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THE PUBLIC RECORD: A wild week in the Patrick Kane case, and other stories.

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LOOKING BACKWARD: H. Seeberg, 121 Genesee Street, circa 1940.

FILM: The Walk, Sleeping with Other People, Stonewall, Time out of Mind.

ART: At the Kenan Center, photos taken by Vietnam vets from Niagara County.

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THE KANE CIRCUS, & OTHER STORIES BY THE PUBLIC STAFF PATRICK KANE CIRCUS NOT FUNNY, JUST CRUEL: The dust is still settling from a shock-

ing, raucous week in the Patrick Kane rape case. Let’s consider what’s left of it. On Sunday, September 20, the Buffalo News published information obtained through anonymous sources about the results of DNA testing done on the alleged victim. It was reportedly negative for Patrick Kane’s DNA, at least below the waist. This information is exculpatory for Kane, but not definitively so. By Wednesday, the alleged victim’s attorney, Thomas Eoannou, held a blockbuster press conference to accuse someone of tampering with evidence, having left what Eoannou called the “rape kit bag” on the mother’s doorstep. Within minutes, all the relevant law enforcement agencies had denied that there was any irregularity in the chain of evidentiary custody. Something fishy was going on. By Thursday night, Eoannou had fired the complainant and her mother as his clients and held a press conference recanting practically everything he had said the day before. An embarrasing spectacle had grown into a circus. Anyone’s best guess is that the mother concocted the hoax in an effort to cast doubt on the forensic evidence—an effort that would have been substantively pointless.

There exists no evidence at this stage to conclude that the alleged victim had any inkling of what mom was up to. Some argue this stretches credulity, but sworn testimony makes a case, not anonymous allegations or declarations to the press. Cambria argued that the mother could be subpoenaed to testify, in which case the hoax becomes fodder for cross-examination on the issue of credibility. Cambria said that she could have committed the crime of obstruction of governmental administration, and that Kane was the real victim. Cambria correctly stated that Eoannou could have saved himself a ton of embarrassment by simply going to the authorities with his concerns about the brown paper bag, rather than the media. After his presser, Cambria was caught on a hot mic saying, “Tom [Eoannou] is a good lawyer, I can’t believe he got sucked into this.” True that.

What we learned: There was never a bag for the rape kit; the rape kit is sealed in a box, and taken to an evidence locker at central police services. Sedita explained that Eoannou’s brown paper bag was given to the alleged victim’s mother by a nurse at ECMC to hold an article of clothing that the complainant was wearing at the time of the supposed attack. The mother never used the bag; police took the clothing and placed it in their own evidence bag, and the mother held onto the hospital’s bag and took it home.

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“That the actual accuser knew what that bag contained,” Cambria said. “That was a very, very important fact. If you know what it contains, you witness someone claiming that it contains something else, and you know it’s introduced into the legal process, and you know what the consequences can be. You’re okay with that, you’re okay with a fraud being perpetrated. I think that’s a very significant fact.”

On Friday, Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita held his own press conference. Clearly Sedita was incensed by Eoannou’s accusations about a brown paper bag; he was there to set the record straight.

“Obviously there’s been an effort to create a hoax,” Sedita said at the news conference. “Obviously there’s been an effort to manufacture a perception that forensic evidence cannot be trusted. I’ve got to figure out who was in on that, why they would do that, and what it means for all of the other evidence.”

establishes conclusively that the entire thing is a fabrication, and there should not be any prosecution.

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semblyman Ray Walter picked NRG’s soonto-be-shuttered Huntley power plant as the backdrop for his latest campaign proposal in his bid to unseat Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz. The plant’s closing is sure to create a tax revenue shortage for the Town of Tonawanda and the Ken-Ton school district, but Walter says his new plan for how sales tax revenue will be distributed in the county would help ease residents burden. “Businesses closing put a greater burden on hardworking taxpayers of Tonawanda,” the Amherst Republican said. “If Tonawanda residents receive their fair share (of sales tax revenue) it will help cover the cost of the Huntley plant.” Walter’s tax plan, which he calls the Fair Share plan, would change the way that sales tax is divided, taking the larger portion that goes to the county’s three cities—Buffalo, Lackawanna,

LOCAL NEWS and Tonawanda—and redistributing it in a way that would see each municipality get approximately the same amount for each resident. The plan is a key platform in an ambitious race that has him up against an opponent with a number of advantages, perhaps most importantly a sizable war chest. The incumbent Democrat’s campaign last reported having more than $646,000 on hand in the July periodic reporting paperwork while Walter’s recently formed county executive campaign fund reported having $52,356 on hand in the same filings. The campaign cash chasm isn’t his only challenge. The county has low unemployment and large-scale construction projects, so it is difficult to criticize Poloncarz on the economy. The incumbent Democrat was also boosted by positive headlines for his handling of last year’s super snowstorm, including praise from Governor Andrew Cuomo. Walter also has a name recognition problem. While well-liked in his Assembly district, Walter’s status as a member of the minority in a statehouse dominated by Democrats does not give him the kind of visibility that comes with being at the helm of county government. Aware of all this, Walter has been hitting the campaign trail hard, touring the county nonstop over the last few weeks and making dozens of stops at diners and community events to reach out to voters in an effort to grow his name recognition.

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Erie County’s GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy believes that Walter’s aggressive campaigning is going to end up surprising the incumbent. “He think’s he’s got a comfortable lead and he’s going to sit on it,” Langworthy said. Meanwhile, Poloncarz said he is confident that his record will give him the votes he needs to keep his seat. Responding to claims that he has a lack of vision or is a passive leader, Poloncarz pointed to the reduction in the unemployment rate, noting that he walked into the county executive’s office with the rate at almost 9 percent following the tenure of Republican Chris Collins. The rate is now 5.1 percent.

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ber 28, Erie County Republicans and Democrats held separate but coordinated conclaves to anoint there two choices for the two openings on the New York State Supreme Court: Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita, nominally a Democrat, and divorce attorney Emilio Colaiacovo, wholly a Republican. Both candidates are cross-endorsed by the two major political parties and a smattering of smaller ones. There will be no other candidates on the ballot—no choices but to make no choice or to write in a candidate’s names. The Erie County Green Party pursued a third candidate in the week leading up to the cross-endorsement of Sedita and Colaiacovo but judicial nominating procedures stymied the effort. That news hardly qualifies as surprising, but this maybe does: Last week the Fruit Belt/ McCarley Gardens Housing Task Force, which has kept a watchful eye on gentrification and other neighborhood issues attending expansion of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, resigned its partnership with Open Buffalo. Among Open Buffalo’s principle aims is the negotiation of a community benefit agreement with the BNMC, much like the one its partner organizations negotiated with Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation during development of Canalside. To this end, Open Buffalo created a High Road Economic Development Table, which included the Fruit Belt/McCarley Gardens Housing Task Force. In recent weeks, however, the neighborhood organization has grown disillusioned in the partnership—“like a pawn,” says Veronica Hemphill-Nichols, “in this game between Open Buffalo and the medical campus.” More on this soon.

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In 2011, a rally in favor of restoring Erie County arts funding.

THE REAL ARTS ECONOMY It’s about place-making, not tourism

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If only the accumulated economic impact of the sector known as “performing arts, spectator sports, museums, and related activities” amounted to more money. In the Buffalo-Niagara Falls

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And because producing art and cultural objects and experiences tends to happen close to central business districts, the very presence of arts organizations and individual artists helps maintain the locational “virtuous cycle” that the Rust Belt so badly needs—namely, to counteract the apparently permanently empowered sprawl machine that continually sends people, firms, their dollars, and their building permits farther and farther away from downtown.

Republican presidential candidates may live in that fantasy world where cutting taxes and cutting public investment produce magical Pegasus-unicorn gifts for everybody, but here in the real world the ongoing investment of Erie County tax revenue in this sector keeps the wheels turning. The dollars that flow back into local government are greater than those that get invested in the first place. The last time anybody did a complete job of parsing the numbers, they went something like this: Erie County’s annual investment of $6 million in arts organizations and museums returned $14.9 million, because the 3.4 million attendees spent an average of $20 apiece. Sales taxes alone saw the outflow replaced by the inflow—but then there is all the other revenue that comes from all the associated activity that happens around the entertainment process. Folks who go to concerts pay for parking, meals, drinks, tips, merchandise, and babysitters, plus the cost of getting dressed up to go out, the cost of getting to the performance or gallery space, and more. Folks who work as performers, producers, servers, managers, and in the myriad support roles live here, consume here, pay rent here, invest here. The money stays and the tax revenue flows. If the sector were smaller, and all our tax dollars were purchasing for us were subsidies for the itinerant football and hockey mercenaries

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Because live music, live dance, locally produced visual art, and locally produced sculpture, pottery, metalwork, and other such products tend to be purchased locally, the dollars involved flow through the local economy and remain “sticky,” getting spent here rather than exported.

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And the news is good: Since the financial crash of 2008, arts and culture are recovering along with the rest of the economy. Arts and culture as a share of the overall economy here in Buffalo are doing really well. The sector is doing well pretty much everywhere in the Rust Belt—and has an outsize economic impact in the smaller metros that don’t have the distraction of money-exporting major league sports.

metro in 2013, where our total gross domestic product was a whopping $49.5 billion in 2013, the sector accounted for $457 million of economic activity. In other words, including the Bills, the Sabres, the Bisons, the Bandits, and college sports, the total impact was just under one percent of the total economy.

