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Discover Buffalo
Metropolitan Living
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ALLENTOWN: 2BR 2BA architectural gem w/ 5 levels of
living space. Upd. kit, bths, roof & mechs. Off-st. parking! 5
Days Park, $229,900. Robert Karp, 553-9963(c)
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HAMBURG: NEW! Private 4BR 1.5BA overlooks 18 Mile Crk
w/ encl porch, above-grnd pool, deck w/ Jacuzzi & newer
roof & furnace. 43 Hillview, $199,000. Christopher Lavey,
480-9507(c)
NO. BUFFALO: Beaut-maint. 3BR 1.5BA w/ park-like yard,
LR, DR, fam rm & part. fin bsmt. 63 Edge Park, $219,900.
Robert Karp, 553-9963(c)
PENDLETON: Beautiful 3BR 2BA Model home in Starpoint
w/ hrdwd flrs. Kit w/ granite & bfast bar, 1st flr lndry, walk-in
shower, etc. 5731 Fisk, $299,900. Joe Sorrentino Jr, 2072994(c)
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LISTINGS
DELAWARE DIST: Lovely 2BR 2BA unit in Park Lane. Airy
LR, formal DR, kit w/ granite. Walk to Elmwood shops
& restaurants. 33 Gates Circle #10G, $399,900. Susan
Lenahan, 864-6757(c)
LOVEJOY: 2+BRs 1BA on corner lot. Newer bth, HWT, fans,
windows, siding & roof. Sale includes adj. lot at 37 N. Ogden.
39 N. Ogden, $57,000. Dragica “Dee” Stare, 316-9995
APPOINTMENTS
BYBYAPPOINTMENT
ALLENTOWN: Rentals. Beaut. all new studios & 1BRs w/ inunit W/D, hrdwd flrs, A/C, parkg, steps to Med. Campus. 481
Franklin, $950-1,400. Mark W. DiGiampaolo, 887-3891(c)
ALLENTOWN: Rental. Updated 1BR+ den & 1.5BA. Beaut.
architect. features. Off-st park, lndry & outdoor space! 451
Franklin, $1,500+, Mark DiGiampaolo, 887-3891(c)
CAZ. PARK/MERCY HOSP: All updated 3BR 1st flr flat w/
all new appliances & carpeting. Incl. lndry hookups. 28
Magnolia, $750+. Robin Barrell, 986-4061(c)
CHEEKTOWAGA: 4BR 1.5BA on quiet street. Fam rm, 1st
flr lndry, garage. 127 Nantucket, $147,000. James Collis,
479-0969(c)
DELAWARE DIST: 2BR 2BA co-op w/ 1 park space. New
kit w/ granite & soapstone, mstr w/ en suite bth & wall of
closets. 925 Delaware #3B, $495,000. Susan D. Lenahan,
864-6757(c)
DEPEW/CHEEK: 3BR 1BA cute starter home w/ open floor
plan, eat-in kit, 1car garage and convenient to shopping. 52
Benz, $124,900. Thomas Walton, 949-4639(c)
EAST SIDE: 30 x 95 building lot in great area near Cayuga. 6
Milton, $6,500. Thomas Needham, 574-8825(c)
ELMWOOD VLG: Solid multi-unit bldg w/ two 2BR units
& 13 unit rooming house (6 of the rms remodeled). 104
Richmond Ave, $334,900. Robert Karp, 553-9963(c)
ELMWOOD VLG: 3BR 2BA Colonial in exclusive area. LR,
formal DR, den w/ sliders to deck, first flr BR & lndry. Full dry
bsmt cld be finished. 27 Lincoln Woods Ln, $499,900. Susan
D. Lenahan, 864-6757(c)
ELMWOOD VLG: Rental. Sunny 2BR on 2nd flr w/ hrdwd
flrs, new kit & bth (heated BA flr), lndry & garage parking.
819 Auburn, $1600+. Robin Barrell, 986-4061(c)
EVANS: 5BR 3.5BA on 2 acres. LR w/ hrdwd flrs & trey ceilg,
lrg DR, 1st flr mstr, fam rm leads to yard, pool & hot tub. 8car
gar for car buffs! 976 Sturgeon Point, $465,000. Richard
Fontana, 605- 2829(c)
KENMORE: Immaculate 2/2 Double w/ nat. wdwrk, hrdwd
flrs, leaded glass. Newer roof & windows. 2car garage. 122
Stillwell, $149,900. Joe Sorrentino Jr, 207-2994(c)
NIAG. FALLS: 2/2 Double w/upd. rf, furnc, plumb, elec! 535
23rd St, $59,900. Mark W. DiGiampaolo, 887-3891(c)
N. TONAWANDA: Cozy 2BR 1BA Ranch with large LR,
formal DR, eat-in kitchen and 2-car garage. 28 Keil,
$59,900. G. “Mike” Liska, 984-7766(c)
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
> BY CHUCK SHEPHERD
THE INTERNET’S PROMISE
FULFILLED (FOR MEN, ANYWAY)
Japan’s Tenga toy company appears to be first on
the market with a virtual reality bodysuit (for use with
the Oculus Rift “Sexy Beach Premium Resort” 3-D
game) containing a genital stimulator and the sensation
of “groping” breasts -- sending “impulses all over the
wearer’s body to make it feel like another human being is
touching them,” according to one reviewer (who expressed
dismay that the bodysuit might put sex workers out of
business). Said Tenga’s CEO, “In the future, the virtual
real will become more real than actual real sex.” Because
of societal pressures, women are expected to be a lessrobust market for the device than men.
■
GROWN-UPS
In March, one District of Columbia government
administrative law judge was charged with misdemeanor
assault on another. Judge Sharon Goodie said she wanted
to give Judge Joan Davenport some files, but Davenport,
in her office, would not answer the door. Goodie said once
the door finally opened, an enraged Davenport allegedly
“lunged” at her, “aiming” her thrust at Goodie’s neck. ■ Tennessee state Rep. Jeremy Durham has such a
reputation as a “dog” around women working at the capitol
that the house speaker issued a directive in April relocating
Durham’s office to a less-populated building across the
street. Further, Durham is allowed access only to certain
legislative meetings and to certain staff (i.e., no free-ranging
among female staff members). After interviewing 34 people,
the state attorney general said he believed that Rep.
Durham’s unwanted sexual approaches and commentaries
were impeding legislative business.
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AWESOME GOVERNMENTS
Chinese courts (according to figures reported by
Amnesty International in March) dispense justice so skillfully
that more than 99.9 percent of cases result in convictions
(1,039 acquittals in 1.2 million cases last year).
■ During its first 33 years (through 2012), the U.S.
government's applications for secret search warrants to the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court have been approved
all but 11 times out of 33,900 cases. (FISC defenders say
that is because all requests are finely honed by guidance
from the judges, but of course, both the Chinese and U.S.
numbers, and reasoning, are, by designation, unverifiable.)
■
LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS
“Who’s a Good Dog?”/”Yes, You Are”: Some are just
blessed with doggy charisma, say owners who showcase
their pet’s charm on “personal” social media accounts,
and now specialized marketers scour those sources to
■
EDITORIAL
publisher jamie moses
editor-in-chief frank parlato
match the most popular pooches with advertisers seeking
just the right four-legged companion for their image. As The
Wall Street Journal reported in April, entrepreneurial dog
owners have rushed to create popular Instagram accounts
and Facebook posts (and now, even to put their photogenic
pups on a live-streaming app called Waggle) to catch agents’
eyes (and, they hope, lead to four- and five-figure paydays
from such advertisers as Nikon, PetSmart, Residence Inn
and Heinz).
■ New Jersey is a big state, but when just one man decided
to move away, the state legislature’s budget office director
warned that the loss of that man’s taxes might lead to state
revenue problems. Billionaire hedge-fund manager David
Tepper evidently pays a bundle, and the budget office
director pointed out that the state’s reliance on personal
income taxes means that even a 1 percent drop in anticipated
tax could create a gap of $140 million under forecasts.
■ Among the names chosen for Internet start-up ventures
(although -- face it -- the more sensible names are already
taken): Houzz (home design and remodeling), Kabam (online
interactive game company, formerly “Watercooler Inc.”),
Klarna (e-commerce company that pays the store for your
purchases and then collects from you), MuleSoft (makes
software to integrate applications) and Kabbage (makes smallbusiness loans online). Wired magazine reported in February
that those ventures, and two dozen other inexplicably named
startups, are all “unicorns” -- with investors pledging at least $1
billion to each one.
THE JOB OF THE RESEARCHER
Researchers already knew that masked birch caterpillars
“rub hairs on their rear ends against a leaf to create
vibrations,” according to an April National Geographic
report, but a forthcoming article by Carleton University
biologists describes that “drumming” as actually part of their
“sophisticated signaling repertoire” to attract others -- not
for mating but for assistance in spinning their protective silk
cocoons. The researchers’ “laser vibrometer” detects sound
likely inaudible to humans, but when the caterpillars feed, it’s
clearly, said one researcher, “Chomp, chomp, chomp, anal
scrape. Chomp, chomp, chomp, anal scrape.”
■
REPORT MICRO-CRIME
According to surveillance video, a man broke into a Five
Guys restaurant in Washington, D.C., in the middle of the
night on March 18, cooked himself a cheeseburger and fled.
■ Ellis Battista, 24, was arrested for the February break-in
at Bradley’s convenience store in Las Cruces, New Mexico,
in which he took only a pack of cigarettes -- for which he
left $6 on the counter. (However, he also damaged the door
getting in.)
■
UNDIGNIFIED DEATHS
A 69-year-old man was killed on March 17 while awaiting
emergency care at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville,
North Carolina. He had been seriously injured in an earlier
■
GENERAL MANAGER
dr. chitra selvaraj
COLUMNISTS
theater editor anthony chase
film editor jordan canahai
calendar editor moose jr.
javier bustillos, jan jezioro, andrew
kulyk, tony farina, chuck shepherd,
rob brezsny, matt ricchiazzi
accident and was in the waiting room when a 59-year-old
driver’s car crashed through the hospital doors and fatally
struck him.
A 55-year-old man was killed in Memphis, Tennessee,
on March 23 when a 15-foot trailer came loose and crashed
into him on a sidewalk. The deceased, who had a lengthy
criminal record for sexual assault, might have avoided
the trailer if he had not been distracted by watching
pornography on his phone as he walked.
■
LEAST COMPETENT CIMINALS
Amanda Schweickert, 28, was charged with a felony and
three driving offenses in March in Springville, New York,
when deputies noticed that her rear license plate was just a
piece of cardboard painted to sort of resemble a New York
plate (but more likely suggesting the work of an elementary
school art class). (New York also requires a front plate, but
Schweickert had not gotten around to that yet.) ■
Britain’s annual Boring Conference (this year, July 5
at Conway Hall in London) brings together those who
celebrate the mundane (previous topics include sneezing,
toast, vending machine sounds, yellow lines, barcodes),
and in anticipation, a BBC News commentator interviewed
Peter Willis of the Letter Box Study Group. Willis, 68, was
excited at having recently acquired access to a database of
all 115,000 mailboxes served by U.K.’s Royal Mail and hopes,
with the help of “splendid” mapping software, to visit and
photograph each one, to examine the different styles. No
doubt speaking for all members, Willis said the lay version
of “boring” implies inactivity, but the obsessives in his study
group (and in attendance at the Boring Conference) lead
active lives, with a wide range of interests. (The conference,
by the way, is sold out.)
■
A NEWS OF THE WEIRD CLASSIC
(FEBRUARY 2012)
Sri Lanka has, as an “unwritten symbol of pride and
culture,” the world’s highest per capita rate for eye donation,
according to a January (2012) Associated Press dispatch
from Colombo. Underpinning this national purpose is the
country’s Buddhist tradition that celebrates afterlives. “He’s
dead,” said a mourning relative of a deceased eye donor,
“but he’s still alive. His eye can still see the world.” Doctors
even report instances in which Sri Lankans consider giving
up an eyeball while still alive, as a measure of virtue. A new
state-of-the-art clinic, funded by Singaporean donors, is
expected to nearly double Sri Lanka’s export of eyeballs.
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NEWS | FEATURE
SCHROEDER TOUTS WATCHDOG RECORD,
HINTS MAYORAL RUN POSSIBLE
Asbury Hall
SUN 5/8
AN ACOUSTIC EVENING WITH
JOHN HIATT
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BY TONY FARINA
B
uffalo’s chief fiscal watchdog pulls no
punches when describing the work his
staff has done under his leadership to
save city taxpayers money by refinancing old
debt and rooting out wasteful spending, but
South Buffalo’s Mark Schroeder may have
more than numbers on his mind as he hints
that a run for mayor next year is something
he’s likely to consider seriously after this year’s
November elections.
“I believe I have the ri
ght skill set to be
mayor,” said Schroeder during a wide ranging
interview this week in his 12th floor City Hall
office citing his 25 years in the private sector
before he began his elective career as a county
legislator in 2002. In 2004, Schroeder won the
first of four terms in the state Assembly where
he was an independent lawmaker who, among
other things, wrote “Amanda’s Law” which
requires carbon monoxide detectors in all
homes.
The current mayor, Byron Brown, has given
no indication he is not running for re-election
next year although he could not be reached
for comment this week. Brown’s 10-year run
as the city’s chief executive has been marked
by major development initiatives but much of
the credit certainly goes to Albany and Gov.
Andrew Cuomo who has pumped millions
into Buffalo after developer Carl Paladino
trounced him in Western NY in the 2010
gubernatorial race.
Schroeder, if he runs, can be expected to
challenge Brown on his record, noting that
violence and unrest continues to be a major
problem in several Buffalo neighborhoods
far removed from the waterfront boom.
Schroeder says he spends many hours visiting
neighborhoods, and many times he hears the
cries, ‘what about us,’ a reference to the divide
between the Buffalo Billion success downtown
fueled by Cuomo and the struggling
neighborhoods where many residents live in
crime-infested environments, particularly on
Buffalo’s East Side.
Schroeder believes his staff upgrades have
helped improve protections for taxpayers,
citing two bond upgrades over the last four
years (lower borrowing costs) and record fund
balances to go along with hard-hitting audits
that have found, among other things, that the
former operator of the Erie Basin Marina had
been shortchanging taxpayers, a discovery
that led to an arbitration panel eventually
awarding the city 198,144 plus nine percent
interest as a result of the rent underpayment.
But Schroeder knows he must communicate to
residents about what he’s doing to help them
and let them know that as comptroller, he has
been a strong fiscal watchdog emphasizing
government transparency and urging residents
to get involved in improving city operations by
unveiling a hotline (851-8799) where residents
can anonymously report wrongdoing. He also
launched Open Book Buffalo, an interactive
tool on his website that allows citizens to see
how the city is spending their tax dollars.
“We’re competent, focused, respectful, but not
afraid,” says Schroeder adding “we’re going to
do the right thing no matter who is involved.”
“Whether you want to know how much was
spent on overtime in a certain department
or how much the city spent with a particular
law firm, Open Book Buffalo can give you the
answer quickly and easily,: Schroeder said last
December when Open Book was launched.
“As a former member of the state legislature, I
can assure you, anything that is done in secret
is usually not in the best interests of taxpayers,”
a pointed reference to the recent corruption
scandals that have racked Albany.
Schroeder left the Assembly in 2011, winning
election as Buffalo city comptroller where he
has refunded $254 million in city school debt
for a savings to the district of $24 million.
His auditors, in one of the longest reviews
in city history, found that National Grid had
overcharged city taxpayers and his office has
already recovered $1 million from the utility
company with 14 more claims still pending.
When Schroeder first walked into the
comptroller’s office back in January of 2012,
he asked how many employees he had under
him in the Department of Audit and Control.
“I was told we had 35 employees but only one
Certified Public Accountant (CPA),” he said,
adding his department now has nine full time
CPA’s on staff.
Schroeder, at 60, seems well prepared to make
a run for the city’s top job, already winning
two citywide elections and putting together
a well-oiled and finely tuned fiscal oversight
department for city government, warning
several times about Mayor Brown’s reliance
on reserves and uncertain revenues in putting
together the city budget and four-year plan.
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Schroeder is particularly proud of the Vision
Statement he unveiled this week that was
developed by the employees of his department.
It reads: To advance as a world class financial
organization by unleashing our full potential.”
It appears that Schroeder’s efforts are paying
off in more than recovered dollars and
reductions in wasteful spending. His Popular
Annual Financial Report, a simplified version
of the city’s audited financial statements, was
cited for being user friendly and last year, the
first time it was published, it received an award
for outstanding achievement in financial
reporting from the Government Finance
Officers Association of the United States and
Canada.
The footsteps that Mayor Brown may be
hearing might be coming from his own
building, from the fiscal watchdog overseeing
city government from the 12th floor who
may be interested in moving downstairs to
the second floor. As we said, Schroeder said
he will begin to seriously assess a possible
candidacy after the current election cycle ends
in November. A lot could change between now
and November, and the presidential election
could influence local political decisions. But
Schroeder is definitely on the prowl.
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NEWS | FEATURE
A LIBERTARIAN VIEW
WAR OF THE WORDS
BY JIM OSTROWSKI
T
he older I get, the more I think that politics is
a battle of the dictionaries. Whoever has the
best words, wins. The political movement I
have been active in for 35 years is the contemporary
revival of the movement that is responsible for most
of what is good about the modern world. Alas, today
we are stuck with the ungainly term “libertarian”.
Is that why we are getting our asses kicked in
politics? Don’t tell anyone, but I have a secret
plan to recapture the beautiful and etymologicallycorrect word that our movement was known by
for a hundred years or more and still is in parts of
Europe: liberal.
When I was a senior at St. Joe’s, I was voted “most
liberal.” I suppose that was based mostly on my
anti-Vietnam War and pro-marijuana legalization
views. Although I was in those days a McGovernite
Democrat, those views, anti-war and pro-individual
liberty, were quite consistent with the original,
historic liberal movement that tried to free the
world from the old regime of kings, tyrants,
dictators, emperors, feudalism and slavery and
bondage of various kinds. The great liberals of
that era bequeathed to us numerous monumental
intellectual and political accomplishments for
which they get zero credit today:
· Equal rights for women. It will come as a shock
to those who incorrectly view libertarians as
extreme right-wingers to learn that their ideological
ancestors, the liberals, pioneered women’s rights.
See, Herbert Spencer, Social Statics (1851)(Chapter
XVI).
· Opposition to conscription.
· The right to bear arms.
·The right to own property, derived from the right
of self-ownership.
· Gay rights. Gays have the exact same natural
rights as every other person, no more and no less.
·Natural rights. That is, rights are inherent in the
nature of things and not bestowed by government.
· The Bill of Rights.
·The theory of spontaneous order—the ability of
individuals in society to coordinate their activities
without dictates from a central authority.
·Freedom of religion.
