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At first glance, America’s off-road vehicle craze seems illogical. But if viewed as an emerging grassroots highway preference, it may resolve a contentious local road-building issue.

About a week ago I accompanied my boyfriend to the Erie County DMV. Having come from the much smaller city of Cortland, New York, the Erie County DMV is very intimidating. Never before had I entered a DMV that required one to walk through metal detectors or take a ticketed number. It was like a movie. After a short wait, we were up. Naturally, the man helping us was condescending and grumpy—but I suppose that’s what I expected. The real surprise is what took place at the booth next to ours. A couple, appearing to be Muslim in their 30s or 40s, had been called; they had a baby in a stroller and an envelope full of papers. They appeared to have brought with them anything and everything that could have possibly been required to get a New York State ID—Social Security cards, proofs of address—but they didn’t speak English. They tried their hardest to communicate what they needed to the woman at the counter. They pointed to different documents, they presented her with various forms, and in response she very firmly and rather loudly stated that she could not help them. That her job was not to stand there and fill out paperwork with them. And finally that what they needed to do was to leave and not come back until they found a translator who could help them. I stepped in and calmly asked if I was allowed to help, to which she replied, “I don’t care. But I can’t help them.” After a moment of processing I sat down with the couple and their beautiful baby and I helped them with their forms. This took a total of maybe 10 minutes out of my day. In no way was this an inconvenience or even time-consuming. But that DMV employee, whose job is literally to help clients at the DMV get what they need, could not and would not be bothered. As I suspected, this couple did not have a car. So, if they had taken the woman’s advice to find a translator, they would have had to also find a way, whether it be walking or public transportation, to get themselves, their baby, and their newfound translator back to the DMV. Based on hours spent in different human services courses at Canisius College, I know that governmentfunded buildings are legally required to provide clients not proficient in English with the resources they need to function. However, the DMV is a state agency. After some quick research, I discovered that in 2011, Governor Cuomo’s Executive Order 26 stated that all state-funded facilities (e.g. the DMV) are required by law to both provide important documents in languages other than English (something which was not offered to this couple), as well as to provide translators to those in need of such. The Erie County DMV is not doing what is legally required of them, nor are they being held accountable. Buffalo is a city experiencing a renaissance in no small way due to the hard work of immigrants and refugees. They are one of things that make Buffalo and Western New York a place near and dear to myself and so many others. Something needs to be done about this blatant disregard for state law and human dignity, and we need to start holding government employees and agencies accountable for their ignorance, their bias, and their hostility toward our city’s newest citizens.

At a recent Sprague Brook Park town hall meeting, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz was peppered with demands to rebuild Route 240 between Kissing Bridge and Springville—a six-mile strip of broken pavement. According to Poloncarz, the road money is simply not there for lightly traveled, low-priority roads like Route 240. As long as elected officials limit money for roadwork, the highly traveled roads in the Amherst area will get top priority. What to do? First, grasp the reason why so many drivers trade in comfortable two-wheel-drive vehicles for rugged, four-wheel-drive pickups, Broncos, Pathfinders, and Cherokees—vehicles capable of handling adverse road conditions. They obviously want a more challenging driving experience. Second, because so many people eagerly spend their own money to own vehicles built for a rough-road environment, perhaps it’s time to stop overspending on our highway infrastructure. If today’s drivers want a more primitive roadway experience, why should out-of-date highway policies stand in their way? Third, local highway maintenance decisions should reflect the growing number of off-road vehicles on our highways. As their numbers go up, the number of designated, not-maintained roads for their use will also go up. And, of course, road maintenance costs will go down. Other roads, parallel to Route 240, will need to be maintained to accommodate those drivers still owning two-wheel drive, smooth-road sedans. The bulk of the available road money will keep those roads in good repair. While drivers of gas-sucking off-road vehicles boost our national fuel consumption, this cost will be offset by the huge savings associated with lower road repair costs. On balance, the environment will benefit from a new policy that no longer attempts to pave America. These drivers, once accused of fouling the environment through their wasteful use of fossil fuels, can rebrand themselves as dedicated conservationists. With the passage of time, Route 240 will be allowed to take on a frontier look and feel, not because of limited funds, but because that is what a growing number of drivers really want. Are we are ready for a new approach to highway infrastructure that both accommodates stingy public fiscal policies and gives drivers roads to match the capabilities of their rugged vehicles? Yes we are!! Let’s stop demanding that Mr. Poloncarz build roads with money he does not have. This new highway policy will ease pressures on public officials to do the impossible and, at the same time, free up monies to address urgent public issues, like funding Medicaid and addressing the opioid addiction crisis. —Ronald Fraser

For more on Executive Order 26 and exactly what it entails, visit: governor.ny.gov/news/no-26-statewidelanguage-access-policy. —Margaret Treichler

The writer, a former transportation planner, lives in the Town of Colden.

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IF YOU NEED RESPITE FROM AND PERSPECTIVE ON TRUMP’S THEATRICS, TRY THESE BOOKS Michel Houellebecq (pronounced “Wellbeck”) has produced a couple of steamy, provocative page-turners over the past few years, and because France is now the big player in this particular world-historical moment, and because Houellebecq is such an astoundingly compelling read, here’s a nudge to go to Talking Leaves to get paperback, sunscreen-proof editions of his novels The Elementary Particles and Submission, because they are great tools for making your escape to the dunes complete. If you’ve got the rest of the month off and a screened porch for evening reading, you might take along the last two novels by the late Jim Harrison, The Great Leader and The Big Seven. All these books are about politics and ideas. They’re also all about sex. Houellebecq and Harrison both became blockbuster best-selling writers pushing distinctive, intellectually ambitious prose brightened with titillating portrayals of robust heterosexuality, but prudes should book up, too, because the moment demands it. Notwithstanding the content of these novels, especially Houellebecq’s, Americans might be circumspect about admitting to reading a French author. Say “French intellectual” and you’ll elicit scorn from American conservatives and either envy or embarrassing suck-uppery from liberals.

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in 2015 that Islamist terrorists massacred 12 writers and cartoonists at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly that is like a grownup’s version of MAD Magazine. The thenpresident of France denounced Houellebecq’s alleged anti-Muslim message, though the state of emergency that Hollande declared is still in place. Houellebecq’s novel is a provocative but nuanced satire and cultural critique, even more masterfully executed than The Elementary Particles. The narrator of Submission is an elite 40-something college professor whose expertise is the work of Huysmans, the most famous of the Decadent writers, whose most-read late-19th-century book is the story of an aristocrat who withdraws from the dirty, disorderly world of commoners into a mansion full of specific stimuli to the eyes, ears, palate, fingers, et cetera. Submission is about this loner of a professor bouncing like a cork on the stormy sea of political events over which he has zero control and not much interest, because he, like the fictional creation he studies, mainly cares about his pleasure, Michel Houellebecq, in this case, about Submission (2016), translated by Lorin Stein having sex with his 20-something student, and with prostitutes, and eating his microwave dinners. The Houellebecq character is the pliable Everyman of the feckless intellectual class: He looks at the world with what Houellebecq and most everybody else thinks is how tenured professors see the world, with their one-daya-week work schedule, their job security, and their cynical detachment. Francois goes to a cocktail party or two, and emerges onto what’s usually a crowded, lively Paris neighborhood with a metro stop to find it empty, with burning cars set alight either by Islamists or by anti-immigration nationalists of the kind who voted in 2017 for Marine Le Pen, the anti-immigration candidate for