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COMMENTARY NEWS who live elsewhere, the economic impact of public investment would be far smaller. The other reality that these numbers show is this: The gross domestic product of Buffalo-Niagara Falls metro has grown substantially since 2006, the last year for which we have the input-output analysis for arts and culture for Erie County. Inflation has not been very much of a factor, but nevertheless Erie County hasn’t raised the $6 million annual investment in the arts, either, even after the current county administration’s predecessor not only interfered with the process but also cut the annual investment. The overall economic output in real, inflation-adjusted dollars has recovered since the crash of 2008. It’s about time to undertake another economic impact analysis—because the size of the input matters. And it’s difficult to differentiate which part of the overall impact is from the large increases in the prices that the pro sports teams charge versus what’s actually happening on the cultural side. That’s why it’s interesting to compare Buffalo with smaller-market Rust Belt towns that don’t have big pro sports operations. Rochester, New York and Toledo, Ohio both show that performing arts, spectator sports, and museums account for 0.3 percent of their GDP. Rochester is about the same size as Buffalo-Niagara Falls, Toledo much smaller. Neither have pro sports other than minor league baseball and hockey teams. They both have “legacy” culturals, including well-regarded museums, and they both have “innovation” arts, namely very strong and varied music scenes, including festivals, and current practitioners in visual arts. They both have universities that are significant presences. The total dollar value of Rochester’s sector: $176 million in 2013. All told, the economic impact estimate for Buffalo in 2006 was $155 million. The total impact today is probably somewhere around $200 million, with the rest of the number attributable to professional sports.

PLACE-MAKING These numbers used to be produced to justify the ongoing public investment in the arts organizations that hire a few thousand people; in Buffalo-Niagara Falls, it’s about 5,000 people out of around 600,000 total workers in two counties. Then came the intellectual phenomenon known as Richard Florida, and his two-word epiphany and star-machine achievement: “creative class.”

Having the arts around might just mean that the “creative class” will flock to your town and make your town rich again. That was the explicit promise of Florida’s insight—and it earned him lots of consulting gigs and speaking engagements.

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For a while, lots of other policy professionals— especially consultants who do input-output analysis—got lots of work producing reports like the one that Americans for the Arts produced for Buffalo. One of the best-known was by the National Governors’ Association, which came out of their “best practices” policy shop a few years ago. The arts and cultural organizations were seen as immensely powerful tools for economic development. Then the economists started checking things out. Ann Markusen from the Hubert Humphrey public policy center did a little reality check about the actual intake of new dollars, tourists, and new industries, and found what our own experience here has shown us: namely, that tourist attractions may bring a trickle of newcomers, and that artists are great to have around because they liven things up, but that it’s pretty implausible to believe that they’re going to make “common cause with other members of Florida’s ‘creative class’, such as scientists, engineers, managers, and lawyers.” Markusen has since gone on to be a consultant herself. She produced a very sensible piece of work for an organization of mayors of medium-sized cities. The report is called “creative place-making.” It sounds about right. There’s no reason to complain that the arts are not pulling their weight in the Rust Belt. Let’s not fret overmuch about an economic sector that employs fewer than one percent of the workforce and contributes less than one percent of the overall economic output. But let’s not starve it, either, out of some notion that it’s okay to subsidize professional sports because of its economic benefit. Sports dollars stay local when the sports are college, minor-league, or amateur, but mainly dollars follow players. In the arts, the players are local. The dollars stay local. So let’s recommit ourselves to buying, supporting, attending, and best of all being local. It’s the economically sensible thing to do. Bruce Fisher is a visiting porfessor at SUNY Buffalo State and director of the Center for Economic and Policy Studies. P

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LOOKING BACKWARD: H. SEEBERG, 121 GENESEE H. Seeberg, Inc., 121 Genesee Street at the corner of Oak Street, was one of the leading men’s outfitters in Buffalo. Opened by Russian immigrant Harry Seeberg in 1927, the business had eight locations in the Buffalo area and 200 employees by 1962. This photograph, taken sometime around 1940 by Hauser Bob, shows the main shop and factory, having expanded across several mid-19th-century commercial buildings, some dating back to the 1840s. The store was one of dozens that derived business from traffic at the adjacent Washington Market. At the left, Moest’s Grill, operated by Maude Moest, is visible at 305 Oak Street. At the right is Henry Mandel’s umbrella factory and shop, 111 Genesee Street, which opened in 1895 and closed in 1949. Among Mandel’s products was the “Blumbershoot,” a small umbrella with an elastic band designed to be worn on one’s head to keep his hands free, advertised as perfect for hunters and fisherman. H. Seeberg closed in 1978, starting a period in which the complex remained vacant for almost three decades. In 2007, 121 Genesee Street was purchased by Genesee Gateway LLC, which undertook a comprehensive restoration with support from the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation. Today, the redeveloped corner at Genesee and Oak streets is was one of downtown’s many historic P preservation success stories. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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At the Kenan Center, more than 350 images taken by Niagara County Vietnam veterans BY JACK FORAN THE CURRENT EXHIBIT AT THE KENAN CENTER in Lockport consists of photos—hundreds of them—taken in country during the Vietnam War by Lockport area soldiers.

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The draft war that gave us as its legacy the all-volunteer—all-testosterone—military. So the military and politicos can keep having wars like Vietnam. In which nobody has to sacrifice who doesn’t want to. Make the world safe for George W. Bush’s Iraq adventure. But somebody has to sacrifice. And always the relatively few. Even in the Vietnam War. The Kenan Center exhibit is a record of the sacrifice of those few. Amid the photos and sporadic text in the form of some letters home and some quotations from writers who wrote about their Vietnam tour, is a panel display of 80 names plus notations in the form of 12W 75. Being the section number and line number of the same name inscribed on the Vietnam Memorial on the mall in Washington, D.C. And next to the panel display, two loose-leaf notebooks, each with a page for each of the men—hard to know whether to call them men or boys, mostly in their late teens or early twenties when they died—listed on the panel display. One page of “Virtual Wall” project vital statistics. Philip Jon Stemper, born 02/24/1949, died 04/01/1970, age 21. Start of tour: 09/13/1969, Casualty date: 04/01/1970. Location: Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam. Casualty details: gun or small arms fire, hostile, died outright. Further details as to service rank, grade, unit, etc. The other page—other notebook—the obit story in the local press. Lockport Union Sun and Journal, April 7, 1970: “Spec. 4, Philip J. Stemper, 21…only child of Mrs. Philip C. Stemper…struck by mortar fire during an artillery barrage near Sang Mao…killed instantly…1967 graduate of Lockport Senior High School… had been employed at Harrison Radiator Division, General Motors Corp., as a production worker…was taking an engineering course at his home before enlistment…” With his picture, in uniform. He looks 17 or 18. Not much in the photos about combat, naturally, but combat preparations. Building bunkers. Loading supplies. And tedium. Photos of service buddies, posed and unposed. On sandbag bunkers. Or just horsing around. Cache finds of enemy ordnance. Other enemy vestiges. A small mess hut, half subterranean and camouflaged. Some local fauna. A green bamboo viper suspended—not skewered—alive and well, it looks like—on a bayonet on a rifle. Helicopters. Aerial photos of patchwork quilts of farm fields. And big serpentine river. And Vietnamese. Old people and young. Many photos of kids. A posed photo of two boys about six, arms around each others’ shoulders. One looking at the camera, a faint smile for the photog-

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rapher. The other looking off to the right, a little apprehensive. This boy’s shirt open at the top, revealing some sort of cloth amulet around his neck, on a string. Another small boy on the back of a water buffalo, controlling the huge horned beast with a flimsy rope bridle and bit. Among the wall text, a passage from Everything We Had, by John Muir. (Maybe slightly self-contradictory, maybe not.) “We did a fine job there. If it had happened in World War II, they would still be telling stories about it. But it happened in Vietnam, so nobody knows about it today. Marines don’t talk about Vietnam. We lost. So it’s just wiped out, all that’s off the slate, it doesn’t count. It makes you a little bitter.” The exhibit continues through October 11.

