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BY KEVIN CONNOR & ROB GALBRAITH, LITTLESIS.ORG Note: This is the third in a multi-part report examining Paladino’s history of racism, sexism, and homophobia—and the powerful network that protects his influence and shields him from accountability. Parts I and II are available online at The Public’s and PAI’s websites.

DESPITE HIS ANIMUS TOWARDS what he in-

accurately characterized as the state “subsidizing Asians” and other “non-Americans” going to school at the University at Buffalo, developer and school board member Carl Paladino himself accepts substantial public subsidies to run and expand his real estate business, which he estimates is worth $500 million.

This heavy reliance on tax dollars emerges as a clear theme in a review of the business relationships behind Paladino’s fortune.

Paladino is the founder, chairman, and former CEO of Ellicott Development, the largest private landlord in the City of Buffalo. In addition to the historic Ellicott Square Building on Buffalo’s Main Street, Ellicott Development and its myriad subsidiaries manage “over 2 million square feet of office, retail, and residential space,” according to the company’s website.

Much of this space is leased to government tenants, and Paladino’s company has also received considerable subsidies and development incentives over the years. In 2010, the Buffalo News reported that Paladino collected $10.1 million in rent from local, state, and federal tenants in 2010 and had received $12 million in tax breaks between 2003 and 2010. Since 2010, PAI found that Paladino has received more than $1.8 million in tax breaks from the Erie County Industrial Development Agency (ECIDA).

This strong dependence on government largesse is especially remarkable in light of Paladino’s substantial political contributions, detailed in part II of this report, to local government officials who oversee these subsidies and leases.

LANDLORD TO GOVERNMENT Paladino’s taxpayer revenue streams first came into wide discussion during his 2010 run for governor. That year, the Buffalo News reported that Paladino would collect $10.1 million in rent from federal, state, and local government agencies that leased space from him. Among Paladino’s government tenants are the Buffalo branch of the FBI, the New York State Department of Public Service, the New York State Department of Transportation, the Erie County Water Authority, the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority, and the Erie County Department of Social Services. The US Census Bureau rented from Paladino, too, while performing its 2010 surveys.

The Buffalo News found that in 2010, the FBI paid Paladino $1.5 million to rent its office on Elmwood Avenue behind City Hall.

The Buffalo News also reported that 14 government tenants, 12 of which were affiliated with the state government, leased space in the Ellicott Square Building, generating another $1.5 million in rent for Paladino in 2010. The two local government tenants in the Ellicott Square Building are the Erie County Water Authority and the

Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority, the control board established by the state to manage the county’s finances in 2005.

Further, according to a Buffalo News report from 2014, Paladino brings in more than $195,000 per month in lease payments from six Buffalo charter schools in which Ellicott Development is the sole or partial investor. These schools, though privately operated by nonprofit corporations, received public funding.

MILLIONS IN TAX BREAKS According to PAI’s review of recent Erie County Industrial Development Agency awards and a Buffalo News analysis from 2010, Paladino has received at least $13.8 million in tax incentives for his various real estate projects since 2003.

Public subsidies have gone toward building charter schools that funnel local education dollars to Paladino’s bank account as well as low-wage dollar stores.

Investigative Post’s Jim Heaney, then with the Buffalo News, reported in 2010 that Carl Paladino had received tax breaks totaling at least $12 million for 20 of his properties since 2003. These incentives came largely through the state’s Empire Zone program, which was “initially designed to promote investment and job creation in economically distressed areas” according to Heaney’s article. The $12 million also included inducements for six projects from the Erie County Industrial Development Agency (ECIDA), including $324,000 in tax breaks to develop Tapestry Charter School in North Buffalo and $300,000 to build a Family Dollar store on Niagara Street.

Since 2010, ECIDA has awarded six additional incentive packages to Paladino worth $1.8 million in tax breaks. The richest of these is the $834,000 in tax abatements awarded in May 2013 for the adaptive reuse of the long-vacant Fairmont Creamery building downtown.

Paladino has also received $361,000 to develop two charter schools, Health Sciences Charter School and West Buffalo Charter School, since 2010.

Other incentive packages include $339,000 to develop a Busti Avenue warehouse into commercial and residential space, $212,900 to rehabilitate the Graystone Building on Johnson Park, and $65,800 to develop apartments and offices on Elm Street downtown.

It is important to note that $1.8 million since 2010 is a conservative estimate, only taking into account tax breaks Paladino has received through the ECIDA since 2010. Incentives and subsidies awarded through other programs could put that number much higher.

The government may not be subsidizing foreign students to attend the University at Buffalo, but it is more than happy to subsidize Carl Paladino and his $500 million real estate business.

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FLYING WITH MERCY One of Western New York’s legacy charities fights for survival in a shifting industry

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LOCAL NEWS IN THE AIR Pilot Marc Boies aboard Mercy Flight 9.

About three minutes into the flight from the airport and we’ve reached the first on our list of flyovers, Woodlawn Beach in Hamburg. Marc Boies, pilot and director of flight operations, tells us through our headsets to brace for a roll right; almost immediately up becomes down, and to my direct left about 700 feet straight down is Lake Erie. Only the helicopter’s G-force and my seatbelt keep my body weight from pushing against the door.

Information included in the Times piece and corroborated by materials provided by Mercy Flight show that other medevac companies charge upwards of $50,000 for a transport, roughly three times the amount charged on average by Mercy Flight. If patients are unable to pay, Air Methods has been known to file suit or place liens against a patient’s personal assets, including their homes—something that makes Doug Baker visibly ill at ease when the topic surfaces.

There’s nothing like flying—every human activity (but one, perhaps) pales in comparison.

It’s our fate to stumble on the ground on heavy feet. The demons and angels are equally blessed with wings. Humans, cursed by gravity, have to settle for helicopters skimming close to the ground like dragonflies over water, optimally with the window open on a sunny day full of fluffy white clouds.

Referred to as “Mr. Baker” by most everyone on the Mercy Flight campus, the founder of Mercy Flight cuts an unremarkable profile. He’s a quintessential Western New York Baby Boomer, Midwestern humility mixed with Northeastern compassion, all with the emotional temperament of someone who probably cried when Scott Norwood’s kick sailed wide right, but then was the loudest to chant “Scotty!” the next day in Niagara Square. When people talk about the charitable and friendly spirit of Western New York, they refer to people like Doug Baker: people who do special things yet regard themselves as ordinary.

The magic of flying and the beauty of a warm and sunny June view over Western New York made me forget that I was in an aerial emergency room, in a space no one ever wants to find themselves by necessity. Near our feet were steel grommets used to lock a stretcher in place, and medical gear was stored neatly in every compartment, an oxygen valve overhead. That first roll right in Mercy Flight 9 induced a moment of joy not available to the helicopter’s usual passengers: one pilot, one paramedic, one flight nurse, and one critically injured or medically fragile patient.

A fainter voice crackling over the headset brings everything into perspective. It sounds like there’s been an auto accident on Millersport Highway, and a request for a possible medevac by Mercy Flight. We return to the base on Aero Drive (in the old Flying Tigers restaurant) within minutes to trade places with two flight staff, who load a stretcher and gear into the helicopter’s clamshell rear doors, the auricle of the aircraft’s insect-inspired design.

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a confirmation to proceed to the scene. In cases such as these, the medical staff is informed of the nature of the injury as the flight operations staff verifies location, landing area, and weather conditions. The control room provides weather and wind updates while maintaining contact with personnel on the scene, who all have training in preparing a landing area for Mercy Flight. Too much fog, or wind, or lightning, for example, can keep Mercy Flight grounded. A moment later, the stretcher is untethered and we switch places again: a false alarm.

A RARE BIRD Air ambulance services were slowly implemented nationwide in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, as pilots and medics in the habit of saving lives found civilian applications. (For the first time in its 34-year existence, Mercy Flight no longer has pilots with experience in Vietnam—they’ve all retired.) But the service has since become a money-maker for hospitals and companies able to charge exorbitant fees, because who can put a price on a service that may save life or limb? The skies are becoming increasingly crowded.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 In the late 1970s, Baker owned LaSalle ambulance and Ferrentino worked for him as an EMT before becoming New York State’s first female paramedic in 1979. Time and again, the two encountered critically injured children in remote areas for whom a longer wait for an ambulance, coupled with a longer ride to hospital, landed them outside the so-called “golden hour” for trauma response that increased their chance of survival.

Baker leased his first helicopter in 1981 with the goal of breaking even, but couldn’t find any hospital willing to provide medical direction to his staff on board due to liability issues. He struck out with three area hospitals before he made a call to Mercy Hospital’s then-director, Sister Sheila Marie Walsh, who currently serves as a governing nun for the Sisters of Mercy. After a 15-minute conversation, Baker was introduced to Dr. Matthew Burke, who, along with Dr. James Anger, would play an instrumental role providing medical direction to the fledgling company.

Baker decided then to name the service after the order’s guiding virtue. Thirty-four years later, the mission remains unchanged, though the industry has shifted around it.

“When we started up, 99 percent of the companies were nonprofit, and now it’s the other way around,” Baker said, driving a wedge into the problem of having a publicly traded corporation in control of life-and-death decisions. “Their primary concern is the bottom line for their shareholders. Our prime concern is patient care. I can’t do it, I can’t be that way. Sister Sheila Marie Walsh, she instilled in me and Margie [Ferrentino], and maybe it’s corny, but ‘You gotta take care of people.’”

In order to take care of people, Mercy Flight relies on a network of volunteers and constant fundraising. The walls of the hangar and main base on Aero Drive are lined with photographs of the organization’s history, and the names of the kind souls who have kept the helicopters in the air.

Having sold off the ambulance company in 1995 to Rural/Metro, Baker and Ferrentino focus their energies solely on the business and ambassadorship that Mercy Flight requires. “Without the community support here, the program would be completely different. We’d have to cut back hours of operation, probably cut back on locations. The people who support us year in and year out, it’s just unbelievable. The amount of $5 and $10 donations, and $1 donations…without it, it would be much different thing. And we’d have to also charge like for-profits.”

And that would almost certainly spell the end of Mercy Flight’s charity program for the nonand under-insured, something very close to the organization’s foundational principle. “If you see somebody’s making $9,000 a year and their child got hit by a car, what are you going to do?” Baker says. “We’re not going to put anyone out of their home. I’m telling you, it’s not good business.”

OPERATIONS Mercy Flight operates three bases, one at the Buffalo Airport, one in Batavia, and one in Olean. The distribution puts all of Western New York within a 15-minute flight radius. Each base has a helicopter on 24/7 standby with staff working 12-hour shifts and doctors on call remotely. The fleet comprises five helicopters, which allows them to cycle aircraft for downtime and maintenance, and also a Learjet.

Mercy Flight averages 1,200 missions per year, which are split fairly evenly between emergency calls and patient transports. Pilot Marc Boies impressed the whole crew when he made Dallas, Texas from the Buffalo Airport in two and a half hours on the Learjet for a patient transport a few weeks ago.

The work itself is, of course, severe. “It’s not a lot of fun,” Baker says. “The type of calls you get, especially in the spring, summer, and fall, are tragedies. Tragedies for the patient, tragedies for the family, very emotional on the paramedic or the nurse, or the doc if we;ve got him flying.

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What they do have are professionals who are able to compartmentalize the trauma in order to better focus on saving lives. Baker says that years back, flight staff were in the habit of calling hospitals to follow up on the condition of patients they transported. Eventually, a doctor, fearing that the staff ’s emotional involvement in the process could cloud their judgment, called and asked for the practice to stop.

