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Parcel 5 potential

A plea to our Rochester city officials: please consider Parcel 5 at Midtown as a viable green space and entertainment venue. The site is perfect: easy access for food trucks, near parking and the transit center, decent amount of space for relaxing, walking, lunching, kiosks, tents, stages. Just lay down some sod, and add some foliage, tables and chairs or more stone benches, and we have the makings of Bryant Park West.

As I was enjoying the Friday evening Fringe entertainment, I looked around and saw all of the potential daily Parcel 5 visitors plus the opportunity for festival/entertainment events. Mayor Warren: Plant It and It Will Grow.

NANCY SEARS

Title X deserves support

Since the 1970’s, the National Family Planning Program, also known as Title X, has protected millions of low income and uninsured Americans. Title X is the only government grant dedicated completely to funding family planning and reproductive health services.

Title X has provided five million individuals with contraceptive care, STI screenings including HIV testing, and cervical cancer screenings. These Title X-funded centers are there for those most in need. Ninety-one percent of patients served by Title X earn incomes at or below 2 CITY

poverty level and 51 percent of patients are in their 20’s.

Not only does Title X benefit communities in need, but it benefits taxpayers, too. In 2008, public money spent on contraceptives saved the taxpayer an average of $3.74 that would have otherwise been spent on Medicaid expenses related to pregnancy, delivery, and infant health care. This number does not even include the money saved from the preventative treatment of sexually transmitted infections and cancers. Not to mention the fact that absolutely zero dollars of Title X funding go toward abortion services.

Funding reproductive health care and family planning services is at the very core of good government. By enabling women to be in control of the timing of their pregnancies, allowing them to prepare for their pregnancies, and in effect be in control of their lives, Title X is one of the most important federal grant programs to our society as a whole.

The Obama administration has taken a stand to make sure that antichoice lawmakers cannot divert Title X funds away from Planned Parenthood.

As a woman and as a young person, I fully stand behind the Obama administration’s proposed rule to protect Title X, and if you believe in equality on a fundamental level, so should you.

SHELBY WEINSTEIN

Media demonizes Israel

Doug Noble’s comment about Israel’s “illegal occupation and annexation of Palestine” (Feedback, September 14) should not pass unchallenged. This is a false contention; there is no such “illegal occupation and annexation.”

Anyone with a basic knowledge of history knows

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that there has never existed a nation called Palestine.

“Palestine” is the name given to the nation of Judea — the land of the Jews — by Roman armies after they expelled most of the indigenous Jewish population.

There is no illegal occupation, per international law. In a defensive war, Israel captured the Judea and Samaria area from Jordan, its illegal possessor. These settlements are not illegal, but contested. In addition, Jews purchased land from its former owners; they built their kibbutzim, their Jewish towns, and also settled in towns that exhibited Arab majority.

What I would ask the presidential candidates is what they are doing to combat the global epidemic of hatred and violence against Jewish people: the increasingly violent BDS movement, the acts of terrorism directed against Jews and Israelis, and what they plan to do to support Israel. Several presidential administrations have promised such support and have ended up interfering in Israeli elections and compromising its security.

If the US cuts off sales of weapons to Israel, as Mr. Noble wants us to do, then Israel will find another way to defend herself.

This is a tiny bit off the topic, but I should like to remind CITY’s readers that Israel is the sole democracy in the Middle East, the only nation in which the US flag has not been publicly burned, the only nation that has a permanent memorial to the victims of 9/11 and an annual memorial service to them.

I, and I am not alone in this, am tired of the relentless media campaign to delegitimize and demonize Israel. Syracuse University recently capitulated to threats of violence from BDS-ers and canceled a planned presentation by an Israeli academic; a real victory for

freedom of speech, eh? I invite others to join me in striving for accuracy and fairness in media coverage of Israel, and combating the destructive influence of BDS at www.roc4israel.org.

LINDA LEVITAN

Readers respond to a guest essay by Roger Brown of the Community Design Center on how to transform Rochester (September 21).

Wow, this isn’t even close to addressing the problems.

The problems with the city are education and poverty.

You can fix up the river, which already has some nice parts near UR, and you can build more housing downtown and a hotel for the Museum of Play, but that doesn’t help anyone living in a slum. All that does is create even more separation for the rich and well off from the typical Rochester person.

Also, the transit issues aren’t as bad as people think. The new bus station is a beauty, if not kind of pointless without seating.

They need to make the city’s bus line schedules clearer, but they already have latenight service and weekend and holiday service, which is more than even Boston can claim. Yet very little has been done to address biking issues in the city.

If you don’t help with education, people remain poor, poor people will sell drugs, drugs equal crime.

You can throw some paint on the river and add useless streetcars to make the city look pretty, but it will just be an illusion.

DAVID4

I’d like to build on the points made in the essay and suggest that the goals of an enhanced river corridor and better public transportation are closely linked. “Active transportation” encompasses people walking, riding bicycles, and using public transportation as an integral part of how they get around.

The Genesee River Trail is the crown jewel of our river today, and if extended through downtown, could be the heart of a worldclass active transportation corridor. This corridor would be a great asset to residential, commercial, and recreational development on our river.

Integrating this corridor with enhanced public transportation, ride sharing, car sharing, bike sharing, cycle tracks, bike lanes, bicycle boulevards, and most importantly, well-maintained (and clear of snow) sidewalks will help make Rochester a great place for people of all incomes and ages to live, work, and play.

JIM MAYER

I always visualized trams running over the river gorge up to Charlotte from downtown. It would give people a chance to see the falls and would be a rare nature river-gorge cutting through the city.

TOM SCHEURER

The reality is that the Rochester metro area will not ever become an attractive city with its extremely high property tax burden.

If we dropped the current, nearly 3 percent property tax down to about 2 percent, the city metro area would literally skyrocket in popularity. We already have amazing stuff to offer; people know it’s here, but they don’t want to pay the property tax, so they go elsewhere to live.

That’s the sad truth.

CHARLIE EDWARD SHOEMAKER

If Rochester improves transportation within the city, transportation to and from the airport, and puts one hostel in the South Wedge and one hostel downtown, it will be TRAVELING HIPSTER PARADISE. SARA JENKS

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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

Our state of corruption You’ve gotta feel sorry for our governor, right?

So many people he relied on, so many people he trusted – so many people he has been close to – have been accused of such terrible things.

Andrew Cuomo gives these folks his trust, his friendship – calls some of them his amigos – and they disappoint him.

Dean Skelos. Sheldon Silver. And now US Attorney Preet Bharara has brought federal charges of bribery, corruption, and fraud against Joseph Percoco, once Cuomo’s executive deputy secretary; Todd R. Howe, an Albany lobbyist who was deputy chief of staff when Cuomo was US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and Alain Kaloyeros, the former president of SUNY Polytechnic, a person Cuomo has called New York’s economic-development “secret weapon.”

The three are among nine men facing charges related to Cuomo’s much-touted economic development program for Upstate New York. Bharara says they were involved in schemes to insure that handpicked developers got the contracts for work in programs like the Buffalo Billion.

On the heels of Bharara’s charges, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced felony charges against Kaloyeros and Joseph Nicolla, president of one of the companies receiving the contracts.

“If the allegations are true,” Cuomo said last week as the charges rained down on this latest batch of trusted friends and advisers, “I am saddened and profoundly disappointed.”

I am saddened and profoundly disappointed, too. And disgusted.

And I worry that this could taint our fledgling Photonics Institute. While Rochester is to be the hub of that effort, the Albany-based Kaloyeros muscled his way in from the beginning, seeming to wrest decisions away from the locals we thought would be making them.

Kaloyeros has now been “relieved of his duties” at SUNY Poly. And since the Photonics initiative is a national and state effort, involving a lot more players than Kaloyeros and SUNY Poly, we can hope that the scandal won’t hurt its chances.

But there’s no question that there’s a stench about Cuomo’s entire Upstate economic development program now. And about Cuomo himself.

All this comes at a time when the public’s trust in government and in elected officials is disastrously low. Cuomo entered office promising to clean up corruption in state government. Instead, the corruption has continued, oozing upward toward the top.

New York isn’t the only state to go through this, of course, and it’s no wonder that so many Americans have lost faith in government. Maybe it’s no wonder that

There’s no question that there’s a stench about Cuomo’s entire Upstate economic development program now.

And about Cuomo himself.” so many voters are putting their faith this year in a know-nothing bully with zero experience in government.

Trump’s debate

Mainstream media analysts – even some Republican strategists – all seem to feel that Hillary Clinton trounced Donald Trump in Monday night’s debate. I’m not so sure.

Certainly Clinton’s supporters will think she did. So, presumably, will anybody who thinks substance and facts matter. But Trump’s supporters will think he won. What matters is the reaction from voters who are still undecided, favor a third-party candidate, or are too fed up to vote. That there are so many of those voters is alarming.

At this point, the televised debates should be irrelevant. Donald Trump has said enough and done enough to demonstrate that he is unqualified and temperamentally unsuited to be president.

He is a dangerous, bigoted, uninformed person who could wreak havoc on this country’s economy; inflame ethnic and religious hatred; incite violence; end years of careful, diplomacy-based foreign policy; humiliate the country in the eyes of foreign leaders; increase instability in the Middle East; and encourage not only ISIS but also the most dangerous foreign leaders.

That we are six weeks from Election Day and polls show Clinton and Trump in a dead heat is completely disorienting. We have let a bigoted, volatile demagogue become a majorparty candidate for president of the United States. On November 8, we may let him loose on the world.

It’s becoming hard to recognize the country I live in. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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Glazer sues over parents’ deaths

Ken Glazer filed a wrongful death lawsuit over the death of his parents, Larry and Jane Glazer, in a 2014 plane crash. Larry Glazer was a prime figure in the redevelopment of downtown Rochester.

The suit was filed against several aircraft companies and cites “a catastrophic failure” of the plane’s cabin pressurization system as the cause of the crash.

which will include improved retail and dining options, as well as safety enhancements and new TSA screening technology.

The airport will also get new information systems for passengers, including improvements meant to make the airport more accessible to the hearing impaired, along with a new façade, a play area designed by the Strong museum, and a solar canopy over the walkway from the parking garage to the terminal.

News POVERTY | BY CHRISTINE CARRIE FIEN

Poverty still growing in region

Lots of funny stuff Changes to going on Common Core A group of development proposed company executives, former state officials, and the head of SUNY Polytechnic Institute were hit with federal fraud, bribery, and extortion charges relating to state economic development projects in Buffalo, Syracuse, and Albany. The 10 defendants include two former aides to Governor Andrew Cuomo as well as SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros, who has been suspended from his post.

Airport lands funding for redesign

The Rochester airport will receive $39.8 million in state funding toward a $63.4 million revamp.

The county plans to redesign the terminal,

Poverty continues to grow in the nine-county region. A new report issued last week by ACT Rochester and the Rochester Area Community Foundation shows that more than 167,600 people in the Rochester region live below the federal poverty line.

The State Education Department released a draft of proposed revisions to the English language arts and math standards of the Common Core curriculum for public comment. The proposed changes impact all grades, from prekindergarten through grade 12, and can be reviewed at www.nysed.gov.

Geva unveils new look

Geva Theatre Center completed a multimillion dollar renovation of its historic location. The seven-year project touched on everything from dressing rooms to seating and carpeting.

An upper-level lounge was created and the kitchen, café, and lobby areas were also remodeled.

