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LOOKING BACKWARD: For Labor Day, a tribute to iron and steel workers.

FILM: Mistress America, and Best of Enemies, plus cinemas listings.

PLAYBILL: A guide to the plays and musicals opening in the next couple weeks.

ASSISTED LIVING: Keith Buckley advises a Buffalo boomerang on reentry.

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IN FEBRUARY, the prognosisTHIS wasPROOF that MAY 2015ONLY There is some interesting action in the race for BE USED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE PUBLIC. would be a quiet year in local politics—a year in a single Erie County Family Court judge. The which incumbents would go largely unchallenged, Erie County Democratic Party has endorsed in which voters would have few or no high-quality Kelly Brinkworth; the faction usually associated with former chairman Steve Pigeon—keeping choices to make in their representation. his head low this political season while an invesErie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, a Demotigation continues into his political and financial crat, for example, has maintained a degree of popu- activities—has been working on behalf of the well larity (except among the grumbling factions of his funded Michele Brown. (The way money seems to own party) sufficient to ward off one heavy-hitting be flowing through Brown’s campaign committee potential Republican challenger, Erie County to other candidates in the region suggests it’s being Clerk Chris Jacobs, who may have other, high- used a sort of clearinghouse for donations.) Brenda er offices in his sights. Before Jacobs declined to Freedman, a referee in both Erie County Family run, Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw and Supreme Courts, is in this mix, too. Rounding removed his hat from the ring. Instead Poloncarz out the ballot is Democrat Joe Jarzembek, an attorfaces Ray Walter, the Republican assemblyman ney who works at Erie County Family Court for from Amherst, a sharp guy whose turn as a sac- the county’s Department of Social Services. rificial lamb this year will no doubt be rewarded with a judgeship or some other lagniappe down Here’s a sad truth: Only lawyers and politics junkies know or care about judicial races. Most voters the road. don’t take part in judicial elections, and many who Republican attorney Emilio Colaiacovo and Dem- do just guess or follow party lines. ocrat Frank A. Sedita III are likely to be cross-enThe September primaries for Erie County Legdorsed for State Supreme Court justice—no priislature are dull to nonexistent, save for a couple maries. (This despite the fact the Sedita, the Erie quiet efforts by both Democrats and Republicans County District Attorney, continues to pretend to co-opt the Green Party line for their candidates. publicly that he is not a candidate for the job.) The But that’s inside baseball: Most voters simply don’t only decision left for the voter in November will be notice or understand such manipulations. The whether to vote for a judge at all. general elections in November will be just slightly

There are two seats open for Erie County Court and there are two candidates—once again, no election worthy of the name. One candidate is an incumbent, Sheila DiTullio, rated “outstanding” by the Erie County Bar Association. The other is James Bargnesi, until recently a prosecutor in the Erie County District Attorney’s office, where part of his job was drumming up donations for Sedita—donations everyone knew would purchase Sedita a judgeship, even as Sedita maintained that the money was for his putative reelection race in 2016. Bargnesi withdrew his request for a rating from the Bar Association, which suggests his rating was going to be poor. Otherwise why bother withdrawing the request, especially given the lack of other candidates?

more heated, as Democrats seek to regain the majority by unseating Ted Morton of Cheektowaga, and Republicans focus on picking off Democrat Tom Loughran of Williamsville. Perhaps no narrative better exemplifies the ability of party leaders to slowly bleed the franchise of significance than that of the Delaware District Common Council seat. In late winter, there was the possibility of a dynamic primary challenge to incumbent Mike LoCurto: Jay McCarthy, a member of the Buffalo Board of Education’s majority coalition, made no secret of his intention to run for the seat. Well funded and well connected, McCarthy might have given LoCurto a run for his money. Ultimately he withdrew: As a member of the board’s majority coalition, McCarthy would have

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So it seemed LoCurto would go unchallenged. Then, in late July, after the deadline for candidates to get on the ballot for the September 10 primaries, LoCurto was offered and accepted a job for the Erie County Department of Planning and the Environment. That meant that LoCurto’s committee on vacancies would choose someone to replace him on the ballot—and that committee would choose whomever Democratic Party leaders told them to choose. “Whomever” turned out to be Joel Feroleto, LoCurto’s cousin and a scion of a North Buffalo political family. (His father is a big donor to Democratic candidates, his mother is a judge.) He does not face a primary opponent; it was too late for any challenger to file petitions to get on the primary ballot. In a city where Democrats enjoy a major enrollment advantage, Feroleto was essentially appointed to a four-year term. This is not a judgment of Feroleto or his potential to be a good councilman—he may turn out to be terrific—but the choice was uninspired and predictable, the kind of rigged game that turns thinking people away from politics. You want evidence? This Tuesday, following its own rules on filling vacancies, members of the Common Council reviewed resumes and interviewed candidates to fill the vacant Delaware District seat until such time as Feroleto wins the seat officially. Guess how many candidates submitted resumes for the job?

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Just one: Feroleto. Nobody else bothered. Meanwhile, three candidates submitted resumes to fill the Masten District seat, left vacant by Demone Smith, who has taken a sweet patronage gig as head of the Buffalo Employment and Training Center. There are also three candidates on the primary ballot and a fourth waging a writein campaign. Two candidates are challenging Fillmore District Councilman David Franczyk. Those are serious races, far more competitive than observers of the scene might have predicted last February. But in Delaware there’s is only the Republican candidacy of orthodontist Peter Rouff. Rouff is an investor in this paper, so of course I’m biased in his favor, but he knows what everyone else knows: A Republican’s chance of winning a seat on the Common Council are thin. The district has 12,520 registered Democrats and 3,055 registered Republicans. It’s been almost 35 years since a Republican sat on the Common Council. (Former University District Councilman Kevin Heffner was elected as a Conservative and was in all but name a Democrat.) Rouff joined the race specifically because he was outraged that voters in his district were deprived of a choice. He aims to make a point about the quality of our representation and how it is chosen. For that conversation alone, his race against FeroP leto is worthy of attention.

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CLINTON’S CAMPAIGN APPARATUS IS DESTROYING HER CANDIDACY BECAUSE OF A MISREAD OF HOW DEEPLY VOTERS ARE PUT OFF BY HER LACK OF TRANSPARENCY.

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If we’re not lucky, Hillary Clinton will refuse to give up her very troubled candidacy, and her incompetent campaign will once again blow what should have been a sure thing—because without Biden in 2016, the chances of a Republican victory, mainly because of voter distrust of Hillary Clinton, are very real.

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The closer one looks at Biden, the more one wonders, if only in political terms, why he wasn’t always the natural choice of his party. The answer, of course, is that Hillary Clinton is the natural choice, too. Except that now her negatives are so high that she is unelectable unless she turns them around today—or, preferably, yesterday.

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So is Biden electable? The short answer is yes. The more sensible answer is yes, of course. Or yes, in thunder. Or, if you prefer, duh.

THE REASSURANCE FACTOR It could be that Hillary Clinton’s candidacy will recover—that despite the 2008 problem of a sclerotic campaign bureaucracy created and led by the fattest of Washington fat-cat corporate consultants, and despite the 2015 email scandal that has wrecked her trustworthiness, she will nimbly purge all the courtiers and corner-cutters with whom she surrounds herself, and then blast forth with a clarifying populist message, humble herself in some momentous demonstration of existential genuineness, and achieve a candidacy renaissance. This would be desirable, for several reasons. First, for Biden or anybody else to put together a campaign will mean putting a large number of political activists in very uncomfortable positions. Hillary Clinton has assiduously collected endorsements and as-good-as endorsements from enormous numbers of African-American and Latino political leaders; she also has the endorsement of the largest women’s political organization in the country (known as the national teacher’s union), and remains very strong with labor and other people with phone banks, door-knockers, and GOTV blood. Second, Hillary Clinton has a strong claim to the political loyalty of millions of other middle-aged and older women who vote in primaries—especially open primaries, the ones that are open to voters of any party, as in the Alabama, Arkansas,

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What’s true is that Biden is a professional senator and as such the reassuring old pro. Keith Richards in a politician suit? Nah. Older than Richards by a couple of years, but indeed, as with Richards, you know what you have with Biden, and he is a perennial best-seller. Until he became vice president at the age of 65—and thus president of the Senate—Biden had worked for 36 years as a senator. He is known by the public, trusted by military leaders, and known by generations of international leaders—but he is absolutely not a shoo-in as nominee if Hillary Clinton decides to stick it out and fight for what her own negatives will deny her. Unless, of course, Biden teams with Elizabeth Warren as Hillary Clinton’s troubles mount. That dynamic could change it all. It’s a bit early to ask what the points of differentiation might be between Biden and Hillary Clinton. Her troubles are her main issue. She has about a month to fix them. If she can’t, then it’s Biden time. Should she persist even if her troubles grow, then it’ll be difficult. For everybody. Bruce Fisher is visiting professor of economics at SUNY Buffalo State and the director of the P Center for Economic and Policy Studies.

