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NEWS: Unpacking the fallout of Saturday’s Trump Rally

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BACK PAGE: ”Spirit of America” rally or White Lives Matter Rally?

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WHEN NEO-NAZIS AND CONFEDERATE FLAGS CRASH A TRUMP RALLY

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nized and participated in a rally in Buffalo’s Niagara Square that was billed as “pro-Trump”. Racist old troll Carl Paladino of the Buffalo Board of Education, and Sheriff Tim Howard all appeared, and addressed the assembled crowd. Notably, Sheriff Howard appeared in uniform. Assemblyman DiPietro helped organize the event, but did not attend. Some other undesirables, however, did. The man in the camo above is “Scott Lacy”, whom WKBW uncritically interviewed a few days before this rally. Next to him is Todd Biro of Niagara Falls. Horace Scott Lacy (aka Scott Lacy, aka HS Lacy), the man who recently leafleted Lewiston with white supremacist propaganda, appears to have come to Western New York to recruit for his Houston-area Neo-Nazi group, the Aryan Renaissance Society (ARS). WKBW reporter Ali Touhey, who interviewed Lacy, did not further inquire or report on Lacy’s affiliation with the ARS. A YouTube video posted to a White Lives Matter account

depicts the entire interview, including Lacy’s statement to Touhey that he is a member of the Aryan Renaissance Society, Touhey’s expression of incredulity that NYS Gov Cuomo was investigating Lacy’s propaganda, and Touhey’s agreement to accompany Lacy and a third party to the Lewiston police station for an interview. Beyond just spreading offensive rhetoric, Lacy’s associations with violent offenders causes concern that his activities could escalate and pose a serious threat to Western New Yorkers. The following consists of original research into Lacy’s history and associates through social media profiles on Facebook and on VK, the Russian social networking site preferred by white nationalists, and news reports and public documents. Note that this Twitter account ends with “88”, which is white nationalist code for “Heil Hitler”; the number 8 denotes the letter “H”, the 8th letter in the alphabet.

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A cursory Google search reveals a dossier on Lacy and his White Lives Matter movement from the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC identifies White Lives Matter as an initiative of the Aryan Renaissance Society (ARS), a Houston-area Neo-Nazi organization. The profile names Lacy, along with a woman named Rebecca Barnette, as the moderators of a White Lives Matter facebook group for Oklahomans and Texans. Barnette was also the organizer of the White Lives Matter rally held in Buffalo’s Cazenovia Park in July 2016, but was not in attendance. This summer’s rally, followed by Lacy’s March 2017 leafleting suggests that ARS is attempting to recruit in Western New York. A comment on a photo from one of Lacy’s several Facebook accounts supports this conclusion. The photo shows Lacy with Todd Biro of Niagara Falls; the sole comment on the photo, posted on March 14, 2017 reads “Recruit u fucks…” Todd Biro’s Facebook profile is an account called “Marie N Todd Biro,” which also belongs to Marie Basile. Basile was identified in a post on the website It’s Going Down as a participant in the White Lives Matter protest at the Anti-Defamation League attended by Lacy. (Curiously, Basile also appears to have been engaged for a time to John Bobbitt, the Niagara Falls native whose then-wife Lorena severed his penis in the 1990s.) The “Marie N Todd Biro” account is friends on Facebook with an account belonging to Lacy’s sister BJ Faulkaka Barbara Vidrine. Further

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corroborating that the man in the “Recruit u fucks…” photo is from an account named “Todd Andrew Biro” that clearly shows the same man. In the image, Biro’s hat bears the number “14”, which is a symbol in Nazi circles of their “14 words” slogan: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” Biro has had run-ins with law enforcement in the past, and was once on the list of Niagara Falls’ most wanted, for grand larceny. Todd Biro’s brother, Brett Biro, is currently running for Niagara Falls City Council, according to his Facebook page. Brett Biro showed up to a Village of Lewiston meeting on Monday to say that he in no way supports his brother’s views. Also, the “Marie N Todd Biro” account posted a message on WKBW reporter Ali Touhey’s Facebook page thanking her “again” for her story on Lacy, implying that Basile or Biro had already thanked Touhey once. Biro appears to have been posting videos on a Facebook group called “White Lives Matter III” since at least September 2016. In a September video, Biro makes reference to an upcoming ARS protest outside the Anti-Defamation League, which occurred in October 2016. Other videos posted to the page as early as 2015 do not have Biro in them, but depict the hanging of a “White Lives Matter” banner on what the cameraman calls “the most heavily trafficked road in Niagara Falls.” Posts on the page are geotagged in Niagara Falls and Connecticut, and include several videos of Lacy’s interview with WKBW and of news coverage of the leafleting in Lewiston. A post on the account, shared by Kevin Myers Harris, who appears to be the Connecticut-based administrator, claims to be audio of Todd Biro calling a school and threatening to a class-action lawsuit against any teacher that wears a Black Lives Matter shirt. However, the school he refers to appears to be in Philadelphia, rendering it unclear whether Biro actually has children at the school or if he was just harassing a school hundreds of miles away. A YouTube video posted by a Melissa Lacy, allegedly of Biro’s wedding day, depicts Todd Biro and Marie Basile begins with a white power salute and includes Biro telling Basile to get off the phone so they can “kill a n*****.” There were myriad Confederate flags at the rally as well, which led to Sheriff Howard being photographed with the flag in the backdrop by The Public’s environment editor Jay Burney. On Monday, an organizer of the rally, Rus Thompson said that the image was “photoshopped” — a charge echoed by the Sheriff himself. Multiple other images and videos support that

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fact that Howard did in fact speak in front of a Confederate flag. No one reporting the lie that these images are “Photoshopped” ever asked Jay Burney, the photographer, about that, but they have left multiple threatening messages. Another man at the rally apparently hates Senator Chuck Schumer so much that he likens one of the country’s most visible Jewish politicians to Hitler’s SS in a crude poster design where the “S”s in Schumer’s name were changed. That man depicted in the photo is perennial candidate Rick(y) Donovan. In 2014, Donovan — a member of the so-called “Independence” Party — lost his own party’s primary to Democrat Tim Kennedy. Donovan is a state employee — a corrections officer at Albion earning over $63,000 in public money. After Saturday’s pro-Trump rally, County Legislator Betty Jean Grant and Erie County Democratic Party Chairman Jeremy Zellner called on Tim Howard to resign, assailing the Sheriff for addressing a crowd including confederate flag wavers and “White Lives Matter” Nazis.

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The full text of Sheriff Howard’s speech — again, delivered in full uniform at a partisan pro-Trump political rally — is too long to print here, but do yourself the favor of reviewing it online. It’s an astonishingly incoherent piece from a man who has presided over a Holding Center that has been the site of multiple questionable suicides and beating deaths since he became sheriff in 2005. And his speech was delivered in that uniform which offers an official county impimatur on it all. He wasn’t there as a private citizen, but as the Sheriff of, ostensibly, the entire county. Howard also said that “Black Lives Matter” was there protesting. They weren’t — the people dressed in black and wearing masks were Antifa, which is short for “Anti-fascist”. The organizers of the rally have been twisting themselves like pretzels to try and rebut the notion that there was any sort of white nationalism going on at their rally. One of the louder complainers posted this to his Facebook page a picture of one his group—Genesee County SCOPE—with one member holding yet another Confederate flag The organizer of the rally, recent voter fraud convict Rus Thompson reacted thusly: As we all figured the racist attacks come. First Betty Jean Grant, the Chronicle and the Daily Public. These are the ones that promote the lies that we are all racists and now members of the KKK. This is yet the beginning of more attacks by the racist left, never look in the mirror but point fingers at us. The flag they point out as racist is the Battle Flag or the Battle Flag of Northern Virginia. There is nothing racist about those flags. Did the KKK carry that flag? I don’t know and don’t really care. The KKK was labeled as a racist group as they should be. BUT, the racist left has succeeded in labeling this flag as racist. Read about the different confederate flags here. But, once again the truth has been buried and the flag redefined. The picture below shows the flags as right on top of us which was untrue. The operations of the camera can easily bring the background to the forefront. The display was way over to our left side and I could not even see them out of the corner of my eye. So, there weren’t confederate treason flags at the rally, and even if they were, they’re not racist even though they are emblematic of a regime that was created on the basis that white people should be allowed to buy, sell, and own black people. The tea party, which can’t seem to stop lying, could have — but didn’t and won’t — put this all to bed with one simple statement:

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cessors, faced a Hobson’s choice: Either stand back and abandon Upstate New York, thus allowing the immense forces of globalized capital to dictate outcomes, or devise a plan to adjust to those forces. Cuomo gambled on a new paradigm—the Buffalo Billion, focused on renewable energy and on enterprise-creation rather than on the old paradigm of make-work infrastructure projects and on buttering the bread of real-estate developers. Not surprisingly, Cuomo is coming under fire by real-estate developers, including Carl Paladino, who gripe that New York State’s treasure is being spent with little to show for it. Over the past few years in these pages, you’ve seen the data on Upstate’s challenges: population decline, manufacturing’s collapse, shares of income from real-estate rising while shares of income from goods-producing have fallen, ongoing sprawl, the seemingly permanent alienation of almost 40 percent of African-American men from participation in the workforce. Upstate New York shares these characteristics with other Rust Belt urban regions. Using our datasets going back just to 1990 reveals that the patterns in Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo are just about identical to the patterns in Cleveland, Akron, Dayton, Toledo, and Milwaukee, with Pittsburgh being the sole exception of the big Rust Belt metros because of some sturdy and enduring state policy, some unparalleled local political leadership, and the good fortune to have three downtown universities and several downtown multi-billion-dollar foundations all willing to coordinate over the long term. Cuomo doesn’t have Pittsburgh’s tools at hand in Buffalo. Instead of the Carnegie, the Mellon, the Heinz, PNC, and other foundations (with combined 2015 assets of $13 billion), the combined assets of Buffalo-area foundations top out at only about $1 billion, with the biggest ones here (the Community Foundation, the Oishei Foundation, the Foundations for Jewish Philanthropies, and the brand-new WIlson Foundation) having but little to invest in what Pittsburgh’s have invested in: enterprise-creation, long-term community visioning, and economic readjustment for the region. Downtown Pittsburgh has three universities, a medi-

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business community, and the political class, and the results have been measurable in successful new firms spawned, population growth, old buildings saved, and income gain. The Pennsylvania state economic development program (whose tried-and-true techniques look a lot like what Empire State Development Corporation under Howard Zemsky is trying) has helped, but it was Pittsburgh’s local leadership that led the way. Until Cuomo created the Regional Economic Development Councils, breaking the hegemony of the real-estate developers and their favorite banker here, there was distinctive and distinctively non-functional paradigm here. Now, there’s a new paradigm—which has given us the Elon Musk shop at the Riverbend site. Andrew Cuomo’s massive investment in the Solar City/Panasonic plant is moving quickly ahead, notwithstanding the criminal indictments of Louis P. Ciminelli and two of his senior executives for allegedly conspiring with Alex Kalyeros, the Nanotechnology guru, for rigging the bids on constructing the building that everybody on earth knew Ciminelli was going to build because that’s how Buffalo rolls. MARQUIL / EMPIREWIRE.COM

Why endorse Cuomo’s investment? Why suspend a rational skepticism about economic development programs that have generally failed this region for a generation? The answer is simple and quite stark: capitalism no longer has much use for the Rust Belt. It is only through a massive, intentional, some might say arrogant assertion that the waves can be commanded not to crash on the shore that Buffalo has much chance of experiencing an economic revival. Job growth in Buffalo and in places like Buffalo is going to be elusive because of the headwinds that Robert Gordon wrote about in his 2016 study The Rise and Fall of American Growth. Kent Klitgaard has shown how recovery from recessions has been slower and slower since the Reagan Recession of 1982. There are some economists who think that it’s irrational to think that the new wave of automation, the Amazon restructuring of retailing that’s already creating empty malls and storefronts, and the just-about-to-occur drop in oil prices will create more employment rather than less. These are bigger structural changes that even the most patriotic of economic nationalists have ever had to contemplate. President Trump’s crew may believe that they can bring back manufacturing employment, coal-mining jobs, and pipeline-construction jobs using American-made components—but lots of analysts look at those sectors and shake their heads. Green-energy for use in cars and buildings, plus electrical storage, plus energy-efficient light-emitting diodes are being manufactured elsewhere. Thanks to Andrew Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion, they will also be manufactured in Buffalo starting later this year. Without Cuomo’s intervention, the ongoing erosion of manufacturing here would simply continue, as it has since 1990, when there were over 90,000 manufacturing jobs out of a total workforce of about 565,000. Without Cuomo’s intervention, we could expect manufacturing employment to shrink back to what it was in 2007, before the Great Recession of the last year before the Bush Presidency ended: under 50,000. But there’s more to the story than just Cuomo’s inability to single-handedly reverse 40 years of globalization, financialization, and off-shoring of Buffalo jobs. Cuomo is up against the self-destruction of an urbanized region that once was so vibrant that, before globalization set in in the late 1970s, it had its own distinctive styles of business dress, music, theatre, and cuisine. Could those days come back? As always, it’ll be up to the innovators here. There’s good reason to hope that the entrepreneurship/startup ecology here will bear fruit the way that 43 North founder Jordan Levy and his successor Bill Maggio have succeeded so far. The folks who manage the Buffalo Billion carved out a few million for the business-plan competition that 43 North runs, which has now scored 3 years of operation and 29 successful startups. (Pittsburgh’s TEC Council has been running such a competition for almost twenty years now; it has 1,300 members, and

COMMENTARY NEWS these days several sibling organizations also run business-plan competitions, with a record last year of $235 million in venture capital coming in to help Pittsburgh startups—before Ford Motor Corporation put $1 billion into a new driverless-car technology company. Pittsburgh is where UBER has been trying out driverless cabs.) The late Governor Nelson Rockefeller tried to get ahead of the curve 60 years ago by creating a statewide university system to rival the statewide systems in California, and in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and the other Big 10 states where Nobel Prize-winners people the faculties of these public institutions. It was very clear, even in the 1950s, that public investment in creating human capital was a sensible policy for the soon-to-come post-industrial economy. Then globalization happened. The cant since the 1980s, at least, has been that New York has a bad “business climate” because Democrats insist on having a robust social safety net, decently-paid public employees, teachers’ unions, environmental regulation, and a progressive income tax. Buffalo’s leading banker gleefully admitted once that he loves the way local politicians jump up whenever the Buffalo Niagara Partnership pushes its “Unshackle Upstate” agenda of tax cuts for investors, deregulation, union-busting, and privatization, allegedly the correct recipe for a new, robust capitalism that will reward employees as well as real-estate speculators. But capitalism isn’t actually so simple. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reports that overall economic growth keeps chugging along in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metro, year after year, getting us to around $50 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars in gross domestic product here by 2014, up from $47.1 billion in 2009. We’ve had a growth rate, since the Great Recession, of about 1.4 percent a year—lower than the 2.3 percent overall growth rate for metropolitan areas, but a whole lot better than a sharp stick in the eye, or another Great Recession. Compare that to Cleveland, which has had a lower growth rate—sprawling, depopulating Cleveland, with its two big pro-sports championships, with its statewide tax cuts and regulatory relief, managed only 1.2 percent growth in 2014. Pittsburgh, by contrast, achieved 2.9 percent growth in 2014. It was a long time in coming—and now, a more robust regional economy

there may actually be sustainable through the next recession. Andrew Cuomo’s late father tried technology investments to jump-start economic activity in the shrinking Upstate New York city centers. So did George Pataki, and, during his brief tenure, so did Eliot Spitzer. But if you’ve followed this column over the past decade, you’ve read data about population decline, ongoing suburban sprawl, the shift away from high-paying jobs in production to low-paying jobs in hospitality and retail. You’ve read about the disgusting but legal looting of our public resources by politically-connected real-estate developers, and you’ve read data about the left-behind— especially African-American men, who in Buffalo (and throughout the Rust Belt) endure the highest levels of disengagement from the workforce. We’ve presented the data at academic conferences, and told the sorry story of how Upstate New York is fiscally dependent on Downstate New York. We’ve described the issues minutely, and have a reputation for telling uncomfortable truths. That’s why the paradigm shift under Andrew Cuomo’s governorship has been so compelling. Flawed by the alleged corruption of the Ciminelli construction firm, flawed by the continued reliance upon a university system that underinvests in honors students and in faculty who actually bring the elusive competitive research grants home, and flawed in not having been magically capable of transforming local leadership institutions into the collaborative, visionary, patient institutions that have repositioned Pittsburgh—but Cuomo’s gambles are sensible. He’s putting big money into new-energy technology, small but smart money into sponsoring entrepreneurs, and political capital into pushing local governments to get busy with restructuring.