IT’S TAILGATING TIME!

Leonard Brock is the head of the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative at United Way. The effort is starting its first tangible work with an adult mentoring program.

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The regional poverty rate is 14.3 percent, which is an increase of 1.1 percent from ACT Rochester’s first report in 2013. The poverty rate in the City of Rochester is 33.8 percent, up from 31.1 percent in 2013; the report calls the city’s poverty rate “extraordinary.”

Compared to similar-sized cities in the US, Rochester is second in overall poverty, first in child poverty, and first in extreme poverty –- meaning people who live below half of the federal poverty level.

The report also refers to an analysis by the Brookings Institution that found that Rochester has the nation’s thirdhighest concentration of poor people living in extremely poor neighborhoods.

And the number of those extremely poor neighborhoods has grown from 27 to 37, the report says.

But the report also refers to the region’s “bold and unprecedented”

fight against poverty. The centerpiece of that fight is the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative at United Way, which has just started implementing pilot programs in select city neighborhoods: Beechwood; Marketview Heights; and the East Main, Mustard and Atlantic Avenue neighborhood.

The effort’s goal is to reduce poverty citywide by 15 percent in five years and 50 percent in 15 years.

People still seem to think that there is a simple solution to “fix” poverty, despite being told many times and by multiple people that there is not, says Ed Doherty, retired vice president of the Rochester Area Community Foundation. And even among people who care about the issue of poverty, there is not a great deal of understanding of concentration of poverty and its effects, he says.

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A portion of the police operation was recorded on a bystander’s cell phone and was posted on social media. Part of the video shows a police officer pursuing a woman, grabbing her from behind, and the two struggling and falling to the ground.

RACIAL TENSION | BY CHRISTINE CARRIE FIEN

Accusations traded over police altercation A cell-phone video of a police altercation in northeast Rochester has many in the AfricanAmerican community decrying what they say is another example of police using excessive force against people of color. But the way some members of City Council are trying to quell that outrage is irresponsible and is putting police officers at risk, says the head of the police union.

The conflict stems from an incident earlier this month at Avenue A and Hollenbeck Street, the site of a well-known open-air marijuana market. At the request of residents of the Avenue A-Hollenbeck area and Council member Mike Patterson, who represents the Northeast District, police have been making a special effort to disrupt drug sales there.

Police went to the area on September 15 after observing numerous drug transactions over a surveillance camera, says Mike Mazzeo, the head of the police union, the Locust Club.

Five arrests were made and seven dime bags of marijuana were recovered, police say.

A portion of the police operation was recorded on a bystander’s cell phone and was posted on social media.

Part of the video shows a police officer pursuing a woman, grabbing her from

behind, and the two struggling and falling to the ground.

Outrage over the recording caused Council member Adam McFadden to hold a special meeting of Council’s public safety committee last week. McFadden chairs the committee and says that he held the meeting in public for transparency’s sake. Council members spent over an hour questioning Police Chief Mike Ciminelli and other members of the department about the incident and about police procedures overall.

But many key questions, such as why the woman was pursued in the first place, went unanswered due to the ongoing investigation into the incident. Frustrated audience members disrupted the meeting several times and eventually brought it to a premature close.

While acknowledging that he hadn’t seen all of the available video of the incident or read through all of the information, McFadden said at the meeting that the woman in the video didn’t appear to be disrupting the police on the scene. He also said that “any man who would attack a woman from behind is a punk.”

Incidents like the one at Avenue A and Hollenbeck are the unsurprising result of longstanding tension between law

enforcement and the black community, McFadden said, as well as racist drug policies and institutional racism in police departments across the country.

And he said that he would look into forming a task force that would determine how the city should react when incidents such as the one at Hollenbeck and Avenue A occur.

But at a press conference on Monday, the Locust Club’s Mazzeo said it was a mistake to hold the meeting before all of the information could be made public.

Releasing only bits of information creates Adam McFadden. FILE PHOTO misinterpretations and inflames tension, he said.

Additional video footage, including officers’ names have been posted online with footage from police body cameras, was made instructions to seek out their addresses. public Tuesday on YouTube.

The default position of some in the At the press conference, Mazzeo said the community and of some elected officials woman in the video was told that she was seems to be that the police are always at under arrest and was walking away to avoid fault, Mazzeo said. He wants to work with it. She told police she would not cooperate, City Council, local clergy, the police chief, and the officer’s subsequent actions were and others on how to present information justified, Mazzeo said. to the public when incidents like this The Council meeting and McFadden’s one occur, he said, so that a fuller, more comments only serve to further poison some accurate picture emerges. in the community against the police, Mazzeo said. Police officers are being threatened over the Avenue A-Hollenbeck incident, he said;

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LGBTQ RIGHTS | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO

Russians send gay pastor packing I was not allowed to have an attorney with me at any point. I was not allowed to have my own interpreter.”

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The Rev. James Mulcahy sat with a group of LGBTQ activists in the Russian city of Samara last July, having a cup of tea and talking about nothing in particular, he says.

Mulcahy, who served as pastor for Rochester’s Metropolitan Community Church from 2000 to 2012, says that the group was barely 20 minutes into its meeting when there was a knock on the door.

“We were raided by four city police and two camera crews were with them,” he says.

“They told me I had to come with them and I wasn’t being arrested; I was being detained. They photographed me and took my fingerprints, so it sure felt like I was being arrested.”

Samara police received an anonymous tip that Mulcahy was performing a samesex marriage ceremony. He wasn’t, but police were expecting to catch him in the act, and that’s why the camera crews entered the room first, he says.

After retiring as MCC’s pastor, Mulcahy says that he discovered the work that he was always meant to do: supporting LGBTQ activists in Eastern European countries in their fight for acceptance. It’s a job that clearly comes with risks. The LGBTQ communities in some former Soviet satellite countries are still living discrete and often underground lives out of fear of social rejection, physical attacks, and criminalization.

Though homosexuality was illegal in the former Soviet Union, it’s technically not illegal in Russia today. But under President Vladimir Putin’s government, that’s debatable, Mulcahy says.

“I was taken [to a police station] where I was interrogated for four hours,” he says.

The lead investigator was from the FSB, the Russian federal security service that is the modern version of the KGB. He had come with the intent to make an arrest and wasn’t pleased with the outcome, Mulcahy says.

“I was not allowed to have an attorney with me at any point,” he says. “I was not allowed to have my own interpreter, and the interpreter that they gave me was working for the police. I understand enough Russian to know that he wasn’t translating everything to me.”

Mulcahy would have gone to court immediately, but it was a holiday weekend in Russia. He did get to speak with an attorney just before he entered the courtroom, but she was not allowed to go into court with him.

Mulcahy was charged with improperly providing religious services on a visitor’s visa, something not to be taken lightly in Russia. He made the equivalent of several motions in Russian courts to delay the trial until he could have a lawyer of his choice with him. He also asked to have witnesses

with him, and asked if someone would go to his hotel room and get his medication.

All of his motions were denied.

“My trial lasted for four hours,” he says.

“The TV stations were allowed to broadcast in the courtroom and the 9 o’clock nightly news, both local and national, reported the verdict. I was fined about 2,000 rubles, which is about $32, and given five days to leave the country.”

Mulcahy is also banned from returning to Russia for three years.

A few years ago, Russia enacted a law

banning “gay propaganda.” The law is supposed to protect children from receiving LGBTQ information, but it is subject to wide interpretation and fuels antigay sentiment and attacks on LGBTQ individuals across the country, according to some human rights reports.

Some Russian leaders want to expand and strengthen the gay propaganda law.

“Russia is a difficult place for LGBT people right now, and the law gets worse and worse,” Mulcahy says. “And it’s not just LGBT people; it’s any religion that isn’t Russian Orthodox Christianity.”

But in some respects, repressive government actions aren’t as effective as they were prior to social media, and LGBTQ activists throughout the Eastern European region use social media to their advantage.

And in Russia, LGBTQ activists tend to play a cat-and-mouse game with police: waving gay pride flags in public or releasing rainbow-colored balloons.

“Sometimes the community will do flash mobs,” Mulcahy says. “They will come together and minutes later, they will be gone. In the last couple of years, though, Russian activists will do it knowing they’ll be caught, beaten, and arrested. They’re usually released after paying a fine. But now people are being fined far beyond their ability to pay.”

But there is also room for optimism;

many of the people in Eastern Europe are warm and loving when you meet them individually, he says. Mulcahy, who is 72 and not in the best of health, says that he went back to his hotel after the trial and was too sick to get up and get breakfast the next morning.

“The owners, they had all seen the TV reports and they knew who I was, but they couldn’t have been kinder,” he says.

“They brought breakfast up to my room — that’s the level of kindness you find in ordinary people there.”

Mulcahy left Russia four days after his

courtroom ordeal. He had a ticket to fly from Samara to Moscow and then out of the country, but he heard that he could be detained again in Moscow. So a friend helped him get a ticket from Samara directly to Helsinki, instead.

The plan didn’t work, though: police still held him up in the Samara airport.

“They interrogated me again and tried to get me to give up names of activists and their phone numbers, but I didn’t give them any information,” he says. “I knew they weren’t going to send me to some

prison someplace, but I won’t pretend it was pleasant. But I think my ministry in Russia was actually enhanced by what they did and how they publicized it.”

Mulcahy still gets emails and letters from Russians thanking him for what he did.

“I have communications from Russians almost every day, one from the Arctic Circle, ‘Thank you for what you’ve done for us,’” he says. “What have I done? I got thrown out of the country. But in their eyes I was willing to suffer what the LGBT community there suffers every day.”

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Trapped between life and death, zombie properties terrorize neighborhoods in Monroe County NEIGHBORHOODS | BY JEREMY MOULE

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rom her front driveway, Kelly Rush has a perfect view of a neighboring house’s buckling roof.

The vacant house is surrounded by well-maintained properties on a quiet street in Irondequoit’s Sea Breeze neighborhood; it’s the rotten tooth in an otherwise perfect smile. The house has fallen so far into disrepair that Irondequoit officials plan to demolish it this fall; the cost will be attached to the property as a lien.

“It doesn’t even look sound from here,” Rush says.

The woman who used to live in the house had block parties and was a trusted figure in the neighborhood: children knew that they could knock on her door if there was trouble, Rush says. But the neighbor died seven years ago, and the house has been vacant and largely unmaintained since, she says.

The property has also been the subject of on-and-off foreclosure proceedings since 2011; nobody’s ever tried to sell it, as best as the neighbors can tell. At this point, they just want the property to be reused for something productive: a garden or a new house; anything would be better, they say.

“The only thing I can say is tear the damn thing down,” says a neighbor who declined to give her name.

The house is an example of a zombie property, which are single- or multi-family houses that are trapped somewhere in the foreclosure process. The owners and lenders leave them for dead — or maybe undead is the better term, since the houses can become shells of their former selves, trapped between life

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and death. And as they linger, they drag their neighborhoods down with them.

Properties enter foreclosure because the owner stops making mortgage payments for any number of reasons: job or income loss, illness, and death are some of the common ones. And lenders may start a foreclosure, but stop without completing or Rebecca Case Caico, a senior attorney with Empire Justice Center, says new formally terminating it. In state laws might encourage lenders to some cases, the delinquent be more thoughtful about foreclosure properties are in such rough proceedings. shape that the banks decide PHOTO BY MARK CHAMBERLIN they aren’t worth the hassle or further effort; if the lenders completed the foreclosure, they’d be responsible for the properties and their troubles.

