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Amber Small fundraised well for primaries, but will need outside help against Jacobs.

September 13 primary elections were required to submit their 10-day post-primary reports last Friday for information available as of September 19. Here’s a rundown of some interesting data contained in those filings, broken down by race.

in 2014, has $13,259, after having spent $21,500 for polls recently. The polling is likely because the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee wants to see how competitive this race might be. The results of that polling will determine whether Meyer can attract substantial Albany cash to make this competitive.

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primary victor John Flynn reports a balance of $3,977, with $19,500 in liabilities. He has raised a total of $333,099 this year and will need to raise more over the next six weeks to complete the election process.

This author noted that, in the last financial filing prior to the primary, acting DA Michael Flaherty had a balance of $143,382 and outstanding loans of $140,000. I suggested that they were holding back money to repay the loans, which the new filing basically confirms.

The campaign now has a balance of $112,551 but outstanding loans of $109,000. Flaherty campaign manager Jim Eagan was repaid $31,000 of his $40,000 loan. The remaining $100,000 in outstanding loans is from Flaherty himself and family members. So with a balance of $112,551 as of September 19, one has to wonder if the Flaherty team was convinced they were going to win with no need to spend that money, or assumed they would lose and were holding off to repay the loans. The relatively small number of actual votes separating Flaherty from primary winner Flynn (1,483) on primary day makes you wonder what they might have been able to do by spending some or most of that $112,551.

Republican candidate and Conservative primary winner Joseph Treanor has a balance of $2,806 in his self-funded campaign account.

Erie County GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy, according to the Buffalo News, indicates that he may provide some financing, which is likely. The questions are, when and how much?

STATE SENATE, 60TH DISTRICT: Democrat Amber Small has raised an impressive $124,048 thus far in the campaign, but has a balance of only $16,766 after her primary. She is in need of a substantial amount of money coming from out-of-town interest groups, including the State Senate Democratic structure, to give her the resources to compete through November.

Aside from her day-to-day campaigning and local fundraising, Small needs to convince folks in Albany and New York City that her chances are good. She does have a substantial Democrat-to-Republican enrollment edge that works in her favor, but that same enrollment edge still left Mark Panepinto with only a 34 percent share of the 2014 race in this district, while Republicans Mark Grisanti and Kevin Stocker split up the other 66 percent.

Chris Jacobs’s campaign had $326,184 in the bank as of September 19, after spending $190,367 recently, mostly on TV ads. Outside interests have also already provided substantial cash to assist the Jacobs effort.

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cumbent Assemblyman Ray Walter’s victory margins have not been large and this year is a presidential year, which will bring out substantially more Democratic votes than came out in 2014 in the Amherst-based district. Walter has $30,414 in his account. His Democratic opponent Steve Meyer, who also ran against Walter

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Schaeffer is also at the moment a candidate for US Congress in the First Congressional District, located in Suffolk County, on the Working Families line. He is a lawyer and lives in New York City. The First District is one of the major battlegrounds in races for the House of Representatives this year, but it seems that the Democratic nominee has only the Democratic line on the ballot plus the very small Women’s Equality Party.

In order to assist the Democrat, it appears, the Working Families organization is trying to push Schaeffer off the Congressional ballot by nominating him for a judgeship.

In New York State the only way that you can get off a ballot for an office you have been nominated for at this stage of the campaign is to move out of state, die, or be nominated for a judgeship. So voila, Schraeffer gets nominated for justice in the Eighth District, declines the Congressional nomination, and that nomination then goes to the Democratic Congressional candidate. It is the same scheme that the Republicans pulled in 2010 when they needed to get Rick Lazio off the Conservative Party ballot after Carl Paladino defeated him in the Republican primary. Lazio ran for Supreme Court in a district based in the Bronx.

The results in this race will be largely influenced by the turnout and votes of the presidential candidates. In a presidential year Democratic candidates can do well, probably with or without a lot of minor party support. We’ll see.

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THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO BE ELECTED TO THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE FIRST BLACK CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE US, IS BURIED AT BUFFALO’S FOREST LAWN CEMETERY BUFFALO IS PACKED WITH HISTORY, and

there are countless stories within the 269 acres behind the gates of Forest Lawn Cemetery. One of the first professionally designed cemeteries in the United States, Forest Lawn is almost as famous for its rolling hills and ornate masterpieces as it is for the remarkable residents now resting there. Among these extraordinaries is Shirley Chisholm, an American politician, writer, and teacher. Born in Brooklyn, Chisholm spent her 81 years of life changing our country before being laid to rest at Forest Lawn.

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was born on November 30, 1924 to a factory worker and a seamstress who had immigrated from the Caribbean. Because her parents struggled to work and raise their children, Chisholm and her sisters were sent to live with their grandmother in Barbados, where she studied at a strict Christian one-room schoolhouse, which she credited for her writing and oratory skills. Chisholm moved to Brooklyn in 1934 and earned her bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College in 1946, where she was applauded for her exemplary debate skills. While earning her master’s degree from Columbia University, Chisholm worked as the director of several nursery schools, establishing herself as an authority on the issues of child welfare and education.

Running a daycare center drew Chisholm’s interest to politics, and she started work with the Bedford-Stuyvesant Political League and the League of Women’s Voters in 1964. She was

a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly from 1965 to 1968. While there, she sponsored the introduction of the SEEK program (Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge), which granted disadvantaged students the chance to attend college while receiving remedial education. One of her successes in the state legislature was the extension of unemployment benefits to domestic workers.

In 1968, running under the slogan “Unbought and Unbossed,” Chisholm became the first black woman elected to the US House of Representatives. She would serve until 1983.

In 1972, she became the first African American to run for US president on a major party line. She called for a “bloodless revolution” at the Democratic party’s national convention that year, and her candidacy drew a great deal of attention but little financial backing or electoral success: She won a total of 28 delegates to the Electoral College. But her candidacy afforded her and her followers a platform to discuss race and gender inequality, as well as social and economic injustice generally—the issues that had driven her to politics to begin with.

“When I ran for the Congress, when I ran for president, I met more discrimination as a woman than for being black,” she said of her political career. “Men are men.”

In 1977 Chisholm married Arthur Hardwick, Jr., a former New York State Assemblyman who owned a liquor store in Buffalo. (A previous marriage had ended in divorce earlier that year.)

After she left Congress in 1983, they made their home Williamsville. Chisholm resumed teaching as a college professor, teaching at Mount Holyoke, among other schools. In 1993, she was named to the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

On January 1, 2005, Chisholm died of a stroke near Daytona Beach, Florida.

She was laid to rest in the Oakwood Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery. Inscribed on her vault is the legend she left behind: “Unbought P and Unbossed.”

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LOOKING BACKWARD: JOHN F. KENNEDY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1960 “I think the most important issue is the security of the United States and the peace of the world. But I don’t think we are going to be secure, and I don’t think we are going to maintain our freedom unless we are building in this country a strong society on all fronts.” — Remarks of John F. Kennedy, Treadway Inn, Niagara Falls, New York, September 28, 1960

A president in the making, Senator John F. Kennedy made a campaign stop in Niagara Falls on September 28, 1960. In a speech at Bell Aircraft, Kennedy called for achieving full employment, confronting the threat of the Soviet Union and Communist China, and fighting for what would become the country’s Medicare program. “We do not come to Niagara to see the falls,” said Kennedy. “We come to see you and the people of Northern New York.” As this photograph documents, Kennedy did make a stop at the falls. On November 8, he was elected, defeating Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the 20th century. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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BUFFALO’S IMPUNITY CULTURE GRINDS ON

BY BRUCE FISHER

WHETHER OR NOT THE BUFFALO BILLION INDICTMENTS REACH CUOMO, THE PROJECT AND THE MONEY MOVE FORWARD THE PRICE OF DOING BUSINESS IN BUFFALO just went down,

thus giving the Rust Belt’s favorite renaissance story a very big boost. Because of the indictments handed down last Thursday, every new competition for public money will be cleaner, and will be waged with sharper pencils between those whose credentials will no longer include pledges of huge campaign contributions, or hefty consulting deals for former political staffers, or expensive jobs for the governor’s ex-staffer’s spouse. The rulebook for what not to do is spelled out in the email trail left by Buffalo-based developer Lou Ciminelli and two of his top executives, who left evidence we can all read of their knowing, personal involvement in rigging bids for Andrew Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion.

Governor Andrew Cuomo was emphatically not indicted by either New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman nor by US Attorney Preet Bharara, the prosecutors whom The Public’s Alan Bedenko refers to as today’s new Untouchables. Indeed, Cuomo visited Buffalo to proclaim that the Buffalo Billion program—the transformative public investment to kick-start a new industrial economy in this iconic Rust Belt town—will proceed as surely as the wheels of justice will grind.

Like Eliot Spitzer before him, Cuomo set out to achieve the improbable—to leverage private investment in a place that long since ceased to be one of America’s foremost centers of innovation in aerospace and medical research, one of its greatest centers of international trade and steel-making, indeed, once, long ago, even the City of Light when it became the first big place to electrify, thanks to the original Nikola Tesla.

It’s Cuomo who is bringing the new Tesla to town in the person of Elon Musk and his Solar City. The new guy in charge of the project is the Dollar-a-Year-Man, Howard Zemsky. The first people hired as Dollar-a-Year men were corporate executives brought in by President Woodrow Wilson to help organize the American response to the First World War; only after Wilson appointed the brilliant Bernard Baruch did this operation work properly. The first crop were inside-dealers; Baruch ended all that. Zemsky, like Baruch before him, is incorruptible, rich, keen to succeed where others stumble, a capitalist by instinct who nevertheless recognizes that without public-sector investments—in the Darwin Martin House restoration that Zemsky helped lead, in the expansion of the Albright-Knox-Gundlach gallery, whose board Zemsky’s wife Leslie chaired, and in the Solar City Riverbend site, which New York owns—the projects simply would not happen.

Buffalo and Western New York need these projects to happen.

Though the latest numbers from the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis show that Buffalo’s diverse and resilient economy continues its modest Obama recovery expansion, Buffalo is as subject to the slow-to-no-growth “secular stagnation” that economists as diverse as Larry Summers, Kent Klitgaard, and Bob Gordon all warn may inevitably come upon us. But long before this new phrase became current among faraway elites, hometown desperation for economic rescue became a political force—reinforced by persistently negative realities.

Gordon calls them “headwinds,” but the folks here like to pretend they don’t exist. The regional population is down since 2000 and is actually below what it was in 1970, but the local discourse is that Buffalo area is growing. Half of the region’s African-American men aged 18-64 are out of the workforce, but except for the Buffalo State College Center for Economic and Policy Studies (directed by this columnist) and the UB Architecture and Planning school’s Henry Taylor, no official voices here mutter a word. Other realities: In recovering from the 2008 Financial Crisis, most of the new jobs pay less than $10 an hour. Almost 70 percent of taxpayers report less than $30,000 in annual income, and the median household income in Western New York counties is anywhere from about $8,000 to $16,000 less than the statewide median. Housing prices in a few Census Tracts are up smartly, but with the population stagnating and aging out, oversupply looms even as suburban sprawl marches ever farther outward from the spiffed-up, photogenic Buffalo waterfront party center.

