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I loved Don Griffin’s Feedback (December 24) until I got to his last sentence re: President Obama on immigration, “and leave politics and color out of it.” If that were true, where would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or Nelson Mandela be in the annals of history? Politics is a dirty word that gets a bad rap for good reasons, starting with corruption. But politics is merely one’s spirituality (or lack thereof) demonstrated. Think of Mahatma Gandhi, or more recently, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. DHANI SCHIMIZZI
Homelessness is an emergency
Most homeless advocates never wanted a tent city to exist. It should not exist. Every citizen in our society has the right to sleep in a warm bed, wake up and take a hot shower, and eat breakfast with clean utensils. No one should be forced to sleep outside in tents during a Western New York winter. Yet after the Civic Center Monroe County Local Development Corporation evicted the homeless from the Civic Center parking garage (an unacceptable situation to begin with), the county intensified a housing crisis that has brought our entire community to a tipping point. It should not be forgotten that Monroe County is legally obligated to care for the destitute. People have been living in tents for over two months because the county has shirked its responsibility to locate and fund a new shelter. The county’s inaction is made even more shameful because there are hundreds of abandoned properties 2 CITY
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and buildings within the city center that could be converted into a modern hypothermia facility. What has been lacking at all levels of government is willpower, compassion, and accountability. In other words, the City of Rochester and Monroe County did not allow Sanctuary Village to exist as a gesture of merciful tolerance; they made it impossible for it not to exist by their lack of political courage and moral ingenuity. Furthermore, tearing apart the encampment just days before Christmas did not prove that some people are too dangerous to house or that self-sufficient communities consisting of poor people are inherently prone to dysfunction. The decision to spontaneously dismantle Sanctuary Village only proved that the Monroe County executive and Rochester mayor have been unwilling to uphold their civic duty to provide safe and reliable housing to our community’s weakest and most marginalized population. The mayor and the county executive must put their verbal pledges of support into immediate action. Every night that one of our citizens sleeps outside against his or her choice is one night too many. The bottom line is that the homeless were not only booted from the Civic Center garage without a plan to house them, but that the mayor and her team haphazardly preceded to midwife an underserviced and at times anarchic homeless encampment without seeking approval from City Council, the appropriate neighborhood association, and taxpayers in general. The only response now is to rectify these mistakes by finding and sanctioning a new indoor Sanctuary Village as soon as possible. What will it take for our community to realize that this is an emergency? GEORGE PAYNE
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GUEST COMMENTARY | BY MARK HARE
School integration is more than enrichment I am betting that most parents in the Spencerport school district would welcome participation in the Urban-Suburban program, despite the few voices of opposition. For 50 years, the program has opened the door for minority children from Rochester to attend school in one of seven participating suburban districts. (Spencerport would be the 8th if the school board approvals the proposal.) And what’s not to like? It costs suburban districts nothing. And as supporters often explain, the city children who participate are selected because they have parents who are highly engaged; their children are ready to learn, not in need of substantial remediation. Urban-Suburban is a wonderful opportunity for the 500-plus city children who participate; it gets them out of city schools where the risk of failure is high. And thousands of suburban kids get to know classmates whose lives are very different from their own. Urban-Suburban is a low-maintenance integration plan. No fuss. No muss. But I suspect that many people think of Urban-Suburban as an enrichment program — good for everyone, but not critical to anyone’s education. And that is the problem. Fifty years of national research and our own experience have made it absolutely clear: socioeconomic integration of our schools is essential, though not sufficient to reverse the catastrophic outcomes in the city schools. Rochester’s schools are among the most segregated in the country. Students and their families live in poor neighborhoods, isolated from the rich network of contacts that middle-class families take for granted — everything from entry-level jobs for teens, cultural and travel opportunities, and high-quality schools that are so important to building successful lives. School is not just a place where information gets poured into your head; it is a community where children and parents learn from each other and learn to appreciate each other. Separate is never equal. Chris Widmaier is a science teacher and the swim coach at the city’s World of Inquiry School. The city’s varsity swim programs have dwindled to two this year, and Widmaier says he knows why. City kids use Depression-era facilities and are much slower than the suburban kids who have access to private pools and year-round training. It’s discouraging, Widmaier says; his students don’t have the wherewithal to compete. “At sectionals, the differences are glaringly obvious,” he says. “The swimmers on the other teams don’t even make eye contact with my swimmers. The fact is many
…we need not just UrbanSuburban, but a family of urban-suburban prodigies to bridge the gap.” of them have no idea how to talk to people who are different from them.” It’s tempting to believe that it doesn’t matter where you go to school, or who you sit next to. But it does. The benchmark 1966 Coleman report on equality of educational opportunity nailed the truth almost half a century ago: “...the social composition of the student body is more highly related to achievement, independent of the student’s own social background, than is any school factor.” In other words: in the classroom, demography is destiny. If we are going to give the poorest children in our community a chance to succeed in school, we need not just UrbanSuburban, but a family of urban-suburban prodigies to bridge the gap. The critics of integration are right about one thing: Sitting in a classroom next to a middle-class student does not make a poor child smarter. But it does create opportunity. Socioeconomic integration is not magic; it works only when a school community embraces all of its children, including those who have fallen behind, and comes to value those children as assets. School boards must recognize that you can’t measure a school by its test scores alone — that good schools teach students how to care for each other, and about our obligation to work for the common good. If we truly believe in equal opportunity, we must break up the segregated schools that have preserved inequality for decades. Former D&C and City writer Mark Hare is filling in while Mary Anna Towler is on vacation. rochestercitynewspaper.com
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[ NEWS FROM THE WEEK PAST ]
Mario Cuomo dies
Mario Cuomo, a Democrat who served as New York’s governor from 1983 to 1994, died at the age of 82. Cuomo, the father of Governor Andrew Cuomo, was considered a leading liberal voice in the national Democratic Party and was at one point a leading presidential contender. His funeral services were held Tuesday at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Manhattan.
Pay raise
In New York, the New Year brought a bump in the minimum wage. Effective December 31, the wage increased from $8 an hour to $8.75 an hour. It’ll rise again at the end of 2015 to $9 an hour.
Wedgepoint gets state money
Wedgepoint Apartments in the City of Rochester is one of four New York affordable housing projects to share in a $16.5 million state award. The mixed-use, mixed-income project is located at the corner of Byron Street and South Avenue in the South Wedge. Total cost of the project, which will have 60 units, is $15.4 million.
Castro cuts deal
The Rochester Housing Authority has reached a
separation agreement with Alex Castro, its former executive director. Castro will get approximately $93,000 after taxes. He was dismissed in October in a controversial move that upset Rochester’s Latino community and others. The RHA is still searching for a new leader.
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Cuomo’s education shakeup
The State Education Department will provide grants as high as $1.25 million over three years for school districts that develop programs to improve student achievement and increase socioeconomic integration. The grants will be awarded only to the state’s lowest-performing schools.
New York’s teachers unions and Governor Andrew Cuomo weren’t on the best of terms during Cuomo’s first four years in office. And things may be about to get much worse. Cuomo made it clear in the final weeks of his first term that the state has not made acceptable progress in improving student achievement. And the governor’s looking to shake up k to 12 education, particularly in urban districts, to get better results.
City school board elects leaders
The members of the seven-person Rochester school board re-elected Van White as president and Cynthia Elliott as vice president for 2015. Some observers say that the board is operating in a much more cohesive manner under White and Elliott’s leadership, while others say that the board is micromanaging Superintendent Bolgen Vargas and his administration.
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majority of teachers receive glowing evaluations, he says, yet New York’s overall annual graduate rate is about 76 percent. And New York spends more on education than most states, Cuomo says, yet achieves only mediocre results. But the differences between the governor and the teachers union go even deeper, especially in urban districts where enrollment of special education, English language learners, and immigrant students is higher. Teachers say that they need more resources — something that Cuomo rejects. The governor’s State of the State address, now moved to January 21, should reveal more about Cuomo’s plans for education in New York.
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Cuomo recently brought up the prospect of lifting the state’s cap on charter schools. And he raised the specter of giving mayors in the state’s largest cities managing control of their districts — a controversial move that would make elected school boards less relevant. And about a week ago, Cuomo stunned and angered many teachers and education leaders when he vetoed a bill that would have temporarily kept students’ performance on state tests from affecting the evaluations of teachers and principals. The Cuomo administration had drafted the bill; the reversal is seen as an acknowledgment of the disastrous Common Core rollout. Cuomo says that the state’s teacher evaluation process doesn’t work. The
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“I loved the job, and I loved my job as mayor of Rochester. But the big difference was at the end of the day, I could go home. As lieutenant governor, I could be in Albany, New York City, or somewhere else.” [ BOB DUFFY ]
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Bob Duffy dishes Bob Duffy says he just wanted to come home. Rochester’s former mayor and New York’s former lieutenant governor is back in the Flower City, heading up the Rochester Business Alliance. Rumors of a rift with Governor Andrew Cuomo are off-target, Duffy says; he loved being New York’s No. 2. But Rochester beckoned. “I loved the job, and I loved my job as mayor of Rochester,” he says. “But the big difference was at the end of the day, I could go home. As lieutenant governor, I could be in Albany, New York City, or somewhere else.” Duffy landing at the RBA is hardly a surprise; rumors of his interest in the job began swirling about a year ago. His predecessor, Sandra Parker — who helped redefine and sharpen the role of the RBA during her tenure — had been fairly candid about her support for Duffy as her replacement. “I’m going to listen and I’m going to learn,” Duffy says. “I want to get to know the [RBA] board members, and most importantly, our customers, some 2,000 businesses in a nine-county region.” In one of his first official appearances in his new job, Duffy will kick off the Tuesday Topics winter series at the Central Library
on Tuesday, January 13. The series, which is organized by the Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library, is held at the Central Library, 115 South Avenue, from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. Duffy, who is the event’s guest speaker, will talk about his time in Albany and his economic outlook for New York State and the Rochester region. The economic outlook for Rochester is favorable, he says. “Since 2008, we went through a difficult recession, but this community has done much better than most,” Duffy says. He says that much of the credit for that stability should go to a group of people who often go unrecognized: former Kodak employees. “We tended to focus on who has left and the downsizing, but most of the people who have left — engineers, scientists, researchers, and highly skilled manufacturing folks — have really gone out and kept this economy going,” he says. “Everywhere I would go [as lieutenant governor], I would find these startup businesses, and inevitably from the top right through the entire organization were former Kodak employees who brought their skills to these new situations.”