But new state laws will take effect later this year that local officials and advocates say should provide some relief to neighborhoods struggling with zombies. The laws give new inspection, property registration, and maintenance responsibilities to lenders at the start of the foreclosure process.

State lawmakers say that they hope that the new requirements encourage banks to give greater thought to initiating foreclosures and provide them with an incentive to see the cases through promptly.

“Now, all of a sudden, lenders have to make a decision -- either I’m in it or I’m not -- and they can’t do this halfway dance that they’ve been able, legally have been allowed to do,” says Rebecca Case Caico, a consumer attorney for Empire Justice Center, a nonprofit public interest law firm that works on housing issues.

No single, definitive figure exists on the number of zombie properties in Monroe County, but one of the new state laws creates a zombie property registry, which should help local officials dig out that number. And more importantly, it should help them identify properties in the foreclosure process that could go vacant or may already be empty.

A report released by the State Senate’s Independent Democratic Caucus says that Monroe County could have just under 600 zombie properties, including 425 in the City of Rochester. The report was prepared with the assistance of staff from the offices of Senators Joe Robach and Rich Funke, who combed local records to find potential zombies.

The county has thousands of houses, so 600 may not sound like a big deal. But just one zombie property can drop the value of a block’s worth of homes. The IDC report pegs Monroe County’s zombie-related property value losses at $9.4 million.

The IDC report is best viewed as an estimate, and it concludes with blurbs in support of a few anti-zombie property bills.

One of them is a Funke bill that would create a quicker foreclosure process for vacant houses.

The report only looks at communities that are part of Funke’s and Robach’s districts, though combined, the two lawmakers represent most of Monroe County. And each town in both districts has at least one zombie property.

“It’s impacting everybody, period,” Case Caico says.

Not all zombies are decaying hulks.

A zombie house on Gates’ west side has sat empty for close to a decade and, if not for a basement fire, probably wouldn’t stand out to passersby. Its doors have been secured and an old hot tub sits on the back porch. But the house has clean paint, intact windows, and a mown lawn.

Neighbors keep a close eye on the property and make sure basic upkeep is taken care of.

Wally Bennett and Richard Grammatico live next to the house on opposite sides, and the first few years it was empty, they took turns mowing its lawn. The town now handles that task.

Bennett still trims the hedges around the house, and Grammatico got rid of discarded furniture and debris that sat on the property’s lawn following the basement fire. Some of the neighbors help keep snow from piling up in front of the house, too.

Left top: This zombie house in Irondequoit will be demolished.

“The only thing I can say is tear the damn thing down.”

“It’s our neighborhood so we’re trying to keep it halfway decent,” Bennett says.

At one point, foreclosure proceedings were completed and the property was sold at auction, but a judge later rescinded the sale for reasons that are unclear.

The lender has since released its mortgage lien on the property, but the property’s status is complicated by overdue taxes. The county sold several years’ worth of the debts to two private companies, which now hold liens against the property. (The original owners of the house are dead, though the house is still owned by the wife’s estate.)

Deaths, tax debts and other liens, and bankruptcies are a few of the things that can complicate and stall foreclosure proceedings and, in turn, keep properties in a suspended state.

In response to the tangled, drawn-out circumstances around zombie properties, communities including Gates, Greece, Irondequoit, and Pittsford created local registries. Lenders can be fined if they don’t tell the towns when they initiate a foreclosure against a borrower.

By making the lenders register the properties, officials can keep track of houses that are in default and vacant, and they have a contact for the properties, says Gates Town Board member Steve Tucciarello, who proposed his town’s law.

“This way, when we have issues, we can get ahold of the proper people to make our

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LaShay Harris, a county legislator and 19th Ward community activist, says people in her neighborhood are worried about zombie properties.

PHOTO BY MARK CHAMBERLIN

neighborhoods look better,” he says.

Neighbors have a part to play, and many of them realize this. They keep watch and let their local leaders know when trouble is brewing.

Officials say that input is crucial.

“Sometimes, our best defense is neighbors,” says Gary Kirkmire, the City of Rochester’s director of inspection and compliance services.

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Town of Irondequoit officials say this zombie| have some common problems, whether those property is structurally unsound. properties are zombies or are stuck in some PHOTO BY MARK CHAMBERLIN other circumstance. In some cases, the worse Harris says that governments should that’ll happen is that wildlife moves in. do more to make sure that the zombie But in other instances, the properties pose properties are secure, and that the new laws big risks to the people living near them. are a good start.

LaShay Harris, a county legislator and Monroe County Clerk Adam Bello says that past president of the 19th Ward Community more needs to be done on zombie properties Association, knows this from experience. at all levels of government. He formed a vacant The house next to hers sat vacant for four and abandoned property task immediately after years while it was caught up in an estate issue; he was appointed to the office earlier this year. it wasn’t in foreclosure, so it wasn’t a true The task force is scheduled to issue a report zombie property. But one day, someone set the with recommendations within the next couple property’s garage on fire and the blaze spread of weeks, Bello says. But the office has started to Harris’s house. The damage was so extensive providing local governments with monthly that Harris couldn’t move back in for three updates on foreclosure filings and judgements. years, she says.

“It lets them know who filed the foreclosure, There have been a few big fires at vacant houses in the 19th Ward over the past few years, so they know who the entity is that’s responsible for that, so they have a contact: they know who she says. These properties can be magnets for owns a property, who the liens are filed against,” other types of trouble, too. They can attract Bello said during a June interview. vandals and squatters, for example, and become The clerk’s office also makes nightly data sites for dealing and using drugs. And in many dumps between its system and the City of areas, people strip unoccupied houses of copper Rochester’s. Kirkmire says that the city uses the pipe and wiring, which can take away from the information to help identify properties that are properties’ appeal to potential buyers.

The biggest obstacle with zombie properties vacant or could go vacant.

Many community leaders and elected is that they are stuck in a state where, for the officials say that the best way to fight the most part, nobody can touch them: a realtor, zombies is to keep the properties from a buyer, the city, and the county included, going vacant in the first place. And that Harris says. means keeping people in their homes “That kinds of holds the whole whenever possible. neighborhood, as well as the city and the Several local nonprofits and agencies have county, hostage,” she says. “And I think effective foreclosure prevention programs it’s wrong.” and counseling, and communities should Harris says that the city’s been good about taking down some of the worst properties in her do more to promote them, says Harris, the neighborhood, though she and other 19th Ward county legislator. activists would like to see more of the properties Homeowners also don’t have to leave their homes until the cases are settled, though many rescued before they reach a state where the only don’t realize that and move out early in the choice is demolition. foreclosure process.

Some of the sites have been repurposed for “I think the foreclosures occur because community use, such as the lots on Trafalgar people are embarrassed to reach out for help,” or at Depew and Forbes that evolved into Harris says. “They’re embarrassed to seek help community gardens. But many remain vacant from people that are close to them. It’s really a after demolition. touchy subject.”

One of the new state laws will require lenders But realistically, there is no quick fix for the to periodically inspect delinquent properties plodding but dire threat of zombie properties. and register them with the state if they go It’s a complex problem that will require flexible, vacant. It also requires the lenders to secure multi-pronged approaches over time. and maintain the properties. Right now, state “The subject’s never going to get old and it’s law places those requirements on lenders at never going to die,” Kirkmire says. the end of a foreclosure proceeding, and vacant properties stuck in the foreclosure process often sit unattended as a result.

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URBAN ACTION This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

Activist to discuss Syria trip

The Downtown United Presbyterian Church and the Peace Action & Education Task Force will host “Eyewitness Syria,” a talk by peace activist Judy Bello, at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 4. Bello will discuss her trip to Syria in July 2016 in conjunction with the independent US Peace Council fact-finding delegation. The delegation met with a wide range of Syrians, from high-level government officials to ordinary citizens. Bello will offer eyewitness confirmation of what is happening inside Syria. The event will be held at the church, 121 North Fitzhugh Street.

Public forum on East High progress The University of Rochester and East High School

will hold a public forum on Thursday, September 29, to highlight the progress of East’s Upper and Lower schools. The meeting will be held at East, 1801 East Main Street, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Panel talks Rochester’s economy

The Rochester Downtown Development Corporation will present “The State of Rochester’s Economy,” a panel discussion, from 7:45 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 13. Gary Keith, vice president and regional economist with M&T Bank; Joel Seligman, president of the University of Rochester; Mark Peterson, president and CEO of Greater Rochester Enterprise; and Karen Benjamin, partner of Worldleaders and vice president of the Small Business Council of Rochester are the featured panelists and speakers.

The event will be held at the Radisson, 120 East Main Street. Tickets: RDDC

members, $30; nonmembers, $40. Reservations: 546-6920 or reservations@rddc.org.

Chance to recycle your electronics

The City of Rochester will host a free electronics recycling collection or “E-Waste Day” from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, October 15. City residents can drop off personal electronics such as laptops, desktops, computer accessories, printers, TV’s, monitors, audiovisual equipment, faxes, and copiers to Rhinos stadium, 460 Oak Street. Use the Smith Street entrance.

The disposal of electronic waste through curbside refuse collection can result in a $25 fine. Information: www.cityofrochester.gov/ EWaste/.

Dining

Mi Viejo San Juan serves its dishes in a similar fashion as other Puerto Rican restaurants in Rochester: a choice of protein, including pernil, chicken, beef, and steak, comes with a base of rice and stewed beans. The restaurant also makes a selection of empanadas and other fried goods. PHOTOS BY MARK CHAMBERLIN

In my Old San Juan Mi Viejo San Juan 1143 JOSEPH AVENUE MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY, 7 A.M. TO 7:30 P.M. 467-1205 [ REVIEW ] BY CHRIS LINDSTROM

Mi Viejo San Juan has stood at the corner of Joseph Avenue and Norton Street for the last three years, serving Puerto Rican fare to the surrounding neighborhood. Similar to other Puerto Rican restaurants in Rochester, Mi Viejo offers a choice of protein — pernil, baked and stewed chicken, stewed beef and steak, and stewed pork and rib tips — served cafeteria style in takeout containers ($5 for the small; $7 for the medium; and $9 for the large). And each meal has a base of nicely seasoned yellow rice and stewed pinto beans that were soft, but not mushy. Those core components are so important to get right, and Mi Viejo San Juan did it.

The pork rib tips, which are small pieces trimmed off the end of short ribs and stewed in a BBQ-like sauce until the meat was

falling apart, ended up being my favorite of the protein options. The chewing was a bit primal, but there was a crunch that was a pleasant texture contrast from the other meat offerings. The stewed steak and beef ended up on the dry side, and the vegetables with the beef stew almost disintegrated when biting into them.

The pernil (roasted pork) was oven-cooked to a pleasant, moist, soft texture, but too much of the fat was left under rendered — which could have just been an aberration since the batch I saw on the second visit looked more balanced. The flavors of garlic and oregano from the adobo seasoning work well with the pork, but it was applied with a heavy hand. The side of hog maw ($3 for a medium cup) was a show stopper with perfectly stewed pieces of pig stomach in a broth based liquid. This is a great introduction to offal (organ meat): the flavors are mostly familiar, so it’s just the texture that presents the challenge.

Keep an eye out for mashed yuca that incorporates dried salt cod (bacalao) into the base. It sounds a bit odd, but the robust

earthiness from the starchy yuca merges well with the slightly fishy flavors. Some chunks of yuca remained intact and complemented the otherwise smooth mixture.

