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Garrett Klahn

[ROCK] Most fans probably know Garrett Klahn as singer and guitarist of the post-hardcore band Texas is the Reason. Earlier this year Klahn released his first solo record, and if there is one thing the maturing musician knows, it is how important just one record can be. Texas is the Reason is now highly praised as one of the pioneers of emo music, but the band, which only existed for three years, only released one LP, 1996’s Do You Know Who You Are. On his solo record, Klahn does not aim to recreate that magic—he aims more so to summarize a career so far.

Lucius

[POP] The latest album from Brooklyn’s Lucius is called Good Grief and it’s appropriately titled. It’s not a Charlie Brown reference, but more a reference to the way we bask in our own depression and anguish. In that context, the record, which is mostly about anxiety, mental illness, and heartbreak—song titles include “Madness” and “Gone Insane”—is actually pretty ecstatic and ironically gleeful as opposed to bleak and sorrowful.

greenWatch Sunday Morning TV: We Are Water

Not an essay today, not an opinion, no outrageous news to share. Hey watch your own television if you want that!

Instead here is our Sunday Morning Television Feature focused mostly on Buffalo’s Outer Harbor, but with some attention to wildlife on the Niagara, especiallly birds!

Brought to you in conjunction with GreenWatch, the Friends of Times Beach Nature Preserve, and the Our Outer Harbor Campaign!

Paladino Can't Sue School Board Members

Buffalo activists held a demonstration Wednesday night demanding that Carl Paladino be removed from the Buffalo School Board as a result of his defense of Donald Trump’s sexual assault admissions. Paladino defended himself to Time Warner Cable News, 

I do not sanction sexual abuse. I do not sanction rape,” said Paladino.

Paladino says he enjoys his job on the board and has no plans to step down.

Looking Backward: Scajaquada Expressway, 1962

The pavement was still warm and the paint not yet dry when this 1962 photograph was taken of the NY-198. Named for the creek it would scenically and ecologically diminish, the Scajaquada Expressway was extended that year from Grant Street to the Niagara Thruway as a final link in a transportation dream: “a crosstown expressway all the way from Buffalo Airport to the Niagara River,” per a 1954 Buffalo Courier-Express account.

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