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Being a college town has helped Rochester, too, he says, because it assures a steady pool of talent for the region. A third factor that will contribute to the area’s economic future, Duffy says, is the Eastman Business Park. The site is often described as an “innovative ecosystem” where facilities are available for pioneering work in films, coatings, imaging, and chemical technologies. Duffy says that the park — possibly the largest industrial park of its kind in the country — is a major asset to the University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
He says that he understands the sensitivity about all of the attention and investment that Cuomo has directed to Buffalo, but he expects that the governor will pay more attention to Rochester in his second term. “He has put a lot of money into the Buffalo area, a lot of investment and capital, though not quite $1 billion, and he has changed the psyche and morale for that entire community,” Duffy says. “His next step will be looking at what worked and what didn’t and probably Rochester is next in line.” But Duffy says that Rochester’s future is also hugely dependent on improving the performance of the city school district. As mayor, Duffy was the major force pushing for mayoral control of city schools. Lovely Warren, Rochester’s current mayor, will have to decide for herself whether mayoral control is right for Rochester, Duffy says. “It’s a very heavy lift, and it certainly is not without its controversy,” he says. “The thing we have to ask ourselves is, ‘Have things improved so that we’re seeing the…results we want?’ And I don’t think anybody would tell you yes. I don’t think anyone from the superintendent to the school board would tell you that.”
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Finger Lakes’ fuel, tourism industries clash Residents of the Finger Lakes are fiercely protective of the region’s land and waters. As a result, the area is known for open roads and farmland; thick forests and sprawling vineyards; fresh air and, of course, gleaming freshwater. Residents know full well that the 11 Finger Lakes are an asset that few places in the country — and possibly the world — can match. And after state government and tourism officials caught on, they began marketing the region as a world-class destination; a relaxing, romantic getaway with all of the outdoor recreation and fine wine a visitor could handle. But along Seneca Lake — the largest of the Finger Lakes — residents and community leaders say that hard-won reputation is at risk because of two proposed underground fuel storage projects. They worry that the facilities will detract from the scenery, generate road-clogging truck traffic, and pose a threat to Seneca Lake’s water. “There’s this vision that we can build this world-class tourist destination,” says Joseph Campbell, co-founder of the activist group Gas Free Seneca. “We’ve already been called the No. 1 wine destination in the world. And that vision is incompatible with this industrial gas storage.” At issue are proposals from subsidiaries of Crestwood Holdings, a Texas-based company that deals in fuel storage and transportation. Both proposals involve storing fuels in dormant salt-mining caverns along Seneca Lake. The caverns are owned by one of the company’s subsidiaries, US Salt. In November, the federal government approved Crestwood’s application to expand an existing natural gas storage facility approximately 2.5 miles north of Watkins Glen in the Town of Reading. The company will boost its storage capacity from 1.45 billion cubic feet to 2 billion cubic feet. The other caverns, located at the same 576-acre site on state Routes 14 and 14A, would be used to store 88 million gallons of liquefied petroleum gas, better known as propane and butane. The project needs state approval, and the company’s permit application is under review by the Department of Environmental Conservation. Crestwood and its supporters have set up a website for the LPG project, www. nypropaneadvocacy.com. The site says that the storage facility would serve consumers across New York and the Northeast, and would help avoid price spikes such as those experienced by homeowners and businesses last winter. It would also add $650,000 in property tax revenue for Schuyler County, the site says, and 12 jobs. But opponents say that the job and tax benefits don’t compare to the contributions
of the $3 billion Finger Lakes wine and tourism economy, which, they say, the storage projects put at risk. On Christmas Day, the New York Times
published an article laying out the conflict between Finger Lakes winemakers and the gas storage proposals. The article illustrated just how far the region’s wine industry has come; the Times treated the vintners just as they might winemakers from Sonoma or Bordeaux. Finger Lakes wines are a major success story. Twenty years ago, even local consumers didn’t think much of the wines, but now they’re considered among the world’s best. And Finger Lakes wines have brought new prestige to New York’s entire wine industry. This fall, Wine Enthusiast Magazine named New York State its Wine Region of the Year. Finger Lakes winemakers, as well as other agriculture and tourism businesses in the region, say that they fear that these gas storage projects could undermine what they’ve worked so hard to build. “This is heavy, heavy industry,” says Lou Damiani, co-owner of Damiani Wine Cellars on Seneca’s east side. “Once they get their foot in the door, they’re going to expand.” The chief concern is the industrialization of the Seneca Lake area. Finger Lakes visitors are, after all, coming to relax, to soak in the scenery, and to visit the growing numbers of wineries, breweries, and distilleries — the majority of which are scattered around Seneca Lake. They aren’t coming to look at compressors and brine ponds, or to battle truck traffic. (Crestwood says that the traffic fears are unfounded because the fuels will be transported by pipeline and rail.) That’s not to say that the area is devoid of heavy industry. US Salt has operated on the western shore of Seneca Lake for over a century. And the area has been home to propane storage since the mid 1960’s. Crestwood points to this history as proof that the wine and gas storage industries can coexist. But there’s a tipping point, Campbell says, where industry begins to disrupt tourism.
Opponents of a plan to expand a natural gas storage facility along Seneca Lake have repeatedly tried to block trucks heading into the site. PHOTOS COURTESY WE ARE SENECA LAKE
Predictably, Crestwood and its opponents
differ on the potential safety and environmental consequences of storing natural gas and LPG in the caverns. And their conflicts center on some pretty complex issues, including the geology around the caverns. The State Department of Environmental Conservation has scheduled a conference on the LPG storage proposal for February. It’s meant to help the department identify facts and disputed issues that it should address during its review of Crestwood’s LPG storage application. Opponents are primarily concerned about Seneca Lake’s water quality; the lake provides drinking water for 100,000 people, including residents of Geneva, Waterloo, and Watkins Glen. Some of the communities around the lake, including the City of Geneva, have gone on record opposing the project. This is where geology factors in. Geologists studied the caverns for Gas Free Seneca and concluded that the structures aren’t suitable for pressurized gas storage, Campbell says. Brine from the caverns, which would be displaced by the stored gas, could be pushed into the lake, he says. Seneca Lake already has higher levels of salt than any of the other Finger Lakes, storage opponents say. High-salinity water can be more expensive to treat for use as drinking water, they say, and could pose a problem for crops, too. Opponents also say that they fear that gas could leak out of the caverns and pose an explosion hazard.
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But Crestwood and its technical experts, including geologists hired by the company, say that the caves are perfectly suited to store the fuels and do not present a substantial safety risk. And the company notes that the state geologist determined there is no geological basis to reject Crestwood’s LPG storage plan. “The caverns are impermeable, and have the structural strength of steel, meaning no fluid or gas can escape through the surrounding salt deposit,” Crestwood says on the www.nypropaneadvocacy.com website. The company says that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission wouldn’t have signed off on the natural gas storage project if it wasn’t safe. Crestwood also has the federal government’s permission to start work on the natural gas project, including upgrades to an existing compressor station. But in October, a coalition of opponents called We Are Seneca Lake began regular blockades of the facility. To date, approximately 170 protesters have been arrested, including winery and business owners and staff. And opponents say that with each round of arrests, their numbers grow. “As soon as we’re arrested, then business returns to usual,” says Dwain Wilder, a Brighton resident who was arrested when he participated in one of the blockades. “But my fondest hope is that we’re able to actually just shut them down eventually and in time to keep them from getting the equipment to begin construction of the improved compressor station.”
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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.)
Fair housing forums
The City of Rochester will hold two public forums on fair housing on Thursday, January 15. The first is from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., while the second is from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. There will be no difference in the meet-
ings. The city is currently undertaking a study to evaluate fair-housing issues in Rochester. The study is called the “Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice” and the meeting is to provide preliminary findings, encourage discussion, and hear suggestions on how to eliminate impediments to fair housing. The meeting will be held at the Rochester Central Library, 114 South Avenue, in the Kate Gleason Auditorium.
Conversation about race
The Lifetree Café will present “What Your Black Friend Wants You to Know: the Conversation about Race No One is Having,” an open conversation about race at 7 p.m. on Monday, January 12. The program will include a film that features insights from black Americans about their experiences. The meeting will be held at 1301 Vintage Lane, Greece.
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Dining pepper to settle into. The squid is tossed with thinly sliced red and green peppers, resulting in a dish that is spicy but doesn’t set the mouth on fire. Tingling like pins and needles on my tongue, I’m urged to pick up the chopsticks and pop more into my mouth. SEA Restaurant is located at 741 Monroe Avenue (473-8031) and 1675 Mount Hope Avenue (461-4154). Open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Monroe Avenue location is also open on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
A new kind of comfort food
Now that the heavy Holiday food is over, you can find these lighter dishes around Rochester: (left) crispy squid at SEA and (right) beer-battered tilapia tacos from Rio Tomatlan. PHOTOS BY JOHN SCHLIA
Lighter bites [ ROUND-UP ] BY LAURA REBECCA KENYON
After weeks of holiday feasting on cookies, cakes, eggnogs, and ham with all the trimmings, I like to reset my palate in the new year by eating lighter foods. That’s not code for dieting; it’s seeking out foods that are lighter in flavor, the way Swiss cheese is more delicate than Parmesan, or lighter in weight, the way a Riesling feels lighter than a cabernet sauvignon. Below is a short collection of lighter dishes I find tantalizing and satisfying, with the added bonus of not leaving me feeling stuffed and weighed down. Have your own favorites? Please share them by commenting on this article at rochestercitynewspaper.com.
The land of cultured milk and honey
At Voula’s Greek Sweets, I can order almost anything from the lunch or brunch menu and know it will be both delicious and nourishing. Hummus, lentil soup, horiatiki salad, gythio plate — all tasty. I am particularly fond of Voula’s Greek yogurt and fruit salad ($9). Brilliantly white and thick, the yogurt stands tall on the plate like a whipped cloud. It’s drizzled with golden honey that pools on the side, and is topped
with crushed pistachios. Fresh, tangy, creamy and lovely, it elevates milk to an ideal. There are also toothy hunks of fresh fruit, like pineapple, grapes, honeydew melon, and pomegranate arils, with a whisper of added sweetness from rose water syrup. Other fruit and yogurt plates hang their heads in shame, knowing that they will never be this simple and delightful. Voula’s Greek Sweets is located at 439 Monroe Avenue and is open daily 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 242-0935 or visit facebook. com/voulasgreeksweets.
Fresh and bright
While it has only been open for a few months, Saha Med Grill has already made a name for itself. At the lunch rush, it’s packed with customers who, like me, are eager to mix their choice of bright flavors and fresh ingredients. I usually order a pita wrap ($8), either stuffed with a smoky, roasted organic eggplant, or long thin strips of turkey shawarma. From there, I can pick from a plethora of toppings that includes zingy tzatziki, salty feta, sweet tomatoes, sharp onions, cool cucumbers, and vinegary pickles. All of those items work well with Saha’s salads, too, like the Grecca ($8), its take on a Greek salad. The standard Grecca comes with Greek dressing drizzled onto mixed
greens, sweet and banana peppers, Kalamata olives, and the aforementioned feta, tomatoes, onions, and cukes. But it’s all customizable: swap the dressing for tahini, throw on grilled chicken kabobs, and bolster it with chickpeas, hearts of palm, or roasted nuts. Saha Med Grill is located at 1290 University Avenue (266-5000) and 14 South Main Street, Pittsford (387-8000). The University Avenue location is open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; the Pittsford location is open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, visit sahamedgrill.com.
