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SAVARINO, PUSH, TAKING THE HIGH ROAD: The recent economic growth in Buffalo is often tempered with the very real concern that Buffalo’s most economically disadvantaged residents will be shut out from the party. At a press conference last Thursday, several community groups along with State Senator Tim Kennedy and developer Sam Savarino announced a “high-road economic development” exception to the rule.

In the sun-drenched, third-floor atrium of the still-under-construction building at 500 Seneca, living-wage jobs afforded to minority workmen and supplied to Savarino Companies by PUSH Buffalo and the Outsource Center—two organizations that have provided training and jobs for community construction projects—were celebrated. PUSH organizer John Washington told the assembled, “It’s hard to measure the impact of investment in one person’s life,” then encouraged the workers on hand to say a few words about what the project has meant to them, and many of them did. Reggie Alls spoke proudly of the “long road” he’s witnessed the building take since he first started last November. “What we’ve done here should happen all over the country,” he said. “I thank God that I’m actually working, I don’t know where I’d be,” said Rodney Rainey. “Standing up here, I feel like Superman.” The partnership between PUSH and Savarino Companies was forged when PUSH sought a contract for construction work on its multiple properties on the West Side. PUSH employs an in-house construction crew for projects that is 100 percent people of color, according to director Aaron Bartley, and structured into its contract with Savarino a proviso that would in turn employ workers at Savarino’s 500 Seneca building, paying $14-$15 an hour with health benefits. “For these guys, that’s life-changing,” John Washington told The Public.

Savarino, who with Tim Kennedy’s help scored over $6 million in public brownfield credits for the site’s redevelopment, acknowledged the refrain of a community in fear of being left behind. “We hear this all the time [that] no one in the community is benefitting from these projects, for someone to do the hard work to make this workforce available, they deserve a lot of credit.” Savarino added that “many are going on to have careers with us, to have steady jobs.” Spencer Gaskin of the Outsource Center praised developers like Savarino and Rocco Termini and called on other developers to follow their lead “to find qualified minority workers who can fill living wage construction jobs on publicly supported projects. We need to give men and women in minority communities opportunities to support their families that they wouldn’t otherwise have access to because of the harsh realities of an unjust economic system.” —AARON LOWINGER UBER STALLS ON ROAD TO UPSTATE: Since

its inception in 2009, Uber’s e-hail services have exploded throughout the country. The ride-hailing company now operates in more than 200 cities worldwide and is available in more than 20 different states in the US. State legislatures around the country have struggled to keep up with the rapid growth and the new “sharing economy” business model that states frequently fail to regulate. Currently, Uber is allowed to operate within New York City, but the service is not available upstate. Uber in recent weeks won a major publicity war when New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio backed off his proposal to limit the number of new Uber cars on the road. The standoff caught the attention of Governor Andrew Cuomo, who on a radio show July 23 said there should be a “statewide regulatory framework” for e-hail companies. “If they’re going to be operating statewide, I want to make sure we have a regulatory structure: in-

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“We don’t necessarily see controversy, because it’s not a traditional taxi company,” Brown said. “It is an application, so it’s a technology company. We think those issues here could be worked out.” “I’m excited by the possibility, but I also think it has to be done in a regulatory framework,” Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner said. “I’m in favor of competition. I think they could help bring competition to the marketplace in terms of price competition and also quality competition.” State legislators this fall will host a series of hearings and roundtables to discuss the legal and political obstacles e-hail companies face as they move their on-demand ride services into markets in upstate New York. Changes to state law to allow the e-hail companies upstate will have to wait until the 2016 legislative session begins in January. Lawmakers remain hopeful the legislation will pass next year. “I don’t see how we can continue to indefinitely stand in the way of this [legislation passing],” Seward said. “It’s just the wave of the future and I think that’s the way many people live today, conduct business today and I think it is inevitable, because the consumer demand is only going to increase as they experience it in other locations. I think that pressure to do something is only going to increase.” —ASHLEY HUPFL

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man James Heuer said he isn’t too worried about Assemblyman John Ceretto’s decision to defect to the Democratic Party.

“I think our party is as strong as it ever has been and it will continue to be strong,” Heuer said in a phone interview Tuesday morning. Ceretto, who was first elected to the Lewiston town board as a Democrat, later won a seat on the Niagara County Legislature with GOP backing. In 2006, the year he joined the county legislature, he switched his party affiliation to Republican. This morning he officially announced his decision to switch back to being a Democrat and caucus with the party. Ceretto told the Buffalo News he believes the change will give him a stronger voice in the Democrat dominated Assembly. “This is a good move for the people of my district, and that’s what it’s about,” he said to the News. Heuer said he had not spoken with Ceretto before the news broke that he would be leaving the party. “I heard rumors, but we had no conversation at all,” Heuer said. Heuer said the switch will have little effect on his party’s standing in the state legislature and that the party will work with the Republican-controlled Senate, as they have for years through GOP State Senator Rob Ortt and his predecessor, former State Senator George Maziarz. “We’ll continue to get things done the way we have been in the past,” he said. —JUSTIN SONDEL Ashley Hupfl and Justin Sondel appear courtesy of a content-sharing agreement beP tween The Public and City & State. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / AUGUST 19, 2015 / THE PUBLIC

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tified as the primary culprit in making the blue-green algae bloom, so Ohio and Michigan officials have had to confront the interest groups—especially the big growers of corn and soybeans—because there really isn’t any question about whether to keep all 500,000 users of Toledo’s water safe or whether to impose a very slight cost increase on corn and soybean farmers. Here, the economics are not so clear-cut—and that’s why the politics are pro-development but not pro-water. In other words, because there’s no imminent danger to the drinking water supply of hundreds of thousands of people in the Buffalo area, there’s no urgency. So the Buffalo Sewer Authority’s 15-year remediation plan, which will eventuate in separating stormwater runoff from flushed sewage, grunts along at a very deliberate pace. That pace quickened only in 2012, when, after a 13-year delay, the Buffalo Sewer Authority finally got around to concluding an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency on how to come into compliance with the Clean Water Act, the federal law that forces municipalities to clean up their excrement-laden water. The ultimate cost of the fix could be as much as $500 million. Buffalo’s landscape might yet be transformed by the project—if “green” infrastructure (stormwater-retention ponds, marshes, ditches and the like) gets mixed with in or even supplants the “gray” infrastructure of big underground storage tanks, big conduits, pipes, etc. The East Side of Buffalo, especially those areas closest to the Buffalo River, are the most relevant areas for this potentially transformative landscaping. Could it happen here? Certainly—but it’s more likely to happen either after a crisis creates a broad, community-wide sense of urgency, or if something like the Seattle food forest becomes somebody’s project.

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COULD HAVING A CLEAN RIVER FLOWING THROUGH A CLEANED-UP, FARM-FILLED URBAN LANDSCAPE PREVENT OR FORESTALL A POPULATION DROP OF OVER 100,000 PEOPLE WITHIN THE NEXT 20 YEARS? OR WILL A DWINDLING NUMBER OF YOUNG PEOPLE BE CONTENT TO PLAY IN A CANALSIDE FULL OF FLOATABLES? FOOD, SUSTAINABILITY, WEALTH?

The Rust Belt is currently home to three very large-scale urban farming movements. Chicago and Detroit have the biggest projects, not surprisingly, being the largest Great Lakes cities. Cleveland has the most extensive urban farms, helped along by the engagement of Cleveland State University and by an economist who figured out that the entire population of Ohio’s largest city could meet all its annual fresh produce needs were available vacant land turned to growing food rather than left fallow. That calculation struck many as silly when first published, given the fact that something called winter occurs annually in Cleveland, but the point he made tests out: by volume, high-intensity agriculture can produce large quantities of food in places unaccustomed to farming. Given the stubbornness of long-term population trends and of settlement patterns, the case

for cleaning up the Buffalo River on a quicker pace than currently planned makes sense. Buffalo’s population continues to dwindle. The 2006 Gyourko & Saiz projections for Erie County are almost exactly on target for 2015; ditto the Cornell Program in Applied Demographics calculator, which sees Erie County shrinking to 800,212 by 2035, which is about when the Buffalo Sewer Authority CSO project will be completed.

growth, we’d probably have a more urgent urban landscaping movement, a Cleveland-scale urban farming movement, and a clearer idea of what to do with the still emptying landscape of Buffalo’s East Side.

Could having a clean river flowing through a cleaned-up, farm-filled urban landscape prevent or forestall a population drop of over 100,000 people within the next 20 years?

For the present, though, our prospects for economic revival are imagined as coming from a consolidating healthcare sector, an incremental increase in manufacturing, more outdoor concerts, and some condos. For the moment, it’s pass the Brita, vote for the candidates who keep mum, and hope that what blooms in Toledo stays in Toledo.