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BUFFALO’S INSIDER-DEALING, RFQ-BENDING WAYS HAVE LONG BEEN CHARACTERISTIC OF THE BIPARTISAN POLITICAL ECONOMY HERE. BECAUSE OF PREET BHARARA’S INDICTMENTS, THAT MAY BE ABOUT TO CHANGE. Elected officials and civic boosters neither use nor crave attention to those bullet points, which is why every Buffalo-area elected official who gladly accepted campaign contributions from the now-indicted Ciminelli is fervently praying that Andrew Cuomo’s $750 million gamble on Elon Musk pays, and soon.

But soon is almost here.

Starting in 2017, Buffalo will actually see new jobs, a new industry cluster, a new support for the “ecosystem” of engineers, manufacturers, and will also see a follow-on wave of entrepreneurs who will take advantage of Buffalo getting a piece of the fastest-growing energy/industry shift since John D. Rockefeller and his friends started pumping oil out of northern Pennsylvania, which is just 80 miles away.

Speaking of Pennsylvania, which Buffalo developer and former GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino relentlessly adduces as an economic success, Cuomo followed the science rather than the Paladino clamor when it came to investing in hydrocarbon production via hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a very dirty business that has a very short-horizon payoff for investors with good timing, but which has resulted in a historic glut of natural gas, sharply spiking methane greenhouse gas emissions, and sharply spiking complaints of tainted water wherever gas is produced. Buffalo’s new irony: The new owner of the Buffalo Bills NFL and Buffalo Sabres NHL franchises is the Pegula family, which made its billions trading leases for frackable Pennsylvania land, and cashed in before the franking bust.

Cuomo’s regulators prevented the house-of-cards hydrofracking boom that might have given Buffalo a brief taste of what has now gone sour in Pennsylvania, and spectacularly sour in North Dakota, instead focusing on the technology-focused development that Alain Kaloyeros, late of the SUNY Polytechnic Center, successfully engineered in Albany with the nanotech campus, and also engineered with the LPCiminelli-built Riverbend campus for Solar City.

New Yorkers are not new to the pledge that state intervention will be transformative, but the entry of Musk and Solar City, of the LED factory, and potentially of the related firms—plus the new IBM works that have been completely eclipsed by the scandal story— together constitute the closest Buffalo has seen to a technological paradigm change since 2006, when the eight (now 14) new-tech wind-turbine power generators of the Steel Winds project went on-line. Actually making solar-power-generating equipment, rather than just installing what’s shipped in, will be a very radical change for this region.

That’s what Cuomo tasked his staff to do. They did it, screwing themselves and their friends along the way because even as they’d been tasked to bring in the new, they were stuck in the manners and mentality of old.

(Aside: The wonder is that Ciminelli ever bothered to communicate with Kaloyeros, Percoco, and Howe. LPCiminelli is by far the largest and most experienced Upstate New York builder of high-tech worksites and research spaces. Had a New York City construction/ development firm been selected, LPCiminelli could have pitched it to be the regional partner, but no firm based faraway was ever going to get this job. So if your team has the strongest offense, the best kicker, and is 100 and 0 in this particular playing field, why buy the ref, too?)

Blame the culture, which may, because of Bharara’s indictments, be about to change.

Buffalo’s insider-dealing, RFQ-bending ways have long been characteristic of the bipartisan political economy here. Louis Ciminelli was a major donor to Republican Governor George Pataki, who appointed him to the head of the New York Power Commission.

Younger brother Paul Ciminelli, who heads Ciminelli Development Corporation, was a major fundraiser for both Eliot Spitzer and for Andrew Cuomo, and was an appointee to the Empire State Devel-

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opment Corporation board, serving even while Ciminelli firms did business with New York State.

Can it change?

The window has opened. Howard Zemsky, the latter-day Bernard Baruch, is now in the house. But so are the entrepreneurs.

A bare $5 million was carved out of the Buffalo Billion for a business-plan competition that has been resoundingly successful in raising the spirits of innovators here, and raising the hopes of Buffalo citizens who are depressed about the same old insiders getting the same old make-work projects. Everybody wants out from under the old deal, except, of course, the subsidy profiteers of old.

Luckily, the 43 North competition, now in its third year, is birthing a new sense of possibility. It’s modeled on the wildly successful competition that Pittsburgh used to leverage its own transformation from permanent Rust Belt depression zone to an international knowledge and best-practice center for IT entrepreneurs.

The best hope for Cuomo, of course, is that despite his allies’ allegedly dirty hands, the Cuomo project of economic engineering succeeds.

But stay tuned. As one reads the email threads, it becomes clear that the former LPCiminelli executive, whom Ciminelli hired from the Buffalo Niagara Partnership (the local chamber of commerce), was completely guileless in editing the bid specs, as was his boss. It seems as if they had no idea that there was any problem breaking federal and state law on how bidders can and cannot communicate with the people who put public projects out to bid. Looking at the nearly $2 billion in public projects that LPCiminelli has and still is engaged in since at least the mid-1990s, it would seem logical to ask how long the activity described in the criminal complaint has been standard operating procedure around here.

Why ask? Because new blood, and a new culture, need to come here and grow. The business community in Buffalo has long profited from the current ecology, in which they individually and as a group pronounce their hatred for government—and then write checks to politicians who go fetch the Albany-financed projects for the government-haters back in Buffalo.

Louis Ciminelli, now indicted, carried that message when he served as head of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, which has long sponsored a lobbying campaign with the title Unshackle Upstate. Its script—cut taxes, privatize schools, break public unions, reduce or eliminate worker-protection and environmental rules—is the principal message of Unshackle Upstate. The Buffalo Niagara Partnership has long taken its cues from Robert Wilmers, CEO of M & T Bank, whose annual reports for the last 20 years have been very consistent on those precise points. Wilmers himself devoted several shareholder messages to denouncing Wall Street manipulation of mortgage-backed securities as the 2008 collapse unfolded, yet it was Wilmers’s own bank that was found, by a unanimous appeals court, to have committed the very same kind of fraud, albeit just to the extent of selling $275 million in worthless mortgage-backed securities based on worthless M & T mortgages. A couple of hundred million, not billions.

Nobody in Buffalo said a word about any of that because, until articles appeared in the alternative press (including The Public), few in Buffalo knew.

But this is Buffalo’s old culture of impunity, which, with the LPCiminelli indictments, is now on display. One hopes that a little sunshine interrupts its persistence long enough for the new, hopeful culture of innovation and entrepreneurship to grow.

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

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PUBLIC SPACE, PUBLIC VOICES

BY BRUCE JACKSON

COMPARING THE ALBRIGHT-KNOX’S PUBLIC PLANNING PROCESS AND THE OLMSTED CONSERVANCY’S LESS-THAN-OPEN APPROACH TWO VERY DIFFERENT MODELS of public

engagement are being played out right now about some of the same Buffalo public space.

One is by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, which sits at the border of two large plots of land that, in the 19th century, were designed

by Frederick Law Olmsted. The gallery is at the western edge of Delaware Park and it abuts what used to be part of the open landscape designed by Olmsted for the mental institution designed by his friend, Henry H. Richardson.

(More than half of that property was later occupied by SUNY Buffalo State.)

a new educational institution that would magically be an accredited element in the Buffalo school system.

The Conservancy is considering that without any public conversation whatsoever. There has been nothing other than announcements and very long planted articles in the Buffalo News and on the Buffalo Rising website.

Were it not for what happened with the Marcy Casino, we might assume that, if Gaughan’s plans ever got close to being feasible, the Conservancy would admit the public into the conversation.

The other is by the group currently entrusted with maintaining what remains of Olmsted’s astonishing work here, the Olmsted Conservancy.

But they didn’t do that with the Casino. They made the deal first, in secret, then had two informational public meetings at which they announced what they were going to do (April 6 and April 28), and a third meeting ( July 27) that was supposed to engage public input, but resulted in a report that ignored all that input and resulted in a conclusion identical to the deal cut in secret. The third meeting took place only because of public kickback about lack of consultation all along.

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, a state-chartered entity dedicated to operate on the cutting edge of modern art, has adopted a model of full public engagement. The Olmsted Conservancy has adopted a model of keeping the public out until all decisions have been made, all deals have been cut.

The report (you can read it here) is almost entirely in the passive voice. As any English teacher will tell you, the passive voice is a way of saying things happened without admitting anyone was responsible for them. It’s okay to say, “It rained.” It’s not okay to say, “The gun went off and that guy got shot.”

So, ironically, while coping with the present and planning for the future, a grand neoclassical building on Elmwood Avenue keeps operating in daylight, while the Olmsted system, which spreads all over the city, works very hard in the dark.

WORKING ON THE SLY Two major projects are in process at the Conservancy. The public hasn’t been invited at all into conversation about one of them, and the public involvement in the other has been bogus.

(See “Loaded Dice at the Marcy Casino” in the August 3, 2016 edition of The Public.)

One is the double golf course plus educational enterprise proposed by local gadfly Kevin Gaughan. It would reconfigure the golf course in Delaware Park, redesign South Park, set up a private golf course somewhere in South Buffalo, construct an arboretum envisioned by Olmsted but never fully realized, and establish

The report starts with the premise that the Conservancy can partner with a private operator to turn a public facility into a destination restaurant/bar, without asking the public if it might prefer other uses for that building, and without asking other operators for alternate proposals for utilization of that space and providing services to park users. It tells of votes it solicited on behalf of that restaurant/bar, some of which took place in other restaurant/bars operated by the people who want to operate this one, and none of which offered an opportunity to vote on anything else.

In a recent conference call with board members (according to one of those board members), Olmsted executive director Stephanie Crockatt said all objections had been met, all questions had been answered, and a report was being sent to Mayor Byron Brown, and that Brown was ready to sign off on it.

So, basically, they cut a deal in secret, then held two meetings telling the public what they’d

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done. Then, after public pressure, they held a third (conducted by UB Architecture dean Robert Shibley, who permitted no discussion and no questions at that meeting) that was supposed to introduce public input into the process, and then arrived where they started.

WORKING IN DAYLIGHT The Albright-Knox Art Gallery has taken exactly the opposite approach. They’ve known for years that they needed more space: They can currently exhibit only a fraction of their huge collection, and if they use their available space for more items from the collection, they can’t put on shows of new work.

Last year, they had several public meetings, asking everyone to suggest anything. They’re calling the expansion process “AK360.” In subsequent meetings they engaged the public again and again. They held a competition among architects, the results of which were public. Last Friday, the Albright-Knox held a public event to announce that—thanks to an astonishing $42.5 million gift by Los Angeles bond trader Jeffrey Gundlach (who grew up in Buffalo) and an enthusiastic responses from Erie County, New York State, and Buffalo foundations and individuals—it had raised $103 million, $23 million beyond its original goal.

The gallery could stop now and do what its board and staff want to do. But they’ve chosen a different route. Along with their architectural partner, OMA, the gallery had a large interactive meeting at the Buffalo Convention Center on September 27. There will be more once they engage landscape architects to ensure that the new structure is in harmony with Olmsted’s design.

SO WHY IS ONE IN SECRET AND ONE IN PUBLIC? The Olmsted Conservancy, so far as I know, owns nothing. Its power in the city of Buffalo is entirely dependent on the contractual agreement it has with the city of Buffalo.

