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LOOKING BACKWARD: Ford Motor Co., Fuhrmann Assembly Plant.

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PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING (PB) has been around since the 1990s in Brazil. The practice, however, first hit the United States in 2009 in a Chicago ward. It is a form of direct democracy that allows residents, not merely citizens, to decide how to spend a part of the public budget. More extensive than an hour-long public meeting, PB is a yearlong process. Residents gather at “general assemblies” and brainstorm improvements or projects they would like to see in their communities—anything from computers in libraries to benches outside of senior centers to parks. During and after the assemblies a group of residents volunteer to be budget delegates—who are responsible for figuring how (and which) ideas to turn into projects. Budget delegates do the bulk of the work, including (but not limited to): walking streets to assess potholes, visiting community centers, meeting with city agencies and departments, and crunching numbers in order to pare down ideas into feasible projects. Project expos are then held throughout the neighborhoods to give residents detailed information on the projects that will be on the ballots. Then voting happens. Voting sites are set up for about a week and can take place anywhere in the neighborhood. In New York City, pop-up voting booths were set up outside of McDonald’s and cell-phone stores. In Boston, youth were allowed to vote as they were getting on the Metro after school. The beauty of the PB process is that it goes beyond “public input” and generating ideas to actual decision-making by residents. Residents constitute anyone who lives in the neighborhood and is of voting age decided on by the local steering committee of the PB process. In Boston, the process is entirely youth run; 12- to 25-year-olds get to decide on how to spend $1 million of the city’s capital budget. In Chicago and Vallejo, California, residents over the age of 16 can participate. Research conducted to evaluate the process has shown that PB is a great way to engage individuals who are English language learners; who are new to the country; who have never been civically involved in their local organizations; previously incarcerated individuals; and individuals who have given up on the electoral process altogether. Unlike representative democracy—the system we currently have in place in which elected officials endeavor to speak on behalf of their constituents—participatory democracy is a step toward restoring the input of ordinary work-

IN THIS YEAR’S BUDGET, THE CITY ALLOTTED $150,OOO IN CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUNDS THAT RESIDENTS WILL VOTE ON HOW TO SPEND. ing people. The collective wisdom embodied in joint decision-making on the use of public funds cuts against the purchase of the process allowed by the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling. This trend must be strengthened and broadened. The Citizens United decision has resulted in the open buying of the political process by the one percent of our society. The growth of the organizations that are simply fronts for the wealthiest of Americans has eroded much of the democratic structure of the election system. Participatory budgeting levels the playing field by offering regular citizens a say in their communities. Even more promising is data that shows that residents who participate and engage in the PB process are more likely to get involved in their community organizations and to vote in the next local election. Participatory budgeting can show residents that their voices matter and that they can make a difference and that democracy only works and is more enriched when everyone participates. In the coming months, the PB process in Buffalo, initiated by the Clean Air Coalition with support from the Buffalo Common Council, will flourish as more and more people begin to make their voices heard and feel like their voice will actually make a difference. The $150,000 awarded in this year’s budget will not make much of a dent but it is a great first step in showing City Hall that residents are more than capable of advocating for their communities beyond the required public meetings we are so accustomed to. Richard Lipsitz is president of the WNYALF, AFL-CIO. Natasha Soto is community organizer P with the Clean Air Coalition of WNY.

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BUFFALO'S REAL OPPORTUNITY How climate change is already affecting water, food, and trade

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PHYSICIST TOM MURPHY RECENTLY CONCLUDED THAT

mankind may not be able to avoid avoidable climate crisis because too many of us are “programmed to ignore,” and thus there may not be enough people around whose personality traits will allow them to both admit there’s a problem and then take rational steps to solve it. Thankfully, recent polling suggests that Murphy is wrong. A July Yale-Gallup-Clearvision survey found that even though only half of Americans feel that climate change is a threat, fully 69 percent of us believe that it’s caused by human activities. Thus when the president of the United States decides to personally announce an aggressive new power-plant emissions regulation plan, there are at least 100 million potential voters who are ready to agree with him that the phenomenon—whether us non-scientists call it “climate change,” or “climate disruption,” or “avoidable megadeath if we change, unavoidable if we don’t”—is for real. Around where we live, the peculiar ways that our disrupted climate is changing could be a much larger force shaping the region’s future than anything we are planfully working on. Larger than the presence of Shark Girl or of Elon Musk.

BUFFALO ASSET #1: MORE RAINFALL Ask any rower, researcher, weather-watcher or Army Corps of Engineers official: Lake Erie water levels are up from two years ago. Water levels in the rest of the Great Lakes are, too: Our smooth and suave friend Mayor Rahm Emmanuel of Chicago no longer has to worry about the the raw sewage Chi-town flushes into the Chicago “river” backing up into his drinking-water intakes out in Lake Michigan, because Lake Michigan is high again, high enough to keep the best of the Magnificent Mile flowing south. Had the rains not returned, the long-term pre2013 pattern of lake-level shrinkage might have cost Chicago billions, or just shut the place down. Buffalo benefits from more precipitation because other places can’t. Yes, more rain events do indeed result in more overflows into our combined sanitary-stormwater system, but there’s a 15-year project underway to keep those flows separate, and thus improve water quality. The adjustment the Environmental Protection Agency forced the Buffalo Sewer Authority to consent to is achievable and underway. We are not Florida, which cannot achieve an end to its flooding crises that today afflict both Miami and now Tampa, because we are 500 feet above sea level, and they are less than 5 feet above sea level. If Lake Erie rises 5 feet, we lose part of the beach in Blasdell. If the ocean rises five feet, Florida loses everything below the top turret at the Cinderella Palace at Disney World. 4

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AROUND WHERE WE LIVE, THE PECULIAR WAYS THAT OUR DISRUPTED CLIMATE IS CHANGING COULD BE A MUCH LARGER FORCE SHAPING THE REGION’S FUTURE THAN ANYTHING WE ARE PLANFULLY WORKING ON. LARGER THAN THE PRESENCE OF SHARK GIRL OR OF ELON MUSK. BUFFALO ASSET #2: NEARBY AGRICULTURE

BUFFALO ASSET #3: OVERBUILT INFRASTRUCTURE

With guidance from Dr. Stephen Vermette, Buffalo State College student Michael Borrelli recently produced a poster of his research on how apple-growers in Niagara County are coping with extreme weather events, the spread of warm-weather pests, and an increase in frost-free days. The project included data from the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences & Assessments program in Michigan, which in 2014 produced maps that show how Ontario and Upstate New York fare better than most of the rest of the Great Lakes basin.

Rochester and Syracuse are arguably better-situated than Buffalo to absorb climate-driven migration from flooded coastal New York City or remigration from drowned Florida—not only because Rochester and Syracuse are spatially more compact, with their core institutions tightly clustered quite close to their central business districts—but also because those towns are less corrupt, have better universities, more diverse business leadership, and better-educated workforces than banker- and developer-dominated Buffalo.

The gist: Growing seasons will be longer, but warm-weather pests will be more of a problem. More rainfall will help, but weird weather and storms may occasionally wreak havoc. It won’t be much warmer east and north of Lake Erie, but the central and western Great Lakes will be much warmer and stormier.

Could climate change refugees become a major presence here rather than farther downstate? Perhaps—mainly because we have room in our downtown, space immediately east and southeast of downtown, most of the bones of a bigger city, plus one asset the other Upstate towns do not have: a renaissance branding that has not yet been tarnished by inconvenient facts. Were that branding to be further burnished by appeal to Buffalo’s century-old connection to green, clean hydropower, and to Elon Musk’s solar-panel plant, and to the Laird Robertson windfarm (recently discovered by the New York Times though in operation since 2006).