Or will a dwindling number of young people be content to play in a Canalside full of floatables?

Were Buffalo’s leaders to take a longer-term, maximalist view of water quality, sustainability, the economics of food, and our prospects for

Bruce Fisher is visiting professor of economics at SUNY Buffalo State and director of the P Center for Economic and Policy Studies.

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LOOKING BACKWARD: BUFFALO ATHLETIC FIELD “The beginning of a new era in athletics dawned yesterday with the opening of the Buffalo Athletic Field. No city in the country can boast a better one. The track is perfection. The infield, which is as level as care and liberal work can make it, is one of the best football and all around athletic fields imaginable. Taken as a whole, the place is ideal. The grand stand is not only roomy, cool, and strong, but beautiful, and adds grace and symmetry to the picture.” –Buffalo Daily Courier, July 12, 1896 The Buffalo Athletic Field, at Main Street, Jefferson Avenue, and East Delavan Avenue, was Buffalo’s sporting capital during its short life from 1896 to 1904. This photograph, taken by W. H. Lyman sometime in the late 1890s, shows racers Earl Keiser, Eddie “Cannon” Bald, Jon Cooper, and Frank Butler, from left to right. Amos Batchelder, the sports editor for the Buffalo Daily Courier, is one of the men standing behind them. Bald in particular was one of the great racers of the era, called by the Buffalo Evening News the “master of

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and factors contributing to the present one. The other side— along one long wall of the exhibit hall—the nitty-gritty matter of the exhibit, a time line of the history of the earth, with large vertical punctuation arrows—like thunderbolts from the heavens—representing the different extinctions. The medley side includes a tub of sandy material kids can play paleontologist in and dig up ancient animal bones, and for their parents or other elders, a video on ground-penetrating radar, one of the tools to inform real paleontologists where to dig. A kiosk containing a score or so of mainly vanity items that account for the decimation of several large animal species, like the elephant, the rhino, various fur-bearing animals. A list of the most significant threat mechanisms to species—disease, pollution, invasive species, climate change, loss of habitat, and hunting, fishing, and poaching—but absent cogent explanation of how they’re pretty much all one thing. All part of the same human factor picture.

RETHINKING EXTINCTION At the Buffalo Museum of Science, a look at the current mass extinction BY JACK FORAN THE BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE exhibit on species extinction is a little slow getting to the point, but makes it well enough at the end, with a wall copy quote in large type from Neil deGrasse Tyson: “The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?”

(Not an excuse exactly, but the explanation, would be that there’s still a dollar to be made mining and burning fossil fuels, spewing CO2, polluting the air and the water. Business as usual. Let the next generations figure out how to live in the world we leave them. And hope they fare better than the dinosaurs.) An exhibit in the wake of the recent revelation that we’re currently in the midst of the sixth mass extinction of living species in the history of the planet. The first occurred 440 million years ago and killed off about two-thirds of all then-living species, including lots of trilobites, one of the more advanced animal forms of the period. The last previous mass extinction was 66 million years ago and killed off the dinosaurs. (The revelation about the sixth

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464 Gallery (464 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14207 464gallery.com): Neverland, photographs by Alex Currie. On view through Aug 25. Sat-Sun: 12-4pm, 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-1045-gallery-store): Highs and Lows, work by Matthew J. Myers. On view through Aug 22. Thu & Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11-4pm. Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Screen Play: Life in an Animated World, on view through Sep 13; Shake the Elbow: Dan Colen on view through Oct 18; Artist to Artist, on view through Nov 8. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays until 10pm.

extinction is largely from New Yorker science writer Elizabeth Kolbert’s recent book The Sixth Extinction: an Unnatural History, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.) The exhibit starts out blandly enough, with information such as that “species extinction happens all the time,” that “99% of all species that ever lived are extinct,” and “many species become extinct before ever being discovered.” A little bit like the assertion that climate is always changing. So why all the fuss about climate change these days? Some number estimates on how many species may be going extinct each year, but absent background or comparison estimates as to how many might have been going extinct each year two hundred years ago, before the industrial revolution and human population explosion. Two sides of the exhibit space. One a medley of kiosks and information stations on how scientists know about mass extinctions,

Art Dialogue Gallery Custom Framing (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209, artdialoguegallery.com): Fiber work by Estelle Hartman, on view through Aug 21. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): Collage- n. 1919, from French collage “a pasting,” from Old French cooler “to glue,” from Greek kola “glue,” a group show. On view through Aug 21. Wed & Thu 11-5pm, Fri 11-4pm, Sat 11-2pm Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Ave. Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works by Charles Burchfield, George Renouard, Tony Sisti. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Chicken Little, drawings by Matt Duquette. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-bigorbit): Enter the Age of Electronic Consciousness: Hollis Frampton and the Digital Arts Lab, Fri-Sun 12-6pm. Box Gallery (667 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14203): Execution of a Photograph,

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an interactive sculptural photo installation by Jonathan Piret, MonFri 5-8pm. ¡Buen Vivir! (148 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Triumph and Tragedy, photos by Anne Petermann. On view through Sept 18. Tue-Fri 1-4pm, Sat 1-3pm, or by appointment, 716-931-5833. Buffalo Artspace (1219 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14209, buffaloartspace. org): Passion, paintings by Melanie Glucksman, on view through Aug 31. Sat 12-4pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2496 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Human, works by Allan Hebeler; You Were Wild, works by Maude White, both shows on view through Sep 4. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens (2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14218, 827-1584, buffalogardens.com):Simply Succulents, photographs by Eileen Graetz, on view Aug 15 through Oct 4; Natural Conditions, public art installation by Shayne Dark, on view through Oct

An impressive display on zebra mussels, on their fierce proliferation in Lake Erie, where they were first introduced only about twenty years ago and have now become one of the dominant species. A beautiful Marchand brothers diorama on a portion of coral reef and magnificent lobster passerby, and wall text on how coral reefs are faring worldwide. Tending toward the bland again. Morcels of good news interspersed among the horrible. “Currently 45% of the world’s coral reefs are healthy [and] enormous efforts from 36 countries are taking place to conserve and restore damaged reefs.” The obverse of which would be that 55 percent of them are dead or dying. Whereas just 200 years ago something like 100 percent of them were healthy. A hemi-demi-quaver in geological time. The other side of the exhibit—the time line indicating the various mass extinctions—duly notes the causes of each. Many of the same causes. Tectonic plate movements, volcanic activity. And for the most recent previous extinction—the one that took out the dinosaurs—asteroids. Whereas, in the current case, entirely and incontestably man-made causes. Climate change was a factor in most if not all the previous extinctions, but climate change that probably happened over millennia. Whereas the climate change happening today was unknown and unsuspected—to the non-climatologist layman at least—thirty years ago. Now the devastating likely weather effects are headline news each evening (though the meteorologists seldom if ever talk about climate change). Hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, droughts, floods. The most appropriate response to the current mass extinction news would be alarm. Just short of panic. Mass extinction is a death sentence on the earth as we know it. And likely the human species as we know it. In large numbers. Inhabiting an up until now magnificently hospitable planet. Meanwhile the majority faction of legislators of the main culprit nation in the matter remains dead set determined to keep the coal P fires burning. One more thing to deny.

4. Mon-Sun 10am-5pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney. org): Charles E. Burchfield: Audio Graphics, on view through Aug 23; Charles E. Burchfield: A Resounding Roar, on view through Aug 23; 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; 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; Inquisitive Lens: Richard Kegler/P22 Type Foundry; Tue, Wed, Fri & Sat 10am5pm, Second Fridays till 8pm, Thu 10am-9pm, Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Burchfield Nature and Art Center (2001 Union Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 677-4843, burchfieldnac.org): Thomas Rae Wekenman 1947-1992, on view through Aug 31. See site for upcoming classes and

events. M-F 10am-4pm, Sun 1-4pm. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum. org): Artists View the Falls: 300 Years of Niagara Falls Imagery, on view through Aug 16. Tue-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Casa de Arte (141 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201, 227-0271): Infinitely Complex, work by Rick Williams, on view through Aug 16. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): Hollis Frampton, comprehensive exhibition and sale, on view through Sep 5. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 124pm. Fargo House Gallery (287 Fargo Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14213, thefargohouse.com, visit website for appointment): Caitlin Cass: Benjamin Rathburn Builds Buffalo. Glow Gallery (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201): Within You, Without You, paintings by John Lehner, opening reception Fri Aug 21. ThuFri 4-8pm, Sat-Sun 3-7pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.