COMMENTARY BOOKS President of France. There’s a political and social crisis on the streets, but our hero gets home safely, untouched. When the Muslim Brotherhood wins the election, they shut down his university, but no fear: He gets his salary guaranteed for the rest of his life. The political action that led, in the novel, to the electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood was a deal between the Socialists and the Muslims, with the connivance of big business interests, to stop the inconvenient nationalists—and it all worked because the Muslim Brotherhood, in Houellebecq’s telling, campaigned for the traditional family, for small business, and against disruptive radicalism. The veil starts appearing on every woman; crime disappears because the alienated immigrants are no longer alienated. France embraces North African countries in a new definition of Europe that reverses Charles Martel’s victories over the invading Muslim armies of Caliphate 1,200 years ago, the defeats that created Europe as Christendom. Houellebecq’s hero, rootless and faithless even though he’s French-born and even tries to reignite his personal spirituality (and cultural identity?) by spending a month at the iconic 12th-century pilgrimage site Rocamadour, succumbs, or is about to succumb, to what the new Muslim order offers, to wit: He can rejoin his soon-to-be reopened university, get triple his former salary, and have his pick of up to four wives, with complete a c a d e m i c freedom, if only he will do what the new order demands of all teachers, which is, simply, to convert to Islam.

POLITICS AND THE NOVEL Just now, as Americans try Michel Houellebecq, The to figure out Elementary Particles whether our own (2001), translated by conservative elite Frank Wynne has submitted to or gelded Donald Trump, it’s a good time to go to the beach and escape all that, and to consider the perspective of artists. Just now, we do not yet know what it means that the United States Senate has, as a body, decided to prevent this president from removing the US Attorney General or making any appointments that the Senate won’t decide on. We don’t yet know whether a bipartisan decision to stop the president from firing the special counsel investigating him means that the president and his intimates are soon to be brought up on charges. We don’t yet know whether the military men in charge of the White House staff, the National Security Council, and national defense have effectively put the titular commander-in-chief in a box with a Twitter account and not much else. What we do know is that there’s a broad sense of fatigue about it all, fatigue based on uncertainty. Anybody raised by volatile, alcoholic, or drug-using parents came into 2017 well-schooled on this fatigue.

What Houellebecq did with Submission was to challenge the weary, blase conventionality of liberal intellectuals by laying out a scenario in which the Left cuts a deal, in a Catholic country, with a reassuring, plausible, nice leader who promises a return to patriarchy. What he did with The Elementary Particles was something quite different: He portrayed the lost children of Baby Boomers as doomed (fated, fore-ordained) by their obsession with sex, in ways that might redirect humanity’s course. It’s good to read Houellebecq even if you end up, as some critics have, with a welldeveloped loathing. That’s mainly because he’s so ambitious, and so willing to kick conventions around.

Jim Harrison’s books are easier. The two-part series, The Great Leader and The Big Seven, follow the career of an old cop from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, a guy who very plausibly is the American hero we need (former FBI Director Robert Mueller?) who is a straightenough shooter to save us. We’re Americans. We may fall for Jim Harrison, The Babbitts, but we Big Seven: A Faux get rescued by Mystery (2016) good guys before long, even good guys who have sex a lot, right there on the page. Right? Like the Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard said in a New York Times review of Houellebecq, he avoided reading the guy’s books because the Frenchman is too damned good. “If you’re a carpenter, for instance, and you keep hearing about the amazing work of another carpenter, you’re not necessarily going to seek it out, because what would be the good of having it confirmed that there is a level of excellence to which you may never aspire? Better to close your eyes and carry on with your own work, pretending the master carpenter doesn’t exist.” But if one’s delicate sense of self will allow, then do read, if only to get reassurance that we’re not the only people nor the only country wrestling with tough issues that shape our politics, and politics that tests our values, our spirituality, our identity. Immigration, c u l t u r a l i n t e g r i t y, economic fragility, the fecklessness of politicians— these are issues for Europeans, Jim Harrison, The too. And these Great Leader: A Faux days, because Mystery (2012) France and Germany have become the default leaders of the West because nobody knows what Trump will do next and because the United Kingdom decided to go home and the Germans are atoning for Nazism more than living in the existential present, it’s the French we should read.

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COLLINS TOYS WITH THE CONSTITUTION IN WHICH A PURPORTEDLY CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSMAN PROPOSES TO USURP A STATE’S RIGHT TO EFFECT LAWS AND CONCENTRATE POWER IN THE HANDS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BY ALAN BEDENKO LAST WEEK, Representative Chris Collins (NY-27) introduced something called the “Second Amendment Guarantee Act,” or “SAGA.” He intends for this legislation, if it is passed by the House and Senate, to repeal key parts of the New York SAFE Act, the gun control legislation that Governor Andrew Cuomo ushered through the New York State Legislature in 2013. According to a press release, SAGA would “limit the authority of states to regulate conduct, or impose penalties or taxes in relation to rifles or shotguns.”

The federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the NY SAFE Act is constitutional, and the US Supreme Court refused to undertake a review of that decision, tacitly upholding it. Collins’ proposed legislation only applies to long guns, not to handguns. It would also expressly reserve for Washington the sole ability to regulate and tax long guns. This might work now for Collins and his gun-toting base in his largely rural district, but query what happens if Congress were to flip from Republican control and pass restrictions on long guns even stricter than the SAFE Act. Under this proposal, Collins’s top-down, big government, one-size-fits-all, Washington-led solution for gun regulation might not go over so well. Just as the First Amendment is not absolute— restrictions on libel, obscenity, and inciting a riot are examples of restrictions on speech — neither is the Second. There are as many sets of laws and restrictions on gun ownership in the United States as there are states. In some cases,

individual municipalities have their own restrictions, such as New York City’s stringent handgun laws. Furthermore, individual states have long maintained their own firearms regulations. After all, what works in Wyoming might not work in Rhode Island. It is odd here that a Republican Congressman is introducing legislation that usurps from the states their power to regulate and hands it to the federal government. After all, conservatives have long agitated for government power to be exercised, whenever possible, not by Washington, but by state and local governments. Their stated intent is to preserve the intent of our federal system and to comply with the 10th Amendment. Collins’s proposal effects that very usurpation, ripping power from the states and handing it to Washington lawmakers and bureaucrats. After all: …as Judge Frank Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit explained in the Highland Park case, the Constitution not only guarantees rights, but also “establishes a federal republic where local differences are cherished as elements of liberty, rather than eliminated in a search for national uniformity.” Maybe the polling reveals that Trump isn’t so popular and Collins’s relentless cable TV appearances to defend whatever the president does may not play so well. Given the way in which a Collins aide shared the news of this proposal on Twitter, it would appear that this will go nowhere, and is merely an appeal to his base, as Collins evidently can’t wait to run for P governor.