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IN GALLERIES NOW BY FRANCES BOOTS = ART OPENING 464 Gallery (464 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14207 464gallery.com): Landscape: The Nature of Things, A Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters Group Exhibition. On view through Sep 15. Sat-Sun: 12-4pm, by event or appointment. 1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts (1045 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-228-1855, photographics2.com/store/welcome-to-our-studio-1045-gallery-store): Art Tales, mixed media show by Nicole Catalano-Ritchey. On view through Oct 31. Opening reception Fri Oct 2 6-9pm. Thu & Fri 1-5pm, Sat 114pm. Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox. org): Screen Play: Life in an Animated World, on view through Sept 13; Shake the Elbow: Dan Colen on view through Oct 18; Artist to Artist, on view through Nov 8. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays until 10pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251): Industrial Studies and Watercolors, inks and watercolors by Louis Vastola. On display through November 13. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): A Life’s Work, Adele Becker. On view through Oct 2, Wed & Thu 11-5pm, Fri 11-4pm, Sat 112pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Ave. Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Currently on view, works by: Charles Burchfield, George Renouard & Tony Sisti. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Currently on view: Chicken Little, drawings by Matt Duquette. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Community Supported Art, CSA group exhibition with work by Joel Brenden, Kyle Butler, Marshall Scheuttle, Fotini Galanes, Megan Metté Anne Muntges, Stacey Robinson, virocode. Fri-Sun 12-6pm. Box Gallery (667 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14203): Grounded, work by Bruce Bitmead and Karen Buchner. Mon-Fri 5-8pm. BT&C Gallery (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, btandcgallery.com): CHASM, works by Joe Bochynski, John E. Drummer & Pam Glick. Thu Sep 10, 6-8pm. Fri 12-5pm or by appointment. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2496 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Anima Mundi, sculptures by Marissa Lehner; Fools Paradise drawings by Elizabeth Gemperlein both on view through Nov 6. BAS Teaching Artist Exhibition on view through Oct 10. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens (2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14218, 827-1584, buffalogardens.com):Simply Succulents, photographs by Eileen Graetz; Natural Conditions, public art installation by Shayne Dark, both shows on view through Oct 4. Mon-Sun 10am-5pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Mystic North: Burchfield, Sibelius & Nature and Fluidity In Form: Selections From The Dean Spong Collection, The Artist’s Legacy, on view through Dec 4; Inquisitive Lens: Richard Kegler/P22 Type Foundry: Charles E. Burchfield (The Font Project), on view through Jan 10; Body Norms, selections from the Spong collection; Artists Seen: photographs of contemporary artists by David Moog; Charles E. Burchfield’s Gardenville Studio. Tue, Wed, Fri (Second Fridays until 8pm), Sat 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Burchfield Nature and Art Center (2001 Union Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 677-4843, burchfieldnac. org): See site for upcoming classes and events. Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, Sun 1-4pm. Canisius College Mary and Lou Vogt Art Gallery (Bouwhuis Library, Canisius College 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208, 888-8412): Arrangements, work by Augustina Droze. On view through Oct 9. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org) Gregory Halpern, Ahndraya Parlato, and Nicholas Mueller. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 124pm. El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 4644692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Annual community celebration with month-long exhibition through Nov 2 of ofrendas (altars) for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) concluding with costume party on Oct 31. Tue-Sat 12-5pm. Fargo House Gallery (287 Fargo Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14213, thefargohouse.com, visit website for appointment): Currently on view, Caitlin Cass: Benjamin Rathburn Builds Buffalo. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Amid/In Western New York, Part 4, includes work by Liz Bayan, Benjamin Entner, Dorothy Fitzgerald, Richard Huntington, Liz Lessner, and Jason Seeley. On view through Oct 30. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. Hi-Temp (79 Perry Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 852-5656, 10am-4pm Mon-Fri, call for appointment): Color, Frequency & Flow, abstract paintings by Robyn Gallick. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572. indigoartbuffalo.com): Mothing: Life Beyond the Edge of Awareness, print media by Joseph Scheer. On view through Oct 4. Wed & Fri 126pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): Robert Fulton and the United States Navy, on view through Dec 31. Tue-Sun 11am4pm. 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/arts/gallery.asp)Vietnam Veterans: Our Photo Album. On view through Oct 11. Mon-Fri 12-5pm, Sun 2-5pm. Lockside Art Center (21 Main Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 478-0239, locksideartcenter.com):Monochrome, group exhibition. On view through Oct 10. Fri-Sun 12-4pm and by appointment. Manuel Barreto Furniture (430 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 867-8937, manuelbarreto.com): Robert and Sylvia Coles Private Contemporary Art Collection. Market Street Art Studios (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, 478-0248, marketstreetstudios. com): Whalen: A Legacy, paintings by Joseph Whalen on view through Nov 14. Opening reception Sun Oct 4 1-4pm. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Interludes of Light, paintings by Thomas Kegler. On view through Oct 17. 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. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 882-5777, ninafreudenheimgallery. com): On Forms & Forces, photography work by Amanda Means. On view through Oct 28. TueFri 10am-5pm. Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069, pausaarthouse.com): New work by Kate Parzych, on view through Oct 24. Live Music Thu-Sat. The Phoenix (269 Amherst Street, Buffalo 14207, 4471100 thephoenixbuffalo.com): Café Series, by Mary Begley. Wed-Sat 5pm-10pm. Prism (MyBuffaloPride, 224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201): Spectra, group show with work from Nicholas Blazer, Dana Tyrell, Mickey Harmon, Dana McKnight, Steve Ambrusko, Steve Ardo, Pierce McCleary, Scott Kristopher Morrella, Michael Berdine, Stephanie Dubin, and John Carossi. Opening Fri Oct 2 6-9pm. Thu & Fri 4-8pm, Sat & Sun 3-7pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): Group show with work from Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, John Farallo, Chris McGee,Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Joshua Nickerson, Susan Redenbach, Barbara Lynch Johnt, Michael Mulley. Opening “Art Under the Stars” Fri Oct 2 6-10pm at 64 College Street (show moved to gallery in case of rain). Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment.

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is one, to the state of world? Get out, laugh, sure. When I was first adopting, I had a room others. It truly is theINbest healer and the THIS PROOF MAY ONLYbeBEwith USED FOR PUBLICATION THE PUBLIC. added on to my house. It was set up with curbest way to feel less alone. tains, a crib and rocking chair, and a snare drum “Reports” and “studies” seem to infurifor a night table…I’d sit in there and try to anticate you. You tweeted about one recently ipate what it would be like. The first baby came, that compared the dangers of sitting to and I realized that there’s no simulating this. The smoking. What do they represent for you? exhaustion and the inadequacy…it is impossible I’m just baffled. Who is funding these studies? to do “correctly.” Peter [Sagal, host of NPR’s Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, the news quiz on which Poundstone is a You have 16 cats, is that correct? Are regular] talked about this one study that found they all indoor cats? Well…it’s 15 now. And that “cats are the only animal that don’t forgive.” yes, they are all indoors. I clean a lot. Though I I mean, I don’t consider myself a crazy cat womdo get tingly at kitten season, I’m not [acquiring an; I don’t think that they are better than human cats] any more. The best story about my cat habit beings. But who would do such a study? What is, one time I was picking up Allie and Thomas is the upside? And how do you know if a cat has from school and said, “I have a surprise for you!” forgiven you? Part of it is funding: They’re always Allie replied almost resignedly, “Kitten?” That cutting back on school budgets, but when some day it was actually two kittens. idiot wants to do a study…they should have to You are pretty vocal about your views do a bake sale to pay for the studies. on mental health. You’ve said that the What advice do you give comedians just “entire world is in a mental health cristarting out? “Learn to do the job.” Work resis.” Why? First of all, chopping people’s heads ally hard. If you’ve got an audience of five people, off is not sane. The fact that it’s happening—and appreciate them for being there, rather than bethat they can recruit from the US and Europe ing angry that there are so few people there. by fishing around for the disenfranchised—is a You certainly seem to work hard. The truth borderless insanity. is that the audience is my best friend. That might The computer has some wonderful uses. Though not be mentally healthy. I’m always glad to see them. No matter how lousy I’m feeling before I by now I’m not always sure what they are. The go on, I know that the minute I hit the stage I’ll fake connections through the internet easily get feel great. mistaken for real connection. There’s a growing pool of people who, in their efforts to feel conWhat do you tell your kids about their nected, become more and more disconnected. job prospects? I want my kids to do jobs that Not just kids. they are happy with. I tell them, though, that three-quarters of the jobs in the world are not Just look at the fact that Donald Trump can even exciting and fun. I know how lucky I am. Do I halfway fill a football stadium with people listenwish I was a big movie star? Yeah, that would be ing to him. He’s insane. I mean, okay, one guy is great. But, when I talk to people at my shows, I insane, who cares. But when a lot of people want get that human exchange—I get to meet their to listen to him, that’s a problem. kids, they’ll tell me that they are recovering from If you weren’t a stand-up comic, what do cancer, or their husband died or they have seen you think you’d have become? I’d be dead. me in six different states. Those connections… those are the privileges. I’m not smart or intuitive; have truly suffered with debilitating OCD at certain points of my Visit dailypublic.com to read the full interview life. I’m not a gifted life philosopher—it hapwith Paula Poundstone. Jana Eisenberg, pens that I do a job that produces endorphins; a frequent contributor to The Public, is a P Buffalo-based editor and writer. that’s lucky.