GALLERIES ARTS org): Hallwalls 41st Annual Members Exhibition, on view through Aug 28. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572. indigoartbuffalo.com): Wed & Fri 126pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The World’s First Long Distance Telephone Line, on view through Aug 31. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Lockside Art Center (21 Main Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 478-0239, locksideartcenter.com): Lockside Members Exhibition on view through Sep 5. Fri-Sun 12-4pm. Market Street Art Studios (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 478-0248, marketstreetstudios. com): Filtered Reality, Photography by Heather Grimmer, on view through Sep 11. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm. 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. 7am9pm. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069, pausaarthouse.com): Time Exposures, a solo photography exhibit by John Parascak, on view through Aug 22. Live Music Thu-Sat. Prism (MyBuffaloPride, 224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201): The Beauty Within, on view through Aug 31. Thu & Fri 4-8pm, Sat & Sun 3-7pm. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): Rotating members work on view in the gallery. Tue-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. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): In the gallery: Hollis Frampton: Select Works. In the storefront gallery: Evan Meaney: Ceibas: The Well of Representation. Both shows on view through Sept 5. Tue-Sat 125pm. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church (3107 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214): UHAA! Festival, with live music, arts, crafts & vendors, Sat Aug 15 12-8pm; Wood, Metal and Stone: A Sculpture Garden Exhibition, Presented by the University Heights Arts Association, with sculptures by William Herod, Richard Rockford, Robert Then, Mollie Atkinson, Ken Kash, Lawrence Kinney, on view through Aug 31. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Needles and Columns: Installation by Jesse Pace, space open by event. TGW@497 Gallery (497 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 9496604): Watermedia 10, a group show, on view through Aug 29. WedFri 12-5pm, Sat 12-3pm. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8293754, ubartgalleries.org): Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic, on view through Dec 31, 2016. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Western New York Book Arts Collaborative (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 438-1430, wnybookarts.org): WNYBAC Annual Members Exhibition, on view through Aug 21. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. P

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have keepsake objects in our offices, our homes, our cars; things we simply can’t part with. They carry a story of a moment we feel the need to hold on to, a touchstone backward in memory. Scrutiny of Objects, an exhibit by Robert A. Booth, is on view through the end of August at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. It explores this idea of how mundane objects become loved artifacts. The exhibit is made up of ordinary objects— things most associated with yard work or homesteading. There are shovels, wood, axes, ladders, paint brushes, a wheelbarrow, and a lawnmower. Booth doesn’t just place these objects in the gallery for us. He arranges them carefully. He asks us to look a little more closely. Each work takes place on a large board where the objects are mounted and then hung on the wall or otherwise installed. Firewood (Haul) stands out. The focal point is a large wheelbarrow surrounded by mounted firewood. At first glance, I wanted to take the wheelbarrow down off the wall along with the wood and use them as they should be used, to haul things around or to burn for heat. But the word “haul” in the title suggests something far more valuable than firewood. This body of Booth’s work brings one to wish that such banal chores were not part of our reality, but rather part of some ritual. Most everything in the exhibit is covered with small, torn pieces of masking tape. The time Booth spent to rip each piece of tape and place it in such a careful way reminds the viewer of memory. What is the artifact? Where is it from? What happened that day? Who was there? And how easily can a memory be covered over by something else? In the center of the room resides a sculptural arrangement entitled Lawn Mowers (Cut). This piece is made up of colored tape meant to resemble grass with two push lawnmowers cutting through the “grass” in opposite directions. You can tell the grass has been cut because of the absence of the tape. With this piece Booth ques-

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tions the silly things we do to keep our lives in an outward order. Do we need to remember how to cut the lawn each time? Should we consider not cutting the lawn in order to make time for more meaningful experiences? Shovels (Dig) consists of eight shovels mounted on a long board which is painted black. Here Booth uses masking tape to create a careful pattern of polka dots. The shovels are mounted or hung to resemble trophies. Each shovel is also covered with small pieces of masking tape in an attempt to cover its real meaning—a tool with a broad flat blade and typically upturned sides, used for moving coal, earth, snow, or other material. But hardly—we all still know it’s a shovel. Canoe (Float) has been punched with small holes allowing light to filter though. Hung close to the floor, the shadow created on the floor reminds its viewer that this boat once had a purpose, but now is only an artifact of that purpose. The show’s probable highlight is in how Booth has also taken all those parts that were punched out and placed them on the floor to resemble the shadow the canoe casts, recalling the symbiotic relationship between absence and presence. The boat doesn’t float, sure, but that doesn’t account for the fact that it’s no longer a boat. In the adjacent gallery there is a group show entitled Body Norms, where you will find one of Booth’s earlier more figurative work is on display. P This exhibit is up until August 30.

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Thea Duskin, James Wisniewski, and Rob Alsheimer II.

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A HOMECOMING FOR BODY ARTISTS AT THE PARLOUR After making good in other cities, locals return to ply their trades BY AARON LOWINGER

THERE’S A FAMILY PORTRAIT in James Wisniewski’s piercing studio dating to 1888. His great-great-grandparents. A mother, a father, and three children. Each is grim-faced: the parents weary from asking the kids to sit still, the children visibly aching with boredom. “They have to sit for 10 minutes; it’s hard to hold a smile. That’s why they’re so stern,” Wisniewski.

Wisniewski embodies a startling contrast with his ancestors: covered in tattoos up both sides of his neck, sporting three-inch spacers in his ears, and ready with a smile. After more than 10 years piercing and outfitting body jewelry for a clientele that regularly included celebrities in Los Angeles, the West Seneca native has returned home to bring the same high level of body art to Allentown. Joined by four tattoo studios, Wisniewski has traded in doing work for pop singers Kelis and Rihanna as well as Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider and family to satisfy the growing appetite for bodily decoration in the Queen City. Using a network of jewelry-makers he has established during his years in the business, Wisniewski is encountering a great response to his services. He and his three tattoo artists are booked into October. “We’ve been getting a lot of sales because people have piercings and they’ve never had access or known the jewelry was out there,” he says. “I have a lot of people coming to upgrade or just change their stuff. People that are, you know, a little bit older—40s, 50s—who had their nostril or ear piercing from years ago and they don’t like the look, looking like something a 16-year-old girl would wear. They’re like ‘I didn’t even think of this.’ And we do gold, and people are really looking for that. It’s been received really well.” The resident tattoo artists—Thea Duskin, Rob Alsheimer II, and Kenneth Dumas—come with complementary experience and appreciation for the marriage between fine art and body decoration. Duskin, who like Wisniewski recently returned home after leaving the area shortly after high school, has operated an art gallery/tattoo studio in Richmond, Virginia called Ghostprint Gallery for years. Later this year, Duskin will return to Art Basel Miami Beach to represent Ghostprint but will do so adding a new wrinkle. “This is our fourth year there as a gallery representing artists that we show there, but I wanted to do this as myself,” Duskin explained. “We’ve shown Amanda Wachob… she’s actually from [Buffalo] and does tattooed canvas. So we’ve shown a lot of tattoo art as fine art already. This was kind of the next step…I’m going to have my artwork on the walls and there will also be photography, black fine art photography. I’ve been working with professional photographers to get shots that are more contextualized with models so there’s a actual person who has the tattoo. So there’ll be some of those in one room, and another room with artwork that’ll be rendered into tattoos. And then there’ll be me tattooing [live].”

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Like Duskin, Alsheimer has experience running his own shop, and like Duskin he is happy about his new arrangement at the Parlour. He recently sold his Blind Dog tattoo studio and has zero regrets. “My tattoos are better because I’m more comfortable in my environment,” he says. “I enjoy being here more than the other place. I was always working alone. So having other artists to plan with and bounce ideas off of—I didn’t feel like I was growing as an artist as much as I wanted to, and I never got into this for the business side, I got into it for the art side. I was just getting frustrated with the things that I never wanted to do. Let someone who’s better at it do that, and I can learn from them and try again later.” Everyone in the shop is bullish on the upward trend in the business side of body art locally. Alsheimer points out that Buffalo is “a small-business-type town that’s heavy on the arts. It kind of goes handin-hand.” Duskin agrees: “I think Buffalo has one of the most interesting tattoo scenes in the whole country. It’s very diverse and there’s a lot more experimental artists here than anywhere else. Here you’ve got a huge tradition which is very unusual for the US: experimental color work that you don’t see anywhere else. Even Richmond, number three [for tattoos] in the county, and it’s almost exclusively traditional American work. You have hardly anybody doing anything else.” In combination with the growing societal acceptance for body art, the Parlour believes it’s a good time to be in Buffalo. The gorgeously appointed and comfortable studio, which Wisniewski painstakingly rebuilt from its most recent aesthetic—drop ceilings, fluorescent lights, low-pile carpets, dilapidated office space—brings a new level of service, experience, and professionalism to the industry. And maybe, who knows, Wisniewski may have brought a slice of LA with him. Earlier in the summer, a former client of his working on a musical tour that visited Canalside looked him up and P dropped in for some work.

