v12n10 (Week of Thursday, March 7)

Cover Story	Leviathan by Jack Foran Video artist Kelly Richardson’s works currently on display at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery are huge, lush, passing strange amalgams of art and nature that question both of these terms, these categories.
Week in Review

	Somewhere, Someone is Discussing a Plan to Address Poverty... by George Sax
	Small Talk by Geoff Kelly
Getting a Grip	Sequester This! by Michael I. Niman The “crisis” we are facing, what this week we’re calling “the sequester,” is an illusion sustained by a compliant media who dutifully parrot choreographed memes and metaphorical names while otherwise remaining asleep at the wheel. There is no phenomenon either in the natural world or in the history of our economic structures that goes by the name “the sequester.” There is no hurricane or typhoon blowing through our economy.
News Analysis	Defining Success by Bruce Fisher Rochester is a fiscal basket case, just like Syracuse, just like Buffalo, just like Detroit—but that does not mean that the regional economies in these places are all collapsing.
Art Scene	Being There by J. Tim Raymond Along with 300 photographic works currently exhibited at the Burchfield Penney, Bruce Jackson displays the length and breadth of a truly polymathic education. In addition to his tenure as SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Chair in American Culture, he has published more than 30 books on issues of social/political/cultural commentary.
Theater News	Stagefright by Javier TV and movie star Zachary Quinto (pictured above) might be heading to Broadway this season in yet another revival, The Glass Menagerie. Quinto is now starring in the classic Tennessee Williams play opposite Cherry Jones at the American Repertory Theatre in Boston. The production has been very well received and there seems to be quite a bit of interest for a Broadway transfer.
Classical Music Notes	Snapshot of a Century of Music by Jan Jezioro The Peter & Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium of the Burchfield Penny Art Center on the Elmwood Avenue campus of Buffalo State College will be the site for the winter concert of the independently produced, innovative classical music series known as A Musical Feast on Sunday, March 10 at 2pm.
Book Review	If You've Never Wept and Want To, Have a Child by Woody Brown “Listen,” implores Erik Schroder, and with that the novel hurtles forth like a bullet out of a handgun. Schroder is the eponymous narrator of Amity Gaige’s third novel, a story that is ostensibly “a record of where Meadow and I have been since our disappearance.”
Film Reviews

	Oz The Great and Powerful by M. Faust
	Emperor by George Sax
	Burn by M. Faust
Listings

	On The Boards Theater Listings
	Movie Times (Friday, March 8 - Thursday, March 14)
	Film Now Playing
Featured Events	See You There! Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's pick for the week: the Artvoice B.O.O.M! Round 2 Live Show, this Saturday, March 9th at Nietzsche's.
You Auto Know	No Frills... No Problem by Jim Corbran Some of us (me included) are becoming more and more dismayed with many of the products available in the North American automotive market these days. I’m not saying take me back to the 1960s when just about everyone’s car had roll-up windows, manual seat adjustments, 14- or 15-inch wheels, and accident crumple zones that often went all the way to the back seat.
Letters to Artvoice	Holding Center Politics and the Good Old Boy Network, Part 2 by Larry C. Garrison, Jr. In my first article (“Old Boys Network in the Erie County Sheriff’s Office,” Artvoice, December 13, 2012), I wanted to inform the public of the rise of Thomas Diina to the position of superintendent of the Erie County Holding Center, and the good old boys network being alive and well at the Holding Center and in the Erie County Sheriff’s Office. In this article I want to reflect on how Thomas Diina rose to the position of superintendent.
Lit City	Hear Writer Jill McCorkle Speak at Talking Leaves by Woody Brown Jill McCorkle, the author of six novels and three collections of short stories, five of which have been selected as New York Times Notable Books, will give a reading at Talking Leaves (Main Street location) this Monday, March 11 at 7pm.
Offbeat News	News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd A Verizon risk team, looking for data breaches on a client’s computers, discovered that one company software developer was basically idle for many months, yet remained productive—because he had outsourced his projects to a Chinese software developer who would do all the work and send it back.
Horoscopes	Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen,” says musician and businessman Derek Sivers. Numerous studies demonstrate that when you talk about your great new idea before you actually do it, your brain chemistry does an unexpected thing. It gives you the feeling that you have already accomplished the great new idea—thereby sapping your willpower to make the effort necessary to accomplish it!
The Back Page	Bruce Jackson: Being There For all his recent, remarkable landscape work—most notably of grain elevators but also of Delaware Park—the most striking photographs Bruce Jackson has made in a long career are of people.

by Jack Foran

by George Sax

by Geoff Kelly

by Michael I. Niman

by Bruce Fisher

by J. Tim Raymond

by Javier

by Jan Jezioro

by Woody Brown

by M. Faust

by George Sax

by M. Faust

by Jim Corbran

by Larry C. Garrison, Jr.

by Woody Brown

by Chuck Shepherd

by Rob Brezsny

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