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PLAYBILL BY THE PUBLIC STAFF A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (script by Hugh Wheeler, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim). Perhaps the most glorious amongst the many glorious musicals bejeweling Stephen Sondheim’s career. Mismatched couples living in turn-of-the-last-century Stockholm head to the Swedish countryside to straighten things out. Irish Classical Theatre puts Jenn Stafford, Matt Witten, Pamela Rose Mangus, and others in the spotlight under the directorial team of Chris Kelly (staging), Allan Paglia (music), and Robert Cooke (choreography). Through Oct 18; at Andrews Theatre; 625 Main Street; 716-853-ICTC (4282); irishclassicaltheatre.com. BUYER & CELLAR (written by Jonathan Tolins). Fact: Barbra Streisand is a seasoned collector who keeps diverse finds in the basement of her Malibu home. Fiction: Alex More, a struggling actor who’s been hired to keep the cellar in order, quips about the Streisandiana and about Babs. Kurt Erb is directed by Javier Bustillos for Buffalo United Artists. Through Oct 4; at Alleyway Theatre, One Curtain Up Alley; 716-886-9239; buffalobua.org. CARRIE: THE MUSICAL (music by Michael Gore, book by Lawrence Cohen). Once considered one of Broadway’s legendary disasters but more recently regarded as a cult musical hit on fringe and indie stages everywhere. A messy comeuppance is delivered to the meanies who have tormented a high school wallflower. Directed by Christopher Standart for American Repertory Theater of Western New York starring Mary Coppola-Jurich, Jennie McCabe, and Marina Laurendi in the title role. Through Oct 10; at Lecture Hall Theatre; Main Building at Medaille College; 18 Agassiz Circle. 716-634-1102; artofwny.org. FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE! (written by Laura Pedersen). Amherst native Pederson, an award-winning novelist and a New York Times essayist, sets her first play suburban turf during the catalytic 1970s. Members of a Catholic family look toward their faith to help them understand the upswelling social changes of that decade. Ludovica Villar-Hauser directs a cast composed largely of actors from the New York City staging of this show at off-Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre, when it was still titled The Brightness of Heaven. Through Oct 4. Presented by Shea’s Performing Arts Center at 710 Theatre; 710 Main Street; 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com, or at Shea’s Ticket Office. GRANNIE BIRD (book, music and lyrics by Neal Radice). The harsh reality of having their aged grandmother sent to a nursing home prompts a brother and sister, a pair of 12-year-old twins, to hide her away. Based on a play by Robin Rice Lichtig, this musical is laced with a transcendental realism that graces so many of Lichtig’s scripts, some seen previously here at Alleyway Theatre. Neal Radice directs Terry Braunstein and David G. Poole and introduces Allison Barsi and Shawn Calmes as the twins. Through Oct 3; One Curtain Up Alley; 716-852-2600 x0; alleyway.com. HOW I GOT OVER (conceived and directed by Paulette D. Harris). Originally seen in Buffalo last spring, this show returns to open the season for this company. Four actresses recount the personal stories of four gospel singers, each who performed for decades in this region and carried faith through music to international audiences. And, wonder of wonders, these four singers—now in advanced years—take the stage to sing some of their most memorable music alongside the younger actresses who play them. Juanita Simmons, Annette Christian, Beverly Crowell, and others are part of Paul Robeson Theatre Company’s memorable mixture of local history, music, and faith. Through Oct 11; at African American Cultural Center; 350 Masten Ave.; 716-884-2013; aaccbuffalo.org. IN THE HEIGHTS (book by Quiara Algeria Hudes, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda). Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is right now crushing Broadway with the hip hop Hamilton, first crusshed Broadway with this salsa-influenced portrait of la isla preciosa in upper, upper Manhattan. Washington Heights is bastion of many Latin cultures in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge. Dominicans, Puerto Ricans and those from other Caribbean communities live out their lives and struggle for their dreams. Co-presented by well established MusicalFare and the burgeoning young company Raices. Victoria

Pérez and Ricky Marchese star under the direction of Randall Kramer, with musical direction by Theresa Quinn and choreography by Michael Walline. Through Oct 11; at MusicalFare Theatre at Daemen College; 4300 Main (Snyder); 716-839-8540; musicalfare.com. KING O’ THE MOON (written by Tom Dudzick). The ongoing story of the Pazinski family advances from the conservative 1950s, where they were introduced in Over the Tavern, a hit last season for the Kavinoky. It is now July 1968, NASA is about to violate God’s heaven, and the staunchly Catholic Pazinski kids gather to pay tribute to their late father’s memory only to wonder about the wonders which lie ahead. Tom Dudzick, inspired by the experiences of his own family, directs Loraine O’Donnell, Adriano Gatto, Kevin Craig, Dan Urtz, and Kelly Copps standing in for Dudzick’s own kin. Through Oct 4; at Kavinoky Theatre, Porter and Prospect, on the D’Youville College campus; 716-829-7668; kavinokytheatre.com. NEWSIES (music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, book by Harvey Fierstein). Disney Theatrical Productions, Shea’s Performing Arts Center, and Albert Nocciolino present the Tony Award winning musical that tells the story of the Newsboy Strike of 1899. Through Oct 4. Shea’s Buffalo Theatre, 646 Main Street; 716-847-1410; sheas.org. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE OR THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE (adapted by by Eric Simonson). And so it goes. Everything in literature, film, art, and television is given a go on the stage. Kurt Vonnegut’s breakthrough novel marries details from the author’s own wartime experience with a bit of time travel and intergalactic folderol. Expect nothing less in this play. Several different actors taken on the role of Billy Pilgrim, the hero of this story, in all its existential glory. Subversive Theatre Collective’s production features Rick Lattimer, John F. Kennedy, Tim Joyce, and John Profeta; staged by Michael Lodick. Through Oct 11; at Manny Fried Playhouse; 255 Great Arrow Avenue (3rd floor); 9716) 4080499; subversivetheatre.org. SPEED OF LIGHT (by Bella Poynton). When it comes to science fiction of the speculative variety, it is important to remember that although it might seem to be about distant times and faraway galaxies, the story is rooted in the present. In this homegrown script by Bella Poynton, we root for an accomplished physicist on the verge mastering light speed travel in time to prevent alien invaders from destroying all life. More nefarious forces wonder if this discovery has other purposes like, you know, making a profit. By now you can see those present day links, right? Road Less Traveled Productions opens its new theater (formerly the Forbes) with director Scott Behrend navigating Sarah Kow-Falcone, Greg Howze, Bob Grabowski, and others in new play to the stars and beyond. Through Oct 4; 500 Pearl St. 716-6293069; roadlesstraveledproductions.org. TEN DAYS TO HAPPINESS (by Donna Rae Davidson). The 10 days spent by the author in a Buddhist retreat are represented in 10 scenes starring Mary Kate O’Connell under Anne Gayley’s direction. While the retreat urged separation from society—deprivation from worldly materials and concerns—and meditation, Davidson found befuddlement, adaptation, and enlightened laughter. Through Oct 18; at Park School Auditorium, 4625 Harlem Rd. (Snyder); 716848-4800; oconnellandcompany.com. THE REAL THING (by Tom Stoppard). Time, role-playing, and amorous tangles configure in cunning ways when a West End playwright scripts a romance about adultery and takes up with his star, then writes a play about that. This is what happens in The Real Thing and what happened to playwright Stoppard in his own life. Oh, what a tangled web Kelli Bocock-Natale weaves directing actors the likes of Wendy Hall, Eric Rawski, Kristin Bentley Kacala, and Steve Copps for New Phoenix Theatre. Through Oct 10; 31 Johnson Park; 716-853-1334; newphoenixtheatre.org.

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SHORT MOSCATO Whatever | Forever (LP) Recommended If You Like: Logic, Sage Francis, Slug The Good Huemans and Death Picnic MC dropped his debut LP last Friday, appropriately at 4:20pm. The record was produced by Radarada’s Wza and features appearances from Truey V, Dr. Ooo, and Hitch Burney.

LOWER DENS THURSDAY OCT 1 7PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. / $12 [INDIE] Ominous and euphoric at once, the music of Baltimore’s Lower Dens would make the perfect soundtrack to a phantom vision of an 1980s future. Endowed with an exceptional command of space, the four-piece outfit has a way of gracefully reeling listeners into their spectral dream—from their steadfast rhythms and kaleidoscopic guitar melodies to Jana Hunter’s commanding, vulnerable yet unyielding poignant voice. As demonstrated within their most recent album, this year’s Escape From Evil, it’s as though they summon you to ride along through a shimmering, dystopian highway. Still, as articulated by NPR “For an album so sculpted and precise, trying to pin down its emotional core is like trying to catch quicksilver.” It’s this mystique that makes Lower Dens stand out among the swaths of indie rock outfits surfacing today, and this Thursday presents an opportunity to immerse yourself in their world as they perform live at Mohawk Place. They’ll be accompanied by progressive singer-rapper, Abdu Ali. -JEANNETTE CHIN

THURSDAY OCT 1 Taste of City Dining Cards

THE YOUNG COUPLES  “Carnivores” (Song)

RIYL: Elvis Costello, Peter Bjorn and John, Saturday Look Good to Me Former SPORTS frontman Ian Proper premiered the first single from his longawaited new project early last week. Featuring contributions from members of Howlo, Passive Aggressives Anonymous, Amateur Radio Club, and Pleistocene, the group’s debut EP will be released later this fall.

6pm Market Arcade Atrium, 617 Main St., Washington St. Entrance free [FOOD] No offense to the fine purveyors who are participating in this event, but the real star of the show is the space. Fresh air has been blown into what has been the site of numerous failed restaurants, in the form a new public market with multiple vendors called EXPO, a possibly transformative development in the Theatre District. This Thursday, October 1, you’ll get a sneak peak and get to sample the food and drinks from City Dining Cards members Cream & Sugar Cafe, Hydraulic Hearth, Resurgence Brewery, Essex St. Pub, Gypsy Parlor, DBGB, Curly’s Grille, Public Espresso, Breadhive, and more. Admission is free, but food items will be available via a ticket system, and those interested are encouraged to RSVP electronically. -AARON LOWINGER

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“Now and Then” (Song) RIYL: The Black Angels, The Bright Light Social Hour The revamped lineup, now featuring Pine Fever drummer Andy Pothier, shared its first single prior to the psych rockers’ performance this past Friday at Nietzsche’s.