The iron and steel worker is an icon of American labor. As little as a century ago, working in iron and steel meant subsistence wages, long hours and few holidays, and—too frequently—gruesome injuries and death. It was only after unionization, in the late 1930s, that wages rose and working conditions improved. The Hanna Furnace Corp., 1218 Fuhrmann Boulevard, was one of the country’s largest manufacturers of pig iron, a component in steelmaking. Here, in this undated image taken by Bob Hauser, an iron worker toils inside the blast furnace shed. The scene is equally beautiful and terrifying. Working with molten metal was hard, hot, and dangerous. The union movement—to be celebrated this weekend on Labor Day—helped turned this grueling and hazardous profession into a stepladder to the middle class. The Union Ship Canal, where Hanna Furnace once stood, is one of the few public places in Buffalo where the contributions of the iron and steel worker are celebrated. If you have a chance, walk or bike this public space P this weekend. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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Where will that put us? Without a Biden candidacy, Hillary Clinton’s troubles would elevate Bernie Sanders, but what of it? Sanders might defeat her in Iowa, which is a caucus state, meaning that in the first week of February 2016, all Sanders has to do is to organize around 50,000 folks in that state to go to a bunch of little meetings for him. Sanders routinely turns out 10,000 people at rallies, so a whole bunch of little mini-rallies shouldn’t be a problem. The week after, Sanders might well win in New Hampshire, which is conveniently located next door to his home state of Vermont. Then, Sanders’s candidacy will hit a wall as he loses the overwhelmingly African-American primary in South Carolina. Super Tuesday comes on March 1. The candidate who can attract the Democratic base will win. The one who won’t will be an also-ran

Biden is the answer to that question. He is the vice president who was quite forcefully first in pushing the White House on same-sex marriage, the longtime progressive on taxes, the former senator with the 36-year Senate record on criminal-justice reform, the passionate Senate advocate for under-armoring Army vehicles that Iraqi militants were blowing up with IEDs while Pentagon bureaucrats and penny-pinching Republicans were content to just let explode. Joe Biden is, the longer one looks, the obvious alternative.

Sadly, Clinton will probably not recover her electability. The only question is whether she will withdraw when it becomes clear that her candidacy is untenable—because that is where the investigation into her emails may lead.

As it becomes increasingly clear that Bernie Sanders supporters will not bridge their cultural and political divides with Democratic primary voters, the question of where mainstream as well as progressive Democrats can go will become more urgent.

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Third, Hillary Clinton has raised an enormous amount of money. She has done the hard, ugly, necessary work of going to the worst places— mainly Wall Street—to raise the money that will have to be deployed in that short-lived major corporation known as a presidential campaign, whose sole object is to last long enough, efficiently enough, to deliver, on a November day in 2016, more market share than its rival.

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BEYOND THE OVERTURE Musical theater in store for you during the 2015-16 season BY THOMAS DOONEY

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A GRATEFUL TIP of the hat to Christopher Hampton and Don Black. They are lyricists for Sunset Boulevard, inaccurately known as “an Andrew Lloyd Webber” musical. Thanks because, in all of musical theaterdom, they wrote one of the few songs celebrating New Year’s. Other shows feature songs which tug at the holiday strings for fetes and feast days religious, secular, governmental, and banking. New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, not so much. And New Year’s can be as dramatic as a holiday can get: anticipation, dread, and the happiest of hopes for what might come. Curtain Up!, which takes place a bit later this month, is local theater’s equivalent of a ball-dropping ceremony. The September 18 start of the new theater season holds as much dramatic tension as any December 31, and there are certainly many musicals coming our way. As of this writing, a couple dozen musicals have been announced for production on this region’s professional stages during 2015-16. Of course

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MusicalFare, which jauntily calls itself “a theater of note” because it devotes itself to musical theater, has come up with a mixed bag of titles, classic, contemporary, and vintage. And O’Connell & Company, also dedicated to musicals, will present two intriguing works in this genre. Two more companies make the “of course” list, Shea’s Performing Arts Center and Lancaster Opera House, which every year include musicals in their rosters.

Mary Coppola-Gjurich will appear in American Repertory Theater of WNY’s Carrie: The Musical.

Notable, though, is that this season theaters better known for their dramatic programming have scheduled a musical or two while staying consistent with their company missions. From the gracious Irish Classic Theatre to the rough and ready Subversive Theatre Collective, from the steadfast Kavinoky to the ingenuous Theatre of Youth, they are all facing the music: Audiences hold a place in their hearts—and their wallets—for musical theater. These producers of drama might also be reaching out to new audiences, those who only go to musicals.

Music can be the liveliest part of a theatrical event. The traditional American musical offers a pattern rooted in both operetta (songs and scenes sandwiching each other) and music hall (with star turns, dance breaks, and specialty numbers tossed in for good measure). The sequencing of spoken word and sung lyric in order to tell a story, leading to, one hopes, a climax in each act and a grand finale at the end. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Musicalfare) will be a good example of this. Song follows scene follows song in the saga of a young man’s speedy career ascent. Set in the world of New York City commerce circa Mad Men, the musical has a similar satiric intent although a lighter heart. Rather than Mad Men’s retro cynicism, How to Succeed is a tribute to Kennedy-era optimism, as reflected in its bouncy score by Frank Loesser.

Some think musicals mere schlock, the stage equivalent of a McNugget meal—of insipid quality and too popular to be any good. A reductive judgment at best. The ample spectrum of musicals and the variety of ways in which music is used within these shows defies that McLogic. All theater attempts to be entertaining, naturally, and the traditional American Broadway musical is particularly eager to please.

Through the ages and the stages, music has also served as enhanced text, ideal for the skilled actor to provide an effective interpretation. The music in these shows get into the characters’ minds through their vocal chords in solo numbers potently poetic as opera arias or Shakespearean soliloquies. Should you attend Carrie: The Musical, you will hear Mary Coppola-Gjurich bewail her religion-based guilt

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MUSICALS SCHEDULED FOR 2015-2016 ALLEYWAY THEATRE Granny Goose (September) AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER OF WNY Carrie: The Musical (September, with Kaleidoscope Theatre Company) IRISH CLASSICAL THEATRE COMPANY A Little Night Music (September) KAVINOKY THEATRE End of the Rainbow (January) LANCASTER OPERA HOUSE Monty Python’s Spamalot (September), Detention of the Damned (October), My Fair Lady (November), Twas the Night Before Christmas (December), Children of Eden (February, with Rocking Horse Productions), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (June, with Second Generation Theatre)

in “And Eve Was Weak.” In Company, Loraine O’Donnell will skewer shallow housewives of New York City—herself excluded, of course. Freddy in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, to be played by Nicholas Lama, confidently raps his motivating greed in “Great Big Stuff.” Adding other actor-singers to the mix establish moments rich in dramatic content as well as musical complexity. In Ordinary Days, a post-Sondheim, post-9/11 musical being presented by O’Connell & Company, two couples croon their interpersonal crises by way of Adam Gwon’s intimate and introspective music. On a more virtuosic level you might hear “A Weekend in the Country,” the Act One closer of A Little Night Music, during which half a dozen characters harmonize their leisure plans, both recreational and adulterous. Music can establish time, place and mood, rather like aural scenery and inner lighting. In the Heights is set in Washington Heights, the upper Manhattan enclave of Caribbean- and Hispanic-American immigrants. The score paints a cityscape through its percussive rhythms and intoxicating melodies, suggesting a neighborhood of bodegas, nail salons, and pop-up stores. Sometimes the story of a musical is music itself. Audiences will have opportunities to experience this in several productions this season. End of the Rainbow is set backstage during Judy Garland’s final London appearance. During the show, the Kavinoky Theatre’s stage will showcase numbers from that fateful 1969 engagement. Subversive Theatre Collective will present the music-based The Last Will of Joe Hill, inspired by the work of the gentleman provocateur. Hill crisscrossed the United States spreading the word of

MUSICALFARE In the Heights (September, with Raices Theatre); Pageant (November); Ring of Fire (January); Avenue Q (April, at 710 Main Street), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (April) O’CONNELL & COMPANY Ordinary Days (January), Company (May) PAUL ROBESON THEATRE COMPANY How I Got Over (September) SHEA’S Newsies! (September), Matilda (November), Annie (December), Pippin (January), Beautiful (March), The Wizard of Oz (April), Dirty Dancing (May) SUBVERSIVE THEATRE COLLECTIVE Joe Hill’s Last Will (November) THEATRE OF YOUTH The Real Story of the Three Little Pigs (June)

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radical labor. His medium was music, devising lyrics about class struggle set to religious hymns, folk tunes, and other popular melodies. Kind of suggests that music is the original social media. Similarly, How I Got Over proves the potency of religious music. The lives of four outstanding Buffalo-based gospel singers are recounted by way of oral history and performance of those ageless gospel songs. Paul Robeson Theatre revives this original show, which premiered there in May 2015. In my experience, How I Got Over is one of the most important plays in the effort to put Buffalo’s history on stage. No matter how seriously intended a stage musical, the musical component should provide something of a romp. Even propaganda, moral messages, religious dogma, and turgid lessons are most easily swallowed through music. Romp will be intrinsic to most of the musicals staged in Buffalo this year but the aggregate musical theater season will be as diverse as music itself. The Big Bad Wolf sings his version of the momentous meeting with three pigs. King Arthur saves Britain through less than chivalrous means. A couple of centuries later, Charlemagne’s son discovers his corner of the sky. Closer to our own day, a red-headed orphan teaches Franklin Delano Roosevelt how to encourage depressed Americans. And perhaps this year you will walk out of a theater singing the songs you have just heard. P DAILYPUBLIC.COM / SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 / THE PUBLIC

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COOLER  “Cringe” (Song) Recommended If You Like: Jawbreaker, Bully, Garbage

Emo/punk blog Couch King premiered the first single from this new fuzzy quartet, which features a pair of former Brother Keep members. Cooler’s debut threetrack EP 1993 will be released via Arizona DIY label NDE Records on September 22.

done.  AM (EP) RYIF: The Appleseed Cast, Sunny Day Real Estate

Buffalo/New Paltz math duo recently dropped a pair of meticulous emo revival tracks during summer’s waning days.

NIGHT SLAVES  “Into The Darkness” (Song) RIYL: Nine Inch Nails

JOHNS and Alpha Hopper member John Toohill and NS partner David Kane (Them Jazz Beards) quietly shared the second track from the new industrial project. Expect a physical release and a debut live performance later this fall.