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Will it work? Let’s hope. Should we whine and moan about it not having delivered nirvana? Sure, go ahead, if you want to keep company with Carl Paladino. Bruce Fisher is visiting professor at SUNY Buffalo State and director of the Center for P Economic and Policy Studies.

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LOOKING BACKWARD: NORTH OF CITY HALL, 1958 In a rare color photograph taken in 1958, the West Village and Allentown appear much as they do today, but there are important differences. This view from the City Hall Observation Deck would have been much different today had the West Side Arterial, connecting the Kensington Expressway and Niagara Thruway, been built. With the arterial plans scrapped in 1976, mass clearance was averted, but spot demolitions have still done damage. The largest change came with the 1971 construction of the Thaddeus J. Dulski Federal Building, displacing an entire block between Delaware, Huron, Cary, and South Elmwood. The Buffalo Elks Temple, built in 1925, had an indoor pool, handball courts, bowling alleys, banquet rooms, and 1,900 seat auditorium. It was demolished in 1997 for the parking lot south of Spot Coffee. The Ford Hotel, built in 1922 with 700 rooms, was demolished in 1999 to help Benderson Development turn the adjacent office building into a hotel. The creation of the Allentown Historic District in 1978 and West Village Historic District in 1980 helped prevent further destruction, but these buildings were not protected. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

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Fargo House. A few dozen three-dimensional wall hangings and free-standing collage conglomerates of construction-related or construction-reminiscent materials. Demolition-derived remnants and fragments again, and copious doll house miniature items. Finicky dainty little windows and doors and porch railings and the like, or in one work several of what might once have been Christmas nativity scene crèche structures. A few rough work timber posts and beams and simple thatch or bare board roofs. Plus maps and plans and gears and grids and gadgets. Each wall or free-standing sculptural work ostensibly with its own theme, ostensibly indicated by the work title. But themes often hard to decipher, and titles often not much help, amid the blizzard of old materials in turmoil arrangements. Materials without forms, or finished and done with their old forms, searching for new forms. So what is the larger purpose and meaning—if any—of this collage miscellany of architecture association scraps and tatters? A third term—implied, but no less important—element of the microcosm/macrocosm series is the city. Seen as a continuous makeover project. Continuous process of demolition and preservation, reuse and redo. Toward a new architectural model—in the sense of paradigm— versus old model of build new and build big, usually for big money interests, and attendant ecological injury and insult. (Architecture for institutions more than people, and often at the direct expense of denizen populations that are often mainly affected by such projects in being forced out of their middle and lower class areas to make way for them.)

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cent artworks called City House Models are assemblages of diverse materials mostly gleaned from his actual city house—another architectural/artistic project—called Fargo House, from its location at 287 Fargo Avenue. The house models are—like the actual house—frankly—a mess. All of which is to the point. The mess and similarity also. As microcosm and macrocosm. And mess in a good way. As flux, flow, living stream. What may look like chaos up close. Involving demolition and preservation, with a bias toward preservaton. Excavation and aggregation. Archaeology in essence.

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FF Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Menagerie: Animals on View, on view through Jun 4. Shantell Martin: Someday We Can, on view through Jun 25. Tamar Guimarães and Kasper Akhøj: Studies for A Minor History of Trembling Matter; Jacob Kassay: OTNY; Eric Mack: Vogue Fabrics; Willa Nasatir, photographs, all on view through Jun 18. 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): Joseph Miller, Paintings

The Fargo House looks like a demolition site in process. In fact, it was a demolition site. Slated for demolition, that is, until Maher acquired the property and performed—and continues to perform—piecemeal and partial demolition, and radical re-do. Cutting away a floor or ceiling segment here, connecting previously unconnected spaces up and down. Detaching a non-load-bearing wall there, hanging it on a roller track, for utilization or not as occasion or whim requires. Copious uncovered wall beams and floor joists. You watch your step. The house has an overall work in progress unfinished look. And voluminous extraneous items. Old building materials, old mechanisms, old tools, old toys. Remnants, fragments. Retrieved in the course of the site demolition effort, and accumulated from other sites and venues. Natural aggregation sites, Maher calls them. Second-hand items shops, re-use depots, the street. (Maher does seem to have a weakness in this regard. In regard to accumulation.) City House Models—currently on view at Eleven Twenty Projects gallery—partake of the look—but even more the feel—of

and Drawings. On view through May 26. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716885-2251, wnyag.com): 1st annual Juried Members Exhibition—Modern Works, juried by Gerald Mead. On view through Apr 21. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Ashker’s on Elmwood (1002 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886 -2233, ashkersbuffalo.com): Richard Rockford sculptures on display through Apr 30. Reception Fri Apr 14. Mon-Sat 7am10pm, Sun 9am-5pm. FF Atrium 124 (124 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201): Awake: Paintings and Poems by Kristin Maggio. Opening reception Fri Apr 7, 5:30-7:30. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): 12th Annual Betty’s Staff, Friends and Family Exhibition through May 21. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm.

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Maher has written about the new architectural model in language ranging from Marxist (“the consolidations of wealth into the hands of the very few, and slow and steady disappearance of the middle class…the tremendous divide that exists between social everyday realities and the warm and cozy provisions of architecture’s security blanket”) to mystical (how in rebuilding with site demolition materials “the stored energy of matter is released, upsetting the apparent stability of the house’s walls, floors, and ceilings”). Nor does he claim his new model—vision of a new model—is complete and well-formulated at the moment. But in process of formulation. Like the Fargo House, and City House Models, and city. A new model. But how to achieve it? In part through another project Maher has going, in partnership with the Albright-Knox, called SACRA (for Society For the Advancement of Construction-Related Arts). A training program in the former Immaculate Conception Church, 150 Edward Street at Elmwood, to teach carpentry and design elements to men and women wanting work and work skills, instructed by area tradespeople and artists and artisans and contractors. A crew of about six workers is working there now, erecting a sort of medieval castle complex with dungeon-like tower amid the pillars and arches of the gothic old church building. Come fall, 20 trainees are expected to be enrolled in the program, in coordination with the Erie County Social Services Department. The City House Models exhibit continues through April 15.

FF Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Toma Yovanovich: Tongues of Flame, on view through Jun 3. Opening reception Fri, Apr 7, 6-9pm. ThuSat 11am-5pm. FF Box Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Larger Than Life, a new installation by Daniel Galas. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. FF Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint.com) ”Being John Berg” through Apr 30. Opening reception Fri, Apr 7, 6-9pm. Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare: Reflecting on the Life of the Bard. Milestones on Science: Books That Shook the World! 35 rare books from the history of science, on second

floor. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm.TueFri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Locust Street Neighborhood Art Classes, through April 2. Robert L. Flock: Color as Energy, through May 21. Artists Living in Other Worlds, through May 21. The Interior World of Roland Wise, through May 21. Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns & the West, on view through May 28. Reunion: Chess, through Jun 25. Artists Seen, photographs of contemporary artists by David Moog. The First Exhibition: 50 Years with Charles E. Burchfield, on view through Mar 26. Charles Cary Rumsey: Success in the Gatsby Era, through Jun 25. 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Canisius College Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library (Canisius College 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208, 888-8412, library.canisius.edu): Small works from the Gerald R. Mead collection.

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Cass Project (500 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14204): Charcoal works by Tricia Butski, through May 7, artist’s talk on April 14 at noon. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Ebru: Floating Emotions featuring ebru by İpek, Ali Burak, and Musa Saraçoğlu, on view through Jul 9. Chinese Folk Pottery: The Art of the Everyday through Jul 2. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8562717, cepagallery.org): Karsten Krejcarek: (However) the Owner of the Living (Death) May Pierce (an Abscess) and Spread Ruin, BabalúAyé through May 21. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 124pm. Daily Planet Coffee Company (1862 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, 716- 551-0661): Reflections by Youssou Lo, through Apr 30. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts. com): Contemporary collection including Hans Moller, Edith Geiger, Lee Adler, Claire Burch, and more. Wed-Fri 10:30am-5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm. Dreamland (387 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, facebook.com/dreamlandarts.buffalo/ timeline): Open by event. FF Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyproj-

ects.com): Dennis Maher: City House Models. On view through Apr 15. FF El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Rock: Millie Chen, Warren Quigley, on view through Apr 29. Opening reception Fri Apr 7, 7–9pm (artist talks at 7:15). Wed-Sat 12-6pm. Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): C.Mari, Grace Wilding and Serena Way. Opening reception Fri, Apr 7, 7-9pm. Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm . FF Grindhaus Cafe (160 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201 facebook.com/grindhauscafe): Exiled: ‘An Opening’ Through Art; an exhibition of Alyssa Capri through her work. On view through Apr 6. Tue-Sat 8am-8pm, Sun 8am-6pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Renee Lear: Every Shot From Dziga Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera As An Animated GIF; Sarah Fonzi: Infrastructure Misappropriated. On view through Apr 28. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. FF Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Felice Koenig: Drawings and Paintings, through Apr 9. Wed & Fri 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sun & Mon.

Jewish Community Center of Buffalo, Holland Family Building (787 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14209, 886-3172, Hours: jccbuffalo.org): Photography by Wendy Caldwell Maloney on view through Apr 28. Mon-Thu 530am-10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am-6pm. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. On view through Apr 26. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts.com): Jozef Bajus: Pushing the Envelope on view through Apr 22. Tue-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm. Niagara Community College Dolce Valvo Art Center (3111 Saunders Settlment Rd, Sanborn NY 14132): Rob Lynch, 575-BIKE, through April 22. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-882-5777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): Rwanda: Landscape and Memory, a work in progress, Brendan Bannon. On view through Apr 26. Tue-Fri 10am–5pm Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-652-3270, norbergsartandframe.com): Local artists: Kathleen West, Bradley Widman, Peter Potter, and Miranda Roth. Tue-Sat 10am–5pm. Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Jill Gustafson Glunz, paintings and drawings, through Mar 31. Wed-Fri, 12-7pm (until 9pm on first Fridays), Sat & Sun 12-5pm. FF Pine Apple Company (224 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/store/ pine-apple-company): Bored Future: We Should Be So Lucky, show from Emily Churco. Work for sale by Thomas James Holt, Yames Moffitt, Esther Neisen, Mickey Harmon, Mike West, and Sarah Liddell. Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): Unkept: solo exhibition by Sherry Arndt Preziuso on view through Apr 29. Tue & Thu 7-9pm and by appointment. FF Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod. com): Art by Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, John Farallo, Chris McGee,Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Leibel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, Kisha Patterson, Lindsay Strong, Frank Russo, Michael Mulley. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): We Are the Resistance, group show with work by DK Burger, Tricia Butski, Anthony Freda, Shannon Freshwater, A.J. Fries, Barbara Hart, Felice Koenig, Anita Kunz, Craig LaRotonda, Maria Pabico LaRotonda, Nandrysha, Arabella Proffer, Eric Richardson, Carolina Seth, Marcos Sorensen, Daniele Spellman, Katherine Streeter, Kelly Vetter, and Joe Vollan through Apr 29. RO Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Dianne Baker, mixed media, through Apr 30. TueSat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays. Sisti Gallery North (6535 Campbell Boulevard, Pendleton NY 14094, 716-465-9138): Renaissance, work by Tony Sisti through Apr 8. Mon-Sat 6-9pm. FF Sports Focus Physical Therapy (531 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202, 332-4838, sportsfocuspt.com): Photography by Joe George through May 30. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, 6-9pm on first Fridays. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Sondra Perry: flesh out. On view through May 6. Tue-Sat, 12pm-5pm. FF Studio Hart (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, studiohart.com): CODA: a finale between friends: work by David Buck, Bob Collignon, Elizabeth Leader. Opening reception Fri April 7 6-9pm. Through April 29. Tue-Sat, 12pm-4pm. FF Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Fun-A-Day ongoing multimedia exhibit through Apr 7. Open by event and on Fri 5:30-8pm. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries. org): The Human Aesthetic, Cravens World. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Galleries (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Ebony G. Patterson: Dead Treez through May 13. Screen Projects: Kelly Sears, through Apr 17. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 348-1430, wnybookarts.org): Contentual Relationships, a collaborative exhibition by Scott Kristopher, on view through Apr 28. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. To add your gallery’s information to the list, please contact us at info@dailypublic.com

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Making Lemonade... Life recently handed me lemons, and rather than putting them to any good use, I walked around with that sucked-lemon-look for a while. Not my most attractive moment, but I got pretty angry when it seemed that I might have to fold the publication I’d only just acquired. I knew there’d be some hard work involved, but I hadn’t signed up to rescue a ship going down. Apologies to anyone that has had to put up with me during this rough time. A friend recently commented that he felt my

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Eileen Myles Plays Eileen Myles... for a Living Queer? Check. Punk? Check.