In other words, the hinterlands of Buffalo and Rochester will be seeing more precipitation and less heat-related stress than other northern regions, even as the huge apple-growing regions of the Pacific Northwest are currently on fire or soon to be—because the drought that is destroying California agriculture is now wreaking havoc with farms, orchards, forests, and rivers in once reliably-wet Washington and Oregon. So despite patterns of sprawl that have interrupted or flat-out destroyed hundreds of square miles of farmland, the potential for Western and Central New York’s lake plains to re-emerge as major regions of agricultural production is very real. Agriculture currently constitutes less than one percent of the GDP of the Buffalo and Rochester metros. There is certainly room for growth—if farmland isn’t squandered by our developer class.

Building a light-rail spur out Genesee Street to our airport, and solving the NFTA crisis by repopulating the radically depopulated urban core of Buffalo, would be sensible transportation solutions that could at long last address the problem created by 60 years of sprawl: the spatial mismatch between people needing work and the places that might actually employ them. But of course, climate disruption will be disruptive in ways that Tom Murphy and other rational, mathematically minded folks calmly regard as manageable—but which non-scientists have a hard time staying calm about.

COMMENTARY NEWS tionally, as Obama did. The generational split in the audience for climate-change messaging worked to change-deniers’ (i.e., Republican) advantage in the 2014 midterm elections because old white people who watch Fox News turned out to vote in larger numbers than younger people. Those younger voters will come out in 2016. Every political analyst who knows how to count knows that if 69 percent of eligible voters agree with Barack Obama that climate change (disruption, whatever) is real, then the views of the core Fox News demographic will lose. Hillary Clinton has endorsed Obama’s plan to regulate emissions from power plants; no Republican candidate has done so. But what about local candidates? The median household income in the 27th Congressional District, now represented by Christopher Collins, is the highest in the region. So is the portion of the district’s workforce that is in executive, managerial, professional, and other positions requiring higher education. It would seem sensible for any challenger to a Republican climate-change denialist like Collins to see if any of those highly-educated, better-off voters could be persuaded to join the 50 percent of Americans who poll favorably on taking actual governmental action to prevent avoidable catastrophe. The City of Chicago, under effervescent Mayor Emmanuel, has had a climate-change response plan in place for four years. Though one searches in vain for an official Buffalo or an official Erie County plan, the non-existence of a comprehensive planning document may indicate only that our developer-driven discourse of tomorrow’s Buffalo just hasn’t been challenged. Our political class, in other words, doesn’t know that it doesn’t know.

CLIMATE POLITICS BIG AND SMALL There was a disconcerting edge to President Barack “No Drama” Obama’s statement on the urgency of reducing power-plant carbon emissions this week—as if the president of the United States knows something the rest of us aren’t yet privy to. Nevertheless, it’s evidently no longer a political risk for candidates for federal office to address climate change directly, forcefully, even emo-

But just as the international oil glut, and the trend toward low-wage work, and the failure of the Michael Porter analysis, and demographics all shape our regional future, so too will the climate—here and elsewhere, especially in those elsewheres that may become unliveable. Upstate New York was cleared of its oak forests and became, 150 years ago, a breadbasket. Great Lakes shipping once shaped the economy. The American city that was the first to electrify did so with renewable energy. These phenomena may occur again. If so, Buffalo may win. Bruce Fisher is visiting professor of economics at SUNY Buffalo State P and director of the Center for Economic and Policy Studies.

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In 1958, Ford permanently shuttered the Fuhrmann plant, transferring operations to a newer facility in Lorain, Ohio. At its closing, the Fuhrmann plant became the last place in Buffalo where finished automobiles were assembled. More than 1.2 million Ford cars and trucks were made there. With the exception of the power house and 100-foot-tall water tower, the 559,000-square-foot Fuhrmann plant still stands. The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority has owned the mostly vacant factory complex, better known as the Terminal A Building, since 1967. Its redevelopment P future, if any, is not yet known.-THE PUBLIC STAFF

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MICROBEADS BANNED IN ERIE COUNTY

Legislators Pat Burke and John Mills push through first municipal ban on plastic microbeads in the state BY JUSTIN SONDEL

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ipality in the state to pass legislation banning plastic microbeads in cosmetic products while bills at the state and federal levels continue to linger. The legislation, which passed the Erie County Legislature in a unanimous vote, will prohibit retailers from selling products that contain the tiny plastic beads, which are not screened out by most water treatment plants and account for an estimated 90 percent of new plastic pollution in the Lake Erie. Legislator Patrick Burke, a Buffalo Democrat, was the sponsor of the bill and pushed to get the law enacted with the help of the legislature’s chair, Republican John Mills. Burke said that while the ban can’t stop people from ordering products with microbeads online or retailers in other Great Lakes counties or states from continuing to sell them, the ban will lessen the amount of the damaging plastics entering the waterways and could act as a catalyst for other counties, or even the state or federal governments, to act. “Certainly there are other issues at play, but if we hadn’t taken this lead and taken this role we wouldn’t be able to bring the issue back up and we wouldn’t be able to set the standard of what an effective ban would be,” Burke said. The county law will require all retailers to stop selling the products within six months and fines 6

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“I do think long-term it’s important that the state do what is necessary, and I know it’s been a while, to put something in place so that we’re not worried about county borders in terms of enforcement, “ she said. On the federal level, US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand also reintroduced a bill banning the plastics pellets for the second year in a row, but it has not been voted on in Congress.

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Green Pears by William Scott.

MARTHA JACKSON’S GRAPHICS Lithographs and other prints by the gallerist’s stable of major modern artists at the UB Anderson Gallery BY JACK FORAN LITHOGRAPHS AND OTHER PRINTS by gallerist Martha Jackson’s stable of major modern artists

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Opening with a series by Jim Dine called Crash, a graphic art sequel to a performance piece he did about two traumatic car crash events, one involving his wife and son, one just himself, when he lost control of his vehicle upon hearing on the car radio that a good friend had died. Six lithographs in all, the first five in boisterous black on white circular scribbles and minimal identifiable imagery amid the scribble wreckage. Some onomatopoeic words or fragments—crack, smack, smash—and medical crosses in black not red. The only red—only color—a few red smudges on the work, like transferred bloodstains. The denouement sixth work mainly white with scattered black bits and specks, like the debris left on the street after an accident and official cleanup, and in the center of the piece, the medical cross this time in red. A statement by Dine describes how Martha Jackson enabled his career. “When I was young…Mrs. Jackson came to me and offered $4,000 for me to stop teaching (I had been earning $4,000 a year teaching elementary school). She wanted paintings and drawings…I was able to stop teaching and paint…I remember her fondly as a very eccentric woman who loved art.” The anecdote probably reflects her relationship with most or all of the artists in the show. More crosses of a rather different sort in works by Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies. Crosses were a persistent motif in his art, as a Christian symbol, subverted but probably not thoroughly. Sometimes the cross is in the form of the letter “x,” as in one work here in which it seems to function negationally as a crossbar barrier to a doorway of some sort. Tàpies was a teenager during the Spanish Civil War, but his father worked for the republican Catalan government during the war (though his mother was a devout Catholic and saw to it that Tàpies education during this period was in Catholic schools) and the artist’s lasting political sympathies were republican. So that it is tempting to read an anti-fascist political message—as well perhaps as anti-Catholic religious—into such a piece. Though not that the message or import of Tàpies’ usually severely abstract artwork was ever clear and obvious. Nor was he much given to verbally expounding the meaning of his art. A Tàpies major work in the show is an abstractionist remake of a medieval/Renaissance crucifixion triptych, presenting a gallows form crucifix variant in the left side panel, a gallows with pendant “x” form in the right side panel, and dark to opaque central panel, with just the suggestion in the dark