Donald Trzepacz, Jr., director of air medical operations, explains that air paramedics need to be cut from a different, albeit similar, cloth than regular paramedics. A patient’s medical condition has to be severe to necessitate a resource-heavy service like a medevac. Paramedics all come with the same scene-response demeanor that the job requires; the difference surfaces during the flight, when the paramedic and flight nurse operate an onboard intensive care unit.

For both inter-facility transfers and emergency calls, they are prepared to operate equipment like heart/lung machines, ECMO machines that oxygenate a patient’s blood, and balloon pumps.

Above all, they need to think on their feet while suspended mid-air. “Our paramedics bring to the table that professional creative thinking in order to respond to an urgent situation,” Trzepacz said.

The fundraising for Mercy Flight operations never stops, and while the organization is able to stay aloft by taking in around $1 million in donations annually, they are looking both to update the fleet and to purchase better flying instruments to enable them to fly in low-visibility weather. Most of their helicopters date back to the 1980s; they hope to purchase a new $7 million twin-engine helicopter and retire one of the older aircraft.

After launching with the goal of breaking even and fending off numerous financial crises along the way, the Mercy Flight leadership knows how to handle those hard rolls and turbulence.

“I feel really good about what we do,” Doug Baker told us. “And I’m very lucky. Sister instilled that in us, and Margie feels the same way.

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ANNE MUNTGES’S DOMESTICATION and its discontents feminist art

installation currently at Big Orbit includes a radical recapitulation of the entire modernist art project.

The exhibit consists of a whole house interior. A kind of stage set kitchen with sink and table and microwave oven, parlor with overstuffed easy chair and fireplace, and bedroom with bed and dresser. And most notably, everything in the exact same black-and-white hatch pattern motif. Table, chairs, sink, dishes, walls, doors, bed, rugs, quilt, even food, some apples in a dish, a bunch of grapes. All in the same black-and-white pattern, occasionally offset by some all-black contrast element or item, border beading on the overstuffed chair, quilt pattern segments, rug pattern segments, an all-black picture in an all-black frame. Simultaneously exotic and monotonous.

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Like the distaff existence envisioned in the setting. Symbolized by the range of furnishings and accessories, from drudgery disesteem work items—the kitchen sink and adjacent ironing board—to moderate-esteem items—fabric work, the bed quilt, a handwork carpet—to symbolically specifically sexual, the bed. Unmade, as it happens. Rumpled. On the dresser are some enigmatic items that could have sexual significance.

One of them for sure. A set of four carpentered wooden letters, f, u, c, and k. Both common senses of the word they spell out applicable in the installation context.

In a brief artist’s statement, Muntges cites Simone de Beauvoir, her book The Second Sex, as inspirational, and describes the installation as “a home I built that reflects the confidence and confusion of what it means to be a female.”

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And simultaneously comical absurd and deadly serious. Comical absurd in the bizarre decorative scheme that perhaps not even the most imperious decorator would attempt to foist on his most gullible client. But deadly serious about a complex of issues with regard to personal freedom—including the freedom to be an artist—versus traditional feminine role domestic slavery. Signaled by various death symbols among the furnishings. The skull. The Ad Reinhardt all-black painting. An all-black doily on the overstuffed chair. (Like the bed quilt, more traditional women’s artwork than painting or sculpture, but moderate-esteem work, typically anonymous.)

In The Second Sex, de Beauvoir writes about the different significations of house/home for women, for men, and for artists. “The home’s champions are often women,” she writes, “since it is their task to assure the happiness of the familial group…their role is to be ‘mistress of the house.’” Whereas, “for men, [a house] is simply a place to live.” Whereas “artists are completely insensitive to the surroundings in which they live.” She quotes the poet Rilke writing about the sculptor Rodin. “‘When I first came to Rodin…I knew that his house was nothing to him, a paltry little necessity perhaps, a roof for a time of rain and sleep; and that it was no care to him and no weight upon his solitude and composure. Deep in himself he bore the darkness, shelter, and peace of a house, and he himself had become sky above it, and woods around it, and distance, and great stream flowing by.’”

The recapitulation of the modernist art project inheres first and foremost in the tension between two and three dimensions. The stage set installation is literally three-dimensional, but the hatch pattern decorative motif acts precisely as camouflage, visually reducing three dimensions to two. (The principle of camouflage not coincidentally was discovered just Elsewhere in the same book she considers the matter in economic terms, prior to World War I, precisely when Picasso and Braque were inventing referencing Friedrich Engels. “Engels shows that woman’s lot is closely Cubism, the key modern art strategy, the main objective and effect of linked to the history of private property; a catastrophe substituted patriwhich was to problematize two and three dimensions.) But also in the archy for matriarchy and enslaved women to the patrimony…[Engels] occurrence of some modern art reference iconic items. Most prominently writes: ‘Woman cannot be emancipated unless she takes part in proa skull, but also a plate of apples, evoking Cezanne, the beginnings of duction on a large social scale, and is only incidentally bound to domesthe modernist project. And the all-black painting, evoking Ad Reinhardt, tic work…’” whose black paintings were an effectual end of the modernist project. He The Anne Muntges exhibit is entitled Skewed Perspective. It continues IF YOU APPROVE ERRORS WHICH ARE ON THIS PROOF, THE P called them “the last paintings” possible. through August 9.

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BY TINA DILLMAN = ART OPENING 464 Gallery (464 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14207 464gallery.com): Day Eclipsed: Art & Installation by Stephen Seguin, on view through Jul 3.

Wed-Fri: 12-6pm, Sat-Sun: 124pm, by event or appointment.

1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts (1045 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-228, photographics2.com/store/ welcome-to-our-studio-1045gallery-store): Currently exhibiting works by: Carol Koziol Clark, Karen Foegen, Erma Kratzke, Susan Miller & Deanna Weinholtz. Thu/Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11-4pm. Gallery Closed July 13-19.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Special Fundraising Event: Animotion, Fri Jun 19, 7-11pm, tickets $150, members $125; Screen Play: Life in an Animated World, free public opening Jun 20, 10am-5pm, on view through Sept 13; Shake the Elbow: Dan Colen on view through Oct 18; Art’school “Inspired” Online Exhibition, on view through June 21; Art’school “Inspired” Exhibition on view through Jun 21; Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball on view through Aug 16. Tues-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays until 10pm.

Art Dialogue Gallery Custom Framing (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209. artdialoguegallery. com): Fiber Work by Estelle Hartman, on view till Aug 21.

Tues-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm.

Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716885-2251, wnyag.com): Screenprints: A Retrospective, work

by Dorothy Markert, on view through Jul 10. Wed & Thu 115pm, Fri 11-4pm, Sat 11-2pm.

Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Seeing and Being: Making Art in WNY Neighborhoods, group exhibition, on view through Jul 19.

Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery. org/about-big-orbit): Skewed Perspective, an installation

by Anne Muntges, on view through Aug 9. Fri-Sun 12-6pm.

BT&C Gallery (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 6046183, btandcgallery.com): Indicted, new work by Lawrence Brose, on view through Jul 24.

Fri 12-5pm or by appointment.

Buffalo Artspace Gallery (1219 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 812-0696, buffaloartspace. org): Atavism, new work by Eric Evinczik, on view through Jun 30.

Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2496 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Painting Workshops on the West Side Project Grant Residency Exhibition, Opening reception Fri Jun 26, 5-8pm. On view through Jul 10; Alicia Marvan: Auxiliary Constructions & Barbara Buckman: New Works, both shows on view through Jul 1. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays through 8pm.

Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens (2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14218, 8271584, buffalogardens.com): David & Julius McCann, on view in the Arcangel Gallery through Aug 9; Natural Conditions, Public Art Installation by Shayne Dark, on view through Oct 4. Mon-Sun 10am-5pm.

Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Currently on view in the galleries: The Likeness of Being: Portraits by Philip Burke, on view through Sep 13; Robert Blair: Selections from a Soldiers Portfolio, on

view through Sep 27; Patteran: A Living Force & A Moving Power, on view through Sep 27; Emil Schult: Portrait of a Media Artist Pioneer, on view through Sep 27; The Scrutiny of Objects: sculptures by Robert A. Booth on view through Aug 30; Body Norms: Selections from the Spong Collection, on view through Aug 30; Inquisitive Lens: Richard Kegler/ P22 Type Foundry; Charles E. Burchfield: Audio Graphics, on view through Aug 23; Charles E. Burchfield: A Resounding Roar, on view through Aug 23; Tue, Wed, Fri & Sat 10am5pm, Second Fridays till 8pm, Thu 10am-9pm, Sun 1-5pm.

Admission varies, visit site for more information.

Burchfield Nature and Art Center (2001 Union Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 677-4843, burchfieldnac.org): An Alaskan Adventure, artworks by Tom Dalbo, on view through Jun 28. Mon-Fri 10-4pm, Sun 1-4pm, see site for upcoming classes.

Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniar tmuseum.org): Patrick Foran: Defacement, on view through Aug 9; Artists View the Falls: 300 Years of Niagara Falls Imagery, on view through Aug 16. Tue-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Hollis Frampton: A Comprehensive Exhibition and Sale, on view through Sept 5.

Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm.

The CG Jung Center (408 Franklin Street, Side Entrance, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-7457, apswny. com): Common Maladies of Uncommon Souls, works on paper

by Joshua Nickerson, on view through Jul 31.

El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Diversity Works, works from the collection of Gerald Mead, on view through Aug 7. Tue-Sat 12-5pm.

Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): Through Our Eyes, work by Suzanne & Carl Borowicz, on view through Jun 27. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm.

Fargo House Gallery (287 Fargo Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14213, thefargohouse.com, visit website for appointment): Currently on view, Caitlin Cass: Benjamin Rathburn Builds Buffalo.

Glow Gallery (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201): Chroma 2015: Pride Buffalo Art Exhibition, on view through Jun 28. Thu & Fri 4-8pm, Sat & Sun 3-7pm.

Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Amid/In WNY Part 3, survey of local and regional contemporary artists, on view through Jul 3. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm.

Hi-Temp (79 Perry Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 852-5656, Gallery hours are by appointment only): Last Exit, work by David Mitchell, Max Collins & Flatsitter, on view through Jul 10.

M-F 10am-5pm.= Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572. indigoartbuffalo. squarespace.com): lakelines, recent paintings by Dorothy Fitzgerald, on view through Jun 27. Wed & Fri 12-6pm, Thurs 12-7pm, Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays.

Kenan Center House Gallery (433 Locust Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 433-2617 kenancenter. org/arts/gallery.asp): Fine Arts League of Buffalo 62nd Annual Spring Juried Open Exhibition, on view through Jul 19. Opening reception Sun Jun 28, 2-5pm. Mon-Fri 12-5pm & Sun 2-5pm.

Lockside Art Center (21 Main Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 478-0239, locksideartcenter. com): Photography Exhibition, on view through Jul 25. FriSun 12-4pm.

Manuel Barreto Furniture (430 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 867-8937, manuelbarreto.com): The Art of Harold L. Cohen, on view through June 26. Tue-Sat 1-6pm.

Market Street Art Studios (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 478-0248, marketstreetstudios.com): The Holley Brothers, on view through Aug 2. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm.

Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts. com): The Ridge, Benefit Exhibition for the Chestnut Ridge Conservancy, on view through Jul 18. Tues-Sat 9:30am5:30pm.

Native American Museum of Art at Smokin’ Joe’s (2293 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, NY 14123, 261-9251) Open year round and free. Exhibits Iroquois Artists work. 7am-9pm.

Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 282-7530, thenacc.org): Beyond the Barrel, Summer Art Exhibition, on view through Aug 13. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm.

Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 882-5777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Lilt, New work by Kyle Butler, on view through Jun 24. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Mon open by appointment only.

Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 6979069, pausaarthouse.com): Life’s a Beach, by Peter Caruso, on view through Jun 27. Live Music Thu-Sat. See website for more info.

Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, 8688183, queencitygallery.tripod. com): Rotating members work on view. Tues-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. Open late every First Friday from 6-10pm and every Thursday Open Mic, 7-9pm. Open to all musicians and writers.

River Gallery (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, NY, 14120, 260-1497, riverartgalleryandgifts.com): Todd Chalk: Then and Now; Norine Spurling: Childs Play, on view through Jul 11. Wed-Fri 11-4pm, Sat 115pm Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky. org): In the main gallery, Hollis Frampton: Select Works. In the storefront gallery, Evan Meaney: Ceibas: Epilogue—The Well of Representation. Both shows on view through Sept 5.

Tue-Sat 12-5pm.

Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio. org): Projected Portrait Series, work by Amanda Giczkowski, on view through Jul 10. MonFri 9-4pm.

Studio Hart (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 536-8337, studiohart.com): Artists & Gardens, on view through Jun 27.

Tue-Fri 11:30am-3:30pm, Sat 12-4pm, and open every First Friday 6-9pm.

Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): People That Rock, Photographs by Michael Mulley, on view through Jul 11, see site for more details.

UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries.org): Transmaterial, a group exhibition curated by Alicia Marvan; Martha Jackson Graphics: Prints from the UB Art Galleries Permanent Collection; These Fragile Truths, UB MFA Thesis by Tricia Butski; Our Own Devices: Exploring the Tools of Cravens World, on view through Jun 28. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

Western New York Book Arts Collaborative (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 438-1430, wnybookarts.org): Through A Dirty Window, work by Joseph Scheer, on view through Jun P 26. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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Casey William Milbrand at work on the Pop In.

THE POP IN Casey William Milbrand and Jason Lloyd Clement are looking for a few good ideas…

BY GEOFF KELLY

FOR MONTHS THEY’VE KEPT IT QUIET—their plans, their renovations, even the name of the space. A sign on the doorway at 218 Grant Street, adjacent to Sweetness 7 cafe, reads “Secret Storefront.” Where most businesses list their hours, there is a sign that says, “Open Spontaneously.”

But now the secret is out. On Thursday evening, the newest addition to Grant Street’s burgeoning cultural and commercial scene will debut with a bona fide street party: music, art, dancing, drag queens, even a lemonade stand at West Side Stories, the bookstore across the street. (Naturally, The Public will be there, too.) Welcome to the Pop In, the brainchild of Casey William Milbrand and his partner Jason Lloyd Clement: part cafe, part artist studio, part community center, part cooperative work space, part whatever can be conceived by anyone who wants to use the space creatively to contribute to the wealth of Buffalo’s cultural life. It’s programmable space available to anyone with a bright idea.

How did this polymorphous venture come about? The story begins with chance encounter.

Milbrand, a Buffalo native, met Clement at the National Historic Preservation Trust’s conference here in 2011. Milbrand had left town to pursue an architectural career first in Chicago and then in New York City, but had recently returned and immersed himself in the city’s arts and preservation culture. Clement, who worked out of the trust’s DC office, helped to create Buffalo Unscripted, a feature-length documentary film about the city commissioned specifically for the conference.

At its premiere, Milbrand spotted Clement pacing nervously outside the room in which 500 people had gathered. “I had never been to Buffalo, really didn’t know anything about it, when we started filming the project,” Clement says. “We had no idea what we were doing.”

His nervousness was justified: Buffalonians can be unforgiving of outsiders who try to explain their city to them. But, in the course of interviewing hundreds of people, exploring the city’s history, and making friends among the city’s young and creative set, Clement fell in love with the place. And eventually with Milbrand, too. “After the conference I kept coming up with reasons to come back here,” he says. “I probably came here 10 times 10 THE PUBLIC / JUNE 24, 2015 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM

on vacation or just to catch up with people. It’s funny…I used to say that this city would never let me go until I just moved here.

And now I’m here.”

Milbrand and Clement carried on a long-distance relationship—Milbrand in Brooklyn, Clement in DC—but they often met in Buffalo, too. Both felt the city calling them. They just needed a project to hang their hats on. That was happily provided by their mutual friend, Prish Moran, proprietor of Sweetness 7 and a certified cultivator of talent and energy. On New Year’s Eve 2013, Moran advertised on Facebook that she was ready to rent the tiny storefront next to the cafe to anyone with a good idea for just $500 a month.

Milbrand jokes that at first he was irked: “Why didn’t Prish tell us about this when we saw her the day before? She knew we were looking to start some sort of business here—probably eventually a cafe or a bar—so why hadn’t she said something?”

They’d never seen the space before, never set foot in it. The idea of a free-form space was germinating but had not yet taken form in their minds. Nonetheless, they wrote to Moran at once and rented it. “It created this sort of whirlpool effect where we got sucked back into the city,” Milbrand says. “This storefront kind or presented a moment for us—we needed a sort of anchor for ourselves here.”

“We actually rented this space before we had a place to live here or made plans to actually move here. It was a spur-of-themoment, why-not thing,” says Clement. “We knew we needed to do something here—to be creative ourselves and to contribute to the city. For both of us, this is not a business. On paper, this makes no sense. But in our hearts it’s a passion project—it makes total sense. It also represents something that we never could have done where we were living. I lived in Washington, DC for 12 years. Casey lived in Brooklyn and Chicago. We never would have been able to afford to do something passionate and crazy and weird like this. There’s too much of a barrier in those cities.”

They’ve already got plenty of proposals for uses of the space: West Side Stories will use the space as a reading room for kids.

In July, a photographer from LA will use the space as a studio in which he’ll make portraits of 3,000 new Americans—part of

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People have asked to use the space for salsa and yoga lessons.

Once a month, Clement and Milbrand hope to give the keys to a local artist for one week, then exhibit the work the artist creates in that week. For their part, they hope to use events and merchandise designed by Milbrand to help fund a series of outdoor murals, three or four per year. The first such cycle—Tshirt sales, event, mural—will be based on the “Buffalove” mural Milbrand has painted on an interior wall now.

“The point is to program the space in a way that does something for the city and gets people engaged in an exciting way,” Milbrand says. “We know people are going to give us ideas. I’m interested in a year from now, when we look back and say, ‘We P had no idea that was going to happen in the storefront.’”

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“TWAIN’S BUFFALO EXPERIENCE WAS PIVOTAL. He came to Buffalo as an unmarried man staking his career hopes on the grind of daily newspaper work. In Buffalo Twain held down a responsible job and launched a stable domestic life. But his commitment to a career in journalism wavered, and a relentless string of deaths and illnesses shook his idyllic, tranquil home life. Twain’s personality and behavior exhibited drastic contrasts, too. He displayed an abrasive side that repelled some people. Yet he managed to mingle easily with influential Buffalonians and to forge lifelong friendships. He departed Buffalo as a husband and father, intent on the lofty vocation of literary artist. After the Buffalo Morning Express, Mark Twain abandoned full-time journalism for good.”

So Tom Reigstad summarizes in Scribblin’ for a Livin’: Mark Twain’s Pivotal Period in Buffalo, his detailed and informative accounting of this iconic author’s 20-month stay here between 1869 and 1871.

(Note: In this column I use Samuel Clemens’s pen name, Mark Twain, as does Reigstad. His common name is honored in Clemens Hall on the University at Buffalo North Campus.)

Those months began well. His The Innocents Abroad had been published to critical acceptance and bestseller status. Twain’s prospective father-in-law, Jervis Langdon, helped him buy half interest in the Buffalo Evening Express. He contributed many pieces to the newspaper; however, much of his time those early months were spent on the lecture circuit. Between November 1, 1869 and the following January 21, he spoke to 50 audiences.

He was still developing the style that would serve him so well later, and a few of those talks did not go well. After one the Jamestown Journal suggested that “if his lecture weighed 225 pounds, then 224 pounds, 13 ½ ounces were nonsense.” He had walked into a local tiff between those who wanted serious talks and those who wanted simply to be entertained.

But unknown to Twain during this period, his fiance, Olivia Langdon, and his father-in-law were conspiring secretly to purchase and furnish a home for the couple at 472 Delaware Street.

After their wedding on February 2, 1870 at the Langdon home in Elmira, the happy couple took the train to Buffalo where the bridegroom expected to move his wife into his boardinghouse apartment. Instead, to Twain’s surprise the couple was driven by sleigh on a ride which he later described as “all over America” to their new, completely furnished home staffed by a cook, maid and coachman and provided with a horse, sleigh and carriage as well as plenty of food and coal. Reigstad describes Twain as “bedazzled”; but the author couched the deception in his own language: “a first class swindle.”

Unfortunately the idyllic period that followed only lasted a few months. By May, Olivia’s father was ill and the couple shuttled to and from Elmira dozens of times before Jervis Langdon died on August 6, sending Olivia into deep grief and their home into a house of mourning: curtains drawn and furniture draped in black.

To add to the suffering of this dark period Olivia’s visiting friend Emma Nye died in their home in September. Olivia herself nearly miscarried in October but finally in early November Twain’s first child was born a month premature. The pressures on Twain were so great during this period that he was able to make no progress on his book, Roughing It, about his early life in the west. With

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Olivia an invalid and the baby dying, the couple quit Buffalo for her parents’ home in Elmira. Just before they left, Twain wrote a friend that he had grown “at last to loathe Buffalo.”

Despite these final depressing months and his quite reasonable comment given the circumstances, Twain did not desert Buffalo.

He maintained many friends here and returned over a dozen times.

Okay, that’s the history. Reigstad is not simply narrating a tragedy although that story alone is important in that it would certainly contribute some of the darker thoughts that color some of Twain’s later writing. Rather, like us, Reigstad is interested in the writing itself and he illustrates Twain’s early promise and growth with 70 pages of excerpts from his newspaper writing.

Most of us know Twain from his novels: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; his pseudo-autobiographical stories: Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It; his travel narratives; and the lectures reworked by Hal Holbrook and other actors. All these, even including the lectures, are extended works, the stories carefully organized and usually concluding with a superb and often unexpected punch line. Here we see a different Twain, writing brief notes in “Police Court” and “People and Things” columns. Consider some excerpts to whet your appetite: “Mark Twain hath spoken. The mountain hath heaved and opened, and the mouse hath come forth.”

“I borrowed Jenkins’ velocipede and tried the slack rope performance over Niagara, but it is only a partial success. I have got to the middle, two hundred and twenty feet above the river, as well as Jenkins or any other man could do it, but I cannot get any farther.”

“Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins, have an aggregate of seventeen children, but most of them belong to Chang, because Eng was absent part of the time.”

“The river Nile is lower than it has been for 150 years. This news will be chiefly interesting to parties who remember the former occasion.”

“A Mrs. Birney, living near Tippecanoe, Harrison County, Ohio, has for twenty years been in the habit of falling into a state of unconsciousness at about ten o’clock on Sunday mornings, during which she delivers ungrammatical religious discourses. Of course, when a woman does anything remarkable, it must be published far

and wide, but acres and acres of poor clergymen can go on doing such things all their lives and a subsidized press takes no notice of it. A mean partiality ill becomes journalism.”

“The most wonderful comet the world has ever seen has been advertised to appear and remain visible during the months of July and August and September of this year, and grow constantly brighter until it has finished its engagement, when it will depart in the direction of Saturn to play an engagement in the provinces.