Feminist? Check.

World class writer? Check.

Eileen Myles is, to borrow the language of a previous generation, a counter-cultural icon. In the past few years, the subversive poet has been featured in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, and even was the inspiration for the character of Leslie Mackinaw on Amazon’s award-winning TV show, Transparent. According to NPR, “Myles is a big deal, a rock star, sort of like the Patti Smith of contemporary poetry. ...Myles is relentlessly casual, and even joyful. She has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, she’s happy to show us the way.” For national poetry month, Just Buffalo Literary Center is hosting Myles as part of the STUDIO series on April 27th at 7:30pm at the Evergreen Commons (262 Georgia Ave).

Many Western New Yorkers can likely identify with the celebrated poet’s working class, catholic school upbringing. But by 1974, at age 25, Myles — who now identifies as “they” — relocated to the more progressive environs of New York City and since then has remained a fixture in the downtown New York poetry and arts scene, earning a reputation as a feminist-queer-punk poet long before mainstream media was even considering such terminology.

Speaking with Myles is a real treat - generous and warm, there’s a temptation to let the conversation go where it may. But we have to talk about books. At least, Myles’s books. There are so many books. Beginning in 1978, the tally now reaches 20 with a mix of poetry and prose. Prepping for the interview, I revisited two favorites: Inferno and Chelsea Girls. Within them, Myles is characteristically chatty, casual, and frank, which can tempt readers to assume they’re autobiographical. Seeing “Eileen Myles” on the cover, and then reading about “Eileen” the character, it’s easy to conflate the two. But they quickly put a friendly stop to this, saying “Yeah, but I call them ‘fiction’ and ‘novels’ because I say “don’t [think of them as memoir]”. I get to make stuff up. I’m more influenced by the history of the novel than I am memoir. Also, there’s a sentimental thing about memoir—’what makes it special is that it’s my story’—and I don’t think that’s true.” There is certainly a tradition of authors inserting themselves into works—Dante, Jean Genet, and Raymond Federman come to mind —but note that these are all men. Myles, of course, is quite aware that artistic freedom is doled out differently for different bodies. “Part of it, in print, is kind of sexism, like ‘Who does this woman think she is, calling this a novel?’ Men do it and no one bats an eye. They can use their own name. There seems to be way more leeway given to men doing this type of thing.”

Not only is there a critical laziness to reading everything autobiographically, there is also a question of misrepresentation. Perhaps even a violence in guessing incorrectly. Myles relays a story that is equal parts humor and danger. “Recently I was interviewed, and when the article came out it said I sold drugs! I never sold drugs. Eileen in the novel sold drugs! So, part of the reason I call it a novel is to create that boundary... Or, to have it both ways. It’s fluid.” But the habits and expectations of readers die hard. It turns out, these expectations can actually block new work from coming into the world. Myles explains, “It’s so funny, because I’m writing a screenplay of Chelsea Girls and going through the business side that someone actually wants to make this into a movie, and so on, and I thought it was a done deal. But now there’s a question of ‘life rights’ despite the fact that I call it a novel. They insist it’s memoir. There’s a legal battle around an aesthetic question! Every time someone reviews one of my works of fiction they’re like, ‘She says it’s fiction, but really it’s a memoir.’ You know what? I’m an artist! I get to say what form it is. And I mean some-

thing by it.”

One thing we can definitely say happened in real life is that Eileen Myles ran for president as an “openly female candidate” in 1991. What began in the East Village as a write-in candidacy quickly became a national interest story. It is tempting to imagine the America we’d live in if they’d won—the platform was breath-taking:

by Kevin Thurston

1. abolishing income tax and taxing assets instead 2. reducing defense spending by 75% and reinvesting in domestic spending 3. refusing to live in the White House while there are homeless in America

4. welcoming all classes, races, sexes, and sexualities

5. focusing on females and queers as an openly female candidate 6. writing their own speeches

7. guaranteeing health care for all Americans

Imagine this America. In reflected contrast, the America we live in now feels like the bizarro world. People may have thought the candidacy was a joke, but perhaps the joke is now on us.

Talking about proposed cuts to the arts, Myles says with certainty, “The current political climate is a nightmare…a shame…a disgrace. You know, we’re being governed by a guy who was obviously abused in his childhood. At least, I get that vibe. He’s a performance artist. A stand-up. He seems like he was shamed and humiliated a lot.” “Here’s this guy who has gotten as far as he has—I mean, to the White House—because he’s a performer. He’s like a broken artist. A bad poet. And that’s a person who turns on the arts. We’re dealing with the dragon’s tail and he’s lashing back at those who are doing what they want to do. He’s supposed to be a man, a big powerful guy, and he’s not that. He’s a fuck up. Anyone can see he had a powerful dad, and he’s a fuck up. And he’s going to make us pay for that.”

It’s about the economy, stupid.

Economics is never too far out of the picture, especially for writers (after all, I’m still borrowing money from my mom). Talking about money, Myles says, “There’s always class issues that are unspoken. When I started to be a poet I thought, ‘How am I going to make a living?’ and everyone told that you weren’t unless you became an academic or an art writer or millions of other respectable things you could do... but none of them included being a person who could make a living as a poet. I’m making a living doing this! Not that it was always easy, nor is it always easy now, but making a living is never easy. Most careers drive people insane.” For those who don’t spend their time consumed in literature, and for those who do, oftentimes the pathway presented is to become an academic. But not everyone is supposed to be a professor. Some people want to be artists, after all. We discuss the poet/professor model. “It’s a really bougie thing—look, I’m not against the academy, they’ve supported me—but I think there are so many presumptions that it is more genteel to [teach].” Of course, academic poetry comes with it’s own rigid set of rules that are also “unspoken,” as Myles sees it. Think of it as a natural order; Break it, and you’re likely to get punished.

“If you’re a performance poet, or something outside of the academic idea of poetry, and you have success, people are quick to dismiss it. ‘Well, you’re a performer. Well, you’re a novelist.’ We’re supposed to keep our poetry pure and then engage in one of the proper professions. There are so many other models for art-making. Visual artists and musicians can make a living. There are industries around them. Poets have a sort of cock-blocking industry.” “Kathy Acker is a great example,” Myles continued. “Luckily, she had a trust fund. Fact is, she never got hired anywhere as a professor, she never got a Guggenheim, she never got any grants. That’s offensive.” If you’re unfamil-

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iar with Acker, she’s probably best known as a transgressive, punk rock, sex positive, postmod

ern novelist. Too many adjectives? Perhaps. But that’s also precisely why she wasn’t able to receive the recognition she deserved during her lifetime. As if often the case, her novels are now taught widely in the very same institutions that rejected her. “Literature in general is so regressive compared to other arts,” Myles added. “There’s money in visual arts. There’s money in film. There’s no money in literature, really. Except for the occasional person who gets a million dollars, but even that is usually a one-off.”

But what if you start getting attention?

Now, Myles is suddenly having a big moment. After years as a player in the national poetry landscape, the subversive wordsmith is enjoying an elevated level of institutional and critical recognition. With the aforementioned features in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and The Paris Review, a new critical reception has finally caught up with what readers have known all along. I asked what the last 18 months have been like.

“On the one hand, it’s not that shocking. Going back to Kathy Acker, writers like us, artists like us, have to become our own publicists. We have to try and become famous—it’s the only way we’ll make a living. I think there’s a way in which I wanted to have a moment like this. The joke is, Renee Ricard, who was in Warhol’s films, was an excellent poet, and art writer, and was in the glamorous Julian Schnabel-level world, basically made a living being famous. He told me, in my 30’s, ‘You’re going to get really famous. But when you’re old. Like, in your 50’s!’ I remember how horrified I was. What’s worse is that I’m in my 60’s! In my 50’s I got hired in the University of California system, and that’s when I started to become somebody else. I got my Guggenheim. I remember being in P-town and someone saying, ‘Congratulations on your Guggenheim, too bad you didn’t get it when you were younger, though.’ People are horrible!” “It’s been enjoyable,” they continued. “But even with all the attention I’m getting, I still haven’t even been long-listed for any of the major book awards. What all of this attention has brought me is a million readings, and now I can teach everywhere I wanted to in my 40’s. I’m fine, but now I need to make decisions based on time, which was the one thing I had [plenty of ] in my 20’s.” Poetry readings are the number one way for poets to advertise. Each is a showcase. When a poet is just starting out, readings are the best way to make a name. But once a level of success has been achieved and money begins exchanging hands, expectations arise.

“I like making my living through readings, but I also feel like a clown. My job is to be Eileen Myles, which is kinda gross.” Even worse: The job is to be Eileen Myles on their best day.

“Right, you don’t want to be that gnarly, awful poet showing up and disappointing everyone with what a jerk they are. This applies to any

job, though. You don’t want to be mean in the classroom. You don’t want to be a jerk to the cab driver. The trick to life is being somewhat in control of your time and how you spend it. It’s a new problem for me now. It’s a great problem.” “For a long time, I basically had to say ‘yes’ to every offer to make a living. Yes, I’ll come to you. Yes, I’ll write that article. Part of it is economic need, part of it is popularity and feeling like people love you. It’s a muscle I’ve used for 30 years, and now I’m trying to change. It’s a little Zen: ‘No’ doesn’t mean I hate you, or that I’ll die.”

Coda

Anger in art is both attracting and potentially limiting depending on how it’s used. As fuel, it can be eternally productive, but life is bigger than staying mired in anger for the sake of itself. Myles seems to have found ways of balancing a larger breadth of emotion within their work despite there being so much to be upset about. “I meditate a bit. I had a teacher and I told him that when I meditated, all I thought about was death and he said, ‘That’s you.’ That was creepy! But the next time I sat down, it wasn’t there. I feel like so much of writing is acknowledgment and expression. If you truly can say the thing— writing is where you get to say the thing on your own terms—then you can move on to the next exhibit. It’s sort of like a poetry reading, too. You read a funny poem and everyone gets loosened up, and now you can do something very different. And then you see something very different and you try and figure out what that feels like now. You are always stepping into the feeling that’s been completed. I’d like to think there is a mobile sense of reality being created.” “You were asking about careers and commercialization and there is a sort of poo-pooing of your work being read,” they continued. “I don’t want my work to be accessible, but I want it to be readable. There is a certain amount of pleasure in consumption. Whether it’s a movie or whatever. You want people to keep turning the pages. Leslie Scalapino once told me that she wrote a huge long poem and called it a novel because she knew people would then feel obliged to read the whole thing. A lot of it is management of the reader’s experience.”

clothes, politics, whatever. So, I felt kind of relieved when I saw the season I’m in the most and thought, ‘That’s not me at all. It’s just a bad copy.’ And that’s fine. So much of writing is making bad copies.”

In anticipation of Myles’s reading in Just Buffalo’s STUDIO series, Reel Queer will be screening Bijou at Dreamland (387 Franklin St) on Wednesday the 26th at 8:00 PM ($5 suggested donation). Myles recently selected Bijou for the Marfa Film Festival, which might have seemed like an odd choice—most people don’t choose films that feature bodies that they don’t sleep with/desire fucking. But Myles isn’t most people. “Bijou is sorta like a long, hypnotic gay porn. I have a relationship with Wakefield Poole [the director of the film, and a pioneer in the gay porn industry]. There is a space in New York called Light Industries and they were holding a retrospective of his work—he’s sort of culty amongst certain art world people. He came from a dance background and he wanted to do graphic sexual work that reflected art and other interests. They sort of did this fresh thing and asked me, a lesbian, to write about it,” Myles said. As always, there’s also the issue of bodies having forbidden pleasures: “It’s also not for the faint of heart! There’s real fucking in it.” A pause, and then with a verbal wink through a Boston accent: “You could say Bijou is quite determined in a certain way.” STUDIO: EILEEN MYLES APRIL 27 AT 7:30 P.M. AT EVERGREEN COMMONS, 262 GEORGIA ST. BIJOU SCREENING APRIL 26 AT 8:00 P.M. AT DREAMLAND, 387 FRANKLIN ST.

Kevin Thurston is a widely published writer, locally, nationally, and in Canada. With illustrator Mickey Harmon, he is the author of the forthcoming adult coloring book “Color Me White”. He also works for Just Buffalo Literary Center. He can be reached at kevin.thurston@ gmail.com

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It seemed every topic we discussed revolved around money, fame, and representation, which made it hard to resist asking about the attention garnered by the success of Transparent. On the show, the aforementioned character of Leslie Mackinaw —an older female professor who has an affair with one of central figure Maura (formerly Mort) Pfefferman’s adult children —is modeled after her.

“Transparent is very funny. There are things I love about it. I learned about Beatniks from television. There was a show called The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and his sidekick, who was kinda like Jughead and I learned about [Allen Ginsburg’s] Howl from TV. So, I get a kick out of people who learn about my poems through Transparent. The thing to remember, though, is that the character preceded me, and then they brought me in and got all sorts of information from me. But they went on and made the character who they wanted it to be on the level of

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ARCHIVES: Impact of womyn’s music revisited with upcoming revue by Adrienne C. Hill

As the second-wave feminist and gay liberation movements grew in the early 1970s, activists began experimenting with art forms that conveyed the pleasure derived from stoking their causes rather than merely focusing on the hard work involved. One of the more important cultural developments to arise from both movements was womyn’s music, so-named because the music was produced, written, and performed entirely by women.

But the significance of womyn’s music reached farther than that. As Buffalo’s own Carol Speser wrote in a 1973 article for feminist magazine The Gospel According to Lilith, womyn’s music “celebrates an image of Woman as strong, independent, proud, and growing.” And it continues to have impact: On April 29 at Sportsmen’s Tavern, a lineup of women in song culled from a 1994 compilation entitled No Illusions will perform. Some of the participants haven’t played together in more than 20 years. Although not all performers in the womyn’s music genre were lesbians, most of the nationally famous artists were. Pioneers like Cris Williamson, Meg Christian, and Alix Dobkin sang openly about the pleasures and political importance of lesbianism, and were instrumental in creating a lesbian aesthetic and culture throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. Buffalo is not usually considered a hub for womyn’s music, and yet two of its most enduring songs—songs that live on as LGBTQ anthems—were written by Buffalo-based, lesbian singer-songwriters.

