost their luster and just sounded flat to me when we got the first mixes. Then Jay [Zubricky] worked some of his magic in the subsequent mixes and, by turning some knobs and adjusting some levels, he brought the songs to life. I felt like they were finally done justice. It saved the record for me and made it into something that, now, I’m really proud of.”

Collins agrees that it wasn’t until the third mix that the album seemed fully realized.

“It felt very unblended, non-cohesive,” she said. “And some of that is to be expected. But we were struggling with an arbitrary deadline and sometimes the recordings almost didn’t sound like us. Initially it seemed like we had differing opinions about the sound we were after, but once we sat down in person and discussed it—as opposed to speaking in messages—we realized that we’re all basically on the same page. We needed to be in the same room to accomplish that.”

Receiver is stunning, startling, confrontational. It asks some universal questions about who we are to one another, how we relate and also how we hide our intentions (albeit, sometimes badly) in interpersonal relationships. But it asks those questions in semi-coded, figurative ways. Collins has a knack for making you feel like you walked into an art film midway—you need to focus up quickly to determine what’s at stake. And sometimes you’re never really sure. This is where we all get to be the receivers.

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BY CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY TRADITIONALLY, SECOND ALBUMS get cut a raw deal.

As consumers of culture, we are also slaves to our own expectations—and, make no mistake, they can ruin everything.

The music industry has changed dramatically in the last two decades, but in the world that existed beforehand, recording artists would spend anywhere from three years to a decade developing the material for their debut. If it attracted an audience, the pressure to follow it up quickly was intense, especially if there was a sizable record label involved. And despite anyone’s best effort under those circumstances, the resulting second record would pale when compared to the first. Even though hindsight tells us that our quick judgments are often inaccurate in circumstances like these, the damage done in the moment is tough to transcend.

that energy somehow and sitting around continuing to cry just wouldn’t do.”

Truth told, the entire time Receiver was being worked on, Collins, who has many irons in the local musical fire, was experiencing a series of heavy personal losses. It may not have been Orations’ original intention, but the album is somewhat of a requiem.

And while that might sound fitting for a band that straddles the lines between jangle-pop and something more gothic, Collins worked hard to present her bandmates—bassist Jason Draper, guitarist Paul Morin, and drummer Matt Chavanne—with lyrics that conjure striking contrasts to the music they wrote, largely, without her. She wasn’t interested in playing “matchy-matchy.”

“We’re all satisfied with it and pleased with how it came together in the end,” said Orations lead vocalist and principal songwriter, Jess Collins, during a recent afternoon chat about the band’s second full-length, Receiver, which comes out this Friday, March 29, coinciding with a gig at Mohawk Place.

“Not being nearly as involved with writing music this time came with its advantages,” she said. “It’s like using an architect and a separate interior designer…but they’re on the same page. That way, the results could never be boring. In this case, for me, it felt therapeutic. I could take what they had written and spend a good chunk of time thinking about what I’d like to add. And they’re always amenable to editing, changing, shortening or lengthening choruses and verses to allow me to handle the vocal a certain way. But I enjoy the challenge in this band, to take the music home and really think about how I can juxtapose a lyric onto it.

Sometimes, if something comes too easily, instinctively I’ll know to scrap it. They were consistently surprised by what I came up with.”

“But we’re also experiencing that nervous tension when nobody has really heard it yet,” she continued. “We’re proud of what we were able to do with it, but I think we also need to take time to reflect on it a bit. Going into a studio and trying to crank something out that you hope is good in a really concise amount of time is a huge challenge. It’s expecting yourself to be full of passion, but at a specific moment and for a pre-arranged duration.