LOCAL SHOW PICK OF THE WEEK PAPPY STARDUST W/ TOMOREAUX SUGAR CITY / 1239 NIAGARA ST SAT, SEPTEMBER 5 / 7PM PAY WHAT YOU CAN

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INTERVIEW: RATATAT THURSDAY SEP 3 6PM / RAPIDS THEATRE, 1711 MAIN ST. / $25-$30 [ELECTRONIC] Often, the simplest projects end up taking the longest to complete. It took Ratatat five years to follow up LP4 with Magnifique, which finally arrived in July after a string of teaser singles that began in late winter. Despite the long wait, it’s a relatively pared down affair that most closely resembles the duo’s 2004 self-titled debut. For Mike Stroud—who along with producer/musician Evan Mast comprises the Brooklyn-based instrumental duo—the simplicity is a relief, even if it did take forever to finish the album. “This album is just better,” he said over the phone, having just returned from a headlining run of European festival dates. Ratatat has just a few days off before resuming their American tour, which includes a show on Thursday, September 3 at the Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls. “I feel more confident in it, and the palette is more basic because the songs are better—stronger and more fun. They stand up with less stuff added in, and we both feel more confident about this disc than either of the last two.” LP3 and LP4, released in 2008 and 2010 respectively, were the products of having an increased production budget and found the duo stretching well beyond the relatively basic mechanics of their celebrated debut. Fans didn’t seem to mind: Ratatat’s profile continued rising steadily, bolstered by tracks like “Shiller,” “Shempi,” and “Party with Children,” but the process of live performance was becoming arduous, and—Stroud admits— not nearly as enjoyable. “It was becoming increasingly difficult to play the songs as a duo,” he said. “Because of all the production experiments on the last two records, we each had a ton of added responsibilities on stage. During the course of one song, I’d play guitar, keyboards, drums, and have to repeatedly trigger samplers—it’s a lot to worry about. It’s maybe not something that people who don’t play music would realize, necessarily, but if you’re so busy worrying about the intricacies of the performance, it’s very difficult to enjoy what you’re doing. There’s a lot less thinking involved in playing the new songs, which allows me to just play guitar and get into the spirit of the show.” At a time when bands spring up at a dizzying rate and mediocrity propels momentum, Ratatat has a differentiating trump card that cannot be argued with: no lyrics. It’s a defining characteristic that forever renders the duo a singular entity, especially when you consider that the number of instrumental projects that have courted mainstream popularity can be counted on one hand. But being a solely instrumental project makes the process of songwriting less structured and considerably more time-consuming. Stroud says there’s never any imagery that launches a Ratatat song. Instead, the music is all begun blindly, in a studio setting—no narratives, no storylines. “I don’t think either of us ever has a picture or a sound in mind when we go into starting a song,” he said. “It’s a groove-based process, I guess. For our first record, we’d start with a beat and then jump around, layering different instruments and jamming together until we were satisfied that we had something we could definitely use. “In the end, we’re just trying to entertain ourselves in the studio, it’s about what we want to hear…and maybe that’s a little selfish,” he continued. “But when we’ve tried to work on a song with a plan, the track always ended up suffering; it sucked, and we threw it away. I think the new songs are as strong as they are because we started with melodies this time. I’m not saying that narratives don’t sometimes begin developing as songs take shape—they do, and actually, that’s one way you can determine what’s a mistake, like ‘Wait, this isn’t where the song is supposed to go.’ But it’s

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BEING A SOLELY INSTRUMENTAL PROJECT MAKES THE PROCESS OF SONGWRITING LESS STRUCTURED AND CONSIDERABLY MORE TIME-CONSUMING… THERE’S NEVER ANY IMAGERY THAT LAUNCHES A SONG. always best when you can cut a basic track in one day and not have to consider the trajectory…it makes it harder to go back to finish, and that’s one of the reasons why Magnifique took so long.” But if visuals aren’t an ingredient going into the process of songwriting, they certainly play a key role on the other end when Ratatat takes their songs on the road. With no singing focal point and little interest in hogging the spotlight, Stroud and Mast rely on a dazzling display of lasers, lighting, and video clips to keep their audience actively engaged. “Evan does the video stuff,” Stroud explained. “We actually had a few artists creating the material, but Evan curated it. For this tour, we rented all the lighting and the laser equipment and then spent a week in Nashville designing with the technicians. It was kinda funny since we’re super picky down to the last detail about the look of the show and the technicians are also very particular—you don’t want to step on their toes. It seemed like those guys really enjoyed this project, though, despite having to deal with us. Most bands, you know, the lighting is secondary since the show is all about them.” -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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HAINT BLUE THURSDAY SEP 3 8PM MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. $5 [AMERICANA] Haint Blue’s new self-titled EP delivers some of the best Americana-tinted pop you’ve heard this year—further driving home the notion that depth of feeling needn’t be sacrificed in order to create accessible string-based music. The Baltimorean seven-piece weaves a strummy amalgam of rootsy instrumentation at a pop pace while handling heavy topics about faith, family, and facing the dark side. Haint Blue, by the way, is a greenish shade of blue that’s thought to ward off evil. Locals the Observers and Pine Fever will open at Mohawk Place on Thursday, September 3 with a sturdy set steeped in upright bass, banjo, and trumpet, seasoned with complex harmonies. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

THE CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 22 MONDAY SEPTEMBER 28

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7

Counting Crows 7pm Artpark, 450 South 4th St. $35-$59.50

[ROCK] In 1993, the Counting Crows unleashed their gorgeously orchestrated debut album, August and Everything After, to an audience unprepared for such an original and honest sound. “Mr. Jones” burned up the charts with its thick melodies and Adam Duritz’s passionate vocals. Twenty-one years and five albums later, the Crows are back with Somewhere Under Wonderland to remind us that they have evolved, but their songs can still penetrate the soul. Their sound is familiar on the slow piano dirge ballad, “Possibility Days,” but rollicking cuts like “Scarecrow” and “Earthquake Driver” have a crunchy, hippie-country twang, pushing the band's boundaries. Catch the Counting Crows with Citizen Cope and Hollis Brown at Artpark on Wednesday, September 2. -KELLIE POWELL

FRIDAY SEP 4 Steve-O

the airborne toxic event

SUICIDE GIRLS BLACKHEART B U R L E S Q U E

THURSDAY OCTOBER 8

SATURDAY OCTOBER 10

TUESDAY OCTOBER 13

FRIDAY OCTOBER 16

SUNDAY OCTOBER 25

SATURDAY DECEMBER 5

7pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $24-$38

WEDNESDAY SEP 2 Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar 5th Anniversary Party 7pm Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar, 253 Allen St

[CELEBRATION] Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar in Allentown has taken on several forms since it rose from the ashes of Staples five years ago. First it was a popular electronic music spot, hosting acts like Africa Hi-Tech and Shlohmo, before transitioning into a popular dining spot. Now it’s one of the only venues to host regular hip hop shows in Allentown. In celebration of their five-year anniversary, the venue has invited a slew of local DJs including regulars like Sike, LoPro, Basha, and many more for a party on Wednesday, September 2. And since it’s Duke’s, expect a complimentary buffet. -CP

[COMEDY] At the turn of the century Steve-O (Stephen Glover) began his career with the stunt-based reality show Jackass, and introduced a new species of entertainment by way of outrageous and often painful tricks that gave Evel Knievel a run for his money. However, in his stand-up, he proves that he can split your sides without stapling his scrotum to his thigh and shooting fireworks out of his butt. Catch Steve-O at Helium Comedy Club on Thursday, September 3 through Sunday, September 6. -KP

SEPTEMBER 25

Carolina Gentlemen

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

[FOLK] So, here’s the deal: On the eve of releasing his new disc with current project This Dirty Hill, singer-songwriter Wes Walters is reforming the Carolina Gentlemen (no, not the all male a cappella group at the University of South Carolina) for a one-off reunion and final goodbye show that also functions as This Dirty Hill’s CD release gig. Come say hello, goodbye, and grab a copy of the new album, Friday, September 4 at Mohawk Place with Tim Andrews. -CJT

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TIMEFLIES WITH KALIN AND MYLES OCTOBER 3

LOWEST OF THE LOW

OCTOBER 21

MAYDAY PARADE OCTOBER 23

WILLIE NILE OCTOBER 30

ROBERT DELONG NOVEMBER 7

GWAR

NOVEMBER 13

OCTOBER 11

GRANGER SMITH

DARK STAR ORCHESTRA

OCTOBER 20

NOVEMBER 17

DEVIL MAKES THREE

GOONS TAKE AMERICA

NOVEMBER 20

PAPADOSIO NOVEMBER 21

NATE RUESS NOVEMBER 24

KAMELOT WITH DRAGONFORCE NOVEMBER 27

ANDREW MCMAHON IN THE WILDERNESS WITH NEW POLITICS NOVEMBER 28

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SATURDAY SEP 5

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Kevin James

8pm Seneca Niagara Events Center, 310 4th St. $20- $160

THIS WEEK'S AGENDA FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4

DRIVEN BY IMAGINATION

6–10PM at Prism Gallery, 224 Allen St.

Jim Estep’s acrylic paintings of the male form, with intense attention to light and shadow, will leave an impression on your inner mind. Exhibition on view through Oct. 1. Showing in the adjacent Glow Gallery, Constructivist: Works by Doug Bauer.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5

[COMEDY] Kevin James is known for playing lovable goofballs like Doug Heffernan on The King of Queens and the title role in Paul Blart: Mall Cop. From Pixels and Grown Ups to I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, his presence in any film is always comforting and enjoyable. James started doing standup in 1989, and took his act to Star Search and various talk shows before becoming a household name for his sitcom and film work. He is always entertaining onscreen, but the best display of his comedic chops is manifested in his stand-up charisma. His observational jokes about proper phone-number rhythm, the increasing size of muffins, and the struggles of renting a jet ski are powered by his spirited delivery, which includes hilarious gestures, facial expressions, and occasional shouting. Catch Kevin James at Seneca Niagara Casino Events Center on Saturday, September 5 and Sunday, September 6. -KP

Clarence Labor Day Fair

11am Clarence Center Fire Hall, 9415 Clarence Center Rd.