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area of the summit of a hill. A political cause he actively engaged in toward the end of the Franco regime—surely reflected in this work, in addition to whatever Catholic Christian sentiments, for or against—was opposition to the death penalty. Other works of a happier—more sociable than philosophical—sensibility are in bright reds and yellows, the colors of the Spanish flag. In one, a flurry of names—presumably friends—occurs. Another looks like rough outline directions for (or a reminiscence of ) a social occasion dance in the round, indicating placement positions for a half dozen or so possibly somewhat tipsy named participants. Some works by Sam Francis reveal Far Eastern formal influences. One with two boxy forms reminiscent of Chinese ideograms—suppositional ideograms—expressing in the one case enclosure, in the other its absence, its opposite. Openness? Emancipation? Disclosure? Two other mate lithographs are produced from the same prepared stone, that is, with the exact same basic design—reminiscent of a Japanese torii gate form—two polar verticals supporting a horizontal cross piece—with copious overpaint spatter, comparatively restrained in the earlier version, more dense spatter, and consequent frenzied coloristics, in the later version. Other works include Joan Mitchell’s three etchings of sunflowers in which it is hard to find the sunflowers; some Claire Falkenstein proto-minimalist intaglios; and William Scott’s more thoroughgoing minimalist lithographs, including four versions of two pears on a plate, in green, in yellow, in black, and just outline. Also, Lester Johnson’s two variants of two similar but slightly different versions of the Three Graces; some Julian Stanczak early Op Art experiments; some John Hultberg slightly futuristic architectural assemblages; Paul Jenkins’ seven-part series of gestural abstracts and one self-portait; and four Karel Appel lithographs of domestic animals in fauvist colors. The Martha Jackson artists show continues through August 16.

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464 Gallery (464 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14207 464gallery.com): Neverland, photographs by Alex Currie. Opening reception Sat Aug 8, 6-10pm, 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-1045gallery-store): Highs and Lows, work by Matthew J. Myers. Opening reception Fri Aug 7, 6-9pm, on view through Aug 22. Thu & Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm. Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball, on view through Aug 16; Screen Play: Life in an Animated World, on view through Sept 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. 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. Opening reception, Fri Aug 7, 7-9pm, on view through Aug 21. Wed & Thu 11-5pm, Fri 11-4pm, Sat 11-2pm Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 3620633, bettysbuffalo.com): Chicken Little, drawings by Matt Duquette. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Skewed Perspective, installation by Anne Muntges, on view through Aug 9. FriSun 12-6pm. ¡Buen Vivir! (148 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Triumph and Tragedy, photos by Anne Petermann. Opening reception Fri Aug 7, 6-9pm, on view through Sept 18. Tue-Fri 1-4pm, Sat 1-3pm, or by appointment, 716-931-5833. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2496 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Human, works by Allan Hebeler; You Were Wild, works by Maude White, both shows on view through Sep 4. TueFri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens (2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14218, 8271584, buffalogardens.com): David and 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): 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 10am-5pm, 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): A Retrospective in Color, Style and Substance, paintings by Carole Coniglio, on view through Aug 1. See site for upcoming classes and events. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.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. 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. 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 125pm. 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): Illuminating the Darkness, Photographs by Nick Butler, on view through Jul 26, presented by Wise Arts. Thu & Fri 4-8pm, Sat & Sun 3-7pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 8541694, hallwalls.org): Hallwalls 41st Annual Members Exhibition, on view through Aug 28. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am2pm. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572. indigoartbuffalo. com): Cabinet of Curiosities, an homage to the 16th century, group exhibition, on view through Aug 15. Wed & Fri 126pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays. 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): Pure Fun skate zine 25th anniversary party and photo exhibit Sat Aug 8, 7-10pm; Filtered Reality, Photography by Heather Grimmer, opening reception Sat Aug 8, 7-10pm. 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. 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. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 6979069, 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, opening Reception Fri Aug 7, 6-10pm. 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. TueSat 12-5pm. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church (3107 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214): 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, and Lawrence Kinney, on view through Aug 31. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Transposition, group exhibition curated by Victoria Hristoff and Casey Schultz, opening reception Sun Aug 9, 7-10pm. TGW@497 Gallery (497 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 949-6604): Watermedia 10, a group show, opening reception Fri Aug 7, 6-9pm, on view through Aug 29. Wed-Fri 125pm, Sat 12-3pm. 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: Our Own Devices: Exploring the Tools of Cravens World; These Fragile Truths, UB MFA Thesis by Tricia Butski, all on view through Aug 16, plus 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 P Aug 21. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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THURSDAY AUG 6 Beams 8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $5

[FOLK] Toronto’s alt-folk circuit will never be the same now that Beams has arrived. Led by a pair of ladies in harmony, backed by mandolin, banjo, lap steel and (wait for it!) a singing saw, there’s more to the mix than your standard Americana twang. Expect Appalachian oddities melded with a sense of modern pop, spread through songs that are equal parts folk, country, and bluegrass. Beams takes a progressive approach, which is sure to simultaneously attract a larger following while making purists fussy. Back with a new “double-A-sided” single, The Gutters and The Glass, the seven-piece plays Mohawk Place on Thursday, August 6 with Pine Fever and the Observers. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

Cop Circles 8pm Dreamland, 387 Franklin St. $5

[ELECTRONIC] Denver Colorado’s Cop Circles is the electronic brainchild of keytar-wielding synth composer Luke Leavitt. He emulates the sort of funky oddities that could have gotten him signed to Sire in 1981; instead, he’s self-released a string of singles, EPs and remixes over the last two years that remaining forever catchy while entertaining a wide range of electronic options. You can tell Leavitt’s a curious guy, always searching for new sounds, but he’ll keep you moving on your feet. Hear for yourself at Dreamland on Thursday with a rare opening set from our own Fashion Expo 1990.-CJT

Umphrey’s McGee 6pm Canalside, 44 Prime St. free

[ROCK] Umphrey’s McGee are a Midwestern six-piece steeped in progressive rock musicianship, metal power, and quite a bit of funk. In their 20-year career, they’ve garnered a diehard cult following, with a widespread demographic stretching from young, tie-dye wearing hippies to dads in their mid-50s, and any music lover in between. Tight instrumentalism across the board coupled with

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ever-changing setlists and live improvisation cap off their live shows. With a superhuman ability to play together, their studio work never falters, but their April 2015 release, The London Session, may be most indicative of their prowess. Recorded over 12 hours at the famed Abbey Road Studios, The London Session comprises unreleased gems, a couple of recent songs with fresh fixtures, a few old favorites sharpened and polished for posterity, and one crushing Beatles cover that ties it all up with reverence. Catch Umphrey’s McGee with Aqueous at Canalside on Thursday, August 6. -KELLIE POWELL

KMFDM 7pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $23.50-$27

[METAL] Nineteen records, 12 members, and 31 years since their formation, industrial metal band KMFDM is still kicking ass. The band, which formed in Paris, France by way of Hamburg, Germany in 1984, is considered to be one of the first bands to bring industrial rock music to mainstream audiences—spawning

legions of imitators. KMFDM comes to Buffalo Iron Works on Thursday, August 6 with support from CHANT and Inertia. -CORY PERLA

Hunting & Gathering with Dana Saylor 11am The Pop-In, 218 Grant St. free

[ART] The public is invited to pop by the Pop In, the new community storefront on Grant Street, for local artist and activist Dana Saylor's tenancy. During her sessions she will engage passersby in conversations and art-making that relate to her interests in architecture, urban planning, design, and historic preservation. The comments collected will be a part of her upcoming September solo show at WNYBAC. Dana will be at the shop, Wednesday August 5 2:30pm-8:30pm, Thursday August 6 f11am-7pm, and then again on Friday August 7 3-7pm for a closing “salon.” -TINA DILLMAN

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A collaborative exhibition from members of Forbidden Fruits, a local peer-led advocacy group for LGBT persons living with developmental disabilities. Light refreshments available. In the adjacent Glow Gallery: Within You/Without You, paintings by John Lehner.