My 28-year-old cousin died—Matthew, the record is dedicated to him—and the guys asked me if I wanted to halt some of the recording so I could stop and deal with that, but I decided I had to finish the vocals I’d been working on. I needed to channel

Receiver isn’t a complete 180 from 2017’s Wych Elm, but it’s the sound of a band evolving, becoming more nuanced, and exuding a more distinct personality. As an outfit unapologetically concerned with the past, Orations makes no bones about referencing lifelong idols like the Cure and the Smiths. A vocal powerhouse, Collins has continually added snippets of Cocteau Twins, Throwing Muses, and the Sundays into the mix. But referencing the past doesn’t render you stuck in it, and Receiver finds them putting those same ingredients into the blender and pouring out something a bit more idiosyncratic in the end; they have begun to sound like themselves. From the lusty gallop of

Thankfully, for indie bands that self-release their music, there’s considerably more freedom to work at a reasonable pace. There’s often little or no money to be made, so the focus is on producing a piece of work you can stand by—as it should be. Still, there’s no completely escaping those pesky expectations. Sometimes the most difficult ones to contend with are an artist’s own.

“I feel like we’re all receivers of this life experience—pain, sorrow, joy, whatever’s happening,” she said. “Woven into these scenarios I wrote about is a profound sense of loss, and while I was going through all of it, I thought about moving back to the desert to isolate myself so this couldn’t happen again. But it’s not realistic, this idea that we can escape from making human attachments.

I’m lucky to have these losses because it means I knew these people. Now I get to sing about them. Actually, I felt like I really got to sing for the first time in a while on this record. Within these songs, there’s the specific narrative going on, but there’s a broader sense of loss permeating the whole thing which speaks to a more universal experience. We’re all going to lose people along the way, but we have to believe we were lucky enough to witness their lives.”

Orations release Receiver on Friday, March 29, with a show at Mohawk Place, featuring local trios Cooler and Nylon Otters, plus early acoustic sets from Bill Nehill and Dave Allison. Doors P are at 8pm, $7.

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FILM REVIEW The knowledge will stand you in good stead when watching Meme, a fascinating independent feature that will have one local screening Friday night, March 29, at the Screening Room.

Written and directed by Sean Mannion, the film looks at Jennifer (Sarah Schoofs), a young Brooklynite who of late has been finding that neither her job (as a freelance graphic designer) nor her relationship (with a hipster obsessed with collecting obscure VHS tapes) is giving her any kind of satisfaction. She becomes obsessed with a homemade video tape that mashes together different bits of information, including the kinds of theories of reality that fascinate inebriated college sophomores late at night. As Jennifer’s life spirals downward into chaos, she looks to the tape (labeled “MEME”) to offer her a clue—or is she only attracted to a mystery that (unlike life) she might actually be able to solve? The elaborate editing of Mannion’s film, which freely shifts around time frames and bits from the mysterious tape, makes the trip feel a bit more subversive than it ends up being, though more involving than it might otherwise have been.

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FOLLOWING ORDERS HOTEL MUMBAI • MEME • BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY

BY M. FAUST I WOULDN’T DISAGREE with any superlatives that will be

applied to Hotel Mumbai, the new film that recreates the terrorist attacks on that Indian city in November 2008. It is gripping, first-rate filmmaking, emotionally involving, thought-provoking, and as realistic as you would want a movie to be. For what it is, it’s flawless.

But that’s not to say that I’m recommending that you go to see it.

For those of you who may be saying: Remind me, just which of the dozens of unthinkable atrocities that have occurred in the past few decades was this one? On November 26, ten young men trained in Pakistan arrived by boat in Mumbai to carry out a terrorist mission. They struck at 12 locations, most notably the five-star Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, a favorite destination for foreign visitors. The police of that city were unprepared for an assault like this, and it was several days before Special Forces troops from Delhi were able to end the siege.

The film, an Australian production written and directed by a debuting filmmaker named Anthony Maras (who also co-edited) focuses on the events inside the Taj. In the standard disaster movie formula that has been with us since the 1970s, we follow the perspective of multiple characters, among them Arjun (Dev Patel), a Sikh waiter with a young family to support; David (Armie Hammer), an American architect visiting Mumbai with his Muslim wife Zahra (Nazanin Boniadi) and their new baby; Oberoi (Anupam Kher), the hotel’s head chef, who lives by the motto “guest is god”; and Vasli ( Jason Isaacs), a thuggish Russian investor who was formerly a Special Forces operative in Afghanistan.