The journalists of Wisconsin are observing it now, though why a comet should visit Wisconsin before it visits New York is another of those astronomical mysteries.”

“What goes with the worn-out bank notes, if there be such things, and what becomes of dead mules, if any?”

“Our gratitude in learning that Saint Beuve is recovering is only equaled by our ignorance in not knowing that he had been sick, and our entire indifference about the matter anyway.”

“Children in Iowa bite rattlesnakes in order to prevent the toothache. Probably the cure would be more permanent if the rattlesnakes bit the children.”

“Two travelers, stopping at a Des Moines hotel, came near losing their lives last week, by blowing out the gas on retiring to bed. One of them, when asked if he smelt anything wrong, said yes, but he thought it was the other fellow’s bad breath.”

“Mark Twain estimates the distance by rail from San Francisco to New York at 211 games of euchre, 173 drinks and 117 cigars, which shows him to be a very slow euchre player or a very rapid drinker and smoker.”

“Poor children in New York collect and sell peach kernels to the druggists at a cent a hundred. Adepts make as much as thirty cents a week at it sometimes. They are fast acquiring harmful luxurious habits through the influence of these sudden and violent accumulations of wealth.”

“John Wagner, the oldest man in Buffalo—104 years—recently walked a mile and a half in two weeks. He has never tasted a drop of liquor in his life, unless you count whiskey.”

I found this book informative, but in the end also highly entertaining.

Thomas J. Reigstad is emeritus professor of English at Buffalo P State College.

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TINY RHYMES “Arrows” (Song) Recommended If You Like: San Fermin, Andrew Bird, Sufjan Stevens

The chamber-folk group released the harmony-rich lead single from its upcoming EP, A Kinder History, early last week. Tiny Rhymes will celebrate the release of the fourtrack EP, which is now available for download/purchase on June 23, at Pausa Art House on July 18.

TONEYBOI “Guacaroni & Cheese” (Song) RIYL: Vince Staples, Dash, Domo Genesis

The soon-tobe-southern-bound Koolie High member teased the release of his Leaders of the New Kool record with a Malt Disney directed video for the lead single. LOTNK was produced with bizarre grittiness by Neckbone Rollins.

SKIRTS “Indian Premier League” (Song) RIYL: Vampire Weekend, Los Campesinos, Bryan Johnson & Family

The Rochester garage-pop five-piece dropped the upbeat, island-flavored single from its upcoming split with Utica buzz band, Comfy. The EP will be available in full on August 7 through Miscreant and Dadstache Records.

HOWLO “Bleary” (Song) RYIL: Polaris, Flake Music, of Montreal

“Bleary,” a dreamy jangle pop cut, is one of two teases shared by Rochester foursome Howlo last Monday.

The track will be included on the band’s full-length debut, and will be released later this summer on upstart sister city label City of Quality Records.

LOCAL SHOW PICK OF THE WEEK SCHWERVON W/ DIFFICULT NIGHT, LITTLE CAKE & JACK TOFT SUGAR CITY / 1239 NIAGARA ST THURS, JUNE 25 / 8PM / $5

AGAINST ME! WEDNESDAY JUNE 24 7PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $20-$23 [PUNK] Floridian quartet Against Me! has survived for nearly two decades on the fringes of punk—first as an indie band, followed by a stint on Sire and some chart success, and now as purveyors of their own label and studio, Total Treble, converted from a former post office. But perhaps the biggest challenge they’ve faced has been in dealing with the gender transition of founder Laura Jane Grace, formerly Tom Gabel. Following the success of 2010’s White Crosses, Gabel went into recurring seclusion from both bandmates and family, eventually coming out publicly as a woman in 2012. During this time, she wrote the material for Transgender Dysphoria Blues, intended as a concept album about a transgender prostitute that landed the band on numerous year-end lists for 2014. Grace’s announcement comes in the wake of growing global awareness of gender dysphoria and has brought Against Me! a new audience, fortified by her participation in the AOL Originals series True Trans With Laura Jane Grace, a 10-episode docu-series that was nominated for “Outstanding Documentary” at the 2015 GLAAD Media Awards. Now on the eve of releasing a live disc this fall, 23 Live Sex Acts, and Grace’s highly anticipated forthcoming memoir, Against Me! returns to Buffalo on Wednesday, June 24 at Town Ballroom for an all ages show with Frank Iero & the Cellabration as well as Annie Girl & the Flight. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

WEDNESDAY JUNE 24 The Fray with Train 7pm Darien Lake, 9993 S Alleghany Rd $30 [ROCK] The Picasso at the Wheel Summer Tour recipe combines three parts Train, two parts the Fray’s bold and uplifting pop-rock, and a generous dash of Matt Nathanson’s poppy brand of folk-rock (underpinned by his honey-sweet vocals). Coming to Darien Lake Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, June 24, these radio-beloved rock heroes promise a night of chart-topping hits, from Train’s “Hey Soul Sister” to The Fray’s “Over My Head (Cable Care). -KP

Imagine Dragons with Metric 7pm First Niagara Center, 1 Seymour H Knox III Plz $27-$57 [ALT ROCK] Imagine Dragons exploded on the mainstream scene with their 2012 debut, Night Visions. Featuring hits like “It’s Time” and “Radioactive”—the unofficial anthem for modern, post-apocalyptic teenage dramas—the album garnered their reputation for cavernous, shimmering alt-rock with rousing choruses—easily digestible for the masses. Continuing in the key of clamorous sounds, their 2015 sophomore effort Smoke + Mirrors is bigger and bolder.

Though its hit single, “I Bet My Life,” doesn’t stray too far from ID’s staple sound, they prove to broaden their horizons, flirting with EDM elements on “Shots” and injecting a little culture in “Summer.” Prioritizing style over substance, Imagine Dragons shamelessly assembles these charmingly odd combinations, and that’s what makes them more entertaining than your average arena rockers. Catch Imagine Dragons at the First Niagara Center on Wednesday, June 24 with support from Metric. -KP

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9pm Nietzsche's, 248 Allen St. free [FUNK] Fresh off of their Buffalove Music Festival set, ABTrio are coming to Nietzsche’s tonight, June 24. Those unfamiliar with Bronstein’s work in the local music scene need to only step out once to see his impact. With numerous projects as well as regular guest appearances, this new venture with the Freehand Band should be an interesting showcase of the talent we have within the Western New York region. The music is on the jazz edge, delicious to digest with beautifully deep improvisations and encompassing many other styles. -JEREMIAH SHEA

THURSDAY JUNE 25 David Liebe Hart

8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $10-$12 [WEIRD] Just behind the flesh and bone material that makes up David Liebe Hart‘s gigantic pulsating forehead, there sits a powerful control center of insider knowledge into all things supernatural. His talent manifests itself in such a varied array of forms that even his most devoted followers cannot anticipate which mode of telepathic laughter will be served and enjoyed in this Thursday’s live personal encounter at Mohawk Place with the visionary. Technically he is an actor, singer/songwriter, comedian and puppeteer. Energetically; a beacon of soft glowing encouragement for the human spirit. Hart speaks fluently the universal language of humor in order to enlighten enraptured listeners with the fruits of a lifetime of strange and beautiful happenings and rare firsthand insights into extraterrestrial affairs. Paying homage to Liebe Hart and facilitating a clear psychic pathway through which he may give his very best performance are Buffalo’s own David Liebe Hart Tribute Band; a small collective of world-rate poet-musicians with an undying love for whom they refer to as “Father David.” -AE

Take Your Pick

6pm Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Ave [ART] This Thursday evening the Burchfield Penney Art Center offers an evening stacked with events promising something for everyone.

Starting at 6pm, artist Robert A. Booth will give a tour of his solo show, The Scrutiny of Objects, currently on view. From 7 to 8:30pm, artist Jennifer Kursten will teach a watercolor class in the studio classroom. The class is $15 for members and $25 for non-members, and all participants need to bring their own materials. And if documentary film is your thing, come by at 7pm for Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, a 2013 film

by Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Come out and support the local institution that showcases artists from across the region and beyond while providing opportunities for working artists. -TINA DILLMAN

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7PM / HELIUM COMEDY CLUB, 30 MISSISSIPPI ST. / $20-$33 [COMEDY] It’s hard to introduce a Very Famous guy like Michael Ian Black in such a way that does his comedic prowess justice. He does a much better job himself: “You guys may know me from such shows as Cancelled, Comedy Central Presents: No Longer on the Air, and my sitcom, Two and a Half Episodes.” MIB’s approach to humor is a bit tongue-in-cheek—somehow hopping between egotistical and self-depreciating. But make no mistake, the writer, actor, and “professional” comedian regularly serves up a hearty helping of hilarious jokes and observations, along with useful tips on bettering your own flying experience by making it miserable for someone else. Best known for his roles in brilliant comedy series like The State, Stella, Burning Love, and VH1’s I Love the… series, MIB was also amongst the star-studded cast of David Wain’s highly underrated 2001 Wet Hot American Summer. His steamy delivery in perhaps the film’s most romantic scene has led Bradley Cooper (on more than one occasion) to cite MIB as his favorite on-screen kiss. To which MIB so eloquently responded on Twitter, saying: “That wasn’t kissing; it was lovemaking.” MIB will star in the upcoming revamp, Wet Hot American Summer: The First Day of Camp, airing July 31 on Netflix.

Check it out and don’t miss Michael Ian Black at Helium Comedy Club from Thursday, June 25 through Saturday, June 27. -KELLIE POWELL

Schwervon

8pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St. $5 [INDIE] Kim plays drums, Matt plays guitar, and they both sing. And yet even with such a minimal presentation, Schwervon’s indie pop fills out with toe-tapping, tuneful songs full of dark humor and lo-fi charm. Five albums and 15 years on from their NYC beginnings, the duo returned to Matt’s hometown in Kansas to record last year’s Broken Teeth in his dad’s basement (and simultaneously help him convalesce from a bout with lung cancer). Consisting of acoustic versions of songs from the previous I Dream of Teeth set along with two covers, the disc reveals a newfound musical softness paired with uncanny emotional grit. They’re at Sugar City on Thursday with Difficult Night. -CJT

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The Hayden Fogle Band 9pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $5 [BLUES] When you get a blessing from the almighty Buddy Guy, you know you’re doing something right in the world of blues. Hayden Fogle has been on the blues map ever since Buddy helped make people aware of the youngster’s amazing abilities on guitar at a ripe 12 years old. This Friday, June 26, The Hayden Fogle Band will be making a trip to Buffalo Iron Works to show the Queen City what he can do on guitar. -JS

Project Grant Residency Exhibition

5pm Buffalo Arts Studio, 2495 Main St. [ART] The West Side’s little-artist residency-that-could, Project Grant, will be showcasing the results of its three-week long free painting workshop at the Massachusetts Avenue Park. Three different artists led the public, all ages workshops using supplies donated by Hyatt’s and the Golden Foundation, so one might expect a flowering of creative beginnings inside Buffalo Arts Studio on Friday evening. -AL

5pm Canalside, 44 Prime St. free

Soul Night

[BATTLE] The Canalside Battle of the Bands returns this week with a new edition of their weekly contest. This Friday, June 26 four area rock bands will battle for the opportunity to open for the Sublime tribute band, Badfish when they come to Canalside for a free concert on July 23. Bands are judged by a panel of local professionals on quality of the performance, stage presence, and audience engagement, and each participating band is paid a $100 stipend just to compete. If you’re in a local band, it’s not too late to sign up for next week’s battle of alternative rock bands, who will vie for a chance to open for Iron & Wine. -CP

10pm Milkie's, 522 Elmwood Ave $5 [SOUL] Sugar City’s Soul Night returns to Milkie's, inviting you to come out and dance to a smorgasbord of oldies that's guaranteed to have peeps on their feet (whether they're rhythmically inclined or not). Featuring sets from local DJ talents Handsome Dan, Alexander L, KATASTROPHE, and the Good Reverend Johnny Drama, Soul Night is designed as a cure for the blues and a chance to help support Sugar City in its ongoing endeavors with the modest $5 cover charge. The music starts at 10pm on Friday. -CJT

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SATURDAY JUNE 27 Game On!

