Kathy Griffin, best known for directing homo jokes at Anderson Cooper every New Year’s Eve, and who plays club dates most of the remainder of the year, is a comedian about whom few people think. An image of her holding a fake severed head of Donald Trump caused a furore yesterday. She claims she was trying to do comedy, and went over the line. Clearly she crossed it — joking about murdering the President is never funny.
ARE YOU MOVED BY WHAT YOU SEE HERE? Then check out FantaSHE—Pride: A Unicorn Story at Pine Apple Company (224 Allen Street), Friday, June 2, 6-9pm. Illustration by Mickey Harmon, with thanks to performers and Pine Apple.
What do Gary Oldman, John Lithgow, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, Richard Burton, Orson Welles, Donald Pleasance, and Brendan Gleeson have in common? All have played Winston Churchill, one of the most important figures in the history of Great Britain. And they’re only the best known: imdb.com lists more than 200 portrayals of the great man on screens large and small.
Packed into a recently renovated industrial garage outside Larkinville, audience members watched as Sarah Caputi writhed from two hanging pieces of silk. Clad in a white leotard, her sea green hair pulled back in a bun and face painted so the eyes were accentuated, she flailed her legs rhythmically, weaving each one in and out of the hanging cloth, while pulling herself upwards. As her two dance partners continued their routine on the ground—some 18 feet or so below—the spotlight pointed upwards, as Caputi unclasped her hands, and spun in a controlled freefall downward
It is Year Zero — the year that the United States turned its back on the great postwar alliances of the industrialized, democratic western world.
Never before has an American President treated our European allies with such dismissive disrespect.
GreenWatch Sunday Morning Television
Southside Slow Roll
Happy Memorial Day! Todays Sunday Morning Television is a compilation of Facebook Live videos shot and broadcast on my and others cell phones last week during the Buffalo/Southside Slow Roll.
[PRIDE] It never quite goes without saying that every week ought to be Pride Week. Every week of the year the LGBTQ community and “straight” allies ought to celebrate the grand spectrum of our loves and lives, whatever shade of the rainbow best identifies us. And it likewise is worth reminding ourselves, year after year, that Pride parades were born of a revolutionary moment, in the wake of the Stonewall riots, when the LGBTQ community rose up and demanded the attention of the country and an end to violent oppression.
[ART PARTY] When Arrested Development conceived of the annual event in which George Bluth poses as God to his son Buster’s Adam in a living re-enactment of Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, Buffalonians (like me) thought: Huh.
[ROCK] Watching Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds play in their acoustic duo format, you get the sensation that they feel like they’re on an awesome vacation together. Which isn’t to say they’re not working hard: the sets are long and generous, the encores are plentiful – you leave feeling you got every last bit of energy the pair had to expend. And yet they both seemed to enjoy themselves so wholeheartedly, it’s hard to believe they were working.
[POST PUNK] New Berlin make the kind of post-punk that seems to be pretty popular around these parts—although they hail from Texas. Their sound is raw, almost hardly held together, but still energetic, like the homestretch of a bender.
[FUNK] Tiger Chung Lee is not a professional wrestler or a less than professional Street Fighter. Nope, they’re a funk band from Youngstown, New York. And they’re pretty impressive, especially when all 11 of them are up there jamming on an epic groove. There’ll sure be plenty of epic grooves, and maybe some funky interludes too, when Tiger Chung Lee comes to Buffalo Iron Works for a show this Saturday, June 3 with support from Uncle Ben’s Remedy.
[ROCK] Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard, and Dusty Hill, all 67-years-old, have been in ZZ Top since 1969. That’s a hell of a long time for any rock band. 15 studio records, a whole bunch of live records, and countless concerts later and they’re still on the road. Don’t miss them when they come to Artpark for an outdoor concert this Tuesday, June 6.