Mi Viejo San Juan has a wide selection of fried goods made in house, including seven varieties of empanadas, alcapurria, and potato balls. The conch empanada stood out as not only a unique offering, but one that contrasted the strong clam-like flavor of the meat with onions and olives. The beef and cheese had hints of pepper and onion and substituted mozzarella for the typical American cheese. Other options included chicken, octopus, beef, shrimp, and pizza.

Following my review last year of El Pilon Criollo, I’ve come to learn more about Joseph Avenue and Mi Viejo San Juan. Dr. Neil Scheier, a member of the Joseph Avenue Business Association and the Arts and Culture Alliance, took me on a tour of the area to illustrate what improvements those groups had been working on. There’s a lot that could be mentioned, but some of the more higherprofile items include four pieces from the lauded WALL\THERAPY program, a well-

attended yearly festival co-sponsored by the city, and a recent event held by the RPO as part of its Around Town series.

The most ambitious pursuit, though, is the purchase of the B’Nai Israel Ahavas Achim synagogue through a newly formed non-profit. The intent is to transform it into a $3 million community performing arts center, focusing on youth engagement.

What can’t be forgotten is that these larger programs stand on the back of less heralded efforts: corner lots are being mowed; new businesses are moving in; and the street has plenty of new trash cans available to keep things cleaner. And Mi Viejo San Juan is flourishing and expanding with a food truck. With changes happening, and a hearty selection of restaurants to check out, I’m excited to see what comes next for Joseph Avenue.

You can read more from Chris Lindstrom or listen to his podcast on his food blog, Foodabouttown.com. Share any dining tips with him on Twitter and Instagram @stromie. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 11

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Ellis Hall with the RPO. Friday, October 22, and Saturday, October 22. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs Street.

8 p.m. $23-$104. rpo.org. [ SYNTHPOP ] Ayria. Monday, November 21. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut Street. 7:30 p.m. $10-$15. themontagemusichall.com; ayria.com. [ ROCK ]

Wild Adriatic. Thursday, December 1. Bug Jar, 219

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Sure, everyone digs a dynamic album that builds as it unfolds. Then again, sometimes you just want your rock ‘n’ roll exploding out of the gate and in your grill. Well then, you need Pawner.

Pawner’s new six-song salvo, “Broken Switches,” is an album that has a classic and dynamic ebb and flow, but loses none of its momentum in the valleys. It’s the same type of rock music you hear from other energycentric bands like Foo Fighters and Green Day. On “Broken Switches,” the vocals snarl and strike slick and quick, but honestly it could be a little more on top of the mix. Groove and aggression from the guitar’s power punch is tantamount, but the words are important, too.

“Broken Switches” gallops at a steady clip, with the song “Incomplete” serving as its only power ballad detour. Overall, it’s a good record, eluding to what’s just around the corner for this young outfit. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

El Rojo Jazz. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. thelittle. org/music. 7-9 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]

Barrence Whitfield & The Savages. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup. com. 8 p.m. $15-$20.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] Big Blue House. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org/music. 7-9 p.m.

Lisa Winter. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place.

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World-weary lyrics sung with minimal exasperation and a big ole smirk are the frosting on this bluesy, rootsy shakedown. It’s loose, but it ain’t sloppy. It’s groovy, porch-sittin’ music with little or no pretense nor lofty aspirations. “Crazy” is a stand-out cut with lyrics about a woman who is “crazy just like a shithouse rat” sung over a bluesy shuffle. “Six Days Too Soon” is a cool nod to reggae, or what the band calls “rasta polka” — that’s what I heard anyway. “Scotch Goggles’ is a fun, swinging rave-up where Blair really gets to lean on the 88’s. “Groovin’ Saloonatics” is a fun record folks. Drop the needle in the groove and drag deep. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

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Jon Lewis is an astute singer-songwriter who wistfully bears witness to the quirks and foibles of this mortal coil. As a solo musician and bandleader, Lewis has been a fixture on the local music scene, playing marathon sets of music in coffee houses, gin joints, and night clubs. These protracted evenings of three or more hours on stage had Lewis looking for ways to broaden his sound and repertoire. He got a loop pedal and plugged in, totally unaware that he was opening himself up to a whole new world.

“Whenever you use a loop pedal, unless you’re skilled at it, the songs come out a little quirky, poppy and kiddy,” Lewis says. “I was writing songs about chocolate milk; it was just this goofy thing. Parents that saw me wanted to know if I did kids’ parties. And I thought this could be interesting. It wasn’t something I had thought about doing as a career but as a way to make money.”

Lewis took a crack at it and Mr. Loops was born.

The potential audience made Lewis a little nervous; kids can be tough. No one wants to get booed by a pack of 5-year-olds.

“I didn’t have any experience with kids at all,” he says. “I didn’t think I’d be very good with

kids. So I took a year volunteering at nursery schools learning ‘The Wheels on the Bus,’ ‘If You’re Happy and You Know It,’ and mixed them in with my peace and love folk songs. I discovered I was really naturally able to hang out with kids, play fun songs, and get everyone to sing along and dance. All I needed was an E major and an A major chord, and the kids were just frolicking and going crazy. They’re the best audience I’ve ever had.”

As Mr. Loops, Lewis stays busy with birthday parties and family nights at various parks department functions. He released an album, “Meet Mr. Loops,” last December, which came complete with its own coloring book. The CD rides the fence between goofy fun and encouragement, all with an overall positive message that Lewis says he felt responsible to convey.

Lewis’s responsibility tugged at him with several contemporary hot topics in the media, especially ones dealing with transgender rights.

He decided to write a song and post a video, and almost immediately, “Me is Me, You is You” blew up in his face, unleashing a veritable storm of criticism, hate mail, and even death threats.

That’s right, they wanted Mr. Loops dead. The blogosphere went nuts.

Lewis had done his homework, felt around, asked some friends and decided the climate felt right. So he went for it. Although he says he had no agenda or aspirations to activism, Lewis

found himself exploited by parties on both the left and the right.

“I’ve been used as a chess piece by both sides,” he says. “A friend of mine wrote a review on an LGBTQ blog that boasts one million followers. The headline on the blog said ‘Children’s musician targets bigots.’”

That’s just what the other side needed to hear.

Within a matter of no time, several Christian websites and the alt-right Breitbart began to weigh in, which was followed by fanatics with their vitriol and threats.

“It started right after the Breitbart article,” Lewis says. “They aren’t news sites. They weren’t relaying news; they were deliberately propagating a target, making me into a target.

They were creating clickbait out of me.”

Lewis immediately took the video down, but I was too late. It had already been reposted.

“I was inundated on every social media front. Twitter, YouTube, then private Facebook messages and e-mails. It escalated quickly. It was really scary; I freaked out.”

Mr. Loops had gone viral. Lewis did the math: more than 15 million people had been exposed to “Me is Me, You is you.”

Lewis was horrified. The point had been missed.

“I’m not a transgender activist at all,” he says emphatically. “I don’t want Mr. Loops to be an activist. The idea was to step back from that topic. It seemed that no one was talking civilized. I wanted to use something that was a hot topic and visible. I definitely don’t feel I was wrong doing it. I just underestimated it, and now I’ve been able to admit to myself that maybe I was too vague and left myself open to interpretation.”

Also with the topic being discussed in bullet points — words like “children,” “bigots,” “transgender,” “bathroom,” etc. — served to inflame and force a reaction. And in all honesty, perhaps the subject matter was a bit over the heads of Mr. Loops’ audience.

“I was sort of blind to the power of the misinterpretation that could take place,” Lewis says, conceding that some of the opposition was valid or at least presented in a civilized matter.

“There are a lot of critics. And some of them are valid in the way they’re saying it is wrong to use children for an agenda. And even though that wasn’t what I was trying to do at all, it wasn’t what my motivation was. I was so vague with the song; the way the song is, it can easily be interpreted that way. There’s no bias. It’s just treat each other right.”

Mr. Loops fans love him, and their parents wholeheartedly support him and his message.

“I don’t want to get in the way of their parenting,” he says. “I just want to instill a feeling of family, peace, and love.”

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10/26 AMY RIGBY 11/4 BIG SANDY 11/12 WAYNE

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Abilenebarandlounge.com 153 LIBERTY POLE WAY•232-3230

[ POP/ROCK ]

Count Vaseline. I-Square

Conference Center, 400 Bakers Park. Irondequoit.

585-943-1941. houseofguitars. com. 4:30 p.m.

Divinex & Embrace Agony.

Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. thefirehousesaloon.com. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. $5 door 21+.

Greg Townson. Skylark Lounge, 40 South Union St. 270-8106. theskylarklounge. com. 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Kids in the Basement.

Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. firehousesaloon.com. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. $5.

Stolen Rhodes. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 585-292-5544. stickylipsbbq.com. 9:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] Slaid Cleaves. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 7 p.m. $25-$27. continues on page 16

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RPO: Gershwin Favorites with Jeff Tyzik. Kodak Hall at

Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. 454-2100. rpo.org. 8 p.m. $23-$114.

Serenades for Winds and Strings. Our Mother of Sorrows

Church, 5000 Mt. Read Blvd. cordancia.org. 6 p.m.

Donations accepted. [ VOCALS ]

Tobias Greehalgh. Lyric

Theater, 440 East Ave. 2560444. rochesterlyricopera.org.

7:30 p.m. $20-$25. [ POP/ROCK ]

Josie Waverly & The JWB and Dr. Moxy. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. josiewaverly.com/the-band/. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. $5.

Meghan Koch and the Gentleman Callers. Little

Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org. 8 p.m.

Who’s That?, Dead Letter Office, and The Lanthan Mire.

House of Guitars, 645 Titus Ave. 544-3500. houseofguitars. com. 2 & 7:30 p.m.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 [ CLASSICAL ]

Candlelight Concert Series: Malcolm Matthews, Harpsichord & Organ. Christ

CELLO ROCK | BREAK OF REALITY

Alt-classical ensemble Break of Reality returns to the place of its birth on Thursday for a performance in Kodak Hall to open the 2016-17 Eastman Presents series. For 13 years, founding members, and Eastman School alums, Patrick Laird (cello) and Ivan Trevino (drums) — along with a rotating cadre of top-flight cellists — have delivered impassioned, intricate performances that fluidly melds rock and classical music. The group is equally adept at explosive and insightful interpretations of others’ songs — as on the album “Covers” — and subtly textured original compositions like those that populate the band’s latest record, “Ten.” Break of Reality will perform Thursday, September 29, at Kodak Hall in Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs Street. 8 p.m. $15-$65. eastmantheatre.org; breakofreality.com.

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

Church, 141 East Ave. 4543878. christchurchrochester. org. 8:30-9 p.m. Donations appreciated.

Cordancia Ensemble Orchestra: Serenade for Winds and Strings.

First Presbyterian Church of Pittsford, 25 Church St. Pittsford. 586-5688. pittsfordpres.org. 3 p.m. $15

RPO: Beethoven & Haydn with Ahrim Kim. Hochstein

Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 454-2100. rpo. org. 2 p.m. $27.

Serenades for Winds and Strings. First Presbyterian

Church of Pittsford, 25 Church St. Pittsford. 5865688. cordancia.org. 3 p.m.

Aonations accepted.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4 [ POP/ROCK ] Finish Ticket. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 877-4359849. themontagemusichall. com. 6:30 p.m. $13-$15.