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LOOKING BACKWARD: HERTEL AND MILITARY, CIRCA 1939 It may be difficult to imagine today, but in 1939 the corner of Military Road and Hertel Avenue was a center of neighborhood life and activity. At the intersection of the Grant and Hertel streetcar routes, a small hamlet of shops, surrounded by factories, had emerged. Here is the scene, looking north along Military Road toward the intersection with Hertel Avenue. At the southeast corner is a streetcar barn of the International Railway Company. At the northwest corner, a still extant wedge-shaped building houses a Deco restaurant, to the north which is John Krajanowski’s grocery, Casper Lesniak’s ice cream parlor, and the J. M. Grill, operated by John Mitulski. At the northeast corner, the barber pole and window sign of the Don & Phillips Gold Star Barber Shop is visible, as is a pole sign to the north for an Amoco filling station. At a time when Buffalo had about 575,000 residents, most of whom did not yet possess a motor vehicle, the economy was organized on the scale of a short walk or streetcar P ride, rather than the 20-minute drive.- THE PUBLIC STAFF

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PLAYBILL MACBETH: Saul Elkin directs. Through August 20 on Shakespeare Hill in Delaware Park. PRETTY FUNNY: Coming-of-age story inspired by the life of comedienne Imogene Coca. Through August 13 at MusicalFare, Daemen College, 4380 Main Street, 716-839-8540, musicalfare.com. ROMEO AND JULIET: Presented by Shake on the Lake, an itinerant company based in Silver Lake. Through August 13, various locations. For performance venues, visit shakeonthelake.org.

PLUS, AT THE SHAW FESTIVAL: 1837: THE FARMERS’ REVOLT: A play about the Rebellions of 1837, which led eventually to Canadian nationhood. 1979: More Canadian history, this one a comedy about former Joe Clark, prime minister for just 10 months. AN OCTOROON: Funny, challenging, and award-winning play by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins examining racial attitudes in America. ANDROCLES AND THE LION: An interactive take on Shaw’s re-telling of the well-known fable. DANCING AT LUGHNASA: 1990 memory play by Irishman Brian Friel. DRACULA: A funny and sexy staging of Bram Stoker’s supernatural thriller. THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE III: Alan Bennett play about the monarch’s struggles with mental illness. ME AND MY GIRL: Musical comedy from the 1930s, revised by Stephen Fry in the 1980s.

Shake on the Lake presents Romeo & Juliet at various locations throughout Western New York through August 13.

MIDDLETOWN: An exploration of a small American town by playwright Will Eno. SAINT JOAN: Shaw’s study of the sainted French military hero and martyr. WILDE TALES: Four stories by Oscar Wilde adapted for the stage. Playing now at the Shaw Festival, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

PLUS, AT THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL:

TREASURE ISLAND: Adapted for the stage by Nicolas Billon. TWELFTH NIGHT: A comedy with everything: a shipwreck, sassy servants, cross-dressing, a dissolute uncle. THE VIRGIN TRIAL: A thriller about the young Princess Elizabeth navigating Tudor intrigues. At the Stratford Festival, 55 Queen Street, Stratford, Ontario, 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

BAKKHAI: In Euripides’s play, Dionysus arrives in Thebes, bent on revenge.

PLUS, AT CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION:

THE BREATHING HOLE: World premiere of a play tracing Canadian history from first contact between Europeans and First Nations to a world threatened by climate change.

ROMEO AND JULIET: Opening August 11 and running through August 18. At Chautauqua Theater Company, 716-357-6437, chq.org/chautauqua-theater-company. P

THE CHANGELING: Treachery, madness, murder, lust—all the elements of a Jacobean tragedy. GUYS AND DOLLS: Frank Loesser’s classic musical. HMS PINAFORE: Gilbert and Sullivan’s high-seas operetta. THE KOMAGATU MARU INCIDENT: Based on a 1914 incident in which a shipload of emigrants from India are denied entrance to Vancouver.

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THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT: Imagine that there is a rich reservoir of oil under the streets of Paris… ROMEO AND JULIET: Shakespeare’s second-most frustrating tragedy. THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Witty society comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. TARTUFFE: Holy Molière. TIMON OF ATHENS: How not to succeed in business, win friends, and influence people?

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ART REVIEW genus and species as “Lake Erie Whitefish.” Donna Stepien’s piece is about cultural propaganda at the most basic level, i.e., food. It’s an odds and ends book of a few hundred or thousand of the zillion recipes the artist’s mother, an immigrant from Eastern Europe, tore or cut or hand-copied over the years from American newspapers and magazines and the like. New dishes to make for the family, but subtly also, new products to buy, in accord with the new American way of doing things. Bisquick, Crisco, Jello, processed foods, prepared or half-prepared. Variously denatured. How to become American. Rich Kegler’s letterpress print I Saw the Figure 5 in Pantone 874 is an homage piece to Charles Demuth’s painting I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, an homage piece to William Carlos Williams’s poem The Great Figure, which is about seeing the number 5 on a fire truck speeding through a city on a rainy night, with “gong clangs / siren howls / and wheels rumbling.” Pantone 874 is a commercial gold-tone printing ink. At the bottom of the Demuth painting are the neatly lettered initials “CD” and “WCW.” At the bottom of the Kegler work, in similar format, three sets of initials, “CD,” “WCW,” and “RK.” Ella Marie Elm has an art book with photos, watercolors, and some poems with occasional recourse to Hawaiian language terms gleaned in the course of the several years she lived on Oahu. Orientation terms mostly. Basic Hawaiian directionals. “Mauka,” meaning “toward mountains, land.” “Makai,” meaning “toward ocean.”

Woodworker by bobCollignon.

WNYBAC MEMBERS’ SHOW BY JACK FORAN

A TROVE OF BEAUTIFUL AND CURIOUS WORKS AT WESTERN NEW YORK BOOK ARTS CENTER AMONG THE MORE beautiful artworks in the current

WNYBAC Members’ Show is photographer bobCollignon’s print on kozo paper—a fibrous semi-transparent tissue of Japanese manufacture—of a dying dragonfly—dying as indicated in the work title but also it seems the slightly askew posture at rest of the subject insect—on kozo paper, on a further semi-transparent graph paper grid—reminiscent of a door or window screen—echoing the exquisite still further semi-transparency of the wing architecture and delicate needle bodily form of the dragonfly. Levels and varieties of semitransparency underscoring the seasonal transience elegiac deep subject matter of the piece. The dragonfly work is in black and white. A mate piece by