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Reign 24 closes the books on a year of fundraising, disbursing $16,000 among nine different local charities and nonprofits, including Buffalo United Artists, Emerging Leaders in the Arts Buffalo, and Pride Center of WNY. Cocktails, tunes by DJ Fierce, and royal performances.

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Buffalo drag’s rising diamond Veronica Lace recently qualified to compete at the prestigious Miss Continental Pageant, a national competition where she’ll represent Western New York and New York State. Help her raise the final funds to cover various expenses for the journey. Suggested donation at the door: $5.

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and Araabmuzik is that Araabmuzik plays his drum solos with his fingers, not drumsticks. That’s because Araabmuzik, real name Abraham Orellana, perfers to drum on an MPC—a Music Production Center, better known as a drum machine—and he uses all 10 fingers to hammer out groovy hip hop beats and metallic double bass drum frenzies. The 26-year-old producer from Providence, Rhode Island, nicknamed the “MVP of the MPC,” is preparing for the release of his next full-length album, Dream World, the proper followup to his 2011’s Electronic Dream. Since then, the young trance and trap producer has released a series of instrumental albums—titled For Professional Use Only parts one and two—but his focus now is refining the MPC-fueled trance sound he masterminded on the critically acclaimed Electronic Dream album (which Fact Magazine even went as far as to argue is the “greatest pop record ever released”). Right now he’s working on clearing samples for Dream World, which was meant to be released in June, but will be delayed until October. The original tracklisting included artists like Kelela, but he says that the album has changed dramatically since the track list surfaced in April. “Dream World was originally a continuation of Electronic Dream,” Orellana tells me over the phone. “I had so much extra music from that time that I decided to put together and release. I could still do that but right now I want to focus on putting together a real

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album for the fall…I’m trying to set the bar and put something out that I haven’t done yet. I want to give the people a real Araabmuzik album,” he says in the kind of assertive tone that’s become customary for the producer who has worked with acts ranging from Cam’Ron to Azealia Banks and Mt. Eden. Since his decision to overhaul Dream World, he’s released a couple of tracks for the film Southpaw starring Jake Gyllenhaal—featuring the hip hop group Slaughterhouse—and some collaborations with producers like Dvnk Sinatrv. When Araabmuzik comes to the Town Ballroom on Friday, August 7 it will be part of Teamwork 2015, presented by Buffalo rapper Chae Hawk’s TeamRadio.net imprint. “This show will be a special one. We have teamed up again with Compeer, a company who helps fight mental health through the power of friendship.They turn 30 and they reached out to my company TeamRadio.net and I to help raise awareness and attract more male mentors to their organization,” says Hawk, who has also teamed up recently with Niagara Falls hip hop crew Nameless to release their latest single, “Good Days.” Nameless will also perform along with WBLK’s DJ Heat, who will be spinning records. “I’ve been through a lot since last year’s Teamwork,” says Hawk. “Losing Craig Reynolds, Lance Diamond, and close friend Michael Perry Jr. has made a huge impact on me—allowing me to grow and appreciate this life even more.”

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CARLY AQUILINO THURSDAY AUG 6 7:30PM / HELIUM COMEDY CLUB, 30 MISSISSIPPI ST. / $20-$30 [COMEDY] Carly Aquilino has hair like the Little Mermaid, but her hilarious riffs on the struggles of modern womanhood are far from the Disney princess experience. After cutting her teeth on the New York City comedy scene, Aquilino began starring in MTV’s Girl Code in 2013 where her zany one-liners and flair for dishing out dating advice alongside other funny ladies like Jessimae Peluso and Alice Wetterlund. The gig has secured her a solid fan base, which she’s maintained by making a bunch of appearances at comedy festivals like Comedy Central’s New York Comedy Fest, where she performed alongside acts like Amy Schumer and Bill Maher. Catch Carly Aquilino at Helium Comedy Club on Thursday, August 6 through Sunday, August 9. -KELLIE POWELL

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FRIDAY AUG 7 Redondo 10pm Sky Bar, 257 Franklin St. $10

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] The Sky Bar rooftop EDM series turns the corner into August with pop-house duo Redondo. “Our signature sound has been described once as ‘music that makes your girlfriend wanna dance,’” says the duo in their press release. “But of course as an artist you’re always trying to take things to the next level—’music that makes your entire family including even your goldfish wanna dance.’” Let’s see if we can get a few goldfish dancing up on that rooftop this Friday, August 7 for Redondo. Eyes Everywhere open. -CP

Attic Abasement, Sixties Future, M.A.G.S., and Newish Star 10pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St. $5

7pm Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Ave free

[FILM] This Friday, August 7—in conjunction with the current exhibit at the Albright-Knox, Screen Play: Life in an Animated World—Squeaky Wheel will host its annual animation festival at the museum. Attendees will enjoy a series of streaming animations that showcase the medium in all of its diversity. Selections include works ranging from the BAFTA-winning Brothers McLeod and Daisy Jacobs, to Japanese animator/ illustrator Atsushi Wada and experimental animator Vince Collins. As part of the museum’s first Friday itinerary, this family-friendly event will be free. -JC

SATURDAY AUG 8 Kevin Greenspan 8pm Squeaky Wheel, 617 Main Street $5

[INDIE] This Friday, August 7 head down to Nietzsche’s to experience another spectacular lineup brought to you by Yace Booking. For this show they’ve brought together Rochester slacker rock trio, Attic Abasement, upand-coming Americana shredders Sixties Future, slinky indie rock outfit M.A.G.S., and power-pop punk rockers Newish Star. If you’re looking to get caught in a whirlwind of tunes from local and Rochester talent, this staple Allentown haunt is definitely the spot you’ll want to hit up.-JEANNETTE CHIN

[EXPERIMENTAL] With his new show, To Leave a Mark, ambient composer Kevin Greenspon—who also runs the Bridgetown Records label—expands his sonic palette with increased rhythmic complexity, adding bits of techno and pop with occasional blasts of noise. Knob-twiddling with synths, guitar and a cassette feed, he simultaneously projects video installations custom-tailored for each song. The combined effect is largely hypnotic with a few riveting jolts along the way. Frankie NP and Nick Gordon open, Saturday, August 8 at Squeaky Wheel.-CJT

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6pm Dreamland, 387 Franklin St.