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SPLIT (EP) RIYL: Deerhunter, Tobias Jesso Jr.

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WEDNESDAY AUG 19 Open to the Public: Black Sheep 5:30pm Black Sheep, 367 Connecticut St.

[HAPPY HOUR] To celebrate our 40th issue, we’re hosting a special happy hour this week at Black Sheep on Connecticut Street. Tonight (Wednesday, August 19) come down to the beautiful back patio of Black Sheep for some good company and great cocktails. There are only so many more summer days to spend drinking on the patio, so don’t sleep on this fun, Open to the Public happy hour. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

47 E MOHAWK ST THU, AUGUST 20 / 8PM / $5

Darius Rucker 7pm Darien Lake, 9993 S Alleghany Rd $30-$175

The Stolen 8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $5

[POP PUNK] The Stolen are yet another punk-pop band with emo overtones—this time a five-piece from New Jersey. The most recent single, “Empty,” dropped late last fall, and a new one, “Chardonnay,” is promised soon. But from what we can tell, the Stolen‘s best effort thus far is the 2013 EP Adults, which cooks pretty much straight through all five tunes. Plenty of crunchy guitar riffs, soaring vocals, and wordless, wailalong choruses are all standard fare, but the songwriting is a step above. They come to Mohawk Place on Wednesday, August 19 with Darling Harbor and the Last Sentry. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

THURSDAY AUG 20 Brian Posehn

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and others. Visual artists Jeffery Cudmore, Torrey Norman, Angel, Catherine Prince, and Kei Om will also be on hand. A preparation of vegan food will be available, too. Proceeds go to the non-profit organization Asha Sanctuary, which serves to provide a safe place for people to enjoy nature and spend time with farmed animals. -CORY PERLA

7:30pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $15-$33

[COMEDY] Years ago Brian Posehn vowed never to joke about being a dad in his standup, inviting all to punch his yet-to-be-conceived baby in the face if he did. He recently rescinded the offer for the sake of his son’s safety. Family life hasn’t robbed Posehn of his hilarity. His bits on fatherhood are as bold and gut-bust-

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ing as those about mean stripper tattoos and flatulence. Posehn’s extensive resume includes cameos in an array of television shows from Seinfeld to Californication. He is the co-writer for Marvel’s Deadpool, co-stars on the Sara Silverman Show, and hosts Nerd Poker. Catch Brian Posehn at Helium Comedy Club on Thursday, August 20 through Saturday, August 23. -KELLIE POWELL

FRIDAY AUG 21

Seance at the Sanctuary 9 7pm Stamps Bar, 98 Main St $5

[DANCE PARTY] Buffalo’s premier (only?) dark wave/post-punk dance party continues with its ninth iteration on Friday, August 21. Seance at the Sanctuary, brainchild of DJ Collin Gabriel, continues at Stamps Bar in Tonawanda with special guests Sidewalking, who will perform Jesus & Mary Chain covers, as well as dark rock band the Moving Image. Expect to hear music by the likes of the Cure, the Church, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails,

[COUNTRY] It’s the second coming of Hootie. And if you tuned out after that band faded from view then you missed the news: Darius Rucker‘s reinvention of himself as a country singer-songwriter has been more successful than many would have imagined when he switched gears in 2009. He’s released five discs since and become the first black man to top the country charts since Charley Pride hit #1 in 1983. His latest, Southern Style, dropped this past spring. Rucker will play Darien Lake on Friday, August 21 with Brothers Osborne, Brett Eldredge, and A Thousand Horses. -CJT

Amtrac

10pm Sky Bar, 257 Franklin St. $10

[ELECTRONICDANCE] When I think of house music, I certainly don’t think of places like Kentucky. DJ Amtrac has somehow escaped that dance music vacuum to become somebody in the house music world. Specifically, somebody known for his banging remixes for the likes of Treasure Fingers, Duke Dumont, Kaskade, and Kill the Noise. When it comes to his own productions, the 28-year-old producer, real name, Caleb Cornett, isn’t afraid to drop in his own original vocals—a rare occurrence in the house music world. Expect Amtrac to bring a healthy mix of some of his favorite tracks, high-quality remixes and re-edits, and his original productions when he comes to SkyBar on Friday, August 21. -CP

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6PM / DREAMLAND, 387 FRANKLIN ST. / FUNDRAISER, DONATION-BASED [FUNDRAISER] Virachey National Park in northeastern Cambodia might as well be ground zero for the earth’s sixth mass extinction—an ongoing, human-impacted event that may be claiming more than 100,000 species globally per year. Not only is the 1,300-square-mile Virachey up against the habitat loss and climate change that are wreaking havoc everywhere else, but it faces Cambodia's devastating poverty and its resultant widespread corruption. Enter Gregory McCann and Habitat ID, a NGO focused on discovering where endangered species are hunkered down and managing to survive and bringing global awareness to the need to preserve the earth’s natural history and its living heritage. Since setting up camera traps in Virachey, McCann and his team have been able to document populations of iconic mammal species on the brink of disaster: Asiatic black bear, sun bear, gaur, dhole, stubbed-tail macaque, sambar deer, clouded leopard, and binturong among many others. Habitat ID is hoping to create an ecotourism model around Virachey to incentivize the local populations away from the illegal logging, poaching, and mining that is decimating the ecosystem. Why Buffalo? McCann, a PhD candidate who teaches English in Taiwan, and fellow Habitat ID biologist Keith Pawlowski are both from the area and hope to combine their summer visit back home with their overall mission on the other side of the world. What makes Virachey special? Well, that’s easy. “The jungles of Laos and Vietnam have largely been hunted out, but Virachey still houses a tremendous amount of wildlife, which our camera traps have proven,” McCann tells The Public. “So that means that Virachey is truly one of the last bastions of wildlife in Indochina. And with its upland savannah hills it is one of the most beautiful places in Southeast Asia.”

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7pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $19

[HARDCORE] Formed 37 years ago in Reno, Nevada, 7 Seconds is a hardcore punk band lead by brothers Kevin and Steve Marvelli (AKA Kevin Seconds and Steve Youth). The two assembled the band at the age of 17. It’s unlikely that Marvelli ever envisioned a career that would span 16 full-length albums and a handful of solo records that would turn him into an icon of the straight-edge community. The band’s latest record, 2014’s Leave a Light on is their first in nine years. The fourpiece punk band comes to Mohawk Place on Friday, August 21 with Vancouver’s Bishop’s Green, and Seattle pop punk band, Success. -CP

and bands for a whopping $7. On Saturday, August 22 Mohawk Place will close off the block for this afternoon-to-wee-hours shebang that features two sets of surf-camp from the Surfin Cadavers as well as Cheetah Whores and Johnny Revolting. Additionally, there’s a 4pm car-show-set from the Blue Ribbon Bastards and a midnight appearance from the Industry of Life Divine. Hell’s Harlots will show skin by day, Stripteasers Burlesque will entice by night. With a tat-art exhibit, a DJ between bands and prizes for the best pre-1963 vehicle, this is a must. -CJT

SUNDAY AUG 23

SATURDAY AUG 22 Igloo Music Presents 10pm Gypsy Parlor, 376 Grant St. $5

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] The Igloo Music squad returns to Gypsy Parlor for their monthly DJ showcase this Saturday, August 22. DJs Rufus Gibson, JP, Gene Linet, Buzz T. will spin a mix of deep house, tech house, and whatever’s in between. -CP

Rumble in the Rust Belt

6pm Studio at the Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $10-$12

[INDIE ROCK] Northern Faces is an Albany-bred four-piece outfit with a flair for penning quality tunes that find the perfect balance between infectious pop and bluesy rock grit. Each track on their self-titled debut is undeniably catchy, but they lay their rough tang on thick from the brash, fuzzy guitars on “Cops Come” to the smoldering deep blue “Stay Away.” Catch Northern Faces with Debt to Nature, Urban Reverie, Of Night and Light, and Derek Gregoire at the Studio at the Waiting Room on Sunday, August 23. -KP

3pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $7

[ROCK] It’s a sausage fest of magnum proportions: a car show with burlesque, booze,

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Joining the efforts at Dreamland on Thursday will be the diverse musical talents of the Folkfaces, RadaRada & DJ Crespo. -AARON LOWINGER

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THE PUBLIC PRESENTS: DEN OF LIONS THURSDAY AUG 20 8PM / NIETZSCHE'S, 248 ALLEN ST. / $5

THIS WEEK'S AGENDA THURSDAY AUGUST 20

[INDIE] Let’s face it: Buffalo’s music scene is pretty insular. And that’s not to imply that there isn’t some amazing talent here, because we all know there is. Heaps of it. But the cost of living has spoiled us all—for better or worse, why venture too far from home when home’s a pretty sweet deal? So when Den of Lions‘ Keith Shuskie ended up on Season 6 of NBC’s The Voice, many of us were left scratching our heads…or twirling our moustaches. Not because Shuskie’s undeserving—dude can carry a tune, and you should come hear him do it with Den of Lions at Nietzsche’s on Thursday. It’s more about how that sort of thing just doesn’t happen around here. Turns out, Shuskie was just as surprised as we were. He relayed that the true sense of accomplishment comes from being selected out of the millions who try out and living in a hotel with hundreds of amazing vocalists from all over the country. After a long, hot day of not one but two gigs, he took time out from camping with his kids for a little sarcastic banter with us. Den of Lions comes to Nietzsche’s on Thursday, August 20 as part of our monthly concert series, The Public Presents, with Fredtown Stompers and Grace Stumberg.