[CELEBRATION] A big batch of country and classic rock bands, a demolition derby, fair rides, fireworks, and food are what you’ll find at the annual Labor Day Fair at the Clarence Center Fire Hall. This year the fair runs from Saturday, September 5 through Monday, September 7. -CP

Lichens

8pm Silo City, 120 Childs St.

LEATHER NIGHT 10PM–2AM at Underground, 274 Delaware Ave.

Everyone dons their favorite skins for this party, hosted by the Buffalo Bulldogs following the club's monthly meeting. This month’s theme: Blue Collar Night. Admission: $2.

[EXPERIMENTAL] In what promises to be the most unusual performance of the weekend, Squeaky Wheel brings its summer-long focus on avant-garde icon Hollis Frampton to a close with a live set from Chicago-based composer Robert A. A. Lowe (a.k.a. Lichens), juxtaposed against Frampton's Magellan Cycle (early to mid 1970s silent films, from what we can tell). Lesionread and WWLS will perform as well, all showcased within the rustic chambers of Silo City's grain elevators this Saturday, September 5. -CJT

Untitled (George) by Nick Butler, on view at Studio Hart.

FIRST FRIDAY, ALLENTOWN FRIDAY SEP 4 6PM / VARIOUS LOCATIONS [ART] Now that the frivolities of summer are behind us, it’s time to dig back in and this Friday— September’s First Friday—might be the inaugural weekend of the Buffalo cultural calendar as galleries all over Allentown showcase their new work and stay open to the public. The male form will be investigated, explored, and inevitably made fun of with an impressively comprised group show curated by Gerald Mead at Studio Hart—UNCLAD—(65 Allen Street) and with Prism Gallery's (224 Allen Street) show of paintings by Jim Estep. Manuel Barreto Furniture (430 Delaware Avenue) will open with a contemporary art show from the Robert and Sylvia Coles collection while the nearby Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue) will show a selection of photography from Robert Schulman. At the Artist’s Group Gallery (1 Linwood Avenue), Adele Becker will be showing A Life’s Work from her decades of paintings favoring oils and landscapes; the Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Avenue) will host new, abstract work from Kate Parzych; TGW@497 (497 Franklin Avenue) will have Dave Vitrano’s mixed media and terracotta sculptures in a show entitled Paper, Rock, Scissors; and Indigo Gallery (47 Allen Street) will have Joseph Scheer’s terrific works on paper (featured in this week's centerfold). If you venture further downtown, check out Jonathan Piret’s Execution of a Photograph show at the BOX Gallery inside the Buffalo-Niagara Youth Hostel. -AARON LOWINGER

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6 PUBLIC APPROVED

BLACK PARTY 9PM–4AM at Club Marcella, 622 Main St. Mourn the end of summer and celebrate the unofficial start of fall with the club’s annual color party. “Life’s a Drag” show at midnight, hosted by Jayme Coxx with DJ Charles Masters. Drink specials every hour and giveaways all night. Admission: $5 >21; $10 <21.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8

PHOTO BY MICHAEL BUSH

GAME NIGHT 9PM at Underground, 274 Delaware Ave.

Pictionary, Heads Up!, Cards Against Humanity—really, it’s whatever the players want to play. Mike is your game-master, while Jayme Coxx and Matt keep you hydrated from behind the bar. Gloaters and sore losers will be chastised.

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GANGSTAGRASS SATURDAY SEP 5 9PM / BUFFALO IRON WORKS, 49 ILLINOIS ST. / $15 [HIP HOP] When you see the silhouette of a cowboy hat and quickly find yourself staring down the barrel of Raylan Givens’s rifle during the opening credits of Justified, the last thing you hear is the music of Gangstagrass. The five-piece band is a strange beast. Based out of Brooklyn, the band plays bluegrass music infused with hip hop beats. Led by characters with names like Rench, R-Son, Melody, and Dolio the Sleuth, the group combines fiddles and banjos, grooving beats, and rap lyrics to create a unique sound. Their claim to fame so far is an Emmy nomination for their Justified theme song, “Long Hard Times to Come,” but a closer look reveals a lengthy resume that includes guest appearances by the likes of Kool Keith, Smif-NWessun, and Dead Prez. Gangstagrass makes their return to Buffalo for a show at Buffalo Iron Works on Saturday, September 5. -CORY PERLA

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CALENDAR EVENTS Pappy Stardust

7pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St. $5

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[INDIE] It's local! It's garagey! It's a little lofi and a lot bluesy. It's Pappy Stardust! And it's also a CD release show. Help Pappy and Co. generate some filthy noise in celebration of birthing All Around Sound, the band's new full-length (their third) with assistance from Tomoreaux, Moody Cosmos, and Shreds at Sugar City on Saturday, September 5. -CJT

Professor Louie and The Crowmatix

LIVEMUSICEVERYNIGHTFOROVER30YEARS!

3pm Sportsmen' Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $25

[AMERICANA] Professor Louie and the Crowmatix understand the spirit of Woodstock. Not only are they from the famous New York town in Ulster County where the most legendary music festival of all time took place, but they’ve studied the concept of the Woodstock movement as well—recording a record in 2005 titled Spirit of Woodstock featuring songs by the Band and Bob Dylan through their Americana/roots rock lens. The band still plays more than 100 shows a year, and will make their return to Buffalo this Labor Day weekend for a show on Saturday, September 5 at the Sportsmen’s Tavern. -CP

TUESDAY SEP 8

WEDNESDAY

EPQ: Ellen Pieroni Quartet

THURSDAY

SEP 3

Mister F Space Junk

FRIDAY

happy hour: a band named sue

SEP 4

NATIONAL BUFFALO WING FESTIVAL SATURDAY SEP 5

Swervedriver

12PM / COCA COLA FIELD, 1 JAMES D GRIFFIN PLZ. / $5 PER DAY CHILDREN 8 & UNDER ARE FREE

7pm The Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $17-$20

[WINGS] There’s only one national festival that occurs during Buffalo’s abbreviated and condensed outdoor season that is truly unique to the area. Like Niagara Falls, or a professional football team without a quarterback, chicken wings are easy to take for granted when you’ve lived here long enough—they're the things next to a tray of pizza that round out an office party. Just don’t forget how good they really are or how much fun they are to eat, given a ready supply of wet-naps. There will be more than 120 different flavors, including “craft” wing pairings with craft beer, and a full smattering of professional and amateur competitive eating contests just in case you need to temper your own guilty feelings from sampling too many of those beautiful little orange guys. And for all the single ladies over 18 who are dressed too fine to bob for wings, you too can make Buffalo history in the 2015 Miss Buffalo Wing contest on Sunday at 1:30pm. For a full list of vendors and events, visit buffalowing.com. -AARON LOWINGER

[ALTERNATIVE] Lineup changes, rotating managers, labels, and a couple hiatuses have kept Swervedriver's fate in a perpetual state of flux, but I Wasn't Born to Lose You—their first full-length in a whopping 17 years—is pleasingly solid, fortified with the sort of wisdom that only time can bring. Shoegaze enthusiasts will rejoice over the UK band's return to Buffalo at the Waiting Room on Tuesday, September 8 accompanied by purveyors of Canadian psych-punk, Dearly Beloved. -CJT

SEP 2

SATURDAY

SEP 5

9PM $5

THURSDAY

SEP 10

FRIDAY

SEP 11

D.D. kINSMAN Cd Release Party w/ The cowboys of Scotland HEARsay

(David Kane, Michael Miskuly, Cathy Carfanga) 10PM $5

SATURDAY

SEP 12

[ROCK] J. Geils Band may be considered classic rock, but that doesn’t stop these guys from delivering a rollicking, high-octane ride. Backed by Magic Dick on harmonica, keyboardist Seth Justman, and bassist Danny Klein, Peter Wolf treats fans to favorites like "Centerfold," "Love Stinks," and "Must of Got Lost" with unstoppable energy. They also tear into instrumental cuts like “Sno Cone” with fervent conviction that always gets the crowd grooving. Catch J. Geils Band with Ian Hunter at Artpark on Tuesday, September 8. -KP

[ALTERNATIVE] The Dirty Heads are an alt-rock hybrid that were originally inspired by the punk-reggae sunshine of Sublime and the brassy bravado of the Beastie Boys. Their brand of carefree rock-rap is textured with heavy beat-dropping instrumentals that crash and groove around expanding harmonies and club-ready rhythms. Their latest release, Sound of Change, is a slam-dunk, from the lush, symphonic title song to the sentimental and smooth nostalgia of “My Sweet Summer.” Catch The Dirty Heads at the Rapids Theatre on Wednesday, September 9. -KP

Hank & Cupcakes Scajaquada Creeps Bryan Johnson & Family

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6pm Artpark, 450 South 4th St. $12

6pm Rapids Theatre, 1711 Main St. $23-$27

Intrepid Travelers Universe Shark / Grayo

J. Geils Band

The Dirty Heads

6PM FREE

10PM $5

6pm Rapids Theatre, 1711 Main St. free

WEDNESDAY SEP 9

9PM $5

Ish Kabibble Electric Watermelon / Mechanical Boy

The Maine [ROCK] On Tuesday, September 8, pop-rock band the Maine comes to the Rapids Theater for a special free concert performance. The band recently released their fifth studio album, American Candy, which has revitalized the band in the eyes of fans and critics. The band, which formed in 2007 in Tempe, Arizona are known for ultra-slick pop-rock tunes like "Into Your Arms" and "Don't Give up on Us." -CP