[PHOTOGRAPHY] There are other Rust Belt towns out there, you know, and some people have even been to them—including photographer Candace Camuglia. In the new series Where I’ve Been, the photographer documents a trip to Ashtabula, Ohio, an eight-squaremile town with a population of approximately 20,000 people. Where I’ve Been opens this Friday, August 7 at Dreamland. -CP

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7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $29-$130

[ROCK] The Psychedelic Furs are proof positive that a living can continue being made off the strength of some fantastic singles…nearly 40 years on. The band’s original run ended in 1991 and front man Richard Butler formed Love Spit Love. Ten years later, the Furs reformed and have toured regularly since with only one track of new material released in 14 years. It’s a strategy that could’ve saved Blondie a lot of time and hassle, but that’s

CALENDAR EVENTS another story entirely. The Psychedelic Furs play Town Ballroom on Saturday, August 8 with the Church (sans Marty Wilson-Piper) who, conversely, have released some 25 albums since 1981. -CJT

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The Receiver, Lazlo Hollyfeld, Humble Braggers, Space Cubs 9pm Nietzsche's, 248 Allen St. $5

[INDIE] Earlier this month, Nylon premiered the video for Receiver‘s track “Transit” off the new full-length All Burn. It’s a cinematic love song that chugs along at a steady mid-tempo pulse while conveying the feeling of being lost in a blurred romantic dream. Listening, you feel as if your mind and body are moving at two different speeds (even as you sit still, listening). If this is more than a fluke, the Columbus, Ohio-based duo might really be on to something more powerful than the limiting “dream-pop” label they’ve been stamped with. Get a better sense of their capabilities in the opening slot for Lazlo Hollyfeld (with earlier sets from Humble Braggers and Space Cub) at Nietzsche’s on Saturday, August 8 -CJT

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SUNDAY AUG 9 Remembering the Civilians: Memorial Picnic 1:30pm Delaware Park, 84 Parkside Ave free

[DISCUSSION] In the wake of the recent deal with Iran that should keep one of the world's most volatile actors from developing a nuclear weapon, local activists are gathering to remember last century's mistakes that created the impetus for the US to negotiate with Iran. The BYO picnic will take place near the intersection of Parkside on Florence and will memorialize the millions of civilians who fell victim to 20th-century global conflict. At 4:30pm, the assembled will then walk to the Buffalo History Museum for a 7pm presentation on Indigenous Peoples Day. -AL

TUESDAY AUG 11 Tuesday Night Flicks: Fantastic Mr. Fox 9pm Canalside, 44 Prime St. free

[FILM] Wes Anderson’s only animated film, Fantastic Mr. Fox, is certainly kid-friendly, but it’s also certainly made for the parents. That’s why it’s the perfect movie to show this week as part of Canalside’s Tuesday Night Flicks series, this Tuesday, August 11. It’s also the last film in their screening of a trilogy of Wes Anderson movies which also included Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom. -CP

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7PM / SUGAR CITY, 1239 NIAGARA ST. / FREE [ART] Like a curious kid, Transposition asks a lot of questions. These are not the questions of a toddler, though—they’re more like the questions of a time-traveling existentialist: “Through the lens of a specific generation of artists, how does one begin to understand their existence in a specific moment?” “How do artists play with the idea of a physically tangible memory, and how could that relate back to the impact of the digital age we are currently in?” and “Where does memory fit into transposition permutations?” are a few of the questions that this asks. Curated by Victoria Hristoff and Casey Schultz, the show is a group exhibition that includes work by artists like Sabriana Brundage, Ilana DiMarco, Dipo Doherty, Hannah Hoist, Richard Hunter, Justin Montan, Gabriella Moreno, Sam Treco, Marissa Villacampa, Shultz, and Hristoff. You’ll likely walk away from this show with more questions of your own, but as Friedrich Nietzsche once said: “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” Transposition, presented by the Good Neighborhood and Team Radio, opens at Sugar City this Sunday, August 9 at 7pm and it is free and open to the public. -CORY PERLA

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[PUNK] As one Bandcamp supporter described, it's as if the witches in Macebeth formed a band. Palberta's lo-fi fem-punk employs a delightfully unpracticed, sloppy vibe that surprises with sudden, shifting time signatures and occasional harmonies. Still, be prepared: Everything's slightly out of tune, stuff is falling from the cupboard shelves, there's a four-day-old sandwich rapidly becoming science in the back of the room, and the buzz of the resulting flies adds sonic texture. It's just what you might expect from a band that lists "A fuck or an apple pie?" as its genre on good ol' Facebook. They come to Mohawk Place this Tuesday, August 11.-CJT

[ROCK] The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rhythm section from the legendary group Creedence Clearwater Revival—bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug “Cosmo”—launched Creedence Clearwater Revisited in 1995 to perform live Creedence Clearwater Revival hits. With vocalist John Tristao’s "Fogerty" vocals and expanded instrumentation, CCRevisited serves up rich interpretations of classic CCR, from “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” to “Down on the Corner.” Catch Creedence Clearwater Revisited with America at Artpark on Tuesday, August 11. -CP

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EXISTENTIAL ANGUISH FOR DUMMIES IRRATIONAL MAN BY GEORGE SAX WELL, HE’S BACK; it was inevitable that he would be, even if it has been a long absence. I mean Woody Allen the serious thinker, the moral philosopher, and existential worrywart. You have to believe that it’s been difficult for the filmmaker to refrain from dramatizing his bleak observations about life and death. Back in the 1980s, the heyday of his cinematic ruminations about the human condition, Allen was virtually Hollywood’s go-to guy for deep thought. He turned out such Ingmar Bergman-influenced films as Another Woman and Interiors and the Chekhovian-flavored September, all earnest, largely humorless and doggedly derivative.

Irrational Man, his latest one, is nearest in tone to Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), an examination of guilt and punishment, or its absence. In that one, a wealthy ophthalmologist (Martin Landau) murders his inconvenient and trouble-threatening mistress, and gets away with it. Allen was in his most flagrant “God’s gone away and we’re lost in the stars” mode in that one. He even pulls in an actual humanist scholar, Martin Bergmann, to play himself and tell us that it is we who give meaning to an uncaring universe, a lesson that Allen’s movie winds up undercutting. The movie’s second-hand, shopworn pieties impressed a lot of people who ought to have known better. God hasn’t abandoned everyone in Irrational Man. He (she?) doesn’t even figure in what happens, and no one seems to miss him, especially not Abe Lucas ( Joaquin Phoenix), a newly hired philosophy prof at a liberal arts college in Newport, Rhode Island. Abe comes equipped with a very bad case of world weariness, and a flask from which he slugs whiskey, privately and publicly, on campus and off. Given Abe’s drinking, his close-mouthed conversational style, and his distracted air, one might wonder how he got hired. Or for that matter, why an urban college campus doesn’t seem to have any black or Hispanic students or faculty. No matter, this is Allen Land, not America, a place that’s almost always white and privileged. At an introductory cocktail party, he encounters Rita (Parker Posey), a chemistry instructor who tells him if he wants to know who’s doing whom on campus, he should just ask her. Abe may seem to us to be a screwed-up, hyper-literate shlub, but to Rita he’s a refreshingly mordant alternative to her husband and the other college males. Soon enough, she begins a fling with him, despite his impotence and existential morbidity. Nor is she his only admirer. Jill (Emma Stone), one of Abe’s best students, also develops a yen for him which he ethically rejects, until he doesn’t. These women seem to find him an intriguing, poignantly romantic figure. The fact that it’s said that his wife ran away with his friend, and he lost another friend when he stepped on an IED in Iraq, apparently renders his troubled, alienated persona attractive. Even when at a student party he spins the chamber of a revolver with one bullet, points it at his head and pulls the trigger. He’s only demonstrating, he says, the need