METAL | CATTLE DECAPITATION

Although its name may suggest otherwise, San Diego, California’s Cattle Decapitation is pretty invested in the well-being of animals. Since forming in 1996, each member of the deathgrind powerhouse has stayed vegetarian, and frontman and resident doomsday prophet Travis Ryan’s lyrics tend to focus on the various failures of our species and the havoc we wreak upon our planet’s ecosystems. It’s the kind of thing that could register as “preachy” if it wasn’t grounded in fact and wrapped up in some seriously impressive metal. The band’s latest album, “The Anthropocene Extinction,” is a nauseating horror-show of off-kilter riffs and bowl-churning vocals. Hail seitan.

Cattle Decapitation will play with Eternal Sleep on Thursday, September 29, at the Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut Street. 7:30 p.m. $18-$20. themontagemusichall.com; cattledecapitation.com. — BY ALEXANDER JONES

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Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] Bertha VB Lederer Gallery, Brodie Hall, 1 College Dr. Between College and Village: Architect Edgar Tafel’s Brodie Hall (196466) and the Appeal to Tradition in “Mad Men” America. 245-5813. geneseo.edu.

Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Elements of the ROC. Through Oct. 20. Reception Fri. Oct. 28, 5-9 p.m. Black and white photos by Don Menges. imagecityphotographygallery.com.

Knoblauch Studio, 29 Halstead Street. Women of DRAW. 7387482. dvanwert@rochester. rr.com. roc-draw.com.

Legacy at Willow Pond, 40 Willow Pond Way. Penfield Art Association Show and Sale. Through Oct. 28.

Opening reception Sun. Oct. 2, 1-2 p.m. 586-5815. penfieldartassociation.com/.

Skylark Lounge, 40 South Union St. Uberlebende. 210-6689.

Coppharold@gmail.com. skylarklounge.com.

L’Shanah Tovah! High Holidays at

Temple Emanu-El - Come Join Us!

High Holidays at Temple Emanu-El are a time for reflection and renewal, and welcoming friends and neighbors to share in an engaging holiday experience.

OUR DOORS ARE OPEN; NO TICKETS OR FEES REQUIRED. We need to know that you’re coming, so please call our Temple office at 585-266-1978 or emanuel@rochester.twcbc.com by Friday, Sept. 30.

• Sun., Oct. 2, 8 pm - Evening Rosh Hashanah Service • Mon., Oct. 3: 9:15 am - Rosh Hashanah Family Service 10 am - Rosh Hashanah Morning Service* followed by Tashlich at Lake Ontario • Tues., Oct. 4, 10 am - Second Day Rosh Hashanah Morning Service* • Tues., Oct. 11, 8 pm - Evening / Kol Nidre Service • Wed., Oct. 12: 10 am - Yom Kippur Morning Service* 2 pm - Stories and Study 4 pm - Afternoon service 4:30 pm - Yizkor 5 pm - Concluding Service followed by Break the Fast Meal *Childcare available upon request.

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[ CONTINUING ] ART EXHIBITS 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. Birds, Barnes, and Bridges. Through Oct. 23.

Opening reception Fri. Sept. 16, 6-8 p.m. Acrylics on canvas by H. Kenneth Likly. 770-1960. episcopalseniorlife.org.

540WMain, 540 W. Main Street.

Carrie Lindstrom. Through Sept.

30. Multimedia artwork. 7320002. asktheglutenfreechef.com.

Art Museum of Rochester, 610 Monroe Ave. To Deafhood with Love. Through Sept. 30.

Closing reception with Nancy Rourke, exhibiting a number of her artworks, and deaf dancer Lateefah Patterson Fri. Sept. 30, 6-10 p.m. A variety of mixed media, paintings, fabric art and digital works by deaf women (Patti Durr, Laurie Mohanan, and Karen Christie.). facebook.com/ ArtMuseumOfRochester/.

Bertha VB Lederer Gallery, Brodie Hall, 1 College Dr. 50th Anniversary Exhibit. Through Oct. 15. Curated artwork by Lauren Slezak. 245-5813. geneseo.edu.

Friendly Home’s Memorial Gallery, 3165 East Ave. Four Seasons.

Through Sept. 29. Watercolor paintings by Hiroko Jusko. friendlyseniorliving.org.

Gallery 96, 604 Pittsford-Victor Road. The Winning Images.

Through Oct. 1. Winning images by members of 17 different camera clubs submitted to competitions hosted by NFRCC. gallery96.com.

Geisel Gallery, Second Floor Rotunda, Legacy Tower, One Bausch & Lomb Place. Drawn To Water. Through Sept. 30.

Paintings and sculpture by Paula Crawford. thegeiselgallery.com.

George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. Photography and America’s National Parks. Through October 2.

Exploring the role of early and contemporary photography in the development of the National Park Service. 271-3361. eastman.org/photographynational-parks.

International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. City Reflections. Through Sept.

30. Oil paintings by Marcella Gillenwater. 264-1440. internationalartacquisitions.com.

SPECIAL EVENT | CIDER WEEK FLX Fresh from across the Finger Lakes region, Cider Week FLX will bring 17 cider makers together in more than 50 locations. Several Rochester venues — including Mullers Cider House, ButaPub, and Cure — will offer tastings, festivals, and cider workshops for fans of the old craft beverage. You don’t need to be a cider aficionado to appreciate the vintage, complex tastes of past year’s harvest; there will be plenty of experts to help guests explore the New York tradition. Cider Week FLX features more than just hard cider: there are apple festivals, pumpkin patches, and other family-friendly activities throughout the week.

The main events of Cider Week FLX will be held Saturday, October 1, through Sunday, October 9. Times vary for each event and will occur throughout the Finger Lakes region, including Geneva, Ithaca, and Geneseo. For the schedule and more information, visit ciderweekflx.com.

— BY KIARA ALFONSECA

The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue. Best of Show. Through Sept. 30. Painting, photography, ceramics, and drawings by local artists. thelittle.org.

Lockhart Gallery at SUNY Geneseo, 28 Main St. Eye Speak. Through Oct. 15. Digital collage artworks by Nell Painter.

245-5813. geneseo.edu.

My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt. Hope Ave. Places We Call Home.

Through Oct. 2. Watercolors

by Kristin Malone. 546-8400.

EpiscopalSeniorLife.org.

Nan Miller Gallery, 3000 Monroe Ave #200. Fashion in Art. Through Oct. 6. New avantgarde, contemporary, and classic works by 10 local, national, and international artists. 292-1430. nanmillergallery.com.

Nazareth College Colacino Gallery, 4245 East Ave. Ronald Gonzalez: Recent Sculpture. Through Oct. 22. 389-5073. naz.edu.

NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. Works by Yiqiao Wang and Hilary Allumaga.

Through Oct. 29. Watercolor illustrations and vector drawings

by Yiqiao Wang and abstract paintings by Hilary Allumaga. rit. edu/ntid/dyerarts/.

Oxford Gallery, 267 Oxford St. Imitations. Through Oct. 15.

Reception Sat. Sept. 24, 5:307:30 p.m. Paintings by Carolyn Edlund and Fran Noonan. 2715885. oxfordgallery.com.

Tower Fine Arts Center, SUNY Brockport, 180 Holley St. Mary Ann Scarborough. Through Oct. 14. Silk, embroidery, and glass beads form bold, abstract compositions in hand-sewn pieces. 395-2805. brockport. edu/finearts.

Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. Units. Through Oct. 22. An exhibition of artists’ works that use an image’s syntax by Greg Climer, included are works in photography, fibers, film, digital media, and book artworks by historical and contemporary artists. 442-8676. vsw.org.

Williams Gallery at First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd. Scenic New York. Through Oct. 23.

Landscapes in oil by Carol Thiel. rochesterunitarian.org.

Art Events LECTURE | NASIM PEDRAD AND JOHN FAVREAU Former Saturday Night Live cast member Nasim Pedrad and former White House Director of Speechwriting Jon Favreau will give lectures to headline St. John Fisher College’s Alumni Weekend. Pedrad, an Iranian-American comic, has acted in SNL, Fox’s “Scream Queens,” and her own one-woman show. Pedrad will discuss these experiences and more about her career since college. Favreau, who is also a columnist for The Daily Beast, has consulted and written speeches for celebrities, Fortune 500 CEOs, and other successful leaders. Favreau will share his memories working alongside President Barack Obama.

Both lectures will be held in the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Athletic Center, 3690 East Avenue. Pedrad will speak Friday, September 30, at 8 p.m., and Favreau will speak Saturday, October 1, at 10 a.m. General admission tickets are $20 for Pedrad’s lecture and $15 for Favreau. For full Alumni Weekend listings and more information, visit sjfc.edu.

— BY KIARA ALFONSECA

[ FRI., SEPTEMBER 30 ] Women of Draw. 5-9 p.m.

Knoblauch Studio, 29 Halstead Street 738-7482. dvanwert@rochester.rr.com. paulknoblauch.com.

Comedy [ WED., SEPTEMBER 28 ] Gettin’ Ova Tha Hump. 9:30 p.m.12:30 a.m ButaPub, 315 Gregory Street 563-6241. evan@butapub. com. butapub.com. [ THU., SEPTEMBER 29 ] John Dicrosta. Sep. 29-Oct. 1.

Comedy Club, 2235 Empire Blvd Webster Thurs. Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m., Fri. Sept. 30, 7:30 & 10 p.m., Sat. Oct. 1, 7:30 & 10 p.m $9-$15. 671-9080. thecomedyclub.us. [ FRI., SEPTEMBER 30 ] Joseph Tran. Sep. 30. May Room, Wilson Commons, University of Rochester, 500 Joseph C. Wilson Blvd $2. 275-5911. urochestertickets.com/.

Nasim Pedrad. 8 p.m. St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Ave $20. sjfc.edu.

Dance Events [ THU., SEPTEMBER 29 ] Can-Do Shim Sham Lesson. 7:308:30 p.m. Seton Catholic School, 165 Rinecliff Drive $2-$4.

248-5196. lyn821@gmail.com. setoncatholicschool.org. [ FRI., SEPTEMBER 30 ] Club Hot-Cha Roaring Twenties Party. 8 p.m.-midnight. The Historic German House Auditorium, 315 Gregory Street $16-$20. 585-5636241. evan@peerless.events. groovejuiceswing.com. [ SAT., OCTOBER 1 ] Alice in Wonderland Ballet Preview. 11 a.m. & 1 p.m. The Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square The New York State Ballet Included w/museum admission. 2632700. thestrong.org. [ SUN., OCTOBER 2 ] Dancers Fighting Cancer. 2-6 p.m.

Fred Astaire Franchised Dance Studio, 3450 Winton Place $25.

292-1240. fredastaire.com.

Festivals [ WED., SEPTEMBER 28 ] ROC the Block Party. 5-7 p.m.

Hyatt Regency Rochester, 125 E. Main St 546-1234. facebook. com/HyattRegencyRochester/. [ SAT., OCTOBER 1 ] Stokoe Farms Harvest Fest Opens.

10 a.m.-5 p.m Stokoe Farms, 656 South Rd, Scottsville $14. 8890770. StokoeFarms.com.