LEVERAGING LINKEDIN 6PM–7:30PM at Resurgence, 1250 Niagara St.

Tour the brewery with beverages provided, and social media consultant D. Bruce Johnston provides expertise on how LGBT professionals can best leverage social media, specifically LinkedIn, for networking, client acquisition and retention.

THURSDAY JUNE 25

3pm Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Ave free [ART] If you and your family are looking for something fun and different to do this Saturday, June 27 come on out to this free outdoor party that will celebrate the launch of ArtGames 2.0, the museum’s new mobile gaming app for kids ages nine to 13. In partnership with the International Center for Excellence in Animation at Daemen College, Empire Visuals, and All Things Media, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery has developed an interactive application that is based on their collection, bridging the gap between internet video games and physical art objects that are on display in the galleries.

The goal of the app is to create a new model of learning by engaging young minds through tech. -TD

SUNDAY JUNE 28 Wurstfest

BUFFY MARATHON 7PM–11PM at Dreamland, 387 Franklin St.

The Thursday night marathon continues with Season 2, Episode 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, at queer Buffalo’s newest subversive arts collective. The strictly enforced safe space welcomes only hardcore Buffy fans to this event.

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SATURDAY JUNE 27

ALLEN STREET DANCE PARTY 11PM–4PM at Funky Monkey, 20 Allen St.

DJ Charles Masters brings the heat with his club mix of house, dance, and hip hop at Allen Street’s sleekest dance club. Cool down on the patio with a frosty strawberry daiquiri or blue raspberry slush.

TUESDAY JUNE 29

OLD SCHOOL TUESDAYS 7PM–2AM at Fugazi, 503 Franklin St.

LGBT Buffalo’s resident martini bar (patio included!) offers up Doug behind the bar while all the best pop/dance music videos from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s play all night long. Plus, half price specials on all Stoli drinks.

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1pm Buffalo River Fest Park, 249 Ohio St. Donations accepted [FOOD] Around 20 percent of Americans share German descent, more than any other ancestry, establishing a swath of population from Central New York westward across the Great Plains all the way to the Pacific Ocean. While this thing known as the 20th century has pushed German heritage celebrations into the background of

SPOON THURSDAY JUNE 25 6PM / CANALSIDE, 44 PRIME ST. / FREE [INDIE] The story of Austin, Texas indie-rock band Spoon is a story of perseverance, patience, and happy accidents. In fact, the band has always been on the hunt for happy accidents, whether it be in the trajectory of their career in general, or just the way a wonky guitar effect turns out. “We were always looking for some kind of accidental thing to happen,” said Spoon’s Britt Daniel about the band’s use of guitar effects on early tracks like “I Could See the Dude,” in an interview with Pitchfork last year—shortly before the release of the band’s latest critically acclaimed studio album, They Want My Soul. Throughout the interview Daniel continually talks about the happy accidents he’s experienced in recording the band’s eight full length records. In retrospect, he even contemplates whether being dropped from Elektra Records after the release of their second album, A Series of Sneaks, was a happy accident too. They followed that up with 2002’s Kill The Moonlight, widely considered their most creative record, a favorite of fans and critics alike, and their best selling record. Daniel even credits fate for his affection for one of his inspirations, The Kinks—which he says was made possible due to a flaw in the ordering system of a certain CD club he was a member of. It could be that Daniels isn’t giving himself—or his band—the credit they deserve, though. Perhaps at least some of these happy accidents have been due to the band’s uncanny knack for making the most of the situations they find themselves in. After all, isn’t that what creativity really is? In what might seem like some kind of divine flaw in the system, Spoon comes to Buffalo this Thursday to play a free concert at Canalside.

-CORY PERLA

MOVIN' ON UP: THURSDAY JUNE 25 AN INTERVIEW W/ DRONE PHOTGRAPHER BLAKE DAWSON 6PM / THE PUBLIC, 1526 MAIN ST. / FREE [PARTY] Photographer Blake Dawson has spent the last few weeks sifting through hundreds of photos. His photos are probably a little different than yours, though, because he took his from 400 feet in the air. The 28-year-old photographer specializes in drone photography, using his DJI Inspire I photo drone.

He’s compiling them for his upcoming show, Movin’ on Up: See Buffalo From Above, this Friday, June 26. He’s picked out dozens of photos which will be on display in The Public office alongside food and drink from local vendors like Allentown Pizza, Lockhouse Distillery, Buffalo Distilling Company, Hamburg Brewery, Ashker’s Juice Bar, Butterwood Sweet & Savory, as well as displays by Wrafter Built, a PLINKO prize wheel to benefit the Massachusetts Avenue Project, and entertainment by the Ellen Pieroni Quartet and GLDN Girls.

This week we talked to Dawson, 28, a graduate of media arts from Fredonia University about how he got into drone photography and what he’s had to sacrafice to get the perfect shot.

Tell me about your first drone. It was a DJI Phantom I. I happened to be on the web looking at stuff and I stumbled across it a couple years ago. I had an opportunity to go to Rochester to play in an outdoor hockey game with the Rochester Americans, and I was like, “All right, I’m getting this drone, we’re going to fly it and capture some good footage.” But when we got there they told me we were too close to the airport and I wasn’t allowed to fly it!

So to create your photographs, you’ve had to learn a lot about the FAA’s rules on flight, haven’t you? The FAA has regulated that hobbyists can’t fly above 400 feet.

With my new drone I can set a cap so that I never surpass 400 feet, which is about the height of Buffalo City Hall. Five hundred to 1000 feet is commercial airspace. There are some people that break that rule and that bothers me because God forbid something happens, [the government] can easily crack down and say we can’t fly at all. Remember when that guy landed a drone on the White House lawn? After that the company that makes my drone put a no fly zone on Washington, DC. You can’t power up a drone in that city. I can’t power up my drone and take off there, it just won’t let me. It’s built into the app, the GPS on the drone knows where I am. If I’m within five miles of an airport, I also can’t take off. Thankfully the city of Buffalo seems pretty cool with letting people fly drones around downtown.

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Have you ever gotten in any trouble or receieved any warnings?

No, no, I’ve been really fortunate. I got a heads-up from the Coast Guard once while I was down by the Erie Basin Marina filming right by the lighthouse. A guy at the Coast Guard station asked if I was filming the Coast Guard Station and I said no. I showed him some of the footage and he said that it was fine. Buffalo has been really supportive.

I heard something unfortunate happened to you while shooting over Niagara Falls this winter. Ahh, that was interesting…I’d flown over Niagara Falls a few times previously, all in the summer time, and got some amazing footage. It’s one of my favorite spots to shoot because obviously it’s gorgeous. So when the falls froze over this winter I knew that there were going to be people trying to get drone shots of the falls. I get up to Niagara Falls and I see that there’s still some mist up there. It was about 20 degrees that day and the windchill was like negative two and I was up there at sunrise, mostly to avoid spectators and distractions. I took off and I got about 100 yards out when the warning system on the drone started going off and the fail safe starts to automatically bring it back to me. But as it comes back it flies right through the mist and it starts to wobble, and that’s when I realized the engines were freezing over. It’s going lower and lower and about 10 yards from where I was standing it dipped below the edge and I was like “Welp, that’s it.” I watch it shatter all over the rocks and I’m just standing there frozen still holding the monitor. It was heartbreaking! But I learned from it and I probably would have been more upset if someone would have gotten that shot before me.

Well, other than Niagara Falls, what are some of your other favorite places to shoot? Hoyt Lake has been one of my favorites, it’s been my testing ground of sorts.

Albright-Knox, History Museum, Delaware Park are right there. You really get some space to get up and test some things out. The other area that I’ve really liked is LaSalle Park. There is a lot of greenspace, some water, and then the Peace bridge of course. Another one is the Frank Lloyd Wright Boat House. I was down there recently and I got lucky because the fireboat, the Cotter, came by and it blasted off its fire hoses so I was able to get some good pictures of it and some amazing video footage.

-CORY PERLA SEE MORE OF BLAKE'S WORK ON INSTAGRAM @BLAKEDAWSON

CALENDAR EVENTS public life, events like Wurstfest in the newly remodeled River Fest Park along Ohio Street are bringing time-honored German-American traditions of Bier-drinking and Wurst-eating back into the fore. With Spar’s sausage and McCarthy’s Old First Ward Brewing Company’s selection of brews along with music from Die Ausländers and raffles, games, and prizes, Wurstfest might be the best thing you can do this Sunday, June 28. -AL

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6pm Artpark, 450 South 4th St. [ROCK] The Steve Miller Band is one of those bands that have come to define a generation.

If you listen to “classic rock,” the Steve Miller Band fits nicely in that pocket and is one of those bands who helped shape that sound. With hits like “Swingtown” and “Fly Like an Eagle,” just about everyone has heard at least one of his songs. This Tuesday, June 30, the Steve Miller Band will take the stage at Artpark in Lewiston with special guest Miller and the Other Sinners. The front of stage pit and reserved seating is sold out, but general admission tickets are still available. -JS

The Ataris 7pm The Forvm, 4224 Maple Rd. $15-$20 [EMO] If you were a fan of emo and pop punk music in the late 1990s and early 2000s, you probably got emotional with The Ataris. The Midwestern band never failed to sum up exactly what it was like to be a high school dude just looking for love—and all of the angst and heartbreak that came with that search. Now, 16 years since the release of their seminal record, Blue Skies, Broken Hearts… Next 12 Exits, the Ataris return to Buffalo to perform the record in its entirety at The Forvm on Tuesday, June 30. The Home Crowd opens the show. -CP

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11AM / GRANT ST. BETWEEN LAFAYETTE & AUBURN [CELEBRATION] The West Side’s greatest little street festival, Taste of Diversity, is like a block party on steroids, with all the intimacy of a neighborhood gathering but with the food, drink and, entertainment amenities reflective of a larger and more encompassing community. The Grant Street party is only getting started with The Public’s event in the new Pop In storefront on Thursday night, featured on this week’s cover. On Saturday, food vendors bring an international flair, from Pure Peru to Lucy Ethiopian, Jolie’s Chinese to Taste of Puerto Rico, while not forgetting Grant Street’s own Gypsy Parlor and Public Espresso. The music and entertainment stage features a similarly eclectic mix of local and global influences including the Brazilian and Cumbia-influenced VOLVER, Baila Salsa, African dance from the SiSi Nana Dance Ensemble, and the hip hop and soul outfit Elgin Franklyn Pineiro and the Solace. -AARON LOWINGER

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Unlike many modern lap-top based performers, Reecard Farché isn’t simply triggering pre-recorded loops and bouncing around like a mechanical rodeo clown; his sound correlates directly to his physical movements as they communicate with personally programmed sensors located all over his body. “When I’m moving around and stuff it’s not like some dance moves; the microphone’s got sensors, I’ve got sensors on my hands so I have to coordinate it all. It looks manic but that’s the nature of it all,” says the Australian musician on a long distance phone call from his home in Germany on the eve of his first trip to the United States. Farché speaks honestly and naturally and carries himself in an almost conspicuously mellow manner considering the nature of his dramatic appearance on stage. He is self-aware enough of the absurdity of his persona to joke about it, but quickly points out the strengths that might otherwise go unnoticed if one were to fix all of their attention on the visual display.

