v12n23 (Summer Guide, week of Thursday, June 6)

Summer Destinations

	Artvoice Summer Guide 2013 by Geoff Kelly
	Griffis Sculpture Park by Sarah Barry
	Explore Orleans County by Patricia Watson
	Peaceful Waters by Jon Wheelock
	Donnaroo 2013 by Jazz Frazier
	Consider the Carousel by Sarah Barry
	Screat Scot by Amanda Ferreira
	Hat Trick on Main Street by Pat Pendleton
Summer Events	Festivals, Garden Walks, and Tours by Sarah Barry Western New York is bursting with unique summer activities that make the season truly unforgettable. In this guide you will find an Alice in Wonderland-themed Chalk Fest, an entire four days dedicated to Lucille Ball, and the third-largest Juneteenth celebration in the world.
News Feature	Investing in the Real Buffalo by Lauren Newkirk Maynard Come next Wednesday, downtown Buffalo with fill with more than 600 eager, mostly out-of-state visitors in search of a “real” Rust Belt town.
The News, Briefly

	Dispatches From Salt Lake: Duany Speaks on Buffalo by Raymond Ban
	Boy, Did We Get That Wrong by Geoff Kelly
Art Scene

	Jason Seeley's Paintings at Hallwalls by J. Tim Raymond
	High School Photographers at Villa Maria by Jack Foran
Theater Week	The 2013 Artie Awards by Anthony Chase After 23 years, the Arties seemed new again this week, as a decided wave of youth permeated the festivities. It was a happy mix of veteran Buffalo theater folk and the next generation.
Theater News	Stagefright by Javier Movie star Tom Hanks (pictured left) has made a welcome return to the stage and is now starring on Broadway in the late Nora Ephron’s play Lucky Guy. Both Hanks and the play are nominated for Tony Awards.
Music Feature	What I See by William Nehill Band reunions are a tricky thing. Some reform merely for the money, others because their current careers aren’t going so well, and a small number because the music was so good, it mustn’t remain dormant.
Classical Music Notes	Roycroft at 20 by Jan Jezioro Back in 1994, East Aurora residents Nancy McFarland Gaub, a BPO violinist, and her husband, pianist Eugene Gaub, decided “to help promote chamber music and enhance the quality of life in Western New York, by presenting a series of world-class, but readily accessible and easily affordable concerts in an intimate and uplifting setting,” in their hometown.
Summer Concerts	Artvoice Summer Concert Picks It’s not everyday one gets the opportunity to see a musician who has revolutionized the way people play his instrument. Considered one of the best bassists of all time, Les Claypool of Primus has done just that, and he’ll be bringing his band to North Tonawanda this week for a free outdoor concert.
Summer Concerts	The Old Men of Summer “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” has not always been a consoling thought to patrons of Western New York’s summer concert scene. For a decade or so, music fans of my generation have enjoyed the bliss of seeing bands we’ve loved for years at outdoor shows on long summer evenings. And if the band doesn’t have all of its original members, well, go to the box office and ask for your money back. Except there’s no box office because it was a free show!
Summer Guide	Silo City Rocks by Tess Nowadly It’s all happening. That’s what I said to Christian Edie when I called her from my apartment in China one morning to talk about her project, Silo City Rocks. We spent the first few minutes gushing over how excited we were that the ideas we had talked about only a few short months ago were actually coming to fruition.
Summer Guide	If I Had a Boat... by Jack Foran Looking for something to do this summer? And would you like to have a boat of your own? Or do you just like boats? Consider building one at the Buffalo Maritime Center.
Summer Guide	Drive 'Em If Ya Got 'Em by Jim Corbran Okay, or her garage. And by old car, I don’t necessarily mean the expensive 1957 Corvette that you’re afraid to drive anywhere. No, there are hundreds, nay, thousands of old, fun-to-drive (and just plain show-off) vehicles sitting in the driveways and garages of Western New York. And now that summer is arriving, we’re starting to see them on the streets again.
Film Reviews

	What Maisie Knew by George Sax
	Frances Ha by M. Faust
	Love is All You Need by M. Faust
Listings

	On The Boards Theater Listings
	Movie Times (Friday, June 7 - Thursday, June 13)
	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 Portugal. The Man who perform the Town Ballroom on Wednesday the 12th.
Play Ball!	Ricky Romero's Reclamation Project by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell One of the more intriguing stories coming out of the 2013 Buffalo Bisons is that of pitcher Rickey Romero, the Toronto Blue Jays pitching star who is working his way back to a major league roster spot.
Letters to Artvoice

	Preparing For the Worst by Andrea Augello
	An Open Letter to Senator George Maziarz by Kathy Mecca
Dispatches: War of 1812	A Shot in the Dark by Mason Winfield It was early June, 1813. For the first time in the war, the Americans had naval support on Lake Ontario and a land force on the Niagara capable enough to attack someone. Their capture of Fort George in Newark (today’s Niagara-on-the-Lake) was a gut-punch to the British in Ontario. They missed scoring the complete knockout when the fort’s former commander, Brigadier General John Vincent, and his redcoats were on the run, but Vincent was still on the ropes.
Offbeat News	News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd The Food and Drug Administration proposed recently to limit the quantity of tiny “mites” that could occupy imported cheese, even though living, crawling mites are a feature desired by aficionados.
Horoscopes	Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny GEMINI (May 21-June 20): How free do you want to be, Gemini? A tiny bit free, hemmed in by comfortable complications that require you to rely on white lies? Or would you rather be moderately free in ways that aren’t too demanding—politely, sensibly free?
The Back Page	Buffalo Custom Art: Cookout and Mural Painting Amanda Hart is turning her house at 887 Clinton Street into studio space for up-and-coming artists. On Saturday, June 1, the folks at Buffalo Custom Art (you can find them on Facebook) hosted a cookout to introduce the community to their venture. And while they were at it, they created this mural on a building across the street from the studios.

by Geoff Kelly

by Sarah Barry

by Patricia Watson

by Jon Wheelock

by Jazz Frazier

by Sarah Barry

by Amanda Ferreira

by Pat Pendleton

by Sarah Barry

by Lauren Newkirk Maynard

by Raymond Ban

by Geoff Kelly

by J. Tim Raymond

by Jack Foran

by Anthony Chase

by Javier

by William Nehill

by Jan Jezioro

by Tess Nowadly

by Jack Foran

by Jim Corbran

by George Sax

by M. Faust

by M. Faust

by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell

by Andrea Augello

by Kathy Mecca

by Mason Winfield

by Chuck Shepherd

by Rob Brezsny

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