Fried can be light
SEA Restaurant is well-known for its pho
($6.50 to $7.75). Tureen-sized bowls of soup are filled with flavorful broth, rice noodles, and meats and topped with equally important are the vegetables, herbs and spices. Even if I ate an entire bowl in a single sitting, I probably wouldn’t feel like I swallowed an anvil. Maybe more surprising is that eating a plate of SEA’s fried squid ($5.75) doesn’t leave me feeling weighed down, either. Each piece is chewy, crisp, and addictive. The squid is cut into flat, rectangular strips and given a coating. Frying puffs the breading in some places and makes it crunchy in others, with plenty of crags for minced garlic, bits of chili, and salt and
I appreciate The Red Fern for providing a menu that meets the needs of family and friends sticking to vegan and gluten-free diets, while offering me, someone who salivates thinking about spaghetti carbonara, options that don’t leave me feeling deprived. I like the restaurant’s cheekiness in offering a compost plate ($11; vegan and optional gluten-free), made with mac salad, sweet potato salad, a choice of vegan proteins and “meat” sauce. I also like that its lentil loaf ($12.50; vegan and gluten free) can sate a winter food comfort craving for meatloaf. The lentil loaf gets lots of flavor from its caramelized onion gravy, deep brown and filled with strings of slow cooked onions. The loaf itself doesn’t match the texture of meat but it does offer some of the weight and density ground beef brings. On the side is a helping of deep green kale, braised until the greens’ toughness has melted away. Flavored with white wine and onion, this kale makes eating one’s vegetables not a chore, but a pleasure. The Red Fern is located at 283 Oxford Street (563-7633) and is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. For more information, visit redfernrochester.com.
Head South this winter
Rio Tomatlan has finally re-opened following a building fire at its previous location last May, and the new space is larger, and the menu has expanded. A few of its once-in-a-while specials have made it to the regular rotation, including the beer-battered tilapia tacos ($13). Each order comes with three tacos and a side of rice and beans. Inside each soft, blue corn tortilla is a crunchy fried filet, a creamy avocado sauce, an addictive chili aioli, snappy shredded cabbage, and magenta-hued and pungently flavored pickled onions. Even in a menu filled with dishes packed with vibrant flavors, colors and textures, these tacos stand out. Rio Tomatlan is located at 106 Bemis Street,
Canandaigua, (394-9380) and is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday, 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. For more information, visit riotomatlan.com. rochestercitynewspaper.com
CITY 9
The Print Club of Rochester turns 85 years old
[ ART ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
F O O PR
John Menihan, "The Net," 1953.
IMAGE COURTESY
THE PRINT CLUB OF ROCHESTER
ast year, printmaker and print collector Adam Werth identified a Picasso lithograph from the “Portraits Imaginaires” portfolio at an estate sale in Pittsford. The print wasn’t getting much attention, and the people running the sale didn’t have any information, so Werth snapped a photo and went home to do some quick research. He rushed back to the sale to buy the print for $400. “I verified the work through a gallery in D.C. that specializes in this work, and was offered double what I paid,” he says. But Werth went further and had the print estimated by Swann Auction Galleries, which valued it at $3,000 to $4,000. Werth says he plans to sell the work at auction and buy something for his personal collection. Werth, who is 35 years old, is the Print Club of Rochester board’s young, new president. He took over leadership of the club at the beginning of 2015 — the Print Club’s 85th year — and is currently busy engaging new collectors of works-on-paper. The Print Club of Rochester, founded in 1930, is one of the longest continuously-running print clubs in the U.S. The members of the club work to educate others on what is considered a “fine art print,” and attempt
to reach new audiences by expressing the investment value of collecting. The not-for-profit organization was established by 22 local print-lovers. Its current membership comprises about 77 individuals, including 65 “full” members, who each receive an annual fine art “presentation print” — a limited edition work created by an artist who is commissioned by the club each year — in exchange for their support. The club’s current membership roster reads like a who’s who in Rochester’s print culture of prominent artists and educators: Nick Ruth, Tarrant Clements, Sue Leopard, Kristine Bouyoucos, Edythe B. Shedden-Cowgill, Tom Lightfoot, and Alan Singer are just a few. Devoted to stimulating interest in and encouraging education about traditional and contemporary methods of printmaking, the club offers annual educational demonstrations, workshops, and lectures for Rochester audiences. Members are invited to participate in an annual juried Members Exhibition. In addition, an annual print exchange is held among the printmaker members, says Hal Marrett, a print collector and longtime Print Club member. This works like a cookie exchange, but with prints. Those who want to participate make a limited-edition print, enough for the number of artists who sign up. “One of the largest challenges facing the club is better educating the general public and prospective members about what a print is and why there is real value in them,” Werth says. This misunderstanding of what a print is — the basic idea that a fine art print is more than something you can buy at a poster shop or at the mall — has traditionally been a problem with understanding printmaking, and print collecting. Put simply, printmaking is the production of images in multiples. An “original print” is an
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image produced from a matrix, which could be a plate, stone, wood block, linoleum, or silkscreen. The matrix is typically covered in ink and pressed onto paper, so the image is transferred this way one or more times, depending on edition size (or number of prints created from one plate). Photography and, in some cases, letterpress are also considered to be fine art prints. Because of the variety of techniques, there is a vast range in the aesthetics of prints, from graphic to painterly; from stark and simple to layered, complex worlds. Compounding the education issue is the contention over including digital artwork in the consideration of fine-art prints. Digital art has been identified as a valuable tool for image making, and not just a way to make multiples, Werth says. The Print Club’s definition of fine art prints now includes digital artwork which is printed with a high-quality inkjet printer. Just as photography has seen massive technological shifts throughout its history, many artists working in more traditional media have embraced digital art. Werth cites painters and printmakers Chuck Close, John Baldessari, Robert Rauschenberg, and Anish Kapoor as part of the long list of prominent artists who have incorporated digital art into their work. Print Club member Kurt Feuerherm, a 90-year-old artist and retired educator, used to make etchings, but now happily creates limited-edition inkjet prints from his digital art. “The quality I get with inkjet is almost as good as a silkscreen,” he says. But there are purist printmakers and collectors who resisted the change. Ron Netsky, a printmaker, Nazareth College art professor, and writer, left the Print Club because they allowed digital prints in their shows. He felt he was in a minority of people who disagreed with this move. “I have nothing against digital prints, but because of the technology used to create them, I don’t think they belong in shows with hand-pulled prints,” Netsky says. He added he knows of original digital prints by artists who do amazing things using software.
“Digital seems like a different animal. I still recommend the club to students and occasionally invite them to the Nazareth College print studio when they have a demonstration involving equipment that we have,” he says. Werth says he recognizes the hand-done element is missing for some, “But once you get past that, if we look at contemporary artists who have been working with print, and different approaches to print, it’s been happening for quite a long time.” Others don’t trust that edition sizes can be truly limited with digital art if an artist could simply print an unlimited amount of prints. Traditionally, an artist such as Rembrandt would “cancel” the plate by making a gash down the middle, and printing once more with the ruined block to show the plate has been retired, before destroying the block altogether. The expansion in the definition of a print over the years is similar to the expansion in the concept of what constitutes a book, Werth says. “What is a book? Does it have to be something you can open up and read it, left to right? Now we have Kindles. Is that a digital book? What about audio books?” The relationships between all kinds of visual expression have been and are being blurred. “There is no true definition of one thing anymore. Which, in my opinion, allows us to focus more on content,” he says.
entry level collector, the board makes highly considered and informed decisions about the commissioned presentation prints. Every year since 1934, the Print Club has commissioned a prominent artist — many of national and international status — to create
a limited-edition presentation print for the full membership. The print is commissioned from the pooled $80 annual membership fee for full members. The more members the club has, the more money the club can invest in the commission.
Werth was originally invited to join the Print
Club in 2013 by former board president, Bernice Cross, and asked to help engage newer and younger membership. After graduating with a master’s in printmaking from Rochester Institute of Technology, Werth moved to Barbados for seven years, where he worked as head of the printmaking department and chair of the BFA program at Barbados Community College. One of Werth’s main goals for 2015 is to increase membership, particularly within the target age group of 25 to 45. He plans to accomplish this through engaging with specific artists and arts organizations in cross-promotion. A major advantage of being a Print Club member is that for the beginner or
Adam Werth stands in front of the boxed print collection from the Print Club of Rochester. PHOTO BY JOHN SCHLIA
On the other hand, the smaller the edition size in a series, the more value each print has. In order to keep the presentation print edition size fairly low, membership of the Print Club is capped at 120 members. Werth says the club is shooting to reach 95 to 100 in the coming year, and toward this end, are running a membership benefit special. New members who sign up for two years received both the 2015 and 2016 presentation print, with a bonus of either the 2014 print, or a $50 credit toward a print in the club’s archive. Feuerherm — who has been a Print Club member off and on since the 1960’s — says if Herbert Waters, "The White Mountains of New Hampshire," 1952. IMAGE COURTESY THE PRINT CLUB OF ROCHESTER
someone wants to collect an artist’s work, but can’t afford a painting, buying a print is a more accessible way to own an original work of art. “And a lot of artists create prints, because they know they can reach a larger audience that way,” he says. Feuerherm counts the presentation prints made by James Havens, J.J. Lankes, and Robert Marx as some of his favorites. The club has 84 years of archives of presentation prints, which showcases a wide variety of printmaking techniques and aesthetic approaches to image making. “We strive to maintain a well-rounded collection and make selections from highly considered criteria,” Werth says. Notable artists commissioned to make the presentation print have included Clare Leighton (“Cotton Pickers,” 1941), Rockwell Kent (“Adirondack Cabin,” 1946), Charles Wells (“Frederick Douglass,” 1986), and Jerome Witkin (“Mr. Ribb,” 1990). The full scope of the 84 years is available for perusal in the archives on the club’s website. The 2014 presentation print, “Down the Rabbit Hole,” was a linoleum cut created by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and the club is in the process of selecting the 2015 artist. In 2013, the club commissioned the delightfully irreverent Tom Huck of The Outlaw Printmakers. Huck’s print, “Bait,” was created from a more traditional technique (woodcut), while it contains contemporary imagery. The Outlaw Printmakers are a loose group of contemporary printmakers who are enthusiastically using traditional printing techniques, such as woodcut and silkscreen, and bringing a fresh feeling to the medium. Aside from increasing membership, Werth is also interested in expanding community engagement with the Print Club. “Traditionally, it has just been a club that has really focused on a couple of artist demos throughout the year, and the presentation print is one of the main attractions to the Print Club,” he says. “But I’d really like to expand on that through providing services to work with artists.” In the coming year, Werth says he will bring a proposal to the board for the club to gain a community-based print space. He envisions a hub where artists, school groups, or just people who are interested in printmaking can come see prints being made, pay a small fee for studio time, and where the club can hold exhibitions. The space would also provide a permanent home for the 84 years of archives, which are currently housed by Phillips Fine Art Framing in The Hunderford Building. Each time the prints are moved, there is chance they can be lost or damaged. “I think that there has been a paradigm shift, and that ‘printmaking’ is more than ever another ‘tool’ artists use to strengthen the language of visual communication,” Werth says. “Anytime an artist engages with a new or different medium the dialogue that is initiated between the artist, concept and process yields a new or different perspective. It changes continues on page 16 rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 11
Upcoming [ ROCK ] Alex G. Wednesday, January 28. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Avenue. 8 p.m. $12-$14. bugjar.com; facebook.com/sandyalexg. [ R&B ]
Mali Music. Tuesday, February 17. Water Street Music
Hall, 204 North Water Street. 8 p.m. $13.50-$20. waterstreetmusic.com; malimusicofficial.com.