“Of course it’s a dick-face character, but as for the moving around it’s just a means of manipulating the voice and the sound. It seems intense but that’s because I’m doing a lot of shit. A lot of people probably think that I’m just doing all these weird maneuvers but I’m actually doing stuff.

Most of my live session is all software that I’ve written. All the hardware; I’ve built everything. So it’s not like you can go on a tech-support website and go like ‘Hey, why isn’t this working?”

Combined with his technological prowess are Anklepants finely tuned vocal skills. He explains that his set relies so heavily on subtle vocal cues he can’t afford even to puff a bit of smoke while on the road in order to preserve the strength of his voice. “There’s quite a lot of songs where I’m actually singing, singing. For an hour I always warm up my voice properly.

If I don’t, I really fuck it up and I won’t be able to talk the next day. I suppose just like any singer I have to try and take it a bit seriously.”

ANKLEPANTS SUNDAY JUNE 28 7PM / SUGAR CITY, 1239 NIAGARA ST. / $10 [ELECTRONIC] Dr. Reecard Farché, better known as Anklepants, wants you to form your own conclusions about the behemoth phallus that he has designed to dance upon his face. As an internet obsessed culture in lust with forming and displaying our own manufactured opinions, the invitation serves as a bit of brilliant modern marketing. While it’s unclear whether each audience member’s long gaze into the tip of the animatronic timber will translate into enjoyment or disgust, for many it will undeniably work as a sort of mandatory prompt to form a personal stance on the matter. Come to think of it, I seem to be falling under the same subtle spell as I write these very words by focusing on the spectacle protruding from his face. But what other option do I have? Am I supposed to obstinately ignore the elephant dong in the room? If it ended there, with a shocking cock mask and a bit of techno music, Anklepants would be nothing more than another attention seeker whose allure wears off as

As one might expect, Anklepants’s live performances have earned a wide variety of reactions ranging from ecstatic enjoyment through violent disapproval.

“I had one dude who pulled the main power out of my rack so I chased him and tackled him from like 50 meters away. Then, recently in Australia someone threw a pint glass at my head. I have fiber glass under the mask; the top half of it is fiber glass, so luckily that was there because it would have definitely knocked me out. Then it hit the motion sensor in my laptop so the machine just turned off. People thought that I had turned it off but I didn’t and then it wouldn’t reboot for like half an hour.”

This tour to the United States marks Dr. Reecard’s very first time in the country. Fortunately for him, Buffalonians are generally known for their stance against violently heckling foreigners. He’ll come to Sugar City on Sunday, June 28 for not only a live show, but a live music video taping, presented by Lesionread and Squeaky Wheel. Warped techno producer Ay Fast and electro-noise-maker Logan Locking will play in support.

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ater this coming Friday, June 26 at 7:30pm and/ or Sunday, June 28 at 2:30pm, and in the seat next to you is Nickel City Opera’s Valerian Ruminski, who is also in front of you singing the title role in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.

He whispers in your ear what you ought to listen and watch for, as he and the rest of the cast perform this timeless piece of musical theater.

This, according to Ruminski, is what he’d whisper to you: “I once heard a panel on a Metropolitan Opera broadcast say that the composer that made nearly all of them cry was Puccini, hands down.

I agree: Puccini has the lion’s share. But then there is Mozart. There are his three great operas: Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, and La nozze di Figaro—The Marriage of Figaro. The first one has a dark aura; the second is a light comedy that turns serious at the end. But Figaro inches out by a nose Giovanni as Mozart’s greatest of the trio because Figaro hits on so many other levels. What I would say to the person is that you are seeing genius; you’re seeing a filter of life and humanity.

“Especially moving is, by the end of opera, the pardon of Figaro by his betrothed, Susanna.

In the music—and the suffusion of the crazy day as it comes to a close with that beautiful music—I have a hard time not crying on stage as Figaro; there are so many layers that make it emotional.

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“And there is a whole socio-political side of it, especially today. We’re in a polarized society, and this opera is all about the rich and the poor.

The French newspaper Le Figaro: It is named for this character. Some say that Figaro was one of the progenitors of the French Revolution. It was the people saying, ‘No more! Just because someone is born to the rich doesn’t mean he is worth more than me.’ And that is what Figaro stands for. You can’t take the politics out of Figaro. You can call it a sex-farce, but in the end it is also a class battle of the poor against the rich.

“Like Salieri, in the movie Amadeus, when he is looking at that sheet music, and it just drops out of his hands. He couldn’t fathom that he was looking at this latticework of perfection. So what I would say to that listener: ‘Be open to it; step out of your regular life and, when you sit down in your seat for three hours, let it wash over you.’”

The opera will be sung in Italian with English P supertitles. For tickets, call 692-2413.

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BREWING IN THE OLD FIRST WARD Old First Ward Brewing Company produces fine craft beer in historic neighborhood

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IN 1995, BILL METZGER MOVED TO BUFFALO from Austin, Texas, where he’d developed a passion for great, hoppy beer. There wasn’t much craft beer being produced in Western New York at the time, and Bill wasn’t happy with the local offerings.

In the 20 years since, Metzger has made it his mission to bring great craft beer to Buffalo, sometimes personally delivering kegs to some of Buffalo’s best bars when they were unable to procure it themselves. The owner of the Brewing News, which covers great beer across the country, Metzger has played an important role in the reinvigorated brewing scene in Western New York.

Matt Conron developed a love of great beer as a young lieutenant in the United States Army. As he was leaving the service, the home brewer decided that he wanted to get involved in brewing on a commercial scale. In order to qualify for a Master Brewers Program in California, Conron obtained a degree from Canisius College in biochemistry. After deciding the Master Brewers Program wasn’t for him, Conron made his way back to Buffalo and took a job as assistant brewer for Breckenridge Brewing Company. He eventually became head brewer. It was at this time that Metzger and Conron first crossed paths.

When Breckenridge closed shop in Buffalo three years after it opened, Conron left the commercial brewing industry and took a job in sales. But he and Metzger kept in touch. They talked for years about opening a brewery but both were busy in their jobs. Then, in 2012, when the opportunity arose to purchase Gene McCarthy’s, an iconic tavern in Buffalo’s historic First Ward, Metzger jumped.

He began to raise capital and contacted a few investors, including Conron, whom Metzger tapped to be head brewer. The two found a couple more investors and bought the pub and the adjacent lot, where they planned to build a brew house as soon as they could afford it. In the meantime, Metzger did his best to offer the best New York State beers available. “This project kind of evolved like a plant,” Conron says. “It started off as a seed and we watered it— stomped on it—and this weird plant or tree has emerged.”

The brew house was completed in 2013. Today, McCarthy’s has nine beers on tap, each brewed by Conron and Metztgar’s Old First Ward Brewing Company. (While the bar has only its own beer on tap, the cooler is filled with bottles popular with long-time patrons.) The production facility is not large, but continues to grow.

Old First Ward Brewing Company takes what Conron describe as a three-pronged approach to the business. “Yes, we want to make money,” Conron says, “but we also have almost an obligation to this community by taking this bar over.” In addition to making great, fresh beer, Metzger and Conron are doing their best to make McCarthy’s a lively fixture in the neighborhood. “The third thing was we wanted to make good beer in a nice environment,” Conron says.

Metzger and Conron brew a wide range of beer styles. Three of their most popular beers are on tap now. The first, This Is Not a Pale Ale, is an aggressively hopped pale with an ABV of 5.8 percent. It has an assertive hoppiness along with a mellow malt bill.

The second is one of the best IPAs brewed in the city: Streaker.

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The beer features even more citrus and hops than the first, but the dank bitterness that’s so good with a well made IPA is even more prevalent. The third beer is the Country Liaison Saison, created by assistant brewer Alex Placito. This beer has the delicious Belgian yeast strains one hopes for in a good saison, but also has good balance and a richness not typical of the style.

Under Metzger and Conron’s ownership, Gene McCarthy’s continues to be a neighborhood institution and meeting place.

While the food and atmosphere are good at the pub, the beers made by Old First Ward Brewing Company match up with the best in Buffalo.

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FILM REVIEW ers. The director is David Gordon Green, wearing his sensitive indie director hat (All the Real Girls, George Washington) rather than his crass comedy cap (Pineapple Express, Your Highness, The Sitter). He tries hard, maybe too hard, to couch his star’s performance, but the film is best when we just watch Pacino as a man consumed by old regrets. And if his scenes with Holly Hunter, as an age-appropriate bank teller with whom he has an uncomfortable date, don’t much push the central story along, you can hardly hold it against the movie for indulging them. Opens Friday at the North Park.

Kate Winslet in A Little Chaos.

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movie theaters, midsummer is it. That may seem a strange thing to say in the time of year when Hollywood cranks up its blockbuster machinery to 11. But given the way that the big studios have sliced up the summer calendar so that only one or two films are released each week, think how awful it would be to live in a place where there were no alternatives to Ted 2 and Max. The title notwithstanding, A Little Chaos is exactly the kind of historical costume drama that will appeal to moviegoers who would rather sit in the mall parking lot for two hours than witness the reproductive problems of a profane teddy bear.

Alan Rickman, who also directed and co-wrote the script, plays Louis XIV, the Sun King of France. His new palace at Versailles, under construction for years, is nearly ready to be occupied, and he’s eager to move his court there away from grimy Paris. Among the final touches is the gardens, which he tells his landscape architect Andre Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts) should be heaven on earth.

Looking for someone to design a rockwork garden as part of it, Le Notre makes a choice that surprises even himself: a woman of little reputation, Sabine de Barra (Kate Winslet), whose ideas are most unconventional. Rather than stick to the usual Greek or Roman models, she wants to design something that speaks to the French soul, something with “a little chaos.”

Of course, the provincial Sabine also introduces a measure of chaos into court life, which is orderly to a fault. These scenes, which ought to be the centerpiece of the film, unfortunately never quite gel, pal-

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PREMIERES ESCOBAR: PARADISE LOST—Reviewed this issue. Amherst (Dipson) 5 TO 7—Reviewed this issue. North Park A LITTLE CHAOS—Reviewed this issue. Amherst (Dipson) MANGLEHORN— Reviewed this issue. North Park MAX—Family drama about a dog that served with the US Marines in Afghanistan. Directed by Boaz Yakin (Safe).

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TED 2—Sequel, because that’s what Hollywood does.

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried and Jessica Barth. Directed by Seth MacFarlane. Area theaters.

THE WOLFPACK—Reviewed this issue. Eastern Hills (Dipson)

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)—Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider in the Oscar winning crime drama, playing in conjunction with the new version of the same story, The Connection. Directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist). North Park ENDS THU JUNE 25 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2—In case you forgot how the whole thing ended. (Wonder how long before they start the reboot?) With Daniel Radcliffe, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, and Alan Rickman. Directed by David Yates. Sat-Sun 11:30am.

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ing next to a scene-stealing performance by Stanley Tucci as Louis’s flamboyant brother, the Duke of Orleans.

If the film overall never quite works up a full head of steam, it still has enough to recommend it for viewing on a lazy summer’s day. There’s a lovely scene in which Sabine and Louis meet in his garden. Because he’s dressed down, she mistakes him for the royal gardener and speaks to him as an equal, which he enjoys and encourages even after she realizes who he really is. It makes you wish the two had more scenes together, or even that Rickman alone appeared more in his own film. And a charming dance sequence in the complete gardens ends the film on a high note. It opens Friday at the Amherst Theater. *** If you’ve given up on Al Pacino in recent years, no one could blame you: too many big paycheck movies (though whatever he got paid to be in Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill can’t have been enough), too many scene-chewing parts that exploit his abilities to no good end (the recent Danny Collins). His best recent films have barely made it into theaters, which is why you should give him one more chance with Manglehorn.