THEATER | “LA RONDE” Arthur Schnitzler’s play “La Ronde” has had somewhat of a turbulent history in its 116 year history — not surprising for a work that so frankly discusses sexuality and class. Set in 1890’s Vienna, the play consists of 10 scenes between pairs of lovers, each from various social backgrounds and professions, shown just before or immediately after their sexual encounter. The playwright hoped to show that sexuality knew no class boundaries.

Schnitzler printed his play in 1900 solely for private circulation, but in 1903, the work was distributed publicly and became a best-seller. Still, a year later, censors found it scandalous and banned the work. It wasn’t until 1920 that “La Ronde” was performed, and Schnitzler was hit with personal attacks — often anti-Semitic — and charges of pornography. He withdrew the play himself from public production in German-speaking countries (although it remained popular in other European cities). Bread & Water Theatre has given the controversial play its Rochester premiere, directed by J.R. Teeter.

“La Ronde” continues Friday, September 30, through Sunday, October 2, and again October 7 through October 9, at Bread & Water Theatre, 172 West Main Street. Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. $8-$14 (no patron will be turned away).

538-9684; breadandwatertheatre.org. — BY JAKE CLAPP

Film [ WED., SEPTEMBER 28 ] End of the Line: Reconnect Rochester Street Films. 6:30-8:30 p.m. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue $5-$25. facebook.com/ ReconnectRochester/. [ THU., SEPTEMBER 29 ] Polish Film Festival. 8 p.m.

Dryden Theatre, 900 East Ave 271-4090. rochester.edu. [ SAT., OCTOBER 1 ] The Sound We See: An Echo Park Symphony. 8 p.m. Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. Artist in Attendance $5 suggested donation. 442-8676. vsw.org. [ TUE., OCTOBER 4 ] Friendly Persuasion. 7 p.m.

Rochester Friends Meeting, 84 Scio Street 442-5274. rochesterquakers.org.

Lectures [ SAT., OCTOBER 1 ] Jon Favreau. 10 a.m. St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Ave $10. sjfc.edu.

Meetings [ THU., SEPTEMBER 29 ] Stop the Violence. 5:30 p.m.

Dewey Avenue and Driving Park 244-0830. [ FRI., SEPTEMBER 30 ] Walk for Public Education Funding.

5 p.m. Liberty Pole, Main, East, & Franklin Streets metrojustice.org/.

THEATER | EBISU SIGN LANGUAGE THEATRE LABORATORY As part of Deaf Awareness Week, Ebisu Sign Language Theatre, which presents a combination of Israeli Sign Language, expressive gestures, and physical theater, will perform at NTID on Wednesday, September 28. Named for the Japanese god Ebisu — the only deaf god in world’s pantheon — the Haifa-based group emphasizes facial expressions and body language. Its performances are characterized by gestures that are easily read by hearing and deaf people alike, making for a clear understanding without the need for interpreters.

In a provided statement, organizers say that the poetic and humorous theatrical material is the product of improvisation, rather than derived from any particular text. The free performance is suitable for ages 13 and older, and is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 28, in Panara Theatre (Rochester Institute of Technology, Lomb Memorial Drive). For more information, call 475-6254 or visit ntid.rit.edu/theatre.

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[ SUN., OCTOBER 2 ] Small Votes: Civic Discussion Series. Small World Books, 425 North St. 232-6970. facebook. com/smallworldbooks/.

Recreation [ SAT., OCTOBER 1 ] Photo Finish 5K. 8 a.m. George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. $25-$35. eastman.org/5k.

Rochester Bicycling Club. Check our online calendar for this week’s ride schedule or visit.

Rochesterbicyclingclub.org.

Shadow of Shakespeare. 11 a.m.

Mount Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mt. Hope Avenue $7. 461-3494. fomh.org.

Special Events [ WED., SEPTEMBER 28 ] Food Truck Rodeo. Last Wednesday of every month Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St. 311. cityofrochester.gov/ foodtruckrodeo.

We Aim to Misbehave. 7-9 p.m.

ButaPub, 315 Gregory Street $5.

563-6241. evan@butapub.com. bit.ly/ThemeQuizReg. [ THU., SEPTEMBER 29 ] ROC Bottom Stand Up!. 7 p.m. St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Ave 385-8412.

Urban Wellness Summit. 8-10 a.m. Maplewood Family YMCA, 25 Driving Park Avenue Registration required 256-4614.

GreaterRochesterChamber.com.

#Work4ROC: Fashion & Philanthropy. 6:30-9 p.m.

Anthology, 336 East Ave r-y-p. org/. [ FRI., SEPTEMBER 30 ] Innovation Celebration. 6 p.m.

Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. $200. rmsc.org.

Inside Downtown. 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Tour of new downtown spaces $26-$30. landmarksociety.org. [ SAT., OCTOBER 1 ] Behind-the-Scenes Tours. First Saturday of every month, 11 a.m.-2 p.m Rose Hill Mansion, 3373 New York 96A, Geneva $4-$7, reservations required. 315-789-3848. genevahistoricalsociety.com.

Fall Festival. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Genesee Country Village & Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford $12-$20. 294-8218. gcv.org.

First Annual Fall Craft Show. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Faith Baptist Church of North Chili, 2954 South Union Street 594-2244. fbcnorthchili. org.

The re:Main Social. 3-10 p.m. The Metropolitan, 195 East Main St. celebratecityliving.com.

Walk A Mile In My Shoes. 10 a.m.noon. Ontario Beach Park, 4799 Lake Ave. $10. 232-5200 x230. willowcenterny.org [ SUN., OCTOBER 2 ] Community Garage Sale. 8 a.m.-2 p.m Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St. 428-6907.

cityofrochester.gov/garagesales.

Day of Empowering Women.

Think Pink. 12-5 p.m. Inn on the Lake, 770 South Main St. $5.

727-9120. dayofempoweringwomenevents.com.

Gandhi Birthday Celebration.

2-5 p.m. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, 929 S. Plymouth Ave. 463-3267. gandhiinstitute.org.

Get Moving Challenge. Oct. 2. Total Sports Experience, 880 Elmgrove Rd Six indoor and outdoor activities to benefit the American Diabetes Association 458-3040 x3479. diabetes.org/getmoving.

Parkinson’s Moving Day Walk. 9 a.m.-noon. Monroe Community College, 1000

E. Henrietta Rd 234-5355. movingdayrochester.org.

Theater Autumn Leaves. Sep. 29-Oct. 2. Bristol Valley Theater, 151 South Main St Through Oct. 2. Thurs. and Fri. Sept. 29-30, 8 p.m., Sun. Oct. 2, 2 p.m.

A ‘musical array’ that is just as colorful as its Fall foliage namesake $12-$33. 374-9032. bvtnaples.org.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Through Oct. 2, 7 p.m. Rochester Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. Through Oct. 2, 7 p.m. A smart young boy is accused for a murder and sets out on a life changing journey 222-5000. mail@rbtl.org. rbtl.org/ events.aspx?id=376.

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Movie Theaters Searchable, up-to-the-minute movie times for all area theaters can be found at rochestercitynewspaper.com, and on City’s mobile website.

Brockport Strand 93 Main St, Brockport, 637-3310, rochestertheatermanagement.com

Canandaigua Theatres 3181 Townline Road, Canandaigua, 396-0110, rochestertheatermanagement.com

Cinema Theater 957 S. Clinton St., 271-1785, cinemarochester.com

Culver Ridge 16 2255 Ridge Rd E, Irondequoit 544-1140, regmovies.com

Dryden Theatre 900 East Ave., 271-3361, dryden.eastmanhouse.org

Eastview 13 Eastview Mall, Victor 425-0420, regmovies.com

Geneseo Theatres Geneseo Square Mall, 243-2691, rochestertheatermanagement.com

Greece Ridge 12 176 Greece Ridge Center Drive 225-5810, regmovies.com

Henrietta 18 525 Marketplace Drive 424-3090, regmovies.com

The Little 240 East Ave., 258-0444 thelittle.org

Movies 10 2609 W. Henrietta Road 292-0303, cinemark.com

Pittsford Cinema 3349 Monroe Ave., 383-1310 pittsford.zurichcinemas.com

Tinseltown USA/IMAX 2291 Buffalo Road 247-2180, cinemark.com

Webster 12 2190 Empire Blvd., 888-262-4386, amctheatres.com

Vintage Drive In 1520 W Henrietta Rd., Avon 226-9290, vintagedrivein.com

All the right moves “Queen of Katwe”

mother, Harriet, and four siblings (Phiona’s father passed away from AIDS). She helps to (PG), DIRECTED BY MIRA NAIR support her family by selling maize on the OPENS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 bustling streets of the village, and she has little reason to believe that she’ll ever know anything [ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW else in her life. This being a Disney film, Nair’s depiction of poverty may gloss over the harsher Based on the true story of young Ugandan chess realities of the characters’ lives, but she doesn’t prodigy Phiona Mutesi, “Queen of Katwe” is an shy away from it either. irresistibly heartwarming fable from “Monsoon Salvation arrives in the form of Robert Wedding” and “Salaam Bombay!” director Mira Katende (a warm and charming David Nair. The story — inspired by sportswriter Tim Oyelowo), an out of work civil engineer who Crothers’s book, which was expanded from his takes a job with a youth ministry doing sports article in ESPN Magazine and adapted for the outreach. He decides to start a chess club for the screen by William Wheeler — may stick closely local children, which Phiona and her brother to the conventional sports movie template, but Brian (Martin Kabanza) wander into one day. you’ve rarely seen it rendered with such care.

Having dropped out of school, Phiona is unable Set in 2007, 9-year-old Phiona (Madina to read or write, but Katende discovers she Nalwanga) lives in the slums outside of the has a phenomenal mind for chess as she picks Ugandan capital of Kampala with her widowed up the game with seemingly little effort. She’s able to see eight or nine moves ahead; her preternatural abilities could prove to be a path toward a better life for her and her family.

Katende teaches his young students to see the game of chess as a guide to follow in their own lives, applying the game’s strategic moves to navigate the many obstacles Madina Nalwanga in “Queen of Katwe.” PHOTO COURTESY WALT DISNEY STUDIOS

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life will throw in their path.

Harriet isn’t thrilled that Phiona and Brian are spending their time learning a silly game instead of earning a living, but Katende wins her over. The coach eventually talks his way into a tournament, where his team must go head-to-head with some fancypants prep school students. But Phiona continues to win, and she’s able to travel all over the country — and eventually, the world — competing against some of the best adult players on the planet in the World Chess Olympiad in Siberia. As Phiona succeeds, Harriet worries that failure could be all the more devastating for her daughter after she’s gotten a taste of a better life, bringing some very real stakes to the film.

As an inspirational story of an underdog triumphing against the odds, “Queen of Katwe” follows the expected formula, but does so with great skill and more intelligence than is typical.

Nair has a way with characters; they feel like flesh-and-blood people, and not just pieces to be moved around the film’s own chess board.

Weaving underlying gender and class issues throughout the film, the director works her audience’s emotions without feeling blatantly manipulative — always a concern in movies of this type. She also manages to make the film’s chess sequences riveting, even to someone like me who couldn’t explain the rules of the game if you held a gun to my head.

But what truly sets the film apart is its setting: Nair imbues her film with an incredible sense of place. Nair lived in Kampala for many years, and it’s evident.

(The director still runs a film school in the

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country, which star Lupita Nyong’o graduated from.) She has a real connection to the community and the country, showing the vitality and energy of the city. The film’s world is filled with deeply saturated textures and colors, shown off to great effect in the lovely work from cinematographer Sean Bobbitt.