IN GALLERIES NOW = ART OPENING

1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts (1045 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-2281855, photographics2.com/store/welcometo-our-studio-1045-gallery-store): Inside Out, New works by Emily Mills, Scott Klaurens, and Daniel Rodgers. On view through Aug 26. Thu & Fri 11-6, Sat 11-4 and by appointment. Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Drawing: The Beginning of Everything: Artists featured include Ingrid Calame, Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson, Ellen Gallagher, Roland Flexner, Mark Fox, David Hammons, Nancy Rubins, Fred Sandback, Tam Van Tran, and Daniel Zeller, among others. On view through Oct 15. Shark Girl: Never Quite There, on view through Oct 1. Joe Bradley, on

the same artist depicts a carpenter bee—again maybe dead or dying—in somber colors and with particular focus on the gothic cathedral stained glass windows character of the wing structure. Lacy patterns of iridescent glassine islands surrounded by opaque support strips. Among the more unusual works in the show is Joseph Hall and Angela Veronica Wong’s entry consisting of small squares— about two inches by two inches—of a coarse fibrous papery material supposed abortifacient. Among other notable works, Tim Pauszak’s large-format— about four feet by five feet—woodcut depicting an old fatwheel bicycle apparently retrieved from Lake Erie, inasmuch as thoroughly encrusted with invasive species zebra mussels, and supporting other familiar lake haul items such as an old toilet seat, tangles of old fishing line, a hypodermic needle, and draped over one of the remaining intact spokes, another invasive once memorably identified by Dale Anderson as to

view through Oct 1. Amy Sillman: After Metamorphoses, on view through Oct 29. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. Amy’s Place Restaurant (University Heights Arts Association) (3234 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 716-833-6260, uhartsgroup.com/ amysplace): Every day: 7am-9pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): American Art Pottery, through Sep 1. Under Water Series, Work by Bob Budin. Opening reception Aug 26 11:30am-1pm. On view through Aug 4-Sep 8. 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): Trilogies XXVIII—The Work of Three Artists: Pat Fortunato Stephen Ketterer, Mark Kirkland. On view through Aug 18. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artspace Buffalo Gallery (1219 Main St, Buffalo

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Frank Singleton has a typewriter art piece with reference to cubism—and possibly also Henry James—called Portrait of a Lady. Mark Lavatelli has a jazzy abstraction encaustic monotype collage, called Hoopla. John Ozimek a handsome large-format work featuring linocuts of three Swimmers in Hoyt Lake, Delaware Park: Heliozoan, Turtle, Rotifer. The heliozoan and rotifer are microscopic animalcules, helpfully enlarged in the piece to turtle size. And Simon Bond another three-linocuts work featuring two head and shoulders silhoutte portraits and one splayed black bird. Possibly road kill, but fresh road kill. Nicole Cooke a letterpress poster with quotation from Charles Bukowski summing up his poetic philosophy in a nutshell: “We are here to drink beer, laugh at the odds, and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.” Even some free takeaway art. Joshua Mangis’s coin-like goldpainted ceramic tokens with (obverse) impression images of the “push down and turn” verbal instruction often seen on medicine bottle caps, and (reverse) graphic image alternative similar instruction. Take one, he says, “as a keepsake, as a symbol of healing, as a transitional object, as evidence that selfcare requires time and effort, as a reminder of your immense intrinsic value.” Much more. The Members’ Show runs through August 18.

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NY 14209): Super Happy Fun Blammo!: 7th annual art show features artists Taramarie Mitravich, Mike Alvarez, Melissa Luciano, and more. Ashker’s on Elmwood (1002 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886-2233, ashkersbuffalo.com). Mon-Sat 7am-10pm, Sun 9am-5pm. Atrium 124 (124 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Autism Services Arts Faculty Show: Todd Lesmeister, Raisa Mehltretter, Dana Ranke, Elizabeth Switzer. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Little Planets, photographic works by Gene Witkowski. On view through Sep 17. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Music on Canvas, a selection of music and dance themed paintings and ceramic works created by Robert Noel Blair. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm.

The Blue Plate Studio (69 Keil Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 725-2054): Work by Alicia Malik. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Langston Gardner: Computer Cow Cow Television. Opening reception Fri, Aug 11, 7-10pm. Fri-Sun 12-6pm. Box Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Praise N Panic, installation by Paris J. Henderson. Opening reception Fri Aug 11, 8-11pm. On view through Sep 8. Every day 4-10pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Tue-Fri 10am5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint.com) Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette

GALLERIES ART Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buf- Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): falolib.org): Celebrating 400 Years of Small Works Group Show. On view through Shakespeare: Reflecting on the Life of the Bard. Milestones on Science: Books That Aug 31. Wed-Fri, 12-7pm (until 9pm on first Shook the World! 35 rare books from the Fridays), Sat & Sun 12-5pm. history of science, on second floor. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm.Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse.com): Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Resonance by Kathleen Sherin. Thu-Sat. Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): The House Has Gone Down Pine Apple Company (224 Allen Street, Buffaand the Lamps Are Out, Michael Bosworth, lo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/ on view through Sep 24. 50 in 50: Fifty Works store/pine-apple-company): Came to Mind: for Wednesday Fifty Years, through Sep 24. CommuniWed. Night Special Everyday Special new work by BobbyLunch Griffiths. Wed & Thu ty: Immigrant and Refugee Artists in WestVegan Specia l 11am-11pm, Sun 10amern New York, + through Oct 15. Glass With- 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat + TWO SLICES A 20OZ. DRINK 1 ITEM PIZZATrabucco ANY LARGE VEGAN in LARGE Glass:CHEESE The Magic of the Studio , PIZZA 5pm. only $5.65 only $11.95 only $16.25 the paperweight artistry of Victor, David, and Jon Trabucco, through Sep 17. 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Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio. org): Also see Eleven Twenty Projects. The Bold and the Beautiful, featuring Andy Calderon from Starlight with James Marino and Ben Brauen from Autism Services, Inc. with Debbie Medwin, Jeremy Pratt, and Ron Steele. Mon-Fri 9-4pm. Stangler Fine Art (6429 West Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127, 870-1129, stanglerart.com): Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Open by event and on Fri 5:30-7:30pm. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries.org): Screen Projects: Lenka Clayton, through Sep 5. The Human Aesthetic, Cravens World. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833) Mon-Thu 7:30am6pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 3481430, wnybookarts.org): 9th Annual Members’ Show, through Aug 18. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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THURSDAY AUG 10 Gilbert Gottfried 8pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $20-$103

[COMEDY] Gilbert Gottfried is probably one of the most recognizable living comedians—by voice at least. He’s voiced classic characters like the parrot Iago in Disney’s Aladdin opposite Robin Williams, and the Aflac Duck—a role he was dismissed from after making an ill-timed joke about the tsunami in Japan in 2011. Gottfried has never been afraid of taking his comedy to the edge—which has at times been a double edged sword. At age 62 he’s back on the stand up comedy circuit and you can catch him at Buffalo’s Helium Comedy Club for five shows this Thursday, August 10 through Sunday, August 12. -CP

OUGHT WEDNESDAY AUGUST 9 8PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. / $12-$14 [INDIE] How does a band stand out in the indie art rock scene? Genuine expression of emotion and feelings is probably the way. Montreal’s Ought seem to be able to convey all of the feels—anxiety, depression, mania—pretty effortlessly. The seeming effortlessness of a track like “Men for Miles,” the opening song on their latest record, 2015’s Sun Coming Down, is both enticing and kind of disturbing—because

UGLY SUN Painted Post EP Recommended if you like: Wavves, DIIV, Cloud Nothings The latest release from garage rock band Ugly Sun is a four-song

you know that to be able to capture restless, pacing anxiety so accurately, someone in the band must be suffering with it. At the same time, the band is able to present these nervous, flustered tracks in such a way as to make them enjoyable and captivating rather than grating or overwhelming. Their debut record, 2014’s More Than Any Other Day, was named Best New Music by Pitchfork, which resulted in a slot on Pitchfork’s 2014 Paris Music Festival. Their followup, Sun Coming Down, has been received equally as well by critics, but two years out from that record, and playing small club shows, it’s likely that the

EP titled Painted Post. The record

band is working on new material. Maybe we’ll hear some when Ought comes to Mohawk Place this

is a tight set of grungy, emotive

Wednesday, August 9 with support from the Sonny Baker Band. -CORY PERLA

indie rock that’s held together by layers of guitars and dazed yet melodic vocals. Highlights include the rancorous, slow-motion grunge track “Contagious” and the more

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energetic, catchy “Keep Me Safe.”

