FREE NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 VOL. 16, NO. 44 FREE FBI Should Investigate Bronfmans and Cult Leader Keith Raniere 2 NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 FBI Should Investigate Bronfmans and Cult Leader Keith Raniere: Part I
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Followers, mostly female, have described headquartered near Albany that promised lu- invited her and her husband to his Albany area Frank Parlato him as a “soft-spoken, humble genius” and crative commissions to old customers for re- headquarters. some of these consider him to be like a Christ cruiting new ones. By the end of 1993 Raniere According to her interview in Metroland, lare and Sara Bronfman, heirs to the or Buddha born to save humanity. claimed he sold $1 billion in goods and ser- Natalie said, “Before I knew it, he had me con- Seagram’s liquor fortune, and pur- Raniere has a penchant for attractive, af- vices, employed 80 people and had a 250,000 vinced that my husband was cheating on me Cported cult members, filed a complaint fluent women and apparently teen and pre-teen members paying $15 a month for the right to and was having an affair with my nanny. It was against me with the FBI claiming I defrauded girls. sell his goods. He claimed he was worth $50 all a lie . . . the next thing I knew, I was divorced them out of $1 million. In 1984, Raniere, 24, took 15-year-old million. and living in Albany”. The federal government is actively investi- Gina Melita’s “virginity in a dark room, her T- One of his saleswomen had a 12-year- Natalie soon became Raniere’s girlfriend gating whether the Bronfmans are my victims. shirt left flecked with blood,” as reported in the old daughter, named Rhianna. When Raniere but she became disturbed when she discovered But they are the ones who should be investi- Albany Times Union, based on interviews with offered free tutoring to the girl, her mother he had sex with many women he kept around gated since there are many victims – including Melita. Raniere also dated 15-year old, Gina jumped at the chance since she thought Raniere him. myself – of the Bronfman sisters and the man Hutchinson who he convinced to drop out of was “an Einstein.” Raniere counseled her that a “threesome” who leads them, Keith Raniere. school and be tutored by him. “He was supposed to teach her Latin and would heal her issues. He also encouraged her Raniere - who made the 1989 “The Guin- Her older sister, Heidi, told the Times algebra,” The Albany Times Union wrote, after to give up custody of her son while promising ness Book of World Records” for his high IQ Union that she caught Raniere sneaking out of interviewing Rhianna and her mother, 22 years that she would bear his (Raniere’s) child and – estimated to be between 188 and 194 - was her sister’s bedroom and Raniere explained that later. “Instead, she said, he told her she hugged that this child would save the world. born in Brooklyn in 1960, claimed to speak Gina’s “soul was much older than her biologi- like a child, her arms wrapped around him but This disturbed Natalie since doctors had full sentences at age one, taught himself high- cal age” and she was actually a Buddhist god- her hips pushed away. He taught her to hug the told that she was unable to have children, she school math in 19 hours when he was 12 and dess who came to earth to be with him. way adults do, pelvis-to-pelvis.” says, “So I tried to break it off with him.” completed three years of college math and After Raniere convinced her that she de- Rhianna recalled that Raniere had sex with Unhappily for Raniere, at the same time, computer-language classes by the age of 13. stroyed her spiritual path by not maintaining her in his townhouse, in empty offices, in an Consumer’s Buy Line declined, debt mush- He graduated from Rensselaer Polytech- sexual fidelity to him, Gina committed suicide elevator, and a broom closet. After about 60 roomed, and customers complained. Regulators nic Institute, in Troy, New York, in 1982, hav- on park grounds adjoining the Karma Triyana encounters, she ran away from home. in more than a 15 states began to investigate. ing majored in physics, math, and biology, and Dharmachakra Buddhist monastery in Wood- “He took my innocence,” she said. ‘I can In 1993, New York Attorney General Rob- later worked as a computer programmer and stock, NY when she shot herself in the head. never get that back.’” ert Abrams filed a civil suit alleging Consum- consultant. Aside from his spiritual and intellectual Raniere also lavished attention on married ers’ Buyline was similar to an illegal pyramid He says he considers himself to be an en- accomplishments, Raniere has a knack for women as well. scheme. lightened spiritual being on par with such as the business. Toni Natalie, a top salesman for Consum- By 1996, Raniere closed the company Dalai Lama, achieving what he calls “Unifica- In the 1990s, Raniere launched Consum- ers Buy Line, and living in Rochester, was mar- and signed an order agreeing to pay fines, and tion”. ers’ Buyline, a members-only buying club ried and raising an adopted son when Raniere never participate in an illegal chain distribution
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scheme again. Raniere then changed his plans. He studied Scientology, Ericksonian hypnosis, and Neurolinguistic programing. He shed his business suits, and donned sweat pants, tee shirts and sandals, grew his hair and beard long, and formed a company which he later called NXIVM (pronounced like the pat- ented drug NEXIUM) – a self -help coaching organization - putting a female follower, Nancy Salzman, a registered nurse and master hypno- tist as president. Raniere’s nickname for Salzman was “Mesmer.” While still living with Natalie and later in a townhouse north of Albany with several female followers, Raniere started modeling himself as a guru in line with Hindu religious leaders such as Swami Muktananda. He gave up his driver’s license, said he Gina Hutchinson Christine Marie had no bank account, not even a bed of his own and that he chose to forgo any salary from the of workshops, Cecilia Stieglitz, a 28-year-old would refuse to open government mail because coaching program he created. woman from a prominent Mexican family, says it would prove he had seen it. “I consider everything payment for what she had hallucinations and had a mental break- In time, Toni Natalie became convinced I’ve done,” he said. down at her hotel near Albany. She went to a she must leave Raniere. He also began to disseminate books to hospital and required psychiatric treatment. According to Natalie, and several other his female followers such as “The Guru Dis- “Parasites” are people who suffer, creating ex-members of NXIVM, Raniere told Natalie ciple Relationship” and “Chasm of Fire” that that she was, in a previous life, Herman Goer- problems where none exist and craving atten- Barbara Bouchey encouraged people to follow their teacher un- tion, Raniere teaches. ing, a leading member of Hitler’s Nazi Party questioningly and that enlightenment can only “Suppressives” see good but want to de- and that NXIVM leaders were formerly Jewish be achieved by renouncing worldly desires. stroy it. victims. Among the attachments Raniere insisted As Raniere developed his NXIVM phi- Natalie also told a federal judge that “I was In 2000, Barbara Bouchey, a financial his followers renounce is monogamy, money, losophies, he developed techniques to recruit raped repeatedly by Raniere, each time with manager from Saratoga County, started taking control of their daily schedules and their attach- and teach women. him telling me it was harder on him than it was NXIVM courses, having been recruited by Sal- ment to knowing things. Christine Marie met Raniere in 1998 when on me, that we needed to be together so that zman. NXIVM claims that by using Raniere’s she was hired to write marketing materials. I could share in his energy, and that I needed Raniere soon made efforts to seduce teaching techniques it “conducts professional “He .... told me that I was such an inno- to remain silent so as to not wake up my child Bouchey since she could bring in her wealthy success training programs for executives and cent, pure soul that I didn’t even belong on this who was sleeping in a nearby room.” and influential clientele. other individuals concerned with developing planet,” Marie told the Times Union. When Natalie broke up with Raniere, his Raniere told Bouchey she must have a their skills and achieving their goals.” Of her second visit, she recalled, “I re- women followers showed up at her home, in- sexual relationship with him because she was A five-day course costs around $3,000; a member him looking me in the eyes and touch- sisting she come back because she was killing “chosen” to bear his child, she said in a deposi- 16-day course costs $7,500. Students pay up to ing me on the cheek and saying one day we’ll him and destroying everything for everyone by tion. $10,000 for 16 days of lectures and emotional have a child together, and the child would be walking away. This seemed odd to her since Bouchey had probing in daily 17-hour sessions called “inten- an avatar and the child would help change the “They would break into my house and flip been previously told she was unable to bear sives.” world.” pictures upside down, they’d unmake my bed, children. Students remove shoes for class, learn spe- After she had sex with him, Raniere “sat steal clothes out of my closet,” Natalie said. Raniere also told Bouchey she was, in a cial handshakes and wear colored sashes in six me down and told me I was now part of his “They stole my mail, they shut off my phone; previous life, the Nazi, Reinhard Heydrich, one different colors and with up to four stripes in inner circle and committed for life and I could they shut off my electricity. They called me up of the main architects of the Holocaust. each color to signify rank in the organization. never be physically involved with another and asked me if I knew where my son was.” And Raniere told Bouchey he had come The goal is to reach the black sash, which man.” For his part, Raniere sent Natalie a six- up with a mathematical formula that would en- signifies a student is “unified” - which no stu- When she asked if he was involved with page typed letter that had a diagram that plot- able them to make a fortune in commodities. dent ever yet achieved. other women, he said he was. She observed that ted her “life map” showing her karmic “path to Bouchey said in court statements that she Students bow to Raniere, who gave him- many women shared his townhouse. Marie de- demise” if she did not come back. gave Raniere $1.6 million so he could test his self the title “Vanguard”. cided to leave the group and did not have his “I later discovered this path leads to not formula. In order to move up to higher sash ranking, avatar baby. very nice things for you and it appears my When this commodities’ investment a student must recruit new students and con- Natalie recalls Raniere used NXIVM Sweetheart may well go to jail. I pray this does scheme started losing money, Raniere blamed tribute time as a volunteer. courses to instruct women in sexual practice. not happen but I don’t think my Sweetheart the failure on Bouchey’s emotional reaction to NXIVM has been described as a multi- Raniere invited her to attend his childhood has anyone to help her where she is,” Raniere losing money which was influencing the uni- layered plan in which some members get com- sexuality class. He told students, including Nat- wrote in the letter which was placed into court versal forces and affecting him negatively on mission for recruiting others, and the money alie, that mothers in some tribes perform oral records. a spiritual level, Bouchey recalled in a 2009 flows up the chain to those at the top of the sex on their children to soothe them. After her business and relationship with deposition. “corporation”. Natalie thought the class was created just Raniere collapsed, Natalie was responsible for Bouchey soon lost her life savings. Several NXIVM teachers/salespeople for her. debts that had been put in her name by Raniere. Happily for Raniere, Seagram’s heiress make over $200,000 per year. More than As Raniere developed his humanitarian She filed for bankruptcy. Raniere filed motions Sara Bronfman, 25, joined NXIVM in the fall 12,000 people have taken the courses. theories, he developed a strategy to avoid pay- against Natalie to oppose her discharge. of 2002. Her sister, Clare, 23, followed soon The NXIVM program describes people ing taxes. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Littlefield wrote afterward. who oppose Raniere as “suppressives” or “par- He urged followers not to file tax returns. that Raniere’s effort “smacks of a jilted fellow’s Sara marveled at how much Raniere was asites.” Some NXIVM instructors and employees, like attempt at revenge or retaliation against his for- able to teach her. And she soon became roman- “All parasitic strategies lower self-esteem Raniere, do not report income to the govern- mer girlfriend, with many attempts at tripping tically involved with NXIVM trainer Edgar and therefore destroy value,” Raniere wrote. “It ment, according to multiple sources and court her up along the way.” Boone who ran a Mexican NXIVM training is our intent to rid the world of those things that filings. Nxivm hired a private investigator to mon- center. destroy value.” NXIVM has been dissolved as a corporate itor her home and look into her private life and After they broke up, sources say, Sara be- Positioned as an ethics course, it is based entity by the New York State Department of business activities. gan a furtive relationship with Raniere, who on hypnosis, as students go through 17 hours a State for not paying taxes. Several times, she says, she was visited by would be dropped off at hotels to rendezvous day of hypnotic induction to accept Raniere as After the failure of Consumer’s Buy Line, F.B.I. agents. with the heiress. an enlightened being. Raniere advised female followers to put their Meantime, Raniere raised his sights to- As Sara would later explain on her blog, Days begin at 8 a.m. with the “ESP hand- names on his various corporate entities. wards more affluent women. she was “in search of finding ways to bring clap.” Natalie says Raniere never wanted his He was living with Pamela Cafritz, daugh- peace to the world” and Sara rose quickly in Students learn about “Money,” “Face of name on the dozens of corporate entities he ter of Buffy and William Cafritz, Washington the ranks of NXIVM leaders. She was put on the Universe,” “Control, Freedom & Surren- helped create. Raniere felt if regulators closed DC real estate developers and socialites. Pam Nxivm’s board and given the title of “Minister der” and more. one company down its sister company could had a monthly allowance of $20,000 which she of Hmanities”. After sleepless nights and 17-hour days pick up where the other one left off. He also dedicated to Raniere. TO BE CONTINUED... 4 NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 Shmuel Shmueli, Serial Conman and Fraudster Part II, His Hearth and Home and early fraudulent practices