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21. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs Street. 8 p.m. $16-$92. rpo.org.
The Revelers
SUNDAY, JANUARY 11 HARMONY HOUSE, 58 EAST MAIN STREET, WEBSTER 5 P.M. | $10-$18 | ROCHESTERZYDECO.COM REVELERSBAND.COM [ ZYDECO ] True to tradition, The Revelers — a Louisiana
sextet made up of members from the Red Stick Ramblers and The Pine Leaf Boys — pepper blues, Swamp-pop, Cajun, and Zydeco throughout its music. A sonorous accordion croons in the forefront while clean guitars dance around cozy melodies. Half the songs adopt the Cajun French language, offering wise words and a few love metaphors you likely haven’t heard. The Revelers is now in the middle of a 15-date East Coast tour.
— BY TYLER PEARCE
Nerds in Denial SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 THE CLUB AT WATER STREET, 204 NORTH WATER STREET 6:30 P.M. | $10-$15 | WATERSTREETMUSIC.COM FACEBOOK.COM/NERDSINDENIAL [ ROCK ] This local 4-piece rock troupe has a lot of
gumption and youth. Barely out of high school, the members have been driving guitars and punchy lyrics since they got together in 2011. Drums are propulsive, guitars are heavy and the lyrics clamor for attention. The band’s irony, subversion, and drive are palpable. With so many years ahead of them, you can expect a lot more from these guys. Kaylin Cervini, The Flipside, and Dave Berger are also playing. — BY TYLER PEARCE
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
Rob & Gary Acoustic.
Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 5:308:30 p.m. [ BLUES ]
Upward Groove. Temple Bar
and Grille, 109 East Ave. 2326000. templebarandgrille.com. 10 p.m. [ COUNTRY ]
Kerry Regan. Sticky Lips BBQ
[ RAGTIME/BLUES ] When I saw Woody Pines at
Abilene during last year’s Jazz Fest, I remember remarking to myself or to the like-minded yahoos I was hanging out with that in spite of all the references to ragtime and old time boogie, the Pines’ drumless outfit — save for random visits to beat on the lone floor tom parked up front — reminded me of The Johnny Burnette Trio. If that doesn’t help, let’s just call it hot music; jumpin’ oldtime jazz with maximum stomp and shake appeal.
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Andy Calabrese and Chet Catallo SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 BISTRO 135, 135 COMMERCIAL STREET, EAST ROCHESTER 6 P.M. | BISTRO135.NET
Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544. stickylipsbbq.com.
Goodbye Ronnie
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“Beggar’s Flesh” SELF-RELEASED reverbnation.com/goodbyeronnie
National Teenset Outsider Party. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe
Ave. bugjar.com. 12-2 a.m. [ JAZZ ]
I suppose if Ronnie Lickers didn’t bang three albums out as quickly as he has, his head would explode like a piñata full of broken hearts and candy. It’s perhaps easier to look at his rapid three-CD output — culminating with his new “Beggar’s Flesh” — as more of a trilogy than as three separate works. I say this because the previous records still need some time to sink in, and perhaps leave him time to grow new material with changes and maturity that I’m sure are right around the bend. That’s not to say this stuff is too similar to his previous two works. He has definitely ramped up the urgency on this one within the atmosphere and sadness. Thoughtful, lonesome, hopeful.
Anthony Giannovola.
Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137. com. 6:30-9:30 p.m. [ OPEN MIC ]
Open Jam with Nate Coffey.
Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 705 Titus Ave. Irondequoit. 3426780. 9 p.m. [ METAL ]
Skull Fest, Elm Street, and Night Demon. Bug Jar, 219
Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar. com. 9 p.m. $7-$12. [ POP/ROCK ] Dick Tosti. Gigi’s Italian Kitchen, 2256 Hudson Ave. 544-5440. 5-9 p.m. Dick Tosti - finger picking guitarist and vocals. Italian music and 50s and 60s soft golden oldies. Free for customers. Mark Fantasia. TGI Fridays, 432 Greece Ridge Center Dr. reverbnation.com. 7 p.m. Monkey Scream Project. Village Rock Cafe, 213 Main St. East Rochester. 586-1640. 9 p.m.
— BY FRANK DE BLASE [ JAZZ ] Andy Calabrese has lent his keyboard
prowess to a wide range of greats including Aretha Franklin, Russell Thompkins Jr., and Felix Cavaliere. Guitarist extraordinaire Chet Catallo was one of the original members of Spyro Gyra, contributing original tunes to the group’s early albums and livening up hits like “Shaker Song” and “Morning Dance.” When these two local giants team up at Bistro 135 they’re bound to bring out the best in each other. — BY RON NETSKY
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Bob Bunce’s casual singing style belies the electricity coursing through the man and his music. Whether it’s the country blues, bossa nova, rock, or reggae, the bearded Bunce bounces boldly nonchalant and super-cool. His latest CD, “Rural Delivery,” is a fine collection of tunes full of wry humor and classic old-time boogie. And he’s a peaceable man. The aforementioned electricity was borne of conscientious objection and principle. “I became an electrician for the deferment,” Bunce says. “So I wouldn’t get drafted. It was just going to be for a little while until the war was over. Then the wife and kids came along and it became my career.” A snowboarding accident in Massachusetts brought the curtain down on his electrician career in 1995. You wouldn’t know it to look at him, but Bunce, now 65 years old, was a professional-grade snowboard cross competitor. Guitar had previously taken a back burner. “I had been recording and playing all along,” he says. “I’d always played guitar, however it wasn’t my focus. But I threw myself into it more after the accident and when the kids left the nest.” No snowboard, no rug rats, no more playing with volts and kilowatts; it was clearly time to start a band. “The first band I formed was with my son playing bass and Herb Heinz on guitar,” Bunce says. “It was called Beyond Riddum. We played out for about two years. When that folded I started a home studio — four track cassette, before CDs were invented. I didn’t play out much because most of what I was writing were studio creations. So the goal on my last two releases was to be more able to support them live.” “It’s tough,” he adds. “I’d love to have a regular band. But the guys who play with me already have gigs.” He combed the scene for studio cats as well as hired guns for live performances. 14 CITY JANUARY 7-13, 2015
Even though his latest album, "Rural Delivery," is still fresh, Bob Bunce is ready to get back into the studio for a follow-up. PHOTO COURTESY AARON WINTERS
The problem he encountered was all the good ones were already committed to other bands, and if they weren’t, you’ve had to wonder why. It’s like the hot girl sitting alone at the bar without a date; what’s wrong with her? Bunce called upon seasoned players from around the region to make up the studio band and production team that delivered “Rural Delivery.” Like bassist, producer, and engineer Gary Holt, whose Holt Studios in Mt. Morris rendered this gem. “I’ve known Gary for 30 years,” Bunce says. “There’s some mojo going on in that studio.” Bunce says he’s chompin’ at the bit to go back in the studio, even though the paint on “Rural Delivery” is barely dry. “I already have 12 more songs written,” he says, adding that he longs
to play out more. “But I do love the recording process.” That’s understandable, because of Bunce’s easy going interaction with the musicians at hand in the band; he doesn’t tell them what to play. “I talk more about feel,” he says. “And just give them an idea loosely what I’m after.” And he’s lyrically conscious — somewhat of a contrarian wordsmith who sings about things like women dancing on tables, or the joys of living off the grid in Groveland where he uses solar power, heats with wood, and raises chickens. Bunce sheds positive light on a world he doesn’t necessarily embrace entirely. “But I’d rather talk about positive things,” he says. That’s not to say I ignore the world’s situation. Life exists in many places in the music world and I want to take in all that I can. That’s the joy of it.”
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[ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] Bluegrass Jam. Bernunzio Uptown Music, 122 East Ave. 473-6140. bernunzio.com. Second Thursday of every month, 6:30-8 p.m. Jim Lane. Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 705 Titus Ave. Irondequoit. 342-6780. 8 p.m. Free.
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Roots night with Old Time Hoedown and The Crawdiddies.
The Beale, 693 South Ave. 2714650. thebealegrille.com. 7:3010:30 p.m.
Senior Strummers Dulcimer Group. Downtown Senior Center, 25 Franklin St. 381-8224. goldenlink.org. 1-2 p.m. [ BLUES ]
Big Blue House. The Little
Theatre, 240 East Avenue. thelittle.org. 7:30 p.m. [ CLASSICAL ]
The Annual Russian Friendship Concert. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs
St. 274-1000. linkagesrochester. org/. 7:30-9 p.m. Compline. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. christchurchrochester.org/. 9 p.m.
Eastman at Washington Square Lunchtime Concerts. ,. 2741400. esm.rochester.edu/ community/lunchtime/. 12:1512:45 p.m. [ DJ/ELECTRONIC ]
Abramson/Sack Duo, Sulk, Sheet, and Martin. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar. com. 8:30 p.m. [ JAZZ ]
Bossa Nova Jazz Thursdays ft. The Charles Mitchell Group.
Espada Brazilian Steak, 274 N. Goodman St. Village Gate. 473-0050. espadasteak.com. 6 p.m. Free.
Jazz Weekends! ft. The David Detweiler Trio. Next
Door Bar & Grill, 3220 Monroe Ave. 249-4575. wegmansnextdoor.com. Thursday: 5 p.m., Friday: 8 p.m/. Free.
The Joe Santora Trio, Curtis Kendrick, and Emily Kirchoff. Michael’s
Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield Rd. (585) 383-8260. michaelsvalleygrill.com. Free. The Swooners. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 5:308:30 p.m. Track Drummer.com. Starry Nites Café, 696 University Ave. 271-2630. reverbnation. com. 8 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]
Amanda Ashley. Firehouse
Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 3193832. reverbnation.com. 8 p.m.