In her first acting role, Madina Nalwanga is a real find. Like the rest of the children featured in the film, Nalwanga is a native of Katwe, and her immensely likeable, naturalistic performance anchors the film.

Lupita Nyong’o delivers a lovely, understated turn in what could have been a thankless role in the wrong hands. After several voice and motion-capture performances, it’s her first live-action role since her Oscar-winning turn in “12 Years a Slave.” Finally seeing her face on screen again is just one of the film’s many pleasures. And between Nyong’o and the charismatic Oyelowo, Nalwanga could hardly have had better mentors to guide her through her first film experience.

A cheerfully positive portrayal of Africa and its people, “Queen of Katwe” is one of the rare stories that’s told from their perspective and not of that of an outsider — thankfully, there’s no white savior to be found here. Telling its story with great compassion and perception, “Queen of Katwe” is a feel-good film that’s truly inspiring.

Visit rochestercitynewspaper.com on Friday for additional film coverage, including reviews of “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” and a preview of Part I of the Rochester Polish Film Festival.

[ OPENING ] CAMERAPERSON (NR): Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson uses footage she’s shot for other filmmaker’s documentaries to craft a unique, first-person memoir that chronicles her life and career.

Little (Tue., Oct. 4, 7 p.m.)

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958): Based on a play by Tennessee Williams which centers on a wealthy Southern family whose patriarch is dying of cancer. The other family members are aware of his imminent demise and have their eyes on his fortune. Starring Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor. Dryden (Sat., Oct. 1, 8 p.m.; Mon., Oct. 3. 1:30 p.m.)

DECALOGUE ONE & TWO (1989): The first two installments of Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s epic miniseries based around the Ten Commandments. Dryden (Thu., Sep. 29, 8 p.m.)

DEEPWATER HORIZON (PG13): Mark Wahlberg stars in this story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded in April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Canandaigua, Culver, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, IMAX, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster FANTASTIC PLANET (1973): This futuristic story takes place on a faraway planet where blue giants rule, and oppressed humanoids rebel against the machine-like leaders. Dryden (Sun., Oct. 2, 2 p.m.)

HANDMADE CINEMA III: Works

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MASTERMINDS (PG-13): A night guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history.

Starring Zach Galifianakis, Kristen, Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Owen Wilson, and Leslie Jones.

Canandaigua, Culver, Geneseo, Greece, Tinseltown THE MEASURE OF A MAN (2015): An unemployed factory worker is trying to make ends meet in

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MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN (PG-13): Tim Burton directs this fantasy about a teenager who finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster THE MONKEY TALKS (1927): A circus performer meets a man pretending to be a talking monkey.

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QUEEN OF KATWE (PG): Based on the true story of a young girl who overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a chess master. Starring Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo. Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster [ CONTINUING] BAD MOMS (R): Frazzled moms Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn band together to take down the queen bees of the PTA (played by Christina Applegate and Jada Pinkett Smith) in this comedy from the writers of “The Hangover.” Greece THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK - THE TOURING YEARS (NR): A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles’ 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966.

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Based on the classic Roald Dahl children’s book. Movies 10 BLAIR WITCH (R): After discovering a video showing what he believes to be his sister’s experiences in the demonic woods of the Blair Witch, a young man and his friends head to the forest in search of his lost sibling.

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graduate program, an old flame reenters his life at a birthday dinner party. Little DON’T BREATHE (R): A group of teens break into a blind man’s home thinking they’ll get away with the perfect crime. They’re wrong. Culver, Greece, Tinseltown DON’T THINK TWICE (R): An improv comedy troupe deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time. Little GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13): Who you gonna call? Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones.

Movies 10 HELL OR HIGH WATER (R): A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to robbing banks in order to save their family’s farm in West Texas. Starring Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, and Ben Foster.

Canandaigua THE HOLLARS (PG-13): “The Office” star John Krasinski directs and stars in this story about an aspiring New York City artist who returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery. Little, Pittsford ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE (PG): In the fifth installment of the successful kiddie series, Manny, Diego, and Sid join up with Buck to fend off a meteor strike that would destroy the world. Movies 10 JASON BOURNE (PG-13): Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass return to the Bourne franchise with this newest installment, which finds the super spy digging further into his mysteriously knotty past. Movies 10 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13): After acclimating to life in London, Tarzan is called back to the jungle to protect his former home.

Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Christoph Waltz, and Samuel L. Jackson. Movies 10 LIGHTS OUT (PG-13): When her little brother experiences the same haunting events that once tested her sanity, a young woman works to unlock the truth and faces an entity that has an attachment to their mother. Movies 10 THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (PG13): In this remake of John Sturges’ classic western, seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor

village against savage thieves.

Starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, and Vincent D’onofrio. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster MISS SHARON JONES! (NR): Barbara Kopple’s portrait of the soul singer and her year-long battle with cancer. Little NERVE (PG-13): A high school senior finds herself immersed in an online game of truth or dare, where her every move is manipulated by an anonymous community of “watchers.”

Movies 10 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG): This animated adventure chronicles what our pets get up to when we’re not around.

Culver, Greece SNOWDEN (R): Oliver Stone directs the true story of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Culver, Greece, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster STORKS (PG): An animated adventure set in a world where storks have moved on from delivering babies to become a package delivery service. But when a baby is inadvertently manufactured, chaos ensues.

Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster SUICIDE SQUAD (PG-13): A secret government agency recruits imprisoned supervillains to execute dangerous black ops missions in exchange for clemency. Starring Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, and Jared Leto. Canandaigua, Culver, Greece, Tinseltown SULLY (PG-13): Clint Eastwood directs the story of Chesley Sullenberger, who became a hero after gliding his plane along the water in the Hudson River, saving all of the airplane flights 155 crew and passengers. Starring Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, and Anna Gunn.

Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS (PG-13): A surrogate mom for a couple becomes dangerously obsessed with the soon-to-be father. Culver

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One of the up and coming residential sections in the southeast quadrant of the city is the Pearl-Meigs-Monroe neighborhood. Surrounding the lively commercial Monroe Village between Alexander and South Goodman Streets, the nearby residential streets are made up of solid housing stock dating from the late 19th century. The house at 407 Meigs Street was recently rented and is now offered as a single-family residence. Built in 1888, this frame house with a spacious 2,712 square feet of living space has been upgraded with a four-year-old roof and recent mechanicals, including central air. However, it is the home’s original details that have been preserved throughout its long history that will capture the attention of anyone walking through the house.

The house exhibits elements of the Queen Anne style of architecture, popular in America between 1880 and 1900, with steeply pitched roof, a dominant frontfacing gable, and a cross-gable behind it. The asymmetrical façade features a projecting decorative front porch with delicate spindlework ornamentation around the frieze.

The balustrade, porch floor and staircase have been newly renovated. A solid pair of double, glazed wooden doors opens into the front hall. The unfurnished interior shows off the refinished original decorative woodwork and gleaming wood floors, which are predominant throughout the house. Several ceiling lighting fixtures hanging from plaster medallions appear to be historic.

There are three large rooms separated by wide openings with pocket doors. The front parlor has a pair of front-facing windows and would make a pleasant sitting room.

The largest room features a handsome fireplace with the original boldly carved wooden mantel, a colorful tile and cast-iron surround, and a blue-tiled hearth. Turning left through another wide opening is the third major space, perfect as the dining room. In the back is a small butler’s pantry with a new sink, a small powder room, and the kitchen with a decorative tin ceiling, a distinctive black and white linoleum floor, as well as stainless steel appliances, and plenty of cupboards.

The second floor is accessed by a front, newly carpeted staircase, as well as a back stairs. There are four large, lightfilled bedrooms, each with plenty of closet space, including an immense walk-in closet next to the front master bedroom. The full bath features a clawfoot tub with shower insert. Off the back of the second floor is an unrestored porch. The original carriage house with two bays is also unrestored, waiting for a new use. This unique home is waiting for the right buyer to add their personal stamp of décor. It is offered at $148,500. Contact Marco Muoio of Fortified Real Estate Services at 585-278-4100 or Patrick Dutton of Dutton & Co. Real Estate Services at 585-704-1546.

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NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 8 Carney Circle, Rochester, New York, 14623; Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] 400 - 402 Grand LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 8/29/16. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to POB 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Absolute Pro Properties LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 7/14/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 55 Nottingham Rd., Rochester, NY 14610.

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Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that an alcohol beverage license, pending, has been applied for by the undersigned to sell Liquor Beer & Wine retail in a Restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at: 360 Thurston Road Rochester NY 14619- On Premises Consumption Liquor License for Royal Ox Food and Catering Inc/ dba Royal Ox Food and Catering [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Wigz by Bangz L.L.C..

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SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 1801 Penfield Rd., Penfield, NY. Purpose: any lawful activities.

To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 104 MAIN, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/15/16. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 104 Main St., E. Rochester, NY 14445. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 104 MAIN, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/15/16. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 104 Main St., E. Rochester, NY 14445. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 1375 ROUTES 5 & 20, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/17/16.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 26 Lake Lacoma Dr., Pittsford, NY 14561.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 1520 MT. HOPE AVE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/7/2016.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1825 Clover St., Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 20 Palmer St. LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/18/2016.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 212 Hamlin Parma Townline Rd., Hilton, NY 14468.

Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 21 Humboldt Street I, LLC filed under

the original name 23 Humboldt Street I, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 12/20/13. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 21 Humboldt Street, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 12/3/13. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 23524, Rochester, NY 14693. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 9240 Holdings, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 8/3/16.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to CTC, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Choice One Rental Properties LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 08/17/2016.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 94 Pacer Drive. Henrietta NY, 14467. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of COTOPAXI PROPERTIES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/14/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 415 Mt. Airy Drive, Rochester, NY 14617. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Dancing Rabbit Hill, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 9/6/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of

process to 62 Woodbury Pl., Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of DECA HOLDINGS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/18/2016.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 475 Kirk Rd., Rochester NY 14612.

Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of DraughtLab, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 8/10/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 517 Deer Haven Dr., Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of EduBusiness Consulting, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) July 8, 2016. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 20 Short Hills Drive Hilton, NY 14468 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ELAB SMOKERS BOUTIQUE THREE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/28/16.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 4373 Lake Ave., Rochester, NY 14612.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of EPM Rim, Injection and Tool LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 8/12/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Ingrid Palermo, Esq., Bond Schoeneck & King, 350 Linden Oaks, Ste. 310, Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of FLOUR CITY FEAR MEN’S ROLLER DERBY, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Sec. of State. of New York (SSNY) on 8/1/16.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process served to Flour City Fear Men’s Roller Derby, LLC, 30 Mulberry Street, Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of French Hill Properties LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/1/16. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Sharon M. Shafrir, 2850 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of J-TEC Network Consultants, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 8/5/16.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 189 Queensland Dr., Spencerport, NY 14559.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of KAPTEIN MANAGEMENT 31, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/25/2016.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 430 Lake Rd., Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Killian Properties, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed SSNY 08/08/2016. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC at 1099 Fairdale Glen, Farmington, NY 14425. Purpose: any lawful activities [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of KRITZKY DEVELOPMENT LLC

Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/6/2016.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 133 West Ave., East Rochester, NY 14445.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of LECESSE Construction Company, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 9/19/16.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 75 Thurway Park Dr., West Henrietta, NY 14586. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: DGS Rochester LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on August 29, 2016.