Magistrate-Judge Joan M. Azrack dis- with a verbal agreement that Shmueli would Frank Parlato agreed and issued a Report & Recommenda- sponsor his “Green Card” application. tion to Judge Carol B. Amon that Shmueli be When the time came, Gabbai claimed, art II of a series where I am the journal- ordered to vacate the premises, and, if he did Shmueli refused to sponsor his Green Card ap- ist covering a federal investigation in not, the “U.S. Marshals shall be authorized to plication unless Gabbai paid him $25,000. Pwhich I am also the investigation’s tar- execute the order to vacate, using whatever In any event, on Jan. 19, 1988, Chief get. A companion series about the Bronfman force is reasonably necessary”. Judge Conrad B. Duberstein noted, “if there is sisters and cult leader Keith Raniere are also Shmueli objected but, curiously, his daugh- a bona fide dispute as to either the law or the in this issue. Both are connected to the federal ter, Batya wrote to Judge Amon that she had no facts, then the creditor does not qualify and the investigation. The series on Shmuel Shmeili objection to the court evicting her father. petition must be dismissed.” details how he defrauded more than two dozen At some point, during a hearing or confer- The petition was dismissed. lawyers in Buffalo and elsewhere. ence, Shmueli admitted he did not tell Fuhrmans But hard luck followed. The man who ripped off eminent lawyers of the lease until after closing and on Nov. 23, Other employees won claims such as a such as Joseph Zdarsky, Steven Cohen, Corey 1999, Judge Amon granted summary judgment $100,000 judgment against Shmueli in favor Hogan, John LaFalce, Eric Bloom, William to the Furhmans ordering Shmueli to vacate by of former editor Uri Lehavi and another editor, Savino, Mitchel Banas, Joseph Mazurek, Phil Dec. 13, 1999. Noam Niv made a $20,000 claim. Abromowicz, David Kloss, Michael Paskow- Yet Shmueli did not move out. The Court As one of his writers, Yori Yanover, said, itz, as well as the law firms of Jaeckle, Fleis- directed the U.S. Marshall to eject him. And on “Shmueli .... bounced checks like he was one chmann & Mugel, Damon Morey, and others June 22, 2000, the Judge ordered that the Clerk of the five openers of the Harlem Globe Trot- must not be considered lightly. of Court enter “judgment against defendant ters.” Where did he come from? Shmuel Shmueli in favor of plaintiffs in the It was not just employees that Shmueli Born in Israel; Shmuel Shmueli is 64. He amount of $56,668.81, comprising $41,668.81 did not pay, but companies and individuals in claims to be a devout and practicing Orthodox in actual and consequential damages and costs America and Israel. Jew who observes the Sabbath and will not eat and $15,000 in punitive damages.” Printers, landlords, friends in Israel, Banks anything other than Kosher food. Shmueli however was never to pay the all got judgments. For Shmeuili charity doesn’t begin at judgment since he discharged the debt, along While Shmueli’s course of study of the home, charity is a home. with $24.5 million in other debts, in bankruptcy deeper meaning of the Jewish religion was On Dec. 10, 1979, Shmueli bougt a lovely, on Aug. 23, 2002. fruitful spiritually, it was not so much finan- Shmuel Shmueli 2,700 square foot family home at 933 E. 17th On his bankruptcy petition, when asked if cially. St in Brooklyn and moved in with his wife and any “books of account or records” were miss- The Wisconsin Institute of Torah Study, and RICO violations, abuse of process, mali- small children. ing, Shmueli declared, “records were lost dur- Milwaukee, WI., made a claim of $3,128 cious prosecution, tortious interference with Over the years, his wife gave birth to more ing eviction action without my presence, court against him. contract, fraud, conversion, breach of contract, children and they were raised in the Shmueli ordered.” Verizon, Mid Atlantic Graphics, and Sprint civil racketeering and antitrust violations. Brooklyn home. One of the last entries of record in the rounded out the list of creditors. Being creative, Shmueli placed three mort- Fuhrman matter is dated June 2, 2000. It con- And as if that wasn’t bad luck enough -- On Sept. 17, 1999, Judge I. Leo Glasser gages on the property: Dime Savings Bank, cerns mail “addressed to: Shmuel Shmueli, Shmueli’s newspaper came to a screeching halt dismissed Shmueli’s suit ruling that Shmueli’s Bank Leumi Trust, an Israeli bank, and a fourth P.O. Box 607, Bnai Brak, Israel. Returned with on April, 22, 1998, when a lawsuit was brought “objective in bringing the duplicative action mortgage from the seller, Andrew James. notations: Insufficient Address.” against him for copyright infringement, filed in was to circumvent the prior order of the origi- Two years later, on June 24, 1981, he trans- If Shmueli’s handling of matters concern- the United States District Court for the Southern nal court” which prevented him from asserting ferred the home to his wife, Zvia, who later got ing his home was a little erratic, the man who District of New York, by Haaretz Daily News- counter claims. a $110,000 mortgage from Citi Bank. swindled top attorneys gets high marks for papers, Ltd., founded 1919, and Maariv Modiin This ruling has been cited in other, un- On Feb. 10, 1989, she transferred title back business practices. Publishing Co., Ltd., founded 1948. They were related cases, often with this quote: “Hav- to Shmueli, who, in turn, got a mortgage from Shmueli was publisher, editor and owner joined by the Publication Group, Inc., d.b.a. ing failed, for whatever reason, to assert their Sol Orbuch for $75,000. of Israel Today. It was published in Brooklyn Shalom, a Los Angeles-based newspaper. counterclaims in one action, plaintiffs may not On Feb. 13, 1992, Shmueli transferred the and on Aug. 20, 1987, The Los Angeles Times On May 18, 1998, Federal Judge John G. institute a second action in which those coun- home back to his wife. wrote that it has a “worldwide circulation of Koeltl issued a preliminary injunction ordering terclaims become the basis of the complaint.” One month later, Zvia transferred the home 120,000, is the only Hebrew newspaper in Shmueli to stop copying or reprinting materials Finally on Dec. 1, 1999, the US Court to their 27-year-old daughter, Batya Shmueli. the world published outside the Jewish state,” from the newspapers. Southern District - in the original copyright On Feb. 29, 1996, Batya got a $328,000 and “offers news about Israel and the Jewish This crippled Shmueli’s newspaper model mortgage from Brucha Mortgage Bankers infringement case concluded with judgments world culled, for the most part, from the Israeli since as he could no longer take the other news- entered against Shmueli: Maariv Moddin Pub- Corp. of Staten Island. press.” paper’s work for free. lishing Co. LTD NY and Israel - $12 million, Then in April, 1999, Batya signed a con- But, despite the good press, on Dec. 4, In June, Shmueli retained Moskowitz Haaretz Daily Newspapers LTD NY and Tel tract to sell the family home to Jacob and Eva 1987, some of his employees sought the court’s & Book of NYC to represent him. Within a Aviv, $6 million, Publication Group NY - $6 Fuhrman for $480,000. help through an Involuntary Petition for relief month, the firm applied for and were granted million and Shalom LA, Encino CA - $6 mil- The Fuhrman’s closed on Aug. 26, 1999 under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code. leave to withdraw as his attorneys. expecting to move in and enjoy the same happy Dr. Yossi Gamzu, editor, claimed he Shmueli served a verified answer through lion. hearth and home the Shmueli’s enjoyed for 20 worked for 41⁄2 months and was owed $11,250 Andrew Paul Cooper Esq. By January 1999, Unhappily after losing his home and his years. in wages and presented a letter from the news- Cooper was granted leave to withdraw. (Coo- newspaper (and his wife) happily for Shmueli After closing, however, Shmueli declined paper stating he was employed at an annual sal- per claimed $12,000 in unpaid legal fees.). he was not to pay a dime of this or any other to let the Fuhrman’s move in, and produced a ary of $36,000 per year. In April, Magistrate Judge Francis denied debt. lease, signed by his daughter, Batya, that leased Shmueli contested Dr. Gamzu arguing he Shmueli’s application to file a counterclaim On Jan. 7, 2002, Shmueli filed a petition the home to Shmueli. was unpaid since his immigration status as an since discovery was supposed to have been for voluntary bankruptcy in the US Bankruptcy He declared he would stay and pay rent. Israeli citizen would not allow Shmueli to pay completed four months earlier. Court, Eastern District of New York, seeking to The Fuhrmans filed suit in the US District him and that Shmueli’s letter reciting Gamzu’s Shmueli retained Jon Lefkowitz to rep- discharge $24,501,978 in debt. Court for the Eastern District of New York to employment was written to deceive US Immi- resent him and on June 30, 1999, after being He declared $2,050 in assets. eject Shmueli from the house. gration authorities who would be more likely to denied the right to bring a counter claim in the In his petition, Shmueli claimed he was Shmueli, representing himself, filed a issue Gamzu a “Green Card,” if they believed Haaretz lawsuit, Shmueli brought a separate living on $1325 a month and most of that was countersuit, a motion to dismiss, and asked he had gainful employment. action (Shmuel Shmueli, Bashe, Inc. v. Lowen- from charity. to postpone the hearing since, he said, he had The other employees he argued were time feld) in the US District Court for the Eastern He was not to live on charity for long, business in Israel. barred or that he owed the money personally District of New York - against the same plain- He also asked the judge to restrict the new however. and a debtor corporation is not liable for an tiffs in the Southern District action: Haaretz, He would relocate to Western New York owners from entering the house “for any reason officer’s personal debts. Maariv Modiin and the Publication Group, Inc., and live off of fraud, starting with defrauding at any time” while he was in Israel and asked Boaz Gabbai claimed he accepted em- as well as their lawyers, seeking $158 million this writer and a assemblage of local attorneys. that all mail from the court be sent to his ad- ployment as a graphic designer for less than $5 in damages alleging unjust enrichment, detri- TO BE CONTINUED... dress: P.O. Box 607, Bnai Brak, Israel. an hour, rather than his customary $25 an hour, mental reliance, breach of contract, antitrust NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 5 Tiny Heart Transplant Candidate Needs Your Help to Make it Through Tough Time Mike Hudson nyone who is a parent knows the an- guish of a child suffering from a high Afever, a relatively common childhood illness such as chicken pox or the mumps, or a broken bone caused by some playground mishap. For Danielle Faling, whose two year old daughter Leigha suffers from a myriad of con- gestive heart problems, such problems would be a welcome relief. Doctors first noticed Leigha’s condition That first feeling of the breeze on when Danielle was six weeks pregnant with With her bags packed, Leigha your skin is an exciting thing for her. Since she was born she has had two open comes home from the hospital after anyone who has just experienced Like any 2-year old, Leigha can heart surgeries, multiple hospital visits and a 44 day stay following a Septem- a lengthy hospitalization. Little be obstinate at times. Here, she seven full blood transfusions. Her first surgery ber heart failure. Leigha is no exception! refuses to take her nap. was when she was just 1 week old and her sec- “Every day we get to spend with her is a mir- to find little Leigha a compatible heart, she 12-6 p.m., at the Volare Lodge, 5615 Kies Av- ond before her first birthday. acle.” added. enue, to help defray expenses. Even throughout all of this Leigha has After suffering heart failure in September, Until then, Leigha will remain bound to “I just want to thank everyone for their been a true hero to everyone waking up every the beautiful little girl spent 44 days in the hos- oxygen tanks and continue to receive nourish- support, prayers, and donations through this day with a smile on her face and bringing joy pital, finally coming home on November 1. ment by way of feeding tubes. hard time. Every little bit helps,” Danielle to everyone she meets with her amazing atti- As many American’s discover to their “She’s our little warrior,” Danielle says. said. “It truly means so much to us to see the tude and courage. dismay in times of crisis, it is the insurance “And we’re just taking it day by day.” amount of support and love that we have. As Leigha has a long battle ahead of her. company rather than the family physician who Regular trips to hospitals in Rochester Leigha’s medical journey continues its a little Doctors say that if she doesn’t get a heart makes the final judgement about what care is and Pittsburg have left the family financially easier knowing we have so many people on transplant, she probably won’t live past the administered. strapped. Danielle, who works as a cook in our team. Thank you all again and much much age of 10. On Wednesday, the long awaited approval Buffalo, often has to decide whether to visit love.” But if she’s anything like her mother, a came through. her daughter or stay home and earn money. If Niagara Falls is known for anything, it positive attitude and proactive stance has of- “I’m calling to make the appointment She posts regularly on a Facebook page is having a big heart. Hopefully, people there ten gone a long way in proving the health care now,” Danielle said Wednesday. “We’ve been she created called Leigha Updates, and a Bas- will share some of that this Sunday with a professionals wrong. waiting on pins and needles for this.” ket Auction and Pasta Dinner fundraiser is beautiful little girl who’s having some trouble “She’s our little miracle,” Danielle said. Now the challenge will be for the doctors planned for this Sunday, November 22, from with hers. 6 NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 What the ‘Chit’ Will the Restructuring Board to do? Mayor Dyster has played a cynical game Anna Howard of “now you see me now you don’t” with re- gard to the misspending of the casino revenue. hat is the state restructuring board While he has called himself the gatekeeper going to do when they arrive at city of casino revenue he repeatedly blames the Whall to look at Paul Dyster’s finance city council for the lack of available casino records? Only time will tell but if they discover revenue. He claims there’s a casino revenue what the NYS Comptroller discovered - mis- spending plan but no one has ever seen it. The handled money, unaccounted for money, casi- restructuring board should surgically review - no revenue improperly applied to the recurring expenditure by expenditure for the past eight deficit - the chit, offered through participating years - all of the mayor’s casino revenue ex- in the state restructuring program, could hit the penditures. fan. The renovation of the city Ice Pavilion was We have no idea how the board will pro- targeted to come in at $4 million. It’s climbed ceed but we have no doubt that the mayor and to over $12 million and no one seems know those city employees who benefit from gov- how that happened. ernmental non transparency will surrender Overtime for elements of the city work- only the barest of financial facts to the Albany force has expanded throughout the past eight bean counters. years. Stipends, something that used to be as With that in mind we’re using this column Paul Dyster Drunken Sailor rare as hens teeth, are handed out by the ad- space to list some of the fiscal facts that the ministration in a questionable fashion. Some restructuring board should be aware of before The Dyster-DeSantis train station opens to increase in expense before a single parking employees have literally doubled their salaries they sit with the mayor and his department next year. It’ll cost no less than $44 million meter is planted downtown. Dyster has - this with overtime and stipends. heads. It’s a safe bet that Dyster won’t be shar- with no less than $4 million of that coming year and for next year - placed projected “park- Mr. Dyster continues to employ the dis- ing any of the information you read here with from casino revenue. It was “re-bid’ for no ing revenue” into his budget. That’s obvious turbing gambit that the Reporter has named: the restructuring board. good reason at an added cost of $350,000 in book cooking in that projected numbers were retire and rehire. The bureaucratic trick sees The anonymous fund. Paul Dyster came additional casino revenue. And, don’t forget placed in the final budget while not a single Dyster’s favorite employees retire only to be into office on the back of an unethical, and log- that the city has no funds earmarked, let alone parking meter was in place to realize that pro- rehired days later at $30,000 per year as part ically illegal, slush fund. That fund caused the potentially available, for day to day operation jected number. time “consultants.” mayor to increase the salaries of department once it opens. The restructuring board should tour the The 20013 audit by the state Comptroller heads and permanently skew the pay scale Mr. Dyster has spent more than $1,000,000 city and one stop of the tour should be 72nd detailed a series of disturbing financial mea- across city government. Many city hall salaries for outside lawyers. This after he increased his Street. They should understand that the water sures that the Dyster administration has taken. top the salaries of matching positions in much corporation controller’s salary by over 30% - line remediation job is scheduled to cost not a Including the misuse of casino revenue, money larger cities, such as Buffalo. And, incredibly, upon hiring in 2008 - and added a fourth attor- penny less than $970,000 while the job could improperly hidden from the mayor and coun- the mayor continues to blame employee pay ney to the city legal staff. Internal and external have been done for $340,000 had it been done cil, money that could not be accounted for, to for the city’s finance woes. city legal costs are all out of proportion for a in 2010 when the road was rebuilt. We predict name but a few serious state findings. The “municipal building” also called the city the size of Niagara Falls. the job will total out - change orders, city em- This list could go on and on but we’re courthouse. It was supposed to cost $30 million The parking plan/study that the mayor ployee overtime, engineer consulting fees, new confident that we’ve mentioned some key ar- but came in $20 million higher at an astound- and council chairman incessantly talk about stipends for chosen employees - at not a penny eas that the restructuring board can zero in on ing $50 million. Where’d the $20,000,000 go? has cost well over $100,000 and is expected under $1.3million. for a start.
NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 7 Cash for Penguins no Problem for Dyster; 72nd Street Water Main $$$ Cause Worry agara Development, a state agency, in Sep- Mike Hudson tember. And the mayor’s unholy alliance with ith the question of how the city religious cults manifested itself when he of Niagara Falls will pay for the gifted a relief organization called Isaiah W$940,000 water main project on 61 a whopping $500,000 of your money 72nd Street unresolved, how will a cash to convert an abandoned fire hall on High- strapped city looking at a budget deficit of land Avenue into a new clubhouse - without more than $7 million afford it? bothering to tell the Council that the execu- In the run up to the election, Mayor tive director had just skipped town and their Paul Dyster promised that the water mains programs have ground to a halt. would be fixed before the snow flies. In Dyster gave Community Missions 2014 and again earlier this year, more than There are plenty of places where there is no water, but who would have $150,000 to pay off a tax lien, the epic 200 households were without running water thought it would be in Niagara Falls? failure known as the Holiday Market got after the mains froze. $225,000, the annual Blues Fest here took Reconstruction of the roadway between a problem until a Dyster ordered street re- overall public health. construction project lowered the roadway, The mayor refused to rule out a lawsuit in $46,000, the ironically named Niagara Niagara Falls Boulevard and Stephenson Arts and Cultural Center raked in $210,000 Avenue is underway in an attempt guaran- resulting in the water main being closer to in the case. the surface. The project also resulted in the “There have been some suggestions on and “City Planner” Tom DeSantis was giv- tee water flows smoothly to homes on 72nd en $6,500 to buy new carpeting for his City Street. Some spent weeks without water. removal of a substantial amount of clay that the part of the council chairman about other served to insulate the main from the cold. ways the city could go about making itself Hall office. Dyster said the project would be paid And in August he committed to shell- for by a state grant, combined with fund- “We’re building a piece of infrastruc- whole with the water board,” Dyster said. ture that is an addition to the system they “That’s not something, at this point, we’ve ing out $845,000 of your money to buy and ing from the city and the Water Board. The “develop” a languishing brownfield prop- grant money has not been forthcoming and own,” Dyster said. “They have to take own- made any decisions on.” ership and operate as part of their system.” In any event, Dyster’s crying poor erty on Highland Avenue. the Water Board has thus far refused to par- Half a million here, half a million there ticipate financially in the project. The city, for its part, has made public about the water main project seems strange one grant funding application through New in light of the numerous fanciful ways he’s and pretty soon you’re talking real money. “They’re still ongoing discussions be- Millions spent without Dyster once tween our corporation counsel and their York State’s Environmental Facilities Corp., found to spend taxpayer’s money over the from which $20 million is available to ad- past couple of years. uttering a concern about where the money legal counsel,” Dyster said Friday. “At this might come from. Or what the public ben- point, we’ve not been successful in getting dress water projects related to public health. Like the $150,000 he spent for new If selected, the Falls would be eligible for penguin habitat at Aquarium of Niagara in efit of all the spending might be. them to agree to cost sharing.” But now, with 72nd Street residents The Water Board has taken the “you at least a 60-percent rebate on project costs April. Or the $707,000 he squandered on and up to 75 percent, if an argument can be the Hard Rock Café concert series. possibly looking at a third winter in a row break it, you bought it” position, noting without running water, there’s a problem. that water service on 72nd Street was never made for the reconstruction’s necessity to Dyster gave $1.5 million to USA Ni-
Lorigo Deserves Credit for Urging Push Back on Syrian Refugees Tony Farina ar from being ignorant of the resettling process, as alleged by Erie County Ex- Fecutive Mark Poloncarz, county law- maker Joseph Lorigo (C-West Seneca) should be applauded for urging Poloncarz to reverse his stance on accepting Syrian refugees into the county. Joe Lorigo started the ball rolling Lorigo didn’t back down from his original locally tweet last Saturday night on the subject of not accepting Syrian refugees despite the strong ever known.” backlash from Poloncarz. “In a news release Now the refugee problem is a human crisis, on Sunday, Lorigo said “I believe the risk to our to be sure, but welcoming Syrian refugees into community is far too great,” saying “we must Western New York is extremely risky, as Lorigo do everything can to protect the citizens of Erie is warning, given the ability of some of those County and Western New York.” refugees to come with the purpose of killing in- His words are clearly aimed at local lead- nocent people as part of their religious crusade. ers, like Poloncarz and by extension Niagara It only takes one or two terrorists to inflict enor- Falls Mayor Paul Dyster who is also on record mous human casualties, as we have seen time in favor of accepting the Syrian refugees and not and time again, and Lorigo is right to urge local pushing back against state and federal officials officials to push back against the resettlement who are backing the resettlement process. policy in the interests of protecting American Maybe Poloncarz, Dyster, and others citizens who could be placed in life-threatening should pay more heed to what happened in Paris danger if one or more of the refugees that come last Friday night as French authorities now be- here are jihadists bent on killing Americans. lieve that a 27-year-old Belgian man (now dead) Now there is little evidence that any of the who fought in Syria for the Islamic State was Syrian refugees who have been resettled in the the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks that United States have become a threat, but it only killed 129 and injured about 350 others. takes one, and many leaders across the country They should also listen to the words of are urging the government to suspend or stop the French President Francois Hollande who said, resettlement program for now and legislation as reported in the New York Times on Monday, to that end is being readied by the new House the attacks had been “planned in Syria, orga- Speaker, Republican Paul Ryan. Some Demo- nized in Belgium, perpetrated on our own soil crats are also looking at a pause in the resettle- with French complicity,” and he described Syria ment program in the wake of the horrible trag- as “the biggest factory of terrorists the world has edy in Paris. 8 NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 Niagara Co. Lawmakers Back Collins, Lorigo: Cuomo Should Block Syrian Refugees From New York State
LOCKPORT—Niagara County law- “Ensuring the safety and security of them,” Comey told federal lawmakers. makers added their name to a growing cho- our country and Western New Yorkers is my County lawmakers noted that the Lack- rus of government leaders calling on New central focus,” Collins stated Monday. “At awanna Six terror cell had been composed of York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to block Syr- this point, we cannot guarantee with 100 naturalized U.S. citizens that had operated in ian refugees from being resettled in New percent certainty that the refugees we are Western New York without detection—and York Tuesday, just four days after an Islam- accepting from Syria don’t pose a threat to some worried that unknown migrants with- ic terrorist bombing in Paris left 129 people our community. Until we have a process in out any ties to the local community present dead. place that achieves that goal, I am calling on an even bigger potential security threat. Niagara County’s opposition comes as Gov. Cuomo to stop plans to accept Syrian “The lack of verifiable information the Obama administration seeks to resettle refugees.” about these individuals’ backgrounds— 10,000 refugees from the Syrian civil war in Niagara County Legislator John Syra- about who they are, about who their as- cities across the U.S. and an announcement cuse, R-Newfane, echoed that sentiment sociates are, about past radical or criminal by top officials in neighboring Erie County Tuesday. activity—these are all reasons to suspend that at least 300 refugees are set to be placed “We don’t know who these people are. any resettlement at least for the foreseeable there. Even the director of the FBI has stated in future,” Legislator Michael A. Hill, R-Mid- The governors of at least 30 states have, Congressional testimony that we have no dleport, said. since the weekend, announced they would workable database, no background infor- work to block refugee resettlement in their mation, on these refugees,” Syracuse said. Niagara County’s call-out to Cuomo to states, due primarily to concerns that terror- “While many who want to help these refu- block the resettlements, which, in addition ists associated with the Islamic State move- gees may have the very best of intentions, to its unanimous passage, carried sponsor- ment or other terrorist groups had made we can’t let public safety become a second- ship from the Legislature’s entire Majority good on threats to infiltrate the Syrian refu- ary consideration to political correctness.” Caucus, also expressed concerns about the gee population. At least one of the terrorists Syracuse was referencing Oct. 21 Con- potential for additional strain on state-man- involved in last Friday’s Paris attacks was gressional testimony by FBI Director James dated, but county-funded, social welfare pro- carrying a Syrian passport and identified as Comey, who stated flatly that the U.S. does grams and Medicaid. Majority Leader Rick a refugee that had entered continental Eu- not have the ability to conduct thorough Updegrove, R-Lockport, noted that the lack rope via Greece in October. background checks on the 10,000 refugees of a residency requirement for Medicaid all The unanimous vote by county lawmak- being admitted by the Obama administra- but guaranteed New York’s rich Medicaid ers to demand Cuomo to work to block fed- tion. benefits would make the state a magnet for “Remember that when you leave eral resettlement of refugees in New York “If someone has never made a ripple in the resettled foreign nationals. this earth, you can take with you puts Niagara County squarely in line with the pond in Syria in a way that would get “There are too many unknowns with nothing that you have received-- positions advanced by U.S. Rep. Chris Col- their identity or their interest reflected in our this program, too many hidden dangers, only what you have given.” lins, R-Clarence, and Erie County Legisla- database, we can query our database until too many hidden costs,” Syracuse told col- ture Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo, R-West the cows come home, but there will be noth- leagues. “We need to do what’s right to pro- ― Francis of Assisi Seneca, since the Paris attacks. ing show up because we have no record of tect our community.” NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 9 In wake of Paris Atrocity, Dyster Begs Obama to Send Syrians Here Mike Hudson hile Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster is begging President Barack Obama Wto send Syrian refugees to the city in a desperate attempt to bolster population numbers here, authorities in France say that open immi- gration at least in part led to the horrific attacks As Mayor Paul Dyster shows - we Machine gun wielding terrorists opened that left 129 dead in Paris on Friday night. may all needs guns - if the Obama/ fire on a number of sidewalk cafes in At least one of the assailants in Friday’s Dyster plan to bring Syrian refu- Heavily armed French soldiers Paris before blowing themselves up with deadly attacks recently entered Europe as a Syr- gees goes through. guard the Eiffel Tower following bombs, despite France’s strict gun laws. ian refugee, according to the Wall Street Journal, Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris. At Here the dead and dying lie side by side. President Barack Obama said he still exposing gaps in the continent’s security as it arms again to help Syrians in need.” least one of the suicide bombers Also, Niagara Falls was lit Friday night and plans to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees copes with the biggest refugee crisis since World entered the country as a Syrian again Saturday in the French colors in remem- into the country despite the atrocity, and War II. refugee, just like Mayor Paul Dys- European security officials have worried brance of the victims of the Paris attacks. Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster said he ter wants to bring to Niagara Falls. that Islamic State operatives would bring terror It was to be bathed in blue, white and red wants some of those to live in the city. by mixing with the cohort of Iraqi and Syrian mi- lights for the first 15 minutes of every hour, from grants who are fleeing war each week. 5 p.m. until midnight Saturday and Sunday, the “It is clear now that together with the vic- Niagara Falls Illumination Board announced. States, Countries Slam Door on Syrian tims of Islamo-fascism in the Middle East that Dyster was quick to claim credit for request- come as refugees, extreme elements are crossing ing the lighted tribute on his Facebook page. Refugees After Paris – Dyster Not Worried to Europe,” Greek defense minister Panos Kam- “Thanks to Illumination Board colleagues Mike Hudson reminder to the world that evil exists and takes menos said. for rapid decision last night to light the Falls blue, the form of terrorists who seek to destroy the The attacks could shift its attitude on immi- white and red in solidarity with our friends and aris changes everything.” basic freedoms we will always fight to pre- gration and Europe’s ongoing refugee crisis ac- allies in France,” he wrote. That phrase, uttered many serve.” cording to the U.S.