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PREMIERES OPENING FRIDAY AUGUST 7 DARK PLACES—Adaptation of the novel by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) about a Kansas woman (Charlize Theron) who reluctantly agrees to investigate the murder of her family 25 years ago, for which her brother went to prison. Co-starring Christina Hendricks, Nicholas Hoult, Corey Stoll, and Chloë Grace Moretz. Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah’s Key). Reviewed this issue. Amherst (Dipson) DRAGON BALL Z: RESURRECTION ‘F’—Feature installment to the long-running anime series. Directed by Tadayoshi Yamamuro. Amherst (Dipson), Flix (Dipson) FANTASTIC FOUR—Reboot, for those of you keeping track. Starring Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, and Jamie Bell. Directed by Josh Trank (Chronicle). Area theaters. THE GIFT—Psychological thriller in which a couple’s new marriage is disturbed when an old friend of the husband reveals secrets from his past to his wife. Starring Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, and Joel Edgerton, who also directed. Area theaters IRRATIONAL MAN—This year’s Woody Allen movie. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Parker Posey. Reviewed this issue. Amherst (Dipson), Eastern Hills (Dipson). RICKI AND THE FLASH—Meryl Streep as an aging rock star trying to reconnect with her family in a “dramedy” written by Diablo Cody. Co-starring Mamie Gummer (Streep’s daughter) and Kevin Kline. Directed by Jonathan Demme (Rachel Getting Married). Amherst (Dipson) SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE—Farm animals hit the big city in this claymation feature film from Aardman Animation, creators of Wallace and Gromit. Directed by Mark Burton and Richard Starzak. Area theaters

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA FANTASTIC MR. FOX (2009)—Don’t be dissuaded from seeing this Wes Anderson film because it’s a stop-motion animation about animal characters: Not only does it fit snugly into his unique oeuvre, it’s probably the most perfectly delightful film he has made thus far. From the Roald Dahl book; voices by George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, and Jarvis Cocker. Free and open to the public—bring chairs or a blanket. Tue Aug 11, 9pm. Canalside, 44 Prime St GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)—You might question the timing of bringing this epic Civil War romance back for a theatrical date, but if you’re ever going to see it, you

should try to do so on the big screen, and you don’t get many chances. Starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, and Hattie McDaniel. Thurs Aug 6, 1, 7pm. Lockport Palace SAFETY LAST (1923)—The title could apply to any of the silent comedies made by Harold Lloyd, a bookish looking young fellow in glasses who did all of his own quite dangerous stunts. Even if you’ve never seen this, his best-known feature, you probably know the famous image of Lloyd hanging off a giant clock 12 stories above the city. Presented by the Roycroft Film Society. Free and open to the public—bring chairs or a blanket. Sat 8:30pm. Roycroft Power House, 39 South Grove St., East Aurora. roycroftcampuscorporation.com SESAME STREET PRESENTS: FOLLOW THAT BIRD (1985)—After being sent away from Sesame Street by a social worker (!), Big Bird tries to make (his? her?) way home in this live action feature. Featuring cameos from a lot of people whose faces were more familiar thirty years ago than they are now, including Sandra Bernhard, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Chevy Chase, Dave Thomas, and Paul Bartel. Directed by Ken Kwapis (Big Miracle). Sat-Sun 11:30am. North Park WHAT’S UP, DOC? (1972)—Peter Bogdanovich’s homage to the screwball comedies of Howard Hawks, specifically Bringing Up Baby, with Ryan O’Neal as the straightlaced academic and Barbra Streisand as the kook who complicates his life. That the script is credited to Buck Henry, David Newman and Robert Benton indicates that too many cooks may have spoiled the broth, though it would have helped if Bogdanovich trusted his material rather than perpetually poking viewers in the ribs. With Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, and Austin Pendleton. Thu-Sat 7:30pm. Screening Room

IN BRIEF THEATER INFORMATION IS VALID THROUGH THURSDAY, AUG. 6 AMY—She should have gone to rehab, yes, yes, yes. Amy Winehouse’s short life followed a familiar pattern that would be banal if it weren’t so tragic: A young person bursting with talent finds enormous success, only to fall victim to the excesses of celebrity. Asif Kapadia’s documentary benefits from the fact that there was a lot of video footage of the British singer, going back to when she was 14 and already ferociously talented. And if the end result will start more arguments than it settles about who was responsible for her decline, it will also open her work up to viewers who only know the tabloid side of her story. Drag someone to see it and they’ll come away a fan. -MF. Amherst (Dipson) ENDS THU AUG 6 ANT-MAN—Despite being the product of a creative team whose backgrounds are in comedy—writers Edgar Wright, Adam McKay, and Paul Rudd (who also has the title role) and director Peyton Reed (The Break-Up)— this is another standard issue Marvel product, with sections that will fly over the heads of viewers who haven’t seen every other Marvel movie. (Even before being ac-

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to act against the oppressive emptiness of daily life. Of course, Abe has already told Jill, and us, that his former political activism led nowhere except to disillusionment. Never mind. But when he and Jill chance to overhear a conversation about a corrupt local public official who’s making the speaker’s life miserable, Abe is finally inspired to action, and the mere anticipation of it, gives his life meaning and relish. He’s liberated psychologically and physically (that is, lustfully). Allen provides Abe with a few smatterings of philosophical catch phrases that may sound a little like phenomenological epigrams, but what the filmmaker has really staked all this on is an immature, quasi-Nietzschian pretent. Abe is returned to life by his plan to flout traditional morality and the law, in order, he says, to render justice where it’s being denied. But Allen’s convenient rationale doesn’t obscure the charge Abe is getting from his plan. It’s really about him, the man capable of rational thought and conduct above and beyond the conventions that bind others. There’s a slight sense of detached irony in some of these talky proceedings, narrated by two characters (one of them dead!) But Allen abruptly retreats from his own apparent support of Abe’s justification, and we’re left with no wit, or purported wisdom. It’s as if Allen himself was too enervated, bored or blocked to make much of what he started. Irrational Man never feels as if there’s much of anything at stake, because there isn’t.

quired by Disney, they were all about branding.) The special effects guys do swell work with the first scenes of our hero, equipped with a suit that shrinks him to the size of—well, read the title—navigating a world where tiny things become terrifyingly large. But in standard Marvel structure so much time is spent on set-up that there’s little left for a plausible conflict: Corey Stoll has the thankless villain role of the industrial genius with daddy issues who seems to threaten every Marvel superhero. With Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Bobby Cannavale and Judy Greer. –MF Angola Screening Room (opens Aug 7), Flix, Hamburg Palace, Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria A BORROWED IDENTITY—Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis’s movies (The Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree) explore the lives of Arabs in the shadow of Israel. A Borrowed Identity follows Eyad, a boy of exceptional intelligence raised in an Israeli city with a predominantly Arab population. He is accepted into a prestigious boarding school where Arab students are rare and faces unexpected difficulties, including a romance with a Jewish girl that they must keep secret. For the most part, Eyad’s struggle with his identity is displayed subtly, sometimes too much so for American viewers who can’t read Hebrew or pick up on other nuances that would be clear to Israeli audiences. But the film’s conclusion, surprising even though signaled by the title, packs a tragic punch. –MF Eastern Hills (Dipson) ENDS THU AUG 6 FELIX ET MEIRA—Named Best Canadian Feature Film at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, a Montreal-based drama about a woman (Hadas Yaron) yearning to break free of the orthodox Jewish community and the free-spirited man (Martin Dubreuil) she turns to for companionship. Directed by Maxime Giroux. Eastern Hills (Dipson) ENDS THU AUG 6 GEMMA BOVERY—Don’t be expecting an adaptation of Madame Bovery in this French comedy based on a British comic strip by comic strip by Posy Simmonds (Tamara Drewe) It’s the story of a Normandy baker (Fabrice Luchini), a devotee of Flaubert, who becomes infatuated with his new neighbor, a young Englishwoman with little knowledge of French language or customs. His advice to her and her husband, colored by his groundless confusion of her with her literary namesake, leads to trouble culminating in a wickedly witty denouement. For all its sport with the literary classic, the baker’s ardor and obsession are a kind of literary conceit that is hard to treat cinematically, which keeps the film from ever being as sharp as it wants to be. With Gemma Atherton and Jason Flemyng. Directed by Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel). –GS. Eastern Hills (Dipson) ENDS THU AUG 6 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) OPENS FRI AUG 7 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 Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Transit Drive-In 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 Lockport Palace, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In LOVE AND MERCY—Exemplary biopic of Brian Wilson, who as the songwriter and architect of the Beach Boys found new uses for the recording studio in creating intricate pastries of sound. The film inevitably focuses on his mental problems (misdiagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia for decades) that may have been part and parcel with his creative gifts. He is played as a young man beginning to come apart at the seams by Paul Dano, and as a middle aged lost soul by John Cusack: Both performances are excellent, even if Cusack doesn’t look much like the real Wilson. The scenes of Wilson in the studio devising tracks for the Pet Sounds album alone are worth the price of a ticket. With Paul Giamatti as Wilson’s controlling therapast Eugene Landy and Elizabeth Banks as Melinda Ledbetter, who got him out of Landy’s clutches. Directed by Bill Pohlad. -MF McKinley (Dipson) ENDS THURS AUG 6 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