ROCK | PONY HAND
Pony Hand is one of our city’s rarest gems. It is a raw, driving, psychedelic-garage-punk-folk treasure that elevates the body and flips the brain inside out. The riffs are sharp and angular, but with warm tone that oozes vintage 1970’s. Karrah Teague’s vocals are urgent, powerful, sexy, and full of smoke, with the band joining in to belt out lyrics together when the inspiration strikes. Giana Caliolo’s drums are tight and textured with notes that walk a fine line between aggressiveness and playfulness. The songs embed anthems beneath the crunch and rapid fire, making you sing along while banging your fist on the stage. Simple genre comparisons belie this band, as it takes everything in rock that’s ever been good and makes it better. Say farewell to Pony Hand at its going away show with Aminal, Danger Troll, House Majority, and Nuddhist Monks on Friday, January 9, at the Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Avenue. 9 p.m. $7-$9. bugjar.com; ponyhand.bandcamp.com. — BY ERIC WITKOWSKI
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] Greg Townson. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge. com. 6-9 p.m. Pan de Oro. Havana Cabana, 289 Alexander St. 232-1333. havanacabanaroc.com. 10 p.m. Call for info. Ralph Louis. Rochester Plaza Hotel, 70 State St. 546-3450. rochesterplaza.com. 6 p.m. Free. Sea Planes. Boulder Coffee Co., 100 Alexander St. 454-7140. bouldercoffee.info. 8-10 p.m. [ BLUES ]
Dave Riccioni & Friends.
The Beale, 1930 Empire Blvd. Webster. 216-1070. thebealegrille.com. 6-9 p.m.
[ COUNTRY ] Taran. Nashvilles, 4853 W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 3343030. nashvillesny.com. 9 p.m. [ JAZZ ]
The Earthtones. Johnny’s
Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. johnnyslivemusic. com. 5 p.m.
Jazz Weekends! ft. The David Detweiler Trio. Next Door Bar
& Grill, 3220 Monroe Ave. 2494575. wegmansnextdoor.com. Thursday: 5 p.m., Friday: 8 p.m/. Free. John Palocy Trio. Bistro 135, 135 W. Commercial St. East Rochester. 662-5555. bistro135. net. 6-10 p.m. Matthew Sieber Ford Trio. Tapas 177 Lounge, 177 St. Paul St. 262-2090. tapas177.com. 4:30 p.m. Free.
The Joe Santora Trio, Curtis Kendrick, and Emily Kirchoff.
Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield Rd. (585) 383-8260. michaelsvalleygrill.com. Free.
Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes.
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Church of Honeoye Falls, 27 N. Main St. 624-5614. 2 p.m. Please bring cash/nonperishable items for donations. Sofrito. Havana Cabana, 289 Alexander St. 232-1333. havanacabanaroc.com. 10 p.m. Call for info.
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the way that we see things. This is the real value of blurred lines in relation to contemporary methods of expression.” Werth says the Print Club helps young Rochesterians interested in art learn more about accessible ways to invest in artwork. “I think so often, if you buy a print from IKEA...the probability of that print being worth anything in 15 or 20 years is pretty small,” he says. “If you pay $80 to be part of the Print Club, you get a presentation print, and the chances of the value of that work of art being more than $80 in 20 years is 100 percent.” For example, the club commissioned Nebraska-based Karen Kunc to create the 2012 presentation print. Only two years later, the resultant work, “Glacial Movement,” is currently offered through a Nebraska gallery, Constellation Studios, for $500. Most of the presentation prints have at least doubled in value; many are valued in the thousands. That 1946 Rockwell Kent print retails today for more than $1,250. “There is real value and importance for people to collect original artwork,” Werth says. “It sustains the art community, it indicates a deeper understanding of the importance and cultural significance of the arts, it makes a great conversation piece, and it can be a real investment asset.” Editor's note: Nazareth professor and artist Ron Netsky is a routine freelancer for this newspaper. He did not participate in the initiation or execution of this article.
If you can’t beat the winter cold, sing about it. That is the reasoning behind one of the first choral concerts of the new year, presented this weekend by Concentus Women’s Chorus. The program features what director Gwen Gassler describes as “seasonal choral music in a very broad sense.” It begins with the ancient chant “Hodie Christus natus est,” and includes carols by Peter Warlock (originally with orchestral accompaniment, which will show off Concentus’s pianist Linda Boianova) and a setting of Yeats’s “When You Are Old.” The temperature will drop considerably for “Ice,” by the appropriately named Canadian composer Bruce Sled. This imaginative, wordless piece for a cappella women’s choir combines shivery, dissonant harmonies with chilly vocal effects that evoke whistling wind, cracking ice, and other familiar January sounds. Concentus presents “Snow Carols” on Friday, January 9, 7:30 p.m., at Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Avenue; and Sunday, January 11, 2 p.m., at Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs Street. concentus.org. — BY DAVID RAYMOND
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9 The Mighty Dry & High and Friday in America.
Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 9:30 p.m. $5. [ HIP-HOP/RAP ]
Slap Weh Fridays ft. Blazin Fiyah. Eclipse Bar & Lounge,
372 Thurston Rd. 235-9409. Call for info. [ REGGAE/JAM ]
Noble Vibes. Temple Bar and
Grille, 109 East Ave. 2326000. noblevibes.com.
Rochester Swing Dance Network. St. Thomas’
Episcopal Church, 2000 Highland Ave. 721-8684. RochesterSwingDance.com. 8-10:30 p.m. $6-$8. [ METAL ]
Geomagot, Blurring, and Gutted Alive. Monty’s Krown,
875 Monroe Ave. 271-7050. reverbnation.com. 9 p.m. $3.
Mushroomhead, Erimha, Unsaid Fate, and Thira. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. themontagemusichall.com. 6:30 p.m. $22-$25.
[ POP/ROCK ]
GRRC: Elvis Lives Live - A Birthday Tribute Concert.
Kodak Theater on the Ridge, 500 W Ridge Rd. 325-3366. grrctheatre.org/. 7:30 p.m. Ft. Patrick Johnson, Elvis tribute artist. $25. Junkyardfieldtrip. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 9 p.m. $3-$5.
Mario & The Sundowners and Punishing Timmy. Firehouse
Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 3193832. firehousesaloon.com. 6 p.m.-1 a.m. $5. Mark Fantasia. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745. reverbnation.com. 5:30 p.m.
Pony Hand, Aminal, Danger Troll, House Majority, and Nuddhist Monks. Bug Jar, 219
Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar. com. 9 p.m. $7-$9.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
Micheal Vadala Trio, Red Kettle Collective, and Cammy Enaharo. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe
Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $6-$8. Rain & Leaves. Boulder Coffee Co., 100 Alexander St. 454-7140. bouldercoffee. info. 8-10 p.m.
Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 3343030. nashvillesny.com. 9 p.m. [ DJ/ELECTRONIC ]
Supper Time with DJ Bizmuth. Lovin’ Cup, 300
Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 5-8 p.m. [ JAZZ ]
The Charlie Mitchell Group. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue. thelittle.org. Late Night Jazz Jam Session. Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield Rd. 383-8260. michaelsvalleygrill.com. 11 p.m.-2:30 a.m. The Joe Santora Trio, Curtis Kendrick, and Emily Kirchoff.
Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield Rd. (585) 383-8260. michaelsvalleygrill.com. Free. [ R&B/ SOUL ]
Rochester Homegrown Fest IV. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. noon2 a.m. The Goods, MoChester, Ack, Friday In America, The English Project, The Moho Collective, Danielle Ponder & The Tomorrow People, and Thunder Body. $25-$30. [ METAL ]
Nerds In Denial. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. 325-5600. waterstreetmusic. com. 6:30 p.m. $10-$15. [ POP/ROCK ]
A Crucifying Feeling. California
Brew Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480. reverbnation.com. 9 p.m. Call for more info.
GRRC: Elvis Lives Live - A Birthday Tribute Concert.
Kodak Theater on the Ridge, 500 W Ridge Rd. 325-3366. grrctheatre.org/. 7:30 p.m. Ft. Patrick Johnson, Elvis tribute artist. $25. Hall Pass. Lakesiders, 4785 Lake Ave. 865-5001. 9 p.m. Knight Patrol. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. reverbnation.com. 9 p.m. The Mojo Benders. Cottage Hotel of Mendon, 1390 PittsfordMendon Rd. Mendon. 6241390. themojobenders.com. 9:30 p.m. Teagan & The Tweeds. Johnny’s Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 2240990. johnnyslivemusic.com. 8:30 p.m.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 11 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
Celtic Music Sundays. Temple Bar and Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000. templebarandgrille. com. 7 p.m. Free. Fandango at the Tango. Tango Cafe, 35 South Washington St. 271-4930. tangocafedance. com. 7:30 p.m. Free, donations accepted.
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Bill Slater Solo Piano (Brunch).
Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. Compline. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. christchurchrochester.org. 9-9:30 p.m.
Eastman Community Stringbands. Boulder Coffee Co.,
100 Alexander St. 454-7140. bouldercoffee.info. 2-4 p.m. Going for Baroque. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900. mag.rochester.edu. 1 & 3 p.m. Included w/museum admission. The Lyric Trio. George Eastman House, 900 East Ave. 271-3361. eastmanhouse.org. 3 p.m.
William Warfield Scholarship Concert. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs
METAL | MUSHROOMHEAD
Short answer: Cleveland’s Mushroomhead is a metal band. But on upon closer inspection, the band is a culmination of all the cool aspects of hip-hop, industrial, and prog-rock all ensconced in bio-mechanical gore. The stage show is gloriously gory, awesome with the masked band cavorting around a set that resembles something out of Saw. Mushroomhead is menacing, doom-laden fun, and makes Gwar (whom I love) look like the Three Stooges. Mushroomhead with guests Erimha, Unsaid Fate, and Thira performs Friday, January 9, at Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut Street. 6:30 p.m. $22-$25. themontagemusichall.com; mushroomhead.com. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
St. 274-1100. esm.rochester. edu. 4 p.m. $10-$15.
Culver Rd. 224-0990. johnnyslivemusic.com. 7 p.m.
Richmond Street. 270-8570. richmondstavern.com. Free.
[ JAZZ ]
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13
Open Mic with jimmy-o.
Tara Reunion. Abilene Bar &
Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge. com. 1-6 p.m. $5. [ POP/ROCK ]
GRRC: Elvis Lives Live - A Birthday Tribute Concert.
Kodak Theater on the Ridge, 500 W Ridge Rd. 325-3366. grrctheatre.org/. 2 p.m. Ft. Patrick Johnson, Elvis tribute artist. $25. The Revelers. Harmony House, 58 East Main St. Webster. 7274119. rochesterzydeco.com. 5 p.m. $15-$18.
Vinyl Orange Ottoman, Maria Betts Music, and Joe Jovanelli & Friends. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. reverbnation.com. 3 p.m.