Gilbert Gottfried

Pyramid: AL.G and Cesario 11:30pm Gypsy Parlor, 376 Grant St. $5-$8

[HOUSE] Pyramid returns to the Gypsy Parlor with a couple of Toronto house music DJs for this month’s event. Al G and Cesario from the Toronto party team After Dark bring some techno-tinged house grooves to town on Saturday, August 10 along with support from Ted Hawkins and Mitchell Jonathan. Music starts at 11:30pm and goes late. -CP

FRIDAY AUG 11 Langston Gardner: Computer Cow Cow Television 7pm Big Orbit Gallery, 30 Essex St

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[ART] If you are a patron of the extraordinary art programs run by Autism Services, Inc., you have likely seen the work of Langston Gardner. This Friday, August 11, ASI and CEPA Gallery present Gardner’s first ever solo exhibition at Big Orbit Gallery. The show focuses on one of Gardner’s particular themes: words and phrases, often repeated and layered on top of one another, sometimes to the point of illegibility. Gardner’s words are presented on backdrops painted by fellow ASI artist Erich Haneberg. The opening reception begins at 7pm. -TPS

Punk, Ty Segall, Bleached

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ALPHA HOPPER "Unruly Jane" music video

7pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $12-$15

The new music video from Buffalo art-punk band Alpha Hopper is 84 seconds of green-screened weirdness. Band members slowly dress from head to toe, and then unmask themselves as their song “Unruly Jane,” a messy though concise punk tantrum, plays throughout. The single comes from the band’s first album, Last Chance

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[FUNK] No stranger to Buffalo, Savannah, Georgia-based one-man-band Zach Deputy returns for a show at the Tralf Music Hall on Friday, August 11. The soulful multiinstrumentalist is known for his impressive live shows, which consist of intricate livelooped jams. His latest album, Wash It in the Water, is a combination of Southern funk and Islandy stuff, so expect some humid sounds to heat up the crowd at the Tralf this weekend. -CP

5PM / CANALSIDE, 44 PRIME ST. / $5 [ROCK] A soulful veteran of Buffalo’s outdoor concert series returns this Thursday, August

10 to Canalside in Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Randolph is something of a traditionalist and an originator in one giant package of sound. Raised in a cloistered religious home in New Jersey, Randolph didn’t know that secular music even existed until he became a teenager. During an era where slide and pedal steel guitar work migrated from blues to country, it’s almost as if Randolph was sent to us to bring the pedal steel out of the church back to rock and roll. Opening for Randolph are the local surf rock duo the Get Money Squad, whose laid-back and washed-out songwriting have primed them for the big stage at Canalside. -AARON LOWINGER

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Wind and Fire‘s 2054 Tour with Chic and Nile Rodgers comes to the Key Bank Center. But with a career that’s close to spanning 50 years and a sprawling catalog of 21 studio albums containing over a dozen Top 20 singles, it hardly matters—any night is a fine occasion for a visit from the R&B fusion powerhouse. Founded by the late Maurice White, who’d been a session player at Chess Records and had worked with future EWF collaborator Ramsey Lewis in his famed Trio, the original demos the group recorded featured fellow Chicagoan Donny Hathaway, who, curiously, never ended up on any of their official recordings. The demos nonetheless landed a contract with Warner Brothers, which released the first two EWF albums in 1971 and 1972. That pair of recordings has a decidedly different feel than the blockbuster albums they later recorded for Columbia, which is something we spoke about with fellow founding member Verdine White, 66, a legendary bassist and Maurice’s brother, on a recent call from a tour stop in his hometown. White still plays with EWF, as do vocalist Phillip Bailey and drummer Ralph Johnson (both joined in 1972) as the core elder-trio of the current touring lineup. Joining them this summer is Nile Rodgers, enjoying a huge profile boost due to the success of his recent collaboration with Daft Punk, and his disco-funk mavens, Chic. If you’ve any sweet-tooth for classic R&B at all, this is a double bill that simply can’t lose: Friday, August 11 at 8pm. Is it still nostalgic for you, being back in Chicago? Oh yes, very much so. It’s still exciting to see old friends, visit landmarks that were special to us… this is where the dreaming began. How did this tour with Nile and Chic come about? I’ve heard there’s a special seating configuration to allow for dancing. We’ve known Nile for years, and we performed at his festival last fall. It came out so well, we decided to expand on it, and so here we are. It came on fast; it wasn’t something we’d been thinking about for years, but was actually pretty spontaneous. Phillip Bailey spoke with the promoters and we decided to make the seating more roomy so people have a chance to dance. That was his idea. Going back to the first two EWF records—it was a very different thing. Some of the philosophical underpinnings were already present, but the sound was much more earth—less the wind and fire. What shifted? I think it just kinda grew. If you listen to our output from 1970-1979, I’ve always thought it was— for us, anyway—an incredible body of work with a tremendous amount of vision, which came from Maurice. The first two records were just more urban and had a more specific Chicago sound. We’d already moved to the West Coast, but it took a while for the sound to catch up. We were evolving. As you record and tour, things evolve. There was a whole new thing coming on, a tremendous amount of movement in music at that time, which gave us a great deal of freedom. And Maurice had been involved in jazz from the beginning. Listening to music that charted in the 1970s, and yours is a great example, I’m struck by how wide open the hit radio format became—significantly more diverse than radio today, which seems odd… backwards. Why do you think that is? Well, radio was less genre-specific then, I think. People were less hung up on having to say it’s one thing or another—it all sorta fell into the realm of popular music, and AM stations played whatever was in the charts. Back then you could have an R&B tune and a pop tune and a jazzy tune all in the same format—more variety on one station. It was a very fluid time. And as far as the band’s spiritual foundation, where did that come in? There seems to be a set of spiritual principles at the root. That was really a pace set by Maurice, his interest in Egypt and metaphysical things. It was already present in the name of the band, but when we relocated to the West Coast, that too really blossomed. Maurice was a seeker—always searching, always growing. What are you most proud of, looking back? Ten years ago I’d have said it was one specific thing, but now with greater perspective, I’m just proud of whole body of work. People still love this music; it’s in commercials, on TV shows, in the movies, you can stream it. We’ve gone from eight-track to the digital age, and remain part of everyday life. Folks tell us our music has been a soundtrack for them, and it’s a privilege to be so deeply entrenched in the fabric of people’s consciousness. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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[FILM & MUSIC] In the 2017 edition of this annual event, an ad hoc quartet comprising some of Buffalo finest string players— Jonathan Golove, Evan Courtin, Leanne Darling, and Don Metz—will perform Beethoven’s Sinfonia Eroica to a live remix of films about Napoleon Bonaparte (to whom Beethoven dedicated the symphony) produced by filmmaker Brian Milbrand. The performance takes advantage of the Burchfield Penney Art Center‘s spectacular Front Yard installation, which Milbrand curates: three projection towers that cast images on the Elmwood Avenue-facing facade of the building. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, picnics. Sight/Sound: Variations on Napoleon takes place Friday, August 11, starting at 9:30pm—dusk. The program isa joint presentation by the Burchfield Penney and Squeaky Wheel. -GK