The city of Buffalo does not provide the Conservancy with sufficient funds to maintain the Olmsted system. So the Conservancy has become an entity of well-meaning hustlers. It is desperately scuffling for money to do work for the community, but, in the process, it has decided to lock the community out of its fundraising efforts and its mission. It refuses to release its operating budget or its contract with the Marcy Casino operators. Under pressure, it put on a sham “public consultation” session that affected nothing. The report it submitted to the mayor contains everything but specificity.

The property it maintains is all open space.

But for openness of process, go to the magnificent E. B. Green building where Delaware Park ends.

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Tres Mujeres by Carlos Mérida.

MEXICAN MOVEMENTS

BY JACK FORAN

CASA DE ARTE HIGHLIGHTS WORK BY CARLOS MÉRIDA, RAÚL ANGUIANO, AND JESÚS ESCOBEDO

MEXICAN MOVEMENTS

WORKS OF THREE IMPORTANT ARTISTS of the Mexican socio-political

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artistic revolutionary tradition are currently on show at Casa de Arte. Two paintings by Carlos Mérida, a lithograph by Raúl Anguiano, and another by Jesús Escobedo.

Mérida, born in Guatemala, worked with Diego Rivera on Rivera’s murals in Mexico City, and along with Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Siqueiros founded the Sindicato de Obreros Técnicos Pintores y Escultores (Union of Workers, Technicians, Painters, and Sculptors). But also visited Europe, and was influenced by European modernists—the likes of Picasso, Mondrian, and Miró—as well as by his native country ancient Mayan art.

Anguiano was a muralist and one of the founders of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (People’s Graphic Workshop), an artists’ collective dedicated to using art to advance revolutionary social causes, and a member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists). Escobedo was also a member of the Taller and the Liga, and specialized in drawing and engraving, and created posters against fascism.

The Escobedo lithograph depicts a wedding couple sitting for a painting portrait by an artist working assiduously no doubt at his easel, foregound, while in the background, on a lake or stream behind the blissful couple, an amicable as possible prelude to amorous encounter between a duck and a swan. An allegory of marriage as agreeable amalgam of likes and differences?

The Anguiano lithograph is in a more traditional socialist/realist vein, but not overtly political in this instance. More simply about hard work and work

IN GALLERIES NOW = ART OPENING 640 Gallery (640 Ridge Road, Lackawanna, NY 14218, 716-823-5124): Mary McKee, paintings on view through Oct 17. Opening reception Fri Sep 30, 6-8pm. Mon-Fri 10am-4pm.

1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts (1045 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-228-1855, photographics2.com/store/welcome-to-our-studio-1045-gallerystore): Juried exhibition entitled ninesixteen juried

by Ginny O’Brien. On view through Sep 30. Thu & Fri 11-6, Sat 11-4 and by appointment.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery(1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Shade: Mark Crawford and Clyfford Still, through Oct 2. Operation Sunshine: Joan Linder, through Oct 30. Marie Lorenz: Ezekia, through Sep 11. Defining Sculpture, works from the museum’s collection on view through

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product. Depicting a lumber construction framework between two large rock outcrops, and partial view of the construction worker, half hidden behind an array of two-by-fours.

The Mérida works are non-narrative depictions of two women in one instance, three in the other. Full-length portraits, modernist and Mayan slightly abstract more than realistic.

To provide a further sense of the art of the three artists, also included are some computer reproduction prints of major museum collection examples of their works, plus paint on canvas reinterpretations of the same works by Casa de Arte artist-proprietors Rick Williams and Mara Odette. By Escobedo, El Revolucionario, a woodcut portrait of a revolutionary soldier. By Anguiano, La Espina, showing a peasant field worker—so working barefoot—digging a spine out of his foot with a field knife. And two paintings

by Mérida, one of a woman gathering flowers—or possibly edibles, fruits or vegetables—amid a decorative surround of flowers, and one of an elaborately costumed participant in “Las Fiestas de Chinelos,” roughly equivalent to Mardi Gras, but with a strong anti-Spanish colonialists satirical flavor.

Costumes—representing Spanish—include a full mask invariably with stiff upturned beard. Literally stuck-up.

The three Mexican artists exhibit continues through October 7.

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Oct 9. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm.

Amy’s Place Restaurant (University Heights Arts Association) (3234 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 716-8336260, uhartsgroup.com/amysplace): Allusive Formations. Metal and glass wall sculptures by Lawrence Kinney. On view through Sep 20. Every day: 7:00am9:00pm.

Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Transitions, work by Joyce Hill.

Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm.

Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-8852251, wnyag.com): We Remember, Artist Members of the Western New York Artists Group, on view through Oct 7. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm.

Ashker’s on Elmwood (1002 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886 -2233, ashkersbuffalo.com): Group 263: works by Brian Boutin, Kathleen Corff Rogers, John Lloyd, Gethyn Soderman, Rick Steinberg. MonSat 7am-10pm, Sun 9am-5pm.

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Atrium 124 (124 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): H.P Lovecraft Art Show with work from John Nelson, Paul Kalinowski, Joe Egan, Chris Mcgee, Mary Louise Wyrik, William Rios, Sophia Tareen, Robert Harris, Eric Evinczik, and John Farallo.

Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): R x R Graffiti, photos by Ann Kutner on view through Nov 19.

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

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

Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Lily Dale, installation by Flatsitter. Fri-Sun 12-6pm.

Box Gallery (667 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203): Final Frontier, a collaborative piece by Gary Nickard, Reinhard Reitzenstein, and Patty Wallace. Opening reception: Fri Sep 16, 2016 6pm-Midnight. Open 4pm10pm daily.

Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2496 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Craft Art Field Day, structural, collaborative work by Ani Hoover on view through Nov 7. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm.

Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology (1221 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 259-1680, buffaloartstechcenter. org): Sandy Ludwig: Portraits, Places and Pleasures​, on view through Sep 28. Mon-Fri 10am-3pm.

Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare: Reflecting on the Life of the Bard. Milestones on Science: Books That Shook the World! 35 rare books from the history of science, on second floor. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6:00pm, Sun 12-5pm.

Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Jozef Bajus: Nothing is Going Away (through Jan 29, 2017) and Babs Reingold: The Last Tree (through Feb 26, 2017), Blistering Vision, Charles E. Burchfield’s sublime American landscapes through Oct 23. Artists Seen: photographs of contemporary artists by David Moog. Aries Press of Eden NY, through Sep 11. Sequel on view through Sep 18. The Birthday Party: A Community of Artists, on view through Sep 25. 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free.

Carnegie Art Center (240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, carnegieartcenter.org): Buffalo Society of Artists fall exhibition, celebrating the BSA’s 125th anniversary. On view through Oct 15.

Casa de Arte (141 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201, 240-9248, casadeartegallery.com): Mexican Movements: Carlos Mérida and his Compañeros. Mon, Wed, Fri 10-3pm, or by appointment.

Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8562717, cepagallery.org): The Structure of Things, Biff Henrich, monument, photographs by bobCollignon, both on view through Dec 17. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm.

Daily Planet Coffee Company (1862 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, 716- 551-0661): Work by Enid Edelman, opening Tue Sep 13. and on view through Oct 8.

Daemen College, Tower Gallery of the Haberman Gacioch Art Center (Daeman College Center for Visual & Performing Arts, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY 14226, 8398241): Recent work by Kevin Kegler, on view through Sep 30.

Dana Tillou Fine Arts (417 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com): The Old and the New: 180 Years of Painting and the Arts. Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm.

El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 4644692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Realizing Beauty, photographs by Nick Butler on view through Oct 1. TueSat 12-5pm.

Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): COEXIST, Lauren Fratantonio Dunn and Jessica Rosenberg. On view through Oct 1. Tue-Fri 11-6pm, Sat 11-4pm.

Grindhaus Cafe (160 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, facebook.com/grindhauscafe): Paintings by Ian McPhail. Tue-Sat 8am-8pm, Sun 8am-6pm.

Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Text-based paintings by Amy Greenan, Eric Magnuson, Brad Phillips, and Betty Tompkins. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm, Closed on Sundays & Mondays. On view through Oct 28. TueFri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm.

Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Tree cantations by Reinhard Reitzenstein, on view through October 2. Wed & Fri 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays.

Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The invention of the telegraph and the railroad. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm.

Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm.

Kenan Center House Gallery (433 Locust Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 433-2617, kenancenter.org): Beauty of the Beasts: paintings by wildlife artist, Judith Hartke on view through Oct 2. “Tea & Tour” event of exhibition with artist Sep 18, 1-3pm. Mon-Fri 12-5pm & Sun 2-5pm.

Lockside Art Center (21 Main Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 478-0239, locksideartcenter.com): Members exhibition on view through Sep 17. Fri-Sun 12-4pm.

Main Street Gallery (515 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203): Paintings by Tony Nash. On view through Sep 30.

Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Raymond Bonilla and Richard Kersting: Observe & Imagine, on view through Oct 15. Tue-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm.

Native American Museum of Art at Smokin’ Joe’s (2293 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, NY 14123, 2619251) Open year round and free. Exhibits Iroquois artists work. 7am-9pm.

Nichols School Gallery at the Glenn & Audrey Flickinger Performing Arts Center (1250 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14216, 332-6300, nicholsschool.org/artshows?rc=0): Everyday Places, photographs by George K. Arthur on view through Nov 14. Mon-Fri 8am-4pm, Closed Sat & Sun. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 882-5777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Phyllis Galembo, portraits. On view through Oct 19. TueFri 10am-5pm, Sat & Mon open by appointment only, and closed on Sundays.

Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Gary P. Sellig, pen & ink works. On view Sep 1-30. Tue-Thu, 11am-6pm, Fri 11am-7pm (11am-9pm on first Fridays), Sat 11am-5pm.

Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069, pausaarthouse.com): Flesh and Water: Markenzy Julius Cesar Live Music Thu-Sat. See website for more info.

Pine Apple Company (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/store/pine-apple-company): Work by Thomas James Holt, Yames Moffitt, Esther Neisen, Mickey Harmon, Mike West, and Sarah Liddell. Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am-5pm.

Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, John Farallo, Chris McGee, Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik,

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River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051, riverartgalleryandgifts.com): On the Horizon: MJ Myers, Kaitlin Frisicaro, Dana Tyrell, Mary Myers, Mike Schroeder on view through Oct 29.

Opening reception Sat Oct 1, 4-6pm. Wed-Fri 11am4pm. Sat 11am- 5pm.

RO Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Coffee and Cabal, mixed media illustrations by Alexander G. Perry, on view through Oct 31. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am4pm, closed Mondays.

Sports Focus Physical Therapy (531 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202, 332-4838, sportsfocuspt.com): Susan Q. Liebel “large colorful textured abstract paintings.”

On view through Dec 27. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, 6-9pm on first Fridays.

Stangler Fine Art (6429 West Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127, 870-1129, stanglerart.com): 63rd Annual Fall Members Exhibition on view through Oct 22.

Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm, closed Sundays.

Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio.org): Adrian Bertolone and Denton Crawford. Includes work by the Starlight artists Ron Steele, Jeremy Pratt, and Saeed Dubaishi. Mon-Fri 9-4pm.

Studio Hart (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 536-

8337, studiohart.com): Facets: New Work by Patrick Willett & Catherine Willett, on view through Sep 24. Tue-Fri 11:30am-3:30pm, Sat 12-4pm, and open every First Friday 6-9pm.

UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries.org): Situations: Lydia Okumura on view through Jan 8, 2017. Opening reception Sat Sep 10, 11-1pm. Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic, on view through Dec 31. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.

UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Situations: Lydia Okumura on view through Jan 8, 2017. Opening reception Thu Sep 8, 5-8pm. Screen Projects: Rodney McMillian on view through Nov 13. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm.

Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Neighbors: a story of twelve neighbors, portraits, sculptures and poetry by Ariel Aberg-Riger on view through Oct 14. Mon-Fri 8am-8pm, Sat 10am -5pm.

Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 438-1430, wnybookarts.org): Me, My Pen and I, work by Anne Muntges on view through Oct 14. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. .

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FOOD + DRINK FEATURE Arrowhead Spring Vineyards, on Townline Road in Lockport.

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staggering. It was requires native rootstock and vinifera to graft to it. Then it takes three years to get fruit from the vines, and that fruit must be aged, which requires barrels, a place to store them and more time. For Duncan Ross, this was a lifelong dream; Robin Ross, while willing to try anything, needed a bit more convincing.

“Robin and Duncan had bought the land,” says James Susice, head of sales at Arrowhead Spring Vineyards. “Robin wanted to move out to the country. It was always Duncan’s dream to open a winery. To prove that he was able to make good wine, she made him enter a competition and prove his worth. Either way, the land was already bought and it was a matter of whether they were going to just live out there or dedicate lots of resources to starting a winery.

“So he enters the competition and then they move and forget about it. What is now the vineyard was all brush, so they were focused on clearing it. They built the house. There was a lot going on—it was furthest from their minds. Then this giant package from the Indiana State Fair comes in the middle of winter and they are, like, ‘What is this?’ Then they pull a trophy out for Winemaker of the Year.”

At the time, the Indiana State Fair was the largest amateur winemaker contest in the country.

WHERE TO BEGIN? The Rosses purchased the land on the Niagara Escarpment, on Towline Road west of downtown Lockport, in 2004. The prior owners had done nothing with it. It was covered in brush.

Not a farmhouse. Not a barn. Not even a gravel driveway. But the thick brush growth was evidence that the soil was healthy. Standing outside, looking over the rows of vines in front of me, offers a stark reminder of the impact people have on their environment, even the friendly farming practices at Arrowhead Spring Vineyards.

In 2016 the Rosses purchased an additional 23 acres a half-mile away from the current property.

“The newer land we just bought has been farmed more recently so it comes with more issues,” Robin Ross says. ”Soil depletion, et cetera. Crops were sprayed, and of course that is an extremely common occurrence, and that spray, at least what is allowed in the US, breaks down after a couple of years. And another problem when peo-

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ple spray, and what people don’t consider, is that when you use pesticides and herbicides, you then don’t get that layer of weeds and things on the soil. Those plants help keep nutrients in the soil and also help break things down. Otherwise the crop plants just take everything and it takes time for the soil to recover. What we need to do is put down a layer of organic manure on it, then the following year put a cover crop on it, and then I feel like it is on it’s way to recovery.”

Robin Ross’s role is growing operations and horticulture. Duncan Ross is in charge of the company’s vision and winemaking. Robin has plans on selling their grapes to more people in the industry. Many winemakers don’t grow the grapes they use to make the wine. “Usually the winemaker and the grape-grower are separate entities.

They are just very different businesses,” she says.

GOLDILOCKS Currently, Arrowhead Spring Vineyards grows merlot, cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay, pinot noir, syrah, tempranillo, riesling, vidal blanc, and cabernet franc. Cabernet sauvignon is the third most planted, pinot noir is second, and cabernet franc is number one. “It grows beautifully here,” Robin Ross says. “It doesn’t have as many issues with our climate, and it also makes a great red wine for us. I’m very happy with how it turns out. In 2006, when we first planted, we planted cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, chardonnay, merlot, syrah, and malbec. We got good fruit from the malbec grapes for a couple of years, but we also noticed that it had diseased leafs, so it wouldn’t last forever. One difference between people and plants is that plant diseases are de-

generative. We get better, plants don’t. We know it wouldn’t last, and 2010 was the last time we had a vintage.”

Though Arrowhead Spring Vineyards is only a 35-minute drive from Buffalo, the proximity to Lake Ontario has profound effects on growing conditions. “We find that several varietals grow really well here,” Robin Ross says. “With the lake being 10 miles away, we have our own micro-climate. It heats things. Lake Ontario is 30 miles across and 600 feet deep, which is why that lake doesn’t freeze. From a weather standpoint, it keeps our winters slightly warmer, which is why you’ll find vinifera that can grow here that can’t grow in other places that have a similar summer climate, like Minnesota. Also, because the lake is such a thermal sink, it keeps things a bit cooler in the spring, delaying bud break till after the frost danger has passed. That’s why you see two belts of fruit growth in Niagara County: right along the lake, and then right across the escarpment.”

HOW TO GROW Currently you can find conventional, sustainable, bio-dynamic, and organic wines in most stores.

In the beginning, Robin Ross, who describes herself as an “armchair environmentalist”—figured that organic was the way to go. Upon doing a bit more research, she had become disillusioned. “Organic is great concept, of course, but to think that is totally free of sprays, for example, is false. Organically certified sprays are used. One of the organic sprays contains copper, and copper isn’t good for soil. It sounds wonderful, and people generally look at it as being cleaner than traditional farming, but traditional farming can be

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We turn and go down a row of cabernet sauvignon. She gets down on one knee and motions for me to do the same. “We don’t use herbicides anywhere on the farm. In a lot of vineyards, you’ll see the area near the roots being a bare strip with no grasses or plants. What I personally don’t like about that is that in order to have healthy soil, you have to have plant life. Those plants die and break down, and they add nitrogen, et cetera, back into the soil. Those plants allow microbes and bacteria and tiny insects to run around in the soil, keeping it aerated and light and fluffy.

I just don’t see the logic in having a dead zone where you want a plant’s roots to develop. Sure, there is competition for water, but when you have an overdeveloped canopy and nothing near the roots, you can get a vegetal taste in the wine.

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“I love seeing that,” she says, pointing to a plant near the roots. “That is a wild sweet pea, and when that dies and breaks down, it’ll add a lot of nitrogen back into the soil.”

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For me, strolling through the vineyard, sloping down from the tasting room and house, is relaxing. Then again, I don’t work there. Robin Ross walks through with eyes darting to and fro.

Suddenly she points up, competing to be heard against the wind: “One thing you’ll notice is that we don’t have a perfect canopy. There are some holes in our leaves. They are from Japanese beetles. I don’t spray if I can avoid it, so we let them do a certain amount of damage. Leaves can still photosynthesize even if they don’t look as pretty.”

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This wine would be a great aperitif on a hot afternoon and would pair well with steamed clams.

2013 COOL TERROIR: Each year, the blend for this wine consists of varying proportions of syrah, merlot, cabernet franc, and cabernet sauvignon.

Each wine is vinted and oak aged for 12-24 months separately. The wine is then back-blended to arrive at the specific percentages unique for each vintage. It comes in at 15 percent ABV. The wine showed a dark ruby color. Blackberry, cassis, white pepper, mossy earth, and oak were each discernible on the nose. Blackberry, cassis, white pepper, current, mossy earth, eucalyptus, and oak followed on the palate where the wine showed a more earthy side than its 2012 predecessor. The wine exhibited good structure and length, along with moderate tannins. This wine would pair well with a wild mushroom risotto or a grilled flank steak.

2012 MERITAGE RESERVE: This wine is a tradition meritage blend of 100 percent estate grown fruit: 40 percent merlot, 34 percent cabernet franc, and 26 percent cabernet sauvignon. Following fermentation, the wine was aged for 12 months in French oak barrels. It comes in at 13.5 percent ABV. The wine showed a dark ruby color. Blackberry, cassis, violet, eucalyptus, oak, and mossy earth could all be found on the nose where the earthen notes supported the berry. Blackberry, cassis, licorice, mocha oak, and eucalyptus followed on the palate with the mocha emerging as the wine opened up. The wine exhibited great structure and length. Quite tannic, this wine could be cellared five to eight years. This wine would pair very well with a seared dry-aged ribP eye steak or braised lamb shank.

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EVENTS CALENDAR bers— Steve Soboslai (lead vocals/guitar), Chris Fafalios (bass) and PJ Caruso (drums)— stayed with the band. Nearly 20 years later, in 2015, Punchline released their latest album, Thrilled. Less ska, more pop and punk, Punchline always delivers an excellent show.

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[HARDCORE] Fans of LA-based hardcore quintet the Bronx and its traditional alter-ego Mariachi El Bronx got disruptive news this past summer when it was announced in late June that drummer Jorma Vik would be leaving both bands. Vik has since been keeping up his role in Eagles of Death Metal, leaving the issue of his replacement as an unsolved mystery. Internet sleuthing has not turned up any concrete answers, but the show goes on all the same—perhaps he’s been persuaded to stay until the end of the tour. See what the story is on Thursday, September 29 at Buffalo Iron Works with Dead Heavens and Pounded by the Surf. -CJT

CRAIG ROBINSON WEDNESDAY SEP 28 EVERY TIME I DIE Low Teens album Recommended if you like: The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, Poison the Well Few, if any, metalcore bands have been as consistent as Every Time I Die. Few can even claim a career as lengthy and fruitful. And it’s not even an overstatement to say that the Buffalo-based hardcore band have yet to falter across a 15-year, eight-album career odyssey. It’s also safe to say that the term metalcore doesn’t even begin to describe the music on the band’s latest album, Low Teens, which was released earlier this week. Hardcore, metal, emo, and even some pop seeps through the relentless wall of sound on Low Teens. Through that also leaks frontman (and The Public contributor) Keith Buckley’s clever, cathartic lyrics. The album’s title purportedly refers to bitterly cold temperatures.

Consistency might imply a lack of evolution, but this is not the case.

From the first discordant notes of the album opener “Fear and Trembling,” listeners will know they’re in for something that will at once feel familiar and at the same time test their limitations.

The urgent, unmerciful attack that begins on the opening track doesn’t subside for a moment through the next two songs, “Glitches”—one of the album’s singles—and the heavily personal “C++ (Love Will Get You Killed),” which Buckley says was written about the helplessness he felt during his child’s premature birth, which is clearly a subject that affects the themes of subsequent songs as well. The record softens (if you can call it that) for “Two Summers” before plunging back into heavy metal territory with “Awful Lot” “It Remembers,” which features vocals from Panic! at the Disco’s Brendon Urie, balances Urie’s emo vocals with fat, fat riffage. “Religion of Speed” teases out the band’s inner Led Zeppelin before punching a hole into hell with palm muted punk chords and hardcore screams from Buckley.

The album clocks in at 13 tracks and 44 minutes (the deluxe edition is six minutes longer, with two additional songs), and ends with the spiraling, desperate “Map Change” (which feels like the more appropriate finale, compared to the deluxe edition’s final track, “Nothing Visible; Ocean Empty”). The track sends the listener DO YOUa powerful MAKE MUSIC? off with yet despondent hook, “I’ve weighed down the earth/ HAVE A RECOMMENDATION? Not sure I can take it,” with which the band’s knack for catchy riffage CONTACT CORY@DAILYPUBLIC.COM and emotional lyricism coalesce in a TO BEtranscendent CONSIDERED IN OURcementmost way, WEEKLY PUBLIC PICKS. ing one of their sharpest, deepest records to date.