-based think-tank Stratfor. Sam Hoyt, head of the state’s Empire State times this week by governors New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan is “P the first Democrat to express support for halt- The attacks can be expected to bolster the Development Corporation’s efforts on the Niaga- across the country and the leaders of many Eu- popularity of right-wing politicians and “those ra Frontier, made sure the point was not lost. ropean nations, reflects the growing concern of ing the flow of refugees to the U.S. pending groups that have been calling for a halt in the “Thanks for making the request, Paul Dys- many that the open door immigration policy further assurances that the refugee vetting pro- flow of immigrants,” Stratfor said in a note is- ter,” he wrote moments later. offered to Syrian refugees was a mistake. cess is adequate. sued Friday night. Governors across the country are scram- “The Governor has always made clear “It would be “foolish to believe that there The Peace Bridge is also lit up in the col- bling to close off their states to resettled Syr- that we must ensure robust refugee screening are no jihadists among the refugees that cross ors of the French flag, which are fortunately the ian refugees in the wake of the deadly terror to protect American citizens, and the Governor into Europe,” said Greek Immigration Minister same colors as the American and British flags. attacks in Paris that are linked to Islamic State believes that the federal government should Yiannis Mouzalas. But our symbol minded mayor had nothing extremists. halt acceptance of refugees from Syria until The Greek Ministry of Public Order and to say about his sad effort to bolster the city’s sag- Governors of Illinois, Ohio, Florida, intelligence and defense officials can assure Citizen Protection has confirmed that the suicide ging population numbers with Syrian refugees. North Carolina, New Hampshire, Arizona, that the process for vetting all refugees, includ- bomber found with a Syrian passport on his per- Indeed, he has enrolled Niagara Falls in an orga- Indiana, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Michigan, ing those from Syria, is as strong as possible to son was, “registered as refugee on Leros Island nization calling itself Cities United for Immigra- Alabama, Texas and Arkansas -- a majority ensure the safety of the American people,” she in October.” tion Action, which has written a letter to President of them Republican -- have said that they are said in a statement. Greece’s deputy minister in charge of police, Obama asking that Syrians be sent this way. seeking to stop the relocation of new Syrian President Barack Obama called the reac- Nikos Toscas, said he was ‘identified [as a refu- After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Rob- refugees to their states out of fear that violent tion “shameful.” gee] according to EU rules’ as he passed through ert Moses Niagara Power Plant was publicly extremists posing as refugees might gain entry “The United States has to step up and do the country en route to Paris. In all, 129 people identified by security officials as a potential tar- to the country. its part,” Obama said. “And when I hear folks were killed in a series of coordinated bomb and get for terrorists, and the Robert Moses Parkway And in Europe, a string of countries have say that, well, maybe we should just admit the gun attacks on Friday night. With 99 of the 352 was shut down for a period of time to deny casual imposed border controls to prevent the mass Christians but not the Muslims, when I hear wounded critically ill, the death toll is expected access to the facility. movement of people across the continent, in- political leaders suggesting that there would to rise. An attack there could potentially turn out cluding Sweden, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, be a religious test for which person who’s flee- Locally, Erie County Legislator Joseph C. the lights for much of the Northeastern part of Austria, France and Belgium. Polish officials ing from a war-torn country is admitted, when Lorigo is calling on County Executive Mark C. the country. announced the country would withdraw from a some of those folks themselves come from Poloncarz to reverse his stance on accepting Syr- Obviously, not all of the Syrian refugees are European Union agreement that would have al- families who benefited from protection when ian refugees into Erie County in light of the ter- terrorists, but few speak English, and the addi- lowed Syrian refugees to settle there and other they were fleeing political persecution, that’s rorist attacks in France. tional burden significant numbers of them would countries are considering similar measures. shameful.” Lorigo made the call Saturday on Twitter place on the county’s already overtaxed social In Niagara Falls, Mayor Paul Dyster is Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said and Facebook, and later told The Buffalo News service agencies is undeniable. keeping his lips zipped, but his membership additional security assurances from the federal he’s concerned because one of the gunman was Dyster is desperate to get the city’s popula- in an organization called Cities United for Im- government before he would want refugees disguised as a Syrian refugee with a Syrian pass- tion back up to 50,000 and has endorsed a va- migration Action speaks volumes. The organi- coming to his state. Currently, the only require- port. riety of schemes to try and make that number. zation is actually lobbying to allow more than ment for Syrian refugees is that they don’t have “I had a conversation with an immigration The federal department of Housing and Urban the 10,000 Syrian refugees President Barack outstanding international arrest warrants on specialist with Homeland Security, who told me Development uses 50,000 as the cutoff point in Obama said the country would accept. them. ISIS claims to have 4,000 terrorists disguised as determining how much municipalities receive in Dyster believes that Syrian refugees, “No, I’m not interested in accepting refugees stationed already in Western countries,” Community Development Block Grant monies, most of whom don’t speak English and some refugees from Syria,” Baker told reporters. “I he said. and if Niagara Falls comes in at less than that in of whom may be terrorists, are the answer to would need to know a lot more than I know “The risk to our community is far too great,” the 2020 census the city will lose millions. shoring up the city’s declining population fig- now before I would agree to do anything.” the West Seneca Conservative tweeted. “We Previously, Dyster has welcomed paroled ures. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott went further, must do everything we can to protect the citizens registered sex offenders here with open arms, Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan issued a calling on Obama to halt all plans to accept of Erie County.” and even instituted a program that actually paid statement declaring that his state would not be refugees into the United States entirely. Poloncarz was not immediately available people to come and live in the city. open to refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria. “Given the tragic attacks in Paris and for comment. The Syrian refugee gambit is just the latest Snyder’s statement noted Michigan’s the threats we have already seen, Texas can- Poloncarz in September said Erie County twist in what has been a sad and largely failed “rich history of immigration” and said, “but not participate in any program that will result could take in “at least 200 and potentially up to effort. our first priority is protecting the safety of our in Syrian refugees — any one of whom could 300” Syrian refugees over the next year in light It has been suggested that, if Dyster wants to residents.” be connected to terrorism — being resettled in of the civil war engulfing that country and the bring Syrian refugees here, he ought to let them Snyder said those efforts would now be Texas,” Abbott said in a letter to Obama. migration crisis spreading across Europe. stay at his house on Orchard Parkway. His boys suspended until further evidence of more rigid But in Niagara Falls, the atrocity in Paris “What’s happening in Syria is horrible,” Po- are grown and it is a big house. security measures. has been cause for little more than changing loncarz said then. “We as a community of good His primary cheerleader on the city Council “As your Governor, I will not stand com- the color of the lights on the falls after dark. neighbors – and having the experience of han- Kristen Grandinetti, lives alone in a big house plicit to a policy that places the citizens of Ala- The Syrians are known to play cricket, and dling immigrants and refugee populations, espe- right across the street. Perhaps she could take a bama in harm’s way,” he declared. “The acts of Dyster’s new cricket field would see even more cially during recent years – will be opening our few as well. terror committed over the weekend are a tragic play should they arrive in their hundreds. 10 NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 As Predicted, Dyster Parking Plan Resurrected Following Election Win walking and writing tickets,” he added. ing represents an answered prayer insofar as Mike Hudson One of the most successful parking lot creating a new revenue stream for the nearly operations the city has seen in recent years bankrupt city is concerned, are they really go- ell before the election season, the was devised and run by Reporter Publisher ing to be happy with a paltry $80,000 a year, Niagara Falls Reporter predicted Frank Parlato, when he owned the One Ni- about enough to pay the salary and benefit Wthat a citywide parking plan, on agara complex at the corner of Niagara Street package for one city policeman? which the Dyster administration has already and Rainbow Boulevard North. To think that Still Touma is insisting that the new pro- wasted $112,330 on, would be resurrected he might be tapped by the Dyster administra- gram will not target local residents. Unless it should the mayor manage to get reelected. tion as the city’s first parking czar strains cre- is decided it should. Dyster was put back in office by fewer dulity, however. “Our residents are paying local taxes they than 50 percent of the voters who turned out More likely, any new hires will be shouldn’t have to pay the rate others pay to for the three-way race that saw him defeat scooped from the pond scum of those who park here,” Touma said. “Although, we have write-in candidate Glenn Choolokian and helped Dyster achieve victory in the in the to weigh all our options.” Republican John Accardo, and now the mori- 2015 election despite receiving only 47 per- We wouldn’t trust either Touma or Dys- bund parking plan has been resurrected. cent of the vote. ter to run a game of three card monte. In their We must be psychic! This “friends and family approach” wisdom, a plurality of Niagara Falls voters Council chairman Andrew Touma “Between now and the new year we’ll was used successfully in the hiring of gab- decided to trust them with running a $100 be voting on parking stations,” city Council has a plan in case you don’t pay a age czarBrooke D’Angelo, and a Democratic million corporation. parking ticket. Chairman Andrew Touma said last week. committeewoman and virulent Dyster sup- You get what you pay for. “Not only that, but I think it’s important that porter who helped orchestrate the smear cam- we look into the boot system as well.” paign that drove formerly popular city Coun- Dyster hired the Chicago based Desman cilman Sam Fruscione from office in 2013. Associates to launch a study of the city’s al- In what was supposed to be a temporary Desman’s Chicago Parking Plan a leged “parking problem” and come up with job when Dyster first announced it, the posi- a solution as though money were no object, tion was made permanent. She’s currently Nightmare for Windy City Taxpayers since Dyster planned on paying for the scheme costing city taxpayers $48,000 a year in wag- with revenue derived from the dwindling lo- es and benefits. Mike Hudson cal share of the slot machine revenue at the Despite the fact that metered parking is quick visit to Mayor Paul Dyster’s Seneca Niagara Casino. common in municipalities large and small all handpicked parking consultant Back in October of 2013, Desman As- across this great land of ours, making it work Desman and Associates website sociates billed the city a whopping $45,000 in Niagara Falls has always seemed like an A finds the company boasting about the im- for a 22-page report that didn’t contain 5,000 impossible dream. portant role it played in the privatization words of text that recommended that they, Former Mayor Irene Elia and former Desman Associates, be permitted to imple- of parking meters in the city of Chicago. Mayor Vince Anello each had their own pet “Working with Morgan Stanley and ment the new parking program. parking schemes, cooked up by consultants The study was long on cost, but short on the rest of the team, Desman provided and paid for by those unfortunate enough to due diligence efforts and technical ad- details. As it stands now, what Desman calls own property in the city of Niagara Falls. Nei- “Phase I” of the project will see meters in- visory services in support of Morgan ther of those ended up going anywhere, and Stanley’s successful bid for the 75 year stalled on Niagara Street and Rainbow Bou- the new one isn’t likely to either, but Dyster lease concession for the Chicago Metered levard downtown, along with cross streets seems bound, set and determined to have his Parking System,” the website states. Des- linking the two. own failed parking plan. In May of this year, the city Council re- Dyster’s proposal, which has already cost man projected both the short-term and jected the Dyster administration’s recommen- taxpayers dearly, is not in any significant way long-term impact of changes in parking dation to authorize a $258,950 contract with different than the parking plans proposed by demand and operations on the revenue Ber-National Automation, Inc., a company and expenses of the parking system over clauses buried in the contract required it former Elia or Anello, which resulted in the to reimburse the company for lost meter that won a bid to install about 40 meters in the waste of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer the lease period.” revenue. city’s tourism district. dollars, ripped up sidewalks and parking me- Why Desman would be bragging The city was billed for allowing Each meter would cover approximately ter poles that never had any meters installed about its’ participation in the scheme is construction of new parking garages, for seven to 12 individual parking places. on top of them. curious. Those wanting to park their cars According to Desman’s own num- “This is low hanging fruit as far as avail- on Chicago streets found the rates had handing out disabled parking placards, bers, Phase I of the plan would cost around able revenue,” Dyster said. gone up as much as fourfold once the for closing the streets for festivals. The $900,000 to put in place, along with another What revenue? Spending more than plan was implemented. current bill stands at $61 million. $100,000 annually to run. a million dollars to make around $80,000 a Meters jammed and overflowed And if all that wasn’t bad enough, Expected revenue might be as much as year after expenses. Only men such as Dyster when they couldn’t hold enough change some of those involved in the deal are $80,000 a year after expenses. and Touma, who have never run a successful for the new prices. In other areas, new now the target of a federal bribery inves- There is no indication whatsoever that 40 business or provided a single private sector electronic meters had been installed, tigation. meters will turn a profit for the city after the job in their lives, would think the plan had but many of them didn’t give receipts or The Desman parking plan in Chicago consultants and the company that manages any merit. has been an utter disaster. Bad for those the meters are paid. failed to work entirely. And free parking City councilman Robert Anderson who on Sundays was a thing of the past. who have to use it, awful for the taxpay- The mayor’s proposal, which has been lost his seat in the recent election, said me- ers and, in all likelihood, corrupt. estimated to cost in excess of $900,000 to The meter plan sparked mass out- tered parking will hurt business downtown In its’ wake, it’s hard not to wonder implement, would involve the establishment rage in Chicago. There were protests and anywhere else it is put in place. and attempts to organize a boycott. But what it was about the company that at- of a “department of parking” here, the hiring “There is no demand in the winter for the city had leased its 36,000 meters to tracted Dyster? of new personnel to man it, and increased en- downtown parking,” he said. “It could be a forcement of local parking codes. a private Morgan Stanley-led consortium Dyster, who enthusiastically backed deterrent to business in winter. Think about Mayor Irene Elia’s parking program as a “There’s a lot of people that think, day- it. Suppose you are thinking about meeting in exchange for $1.2 billion in up-front to-day, we can manage it ourselves,” Touma revenue. The length of the lease was 75 member of the City Council in the early a friend at Starbucks in January. You can go years of the new century, has apparently said. downtown and pay $3 each to park for two years. Dyster was more specific about the need And if the meter situation seemed swallowed completely Desman’s incred- hours or you can go to Starbucks in LaSalle ibly optimistic projection of $1 million in for new city personnel to man the program. and