“Stonewall Nation” by Madeline Davis was not only the first LGBTQ anthem to come out of Buffalo, but also the first gay liberation record ever released. Written by Davis on the car ride home from a 1971 gay rights march in Albany, it was released as a 45 by the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier, Buffalo’s first gay rights organization, to help fund the creation of a gay community center. The second anthem, “Glory, Glory” by Leah Zicari, was written in the mid-1980s. Set to the melody of the patriotic song “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” Zicari reports that she sometimes found performing the song—even for predominantly gay audiences—terrifying. Zicari is on the bill for the No Illusions reunion concert.

“I was down in the Carolinas, doing a gig in a church,” she recalled during a recent chat. “Somebody forewarned me that there was a woman there—a lesbian who was in the military. And she had planned a walkout when I did that song, because she was offended. Using the music of the ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’— with its Southern history, with its Civil War history, with it being perceived by some people as a religious song—you just didn’t know…” Although both Davis and Zicari embrace the term “womyn’s music,” they belong to two different generations of lesbian singer-songwriters,

and their music responded to two very different moments in the growth of what was then called the gay rights movement. Davis’s music career actually precedes the emergence of the modern gay rights movement, dating back to the coffeehouse folk scene of the early 1960s.

“I started by singing a song or two when one of my friends, usually a male, would get me up on stage and have me sing,” she remembers. Her solo career began in the summer of 1962: “I learned how to play the guitar over one particular summer, and went to New York City and played in the coffeehouses there. I came back to Buffalo in the fall to start school again, and was already a partially seasoned folksinger.” At the time, Davis was only beginning to realize her attraction to women. It wouldn’t be until 1966, following a brief marriage to a man, that she began coming out. In this pre-Stonewall era, she found her voice by writing and singing love songs that, in her words, “would touch women,” among the mixed gay/straight coffeehouse audiences. It was in the early 1970s, as gay liberation dawned on Buffalo, Davis truly hit her creative stride. In addition to inspiring “Stonewall Nation,” Buffalo’s gay and feminist movements gave Davis a platform to perform.

“In January of 1970, the Mattachine Society started,” she explained. “And they needed money, [which was] the beginning of a career in fundraising. All of the people who were wanting to play and sing at the time did what I was doing—fundraising for all the organizations that began when Mattachine did and those that came after.”

While the creation of gay and feminist organizations gave a seasoned performer like Davis a reason to get on stage, Davis also believes that they gave less experienced women musicians a needed push of confidence. As the decade progressed, Davis says, other women musicians “came out of the woodwork. They came out of the women’s groups that had formed them: Sisters of Sappho, a tai chi group, women’s self-defense groups. When women get together, politics start. It’s very interesting. And a lot of singers came out of these groups.” In addition to Davis, some of the most famous singers of the scene at the time included Cara Beckenstein, Leza Mesiah, Anne Pfohl, and Sue Clemens. Speser was a staple of this scene as well, performing satiric songs while accompanying herself on the ukulele, decades before hipsters made the instrument an indie music staple.

Zicari, by contrast, describes herself as a member of “the new generation, where we were trying to respond to a crisis within the community.” A trained classical guitarist, Zicari was influenced by nationally famous lesbian singer-songwriters (Williamson, Christian, et al.). But while the prospect of creating an autonomous women’s culture influenced the first generation of wom-

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yn’s musicians, the ravages of the AIDS virus hung over Zicari’s generation. Zicari recalls that AIDS hysteria, combined with notorious mayor Jimmy Griffin’s insistence on scapegoating LGBTQ Buffalonians at a moment of economic decline, made this city a volatile place for gays and lesbians.

“We didn’t know how [AIDS] was transmitted, and if it was contagious or not,” she said. “We knew nothing about it. It was just this hysteria. And the population at large responded with discrimination and, in some cases, violence.” Because of this, Zicari sees herself less as a womyn’s musician and more as a member of a diverse arts community that included other women like herself, politically active gay male artists, singer-songwriters who chose not to anchor their music in sexual identity, and straight artists who supported besieged gays by performing at community spaces and events.

“In the late ’80s, early ’90s, the point was, let’s celebrate gay culture,” she said. “There was none of this division—you know, ‘you’re gay, you’re not.’ Instead it was ‘who’s for gay rights, and who’s not?’ It didn’t matter what your orientation or your gender was. It was, ‘are you with us, or against us?’”

One of the products of this diverse community was No Illusions. As difficult as the early 1990s were for Buffalo gays of all stripes, the decade marked a surge in popularity for women singer-songwriters across the country, elevating artists like Alanis Morissette, Tori Amos, and Lilith Fair-founder Sarah McLachlan to household names. Local venues and largescale festivals became eager to showcase female musicians. In Buffalo, Nietzsche’s was the goto venue for local songstresses. In 1994, Dale Anderson (Ani DiFranco’s former manager and the founder of the Hot Wings Records label) compiled a CD of songs by the women who frequently performed at Nietzsche’s. And so No Illusions was born. Both Zicari and Davis say their relationship to performing has shifted in the intervening decades. In 2003, Davis woke up from a surgery to find her voice permanently altered. Although she performed with a drumming circle for a number of years following the surgery and continues singing at home, she rarely gives public performances.

Zicari, now based in Rochester, continues playing in a cover-performing trio, and works as a pit musician in the theater. She rarely performs the gay anthems for which she initially gained fame; she says that now, to her, “they feel dated.” Although she has continued to write original songs, her newer music does not have the same overt gay themes that appeared in her original music. “It got to the point where there was a much greater acceptance of gays and lesbians. And that culture—we didn’t need it as much. The

(top) Early DIY cassette covers, (btm) Davis’s musical beginnings Courtesy of the artists women’s music festivals started going away, and I wanted to keep performing. And so I mainstreamed my music, just so I could have more performance opportunities. And then, as I got older, I started to see the world more universally, and I started to sing music more universally.” Still, both singers believe that their early music played a crucial role in galvanizing Buffalo’s gay and lesbian community in moments of particular need. Zicari points out that the early portion of her career coincided with a period that was tough for Buffalo’s LGBTQ community and difficult for Buffalo as a whole.

“At the time, people’s perception of Buffalo was that it was the armpit of America…so, it was great to see this subculture emerge. The arts community came with us, and so many allies and groups embraced the gay culture, which opened the eyes of the community at large. And that is Buffalo’s history—that’s Buffalo’s culture in and of itself.”

As for Davis, she say that music gave courage to both the community and to herself as a budding activist. “When I gave the community music, they gave me courage. When I gave them pleasure, I also found that they were behind me. So, if I was going to do something else that was a little more dangerous, they would still be there for me.” Adrienne Hill is the co-founder of the Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project. In this monthly column, she plans to tell stories from previous eras about Buffalo’s various LGBTQ communities, and to reflect on how our past influences our present. If you have any past stories you think Adrienne should tell—particularly if you are willing to be interviewed or share archival material for them—you can reach her at adriennefabulous@ gmail.com.

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LGBTQ Community to celebrate leaders at 21st Annual buffalo bruch by Steve Jagord

It’s a bit cliché that brunch is an event savored and celebrated by many members of the LGBTQ community, especially gay men. But weekend posts on your social media feeds probably confirm this assumption, as pictures of mimosas and quiches quickly populate the screen of your mobile device. Some people just prefer day drinking to Sunday service.

For more than two decades, embrace Western New York – a local nonprofit that supports the LGBTQ community through grant and scholarship opportunities – has run with the idea that if you throw a good brunch, the gays (and their LBTQ friends) will flock to it. The largest annual fundraiser for the organization – the 21st annual Buffalo Brunch – will take place at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 7 at Salvatore’s Italian Gardens in Depew.

But the event is more than just a party. It’s also an opportunity to celebrate people making a difference in society while raising funds for embraceWNY’s various education-focused initiatives. This year, embraceWNY will bestow Community Service Awards to activist Harper Bishop, drag performer Jayme Coxx, and social exercise group Buffalo Frontrunners/Frontwalkers. A special citation will also be given to Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul for her continued support of the LGBTQ community.

Over 400 people attended last year’s brunch, helping raise more than $42,000 in net revenue for embraceWNY to distribute throughout the community. “embrace Western New York provides financial support for numerous organizations and activities that help educate and promote the LGBTQ community as well as the general community,” embraceWNY President Jeff Platt said. “Some of this support is the for Alberti Anti-Bullying speakers and trainings, AIDS Walk, Dreamland, ‘The David Dance’ premier in Buffalo, Community Network of Care for Children & Families in Niagara Country, Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus and Buffalo United Artists – to name a few.

“What we do the most is to support local post-secondary students as they help to make this a great community full of compassion and support. These scholarships are incredibly unique in that they support students who identify as LGBTQ or allies. Scholarships can range up to $2,000 per year and applicants can reapply each year.” Scholarship recipients from the past year included residents from Eden, Maryvale and Sweet Home school districts. The awards are given based on essays and references submitted by the applicants.

Community Service Award recipients are selected by past honorees who select nominees based on their suggestions and submissions for consideration from the community at large. Then they recommend their slate to embraceWNY’s board of directors. One of this year’s CSA recipients – Jayme Coxx – is being recognized for her more than 15-year career as a drag artist, including producing the “Trailer Park Tuesdays” showcase at Buddies

II and drag king night “Boy Toyz” at Adonia’s. She has also worked with high school and college gay-straight alliances in the area, assisting budding young drag performers find their inner RuPaul. “We have been invited for five years now to be part of Gay and Lesbian Youth Services high school GSA conferences as headliners – cause the youth loves drag and saying it’s ok to be who you are and do what you want,” Coxx said in an email. “I have also done many shows and outreach with local colleges, teaching acceptance while having fun as well.”

In addition to her work with youth, Coxx has also been a member of the Imperial Court of Buffalo for almost 10 years. She served as empress of the court’s Reign 25, which raised more than $25,000 for local LGBTQ charities. She said her volunteerism and guidance of young drag artists have both been validating experiences.

“Drag has taught me it’s ok to be myself even when I was raised that there was something wrong with me,” Coxx said. “I can be a character of my own design and make a difference for charities, be a role model, and also help myself be happy.”

Harper Bishop has been at the forefront of social, racial and economic justice activism in Buffalo since moving home from Washington, D.C. in 2009. He served on the board of directors for the Pride Center of Western New York from 2010 to 2014 and also as lead organizer of the Buffalo Dyke March. Bishop also started the REEL Queer Film Series that takes place at Dreamland and typically features a panel discussion following the screening of a queer film. Recently Bishop founded Queers for Racial Justice, an activist group dedicated to an intersectional movement grounded in the belief that everyone should be able to live out their truth without fear of retaliation. He also serves as economic and climate coordinator for Open Buffalo, an organization that focuses on affordable housing. “I have always been drawn to work for the common good,” Bishop said in an email. “I grew up in the church and the verse that always led my actions was Micah 6:8 which says, ‘And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness...’ It seemed pretty straightforward to me.

“Later, I attended a private Christian college where I eventually lost my basketball scholarship for being queer. It was the first time I really had to grapple with unfairness and the loss of rights based on an inherent part of myself. It was the first time that I really understood privilege and how non Christian, white, cis and heterosexual people in this country have been treated for centuries. It’s the moment of clarity for me about how our struggles are interconnected.” Bishop said he was “shocked, but grateful” for the CSA honors from embraceWNY for their efforts and praised those who had been recognized by the organization in the past. “Buffalo and Western New York has such a rich history of LGBTQ resisters and pioneers,” he said. “They envisioned and then helped create a world in which trans and gender non-conforming people had the space to live their truth without fear. They expanded our thinking and ways of being, instead of conformed to mainstream notions of right and wrong, acceptable and unacceptable.”

In addition to Coxx and Bishop, Buffalo Frontrunners/Frontwalkers – a social exercise club with more than 80 LGBTQ members – will also be recognized. Participants meet twice a week to make the 1.8-mile trek around Ring Road in Delaware Park. Members also participate in many local races and group activities including movie nights, coffee nights, and dining out and are involved in various volunteer activities in the community throughout the year.

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Tickets for the Buffalo Brunch cost $60 and can be found at BuffaloBrunch.org. A silent auction will also be held.

#embracethebrunch Local restaurants are stepping up to show their support for embraceWNY in the weeks leading up to the 21st annual Buffalo Brunch. Some have offered to donate a percentage of sales to embraceWNY during specified brunch events they are hosting. While dining at these locations, embraceWNY encourages you to share photos of your dining experience and the culinary artwork on the plates in front of you with the hashtag #embracethebrunch on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. All photos with the hashtag will be entered to win two (2) tickets to the Buffalo Brunch in May. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 29 Rust Belt Bar & Grill 3720 Lakeshore Road, Buffalo Reservations encouraged: 825-7000 Check out embraceWNY on social media for more #embracethebrunch announcements!

ICYMI: News Briefs from March 2017 by Michael Rizzo

Rainbow crosswalks on Allen St. a possibility Greater Allentown First Fridays Gallery Walk secured $1,000 in funding March 28 from the new Buffalo chapter of The Awesome Foundation that could mean rainbow crosswalks at Allen Street intersections as a permanent art installation — if city officials get behind the project. Seth Amman, president of the Allentown Association, drafted the grant application within hours of hearing the idea from the organizers of Chroma 2017, the official Buffalo Pride Week art exhibition scheduled for June 2 in collaboration this year with Pine Apple Company and No Labels Clothing at 224 Allen St., and the Association’s gallery walk. Organizers are working along with other community leaders to engage with city officials and the Department of Public Works about implementing the project in time for Pride festivities this year. The first permanent rainbow crosswalks in the U.S. were installed in West Hollywood in 2012. They can now be found in San Francisco, Miami Beach, Philadelphia, Seattle, Key West, Fla., and Northampton, Mass. Awesome Buffalo’s board of trustees describe themselves as a group of diverse locals funding projects with positive impact on the city that “promote its awesomeness.” This was their inaugural funding approval. Applications are now being accepted for the next micro-grant, to be awarded in June.

New Yorkers answer federal affront on trans civil rights with solidarity Roughly 300 people rallied in Niagara Square on Feb. 26 for transgender civil rights, a protest of the Trump administration’s move a week before to revoke federal guidelines for equal treatment of transgender students.

Three days earlier, Gov. Andrew Cuomo had issued a directive to the Department of Education making it clear that transgender students in New York are expressly protected from discrimination and harassment under state law and policy.

The change in federal guidelines likely influenced the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision nine days after the rally to not hear the case of transgender high school student Gavin Grimm fighting to use the bathroom of his choice in Gloucester County, Virg., even though it had earlier agreed to hear the case on March 28. Since the rally, the Trump administration has also decided not to collect 2020 Census data on sexual orientation or gender identity, despite last year’s urging of various federal agencies to do so as the data is crucial to their role in enforcing the law. In addition, a draft of this year’s National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants released in February removed the query regarding whether a respondent identifies as LGBTQ. Meanwhile, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act passed the New York State

Assembly for the tenth year in a row on March 22. The bill would codify basic anti-discrimination protections for transgender and gender nonconforming New Yorkers in housing, employment and pub-

lic accommodations, but the republican-controlled State Senate has failed to ever bring the bill to the floor for a vote.