·The Industrial Revolution. It lifted mankind out
of the mud, the muck, the despair and the insect,
vermin and disease-ridden hovels, shacks, huts and
caves of the previous eons. It liberated us from
slavery and serfdom and drudgery.
· Free speech and habeas corpus.
·The right of self-ownership.
·The right of revolution: people have the right
to revolt and overthrow governments that
systematically violate natural rights.
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Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) said, “”Each has
freedom to do all that he wills provided that he
infringes not the equal freedom of any other.”
Was he a liberal?
· Freedom of travel.
After paving the way for the modern world, around
1900-1920, the old liberals were quickly swept
aside by a movement that stole their name and
promised to usher in progress even faster using
the magic potion of state action (force). The new
“liberals,” better known now as progressives, had a
better dictionary and dressed up their advocacy of
government violence and thuggery with fancy words
like “regulation” and “democracy.” If a Martian
came to earth and watched what the state does when
it “regulates,” she might scientifically report that the
government just mugged a guy who was minding his
own business. Alas, the progressive state lies with
words to cover up its crimes.
·War and Peace.
Before liberalism, war was
generally assumed to be an inescapable part of the
human condition. War has even been touted for
having alleged beneficial effects on the economy.
Liberals pioneered antiwar analysis.
What if we stopped lying and told the truth?
· Abolition of slavery.
· Eminent domain is land theft.
· Free trade. The early 20th Century liberal Albert
Jay Nock accurately viewed tariffs as the robbery
of the domestic consumer by the domestic
manufacturer. Another aphorism, attributed to
liberal thinker Frederic Bastiat, graphically stated
another powerful reason to establish free trade: “If
goods don’t cross borders, troops will.”
· Inflation is counterfeiting.
· Taxation is extortion.
· Regulation is the extortion of property and liberty.
· Conscription is slavery.
· War is mass murder.
And so begins a new dictionary for these mendacious
and troubled times.
NEWS | FEATURE
FOUR YEAR TERMS FOR ERIE
COUNTY LEGISLATORS IS A BAD IDEA
FAMILY RESTAURANT
BY PAUL WOLF, ESQ.
E
rie County Charter Revision Commission
Every 10 years a Charter Revision Commission is
formed by the Erie County Legislature to review
and propose changes to the Erie County Charter. It
consists of 19 volunteer members.
The Erie County Charter is the governing law which
sets out the form of County government and the
powers and duties of the County’s officers.
The newest Charter Revision Commission was
created in January 2016 and will be required
to submit recommendations for revisions to
the Charter by May 12, 2016. After they submit
their recommendations, the public will have an
opportunity to speak at public hearings before the
Legislature votes on Commission recommendations.
Finally, any proposed changes of the Charter
recommended by the Charter Commission and
approved by the Legislature need to be ratified by
the public at the November election.
Four Year Terms are an Unnecessary Gift
One idea gaining traction among members of the
present Charter Revision Commission is changing
the terms of county legislators from two year to four
year terms.
Apparently, the argument for a four-year term
is that, with two year terms, legislators are always
campaigning and that prevents them from focusing
on governing.
The rebuttal to this is that elections are a non-event
for most legislators and that they are not – as a
group – spending much time focused on governing
anyway.
The Erie County Legislature consists of 11 part time
members paid $42,500.
During the course of a year, very few local laws are
passed by the Legislature; 90% of the $1 billion
plus Erie County budget is mandated by the state
and federal government and legislators rarely make
any significant changes to the County Executive’s
proposed budget.
In 2015 only five local laws were passed by the
legislature during the entire year.
In 2014, only four local laws were passed. As an
example of the weightiness of these laws, they dealt
with the following: 1. banning Hydraulic Fracturing
on land owned by Erie County [fracking is not
practical in Erie County since there is nothing to
frack here and certainly not on land owned by
Erie County]; 2. penalizing private land holders
for allowing consumption of alcohol by minors,
other than their dependents; 3. amending how the
Erie County Community Coordinating Council
on Children and Families operates; 4. leasing
two acres of vacant land on the South Campus of
Erie Community College to West Herr Toyota of
Orchard Park.
While less than a handful of unimportant local laws
were passed, 581 symbolic resolutions honoring
individuals, community organizations and deceased
individuals were approved by the legislature. It
seems to be their main job – passing symbolic
resolutions. And the point of these 581 resolutions
is, candidly, to troll for votes by spending taxpayer
funded resources on sending nice proclamations to
constituents.
A review of telephone records and schedules of
legislators undertaken by this writer and pursuant
to a FOIL request also reveal that county legislators
don’t do much. It is truly a part time job.
But it costs taxpayers a lot. According to the
2016 county budget the Erie County Legislature
employs 39 full and part time employees (including
legislators) at a cost of $3.2 million per year.
As for the argument that legislators are distracted
from governing because of the rigors of campaigning
every two years, the rebuttal is that elections are
non events for most legislators because incumbents
have all of the advantages. District lines drawn to
their benefit, campaign contributions from special
interests flow in and patronage workers work on
their campaigns. Because of these advantages
legislators often run without opposition or barely
have to break a sweat to beat their opponent. In the
2015 election, five Erie County legislators were reelected without any opposition. Of the six legislators
with an opponent, four won in landslides racking up
vote totals between 66%-90%. Only two legislators
had real competition but at the end of the day not a
single legislator lost re-election.
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Giving legislator’s four year terms will be a mistake,
especially if such a gift does not come with other
reforms, such as an eight-year term limit or
campaign finance reform. The reality is that more
than 90% of the time an incumbent legislator will
win re-election.
Elections should not be coronations and reforms
must be pursued to restore democracy through
competitive elections.
Many elections are decided before they begin just
on how the district lines are drawn. The Charter
Revision Commission has discussed using Ulster
County, New York as a model for creating an
“independent” redistricting commission to draw
legislative district lines. In Ulster County a sevenmember commission is formed by the legislature
first selecting four members. The four chosen then
select three additional members. Having legislators
select the redistricting members is not my idea of
an “independent” commission. Nor is it a sufficient
trade-off for providing the gift of a four-year terms.
We Need Real Reform Now
Unfortunately given the short deadline the
Charter Commission has to do their work there
is not enough time for a volunteer commission to
research, draft and propose bold reform proposals.
One of the proposals that should be recommended
to the legislature is to have Charter Commissions
formed more often such as every five years instead of
every 10 years. The length of time the Commission
has to do their work should be extended from four
months to one year.
If the end result of a Charter Commission with a
rushed time schedule is that legislators receive the
gift of four year terms without any other significant
items such as term limits and campaign finance
reform, then the opportunity to achieve real reform
will have been lost for another 10 years.
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NEWS | FEATURE
STEVE COHEN CALLS ON SCHROEDER
TO CONDUCT BMHA AUDIT
mismanagement.
“This It’s not just mismanagement and
incompetence – it’s corruption,” Mascia, the
outspoken critic of the Brown Administration’s
housing policies, claims.
BMHA tenant elected commissioner Joe Mascia
points a finger at administration at the BMHA.
Prominent civil rights attorney Steve Cohen is
demanding an audit of the BMHA.
BY MATTHEW RICCHIAZZI
However, despite massive taxpayer subsidies,
the typical BMHA housing complex is anything
but spotless.
In 2014, the Department
of Housing and Urban Development
rated BMHA as “substandard” citing poor
management, excessive costs, vacancies,
deferred maintenance and overall poor living
conditions and threatened federal takeover.
S
teven Cohen, prominent civil rights
attorney with the firm HoganWillig, who
has championed the case of suspended
housing commissioner Joe Mascia in recent
months, is calling on City Comptroller Mark
Schroeder to initiate an audit of the Buffalo
Municipal Housing Authority, in cooperation
with the New York State Comptroller’s Office.
Cohen cites a $3.5 million debt owed by
BMHA to the City of Buffalo. In a 2014
Independent Auditor’s Report, BMHA
administrators claimed the $3.5 million debt
was forgiven, despite being unable to provide
documentation for that claim.
Since this publication broke that story last
month, BMHA Chairman Mike Seaman
has come under fire for an alleged conflict
of interest. Seeman also serves as the city’s
Director of Treasury and Collections –
simultaneously responsible for remitting
and collecting the BMHA debt that has been
ignored for years.
Many BMHA tenants pay about 30 percent
[about $100] of their $300-$500 a month
rent. However, the expenses are far more for
the unwieldly and patronage rich housing
authority.
The BMHA has an approximately $40 million
annual budget to operate under 3,600 units
spread over 28 complexes. That cost translates
to about $11,000 per apartment per year –
costing taxpayers almost $925 per month.
Spotless apartments in Amherst often rent for
less.
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“This recent situation is not the first
instance of a critical nonpayment, or other
mismanagement by the Buffalo Municipal
Housing Authority,” Cohen wrote to
Schroeder. “Between 2005 and 2015, the
Marine Drive Apartments were managed by
Hutchins and Kissling, Erie Regional Housing
Development, and BMHA. During this time, it
is believed that millions of dollars in utilities
and operations funds were misappropriated.”
Cohen is asking Schroeder for an opportunity
to present evidence given to him by Mascia,
in hopes that the Comptroller will perform an
objective accounting.
“Prior to 2005, the Marine Drive Apartments
were managed in such a way that utilities were
always paid and the complex had $7 million
in reserve,” Cohen notes. “Since 2005, the
Marine Drive Apartments have continued to
decline, and the reserve has dwindled to only
$1.1 million.”
Cohen argues that residents’ quality of life has
decreased, vacancies are up, and maintenance
is poor. The City of Buffalo is currently
considering a $4.2 million debt forgiveness
plan for the authority, which critics say
would sweep under the rug widespread
Mascia is a tenant elected BMHA
commissioner. He was suspended by Mayor
Byron Brown after he was secretly recorded
using racial epithets by his private sector
employer at work unrelated to his duties as a
BMHA commissioner.
Mascia has challenged Brown’s authority
to unilaterally suspend him as a tenant
elected BMHA commissioner arguing that it
disenfranchised voters. Mascia, despite his
so-called suspension, continued to attend
meetings and act as a liaison for tenants at the
authority. He is currently seeking reelection
to the board and argues that he is the loudest
and most active critic of the “patronage hiring
and inflated administrator salaries [which]
are the backbone of the East Side political
club known as Grassroots Inc.”
“Does anyone really think that my suspension
was about my isolated use of the N-word?” asks
Mascia. “Or is it about removing someone
who has fought to expose wrongdoing in our
municipal government by the wrongdoers?”
Attorney Cohen finds it suspect that the
Brown Administration is so eager to see the
$3.4 million debt disappear. The Common
Council, at the behest of President Darius
Pridgen, seems willing to forgo millions owed
to city taxpayers.
“The City of Buffalo has a duty to collect
any outstanding debt, and this situation
calls for a full, thorough, transparent, and
independent audit of the BMHA from 2005
to present,” Cohen insists. Cohen copied the
Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority and the New
York State Inspector General’s Office on the
correspondence.
Byron Brown declined to be interviewed for
this story.
NEWS | FEATURE
STOCKER AND JACOBS GEARING UP FOR
EPIC 60TH DISTRICT REPUBLICAN BATTLE
Kevin Stocker pictured with family.
Chris Jacobs on the campaign trail.
BY MATTHEW RICCHIAZZI
community: Horace Gioia, Charles F. Hunt, Paul
Kolkmeyer, Howard Saperston III, John Sinatra
Jr, and Rocco Termini, Brendan Kelleher; and
prominent attorneys Terrence P. Flynn, Richard A.
Grimm III, Karen L. Cook, Henry Wojtaszek and
Peter J. Martin; among others.
R
epublican County Clerk Chris Jacobs has
released a video promoting his candidacy for
the State Senate, distributed on his Facebook
page and via YouTube. The 60th Senate seat is at
the crux of power in New York State — potentially
holding the Senate chamber in the balance. In the
video, Jacobs casts himself as the hometown son of
Buffalo who will fight for upstate – a region that he
says is ignored by the Democrat-dominated power
structure in Albany.
For the Republican Party, control of the Senate is
the only foothold of power in State politics. The
State Assembly is heavily weighted with Democrats
holding a lopsided majority.
Republican Party State Chairman Ed Cox and
Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay are
banking heavily on Jacobs’ candidacy.
Jacobs lists his wide-ranging accomplishments
– from founding a scholarship fund for inner
city children to pioneering work as a real estate
developer who revived sections of downtown when
no one else would.
Jacobs, however, is facing Kenmore attorney Kevin
Stocker, a slightly more conservative figure in the
party who won the Republican primary two years
ago against incumbent Senator Mark Grisanti by
an impressive margin. This year’s primary could
see candidates spending more than $1 million. It is
expected that downstate money will pour into the
district (largely in support of Jacobs) to try to hold
on to this tipping point Senate seat.
Stocker, who has been going door to door across
in the district for months, seems to have a deep
relationship with a faction of committed primary
voters. He rails against party bosses, downstate
influence over Western New York, and special
interests that he says control Albany.
Stocker is also slamming Jacobs for his fundraising
behavior and close ties to party bosses in Albany. On
Facebook, Stocker shared an invitation to a $99 per
person fundraising event [sponsorship go for up to
$2000] that lists a host committee which is a Who’s
Who of influential scions in the business and legal
Stocker includes in his post a scathing commentary
not typically seen from a Senate candidate, which
may mark a departure from the well-mannered
(perhaps even tepid) rhetoric that has characterized
his past campaigns for the 60th district seat.
“Another example of government being for sale,”
Stocker writes on social media. “When elected
officials, who are millionaires, use their elected
position to raise obscene amounts of money from
those that do business and make money off the
taxpayers.”
Stocker promises to make the issue of party bossism
and political corruption the central themes of his
reform agenda.
“Financial donations arranged by the corrupt
Albany Party Bosses for their hand picked candidate,
Christopher Jacobs, lends itself to a government
being for sale that is controlled by wealthy special
interest groups,” Stocker alleges. “It is this type of
corruption that betrays the hard working families
of Western New York”
In the heavily Democratic State of New York –
dominated by New York City voters - the State
Senate is the only lever with which the Republican
Party is able to exert influence in State politics, and
to do so it must partner with a small independent
faction of Democrats. Control of the chamber has
hung in the balance in a succession of pricy 60th
district elections.
This year could be the most expensive and – with
presidential candidate Donald Trump expected
to be on the ballot in a general election –
Republican turnout could be sweeping in 60th
district communities like Orchard Park, Hamburg,
and Grand Island. Even Tonawanda, a Democrat
stronghold where both Jacobs and Stocker have
performed strongly in past elections, could swing
to the GOP.
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JAZZ | COVER STORY
CHANGES AND NEW FACES IN
BUFFALO’S JAZZ SCENE
Adam Bronstein
Blue Rootz
with fantastical variations....”
BY JAMIE MOSES
In Phil Lesh’s book Searching for the Sound:
My Life with the Grateful Dead, he describes an
April, 1970 gig at San Francisco’s legendary
Fillmore West. Opening for the Grateful Dead
was Miles Davis playing with Chick Corea and
Keith Jarrett on keyboards, Jack DeJohnette
on drums, the powerful John McLaughlin on
guitar, bassist Dave Holland, Arito Moreira on
percussion and Steve Grossman on sax. Lesh
writes:
“As I listened, leaning over the amps with my
jaw hanging agape, trying to comprehend the
forces that Miles was unleashing onstage, I was
thinking, ‘What’s the use? How can we possibly
play after this? We should just go home and
try to digest this unbelievable shit.’”
A live recording reveals the Dead actually
played an inspired set that night, and we know
that as the Dead evolved over the years they
continued to “digest this unbelievable shit”
called jazz.
“I urged the other band members to listen
closely to the music of John Coltrane,” wrote
Lesh, “especially his classic quartet, in which
the band would take fairly simple structures
(‘My Favorite Things’ for example) and
extend them far beyond their original length
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For the Grateful Dead, the grandfather of jam
bands, extended jamming/improvising was
the way to break the confines of a song and
enjoy new musical discoveries. Since the heart
of jazz is improvisation it’s not surprising that
for a lot of young players jam bands are the
gateway to jazz.
There’s been an explosion of new jazz bands
on the Buffalo scene. I believe Jon and Lázara
Nelson, owners of Pausa Art House, deserve
some bit of credit for this. They created an
intimate atmosphere at Pausa for musicians
and audiences and introduced a tremendous
respect for jazz, and a sense of the importance
of that music. They coupled that with
aggressive programming that allowed a lot of
veteran jazz musicians and younger musicians
to both become a part of the new Pausa music
scene.
“The younger generation of jazz players are
very aware of the older guys,” said sax player
Ellen Pieroni. “Pausa Art House has really
brought a lot of that together because they
feature a lot of younger artists, as well as
the classic Buffalo jazz musicians and these
people meet. Actually, that’s what I was most
excited for with my jazz fest.”
Pieroni, who books the bands at Nietzsche’s,
produced the recent five-day Nietzsche’s Jazz
Festival with over 30 bands, something she
programmed herself. “I featured a lot of up
and coming jazz groups with young people,”
said Pieroni, “and I had some old timers there
too. It was a really cool blend, like with Mark
Filsinger’s Eleventet. Bobby Militello playing
on the main stage and then playing next
up in the front of the bar is The Fredtown
Stompers, young musicians from Fredonia
playing dixieland. I love them, they’re one of
my favorite bands.
offers a different satisfaction. There’s a lot of
freedom going on and it’s creating some great
musical combinations.
“The Buffalo Jazz scene is something that
I’ve always admired from a young age,” said
Pieroni. “I used to see a lot of jazz with my
parents–I probably dragged them. I used to
see Bobby Militello and the big bands at the
Colored Musicians Club. I was just really
interested in jazz and I totally got them into it.
They love it now.”
Another busy player is guitarist/composer
Adam Bronstein. He plays his original
compositions in Freehand Band, plays funkjazz in THE TRUTH, plays soul-funk in Blue
Rootz, plays in the jazz quartet Gravy, plays
jammy stuff in NuShark and is frequently a
sideman with the Jon Lehning Quintet.
A contributing factor the proliferation of new
jazz groups is the freedom Buffalo musicians
have to choose who play with. There’s a long
history in the music world of musicians from
different bands pairing up, like the notable
supergroups Blind Faith or the Traveling
Wilburys. But in Buffalo musicians have taken
it to a remarkable level and the exchange of
players from band to band is contributing
heavily to the excitement of playing and the
possibility of what a new band could be. A
musician doesn’t have to settle for one sound
but can be in multiple groups that each
Ellen Pieroni, for example, plays with
Folkfaces, Blue Stone Groove, THE TRUTH,
Duo +, Buffalo Afrobeat Orchestra and until
recently, the Ellen Pieroni Quartet.
“I try to play in as many genres as people will
let me,” said Pieroni.
“I think the cool thing about the jazz scene
right now is that there are some groups that
are set but there’s also a lot of freelancing
going on,” said Bronstein, “which doesn’t
happen in the jam world or in the rock world.