Pacino plays the title role, a locksmith who has secluded himself from the world. If you’re thinking “locked away,” that’s just the kind of symbolism that the movie is awash in. We follow him through his days, running his business from a van and writing letters to someone he describes as the only woman he ever loved. (It wasn’t his wife, who divorced him because of the way he shut her out.)

It’s an episodic story in which some segments work better than oth-

WE ARE STILL HERE—A mourning family moves into a house with a dark history in this acclaimed indie horror film. The Friday screening will be hosted by Daily Dead editor Jonathan James. Reviewed this issue. Fri 9:30 pm, Tue 8pm, Thu 8pm. Screening Room

IN BRIEF THEATER INFORMATION IS VALID THROUGH THURSDAY JUNE 25 ALOFT—Jennifer Connelly as a woman torn between her two young sons and a growing awareness that she has a gift for faith healing. Co-starring Cillian Murphy, Mélanie Laurent, and Oona Chaplin. Directed by Claudia Llosa. Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst, Four Seasons, Regal Quaker, Regal Walden Galleria ENDS THU JUNE 25 ALOHA—Billy Wilder died early in 2002. His acolyte Cameron Crowe hasn’t made a decent film since. Coincidence? I don’t know, but Aloha is almost unrecognizable as the work of the writer-director behind Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire. What’s on screen is such a jagged mess that it seems likely that the studio took it away from Crowe and recut it, though it’s hard to see where more of it would make it any better. There are some nice scenes of Hawaiian locales and a few scenes that play well, but you really have to dig to find anything to like about this one. Starring Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, and Danny McBride. -MF Four Seasons, Regal Quaker, Regal Walden Galleria AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON—The latest and most elaborate special effects extravaganza from Disney-owned Marvel Studios is the weakest of that company’s interconnected crowd pleasers, neither as smart as Captain America: The Winter Soldier nor as fun as Guardians of the Galaxy. Of the overstuffed cast reprising their roles from other superhero movies, only Scarlett Johansen and Mark Ruffalo are called upon to do much more than provide action for green screen technicians and stunt doubles to enhance. So many characters and

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*** On the surface, Escobar: Paradise Lost sounds like it might be similar to The Last King of Scotland, in which we saw a larger-than-life historical figure (Ida Amin, in an Oscar-winning performance by Forest Whitaker) from the perspective of a fictional underling. Here it’s the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, who at his peak was one of the wealthiest men in the world, worth billions of dollars. That he’s played by Benicio del Toro seems a perfect match of performer to character, a domineering but eccentric self-made man who dabbled in politics as a youth and was loved by the people in his hometown for the largesse he displayed.

But despite the fact that his name is shoehorned into the title, Escobar is not at the center of this movie, which as far as I can tell is completely fictional. The star is the rather less commanding Josh Hutcherson (from The Hunger Games films) as Nick, a Canadian surfer who falls in love with Escobar’s niece and is welcomed into the family. On the verge of going to prison as part of a deal with the Colombian government, Escobar plans to hide his fortune in a cave, and enlists Nick as part of the gang that will accomplish this.

That Nick will come away from this mission, in which he is expected to murder the peasant who has found the location, as the only person besides Escobar who will know where the treasure is, immediately clues the audience into something that Nick doesn’t.

The last half of the film is a protracted chase in which Nick tries to get out of Colombia alive, and it’s sturdy B-movie stuff. If only we had a more believable hero, and weren’t feeling so disappointed at how little of the villain we get. Guess we’ll have to wait for Oliver Stone’s long-delayed movie about Escobar for that. Opens Friday at the Amherst Theater. *** Victor Levin was previously a producer and occasional writer for Mad Men, Mad About You, and Dream On, three television shows that have one linking characteristic: a nostalgic, fantastical view of Manhattan, drawn more from movies than any reality of the recent past. He makes his solo debut as the writer-director of the romance 5 to 7, a film which looks like it was beamed in from another planet with only superficial similarities to the one where we live.

Chronicling the affair between an aspiring young writer (Anton Yelchin, who can be pleasant in supporting roles but is no one’s idea of a romantic lead) and a married Frenchwoman nearly a decade older than him (Bérénice Marlohe), Levin eschews reality without ever putting tongue in cheek or in any acknowledging the preposterousness of the situation. It plays like something that Billy Wilder might have made in the early 1960s, though at least then it would have had some tart dialogue to cut through the suffocating fluff.

Audiences who have a liking for this kind of thing may be more forgiving than I, and I won’t waste your time picking it apart bit by bit. But any fondness you might have for it is all but guaranteed to evaporate at the end, when after reaching its preordained conclusion it spends a full 20 minutes wallowing in unnecessary mawkishness.

(One petty complaint: How can a movie that is so obsessed with differences between the French and Americans, in which the hero spends his time watching early Jean-Luc Godard films to get a clue about his new amour, be so clueless as to give itself a title so similar to the nouvelle vague classic Cleo from 5 to 7, which it in no way P resembles?) It opens Friday at the North Park.

subplots have been crammed into this film that there is little opportunity for characterization or suspense.

Starring Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, James Spader, Jeremy Renner, and Samuel L. Jackson. Directed by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). –Gregory Lamberson. Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE CONNECTION—A continuation of the story told in The French Connection from the French point of view, as a police magistrate (Jean Dujardin) devotes his career to battling a powerful drug ring. With Gilles Lellouche and Céline Sallette. Directed by Cédric Jimenez. Reviewed this issue. Eastern Hills (Dpson), North Park ENDS THURS JUNE 25 DOPE—A geeky high schooler gets in over his head when he attends a local gangster’s birthday party in this tribute to/parody of black films of the 1990s. Starring Shameik Moore, Kimberly Elise, Chanel Iman, and Kiersey Clemons. Directed by Rick Famuyiwa (Our Family Wedding). AMC Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria ENTOURAGE—Were there really enough fans of the HBO series to justify this theatrical followup? The story is simple enough to follow if you never watched the show—the Hollywood adventures a movie star, his buds and his agent—but if you’re not already a fan nothing in view here is likely to make you care about any of these characters. It’s pretty thin stuff, with a sense of humor and attitude toward women that seems directed at audiences well shy of the legal drinking age. Jeremy Piven is fun to watch as superagent-turned-studio head, Kevin Dillon is intensely annoying as the star’s wanna-be actor brother, and the others barely register.

An endless string of (mostly Z-list) celebrity cameos doesn’t do much for the minimal entertainment value.

With Adrian Grenier, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Connolly, Emmanuelle Chriqui, and about 487 thin blonde women in skimpy bikinis. Directed by Doug Ellin. -MF AMC Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD—Handsome adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 19th-century rural novel about an

independent young woman (Carey Mulligan) who inherits her uncle’s farm and encounters three very different suitors (Matthias Schoenaerts, Tom Sturridge, Michael Sheen). Like red wine, Hardy’s novels have to be allowed to breathe, and long-form television is probably the only real way to do him justice: Compressed into the length of a film, the heroine’s behavior feels unduly arbitrary, and the climax feels both rushed and uncertain. But the production values are strong, which matters in a story about country life, and the leads are well-cast. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration). -MF Amherst (Dipson) ENDS THURS JUNE 25 I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS— A star vehicle, and one long overdue after 50 years as an actress, for Blythe Danner: Could you need more reason to see this? She plays a SoCal widow dipping her toes back into the social world after the death of her dog. It’s not a story big on plot, but moment by moment it’s wonderful. The terrific ensemble cast includes Rhea Perlman, Mary Kay Place and June Squibb as the friends she plays cards with, Sam Elliott as a love interest, and Martin Starr, toned down from the arrogantly snarky nerds he usually plays, as a younger loner with whom the widow discovers she has a lot in common. But it’s Danner’s movie, and she makes the most of every moment. With Malin Akerman and Max Gail. Directed by Brett Haley (The New Year). –MF Eastern Hills INSIDE OUT—A combination of the 1990s sitcom Herman’s Head with Christopher Nolan’s Inception is the best I can do for a brief summary of the new Pixar animation. As apparently the only person in the world who didn’t like it, I don’t expect you to deprive your children of it on my say-so. But I suspect that kids are responding to it for the relentless movement rather than the plot, which is spun out as such a heavy allegory that it collapses under its own weight. It’s as overwrought and out of control as Tomorrowland, but a dazzled audience is often a happy one. With the voices of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Mindy Kaling, Richard Kind, and the dependably funny Lewis Black. Directed by Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen. -MF AMC Maple Ridge, Flix (Dipson), Hamburg Palace, New Angola, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In

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BY GEORGE SAX BINX, THE NARRATOR OF Walker Percy’s 1961 novel The Moviegoer, re-

sorts to watching motion pictures to relieve the oppressive, vulgar “everydayness” of middle-class American life. Binx is trying to at least periodically escape from his life.

The five Angulo brothers, the strikingly unusual, movie-infatuated, and very appealing subjects of Crystal Moselle’s engrossing, often disturbing documentary The Wolfpack, haven’t been using movies as a temporary deliverance from capitalist anomie. For years, they’ve been relying on them to create and sustain lives that were long spent in conditions of severe, gothic restriction.

The boys, along with their hapless mother Susanne, were mostly confined to their four-bedroom apartment in Manhattan’s East Village. Their Peruvian-born father Oscar kept the front door locked, and the keys to himself.

The boys, now ranging in age from 16 to 23, were home-schooled by their mother and confined most of the time in these close quarters.

Oddly, Oscar—who comes off here as a delusional, mildly paranoid authoritarian—seems not only to have allowed but to have encouraged his sons to watch movies. Eventually, there were about 5,000 in the apartment. These the kids used as inspirations and guides in creating scenes from and whole copies of such favorites as The Dark Knight and Reservoir Dogs. These amus-

ing and impressive recreative exercises, excerpts of which Moselle includes, were often based on meticulous transcriptions of dialogue. The remarkably faithful but imaginatively contrived restagings are replete with properties and costumes expertly produced from such adapted materials as cereal-box cardboard and yoga mats.

The movie engrossment and the elaborate dramatic efforts seem to have served as much more than an extreme-hobby diversion. They were an important, perhaps crucial means to investigate and attempt to process the world to which they were largely denied access, a way to compensate for social, intellectual and sensory deprivation. As one of the youths—I confess I sometimes had trouble distinguishing them—says, “It makes me feel like I’m living, sort of, cause it’s sort of magical.” It’s also clear that these activities nurtured the strong, protective bonding the brothers achieved.

The Wolfpack had its origins in Moselle’s chance observation and meeting with the conspicuously different-looking boys on a city street, and her curiosity about why she’d never seen them in her neighborhood before. How they came to be there is a dramatically involving part of their story, along with the consequences of their long-sequestered existence.

What may finally be the most notable aspect of this story, one Moselle gradually reveals, is the brothers’ extraordinary poise, intelligence and resilience, their apparent abilities to adapt to a world they had primarily experienced on a TV monitor and looking out an apartment window.

All this Moselle artfully documents, but here and there her inexperience is evinced. (This is her first feature.) On a minor level, there is, for example, a meaningless montage of shots near the end. More significantly, she skimps on important information. And she may have been naïve in too neatly tying things up in a predominantly optimistic, even roseate conclusion. There are a few darker notes evident. (In fairness, interviews with some of the kids also stress their resolve and adaptability.)