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able path. It’ll be interesting to see how the young producer reacts to the typically mainstream EDM-loving crowd at Sky Bar when he comes to the roof top bar this Friday, August 11 with support from Eyes Everywhere. -CP

SATURDAY AUG 12 Lewiston Art Festival 10:00 am Center Street, Center St. free

[FESTIVAL] The 2017 Lewiston Art Festival happens this weekend, Saturday, August 12 and Sunday, August 13, on Center Street in Lewiston. A whole bunch of artists will display more than 20,000 original pieces of art—from paintings to jewelry—at the 51st annual festival. Expect plenty of food and music too. -TPS

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[ROCK] The Goo Goo Dolls have been on their Long Way Home tour since the beginning of July and they’ll finally make it back home to Western New York for a show at Darien Lake on Saturday, August 12. It’s far from their last date of the tour—named for the hit single from their latest record, 2016’s Boxes—they still have another month on the tour, so hopefully Buffalo will give them a big welcome home, however brief it will be. -TPS

TUESDAY AUG 15 Picnic in the Parkway: The Steam Donkeys 7pm Bidwell Park, Elmwood Ave at Bidwell Parkway free

[AMERICANA] The penultimate concert in the Elmwood Village Associate’s Picnic in the Parkway concert series happens this Tuesday, August 15. The concert will feature Buffalo stalwarts the Steam Donkeys. The Americana band will perform at the edge of Bidwell Parkway, so pack up a blanket and the kids and head over for the free show. -TPS

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[ROCK] The theme of the next Live at Larkin free concert is Viva Elvis and two local bands will stick to that theme like blue suede on shoes. Party Squad and Band Named Sue will both pay tribute to the King of Rock with back to back sets of Elvis cuts spanning his entire career. The concert takes place Wednesday, August 16, and since it’s Larkinville, expect a bunch of food trucks too. -TPS

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[INDIE] At the age of 16, Declan McKenna wrote his hit “Brazil.” After the song went viral with millions of listens online, the now 18-year-old McKenna signed with Colombia records and released his debut album What Do You Think About the Car just last month. The young indie-pop singer/songwriter from Hertfordshire in the UK has recently played a string of festival dates and has garnered praise from critics as a quickly rising talent. Don’t miss him when he comes to the Rapids

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[ROCK] As far as hard rock spectacles go, I guess nothing hits the nail on the head like Guns and Roses playing live in a football stadium. Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagan, the three original core members of the band reunited in 2016 and have since embarked on a world tour, which will bring them to Orchard Park's New Era Field on Wednesday, August 16 to play hits like "Welcome to the Jungle," and "Sweet Child o' Mine," along with some power ballads and, of course, endless P blistering guitar solos. -TPS

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The festival originally started with the band Lazlo Hollyfeld. I was really good friends with those guys; I went on the road with them a couple of times. We’d always talked about running a weekend festival, but we never really pursued it until they were invited to play at this thing called Night Lights at the Heron. Basically on Friday and Saturday nights they’d have a band or two play on what we call the Cafe Stage. It was run by this guy Doug Sitler. So Lazlo was invited to play that and they asked me if I’d go with them. I went there and checked out the property, saw the setup, and was totally blown away. I had never been to the Great Blue Heron Festival, I knew nothing about the grounds, I was just walking into it like a complete virgin, and I was just blown away by how awesome and pristine and gorgeous the property was. Over a couple of months, Scott Molloy, the keyboardist of Lazlo, and I talked about what we could do with Night Lights at the Heron, and we pulled together a business plan for a festival.

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What’s the philosophy behind the lineup choices?

February or March of 2011 is when I pitched the business idea to Doug. The idea was to have a weekend festival where we have 15 bands over two days and utilize the Heron grounds. We thought an incredible addition to the festival, to any festival, would be the night lights. Then that following September is when we started the festival. We started as a fall music festival but have continually moved the festival up because low 40s and rain does not equal a good time.

More than anything we’re trying to make sure that people are seeing bands that they’d only see in large concert venues like the Town Ballroom as headliners. We want people to see them in a really cool intimate setting outside of that. Then really working with local music and celebrating the diversity of the local music scene between Erie, Jamestown, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany. Making sure we’re presenting a musical slate that represents us as humans that are putting the festival together.

What goes into the art installations and the lighting aspect of it? A lot of LED bulbs. Miles of electrical cordage and lines. It’s now morphed into a combination of lighting professionals who have put in sections of the trail for us. Generally speaking, we start setting up the week of the festival. I know there are some lighting pieces that stay down there for the whole summer.

What’s the most challenging part about doing the festival each year? Weather. No doubt about it. You can put together the greatest lineup of bands, with the greatest staff, but if it’s nothing but thunder and lighting for the whole weekend, that’s tough to contend with.

What’s your favorite part of doing this? Working with people at the Heron and all of their core staff members, and then Doug and his wife Anna—really I enjoy more than anything working with the people that produce the festival and the volunteers that come and work their butt off all weekend to make it successful. Without the community support and people pitching in together, we would never be able to do it.

How has the festival evolved? It has evolved tremendously. When we first started, we had 11 bands over two nights all on one stage. Now it’s, I don’t know, 30plus bands over three days, three different stages, craft vending, food vendors. The first year, if we had 75 people there—that was incredible. Now we’re talking anywhere from 1,200 to 1,500 people there. Even though we’ve grown tremendously, we’ve worked really hard to make sure it’s a safe, all-inclusive environment. There’s free water, and tickets include camping. We don’t want people to worry about that stuff.

Speaking of local acts, one of the headliners is Aqueous from Buffalo. They’re doing three sets. Yes, they did that last year, too—last year was the first time we did three nights. The local music scene really appreciates them and supports them, which is awesome. We’ve done a lot of goofy stuff with them in the past like scavenger hunts. We did a really bone-headed truth-or-dare video with Community Beer Works and one of the guys in Aqueous, which was hilarious. They’ve played five of the six years.