That list of dramatis personae would be perfect for a Die Hard variety thriller: You can imagine the callow American and the brave Sikh joining forces with the deadly Russian who needs

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to expiate his past sins. That is not remotely what you will find here. Yes, there is heroism, but it is in small doses, and such attempts often lead nowhere.

More than anything, Hotel Mumbai is a horror movie, and one that can be hard to watch. It could have been worse: We’re spared the sight of the attackers torturing some of their victims, which in reality happened. But the sight of armed young men turning automatic weapons on strangers whom they know nothing about is not an easy thing to look at.

And while you could never accuse Maras of being sympathetic to the terrorists, he reminds you several times that these are really boys, unsophisticated, whose ignorance has been manipulated and weaponized. They are guided throughout by a voice on a cell phone, the mastermind of their operation, who eggs them on to treat their victims as animals and to show them no mercy.

A closing title tells us that while the hotel was restored to its full glory, the men who planned this operation have never been brought to trial. I came away from the film with conflicting thoughts about humanity: hope that we are a species that comes to each other’s aid when faced by terrible situations such as this; fear that we are one that grasps for reasons to dehumanize the “others” that we have been persuaded are our enemies. Now playing at the Dipson Amherst and Eastern Hills.

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IF YOU’RE LIKE me (god help you), you probably thought that

a “meme” was one of those ubiquitous humorously-captioned photos that infest social media. If not, you already know that it’s actually a term coined by Richard Dawkins to define (quoting the Oxford dictionary, here): “an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.”

Letterman, you’ll remember a recurring segment called “Dave’s Record Collection,” in which Letterman played excerpts from oddities culled from record store bins usually labeled “Miscellaneous.” The actual culler was staff writer Steve Young, and his hunts for new material to mock introduced him to a variety of records made for very limited audiences, the employees of a corporation. These were soundtrack albums of musical shows staged at national conventions and sales meetings, mostly in the 1950s through the 1970s, meant to boost the morale of the workforce and make them feel good about their jobs and the product they were pushing (something that could reasonably done in those optimistic post-war decades).

As happens to just about anyone who delves deep enough into something, Young found his derision turning to admiration, and his journey over the course of two decades is the basis for the new documentary Bathtubs Over Broadway, now playing at the North Park Theater. It’s easy to make jokes about a stage musical promoting, for instance, bathroom fixtures, but the composers and choreographers and performers worked hard to raise the spirits of their audience (limited though it may have been). At their peak, there were enough of these shows that they provided an industry large enough to keep many people employed full time, especially the ones who were good at what they did.

Many famous names and faces worked in these things: Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof) and Kander and Ebb (Cabaret) wrote lots of them, and Dom DeLuise, Andrea Martin, Tony Randall, Chita Rivera, Florence Henderson, Bob Newhart, and Martin Short can be seen working in them, not always before they were famous names.

Though of few of these folk are interviewed by documentarian Dava Whisenant (along with such surprising punk rock fans of the genre as the Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra and drummer P Don Bolles of the Germs) Young’s growing obsession with these shows led him to seek out the unknown names that kept popping up. Burnt out on comedy after Letterman’s retirement, he finds his appreciation for their unheralded efforts increasing, and ends up becoming the very thing he once mocked.

Young is a genial enough guide, and Whisenant illustrates the history of his quest with rare clips: It’s unlikely that many of these shows were filmed. The ones we see certainly whet the appetite for more, and it would be nice to have a documentary like 2006’s East Side Story, composed of clips from Soviet propaganda musicals. I would also like to have learned more about the actual business of these shows: Were there agencies that specialized in packaging them? Still, Whisenant and Young succeed in making the point that there is a world full of art outside of the places P where we expect to find it enshrined.