MONDAY, JANUARY 12
[ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
Roses & Revolutions. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa. com. 5:30-8:30 p.m. [ BLUES ]
Bluesday Tuesday Blues Jam.
P.I.’s Lounge, 495 West Ave. 8 p.m. Call for info. [ CLASSICAL ]
Tuesday Pipes: Chris Petit.
Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. esm.rochester.edu. 12:10 p.m.
Deborah Branch . Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 6:309:30 p.m. [ OPEN MIC ]
[ KARAOKE ]
The Brian Lindsay Acoustic Trio. The Little Theatre, 240
East Avenue. thelittle.org. 7:30-9:30 p.m. [ JAZZ ]
Open Mic w/Dave McGrath.
Johnny’s Irish Pub, 1382
Banzai Sushi & Cocktail Bar, 682 South Ave. 473-0345. banzairochester.com. 1011:45 p.m. free.
Stand Up & Sing Out: Open Mic Competition. Lovin’ Cup,
300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 8-10:30 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]
Don Christiano-The Beatles Unplugged. Abilene Bar
& Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. Every other Tuesday, 8-10 p.m.
Gamma Pope and Father Lemon. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 4542966. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $6-$8.
[ JAZZ ]
Deborah Branch . Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 6:309:30 p.m. Seth. Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 6:30 p.m. String Theory. Johnny’s Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 244-0990. johnnyslivemusic.com. 8 p.m. Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes. Bistro 135, 135 W. Commercial St. East Rochester. 662-5555. Bistro135.net. 6 p.m.
[ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
[ OPEN MIC ]
Karaoke w/Cory Triest. Richmond’s Tavern, 21
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Michael Arvé will direct his final full theater production with “Judgment at Nuremberg,” which premieres at MuCCC on Thursday, January 8. PHOTO BY ANNETTE DRAGON
Reserving judgment “Judgment at Nuremberg” THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, THROUGH SATURDAY, JANUARY 17 MUCCC, 142 ATLANTIC AVENUE 7:30 P.M. ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY; 2 P.M. ON SUNDAY $12-$20 | 234-1254; MUCCC.ORG [ FEATURE ] BY DAVID RAYMOND
When “Judgment at Nuremberg” opens this week at MuCCC, it will mark the last full production directed by Michael Arvé, a director and actor with a long history in Rochester community theater. Involved with theater since he was a high school student in Rochester, Arvé has taken part in a long list of plays — ranging from Sophocles to Edward Albee — and he has won awards as both director and actor, including a 1990 production of William Luce’s “The Belle of Amherst,” with Vicki Casarett playing 18 CITY JANUARY 7-13, 2015
Emily Dickinson, which many local theatergoers still remember affectionately. Arvé remembers the Rochester theater scene in the 1960’s and early 70’s – in fact he is something of an encyclopedia on the subject. “Basically community theater in Rochester consisted of the Rochester Community Players, the Blackfriars [Theatre], and the JY, which eventually became the Jewish Community Center’s CenterStage,” he says. Geva Theatre was a few years in the future, not to mention the current explosion of community theater groups large and small in Rochester. In addition to acting and directing frequently in the area, Arvé started one of the first of those small community theater groups in the 1980’s: Rainbow Theatre, sponsored by the AIDS Prevention Education Coalition. In 1995, Arvé moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, bringing his Rainbow Theatre program with him, this time presented by AIDS Response Knoxville; he also took part in AIDS
education programs and training services, while acting in and directing other local theater productions. Arvé returned to Rochester in 1999, and became immediately involved with Greater Rochester Repertory Companies, Writers and Books, the TANYS Community Theatre Festival, and RIT’s OASIS, where he is on the teaching staff. He is also an Artist in Residence at MuCCC, where he has appeared in and directed many plays produced by John W. Borek — including “Judgment at Nuremberg,” which Arvé says will be his last job directing a full production. Arvé has played roles from Creon in “Antigone” to Matthew Brady in “Inherit the Wind.” His most recent acting performance was December 2013 in the Screen Plays production “Parfumerie,” playing the owner of a Budapest cosmetics store whose wife was cheating on him. This was a role he greatly enjoyed, in part because he was born in Budapest, living there until his family moved to Berlin when he was 18 months old. Arvé’s family left Germany for Rochester soon after World War II, sponsored by a cousin who lived here. But before he left, Arvé made his stage debut in a children’s theater show in Berlin. “I was five,” he says. “And I don’t remember doing anything else since then.” The Nuremberg trials, held between 1945 and 1949, prosecuted surviving leaders of Nazi Germany (many were dead or escaped) for war crimes against the German civilian population. They were the first widely known exposure of the extent of Nazi atrocities in the Second World War. For the play “Judgment at Nuremburg,” Abby Mann adapted his 1957 television play and his screenplay for the famous 1961 movie, which won him an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. The play version of “Judgment at Nuremburg” had a brief run on Broadway in 2001. With its actual footage of the discovery of concentration camps after the liberation of Europe, and its exposure of complicity with Nazi Germany from the Vatican and from the Soviet Union, the movie, directed by Stanley Kramer, was hardhitting in the 1950’s and early 60’s, when World War II was still a vivid memory. All three works examine the levels of guilt and responsibility among a population that was “just following orders” from their Nazi superiors and ask the questions: can one act morally in an immoral time? Are there just causes for terrible acts of genocide and other crimes?
The subject and Mann’s treatment of the historical characters, however, makes for a dramatic and unsettling evening, even if it is almost 70 years since the actual trials. Enough so that “Judgment at Nuremberg” has become an essential literary document about the war and the Holocaust — standing with Elie Wiesel’s “Night” and Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl.” The movie is also recalled for its impressive string of star turns by actors playing the trial participants, among them Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Spencer Tracy, Marlene Dietrich, and Maximilian Schell (who also won an Oscar for his performance as the German defense attorney). Similarly, Arvé has an impressive list of local actors playing in the current stage adaptation — that’s helpful, he remarks, saying that directing the play version of “Judgment at Nuremberg” is a challenge, since it lacks the visual drama of the movie. “It’s a courtroom drama,” Arvé says. “Kramer could vary the scenes with close-ups and wide shots, but the actors have to work more onstage to make it visually interesting.” Arvé has to guide a large cast of very different characters, but even with a play as complicated as “Judgment at Nuremberg,” he doesn’t overthink. “One thing I have learned in all my years in theater is: There are no absolutes,” he says. “Sometimes directors say there can be only one way to play a role or a scene, There is always another way.” “Michael shows incredible sympathies and understanding for the needs of an actor,” says Peter Doyle, who recently played Oscar Wilde in “Diversions and Delights” under Arvé’s direction. He is playing the defendant, Ernst Janning, in “Judgment at Nuremberg,” and finds the experience “supremely rewarding.” “As an actor himself, Michael realizes the importance of feedback,” Doyle says. “He is, however, willing and able to give guidance and a roadmap where needed. He gave me the incredible gift of removing my fear of doing a solo show, and here his guidance is just as sure. “ While he calls “Judgment at Nuremberg” his “swan song,” Arvé’s theatrical life won’t be completely inactive after the play ends its run. Doyle and Arvé are already planning to bring back “Diversions and Delights,” and Arvé will remain a MuCCC Artist in Residence, working in the box office and greeting audience members at the front desk.
Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] Main Street Arts, 20 W. Main St., Clifton Springs. Solid Gold. Through Feb. 28. Opening reception Sat. Jan. 10, 4-7 p.m. Works by nine artists using gold leaf, lustre, or paint. 315-4620210. mstreetarts@gmail.com. mainstreetartsgallery.com. My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt. Hope Ave. Art From the Start. Through Feb. 22. Colorful moving pieces by Cheryl and Don Olney. 546-8400. EpiscopalSeniorLife.org. Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N. Goodman St. Solo Exhibition of Jihwan Park. Through Jan. 30. Opening reception Fri. Jan. 9, 6-9 p.m. Mixing design with art, printmaking, and sculpture. 5208082. jihwanpark.com. Williams Gallery at First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd. Inside Burma - Photographs of an Enduring People. Through Feb. 16. Opening reception Jan. 9, 6-8 p.m. Photos of life and people of present day Myanmar (Burma) by Chris Kogut. 271-9070. rochesterunitarian.org. [ CONTINUING ] Axom Gallery, 176 Anderson Ave., 2nd floor. Looking In and Axom Objects. Artist talk with Matthew Langley Sat. Jan 10, 1-3 p.m. Looking In: New Paintings by Langley and Axom Objects through Jan. 10. 232-6030. axomgallery.com. Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. 34th Annual Show of Medieval Works. Through Jan. 31. The paintings display techniques practiced by artists during the Middle Ages. brightonlibrary.org. Canandaigua National Bank, 210 Alexander St. Works by Venessa Sheldon. Through March 31. Animal and insect paintings. 3407473. vanessasheldon.com/. Gallery 96, 604 Pittsford-Victor Road. Close to Home. Through Feb. 15. Photography by Matthias
COMEDY | TALENT
Appearing on a BET comedy special some years ago, comedian Talent gave his audience his one rule: Don’t take anything personal, it’s just comedy. Listening to the material for a few minutes will make you understand why people were warned. The beer-toting New Yorker lets his thoughts and observations spill out freely, and there is not much of a filter to stop them. Bad in some cases, but in the world of standup it’s great. He has appeared on Def Comedy Jam, Comedy Central, and Comic View, among other comedy outlets, so he’s seasoned and has plenty of jokes up his sleeve. If you get offended easily, this might not be for you, but if you can laugh at the inappropriate, it definitely is. Talent will perform with Joe Clair, Ed Lover, Cocoa Brown, and Artie Fletcher at the Joke Factory, 911 Brooks Avenue, on Friday, January 9, and Saturday, January 10. 8 p.m. Rocjokefactory.com. — BY TREVOR LEWIS Boettrich and George Wallace. 233-5015. Gallery R, 100 College Ave. New Media Design 1999-2014: 15 Year Retrospective. Through Jan. 16. A review of New Media Design projects done by students over the past 15 years, from 1999 to 2014. 256-3312. Geisel Gallery, Bausch & Lomb Place, One Bausch & Lomb Place. Tools and Lights. Through Jan.