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What inspires you most about being a musician in Buffalo? Just being a part of Buffalo’s growth is inspiration for a local artist…And, you know, chicken wings. Do you feel that appearing on The Voice was a natural progression in your professional trajectory?

DJ TRIVIA NIGHT

I went from being semi-known in Buffalo to a household name in Buffalo… Well, let’s be serious…more like household moustache in Buffalo.

9PM at Funky Monkey, 20 Allen St.

Bring friends and try your hand in the trivia league to win bar tabs and prizes. Brent serves $2 well drinks and domestic beers all night long.

What are some of the great things that televised competitions are doing for our culture? Teaching everyone that “You too can be famous…for 15 minutes.” Oh, and that Adam Levine is hot.

SATURDAY AUGUST 22

How does your solo work and band work relate? Or, do they not relate? Let’s just say they’re both dysfunctionally functional. All bands are full of drama queens and I’m my own worst critic.

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What’s your favorite fashion trend from the summer of 2015?

10PM–2AM a Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave.

Definitely the man-bun…It’s actually more like I love to hate them.

Pride Center of WNY’s new and improved Vogue Night, a direct reflection of the local ballroom scene. This month’s theme: night. Cover: $5; free before 11pm.

-CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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DJ SKAMAN’S ALTERNATIVE NIGHT 10PM–2AM at Ohm Ultra Lounge, 948 Main St.

Expect to hear everything from new wave, punk, and industrial to goth, funk, metal, EDM, and riot grrrl music from the 1970s to the 2000s. Cover: $1.

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SILVER PRIDE GARDEN PARTY

A TRIBUTE FRIDAY AUG 21

5:30PM–8PM at Pride Center of WNY, 200 S. Elmwood Ave.

6PM / ELEVEN TWENTY PROJECTS, 1120 MAIN STREET

An evening of refreshments and conversation geared for LGBT seniors in the Hope Blooms garden, a therapeutic respite for clients and employees of the Evergreen Association, located behind Pride Center.

[ARTS] Earlier this year artist Cortney Morrison-Taylor passed away. On Friday, August 21, the Buffalo arts community that called Morrison Taylor its own, led by artist Max Collins, will hold a tribute show to Cortney at the Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street) gallery from 6pm until 9pm. The gallery, an old auto showroom that was converted into an art space in 2013, is being generously provided by John Fatta. “It was a natural thought to do this show because of all the artists and creative people that were in her life,” says Collins. Cortney was part-owner of Ro, a furniture and design store at the corner of Elmwood Avenue and Breckenridge Street. “Organizing this show has been cathartic,” says Collins. It has helped him deal with her passing, and he hopes it will help Cortney’s friends and relatives as well. For this event, Collins asked local artists and designers to create or select a work that they feel honors her life. “The work so far has been stunning and I feel great about this event being an homage to the beauty that she showed so many to appreciate,” says Collins. Participating artists include Collins, Hayley Carrow, Marissa Schindler, Jason Seeley, Gerald Mead, Maude White, Catherine Willet, Zack Boehler, David Mitchel, Alix Martin, Jon Eisenberg, Craig and Maria LaRotonda, Denny Webb, Julie Malloy, Patrick Simons, and more. -CORY PERLA

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5:30pm Revolution Indoor Cycling, 1716 Main St.

TUESDAY AUG 25 AXIS 6pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St.

[HARDCORE] Maybe the Florida heat is what makes the assault so punishing. AXIS is no joke. The St. Petersburg/Orlando sixpiece delivers hardcore that's got a subtly experimental edge that sets them apart. With a new disc on New Jersey's Good Fight label out next month entitled Show Your Greed, AXIS plays Buffalo for the first time on Tuesday, August 25 at Sugar City. Label-mates Of Feather and Bone will open with early sets from Backbiter and some additional as-yet-unnamed local support. -CJT

9PM FREE

THURSDAY

Athleta at Revolution [POP UP] Attention fitness junkies: Athleta, the athletic apparel store located in the Eastview Mall in Rochester, is coming to Buffalo for a one-night-only pop-up class (and shop). On Monday, August 24, Athleta will take over Revolution Indoor Cycling, where their fall line of exercise swag will be available.-TPS

Kathryn Koch

Presents:

den of lions fredtown stompers Grace Stumberg 8PM $5

happy hour: The Jony James Band

BEACH HOUSE FRIDAY AUG 21

FRIDAY

AUG 21

7PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $26-$29 [DREAM POP] A beach house is a space to retreat, conjuring associations of summer, sand, and sun. It’s a place where the smell of salt-breeze and sun-block mingle and where happy families are together in a temporary oasis, only steps away from a private, indoor shelter. Closely shadowing this scene is its own absence—for as anyone over the age of five knows, real life is far more dynamic and seldom as tame as this idyllic portrait. When coming up with a name for their dream pop outfit formed in 2004, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally chose Beach House because it proved to be an immaculate misnomer, the perfect title for a duo whose own music would bridge the gap between reality and myth. Throughout the course of their discography, from their eponymous debut in 2006 to their most recent LP Bloom (2012), the pair has remained loyal to their wistful and ethereal brand of pop. Beach House explores the genre, yet sticks to a few simple and distinct elements to create music that evokes a certain meta-nostalgia where the interplay between memory and desire is channelled into a landscape of heavenly key progressions, cloud-bending guitar melodies, and the hills of Legrand’s emblematic voice. One of the their most distinguishing features is the quality of Legrand’s androgynous and baritone vocal delivery that makes lyrics resonate on a subconscious level. This Friday, August 21 offers an opportunity to enter their world and experience their live vision as Beach House performs at the Town Ballroom. Needless to say, it will be an intimate spectacle worthy of the dreamworld. -JEANNETTE CHIN

6PM FREE

The Freshwater Four

Scarlet Reckoning / The Crooked Books 10PM $5

SATURDAY

AUG 22

Alasanne’s World Beat Going Away Party featuring The Mix 9PM $5

WEDNESDAY

AUG 26

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THURSDAY

AUG 27

Van Halen

The Dark Matter Trio 5PM FREE

7:30pm Darien Lake, 9993 S Alleghany Rd $33-$146

[ROCK] It must be weird to show up and play on a stage every night when feelings of animosity are permanently part of the chemistry, but sports teams seem to manage. Van Halen is on the road this summer supporting a new live disc from Tokyo and some classic reissues—there’s even talk of a new studio album to follow. David Lee Roth continues to showboat and the Van Halen brothers continue to shake their heads—but the fans continue showing up in droves. Who knows, maybe the tension is what propels them along. See for yourself when they blow up Darien Lake with Kenny Wayne Shepherd on Tuesday, August 25. -CJT

FRIDAY

AUG 28

5pm Larkin Square, 745 Seneca Street free

On Wednesday, August 26, Larkin Square celebrates its fourth annual South Buffalo Night as part of their free Wednesday concert series, Live at Larkin. This year’s headliner is Brian Higgins & the Exchange Street Band, led by Congressman Brian Higgins, who apparently has a very strong rock muscle. The lineup will also feature the South Buffalo All-Stars; John Higgins (Brian Higgins’s son), and Crikwater, who will provide the Celtic essentials necessary for a proper South Buffalo salute. -KP

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5PM. THE DARK MATTER TRIO

6:30PM / ARTPARK, 450 SOUTH 4TH ST. / $12-$27 [ROCK] Fans of a band usually don’t want to hear that they won’t be performing their biggest hit in concert. The Doobie Brothers are an exception: Since reforming in the early 1990s around original members Tom Johnson and Pat Simmons, the band no longer performs “What a Fool Believes” or any of the other Michael MacDonald songs that were huge hits but left longtime fans wondering what had happened to the band that originally rode the charts with riff-driven rockers like “Listen to the Music” and “Long Train Running.” Their current set list features those and other mid-1970s hits along with a generous selection of less familiar album tracks. Doobie son Pat Simmons Jr. will P open the show at Artpark on Tuesday, August 25. -M. FAUST