In that world usually you practice with just
these five guys and you do a show.”
With all this cross pollination of players comes
a melding of musical styles, sometimes to the
point where musicians themselves have a
difficult time defining what they’re playing.
“I love the Grateful Dead,” said Bronstein,
Blue Stone Groove
Buffalo Afrobeat Orchestra
“but none of my music sounded like that.
When I thought I was doing jam band stuff
people would tell me I was doing jazz. Now
I’m doing jazz and the jazz guys are telling me
‘oh, I like your stuff cause it’s kind of jammy.’
I guess it’s my nature to always straddle the
line.”
“The lines between jazz bands and jam bands
are getting closer,” said Pieroni, “jazz fusion
and funk are getting blended into these jam
bands. Honestly, a lot of up and coming jazz
groups are classified as jam bands or they’re
paired with jam bands. I know Intrepid
Travelers for example do a lot of fusion and
jazz but they’re often thrown in with the jam
band scene. The crossover of players being in
jam bands and jazz bands is becoming more
common. It’s tough as a jazz player when
you’re more interested in playing jazz fusion
or funk, because you’re kind of looked down
upon for not playing the standards, bebop
or cool jazz or the things that the old timers
consider really important. But I do think that
this younger group of jazz musicians in the
area are kind of bridging that gap. I know
John Lehning has done a couple tributes to
Chick Corea, and a lot time John will feature
Dave Schiavone (sax) or Bobby Militello or
one these heavy hitters to play with his band.
“My concept with programming the Jazz
Festival was that I wanted to mix the old
timers with the younger bands that play
Nietzsche’s pretty regularly,” said Pieroni. “I
wanted people that used to play here to play
here again. And I wanted to get more jazz at
Nietzsche’s.”
“I loved the jazz fest,” said Bronstein. “I know
all the musicians loved it. It really turned
out a different crowd than normally goes
to Nietzsche’s. People who go to Pausa and
people who are part of the Eastside Jazz crew,
to see them on that Wednesday or Thursday
night at Nietzsche’s at the Jazz Fest was pretty
cool.
“The Ellen Pieroni Quartet was actually
around a little before I started trying to do
any of this jazz stuff,” said Bronstein. “She
had Harry Graser in her band and Anthony
Henry, who I work with a whole lot. So a lot of
people would say that Ellen has brought a lot
of people together, especially now that she’s
booking bands at Nietzsche’s.”
“There’s a real sense of community and very
little drama in the music scene around here,”
said Pieroni. “There’s all these musicians and
we’re all on the same team, we’re all trying to
do the same thing and we try to collaborate.”
Yes they do collaborate, a lot. Bronstein and
Pieroni now play together in THE TRUTH,
along with Donny Frauenhofer, who also plays
with the Intrepid Travelers. Frauenhofer and
Pieroni are the band Duo +. Drummer Ryan
Campbell plays with Bronstein in Gravy and he
also plays with Pieroni in Blue Stone Groove.
Ryan Campbell is also the drummer in a
thousand other bands including Bronstein’s
favorite Rhubarb and he was the drummer in
Peanut Brittle Satellite, a band that influenced
Bronstein towards adopting jazz.
do, however, what’s clear is that there is a
burgeoning music scene in Buffalo with a lot
of musicians playing some very interesting
music. There are venues that are willing to be
adventurous and let young jazz musicians play
their rooms, places like Nietzsche’s, Pausa,
Ironworks, McGarrett’s, Dinosaur BBQ, Gypsy
Parlor, Hot Mama’s Canteen, Lockhouse
Distillery and others. (We hope more venues
will join in, too.) And there is a sense of
community among musicians that in many
cities becomes the breeding ground for great
things to happen.
While this article was meant to be only a
snapshot, Artvoice will hopefully get the
chance to dig in deeper into both venues and
bands. In the meantime, if you haven’t done
so already, I urge you to go out and experience
some of the new jazz groups that are playing.
Anyone who wants to see Ellen Pieroni play in
one of her bands should check out one of her
upcoming shows: April 30, 8pm Blue Stone
Groove at Gypsy Parlor; May 5, 7pm-9pm
The Duo + at Merge; May 26, 9pm Folkfaces
at Nietzshe’s; June 10, 9pm Buffalo Afrobeat
Orchestra at Nietzsche’s.
You can catch Adam Bronstein at with Gravy
every Thursday 8pm at Acropolis; Freehand
Band any Tuesday 7pm at Sterling Tap; April
29, Blue Rootz at Crazy Jakes; May 5, THE
TRUTH at Nietzsche’s doing a Prince Tribute;
May 13, 10pm Freehand Band at Nietzsche’s.
Bronstein has a long list of bands he’s digging
right now including Intrepid Travelers, Lazlo
Hollyfeld, The Fredtown Stompers, Jacob
Peter, Houston Gardwell Collective and
Aircraft.
Pieroni has her favorites, too: “Fredtown
Stompers, 12/8th Path Band, Intrepid
Travelers, The Observers, I love The
Observers. Those are like my four favorites. I
could probably go on. There’s all these bands
that I admire. I love the Freehand Band,
I go see them all the time. I love Adam’s
compositions.”
The list of active bands in Buffalo today
is astounding, as is the list of bands who
share players. To begin unwinding who is
playing with who is not something I care to
Gravy
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FILM | MOVIELIST
AMHERST THEATRE (DIPSON)
3500 Main St (834–7655)
amherst.dipsontheatres.com
A Hologram for the King (R) •Miles
Ahead (R) • Elvis and Nixon (R) •
Buffalo Film Seminars: The Fisher King
(1992) Tue. 7pm
NOW PLAYING > > >
to strengthen her relationship with
her mother. Flix, Maple Ridge, Regal
Elmwood, Regal Niagara, Regal Quaker,
Regal Transit, Regal Walden
help a homeless man (Robin Williams)
whose life he inadvetently shattered.
Presented as part of the Buffalo Film
Seminars. Dipson Amherst Thu. 7
ANGOLA SCREENING ROOM/TJ’S
THEATRE
97 N. Main St. Angola (712-7244)
angolamoviezone.com
•No screenings this week
PAPA: HEMINGWAY IN CUBA-Drama
about a young writer (Giovanni Ribisi)
who travels to Havana to meet with
writer Ernest Hemingway (Adrian
Sparks) during the cuban revoltuion.
Directed by Bob Yari. North Park.
I AM BELFAST- Mark Cousin’s
documentary explores the history
of Northern Ireland’s capital city.
Presented by the Cultivate Cinema
Circle. North Park Thu. 930
AURORA THEATRE
673 Main St, E. Aurora (652–1660)
theauroratheatre.com
•The Jungle Book (PG)
RATCHET AND CLANK- Animated
action-comedy based on the popular
video game series, Flix, Regal Elmwood,
Regal Niagara, Regal Quaker, Regal
Transit, Regal Walden
THE PRIVATE EYES (1980)- Comedy
mystery about two goofy Scotland
Yard detectives Tim Conway and Don
Knots) sent to investigate foul play at a
London mansion. The Screening Room
Sat. and Tue. 730
Purple Rain (1984)
EASTERN HILLS CINEMA (DIPSON)
4545 Transit Rd, Williamsville
(632–1080)
easternhills.dipsontheatres.com
• A Hologram for The King (R) •City of
Gold (R) • Hello, My Name Is Doris (R)
*Fantastic Mr. Fox (20009 Sat. 10am
OPENING
THE AMERICAN SIDE- Independent
film shot partially in Buffalo about a
low-rent detective searching for a longlost design by enigmatic genius Nikolai
Tesla. North Park
KEANU- Comedy starring Keegan
Michael Key and Jordan Peele as two
friends who hatch a plot to rescue their
beloved stolen kitten from a dangerous
street gang. Flix, Maple Ridge, Regal
Elmwood, Regal Niagara, Regal Quaker,
Regal Transit, Regal Walden
FLIX STADIUM 10 (DIPSON)
4901 Transit Rd, Depew (668–1888)
flix10.dipsontheatres.com
• Keanu (R) • Mother’s Day (PG-13)
• Ratchet and Clank (PG) • The
Hunstman: Winter’s War • The Jungle
Book (PG-) • The Jungle Book 3D •
Barbershop: The Next Cut (PG-13)
• The Boss (R) (PG-13) • Batman V
Superman: Dawn of Justice (PG-13) •
CITY OF GOLD- Documentary
about Pulitzer Prize-winning food
critic Jonathan Gold as he explores
the culinary culture of Los Angeles.
Eastern Hills
MOTHER’S DAY- Garry Marshall’s
family dramady revolves around a
TV host (Julia Roberts), a divorced
woman (Jennifer Aniston), and a
daughter (Kate Hudson) who wants
2 East Ave., Lockport (438-1130)
lockportpalacetheatre.org
• No Screenings This Week
FOUR SEASONS CINEMAS
2429 Military Rd, Niagara Falls
(297–1951)
fourseasonscinema.com
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (R) • Eddie
the Eagle • Gods of Egypt (PG-13) •
Risen (PG-13) • Kung Fu Panda 3 (PG) •
Daddy’s Home (PG-13) • The Revenant
(R) • Alvin and the Chipmounks: The
Road Movie (PG) • Star Wars: The
Force Awakens (PG-13)
MAPLE RIDGE (AMC)
4276 Maple Rd, Amherst
(888-262-4386)
amctheatres.com
• Keanu (R) • Mother’s Day (PG-13) • The
Hunstman: Winter’s War• The Jungle
Barbershop: The Next Cut (PG-13) •
Criminal (R) • The Boss (R) • Batman V
Superman: Dawn of Justice (PG-13) •
Zootopia (PG)
HALLWALLS
341 Delaware Ave, Buffalo
(854-1694)
hallwalls.org
•No Screenings This Week
MCKINLEY MALL
CINEMA (DIPSON)
McKinley Mall, Blasdell (824–3479)
mckinley.dipsontheatres.com
Whiskey Tango Foxtrox (R) Gods of
Egypt (PG-13) • Race (PG-13) • Kung
Fu Panda 3 (PG) • The Revenant (R)
• Daddy’s Home (PG-13) • The Lady
in the Van (R) • Star Wars: The Force
Awalens (PG-13) • Brooklyn (R)
HAMBURG PALACE THEATER
31 Buffalo St., Hamburg (649–2295)
hamburgpalace.com
LOCKPORT PALACE THEATER
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NEW ANGOLA THEATER
72 North Main St., Angola
(549-4866)
newangolatheater.com
NORTH PARK
THEATRE
1428 Hertel Ave. (836-7411)
northparktheatre.org
• Papa: Hemingway in Cuba (R) • The
American Side • Shall We Dance (1996)
Sat. & Sun. 11:30am I Am Belfast Thu.
9:30pm
REGAL ELMWOOD
CENTER 16
2001 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo
(871–0722)
Hunstman: Winter’s War • Miles Ahead
• The Jungle Book (PG-) • Barbershop:
The Next Cut (PG-13) • Criminal (R) •
The Boss (R) • Everybody Wants Some
(R) • Meet the Blacks (R) • Batman V
Superman: Dawn of Justice 3D (PG-13)
• Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
(PG-13) • My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
(PG-13) • Zootopia (PG) • Deadpool (R)
REGAL NIAGARA FALLS STADIUM 12
720 Builders Way, Niagara Falls
ETC.
PURPLE RAIN (1984)- Classic rock
musical starring the legendary Prince,
featuring music from his beloved album
of the same name. North Park Fri. 930,
Regal Quaker, Regal Transit
DARLING- Thriller about a lonely young
woman who descends into madness
when she becomes the caretaker of a
mysterious New York mansion that has
a troubled past. The Screening Room
SHALL WE DANCE (1996)- Japanese
Fri. 7, 9 Sat, 9
THE FISHER KING (1992). Terry film which inspired the American
Gilliams’s drama cocnerns a cynical remake of the same name. North Park
radio DJ (Jeff Bridges) who attempts to Fri. and Sat. 1130a
(236–0146)
Book (PG-) • Barbershop: The Next
Cut (PG-13) • Criminal (R) • My Big Fat
Greek Wedding 2 (R) • The Boss (R) •
Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
(PG-13) • Zootopia (PG)
REGAL QUAKER
CROSSING 18
3450 Amelia Dr., Orchard Park
(827–1109)
Hunstman: Winter’s War • Miles Ahead
• The Jungle Book (PG-) • Barbershop:
The Next Cut (PG-13) • Criminal (R) •
The Boss (R) •Eye in the Sky (R) •
Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
3D (PG-13) • Batman V Superman:
Dawn of Justice (PG-13) • Miracles
From Heaven (PG) • The Divergent
Series: Allegiant (PG-13) • Hello, My
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THEATRE | THEATICALLY SPEAKING
CELEBRATING SAMMY
ERIC JORDAN YOUNG AT KLEINHANS
can make you wince.
“Any person of color who has ventured out has to
face that challenge,” continues Young, “whether
it was Sammy Davis, Jr., or Nina Simone, or
Diahann Carrol, or Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson,
when you are first, you have no template to follow.
I think that enduring the kind condescension
that Sammy endured must have been exhausting,
but he was willing to jump into that world. Being
able to laugh at yourself is a way to acknowledge
that in a way, at least, you are being included.
That doesn’t mean that he liked it. You make
sacrifices to get ahead, and you pave the way so
others don’t have to make those same sacrifices.”
BY ANTHONY CHASE
S
vammy Davis, Jr. (1925-1990) was one of the
great entertainers of the 20th century. If you
are of a certain age, and the 1960s, ‘70s, or
‘80s loom large in your cultural memory, chances
are that Sammy was a big part of your life. From
Broadway to Vegas to Hollywood, he was a star
– and had been one since childhood. He could
sing. He could dance. He could act. He could
do comedy. His talent seemed endless and he was
ubiquitous on television of the era.
Eric Jordan Young is a bit young to be a
contemporary of Davis, but as a child, the
Williamsville native who has appeared in five
Broadway shows, was frequently told that he
resembled young Sammy Davis, Jr.
“When you are a kid,” says Young, “and people
tell you that you remind them of a gigantic
super star, you wonder why they are saying that. I
became fascinated with Sammy Davis, Jr.”
This Saturday, April 30th at 8 p.m., Young will
perform “Celebrating Sammy: Broadway to
Vegas,” a tribute to the show business legend with
the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra at Kleinhans
Music Hall.
“This is not an impersonation show or a factoid
show,” says Young. “It is a chance to celebrate the
music and talent of Sammy Davis, Jr. “I’ll perform
songs that are associated with him: “Candy Man,”
“What Kind of Fool am I,” “Bye Bye Blackbird,”
“Mr. Bojangles.”
To see the song list is to be reminded of how
big a star Davis was, and also to wonder why his
reputation might not linger as powerfully as
some of his contemporaries.
“It is very difficult to be first,” observes Young.
As an African American star whose career
began before the Civil Rights era, Davis had a
complicated position in American culture. He
supported both Democratic President Kennedy
and Republican President Nixon – earning the
ire and disappointment of many when he hugged
Nixon at the Republican National Convention
in 1972. While he created numerous iconic
moments of television, including one of the first
televised interracial kisses when he kissed Nancy
Sinatra on her 1967 television special, and kissing
Carroll O’Connor’s Archie Bunker character on
“All in the Family,” to see video of Davis laughing
as he endures an incessant barrage of jokes about
his race on the Dean Martin celebrity roasts, or on
numerous talk show and game show appearances
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In part, Young’s fascination with the Davis
persona has served to resurrect the reputation
of a great pioneer of the entertainment industry.
Ten years ago, Young premiered another show
focused on Sammy Davis, Jr., “Sammy and Me,” at
MusicalFare in Snyder.
“Sammy is sometimes not seen as progressive,”
says Young, “but he was very, very, very progressive.
He insisted on racially integrated casts for his
shows. Without Sammy Davis, Jr., we could not
get to Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, or Prince.”
In many ways, Young’s own career success is a
testament to African American performers, like
Sammy Davis, Jr., who came before him. Young
has been able to play a variety of roles that are
not defined by race, including Billy Flynn in the
Broadway production of Chicago and “The Cat
in the Hat” in Broadway’s Seussical.
I have been following the career of Eric Jordan
Young for a very long time. I can remember
seeing him as a teenager in “Upstage New York”
productions of George M, Damn Yankees, and
Olympus On My Mind. Even in those days,
his confident dancing and stage presence
commanded the eye. His impressive career
success comes as no surprise at all. I saw him in
the world premieres of Dessa Rose at Lincoln
Center Theater and Little Fish at Second Stage,
and was honored to present him with the
Katharine Cornell Award for his performance
in Sammy & Me at the Artie Awards several years
ago.
These days he’s living in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“I’m still a Broadway person,” insists Young, “but
Vegas has given me a lot of opportunities. I’ve
had my own show on ‘the strip,’ and now I’m
doing ‘Rock of Ages.’ I guess, no matter who you
are, there is no template for an entertainment
career. I’m grateful to Vegas. I am grateful to
Broadway. I am grateful to Buffalo!”
How long has it been since he’s performed in
Buffalo?
“It’s been ten years since I was at the Arties!”
exclaims Young. “But this is my home, and I
am very excited to come back for this show, and
to be performing these great songs with a big
orchestra!”
For tickets to see Erica Jordan Young in
“Celebrating Sammy: Broadway to Vegas,” this
Saturday, April 30th, see www.tickets.bpo.org or
call 716-885-5000.
CLASSICAL | MUSIC NOTES
COMPOSER AMY WILLIAMS
INVENTS CINESHAPE
prestigious Guggenheim Fellow. Williams invented the
word ‘cineshape’, back in 2003 when she wrote the first
piece in the series, and it refers to musical compositions
that draw structural inspiration from films. The
innovative, collaborative performance will feature five
compositions by Williams, each inspired by an existing
film, and five new video pieces by Henderson, inspired
by her original music.
V
ideo artist Aaron Henderson joins the composer
for a multi-media event
The Peter & Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium of
the Burchfield Penny Art Center, on the Buffalo State
College Campus, will host the world premiere of a
collaborative work by the pianist and composer Amy
Williams and the video artist Aaron Henderson, on
Sunday May 1 at 2pm.
Amy Williams, a Buffalo native and video artist Aaron
Henderson, two acclaimed Pittsburgh-based artists,
have been working for over a year on this collaboration,
which is the culminating project for Williams’ year as a
The source films for the compositions by Williams are
eclectic: Chunhyang, a 2000 Korean period film about
thwarted love, and Time Code, a film from the same
year by the English director Mike Figgis which splits the
screen into four parts to simultaneously tell two different
stories. Williams also draws inspiration from a pair of
German films: The Lives of Others, a 2006 Academy
Award winning film about an East German Stasi agent
who becomes increasingly absorbed by the lives of a
writer and his lover, who he has under surveillance,
and the 1998 film Run Lola Run, which is discussed
below. Rounding out the quintet of films is Rope, Alfred
Hitchcock’s 1948 treatment of the notorious LeopoldLoeb thrill murder case, which takes place in real time
and is edited to appear as a single, continuous shot
through the use of long takes.