Is there anything else you’d like to add? The grounds speak for themselves. They’re magical. We’re thankful to host this in conjunction with Green Heron Growers and Sitler HQ, and super excited to introduce Community Beer Works to this conglomerate. The last thing I want to mention: We as a music community often talk about the importance of environmental stewardship, and Rainbow Recycling and the Heron live it day to day. They keep the grounds spotless. There are garbage and recycling centers everywhere. One of the best compliments we ever received came from someone who said that everywhere they wanted to toss a beer can there was a recycling center there. We just want to remind people to please do your part, clean up after yourselves, and let’s return the grounds cleaner than when we got here.

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FILM REVIEW A synopsis of the book shows that it goes into these questions in detail, providing a fuller understanding of the Walls’ nomadic life and stories that didn’t make it into the film. We all know that movies adapted from books generally lose a lot in the process. But scripters Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Lanham cut too close to the bone, as will be clear even if you haven’t read Walls’ memoir. This is especially disappointing because Cretton, who also directed, made his debut in 2013 with Short Term 12, a striking drama about troubled children. (It provided a break through role for Brie Larson, who gets top billing here as the adult Jeannette, though most of the film features Ella Anderson as the teen Jeannette.) Glass Castle holds your attention in the way that hard luck stories do, but Cretton’s reticence in fully exploiting this tale makes for a largely frustrating experience. ••• The Glass Castle.

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Glass Castle, the new film adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ bestselling memoir about growing up in a dysfunctional family with parents who couldn’t adequately care for them. The first are people who saw Captain Fantastic, last year’s summertime indie hit starring Viggo Mortensen as a father who brings up his family to live off the grid. The trailer for Glass Castle certainly seem to beg that comparison, with shots of Rex Walls (Woody Harrelson, adroitly cast) railing against the superficialities of city people, “living in fancy apartments with the air so polluted they can’t see the stars.” But while he seems like a smart guy, he doesn’t have the discipline of Mortensen’s non-traditional dad. What he does

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OPENING THIS WEEK ANNABELLE: CREATION—A killer doll is at the center of this new horror movie from the makers of The Conjuring. Starring Stephanie Sigman, Miranda Otto, Lulu Wilson, and Anthony LaPaglia. Directed by David F. Sandberg (Lights Out). Dispon Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Transit Drive-In THE GLASS CASTLE—Adaptation of journalist Jeannette Walls memoir about her youth as part of a family whose father liked to live off the grid in a series of dilapidated shacks. Starring Woody Harrelson, Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, and Ella Anderson. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12). Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER—Al Gore continues to provide hope that we can turn back the tide of climate change that may make large portions of the world uninhabitable by the end of the century. Directed by Bonni Cohen (The Rape of Europa) and Jon Shenk (Lost Boys of Sudan). Reviewed this issue. Dipson Amherst

A depressing question, to be sure. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power shows that Gore hasn’t slacked off from bringing the message to the world that mankind is responsible for changes that, if left unchecked, will bring drastic changes to the world we live in. The focus of this film is on alternative energy and the battle to promote it, fighting not only the economic forces that enjoy the status quo but the complicated political realities around the world that obstruct change. There are no easy answers, but as hopeless as the fight sometimes seems, this film offers a shot in the arm to those who want to believe that we can stop digging P our own grave.

have is a drinking problem and a habit of blaming others for his problems, which include an inability to hold a job. His wife Rose Mary (Naomi Watts in a mostly underwritten part) isn’t much help: She’s more concerned with her painting than with caring for their four children, of whom Jeannette is the second oldest. The other group that is likely to be disappointed are readers of the book, no small number. All the while I was watching the film, I kept waiting for it to answer questions: what were Rex’s job skills and background? Why did the family have to move so much before they settled down in the West Virginia town where Rex was raised? Are they being home schooled? Once the kids decide to take charge of their own lives, how do they accomplish it?

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA CHICAGO (2002)—None of the stars of this adaptation of the John Kander/Fred Ebb/Bob Fosse Broadway hit are in the league of stage hoofers like Gwen Verdon and Bebe Neuwirth. But Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere, and especially Catherine Zeta-Jones are better than you might be expecting. Rob Marshall, who co-directed the revival of Kander & Ebb’s Cabaret with Sam Mendes, has, like his former collaborator, become a flashy film stylist, adapting the stage show’s anti-integregationist deployment of musical numbers. Here and there, the film leans too heavily on its gleefully misanthropic tone, but overall it’s a toddling, titillating, tuneful movie experience. -GS With John C. Reilly, Queen Latifah, Christine Baranski, Taye Diggs, and Lucy Liu. Thu Aug 10 7pm. Riviera THE DARK CORNER (1946)—Lucille Ball had a rare dramatic role in this nourish mystery as a secretary who investigates when her boss (Clifton Webb) is framed for murder. With William Bendix, Mark Stevens, and Kurt Kreuger. Directed by Henry Hathaway (Niagara). Thu-Fri 7:30pm. Screening Room

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THE KILLERS (1946)—A new monthly series of film noir classics opens appropriately with this adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway story directed by Robert Siodmak, who began his career in Germany at a time when film expressionism was the rage. Burt Lancaster stars as a gas station attendant whose murder sparks an investigation into his life, specifically his relationship with femme fatale Ava Gardner. With Edmond O’Brien, and Albert Dekker. Wed 7pm. Dipson Amherst L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997)—Already a classic, Curtis Hanson’s adaptation of James Elroy’s feverish novel about corruption in the LAPD of the 1950s. Starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Danny DeVito, James Cromwell, and David Straithairn. Sat, Wed 7:30pm. Screening Room THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) and WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989)— Rob Reiner’s fractured fairy tale, adapted by William Goldman from his own novel, with a cast of comedians poking fun at children’s fantasy stories. Presumably the kids will be asleep for the second feature (also directed by Reiner), so you don’t have to explain to them what makes Meg Ryan’s sandwich so good. Tue dusk. Transit Drive-In WEST SIDE STORY (1961)—Romeo and Juliet moves to a Puerto Rican ghetto of Manhattan for this dance-heavy musical that won 10 Academy Awards. Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris,

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and John Astin. Directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise. Thu Aug 17 7pm. Riviera WHISPER OF THE HEART (Japan, 1995)—Hayao Miyazaki wrote this early Studio Ghibli production about two young people who fall in love based on their shared love of books. Directed by Yoshifumi Kondô. Sat-Sun 11:30am. North Park