9PM FREE

The Rockaz / Ignite 9PM $5

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6PM. ANN PHILLIPONE 8PM . DR JAZZ & THE JAZZ BUGS (EXCEPT FIRST SUNDAYS)

EVERY MONDAY FREE

8PM. SONGWRITER SHOWCASE 9PM. OPEN MIC W. JOSH GAGE

EVERY TUESDAY

8PM. RUSTBELT COMEDY 10PM. JOE DONOHUE 11PM. THE STRIPTEASERS

CAPSIZED BOAT PARTY SUNDAY SEP 6

EVERY WEDNESDAY FREE 6PM. TYLER WESTCOTTS PIZZA TRIO

5PM MISS BUFFALO, 79 MARINE DR. $35-$40 [PARTY] The official afterparty of summer in Buffalo happens each year on the Miss Buffalo. The 90-foot-long, two-story yacht has played venue to the Capsized Boat Party for the last nine years. This year the party features New York City techno artist Agent Orange. The veteran DJ will drop tunes that should sync up perfectly with the rhythms of the waves of Lake Erie. The Gotham Grooves label owner leans toward the tech-house end of techno, releasing tracks on Mark Knight’s Toolroom label, 1605, and Terminal M. DJ Ryan Liddel will warm up the decks. The Miss Buffalo sets sail for the Capsized Boat Party on Sunday, September 6 at 6pm from the dock at 79 Marine Drive in Buffalo. Attendees should arrive at 5:30pm at the latest to ensure boarding. If you haven’t purchased tickets yet, now is the time because this event typically sells out. Following the cruise, SoHo on Chippewa will hold a Capsized Afterparty featuring DJs Local Heroes P and Jeff Sullivan. -CORY PERLA

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ARTS REVIEW

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST David Moog seeks to photograph as many of the region’s working artists as will sit for him at the Burchfield Penney BY JACK FORAN

“The seer and the seen are indistinguishable.” —J. Krishnamurti ALONG ONE WALL of one of the project rooms

at the Burchfield Penney, two rows of handsome black-and-white photo portraits of the artists. A different sort of project for photographer David Moog, who has not previously done portrait photography. On the other side of the room, one of his photos in his more usual manner, of rocks— boulders—and ferns poking out among them. The project, to photograph as many of the working artists in Western New York of the present era as will come in and sit for him in his ad hoc photographic studio. The present era being as long as it takes to complete the project, several years possibly. But an archive for some distant future era, maybe centuries hence. These are the artists—this group, this collective—that made the art that was made in Western New York in the first part of the 21st century. When likely no one will remember many or possibly any of them individually. Because although art is said to be long—versus life, which is well known to be short—the greater truth is that all things pass. How to talk more about this project? Not easy to do. Not because Moog won’t talk about it. He talks volubly and at length. But in an overtly Buddha dharma manner. Talk that is consistently interesting and often enlightening, but not always easy to follow. That rejects terms and concepts— pretty much rejects the concept of concepts—the way we regularly employ them. The way we regularly talk about portraits. For example, we regularly say about portraits—ones we particularly like—that they capture the essence of the subject. Or something of the essence, something of the soul. Moog rejects this sort of talk out of hand.

IN GALLERIES NOW BY TINA DILLMAN = ART OPENING 464 Gallery (464 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14207 464gallery.com): Landscape: The Nature of Things, A Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters Group Exhibition. On view through Sep 15. 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): Paintings, Illustrations & Other Works, John Pacovsky. Opening reception Fri Sep 4, 6-9pm. On view Aug 27-Sep 27, 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 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. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag. com): A Life’s Work, Adele Becker. Opening reception Fri Sep 4, 7-9pm. On view Aug 28-Oct 2, Wed & Thu 11-5pm, Fri 11-4pm, Sat 11-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Ave. Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Currently on view, works by Charles Burchfield, George Renouard, Tony Sisti. Thu-Sat 11am5pm.

Rejects the term “essence.” What is it? But even the term “capture.” An aggressive term. Not what he does when he does photography. Rejects or questions even “like.” What does it mean? But how capture the essence—in the rejected terminology for the moment—of something as complex as a personal subject in the maybe thousandth of a second of the camera’s operation? How Moog describes the process or event— the photographic recording of an image—is as a “transcendent moment” between the photographer and the subject. (If it happens. If it’s transcendent. Something like with grace. No guarantee of it, but you can work at it.) And the produced image—the photo—opens the possibility of a second transcendent moment, between the viewer and the photo. That may—the transcendent moment between the viewer and the photo—be somehow “equivalent” to the transcendent moment between the photographer and subject. A word and concept—equivalent—of pathfinder modernist photographer Alfred Stieglitz, one of Moog’s spiritual mentors. An actual mentor—Moog studied with him, formally and informally, through most of the 1960s—and also major figure in the history of photography that he refers to frequently in talking about his own work is Minor White. White said photos are questions for the photographer. He said photos are koans. On the equivalence idea, White said, “One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.”

Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Currently on view: 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, an interactive sculptural photo installation by Jonathan Piret, Mon-Fri 5-8pm. Reception Fri Sep 4, 9-11pm. ¡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, 716931-5833. 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 10am5pm, 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 4. MonSun 10am-5pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Charles E. Burchfield: Audio Graph-

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(Considering all of which—the Buddha dharma thematic, the equivalence matter—one comes to perceive the photo of the rocks and single sprig of fern as a kind of capsule image of Zen meditation garden. Equivalent.) So what is the difference between the rocks and fern photo on the one wall, and the portrait photos on the other? Talking about the rocks and fern photo—and in general the kind of photography he has always done previously—Moog said, “I try to see into the nature of things, and in making a photographic image, I become part of that nature.” Afterwards he revised this formulation. “Not try,” he said. “Buddhists don’t try. Someone who tries to be virtuous can never be virtuous. Either we are or we’re not. We do or we don’t.”

ics, 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): Thomas Rae Wekenman 1947-1992, on view through Aug 31. See site for upcoming classes and events. M-F 10am-4pm, Sun 1-4pm. 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): Currently on view, Caitlin Cass: Benjamin Rathburn Builds Buffalo. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572. indigoartbuffalo.com): Mothing: Life Beyond the Edge of Awareness, print media by Joseph Scheer. Opening reception Fri Sep 4. On view through Oct 4. Wed & Fri 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 123pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays.

Whereas, about the portraits—and this seems to relate to why he rejects the notion that these photos in any way capture essence, though he rejects the notion in general that portrait photos capture essence—as the photographer, he says, “I am a window.” Open for discussion. Meanwhile, he says, artists of whatever stripe—painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians, even writers—should email him at david.moog.images@gmail.com or project curator Scott Propeak at propeasf@buffalostate. edu to make an appointment to come in to the Burchfield Penney to be photographed. If you make art—and you don’t have to have won prizes for it—you don’t have to be a Picasso or a MaP tisse—you need to be in the archive.

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, 4780248, marketstreetstudios.com): Filtered Reality, photography by Heather Grimmer, on view through Sep 11. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm. Manuel Barreto Furniture (430 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 867-8937, www.manuelbarreto.com): Robert and Sylvia Coles Private Contemporary Art Collection, opening reception Fri Sep 4, 7-10pm. 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): New work by Kate Parzych, opening reception Fri Sep 4, 6-11pm, on view through Oct 24. Live Music Thu-Sat. Prism (MyBuffaloPride, 224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201): Driven By Imagination, paintings by Jim Estep. Opening reception Fri Sep 4, 6-10pm. On view through Sep 31. Thu & Fri 4-8pm, Sat & Sun 3-7pm. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): Rotat-

ing 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 12-5pm. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Bufflao, NY 14202, starlightstudio.org): Signs of Life, photography by Robert Schulman, opening reception Fri Sep 4, 6-9pm, on view through Sep 12. MonFri 9am-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): 1,000 Drawings on Index Cards, Curtis A. Guy. On view through Sep 10. TGW@497 Gallery (497 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 949-6604): Paper, Scissors, Rock, a solo exhibition of mixed-media paintings & terracotta sculpture by David Vitrano, opening reception Fri Sep 4, 6-9pm, on view through Sept 26. Wed-Fri 125pm, Sat 12-3pm. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries.org): Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic, on view through Dec 31, 2016. Wed-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Western New York Book Arts Collaborative (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 438-1430, wnybookarts.org): Confluence: Collision of Form, works by Dana Saylor. Opening reception Sat Sep 5, 6-9pm. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.P

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manesque style church that its new owner, Rachel Heckl, informs me was constructed in the early 1800s. I met Heckl as I walked into the center of the vaulting sanctuary of the church. The handmade pews still surround the pulpit, which is situated below a gigantic Felgemaker organ. Heckl is in the middle of inspecting the church, disguised in a medical facemask with a flashlight strapped around her head of short curly brown hair. Brady, a stout guy with long light brown hair and a fluffy beard,z informs me that this will be the new home of not only the SlyBoots School of Music but also what Heckl and Brady’s team imagine as a vibrant multicultural art center with a focus on dance, world music, and even some visual art. It’ll be called the Buffalo World Music and Dance Academy and it’s expected to be up and running in September of 2016. Funding for the renovations, which will cost upward of $4 million, will be partially provided by the City of Buffalo and matched by Heckl’s family’s foundation. Up until 1998, a Methodist Episcopal church congregation occupied the church. The handmade pews and stained-glass windows were largely crafted by members of the congregation. When it closed down, it was sold to a local non profit that envisioned a community theater space and arts studio. They were close to their goal, said Heckl, but their funding dried up. When the church went back on the market, she acquired it to carry on a similar vision, a vision that also happens to jibe with Brady’s.