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9pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $8 [FUNK] It’s as if early Chicago did a blaxploitation soundtrack—and we mean that in all the best ways. Seattle’s Polyrhythmics bring the funk with an organic, old-school feel steeped in organ riffs that complement big blasts of brass riding along the top. Down below is a tight rhythm section that specializes in afro-beat and Latin accents, referencing everything from James Brown to the Talking Heads along the way. Pure joy for true music fans that dig a solid groove, Polyrhythmics comes to Buffalo Iron Works this Thursday, October 1 with Imperial Brown opening. -CJT

FRIDAY OCT 2 Art Under the Stars 6pm College Street, 64 College St. [ART] Lord willing and the clouds don’t swell, Queen City Gallery’s ongoing Art Under the Stars First Friday event in Allentown will hold perhaps its last outdoor event of the season. There’ll be food, live music, and art from Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, John Farallo, Chris McGee, Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Joshua Nickerson, Susan Redenbach, Barbara Lynch Johnt, and Michael Mulley. In case of inclemency, the event will move to Queen City Gallery at 617 Main Street. -AL

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The Big Read

Paula Poundstone

6pm Grant Street Neighborhood Center, 271 Grant St. [LIT] In anticipation of award-winning author Dinaw Mengestu coming to Buffalo next month, Just Buffalo Literary Center is launching The Big Read to get Buffalo reading Mengestu’s 2007 novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, which is set in an Ethiopian-American grocery in Washington, DC. The New York Times described it as “a great African novel, a great Washington novel and a great American novel.” To kick off a month of planned events before Mengestu’s Buffalo appearance on November 18, Just Buffalo has teamed with PUSH Buffalo and Abyssinia Ethiopian Cuisine (West Side Bazaar) for a celebration of food and African dance and drumming this Friday, October 2 at the Grant Street Neighborhood Center. -AL

Super American

Comfy 9pm Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St. $5 [INDIE] These young ’uns from Utica make some mighty nifty lo-fi buzz-pop with a self-deprecating sense of humor. You can clearly hear They Might Be Giants' influence in the nerdy delivery, but these guys have their own brand of snark, which rings out loud and clear on their side of the split cassette they put out with Rochester’s Skirts. They’re at Nietzsche’s on Friday, October 2 with Soft Cough and Passed Out. -CJT

7pm Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave. $32 [COMEDY] Paula Poundstone is a comedy veteran with a crowd-conversing, improvisational flair that hasn’t dulled in her 36-year tenure. Known for her razor-sharp wit, she has enjoyed remarkable career milestones such as being the first woman to perform stand-up at the White House and win the cableACE award for Best Stand-Up Comedy Special. Her comedic chops earned her a spot in the Comedy Hall of Fame, but she’s still going strong. Catch Paula Poundstone at Asbury Hall on Friday, October 2—and check our our interview with Poundstone on page 10. -KP

7pm Dreamland, 387 Franklin St. $5 [ROCK] Local power-pop quartet makes good with punchy tunes that revel in a punk spirit, born of the seeds planted by I Can See Mountains and Thick Winter Blud. We’re told there’s new music coming, but in the meantime Super American has dropped a couple singles which— fear not for fans of the disbanded—sound a lot like that which came before. Check out the new riffs at Dreamland on Friday, October 2 with Well Kept Things and Wild Things. Suggested $5 donation, bring your own bevvies. -CJT

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YEATS 150 THURSDAY OCT 1 1:30PM / BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER, 1300 ELMWOOD AVE. / FREE [LIT] Irish immortal poet William Butler Yeats is 150 years old this year and an all-day birthday party is scheduled for him Thursday, October 1, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. The party will feature readings of some Yeats’s poems by Irish Classical Theatre artistic director and actor Vincent O’Neill, with musical underplay and interludes and sung renditions of some of the poems by 10,000 Maniacs vocalist and violist Mary Ramsey; films about Yeats, courtesy of the Irish Film Institute, including the lauded 2014 production A Vision: A Life of W. B. Yeats; and talks by O’Neill and Irish arts aficionado Patrick Martin on “Yeats and the Abbey Theatre,” and by Buffalo State College professor Laurence Shine on “Yeats and the Esoteric: Yeats and Women.” The party runs from early afternoon until evening. All events are free and open to the public. Sponsors are Cinegael Buffalo, riverrun, and the Burchfield Penney. The readings and musical accompaniment are actually a preview of a currently-in-production CD recording by O’Neill and Ramsey to tie in with a further component of the Yeats sesquicentennial celebration—still in the development stages—called The Yeats Project, a collaborative production by the Irish Classical Theatre, Lehrer Dance Company, and Torn Space Theater Company, of two of Yeats’s plays, The Land of Heart’s Desire and At the Hawk’s Well, incorporating dance and mime and ritualistic dramatic and movement elements (reminiscent of Japanese Noh theater techniques, which influenced Yeats in the creation particularly of At the Hawk’s Well). The Yeats Project is scheduled for next April at the Irish Classical Theatre. O’Neill said the poems on the CD and in preview Thursday night would include selections from Yeats’s four major thematic and stylistic phases: the early years Celtic myth preoccupation; middle years Maud Gonne and associated personal and poetic romanticisms and disappointments; the revolution and the republic; and old age and memory. The longest of the four films is about an hour in length. The shortest, The Song of Wandering Aengus, is basically a reading of that lovely Yeats poem by actor Michael Gambon. The Oscar-nominated Yeats Country and Coole Park and Ballylee, are basically travelogues of Yeats’ native northwestern County Sligo—tucked between the two great mountains, Ben Bulben and Knocknarea—with attention to scenes and scenarios related to the poet and his poems, usefully quoted and expounded. The roughly hour-length film, A Vision: A Life of W. B. Yeats, directed by Alan Gilsenen, is in a cinematic style that might be described as “visionary.” Consisting of mostly still images of places and matters of significance to the poet and poetry, and voiceover narrative derived entirely from his writings, including poems and prose. Biography, memoirs, letters. The schedule is roughly as follows. Beginning at 1:30, Laurence Shine’s talk, followed by the three shorter movies. Then beginning at 6:30, the Vincent O’Neill and Mary Ramsey readings and music, followed by the O’Neill and Patrick Martin talk, followed by the Gilsenen film. -JACK FORAN

Cages, Bul Bul Tarang Gang, & La Parka 7pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St. $6

[EXPERIMENTAL] Cages wants to make up for their rained-out performance at Music is Art, so they’re playing a special set at Sugar City on Friday, October 2. Cages will be joined by members of Gas Chamber to present their new project simply titled “D.I.E.?” Psychedelic world music act Bul Bul Tarang Gang, featuring multi-instrumentalist Ravi Padmanabah, will also perform along side La Parka, a collaboration between Flesh Trade and VWLS. -CP

SATURDAY OCT 3 Flight 3407 Memorial 5k Race 9:30am Clarence Town Park, 10405 Main St. [BENEFIT] Clarence Town Place Park is hosting its annual 5k race this Saturday, October 3 to honor those lost in the Flight 3407 tragedy. A portion of the races proceeds will be donated to Remember Flight 3407, Inc. The race begins at 9:30am and registration for those who have not pre-registered online is at 7:30am. Stick around after the race for some family activities in the park. -CORINNE MCCARTHY

Old Falls Street Oktoberfest

1pm Old Falls Street, 101 Old Falls St. free [FESTIVAL] Fun for kids and adults, the sixth annual Old Falls Street Oktoberfest is the setting for an afternoon of lively German tradition this Saturday, October 3. Elaborate vendors line the street for an authentic day full of beer, music, and dancing. Kids can enjoy the petting zoo or bounce house along with other activities. This celebration is free and open to the public, 1-8pm. Prost! -CM

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8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $5 [INDIE] It hasn’t even been a year since Michigan’s Jeremy Quentin released Still Talk; Second City and he’s already itching to record some of the new songs he’s written traveling around the country in his troubadour’s shoes. Quentin’s the real deal—a songwriter with a creative vision that fixates on things the rest of us don’t notice and a knack for describing them in ways that move well beyond the literal words on the page. His gritty Americana delivery suits the narratives well, which you can assess for yourself at Mohawk Place on Saturday, October 3 with Difficult Night and Alex Berkley & Sonny Baker (performing in their duo configuration). -CJT

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Brewfest in Knox Park 2pm Knox Farm State Park, 437 Buffalo Rd # C $40-$75 [FOOD] Hosted at the Stables in Knox Farm State Park, this brewfest features 29 microbreweries, food trucks, German music, and lots of dancing all supporting the equestrian stables in the park. General admission is $40 and you must be 21 and over for entry to the event. Sample beers from each of the microbreweries while enjoy live entertainment from 2pm-5pm. -CM

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SUNDAY OCTOBER 4

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT SPAGHETTI DINNER 3–8PM at Boomerang’s, 995 Niagara St.

A biannual fundraiser of the Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus. Unlimited spaghetti and meatballs, plus dessert, basket raffles, spotlight performances, and a 50/50 worth enough to cover a car payment. Tickets: $10 at the door and from any chorus member.

Blood Money

10pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. free [ROCK] Something to check out, perhaps, after Shania Twain does her thing at First Niagara Center on Saturday: Blood Money is a locally based barroom fave with a sassy spirit for thirsty, fun-loving crowds. Alternating between a small stockpile of originals and a wide range of classic covers spiked with just a bit of Southern twang and alternating co-ed lead vocals, this could be the perfect end to your concert date night, Saturday at Buffalo Iron Works. -CJT

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A multimedia collaborative exhibit by Western New York’s LGBT arts community, including Steven Ambrusko, Steve Ardo, Michael Berdine, John Carocci, Mickey Harmon, Dana McKnight, and more. Artists reception presented in conjunction with Allentown’s First Friday Gallery Walk.