Earlier in March, State Senator Daniel Squadron filed a motion to force a vote on the bill, which requires that GENDA be placed on the Senate’s investigations and government operations committee agenda within 45 days.

Harrison Browne - a move to Chicago and a new career.

Trans player Harrison Browne retires from hockey

Harrison Browne, the Buffalo Beauts player who was the only openly transgender professional athlete in North American team sports, retired after he and his team won the National Women’s Hockey League championship on March 19.

Browne plans to begin his physical transition starting with top surgery in Florida in June, followed by hormone therapy. He then plans to join his girlfriend in Chicago, where she is a social worker, and look for a new career. Beginning hormone therapy would have disqualified him from playing for the National Women’s Hockey League any longer.

In his final season, Browne was voted into the All-Star Game, held in Pittsburgh in February, and he scored two goals. His jersey sales rank among the top five in the league. And on March 12, he was named one of the “Fans’ Three Stars of the Season,” an end-of-season award based on fan voting.

Momentum’ dropped from Pride Week lineup

Organizers announced the schedule for Buffalo Pride Week 2017 on the festival’s website last month, the festivities commencing on May 30 with the raising of the Pride flag in Niagara Square and culminating on June 4 with the Pride Parade and Festival at Canalside.

Missing from this year’s lineup is Momentum, the Saturday evening concert at Canalside geared for folks over 21. That event, which ran for two years, initially replaced the week’s Allen Street Festival, which ran for four years before it was dropped from the lineup. Momentum has not been replaced with another event, leaving June 3’s Dyke March the soul focus of Saturday’s official festivities. The Wednesday night Big Gay Sing, Thursday night Gay 5K and Friday night LGBT art exhibition remain in the week’s lineup. For more information, visit www.BuffaloPrideFestival. com.

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CLIMATE CHANGE: When We Rose by Ron Ehmke If you were over the age of six in 1977, you remember Roots. Even if your entire family was not glued to your 19-inch set for eight nights in a row that January, you could not escape hearing about it at school, at work, and on the cover of every magazine. Almost half the country’s population watched the final episode. Among that number were not just African Americans but white-flight suburbanites and everybody else. Author Alex Haley’s research into his origins was the main reason genealogy became a national preoccupation.

The following season, Holocaust seized the zeitgeist by devoting four successive evenings to the tragic fate of European Jews under Hitler. That miniseries helped bring the very term “holocaust” into widespread use among gentiles. Both shows were clearly behind ABC’s decision to commission Dustin Lance Black, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk, to create When We Rise, a four-night chronicle spanning from the Gay Liberation movement of the early 1970s to the Supreme Court decision legalizing samesex marriage just a few years ago.

While promoting his project, Black cited his own childhood memories of Roots and Holocaust as the reason he wanted it to appear on (free) network TV rather than HBO, Netflix, or another of today’s myriad of subscription-based options. His ideal audience, he said, was not the gay men, lesbians, and non-binary folk who lived through the events depicted onscreen, but subsequent generations who take the relative acceptance of LGBTQ folks (or at least the lack of blatant discrimination) for granted. Black envisioned storytelling that would invite people throughout what Sarah Palin calls “the Real America” to understand and empathize with the experiences of some very real lesbians and gay men in the not-so-good old days.

I was skeptical. I’ve never been a fan of the phrase “based on a true story.” (Even Roots and Holocaust freely discarded historical accuracy when it interfered with their need for a tidy narrative.) And I have not been happy with most fictionalized portrayals of AIDS over the decades, many of which ignore everyone affected by it but well-off white men.

So I was pleasantly surprised—stunned, even— by what Black and his team of directors and screenwriters came up with: a new take on an old-fashioned form, the historical epic, upgraded with devices like multiple narrators and a multicultural cast (anchored by a white lesbian, an African-American gay man, and a white gay man).

Alas, the two million or so people who tuned in on its biggest night were one-50th the number who caught the conclusion of Roots. And it seems to have had no impact on the larger culture whatsoever. No overnight stars sprang from its cast, no celebrity influencers gushed over it, and if it trended on Twitter, I missed it. The few reviews ranged from mixed to faintly positive, while the only mention I found in my Facebook feed was a thread in which a group of queer artists, educators, and activists of a certain age appeared to spend eight solid hours of

Ear Worms: Goldfrapp - Silver Eye (Mute) Out last week on Mute, Goldfrapp’s seventh studio disc attempts to marry the electro vibe of their most celebrated uptempo work with the more contemplative cinematic flair that’s surfaced intermittently since the duo’s 2000 debut, Felt Mountain. Inviting Brit compatriot Bobby Krlic (a.k.a. The Haxan Cloak) to assist with programming and production as well as American John Congleton, front man for The Paper Chase and collaborator with everyone from Blondie to Badu, R. Kelly, Sigur Ros and Amanda Palmer, results in some high-highs that fans have been waiting for. In particular, the libidinously grinding opener “Anymore,” released as a single in January, is instantly contagious. Reckless and horny — built on a filthy, funk groove — it’s the answer to prayers for fans of 2005’s Supernature, who’ve been waiting for a return to the club-noir that won Goldfrapp a large international audience before they shifted gears to the earthier folktronica of 2008’s Seventh Tree.

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their lives hate-watching the thing in order to point out its (in their eyes) unending and unforgivable omissions, inaccuracies, and other disappointments.

Eight hours might seem like a lot of airtime, but when you’re telling a story spanning five decades, basing it on the lives of actual human beings in a single city—and you’ve got to fit in 90 minutes of commercials—you’re bound to skip some stops along the way. I was far less bothered by what got left out than I was flabbergasted by what made it in: leather bars and bathhouses, the office politics of second-wave feminist collectives, and a primer on Castro cruising—on ABC TV! During what some folks still call “the family hour”!

Some viewers expressed surprise at its occasional leaps across decades. Eleven years pass between the end of Night Two, with its image of cardboard protest signs in 1981 bearing the names of people who have died from what was then called GRID (Gay Related Immune Deficiency), and the beginning of Night Three, which reveals how that last-minute gesture morphed into the massive NAMES Project quilt being unfolded on the Mall in DC in 1992. But it’s safe to assume that most viewers have at least a vague notion of what happened during the missing years, since it has been well covered elsewhere (most notably in the earlier miniseries And the Band Played On). Rise suggests that we are and always have been so much more than the disease that nearly wiped us out. It doesn’t in any way diminish that part of our history; it simply shifts attention to some of the many ways the epidemic transformed the lives of everyone who lived through it. Jaded viewers assume that much of what they see in fictionalized history was invented for the sake of the movie, but from everything I’ve read about the people who inspired it, there is far less of that here than in, say, the much-admired Hidden Figures. A few scenes may play like soap opera, and I cringed at a line or two of dialogue, but I’m willing to forgive a few minor missteps in a project that aims, in the words of protagonist Cleve Jones, to “win the hearts and minds” of a country that hasn’t appeared particularly interested in our lives until fairly recently—let alone a nation that just voted into power an administration that surely intends to undo many of the legal victories celebrated in the series.

When We Rise unapologetically strives to coax a complicated saga about a minority population directly into the mainstream, and in doing so it draws from several viewer-friendly genres in addition to the tearjerker. The “White Nights” riots in the wake of Harvey Milk’s murder in Night Two are shot like a combat film, for instance, while most of Night Four, which centers on the journey to the Supreme Court, is a courtroom drama. The main reason I trust Black didn’t embroider much has to do with what he made a point of including. I don’t think I’ve seen any other fictional representation of political activism, or even many documentaries, go into such painstaking detail about the sheer tedium of

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organizing. In my experience, real-world activism isn’t just the sunny afternoon of cleverly worded signs and “Hey-ho” chants in the park. It’s the dull-as-dirt school board meetings, the awkward encounters with clueless candidates, to say nothing of the heated debates over the intersections of race, gender, and class among affinity group members and the behind-thescenes hookups that really make a Movement, and sometimes help to end it.

Sadly, I have a hunch that the very thing I admire most about the miniseries is also what helped doom it as Event TV. I imagine, also, that many older LGBTQ folk didn’t watch because they assumed they knew the story already and frankly didn’t want to relive depressing memories again; meanwhile, plenty of straight people and young queers literally didn’t know what they were missing. As for winning over Tr*mp Country, that aspect of being on broadcast TV didn’t quite go as planned, either. (A quick glance at the comments on YouTube clips will remind you that the bigotry evoked throughout the first three nights is still alive and well online.) Then there’s the unavoidable fact that people simply don’t watch television in the same way they did in the late 1970s; the water cooler is strictly virtual now, “major network” is more of a warning sign than a guarantee of quality, and there is no longer any obligation for the whole world to watch the same show at the same time. (If you missed an evening of Holocaust, kids, you had no guarantee you’d ever have another chance to see it again in your lifetime.)

But the very fact that we can now watch just about anything we want any time we want is the same thing that could turn Rise’s fortunes around in the long run. The viewers Black hoped would see his work are still out there, and so is When We Rise. (If you missed it when it aired, you can find the entire eight hours both at ABC.com and via Hulu, and I trust a DVD/ BluRay will appear.) Perhaps in time it will be acknowledged as the achievement it really is. Lord knows people whose first introduction to protest has come since Election Day will find in it one of the most instructive and inspirational how-to guides they will ever need.

Ron Ehmke is a writer, performer, and artsy-fartsy fellow who is followable on Facebook; he also tweets, tumbls, instagrams, and google-plusses (@RonEhmke), and does other enjoyable things you can find out about at everythingrondoes.com.

“Systemagic,” cut from the same fuzz-edged cloth as “Anymore,” and the galloping “Everything is Never Enough,” complete a tri-fecta of tracks that rank among the duo’s top shelf offerings. But don’t let the hype fool you:

Suede Drifter” and “Beast that Never Was,” that latter gently propelled by a vaguely tribal rhythm, are much better examples of what Goldfrapp and Gregory are capable of when they’re really cooking with gas.

Silver Eye is far from being a dancey watershed. Instead, it’s a oddball assortment of almost everything that musical partners Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp have tried in their nearly two decades together: Sometimes it works, and sometimes it just doesn’t.

Silver Eye employs bits of live bass, drumming, and guitar –an attempt to introduce organic musical elements. Considering this, and especially given the old-machine beats used throughout, there’s a very different album lurking under the finished product which could’ve been significantly more compelling. Which isn’t to say the project is without merit; there just isn’t enough magnetism from its best moments to obsessively pull you back. Perhaps it’s time to consider an altogether new approach for Goldfrapp and Gregory, who’ve spent most of their joint career trafficking in carefully constructed electronic illusions (even at their folkiest). The boldest turn would be to do away with the gauzy curtain that keeps them perpetually at musical arm’s length and let us hear what lurks behind it. Anyone with the imagination to have created as much good music as they have on the fringes of pop — the best tracks on Silver Eye included — would surely remain interesting, or become even more so, when examined up close. Will the real Alison Goldfrapp please stand up?

The scrappy, vintage beats that Gregory and his guests lather up are a delight. The 80’s underground pulse heard at the base of “Moon in Your Mouth” sounds like it could’ve been pulled from an early New Order session. But the tendency is to muffle and obscure these thrilling, neo-industrial foundations, opting to throw overgrown synthy washes over them which result in grand and gratuitous gestures that don’t pay off. “Zodiac Black” moves from merely being pensive into full-on sci-fi soundtrack territory – all fine and well, but there’s nothing engaging enough to anchor us as the sweeping wave of production eclipses the song suffocating underneath (and us along with it). This happens on closer “Ocean” as well, which starts off promisingly as perhaps the most honest representation of what Alison Goldfrapp’s breathy warble actually sounds like without it’s otherwise ever-present digital filtering – shocking, raw, and strung-out seeming, it’s also the set’s most striking moment… until we drown again. Hypnotic stunner “Faux

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COMMUNITY STAPLES & EVENTS FRIDAY APRIL 7 LGBTQ Seniors Lunch Meet Up 2-4 p.m. at Alton’s 2250 Walden Ave., Buffalo This is a buy your own lunch event Contact judynibe@aol.com SATURDAY APRIL 8 Senior Coffee Hour 10-11:30 a.m. at Wegman’s 601 Amherst St., Buffalo Gay Bingo 6-9 p.m. 25 Review Pl., Buffalo The She-She Room 7-10 p.m. at Rust Belt Books 415 Grant St., Buffalo (BYOB!) FRIDAY APRIL 14 Spectrum Transgender Group 7-9 p.m. at St. Andrew’s 3017 Main St., Buffalo SATURDAY APRIL 15 LGBTQ Lunch Bunch 12-4 p.m. at Seneca Niagara Casino 310 4th St., Niagara Falls THURSDAY APRIL 20 TRANSgeneration 6-8 p.m. at The Pride Center 206 S. ELmwood Ave., Buffalo FRIDAY APRIL 21 LGBTQ Seniors Lunch Meet Up 2-4 p.m. at La Bella Sicilia 2909 Genessee St., Buffalo This is a buy your own lunch event Contact judynibe@aol.com SUNDAY APRIL 23 PFLAG Meeting 2:30-5 p.m. at Kenilworth United 45 Dalton St., Buffalo MONDAY APRIL 24 Seniors Healthy Lunch 1-3 p.m. at Preservation Pub 948 Main St., Buffalo

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MONDAYS RAPID HIV TESTING (9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. @ Pride Center of WNY, 200 S. Elmwood Ave.) Walk-in HIV testing is free and confidential, results onsite and within 20 minutes. LGBT VETERANS SUPPORT GROUP (2 p.m. - 3 p.m. @ Buffalo VAMC, 3495 Bailey Ave.) TUESDAYS RAPID HIV TESTING (12:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. @ Pride Center of WNY, 200 S. Elmwood Ave.) Walk-in HIV testing is free and confidential, results onsite and within 20 minutes. FRONTRUNNERS/FRONTWALKERS (6 p.m. @ Delaware Park) Meet at Ring Road Snack Shop via the Nottingham Entrance.