park for free. So which are you going to like a bad deal for Chicago’s parkers, it new revenue annually. “We can’t just tell people, ‘In your spare choose?” would soon become clear that it was an The offices of Desman Associates time run a parking program,’” Dyster said. And while Dyster is telling anyone who even worse one for the city’s taxpayers. are located on North Clark Street in “We have to make sure we have the people will listen that metered parking will extend An inspector general’s report found available with the right skill set to pull this north of Niagara Street, why has Desman As- that the deal was worth almost $1 billion Chicago. Ironically it was in a parking off.” sociates labeled that portion of the Project as more than the city had gotten for it. Not garage on North Clark Street that nine And enforcement is an entirely different Phase I? Wouldn’t Phase I quite naturally be only would the city never have a chance men associated with the Irish North Side matter, the mayor added. followed by Phase II? to recoup that money or reap new meter Gang were lined up and gunned down in “I want to be careful not to have a police The numbers just don’t add up. If, as revenue for three-quarters of a century, the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massa- officer who could be fighting crime elsewhere Dyster and Touma contend, metered park- cre of 1929. NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 11 None Dare Call It Treason! Revisited from Niagara Reporter 2-17-15 clares. Mohammed, the Koran, which is as violent the Islam that wants us dead, that one. We The President wants Congress to al- as it gets. must fight them any place, any time, any low him to direct a “limited action” against When Japan attacked us at Pearl Har- number. We should not allow ANY Mus- ISIS which he calls criminals, terrorists, bor and killed 2500 Americans, Congress lim Nation to have or maintain any nuclear armed insurgents and every other descrip- declared war against Japan, not just the weapons. When Iran, an Islamic state, says tion except what they call themselves and “radical Japanese” who attacked us. When they want to kill us and Israel, we should that is “Islam”. ISIS says they are at war we declared war on Germany, we didn’t take the threat seriously and not ignore it as with us. Obama says “we are not now nor declare war on just “NAZI Germany”! Obama does and try to talk them out of it. will we ever be at war with Islam”. In my When Islam attacked us on 9-11-01 killing They finance almost every radical Islamic opinion Obama says that he won’t fight 3,000 Americans, President Bush hopeful- terrorist group out there except ISIS and Islam because he CONTINUES to be an ly would have asked Congress to declare we are allowing them to develop weapons Islamic Muslim himself. Everyone, except war against “Islam” if he knew then what grade uranium. President Obama and his Muslim, White we know now. No one knew what Al Qa- Are we stupid or what? House staff, says we are at war with “radi- eda was back then. After Congress declares war on Islam, cal Islam”. I say that no one can separate That was mostly the fault of 8 years every time there is an act of terror against rticle I, Section 8 of the United or tell the difference between radical Islam of Clinton, who’s Vice President, Al Gore us or any US ally, we should destroy an States Constitution says “The and Islam as they all follow the teachings asked Ollie North in 1987 “Who is Bin installation in Iran. Make it crystal clear to ACongress shall have the power ... of the Koran. No one has ever come for- Laden”, when North had his home secu- the Ali Khameni that we will not allow any To declare war...” ward with a book of faith or writing of rity increased for $60,000 of government threats or acts of war to go unanswered, The President is responsible for ex- “peaceful, non-radical, nonviolent” Islam money. North told Gore that Bin Laden “is” anymore. When are we going to wake up ecuting the act of war that Congress de- beliefs. They all follow the same book of the most dangerous terrorist in the world to what is going on? and North and his family were threatened This President is going to go down in by Bin Laden. Gore, who was on one of history as the absolute worst, most dishon- The Genius Skrlin Creates Another, the security committees, had never heard est, disruptive and treasonous President in of BL, and mocked the pronunciation of the history of our nation. He is without a This Time Poignant Masterpiece BL’s name! Also, remember that Clinton doubt guilty of dereliction of his duty as had 3 opportunities to kill Bin Laden but President. Those who voted for him should was afraid of public opinion. be proud of what they helped create! That’s what happens when our leaders Both Presidents Nixon and Clinton put their own agenda before their oath of were impeached for lying. The lies they office! told never hurt anyone! One was regarding And... that’s the SAME Al Gore who, a burglary and the other a sexual act with 20 years ago, said that the Arctic Ice caps an intern. Now we have a President who and Glaciers would be gone by 2015! can’t tell the truth, has told lies that have What kind of morons are we (you) cost people a great deal from loss of health electing? insurance to loss of family members. Just What Congress should do now, with ask the family members of the Americans France and the rest of what’s left of our al- who died in Benghazi, Libya if the Presi- lies, is to declare war against “Islam” and dent lied about Benghazi and is responsible let Obama decide if he is going to honor his for the loss of their loved ones! How about oath of office and fight Islam, his “past” the lives that have been lost due to his re- religion/ideology. He has said repeatedly treat in Iraq and the release of prisoners that he won’t! If he doesn’t, then impeach who have returned to battle US troops? him and indict him for Treason! We solve a I dare to call it Treason! whole lot of problems all at once. Dear Congress, please honor your oath What Islam should we fight? I say and protect us... please! ree speech, like freedom itself, isn’t free. It’s held only through eternal Fvigilance. Since free speech is guaran- teed by the first amendment of the Constitu- tion there can be little doubt in the minds of normal, well adjusted, citizens of this nation that the Constitution is fully buttressed by this single amendment. In this cartoon Skrlin tackles the question of a free press in rela- tion to the Reporter and a story in last week’s edition detailing how the publisher appears to have run afoul of the powers that be due to the coverage of the Dyster administration. This latest Skrlin rendering isn’t so much hu- morous as it is poignant in its portrayal as to how the newspaper has come under attack as a virtual sitting duck...seemingly targeted by powerful state-wide entities. The Reporter receives both barrels in this graphic episode from those in authority for daring to tread where others refuse to go. We have the visual pun of a liquor bottle containing “proof” and a newspaper that is “free” in that it has no selling price but struggles to be free in rela- tion to the first amendment. While other car- toons by Skrlin routinely bring a smile to the face of the viewer this cartoon causes one to mourn for the troubling attack on the right of free speech...a right that has been treasured since the United States drew its first breath in 1776. Jonathan Q. Adams 12 NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 13
NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 15 Only in NT: More Suggestions for Elected Eight People in a Room from them. the concept. portion as “subject to removal or suspension Employees of NT have ideas for improve- Beyond a doubt, NT’s website is an em- by the mayor.” ment of the bureaucracy, but leadership at the barrassment which the newly elected City When “revisions” are made, perhaps the top (department heads) is needed to make it Clerk-Treasurer has promised to give attention use of asterisks could be used in the relevant clear to “upper management” (Mayor and to. One thing missing from the website is an portions to denote that a change is listed at the Common Council) and all employees that new email address for the City Clerk-Treasurer’s end? ideas are wanted from them (not resented nor office. The charter also needs to include term their being penalized for suggestions). Their Why does the City Charter posted on the limits. NT needs an intelligent, informed elec- knowledge and ideas are worth so much more website have (Article III, Division 1, Section torate that tosses out bad politicians in elec- Sweeney Payne to NT than the bought-and-paid for writings of 3.004 (a)): “The city clerk-treasurer is subject tions and insures that genuine public servants overpriced consultants who don’t live here. to removal or suspension by the mayor in ac- are kept in office. It isn’t supposed to be a suggestion for our “newly elected” Why not create competitions and an in- cordance with the provisions of this section. lifelong income. Two terms are plenty for any eight people in a room: Most success- novation fund to encourage employees to step All appointed officers are subject to removal elected official. Aful private businesses put a great deal forward with new ways of doing business? or suspension by the appointing authority in of emphasis on innovation, new products, and Dedicate a small portion of the annual bud- accordance with the provisions of this sec- ways to deliver services. Local governments get to encourage better, faster and less expen- tion.” always also need to continually seek ways to sive ways of delivering services. That, if not The posted charter continues with more deliver services better, less expensively and smothered by the eight people in the room, instructions. Why are we voting for a city faster. would no doubt eliminate the waste of pay- clerk-treasurer if he/she is subject to removal NT, however has had a problem, for at ing for studies that never go anyplace after the or suspension by the mayor? Is this just a case least the last decade of ordering costly studies, photos in the paper with the announcements of of the wrong version of the charter remaining consultant reports, etc., and announcing them their completion. on the website? Or perhaps not properly cor- as a fait accompli (something that has been Why not create an “innovation fund” and rected when it became an elected position? done and cannot be changed). Unfortunately set aside $1 or $2 million to be used for seed Section 3.029 does say, “The officials of for NT residents, the only thing that ever seems money for one-time investments in projects the city elected by the voters are the mayor, the to be “done” is the issuing of these studies and that would enhance services, save money, pro- council members, the city attorney and the city “Such was the will of the Father reports with all the political braggadocio those vide better customer (taxpayer and resident) clerk-treasurer.” that his Son, blessed and glori- in office at the time could/can muster, with service, etc. Projects that will cut the red tape At the end of the charter (which went ous, whom he gave to us, and who braggadocio being the annoying and exagger- for businesses and make it easier for citizens into effect January 1, 2002), under Article VII, ated bragging of those proudly trying to sound to access city services should be considered Se. 7.004 2008 it lists “Revisions to the char- was born for us, should by his own like they are accomplishing things by publish- for these loans. ter”: “Effective on March 1, 2009, the posi- blood, sacrifice, and oblation, offer ing the results of studies and reports. Create an apolitical panel (if such a thing tion of city clerk shall be abolished. All du- himself on the altar of the cross, not A review of the last ten years, or in fact, is possible in NT or Niagara County)and use ties and obligations formerly held by the city for himself, by whom “all things were fifty or more years, of the former Tonawanda the fund for loans to be paid back within five clerk shall be assumed by the city treasurer, made,” but for our sins, leaving us News, indicates a serious amount of taxpayer years, with city agencies or departments pro- whose position shall be renamed as the city- an example that we should follow funding at some level or other going into such viding business plans showing how they ex- clerk treasurer.” This still doesn’t clarify that his steps.” studies and reports, with little ever resulting pect to meet their obligations for developing the city-clerk treasurer is stated in the earlier St Francis of Assisi 16 NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 Carl Filbert Performs at the Bakery Lounge
Niagara Falls, NY - Local musician / vocalist Carl Filbert will perform on Thanksgiving Eve at the Bakery Lounge, 3004 Niagara St., Niagara Falls, NY on November 25, 2015. Filbert will bring his casual manor and bluesy voice to the Bakery to celebrate the beginnings of the holiday season. Proprietors, Kevin and David Brown invite the public to enjoy a fabulous dinner before or during the show. Also included will be a live DJ spinning dance and party favorites throughout the evening. Filbert begins at 8:30. 18 NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 Bills Have Shot to Knock Off Banged Up Patriots man suffered a broken bone in his foot and will line problems, Brady may not be able to put up miss the game against the Bills on Monday night the kind of numbers that he did earlier in the sea- in Foxboro Stadium and may be sidelined for son in the 40 – 32 win at the Ralph. The Patriots several games. The Patriots are also hurting on have pretty much owned the Bills for a very long the offensive line and Brady is paying the price time, winning 27 of the last 30 games, but maybe although they still found a way to win against a Rex Ryan and crew can turn the tables on Bill very determined effort by the Giants who unfor- Belichick and Brady next Monday night and give tunately didn’t finish the game. themselves a much-needed win against the reign- Brady looked nearly human, throwing a goal ing champions. line interception and barely escaping another pick I’m not predicting a Bills victory, but I do inside two minutes when Landon Collins dropped think that Buffalo is showing the kind of offensive what probably would have been a game- clinch- punch that has been missing during the lengthy ing interception for the Giants. Given life, the playoff drought and if the defense can pressure champion Patriots pulled out a victory. Brady, a win is possible. “We’ve got to find different ways,” Brady LeSean McCoy and Karlos Williams give said after the game. “Guys stepped in when Ju- the Bills a strong ground game, both showing Tony Farina lian got hurt. We’re down a bunch of tackles and speed and power, and if wide receiver Sammy nyone who has followed my coverage guys are playing out of position, and I think we Watkins can stay on the field, he puts great pres- of the Buffalo Bills over the last sev- just keep grinding our way through it. You’ve got sure on a suspect Patriots’ secondary and could Aeral years knows that I’m anything but to find different ways to win.” open things up for the other Bills receivers. a cheerleader for this franchise and it will take Brady and the Pats did find a way to win, In short, it seems like things are setting up in more than a couple of wins over the Dolphins and just like they did in the last Super Bowl when the the Bills favor for the Monday prime time game the Jets to convince me that this is the year the Seahawks gave them a chance with a pass on the against the Pats, and a win that would give the longest active playoff drought (15 years) in the goal line that the Patriots intercepted giving them team a great deal of confidence during this tough NFL will come to an end. their fourth Lombardi Trophy. road stretch and give fans hope that this Bills But I have some hope that this year’s team But I believe the injury to Edelman and the team is for is real. may have the firepower to make a real run and makeshift offensive line makes the Pats vulner- There is always a danger in falling for the it could start on Monday night when the now able and gives the healthy Bills a fighting chance Bills because they have a legacy of failure that is healthy Bills (5 – 4) take on the banged up New to beat the Super Bowl champs and hand them hard to forget. .But Wilson is gone and his chief England Patriots and I believe it is a game that their first defeat of the season. money generator, Russ Brandon, has assumed a Buffalo may be able to win, Now I know the Pats still have Brady and lower football profile, and to me those are posi- Yes, the Patriots are still undefeated (9 – 0) TE Rob Gronkowski who scored on a 76-yard tive developments for the team now owned by and have owned the Bills in big games, but last pass play against the Giants, calling the victory a fracking kingpin Terry Pegula. We haven’t seen Sunday Tom Brady and crew barely got by the character builder. But the Bills are showing signs too much of him, either, and Coach Rex Ryan is New York Giants, 27 – 26, courtesy of a last-sec- they mean business on offense with a powerful now the face of the franchise, as he should be, and ond 54-yard field goal by the sensational Stephen running game and the steady play of quarterback while the Bills struggled early, Ryan has brought Gostkowski, and lost their best wide receiver, Ju- Tyrod Taylor who is doing what it takes to win. them back and they are finally healthy and have lian Edelman, in the process. Edelman, a terrific receiver, is a major loss no excuses against a Patriots team that looks vul- It was reported after the game that Edel- for the Patriots and coupled with the offensive nerable.