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TODD GLASS THURSDAY OCT 1-SATURDAY OCT 3 7:30PM / 30 MISSISSIPPI ST. / $15-$31 [COMEDY] In his 30-year career, Todd Glass has amassed a cult following through his peerless delivery and punchy one-liners. Glass took his act to Los Angeles after spending his late teens cutting his teeth on the Philadelphia comedy club circuit. With a flair for originality, his early bits satirized the conventions of traditional stand-up and led to national tours with acts like David Spade and cameos on shows like Friends and Married With Children. He’s outright with his opinions on social convention (e.g., hosting Thanksgiving, people harshing his mellow), but his tongue-in-cheek witticisms are always hilariously honest. After coming out in 2012, Glass began speaking openly about his sexuality, penning his memoir The Glass Situation. Discussing the struggles of growing up both dyslexic and gay, Glass managed to straddle the line between hilarious and endearing. Glass has appeared on a slew of television shows, including NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Tosh.0, Louie, The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, his own Comedy Central Presents special, and more. He has also released two comedy albums, Thin Pig and Vintage Todd Glass and Other Crap. Catch Glass at Helium Comedy Club on Thursday, October 1 through Saturday, October 3. -KELLIE POWELL

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8pm UB Center For The Arts, 103 Center For The Arts $31.50, $13.50 for students [DANCE] Lehrer Dance is taking the stage by storm on Saturday, October 3 in their first performance of their home season at University at Buffalo’s Center for the Arts. The dance company, which is celebrating their ninth year, is known for their fusion of artistry and athleticism. They will be performing audience favorites, along with three world premiere pieces, one of which will include a live performance by alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. A pre-performance talk will be held at 7:15pm with the show beginning at 8pm. Tickets for the general public are $31.50 and $13.50 for students and can be purchased at ubcfa.org. -VANESSA OSWALD

SUNDAY OCT 4 Doug Benson 4pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $20 [COMEDY] Doug Benson loves marijuana with a burning passion, but his fidelity doesn’t hurt his productivity. The Super High Me star has released three albums while working in television, recording his weekly podcast (Doug Loves Movies), and touring constantly. On his podcast “Getting Dog With High,” Benson plays host/ cannabis-mixologist to celebrities, offering viewers Howard Stern-esque entertainment with a smoky air of originality. Catch Doug Benson at the Helium Comedy Club on Sunday, October 4 at 4:20pm. -KP

TUESDAY OCT 6 Dining Out for Life (All day) Various Locations [FOOD] Local restaurants in Buffalo and the surrounding areas are participating in Dining Out for Life, a charitable event hosted by Evergreen Health Services. Each participating restaurant will donate a percentage of your bill to the foundation. On October 6 for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, patrons will have the chance to “donate their appetite” for the fight against HIV/AIDS. A list of the participating restaurants and their percentages of donation can be found on the Dining Out for Life website. A reservation at each restaurant is highly recommended. -CM

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11PM / ALLEN STREET HARDWARE CAFE, 245 ALLEN ST. / $5 [ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Let’s face it, Halloween has become a month long-holiday, what with AMC and the Syfy channel playing horror movies around the clock and pop-up Halloween stores popping up as early as September. We at The Public accept this phenomenon and furthermore choose to perpetuate the trend by holding a spooky party on just the second day of October. The next edition of Public School, our monthly dance party at Hardware continues on Friday, October 2 with a Halloween themed event. We’re picturing something like the horrifying dance party scene in Jacobs Ladder (sans the LSD?) or the house party from Donnie Darko (sans the time travel, unless maybe you decided not to skip the LSD). We won’t go so far as to mandate or even encourage that people wear costumes, but if you so choose, well, we’re not going to stop you. Maybe we’ll even buy you a drink. A couple of our new favorite hip hop DJs, Lovechild the Tatstemaker and Crop Top, will take over the front room of Hardware. The back room will feature two veteran DJs, Dovey and Biacco, blasting all sorts of hip hop while we screen a couple of our favorite new horror classics American Psycho and Planet Terror. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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8pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $15-$20 [FOLK] Melissa Ferrick doesn’t need much more than her acoustic guitar and staccato voice to give her latest self-titled album an uncanny impact. Melodies flow without urgency, and her shadowy, poignant lyrics float to the surface. Through 12 albums, Ferrick has wandered the intersection of doggedness and vulnerability, and as a performer she is equally as open, chatting up her audience between heartfelt songs. Catch Melissa Ferrick at The 9th Ward on Tuesday, October 6th. -KP

Lydia 7pm The Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $15-$17 [EMO] Emotionally stirring and instrumentally compelling, Arizona natives Lydia have been churning out melodic indie-emo numbers since 2003. Since their brief hiatus in 2010, they've released three albums including Paint it Golden (2010), Devil (2013), and this year's Run Wild. In support of the latter album, the three piece outfit has embarked on a nation-wide tour which includes a stop at the Waiting Room this Tuesday, October 6 alongside Seahaven, Turnover, and the Technicolors. This is definitely an experience that fans of Dashboard Confessional and Brand new will not want to miss out on. -JC

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1PM / VARIOUS LOCATIONS / FREE [FUN] Twice a year some of Buffalo’s most talented up-and-coming musicians line the porches of the Elmwood Village for an earthy showcase that simultaneously celebrates the richness of our music scene and the changing of the seasons. Modeled after successful and ongoing Porchfests in Ithaca, Somerville, Massachusetts, and Cleveland, the feel of the event could be likened to an unusually excellent block party that stretches to include an entire neighborhood. Volunteers make much of the merriment actually happen along with help from the Elmwood Village Association, so remember to be kind to everyone working the festival this weekend. Between this and the Allentown Fall Festival, all of central Buffalo will be alive with music (and food trucks, and flowing beverages). Fifty-two bands are on this year’s schedule, from Alex Mead’s My Rap Name is Alex to the husky vocal phrasings of Wolf, on to the rhythmic pummel of the familial duo Like a Panther. Also on hand: local faves the Tins, MC Bagel Jesus, the unique jazz-poetry ensemble Bourbon & Coffee, and of course, Lava Hips and Bold Folly, who absolutely killed it at our most recent Public Presents shindig. The musical diversity of our city is never more apparent! The fun kicks off Saturday, October 3 at 1pm—check the Porchfest Facebook page for a map and further details—bring your own chair if you’ll need to park it along the way. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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BIG SCREEN, LITTLE SCREEN The future of movies, as reflected in the programming of the 40th annual Toronto International Film Festival BY M. FAUST IT DIDN’T DRAW A LOT OF ATTENTION what with all the other

hoopla surrounding the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (which, to be fair, is almost entirely hoopla), but a program introduced this year may say a lot about the future of movies. If you’ve never been, programs are how the festival is organized. Long-established ones included Galas, Contemporary World Cinema, Midnight Madness—you get the idea. This new one was called Primetime, and it featured a handful of new television series from around the world, at least the first episode or two. It’s not unknown for product made for television to show up on TIFF screens. In many, if not most, countries of the world, television networks provide most of the funding for movies, so it’s a thin line to begin with. And there have been limited-run television series that have been brought to cinemas in other countries: Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom. But those were always exceptions that could be shown in their entirety. What was on display here were the openings of shows that, in the nature of most television, will continue to produce new episodes. The best-known was NBC’s Heroes Reborn; also featured were the second season of Les Revenants (The Returned) from France, and Jason Reitman’s Casual, which will premiere on Hulu next week. The program will presumably continue and grow in years to come. It’s been clear for a while that television is where it’s happening these days. As a mass medium, movies seem to be turning more and more into entertainment for kids who want an excuse to get out of the house and congregate with their peers. If you’re an adult who wants well-crafted drama, you’re much more likely to get it in your living room than at the local multiplex. Or at least you’re more likely to be familiar with the options. And as we all know, once you get hooked on a show, you’ll stay with it for the next four, five, or however many years. It seems to me that it’s only a matter of time until the cable net-

works and maybe even what used to be called the broadcasters start finding a way to get their product into movie theaters. Shows like Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire clearly have the production values to work on the big screen. And given that movie theaters do the bulk of their business on weekends, why not make a deal with HBO or Showtime to program their current series on weeknights? But movies aren’t quite dead yet, and TIFF is the proof. As always, this year’s festival offered so many films—372 from 72 countries—that even dedicated cineastes who could afford to stay in Toronto for the entire 11 days were likely to miss something they wanted to see. As a member of the press, I had access to 25 or more screenings at any given moment, an organizational nightmare. The only rational way to approach the behemoth that is TIFF is to plan one day at a time, and to make sure you always have alternates: With so much to see, there’s no reason to stay with a movie you don’t like. So as much as I wanted to see Our Brand Is Crisis, Bryan Cranston as Trumbo, Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next, the six-hour Arabian Nights, a Hong Kong musical starring Chow Yun-Fat, talk-of-the-fest movies like The Wave, High Rise, The Lobster and Hardcore, and new films by Wim Wenders, Terence Davies, Nanni Moretti, Guy Maddin, and Jafar Panahi, it just didn’t work out that way. If the overall quality of what I did see was below average this year, that’s the way the dice roll: I can hardly say that the festival was bad when I only saw five percent of it. TIFF enjoys a reputation as a launching pad for Oscar winners. If I was to pick a film I saw that was likely to be favored come the awards season, there’s no question that it would be Brooklyn. Nick Hornby adapted Colm Tóibín’s novel about an Irish girl (Saoirse Ronan) who emigrates to New York City in the 1950s, only to find that the auld sod retains a grip on her. So classically filmed that it would look at home in the middle of a Maureen O’Hara marathon