30. Opening reception Fri. Jan. 30, 5-7 p.m. Sculptures by John W. Retallack. thegeiselgallery.com. Genesee Center for the Arts and Education, 713 Monroe Ave. Rochester’s Refugees. Through Jan. 9. Photographs of refugee lives by darkroom students. 2441730. geneseearts.org/. Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Magic of Light. Through Jan. 25. Works from
83 photographers. 271-2540. imagecityphotographygallery.com. International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Movement in Blue. Through Jan. 31. Movement, color and energy dance together in “Arabesque.” Recent work by Marcella Gillenwater. 264-1440. internationalartacquisitions.com/. The Joy Gallery, 498 W Main St. Rare Forms. Through Jan. 24. Select works from RIT students. 463-5230. joygallery.com. Link Gallery at City Hall, 30 Church St. Arena Art Gallery Show. Through Jan. 26. Wall-hung art in a variety of contemporary styles and media. 271-5920. arenaartgroup.com/index.html. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. The 42-Letter Name. Nine mind-bending 42-Letter Name, Prints derived from traditional South Asian religious art, through April 12. 276-8900. mag.rochester.edu. My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt. Hope Ave. Seven Art Sisters. Through Jan. 11. Artwork by seven members of the Rochester Art Club. 5468400. EpiscopalSeniorLife.org. NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. Thou Art.. Will Give... Through Jan. 21. A photographic essay on America’s first penitentiary by Eric R. Kunsman. ntid.rit.edu.; Lessons in Laughter: The Life and Times of Bernard Bragg. Through April 10. Jean Pietrowski and Allison Thompson curated a mementofilled exhibition for deaf performer, playwright and director Bernard Bragg. rit.edu. The Owl House, 75 Marshall St. New Paintings by Amy Vena. 3602920. owlhouserochester.com. Pullman Memorial Universalist Church, 10 E. Park St., Albion. Antique Victorian Devotional Prints of the Saints. Through Feb. 14. From the collection of Orleans County Historian C.W. “Bill” Lattin. Viewing hours Weds. 6:30-9:30 p.m. and Suns. 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. 752-4581. pmuc.albion@ gmail.com.
Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. The Vinyl Countdown: A Dudes’ Night Out Production. An art collective of talented dude artists from in and around the Rochester area. From 2D to 3D, from pencils sketches to oil paintings. recordarchive.com. Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N. Goodman St. Latency. Through Jan. 31. Opening reception Fri. Jan. 9, 6-9 p.m. Images by Jihwan Park. 7759660. jihwanpark.com. Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. 24th Annual Members Exhibition. Through Jan. 18. 461-2222. info@rochestercontemporary.org. rochestercontemporary.org. Spectrum Gallery, 100 College Ave. Arabat Spit / Healing Muds. Through Jan. 31. Photos by Sergiy Lebedynskyy. 415-7828. spectrumgalleryroc.com. Steadfast Tattoo, 635 Monroe Ave. Mr. Prvrt. New work by Wall Therapy Artist Mr. Prvrt. 3194901. tattoosteadfast.com.
Art Events [ WED., JANUARY 7 ] Art Night With Ken Karnage. 6 p.m. Triumph Tattoo Studio, 127 Railroad St. Bring your art supplies and an open mind Free 270-4772. KenKarnage@gmail. com. triumphtattoostudio.com. Genesee Valley Calligraphy Guild Gathering. First Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 3349 Monroe Ave. Free 396-2487. gvcalligraphy@gmail. com. gvcalligraphy.org. [ SAT., JANUARY 10 ] Second Saturday Open Studios. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Hungerford Building, 1115 E. Main St. Meet 20+ artists in their studios. Enter at Door #2. Many studios will be giving demonstrations Free 4698217. Second Saturdays. Second Saturday of every month, 3-6 p.m. Cornerstone Gallery, 8732 Main St., Honeoye. A variety of
open venues in Honeoye Falls baierpottery.com.
Comedy [ WED., JANUARY 7 ] Best Friends Comedy Showcase. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Coffee Co., 739 Park Ave. A weekly comedy showcase of local Rochester comedians! Sign up the week before on the “Rochester Comedy” Facebook page. Hosted by Vasia Ivanov 697-0235. bouldercoffeeco.com. Comedy Improv. 8 p.m. Joke Factory Comedy Club, 911 Brooks Avenue (585( 328-6000. jokefactorycomedyclub.com. Open Mic: Comedy. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Coffee Co., 739 Park Ave. Arrive a little early to sign up Free 697-0235. bouldercoffeeco.com. [ THU., JANUARY 8 ] Lachlan Patterson. 7:30 p.m. Comedy Club, 2235 Empire Blvd Webster $12-$15. 671-9080. thecomedyclub.us. Lewis Black. 8 p.m. Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. $25-$59.50. 1-800-345-3000. lewisblack.com/. [ SUN., JANUARY 11 ] Open Mic: Comedy. 8 p.m. Boulder Coffee Co., 100 Alexander St. Come a little early to sign up Free. 454-7140. bouldercoffeeco.com. [ MON., JANUARY 12 ] Monday Night Raw. 10 p.m. Banzai Sushi & Cocktail Bar, 682 South Ave. Open mic comedy, hosted by Uncle Trent. Cash prize Free 473-0345. banzairochester. com. banzairochester.com.
Dance Events [ WED., JANUARY 7 ] Lindy Jam: Weekly Swing Dance. 8:45 p.m. Lindy Jam is a weekly swing dance on Wednesday nights, 8:45-11pm, hosted by Groove Juice Swing. Friendly atmosphere. Beautiful ballroom. continues on page 20
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Pleasantly enraged Lewis Black THURSDAY, JANUARY 8 AUDITORIUM THEATRE, 885 EAST MAIN STREET 8 P.M. | $35-$59.50 | 222-5000; RBTL.ORG; LEWISBLACK.COM [ INTERVIEW ] BY JAKE CLAPP
It doesn’t take much to set Lewis Black off. The comedian, author, and actor — wellknown for his appearances on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and his own Comedy Central show, “Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil” — has made a prolific career ranting about the things that agitate him. Madly gesturing with his hands and furiously shouting, Black lets his frustrated rage fuel his comedy. And to great effect: Black has won Grammy Awards for his stand-up albums “The Carnegie Hall Performance” and “Stark Raving Black.” Black has called himself a social satirist, using his comedy to yell about everything from the gridlocked political system to the TSA and life in New York City. And almost like the last reasonable voice (masked in rage), Black is regularly interviewed by the media for his commentary. Recently, Black, along with W. Kamau Bell and Laura Krafft, joined a discussion on NBC’s “Meet the Press” about the role satire plays in politics and if it was making Americans more cynical. (The discussion can be found at nbcnews.com and is well-worth viewing.) Black is currently on tour and will make an appearance at the Auditorium Theatre (885 East Main Street) on Thursday, January 8, at 8 p.m. More information can be found at rbtl.org. On this tour, the last 15 minutes of each set will be dedicated to a Q&A with the audience, and live-streamed online at therantisdue.com. City Newspaper called Black while he was at home in NYC and talked about his “Meet the Press” segment, if the news is moving too fast, and how to come back from the absurdity. City Newspaper: I caught your “Meet the Press” segment from Sunday. And you’ve said this before in your stand-up, it seems like sometimes you’re shocked that the press will ask you about these social issues. Is that still foreign to you? Lewis Black: It is when they call. When CNN
calls me because something happens and they want a comedian on, I find that f***ing absurd. There are too many people now traveling, going on TV, and talking anyway, giving their opinions. Well, I don’t need opinions. Everyone 20 CITY JANUARY 7-13, 2015
[ THU., JANUARY 8 ] Contra Dancing. 7:30 p.m. Covenant United Methodist Church, Culver Rd Live music, and smoke and alcohol free. Dances are taught and prompted, with more teaching at the beginning of the evening. No partner or special dress needed — dress comfortably and wear soft-soled, low-heeled shoes Free for 17 & under, $7 students, $8 general public. rafi@cdrochester.org. Dance Contest. noon & 1 a.m. Lux Lounge, 666 South Ave 2329030. lux666.com.
has a goddamn opinion now. At the beginning, when I started to become somewhat known and then they’d go, “Well this thing happened,” or “There’s an election and we want to know what you think about it.” Really? You want to know what I think about it? Why don’t you ask real people who f***ing have to live with it. It seems to me that when they come to me, it’s kind of like everyone’s died. It’s like “Meet the Press” called a bunch of people and they said, “Nah, we can’t do it. We’re not going to talk about the economy, so bring in the clowns.”
[ FRI., JANUARY 9 ] Friday Night Salsa Party. 9 p.m.1 a.m. Tango Cafe, 35 South Washington St Introductory Lesson @9 p.m., open dancing with DJ Freddy C 10 p.m.-1 a.m $5 admission. 271-4930. tangocafedance.com. [ SAT., JANUARY 10 ] Dance to Awaken the Heart. 7-9 p.m. Henrietta United Church of Christ, 1400 Lehigh Station Rd Henrietta $5-$10 donation. (585) 334-0030. office@henriettaucc. org. awakentheheart.org/danceto-awaken-the-heart/.
Do you think it’s because the reality is so depressing that they have to ask comedians for a ray of sunshine in all of this?
I don’t know what it is. Partly it’s Comedian Lewis Black will appear at the Auditorium Theatre because news is desperate to become on Thursday, January 8. PHOTO PROVIDED part of the entertainment industry, and really, it should stick to what it’s supposed to do. And partly it’s commented on a lot, but it seems like things caused by numbers. It’s all about numbers now. continue to grow more absurd. CNN I keep on in the background because it’s What’s frustrating is trying to find a way to unbelievable to watch. The desperate need to encompass — how many different ways are maintain a story is beyond belief. This plane there to say the Democrats are dumb and the went down, and that’s the theme of the day. Republicans are stupid? It’s funny and yet takes it to the next step to include what they’ve done It seems that in the last 5 or 10 years, the over the past two years. That’s the hard part, delivery of news has been ramped up to a that’s the frustrating part. I basically feel I have hyper speed because of social media. Does to be somewhat crazier than what I see. I’m that affect your comedy? Do you have to turn being sorely tested. around material faster because everything is being delivered so quickly?
No, because most people are still getting it. The speed of information is amped up, but people are still moving around slowly. We’re never going to move as fast as they are. Something happens two weeks ago, it’s still relevant. Part of it is people are still trying to digest it. I still don’t know how to put Ferguson and Eric Garner in context, to be honest. I liked your point on “Meet the Press” about how we’re getting ever closer to the intersection of reality and satire. But how do we come back from that?
It’s difficult. You wake up in the morning and you look at the front page of the paper and it reads as if you’re reading a novel about what’s going on. Someone would have to make this sh*t up. I have friends still smoking pot, I go, “Why? Do you need to make it crazier?” After 25 years, does this get frustrating? You’ve been really active and have
What is the idea behind doing these Q&A’s?
I just thought it would be fun. I like doing Q&As. It’s a way that I could find out really if I was talking about what they were interested in. And find out what was happening in the town that I didn’t know about, some of which is astonishing. Some of the stuff they write about is funny. And it just takes the wall down for 15 minutes. They’re not giving me a TV show and I’m tired of trying. I spent 20 years [pitching ] them two shows a year and hearing “No.” Now I can go ahead and be what the hell I want to be without dealing with some f***ing jackass at a network telling me to be something else. This allows me to go ahead and get my stuff out. I went from theater into stand-up and the reason I went into stand-up is so I could avoid all of them. It’s just me and the audience; I don’t have to deal with nonsense.