State Audit of ECC Still Not Ready the $192,500 president of ECC. Tony Farina We have written numerous stories about the college’s fiscal meltdown, ast March, we reported that state fueled in part by declining enrollment auditors were in the final stages and the county’s less than 26.7 percent of the first full review of Erie L financial subsidy required by state edu- Community College’s finances in 20 years, reportedly sparked by complaints cation law (it is currently at about 15 of lax controls in managing taxpayer perecent). We have also written about and student dollars at ECC. The audit the many complaints from administra- had begun in October of 2014. tors and others at ECC abut Quinn’s In that same story, we reported that handling of the college’s fiscal affairs a spokesman for State Comptroller Tom and the lack of oversight by the Board DiNapoli would not confirm the finan- of Directors. cial review had been sparked by com- In fact, in recent days I have learned plaints from local watchdogs, calling it that the board is rubber stamping just “a standard audit” that was expected to about everything that Quinn and Whea- be completed by early spring. ton put on the table, meaning there is Early spring is in the rearview mir- no checks on the Quinn administration ror and Thanksgiving is fast approaching from the board of directors. There are and the results of that “standard audit” several projects in the works at ECC, in- have still not been released. I asked a cluding construction of the $30 million spokesman from the state comptroller’s STEM building at the North campus, office this week if this audit was setting but the board reportedly is letting Quinn a record for longevity and he could only call the shots, period. chuckle. If any light is to be shed on what’s Officially, the audit now could been happening at ECC under Quinn’s be released next month, according to leadership, it looks like it will come from DiNapoli’s office, but there is no guar- state auditors although the credibility of antee at this time that it will be ready be- an audit so long in the making could be fore the end of the year. The conclusion suspect. It could be that Quinn’s team any fair observer can reasonably draw is has taken serious issue with the audit’s that this audit turned out to be anything finding and that could be the reason for but “standard,” and as we reported sev- the delay. Whatever the reason, we still eral times state auditors had their hands don’t have the results of an audit of a full dealing with Kristin Klein Whea- school with serious financial troubles ton, ECC’s vice president for legal af- and another tuition hike likely. We’ll fairs and the top assistant to Jack Quinn, keep you posted. NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015 19 NEWS OF THE WEIRD > BY CHUCK SHEPHERD feline) and the similarly obsessive Erik “Lizardman” the latest parent ratted out by her child. When tractor-trailer got stuck in a narrow alley (directed Sprague, who at one time toured with the Jim Rose Mom denied having been drinking, her daughter, there by the sat-nav, in violation of all common ANNALS OF JUSTICE Circus. Newer to the scene is Britain’s Ted Richards, 7, blurted out, “Yes, you have, Mom.” McColm sense). (Bonus: It was not the first time sat-nav ■ A 2015 decision of the Georgia Supreme Court 57, working to become a human parrot. With 110 registered 0.237, had nearly hit another officer’s car had misdirected a vehicle into the same alley; the has created a puzzle for drunk driver enforcement. colorful tattoos, 50 piercings and a split tongue, head-on, and was so hammered that she “urged” a town had even placed a formal traffic sign at the In Georgia (and other states), blood alcohol tests he currently seeks a surgeon to turn his nose into different officer to “shoot her in the head.” approach to the alley: “Do Not Follow Sat Nav Next are “voluntary” (to bypass the issue of whether a beak. Even without the beak, though, Richard Left.”) ■ A chapter of People for the Ethical Treatment drivers can be forced, or even pressured, to says becoming parrotlike “is the best thing that of Animals undertook one of its favorite UPDATES endure a test that ultimately helps to convict has happened to me.” (London’s Daily Telegraph, consciousness-raising tactics in August, demanding them), but the Georgia court has ruled, against publishing astonishing photos of Richards, asked, that Pennsylvania officials erect a roadside grave ■ In October, the federal government finally custom, that a “consenting” driver might be “too” rhetorically, whether we’ve reached “peak plastic marker near Lancaster at the spot where a tractor- unloaded the two New Hampshire properties it drunk to appreciate the consent—in which case, surgery.”) trailer hauling 80 pigs overturned, killing several seized in 2007 from dentist Elaine Brown and her the test results would be inadmissible in court. ■ In October, a 20-year-old man in Macomb of them. The “terrified animals” that suffered husband (after a nine-month standoff following Equally awkwardly, prosecutors would be forced Township, Michigan, became the most recent traumatic deaths should be memorialized by the their vow to die rather than pay their back taxes to argue that the drunk driver—too drunk to alleged drunk driver to reveal himself in the most community, PETA said. The pigs, of course, would to the IRS). Their 100-acre “compound” became a handle a motor vehicle—was still sober enough to awkward of ways: by accidentally swerving into have eventually found their way to a slaughterhouse, magnet at the time for an array of “sovereigns” and give knowledgeable consent. Atlanta’s WSB-TV the midst of a sheriff’s deputies’ roadside stop—of and it is possible that the ones euthanized as a tax-resisters, who were rumored to have booby- reported in October that judges statewide are another alleged drunk driver. (Coincidentally, both result of the accident passed more peacefully than trapped the property to ward off law enforcement— grappling with the issue. arrestees are 20 and registered matching 0.17 the “survivors.” and the 2015 auction only partially guaranteed that blood-alcohol readings.) the property was free of hidden explosives. (News RECURRING THEMES (RECENT ■ In October, The Washington Post and the New INSTANCES OF FAMILIAR WEIRD of the Weird’s 2007 story included Dr. Brown as ■ College “Inclusiveness” to the Next Level: York Post separately reported recent episodes one of three U.S. dentists who, independent of each BEHAVIORS) “Service” animals (mostly guide dogs) are ones of government agencies keeping high-earning other, had become obsessed about federal taxes. that have been specially trained to provide help for employees on the payroll for more than a year, ■ Funerals and burials, in the United States and The Browns are serving 30-year prison terms.) people with disabilities, but untrained “comfort” with no job assignment, because the agencies elsewhere, are no longer always so staid. Most animals are also privileged for those diagnosed were unable to adjudicate their misconduct cases. ■ High school principal George Kenney believes he famously, one man was, per his instructions, with panic attacks or depression. In an October Almost 100 shelved Homeland Security employees has a gift to aid students’ concentration abilities— lowered to the ground inside his beloved Cadillac; report on college students hoping to keep their turned up in a Washington Post Freedom of hypnotism—and practiced it extensively at North dressing corpses in fanciful outfits (such as the pets in no-animal dorms, The New York Times Information Act request, and one information Port High in Sarasota, Florida, until 2011, when three Green Lantern) is not unheard of. In October, noted that school officials have entertained student technology analyst warehoused by the New York of his students died in separate incidents (two by after Mr. Jomar Aguayo Collazo, 23, was killed in requests for the “comfort” of (besides dogs and City employee pension fund said she had earned suicide). While Kenney enjoys retirement in North a shootout in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the family cats) lizards, potbellied pigs, tarantulas, ferrets, $1.3 million over 10 years doing absolutely no work Carolina, the Sarasota school board did not close outfitted his body in his favorite blue tracksuit and guinea pigs and “sugar gliders” (nocturnal, flying, for the city. “I watched movies,” said Niki Murphy. “I the chapter until October 2015 when it granted propped him up at a table in his mother’s tavern six-ounce Australian marsupials). Informal Justice crocheted—right in front of (supervisors).” $200,000 settlements to the families of the three (“playing” dominoes and holding a drink and a Department guidelines rule out only animals that students. The lawsuits complained of Kenney’s condom)—as friends and relatives passed by to pay ■ Drivers who blindly follow their vehicle’s satellite are aggressive or destructive or that trigger other unlicensed “medical procedure,” which altered the their respects. navigation with disastrous results are almost “underdeveloped” teenage brain—but Kenney had students’ allergies. No Longer Weird, but a truck driver’s mishap in ■ The list of all-time extreme body modifiers would also pointed to improvements in studying by other ■ Raised Right—or Snitch-in-Training? In September, Ashton, England, in October still seemed worthy start with the late Dennis “Stalking Cat” Avner students. 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Poets from across the coun- $10, $15 door, sheassoiree.com try and Canada share poetry straight Santora’s Pizza Pub & Grill (Transit Rd.) NOV 19 OPEN MIC from the national stage. The evening - Back To The Bars MUSIC LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS Woodside Community Chapel - 7-11pm will include three experimental pieces Strikers Lanes - 9pm Seismic Urge First Presbyterian Church - 7-9pm Fall incorporating theater and fashion w/ FUNK/SOUL Woodside Coffee House Open Mic 6-10pm Pooch & The MUSIC Adventures In Buffalo History: The Life spoken word, $15. The Cove - Town Ballroom - 7pm George Clinton & Howling Cats & Legacy of the Canadiana, Life In The R&B Parliament Funkadelic, $30-$35. ACOUSTIC/FOLK Original Larkinville, $10, $5 students, MAGIC Roycroft Inn - 7pm Theresa Quinn & VARIETY Nietzsche’s - 5pm The Afternoon Trio passholders free. The West Side Horns Ship N’ Shore Restaurant - 7-9pm Magic JAZZ w/ John, Paul, & Bill, free. & Balloon Art by Joe & Gary, free. Potts Banquet Hall - Rock n’ Polka LITERARY Night. Crash Cadillac playing your favor- Colored Musicians’ Club - 6-9pm The ROCK DMW Jazz Experience w/ Dennis BLUES Brighton Place Library - 11-8pm Book ite 50’s, Country & Classic Rock tunes, Hot Mama’s Canteen - 8-11pm Rod SPECIALTY/COMMUNITY New Direction Band playing your favor- Warne, Mike Slomowicz, Jamie Sunshine Sportsmen’s Tavern - 7pm The Willies, Sale, $5 Bag Day on Sat. 21st. Horning Project; 11:30pm Rustic Radio THEATER ite Polkas, Waltzes & Obereks, $10. & Brian Dejesus $3 Ellicott Creek Playhouse (St. Edmund RECREATION/GAMES Mohawk Place - 5pm Haunted Gypsy Left Bank - 11:30-1:30pm Live Jazz Brunch Campus) - 7:30pm Camelot by the CLASSICAL Shenannigan’s Bar & Grill - 7pm Trivia Happy hour, free w/ Wayne Moose & Walk Sopicki. Niagara Regional Theatre, $18 General, COMMUNITY Albright-Knox Art Gallery - 8pm w/ Quiz Night in Buffalo. Nietzsche’s - 9:30pm The Buffalo $16 Students/Seniors, $15 Presale. Milkie’s on Elmwood (formerly Buffalo Chamber Players at the AK: Afrobeat Orchestra w/ DJ Milk; 10pm Elmwood Lounge) - 6-9pm DMW Jazz Atmosphere & Texture, The ensemble SPECIAL EVENT The Sixties Future CD Release, Aircraft, Jordyn D’Alimonte Performing Arts EVENTS experience presents a program exploring the use of Brighton Place Library - 5-6pm Adult Skirts, Cooler, $5 Center - 7pm Lindbergh Elementary BURLESQUE color and texture in music. Coloring, a great way to relax and meet presents the play James And the Giant Nietzsche’s - 8pm Dr. Jazz & the Jazz Shadow Lounge & Restaurant - 10pm Hot Mama’s Canteen - 11:59pm new friends. This is not a class and is JoyRyde w/ The Hitmen Horns feat. Peach, $5. Bugs JAZZ very casual. Come to one or both ses- Stripteasers Burlesque ($3 Cover) Maria Sebastian Trinity Episcopal Church (Buffalo) - Daily Planet Coffee Co. - 5pm Fred sions. Call 332-4375 for information. Sportsmen’s Tavern - 5:30-8:30pm Five COMEDY 10:30-11:30am Bobby Militello & Krista Caputi Jazz Guitar. Providence Social - 5:30-8:30pm The To One Band, $3 Helium Comedy Club - 7:30-10pm Seddon; 7pm Live piano jazz, readings, Public & The ProZoo Board invite you SAT time for silent meditation. KARAOKE to “Open To The Public”, a happy hour Waiting Room - 7pm The Leones, Judah Friedlander Maple Entertainment Complex (The benefiting The Buffalo Zoo. Air hockey Applennium, Hundred Plus Club, $8 NOV 21 OPEN MIC Library) - 8pm Karaoke w/ Michelle. tournament, Buffalo Zoo trivia, Zoo EXHIBITS Drinko Board & drink specials. Amherst Center for Senior Services - Mr. Goodbar - 8:30pm Open Mic The Backstage Pub - 8pm Open Jam & MUSIC 2-4pm Williamsville Art Society Holiday hosted by Mikey Mike feat. talented Karaoke w/ Jimmy Zigzag & Wally B. SPECIALTY/COMMUNITY COMMUNITY Show, feat. Live Music, Awards, Chinese musicians of all genres welcome. PA, OPEN MIC THEATER EVENTS ACOUSTIC/FOLK Auction, Refreshments Show runs thru microphone available. Jordyn D’Alimonte Performing Arts Dec 3, 2015 Hilltop Inn and Grove - 7pm Open Mic Hot Mama’s Canteen - 11:59pm PA Line 7pm Lindbergh Elementary COMEDY ROCK Hosted by Danny Lynn Wilson. Center - Wine on Third - 8pm Julian Burgio Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter presents the play James And the Giant Burchfield Penney Art Center - 8pm Hall) - 11-4pm Ottoman Cartography & Broadway Joe’s Bar & Grille - 2pm Hydeout - 9pm Randy California’s Peach, $5. Tits & Giggles, All Women Comedy BLUES the Age of Discovery, an exhibit feat. Paramedic, Call It Home, Eyes On show feat. Allie Brady, Heather Stack Satellites, Mallorie, Deadbeat, Habits, Open Mic. Broadway Hotel - 9pm Slim Chance, hand-drawn maps, originally included TOURS (Artvoice’s Best Comedian 2015), Kristen in various educational atlases,produced Call It Home, Eyes On Satellites, Lowlife, “The can’t hardly playboys” POP Shea’s Buffalo Performing Arts Center Becker, Samantha Orrange, Shannon between the 14th and 17th centuries. Common Guilt, Jaali Cypher, Blinded, & Hot Mama’s Canteen - 6-9pm Jenna Dawn, Jamie Travale, Katie Lane, Sara Pierce Arrow Bar & Grill - 2-7pm Buffalo www.karpeles.com Wavelengths, $10, $13 DOS - 10am, 1pm Historic Theatre Tour. $8/$4 Gunn, & Marisa Caruso, $10 ADV, $15 Cunningham Seniors, Students, & Groups of 20 Blues Crew with Jack Civiletto, Chas DOS. DelPlato, Bob Price, Andy Romanek & Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center - 10-4pm Nietzsche’s - 6pm Ann Phillipone or more. Reserve at 847-1410 ext. 184. Great Shipwrecks of NY’s Great Lakes PUNK Speedy Parker. sheas.org Helium Comedy Club - 7:30-10pm Traveling Exhibit SWING/BIG BAND Mohawk Place - 8pm Peelander-Z, Tifft Nature Preserve - 10-noon Judah Friedlander Pizza Plant Italian Pub (Transit Rd) - 8- UB Center for the Arts - 7:30pm The Japanese Action Comic Punk Band, $8. 