CONTINUING ATOMIC BLONDE is a terrible title for a serviceable spy tale that could have used more plot and less action, though there’s an extended fight scene in the last half hour that is as impressively staged to look like it’s happening in real time as anything in Birdman. Set in Berlin just before the Berlin Wall came down, it stars Charlize Theron as a British agent sent to retrieve a sensitive dossier. Her contact is an agent gone rogue (James McAvoy), who, coupled with a frame device that can’t help but remind you of The Usual Suspects, cues you not to take anything in the story at face value. Stuntman turned director David Leitch did uncredited work on John Wick, and once again shows that his skills don’t include squeezing any emotions out of his star players. With Eddie Marsan, John Goodman and Toby Jones. — MF Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Transit Drive-In BABY DRIVER—In films like Shaun

of the Dead, Hot Fuzz ,and The World’s End, writer-director Edgar Wright used parodying his favorite trash film genres as an excuse to make the same thing he was supposed to be kidding. Working entirely outside of England for this action movie about a hotshot young crime driver trying to get away from the gangster who controls him, he uses Michael Bay-ish photography and editing to enliven a script that is cut-and-pasted from the early years of Quentin Tarantino—Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, True Romance. In other words, it’s a retread of a retread. It might have worked if it wasn’t all built around Ansel Elgort, a young actor so blandly callow that he makes you long for the days of Fabian and Frankie Avalon. With Jon Bernthal, Lily James, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, and a small army of celebrity cameos. —MF Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In THE BIG SICK—Believe the hype for this gentle, good-natured culture clash rom-com produced by Judd Apatow. Stand-up comic Kumail Nanjiani (TV’s Silicon Valley), whose family moved to the US from Pakistan when he was a child, and North Carolina-born Emily Gordon wrote the script based on their own relationship. Their romance is impeded first by her reticence to be distracted from her studies, then by his inability to stand up to his parents who are trying to set

REVIEW FILM Honest to god, I’m not making him up in an arranged marriage, and then by an illness that would this up. Directed by Tony Leonbe hard to believe if it weren’t a dis (Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a true story. Holly Hunter and Ray Glitch). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Romano nearly steal the film as Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal NiagAMHERST THEATRE (DIPSON) her parents, who first meet Kuara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal mail in the waiting room of the 3500 Main St., Buffalo / 834-7655 Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, hospital where their daughter is Transit Drive-In amherst.dipsontheatres.com in a coma. Directed by Michael 47 METERS DOWN provides a new Showalter (Hello, My Name Is AURORA THEATRE variation on the ever-popular Doris). —MF Aurora, Dipson Am- shark summer thriller. 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LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Name of LLC: Eat Love Build, LLC Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept of State: May 17, 2017 Office of the LLC: Erie County The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 133 Ridgewood Rd, Buffalo, NY Purpose of LLC: Real Estate/Interior Design. Any lawful purpose permitted for LLCs under NY Limited Liability Company Act. --------------------------------------------------NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Name of LLC: Buffalove Properties, LLC Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept of State: February 28, 2017 Office of the LLC: Erie County The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom

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Norwood VILLAGE Ave. Two bedrooms, study, porch, appliances, must see. No pets/smoking.

Purpose of LLC: Real Estate/Property Managing

JOE DINKI

ERIC KENDALL

OMERI MONROE

RACHEL FIX DOMINGUEZ

MATTHEW RYAN

RON EHMKE LIZZ SCHUMER

CHUCK TINGLEY

CHERYL HARRIS

GREG MICHAELIDIS

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CHRIS BENBENEK

DOMESTIC

ERIK HARTNETT

LIMITED

LIABILITY

JASON WILSON

IAN DE BEER

ELIZABETH LEADER DONNY KUTZBACH KUNJI REY

COMPANY (LLC): Name of LLC: Our

JEN SWAN

RAY KELLEY

Humaniteez, LLC. Date of filing of

RYAN FLAHERTY

STEVE PODOSEK

Articles of Organization with the NY

MASON WINFIELD

DREW STANEK

Dept of State: April 27,2017. Office of

AMBER RAMPINO

ANNE OFFERMANN

the LLC: Erie County. The NY Secretary

DAN GIBSON

DAVID BONDROW

of State has been designated as the

THANKS PATRONS

agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of

JESSICA SILVERSTEIN

DOUG CROWELL

BARBARA

ALEJANDRO GUTIERREZ

HARPER BISHOP, JENNIFER

KRISTEN BOJKO

any process to the LLC at: United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave, Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose of LLC: Apparel/clothing

CONNOR

KRISTEN BECKER

brand. Marcus Holmes, 140 Schuele Ave Upper, Bflo, NY 14215 716-570-3602

NISSA MORIN

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PETER SMITH

NOTICE OF FORMATION of a

KEVIN PURDY

DOMESTIC

LIMITED

LIABILITY

COMPANY: Modish London LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on 5/19/17,

PETER SMITH COLLEEN KENNEDY RACHEL CHROSTOWSKI

location: Erie County, Nadine Thomas (NT) designated as agent for service of process on LLC. NS shall mail

TJ VITELLO

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COMPANY:

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ELMWOOD

NY 14222.

filed with the SSNY on 2/16/17. Office:

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ACROSS 6 Toward the back of an airplane 9 Poison dart frog in “Rio 2” played by Kristin Chenoweth 13 “Please continue” 14 OMG or LOL 15 ___ rock (genre for Emerson, Lake & Palmer) 16 “Ditto!” 17 Activist org. that can’t decide?

58 Spaghetti sauce brand you can only get in one place? 62 Megastore for all your ballet accessory needs? 64 Skin softener (“or else it gets the hose again”) 65 Compound with a hydroxyl group 66 Too close ___ comfort 67 Moves around in a Newton’s cradle 68 Contradict

19 Soccer team whose players are scarecrows?

69 Clip-___ (some pinchy earrings)

21 Smartphone bill info

70 ___ a customer

22 Basketball announcer’s phrase 23 D&D or FFXV, e.g. 25 ___ Plaines, Illinois 26 Chemistry suffix 28 PokÈmon protagonist Ketchum 30 “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” author Dave 32 Fail to ever mention God in France? 36 Green with the clean version “Forget You” 37 Outdoor sporting gear chain 38 Orangey-brown, like some port 42 Food list with amortized appetizers and beveraged buyouts? 45 Classic 1981 Galaxian follow-up with tractor beams

DOWN 1 Perfectly 2 Make upset

34 Camp out in the elements 35 Low-cal Cadbury-Schweppes drink 39 “Don’t touch this wall!” sign 40 First compass point clockwise from N (on a 16-point compass) 41 Taco Bell’s parent company ___! Brands, Inc. 43 ___ Paulo (Brazil’s most populous state) 44 Dictionary cross-reference phrase 45 Doted on Doctor Who or Dothraki, maybe, with “out” 46 When some kids’ bedtimes are set

4 Luxury hotel chain

47 “Imagine” songwriter

5 Weak conditions

52 He sang about Bennie and Daniel

6 Letters on an envelope addressed to a company

54 Pennywise, for one

7 Bakery sackful

55 Bandleader Shaw

8 ___ and feather

57 Reprehensible

9 Report cards’ stats

59 It’s never mine alone

10 “Everything Now” group ___ Fire

60 L.A. rock club Whisky a ___

11 “The Wizard of Oz” scarecrow portrayer

61 Young ___ (kids) 63 Eerie sighting

12 “Uh...possibly...” 13 Rag on 18 Team Carmelo Anthony was drafted into in 2003 20 Aziz of “Parks and Recreation”

49 President pro ___

24 Louvre Pyramid architect

50 Summer in the citÈ?

26 “Monsters, ___”

51 Tool before down or cakes

27 Ruby of “Do the Right Thing”

56 Dragging feeling

33 Actor Idris of 2017’s “The Dark Tower”

3 Fake Kazakh

48 Devoured

53 Highlight reel segment

31 Island “where America’s day begins”

29 Shenzi in “The Lion King,” e.g.

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