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UNDER A ROCK DARK PLACES BY M. FAUST WHEN I CAN, I like to watch a new movie knowing as little as possible about it, so as to keep any prejudices—positive or negative—at bay. Given that I don’t live in a cave, that is seldom an option with big releases, but I can often do it with smaller movies, especially given the modern trend not to use opening credits. That can backfire. A few minutes into the preview DVD of this, Mrs. Faust recalled that she had read the novel on which it was based. As it went on, I started wondering why anyone wanted to make a movie out of this dour, perfunctory story, especially given the missus’s occasional comment on how they had cleaned up some of the story’s darker aspects. It wasn’t until the end credits that I figured it out, when I read “From the novel by Gillian Flynn.” That’s when it made sense: From the author of Gone Girl, which made for one of the more satisfying adult dramas of recent years, some producer clearly hoped that lightning might strike twice. It didn’t. I won’t try to compare two novels that I haven’t read; for all I know, one is just as good as the other. But the obvious difference is that the film of Gone Girl was directed by David Fincher, who is a master at this kind of thing, where Dark Places was helmed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. On the basis of the two of his three features that I have seen (you may recall his historical drama Sarah’s Key, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, which played here in August 2011), Paquet-Brenner does not seem to be on track to be the next David Fincher. If he is lucky, he can graduate to a career directing HBO series. (He also wrote the screenplay, a task Flynn undertook herself for Gone Girl.) Dark Places stars Charlize Theron as Libby Day, a 30ish woman who has lived her adult life in Kansas City in a rather unusual way: funded by donations from people who were horrified at what happened to her 25 years ago. She was the sole survivor of an attack at the farmhouse where she

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lived with her mother and two sisters. Her older brother Ben was accused of the crime. The prosecution had no hard evidence, but he was known to espouse Satanism in the way that teen boys in the 1980s sometimes did. (Any comparison to the West Memphis Three is undeveloped.) The nail in his trial was when Libby, at the time eight years old, was prodded into naming him as the killer, even though she saw nothing. From the casting of Oscar winner Theron as Libby, one might guess that this story is going to concern, at least in part, the life of a woman who has lived with guilt and horror as well as an indifference to financial need. Maybe that’s what she was expecting when she signed up for the role. But what we get from Dark Places is a bland thriller in which, prompted by an offer of money from a club of true-crime enthusiasts, Libby investigates and uncovers the true events. Much of this is in the form of flashbacks depicting incidents that she neither witnessed nor, as far as we can see, learned about; the solution, at the risk of being a spoiler, has little to do with any of her digging. It’s satisfying neither as a mystery nor as a character study. It isn’t even much as a portrait of life in a part of the country beset by hard times (Libby’s mother was desperately trying to hang on to the family farm at the time of her death). Mostly it’s simply an exercise in a kind of grimness that Quebecoise directors seem to enjoy (cf. Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners). But if that’s your idea of a good time, you’re advised to stick with the novel. P