11pm Deann Tompkins Blues Band, free. FASHION Wellness Walks. Drop by Tifft Nature CRAFTS Brian Setzer Orchestra, 12th Annual Waiting Room - 6pm Knuckle Puck, Preserve and enjoy the fresh air and the The Cove - 9pm Glamour & Glow Gods Christmas Rocls Tour, $77, $67, $52, $37 Seaway, Sorority Noise, Head North, sights and sounds of the season with Brighton Place Library - 10-noon CELTIC/IRISH & Goddesses, UV Designer Fashion Knitting Club, experienced or beginner. $14-$16 a healthy outdoor walk on our beau- Nietzsche’s - 4:30pm Celtic Seisians Show, Performance Art, Music, Body tiful and accessible trails! Please call Knit, crochet, chat, or come w/ ques- Art, Costumes Encouraged. $19 general, COMMUNITY R&B 825-6397 to confirm walk will be taking tions & materials. CLASSICAL www.glamouringlow.com place. $2 donation per person appreci- First Niagara Center - 8pm Stevie EXHIBITS UB Slee Concert Hall (Lippes Concert EVENTS Wonder, Songs In The Key of Life Tour, ated. All ages. Hall) - 7:30pm Maestro Hector Olivera HOLIDAY MARKETS/ Amherst Center for Senior Services - concert organist, $15/$10 seniors, UB BAZAARS DANCE $129.50, $89.50, $59.50, $39.50 2-4pm Williamsville Art Society Holiday Faculty/Staff/Alumni & non-UB stu- Kenan Center - 10-5pm The Kenan Arts Ship N’ Shore Restaurant - 4-8pm ROCK Show, feat. Live Music, Awards, Chinese FRI Auction, Refreshments Show runs thru dents. UB students free. Council’s 35th Holiday Gift Show: 46 jur- Ballroom Dancing & Fun Music w/ Frank Buffalo Iron Works - 10pm Stevie Dec 3, 2015 ied artisans display their handcrafted & the Shipmates, free. Wonder after party w/ The Heavy Pets, NOV 20 COUNTRY works in 3 historic buildings. Onstage Doors 9pm, Show 10pm, free Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Sportsmen’s Tavern - 8:30pm Hey Mavis Cafe by Shamus Restaurant, a quilt raf- EXHIBITS Hall) - 11-4pm Ottoman Cartography & fle, herbal gifts, gourmet foods & wine. Nietzsche’s - 9pm The Nursery, Dirty & The Steam Donkeys, $10 Amherst Center for Senior Services - the Age of Discovery, an exhibit feat. No strollers please, $4 Smile, $5 MUSIC hand-drawn maps, originally included DANCE/DJS/ELECTRONIC 2-4pm Williamsville Art Society Holiday in various educational atlases,produced Knox Farm State Park - 10-5pm The Show, feat. Live Music, Awards, Chinese VARIETY ACOUSTIC/FOLK between the 14th and 17th centuries. The Rapids Theatre - 8pm Hyperglow Friends of Knox Farm State Park pres- Auction, Refreshments Show runs thru ent “The Holiday Art Festival” @ E. Dreamland - 8pm Comedy Punk www.karpeles.com Tour w/ Laid Back Luke Dec 3, 2015 Asbury Hall at Babeville - 7pm Peter Aurora Knox Mansion feat. hand-crafted & Electro Stunts: Nudie Suits, The 10pm Buku/ Jr from Yarrow, $30/$35 Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center - 10-4pm Waiting Room - gift items: painitings, blown glass, mixed Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Creepers & Woodbois, $5 donation Dallas, Big Basha, Rufus Gibson, Eyes Daily Planet Coffee Co. - noon Acoustic Great Shipwrecks of NY’s Great Lakes media. Catered by Daley’s. Preview Hall) - 11-4pm Ottoman Cartography & Everywhere, John Patrick, $15 ZYDECO/CAJUN Lunch w/ Drew Azzinaro. Traveling Exhibit night $20, Sat. & Sun. $5. the Age of Discovery, an exhibit feat. hand-drawn maps, originally included Shango Bistro - 7pm Ron Davis aka Dwyer’s Irish Pub - 6pm Darrell Porter FUNDRAISERS FUNK/SOUL St. Francis of Assisi Church - 9-noon Gently used jewelry and accessory sale: in various educational atlases,produced LeeRon Zydeco. Hotel at the Lafayette - 5-9pm Hydraulic Hearth - 9:30pm Ron Davis & between the 14th and 17th centuries. Ray Hangen, Acid Funk. vintage pieces, costume jewelry, purses, Luke’s Lutheran Church - 6pm Road To 8th Annual Champions for Justice hats, & scarves. Proceeds to benefit www.karpeles.com Recovery BashECBA Volunteer Lawyers Project INDIE Parish & Early Childhood Center. $2.50 Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center - 10-4pm COMMUNITY & Legal Services for the Elderly, admission=coffee and a bagel (or other Unity Church of Practical Christianity - Disabled or Disadvantaged of WNY 8pm Sleepy Hahas, Space Great Shipwrecks of NY’s Great Lakes 9pm Peopleart Coffeehouse feat. Tom Dreamland - breakfast goodie) & admission to the EVENTS (Award Ceremony starts at 5pm), Open Cubs, Moody Cosmos,$5 Traveling Exhibit Naples & Paul Lamont, $5 bar, food stations, $85 per person or sale. Children free. COMEDY Wine on Third - 8pm Keith Shuskie $150 per couple. JAZZ LITERARY HOLIDAY MARKETS/ Helium Comedy Club - 8pm Judah BAZAARS Hot Mama’s Canteen - 1pm Brunch Brighton Place Library - 10-1pm Book Friedlander BLUES HOLIDAY MARKETS/ & Beats Paradigm Shift; 7pm Andrew Kenan Center - 11-5pm The Kenan Arts Sale, $5 Bag Day on Sat. 21st. Hot Mama’s Canteen - 8pm River Dogs BAZAARS Nixon Council’s 35th Holiday Gift Show: 46 jur- CRAFTS Kenan Center - 5-9pm The Kenan Arts ied artisans display their handcrafted Brighton Place Library - 1:30-2:30pm Hot Mama’s Canteen - 10pm Fredtown SPECIAL EVENT 9:30pm Council’s 35th Holiday Gift Show: 46 jur- works in 3 historic buildings. Onstage Cardcrafter’s Club, Meet with other Sportsmen’s Tavern - ied artisans display their handcrafted Stompers Buffalo Iron Works - 2-6pm 1st Annual Nighthawks, $20 Cafe by Shamus Restaurant, a quilt raf- card crafters to share materials, ideas, works in 3 historic buildings. Onstage Pausa Art House - 8pm Walter Kemp3- Battle of the Corporate Band, Corporate fle, herbal gifts, gourmet foods & wine. & conversation. No experience needed. Cafe by Shamus Restaurant, a quilt raf- sponsors & their competing bands, Vizzi’s - 10pm Dave Constantino Band. OH feat. Sharon Bailey. Walter Kemp No strollers please, $4 Call 332-4375 for info. fle, herbal gifts, gourmet foods & wine. is a regular fixture at Pausa, both as made up of the most unlikely musicians COUNTRY No strollers please, $4 a soloist & w/ the group Grüvology. such as bankers, PR executives, accoun- Knox Farm State Park - 10-5pm The DANCE Buffalo Iron Works - 9pm The Marshall Sharon Bailey has been honored with tants, software engineers, etc. Proceeds Friends of Knox Farm State Park pres- Knox Farm State Park - 6-9pm The benefit Give for Greatness, Tickets avail- El Museo - 8pm NYC Ballet, Co-pre- Dillon Band, Doors 8pm, Show 9pm, $5 Friends of Knox Farm State Park pres- The Buffalo Music Award for Top R&B ent “The Holiday Art Festival” @ E. sented with Performa, join us on a play- able @ Iron Works &Ticketfly Aurora Knox Mansion feat. hand-crafted Santora’s Pizza Pub & Grill (Transit Rd.) ent “The Holiday Art Festival” @ E. Female Vocalist, $7 ful exploration of our dance fantasies Aurora Knox Mansion feat. hand-crafted The Fairgrounds - 10-5pm 34rd Annual gift items: painitings, blown glass, mixed with Jerome Bel’s Ballet (New York) & 12 - West Of The Mark gift items: painitings, blown glass, mixed KARAOKE Greater Buffalo Train & Toy Show, Over media. Catered by Daley’s. Preview New Yorkers. admission varies. DANCE/DJS/ELECTRONIC media. Catered by Daley’s. Preview Kate’s - 10pm Karaoke w/ Eclectic 400 Tables filled with great deals WNY night $20, Sat. & Sun. $5. night $20, Sat. & Sun. $5. Sound. Garden Railway G Scale Layout, the EXHIBITS 31 Club - 9:30pm DJ Pauly Paul spinning Niagara Frontier Live Steamers and SEASONAL EVENT hits from the 70’s to today. the31club. Amherst Center for Senior Services - LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS Tudor Lounge - 4-7pm Jony James more, adults $7, children under 12 free. Amherst State Park - 10-12:30am Join 2-4pm Williamsville Art Society Holiday com Church of Scientology of Buffalo - 7pm Karaoke. Earth Spirit for a moderately challeng- Show, feat. Live Music, Awards, Chinese SPECIALTY/COMMUNITY Handlebar - 9pm 80s Party for the Food Clear Body, Clear Mind MOTOWN ing hike focused on general ecology and Auction, Refreshments Show runs thru Bank, $5 donationor canned food item THEATER seasonal happenings, $10, $7 members Dec 3, 2015 LITERARY UB Center for the Arts - 8pm The Ellicott Creek Playhouse (St. Edmund Jacksons, Jermaine, Tito, Jackie & Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter HIP-HOP Albright-Knox Art Gallery - 6:30pm An Campus) - 7:30pm Camelot by the SPECIAL EVENT Handlebar - 9pm Shane and Tone will evening w/ Micah Nathan, Buffalo-born Marlon live in concert. proceeds go to Hall) - 11-4pm Ottoman Cartography & the Buffalo Ronald McDonald House, Niagara Regional Theatre, $18 General, The Fairgrounds - 10-4pm 34rd Annual the Age of Discovery, an exhibit feat. be on the 1s and 2s playing hip hop author & Vanity Fair essayist reads & $97 & $77. $16 Students/Seniors, $15 Presale. Greater Buffalo Train & Toy Show, Over hand-drawn maps, originally included instrumentals and originals off of wax... discusses his latest published story, In 400 Tables filled with great deals WNY in various educational atlases,produced and there may be an MPC or 2 in the Search of Absolutely Nothing. Jordyn D’Alimonte Performing Arts POP Center - 2pm Lindbergh Elementary Garden Railway G Scale Layout, the between the 14th and 17th centuries. house, free. Brighton Place Library - 10-2pm Book Niagara Frontier Live Steamers and www.karpeles.com Town Ballroom - 7pm Nate Ruess, $31 presents the play James And the Giant JAM BAND Sale, $5 Bag Day on Sat. 21st. Peach, $5. more, adults $7, children under 12 free. HOLIDAY MARKETS/ Burchfield Penney Art Center - 7pm PUNK Town Ballroom - 7pm Papadosio, $17- TOURS SPECIALTY/COMMUNITY BAZAARS $20 The Buffalo launch for one of the most Mohawk Place - 9pm November Reign: THEATER Shea’s Buffalo Performing Arts Center acclaimed publishing projects in recent Punk & Hardcore DJ Night, 8pm doors, Shea’s Buffalo Performing Arts Center JAZZ memory, Liveright Publishing’s The 9pm Vinyl, $2 - 10am, 1pm Historic Theatre Tour. $8/$4 Ellicott Creek Playhouse (St. Edmund - 5:30-8:30pm Shea’s 6th Annual Complete Works of Primo Levi, with a Shopping Soiree, 60+ local vendors, Pausa Art House - 8pm John Bacon/ Seniors, Students, & Groups of 20 Campus) - 3pm Camelot by the Niagara discussion featuring Robert Weil, pub- ROCK or more. Reserve at 847-1410 ext. 184. Regional Theatre, $18 General, $16 Enjoy complimentary food courtesy Chris Jentsch Project feat. Mike Kaupa lisher and editor in chief at Liveright, Broadway Hotel - 4pm Blurock sheas.org Students/Seniors, $15 Presale. Cuba: Benefits of New Relationships OPEN MIC Richard Brettell, The University of Texas CELTIC/IRISH Town Ballroom - 7pm Lowest of The w/ William Franklin, Episcopal Bishop Clarence Center Coffee Co. - 7:30pm at Dallas, 12:30pm-1pm Discussion: Shannon Pub - 6:30pm Joe Head Low, $26-$30 MON of Western New York, and others local Imagine Why Impressionism Impresses Clarence Center Open Mic. speakers from recent delegations to Us Today? This & future discussions FUNK/SOUL ZYDECO/CAJUN NOV 23 Cuba. Science Hall, free. Hot Mama’s Canteen - 8pm Tender are in consideration of the Albright- Tuesday Pro Jam âÐÐ Bring Your The Tralf Music Hall - 9pm Cran Jam 189 Public House - noon Ron Davis. Church of Scientology of Buffalo - 7pm Knox Art Gallery Exhibit Monet and the Instruments! 2015! feat. Skyepilot, Funktional Flow, Dianetics Lecture Impressionist Revolution, 1860âÐÐ1910. After Funk. Food Drive Event: bring MUSIC The Alley Cat - 8pm Open Mic w/ LITERARY 5 cans of food for free merch, $10/$12 COMMUNITY ACOUSTIC/FOLK LITERARY Amanda Markovich & Leigh Stoner. DOS. Jewish Center of Greater Buffalo/ Jewish Center of Greater Buffalo/ EVENTS Nietzsche’s - 8pm Songwriter Showcase, ROCK Benderson Family Building - 7:30- JAZZ free. Benderson Family Building - 7:30- 8:30pm Author Daniel Horowitz: On the Sportsmen’s Tavern - 6-9pm Twang 8:30pm Author/Editor Mark Shechner: Marinaro’s Larkin Tavern - 5:30-8pm EXHIBITS BLUES Cusp, followed by reception and book Gang, $3 The New Diaspora, followed by recep- Alfie Alessandra & Phil Sims, free. signing, $10/general, $5/students; 7:30- tion and book signing, $10, $5/students Amherst Center for Senior Services - Abbey Square - 8pm Blues Night feat. 8:30pm Author Daniel Horowitz: On the SWING/BIG BAND Sportsmen’s Tavern - 12-2pm Joe Baudo 2-4pm Williamsville Art Society Holiday Harvey & the Hurricanes. Cusp, followed by reception and book Sportsmen’s Tavern - 12-2pm Joe Baudo RECREATION/GAMES Quartet, free Show, feat. Live Music, Awards, Chinese DANCE/DJS/ELECTRONIC signing. $10, $5/students 17 piece BIg Band, free Maple Entertainment Complex (The KARAOKE Auction, Refreshments Show runs thru Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar - 8pm RECREATION/GAMES Library) - 8pm Trivia Tuesday’s Hosted Macaroon’s Nite Club - 9pm Super Dec 3, 2015 by Buzztime Trivia. DBGB Does Monday Night Football Epic Restaurant & Lounge - 8pm Epic Sound karaoke w/ Bud Night Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter feat. a free halftime buffet w/ team COMMUNITY inspired foods. 100” TV, followed by res- Movie Trivia Night! EVENTS SPECIAL EVENT Mr. Goodbar - 10pm Karaoke upstairs. Hall) - 11-4pm Ottoman Cartography & ident DJs playing best in Rock N Roll. Shenannigan’s Bar & Grill - 9pm Trivia Brighton Place Library - 12-1pm Adult Come show off your singing skills! the Age of Discovery, an exhibit feat. w/ Quiz Night in Buffalo. COMEDY Coloring, a great way to relax and meet Triple Play Sports Bar - 9pm Karaoke hand-drawn maps, originally included Essex St. Pub - 10pm Vinyl Monday w/ in various educational atlases,produced The Century Grill - 8pm Geeks Who Nietzsche’s - 8pm Rust Belt Comedy new friends. This is not a class and is Eric Kendall between the 14th and 17th centuries. Drink Trivia, $5. presents: Setlists Against Humanity, very casual. Come to one or both ses- OPEN MIC KARAOKE an improvised adventure in stand up sions. Call 332-4375 for information. Maple Entertainment Complex (The www.karpeles.com hosted by Rick Matthews. Ages 21 & Library) - 8pm Open Mic w/ Jeremy. Hot Mama’s Canteen - 9pm Best TOURS Karaoke with J Love up. $5 Peace of Mind Coffee Shop - 7-10pm KIDS STUFF Shea’s Buffalo Performing Arts Center TUES CRAFTS Peace of Mind Coffee Shop Open Mic Brighton Place Library - 10:30am OPEN MIC - 10am, 1pm Historic Theatre Tour. $8/$4 hosted by Keith Shuskie, free. Toddler Time, Stories, Songs, Movement, Nietzsche’s - 9pm Open mic w/ Josh NOV 24 Brighton Place Library - 6-8pm Knitting Seniors, Students, & Groups of 20 and Activities for children 2 âÐÐ 5 years Club, experienced or beginner. Knit, or more. Reserve at 847-1410 ext. 184. Tudor Lounge - 10pm Open Mic hosted Gage. old. crochet, chat, or come w/ questions & sheas.org by Todd Allan. The Alley Cat - 8pm Open Mic w/ MUSIC materials. Bobby Angel. POP LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS DANCE Santora’s Pizza Pub & Grill (Transit Rd.) Church of Scientology of Buffalo ROCK BLUES Rafferty’s Bar & Grill - 7-7pm Tuesday Nietzsche’s - 10pm Joe Donohue fol- - Nerds Gone Wild - 6:45pm You can be more able than Buffalo Iron Works - 9pm Post Sabres WED Ladies Night-Blues Jam/Dance Party, lowed by the Stripteasers. Waiting Room - 7pm The Wombats, you are. A recorded lecture by L. Ron Game w/ The Rig, 21+, free. The Amazing Street Kings with Dave EXHIBITS NOV 25 Royal Teeth, Pop Etc, $18-$20 Hubbard, founder of Dianetics and Rinow, Todd Mazurek, Joe Dimino, Scientology. $15. 