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world looking for the perfect beat, and when he finds it, he brings it back to Buffalo. Each year for the past 10 years, Brady has held an ever growing jazz and world music festival in Western New York called Slyfest. The name is inspired by his band, On the Sly, and his music school, Sly Boots School of Music. Though his band is on and off, they’re returning to Slyfest this year after a few years on hiatus for a big reunion, something Brady is excited about. Running his school of music, where he teaches kids the intricacies of African drumming and percussion, is his main focus these days. He regularly takes groups of his students on trips to Ghana (this fall will be the ninth time Brady travels to Ghana) to meet his mentor Bernard Woma, a master xylophonist and percussionist and national hero in his home country. Brady met Woma at the age of 16 and credits Woma for turning him onto percussion. After experiencing the tragic loss of a close friend, Brady describes a moment of healing he felt while hearing Woma perform an enthralling percussion piece. The two struck up a close friendship and Brady went to visit him in Ghana for the first time in 2004. Now, Woma will return to Western New York to perform at the 10th anniversary edition of Slyfest. This year’s Slyfest features a diverse range of internationally known artists. The headliner is Kaki King, a 36-year-old guitarist. Rolling Stone recently crowned her as one of the “New Guitar Gods”—making her not only the sole female on the list but also the youngest person. She’s widely known for her work with Eddie Vedder on the soundtrack to the film Into the Wild, and for her collaborations with Dave Grohl. Her live one-woman show is focused on her unorthodox, virtuousic guitar playing. “Her style is very much nontraditional. There’s a lot of using the guitar as percussive instrument, and she

often plays with her hand over the neck,” says Brady. The guitar itself is revolutionary too— custom built so that she can control images that are projected onto it as she plays. The festival will also feature marimba and vibraphone player Arthur Lipner and his Brazillian jazz trio. “He’s a monster marimba player,” says Brady. “He’s been everywhere, played with everyone.” Lipner’s performance will be complimented by a screening of his documentary Talking Sticks, which focuses on the roots of mallet based percussion music—a work that’s been more than two decades in the making. The two-day festival, this Saturday, September 5 and Sunday, September 6 at Griffis Sculpture Park, also includes the Slyboots Drum Ensemble, On the Sly, and local jam bands Family Funktion and the Sitar Jams, Sonder, and much more. The road to the the 10th Slyfest has been a winding one. What started in Fredonia as a friendly get-together outgrew its environment after a few years. For the fourth, fifth, and sixth version, the festival moved to the North Fork Music Park where hot air balloons flew over the campgrounds during musical performances by artists like Marco Benevento and the Manhattan Project. Then the music park closed. Slyfest Eight was the first to take place in the City of Buffalo—at the Yard on Tonawanda Street— but rain and competing events made for an anticlimactic show. Shortly thereafter Brady’s space on Tonawanda Street was robbed. “As they say, it gets darkest before the dawn,” Brady says with a warm smile. When I met Brady to discuss Slyfest we convened at what seemed like an abandoned church. The church lords over the traffic circle at Richmond and West Ferry—a beautiful Ro-

“Our market analysis and a lot of our surveying of the community shows that more of a dance-driven space is appropriate. And that’s across all genres,” says Heckl. ”This space, the size of it with relatively little modification will be perfect. It’s a great space for music too because it’s acoustically perfect.”

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Brady lets out a shriek to test the acoustics. The shriek rings out with just the right amount of natural reverb. “If I’m ever having a bad day, I just come in here, and in the raw space stand on this stage and sing for 15 minutes, and I feel cleansed and at ease. I’m just like ‘Oh yeah, okay. We’re all right.’ The possibilities set my imagination on fire,” said Brady. The union seems almost too good to be true for Brady. Heckl’s mission is “something that resonates a lot with her personally and through her family,” said Brady. Heckl has a master’s degree in urban planning, but to assemble the integral parts to build the cultural, dance, and music portion for the art space, Brady was essential. “When she saw the work I had been doing over the past decade with this group, she was like ‘Hey, this is what we want at the heart of this operation,’” said Brady. Brady brought me back through the unfinished chapel of the church—a soon-to-be practice studio in an open, two-story area. He described the renovations that’ll be done before we walked back down into the sanctuary of the church where one of his teachers, Ashley Vita Verde, is sat in a pew halfway down the aisle. Verde teaches dance, aerials, and acrobatics, and she’s part of the Sly Boots Circus. In 2010 she made the trek to Ghana with the Slyboots School. “It’s always a wild ride [working with Brady],” said Verde. She’s happy to be involved in the movement to create this new space, she told me. ”It’s really interesting how timing and positive attitudes change things.” If it’s one thing Brady has, it’s a positive attitude. As he wrapped up our tour of the church, he reflected on his mission. “There are no accidents, and me meeting Rachel is proof of that. She’s brilliant and inspiring, and she’s giving this dream a new chance,” he says. “It’s through music that I’ve found the inspiration and healing to go on. If it can work P for me, it can work for others.”

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FILM REVIEW finds writing inspiration in her. As Brooke’s (admittedly halfbaked) plans fall through, she drags Tracy and a few dorm-mates off to Connecticut on a mission to secure new financing from a girlfriend she hasn’t talked to in years. At this point Mistress America doesn’t so much hit its stride as shift gears. It moves into a classic screwball situation, a bunch of people in an elegant setting all working and talking at cross-purposes. As he did in his last film, While We’re Young (in theaters only a few months ago), Baumbach has an eye out for the self-rationalizing machinations of creative types; it’s funny, but also bitter. What keeps the movie palatable is Gerwig, who seems to have found a home in independent cinema after her Hollywood shot (as the female lead in the remake of Arthur, against Russell Brand, who tends to suck all the oxygen out of the room) was a flop. Comedies like Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress, Lola Versus, and Frances Ha (also in collaboration with Baumbach) have been showcases for her willingness to throw herself into wounded but not entirely sympathetic characters. She’s probably never going to become a household name, but they way she’s going, I hope she never goes back to Hollywood. Mistress America opens this weekend at the Amherst and Eastern Hills cinemas. ***

The subject matter in Best of Enemies—the 1968 televised debates between William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal—is the definition of a guilty pleasure: It is enjoyable to watch, and, as this documentary by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville makes clear, we should feel bad that we did (and do). Back in the 1960s, Americans trusted television news. At the time there were three networks, so there wasn’t much to chose from. But for that very reason the networks took that responsibility seriously: If Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley reported something, you trusted that serious effort had gone into verifying the story, and that it was something that you needed to know.

Greta Gerwig and Lola Kirke in Mistress America.

LIFE IN THE BIG CITY MISTRESS AMERICA / BEST OF ENEMIES BY M. FAUST Into each life, a little Brooke inevitably falls. You know the type, the self-absorbed, city-dwelling whirlwind who never accomplishes anything because she’s always trying to do a dozen different things at the same time. The nice way to describe her is that she’s so alive to the possibilities of life (especially in a city like Manhattan) that she can’t help but reach out to more opportunities than she can possibly handle. Or you could just say she’s a manic nut job. You could also think of her as a younger version of Auntie Mame, a comparison that was certainly on the minds of Greta Gerwig, who plays the role, and Noah Baumbach, who co-wrote the script with her and directed the film. Baumbach in particular is an aficionado of classic Hollywood cinema (his mother was film critic Georgia Brown), but he’s not an imitator. Mistress America

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PREMIERES OPENING FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4 MISTRESS AMERICA—New comedy from Noah Baumbach (While We’re Young) starring Greta Gerwig as an unmoored Manhattanite who makes life interesting for her soon-to-be stepsister, a college freshman. With Lola Kirke, Heather Lind, and Michael Chernus. Reviewed this issue. Amherst (Dipson), Eastern Hills (Dipson) TRANSPORTER REFUELED—The franchise continues without Jason Statham, who was the only reason you’d ever want to see any of the previous entries. His replacement is someone who says his name is Ed Skrein, and for all I know it very well may be. Directed by Camille Delamarre (Brick Mansions). Area theaters. A WALK IN THE WOODS—Robert Redford and Nick Nolte as old friends who, after 20 years apart, renew their relationship while hiking the Appalachian Trail. (That’s not a metaphor—they’re actually hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Didn’t want you to get the wrong idea.) With Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman, and Kristen Schaal. Directed by Ken Kwapis (Big Miracle). Opens Weds Sep 2. Amherst (Dipson), Flix (Dipson)

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA BEST OF ENEMIES—Documentary about the live television debates broadcast during the 1968 political conventions, between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal, public intellectuals who loathed each other. Reviewed this issue. Fri, Sat, Mon, Tue 7:30pm. Screening Room BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986)—John Carpenter

is being promoted as a modern screwball comedy, and it certainly harkens back to that frenetic genre, but with a modern twist. We meet Brooke through Tracy (Lola Kirke), a college freshman and Brooke’s stepsister-to-be. Tracy is an aspiring writer disappointed by her initial experience of college life, so she accepts Brooke’s offer of a get-to-know-you meeting. And the initial effect is dazzling: While life for Tracy seems slow and pointless, Brooke is as bubbly as freshly uncorked champagne, full of plans and ideas. Her current favorite, to be financed by her Greek boyfriend Stavros, will be called Mom’s—“A community center and restaurant all in one, with a really nice bodega selling European candy, and cooking lessons.” Do I even need to say that it will be located in Williamsburg? It doesn’t take Tracy long to see through Brooke, though she

anticipated the West’s interest in over-the-top Chinese fantasy-action movies with this tongue-in-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. Tues, Thu 7:30pm. Screening Room CALVARY (Ireland, 2014)—Brendan Gleeson as a smalltown Irish priest who is told in the confessional that he will be murdered in one week. The killer’s motive— he kill a good priest to command the world’s attention about the bad ones—leads the priest to spend the time contemplating his faith while visiting his troubled parishioners (a fine supporting cast includes M. Emmet Walsh, Chris O’Dowd, Dylan Moran, Aidan Gillen, and Domhnall Gleeson). Written and directed by John Michael McDonagh. Sun 4pm. Roycroft Film Society, Parkdale School Auditorium, 141 Girard Ave., East Aurora. www.roycroftcampuscorporation.com DIARY OF A LOST GIRL (1929)—Restored version of G. W. Pabst’s melodrama reuniting him with Louise Brooks (after Pandora’s Box) as a naïve middle-class girl whose life takes a turn for the worse when she is seduced and disowned by her family. Opening this season of the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Amherst (Dipson) THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1936)—Recreating the Broadway performance that made him a star, Humphrey Bogart easily steals the film from top-billed Bette Davis and Leslie Howard in this drama about people held captive by a bank robber in a secluded diner. Directed in vintage Warner Brothers style by Archie Mayo (The Mayor of Hell). Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue Sep 8 7pm. Amherst (Dipson) TURBO KID—In this parody/homage to cheesy post-apocalyptic movies of the 1980s, a lonely teen adopts the persona of a comic book character to do battle with

