[PHOTOGRAPHY] From El Paso, Texas to South Park and Bailey avenues to Niagara Falls, US route 62 winds 2,248 miles along a diagonal path across America, right up the eastern spine of the City of Buffalo on its way to Canada.
[ROOTS] Fifteen-time Grammy award winner Bela Fleck tends to be thought of as the world’s premiere banjo guy and his ongoing partnership with Abigail Washburn is a compelling musical alliance that’s got one foot in tradition and the other in something much more innovative.
[LITERATURE] This is, frankly, an event that requires much of its audience to be a great as it should be. Happily (and that’s the last adverb you’ll read here), no one is coming who isn’t interested by the idea: to begin with, some talk about James Joyce, Ireland, and Dublin, followed by a careful reading of Joyce’s masterful short story “The Dead”—which is funny and grim and perfect.
Rarely does a film engage both head and heart as fervently as Transit, the latest from Germany’s Christian Petzold, whose two decade career was the subject of a 2017 retrospective by the local cinema group Cultivate Cinema Circle. The film was adapted from the 1944 novel by Anna Seghers (The Seventh Cross) about a man wanted by the Nazis who assumes the identity of a dead novelist in order to get out of Europe. He has escaped a concentration camp to Marseilles, where he plans to board a boat to Mexico.
The title of Michael Winterbottom’s geographically expansive but taut new effort is meant ironically, and as something of a tease. The title character, whose name, Jay (Dev Patel), we don’t learn until well into the proceedings, is something of a puzzle, one Patel and Winterbottom make intriguing enough.
On Wednesday morning, prolific e-mail author and equine pornography enthusiast Carl Paladino revealed that his biggest fear is apparently riding a subway car on a Friday afternoon in which he is the only white person. This is a reasonable conclusion to extrapolate from his latest email missive, which is nothing more than a vituperative attack on anyone not white. It is typical racist Carl “I’m not a racist” Paladino garbage nonsense that he keeps sending out, yet people still take him seriously as some sort of business leader or voice worth listening to.
CAITLIN CASS’s new series, Women’s Work: Suffrage Movements 1848-1965, will appear bimonthly at the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s website (burchfieldpenney.org) for the next year, marking the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.