This movie constitutes something that’s often presented in cliche-encrusted terms: a testament to both the frequent oddness of humans and, perhaps, their capacity for change, generosity and imaginative creation.

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INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3—Horror sequel. Starring Dermot MAD MAX: FURY ROAD—It took thirty years for George Mulroney, Stefanie Scott and Angus Sampson. The Miller to get the fourth installment of his post-apocadirecting debut of Saw scripter Leigh Whannell. Flix lyptic series fof the ground, but his persistence paid off (Dipson), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal with this spectacular, stunt driven road chase picture Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, SunTom Hardy takes over the title role (from Mel Gibson) set Drive-In of Max Rockatansky, former police officer turned lone JURASSIC WORLD— Unlike last year’s dreary Godzilla, highwayman trying to survive in a nightmarish wastethere is plenty of giant reptile action in this sequel/ land. But the film is dominated by Charlize Theron as reboot of the 1994 Steven Spielberg film (from MiFuriosa, the most fully realized action heroine since chael Crichton’s novel) about a theme park populated Aliens’ Ellen Ripley. In a film that is almost one long by cloned dinosaurs. It’s a well-designed Hollywood chase sequence, the cars and stunts are as important blockbuster filled with first-rate computer imagery as the people, and they are top of the line creations. and the type of Spielbergian thrills that resulted in the Hopefully we won’t have to wait thirty years for the creation of the PG-13 rating. In between dino attacks, next installment. –Gregory Lamberson. Four Seasons, the script provides sly jabs at its own cynical merchanRegal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal dising. Chris Pratt makes for a capable hero, but the Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In leading female role (played by Bryce Dallas Howard) PITCH PERFECT 2—A capella sequel. Starring Anna Kendsets onscreen feminism back a decade or two: she’s no rick, Hailee Steinfeld, Brittany Snow, Katey Sagal, and Laura Dern. With Irrfan Khan and Vincent D’Onofrio.

Elizabeth Banks, who also directed. Flix (Dipson), ReDirected by Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed).

–Gregory Lamberson AMC Maple Ridge, Aurora, Flix gal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal (Dipson), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, TranQuaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset sit Drive-In Drive-In, Transit Drive-In SAN ANDREAS—I admit to being a sucker for disaster LOVE AND MERCY—Exemplary biopic of Brian Wilson, movies, a genre that would seem to have peaked a who as the songwriter and architect of the Beach Boys few years back with 2012. This one steps back a bit, found new uses for the recording studio in creating content to destroy only California instead of the whole intricate pastries of sound. The film inevitably focusworld, and to do so with only one name-value box ofes on his mental problems (misdiagnosed as paranoid fice star, Dwayne Johnson (though having an actor as schizophrenia for decades) that may have been part able as Paul Giamatti on hand as the Science Guy who and parcel with his creative gifts. He is played as a explains what’s happening helps a lot). If you’re of a young man beginning to come apart at the seams by mind to, you’ll have no trouble finding inconsistencies Paul Dano, and as a middle aged lost soul by John Cuand improbabilities (no, a tsunami wave would never sack: Both performances are excellent, even if Cusack be that high). I won’t try to defend it (especially the doesn’t look much like the real Wilson. The scenes of last half-hour), but I enjoyed it. With Carla Gugino, AlWilson in the studio devising tracks for the Pet Sounds exandra Daddario and Kylie Minogue.

Directed by>> Brad album alone are worth the price of a ticket. With PaulMORE VISIT DAILYPUBLIC.COM FOR FILM LISTINGS & REVIEWS Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island). -MF AMC Giamatti as Wilson’s controlling therapist Eugene Maple Ridge, Flix (Dipson), Regal Elmwood, Regal NiLandy and Elizabeth Banks as Melinda Ledbetter, agara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden who got him out of Landy’s clutches. Directed by Bill Galleria, Transit Drive-In Pohlad. -MF Amherst (Dipson), Eastern Hills (Dipson)

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SPY—At last, a starring role for Melissa McCarthy that takes advantage of her substantial talents and doesn’t require her to play a troll. As a CIA desk jockey who gets her first chance at a field assignment, she predictably gets into lots of comic scrapes but just as often displays her physical agility in action scenes. Shooting in numerous European locations, writer-director Paul Feig has fun concocting a gently feminist spoof of the James Bond genre. And he has assembled a terrific ensemble cast in the real sense of that word, including Jason Statham (who plays especially well with McCarthy), Jude Law, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Allison Janney and British TV favorites Miranda Hart and Peter Serafinowicz (England’s answer to Hank Azaria).

Directed by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids). -MF AMC Maple Ridge, Flix (Dipson), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In TOMORROWLAND—If you consider unpredictability a virtue, this science fiction fantasy from former animator Brad Bird is a must see: that it retains your interest while keeping its overall shape hidden for most of its 2+ hour running time is certainly an accomplishment.

Problem is, even when you get where you’re going, you’re not sure where you are. I’m guessing that a lot of that blame falls on co-writer Damon Lindelof, who on the evidence of Prometheus, World War Z and TV’s Lost overrates the idea that the journey is more important than the destination. Appropriately for a Disney movie (though a tad dark by ol’ Walt’s standards), it’s a long homily about the value of optimism and forward-thinking, like what got us on the moon. Starring George Clooney, who looks very grumpy, Hugh Laurie, whose speech about our indifference to global destruction is the film’s high point, and a young actress named Raffey Cassidy who has an amazing career ahead of her if she stays in the business. –MF. Four Seasons, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In P

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ASSISTED LIVING “FOREVER BUFFALONE”

BY KEITH BUCKLEY

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Last week, a crew from The Public was invited for a ride on Mercy Flight 9, from which Sara Heidinger took these and many more lovely photos of the Buffalo and Lackawanna waterfront—including the curiously blue-green pools on the former Bethlehem Steel site that never, ever freeze…

DEAR KEITH: I moved to Buffalo a year ago from downstate and I still haven’t been able to get a certain member of my family to visit me. My sister is constantly making up excuses not to take a trip to Buffalo. I’ve tried to bribe her son (my nephew) with trips to Niagara Falls and local amusement parks in the hopes he’ll convince her to make the trip. I’m not sure exactly what her aversion is to visiting; we’ve always gotten along great. How do I convince her to come see me? —FOREVER BUFFALONE DEAR FOREVER BUFFALONE: Whoa, whoa, whoa— stop the clock. You offered to take your nephew on a trip to the dismal, godforsaken city of Niagara Falls New York and Martin’s Fantasy Island and he’s not on a cannonball run with the rest of your relatives into town? Did you try to entice him with a possible wolf sighting during your leisurely stroll down “Chemical Row”? Does he know the radio station WHLD-AM 1270 is licensed there?

I’m no travel agent (although I definitely could pretend to be if any other publications are hiring) but perhaps the best way to convince your sister and her son to spend some quality time in our beautiful city is to not threaten them with a visit to Niagara Falls.

Unless, of course, they’re interested in seeing where most of the torture scenes in Hostel 2 were filmed or where Boo Radley lives. I don’t feel the need to turn this entire column into an advertisement for the City of Buffalo, but if your sister’s impossibly high standard for entertainment cannot be met with by any one of the three currently functioning rollercoasters at M’s F.I.—that’s what us cool kids are calling Martin’s Fantasy Island nowadays—assure her that there are infinite wonders to behold and even more than infinite action-packed happenings right within our own densely fortified city walls.

For instance, if architecture is her thing, why don’t the three of you grab some beers at the newly remodeled Hotel Lafayette set right in the heart of downtown Buffalo, a historic building constructed in the French Renaissance style dating all the way back to 1902, or pick up some beers and check out the Darwin Martin House Complex build by Frank Lloyd Wright himself in the early 1900s? Like sports? Who doesn’t. Try stocking up on beers at a Bisons game in the biggest minor league stadium in the country, or cruise over to the Anchor Bar—home of the chicken wing—and grab a dozen beers or so while you watch our major league football team the Buffalo Bills lose four Super Bowls in a row! Does art tickle her fancy?

Then heck, swing by We Never Close, grab some beers and sneak those beers in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery to drink while you revel in the splendor of a tiny-ass Rodin sculpture. Of course, if you’re not into drinking beers, you could always suck back a few pints of Lockhouse Vodka—made right here in Buffalo—in the parking lot under our very own “the Skyway” and then go grab some light beers at a Mighty Mighty Bosstones concert on the waterfront.

What’s that? Your sis still isn’t sold? Jesus Christ, okay, why don’t you and your unappreciative family just grab some beers and come over to my house.

After we polish off all your beers watching YouTube videos, I could take you to Allen Street and then lose you on Allen Street because your sister sounds like a complete fucking nightmare.

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All right, enough of this exhilarating horseplay.

The real issue here is that you feel slighted by your sister and you want to know why she will not make “visiting you” a priority. Well, the reason is actually a lot more simple than you might think: She doesn’t like you. That’s all there is to it. Your sister has a choice to visit you and she chooses not to because she doesn’t like you. “But we’ve always gotten along!” you’re undoubtedly saying in a high-pitched, incredulous tone while reading this at SPoT Coffee, and I certainly am not in a position to argue the contrary. You have the same parents and relatives, you grew up in the same house, had

the same pets, may have gone to the same school, in which case you might have had some crossover friends, maybe shared a few lovers (wink, wink) and because of all this, you have probably “always gotten along” splendidly. But of all of those conditions that you and your sister found yourselves in, how many of them were separately and simultaneously chosen by both you and her based upon personal preference? If I hadn’t just wired the last of my savings to a Saudi prince in a very unfortunate bind, I would be willing to bet “none.” Odds are they were decided for you by external conditions like geography, economy and/ or availability, not stumbled upon according to a moral compass that guides the hearts of two humans with similar blood. It’s because “getting along” is what people do until they’re finally relieved by the merciful graces of distance. You get along with your co-workers until the weekend, you get along with your girlfriend until college, you get along with your uncle Larry who removed his silk shirt at the Easter buffet so as to not get mustard on it until after the holiday. We suffer with what we must until we are given the option to suffer no longer. And because distance presents us with alternatives not mandated by when or where our parents fornicated, we rely on it as a scapegoat for removing ourselves from the unhealthy relationships that we may not have the ability or know-how to change.

Sadly, your moving to Buffalo might have been exactly what your sister—and maybe even subconsciously yourself—needed to realize that when “getting along” is no longer required, the bond was simply not strong enough to cover all the ground that moving put between you. That can be a difficult idea to process, especially because society—by way of shows like Full House—beat us over the head with the notion that absolutely nothing should come in the way of family.

But the reality is that people drift apart, and if family is so important why the fuck did Kimmy Gibbler never go home? Fortunately, however, right now is the exact moment at which you can turn everything around completely if you choose to. By the very act of acknowledging this issue, you’ve already wrested the power to alter it from the hands of time that will do nothing but put more distance between you.

The rest is not going to be as easy as bribing her strong, handsome son with a live cowboy show at M’s F.I, particularly when the real wound could date back years, but rebuilding is always possible. Look hard and see if you can pinpoint the moment where the road that you and your sister traveled down diverged and address it. Pick up the phone. It may come to light that she resents you for moving and feels abandoned, but your words of “got along great” as opposed to “love each other dearly and were best friends growing up” give me the impression that at least momentarily, she’s getting the space that she has felt she’s needed for a while. Whatever you do, don’t guilt her for not visiting. Make her aware that you miss her, you love her and that your door is always open. Unless you live in Niagara Falls. Then you’d better triple-bolt that thing closed and decide on some sort of secret knock.

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