7PM / HELIUM COMEDY CLUB, 30 MISSISSIPPI ST. / $30 [COMEDY] Comedy/music virtuoso Craig Robinson got his breakout role on The Office back in 2005. Darryl Philbin was meant to be a small role but turned into one of the longest-standing characters, who not only had one of the greatest exits when the show concluded in 2013, but also coined the text phrase “BTB: Bring That Booty.” Before Robinson grew to the comedy hero we know and love, he was making good use of his bachelor’s degree in music by teaching music at an elementary school in his hometown of Chicago. Robinson has been known to tickle the ivory and show off his gentle vocals in various on-screen roles, including The Office and the 2013 apocalyptic sensation, This Is the End. His piano work and occasional singing comes into play during his stand up alongside his smart, tongue in cheek humor. Robinson has appeared in several films, including Seth Rogan’s latest animated comedy Sausage Party, as well as Hot Tub Time Machine, Pineapple Express, Zack & Miri Make A Porno, and Morris From America. He has also portrayed several recurring charters on hit shows, including Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Doug Judy, the Pontiac Bandit) and Eastbound & Down (Reg Mackworthy). Catch Robinson at Helium Comedy Club on Wednesday, September 28 through Thursday, September 29. -KELLIE POWELL

WEDNESDAY SEP 28 Clutch 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $30-$34

[ROCK] Hard rock band Clutch will kick off their Psychic Warfare World Tour in Buffalo on Wednesday, September 28 at the Town Ballroom. The band, hailing from Frederick, Maryland, are onto, if you can believe it, their 11th LP, Psychic Warfare, which is equal parts grinding, bluesy hard rock, and the stuff of over-the-top comic book heroism.

Frontman Neil Fallon at times comes across as a character from the universe of a Quentin Tarantino movie, puffing out his chest and delivering his fantastical lyrics in an overdone, hyper-masculine voice. Though it’s clear he doesn’t take himself that seriously, the band does because their blues-goes-hardcore riffs are pretty relentless throughout not only Psychic Warfare, but the rest of the band’s stoner rock/metal discography. They’ll be joined by the Zakk Wylde-led Black Sabbath tribute band, appropriately named Zakk Sabbath. -CP

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THURSDAY SEP 29 Thursday Night Terrors: Demons 7:30pm Dipson Amherst Theater, 3500 Main S. $7

[SCREENING] The next film in the Thursday Night Terror film series, Demons, will be shown this Thursday, September 29. The film, directed by Lamberto Bava and produced by the famous horror movie-maker Dario Argento, follows a group of people who are trapped in a movie theater under torment from their friends who have just transformed into demons.

“The demon transformation scenes alone are worth the price of admission,” says Peter Vullo, the organizer of the series.

“They are top-notch and absolutely gnarly.

They graphically tap into our fear of losing teeth and fingernails.

It’s often painful to watch, but that’s part of what I love about the horror genre—great practical effects should leave the audience in awe or disgust, preferably both.” The series continues through December with screenings of 1985’s Fright Night, Phantasm II, and the 1982 version of The Thing.

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[ROCK] Though this show is sold-out, it’s worth reminding ticket-holders that it’s coming up, as tickets went on sale in January. Brian Wilson, the legendary Beach Boys frontman will, for the last time, deliver the band’s seminal album, Pet Sounds, in its entirety. Originally released in 1966, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the iconic concept album. Brian Wilson comes to the UB Center for the Arts Mainstage Theatre on Wednesday, September 28. -CP

[PUNK] This pop-punk four piece band is making its way to Buffalo’s Studio at the Waiting Room this Thursday for an evening of catchy melodies and crazy good vocals. Formed in 1997, the high school seniors created a ska-influenced punk band to energize the young folk of Pittsburgh with their first album, How to Get Kicked Out of the Mall. Three out of the four original mem-

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FRIDAY SEP 30 WASH Project Grand Reopening (All day) The WASH Project, 593 Grant Street

[ART+] The WASH Project's re-positioning on Grant Street, temporarily without the co-located laundromat, still allows the center to get back to work under its acronym: West Side Art Strategy Happenings. The new space—made possible by Greenleaf Property Management, developers of the adjacent student housing construction site—brings back the community art space that grew up around the Massachusettds Avenue site. The pool table has been re-felted, and an open art studio, library with reading corner, and a computer lab are available for community use. Also starting this Friday, September 30, a bi-weekly open mic series. The WASH will be celebrating all day on Friday, starting at 11am.

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Pinkerton 20th Anniversary Show 9pm Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar, 253 Allen St $5

[ROCK] Weezer’s Pinkerton was the 1996 exploration of isolation and identity crisis

by Weezer’s lead man, Rivers Cuomo. Ahead of its time, Pinkerton at first received mixed reviews but went on to achieve cult status after the 2010 deluxe edition reissue. Dukes Bohemian Grove Bar will cater to this particular brand of Weezer fan this Friday night with the album’s 20th anniversary show. The album will be covered front to back by members of Rochester acts Pleistocene, Talking Under Water, the Ginger Faye Bakers, FM Green, and Down to Earth Approach. The event is coupled with Buffalo’s Hundred Plus Club’s album release show, and the early 2000s-era emo band Cooler will open up the show. -MB

Pop Up, Pop Up 8pm 443 Ellicott Street, 443 Ellicott Street

[ART SHOW + PARTY] Finally an event just for fun brought to us by some of the folks behind the scenes at the housing and economic justice outfit of PUSH Buffalo. Three disparate elements combine for this one next door to Maureen’s Flower Shop at 443 Ellicott Street: the little-known drawings of Seth Triggs who has been sketching the city since five years old, a collection of Eamesera furniture for sale, and soul, hip hop, and new wave cuts on the dancefloor courtesy of DJs Lonnie B and Montrose. Can’t make the party but still want to check the art?

The show will be open through the weekend, 10am-4pm. -AL

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[PARTY] There are reasons why after just three years in the local market you can find Hamburg Brewing Company's beers alongside national craft beers in grocery stores, corner stores, and taps: It's damn good beer and they really hustle to bring it out to your neighborhood establishment. This Saturday, October 1, the gorgeous HBC campus on Boston State Road will host crisp autumn air, foliage AND a big all-day party with music (Strictly Hip and others), food, and of course their beer.

A perfect pairing with a day-hike in Chestnut Ridge or Ellicottville. -AL

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[PARTY] This Saturday, October 1, Buffalo Arts Studio kicks off an extended celebration of the stalwart cultural institution’s 25th birthday with RevelX25, a live concert and art party on the loading dock at the Tri-Main Center. (The loading dock is on the Jewett Avenue side of the sprawling former Trico window-wiper plant, which has been home to Buffalo Arts Studio for its full quarter century, and offers hope to those who’d like to see an inspired re-use of the old Trico at Ellicott and Goodell.) Headlining the show are Aircraft, along with Humble Braggers, Feverbox, and DJ Yes. Artist Tommy Nguyen—you may remember his show of plush sculpture at Buffalo Arets Studio last year—will perform live with his PLUSH Posse: living, breathing, dancing works of art. Buffalo Arts Studio has championed public art since its inception, so it is meet that two new murals will be unveiled at the party. One is by Daniel Galas, Buffalo Arts Studio resident artist and creator of this week’s cover art, presents 72 Jewett, which features neighborhood landmarks painted on the exterior of the Koch Metal Spinning building. The other, Advantageous Geometry #5: TOWER OF POWER, is designed by Nicholas Miller and executed by TEAM RAZORWIRE: Miller, Chris Kameck, and studio assistant Andrew Bannister. There’s much more celebrating to be done at Buffalo Arts Studio this year, but you don’t want to miss this unique art party. Get your tickets now at basx25.com and save $5 on admission, which you can then use on beer, wine, and food trucks. -GEOFF KELLY

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And it's that time again, Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1, when Buffalo's preeminent jam band success story comes back to Town Ballroom for a two-night stand.

There's been no new music since 2014's No Guts, No Glory, but maybe that just means they're digging deeper into the back catalog for this fall's run of shows. All kidding aside, Moe delivers the goods for fans of groove-based improv playing, and if that doesn't maintain your attention, the sideshow created by the band's fans keeping security busy certainly will—hilarity ensues. -CJT

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ANTI-VENUE TOUR X BUFFALO SATURDAY OCT 1 7PM / FLYING BISON BREWERY, 840 SENECA ST. / $10 [PARTY] Anti-Venue is a series of underground concerts and parties held by the local lifestyle brand Haute La Vie. This edition is also part of the Buffalo Niagara Brewers Association’s Buffalo Beer Week and will be held at Flying Bison Brewery. Featuring music by a bunch of emerging artists of varying genres, including Hitch Burney, Billie Essco, Saint Opal, Ez Amadi, Rich $laves, Mile High, Rodagues, and the Waves, the show, which will be hosted by Solomon Dixon and DJ MWG, should be a sonically thrilling experience. You can also expect some visual art experiences too, with living painting by MJ Myers, and an exhibition from Fleezy Art. And of course, plenty of beer from Flying Bison. The concept behind Anti-Venue is simple, says organizer Shawn Patterson. “[The idea is] to create a platform for independent artist and musicians to showcase their talents as well as uniting our community through artistic expressions,” he says. The Anti-Venue folks just came back from a successful tour that brought the team down to Atlanta.

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[ROCK] Longtime Jerry Garcia Band organist Melvin Seals is often attributed with giving Garcia's solo band its soulful tint, and he continues carrying the JGB torch, which lights upon Buffalo Iron Works with a gig on Tuesday, October 4. JGB has recently acquired guitarist/vocalist Zach Nugent from the tribute bands Cats Under the Stars and Dead Set, and has also been sporadically featuring former Relix magazine editor Toni Brown on vocals. -CJT

WEDNESDAY OCT 5 Mathew Ryan 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $12-$14

[FOLK] Mathew Ryan and Michael McDermott will be performing at the Town Ballroom's Leopard Lounge on Wednesday, October 5. Beautiful and meaningful lyrics and guitar accompaniments can be expected from both singer songwriter artists—both of whom have feet planted in the folksy, alternative country realm. Ryan tip-toes into rock-and-roll with intelligent and tasteful hollering about greed, despair, and capitalism in his latest release, Boxers, which has gained the approval of Lucinda Williams and the like. McDermott’s fan base has reached into the literary world, gaining the praise of Stephen King himself who has stated that “McDermott is one of the best songwriters in the world and possibly the greatest undiscovered rock-and-roll talent of the last 20 years." -MB

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[DANCE] Lehrer Dance is returning to their home base to kick off the M&T Bank Dance Series, celebrating their 10th anniversary season with an evening of dance billed as Lehrer Dance with the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, at the Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo on Saturday, October 1. Buffalo’s professional modern dance company, known for their unique blend of artistry and athleticism, will be teaming up with the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and offering three world premieres, including Troika, which is a male trio about the power of each individual coming together to create a unified group, and Pulp, a comedic full company piece inspired by the silent film era with a nod to the films of Quentin Tarantino. These world premiere pieces will feature the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus performing their own renditions of “Some Nights” by Fun., “Somebody to Love” by Queen, and “Africa” by Toto. The company will also debut one Buffalo premiere titled “Rascal,” which originally debuted in Germany in February and is performed by veteran company member Rachael Humphrey. As always the company will perform a bunch of audience favorites from the company’s wide-ranging repertoire, like “Chukchi,” “Femeie de Lume,” and “A Ritual Dynamic.” -VANESSA OSWALD

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[ROCK] Black Pussy. The name of a psychedelic rock band comprising five white men from Portland, Oregon who decided on the name because “it encapsulates exactly what the band is: a psychedelic, 1970s-influenced rock ‘n’ roll band.” The band’s lead singer, Dustin Hill, maintains that the name works because, although it’s meant to associate black women’s genitalia with an era of heavy drug use and promiscuity, it’s really quite “ambiguous." Nationwide, venues have pulled the band from their lineups due to the sexist and racist nature of this association and the objectification of genitalia. Comedian Adora Nwofor explained it’s not the two words that are offensive but “because it’s being used by people who not been affected by this type of experience,” like routine sexual assault and rape against black women by policemen. Critics, defenders of the band, and the band members themselves continue to claim this accusation is a “feminazi’s” overreaction and misguided interpretation of the name. Hill has declared that the name is not meant to offend and is actually rooted in the Rolling Stone’s song “Brown Sugar”—an account of a black slave woman being raped, which asks, “How come you taste so good?… just like a black girl should” It’s anti-racist, you see. At least, like Hill, the Stones seemed to see it that way. Anyways, Mohawk Place will be hosting on Wednesday, October. 5.