856-3910; 7pm Clear Bruce Maple & Speedy Parker. Amherst Center for Senior Services - ROCK 2-4pm Williamsville Art Society Holiday Body, Clear Mind COMMUNITY MUSIC Buffalo Iron Works - 9pm The Mike CELTIC/IRISH Show, feat. Live Music, Awards, Chinese Church of Scientology of Buffalo - 7pm EVENTS Auction, Refreshments Show runs thru Dillon Band w/ The Slyboots Circus, 18+, Sportsmen’s Tavern - 9pm John Culliton Dec 3, 2015 ACOUSTIC/FOLK $7 ADV/$10 DOS. Dianetics Lecture COMEDY Mahoney, free Nietzsche’s - 6pm Tyler Westcott’s Pizza Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hot Mama’s Canteen - 8pm Midnight Trio, free. RECREATION/GAMES Tudor Lounge - 10pm Open Mic FUNK/SOUL Hall) - 11-4pm Ottoman Cartography & Kings (Your favorite Covers) & DJ Cove Comedy hosted by Mama Rag. @ 11p Canalside Buffalo - 7pm Trivia w/ Quiz Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar - 8pm Neo the Age of Discovery, an exhibit feat. Wine on Third - 8pm Steve Balesteri Night in Buffalo. EXHIBITS Soul feat. Verse Band w/ DJ Lopro. hand-drawn maps, originally included Hydeout - 8pm Randy California’s in various educational atlases,produced BLUES Open Jam. Amherst Center for Senior Services - KARAOKE between the 14th and 17th centuries. 189 Public House - noon Ron Davis. SEASONAL EVENT 2-4pm Williamsville Art Society Holiday www.karpeles.com Mohawk Place - 8pm Second Trip, Show, feat. Live Music, Awards, Chinese Essex St. Pub - 10pm Buffalo’s Best Macaroon’s Nite Club - 7-7pm Blues crowd-funding closer show, w/ Tifft Nature Preserve - 6-7:30pm Auction, Refreshments Show runs thru Karaoke, Essex St. Pub’s own unique LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS Jam/Dance Party, Jack Civiletto, Malurchuk, Deadwolf, Fox 45, $5 Thanksgiving Eve Full Moon Stroll. Start style of Karaoke Buffalo has loved for Speedy Parker, with Bob Price, Jim your night off right w/ a quiet guided Dec 3, 2015 Buffalo & Erie County Public Library - Nietzsche’s - 9pm Thanksgiving Eve 10 years. adults-only stroll under the full moon in 12-1pm Imagine the Pursuit of Happiness: Ehinger & Harvey Murello. Rock & Roll Feast w/ The Irving Klaws, LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS search of the Buffalo’s other wild night- ImagineLifelongLearning.com, From Squier on Main Restaurant - 9:30pm Harmonica Lewis, Blue Ribbon Bastards Canisius College - 7-9pm Canisius METAL Monet to Van Gogh: A History of Speedy Parker Blues Band life! Pre-registration required. Non- College presents Latin America Social Town Ballroom - 7pm Kamelot w/ spe- Impressionism: Paris under Siege, The Sportsmen’s Tavern - 9pm Rolling Justice Lectures feat. Buffalo and cial guest Dragonforce, $24-$29. Great Courses Video #8 by Professor Vizzi’s - 10pm Jim Yeoman’s Band. Stones Tribute, $10 members $5. VENUE DIRECTORY 189 Public House 189 Main St El Museo 91 Allen St (464-4692, Maple Entertainment Sportsmen’s Tavern 326 Amherst Aurora (652-8189, oneeightynine. elmuseobuffalo.org) Complex (The Library) 4224 St (874-7734, sportsmenstavern. com) Ellicott Creek Playhouse (St. Maple Rd Amherst (831-3271, com) 31 Club 31 Johnson Park (332-3131, Edmund Campus) 530 Ellicott theforvmbuffalo.com/library_ Squier on Main Restaurant 4548 the31club.com) Creek Rd Tonawanda (284-6358) page.html) Main St Amherst Abbey Square 784 Wehrle Dr Epic Restaurant & Lounge Marinaro’s Larkin Tavern 131 Van St. Francis of Assisi Church 144- Amherst (634-8050) 431 Elmwood Ave (8833742, Rensselaer St (845-5400) 150 Broad St Erie (6931150) Albright-Knox Art Gallery epiconelmwood.com/index.html) Milkie’s on Elmwood (formerly Strikers Lanes 50 Michael Rd 1285 Elmwood Ave (882-8700, Essex St. Pub 530 Rhode Island St Elmwood Lounge) 522 Elmwood West Seneca (674-1104, strikerz. albrightknox.org) (883-2150) Ave (8825881, milkiesonelmwood. biz) com) Amherst Center for Senior First Niagara Center 1 Seymour H The Alley Cat 199 Allen St (235- Services 370 John James Knox III Plaza (hsbcarena.com) Mohawk Place 47 E Mohawk St 8215, alleycatbuffalo.com/sites/ Audubon Pkwy Amherst (636- (312-9279, buffalosmohawkplace. contact.html) First Presbyterian Church 1 com) 3050) Symphony Cir (884-7250) The Backstage Pub 603 Dingens Amherst State Park 390 Mr. Goodbar 1110 Elmwood Ave St Cheektowaga (240-9161) Handlebar 149 Swan St (259-9632, (882-4000) Mill St Amherst (631-7000, handlebarpub.com) The Century Grill 318 Pearl St amherststatepark.org/ASP/ Nietzsche’s 248 Allen St (886- (853-6322, thecenturygrill.com) Welcome.html) Helium Comedy Club 8539, nietzsches.com) 30 Mississippi St (8531211, The Cove 4701 Transit Rd Elma Asbury Hall at Babeville 341 heliumcomedy.com/buffalo/ Nifty Fifty 7710 Buffalo Ave (656-7946, thecoveseafoodandba Delaware Ave (852-3835, index.php) Niagara County (283-7700) nquets.com) babevillebuffalo.com) Hilltop Inn and Grove 11389 Pausa Art House 19 Wadsworth The Fairgrounds 5600 McKinley Brighton Place Library 999 Genesee St Alden (937-3430) St (pausaarthouse.com) Pkwy Hamburg (646-6109, the- Brighton Rd Tonawanda (332- Peace of Mind Coffee Shop 83 fairgrounds.com) 4375, brightonplacelibrary.org) Hot Mama’s Canteen 12 Military Rd (783-8222, hotmamascanteen. Main St Newstead (442-5215) The Rapids Theatre 1711 Main St Broadway Hotel 158 Main St Erie com) Pierce Arrow Bar & Grill 1680 Niagara (205-8925, rapidstheatre. (692-9810) Hotel at the Lafayette 391 Elmwood Ave (424-0600) com) Broadway Joe’s Bar & Grille 3051 Washington St (853-1505, Pizza Plant Italian Pub (Transit The Tralf Music Hall 622 Main St Main St (464-3846) https://www.facebook.com/ Rd) 7770 Transit Rd Amherst (626- (8522860, tralfmusichall.com) Buffalo & Erie County Public hotelatthelafayette) 5566, pizzaplant.com) Tifft Nature Preserve 1200 Library 1 Lafayette Square (858- Hydeout 490 Center St Potts Banquet Hall 694 S Ogden Fuhrmann Boulevard (825-6397, 8900, buffalolib.org) Lewiston St (826-6575) sciencebuff.org/tifft-u.-p-1) Buffalo Iron Works 49 Illinois St Hydraulic Hearth 716 Swan St Providence Social 490 Rhode Town Ballroom 681 Main St (852- (200-1893, buffaloironworks.com) Jewish Center of Greater Island St Erie County (464-3786, 3900, townballroom.com) Burchfield Penney Art Center Buffalo/Benderson Family theprovidencesocial.com) Trinity Episcopal Church (Buffalo) 1300 Buffalo State Buffalo State Building 2640 N Forest Rd Rafferty’s Bar & Grill 16 Ellicott Pl 371 Delaware Ave (852-8314) (878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org) Amherst (688-4033, jccbuffalo. Lancaster (684-5404) Triple Play Sports Bar 1809 Canalside Buffalo Prime St org) Roycroft Inn 40 S Grove St Aurora Kenmore Ave Erie County (417- Waterfront Erie County (574-1537, Jordyn D’Alimonte Performing (652-5552, roycroftinn.com) 9488) canalsidebuffalo.com) Arts Center 184 Irving Terrace Santora’s Pizza Pub & Grill Tudor Lounge 335 Franklin St Canisius College 2001 Main St Tonawanda (Transit Rd.) 7800 Transit Rd (855-9643, tudorlounge.com) (883-7000, canisius.edu) Karpeles Manuscript Museum Amherst (616-0892) UB Center for the Arts The Church of Scientology of (Porter Hall) 453 Porter Ave (885- Shadow Lounge & Restaurant Center for the Arts 103 (645-2787, Buffalo 836 Main St (856-3910, 4139, rain.org/~karpeles) 1504 Hertel Ave (835-3975, ubcfa.org) scientology-buffalo.org) Kate’s 1125 Tonawanda St (875- shadowloungebuffalo.com) UB Slee Concert Hall (Lippes Clarence Center Coffee Co. 9475 0123) Shango Bistro 3260 Main St (837- Concert Hall) Williamsville Clarence Center Rd Clarence Kenan Center 433 Locust St 2326, shangobistro.com) Amherst NY (645-2921, slee. (741-8573, clarencecentercoffee. Niagara (433-2617, kenancenter. buffalo.edu) com) Shannon Pub 2250 Niagara org) Falls Blvd Tonawanda (743-9348, Unity Church of Practical Colored Musicians’ Club Knox Farm State Park 437 Buffalo shannonpub.com) Christianity 1243 Delaware Ave 145 Broadway (855-9383, Rd Aurora (5491802, nysparks. Erie (882-0391) coloredmusiciansclub.org) Shea’s Buffalo Performing Arts com/parks/info.asp?parkID=89) Center 646 Main St (847-1410, Vizzi’s 967 Kenmore Ave Daily Planet Coffee Co. 1862 Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center sheas.com) Tonawanda (871-1965) Hertel Ave (551-0661) 4968 Lake Shore Rd Hamburg Shea’s Smith Theatre 658 Main St Waiting Room 334 Delaware Dreamland 387 Franklin St (948- Left Bank 511 Rhode Island St (882- (847-1410, sheas.org) Ave (849-1000, tour-city.com/ 0943) 3509, leftbankrestaurant.com) Shenannigan’s Bar & Grill 1009 webhosting/waiting_room/index. Duke’s Bohemian Grove Luke’s Lutheran Church 900 Niagara Falls Blvd Amherst (748- html) Bar 253 Allen St (240-9359, Maryvale Dr Cheektowaga 8884) Wine on Third 501 3rd St Niagara dukesbohemiangrovebar.com) Macaroon’s Nite Club Dick Rd Ship N’ Shore Restaurant 5612 (285-9463, wineonthird.com) Dwyer’s Irish Pub 65 Webster St Cheektowaga Erie (681-7197, Tonawanda Creek Rd Pendleton Woodside Community Chapel Niagara (692-4837, dwyerspub. macaroonsniteclub.com) (704-1315, theshipnshore.com) 675 Abbott Rd (381-1233, com) woodsidecommunitychapel.org) 22 NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER NOV 19 - NOV 25, 2015
COMMUNITY BEER WORKS ADAMBIER ABV: 8.8% > PAUL MARKO dambier. Yes, this is a beer style and not just the pint left at the bar by your buddy Adam. Grant- Aed, Adambier is rare, with only a handful of ex- amples on sites like RateBeer or Untappd. It’s an old, largely forgotten style originally from Dortmund, Germany—an intense, dark, complex ale (yes, an ale, not a lager) aged in oak barrels, which is sometimes soured. Think of it as an interloper between an old ale, altbier, wild beer, and a barleywine. The tricky thing about beers of this nature (extinct styles, etc. ) is that while historical references to the beers’ flavors and recipes exist, there are limited examples out there to taste, so brewers are sort of winging it. Well, our pals at Community Beer Works have taken an Adambier on wing—and this small batch, limited release beer soars high in November skies! This reviewer’s only previous experience with Adambier was with the truly spectacular “Adam” from Portland, Oregon’s Hair of the Dog brewery. There are aged bottles of “Adam” going for $2000 in traders markets, so my expectations were piqued and high for CBW’s offering. With a nose like a strong Schwartzbier, initial thoughts lean towards a standard malty, German offering, but that’s when CBW’s Adambier kicks into overdrive. Beachwood smoked barley from Bamberg offers a whiff of smoke, which lingers over the subtle oak notes obtained in its barreling. The 8.8% ABV bites, but not hard, revealing a deliciously layered malty finish—with just enough hops to add complexity. Adambier is like the German version of the Belgian dubbel. Enjoy CBW’s interpretation now!
SIERRA NEVADA CELEBRATION ALE STYLE: AMERICAN IPA ABV: 6.8% > CHRIS GROVES CERTIFIED CICERONE ® s it that time already? It seems as though I was just in jeans and a tee shirt. It’s past the middle of November Iwhich means it’s Celebration season. This classic Ameri- can IPA is one of the oldest of its kind. First brewed in 1981, Celebration Ale is one of the very few hop forward winter holiday beers; much different then and even now than your typical spiced winter ale. You could say that Sierra Nevada considers fresh dried hops as the “spice” for theirs. The brewing team at Sierra Nevada are masters at producing some of the world’s finest hopped up beers and Celebration is a shining point in their portfolio. If American IPA has a gold standard for current comparisons, this would be it. Defined by a bold blend of minty pine and citrus in the nose followed by a nutty caramel malt body and a clean bitterness, this IPA has classic written all over it. It makes me want to go back to the year of my birth to see how the beer has changed over the last 34 years. Beer is, of course, a farm product and variences in barley malt yeilds, hop alpha/beta acids and many other contributing flavor compounds result in a slightly different beer every year, no matter what. What I do know is that I certainly will be having more Sierra with my Thanks- giving dinner. This beer is delicious, just like my mom’s pumpkin pie!
Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show...
Brave, bold people, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel.
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Aries: (March 21 - April Cancer: (June 21 - July Libra: (September 23 - Capricorn: (December 22 19) 22) October 22) - January 19)
After meeting you, people Set aside special time to People say you are dark When you try, pick up understand why some ani- humiliate yourself. You and handsome -- when it’s line “Haven’t I seen you mals eat their young. You are really easy to started out with nothing and still have most dark you’re handsome! Beauty is skin deep, somewhere before?” You receive startling get along with, once you people learn to wor- of it left. Earth is full. Go home. Start num- but ugly is to the bone. You still love nature, answer, “Yeah, that’s why I don’t go there anymore.” Since you have your whole life ship you. Here’s a hint. If someone doesn’t bering your toilet paper. Anyone who told despite what it did to you. People don’t know to be a jerk....why don’t you take a day off. answer you the first 25 times, what makes you to be yourself couldn’t have given you what makes you so stupid, but they know it You have your head examined but the doc- you think the next 25 will work? worse advice. really works! tors found nothing there.
Taurus: (April 20 - May Leo: (July 23 - August 22) Scorpio: (October 23 - Aquarius: (January 20 - 20) November 21) February 18) You finally realize that ugly thing growing out of your People say you’re two Everybody has the right to faced, but really if you When you try, pick up line be ugly, but you abuse the neck... is your head...Talking had two faces why would “Your place or mine?” You privilege. The fact that no to you seems as appealing as playing leapfrog you wear that one? How about a little less receive intelligent answer. “Both, you go one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an with unicorns. Do you ever wonder what life questions and a little more shut the hell to yours, I’ll go to mine!” If people stand artist. Mirrors don’t talk but lucky for you would be like if you’d had enough oxygen at up? Dom Perignon is not a Mafia boss. close enough to you, they can hear the they don’t laugh. People are not anti-social, birth? You have a terribly empty feeling - in your ocean. Keep talking, someday you’ll say skull. they just don’t like you You are refreshed and challenged by your something intelligent. unique point of view. Move off this planet! Gemini: (May 21 - June Virgo: (August 23 - Sagittarius: (November 22 Pisces: (February 19 - 20) September 22) - December 21) March 20)
Since ignorance is bliss You look good at a DIS- People like you don’t grow TANCE! Whatever kind of You have very striking from trees. They swing from you are one of the happiest features, which makes you them! Remember Fat people persons alive. You’ve got a lot of Karma to burn look you were going for, you missed. wonder how often exactly have you been are harder to kidnap. Tornado hits your home and off. You help people realize there are some re- JESUS loves you but everyone else thinks struck? The Village just called. They said they you’re an idiot. You must confront this ques- causes $10,000 worth of improvement. If your ally stupid people in this world. . You can’t get were missing their town idiot. You don’t think tion: Do you want people to accept you as brain was chocolate it wouldn’t fill an M&M. married to your sweetheart because there’s a you are a fool. But then what’s your opinion you are or do you want them to like you? against thousands of others? Learn from your parents’ mistakes - use birth law against it. control!
If the whole world stands Is government against you sword in hand, supposed to entertain the would you still dare to do what governed? you think is right?