The audience at the ‘Musical Feast’ concert in the
Burchfield Penny this past February, had the opportunity
to experience what was, in effect, in movie terms, a
‘trailer’ for Cineshape, when Williams performed one
of the works’ five movements, “Cineshape 4”, composed
in 2015 for solo piano and video. “This piece borrows
structural elements from the German film ‘Run Lola
Run’, said Williams. “This film is divided into three
episodes; Lola repeats the same day three times, starting
in exactly the same way, but each time hoping that a
slight modification of her actions will save the life of her
boyfriend. This simple concept, that there are numerous
ways to develop a particular idea and that minor choices
have serious consequence, leads to a multifaceted
structure. The three sections of the piano piece, each
lasting approximately four minutes, can be performed
in any order, predetermined by the performer and
played without pause. Each episode must be perceived as
convincingly reaching its inevitable conclusion, despite
the three different results. Much like the film, the piece
is a high-paced, energetic tour-de-force, literally running
from start to finish with only occasional moments to stop
and take a breath”. Having greatly enjoyed ‘Run Lola
Run’ on its initial release, and in a couple of subsequent
re-viewings on DVD, I am happy to report that Williams’
new musical composition, along with Henderson’s
entirely new video treatment of her music, successfully
capture the marvelous, cyclical nervous energy of the
film, while not incorporating a single musical motif, or
visual image from it.
Along with live video processing, Cineshape will be
performed by a dream team of contemporary music
experts, including the members of the JACK Quartet,
who have been frequent guests, both at UB, and at
the June in Buffalo Festival, where they have displayed
the chops that have earned them the rare right to
be mentioned in the same category of cutting-edge
repertoire and performance as the legendary Arditti
Quartet. The other performers are flutist Lindsey
Goodman, who was impressive in her Buffalo debut
at “A Musical Feast” concert this past February, and
percussionist Scott Christian, along with the composer
herself at the piano.
Admission to this event is free. Information: www.
burchfieldpenney.org
UB Residency
Executive director Lauren Radnofsky , who is coartistic director, along with conductor Brad Lubman,
of Ensemble Signal are well-known to the Buffalo area
audience for new and contemporary music, having
performed on numerous occasions at UB, both on the
Slee Visiting Artists Series, and as part of the annual June
in Buffalo New Music Festival, since the group’s debut in
2008. But, for the first time, the UB Creative Arts Initiative
has scheduled an ambitious slate of performances and
educational activities by Ensemble Signal to take place
all over the Buffalo community during their upcoming
residency.
One of the highlights of their residency is the opening
event on Sunday May 1, at 3pm, a community concert
at the Concerned Ecumenical Ministry, 286 Lafayette
Avenue. Ensemble Signal teams up with UB students and
faculty to perform drumming of all kinds, on bongos,
cello and even flower pots, in works by composers
including Steve Reich and David Lang. This event, which
is free and open to the public, is co-presented by UB’s
Creative Arts Initiative and Buffalo String Works, a nonprofit, after-school music program which serves refugee
and immigrant families, primarily on the underserved
Lower West Side of Buffalo.
The final event takes place at 7:30pm on Thursday May
5 in Slee Hall on the UB Amherst Campus. Billed as a
Steve Reich Celebration, the centerpiece of Ensemble
Signal’s residency features a program that highlights
over 40 years of Reich’s pioneering work ranging from
Clapping Music (1972) to Radio Rewrite (2012, based
on songs of Radiohead). While this event is free, tickets
are required.
Ticket information and a complete schedule of events at:
www.buffalo.edu/cai
Ensemble Signal to perform 20 Events in 5 days during
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DIRTY DANCING, The Classic Story on Stage,
touring production of the musical based on the
popular movie, presented by Shea’s and Albert
Nocciolino. May 3-8, Tue-Thu at 7:30, Fri at 8, Sat
at 2 & 8, Sun at 2 & 7. Shea’s Performing Arts Center, 646 Main St. (1-800-745-3000). www.sheas.org
FARRAGUT NORTH, political drama by Beau
Willimon, directed by Scott Behrend, starring
Pete Johnson, Richard Satterwhite, Victoria Perez, David Hayes, Steve Brachmann, Danica Riddick. Apr 29-May 22, Thu-Sat at 7:30, Sun at 2.
Road Less Traveled Theater, 500 Pearl St. (6293069). www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org
WAIT UNTIL DARK, thriller by Frederick Knott
directed by Brian Cavanagh, starring Adriano
Gatto, Stan Klimecko, Patrick Moltane, Kathleen
Macari, Renee Landrigan, Adam Rath. Apr 29-May
22, Thu & Fri at 7:30, Sat at 3:30 & 7:30, Sun at
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REALLY TRYING, classic musical by Frank Loesser directed by Chris Kelly, starring Taylor Carlson,
Nicole Cimato, Kelly Copps, Kevin Craig, Kurt Erb,
Wendy Hall, Matthew Iwanski, Ricky Marchese,
Jon May, Katie Merrill, Katy Miner, Jamie Nablo,
Tom Owen, Eric Rawski, PJ Tighe, Matt Witten.
Through May 15, Wed & Thu at 7, Fri at 8, Sat at 4
& 7, Sun at 2. MusicalFare Theatre, 4380 Main St.,
Amherst (839-8540). www.musicalfare.com
THE YEATS PROJECT: TWO PLAYS BY W.B.
YEATS, multi-disciplinary production presented
by Irish Classical Theatre Company, Torn Space
Theatre, and Lehrer Dance, directed by Vincent
O’Neill, Jon Lehrer, and Dan Shanahan. Through
May 8, Thu & Fri at 7:30, Sat at 3 & 7:30, Sun at 2.
Andrews Theatre, 625 Main St. (853-ICTC). www.
irishclassicaltheatre.com
CLOSING
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, Broadway musical presented by Niagara University Theatre, directed by Doug Zschiegner. Through May 1, Thu
at 7, Fri at 7:30, Sun at 2 (Apr 30, show at 4 as part
of Annual Friends of Niagara University Theatre
Gala). Leary Theatre, Clet Hall, at NU campus
(286-8685).
INTO THE WOODS, musical by Sondheim &
Lapine, presented by UB Department of Theatre & Dance, directed by Nathan R. Matthews.
Through May 1, Thu & Fri at 7:30, Sat at 2 & 7:30,
Sun at 2. Drama Theatre, Center for the Arts, UB
North Campus (645-ARTS). www.theatredance.
buffalo.edu
THE MARK OF CAIN, world premiere of a play by
Gary Earl Ross presented by Subversive Theatre,
directed by Michael Lodick, starring Lawrence
Rowswell, Gary Earl Ross, Greg Howze, Brendan
Cunningham, Candace M. Whitfield, Rich Kraemer, J. Tim Raymond, Murry Galloway, Tamara
S. Hopersberger, Aquiera Roberts. Through Apr
30, Thu-Sat at 8. The Manny Fried Playhouse, 255
Great Arrow Ave., third floor (408-0499). www.
subversivetheatre.org
THE MOUSETRAP, thriller by Agatha Christie
presented by Western New York Players. Through
Apr 30, Fri & Sat at 7:30. Immanuel Lutheran
Church, 107 Scott St., Tonawanda (692-6200).
NIGHT WATCH, play by Lucille Fletcher presented by The Mystery Company, directed by Jerry
Kelly. Starring Norm Argulsky, Bill Brown, Andy
Gonlag, Stacy Kowal, Constance Long, Suzanne
Marranca, Anna Pollina, Frank Relosky, Jr., Cory
Stoczynski. Through May 1, Thu at 2:30, Fri & Sat
at 7:30, Sun at 2:30. Lancaster Opera House, 21
Central Ave., Lancaster (683-1776). www.lancopera.org
WOMEN ON FIRE, play by Irene O’Garden
presented by O’Connell & Company, directed
by James Paul Ivey, starring Sandra Gilliam, Sara
Kow-Falcone, Mary Kate O’Connell, Elizabeth
Oddy, Christina Rausa. Through May 1, Thu-Sat at
7:30, Sun at 2:30. The Park School, 4625 Harlem
Road, Snyder (848-0800). www.oconnellandcompany.com
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
PANTALLAS, reading in Spanish of the play by
Dolores Prida, presented by Raíces Theatre Company, directed by Sheila M. López, starring Ingrid
Córdova, Rolando Martín Gómez, Alex Sarabria.
May 1 at 6. The Manny Fried Playhouse, 255
Great Arrow Ave., third floor. Free admission.
UPCOMING
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, comedy classic by
Joseph Kesselring presented by The Alden Christian Theatre Society, starring Lynn Errington &
Sue Kubick, Bob Aquila, Dylan Brozyna, Danielle
Burning, Chris Best, Mark Jablonski. May 6-14, Fri
& Sat at 7:30, plus May 15 at 2:30. ACTS Theatre,
1470 Church St., Alden (937-7770).
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG, drama by Abby
Mann presented by The Subversive Theatre Collective & New Phoenix Theatre, directed by Kurt
Schneiderman, starring David C. Mitchell, Adam
Yellen, Ray Boucher, Lisa Ludwig, Richard Lambert, Candice Kogut. May 5-Jun 4, Thu-Sat at 8.
New Phoenix Theatre on the Park, 95 North Johnson Park (853-1334). www.newphoenixtheatre.org
LOVE LETTERS, touring production of the play
by A.R. Gurney, directed by Gregory Mosher,
starring Ali MacGraw, Ryan O’Neal. May 11-22, TueThu at 7:30, Fri at 8, Sat 2 & 8, Sun at 2 & 7, plus
May 12 at 1. 710 Main Theatre, 710 Main St. (1-800745-3000). www.sheas.org/710main.
THE TRUE STORY OF THE 3 LITLE PIGS, musical based on the picture book by Jon Scieszka
and Lane Smith, presented by Theatre of Youth,
directed by Michael Walline, starring Jake Albarella, Kerrykate Abel, Jennel Pruneda. May 7 at
2; May 14-22, Sat at 10 & 2, Sun at 2; Jun 4 at 10
& 2. Allendale Theatre, 203 Allen St. (884-4400).
www.theatreofyouth.org
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, musical by Mel
Brooks presented by The Niagara Regional Theatre Guild, directed by Kimberly Ehrenburg,
starring John Panepinto, Dan Zerpa, M. Joseph
Fratello, Cassandra Grizanti, Lauren McGowan,
Amy Feder. May 6-21, Fri & Sat at 7:30, plus May 7,
15 & 22 at 3. Ellicott Creek Playhouse, 530 Ellicott
Creek, Tonawanda (260-2319). www.niagaratheatre.com.
THEATER | STAGEFRIGHT
> BY JAVIER BUSTILLOS
L
ove means never having to say you’re sorry.
Famous line from the 1970 hit movie Love
Story which starred Ali MacGraw and Ryan
O’Neal (pictured above). Now both stars
are back together and touring the country in
Buffalonian A.R. Gurney’s epistolary play, Love
Letters. The show will play 710 Main Theatre,
May 11th-22nd. Both stars also celebrated their
birthdays in April. McGraw turned 77 on April
1st, O’Neal turned 75 on April 20th. Gurney’s
play was revived on Broadway in 2014 where it
had a short run and closed before four of the
announced stars (Anjelica Huston, Stacy Keach,
Diana Rigg and Martin Sheen) of its rotating cast
were able to take their turn.
Three of the most popular movie musicals of
the 1980s, Flashdance (1983), Footloose (1984),
and Dirty Dancing (1987) have been adapted
for the stage but only one of them ever made
it to Broadway. Footloose opened at the Richard
Rodgers Theatre on October 1998 and ran
for almost two years. The other two have
been touring the country and abroad over
the past few years. Flashdance actually made a
stop at Shea’s last November. Now, it’s Dirty
Dancing’s turn, on stage at Shea’s May 3rd-8th.
The show first opened in Australia in 2004
and was subsequently produced in the UK,
Europe, Canada, and the US. This new touring
production stars Christopher Tierney as Johnny,
the dance instructor. Tierney was in the original
Broadway cast of Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark.
He made national news when, during previews,
he fell 30 feet from a ledge during one of the
show’s flying stunts, breaking fifteen bones. He
returned to the show after four months.
Following in the footsteps of Daniel Radcliffe,
local actor PJ Tighe will star next season in the
Irish Classical Theatre production of Peter
Shaffer’s Equus. Radcliffe starred in the 2008
Broadway revival of the play. Currently, Tighe
is starring in Musicalfare’s zesty production
of How to Succeed in Business Without Really
Trying. Radcliffe starred in the 2011 Broadway
revival. By the way, up next for Radcliffe, an offBroadway production of a new play called Privacy
which explores how technology and privacy
relate nowadays. For Trivia fans, Equus was last
produced in Buffalo in 1991 by Theatre of Youth
(yes, there used to be a TOY After Dark series!).
Patrick Cameron returns to Buffalo to play the
gigolo opposite Aleks Malejs as Alexandra del
Lago in the Irish Classical Theatre production
of Tennessee Williams’s Sweet Bird of Youth to be
directed by Fortunato Pezzimenti for Curtain
Up! Sweet Bird is not as frequently produced as
the other Williams classics. The original 1959
Broadway production starred Geraldine Page
and Paul Newman. The 1975 revival had Irene
Worth and Christopher Walken. Nicole Kidman
was announced to play the part in 2011. Kim
Cattral starred in the 2013 London revival,
where the part was originated in 1985 by Lauren
Bacall.
Javier with Ali Macgraw left, Ryan O’Neal right
BUA and Ujima will join forces for Curtain
Up! to present Jeff Talbott’s dramatic comedy
The Submission. Directed by Lorna C. Hill, the
production will star Shanntina Moore, Michael
Seitz, and Rick Lattimer.
The Jewish Repertory Theatre will devote
its entire season to playwright Amy Herzog,
opening with her 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist
4000 Miles. The season will also include her plays
After the Revolution and The Great God Pan.
Road Less Traveled Productions will honor
renowned playwright Donald Margulies as an
American Theatre Master during the 2016-17
season. The company will open the season with
Margulies’s 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner Dinner
with Friends, directed by Katie Mallinson, starring
Kelly Meg Brennan, Dave Hayes, Lisa Vitrano,
and Phil Farugia. The season will conclude with
Margulies’s The Country House, which played
Broadway in the 2014-15 starring Blythe Danner.
Directed by Scott Behrend, the local production
will star Barbara Link LaRou, Peter Palmisano,
Christian Brandjes, Kristen Tripp Kelley, Chris
Kelly, and Renee Landrigan.
The fabulous Doris Roberts (pictured below)
died of natural causes on April 17th. She was
90 years old. She appeared in several Broadway
shows including Neil Simon’s The Last of the
Red Hot Lovers (1970) and Terrence McNally’s
Bad Habits (1974). Best known for her role in
TV’s Everybody Loves Raymond, her last stage
appearance was in McNally’s Unusual Acts of
Devotion at LaJolla Playhouse in 2009.
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A number of local breweries are contributing
to pilsners’ reawakening, including 42 North,
who’s Illumination Bohemian Pils was one of
the first to revitalize the local pils market.
“It is a beer of subtlety where the brewing
process plays a huge role in the success of the
beer,” 42 North’s Chief Brewing Officer Clay
Keel says. “Many of the complex flavors of
traditional Czech styles actually comes from a
decoction mash process that essentially boils a
portion of the grain multiple times to, among
other things, create some complex maillard
reactions that come through in the beer as
toffee, caramel, or toasted bread. As much as
we can, we mimic this process at 42 North to try
and get that flavor into our Illumination Pils.
Generally speaking, trying to make a ‘lighter’
beer style without sexy hops, 50 lbs of malt
per keg, or flavor additives is a challenge. I’m
a brewer because I like challenges. I suppose
that’s why I like brewing them.”
And the local pils offerings do not stop there;
quite the opposite in fact. There are so, so
many to choose from, including Gordon
Biersch’s Czech Pils, Old First Ward’s Czech
Mate, Community Beer Works’ Dreizehn,
Flying Bison’s Polonia Pils, Resurgence
Brewing Company’s Blanc Czech, Southern
Tier Brewing’s Pilsner (see also Eurotrash
Pils), Pan American Grill and Brewery’s
Lackawanna Lager (see also New Zealand
Pilsner, which should be out in May) and Pearl
Street’s German Pilsner, their new spring
seasonal offering brewed with a blend of noble
“I think that when craft beer started becoming
more popular, pilsner was a bad word,” Pearl
Street’s Chris Herr says. “We were doing
everything to dissociate our brands from the
macro breweries, and a pilsner was something
your buddy drank while mowing his lawn.
We were busy brewing IPAs, stouts, ambers,
porters, wheats and even sours before realizing
that we were collectively skipping one of the
hugest styles of beer in the market, but it
really wasn’t my goal as a craft brewer to be
competing to make a better pilsner than one
of the big guys. Pilsners are difficult to make,
not to mention, the longer production time (8
weeks for a lager vs 3 weeks for an ale), and
until recently they were mostly just fizzy pale
versions of flavorless beer. Once we realized
that we can brew a full flavored, highly hopped
and yet delicate pilsner, the doors opened for
a lot of us.”
“Pilsners also make a great gateway beer,” he
adds. “Most people who are scared of trying
new craft beers don’t seem to care about how
hoppy they are, just what color they are, so
they’re a great way to entice non-craft beer
drinkers in to drinking a hoppy beer that’s
‘light’.”
Even non-breweries are getting in on the act as
the latest entry into the 716 family of pilsners
was brewed collaboratively between Big Ditch
Brewing and Toutant restaurant. The Czechstyle pils will be made available at their joint
one-year anniversary party, Tuesday, May 17
(6pm-12am) at Big Ditch.
“[Toutant’s] James [Roberts] confessed that
he is a big fan of crisp and refreshing pilsners,
and I agreed,” Big Ditch’s Matt Kahn says.
“Plus, I know that we get lots of drinkers here
looking for something light and entry level in
terms of flavor. Our Czech-style pilsner should
come in at 4.8% with a nice crackery malt bite
and a floral and spicy hop character.”
“We both love the style and we especially
struggle to find a beer that pairs well with
our food and a big glass of bourbon,” Roberts
adds. “The crispness and refreshing traits of a
sessionable Pilsner/lager style beer would not
only cut the fatty-ness and spice of our food
but meet a need for entry level lighter beer as
our clientele expands past the inner circles of
Buffalo foodie supporters.”
You know what pairs best with a pint of local
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Thurs 8pm / Fri & Sat 7:30 & 10pm, Helium Comedy Club
Broken Lizard maestros Kevin Hefferman and Steve Lemme hit the road
spinning tales about their lives as members of one of America’s comedy
troupes. From Super Troopers to the hilarious Beerfest, get a behind the
scenes take on their classic movies.