SATURDAY APRIL 8 BEAR NIGHT The Buffalo Bears and their admirers gather at Preservation Pub, 10 p.m., for this city’s favorite monthly fur-lovers party. April’s theme? Country. Time to bust out the big hat and the boots, Boys. SATURDAY APRIL 15 Easter Egg Coloring with Mark Noon to 7 p.m. at Q 44 Allen St., Buffalo

THURSDAYS RAPID HIV TESTING (12:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. @ Pride Center of WNY, 200 S. Elmwood Ave.) Walk-in HIV testing is free and confidential, results onsite and within 20 minutes. FRIDAYS RAPID HIV TESTING (9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. @ Pride Center of WNY, 200 S. Elmwood Ave.) Walk-in HIV testing is free and confidential, results onsite and within 20 minutes. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. @ Evergreen Commons, 262 Georgia St.) AA meeting geared for members of the LGBT community. SUNDAYS FRONTRUNNERS/FRONTWALKERS (10 a.m. @ Delaware Park) Meet at Ring Road Snack Shop via the Nottingham Entrance.

5 @ Fugazi: Monday Madness: Martini specials; $3 well/domestic. 8:30 p.m. @ Cathode Ray: Big Ass Drink Night: $6.50 mason jars of specialty drinks. 10 p.m. @ Q: Raw Moves Monday: live music with Joe Donohue, III and Kevin Crowley. TUESDAYS 8:30 p.m. @ Cathode Ray: Little Ass Summer Drinks for $5. 9 p.m. @ Underground: Game Night. 10 p.m. @ Nietzsche’s: Joe Donohue’s Bathtub Gin Review, then the Buffalo Stripteasers perform.

MONDAY APRIL 17 Dyngus Day 4 p.m. at Q, featuring a Polish buffet with drink specials and giveaways 44 Allen St., Buffalo

WEDNESDAYS RAPID HIV TESTING (9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. @ Pride Center of WNY, 200 S. Elmwood Ave.) Walk-in HIV testing is free and confidential, results onsite and within 20 minutes.

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SPOTLIGHT TRANSPORTATION Street. Taylor and her friends went downtown to Chippewa. A couple hours later they contacted the shuttle again and took it from Chippewa to Savoy near Allentown. “They actually checked in on us because at Savoy we ended staying there for a few hours. They texted me and asked if we wanted to be picked up again. It was nice that they hit us up to double-check on us when they didn’t hear from us.” The experience was fun, she says. “They played music on there. It was nice and roomy. So convenient, especially when you’re with a group of people and you don’t want to take four cars and everyone is splitting up. You don’t have to worry about drinking and driving or even parking. Ten of us were all able to hang out and travel from bar to bar together and crack up and drink.”

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WHO NEEDS UBER? IN BUFFALO, GOSOCIAL INSTEAD. IF YOU LIVE in the city of Buffalo, you might

have noticed a new shuttle service zipping around town. GoSocial is a weekend shuttle service launched by Shawn A. Patterson, Adriana Lucia Gonzales-Vera, and Brandon Adler, and their plan is to offer rides to folks in the Elmwood, Allentown, and Chippewa areas for $10 per night. The service launched on St. Patrick’s Day after a couple of months of preparation and some conversations about the late-night transportation market in Buffalo, which is infamously devoid of ride-sharing at the moment. After a few loose discussions about starting up some kind of transportation service, an opportunity arose. “A friend of a friend was trying to sell some buses, and my friend knew we were toying with the idea of doing something like this, and he called me,” says Adler, one of the partners in the business and driver of the shuttle, as we sit at a local coffee shop sipping coffee after long night for the trio of upstart business people.

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They tell me that the previous night was one of their best nights since officially launching earlier in the month. It was also one of the first non-holiday, non-promotional nights for them, which means it was a true test of their business plan.

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“This weekend really proved the concept for us,” says Gonzales-Vera, who, along with her husband and business partner Patterson, are in charge of the marketing aspects of the business.

so if, for instance, you start at Goodbar, you can expect the bus to be back in that area within the hour to take you to your next destination along the route.

Right now, the team has two shuttles, though they only run one at a time, from 9pm to 4am on Fridays and Saturdays. $10 buys a wrist band that’s good for the entire night. The shuttle seats about 19 people.

“As we evolve, we’re going to make the route more set,” says Gonzales-Vera. “We’re still feeling things out, we’re still feeling people out, and we’re still spreading the word. As we get bigger and we grow, it’s going to be ‘This is where we are and we wait for this amount of time.’ It’ll be a more streamlined loop.”

A typical route starts at Mister Goodbar on Elmwood Avenue near Forest and heads south down Elmwood. They’ll stop at places like Milkie’s on Elmwood before going through Allentown, where they stop outside of Allen Street Poutine before heading toward Chippewa. When they loop around, they go through the West Side to Gypsy Parlor and sometimes Essex Street Pub before heading back to Elmwood. The route isn’t set, necessarily. It’s loosely based on the aforementioned path, but if there are special events going on, they’ll cater to that, fitting in some extra or alternative stops. Right now, the whole route takes about 45 minutes,

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The whole business idea came about pretty quickly. The idea was only put forth in December. In January they bought the shuttles and by February they were taking private reservations. St. Patrick’s Day was their public launch, and one of their first riders was Siobhan Taylor and 10 of her friends. Taylor follows GoSocial on Instagram and saw a post from them that day so she decided to contact them for a ride. “It was kind of last minute,” she says. That wasn’t a problem, she says, and later they caught the shuttle in Allentown on Cottage

St. Patrick’s Day was a good weekend for the GoSocial team. Last weekend they ran a private shuttle, which had some pro football players from the Bills, Steelers, and Bengals. They were all going to Lasertron. From what they could gather on the ride home, it was a pretty aggressive game of Lasertron. When GoSocial sat down to start strategizing the branding side of the business, they looked to Uber for inspiration. “Uber was the first company that we thought of as far as ride-sharing. This isn’t necessarily a ride-sharing service, but we thought about how they went about the branding aspect of the company. We want to target this toward millennials. Social media is the way we communicate nowadays, so the whole concept of GoSocial was, let’s get on social media and build a community of riders and people that are going out. Let’s utilize Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to be able to serve that community and shuttle them around,” says Patterson. They social aspect works on a few levels. First, as Patterson mentioned, riders utilize social media to alert the shuttle that they’re looking for a ride. At that point, Gonzales-Vera responds to let the potential riders know when they’ll be in the neighborhood. She’s usually on social media giving constant updates on where the shuttle is headed. “At the same time, when people are in the bus, they’re socializing. We’ve had people who are from different groups—they end up talking and they end up going to the same spot,” says Gonzales-Vera. “They’re meeting each other. We’re in the bus and we’re meeting different people, too. This is the City of Good Neighbors. Very community-oriented,” Patterson adds. As they drive the route, Patterson and Gonzales-Vera have made the habit of jumping out at each stop and quickly popping into a closeby bar to let people know that they’re outside and spread the word about the service. “We park at a spot for three or five minutes. We’ll go in and tell a couple groups of people, and even if they don’t hop on, they now know about it,” says Gonzales-Vera. “It’s been a lot of work. No sleep on the weekends,” says Patterson. Last night, the team didn’t get home until 7am.

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“It’s a long night but it’s well worth it. We’ve been meeting so many different people. It feels good to help people out, too,” says Patterson. As they grow as a business, the GoSocial team wants to eventually expand their map to North Buffalo, South Buffalo, and maybe even the suburbs. Right now they have one bus on the road, but are aiming to have a second one on the road by the end of the month. The goal is to have the third one out by the end of the year. They also have plans to launch a Humans of New York-type blog. If you’re thinking of taking the GoSocial shuttle, here’s what they recommend as your first step: “Hit us up, Tweet at us, Facebook message, or Instagram,” says Gonzales-Vera. “We’re very responsive. You’ll hear from us within a couple of minutes.” If you’d like to learn more about GoSocial, check out their launch party on May 19 at P Expo Market.

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ORATIONS Wych Elm album Recommended if you like: The Smiths, Cocteau Twins, The Sundays From post-punk band Orations comes their debut album, Wych Elm. The 11 tracks wander between illuminated jangle pop, goth rock, and new wave throughout the record—and sometimes within a single song. Highlights include opener “Black Lung,” the more driving “Death and Co.,” and the dark and twisted “The Tell.” Pick it up on LP, CD, or cassette, and/or stream it for free on Bandcamp.

SMALL SMALLS “Brave Bird” single Recommended if you like: Broadcast, Blonde Redhead, Beat Happening Small Smalls is a lo-fi dream pop project formed by Colette Montague as a solo project in 2010. Now a three-piece with guitarist Steve Malczewski and drummer Dave Borden, their latest release is a single titled “Brave Bird.” The charming, synth-driven pop song recorded at Hi-Lo Studio in Eden has Montague singing surrealist lyrics over a sugar pop melody.

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SHANTELL MARTIN AT THE ALBRIGHT-KNOX FRIDAY APRIL 7 7:30PM / ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY, 1285 ELMWOOD AVE / FREE [ARTIST TALK] It all starts with the simplest of things: a line. A line in thick black marker on white that bends and twists and opens new fields. Shantell Martin’s bedrock method starts with a black line on everything without planning what she is going to draw or how the bigger picture will develop. “The pen knows where it is going and I just follow,” Martin has said. The large mural piece covers the face of a wall in the big sculpture court room in the Albright-Knox and was created on site at the opening of her exhibit, Someday We Can on March 11, allowing viewers to be part of the process. The exhibit will conclude with the installation of a Martin mural at an as yet undisclosed location on the East Side. Her natural drawing style is striking and deliberate. The absence of a true focal point allows multiple starting points within the work depending on the viewer. There is no mystery in her process, as if she’s telling the viewer that someday we can, too. The exhibition includes one large mural and a large two-tiered boomerang-shaped table filled with objects including, toys, bottles, and TVs painted white and covered in her signature line drawings. Upon examination, you will find cascading text, stick figures, staircases, animals, boats, quick dashes, line and shape patterns, mountains, and most notably faces that betray a comic touch. Martin’s lines and shapes carry us through the story her marker ldraws. I visited the exhibition with my children. Upon inspecting the table, they found many objects that activated memories for them. For example hidden, painted white and undrawn on, there is a figurine from the book, Where the Wild Things Are, a toy car, one of those little plastic lawn mowers that pop little plastic balls around when you push it, bath toys, animal figurines, and my personal favorite airplanes. All things they of course recognize in their original form. Martin has painted them white and drawn on them, but the memory remains.

WEDNESDAY APR 5 Sharon Bailey Presents 7pm Pausa Art House, 19 Wadsworth St. $5-$7

[JAZZ] Jazz singer Sharon Bailey will be joined by regulars Drew Azzinaro on guitar and Eamon Rayhn on bass for her intimate jazz series Sharon Bailey Presents, which continues this Wednesday, April 5. The series features Bailey, a talented singer, delivering her take on a variety of jazz standards—even wandering into the realm of experimentation at times. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

Rock a Mile in Her Shoes 7pm Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave. $10-$12

[BENEFIT] In times of misfortune, those who need the services of Crisis Services are lucky it’s there. However, you can’t utilize a service that you don’t know exists, and that’s where Rock a Mile in Her Shoes comes in. The third annual event serves to raise money and awareness for the Crisis Services Advocate Program, which provides survivors of sexual

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The collection of objects gives us little information as to why they are all together other than her process—she draws on everything. While my children were swirling around the table I was drawn to the faces—all the faces on the mural and on the sculpture portion of the exhibition. Their eyes seem to be looking at each other and the viewer. No matter where you are in the gallery, all eyes are on you. The faces are symbolic, quick shape of an eye, a blunt L-shaped nose and a quick line for a mouth. There is an accessibility, amusing quality to the work. It is instantly relatable. She reminds us that we too are artists. We all possess the ability to do what we were born to do, but many of us never take the time to realize what we are best at. As an art educator, I am convinced that at least in the classroom this approach can be relayed and made relevant to students. Martin’s art immediately strikes a viewer as belonging in and to the world, and not just in a gallery. There is no patina of pretension in this work, but still it accomplishes a register of transcendence. Martin’s work allowed me to forget I was in a gallery being watched the lurky security guard and that I should act a certain way – you know the way you are supposed to act around’ precious things. Martin will be artist-in-residence at the University of Buffalo through June 25. Her residency is the result of collaboration with the Albright Knox Art Gallery’s Public Art Initiative. She will be giving a series of talks and will create an outdoor, permanent mural on Buffalo’s East Side. Martin will work with UB students and community representatives to decide the final location of the mural. This is the first time an exhibiting artist will also, at the same time, install artwork within the community. The Someday We Can line extends through June 25 at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. As part of M&T FIRST FRIDAYS @ THE GALLERY, Shantell Martin will have a discussion with Albright-Knox public art curator Aaron Ott on Friday, April 7, 2017, 7:30-8:30 pm. It is free and will talk place in the auditorium. -BECKY MODA

and domestic violence free support services. The program, which is available 24/7, aims to not only help victims of sexual and domestic violence in their time of need, but to empower the community to combat these issues too. If you appreciate these kinds of services in your community and you’re looking for a way to support and help sustain them, then here is your invitation. And not only will you be supporting an important program with your ticket purchase to this show, but you’ll also get to experience some of the best bands Buffalo has to offer in Del Paxton, the Slums, MAGS, MORBS, and Erica Wolfing. The dudes in these bands will also, literally, be walking in “her shoes” too, as they’ll be rocking out in high heels. Attendees are also encouraged to rock some pumps too to show support and solidarity for survivors of abuse. If you can’t attend the event but still wish to donate, click here. -CP

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8pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $10

[FUNK] Funk band Ghost Note is a project created by drummer, Robert “Spurt” Sea-

wright and percussionist Nate Werth of the Grammy Award winning Jazz quasi-collective Snarky Puppy. Innovating with their percussive mashup of jazz, hip-hop, and funk, this dynamic duo intend to captivate, and they just might at Buffalo Iron Works next Wednesday, April 5. Kicking off their spring tour only a week ago, expect some percussive gloriousness and sounds from pounding MPC’s to pulsing bass. -SA

Advance Base 8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $8-$10

[INDIE] Hailing from Chicago, electronic pop songwriter Advance Base comes to Mohawk Place this Wednesday, April 5. Drawing comparisons to the Postal Service and David Bazan, Advance Base, a.k.a. Owen Ashworth, delivers lo-fi electronic pop pieces that waver between nostalgic joy and downright heartbreak. Advance Base will be joined by Tuscon, Arizona-based experimental pop musician Karima Walker, as well as Buffalo’s Matt Script and Lara Buckley. -CP