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DANCE SPOTLIGHT

ALLISON BUCZKOWSKI Hamburg native prepares to join Janet Jackson tour BY VANESSA OSWALD PROFESSIONAL DANCER and Buffalo native Allison Buczkowski is about to embark on a journey almost any dancer in the entertainment industry would sacrifice anything to be a part of—Janet Jackson’s Unbreakable World Tour. Buczkowski, 25, who is originally from Hamburg, began taking tap classes at the age of two at Eugenia’s Dance Studio, and as she got older eventually took everything from ballet to hip hop at Future Dance Center until she was 21. She moved to Los Angeles in October 2011 to jump-start her dance career and has since been quite successful in her endeavors. So far she’s managed to book cameos on a variety of television shows, such as IFC’s Garfunkel and Oates, Nickelodeon’s 100 Things to Do Before High School, and ABC Family’s The Fosters. She’s also an assistant for well established dancer Tricia Miranda. Training for hours on end to prepare for the tour, which begins August 31, Buczkowski is ready to show the world what she has to offer. This week we talked to her about joining up with Janet Jackson for her upcoming tour.

What was the audition process for the Janet Jackson tour? It was a photo submission only, so not everyone was able to go. Janet and the choreographers actually picked the people who were eligible before the audition in the first place. The girls had to dance in heels. I had a weird audition process; I actually was not invited from the get-go. My agent didn’t submit my picture. Luckily, we were friends with the choreographer and he realized I was not on the list the night before the audition when they were going through it. They texted a close friend of mine to let them know that I should be at that audition. I didn’t get that text message until about 4am, so I was asleep. My call was supposed to be at 8am and I ended up missing it. My roommate woke me up at 9:30am and let me know I missed my audition. I texted the choreographer and basically said, “Thank you for thinking of me. I wish I could’ve been there.” Then he asked me if I wanted to audition with the men. I came and there were a few girls there too. So I actually ended up auditioning during the men’s call, instead of the women’s. I still had to dance in heels. Then there was one cut made after that and then we all came back the same day. Janet Jackson was actually Facetimed into the audition, but no one knew it was her because at that point it was a secret that she was coming back. We did that particular round and then they sent everyone home. About a month later I got an email from my agent letting me know that

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IT WAS LIKE STARING MY DREAM IN THE FACE. IT WAS SOMETHING I’VE WANTED TO DO SINCE I WAS A KID. IT WAS LIKE A LIGHT SWITCH. I WAS LIKE I’M FIGHTING RIGHT NOW. there was going to be another call back. When I got to that one there was only about 60 people total, including men, women and kids. From there it was about a six-hour process where they just narrowed everyone down until they came to the final seven women and two kids. How did you feel about the whole process? I was never like, “I got this,” but I think during the first call when it was like everybody, I had so many friends and we auditioned with everyone in the room, unlike some auditions where we audition in a group of five and they take you in a separate room, and you feel kind of pressured. But this one I had all my friends there and it almost felt like class. Everyone’s cheering each other on and it was fun. It was the same way with the other calls. The only thing was with the second call, which happened like a month later, Janet was actually there in the flesh, so it freaked everyone out a little bit. Seeing her didn’t make me too nervous, it just made me want to push harder. It was like staring my dream in the face. It was something I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid. It was like a light switch. I was like I’m fighting right now. How did you react when they finally told you that you were going to be dancing with Janet Jackson? First thing I did was bend over in half. Then I asked the choreographer Gil Duldulao if she was kidding. Then I started rolling around on the floor. I didn’t know what to do. What’s your earliest memory of Janet Jackson? When did you listen to her music? How young were you? I’ve been listening to her music since I was real young, but I think the first memory I can remember was at the Future Dance Center because Gino and Denise (Vaccaro) study Janet and Michael Jackson like religiously. They would make us study all the old videos because to be a dancer you also have to know the history of where things came from and how things evolved into what’s going on in the present day. They would always make us do our research and look at all these old videos and I just fell in love with her.

What do you think makes Janet Jackson such an icon? She has real music. She’s such an amazing performer. I’ve actually seen her in concert and she’s so captivating, and a lot of her songs are actually about something. She actually is talented. She can actually dance. She’s actually concerned about putting on a production. She’s not just one of those people that goes up there and sings some auto-tune, lip-syncs, walks away and takes your money. She’s also one of the few artists that cares about making sure her team is strong from top to bottom. She’s very selective about who her dancers are, who are drummers and guitarist are, like everything. She’s very hands-on with the entire process and it shows in her work because she’s such a hard worker. What is your dance schedule going to be like now for the tour? We have started rehearsals, which are eight to nine hours a day, six days a week. Sundays we have off. Right now we are starting at noon. I normally go take two or three classes a night. Then you’re like “I’m good” and you rest all day. Now I’m dancing eight to nine hours a day and I’m exhausted. That’s your whole life. You can’t do anything else. You can’t have friends. Will you be doing anything different to prepare for this tour, physically or mentally yourself? I actually have a knee injury right now. I’m still trying to find an orthopedic doctor that can give me an MRI to see what’s really wrong with it. Now I’m just living off of taking painkillers so I can get through these rehearsals. I’m just trying to keep myself sane and trying to remember all the choreography because we have to learn so many routines. What style of dance is your specialty, and why do you like that style so much?Hip hop. I think it’s something I just fell upon. I actually really love jazz and contemporary as well. I think just because of my look, hip hop was what I got typecast as when I moved out here, and that just kind of became the thing I was known for. Nobody really knows that I’m P able to do everything else.

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roll will take over as artistic director of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake when Jack Maxwell steps down in December 2016. Carroll, who is called “T.C.” by his friends, is best known in this country for his productions of Shakespeare’s Richard III and his all-male production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night starring Mark Rylance, which came to Broadway from London last year and earned him a Tony Award nomination. He is now beginning the year-long process of learning the lay the land at the venerable festival dedicated to George Bernard Shaw and plays that examine the modern world. Right out of the box, Carroll arguably has a higher profile than his predecessor. Over his 25-year career, he has directed prominent plays and operas and is especially known for his direction of the works of Shakespeare, including at the Stratford Festival, where his production of King John is well remembered. He was artistic director of Kent Opera for seven years and associate director of Shakespeare’s Globe in London. He is a founding member of The Factory, an experimental theater in London, where he directed highly praised productions of Hamlet, The Seagull, and The Odyssey. In an interview after the announcement of his selection, Carroll explained that his candidacy started out when he was called to give a recommendation to a colleague. The search committee became interested in Carroll himself,

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and he decided to become a candidate when his friend dropped out of the running. After a career as a freelance director some have opined that the time had come for Carroll to settle down. Not really. “I was talking to a friend about why I should be interested to sit down at one festival for a prolonged tenure,” he began. “My friend pointed out that I have the ability to take a cast of actors and develop them into a strong ensemble, but when you are a freelance director, when the production is over, that ensemble simply disperses. This would be an opportunity to cultivate and sustain a great ensemble.” And so, rather than “settling down,” we could say that Tim Carroll plans to “settle in” at the Shaw Festival. He has not yet had an opportunity to see most of the actors in the existing Shaw Festival ensemble. “While I was a candidate,” he explains, “there was a concern that I would be recognized in the audience. But now that I have been hired, I will spend the next few days seeing all of the shows here. I am sure there is some nervousness, just as there is when a new head coach arrives and looks over the players on any team.” Sports analogies come easily to Carroll. He is a huge Manchester United fan. “This will be a process,” he says. “I look forward to getting to know this festival well and P to settling in at Niagara-on-the-Lake.”

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FILM REVIEW original appearance being restored as much as possible. We soon learn why this is so important. She soon begins a quest through war-torn Berlin’s American sector for her husband Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld). Before the war, she had been a cabaret performer and he was her pianist. She finds him waiting on tables in a club, but he doesn’t recognize her. He does think of a way to use her: He proposes she impersonate his presumably dead wife in order that they can collect an inheritance that would be due her as the sole survivor of her Jewish family. With her reluctant agreement, he sets about coaching her to masquerade as her former self, changing her hair, makeup, and even her walk. Meanwhile, Lene tries to coax Nelly into leaving Germany for British-controlled Palestine, to start a new Jewish life. Lene also collects some very damaging information about Johnny. It’s increasingly obvious that Lene’s interest is deeply personal. Some of the critical response to Phoenix has referenced Hitchcock’s Vertigo, but Nelly is no Hitchcock character, and this movie is nowhere near the other one. Petzold’s approach is on another plane from Vertigo and the work of other genre-movie creators. There’s tension in Phoenix, but it’s largely implicit, almost subtextual. Petzold eschews nervous-making setups or payoffs. He soft-pedals overt suspense even as he builds up the plot around Johnny’s scheme and Nelly’s longing for signs of his recognition and love.