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Emerson wasted no time, following up with a pair of EP’s, Gemini—the title track from which features Sydney singer-songwriter George Maple—and Divide & Conquer, which dropped just this summer. Gemini was downloaded over 800,000 times and raised the What So Not profile considerably with its slightly more accessible sound, but Divide & Conquer explores Emerson’s more subversive edge, even on the down-tempo ballad “Montreal,” which features vocalist Kimbra.

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THE PUBLIC PRESENTS: ADAM BRONSTEIN FREE HAND BAND, JACK TOPHT, AND DJ TRASH CAN WEDNESDAY OCT 5 8:30PM / NIETZSCHE'S, 248 ALLEN ST. / $5 [FUN] This month’s The Public Presents will be a chill night of jazz music, hip hop, and more in the front room of Nietzsche’s. Freak-rapper Jack Topht, Nietzsche’s favorites the Adam Bronstein Freehand Band, and DJ Trash Can & Friends will take the elusive Wednesday night slot, October 5. I won’t go as far to say that this should be a relaxing Wednesday night, but it should loosen you up enough to get through the rest of the week and put your mind in the right place for the weekend. Bronstein and crew usually deliver upbeat jazz sets that are anything but uptight—the band let’s their vibe direct them when they move into their improvisational zone.

You’ve likely seen Jack Topht around town dressed in a Starter jacket and ready to lay down some fat verses, or collaborating with fellow musicians like Little Cake. His latest releases include the Frigger Warning EPs—songs range from minimal, seemingly freestyled, off the cuff tracks, to familiar sampled beats. Finally, expect some rare tunes from James Brown to Kraftwerk and beyond from DJ Trash Can & Friends with an all-vinyl set in between acts and to close out the night.

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Jackson addresses this perception and the technological environment that young people are forced to navigate, with little to no prior direction: “One of the biggest problems facing couples in the 21st century is technology and self-branding. Young people focus on their online personas on Facebook, Twitter, etc., which forces many people to become individualistic, without a focus on interpersonal communication,” he said.

HALF+HALF ON LOVE AND LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY THE BUFFALO CULTURE and business community has been dabbling these last couple years in the podcast world, a trend that has taken off worldwide in only the last decade.

The medium now boasts myriad voices across a wide spectrum of topics and ideas, as well as an increase of usage by big media. According to the Pew Research Center, popular podcast hosting company Libsyn reports hosting 28,000 shows in 2015, with a combined total of 3.3 billion download requests. With the advent of new technology, more and more accessible by the layman who needs no more knowledge than how to connect a microphone cord and hit the record button, anyone with an idea and the desire to express it can now use this communication platform to find an audience hungry for conversation and community.

The latest kids on the local block are Buffalo millennials David Jackson and Elizabeth Fuhrmann, a young couple who comprise Half+Half, a podcast on the Trending Buffalo platform. The idea for their engaging relationship podcast first came to fruition this past May, when they decided that they wanted to delve into a creative partnership and develop a project in which they had equal stake and could maintain regularly, despite differing schedules. Working for Pegula Sports and Entertainment and WGRZ, respectively, Jackson and Fuhrmann are able to use their individual skillsets to come together and produce thoughtful and hilarious content on this relatively new media platform in Buffalo.

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conversational format, holding her own with the naturally gregarious Jackson. The couple tackle and unpack difficult issues and describe personal anecdotes with organic ease, even sometimes finishing each other’s sentences in a natural way that doesn’t come off as cutesy or cringe-worthy.

Sam Brooker, a 23-year-old woman living in Alden has been friends with Fuhrmann since middle school and is enthusiastically supportive of her friend’s new project. “Dave and Liz are so true to themselves and they will not change just because they have a microphone in front of them,” she said. “The quirkiness, the humor, the tribulations, their individual personalities, none of that is omitted as they lay everything on the table.” Golden Groves, a 39-year-old man in Springville, has been friends with Jackson since their time working on the independent film Around in Circles. “I think that the subject matter is perfect for them and their chemistry is so strong you can hear it in every episode,” he said, another avid listener of the podcast.

“The podcast originally was intended as a way to get our thoughts and feelings out and be our couple’s therapy, but now we realize it’s a stage for all couples. It’s turned into an outlet for other couples to not only learn about themselves, but also to talk about things in their relationship,” said Jackson. “We initially saw the podcast as a way to get ourselves out there, have meaningful conversations with interesting people, and to get Liz to talk more,” he said.

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Being young in the 21st century isn’t the only, or even the main, obstacle Fuhrmann and Jackson have to face, however. Utilizing this new creative pursuit, they decided to take to the airwaves to discuss the very real concerns they have as an interracial couple. In the third episode of Half+Half, the couple tackles the issue of “in-laws.” Although unmarried, the couple still must figure out how to navigate the stresses of the extended family and specifically the issue of race and religion in the family unit. “In our conversation, we address and try to explain how race still presents a problem in our modern society,” Jackson said.

Trending Buffalo’s Brad Riter, 41 and married with two children (with a third on the way), said that, although he might not necessarily be the audience demographic for the podcast, “The stories they share and the questions they raise strike a chord.”

“My favorite thing about talk radio is the intimate relationship between host and listener— and podcasting takes that to a different level.

We’re not just talking about a show that comes on when you push a button in your car. You can’t just stumble across it—anyone listening has gone through the process of seeking out the content, choosing it over literally infinite competition,” Riter said. “Once the listener is there, it’s up to the hosts to justify the effort, and Dave and Liz are pulling it off.”

New episodes of Half+Half drop every Thursday and can be found at Trending Buffalo, P iTunes, or your preferred podcast app.

FEATURE FILM fortable vice-presidency and the weeks after JFK’s assassination. It’s biggest flaw is one it shares with the HBO film, leaving out a Senate career in which Johnson was arguably the most effective majority leader of the century. As yet it has no distributor, but I would expect it in theaters before Christmas.

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A NARROW VIEW OF THE ENDLESS OFFERING AT THE 2016 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR MOST OF THE 29 YEARS in which I’ve

been going there, my reaction to the Toronto International Film Festival is like the parable of the six blind men and the elephant. You know it: The fellow by the beast’s leg concludes that an elephant is like a pillar, the one by its tail says it’s like a rope; etc. The thing is so big that no two observers are likely to have the same reaction because they’re only going to experience a small part of it.

In recent years, TIFF has also come to resemble a poorly assembled burrito. You know when you bite into one of those and all the cheese and guacamole and cilantro are stuffed down at one end instead of spread evenly throughout, leaving you with nothing but naked beans for most of it?

Although TIFF lasts for 11 days, all of the press attention is focused on the first weekend. I don’t know if the studios bring in all their talent (which is what they like to call the actors and directors they want you to interview) just for opening weekend because most of the out-of-town press tends to leave on Monday, or if the press leaves on Monday because all the movie stars are gone. But if you’re there with a press pass, the first day of the festival is enough to make Sophie’s choice look simple. All she had to do was flip a coin. I had to chose from two new movies

by Jim Jarmusch, including Gimme Danger, his documentary on Iggy and the Stooges, and new films by Paul Verhoeven, Pedro Almodovar, Ken Loach, Olivier Assayas, the Dardenne Brothers, Lee Tamahori, Kelly Reichardt, Marco Bellocchio, Thomas Vinterberg, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Studio Ghibli. Those are only the movies that I wanted to see because of their directors; there were at least another dozen that were well received at Cannes or otherwise had buzz.

The next few days, by contrast, there was so little I wanted to see that I considered leaving early.

With so much to choose from, decision-making at TIFF is a hair-puller. At any given moment in time throughout those 11 days, there are as many as 27 screenings to pick from, not counting screenings set up outside the festival by studio publicists. But more often than not this year, I managed to decide wrong, missing most of the movies that got the best reception. Wouldn’t you think that a new adaptation of a Philip Roth novel starring and directed by Ewan MacGregor would be worth checking out? (It wasn’t.)

Wouldn’t you assume that Michael Fassbender, one of the respectable cinema’s hottest properties, wouldn’t waste his time on a punk script?

(You’d be wrong, even though Brendan Gleeson was also in it.)

And so it went. Some were more disappointing than others. I have long been a fan of Terence Davies, whose films based on his memories of his youth in England (Distant Voices Still Lives, The Long Day Closes) have never really found an audience in the US. A Quiet Passion, his biography of Emily Dickinson, takes a 180-degree turn from his usual naturalism, featuring dialogue so archly and persistently epigrammatic that at points it felt like a bad Monty Python skit; an hour of it was all I could take. (With so much to see, there’s no reason to sit though a film you’re not enjoying.)

Among those I did enjoy: LOVING—Based on the story of the Virginia couple who were charged in 1958 with the crime of getting married—he was white, she wasn’t—it’s an early front-runner for as many Oscars as the Academy can nominate it for. Writer-director Jeff Nichols (Mud, Midnight Special) minimizes the drama of the legal struggle (it went to the Supreme Court) to focus on the lives of Richard and Mildred Loving, a rural couple whose goal of a simple life was blocked by a judge’s demand that they move out of state or go to prison. For such a dramatic situation, it’s a quiet movie with little dialogue, carried by the stoic determination of an unrecognizable Joel Edgarton and the wounded eyes of Ruth Negga. It’s this year’s Brooklyn, a deeply moving film about the recent past that resonates forcefully in modern America. Tentative opening date is November 4.

COLOSSAL—Not since the early heyday of Charlie Kaufman have I come across a movie that takes an utterly novel premise and manages to keep it moving in unexpected directions. Anne Hathaway stars as a party girl who takes a break from the Manhattan high life to go to her smalltown home and clear her head. There she hooks up with an old friend ( Jason Sudekis) who owns a bar and she discovers that she has something to do with a giant monster terrorizing Seoul, Korea. No, I didn’t lose a block of text and segue into another movie there. Making his American debut, Spanish fantasy specialist Nacho Vigalondo keeps things unpredictable right up to the end credits. I’m not sure that the ending justifies everything that went before it and may be overrating it on the basis of sheer novelty, but I look forward to seeing it a second time. Expect it in theaters sometime in 2017.