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on Turner Classic Movies, it couldn’t be any better timed to appeal to audiences in a world where half the population seems to be suffering dislocation. Expect it in theaters around Thanksgiving. Toronto homeboy and one-time TIFF favorite Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter) has been suffering a rough patch for most of the last decade. That may be end with Remember, starring Christopher Plummer as a German survivor of World War II who leaves the retirement home where he lived with his recently deceased wife on a mission to find a Nazi who has escaped justice. It’s better scripted than the lurid tales Egoyan has tackled recently, and Plummer is always worth watching. A January release is planned. Osgood Perkins, son of Anthony, makes his directorial debut with February, a horror film set in a girl’s boarding school. As heavily stylized as Dario Argento at his most feverish, it’s 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. Not for all tastes, but it could be this year’s It Follows. A24 has picked it up for distribution, but no release date has been set. Even odder is the Danish comedy film Mænd & høns (Men & Hens, though for some reason the English subtitled version is called Men & Chicken). Mads Mikkelsen—barely recognizable as the suave star of TV’s Hannibal—plays one of two peculiar brothers who set out to find the father who put them up for adoption when they were infants. On the island where dad has a rundown research facility, they find three other brothers who make their own eccentricities look mild. It was written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, whose next project is the long-gestating film of Steven King’s The Dark Tower, on the strength of which it may actually show up in the US. The Nordic sense of humor is admittedly not for all tastes, but it’s certainly not the same old same old. I was a bit less enthused about Legend, starring the seemingly omnipresent Tom Hardy as Ronald and Reggie Kray, the twin gangsters who terrorized London in the 1960s. Director Brian Helgeland (42) employs minimal digital trickery, relying instead on clever camera angles and stunt doubles to frame Hardy’s two distinctive performances. Too much of it plays like GoodFellas in London, though I guess if you’re going to ape a gangster movie you might as well chose a good one. Originally scheduled to open this week, it’s been moved back to November 20, which indicates the distributor smells a hit. Others: The Final Girls wants to be the new Scream, a parody of slasher movies set in summer camps. Yes, there were enough of those to form a whole subgenre, but you’d have to have seen a bunch of them to appreciate all the in-jokes here. We Monsters is a German drama with a plot similar to the Italian film The Dinner that just played at the North Park, asking how far middle-class parents would go to cover up a murder committed by their child. Couple in a Hole is a British drama about just what the title says, a middle-aged couple living in a hole—call it a small cave—in a forest. Why? It takes the movie to find that out, and while watching their survival efforts was weirdly compelling, it’s not a movie you’d ever want to watch twice. From Austria, Thank You for Bombing compiles three loosely linked stories about war correspondents serving in Afghanistan. It’s more bitter than the title indicates (I was expecting a satire on the lines of Thank You for Smoking), and a sequence depicting despicable behavior by a pair of American soldiers just about guarantees it won’t find a US distributor. Speaking of misleading titles, you might expect a film called The Apostate to be anti-religious in nature, but it’s look at an aimless young man who tries to make an official break from the Catholic church reminded me of any number of lightweight existential comedy-dramas that were popular in Europe in the 1970s. (That’s a good thing.) As far as the bad ones, let’s not linger: Charlie Kaufman’s animated Anomalisa was a dreary and depressing disappointment (and I say that as a big fan of his Synecdoche, New York); the Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Light made one of the great figures in American music seem dull; Gasper Noe’s overlong Love did the same thing for sex—and in 3D, to boot; About Ray is a contrived mess that, despite having a transsexual teenager as its leading character, isn’t really about anything other than patting itself on the back for its P teeth-grinding sensitivity.

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FILM REVIEW

Joseph Gordon Levitt in The Walk.

ABOVE THE CLOUDS THE WALK / SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE / STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE / STONEWALL BY M. FAUST THANK GOD, I THOUGHT as the end credits for The Walk began to roll, that it was based on a true story. Specifically, the story of French tightrope walker Philippe Petit who, in August 1972, decided to practice his craft on a wire 110 stories above the streets of Manhattan. That was the height of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, which at the time were nearing completion. (You may recall Man on Wire, the Oscar-winning documentary from 2008 about Petit’s feat.)

*** Likability is not a factor with Steve Jobs, at least not as he is depicted in Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, a new documentary by the iconoclastic Alex Gibney, who in recent years has outstripped Ken Burns on both quantity and quality of output. (Don’t confuse this with Danny Boyle’s upcoming docudrama starring Michael Fassbender as Jobs.)

The Walk was produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, who likes to find uses for the newest and bestest in motion picture technology. It was presented in 3D IMAX, and that’s why I’m grateful that the story was constrained by the truth. Given that I share the stomach of a character in the film who says that he gets queasy on a footstool, I was squirming in my seat for much of its climax. I can only imagine how much worse it might have been if Zemeckis had been able to make up events. Truth be told, my nervous stomach survived the film quite well. It’s not that Zemeckis doesn’t mind throwing the occasional height-based scare into you, but when he does he sneaks up with it and gets it over with quickly. The walk itself is, for the most part, serene, almost peaceful: The film tries as best it can (after having sufficiently exploited our fears) to enjoy the walk as Petit did, serenely and happily. It helps that the walk comes as the climax of a very enjoyable film, a self-conscious throwback to caper films of the 1960s and New York-based movies of the 1970s. Petit, who was 25 at the time of his feat, is played by Joseph Gordon Levitt. Although the first half of the film is set in Paris, the dialogue is mostly in English—Petit insists on it so that he can practice before going to New York. Levitt’s French accent is rather fruity, but it suits the theatricality of the character, who has a lot of Charlie Chaplin in him. (These scenes may remind you somewhat of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, another technologically pristine 3D film starring Ben Kingsley, here in a grumpy-mentor role that would have been perfect for Alan Arkin.) Zemeckis’s depiction of Manhattan when Petit and his accomplices go there is playfully informed by crime movies of the decade—it’s too bad Sidney Lumet isn’t around to appreciate the homage. (Several of the cops are named after characters from The Godfather.) I have nothing bad to say about The Walk, which is pleasing in every aspect, but I will finish my praise with this: It’s a perfect movie for family viewing, suitable for kids but not made for them. If the family budget doesn’t extend to the pricey IMAX tickets, the film will open at other theaters next week (October 9). 20 THE PUBLIC / SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

Describing his subject as possessing “The focus of a monk with none of the empathy,” Gibney gives Jobs his due for his accomplishments along with dishing him for his failures both personal (abandoning a girlfriend when she became pregnant with his first child) and professional (Apple’s financial embarrassments, including poor treatment of Chinese workers and parking most of its money overseas so not to have to pay US taxes). Perhaps because this film follows his much-seen expose of Scientology, Going Clear, Gibney seems especially struck by the cultishness with which so many people seem to regard Jobs: The film opens with a montage of video tributes posted online at the time of Jobs’ death, including one from a boy who appears to be 10 or 11 who rattles off the name of every Apple device that Jobs oversaw. It will be at the Screening Room for a week (except Tuesday) beginning this Friday.

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Equally likable but certainly not family-friendly (as you can tell from its title), Sleeping With Other People is being promoted as a rom-com about a pair of sex addicts, a capsule description I was happy to discover was misleading if not entirely inaccurate.

I went to see Stonewall contrarily determined to find something nice to say about it after all the bad advance reviews it has been getting. The mere prospect of a movie about the 1969 riots at a Manhattan gay bar that became the symbolic beginning of the gay rights movement made by the German producer-director known for such preposterous sci-fi hits as Independence Day and 2012 is so off-kilter that the movie had to offer something of interest, wouldn’t you think?

Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie star as Jake and Lainey, who meet up in Manhattan 12 years after they shared an intimate night in their college dorm. He is a womanizer unable to maintain a relationship, she is obsessed with a dull doctor (Adam Scott in a commendably charmless performance) with whom she cheats on every boyfriend. After agreeing that they have no chance as partners, Jake and Lainey agree to try to help each other through their romantic difficulties. If you think you know where all this is going, you don’t. Writer-director Leslye Headland had the same problem with her first film, Bachelorette, which was avoided by audiences because they’d been told it was a Bridesmaids clone. But where that comedy tried to uncover every female fear and emotion that Headland thought movies have always avoided, Sleeping revives romantic comedy by populating it with fully fleshed-out characters. The stars are both sympathetic and charming, especially Sudeikis— who knew he had it in him after years of post-SNL comedies?

No such luck. Credit Roland Emmerich (who, like writer Jon Robin Baitz, is openly gay) with using his considerable film industry clout to make a film that is has longstanding personal meaning to him. But that such a canny manipulator of audiences could grind out a melodrama so grating and clichéd is hard to imagine. The mostly fictitious plot, centered on a squeaky-clean blonde Midwesterner ( Jeremy Irvine) who moves to New York City after his dad the football coach discovered his “perversion,” essentially rewrites Hair, without the songs and with cross-dressers in the female roles. (The ending cribs from Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, though just as clumsily.) You have to feel sorry for the theater owners who booked this one sight unseen: here’s P hoping they can unload it after one week of empty houses.