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7PM / SUGAR CITY, 1239 NIAGARA ST. / $7 [POP] Under his Selector Dub Narcotic alias, Calvin Johnson delivers a mishmash of punk, soul, indie, and dancehall that’s kind of hard to pinpoint. It’s kinda goofy but it’ll also get you moving, even if involuntarily. His latest single, “Hotter Than Hot,” could be described as maybe something like James Murphy meets the B-52s and it comes from the record This Party Is Just Getting Started, which is 14 tracks of dance punk oddities recorded in 2016 in his famous Dub Narcotic Studio. When Selector Dub Narcotic comes to Sugar City on Friday, April 7, he’ll be joined by equally eccentric Buffalo punk band Mallwalkers and minimal pop duo Welks Mice. -CORY PERLA

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THURSDAY APR 6 Decorum with Orations 7pm Dreamland, 387 Franklin St. $6

[INDIE] From Brooklyn, Decorum is an experimental post-punk band with lo-fi leanings. They’re actually more than that, wandering into darkwave and goth territory at times, so they’ll fit in quite well with the rest of the line up at Dreamland this Thursday, April 6, which also features gothic post-punk band Orations, who are fresh off of the release of their new record, Wych Elm. Rounding out the lineup are lo-fi garage rock band Slow Mutants and like minded indie rock band The Patterns. -CP

Martin Barre Band 7pm Sportsmen's Tavern, 326 Amherst St. $35

ROCK] Casual listeners to FM hard rock know Martin Barre's guitarwork on such Jethro Tull staples as "Aqualung" and "Locomotive Breath." For my money, you need scratch only a hair deeper to find the track that best illustrates the character of his playing: "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day," from 1974's War Child. Lilting acoustic that bespeaks classical and folk influence give way to crunching electric power chords—Tull in a teacup. But that's just me. Judge for yourself when Barre brings his solo band to the Sportsmen's Tavern on Thursday, April 6. -GK

Steve Rannazzisi 8pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $20-$24

[COMEDY] You probably know Steve Rannazzisi for one of two reasons: Either you’re a fan of the hit FXX TV show The League, in which Rannazzisi starred as the commissioner of a fantasy football league, or because you heard that he lied about being in the World Trade Centers on 9/11. Obviously one

of these scenarios is a better introduction to this admittedly funny man than the other. Needless to say, the latter has affected Rannazzsi’s career significantly, though he’s apologized profusely for misrepresenting himself. If you can get over that bizarre incident, then you’ll probably appreciate Rannazzsi’s colorful comedic style, which the 38-year-old comedian has showed off on TV shows like Punk’d, in movies like Paul Blart: Mall Cop, and on stand up specials like Comedy Central’s Premium Blend. Steve Rannazzisi comes to Buffalo’s Helium Comedy Club for a string of shows this Thursday, April 6 through Saturday, April 8. -CP

FRIDAY APR 7 Periphery with The Contortionist

6pm The Waiting Room, 334 Delaware Ave. $20-$25

[METAL] Sure to make your brain burst from their boundary pushing heavy metal, the sixpiece experimental rock band Periphery will be at the Waiting Room this Friday, April 6. Leaders of an increasingly popular subgenre of heavy metal called djent, the dynamic collective is pushing the boundries. Garnering millions of hits online and placing 22 on Billboard’s Hot 200 with the release of their double album Juggernaut: Alpha and Juggernaut: Omega, the band is on the second leg of their “Sonic Unrest” tour, riding on their most recent full-length release Periphery III: Select Difficulty. Sharing the stage is Indianapolis natives, the Contortionist. The progressive metal quintet adds diversity to the hi-fi compressed production of their travelling counterparts with a rhythmic jazz foundation. Also in the lineup is the elusive rock band Norma Jean and post-rock electronic band Infinity Shred. -SA

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[INDIE] Comedian Joe Rogan is performing at Shea’s Performing Arts Center this Friday, but if this is the first you’re hearing out it you’re out of luck (and you have been for quite some time), because the show is sold out. A bunch of local Rogan fanatics will likely meet at this unofficial Joe Rogan after-party, however. Space Junk, Stereo Nest, Black Source Magnetic, and Wave Magnetik will set up at Nietzsche’s for a special post Joe Rogan show. What makes this even more Joe Rogan-ish it that it’s a fundriaser for Sanctuary, “a psychedelic harm reduction model” that the Psychedelic Society of Western New York (yes, there is a Psychedelic Society of Western New York), is planning to implement at local music festivals. -TPS

THIS WEEK'S LGBT AGENDA THURSDAY, APRIL 6

GENDER REVOLUTION at BAVPA 5:30pm-9pm, 450 Masten Ave.

Presented by the Transgender Health Initiative with help from Planned Parenthood, The Pride Center, GLYS and the Buffalo Public Schools, enjoy a screening of this new Nat-Geo film, featuring Katie Couric. Held at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts with a discussion to follow the film.

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[CLASSICAL] This weekend’s Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra program is perfect for a region finally shucking off the coils of winter: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, the “Pastoral,” alongside Honneger’s Pastoral d’ete, then topped off with solo violinist Benjamin Beilman in Saint-Saens’s Violin Concerto No. 3. Beilman, just 25 years old, is a rising star; you’ll want to say you saw him in his youth. The conductor this weekend is John Axelrod. There are two shows at Kleinhans: Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2:30pm. -GEOFF KELLY

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10pm Lift Nightclub, 257 Franklin St. $10

[TRANCE] When the layperson hears the term “trance music” the tune that likely immediately pops into their head, whether they know what it is or not, is “Sandstorm” by Darude. Since its release in 1999, “Sandstorm” has become ubiquitous—appearing in films, in commercials, and in memes, almost to the point of cliche. Which is too bad, because the Finnish artist has more to offer than just “Sandstorm,” including establishing his own imprintm EnMass Music, on which he pushes his personal favorite artists. Catch Darude at Lift Nightclub on Friday, April 7 with support from Beloved and Joe Chalfioux. -CP

at Troop I Post, Friday: 10am-9pm, Saturday: 10am-4pm, 432 Franklin St.

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[HIP HOP] A fairly new and versatile art space has popped up recently on Hertel. The space, dubbed Faux/Real is branding itself as a “permanent pop-up” space designed for art shows, music shows and more. The next event coming up this Saturday, April 8 is billed as a night of “no gimmicks, no bullshit, just genuine hip hop culture, peace and love,” features a clutch of Buffalo hip hop producers and MCs including Fresh Kils, Coolzey, Farout, IceyTheOne, and Cove Vito. -CP

FRIDAY, APRIL 7

G2H2 HAPPY HOUR at LagerHaus 95, 5:30pm, 95 Perry St.

G2H2 happy hour’s are purely social – no business cards, no networking, no cost (except for drinks/food). Come to meet people in our community, have a drink and a bite and enjoy some new company.

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8pm Rapids Theatre, 1711 Main St. $25-$30

STRANGE ALLURE VOLUME 9: GREY PEOPLE SATURDAY APRIL 8 NAME CHANGE CLINIC PART 2 at WNY Anti-Violence Center/Brent House, Noon-2pm, 3107 Main St.

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[TECHNO] From Nashville by way of Chicago, Grey People—actually just one person, Alex Michalski—is next up for Strange Allure, the regular underground electronic music party. Grey People is on an analogue techno tip, armed with a universe of vintage and cutting edge techno-toys with which the artist creates visceral, minimal machine funk. For a proper introduction, dive into the 2015 Trench Foot EP, which was released on CGI Records. An OG techno lover’s dream the record consists mostly of raw 120 bpm synth driven techno that resembles as much a John Carpenter film score as it does a Theo Parrish deep cut. For a taste of what you’re likely to hear at Strange Allure, look into the Grey People mix for Cultivated Sound on Soundcloud, which features a bunch of classic house cuts as well as some techno innovations. Grey People will be joined by DJs Obsidian Direct and Swan Swan H this Saturday, April 8 at the yet to be disclosed Strange Allure party location. Location details will be released the day of the show via email for ticket holders and email subscribers. For tickets, ask around. Limited tickets available at door. -CORY PERLA

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[HAIR METAL] “Facebook can't handle profanity or sex so we had to remove our bio,” actually tells you more about Steel Panther than any PR firm-generated bio ever could. If Will Farrell did a parody on heavy metal bands a la Anchor Man or Blades of Steel, his parody heavy metal band would be something quite like Steel Panther. The thing is, Steel Panther isn’t a parody. They genuinely and non-satirically deliver lines like “Sometimes the back door is the only way in”—one of their songs is elegantly titled “It Won’t Suck Itself.” Needless to say, there are very few feminists in the crowd at Steel Panther shows. But if what you’re looking for is a hair metal throw back that lays it on thick—like beyond Spinal Tap thick—then maybe this is for you. Find out for yourself this Wednesday, April 12 at the Rapids Theatre. Citizen Zero opens the show. -CP

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PEACH PICKS IN TOWN: “Is literature necessary?” asked Edna O’Brien to a packed Kleinhans Music Hall at the third installment of Just Buffalo Literary Center’s 2016-17 BABEL season. She quickly answered her own question, though, and with passion: “Yes, yes, yes!” What followed was an incredible 90-minute lecture in which O’Brien wove details of her own writing career with points made by James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, and others. Throughout her career and life, O’Brien described how her passion for writing has thrived on conflict, and that when she herself wasn’t reading, she felt an emptiness that could only be satisfied by literature. In her words, the absence of literature is the “death of memory.” At 87 years old, she amazed the crowd with poignant argument and subtle digs at the establishment, suggesting that if only leaders read more, there would be less war and violence.

IN PRINT: Nature Poem (poetry) by Tommy Pico Tin House Books, forthcoming 2017 Nature Poem, Tommy Pico’s epic poem forthcoming from Tin House Books, portrays the strange and beautiful struggle that Pico has with his cultural identity. Pico opens by referring to himself as a “weirdo NDN faggot,” and by insisting again and again that he cannot and will not write a poem about nature; “I can’t write a nature poem,” he writes, “bc it’s fodder for the noble savage/ narrative. I wd slap a tree across the face,/ I say to my audience.” Born on the Viejas Indian Reservation, Pico considers himself an average American—“I make quinoa n shit.” Throughout the poem he recounts several instances in which he managed to find humor while being questioned or stereotyped by a narrow-minded person. The irony of Nature Poem is that while Pico initially refused to write a poem about nature, the lyricism and metaphors about poetry and art—“to get inside / a poem has to break you”—leave the reader with the sense that something natural has indeed been achieved.

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[INDIE] Performing at Buffalo Iron Works next Tuesday are indie-rock band Said the Whale. After many changes in genre and members, the Vancouver natives have reached a solid sound on their freshly released fifth studio album, As Long As Your Eyes Are Wide. Beginning as an exploratory songwriting experience by lead vocalists Tyler Bancroft and Ben Worcester, the hipster outfit have returned to their organic production roots with some added electronic grooves, evident on their single “Step Into the Darkness,” which has garnered more than 20,000 views on YouTube. Also performing is Buffalo collective Mom Said No. Known for their high-energy, pop-influenced rock DAILYPUBLIC.COM tunes and larger than life stage presence the band is currently working on their debut album, Time, scheduled for a May 14 release. -SCHONDRA AYTCH

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IN PRINT + IN TOWN: Nameless Boy (poetry) by Diana Goetsch

Orchises Press, 2015 Last Wednesday, Diana Goetsch read at Canisius College for the final installment of the Spring Contemporary Writers Series. She read from her 2015 collection of poetry, Nameless Boy, a volume—or “bullshit poems,” as she calls them—that largely toys with incompetent narrators. Within these poems, which frequently center on the struggles of her transition and the realities of life as a trans woman, Goetsch exhibits a rare humor that could have the most serious of crowds doubled over laughing. In her new poem, “A Proposal,” Goetsch implores the author to never accept the ridiculousness of our president’s combover: “We can’t, for instance, look at a picture / of the exploded rooster comb he’s managed to cement up there / and say, Yeah okay that’s the president.” This contrast of dark themes against light humor make Diana Goetsch a must-read during the next four years.

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[HIP HOP] Known for his low-end sonic fury and sharp synths, Berkley producer Thriftworks will be performing at the Waiting Room next Wednesday, April 12 along with New York City’s Blockhead. With various samples and experimental beat-crafting, Thriftworks—a.k.a. Jake Atlas—is innovating and pushing the boundaries of electronic music. Currently on tour in support of his latest album, Red Leopard, the up-and-coming artist is making waves. Manhattan-based indie hip hop beat producer Blockhead is known for his sly breakbeats and up-tempo hip-hop instrumentals. The funky DJ is a veteran of the scene and known for his work with altnerative hip hop MC Aseop Rock. Check out his 2001 groove-inducing album Blockhead’s Broke Beats—a classic pre J Dilla Donuts-esque loop and beat-style example of this talented producer’s unique take on hip hop P in anticipation for this solid show presented by MNM Presents. -SCHONDRA AYTCH

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NOT YOUR DAUGHTER’S LITTLE MERMAID THE LURE BY GREGORY LAMBERSON BEFORE THEIR DISNEY-FICATION, fairy tales were often hor-

ror stories filled with violence and gore, and aimed at entertaining adults as much as terrifying children. The Little Mermaid, the Beast, the Snow Queen, and even Jiminy Cricket perished in manners not exactly conducive to theme-park attractions and merchandising aimed at young girls. The Lure, opening Friday at the Screening Room, is the first musical about man-eating stripper mermaids. At its heart, it is also a more faithful adaptation of Hans Christen Andersen’s story “The Little Mermaid” than we’ve seen before. Srebrina and Zlota are two mermaid sisters who come ashore in Warsaw before a planned trip to the United States (at least according to the English subtitles). They find a temporary home, and employment, in a cabaret where the performers sing their favorite American songs. Perhaps this emulation of Western pop culture is why the sisters choose Silver and Gold as their stage names. The ladies quickly win over the club owner and his patrons with their willingness to bare all—in this case, their mermaid tails, which they unfurl in a giant champagne glass. Like Daryl Hannah in Splash, Silver falls in love with a human male, while Gold sates her appetite by devouring the usual horny victims. Much of this is played for whimsy until Silver sacrifices her tail in the name of true love, and the resulting surgery unfolds like something out of The Human Centipede. Like The Rocky

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

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OPENING THIS WEEK GOING IN STYLE—Remake of the 1979 comedy, this time with Alan Arkin, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman as the oldsters who decide to rob a bank. Co-starring Ann-Margret, Matt Dillon, Christopher Lloyd and Peter Serafinowicz. Directed by Zach Braff (Garden State). Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Transit, Dipson Flix, Regal Quaker, Regal Elmwood, Regal Walden Galleria

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (Germany, 2011)— Werner Herzog’s documentary about 32,000 year old cave paintings, by far the oldest known to man and so fragile that they will never be opened to the public. And of course nothing improves a nature documentary like Herzog’s musings, especially a postscript about albino crocodiles. Presented by the Roycroft Film Society. Sun 4 pm. Parkdale School Auditorium, 141 Girard Ave., East Aurora CLASH BY NIGHT (1952)—Fritz Lang’s nourish melodrama (based on a play by Clifford Odets) starring Barbara Stanwyck as a hardbitten woman who stirs up her hometown when she returns after years away. With Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, and, in her first substantial role, Marilyn Monroe. Fri 7:30 pm. Old Chestnut Film Society, Phillip Sheridan School, 3200 Elmwood Avenue. http:// oldchestnut.com/ GHOSTS (Gespenster, Germany, 2005)—Cultivate Cinema Circle’s Christian Petzold retrospective continues with this drama about a woman convinced that a young woman she meets in Berlin is the daughter who was kid-

Michalina Olszanska in The Lure.