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Another thing about America at the time that may seem odd to young viewers: Political conventions existed not to finalize and celebrate the party’s candidate, as they do now, but to select him. For this reason they were very important, and in a year as tumultuous as 1968, the whole country was watching the conventions to find out what two men we would choose from to lead us. Desperate to increase their minimal ratings, ABC decided to stage a series of 10 debates, one during each night of the conventions, between Buckley, founder of modern conservatism, and Vidal, then infamous as the author of the bestseller Myra Breckinridge but a longtime political commentator from the liberal side. The two were respected as public intellectuals, a phrase you don’t hear anymore now that the country has grown comfortable with its hatred of intellectuals. And the two loathed each other. These were debates only in the loosest sense of the word. Each was determined to score points of any kind off the other: The gloves, as they say, were off. By that standard the winner was Vidal, who so rattled his opponent that Buckley called him a “goddamn queer” on live television. Of course this was enormous fun to watch and still is. But it was also an early highwater mark in the deterioration of public political discourse. As Vidal notes, “Argument is sugar and the rest of us are flies.” The networks, and pretty much all the media, noted the high ratings that surprised no one more than the suits at ABC, and all the gloves came off. It’s an entertaining documentary, as well as a very sobering one. You can see it this P weekend at the Screening Room.

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IN BRIEF THEATER INFORMATION IS VALID THROUGH THURSDAY, SEPT 3 AMERICAN ULTRA—It’s essentially the same story as Hitman Agent 47, but with more human characters and a warmer touch, at least in its better moments. Jesse Eisenberg stars as Mike, a West Virginia stoner who has a happy life with his girlfriend Phoebe (Kristen Stewart) but suffers debilitating panic attacks anytime they try to leave town. That’s because he was part of a CIA experiment to create a super-agent before the agency decided the program was a failure and had his memory wiped. The story borrows liberally from the Bourne movies and Quentin Tarantino’s True Romance (it’s not remotely as original as scripter Max Landis likes to make it sound in his widely reposted Tweets about the film’s box office failure). Eisenberg and Stewart make for a sweet and likeable couple (who sound like actual stoners). But the movie falls apart in the third act with too little exposition and too much numbingly unpleasant violence. Co-starring John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman, Tony Hale, and Topher Grace, who has some funny moments as the villain of the piece. Directed by Nima Nourizadeh (Project X). –MF Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL— Parents of teenage girls, or those on their way to it, will squirm through this adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s largely autobiographical novel about growing up in San Francisco in the 1970s. Minnnie (Bel Powley), an artistic 15-year-old with

low self-esteem and a mother (Kristen Wiig) awash in all of the decade’s favorite vices, decides to take charge of her own life, a journey that begins with seducing Mom’s boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgard). Minnie’s further experiments, which include a not-quite-intentional foray into prostitution, aren’t presented exploitatively, but that doesn’t make the film any less uncomfortable to watch. Written and directed by Marielle Heller. –MF Eastern Hills (Dipson), Flix (Dipson), North Park, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Walden Galleria END OF THE TOUR—Although it opens with writer David Lipsky hearing the news of novelist David Foster Wallace’s suicide in 2008, this film is not (as many Wallace fans probably feared) a post mortem on what led him to that tragic choice. Lipsky spent several days interviewing Wallace at the end of his book tour for Infinite Jest, and those tapes form the basis of this film. 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.) Starring Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg. Directed with a sympathetic but knowing eye by James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now). –MF Amherst (Dipson) ENDS TUESDAY, Eastern Hills (Dipson) FANTASTIC FOUR—This third attempt to film the long-running Marvel series (you’re forgiven if you never saw the 1994 Roger Corman version) isn’t as bad as you’ve probably heard; it’s just another cookie-cutter comic book movie, with no more inspiration than a Big Mac. The standard gripe about these movies is that they’re too long. This one is barely 90 minutes, and it’s clearly too short—it’s all origin story, leaving you hungry for some plot (but don’t count on a sequel). Starring Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, and Jamie Bell. Directed by Josh Trank (Chronicle). –MF Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

PLAYING NOW FILM ment. Writer-director John Erick Dowdle got his start in the horror genre (Quarentine), and he approaches this material the same way. Add a strain of racism (not mitigated by a speech blaming the corporate world for causing the situation) and you have a most unpleasant viewing experience. Co-starring Lake Bell and Pierce Brosnan. –MF Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In

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THE GIFT—It must be close to summer’s end if we get blockbuster filled with first-rate computer imagery and the type of Spielbergian thrills that resulted in the an actual adult drama in the multiplexes of the councreation of the PG-13 rating. In between dino attacks, try. Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall star as Simon the script provides sly jabs at its own cynical merchanand Robyn, a couple relocating from Chicago to Calidising. Chris Pratt makes for a capable hero, but the fornia for his career. A chance encounter with Gordo leading female role (played by Bryce Dallas Howard) (Joel Edgerton), who knew Simon in high school, besets onscreen feminism back a decade or two: She’s no gins to unravel what seemed like a cozy life. It’s the Laura Dern. With Irrfan Khan and Vincent D’Onofrio. kind of movie where you don’t want to give away to Directed by Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed). much—where even saying that much feels like a bit of –Gregory Lamberson Regal Walden Galleria, Four Seaa spoiler because it sends viewers into the film looksons, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit ing for clues. Don’t be expecting a horror movie (the trailers are misleading, perhaps fearful about what it LISTEN TO ME MARLON—Documentary built around tape takes to get an adult audience into theaters this time recordings made for the actor by himself over the of year). But this cunningly conceived psychological course of his career. Directed by Stevan Riley (Everythriller managed to throw me off guard in time for an thing or Nothing). ENDS THU SEP 3 Amherst (Dipson) unsettling conclusion. Co-star Edgerton also wrote THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.—Director Guy Ritchie (Sherlock and directed, making him the breakout guy of the year. Holmes) brings an admirable amount of brio to what –MF Flix (Dipson), Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, on paper sounds like a pretty poor idea for a new movRegal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, ie franchise: adapting a 1960s TV series unlikely to be Transit Drive-In remembered by anyone under the age of 60. (Though HITMAN AGENT 47—Every year in late summer or earof course you could say the same thing for Mission: ly fall we seem to get one of these chilly Euro-based Impossible.) The story retains its Cold War setting, thrillers in theaters. Like most of them, this one is dewhich helps—not so much for the generic plot, which rived from a video game (previously adapted in 2007 I defy you to distinguish from Spy or Kingsman, but as Hitman), about genetically engineered assassins. for fashions and pre-tech atmosphere. As the AmeriRupert Friend plays the last of his kind, from a procan and Russian agent forced to work together, Henry gram that has been officially discontinued but re-startCavill and Armie Hammer aren’t called upon to stretch ed by nefarious interests. (It’s largely the same plot acting chops they probably don’t have, though they as American Ultra). The barely sketched plot is just a keep tongues firmly in cheek. Silly but fun: It’s almost frame for endlessly abstracted action sequences that a shame the poor box office makes a sequel unlikehave no emotional connection. With Hannah Ware, ly. With Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, and Hugh Zachary Quinto, Dan Bakkedahl, and Ciaran Hinds. Grant. -MF Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Directed by Aleksander Bach. –MF Flix (Dipson), MaElmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal ple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Transit, Regal Walden Galleria Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, MINIONS is as review-proof as a movie gets: Anyone Sunset Drive-In who enjoyed the Despicable Me movies will already I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS— A star vehicle, and one be lined up for this spinoff prequel for Gru’s pill and long overdue for Blythe Danner after 50 years as an capsule-shaped yellow henchmen. As Scarlet Overactress: Could you need more reason to see this? She kill, the neurotic villainess with whom they had earlier plays a Southern California widow dipping her toes cast their lot, Sandra Bullock runs a distant second to back into the social scene after the death of her dog. Steve Carrell’s voice characterization. But the details It’s not a story big on plot, but moment by moment are endlessly amusing. (Pay attention to the Minion’s it’s wonderful. The terrific ensemble cast includes speech, which is never actually gibberish.) It’s short Rhea Perlman, Mary Kay Place, and June Squibb as on big laughs but consistently giggle-inducing. In a the friends she plays cards with, Sam Elliott as a love voice cast that features Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, interest, and Martin Starr, toned down from the arAllison Janney, Steve Coogan, and Geoffrey Rush, only rogantly snarky nerds he usually plays, as a younger Jennifer Saunders makes any impact, as a Queen of loner with whom the widow discovers she has a lot England. Directed by Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin. – in common. But it’s Danner’s movie, and she makes MF Flix (Dipson), Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal the most of every moment. With Malin Akerman and Transit, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In Max Gail. Directed by Brett Haley (The New Year). –MF MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—ROGUE NATION—Now in its fifth inMcKinley (Dipson) stallment, the series shows no desire to recapture the INSIDE OUT—A combination of the 1990s sitcom Hersense of team work that was integral to the 1960s TV man’s Head with Christopher Nolan’s Inception is the show whose title it bears, reducing the rest of the IMF best I can do for a brief summary of the new Pixar anto sidekicks to Tom Cruise and his James Bond-ian suimation. As apparently the only person in the world perheroics. The stunts are impressive, the plot less so who didn’t like it, I don’t expect you to deprive your (the IMF battles an organization of re-purposed spies children of it on my say-so. But I suspect that kids are who seem to have no particular purpose other than responding to it for the relentless movement rather causing havoc). But credit Cruise for casting Swedish than the plot, which is spun out as such a heavy alactress Rebecca Ferguson as his female counterpart: legory that it collapses under its own weight. It’s as She steals the movie from him, and here’s hoping overwrought and out of control as Tomorrowland, but she comes back for the next installment. With Simon a dazzled audience is often a happy one. With the voicPegg, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, and es of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Mindy Kaling, Richard Alec Baldwin; written and directed by Cruise’s acolyte Kind, and the dependably funny Lewis Black. Directed Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher). –MF New Anby Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen. -MF Four gola, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Seasons, Regal Transit, Transit Drive-In Regal Walden Galleria IRRATIONAL MAN— For his annual cinematic offering, MR. HOLMES—The list of British actors who have not Woody Allen is back to playing the serious thinker, played Sherlock Holmes shrinks by one as Ian McKelmoral philosopher and existential worrywart who len portrays the great detective as a 93-year-old remade such dour films in the 1980s as Another Woman, tired to the countryside to tend bees. The case that Interiors and September. Irrational Man is nearest in caused his retirement three decades earlier haunts tone to Crimes and Misdemeanors, an examination of his failing memory, as he struggles to recapture its guilt and punishment (or its absence). Joaquin Phoenix details for the benefit of an admirer, his housekeepstars as Abe, a philosophy professor new to an eastern er’s young son. Even hidden under pounds of makeup liberal arts college. Suffering from alcohol-exacerbatand doddering more than he needs to, McKellen turns ed ennui, he perks up when an overheard conversation in a touching performance. But the movie goes a long offers him a chance to do something that might bring way (including, somewhat tastelessly, to post-war Hisome justice into the world. It’s an exploration of an roshima) to make a fairly obvious point about Holmes’ immature, quasi-Nietzschian pretent, presumably discharacter. Directed by Bill Condon, for whom McKelplaying the director’s self-image as a man capable of len played another late in life icon, filmmaker James rational thought and conduct above and beyond the Whale, in Gods and Monsters (1988). With Laura Linconventions that bind others. The talky proceedings ney, Milo Parker and Hattie Morahan. –MF. Eastern Hills contain a slight sense of detached irony, but Allen (Dipson), Hamburg Palace abruptly retreats from his own apparent support of NO ESCAPE—Suspense thriller Owen Wilson as a father his character, as if he was too enervated, bored or trying to rescue his wife and two young daughters blocked to make much of what he started. With Emma when the government of the Southeast Asian country Stone and Parker Posey. –GS Hamburg Palace, McKinto which they have just moved is overthrown by a viley (Dipson) olent coup. There was a time when movie makers and filmgoers shared a tacit understanding that certain JURASSIC WORLD—Unlike last year’s dreary Godzilla ,MORE VISIT DAILYPUBLIC.COM FOR FILM LISTINGS & REVIEWS >> lines were not going to be crossed. The knowledge that there is plenty of giant reptile action in this sequel/ those lines no longer exist, as anyone who has seen reboot of the 1994 Steven Spielberg film (from Mihorror films of the last decade knows, makes it diffichael Crichton’s novel) about a theme park populated cult to watch a movie like this as escapist entertainby cloned dinosaurs. It’s a well-designed Hollywood