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THEATER INFORMATION IS VALID THROUGH THURSDAY, OCT 2 BLACK MASS—The life of Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, brutal, sociopathic, and darkly entrepreneurial, is a prime vehicle to reflect upon the American character, maybe too much so for the filmmakers here sufficiently to contend with. Focusing on his deal with the FBI, which agreed to take a tolerant attitude toward the activities of Bulger’s gang in return for information about the Boston Mafia, the film neglects other aspects of his criminal career, including his relationship with his brother, a respectable politician, and the support he received from the Irish-American community. Johnny Depp plays Bulger with a variable Boston accent, but the film’s best performance comes from Joel Edgerton as his FBI handler. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon, and Peter Sarsgaard. Directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart). -GS Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria EVEREST—Based on the story recounted in Jon Krakauer’s book, Into Thin Air, about climbers on Mt. Everest who are trapped by a severe snow storm. Starring Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, and Thomas M. Wright. Directed by Baltasar Kormákur (2 Guns). Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In (FriSun only) GRANDMA—No one is better at snapping off a sarALTERNATIVE CINEMA castic retort than Lily Tomlin, and she gets plenty of them in this trim comedy-drama. In what was DIRECTING DISSENT—Documentary about Baltimore presumably written as a vehicle for her, Tomlin teacher and social activist John Roemer, a veteran plays no one’s idea of a traditional grandmother, a of the Civil Rights Movement and a proponent of feminist poet who at the film’s beginning is breaknon-violent civil disobedience as a means of social ing up with her much younger girlfriend. The plot change. Director Sophie Hamacher will be present contrives to have her look up a lot of old friends at the screening. Wed Sep 30, 7pm. Hallwalls and lovers and uncover buried secrets, along the GREMLINS (1984)—I know you all want to take your way providing acting workouts for Sam Elliott (who kids to it, but don’t forget about that scene where is particularly good), Marcia Gay Harden, Judy Phoebe Cates relates why she hates Christmas. On Greer, and Orange Is the New Black’s Laverne Cox. the other hand, by all means see it again before the Written and directed by Paul Weitz, one of Hollythreatened remake. Starring Zach Galligan, Hoyt wood’s more interestingly uneven auteurs (About Axton, Judge Reinhold, and the immortal Dick Milla Boy, Being Flynn); Buffalo native Andrew Miano is er. Directed by Joe Dante (Matinee). Sat 11:30am. one of the film’s producers. –MF Amherst (Dipson), North Park Eastern Hills (Dipson), Flix (Dipson) IVAN’S CHILDHOOD (USSR, 1962)— Andrei Tarkovsky’s HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2—Animated sequel from the first feature film is a drama about a 12-year-old boy Adam Sandler production line. Directed by Genndy used by Soviet soldiers to run information over Tartakovsky. Flix (Dipson), Hamburg Palace, Maple enemy lines during World War II. Presented by the Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood , Regal Niagara Falls, Buffalo Film Seminars. Tue 7pm. Amherst (Dipson) Regal Quaker, New Angola, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In (Fri-Sun only), MORNING GLORY (1933)—The film that made KathaTransit Drive-In (Fri-Sun only) rine Hepburn a star, as a naïve aspiring actresses who finds that the road to success in New York THE INTERN—Robert De Niro puts little of himself into his enervated performance here as a harmis not simple or easy. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., less sweetheart, a quietly avuncular retiree aiding Adolphe Menjou, and C. Aubrey Smith. Directa stressed corporate executive (Anne Hathaway ed by Lowell Sherman (She Done Him Wrong). in a tense, ill-conceived performance) through Fri 7:30pm. The Old Chestnut Film Society, Philip personal and professional difficulties. A comedy Sheridan School, 3200 Elmwood (836-4757) with pretentions with social commentary that it THE REFUGEES OF SHANGRI-LA—Documentary about doesn’t earn. Nancy Meyers’s soggy, uninventive exiles from Bhutan beginning new lives in America film is old-fashioned in the worst senses of the after abandoning hope of being able to return to word, ditching its odd couple premise to become their homeland, Sun 11:30am. North Park a sentiment-coated domestic-crisis dramedy built THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)—Julie Andrews and on small, easily-surmounted problem situations. Christopher Plummer in the 1965 Academy Award Co-starring Rene Russo and Anders Holm. –GS Flix winner for Best Picture. It beat out Darling, Doctor (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, ReZhivago, Ship of Fools, and A Thousand Clowns. Go gal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Refigure. Thu-Fri 7:30pm. 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Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In (Fri-Sun only), Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sun only) NO ESCAPE—Suspense thriller starring Owen Wilson as a father trying to rescue his wife and two young daughters when the government of the Southeast Asian country to which they have just moved is overthrown by a violent coup. There was a time when moviemakers and filmgoers shared a tacit understanding that certain lines were not going to be crossed. The knowledge that those lines no longer exist, as anyone who has seen horror films of the last decade knows, makes it difficult to watch a movie like this as escapist entertainment. Writer-director John Erick Dowdle got his start in the horror genre (Quarentine), and he approaches this material the same way. 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Directed by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond). –MF Eastern Hills (Dipson), North Park THE PERFECT GUY—Suspense drama starring Sanaa Lathan as a professional woman torn between her ex lover and a new guy who seems too good to be true. Co-starring Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut, and Rutina Wesley. Directed by David M. Rosenthal (A Single Shot). Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In (FriSun only) PHOENIX—Christian Petzold’s tragic but quiet melodrama views the aftermath of the Holocaust through the frame of one relationship, a marriage sundered by the Third Reich and its horrific actions. Liberated by the allies from a Nazi death camp, Nelly (Nina Hoss) undergoes facial reconstruction surgery and sets off to find her husband. When she does, he doesn’t recognize her, but enlists her in a scheme to impersonate his dead wife to obtain an inheritance due her. The convoluted plot sounds like a riff on Hitchcock’s Vertigo, but Petzold isn’t interested in suspense. The script lacks a number of details that viewers might be expecting. Uneven as it is, the film has compelling moments despite its puzzling reticence. With Nina Kunzendorf and Ronald Zehrfeld. –GS Eastern Hills (Dipson) ENDS THURSDAY OCT 2 STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON—Bio-drama about the 1980s rap group NWA, whose members included Dr. Dre and Ice Cube. Starring O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, and Neil Brown Jr.. Directed by F. Gary Gray (Friday). Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, Regal Walden Galleria THE VISIT—Two city kids armed with home movie cameras spend a week in rural Pennsylvania with the grandparents they’ve never met. After a string of high-profile disasters, M. Night Shyamalan’s modestly conceived and budgeted horror thriller mixes a 1970s story with a “found footage” shooting style that costs the film more in distraction than it adds in effect. The same goes for the lightweight satire of film students as our 15-year-old heroine obsesses over her mise en scene: It just seems to be killing time on the way to the finale. Staring Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, and Kathryn Hahn. –MF Flix (Dipson), Maple Ridge (AMC), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In (Fri-Sun only), Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sun only) A WALK IN THE WOODS—In the works for more than a decade, this adaptation of travel writer Bill Bryson’s book about his attempt to hike the 2200 mile Appalachian Trail is nice to look at but awfully pointless, unless you enjoy a few tepid nature lectures from Robert Redford. As Bryson, he is paired with Nick Nolte as an old friend who offers to go on the hike with him even though they haven’t seen each other for 20 years. 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DEAR KEITH: My youngest brother is a junior in high school, which means it’s time for him to begin looking into colleges. Or is it? Of course my parents think so—it’s not even a question—but being a college graduate of the Millennial generation who can’t find a job in my field and who is drowning in student debt, I’m inclined to deter my brother from this life path. I have no doubt that he’d be a great college student, however. He would. I was. But it’s more than likely that he’ll find himself in a situation very similar to mine when he’s my age. (I’m turning 26 next month. I’m hardly a wise old woman, but I’m also not naive about my situation.) I feel obligated to at least make my thoughts on the subject known, and even to go as far as to try and convince him to save himself the money and effort and to look into something vocational. I know my parents wouldn’t appreciate my angle, though. What should I do?—BACHELOR’S OF BS BACHELOR’S OF BS: Jesus Christ, lady, save

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some room on this page for me. Just kidding— the more space you fill, the less I have to write, which means the sooner I can go back to lifting weights and kissing pictures of the American flag. It’s actually quite a shame you didn’t go into more detail about your October birthday plans. Had you even briefly summarized your intentions, I probably could have gotten away with submitting the emoji sequence of a turd smoking a cigarette with a question mark after it, and someone on Facebook would have reposted it as the definitive critique of our nation’s education system, and I could have further secured my position as “one of the funniest nephews my uncle has.” Now I’m obligated to put some thought into this. Kind of inconsiderate of you. Unfortunately for your brother, his loquacious older sibling sought the advice of someone highly underqualified to answer this question, given that I was not only able to secure work in my field after graduating college but completely disavowed my degree one year later to pursue an unrelated dream that has since seen me go from catching scabies off of a dirty mattress in a zero-star hotel outside of Nashville one week to drinking champagne in a hot tub with two dudes from the band “Chickenfoot” overlooking the Vegas strip the next. (Sorry about the scabies, Chickenfoot.) My barometer of what should and should not be done in order to “succeed” in life is so skewed I honestly shouldn’t even be asked for my opinion on a new haircut, let alone be giving your relatives pointers on what to do after high school. But since I am deeply afraid of dying without positively affecting one single person, I’m going to give it to your brother hard and I’m going to give it to him fast, and he may not like it at first but he’s eventually going to loosen up and my tip will ease into him so deeply he’ll compare all future tips to mine. So please, “Bachelor’s of BS,” avert your eyes. This is between him and me now.

15 years of my life, and in that time I have not filled out a single job application, so my advice to you would be wildly misinformed. Tip #3: Don’t go out for seafood on Monday. Restaurants place their orders Tuesday morning and therefore you’ll be served the oldest food they’ve got, and your risk of acquiring scombrotoxic fish poisoning are drastically increased. It was a very different world a mere 13 years ago when I had to decide whether or not to go to college. Information was rare and therefore valuable, and I felt comfortable shopping for jeans at Banana Republic. I went to college because it’s just what you did after you graduated high school. Well, that and acid. But now that the sum of all human knowledge since the beginning of time is accessible to anyone with a smart phone, I don’t necessarily see the benefit of digging yourself into a debt you will most likely never recover from. My advice to him would be that unless he is pursuing a career in law or medicine, where respectable credentials are a little more than just appreciated and going into student debt is but practice for when he’ll eventually need to work overtime in order cover a pricey cocaine habit, maybe take some time to be a student of the universe before the university. See if he can’t follow in the footsteps of life’s freer spirits first—the ones who have found joy without a degree. Maybe he’ll be happy hula-hooping in Days Park, or playing the violin in Days Park, or hackey-sacking in Days Park, or just fucking sleeping in Days Park and then simply walking away from three empty beer bottles and a sweater he left hanging in a tree. The world is his oyster. Sadly, it’s also always Monday.

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