Office location, Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 150L Greaves Ln., Suite 236, Staten Island NY 10308. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Lion and Luxe LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/19/16.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 1018 Long Pond Road, Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: Personal Training. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MKTshare LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/7/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Noah Morgenstern, 114 St. Paul Street, Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan Collins Apartments LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 9/21/16.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against

it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan MBC Holdings LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 8/25/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan Relocation Services LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 8/30/16.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan Woodland Holdings LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 8/12/16.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of NCO Consulting, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/8/16.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 3873 Elmwood Ave Rochester, NY 14610. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of New York Appellate Digest, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/30/16. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 126 Colonial Village Road, Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of formation of PICCIRILLO SIGNATURE HOMES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/7/2016.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3 Golden Locust Circle, Penfield, NY 14526.

Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of Treadstone Holdings LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 9/16/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2541 Monroe Ave., Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of formation of Triple R Equestrian Center, LLC. Art of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/22/2016.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 276 Burnt Mill Rd Churchville, N.Y. 14428. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of ROC City Consultants, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 9/21/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 16 Millwood Ct., Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Rock Ridge Builders LLC amended to Rockridge Builders LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/7/16.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SRD Homes, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/15/16. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 18 Woodgreen

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[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of webSURGE, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of State on February 29, 2008. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. The New York Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of such process to 195 North Ave., Suite 3, Webster, NY 14580. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of WOHPH LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/7/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of

To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 19 Sanford Street, Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION being held at Chester’s Self Storage 600 W Broad St. Rochester NY 14608 on Thursday October 20th at 1:00 pm. The following customers’ accounts have become delinquent so their item (s) will be auctioned off to settle past due rents. NOTE: Owner reserves the right to bid at auction, reject any and all bids, and cancel or adjourn the sale. Name of tenant: Yamika Gargia unit 13 owes $208 and Brande Hunt unit 30 owes $308.

[ NOTICE ] Sara Frandina Strategies LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 9/2/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Sara Frandina, 700 Pennfield Rd., Rochester, NY 14625. General purpose. [ NOTICE ] TONY’S LIQUOR STORE LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/26/16.

Office: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 66 N. Main Street, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Perlmutter IRNY LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 9/1/16. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to PO Box 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose

West Rush Media, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 8/16/16. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 69 Rush-West Rush Rd., Rush, NY 14543. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

[ NOTICE ] Property Management CM, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 8/23/16. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 2250 W. Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626. General purpose. [ NOTICE ] Ridgeway Physical Therapy & Chiropractic, PLLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 9/13/16. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 14 Matthew Circle Rochester, NY 14624 General Purpose

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[ NOTICE ] WNY Auto Wholesalers LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 8/22/16. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 25 Greenboro Ct East Amherst NY 14051 General Purpose [ NOTICE } 421 University Avenue, LLC, Art of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/30/2016. Office Location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 18491 Rochester NY 14618. Purpose: Any lawful activities. [ NOTICE } MW & AE LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 9/15/16.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to PO Box 30071 Rochester NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE of FORMATION of SEDOR AUTO SALES, LLC ] Art. of Organization filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02-10/16. Office of location: Monroe County.

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served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 1483 Creek Street Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Grey Goose Landing, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 08/30/16. Its office is located in Monroe County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 605 North Rd, Scottsville, N.Y. 14546.

The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Not. of Form of JDO The Chicken Man, LLC. The Art. of Org. were filed Sc’y State (SSNY) 8/18/16. Office location Monroe County. SSNY designated as the agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail a copy to 740 Driving Park Avenue, Door Letter “I”, Rochester, NY 14613.

Ourpose of LLC: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Quiet Country, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 08/30/16. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 605 North Rd, Scottsville, N.Y. 14546.

The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] EKLEGO WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 9/19/2016.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served, SSNY shall mail process to EKLEGO WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS LLC, 635 Lake Road, Hamlin, NY 14464 General Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF VENESS PROPERTIES, LLC ] Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 8/31/16 Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated Agent of LLC to whom process may be served. SSNY may mail copy of process to 331

River Heights Circle, Rochester NY 14612.

Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CUMINALE STUDIOS, LLC ] The name of the Limited Liability Company is Cuminale Studios, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State on 08/25/2016. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. The New York Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of such process to 104 Parce Avenue, Fairport NY 14450. The LLC is organized to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PRICE HOMESTEAD, LLC ] Price Homestead, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Secretary of State on September 1, 2016. (1) Its principal office is in Livingston County, New York. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent upon whom process against it may be served and its post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him or her is c/o William Chase, 1096 Gilbert Mills Road, Honeoye Falls, New York 14472. (3) The character or purpose of its business is to engage in any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Act. [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 2015-11168 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs.

Johnnie Mae Jackson, Deceased, and any persons who are heirs or distributees of Johnnie Mae Jackson, Deceased, and all persons who are widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be deceased, and their husbands, wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; First American Investment Company; New York

State Tax Commissioner; Palisades Collection LLC; City Court of Rochester; Capital One Bank; United States of America; People of the State of New York; Frank Iacovangelo, as Public Administrator, Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated September 13, 2016, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the lobby of the Monroe County Office Building located at 39 West Main Street, Rochester, New York, County of Monroe on October 26, 2016 at 1:30 p.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 48 Aebersold Street, Rochester, NY; Tax Account No. 106.35-196. Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto, covenants, restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action. Judgment amount: $33,796.76 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest.

DATED: September 2016 Louis Cristo, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 2015-7085 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs.

James Stanbrough; Diane M. Stanbrough; Monroe County Department of Human Services; New York State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance; Michael Stanbrough, Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated September 15, 2016, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the lobby of the Monroe County Office Building located at 39 West Main Street, Rochester, New

York, County of Monroe on October 26, 2016 at 2:00 p.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Greece, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 317 Crystal Creek Drive, Greece, NY; Tax Account No. 045.012-92. Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto, covenants, restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action.

Judgment amount: $62,290.14 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: September 2016 Pamela Halpin, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF MONROE WELLS FARGO FINANCIAL CREDIT SERVICES NEW YORK, INC., Plaintiff AGAINST James P. Stouffer and Michelle R. Stouffer, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated March 11, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Front Steps of the Monroe County Office Building, 39 West Main Street, City of Rochester, on October 27, 2016 at 10:30AM, premises known as 50 EDENDERY CIRCLE, FAIRPORT, NY 14450. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Perinton, County of Monroe and State of New York, SECTION 152.08, BLOCK 3, LOT 33.2. Approximate amount of judgment $281,721.77 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# I2015007629.

Richard Timothy Bell, Jr., Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221

Fun [ NEWS OF THE WEIRD ] BY CHUCK SHEPHERD

Insanity Defined

Police and prosecutors in Dallas, appropriately sensitive at having been the site of the 1963 killing of President Kennedy, have apparently taken out their shame on assassination buff Robert Groden. As the Dallas Observer reported in September, Groden has been ticketed by police dozens of times for operating book sales booths near the “grassy knoll” (site of the alleged “second shooter” of the president) — and yet he prevails in court every single time (82 straight, and counting). (Tip for visitors from the Observer: Never publicly utter “grassy knoll” in Dallas, as it seems particularly to offend the police.)

The Continuing Crisis

Stephen Mader, 25, native of Weirton, West Virginia, and former Weirton police officer, is fighting to get his job back after being fired for not being quick enough on the trigger. When Ronald Williams Jr., in May, made a ham-handed attempt at “suicide by cop,” it was Mader who, rather than shooting, tried to talk Williams down (based on his Marine Corps and police academy training), but when Williams pointed his unloaded gun at two of Mader’s colleagues, and one of them quickly shot the man to death, police officials fired Mader for having been insufficiently aggressive.

Can’t Possibly Be True: Few U.S. forces in Afghanistan speak the native Pashto or Dari, and the war prospects would be dim were it not for courageous Afghan civilians who aid the U.S. as interpreters under promise of protection and future emigra-

tion to the U.S. However, the congressional battle over immigration policy has delayed entry for about 10,000 interpreters, who (along with their families) face imminent death if they remain in Afghanistan. Some in Congress also regard Afghans as riskier immigrants (despite the interpreters’ demonstrated loyalty).

Suspicions Confirmed

Master baker Stefan Fischer filed a lawsuit recently against Bakery of New York for wrongful firing — because he refused to use “bug-infested” flour to make batches of bread. According to Fischer, when he informed management of the bugs in the facility’s 3,000-pound flour silo, he was told simply to make “multigrain” bread, which Fischer took to mean that fewer diners would complain if they heard “crunching” while eating multigrain.

Leading Economic Indicators

News Corporation Australia reported in September the enviable success of a 16-year-old British entrepreneur, Ms. Beau Jessup, who has so far earned about $84,000 with a simple online app to help rich Chinese parents select prosperous-sounding English names for their babies. Users choose among 12 personality traits they hope their baby to have, then receive three suggestions (including a list of famous people with those names).

Jessup got the idea when living in China and noticing that some babies of the rich were given lame names, such as “Gandalf” and “Cinderella.”

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[ LOVESCOPE ] BY EUGENIA LAST ARIES (March 21-April 19): A desire to be in a settled relationship with someone will coax you to jump into something that may be questionable. Slow down and consider what’s most important to you before you make promises that you regret. Not sharing common interests and concerns will turn into a deal breaker.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): An unusual relationship will develop when you least expect it, like while helping or volunteering your time or while on a business trip or retreat. Your intuitive insight will tune into someone quite different than you, but who is faced with a similar personal situation. Talks will lead to a romantic gesture.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Refuse to let temptation take over. Being attracted to a big spender can be enticing, but it can also turn into a loss depending on his or her favored indulgence. Stick to practical and affordable activities and entertainment, or your search for love will turn into a costly venture.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Do things that you find inviting, and you will find love. You will attract all sorts of interesting people, but your intuition will help you find the one who is best suited to you. Follow your heart, and don’t be afraid to make the first move. Romance is heading your way.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your interests will vary, leading you in new directions when it comes to love and romance. Take a break and decide what it is you want before you hook up with someone looking for something totally different. Don’t let a physical attraction take you on a journey that will end in regret.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’ll be surprised by the attention someone sends your way. Don’t dismiss what’s happening and ignore the advances being made.

Express your interest, and see what transpires. Someone jealous of the emotional opportunity being offered to you will try to deter you from getting involved.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Jealousy is apparent on your part or the part of someone you meet. If you cannot trust the one you are with, you should question the motive behind getting together in the first place. Be careful when it comes to love and sharing with someone you know little about.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It will take someone very special to grab your attention. Frequent places that are conducive to learning and unusual forms of entertainment, and you will strike up a conversation with someone who has just as much to offer as you. A romantic gesture will turn into love at first sight.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Let intelligence and the conversations you have with others help you decipher if you want to waste your time on someone. Walk away from anyone trying to entice you with indulgent tendencies that can thwart your common sense and lead to emotional, physical of financial loss.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ll be tempted to start something with someone you meet through work.

Take it slow, and let the friendship build. Time is on your side, and the end result will be well worth your while. Love takes time to grow when you are looking for your forever partner.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Consider what’s required when it comes to making a commitment. You may think you want to settle down, but if it isn’t the right person, you will tire quickly and want to move on. Don’t make promises to someone unless you share the same dreams.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’ll instinctively know when you meet someone if you have something special. Don’t waste time, and don’t be afraid to offer something different when it comes to romance. Your unique approach to life will be an asset when it comes to charming the perfect partner.

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