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RICKI AND THE FLASH—Meryl Streep is the whole show in this sentimental but clunky, assembly-line comedy drama as a bar band singer trying to reconnect with the upper-crusty family she fled years ago. You almost have to admire Streep’s skilled adaptability: Here and there, she almost overcomes Diablo Cody’s ill-shaped, tin-eared script. If you’re enough of a fan, you might even enjoy parts of this silly, emotionally and socially unmoored movie. With Kevin Kline and Mamie Gummer (Streep’s daughter). Directed by Jonathan Demme (Rachel Getting Married). -GS Amherst (Dipson), Aurora, Flix (Dipson), Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit SINISTER 2—Found footage horror sequel. Starring James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon and Robert Daniel Sloan Directed by Ciarán Foy (Citadel). Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In SOUTHPAW— Where last year’s compellingly creepy Nightcrawler found Jake Gyllenhaal borrowing from Robert DeNiro’s playbook (part Travis Bickle, part Rupert Pupkin), this boxing drama finds him channeling DeNiro in Raging Bull, with fight scenes that are as realistic-appearing as they are punishing to watch. But whatever appeal that may have to you, you have to sit through an awful lot of emotional punishment to get to the feel-good ending, as champion fighter Billy Hope (that’s really his name) loses his family and his fortune and has to fight his way back up from the bottom. Director Antoine Fuqua has visual style to spare, but he approaches any kind of drama like a club to beat the viewer into submission: it’s as unpleasant a movie as you’re likely to find at a multiplex this year. Written by Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter. Co-starring Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker, and 50 Cent. –MF Four Seasons, Regal Transit STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON—Bio-drama about the 1980s rap group NWA, whose members included Dr. Dre and Ice Cube. Starring O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell and Neil Brown Jr.. Directed by F. Gary Gray (Friday). Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, 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. Four Seasons, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit 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 (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS Romantic drama starring Zac Efron as an aspiring electronica DJ. Co-starring Wes Bentley and Emily Ratajkowski. Directed by Max Joseph. Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, P Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In

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DEAR KEITH: I moved away from my hometown of Buffalo about two and a half years ago to try to “make it” in New York. I didn’t “make it” and now I don’t even know what I thought I would “make” when I was searching for “it.” When I left Buffalo I kind of gave a “So long, suckers!” to all of my friends as a goodbye. Now I’m coming home because it’s way easier to live in Buffalo, you know, with the whole support system of friends of relatives thing going on. I know some friends will take me back no questions asked, but I can’t get over this feeling of failure and I know I’m going to face at least a few people who interrogate me about why I’ve seemingly come crawling back home. How do I respond to the interrogators? –MAMA, I’M COMIN’ HOME MAMA, I’M COMIN’ HOME: Do people still actually dream of making a name for themselves in the Big Apple? I thought that cliched sentiment was strictly reserved for pear-shaped theater majors in 1950s small-town Middle America and modern-day terrorists who hate our freedom. No? There’s still a contingent of starry-eyed artists who have not yet known the horror of walking out to their unlocked car on a crisp fall day and finding a boot on the tire and a strung-out raver in the back seat shooting heroin directly into his soft, grey penis? Isn’t that adorable. “New York Fuckin’ City” a.k.a. “Neon Xanadu” a.k.a. “America’s Roller Coast.” In what city other than the great city of New York can an aspiring young comedian from Barrie, Ontario go to be motivated for about three days before getting E. coli from a human turd he found in the hallway of his apartment building? Where else in this sweet land of liberty can one get a “slice” of pizza or see the entire cast of Seinfeld rollerblading through Central Park or spend an entire month’s rent on bad cocaine all in an afternoon? Nowhere, that’s where. And I don’t mean Nowhere, Oklahoma, the unincorporated community in Caddo County located at the southeast end of the Fort Cobb Reservoir, 5.5 miles south-southwest of Albert and 14 miles northwest of Anadarko. I mean nowhere the adverb or maybe nowhere the pronoun; I’m terrible with grammar. That’s where. If anyone is angry at you for disavowing your historically and culturally rich stomping ground of Buffalo and all the kind, genuine, inspiring, hard-working, and proud people in it in order to chase some vague, nearly inaudible calling down winding paths toward a nebulous and disingenuous end game on the other side of the state, it’s only because they’re haters and my advice to you is simple: Buy a hat that says “You Hate Me Cuz You Ain’t Me” and wear it everywhere you go—to the movies, to dinner, to church, out to a ballgame, down to Paradise City. Never take it off. It’s a simple but unmistakable proclamation that lets the people who are concerned about your well-being know that your misguided pipedream is not to

be stymied by their “love” or “wisdom”; that your perverse desire to follow in the footsteps of Adam Arkin’s character in the 1977 CBS situational comedy Busting Loose surpasses logic and is more important than financial stability; that you will, as god is your witness, take a selfie in front of that one bodega from Kids where Casper stole the 40-ounce after Telly makes him sniff his dirty finger. Crawling back to your friends and family after having your dreams crushed is as much a part of life as discovering secret parts of your body while looking at a cardboard cut-out of Elvira in your childhood friend’s basement. Each of us will do it at one point or another, though nobody seems to be talking about it. Truth is, we’re supposed to fuck up. We’re supposed to dare in order to fail, in order to suffer, in order to learn, in order to dare again, because it is the only way we will ever know ourselves. And if you want to make certain that you don’t bruise your ego each time something like this happens (which it will), I recommend you not have an ego. Also, maybe don’t flip off your past and try to squeal your tires before you’re sure your car even starts. Leaving societal expectations behind to chase your light makes you brave, but mocking others for not seeing their own yet makes you an asshole and karmically might be the very reason you had to come back with your tail between your legs at all. But look on the bright side. At least now you know for a fact that you’ll never make it.

HAVE A QUESTION FOR KEITH? ADVICE@DAILYPUBLIC.COM Editor’s note: As front man of Every Time I Die, Keith Buckley has traveled the world gaining insights about the universe. In this biweekly column he’ll use those insights to guide our readers with heartfelt and brutally honest advice. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 / THE PUBLIC 23

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