LBJ—Following on the heels of HBO’s All the Way, with Bryan Cranston as the 36th president, Ron Reiner’s movie is the kind of Oscar bait that I try to avoid at TIFF, simply because I’ll have so many other chances to see it. But Lyndon B. Johnson was such a fascinating figure that I couldn’t resist. He’s played here by Woody Harrelson, who has the Texas twang but otherwise is buried under an uncomfortable amount of makeup and prosthetics. At under 100 minutes it’s a short film, focusing on Johnson’s uncom-

THE SIXTH BEATLE made an interesting counterweight to Ron Howard’s current Eight Days a Week. Documentarians Tony Guma and John Rose set out to tell the story of Sam Leach, the Liverpool concert promoter who arguably was instrumental in bringing the Beatles out of the clubs and into the mainstream. (This is not a film with nice things to say about Brian Epstein.) But along the way, they encountered so many contradictory memories from people on the Liverpool scene of events that took place barely more than half a century ago that the result is an essay on the questionable validity of history. Apparently the film will never again be shown in the version that was at TIFF: Beatles scholar Mark Lewisohn, who is one of the movie’s talking heads, was so upset with the finished product that he demanded that his appearances be excised from future screenings.

I AM THE PRETTY THING THAT LIVES IN THE HOUSE—Of the debut film by Osgood Perkins (son of Anthony), shown at TIFF last year as February but retitled The Blackcoat’s Daughter for theatrical release, I wrote that it was “as heavily stylized as Dario Argento at his most feverish, an exercise in filmmaking that you can wallow in even if you lose track of the plot, which is both subtle and rather slow-moving.” That all applies to his sophomore effort, a more small-scale affair set in a New England house where a troubled young woman (Ruth Wilson) is hired to tend to a novelist (Paula Prentiss) lost in dementia.

That the house is haunted you will guess from the title: the writer’s most famous book opens with the line “I left the world just as I came into it, wearing nothing but blood.” Despite a slow patch in the middle, it has moments that are exquisite to look at and listen to, especially the opening. Look for it on Netflix sometime soon.

DOG EAT DOG is Paul Schrader’s adaptation of an Edward Bunker novel, so you won’t be surprised to hear that a lot of it plays like a Quentin Tarantino clone. (The opening sequence in particular looks like an outtake from Natural Born Killers.) Starring Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe as ex-cons who try to put together a big score, the movie’s attempts to leaven Bunker’s bleak been-there tale with absurd comedy are jarring, though it’s consistently entertaining for those who consider Reservoir Dogs the greatest movie ever made.

THE CINEMA TRAVELLERS—As a former projectionist who worked with carbon arc machines, I was delighted by this documentary from India where for decades travelling showmen went from village to village setting up projectors in tents to show movies to people who otherwise never had a chance to see them. That this practice still exists at all is a surprise in an era of digital ubiquity, and the pleasure of watching them ply their trade for delighted but shrinking audiences is matched by the sadness of watching it disappear before their (and our) eyes.

INTO THE INFERNO and SALT AND FIRE—Two new films from Werner Herzog, one a documentary about the world’s volcanoes, the other a documentary disguised as a fictional story starring Michael Shannon as a terrorist who kidnaps a UN representative to make sure he tells the world the truth about an industrially caused salt flat of mammoth (and very filmable) proportions. At this stage in his career, Herzog no longer makes movies: he is simply making segments of one ongoing movie that you can think of as Werner’s World.

CATFIGHT—The film I enjoyed most at last year’s Buffalo International Film Festival was Abby Singer/Songwriter, essentially a frame to encompass music videos made by musician Jamie Block and filmmaker Onur Tukel, who has a film presence combining the more unhinged efforts of John Belushi and Zach Galifianakis.

This comedy stars Sandra Oh and Anne Heche as former college friends who meet up in middle age and, not to give too much away, destroy each others lives in segments bookended by three very violent knock down-drag out fights. The satire of the entitled classes may be blunt, but it’s often quite funny, and certainly unlike anything comP ing out of Hollywood these days.

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BY M. FAUST IN THE 1980S AND 1990S, before it became the almost impenetrable colossus it is today, the Toronto International Film Festival regularly had a sidebar spotlighting the work of an upand-coming international filmmaker. It was a great way to discover new auteurs with a crash course in their work to date. That was how I first discovered the films of Italy’s Nanni Moretti in 1993. At the time he was known in Italy as fiercely independent maker of political satires, beginning to move into more personal territory: That year’s Caro Diario (Dear Diary) was his first to receive international distribution.

Over the years Moretti has moved between the two. He has satirized Berlusconi (The Caiman, 2006) and the institution of the papacy (We Have a Pope, 2011), but his biggest successes have been his emotional dramas, including The Son’s Room (2001, the last film of his to be screened in Buffalo) and now Mia Madre, which swept the Italian film awards last year, including best film, actress, director, and screenplay.

Margherita Buy stars as Margherita, a film director currently working on a movie about factory workers who strike to pro-

AT THE MOVIES A selective guide to what’s opening and what’s playing in local moviehouses and other venues

BY M. FAUST & GEORGE SAX

OPENING THIS WEEK MASTERMINDS—Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones (all of the leading cast of Ghostbusters except for Melissa McCarthy) are joined

by Jason Sudeikis, Owen Wilson, and a ridiculously bewigged Zach Galifianakis in this bank robbery comedy that was heavily promoted for release in 2015 but delayed due to the distributor’s financial problems. Directed by Jared Hess (Nacho Libre). Area theaters MIA MADRE—Winner of the Italian equivalent of the Oscars for best picture, actress, director, and screenplay, this drama by Nanni Moretti follows a film director (Margherita Buy) who is suffering an existential crisis at the same time that her mother lies dying in a hospital facility. Moretti also costars, along with John Turturro and Giulia Lazzarini. Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN—A new film by Tim Burton. Remember what that

test the austerity plans of their new owner. As she tries to hold production together, her personal life is in shambles. She has just broken up with her partner, her teenage daughter is pulling away from her, and doctors tell her that her hospitalized mother doesn’t have long to live.

The interplay between reality and film, arguably the art that best mimics the real world, has always been of interest to Moretti.

But while his concerns are serious, his touch is always light, with humor never far from the surface. John Turturro co-stars in what at first appears to be comic relief, a pompous American movie star hired to appear in Margherita’s film, but his concerns operate as a sort of funhouse reflection of hers. Moretti plays Margherita’s brother, who is also struggling with the impending loss of their mother.

Mia Madre moves easily between the present tense, memories, and dreams to engage us with Margherita’s uncertain relation to her life and labor. Moretti’s touch is so sure that the movie often seems to be less than it is, but by the time it’s over you might be surprised to find how much it has affected you.

was something to look forward to? Starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Chris O’Dowd, and Terence Stamp. Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER—German drama chronicling the post-war search for Adolf Eichmann, the primary architect of Hitler’s death camps. Starring Rüdiger Klink, Burghart Klaußner and Andrej Kaminsky. Directed by Lars Kraume.

Dipson Eastern Hills QUEEN OF KATWE—Drama based on the true story of a young girl from a rural Ugandan village who becomes an international chess prodigy. Starring Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, and Lupita Nyong’o. Directed by Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala). Area theaters DEEPWATER HORIZON—Disaster thriller based on the 2010 explosion of the British Petroleum rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caused the worst oil spill in US history. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, and Kate Hudson. Directed

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It’s also a whitewash of astonishing proportions. The death of 11 men is undeniably tragic, but the movie utterly fails even to mention the most significant aspect of the incident, the 200 million gallons of oil that spilled into the Gulf over a period of three months, doing incalculable damage to one of the most fragile parts of the country’s ecology. On has to wonder if British Petroleum, which last year agreed to pay $18.7 billion in fines, exercised pressure over the production to keep that part of the story P off the screen. At any rate, it’s a huge disservice to history.

Channing, a just-turned-40 actress whose career faces a hostile takeover effort from a younger actress looking for a shortcut to the top. Writer-director Joseph Mankiewicz’s juicily cynical dialogue is relished by a cast that includes George Sanders, Thelma Ritter, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, and, in one of her first notable roles, Marilyn Monroe. Winner of six Oscars (at least a few of which should have gone to Sunset Boulevard, but that’s the Oscars for you). Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tues 7pm. Dipson Amherst ATTACK OF THE KILLER SHREWS—Premiere of a locally made remake of the so-bad-it’s good cult favorite in which the title beasts were played by dogs with rat masks. Starring Keith Lukowski, Sam Qualiana, Frank Tedesco, Paul Spitale, and Ken Cosentino, who also wrote and directed. Fri 9:30pm. North Park BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT—Of the seven different versions of the 1981 film that have been shown publically, this one, running 117 minutes, is the most recent and the only one overseen by Ridley Scott. For those of you to whom it makes a difference, it does not include Harrison Ford’s narration. Sat-Sun 9:30pm. North Park THE CAMERAMAN (1928)—In this classic silent comedy, Buster Keaton gets a job as a studio cameraman in order to be close to a woman he has a crush on. The program also includes the early Charlie Chaplin short The Bank. Sat 11:30am.

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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)—Stanley Kubrick’s fiercely controversial adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s novel set in a near-future England where a violent hooligan (Malcolm McDowell) is subjected to an experimental technique to end his anti-social behavior. Tue, Thu-Sat 7:30pm. Screening Room DEMONS (Italy, 1985)—Written and produced by Dario Argento, this thriller about people in a movie theater battling zombies was the first to combine monsters with a heavy metal soundtrack.

Directed by Lamberto (son of Mario) Bava. Part of the Thursday Night Terrors series. Thu 7pm.

Dipson Amherst DUNE (1984)—David Lynch’s few years of trying to work in the Hollywood mainstream resulted in this big-budget adaptation of Frank Herbert’s fantasy novels. Both fascinating and maddening, it fails to condense Herbert’s world into a digestible format, but contains many striking scenes and images. Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Sting, Linda Hunt, Virginia Madsen, Kenneth McMillan, Jürgen Prochnow, Patrick Stewart, Dean Stockwell, Max von Sydow, Sean Young, and, of course, Jack Nance. WedThu Oct 5-6. 9:30pm North Park EVA HESSE—Biography of the German-born artist who gained a passionate following in the New York scene of the 1960s prior to her early death.

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the film’s logical end point. He fakes tension with jittery editing, shaky-cam manoeuvres, and a score so persistent that you want to shoot the conductor. By the time it was over I felt as if I had been waterboarded. With Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, and Riz Ahmed.

—MF Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, Regal Transit THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS— Adapted M. L. Stedman’s best selling novel for the screen, writer-director Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines) gives it an epic gravity that the material doesn’t entirely deserve. Michael Fassbender stars as a WWI veteran who, looking for an escape from the word, takes a job tending a secluded lighthouse off the coast of Australia. He finds a wife in a local young woman (Alicia Vikander) who cannot bear children. When an infant washes up on their shore, they decide not to report it and raise it as their own, a plan that soon goes awry. Stedman’s story movies by arbitrary lurches of plot, some of them needlessly cruel. But the cast (which also includes Rachel Weisz) admirably underplays, and the film emphasizes the gorgeous seascapes: it’s like a Thomas Hardy novel directed by David Lean. —MF. Aurora OPENS FRIDAY THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN is a remake of the classic western from 1960, itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s glorious The Seven Samurai, none of which is likely to matter as much to ticket buyers as the fact that the ensemble cast of this western is headed by Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt.

