RATHBUN’S RUINS / CAITLIN CASS’s serial account of the career of Benjamin Rathbun, entrepreneur and jailbird, began in the very first issue of The Public. This is the fifth and final installment.
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Nick Torsell
Elma, NY May 2015
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Nick Torsell is a Buffalo-based photographer whose work, he says, “consists mostly of in-between non-spaces and his friends.” Torsell’s work will be featured in Just Buffalo’s Silo City Reading Series. More info here.
For a second year, the Day’s Park Block Club and Elmwood Village Charter School will host a chicken barbecue to raise money for the rejuvenation and maintenance of Day’s Park, an Olmsted-designed jewel at the west end of Allen Street.
Despite the death last fall of founder Edward Summer, the Buffalo International Film Festival will be back this October with a new executive director, local filmmaker Ray Guarnieri. BIFF has just released the following statement.
[JAZZ] Multi-Grammy winner, singer-pianist-composer, Dianna Krall opens the 14th annual Rochester International Jazz Festival this Friday, June 19. Krall also headlined the first festival in 2001 and also in 2012.
[POP] David Gray and Amos Lee probably don’t share a ton of mutual fans, but perhaps they’ll win some over from one another during this package tour. Gray, now 47, remains a bigger star in the UK despite having hits here with “Babylon” and “Please Forgive Me,” circa 1999. Last year’s Mutineers presents him in familiar folkie territory with programmed electronic fringes. Lee, meanwhile, is an acoustic soul man from Philadelphia that dabbles in Americana.
[INDIE] “If you fuck with me, you’re gonna burn,” growls A Place To Bury Strangers frontman Oliver Ackerman on the slow-grinding “Deeper” off Transfixation, released earlier this year. “Deeper, deeper, deeper still/ Deeper than the deepest well,” he continues, reinforcing the into-the-black motif that’s defined the Brooklyn noisemaking trio’s output from the start.