Ronald Zehrfeld and Nina Hoss in Phoenix.

LIFE AFTER DEATH PHOENIX BY GEORGE SAX ABOUT A THIRD OF THE WAY THROUGH Christian Petzold’s Phoenix, I thought of Anton Chekhov’s famous rule-ofthumb that guns introduced into a play’s first act are sure to be used later on. There’s also a moment near the end of the movie when it seems that this trajectory will be followed. But Petzold had something very different in mind. He was interested in the survival of love, hope, and life itself under unimaginably terrible circumstances. The gun can’t deliver these.

Phoenix is a post-Holocaust film, a rather different one than the relatively few that have addressed this material. It views it through the frame of one relationship, a marriage sundered by the rise of the Third Reich and the horrific consequences of its

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PREMIERES OPENING FRIDAY AUGUST 21 AMERICAN ULTRA—Jesse Eisenberg as a stoner CIA agent resisting the Agency’s efforts to terminate him. With Kristen Stewart, Connie Britton and Topher Grace. Directed by Nima Nourizadeh (Project X). Area theaters END OF THE TOUR—Adaptation of David Lipsky’s book chronicling the five days he spent with Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace shortly after that book’s publication. Starring Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg, and Joan Cusack. Directed by James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now). Reviewed this issue. Amherst (Dipson), Eastern Hills (Dipson) HITMAN AGENT 47—Video game-derived thriller about a genetically engineered assassin (Homeland’s Rupert Friend) who breaks protocol to investigate his origins. With Hannah Ware and Zachary Quinto. Directed by Aleksander Bach. Area theaters PHOENIX—From Germany, drama about a concentration-camp survivor searching postwar Berlin for her husband, who might have betrayed her to the Nazis. Starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld and Nina Kunzendorf. Directed by Christian Petzold (Barbara). Reviewed this issue. Eastern Hills (Dipson), North Park SINISTER 2—Found footage horror sequel. Starring James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon and Robert Daniel Sloan Directed by Ciarán Foy (Citadel). Area theaters

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986)—John Carpenter anticipated the West’s interest in over-the-top Chinese fantasy-action movies with this tonguein-cheek thriller starring Kurt Russell as a trucker battling ancient warriors in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The effects are imaginative (if a bit dated), and Russell’s film-length John Wayne impression is a hoot. Co-starring Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, and James Hong. DIGGING FOR FIRE—Mumblecore maven Joe Swanberg’s latest is this comedy-drama about a couple (Jake Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt) in a foundering marriage who investigate a murder. Swanberg will participate in a satellite Q&A after the screening. Wed 7pm. North Park THE KING AND THE MOCKINGBIRD (LE ROI ET L’OISEAU, France, 1980)—Rarely screened animated film, based on the story “The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep“ by Hans Christian Anderson, that began production in 1948 and was not finished until 1980. SatSun 11:30am. North Park KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK—Home movie footage provided by his family is the source material for this documentary about the late musician. Directed by Brett Morgen. Thu 9:30pm. North Park

12-year existence. Phoenix is also an unusual love story, and a sort of emotional triangle. Along its way, it provides an intimate small portrait of the struggle to recover in the immediate aftermath in Germany of the Second World War. It’s a tragic but quiet melodrama. The film, co-written by Petzold and the late Harun Ferocki, follows the horror-beset journey of Nelly (Nina Hoss), just liberated by the allies from a Nazi death camp. She’s taken by Lene (Nina Kunzendorf ), a refugee agency worker, to a hospital for facial reconstruction surgery to repair the damage done by a gunshot. She rejects the advice of the plastic surgeon and insists on her

RUNOFF—A family farm in Kentucky is run by a couple who have a sideline in selling and administering chemical supplies to their neighbors. Somewhere out there may be a movie about a family farm that is enjoying economic success, but this isn’t it. Still, debuting writer-director Kimberly Levin approaches what may seem to be familiar material with quiet restraint, as well as a familiarity with the unsavory realities of modern agriculture (she has a degree in biochemistry). Her storytelling is more restrained than you might prefer—there are nay number of details you wish she hadn’t left to our imagination—but her eye for composition is strong, and she gets a terrific lead performance from Joanne Kelly as the mother who has to make a difficult decision. –MF Fri-Sat 7pm. Screening Room

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Petzold’s methods are doubtless well-motivated. His direction is economical and ungimmicky. But the script is too uncomplicated by detail; too much information is withheld or ignored. It’s as if he was too concerned about avoiding the sensational or the high-impact effect. Hoss, who has starred in other Petzold films, is the very essence of fragility and desperate obsession. Zehrfeld’s Johnny is superficially persuasive, but we don’t really get enough of an opportunity to understand him or his motivation, other than the palpable need to survive under grave threats. Uneven as it is, Phoenix has compelling moments, and the story can lure us in despite its puzzling reticence. At the end, the gun is still present, but it is Kurt Weill’s tune “Speak Low” that provides the striking denouement. Very rarely has a song been used P so powerfully.

gins to unravel what seemed like a cozy life. It’s the kind of movie where you don’t want to give away to much—where even saying that much feels like a bit of a spoiler because it sends viewers into the film looking for clues. Don’t be expecting a horror movie (the trailers are misleading, perhaps fearful about what it takes to get an adult audience into theaters this time of year). But this cunningly conceived psychological thriller managed to throw me off guard in time for an unsettling conclusion. Co-star Edgerton also wrote and directed, making him the breakout guy of the year. –MF Flix (Dipson), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS— A star vehicle, and one long overdue after 50 year 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 McKinley (Dipson) 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 Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, Regal Transit, Transit Drive-In IRRATIONAL MAN— For his annual cinematic offering, Woody Allen is back to playing the serious thinker, moral philosopher and existential worrywart who made such dour films in the 1980s as Another Woman, Interiors and September. Irrational Man is nearest in tone to Crimes and Misdemeanors, an examination of guilt and punishment (or its absence). Joaquin Phoenix stars as Abe, a philosophy professor new to an eastern liberal arts college. Suffering from alcohol-exacerbated ennui, he perks up when an overheard conversation offers him a chance to do something that might bring some justice into the world. It’s an exploration of an immature, quasi-Nietzschian pretent, presumably displaying the director’s self-image as a man capable of rational thought and conduct above and beyond the conventions that bind others. The talky proceedings contain a slight sense of detached irony, but Allen abruptly retreats from his own apparent support of his character, as if he was too enervated, bored, or blocked

to make much of what he started. With Emma Stone and Parker Posey. –GS Amherst (Dipson), Eastern Hills (Dipson). JURASSIC WORLD—Unlike last year’s dreary Godzilla, there is plenty of giant reptile action in this sequel/ reboot of the 1994 Steven Spielberg film (from Michael Crichton’s novel) about a theme park populated by cloned dinosaurs. It’s a well-designed Hollywood blockbuster filled with first-rate computer imagery and the type of Spielbergian thrills that resulted in the creation of the PG-13 rating. In between dino attacks, the script provides sly jabs at its own cynical merchandising. Chris Pratt makes for a capable hero, but the leading female role (played by Bryce Dallas Howard) sets onscreen feminism back a decade or two: She’s no Laura Dern. With Irrfan Khan and Vincent D’Onofrio. Directed by Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed). –Gregory Lamberson Four Seasons, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit MAD MAX: FURY ROAD—It took 30 years for George Miller to get the fourth installment of his post-apocalyptic series fof the ground, but his persistence paid off with this spectacular, stunt-driven road chase picture Tom Hardy takes over the title role (from Mel Gibson) of Max Rockatansky, former police officer turned lone highwayman trying to survive in a nightmarish wasteland. But the film is dominated by Charlize Theron as Furiosa, the most fully realized action heroine since Aliens’ Ellen Ripley. In a film that is almost one long chase sequence, the cars and stunts are as important as the people, and they are top of the line creations. Hopefully we won’t have to wait 30 years for the next installment. –Gregory Lamberson. McKinley (Dipson) THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.—Director Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes) brings an admirable amount of brio to what on paper sounds like a pretty poor idea for a new movie franchise: adapting a 1960s TV series unlikely to be remembered by anyone under the age of 60. (Though of course you could say the same thing for Mission: Impossible.) The story retains its Cold War setting, which helps—not so much for the generic plot, which I defy you to distinguish from Spy or Kingsman, but for fashions and pre-tech atmosphere. As the American and Russian agent forced to work together, Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer aren’t called upon to stretch acting chops they probably don’t have, though they keep tongues firmly in cheek. Silly but fun: it’s almost a shame the poor box office makes a sequel unlikely. With Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, and Hugh Grant. -MF Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In MINIONS is as review-proof as a movie gets: Anyone who enjoyed the Despicable Me movies will already be lined up for this spinoff prequel for Gru’s pill and capsule-shaped yellow henchmen. As Scarlet Overkill, the neurotic villainess with whom they had earlier cast their lot, Sandra Bullock runs a distant second to Steve Carrell’s voice characterization. But the details are endlessly amusing (pay attention to the Minion’s speech, which is never actually gibberish.) It’s short on big laughs but consistently giggle-inducing. In a voice cast that features Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan, and Geoffrey

REVIEW FILM Lipsky accompany him on the last days of his book tour in Minneapolis. The story was never published, for reasons no one seems quite sure of: resumably it wasn’t sensational enough for the magazine, which seldom interviewed writers and was expecting something focusing on an untrue rumor that Wallace was a heroin addict.