way (including, somewhat tastelessly, to post-war Hihighwayman trying to survive in a nightmarish wasteroshima) to make a fairly obvious point about Holmes’ land. But the film is dominated by Charlize Theron as character. Directed by Bill Condon, for whom McKelFuriosa, the most fully realized action heroine since len played another late in life icon, filmmaker James Aliens’ Ellen Ripley. In a film that is almost one long Whale, in Gods and Monsters (1988). With Laura Linchase sequence, the cars and stunts are as important as the people, and they are top of the line creations. ney, Milo Parker and Hattie Morahan. –MF. Eastern Hills Hopefully we won’t have to wait 30 years for the next (Dipson), North Park installment. –Gregory Lamberson. McKinley (Dipson) PAPER TOWNS—Adaptation of a young adult novel about a nerd enlisted into a mystery by the next-door neighMAGIC MIKE XXL—This inept sequel to Stephen Soderberbor he has a crush on. Starring Nat Wolff, Cara Delegh’s lightly entertaining 2012 film about male strippers vingne, and Austin Abrams. Directed by Jake Schreier lacks Matthew McConaughey and most of the original cast. Only Channing Tatum as the title character pro(Robot and Frank). Flix, Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmvides any kind of spark in his dance routines; none of wood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Transit, Regal Walden the five other actors cast as dancers are even crudely Galleria, Transit Drive-In convincing. The plot is silly and minimal, and if the film PIXELS—Ghostbusters versus old school video games: accomplishes anything it is to render the sight of men that would be a great idea for a summer movie if it removing their clothing tedious. –GS. Co-starring Matt had been made about 20 years ago, when the generBomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Amber Heard, ation that grew up in video arcades was still going to Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth Banks, and Jada Pinkett the movies. Adam Sandler and Josh Gad are a poor Smith. Directed by Gregory Jacobs (Wind Chill). Four substitute for Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd as childhood Seasons„ Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria gamers grown into adult losers who are called on to save the world from an attack by aliens in the form MINIONS is as review-proof as a movie gets: Anyone of Centipede, Donkey Kong and the like. Sandler’s who enjoyed the Despicable Me movies will already whole career has been about milking the 1980s, but be lined up for this spinoff prequel for Gru’s pill and even he seems tired of his usual character here, and capsule-shaped yellow henchmen. As Scarlet Overthe production values (Sandler’s company produced kill, the neurotic villainess with whom they had earlier it) are shoddy. The best that can be said about it is cast their lot, Sandra Bullock runs a distant second to that, unlike most of Sandler’s films, it’s inoffensive: Steve Carrell’s voice characterization. But the details you could take your kids to it. But they deserve better. are endlessly amusing (pay attention to the Minion’s With Kevin James, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Monaghan, speech, which is never actually gibberish.) It’s short Brian Cox, and Sean Bean. Directed by Chris Columbus on big laughs but consistently giggle-inducing. In a (Rent). –MF Flix, Maple Ridge (AMC), New Angola, Revoice cast that features Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan, and Geoffrey Rush, only gal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Jennifer Saunders makes any impact, as a Queen of Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, TranEngland. Directed by Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin. –MF. sit Drive-In Flix, Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal NiagSOUTHPAW—If last year’s compellingly creepy Nightara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden crawler found Jake Gyllenhaal borrowing from Robert Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In DeNiro’s playbook (part Travis Bickle, part Rupert Pupkin), this boxing drama can be seen as his channeling MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—ROGUE NATION—Now in its fifth inDeNiro as Jake LaMotta, with fight scenes that are as stallment, the series shows no desire to recapture the realistic-appearing as they are punishing to watch. But sense of team work that was integral to the 1960s TV whatever appeal that may have to you, you have to sit show whose title it bears, reducing the rest of the IMF through an awful lot of emotional punishment to get to to sidekicks to Tom Cruise and his James Bond-ian suthe feel-good ending, as champion fighter Billy Hope perheroics. The stunts are impressive, the plot less so loses his family and his fortune and has to fight his (the IMF battles an organization of re-purposed spies way back up from the bottom. Director Antoine Fuqua who seem to have no particular purpose other than has visual style to spare, but he approaches any kind causing havoc). But credit Cruise for casting Swedish of drama like a club to beat the viewer into submission: actress Rebecca Ferguson as his female counterpart: it’s as unpleasant a movie as you’re likely to find out at she steals the movie from him, and here’s hoping a multiplex this year. Written by Sons of Anarchy creshe comes back for the next installment. With Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris and ator Kurt Sutter. Co-starring Rachel McAdams, Forest Alec Baldwin; written and directed by Cruise’s acolyte Whitaker, and 50 Cent. –MF Flix, Maple Ridge (AMC), Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher). –MF Aurora, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Flix, Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Transit Drive-In Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In SPY—At last, a starring role for Melissa McCarthy that takes advantage of her substantial talents and doesn’t MR. HOLMES—The list of British actors who have not require her to play a troll. As a CIA desk jockey who played Sherlock Holmes shrinks by one as Ian McKelgets her first chance at a field assignment, she predictlen portrays the great detective as a 93-year-old reably gets into lots of comic scrapes but just as often tired to the countryside to tend bees. The case that displays her physical agility in action scenes. 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thy), 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 Four Seasons, McKinley Mall (Dipson), Transit Drive-In TERMINATOR GENISYS—Not a sequel or a reboot but what the comic book guys call a retcon, short for “retroactive continuity”: altering the previous story to fit in with where the producers now want it to go. That they do so self-consciously is initially amusing if you remember the first two films, which are replayed here in condensed versions with a Sarah Connor who has been raised by a protective Terminator since the age of nine. But the story is stretched and remolded so much that it soon becomes shapeless and impossible to connect with emotionally: two hours of CGI effects animating the corpse of a movie that once thrilled us with its originality and style. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, and J. K. Simmons. Directed by Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World). -MF Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, Regal Transit, Transit Drive-In TRAINWRECK—The combination of edgy comedienne Amy Schumer (writer, star) and director/comedy guru Judd Apatow (working for the first time from a screenplay he didn’t write) will cause no one to say, “It’s exactly what I was expecting.” As a struggling Manhattan journalist devoted to drugs, drinking and hookups, Schumer draws on the comic persona she has honed on three seasons of her Comedy Central sketch show. But while the film contains plenty of the satirical jabs at modern gender issues that made the show a success, it takes a more serious look at the character as she falls in love and considers monogamy. Consistently surprising in ways you won’t expect (the ending is preposterous, inconsistent and adorable, all at the same time); it’s probably the only Hollywood movie of the summer that you need to see if you’re over 25. In a cast headed by Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, and Tilda Swinton, the funniest scenes belong to LeBron James and John Cena. –MF. Amherst (Dipson), Flix, Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In VACATION—Reset, reimagining, reboot; whatever you call it, it’s a terrible movie. Rusty (Ed Helms), the grown-up son of Chevy Chase’s character in the 1980s Vacation movies, decides to take the wife and kids on a cross-country motor trip to a California theme park, as did his father. Predictably, they meet with a series of disasters, most centered on graphic sexual misadventures, irruptions of out-of-control bodily functions, and/or potty humor. The picture’s repetitiously episodic smuttiness, gross-out exertions, and vapid slapstick are threaded through with a smarmy sentimentality about family values, which amounts to casual cynicism. The setup and development are mechanical and barebones: It’s just a series of badly staged scenes of personal calamities, with dialogue consisting of dimwitticisms that seem to be only partly intentional. Christina Applegate, Chris Hemsworth, and Leslie Mann. Written and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein. –GS Flix, Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In P

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DEAR KEITH: I am a 27-year-old Floridian and I was hoping to solicit your counsel regarding the matter of my excessive alcohol intake in recent years. To be perfectly candid, I feel like you at least owe me some sliver of guidance seeing as how I mostly attribute my burgeoning alcoholism to an exorbitant consumption of Every Time I Die music in my early and mid teens, which I feel acted as an enabler to my “fuck school/work, let’s party” attitude. Being that I am to be married in a year, have a steady job, and a relatively happy existence, I wanted to see what advice you might be able to offer me in getting my proverbial shit together—considering your quasiresponsibility for my predicament.—EVERY TIME I BLACK OUT EVERY TIME I BLACK OUT: If I too may be

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perfectly candid, I owe you about as much as Maverick owes Goose, which is somewhere between jackshit and not a goddamn thing, but out of the kindness of my heart and my unhealthy dependency on the wealth and fame this column has brought me, I will at least give you my personal guarantee that your sense of entitlement to a plausible scapegoat for your own bad habits paired with an uncanny ability to shirk responsibility in a “so-natural-it-becomes-almost-involuntary” reaction will without a doubt guide you to an end more disappointing and horrible than the anemia brought on by any “burgeoning alcoholism.” Count on that. Your immorality was encoded into your genetics long before I ever lured you into a bottle with a moderately amusing line about a ponytail or an inside reference to The Pink. And if you don’t subscribe to the whole idea that your “fate is in the stars” and would rather operate under the pretense that environment is antecedent to genetic makeup when it comes to human development, then go ahead and look at your environment on a map. You’re from Florida. Key West literally has more bars per capita than any other place in the country, its current governor and human “unrolled condom in a suit,” Rick Scott, is pushing to end government funding of the humanities, and there are so many instances of modernday drug-fueled cannibalism that “skin-eating criminals” is actually a term used to describe a portion of its unlawful citizens. These conditions would make Ian MacKaye do a keg stand. I’m sorry to inform you of this, but Every Time I Die didn’t break you. We just appealed to you because you discovered we were all broken in the same places. However, shouting into the secret, ugly chasms that each of us contain in the hopes of teasing what lurks there out into the light is exactly what punk rock and hardcore music is meant to do, so to quote one of the more influential lyricists in your life—me—“my job here is done.”

dered, and slightly arrogant Buffalonians with little to no understanding of song structure, it would be in your best interest to disavow art altogether, because I cannot imagine what is going to happen to you when you discover the “Babymetal.” I implore you this very instant to drag and drop your e-books in the trash! Select, then drag and then drop your pirated movies and television shows into the trash! Highlight, then drag and drop your iTunes folder full of the devil’s music in .mp3 format into the trash! Click Command-A on any and all photographs on your external hard drive and—Jesus Christ, “destroying art” is not nearly as violent or exciting as it used to be. Nonetheless, try to avoid exposing yourself to anything that may cause you to learn more about yourself because there is a very good chance that it might hinder your ability to “get your shit together” in a timely fashion. Refrain from being aware, awake, curious, lustful, angry, or amazed, as all of these conditions contribute directly to “being alive” and, as we all know, people who are alive are certainly not the ones sitting with their proverbial shit together in a nondescript cubicle counting down the minutes until 5pm when they can lock themselves into the one room of the house their wife allows them to decorate and pound off to Kim Kardashian on the cover of Rolling Stone. If this is much more your speed, then you are absolutely correct—my band may have had a heavy hand in convincing you to abandon this path of moral righteousness in order to get the most out of your youth while you had it, and we’re not the least bit sorry.

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