9:30pm, Sportsman - $15
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Tarbox Ramblers are a primitive blues and jugband following the tradition of
hillbilly and delta blues reinterpreted into the modern world. They lay down
their backroads grit and raw hillbilly-rock jive in a genuine blast of sandpaper
rhythm and roots.
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8pm, UB Center for the Arts - $39/$33
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Known by TV audiences for their work on “Whose Line Is It Anyways”,
comedians Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood take to the live stage
to create hilarious improvisation al comedy sketches from audience
suggestions and participation.
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formed in 1979. They won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental
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10pm, Dinosaur BBQ - Free
Teen blues prodigy Hayden Fogle has to be heard and seen to be believed.
At only 14 years of age, Hayden has already played with, and impressed,
two of the all time blues legends- James Cotton and Buddy Guy. Head
downtown and have some Barb-B-Que and see a future blues legend while
you still can for free.
3pm, Daily Planet Coffee - Free
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Internationally-renowned double-bassist Brett Shurtliffe is performing a
stunning set of Classical music. He has countless awards for excellence and
has been praised in Bass World as “immaculate.” Head down to Daily Planet
and enjoy a cup of joe and experience this truly gifted musician on Sunday
afternoon.
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Country Lunch Band; 12-2:15pm
Mark plays classic country withThe
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Sportsmen's Tavern - 7pm The
Honeycutters
Walls
Daily Planet Coffee Co. - 12:30-1:30pm
Acoustic Lunch:: The Balladiers;
6:30-8:30pm Rob Falgiano, feat.
Edie Allen
Nietzsche's - 5pm Thursday Afternoon
Trio w/ John, Paul, and Bill
Roycroft Inn - 7-9pm John and Brad
Whitney
DANCE/DJS/
ELECTRONIC
Mr. Goodbar - 8pm Open Comedy
Mic
THROW BACK THURSDAY featuring DJ Charles Masters; 9pm
Throwback Thursdays with DJ
Charles Masters
Mooney's - 8pm DJ Trivia
Klawon & Dustin Francis
Penny Lane Cafe - 7-10pm A J
BLUES
JAZZ
Tap House Pub & Grill - 7-10pm Keith
Jam
7:30pm Buffalo State Jazz Ensemble
Church of the Advent - 2-3pm MayDen
Jazzweekly jazz with Dennis Warne
and Jennifer MAy
Colored Musicians' Club - 8pm Carol
Mc Laughlin
Daily Planet Coffee Co. - 5-6:30pm
Evening Jazz:: Fred Caputi
The Music Room - 7pm Open Mic, all
MUSIC
Abbey Square - 8:30pm Open Blues
Armor Inn Tap Room - 7pm Freightrain’s
Laurel and Hardy's - 9pm Pro Blues Jam
CLASSICAL
Pausa Art House - 8pm The pro-
gram, titled Multiplicities, will bring
Swedish composer Girilal Baars
together with the ensemble to perform new works for voice and electronics as well as some classical v
contemporary music from Cornelius
Cardew, Louis Andriessen, and more
UB Baird Hall - noon String Studio
Recital
Sportsmen's Tavern - 12-2pm Classic
Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar - 9pm
Buffalo State College Rockwell Hall -
KARAOKE
Garden Park Cafe - 8pm Dan's Nightly
Karaoke
Gypsy Parlor - 9pm Karaoke
Hat Trix Bar and Grill - 10pm karaoke
Rockin' Buffalo Saloon - 7pm Rock and
Roll Rich
Waiting Room - 10pm Live Band
Karaoke: Punk, Pop, Emo, $5 under
Gonzos - 11pm Andy Geier and Joe
Batt
Hilltop Inn and Grove - 8pm Open Mic
Hosted by Danny Lynn Wilson
Nifty Fifty - 8pm Peg Silvestri
O'Neill's Stadium Inn - 10pm Cory
T.C. Wheelers Bar & Pizzeria - 8-11pm
Open mic; 8-11pm Michael Hund
Shuskie Jr
ages
PIANO
Dick and Jenny's Bake and Brew - 6:30-
9:30pm Don Burns
ROCK
Backstage Pub - 8pm Back to the Bars
Mohawk Place - 6pm Summer Scouts,
Younger then,Pointless Pursuit,
Wacko Fest, Koasline, Lexxi
Raine,Nurse Joyful
Nietzsche's - 9pm Whetherman, Max
Garcia Conover
Polish Villa 2 - 6:30pm Tin Roof Band
Talty's Tavern - 8pm Alfie Alessandra
Duo
STEELY DAN
Seneca Niagara Casino Fri
April 29th 7pm
Tickets start at $90
Steely Dan the jazz -rock band
whose music also blends elements of funk, R&B, and pop.
Founded by core members
Walter Becker and Donald Fagen in 1972, the band enjoyed
great critical and commercial success in the late seventies and eight-
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band is a trio of guitar, washboard and drums
that play Americana and Delta Blues music in their own unique style. They
play the genre like no one else. Local band Uncle Ben’s Remedy opens the
show.
ies. Steely Dan recorded with some of the best session musicians in
Couzins - 8-11:30pm Bouncin' off the
SEE YOU THERE!
7pm, The Tralf - $14 adv / $16 day of show
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UB Slee Concert Hall (Lippes Concert
Hall) - 7:30pm UB Contemporary
HAYDEN FOGLE & THE AMBASSADORS
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the world and their music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced
structures and harmonies. Some of the Jazz session musicians include
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Larry Carlton, Phil Woods, Wilton Felder, Victor Feldman, Chuck Rainey, Bernard Purdie, Lee Ritenour, Tom Scott
and Wayne Shorter. Lead singer Donald Fagen has an immediately recognizable voice that has held up for more than
35 years. Steely Dan has sold more than forty million records worldwide and was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in March, 2001.
The Tralf Music Hall - 7pm The Besnard
Lakes
Wagon Wheel Restaurant - 8:30pm
Thursday Night Jams with Chuck
DeRose
Waiting Room - 6pm Davey
SuicideDeadstar Assembly, The
Funeral Portrait, Vanity Strikes,
VoKillz x [MP]Akira, Optic
Oppression
ZYDECO/CAJUN
Shango Bistro - 7pm Ron Davis aka
Leeron Zydeco
COMMUNITY
EVENTS
ARTS & CRAFTS
Brighton Place Library - 1:30-2:30pm
Cardcrafter's ClubThursdays from
1:30 - 2:30. Create beautiful, handmade greeting cards. Experienced
and beginning crafters are welcome.
This is not a class; we share ideas
and techniques. Call 332-4375 for
information.
Thin Ice - 5-9pm Buffalo ShopCraft
and Thin Ice Gift Shop are hosting
an Mother Earth Day artisan vendor event. It will feature eco-friendly
items from a variety of local artisans.
EXHIBITS
Buen Vivir - 1:30-4:30pm Climate
Change, System Change, Personal
Change featuring Two Unique
Exhibits
Buffalo Arts Studio - 11-5pm Tricia
Butski, Semblance
Buffalo History Tours - 10-5pm VQuilts:
Techniques and Styles
Castellani Art Museum - 11-5pm The
Castellani Art Museum will host
the Buffalo Society of Artists 120th
Catalogue Exhibition.
FILMS/SCREENINGS
Burchfield Penney Art Center - 6:30pm
THE HISTORY OF TERRORISM: EL
INFIERO
Dreamland - 8pm Community Action
Center is an unforgettable queer
exploration of pornography.
LECTURES/
PRESENTATIONS
FRI
APR 29
MUSIC
ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Backstage Pub - 7pm Mike Zogaria
Daily Planet Coffee Co. - 7-9pm City
Fiddle
Penny Lane Cafe - 7-9pm Maria
Sebastian and Perry Nicholas
Peopleart Coffeehouse - 9pm Grace
Lougen
Roycroft Inn - 7:30-10:30pm Doug
Yeomans and The Lo Blu Flame
Tavern at Windsor Park - 8:30pm
Invisible Touch
Unity Gallery at Unity Church - 9pm
Grace Lougen
Lutheran Church of the Messiah - 7pm
AVIATION HISTORY ON THE
NIAGARA FRONTIER - THE BELL
AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONLarry
Bell’s aircraft challenges and accomplishments by John Percy
UB O'Brian Hall - 4pm Discussion
with Robert J. Freeman, Executive
Director,New York State Committee
on Open Government
BLUES
LITERARY
CHORAL
Clarence Senior Center - 9-2pm Basket
and psychologically probing, Geoff
Dyer's writings reinvent again and
again the possibilities of nonfiction
CLASSICAL
Community Music School of Buffalo
- 5:30-6:30pm Topsy Turvy - The
SPECIALTY/
COMMUNITY THEATER
COMEDY
Helium Comedy Club - 8pm, 8pm Steve
Lemme & Kevin Heffernan from
Broken Lizard's Super Troopers and
Beerfest
COMMUNITY INTEREST
Raffle
World of Gilbert & Sullivan is taught
by Paul Waara. This sixty-minute
class is for teens & adults. Students
will explore the wonderfully funny
& entertaining world of Gilbert &
Sullivan
Delavan-Grider Community Center -
5-6:30pm PeaceJam Buffalo, For
Teens: PeaceJam is an international organization with 13 Nobel
Laureates on its board that uses
fun activities to provide youth with
inspiration, education, and action.
PeaceJam also fulfills community
service hours! Wednesdays 5:006:30pm - every Wednesday that
school is in session. (Dinner served
at 5pm. - Program starts at 5:30pm.)
Delavan-Grider Community Center,
877 East Delavan Avenue, Buffalo,
NY. Sponsored by WNY Peace
Center's Peace Education Project.
Contact Vicki (716-931-3520) for
more information.
Evergreen Health Services - 2-3pm
Educational support group for people living with HIV/AIDS
CRAFTS
Brighton Place Library - 1:30-2:30pm
Cardcrafter's Club. Do you love to
make your own greeting cards and
invitations? Meet w/ other card
crafters to share materials, ideas
& conversation. No experience
needed. Call 332-4375 for information.
Hallwalls - 7pm Omnivorously curious
Lancaster Opera House - 2:30pm
NIGHT WATCH
Crazy Jake's - 9:30pm Blue Rootz
Shannon Pub - 7:30pm Penny Whiskey
Templeton Landing - 4-8pm Speedy
ParkerWith Joe Calabrese
Tudor Lounge - 8pm Freightrain and
friends with Willie Haddath and
Dave Constantino
Vizzi's - 10pm Bluez Buddies
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd
- 7pm Chromatic Club Recital
Kleinhans Music Hall - 7pm Holst's The
Planets
UB Baird Hall - 7:30pm M.M. Recital:
Kristen Smigielski, soprano
Niagara University - 7pm The Drowsy
UB Slee Concert Hall (Lippes Concert
Hall) - 7:30pm M.M. Recital: John
Chaperone
Smigielski, percussion
UB Center for the Arts - 7:30pm Into
COUNTRY
The Woods
TOURS
189 Public House - 8:30pm New
Vintage Ramblers
Fontana Boathouse - 1pm Fontana
Nashville's 2 - 9pm 2 Leftboots; 9pm
Boathouse Tours
Zac Brown Band
Tifft Nature Preserve - 10-noon
DANCE/DJS/
ELECTRONIC
Wellness Walks. Drop by Tifft Nature
Preserve and enjoy the fresh air and
the sights and sounds of the season with a healthy outdoor walk on
our beautiful and accessible trails!
Please call 825-6397 to confirm walk
will be taking place. $2 donation per
person appreciated. All ages.
TOURS/HIKES
First Presbyterian Church - 6-9pm
Architectural Tour by Explore
Buffalo
Tifft Nature Preserve - 10-noon
Wellness WalksThursdays (offered
all year)10AM-12PMAll AgesTifft
Nature Preserve 1200 Fuhrmann
Blvd. Buffalo, NY 14203Drop by Tifft
Nature Preserve and enjoy the fresh
air and the sights and sounds of the
season with a healthy outdoor walk
on beautiful and accessible trails!
Please call 825-6397 to confirm walk
will be taking place. $2 donation per
person is appreciated
31 Club - 9:30pm DJ "Pauly" Paul
Allen Burger Venture - 10pm "Snake
n' Stylus. DJ Malik Von Saint and
Marcos Ugawdawa playing Disco
Punx high class dance rock"
Club Marcella - 10pm Friday Night
Dance Party
Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar - 9pm The
Legendary Milk and Cochise w/
Buffalo Funklord Lopro play It's
Motha Funkin' Fridays
Gypsy Parlor - 10pm DJ LoPro
Mooney's Bar & Grill - 8pm DJ Brian
Blaze
Mooney's Sports Bar & Grill - 10pm DJ
Homewrecker
Polish Villa 2 - 8pm Tom Hastings
Dance Party
The Gypsy Parlor - 2:30pm DJ LoPro
HIP-HOP
Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar - 9pm DJ's
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are leaves......words of the world
and the life of the world...”
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EVENTS
Ellen Wayland-Smith, Oneida: From Free Love
Utopia to the Well Set Table - An American Story
Mon, 5/2, 5:30 pm, Larkin Square Author Series
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Josh Fruhlinger, The Enthusiast
Buffalo native returns home w/debut novel
Thu, 5/5, 7 pm, Main St Store
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Ken Ilgunas, Trespassing Across America
Area native walks proposed Keystone pipeline
& tells his and its story - talk & signing
Sat, 5/7, 5 pm, Main St Store
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Clint Hill/Lisa McCubbin, Five Presidents
former secret service agent tells his tale
Thu, 5/12, 5:30 pm, Larkin Square Filling Sta
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Lauren Belfer, And After the Fire, new novel launch
Mon, 5/16, 5:30 pm, Larkin Square
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READ TO LIVE; LIVE TO READ
Milk, Cochise, and Scott Down
Milkie's on Elmwood (formerly Elmwood
Lounge) - 8:30pm Kill The Wolf World
Tour with support from Mad Dukez
and Tre Ocho
INDIE
Abbey
Square
Watermelon
-
8pm
Electric
JAZZ
Anchor Bar - 8pm The Jazz Example
Montante Cultural Center - 7:30pm
Canisius College Jazz Ensemble,
under the direction of David DeWitt,
Pausa Art House - 8-10pm Star
PeopleJohn Bacon Jr., George
Caldwell, Tim Clarke, Miles
Tucker,Danny Zieman & Bobby
Militello
Armory Saloon - 10pm Karaoke at bthe
Armory
Hat Trix Bar and Grill - 10pm karaoke
Riverside Park Inn - 10pm Riverside
park Inn 1160 Tonawanda St. Buffalo
The Topper Social Club - 9pm Karaoke
at Topper
Waiting Room - 10pm Live Band
Karaoke: Punk, Pop, Emo, $5 under
21, free for over 21
OPEN MIC
Hope Center - 9-11pm Open Mic
Woodside Coffee House - 7-11pm open
mic
UB Center for the Arts April 28th Thurs 8pm
$40.25/$55.75
Sebastian Maniscalco is an American stand-up comedian born in Chicago. Maniscalco began his career performing in bars and bowling alleys while working as a waiter at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Since then he has done a half hour for Comedy Central, appearances
on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Tonight Show with both
Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon, and Conan. He has two Comedy Specials
with Showtime called “What’s Wrong With People” and “Aren’t You Embarassed.” He continues to bring his sarcastic and exasperated take on
modern behavior and etiquette taking on everything from selfies, restaurant reviews, airport check-ins and much more. Go to UB Center for the
Arts and see a hot new stand-up’s reality check of the world we all live in.
PIANO
POP
River Grill - 8pm JJ Swing
Shadow Lounge & Restaurant - 10pm
Urban Renewal
Wine on Third - 8pm Luke Ciminelli
ROCK
American Legion Matthew Glab Post 1477
- 9pm The Screaming Pineapples
Dinosaur BBQ - 10pm Dead Alliance
Buffalo
Evening Star Concert Hall - 9pm The
Way Out
Hope Center - 7-9pm The Herd
Mac's on Hertel - 6pm Full Circle
Mr. Goodbar - 10pm The Plagiarists
Nietzsche's - 5pm The Afternoon trio
with John, Paul and Bill; 6pm The
Fibs
Nietzsche's - 9pm Midnight Snack
w/Our Friends Band & Dashuri
and Jenevieve; 10pm Sunbeam
Entertainment: Midnight Snack, Our
Friends Band, Dashuri
Nietzsche's - 10pm : Sunbeam
Entertainment: Midnight Snack, Our
Friends Band, Dashuri & Genevieve
Pizza Plant Italian Pub (Main St) - 7:30pm
Last Shot
Raintree Bar & Grill - 9:30pm A List
Rocky's Big City games and Sports bar -
10pm Ultraviolet
Santora's Pizza Pub & Grill (Millersport) -
8pm Greg Zeis/Dylan Hund
Santora's Pizza Pub & Grill (Transit Rd.) -
9pm Breakaway
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO
KARAOKE
Oliver's - 7:30pm George Jones
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THU
Seneca Niagara Casino - 8pm A Flock
of Seagulls; 8pm Rock & Roll Hall of
Famers Donald Fagen and Walter
Becker have announced Steely
Dan will be back to satisfy Dan fans
nationwide with thirty-plus performances this spring and summer,
including a performance at Seneca
Niagara Resort & Casino on Friday,
April 29 at 8 p.m.
Stir at the Seneca Niagara Casino -
6:30pm Dark Horse Run
Talty's Tavern - 9pm Willie May Band
The Cove - 7pm Nerds Gone Wild
The Tralf Music Hall - 7pm Reverend
Horton Heatwith Special Guests
Unknown Hinson Nashville Pussy
Lucky Tubb
Transit Lounge - 9:30pm .22 CALIBRE
Wagon Wheel Restaurant - 5:30pm Billy
Hickey; 9:30pm On The Edge
Yellow Jaguar - 9pm Stalking Jenna
SOUL
Riviera Theatre - 8pm Little Anthony &
The Imperials Friday April 29, 2016
Come out and enjoy a great evening of rhythm and blues/soul/doowop hits!! 2009 Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame Inductees, Little Anthony
and The Imperials are coming to
The Riviera, presented by Latshaw
Productions.Remember their first
hit, Tears on My Pillow"? And these
hits followed: "I'm On The Outside
(Looking In)" , "Goin' Out Of My
Head" , "Hurt So Bad" , "I Miss You
So" , "Take Me Back" , "Hurt" , and
"Out of Sight, Out Of Mind", and
the hits just kept coming for Little
Anthony And The Imperials.
The Vault Nightclub - 8pm Fairlight
COMMUNITY
EVENTS
ARTS & CRAFTS
The Fairgrounds - 4-9pm This year’s
edition of Springtime in the Country
features garden art, metalworks,
women’s fashion, original wall art,
custom furniture, designer jewelry,
home decor, spa quality bath and
beauty products, gourmet foods,
children’s toys, pottery and so much
more.