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nia LaVie Owen, Zac Efron, Jonah Hill, and ing the elegant Taj Hotel. Starring Dev Patel, Martin Lawrence as “Captain Wack.” Market Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Amandeep Arcade (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker Singh, Anupam Kher and Jason Isaacs. Directed by Anthony Maras. Reviewed this isCrossing, Regal Transit A selective guide to what’s opening and what’s DUMBO—From Tim Burton, a live-action re- sue. Dipson Amherst, Dipson Flix playing in local moviehouses and other venues. make of the 1941 Disney cartoon. Starring Col- THE MUSTANG— Matthias Schoenaerts as a viin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva olent convict rehabilitated by working with Green, Alan Arkin, and Roshan Seth. Dipson horses. With Jason Mitchell, Bruce Dern and VISIT DAILYPUBLIC.COM FOR MORE FILM LISTINGS & REVIEWS >> Eastern Hills, Dipson Flix, Maple Ridge (AMC), Gideon Adlon. Directed by Laure de ClerMarket Arcade (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal mont-Tonnerre. Dipson Amherst OPENING MARCH 29 THE BEACH BUM—Matthew McConaughey as a Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker Crossing, Regal Key West poet who is generally too stoned Transit, Regal Walden Galleria to write in a comedy written and directed HOTEL MUMBAI—Docudrama recreating the OPENING APRIL 5

by Harmony Korine (Julien Donkey-Boy). horrifying events in 2008 when terrorists at- THE AFTERMATH—After the end of World War Co-starring Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Stefa- tacked multiple locations in Mumbai, includ- II, and British colonel and his wife share a

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Hamburg house with a German man and his daughter. Starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård and Jason Clarke. Directed

by James Kent (Testament of Youth). Dipson Amherst, Dipson Eastern Hills (tentative) THE BEST OF ENEMIES—Fact-based story set in 1971 North Carolina, where the issue of school segregation makes partners of civil rights activist Taraji P. Henson and Ku Klux Klan leader Sam Rockwell. With Babou Ceesay, Anne Heche, Wes Bentley, Nick Searcy, John Gallagher Jr., and Bruce McGill. Directed by Robin Bissell. Area theaters PET SEMATARY—Another stab at Stephen King’s 1983 novel. Starring Jason Clarke, John Lith-

IN THEATERS FILM gow and Amy Seimetz. Directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer. Area theaters

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA: Thursday, March 28: 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. 7:30 pm. Screening Room

Friday, March 29: MEME— Independent drama about a Brooklyn free-lance graphic designer, whose life seems to be falling part, who looks for meaning to a mysterious mash-up VHS tape. Starring Sarah Schoofs, Shivantha Wijesinha, and Lauren A. Kennedy. Directed by Sean Mannion. Reviewed this issue. 9:30 pm. Screening Room

and Jane Birkin. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. 7 pm. Dipson Amherst WE ARE COLUMBINE—Documentary following a return visit to Columbine High School by four students who were freshmen there at the time of the shootings in 1999. Directed by Laura Farber, who was part of the same class.

7:30 pm. Screening Room

Thursday, April 4: WE ARE COLUMBINE—See above. 7:30 pm.

Screening Room

Friday, April 5: THE GODFATHER (1972)—If you need me to tell you what it’s about, you probably wouldn’t be interested. Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, Diane Keaton, and John Cazale. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola (The Bellboy and the Playgirls). 7:30 pm. Screening Room

Saturday April 6:

OFFICE SPACE—See above. 7:30 pm. Screening Room

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989)— Dr. Jones (Harrison Ford) tries to find the Holy Grail before the Nazis do, and with any luck locate his missing father (Sean Connery) on the way. With Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover and River Phoenix. Directed by Steven Spielberg. 11:30 am. North Park

Saturday, March 30:

Sunday April 7:

XANADU (1980)—Olivia Newton John as a muse sent to rekindle the spirit of commercial artist Gene Kelly, to tunes written by Jeff Lynne. Directed by Robert Greenwald, now better known as a maker of progressive documentaries (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price). 11:30 am. North Park

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE—See above. 11:30 am. North Park

Sunday, March 31: XANADU—See above. 11:30 am. North Park

Tuesday, April 2: BLOW-UP (Great Britain, 1966)—Michelangelo Antonioni’s epochal sixties movie, set in Swingin’ London, where fashion photographer David Hemmings finds respite from his meaningless life when he finds clues to a murder in photographs he has taken. With Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle

LOCAL THEATERS

Tuesday, April 9: THE DEER HUNTER (1978)—Oscars for Best Picture, Director and Supporting actor (Christopher Walken) went to Michael Cimino’s look at the effects of the Vietnam War on an industrial town in Pennsylvania. Screenplay by Buffalo native Deric Washburn, though Cimino tried to deny him credit; another Buffalonian, Joe Grifasi, appears as a bandleader.

Starring Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, George Dzundza and Shirley Stoler. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. 7 pm. Dipson Amherst THE GODFATHER—See above. 7:30 pm. Screening Room

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COMMERCIAL ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Storefront/office for rent. 600 sq ft, $800 electric included.

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ACROSS

63 Letter after pi

1 Prosciutto, for example

64 Actor Rami of “Bohemian Rhapsody”

4 Arizona plants

65 Job reward

9 Beginning

66 ___ voto (“at my own wish,” in Latin)

14 Suffix after pay or Motor

33 ___ Reade (NYC drugstore chain) 36 Pattern 37 Tomato variety 38 Driver who plays Kylo Ren

15 Verbally

67 “___ Kitchen” (Gordon Ramsay show)

16 “Today” weatherman Al

68 Tenochtitlan inhabi-

41 Pants maker Strauss

17 Oscar Wilde’s forte

tant

43 Sales talk

18 1990 Mel Gibson movie, according to the Internet?

69 Request permission

44 Guevara on T-shirts

DOWN

20 “Metamorphosis” poet 22 Bottled water brand owned by Coca-Cola

1 “Strange ...”

2 Hyphenated word in “Cockles and Mussels”

23 Mount McKinley’s national park

3 Kind of call or season

26 Pay no attention to

4 One way to get around town

39 2017 Pixar film

46 What opportunity does, hopefully 47 “___ & Greg” (1990s-2000s sitcom) 48 Scratches the surface?

49 “Check this out!”

51 “Family Matters” neighbor Steve

30 Easy swimming style, according to the Internet?

5 “Green Book” star Mahershala

34 “Night Gallery” host Serling

6 Electrical cable 7 Brass band instrument

35 Architect and Bauhaus School founder Walter

8 Altar vows 9 Color of Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty

36 University official

10 Like hopeless situations

58 “I can’t believe this,” in online slang

37 Competed at Daytona

11 Take to the slopes

59 Scottish “no”

40 Istanbul title

12 Ending for mountain or auction

60 12th letter of the alphabet, when spelled out

41 “Better in Time” singer ___ Lewis 42 Olfactory stimulus 43 William and Harry, e.g.

13 Three, in Torino 19 They should be nowhere near a chalkboard

45 Fleetwood ___

21 Macbeth’s imagined weapon

46 Pet-related YouTube clip, according to the Internet?

24 “Little ___ Fauntleroy”

54 Former “American Idol” judge DioGuardi 55 “Waiting For My Rocket to Come” singer Jason 56 Give forth

61 Language suffix 62 DVR remote button

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

25 Google’s was in Aug. 2004

50 Receipt figure 52 Half a quarter

27 Cookie introduced to India in 2011

53 Falco’s request to Amadeus, in a 1980s hit

28 Horse with mottled coloring

57 Salt, chemically

29 Mode in “The Incredibles”

58 Person who musically hypnotizes animals, according to the Internet?

31 No longer linked 32 1 or 0, but not 10

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