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Sugar City: Folks I Know

[ART] I’m old. And when I say old, I don’t mean what you easy, shit-heeled hipsters say about old. This is not 40. This is pushing 50. I am also vain. So when I hear that Sugar City is hosting a show called Folks I Know of portraits gleaned from “the eyes of seven active Instagrammers in Buffalo,” and I know every one of those instant-grabbers, there better be a picture of me. Or, there better not be. Either way, you lose. And either way, I’m going on Friday, October 6, to find out.

Against Me!

[PUNK] Shape Shift With Me is obviously a great title for an Against Me! album. The punkband, formed in Gainesville, Florida in 1997 and lead by singer Laura Jane Grace has shifted shape in many ways. First off, Grace came out as transgender in 2012 and her transition has been a theme of the band’s records since 2014’s Transgender Dysphoria Blues. But the band has also shifted shape in other ways—once a folk-punk band, the band has morphed into a glam punk band of sorts with hints of post-punk, new wave, and pop punk.

Ani Hoover at Cass Project

[ART OPENING] Ani Hoover is, unequivocally, on of the region’s coolest and most thoughtful makers of art. Her work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox and the Burchfield Penney. She has exhibited quite nearly everywhere there is a place to exhibit art in this community. The newest notch in her belt is one of the newer art spaces we have: The Cass Project, curator/artist/etc. Tina Dillman’s endeavor, programs the lobby at the multi-use 500 Seneca building, a Savarino development.

Beauty and Democracy: PPG 10-Year Anniversary

[PEOPLE’S PARTY] One is forgiven if, at this moment, democracy does not appear to be particularly beautiful. But we have more reason to celebrate progress than we have to lament the current retrograde movement. If you need evidence, get down to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on Thursday, October 5, when the Partnership for the Public Good—a bastion in the progressive movement in this community—celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a party called Beauty and Democracy.

Dining Out for Life

[FUNDRAISER] Here are the top three things about Dining Out for Life, in your humble correspondent’s estimation: 1) You get to—no, you are compelled to—go out to dinner at a place you have wanted to try (or to refresh the pleasures of an old familiar favorite), whether it’s a place you can or can’t really afford, knowing a significant portion of your check will be remitted to Evergreen Health, a nonprofit which provides a veritable rainbow of services to those affected by HIV/AIDS; 2) in doing so, you may be responding to the invit

BIFF XI is almost here!

It’s now less than one week to the beginning of the eleventh edition of the Buffalo International Film Festival, featuring four days of screenings at four locations: the North Park theater is home base, along with  Hallwalls, Squeaky Wheel, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center. If you haven’t already purchased a Bison Pass, by all means get one ASAP: $39.99 gets you into all the movies you can handle.

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