COMEDY
Helium Comedy Club - 7:30pm, 10pm
Steve Lemme & Kevin Heffernan
from Broken Lizard's Super Troopers
and Beerfest
COMMUNITY INTEREST
Buen Vivir - 6-9pm a closing reception for the show Climate Change,
System Change, Personal Change
Raffle
D'Youville College - 8:30-10:30am The
Hispanic Heritage Council of WNY
(HHC) will celebrate their traditional Dia del Nina’s or Day of the
Child.
Inspiration Point Buffalo - 7-9pm
Mastering the Tarot I with Jenn
Giambra-Ort
Stella Niagara Sisters of St. Francis -
10am EARTH DAY GATHERING:
Festival and the Fairy Garden
Make-It Take-It Workshop
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COMMUNITY THEATER
Irish Classical Theatre - 7:30pm The
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Yeats Project
NIGHT WATCH
BOX OF WINTER
WONDERLAND
Niagara University - 7:30pm The
Drowsy Chaperone
Road Less Traveled Theater - 7:30pm
Farragut North
The Woods
ROBIN TROWER
SPIRITUAL
The Bookworm - 5pm Exploring
Chakras with Shawn Cichowksi
Seneca Niagara Casino Thurs April 28th 8pm
$55to$65
TOURS
Buffalo Niagara Visitor's Center in the
Market Arcade - 10-noon Masters of
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bridge. Trower’s guitar sound is a cross between Jimi Hendrix and Albert
King. At 71 years of age, Robin Trower and Fender Stratocaster still brings
down the house with his technical brilliance and fiery stage presence.
EXHIBITS
LECTURES/
PRESENTATIONS
Buen Vivir - 1:30-4:30pm Climate
Change, System Change, Personal
Change featuring Two Unique
Exhibits
Butski, Semblance
Buffalo State College Whitworth
Ferguson Planetarium - 11am - Past the
Equinox: Skies of Spring.
FASHION
Buffalo State College - 6:30-9:30pm The
Patrick's
Banquet
Room
-
6pm The Queen City Swing
CombofeaturingBobby Militello
Church of Scientology of Buffalo - 7pm
Clear Body, Clear Mind
SAT
APR 30
MUSIC
ACOUSTIC/FOLK
LITERARY
FOGLE & THE AMBASSADORS
Lebro's - 8:30pm Black and Blues
Band
Matthew Glab Post - 9pm Willie May
Band
Pizza Plant Italian Pub (Transit Rd) - 7:3010:30pm Last Shot
Raintree Bar & Grill - 2pm Jony James
Resurgence Brewing Company - 6pm
Sam Marabella Quartet
Shannon Pub - 7:30pm Penny Whiskey
Squire on Main Restaurant - 7:30pm Paul
Briandi AllStar Band
The Cove - 2-5pm Blues Jam Matinee
with the Blues Crew
STUDIO featuring Maggie Nelson.
Penny Lane Cafe - 7-9pm Maria
Sebastian and Perry Nicholas
Ship N' Shore Restaurant - 7-9pm Magic
& Balloon Art by Joe & Gary, free.
FILMS/SCREENINGS
Kenan Center - 5-9pm For the 3rd
MAGIC
SEASONAL EVENT
Blessed Sacrament Church of Tonawanda
- 7pm THE ORIGINAL DIVINE
MERCY IMAGE DOCUMENTARY
year, the Kenan Center in Lockport
will host Mom’s Night Out Vendor
Fair, featuring over 25 vendors.
Daemen College - 6:30pm - Catching
SPECIAL EVENT
Botanical Gardens & Arcangel Gallery
- 10-5pm Fairy and Gnome House
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Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter
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Niagara County Community College -
Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library - 111:30pm Free Business Seminar for
local childcare providers and small
business owners
Templeton Landing - 8:30-11:30am
Citizens with Disabilities and Others
Can Break Bread andSpeak with
the Erie County Mental Health
Commissioner
Student Social Work Organization
of Buffalo State is hosting "Victory
is Mind"; a fashion show to raise
awareness about mental health and
illnesses.
the Sun; 6:30pm A free screening
of Shalini Kantayyaâs new documentary - Catching the Sun,
Extra Special Offer For New Customers:
SPoT Coffee (Delaware) - 1-2:30pm
sition, a 1960s reissue in the middle position, and a Texas Special at the
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The Best Premium Nuts, Shipped Fresh.
Dried Fruit, Snacks, Flours, Grains and More.
Buffalo Visitor Center at the Brisbane
bldg - 10am Masters of American
when he left to perform his solo career, he changed to a Fender Strato-
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solo career. In Procol Harem Robin played a Les Paul Gibson Guitar but
Honoring Mother Earth and Sister
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Town Park Clubhouse - 5:30pm:
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Fontana Boathouse - 11am Fontana
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BOOKS | GRAPHIC TRAFFIC presented by
BLOOD STAIN, VOL. 1
Linda Sejic (Author and Illustrator)
Image Comics (Publisher)
>REVIEW BY MAIA BANKHEAD
I
f it looks like it’s in the horror genre, I tend to stay away from it. I don’t deal with
horror very well, so even as I was walking out of the store with Blood Stain, I thought,
“What the hell am I thinking!?” I admit it: I was seduced by the fact that the book was
originally a webcomic on DeviantArt, and I freaking love DeviantArt. It was only after
I had finished reading Blood Stain, and still hadn’t figured out where the horror was,
that I noticed the small print on the back of the book: humor/slice of life. Blood Stain
follows Elliot Torris, a 27-year-old woman that lives with her sister and hasn’t landed a job in the two years since she
graduated with a major in chemistry from The Science University of Science (no, that’s not a typo). Desperate for a
job, she decides to answer an ad for a lab assistant. She calls about the job, and initially decides to drop the idea
due to the employer’s — Dr. Vlad Stein — creepy voice and shady demeanor. Alas, the world’s against her, so she
ends up taking the job. Sejic’s pastel and watercoloresque art style complements the story well. When I checked
out Sejic’s DeviantArt page to learn more about her, I was greeted by Dr. Stein hugging Ellie and celebrating the
publication. She, however, is cringing because he hasn’t showered and is covered in blood. Sejic’s humor is darkly
witty; if you like the trade paperback, then you’ll also enjoy her webcomic. One sour note: Sejic needed an editor. I
recommend you read this, but she needed an editor.
IMPERIUM: COLLECTING MONSTERS
By Joshua Dysart (Author) and Doug Braithwaite (Illustrator)
Valiant Entertainment LLC (publisher)
>REVIEWED BY JACK DUMPERT
erplexing it is,” Yoda might say. For a medium seemingly uniquely suited to the
genre, graphic fiction suffers from a dearth of good science fiction. So heads
up sci-fi fans. Indie comics company Valiant is publishing Imperium, a rousing sf
saga. New York Times best-selling, widely admired writer Joshua Dysart has created an
anti-hero protagonist. Lead character, Toyo Harada, is a “psiot” who possesses incredible
mental powers which he intends to deploy to create a utopian world. He is also cruel and
ruthless and ready to destroy anyone or anything that gets in his way. The most intriguing character in the series is the
robot Major Mech, a self-conscious, humanistic AI who would much prefer to be known as “Sunlight on Snow.”
mperium spins off Harbinger, a prior series. Starting this series at its beginning without having read the previous one
is much like picking up a television series in the second season. Some of the back story will be initially elusive but a
reader is quickly caught up in the current action and the back story will slowly fill in. Science Fiction aficionados had
best get started here quickly. Imperium: Collecting Monsters is volume one in the series. Volumes two, three and four are
already in stores. A prologue to episode one is set one hundred twelve years in the future. The story then reverts to an
alternate near future from which there is a whole lot of great science fiction yet to come.
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CELTIC/IRISH
Buffalo Irish Center - 7-11pm The theme
for the event is ‘Buffalo Beats &
Eats’, a celebration of local music
and cuisine. Providing musical entertainment will be the Charlie O’Neill
Unplugged Club and Gimme Buffett.
Nietzsche's - 5pm The Celtic Seisuns
Canisius College Chorale, under the
direction of Frank Scinta,
CLASSICAL
Kleinhans Music Hall - 8pm Celebrating
Sammy: Broadway to Vegas
St. Francis of Assisi Church - 7pm the
Goldman Trio in a free concert featuring pianist Bettyalice Riehle, cellist Barbara Cordaro and violinist
Leslie Bahler.
COUNTRY
Ernie Weber's Beef and Ale - 5-10pm
Live Country Roundup
Nashville's 2 - 9pm Branded
DANCE/DJS/
ELECTRONIC
Blu Bar & Grille - 8pm This week's
DJ is DAN DEGOSKIFREE DISCO
LESSONS at 8pm with TRISH from
the Step by Step TV show
Club Marcella - 9pm Salvation
Saturday Drag Show and Sexy
Underwear Contest
Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar - 9pm SNM
feat: Scott Down, Daringer, Charlie
the Butcher, Milk & Cochise and
Keith Concept
Mooney's Sports Bar & Grill - 10pm DJ
Homewrecker
Mooney's - 8pm DJ Homewrecker
FUNK/SOUL
Hydraulic Hearth - 9:30pm Ron Davis
and Ray Haugen
JAZZ
Cuginos Italian restaurant - 6:30pm Joe
KARAOKE
Eddie Ryan's - 9pm Jeff and Linda
TC's Lounge - 9pm Parrot Karaoke
with John Dudley
Wagon Wheel Restaurant - 9:30pm
Karaoke with Okie Rich
OPEN MIC
Al-E-Oops - 9:30pm Eric Joseph
PIANO
Mangia Ristorante - 9pm Piano bar with
Jon Lorentz
POP
31 Club - 8:30pm Joe Bolognese and
Dolly Durante
Gigi's Cucina Povera - 8pm Jack
Civelleto
Gordon's - 9pm Invisible Touch
Shadow Lounge & Restaurant - 10pm
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Baudo and Cheryl Ferris
GFY Bar - 9pm Sharon Bailey Project
Pausa Art House - 8pm
Wordism:
An evening of music and spoken
word curated by Jumanne Pitts and
Walter Kemp
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CHORAL
REVEREND HORTON HEAT
The Tralf Music Hall Fri April 29th 7pm
$25adv/$28 day of show
Reverend Horton Heat is a Dallas-based Rock and Roll trio that has been
called “the godfather of modern rockabilly and psychobilly.” Their music is a mixture of country, surf, punk, big band, swing and rockabilly, all
played with humorous lyrics and a loud, energetic floor show. And then
there is the “Heatettes.” Those foxy rockabilly chicks dressed in poodle-skirts and cowboy boots slamming the night away transports the audience into a teen exploitation movie from the fifties that’s currently in
the future. No band rocks harder than Reverend Horton Heat and they
live by the Gospel of Rock and Roll. Unknown Hinson, Nashville Pussy
and Lucky Tubb are the opening acts for these “itinerant preachers” who
actually practice what they preach!
The A-List Band
Wine on Third - 8pm Rob Falgiano
ROCK
Anchor Bar - 6-9pm Mike Nowak
Armor Inn Tap Room - 9pm Reset 2
Vinyl
Attitudes Bar and Grill (Lockport) - 10pm
Duke-James Band
Backstage Pub - 8pm British Steel
Bases Loaded Sports Bar & Grill - 10pm
Bases Loaded
Broadway Hotel - 9pm Elinski Brothers
Buffalo Iron Works - 8pm Rustic Radio
CD Release PartyDoors: 8:00pm,
Show: 9:00pm - Tickets: TBD - Ages:
18+
Clinton Bar and Grill - 8pm Under
Arrest
Crazy Jake's - 9:30pm Ultraviolet
East Eden Tavern and Smokehouse -
9:30pm Dark Horse Run
Evening Star Concert Hall - 8pm
RELICS A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC
OF PINK FLOYD
Gypsy Parlor - 10pm Draglesque
Jack Devine's South (Hamburg) - 10pm
Black Widow
Mr. Goodbar - 9pm Blue Shift
Niagara Catholic High School - 7pm
EVERYDAY PEOPLE
Nietzsche's - 10pm Grayak, The
Observers
Raintree Bar & Grill - 9:30pm 90 West
Riley Street Station - 9pm Mid Life
Crisis
River Grill - 8pm Mo Porter
Rockin' Buffalo Saloon - 8pm Necrot,
Grindlock, Abdicates, Skull Splitter,
Retribution
Santora's Pizza Pub & Grill (Transit Rd.) -
9pm Silver Xtreme
Strikers Lanes - 9pm Total Eclipse
Talty's Tavern - 8:30pm Alfie
Alessandra & the BIG DOGZ
The 33 Speakeasy Grill - 9pm The
Screaming Pineapples
The Cove - 7pm Cock Robin
The Vault Nightclub - 10pm the
Thurman Brothers
Tudor Lounge - 9:30pm The Card
Cheats perform Raw Power from
Iggy & The Stooges + another set of
punk classics
VFW Post #898 Col. J.B. Weber - 9pm
Slim Chance Band
Waiting Room - 9pm TERRAVITAw/
BARE . more tba
COMMUNITY
EVENTS
COMEDY
Helium Comedy Club - 7:30pm Steve
Beerfest; 8pm comedy open mic
Helium Comedy Club - 10pm Steve
Beerfest
Lounge) - 7pm DROLL: An Evening of
Comedic Entertainment,
SEASONAL MARKETS
Buffalo State College - 10-2pm Winter
Market at Buckham Hall, Buffalo
State, The Buffalo State Small
Business Development Center is
bringing the popular ElmwoodBidwell Farmers Market to the campus during the winter months. Free
parking on campus.
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FRI
SPECIAL EVENT
Tractor Supply Plaza - 9am Live Birds of
Prey at The Arcade Trade Fair
SPECIALTY/
COMMUNITY THEATER
LITTLE ANTHONY AND THE IMPERIALS
Riveria Theatre Fri April 29th 8pm
Irish Classical Theatre - 3pm The Yeats
Project
NIGHT WATCH
inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2009. Head out to North
Niagara University - 4pm the Friends of
Niagara University Theatre will host
the 31st Annual Friends of Niagara
University Theatre Gala including
a 4 p.m. production of The Drowsy
Chaperone at the Leary Theatre
within the Elizabeth Ann Clune
Center for Theatre, Clet Hall, and a
cocktail reception, dinner and silent
and live auction at the Niagara Falls
Country Club.
Road Less Traveled Theater - 7:30pm
Farragut North
The Woods
Tonawanda and see a Doo-Wop legend or you’ll have “Tears on Your Pil-
SPIRITUAL
$53/$63
Little Anthony and the Imperials is an American Soul and Doo-Wop
band from New York City, first active in 1958. Lead singer “Little Anthony” Gourdine was famous for his smooth high-pitched falsetto voice.
Their first single “Tears On My Pillow” was one of the big hits in the fifties and it catapulted the band to stardom. The band continued on with
such hits as “I’m On The Outside Looking In”, “Goin’ Out Of My Head”. I
Miss You So”, Take Me Back” and “Shimmy Shimmy, Ko KO Bop.” In 2015,
Little Anthony celebrated his 55th year in show business. The band was
Inspiration Point Buffalo - 6-7:30pm Life
low” for missing them.
UB Center for the Arts - 8pm COLIN
MOCHRIE & BRAD SHERWOOD:
TWO MAN GROUP
COMMUNITY INTEREST
CEPA Gallery - 1:30-3:30pm BAGELS,
MIMOSAS & PINHOLE CAMERAS!
Raffle
Consumer Credit Counseling - 93pm Free Homebuyer Education
Workshop
Gloria J. Parks Community Center -
3pm A two part Beginner’s Ukulele
Workshop, followed by a one set
concert
Inspiration Point Buffalo - 10-noon Pam’s
Pendulum Workshop
Town Park Clubhouse - 8am
‘Preservation Fundamentals’
EXHIBITS
Ferguson Planetarium - 8:30pm ’Past
the Equinox: Skies of Spring’
FILMS/SCREENINGS
Riviera Theatre - 7pm To pay tribute to
Prince, the historic Riviera Theatre
will be showing his title film "Purple
Rain" (1984) on our big screen - FREE
of charge
St. Mary's School for the Deaf - 10-
After Death: Two Saturdays
noon The Doctorine of Discovery:
Unmasking the Domination Code
FUNDRAISERS
Cambria Volunteer Fire Co. - 6-10pm
The YWCA of the Niagara Frontier
will be hosting their 9th Annual Cash
Raffle Dinner and Fundraiser
St. Benedict Church - 6pm ’Dare to
Dream’ 2016
KIDS STUFF
American Legion Stephen Sikora Post 1322
- noon LIL-CON #3
Community Music School of Buffalo -
11:30-12:15am Joy of Singing Together
- children ages 6-9 learn singing
techniques by learning & performing
in a group.
LECTURES/
PRESENTATIONS
Buffalo State College - 8:30-3pm It’s
Local, a Conference on Buffalo’s
Weather and Climate
St. Phillip's Episcopal Church - 10:30am
Amy Fettig of the ACLU National
Prison Project
UB Center for the Arts - 8-5pm
WordCamp Buffalo 2016
SEASONAL EVENT
Brookside Banquets - 2-7pm The
Niagara Celtic Heritage Society
presents their 2nd Annual
BELTRANE BASH
Whirlpool State Park - 10:30am annual
Walk for Niagara
TOURS/HIKES
Buffalo Canalside - 10am Walk MS:
Buffalo attracts friends and families of people affected by MS, people living with MS, corporate teams,
and individuals who want to help
end MS forever. Walk MS welcomes
everyone to participate and join the
fight against MS. Participants have
the option of walking 4 mile route or
the 1 mile fully accessible route mile
fully accessible routes.
Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve &
Environmental Education Center -
10:30am FUN GUYâS GUIDE TO
FUNGI
SUN
MAY 1
MUSIC
ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Armor Inn Tap Room - 6-9pm Half a
Heard
BLUES
Anchor Bar - 5pm Sam Marabella and
his Band
Pano's - noon Sam Marabella and his
Band
CHORAL
St. Christopher Church & School - 3pm
all three ABC Bel Canto Choirs:
Presto, Vivace and Bravo.