Horror Picture Show and Phantom of the Paradise before it, The Lure gains weight in its last act, and the allusions to Anderson’s fairy tale become literal when we learn Silver will turn into sea foam if the subject of her affection marries someone else. The Lure had a successful film festival run and screened at Sundance, which should tell you this isn’t your typical horror or fish tale. First-time director Agnieszka Smoczynska’s film alternates between the quirky, alien tones of a foreign indie comedy and a more somber exploration of strangers in a strange land. The

napped 15 years earlier. Starring Julia Hummer, Sabine Timoteo, and Marianne Basler. Wed 7pm. Squeaky Wheel KIZUMONOGATARI: TEKKETSU and NEKKETSU-HEN—Parts one and two of the new anime trilogy based on the novel by Ishin Nishio. Directed by Tatsuya Oishi and Akiyuki Shinbo Thurs 7:30 pm. Dipson Eastern Hills THE LURE—From Poland, a horror musical tale based in part on Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid that is definitely not for kids. Directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska. Reviewed this issue. Thurs 7:30 pm, Fri 9:30 pm Sun 5:30 pm, Mon, Weds 7:30 MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Japan, 1988)— Hayao Miyazaki’s classic animated film about the adventures of two young girls with the woodland spirits who live near their ailing mother’s house. Sun 11:30 am. North Park OFFICE SPACE (1999)—The first live action feature by Beavis and Butt-head creator Mike Judge is a “cult movie” whose appeal is limited to people who have ever worked with people they could not stand. A flop when it was released, it’s filled with memorable scenes: my personal favorite is the gangsta assassination of a troublesome office machine. Starring Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, Diedrich Bader, Stephen Root and Gary Cole as Lumbergh. Fri, Sat, Tues 7:30 pm ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984)—The uncut version of Sergio Leone’s final masterpiece runs nearly four hours and is not a minute too long. The operatic story uses a dreamlike structure to track the lives of four friends from boyhood in the lower east side of Manhattan through criminal careers and the aftermath. With one of Ennio Morricone’s most luxuriant scores. Starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Tuesday Weld and Treat Williams. Presented by the Buffalo Film Seminars. Tues 7 pm. Dipson Amherst RIGOLETTO—Live from the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Giuseppe Verdi’s first masterpiece, adapted from the play Le roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo. Starring Javier Ca-

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early musical numbers—the mermaids’ enticing siren calls from the ocean to the Warsaw men folk, and the performances in the club—generally operate in a narrative context, but eventually give way to full blown musical numbers that lend the film a unique exuberance. In recent years the Screening Room has played art house horror films like It Follows and The Babadook, and The Lure should appeal to moviegoers seeking something different than what they’ll find in the local multiplexes, not to mention an even rarer fish these days: a foreign language film. P

marena, Carlos Álvarez, Desirée Rancatore, and Ante Jerkunica. Conducted by Riccardo Frizza and directed by Monique Wagemakers. Mon 2 pm. Dipson Amherst TAMPOPO (Japan, 1985)—“The first Japanese noodle western!” The plot of this hugely enjoyable international hit, about a Clint Eastwood-ish trucker who comes to the aid of a troubled noodle shop, is interspersed with vignettes about the relationship between love and food. Worth seeing for the opening scene alone, in which a gangster deals with people who talk during a movie. Directed by Jûzô Itami. Sat 11:15 am. North Park

CONTINUING THE BOSS BABY—Alec Baldwin as the voice of a power-hungry infant. It only sounds like an SNL skit. Other voices by Tobey Maguire, Steve Buscemi, Lisa Kudrow and Jimmy Kimmel. Directed by Tom McGrath (Madagascar). Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Transit, Dipson Flix, Regal Quaker, Regal Elmwood, Regal Walden Galleria CHIPS—Comic remake of a 1980s TV series that no one took seriously in the first place. Starring Dax Shepard (who also wrote and directed), Michael Peña, Jessica McNamee, Adam Brody, Ryan Hansen, and Vincent D’Onofrio. Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria A DOG’S PURPOSE—Director Lasse Hallström could have reused the title of his first international hit, My Life as a Dog, for this fantasy about a dog who learns the meaning of his existence over several lifetimes and owners. Starring Britt Robertson, Dennis Quaid, and Peggy Lipton. Dipson McKinley, Four Seasons GET OUT—Key & Peele’s Jordan Peele wrote and directed this horror film about a young black man whose discomfort when he goes to the home of his white girlfriend’s family proves to be all too well justified. It’s better written than it is directed, and you can’t help but wish that Peele had turned the script over to someone who had a better idea of

how to balance the absurdity of the premise with the very real racial tensions with which it is combined. Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, and Bradley Whitford. –MF Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Transit, Regal Quaker, Regal Walden Galleria GHOST IN THE SHELL—Scarlett Johansson as a cyborg crimefighter in this live action adaptation of the popular anime series. With Pilou Asbæk, Michael Pitt and ‘Beat’ Takeshi. Directed by Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman). Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Transit, Dipson Flix, Regal Quaker, Regal Elmwood, Regal Walden Galleria THE GREAT WALL—This Chinese-American co-production passed through a number of hands since it was first proposed in 2011, which is probably why the end result is such spoiled broth. The big battle scene in the first act has its moments: The seemingly infinite horde of CGI monsters attacking the wall is generic, but director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Curse of the Golden Flower) gets to display his talent with color and costumes to good effect. The color-coded acrobatic fight squads are amazing to watch, and the production design incorporates a steampunk element. But the rest of the film feels exhausted, with neither the setting nor the era (medieval China) used to very good effect. Starring Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe, and Andy Lau. —MF Dipson McKinley HIDDEN FIGURES—Given that so many people are finding inspiration in this drama about the experiences of three women who confronted both sexism and racism while working for NASA in West Virginia in the early 1960s, it seems churlish to complain about the movie’s lack of historical authenticity (hardly an unusual problem in movies “based on” or “inspired by” true events). It’s worth showing modern audiences the workings of day-to-day segregation: separate bathrooms, unequal educational opportunities, inane dress codes. But the accomplishments of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson could have been celebrated without putting them through so many hurdles that they didn’t actually face for the sake

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of a feel-good story. Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, and Mahershala Ali. Directed by Theodore Melfi (St. Vincent). —MF Dipson McKinley, Four Seasons

writer (Amanda Seyfried) to hang around with her until she finds good things to say. Her tartness is less misanthropic than the MAPLE RIDGE 8 (AMC) concurrent Wilson, and if the end result is un4276 Maple Rd., Amherst / 833-9545 surprising there are moderate laughs along amctheatres.com KONG: SKULL ISLAND—The best King Kong since the way along with no more heart-tugging MCKINLEY 6 THEATRES (DIPSON) the 1933 original owes much to wrestling. It than is necessary. With Anne Heche. Directed 3701 McKinley Pkwy. / McKinley Mall operates much like a theme park ride, with by Mark Pellington (The Mothman PropheHamburg / 824-3479 dazzling special effects delivered at a breath- cies). –MF Dipson Eastern Hills ENDS THURS mckinley.dipsontheatres.com less pace and high decibel level. Set near the LIFE—Astronauts discover life on Mars. Apend of the Viet Nam war, the action is con- parently, it is not happy to meet them. StarNORTH PARK THEATRE fined to the titular island, when survivors of ring Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Jake 1428 Hertel Ave., Buffalo / 836-7411 a fleet of US Army helicopters who made the Gyllenhaal, and Hiroyuki Sanada. Directed by northparktheatre.org bad decision to invade Kong home turf bat- Daniel Espinosa (Child 44). Dipson Flix, Regal tle the island’s other monstrosities in a bid to Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, REGAL ELMWOOD CENTER 16 reunite and escape. The motion capture ef- Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria 2001 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo / 871–0722 fects are top-notch, superior to those in Pe- LION—The true story of Saroo Brierley, who as regmovies.com ter Jackson’s more ambitious 2005 remake. a five-year-old boy was separated from his Starring Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, family in a small Indian village and spent sevREGAL NIAGARA FALLS STADIUM 12 Brie Larson, John C. Reilly, and John Good- eral years living on the streets before being 720 Builders Way, Niagara Falls man. Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The adopted by an Australian couple. That could 236–0146 Kings of Summer). –Gregory Lamberson well be an unbearable story to watch, but it regmovies.com Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niaga- only takes up the first half of the movie, and ra Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal is handled with attention to what n audience REGAL QUAKER CROSSING 18 Walden Galleria can tolerate. The remainder of the story fol3450 Amelia Dr., Orchard Park / 827–1109 LA LA LAND—Heralded by some as a tribute to lows the adult Saroo (Dev Patel, oozing movie regmovies.com classic Hollywood movie musicals, the new star charisma) as he comes to grips with his film by Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) has more dimly remembered past and decides to find REGAL TRANSIT CENTER 18 in common with Fame than anything starring his birth place. 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to a film that was a defining moment of its generation? Not by trying to repeat it, which Danny Boyle had the sense to do here. While he has reunited all of his main cast, Boyle chose not to adapt the novel Irvine Welsh wrote as a sequel, Porno, in favor of a mostly original scrip by his regular collaborator John Hodge that looks at Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie twenty years down the line. The film captures a vein of rueful nostalgia in men with no reason not to look back when the future doesn’t hold any promise. And if T2 avoids the original’s more grotesque moments, it maintains its high energy. Few movie sequels are ever truly necessary, but this one proves more winning than most. Starring Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, and Anjela Nedyalkova. -MF Dipson Amherst WILSON—Daniel Clowes (Ghost World) scripted this adaption of his graphic novel starring Woody Harrelson as a curmudgeon trying to come to terms with the modern world. Episodically paced, the movie follows the apparently unemployed Wilson as, despairing of making new friends, he tries to renew acquaintances with old ones. Most notable of these are Laura Dern as a lost love who is even more damaged than he is: it’s a brilliant pairing. But it’s Harrelson’s movie and he runs with it. While the story takes him to some dark places, Clowes and director Craig Johnson (The Skeleton Twins) keep the film from becoming too grim. That may leave it slightly without the courage of its convictions by the time it’s over, but for a character like this guy, a little realism goes a long way. With Judy Greer, Cheryl Hines and Isabella Amara. –MF. Dipson Amherst THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE—Some stories just seem naturals for filming, which I’m sure was the feeling of the producers who greenlit this true story about the managers of the Warsaw Zoo who used the site to hide Jews from the Nazis during World War II. I imagine that the 2008 book, by Ithaca writer Diane Ackerman working from the diaries of Antonina Zabinski, must be filled with compelling stuff. But Nicki Caro’s movie flails in its search for a consistent focus. It bounces among themes without connecting them, raises issues it doesn’t want to develop, and lets characters fade into the background behind a star playing a too-often passive role in her own story. It’s the kind of movie you show to young teens as a history lesson: the tale is valuable, even uplifting, but you can’t help but wish it had been better told. Starring Jessica Chastain, Daniel Brühl and Johan Heldenbergh. –MF P

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Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard at the Spirit of America rally.

BY AARON LOWINGER

SATURDAY’S EVENT HOSTED BY THREE LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS LOOKED A LOT LIKE A WHITE SUPREMACY RALLY. THE “SPIRIT OF AMERICA” rally held last Saturday afternoon in Niagara Square was meant to be a show of support for the current president, to counter the perception created by large protests that have sprouted since the election of Donald Trump. There was far more spirit to be found in the back, behind the police line, where counter-demonstrators held an impromptu queer dance party to stay warm.

In the crowd of maybe 150 supporters—there were around 50 counter-demonstrators—there were no fewer than three Confederate flags. There’s a specious historical argument to make about the flag that some hide behind, but considering that, historically, any New Yorker would have been killed by forces defending that flag, we all know what the flag really means. The rally’s speakers included three elected officials: David DiPietro (NY Assemblyman), Tim Howard (Erie County Sheriff ), and Carl Paladino (Buffalo Board of Education). DiPietro helped organize the event, but was not present on Saturday. How any of them could in good conscience accept praise and support from someone carrying a Confederate flag in Buffalo in 2017 boggles the mind. The only thing the flag could stand for in this context is white supremacy. As I was leaving early, I saw Horace Scott Lacy, the same guy who admitted to dropping neo-Nazi leaflets in Lewiston last week, walking up in a group of four, one wearing a White Lives Matter shirt. Lacy, it appears, is living in Niagara Falls and is actively recruiting for his group, the Aryan Renaissance Society. Neo-Nazis Horace Scott Lacy (left) and Todd Biro holding recruitment pamphlets. Another man wearing a “Fuck Cuomo” shirt with the “F” and “K” spelled with assault rifles, held a sign

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criticizing Senator Charles Schumer, where both “S”s were written in the style of the Waffen-SS. Another historically significant group of people. The speakers attempted to make the rally about freedom and democracy. Based on the signs and shirts being worn, if the gathered had been polled, Second Amendment rights would have figured large as motivating factor for many. Rus Thompson, newly convicted of voter fraud, talked about how we had to defend all of our Constitutional rights. As he spoke, members of the Buffalo Police Department’s Strike Force, whose daily vehicular checkpoint appears to be a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment, kept the distance between the supporters and counter protesters, warning those who crossed the makeshift line. When Sheriff Howard spoke, the counter-demonstrators read

off the names of those who have died in the holding center, and at the hands of the Buffalo Police. When Carl Paladino assumed the microphone, the countdown of days since four separate petitions asking for Paladino’s ouster from the school board landed on the state commissioner’s desk began, followed by chants. He mumbled something about everyone’s First Amendment rights for speech and walked off. He didn’t last five minutes. The entire rally, planned to last until 3pm, but it all ended around 2:30pm. I suppose all that spirit was too quickly used up; besides, it was getting cold out there. UPDATE: The initial reporting on this rally made by The Buffalo News, WIVB, and WGRZ have scrubbed any image of three Confederate flags and have not mentioned the flags nor the presP ence of Horace Scott Lacy at the event in their reporting.

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