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Wallace developed a cult following, as much for his aversion to the trappings of fame as for his dense maximalist writing. When he committed suicide in 2008, that cult grew, for the worst possible reason. Lipsky published his interviews with Wallace in book form under the title Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself. And that book has been turned into this film, re-titled The End of the Tour.

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Wallace fans—the real ones—have any number of reasons to be wary of such a movie. There’s that title, which while appropriate to the events of the movie seems to be hinting at the author’s sad death. Wallace’s estate didn’t approve of the film (not that they were asked) and has been treating it disdainfully. And then there’s the actor who plays Wallace: Jason Segel, star of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother and such Judd Apatow-related film comedies as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I Love You, Man.

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Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel in The End of the Tour.

BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH DISAPPOINTED MEN THE END OF THE TOUR BY M. FAUST IN 1996, David Foster Wallace’s epic novel Infinite Jest was released to great critical acclaim, drummed up in part by his publisher’s canny campaign to get it a lot of media attention. In the nine years since the release of his first novel, Wallace, who was uncomfortable with the media spotlight and prone to depression, realized that publicity was a game he had to play, so he agreed to go on a book tour to promote the new novel.

One of many adoring reviews caught the eye of David Lipsky, himself a fledgling novelist, whose recent first book received glowing reviews but poor sales. He got an assignment to interview Wallace, who agreed to let

The publicity calling this a career 180 for Segel couldn’t be more off-base, as anyone who remembers him in Freaks and Geeks already knows. Height aside, he doesn’t look much like the real Wallace, but he’s perfectly cast for the part of his life on which this movie focuses, both uncomfortable and disappointed with the public spotlight of fame and fearful that he’s turning himself into the kind of media product that his derides in his writing. Although the film opens with Lipsky (played by Jesse Eisenberg, also well cast) learning of Wallace’s suicide, the movie is not a psychological post mortem. You can think of it as a cross between My Dinner with Andre (it’s essentially two guys talking, although just as often pointedly not talking) and Amadeus (Lipsky is both jealous of Wallace’s talent and disdainful at what he sees at his attempts to mask it—Wallace almost certainly knew that there’s nothing Americans hate more than people who are smarter than them). But it’s far more low-key than that description would indicate. The Davids’ early conversations are largely banal bonding stuff, about guilty pleasures like junk food and slick Hollywood movies and television. Their final day or so disintegrates into petty insecurity and jealousy. With his two previous features, The Spectacular Now and Smashed, director James Ponsoldt demonstrated an affinity for ordinary people in slightly unusual situations. That made him the perfect choice to direct this story about the vagaries of fame, such as it exists outside the America’s media centers. Don’t expect it to serve as an illustration of or investigation into Wallace’s writing. But if you’re a fan, you’ll recognize the man behind what you’ve read and likely feel that his memory has been well served in the small portion of his life recreated here. And you’ll probably smile at the final shot of P him, happy for at least an evening.

Rush, only Jennifer Saunders makes any impact, But they deserve better. With Kevin James, Peter as a Queen of England. Directed by Kyle Balda and Dinklage, Michelle Monaghan, Brian Cox, and Sean Pierre Coffin. –MF Flix (Dipson), Lockport Palace, Bean. Directed by Chris Columbus (Rent). –MF AuroMaple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara ra, Flix (Dipson), Four Seasons, Maple Ridge (AMC), Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden GalRegal Quaker, Regal Transit, Sunset Drive-In, Tranleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In sit Drive-In MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—ROGUE NATION—Now in its fifth RICKI AND THE FLASH—Meryl Streep is the whole show installment, the series shows no desire to recapin this sentimental but clunky, assembly-line cometure the sense of team work that was integral to the dy drama as a bar band singer trying to reconnect 1960s TV show whose title it bears, reducing the rest with the upper-crusty family she fled years ago. 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DEAR KEITH: I work for a large corporation and a lot of my coworkers are racist. When we work on projects we’re often put into smaller groups, and in those smaller groups oftentimes the majority of the people in the group feel just fine making racist comments. The comments aren’t usually directed at anyone in particular, or for that matter any of my coworkers, but they’re just straight-up inappropriate. I’m usually outnumbered by the amount of people around me making these comments, so I find it difficult to speak up. I’m a Caucasian person with darker skin. Some might call me ethnically ambiguous; in the right clothing I could easily pass as Arab, Mexican, or Indian, but I identify as white. My co-workers know I’m Caucasian, so I guess that makes them comfortable being racist around me, but outside of work I’m often the subject of comments that I’m uncomfortable with from people I don’t know, so I guess I have what you might call “perspective.” How do I approach this situation? I want to put a stop to this, but I don’t want to become a target. —GETTING UNDER MY SKIN GETTING UNDER MY SKIN: Congratulations on procuring a job with Fox News! I can imagine a position within their ranks is the brass ring for journalism majors all over the country who dream of one day no longer partaking in journalism. This is so exciting! I wonder which notable racists you’re speaking of. Watson, the game is afoot. Let’s deduce. So you say you’re a Caucasian person who makes the racist co-workers who outnumber you feel comfortable openly expressing and defending their antediluvian worldview, which, if my math is correct, limits the possible suspects to everyone that Fox has ever employed. Hmmm. A white man with “darker skin” who has been surrounded by unabashed hate-mongers since the news television channel was launched in 1996… Holy shit, you’re Australian American business magnate Rupert Murdoch. What a treat. Okay, I understand this question comes from a place of goodness and that you genuinely find yourself conflicted between morality and personal safety or economic stability, so I will not belabor this point, but my eventual advice will be further served by firstly addressing the claim that that you can pass as a darkskinned individual “in the right clothing.” This is a problematic statement. It not only implies that different ethnicities are anchored to and identified by specific traditional garb but also that you may have socially experimented by playing dress-up, and that is wildly unacceptable no matter how entertained you were by the 1986 comedic romance Soul Man. What does “the right clothing” mean? Did you successfully finish a meal at a Mexican restaurant wearing a poncho and a sombrero without being thrown through the front window? Mr. Murdoch, I’m beginning to think some of your co-workers’ racism is rubbing off on you, in which case you have but one option left in order to prevent the faint skidmarks of bigotry from becoming full-on shit stains of prejudice that, if unchecked, will cover you head to toe in a diarrhea of hate.

people you work with that you are sickened by their remarks and demand (don’t ask) them to stop. You don’t want to be a target so you wittingly allow people of color to be instead? That’s idiotic. Speak up. What are you honestly afraid of? Offending a supremacist? Being known as “that-not-racist-guy-in-accountsrecievable”? Are you worried you’re going to come out to your car one afternoon and find it covered in olive branches? The outcome could only be beneficial. No one has a right to hold onto hateful, primitive doctrines no matter how vehemently conservative politicians and religious organizations argue that they do, so don’t for a second think that voicing your disgust is not proper workplace etiquette or worry about rocking the boat. A boat like that needs capsizing. Though I rarely talk in absolutes, racism in the workplace is absolutely unacceptable. There is no other side to the narrative, no different way of looking at or understanding it. Get names, get dates, get quotes, and take them to your employer—and if your examples of such parochialism are ignored and do not inspire change, your employer is the oppressor and the possibility of becoming a target will be null and void because you will obviously cease working for that despicable company immediately, correct? Stop pretending the racism you are exposed to daily doesn’t exist. Diverting your awareness away from it will not make it go away, it will only create the dark environment necessary to facilitate the growth of such a fungus in our world-consciousness and it will quietly but quickly transform itself from a dangerous ideology into a man with a badge that shoots another man in the head during a routine traffic stop. If you don’t believe me, watch anything other than Fox News.

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