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St. Martin in the Fields Church - 7pm
The Grand Island Community
Chorus, directed by Carolyn
Lokken, invites you to its Spring
concert, "Night and Day,"
CLASSICAL
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SAT
7:30pm Buffalo State Digital Music
Ensembles,
Daily Planet Coffee Co. - 3-5pm BPO’s
Associate Principal Double Bassist,
Brett Shurtliffe
Canisius
College
Chamber
Orchestra, under the direction of
Ansgarius Aylward,
DEAD KENNEDYS
SATURDAY JUNE 4
TUESDAY JUNE 21
UPCOMING AT TOWN BALLROOM
SOLD OUT!!!! MAY 3
MAY 28
MAY 5
JUNE 2
X AMBASSADORS MONSTER TRUCK
ZOMBOY
MAY 7
CATFISH AND
THE BOTTLEMEN
MAY 11
HOUNDMOUTH
MAY 24
BOY & BEAR
SNARKY PUPPY
PARKWAY DRIVE
DARK STAR
ORCHESTRA
MAY 25
CURREN$Y
MAY 27
RAKIM
PERFORMING
PAID IN FULL
JUNE 3
MONDAY AUGUST 1
LEOPARD LOUNGE AT THE TOWN
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JUNE10
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THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
JUNE 25
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JUNE 23
THE PROCLAIMERS
MAY 8
TOMMY
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MAY 12
MISHKA
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MAY 21
ARBOR
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MAY 51
ELIOT
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Colored Musicians' Club - 3pm Ladies
Big Band; 8pm Open Jam Session
Nietzsche's - 6pm Ann Phillipone;
8pm Dr Jazz and the Jazzbugs
OPEN MIC
189 Public House - 7-10pm Larry M.
Mr. Goodbar - 9pm Keith Shuskie Jr.
POLKA
Polish Nook - 3-7pm New Direction
RELIGIOUS/GOSPEL
Trinity Church - 10:30am Kristia
Seddon The Trinity Choir and
Bobby Militello
ROCK
Backstage Pub - 8pm Jimmy Zigzag
and Johnny Jeffery
Evening Star Concert Hall - 4pm :
LumberJackMatt
w/ Ray
Williams, TBooze w/ Big Tim
Kellams, Code Red Global,
DeeZ, MyCool, Sincere, The
SUPREME General, & Luck
Luciano
Mohawk Place - 5pm The Impurity,
Tugboat,
BigBottleRocket,
Crooked Gener8ion, Shane Archer
Reed,
Kodie Hertel,
& Rust City Project 5 PM // $5
Presale // $7 Day Of Show // @
Mohawk Place
River Grill - 4pm Total Eclipse
Sugar City - 7:30pm Hotel Books
The Mug and Musket - 6pm Dave
Thurman and Friends
The Rapids Theatre - 6pm EL VY
Waiting
Room
8pm
MUSHROOMHEAD
COMMUNITY
EVENTS
COMMUNITY INTEREST
Buffalo History Tours - 12-3pm The 3rd
Annual BuffaloCherry Blossom
Festival
Skateland - 2-5pm May Day May Day
the party for the movements
The Lodge Bar & Grill - 5:30pm ALL
YOU CAN EAT Beer Dinner!
The Music Room - 2pm A Ukulele
Workshop in Rockabilly for Ukulele
(Uke-abilly), followed by a one set
concert
EXHIBITS
Buffalo History Tours - 12-5pm Quilts:
Ferguson Planetarium - 8:30pm ‘Past
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CELEBRATING SAMMY:
BROADWAY TO VEGAS
JAZZ
Kleinhans Music Hall Sat April 30th 8pm
$34.50 to $86.50
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is featuring veteran Broadway and
Las Vegas performer Eric Jordan Young in a high energy tribute to one
of the greatest performers in the history of show business- Sammy Davis Jr. In 2004, Eric conceived and authored Sammy and Me, a one man
musical where he portrays over 30 characters and sings famous songs
from the Sammy Davis Jr. catalogue. That tribute Eric has been creating
since he was a child, when he first saw Sammy Davis Jr. perform. “This
project is more than a show about Sammy and myself. It is about heroes we choose to follow throughout our lives. How we honor ourselves
by honoring them.” I believe if Sammy Davis Jr. were alive, Eric Jordan
Young and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s tribute show would have
put a big smile on his face.
the Equinox: Skies of Spring’
FUNDRAISERS
IV Stallions - 9:30-7:30pm Volleyball
Fundraiser
SPECIAL EVENT
Allen Burger Venture - 11am Join
us in celebrating our 1st Year
Anniversary on Sunday May 1, 2016
with an indoor and outdoor celebration. Family fun begins at 11am...
party goes all night! Outdoor Fun
Includes Beer Tent, Smash Burgers,
Live Music, Life Size Connect Four
& Jenga, Photo Booth, Corn Hole
& Kan Jam Tournaments, Local
Artists & Vendors and More!
Sikora Post - 12-5pm Dog Rescue of
WNY Bake nSale with live music by
Chris Borgatti and friends
Tractor Supply Plaza - 10am Live Birds
of Prey at The Arcade Trade Fair
SPECIALTY/
COMMUNITY THEATER
Irish Classical Theatre - 3pm The Yeats
Project
NIGHT WATCH
MusicalFare Theatre - 7pm
‘Page
To Stage: Three Generations of
Broadway in Concert’
Niagara University - 2pm The Drowsy
Chaperone
SPIRITUAL
El Buen Amigo - 2:30-3:30pm
Meditation Meets Artist Creation:
Improve your creativity in the arts,
music, self-awareness & expression
w/ Sandra Warnick Holland. All
ages & beginners
MON
MAY 2
MUSIC
COUNTRY
Sportsmen's Tavern - 7pm Stone
Country Band
DANCE/DJS/
ELECTRONIC
Essex St. Pub - 10pm Vinyl Monday
w/ Eric Kendall
Mooney's Sports Bar & Grill - 7:30pm
DJ Trivia
JAZZ
Colored Musicians' Club - 7pm George
Scott Big Band
KARAOKE
Hot Mama's Canteen - 9pm Best
Karaoke w/ J.Love
OPEN MIC
Backstage Pub - 8-11pm Michael Hund
Gene McCarthys - 7pm Mike P
Nietzsche's - 8pm Buffalo's longest
runnin open mic
Talty's Tavern - 7pm 1st Monday of
every Month: Charlie OâNeill
Guitar ClubOPEN MIC = ALL
JAZZ
4
WED
Sportsmen's Tavern - noon Joe Baudo
Big Band
KARAOKE
Essex St. Pub - 11pm Buffalo's Best
Karaoke, Essex St. Pub's own unique
style of Karaoke Buffalo has loved for
10 years.
OPEN MIC
Buffalo Live - 9pm Open mic
Clarence Center Coffee Co. - 7:30-
BONEY JAMES
Rockwell Hall at Buffalo State College Wed May 4th 8pm
SOLD OUT
Four-time Grammy nominee and multi-platinum selling saxophonist
Boney James is a soul jazz legend. His latest album,”Futuresoul”, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart and became
10:30pm karaoke; 7:30-10:30pm Doc
Stuart Shapiro
Clinton Bar and Grill - 8-11pm Jony
James
Coyote Cafe - 9:30pm Keith Shuskie
Flattery's Irish Pub - 9:30pm Tyler
Massaro
Gypsy Parlor - 8pm TuTuTuesday and
Open Mic
Jordan's Ale House - 8-11pm Open mic
Lounge) - 8pm OPEN MIC
The Alley Cat - 8pm Bobby Angel;
en weeks at #1. The gorgeous tone of his saxophone and the digital
8-11pm Amanda & Leigh
The Gypsy Parlor - 8pm TuTuTueday w/
Open Mic
sounds of modern production create a sonic tension that fuels his mu-
ROCK
his highest debut in a long successful career. “Futuresoul” spent elev-
sic. In 2009, Billboard magazine named James the No.3 Billboard Con-
Nietzsche's - 10pm Joe Donahue III
Old Man River - 5:30pm Joseph
temporary Jazz Artist of the Decade. He has appeared on the Tonight
Michael Mahfoud
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in August of 2015. Boney brings his R&B sax-
TGI Friday (Sheraton) - 7pm Steve
ophone stylings to Rockwell Hall to the delight of his fans.
6:30pm X
Ambassadors, Savoir Adore, Sara
Hartman
Waiting Room - 7:30pm mythological
UK rock band The Darkness
WELCOME = 7:00pm HOSTED BY:
Jim Brucato; 7-10pm Jim Brucato
The Alley Cat - 8-11:30pm open mic
in your Monday listing again! Every
Monday from 8pm-12am hosted by
Bobby Angel.
The Backstage Pub - 8-11pm Open Mic
ROCK
Remington Tavern and Seafood - 6pm
Beatles, Burgers and Beers
COMMUNITY
EVENTS
COMMUNITY INTEREST
Gypsy Parlor - 8pm Trivia with Geeks
RECREATION/GAMES
Epic Restaurant & Lounge - 8pm Epic
Movie Trivia Night!
SEASONAL EVENT
Ellicott Square Building - 7-10pm Nickel
City Opera's 8th Annual Gala
TUES
MAY 3
MUSIC
Balesteri
Town
Ballroom
COMMUNITY
EVENTS
Brighton Place Library Adult
ColoringTuesdays, 12:00 pm to 1:00
pmOur Adult Coloring Club is a
great way to relax and meet new
friends. This is not a class and is very
casual. Call 332-4375 for information.
BURLESQUE
Nietzsche's - 11pm The Stripteasers
COMEDY
ACOUSTIC/FOLK
DANCE
Culliton Mahoney
Sportsmen's Tavern - 9:30pm John
Nietzsche's - 8pm Comedy Showcase;
8pm Rust Belt Comedy
Ballet for Beginners
CLASSICAL
COMMUNITY INTEREST
FILMS/SCREENINGS
Ensembles,
Kleinhans Music Hall - 7pm The Buffalo
Academy for Visual & Performing
Arts joins the BPO
Lifetree Cafe WNY - 7pm ‘Dreams and
Nightmares: The Science Behind
the Stories of Your Mind’ features
a filmed interview with Dr. William
Moorcroft, author of ‘Understanding
Sleep and Dreaming’.
COUNTRY
LECTURES/
PRESENTATIONS
Sportsmen's Tavern - 6pm Twang Gang
Dianetics Lecture
Brawler's Back Alley Deli - 6pm Vinyl
Night w/ DJ Crespo, Bring Your Own
Vinyl!
Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar - 8pm Neo
Soul with Mike DiSanto's Verse
UB Center for the Arts - 6:30pm Tony
Conrad, renowned filmmaker, exhibiting artist, acclaimed practitioner in
contemporary media and sound arts
worldwide
DANCE/DJS/
ELECTRONIC
PROUDLY
PRESENTS
ARTS & CRAFTS
who Drink
Neglia Ballet Artists - 7-8:30pm Adult
(716) 837-8888 | (716) 837-8886
dinemandaringarden.com
-
Buffalo Niagara Convention Center
- noon Anthony Conte, the pres-
ident of Shea's Performing Arts
since March 2001, will receive the
Visit Buffalo Niagara Tim Russert
Award and will be inducted into the
Buffalo Ambassador Hall of Fame at
a special luncheon on May 3 at tvhe
Buffalo Niagara Convention Center,
the kick-off to National Travel and
Tourism Week.
Evergreen Health Services - 2-3pm
Educational support group for people living with HIV/AIDS
The Lodge Bar & Grill - 8pm Trivia Night
EXHIBITS
Buffalo Arts Studio - 11-5pm Tricia Butski,
Semblance
April 11
Mondays New
Play Series
Staged readings of new plays
by local playwrights
7:00 pm |Free Admission
Open and Shut
by Donna Hoke
Ellen knows her husband might be cheating on
her. Son Bill knows she might know he’s gay.
But not even Herculean efforts to neither ask nor
tell can stop the worst-kept secrets from forcing
mother and son to relationship crossroads,
where there’s no escaping their real fears and
nowhere to get but OUT!
April 25
Emile and Benny
by James Marzo
Based on the true story of boxing great Emile
Griffith, conflicted in his sexuality and consumed
with the guilt of killing a man in the ring in 1962
Alleyway’s Main Street Cabaret
672 Main Street
Call 716.886.9239 to Reserve
www.buffalobua.org
Facebook.com/BuffaloUnitedArtists
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6pm
SUN
8pm
ANN PHILIPPONE
free
EVERY
DR JAZZ AND THE JAZZ BUGS,
EXCEPT THE FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH
free
JAZZ CACHE
SONGWRITER'S SHOWCASE
EVERY
MON
@ 8PM / FREE
BUFFALO'S LONGEST RUNNING
OPEN MIC W/ JOSH GAGE @ 9PM
BLUE MOON MONDAYS! - $3 PINTS
RUST BELT COMEDY 8 PM
EVERY
TUES
JOE DONOHUE 10PM
@ 11PM / $3
STRIPTEASERS
EVERY
WED
6PM free
EVERY
THU
5PM free
EVERY
SAT
4:30
THU
APR
28
9pm $5
FRI
APR
29
6pm free
free
TYLER WESTCOTT'S
PIZZA TRIO
THE AFTERNOON TRIO W/
JOHN, PAUL & BILL
CELTIC SEISIUNS
WHETHERMAN,
MAX GARCIA CONOVER
HAPPY HOUR WITH:
THE FIBS
SUNBEAM ENTERTAINMENT:
FRI
APR
29
10pm $5
MIDNIGHT SNACK,
OUR FRIENDS BAND,
DASHURI & GENEVIEVE
SAT
APR
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10pm $5
GRAYAK, THE OBSERVERS
TUE
MAY
3
6pm free
HAPPY HOUR WITH:
KATHRYN KOCH
WED
MAY
4
9pm free
FOUR WINDS
A TRIBUTE TO PRINCE:
THU
MAY
5
9pm $5
BLUE STONE GROOVE,
JACOB PETER & THE TRUTH,
KATHRYN KOCH,
VINNIE DEROSA,
JOE ROZLER, MORE TBA
HAPPY HOUR:
FRI
MAY
6
6pm free
A BAND NAMED SUE
FRI
MAY
6
10pm $5
ELECTRORESPECT 9:
A TRIBUTE TO MARK FREELAND
SAT
MAY
7
10pm $5
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Buffalo History Tours - 10-5pm
VQuilts: Techniques and Styles
FILMS/SCREENINGS
Starpoint High School - 6:30pm New
film by Josh Fox of GASLAND
fame: ‘How to Let Go of the World
and Love All the Things Climate
Can’t Change’ Josh Fox will be
there
KARAOKE
Epic Restaurant & Lounge - 9:30pm
Just "In" Sound
OZone - 9pm Karaoke Nights
Triple Play Sports Bar - 9pm Triple
Play Sports Bar 1809 Kenmore
Ave. Buffalo
OPEN MIC
Anchor Inn - 7-11pm J C Thompson
7:30pm Dirty Dancing
Community Music School of Buffalo -
Byrd House - 9pm Phil Elinsky
Keith Shuskie
Stamps Bar - 8-11pm Arrow
Seitz
The Penalty Box - 10pm Open Jam
with Matt Ruschmann
Tudor Lounge - 10pm Todd Allen
OPERA
MUSIC
Ellicott Square Building - noon The
BLUES
Alternative Brews - 8-11:30pm Blues
Pro-Jam with Big Sauce Trio with
special guests
The Tralf Music Hall - 7pm Reverend
Peyton’s Big Damn BandOpening
the ShowUncle Ben's Remedy
Ellicott Square Building and Nickel
City Opera Hosts ‘Singin’ In The
Square’ - Wednesday’s In May
Lunchtime Concert Series
ROCK
Hydeout - 8pm Randy California's
Open jam
Rocky's Big City games and Sports bar -
CELTIC/IRISH
Shannon Pub - 6:30pm Joe Head
CLASSICAL
Ensembles,
COUNTRY
Armor Inn Tap Room - 6:30-9pm
6:30-9:30pm Black Widow
TGI Friday (Sheraton) - 7pm Steve
Balesteri
Wine on Third - 6-9pm Mom's Night
Out Event! music by Keith Shuskie
COMMUNITY
EVENTS
Country Night, JB Aaron
COMEDY
DANCE/DJS/
ELECTRONIC
MIC
Lounge) - 8pm COMEDY OPEN
Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar - 9pm
Dolla Dolla Beer Ya'll with DJ
Charles Masters
Mooney's Sports Bar & Grill - 7:30pm
DJ Trivia
Pan American Grill & Brewery
-
5:30pm DJ Trivia
JAZZ
8pm
Boney James
Church of the Advent
- 2-3pm
MayDen Jazzweekly jazz with
Dennis Warne and Jennifer MAy
Nietzsche's - 6pm Tyler Westcott's
Pizza Trio
Sportsmen's Tavern - noon Joe Baudo
Quartet
5:30pm Before You Know It
KIDS STUFF
Stockman's Tavern & Grove - 8pm Tom
WED
MAY 4
Amherst Center for Senior Services -
Cosmic
Peace of Mind Coffee Shop - 7-10pm
Shea's Buffalo Performing Arts Center -
FILMS/SCREENINGS
Ashker's Juice Bar & Cafe - 7-10pm
Carmine's - 8-11pm Peg Silvestri
SPECIALTY/
COMMUNITY THEATER
Buffalo History Tours - 10-8pm Quilts:
COMMUNITY
INTEREST
Gloria J. Parks Community Center - 6-
8pm Academy of Choice Charter
School founding group will be providing the community with information about the exciting new
school that is under development.
DANCE
Blu Bar & Grille - 7pm Dance lessons
by Salsa for the Soul
Neglia Ballet Artists - 7-8am Barre
Fitness
5-5:45pm Instrument Exploration
- Beginner Strings & Percussion
is taught by Sean Crawford. This
forty five-minute class is for students ages 5-7. Children will
explore music through singing,
games & group instrument play.;
6-6:45pm Instrument Exploration Winds & Strings is taught by Sean
Crawford. This forty five-minute
class is for students ages 8-12.
Children will explore the instruments of the orchestra. Students
will be exposed to a vast repertoire, learn about & play a variety
of instruments & develop basic
musical competence.
UB
Center
for
the
Arts
-
6:30pm
DANIEL TIGER’S
NEIGHBORHOOD LIVE!
LECTURES/
PRESENTATIONS
Audubon Library - 6:30pm The Erie
County Fair: 177 Years of Tradition,
Agriculture & Excitement
Church of Scientology of Buffalo -
6:45pm You can be more able than
you are. A recorded lecture by L.