The bigger question is, how do you get a modern audience to see a western? Changing the villain of the piece from a bandit to a mine operator certainly helps, because where you have mines you have dynamite, which means you can blow stuff up in the climax. The character interplay is wan— you would be forgiven for expecting more from co-screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto, creator of HBO’s True Detective—but the size of the cast maintains interest until the rootin’ tootin’ finale. With Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Haley Bennett, and Peter Sarsgaard. Directed by Antoine Fuqua (Southpaw). –MF Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria MISTER CHURCH—If the seemingly retired Eddie Murphy was hoping that this sentimental fluff might open up opportunities for him as a dramatic actor, well, it’s a good thing he’s got another Beverly Hills Cop sequel lined up. It’s not that he’s bad in the title role of a cook who finds himself working for a dying single mother (Natascha McElhone) and her daughter. But the character is so underwritten that Murphy has almost nothing to do other than look restrained and dignified. (It’s the stereotype that Spike Lee famously characterized as the “Magical Negro”.) The script by Susan McMartin is so filled with clumsy and implausible dramatic contrivances that it’s a wonder it was ever filmed. Co-starring Britt Robertson and directed by Bruce Beresford, who apparently listened to none of the criticisms about Driving Miss Daisy. —MF Dipson Eastern Hills ENDS THURSDAY SNWDEN—Damned if the often erratic, polemically unhinged Oliver Stone hasn’t just about brought off this biopic about Edward Snowden, the renegade American spy who revealed the vast and illicit electronic spying on Americans by our intelligence agencies. Stone’s impassioned approach isn’t absent, but he seems to have made an uncustomary effort to be fair (though hardly journalistically objective or balanced). The movie celebrates Snowden’s sincerity and courage, but its tone is a long way from pedal-to-thefloor gonzo. Stone has made a movie that’s both large-scale and intimate. Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s performance is a key factor in the movie’s success, conveying Snowden’s earnest, troubled, self-examining sensibility. A powerful and valuable movie. Co-starring Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Rhys Ifans, Nicolas Cage, Tom Wilkinson, and Joely Richardson. –GS Dipson Amherst, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria SULLY—Clint Eastwood’s trademark low-key approach to filmmaking is pleasurably displayed in this thoughtful look at the so-called “Miracle on the Hudson,” the 2009 incident in which a damaged airplane made an emergency landing on the Hudson River with no loss of life. Though pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) was lionized by a public that had long been starved of unambiguous heroes, behind the scenes he was subjected to interrogation by flight officials who questioned his judgment in the face of what their computer models say he should have done. It’s not hard to read a political subtext into this, that we should trust people of proven skill and experience instead of Monday morning micromanaging them (and at the age of 86, Eastwood is entitled to that opinion). But if the story’s drama is built on a shaky pivot (was the second engine functional?), the way it unfolds is smoothly engrossing. With Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Jamey Sheridan, Valerie Mahaffey, and Anna Gunn. –MF Aurora, Hamburg Palace, Lockport Palace , Dipson Amherst, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS—Suspense thriller about a young woman hired to be the surrogate for a married couple who decides to take the wife’s place in every way. Starring Morris Chestnut, Jaz Sinclair and Regina Hall. Directed by Jon Cassar.

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THE GRUMPY GHEY:

IS CHUBBY THE NEW BLACK?

Since leaving Texas, I’ve tried a variety of strategies to get my diet on track. A year ago last month, I attempted a ketogenic diet. This involves quitting all processed sugar and drastically reducing carbs, but you can eat fats galore. Ketogenic diet experts will tell you that you must consume worrisome amounts of fat, thus re-training your body to get its energy from fat rather than carbs (and shifting your thinking about fat as taboo). They maintain that high fat consumption isn’t dangerous when the carbs/sugar sidecar is eliminated. They say we’ve been duped about fat, that our dietary issues have been created by a food industry that lies to us for its own gain. I’m inclined to believe it.

BY CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY I DON’T LIKE BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO or when to do it, but life

Early time commitments are my least favorite. I can be there by 1pm. If that doesn’t work, there will need to be some negotiating.

My stubbornness about this has undoubtedly cost me career opportunities. I seem to have found my way to an occupation that, for the most part, allows me to get away with it, but I’ve avoided going down roads along that would have had me awake with the sun. My resistance breeds resentment in some folks who seem to feel that not getting up with the herd and racing to the trough is somehow audacious. Sorry, not sorry.

With the exception of two or three random slices, I hadn’t had any pizza in a year. I ordered a medium with extra cheese and sausage and ate the whole pie over the course of, say, six hours.

I awakened at 5am to the sensation of the entire pizza stuck down one side of my torso. Lodged. Clogged. Not budging.

Cramps ensued. Should I go to the emergency room? My system seemed to no longer remember what to do with such a large quantity of bread.

Some other things happened too. I stopped hitting the midday wall I’d become accustomed to. I say midday as a generalization: It really didn’t matter what time of day it was, but whenever I ate my first meal, I’d go into a coma within an hour. Inevitably, I’d be sitting at my keyboard working on an assignment and my eyelids would droop. Sound in the room would change as well. I would fall into a trance listening to the whir of the air system wherever I was. It didn’t matter how much coffee I’d had—I would basically pass out. From the outside, I imagine it looked like a heroin nod.

Meals are one area where I’m forced to yield often. Generally, I prefer to eat when I’m hungry. But when you essentially work for yourself and carve your own schedule, it’s easy to forget to eat.

The resulting one-big-meal-daily routine made me into a Chubba Bubba. It took a decade for my early-30s-buff to fully shift into a early-40s-bear, bypassing average weight midway. By the time I returned from Texas three years ago, I was the biggest I’d ever been: 240 pounds. Too big for me.

Copious amounts of water got the pizza barge moving again, but it was clear that I’d ruined an entire holiday weekend with bad food choices. I was excited to get back on the right road.

My excitement was short-lived, however, when I realized what a huge ordeal it is to eat every two or three hours. You become enslaved to food in a different way. Lots of Tupperware involved.

So much thinking and preparation. And once the rollercoaster starts, you can’t jump off. Every time you turn around, it’s meal time again. Concerts? Movies? Appointments? Better not make any lengthy plans, it’s meal time.

My sleep improved. I could actually feel a difference between using stevia in my coffee (the only approved sweetener on this diet) and the occasions when I’d succumbed to using Equal or another form of sugar alcohol. I began curtailing my coffee intake earlier in the day. For the first time in well over a decade, I would fall asleep and wake up seven hours later without interruption.

The good news is that there’s been a shift in gay culture, revealing a large population of men embracing the average-to-chunky build that many of us settle into as we age. For once, a desirable physicality seems within reach.

It feels odd, sitting in a cafe with a friend and suddenly busting out the Tupperware and eating your carefully planned meal in front of them, whether they are eating or not. It’s an equally strange sensation to produce your carefully measured meal at the table while everyone else enjoys different food. I felt like Fred Flintstone on a doctor-imposed diet, resentfully gnawing at my cup of greens while Wilma serves herself and the Rubbles a steaming brontosaurus rib roast that spans two yards in length.

All the while thinking, “I chose this for myself?”

But I also became aware of an irregular heartbeat. It would come on and stay for hours. Sometimes a couple days. It had started well before the diet, so I knew they weren’t directly related, but maybe the increased fat was exacerbating an existing problem, or so I feared. It has since gone away. Tests haven’t revealed anything noteworthy.

Except I really enjoy being thin. I have a friend who always comments that my 21-pound cat, Lulu, must be so happy in her overgrown state. For the most part she is, except when it gets above a certain temperature. And the grunting noises she makes as she claws her way onto my bed are undeniably hilarious. But I find no humor or contentedness in being overweight. Trust me, I’ve tried.

My weight loss occurred in late winter/early spring of this year.

No sooner did I relax my vigilance about carb intake (ever so slightly) than the weight came back on. Maybe not all of it, and it took a little while. But by the time it was 90 degrees outside, I was beached. Again.

There’s a lightness to being thin that I desire, a good-to-go sensation. I’m less sensitive to heat, and summer feels much more manageable. Exercise involves less huffing and puffing. Life feels easier to manage. My mother, who’s been exercising regularly since Jane Fonda and Olivia Newton John made terrycloth

After just two weeks, I was exhausted from trying to keep up the routine. And then I came down with a bug and all dietary efforts halted. As I sat, grinning over my Wendy’s Classic Triple despite running a fever, I wondered if Lulu might be onto something. P

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CASKS FOR A CAUSE!

On Friday, September 30, Lockhouse Distillery is housing Casks for a Cause, a benefit for Evergreen Health that’s part of Buffalo Beer Week. There’ll be 12 casks from local breweries on tap starting at 5pm.

While you’re there, check out the neighborhood:

There’s nothing like a processed sugar binge to remind you how poisonous the stuff is. A box of cookie butter cheesecake bites and some maple cream cookies later, I was flushed in the face.

My heart was racing. Perspiration beaded on my forehead. I couldn’t sleep. The following day I felt as if I’d spent the night doing shots of Jagermeister. And the only thing that would make it go away was the hair of the dog: Down went a Nutella crumble from a local cafe. That zeroed me out, but, rather than counting my blessings, I decided to order a pizza.

Monitoring ketosis is a pain (like a pregnancy test every time you pee with strips from the pharmacy) so I stopped after a while and just went with the belief that so long as I followed the diet, my body would eventually respond. Lo and behold, it did. It took a while to get going, but I lost over 20 pounds, and it happened pretty rapidly once it got started.

demands compromises. So, I yield.

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two friends that have both experienced miraculous weight loss, but it required a complete surrender of will where scheduling is concerned: six measured meals, daily, spaced 2.5 hours apart.

Three to four ounces of protein, a cup of vegetables, and a cup of fruit. It sounded rigid, but not unmanageably so. I began shopping for it. In the interim, I decided to let myself visit with some old food friends—a break from all dietary restrictions just for a few days.

headbands sexy again, has been known to say, “Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.” Evidently she’s never had a Wendy’s Classic Triple with bacon.

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7 MARINA MARKET / 31 MARINE DR

Except for those who live in the Marine Drive Apartments, few think of stopping at this little cornerstore. But why not?

You can get a six-pack of beer and a freshly made pizza pretty cheap, and voila: instant lakeside picnic.

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A remarkable collection of vintage autos and trucks, many manufactured here in Buffalo, and a re-creation of a gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright but never built.

Totally worth a visit.

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It’s expensive, no question, like most of its genre. But it’s easily the nicest hotel bar in Buffalo, with lovely views of Canalside and downtown. Splurge.

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Inside Carl Paladino’s refurbished Fairmount Creamery (the building on which the cantankerous developer posts his billboard messages) is this new restaurant run by chef Brian Mahony. Nice cocktail menu, approachable food.

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Appropriately, given its bicycle-themed name and shared space with a high-end bike shop, this bar and cafe is best reached by bicycle. Car-parking can be tricky. But it’s worth a visit.

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Just in time for fall, the owner has installed air-conditioning on the second floor. Stay on the first floor, or on the patio if it’s nice, and order one of the best bar burgers in town.

Maybe ask about that curious book of poetry for sale behind the bar.

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If you can’t make Casks for a Cause on Friday September 30 (or even if you can and do), come back on October 6 for the release of Lockhouse’s first batch of Single Hop Spirit, a liquor built from one strain of locally grown hops. An unusual product, cocktail specials, and DJ Crespo.

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