Ron Hubbard, founder of Dianetics
and Scientology. $15. 856-3910;
7pm Clear Body, Clear Mind
Dianetics Lecture
Steel Plant Museum - 6:30-8:30pm
’Against the Grain: The History of
Buffalo's First Ward’ - Presentation
and Book SigningTimothy Bohen
LITERARY
Center for Inquiry (Amherst) - 7pm
Regina Grol, John Marvin, and
Marge Merrill
Gypsy Parlor - 6:30pm Pure Ink
Poetry A poetry slam focusing on
discrimination in education
RECREATION/GAMES
Main Street Gallery - 8:30pm The
Players Chess Club
EXHIBITS
SPECIALTY/
COMMUNITY THEATER
Shea's Buffalo Performing Arts Center -
Butski, Semblance
7:30pm Dirty Dancing
VENUE
DIRECTORY
189 Public House 189 Main St Aurora (652-
8189, oneeightynine.com)
31 Club 31 Johnson Park (332-3131, the31club.
com)
Abbey Square 784 Wehrle Dr Amherst
(634-8050)
Al-E-Oops 5389 Genesee St Lancaster
(681-0200, aleoops.com)
Allen Burger Venture 175 Allen St
Alternative Brews 3488 Sheridan Dr
Amherst (446-0424, alternativebrews.com)
American Legion Matthew Glab
Post 1477 1965 Abbott Rd Erie (825-3733)
American Legion Stephen Sikora
Post 1322 950 Payne Ave Niagara (693-1740)
Amherst Center for Senior Services
370 John James Audubon Pkwy Amherst
(636-3050)
Anchor Bar 1047 Main St (884-4083,
anchorbar.com)
Anchor Inn 2437 William St Cheektowaga
(896-9762)
Armor Inn Tap Room 5381 Abbott Rd
Hamburg (202-1315, armorinn.com)
Armory Saloon 1641 Military Rd (876-2884)
Ashker's Juice Bar & Cafe 1002
Elmwood Ave
Ferguson Planetarium 1300 Elmwood
Avenue (878-4911, fergusonplanetarium.net)
Buffalo Visitor Center at the
Brisbane bldg Buffalo Erie County US
Burchfield Penney Art Center
1300 Buffalo State Buffalo State (878-6011,
burchfieldpenney.org)
Byrd House 4646 N Buffalo Rd Orchard
Park
CEPA Gallery 617 Main St (856-2717,
cepagallery.org)
Cambria Volunteer Fire Co. Cambria
Volunteer Fire Company 4631 Lockport
Canalside Buffalo Prime St Waterfront
Erie County (574-1537, canalsidebuffalo.com)
Carmine's 1701 Pine Ave Niagara County
Castellani Art Museum 5795 Lewiston
Rd Lewiston (286-8200, purple.niagara.edu/
cam)
Center for Inquiry (Amherst)
1310 Sweet Home Rd Amherst (636-4869,
centerforinquiry.net/amherst)
Church of Scientology of Buffalo
836 Main St (856-3910, scientology-buffalo.org)
Church of the Advent 54 Delaware Rd
Backstage Pub 603 Dingens St
Tonawanda (876-6504, adventkenmore.org)
Clarence Center Coffee Co. 9475
Clarence Center Rd Clarence (741-8573,
clarencecentercoffee.com)
Clarence Senior Center 4600
Thompson Rd Clarence (633-5138)
Clinton Bar and Grill 2460 Clinton St
Cheektowaga
Club Marcella 622 Main St (847-6850,
clubmarcella.com/Club_Marcella/club_
marcella.html)
Colored Musicians' Club 145 Broadway
(855-9383, coloredmusiciansclub.org)
Bases Loaded Sports Bar & Grill
Community Music School of
Buffalo 415 Elmwood Ave (884-4887,
Attitudes Bar and Grill (Lockport)
616 West Ave Niagara (434-5328)
Audubon Library 350 John James
Audubon Pkwy Amherst
Cheektowaga
3355 Lake Shore Rd Hamburg (823-0158)
Blessed Sacrament Church of
Tonawanda 263 Claremont Ave
Blu Bar & Grille 424 Evans St Amherst
Botanical Gardens & Arcangel
Gallery 2655 South Park Ave Erie County
Brawler's Back Alley Deli 76 Pearl St
(939-3670, pearlstreetgrill.com/deli)
Brighton Place Library 999 Brighton Rd
Tonawanda (332-4375, brightonplacelibrary.
org)
Broadway Hotel 158 Main St Erie (6929810)
Brookside Banquets 2990 Lockport St
Newfane
Buen Vivir 148 Elmwood Ave
Buffalo Arts Studio 2495 Main St (8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org)
Buffalo Canalside Prime St Buffalo NY
Buffalo History Tours Buffalo Erie
County US (buffalohistorytours.com/hotel_
lafayette_tours)
Buffalo Irish Center 245 Abbott Rd (8259535, buffaloirishcenter.com)
Buffalo Iron Works 49 Illinois St (2001893, buffaloironworks.com)
Buffalo Live 3053 Main St
Buffalo Niagara Convention Center
communitymusicbuffalo.org)
Consumer Credit Counseling 40
Gardenville Pkwy W West Seneca
Couzins 7115 Boston State Rd Boston (6491020)
Coyote Cafe 36 Main St Hamburg (6491837, thecoyotecafe.com)
Crazy Jake's 26 Webster St Niagara (6939309, crazyjakesnt.com)
Cuginos Italian restaurant 6011 Main
St Amherst
D'Youville College 320 Porter Ave (800777-3921, dyc.edu)
Daemen College 4380 Daemen College
(839-3600, daemen.edu/Pages/default.aspx)
Daily Planet Coffee Co. 1862 Hertel
Ave (551-0661)
Delavan-Grider Community Center
877 E Delavan Ave
Dick and Jenny's Bake and Brew
1270 Baseline Rd Grand Island (775-5047,
dickandjennysny.com)
Dinosaur BBQ 301 Franklin St (880-1677,
dinosaurbarbque.com)
Dreamland 387 Franklin St (948-0943)
Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar 253 Allen
St (240-9359, dukesbohemiangrovebar.com)
East Eden Tavern and Smokehouse
Elma Elma NY
153 Franklin St (855-5555, buffaloconvention.
com)
Eddie Ryan's 50 Central Ave Lancaster
Buffalo Niagara Visitor's Center in
the Market Arcade 617 Main St (852-2356,
El Buen Amigo 114 Elmwood Ave (885-
Buffalo State College 1300 Buffalo
Ellicott Square Building 295 Main St
Epic Restaurant & Lounge 431
visitbuffaloniagara.com)
State Buffalo State (878-4000, buffalostate.
edu)
Buffalo State College Rockwell Hall
1300 Buffalo State Buffalo State (878-4000,
buffalostate.edu/pac)
(651-0950, eddieryansbar.webs.com)
6343, elbuenamigo.org)
Elmwood Ave (8833742, epiconelmwood.
com/index.html)
Episcopal Church of the Good
Shepherd 96 Jewett Pkwy (833-1151,
episcopalgoodshepherd.org)
Bicycle Rte 517
St (629-3069)
Ernie Weber's Beef and Ale 3167
Milkie's on Elmwood (formerly
Elmwood Lounge) 522 Elmwood Ave
Rockin' Buffalo Saloon 1800 Union Rd
South Park Ave Erie County
Essex St. Pub 530 Rhode Island St (8832150)
Evening Star Concert Hall 8810
Niagara Falls Blvd Niagara (940-5391)
Evergreen Health Services 200 S
Elmwood Ave
First Presbyterian Church 1 Symphony
Cir (884-7250)
Flattery's Irish Pub 1130 Orchard Park
Rd West Seneca (674-9554, flatterys.com)
Fontana Boathouse Rotary Row Front
Park Erie County
Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library
1324 Jefferson Ave (883-4418)
GFY Bar 1866 Colvin Blvd Tonawanda
(9393243)
Garden Park Cafe 3525 Genesee St
Cheektowaga (635-0387, gardenparkcafe.
com)
Gene McCarthys 73 Hamburg St (8558948, genemccarthys.com)
Gigi's Cucina Povera 981 Kenmore Ave
Tonawanda (877-8788, gigiscucinapovera.com)
Gloria J. Parks Community Center
3242 Main St (832-1010)
Gonzos 7 Main St Niagara County (4385765)
Gordon's 2263 Delaware Ave (874-3020)
Gypsy Parlor 376 Grant St
Hallwalls 341 Delaware Ave (854-1694,
hallwalls.org)
Hat Trix Bar and Grill 4923
Southwestern Blvd Hamburg
Helium Comedy Club 30 Mississippi
St (8531211, heliumcomedy.com/buffalo/index.
php)
Hilltop Inn and Grove 11389 Genesee St
Alden (937-3430)
Hope Center 781 Maple Rd Amherst (8109532, hopecenterbuffalo.org)
Hot Mama's Canteen 12 Military Rd (7838222, hotmamascanteen.com)
Hydeout 490 Center St Lewiston
Hydraulic Hearth 716 Swan St
IV Stallions 2912 William St Cheektowaga
Inspiration Point Buffalo 483 Elmwood
Ave
Irish Classical Theatre 625 Main St (8534282, irishclassicaltheatre.com)
Jack Devine's South (Hamburg) 4170
Southwestern Blvd Hamburg
Jordan's Ale House Abbott Rd Buffalo
US
Karpeles Manuscript Museum
(Porter Hall) 453 Porter Ave (885-4139, rain.
org/~karpeles)
Kenan Center 433 Locust St Niagara
County (433-2617, kenancenter.org)
Kleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Cir
(883-3560, kleinhansbuffalo.org)
Lancaster Opera House 21 Central Ave
Lancaster (683-1776, lancopera.org)
Laurel and Hardy's 1388 Broadway
Lebro's 330 Campbell Blvd Amherst (6880404, lebrosrestaurant.com)
Lifetree Cafe WNY 1570 Niagara Falls
Blvd Tonawanda (835-2220, lifetreecafe.com)
Lutheran Church of the Messiah 915
Oneida St Lewiston
Mac's on Hertel 1435 Hertel Ave (8336227, empiregrill.net)
Main Street Gallery 515 Main St
Mangia Ristorante 4264 N Buffalo Rd
Orchard Park (662-9467)
Matthew Glab Post 1965 New York State
(8825881, milkiesonelmwood.com)
Mohawk Place 47 E Mohawk St (312-9279,
buffalosmohawkplace.com)
Montante Cultural Center 2001 Main
St
Mooney's 13 Main St Niagara County
Mooney's Bar & Grill 4628 Broadway
Cheektowaga (681-2121, mooneysbroadway.
com)
Mooney's Sports Bar & Grill 1531
Military Rd (877-1800, mooneyssportsbar.com)
Mr. Goodbar 1110 Elmwood Ave (8824000)
MusicalFare Theatre Canavan Hall
Daemen College Main St (839-8540, https://
www.musicalfare.com)
Nashville's 2 8166 Main St Clarence
Neglia Ballet Artists 1685 Elmwood Ave
(447-0401, negliaballet.org)
Niagara Catholic High School 520
66th St Niagara (283-8771, niagaracatholic.org)
Niagara
County
Community
College 3111 Saunders Settlement Rd
Cambria (614-6222, niagaracc.suny.edu)
Niagara University 5795 Lewiston Rd
Lewiston (285-1212, niagara.edu)
Nietzsche's 248 Allen St (886-8539,
nietzsches.com)
Nifty Fifty 7710 Buffalo Ave Niagara
County (283-7700)
O'Neill's Stadium Inn 3864 Abbott Rd
Orchard Park (646-4674)
OZone 2268 Genesee St
Old Man River 375 Niagara St Erie (6935558)
Oliver's 2095 Delaware Ave (877-9662,
oliverscuisine.com)
Pan American Grill & Brewery 391
Washington St (856-0062, panamericangrill.
com)
Pano's 1081 Elmwood Ave (886-9081,
panosonelmwood.com)
Pausa Art House 19 Wadsworth St
(pausaarthouse.com)
Peace of Mind Coffee Shop 83 Main
St Newstead (442-5215)
Penny Lane Cafe 10255 Main St Clarence
Peopleart Coffeehouse 1243 Delaware
Ave Erie County
Pizza Plant Italian Pub (Main St) 5110
Main St Amherst (626-5566, pizzaplant.com)
Pizza Plant Italian Pub (Transit Rd)
7770 Transit Rd Amherst (626-5566, pizzaplant.
com)
Polish Nook 2242 Cudaback Ave Niagara
(282-6712, polishnook.com)
Polish Villa 2 1085 Harlem Rd
Cheektowaga (822-4908, polishvilla.org)
Raintree Bar & Grill 2970 Colvin Blvd
Tonawanda (695-3504, raintreebar.com)
Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve
& Environmental Education Center
93 Honorine Dr Cheektowaga (683-5959, dec.
ny.gov/education/1837.html)
Remington Tavern and Seafood 184
Sweeney St Niagara County
Resurgence Brewing Company 1250
Niagara St (381-9868, resurgencebrewing.com)
Riley Street Station 27 Riley St Aurora
(655-4948, rileystreetstation.com)
River Grill 70 Aqua Ln Tonawanda (8732553, rivergrilltonawanda.com)
Riverside Park Inn 1160 Tonawanda St
Riviera Theatre 67 Webster St Niagara
(692-2413, rivieratheatre.org)
Road Less Traveled Theater 639 Main
West Seneca
Rocky's Big City games and Sports
bar Transit Rd Williamsville NY
Roycroft Inn 40 S Grove St Aurora (6525552, roycroftinn.com)
SPoT Coffee (Delaware) 227 Delaware
Ave (332-2299, spotcoffee.com)
Santora's Pizza Pub & Grill
(Millersport) 1402 Millersport Hwy
Amherst (688-3081)
Santora's Pizza Pub & Grill (Transit
Rd.) 7800 Transit Rd Amherst (616-0892)
Sean Patrick's Banquet Room 3480
Millersport Hwy Amherst (636-1709, spatricks.
com)
Seneca Niagara Casino 310 4th St
Niagara (299-1100, senecaniagaracasino.com)
Shadow Lounge & Restaurant 1504
Hertel Ave (835-3975, shadowloungebuffalo.
com)
Shango Bistro 3260 Main St (837-2326,
shangobistro.com)
Shannon Pub 2250 Niagara Falls Blvd
Tonawanda (743-9348, shannonpub.com)
Shea's Buffalo Performing Arts
Center 646 Main St (847-1410, sheas.com)
Ship N' Shore Restaurant 5612
Tonawanda Creek Rd Pendleton (704-1315,
theshipnshore.com)
Sikora Post 950 Payne Ave Niagara County
Skateland 33 E Ferry St
Sportsmen's Tavern 326 Amherst St (8747734, sportsmenstavern.com)
Spot Coffee Hamburg 12 Main St
Squire on Main Restaurant 4548 Main
St Amherst
St. Benedict Church 1317 Eggert Rd
Amherst
St. Christopher Church & School
2660 Niagara Falls Blvd Tonawanda (6922660,
saintchris.org)
St. Francis of Assisi Church 144-150
Broad St Erie (6931150)
St. Martin in the Fields Church
2587 Baseline Rd Grand Island (773-3335,
isledegrande.com/stmartin.htm)
St. Mary's School for the Deaf 2253
State University at Buffalo School of Medicine
Parkside (834-7200, smsdk12.org)
St. Phillip's Episcopal Church 15
Fernhill Ave
Stamps Bar 98 Main St Erie (694-3475)
Starpoint High School 4363 Mapleton
Rd Pendleton (210-2342, starpointcsd.org)
Steel Plant Museum 100 Lee St
Stella Niagara Sisters of St. Francis
4221 Lower River Rd Lewiston (754-4311,
franciscans-stella-niagara.org)
Stir at the Seneca Niagara Casino
310 4th St Niagara (senecaniagaracasino.com/
stir)
Stockman's Tavern & Grove 9870
Transit Rd Amherst (688-9896)
Strikers Lanes 50 Michael Rd West
Seneca (674-1104, strikerz.biz)
Sugar City 1239 Niagara St (buffalosugarcity.
org)
T.C. Wheelers Bar & Pizzeria
341 Wheeler St Erie County (692-3632,
tcwheelers.com)
TC's Lounge 2241 Grand Island Blvd Grand
Island (773-7852)
TGI Friday (Sheraton) 300 3rd St
Niagara (285-3361, sheratonatthefalls.com/
niagara-falls-dining.php)
Talty's Tavern 2056 South Park Ave (8259279, freewebs.com/taltys)
Tap House Pub & Grill 85 W Chippewa
St (332-2433, taphousepubandgrill.com)
Tavern at Windsor Park 8444 Transit Rd
Amherst
Templeton Landing 2 Templeton Terrace
(852-2260, templetonlanding.com)
The 33 Speakeasy Grill 3455 Genesee
St NY (634-2233, 33speakeasy.com)
The Alley Cat 199 Allen St (235-8215,
alleycatbuffalo.com/sites/contact.html)
The Backstage Pub 603 Dingens St
Cheektowaga (240-9161)
The Bookworm 34 Elm St Aurora (6526554)
The Cove 4701 Transit Rd Elma (656-7946,
thecoveseafoodandbanquets.com)
The Fairgrounds 5600 McKinley Pkwy
Hamburg (646-6109, the-fairgrounds.com)
The Gypsy Parlor 376 Grant St (551-0001,
thegypsyparlor.com)
The Lodge Bar & Grill 79 W Chippewa
St (256-1940)
The Mug and Musket 418 Main St Porter
The Music Room 609 Oakwood Ave
Aurora (864-8448, themusicroomea.com)
The Penalty Box 34 Chestnut St Niagara
County
The Rapids Theatre 1711 Main St Niagara
(205-8925, rapidstheatre.com)
The Topper Social Club 492 19th St
Niagara (652-3813)
The Tralf Music Hall 622 Main St
(8522860, tralfmusichall.com)
The Vault Nightclub 8676 Buffalo Ave
Niagara (693-2223, thevaultwny.com)
Thin Ice 719 Elmwood Ave (881-4321,
thiniceonline.com)
Tifft Nature Preserve 1200 Fuhrmann
Boulevard (825-6397, sciencebuff.org/tifftu.-p-1)
Town Ballroom 681 Main St (852-3900,
townballroom.com)
Town Park Clubhouse 10405 Main St
Clarence
Tractor Supply Plaza 378 Main St Arcade
Transit Lounge 4723 Transit Rd Erie
County
Trinity Church 371 Delaware Ave
Triple Play Sports Bar 1809 Kenmore
Ave Erie County (417-9488)
Tudor Lounge 335 Franklin St (855-9643,
tudorlounge.com)
UB Baird Hall Baird Hall University at
Buffalo Amherst
UB Center for the Arts The Center for
the Arts 103 (645-2787, ubcfa.org)
UB O'Brian Hall University at Buffalo 12
UB Slee Concert Hall (Lippes
Concert Hall) Williamsville Amherst NY
(645-2921, slee.buffalo.edu)
Unity Gallery at Unity Church 1243
Delaware Ave Erie (882-0391, unitybuffalo.org)
VFW Post #898 Col. J.B. Weber
2909 South Park Ave Erie (823-9605)
Vizzi's 967 Kenmore Ave Tonawanda (8711965)
Wagon Wheel Restaurant 7201 Niagara
Falls Blvd Niagara (283-9861)
Waiting Room 334 Delaware Ave (8491000,
tour-city.com/webhosting/waiting_
room/index.html)
Whirlpool State Park Robert Moses
Pkwy Niagara Falls NY
Wine on Third 501 3rd St Niagara (2859463, wineonthird.com)
Woodside Coffee House 675 Abbott
Rd
Yellow Jaguar Transit Rd Williamsville Erie
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