[ SUN., JANUARY 11 ] English Country Dancing. 6:30 p.m. First Baptist Church of Rochester, 175 Allens Creek Rd English Country Dancing, live music, called dances. $7-$8, under 17 free with adult. 2442468. fbcrochester.net. [ MON., JANUARY 12 ] Kids’ Irish dance trial session. 5:15-5:45 p.m M.G.O.S.- Ashford Dance Studio, 700 South Clinton Avenue 489-1682. directors@mgosrochester.com. mgosrochester.com. International Folk Dancing. 8-10 p.m. JCC Rochester, 1200 Edgewood Ave. $4 (free for first timers and students, $3 for members) 461-2000. [ TUE., JANUARY 13 ] Guinean Dance Class. 7:15 p.m. Bush Mango Drum & Dance, 34 Elton St. All levels welcome $15 drop in fee 210-2044. colleen@ bushmangodrumdance.org. bushmangodrumdance.org. Midnight Tango. 9 p.m.-midnight. Boulder Coffee Co., 960 Genesee St. Come learn new and old ways to tango, with a welcoming crowd and great atmosphere. If you’re building up the courage, feel free to stop by and enjoy the music. Cover fee $8 for dancers, free for future dancers $8. 287-5282. bouldercoffeeco.com.
Film [ WED., JANUARY 7 ] César Chávez. 7 p.m. Downtown United Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh Street 325-4000. rocla.us/. [ MON., JANUARY 12 ] What Your Black Friend Wants You to Know. 7 p.m. Lifetree Cafe, 1301 Vintage Lane “What Your Black Friend Wants You to Know: The Conversation About Race No One Is Having” 723-4673. lifetreecafe.com.
ART | “ARABAT SPIT / HEALING MUDS”
Born in a republic of the former USSR, young Ukrainian photographer Sergiy Lebedynskyy uses his perspective to explore the tension between cultural nostalgia and political shift. Lebedynskyy is a founding member of the Shilo photo group, known for its critical view on the social processes in the former-USSR. In his recent project, “Arabat Spit / Healing Muds,” Lebedynskyy used a Soviet-made panoramic camera and outdated Soviet film and paper to document a traditional basic spa as a metaphor for the current state of his country, which he describes as “stuck between a certain nostalgia for the previous system and looking with apprehension toward an uncertain future.” The Arabat Spit is a narrow strip of land that separates a large, shallow, and salty system of lagoons from the Sea of Azov. Located between the Henichesk Strait to the north, and the north-eastern shores of Crimea to the south, the spit was abandoned after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but is now used as a health resort and beach by Ukrainian and Russian lower-middle classes. “With the emergence of deep financial discrepancies between people, some find refuge in old myths and recipes,” Lebedeynskyy says. “They resort to the timeless usage of mineral mud baths to heal their physical and possibly psychological ailments.” “Arabat Spit / Healing Muds” is currently on view at Spectrum Gallery (Lumiere Photo, 100 College Avenue). The show remains on view through January 31. Spectrum Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, call 461-4447 or visit spectrumgalleryroc.com. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY [ TUE., JANUARY 13 ] Actress. 7 p.m. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue $8. thelittle.org.
Kids Events [ WED., JANUARY 7 ] LEGO Club. 4:30-5:30 p.m Monroe Branch Library, 809 Monroe Ave 428-8202. libraryweb.org. Preschool Story Time. 11:30 a.m. Maplewood Community Library, 1111 Dewey Ave. Preschoolers and their caregivers, come enjoy stories, songs, crafts, and movement with children’s librarian Ms. Marcia!. Free. 585-428-8220. margaret.paige@libraryweb.org. maplewoodcommunitylibrary.org. Storytime with Mike. Barnes & Noble, 330 Greece Ridge Center Dr. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m Free. 2274020. bn.com. [ THU., JANUARY 8 ] Children’s Story Time and Craft. 12-1 p.m. Barnes & Noble at University of Rochester, 1305 Mt.
Hope Ave. 275-4012. mferrante@ ur.rochester.edu. urochester. bncollege.com. Children’s Storytime-. 12-1 p.m. Barnes & Noble at University of Rochester, 1305 Mt. Hope Ave. 275-4012. bksurochester@ bncollege.com. urochester. bncollege.com. Story Time. 10:30-11 a.m. Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport 637-1050. seymourlibraryweb.org. [ FRI., JANUARY 9 ] Baby’s Morning Out. 10:30 a.m.noon. Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport 637-1050. seymourlibraryweb.org. Storytelling with Mike. 10:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 330 Greece Ridge Center Dr. Free. 227-4020. bn.com. Toddler Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St Ages 1-4. Free. 637-2260. patkutz@liftbridgebooks.com. liftbridgebooks.com.
[ SAT., JANUARY 10 ] Elephant & Piggy. 11 a.m. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St Play ball, go for a drive, and share your ice cream. Ages: 4-6. $5. 637-2260. liftbridgebooks.com. Movie: Frozen. 11 a.m. Central Library, Children’s Center, 115 South Ave. 428-8150. libraryweb.org. Tykes Theatre: Solo Circus. 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. JCC Rochester, 1200 Edgewood Ave. $15-$16. 461-2000. TykesTheatre.org. Sprice from America’s Got Talent. 3 p.m. The Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square Sprice creates an enormous chain-reaction structure featuring a variety of materials and detonates them 263-2700. thestrong.org. Tail Waggin’ Tutors. 11 a.m.noon. Monroe Branch Library, 809 Monroe Ave 428-8202. libraryweb.org. [ SUN., JANUARY 11 ] Second Sunday Family Tour. Second Sunday of every month, 2 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Included in gallery admission: $5-$12 276-8900. mag.rochester.edu. [ MON., JANUARY 12 ] Widget the Reading Dog and her Pal Joey. 3-4 p.m. Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport 6371050. seymourlibraryweb.org. [ TUE., JANUARY 13 ] Babies and Books. 10:30-11:15 a.m Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport 637-1050. seymourlibraryweb.org. Preschool Activity Club. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport 6371050. seymourlibraryweb.org. Stories and More. 7-7:45 p.m. Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport Registration required 637-1050. seymourlibraryweb.org. Teen Tuesdays. 2:45-4:15 p.m. Penfield Public Library, 1985 Baird Rd. Almost every Tuesday afternoon throughout the school year. Grades 9-12 340-8720 x4020.
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Included w/museum admission. 276-8900. mag.rochester.edu/ calendar. [ TUE., JANUARY 13 ] African World History Class. 7:30 p.m. Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave. 563-2145. thebaobab.org. Bob Duffy: My Time in Albany. 12:12-12:52 p.m. Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. 428-8350. libraryweb.org. Rochester’s Patent Medicine Men By: Don Hall. 7-8:30 p.m. Greece Public Library, 2 Vince Tofany Blvd. $2. 225-7221. greecehistoricalsociety.net.
Literary Events [ THU., JANUARY 8 ] Poetry Oasis: Unwind at Noontime. 12-1 p.m Central Library, 115 South Ave. 4288380. libraryweb.org. Pure Kona Open Mic Poetry Series. 7-10 p.m. The Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603. ourcoffeeconnection.org. [ FRI., JANUARY 9 ] Breathing Fire: Teen Poetry Slam. 6-9 p.m. The Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 473-2590. wab.org. [ SAT., JANUARY 10 ] Saturday Author Salon with Jill Davis. 2 p.m. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St 637-2260. liftbridgebooks.com. Winter Light: Gay Alliance Library & Archives Open House. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Auidtorium Center, 875 E. Main St. gayalliance.org. [ TUE., JANUARY 13 ] Lift Bridge Writers’ Group. 6:30 p.m. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St Free. 637-2260. liftbridgebooks.com.
Meetings [ WED., JANUARY 7 ] RPD Community Meeting. 6-7:30 p.m. Northeast Neighborhood Service Center, 500 Norton St. 428-7135. cityofrochester.gov/ RPDreorganization.
6th Annual Trulla Navideña. Sat., Jan. 10, 7 p.m. Ray Ray’s Bar & Grill, 2260 Clifford Ave. 413-1661. prfestival.com/. Christmas Tree Recycling. Jan. 10-11, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tinker Nature Park, 1525 Calkins Rd 359-7044.
[ THU., JANUARY 8 ] Green Party of Monroe County Monthly Meeting. 7-9 p.m. Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St. 250-0674. greenrochesterny@gmail.com.
Lectures
[ WED., JANUARY 7 ] Dinosaurs, Passenger Pigeons, Haudenosaunee: On the Trail of the Iroquois, Inventor Center. Through Jan. 25. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. Included w/museum admission. 271-4320. rmsc.org.
[ THU., JANUARY 8 ] Treasures From the Library. 7 p.m. Mendon Public Library, 22 N Main Street . Honeoye Falls 624-5655. William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience. 7 p.m. The Bertrand Russell Society, 740 University Ave A discussion by David White wab.org. [ SAT., JANUARY 10 ] Focus 45: Stacey Doyle & Ken Fox. 12:15 p.m. George Eastman House, 900 East Ave. $3-$5, free for gallery members. 271-3361. eastmanhouse.org. [ SUN., JANUARY 11 ] What’s Up. 2 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Bonnard’s Quiet Modernism.
Museum Exhibit
[ SUN., JANUARY 11 ] “Bring Your Own Train”. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. New York Museum of Transportation, 6393 E. River Rd Road, rail, and trolley vehicles and artifacts; operating model railroad; gallery; gift shop. Bring your own train Sunday’s January-April $3 adults, $2 under 12 533-1113. nymtmuseum.org. Gothic Cathedral Tour. 2 p.m. St. Michael’s Church, 869 N. Clinton Ave Donations gratefully accepted 325-4041. sfxcrochester.org/.
KIDS | “SOLO CIRCUS”
This weekend, Theatre Young Kids Enjoy (TYKEs) presents Michael DuBois’ “Solo Circus” at the JCC. Described as a “fast-paced, comedy-variety show for all ages,” “Solo Circus” features magic, juggling, circus stunts, and plenty of audience interaction. DuBois, a Rochester native, has performed at over 500 colleges, cruise ships, theatres, and resorts around the world. For this performance, DuBois is joined by his fiancée Viktoria Grimmy, a 5th generation circus performer and aerialist who has performed for Broadway, film, and the Ringling Brothers Circus. All shows will be held at the Jewish Community Center (1200 Edgewood Avenue, Brighton), on Saturday, January 10, at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., and Sunday, January 11, at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Tickets are $16 ($15 for JCC members). Subscriptions available for reduced rates, as well as discounts for school groups and social service organizations are available. 461-2000; tykestheatre.org. — BY KURT NYE The Rochester Subway. 1 p.m. New York Museum of Transportation, 6393 E. River Rd Images of the construction, operation, and abandonmnet of the Rochester Subway by Jim Dierks $4-$5. 533-1113. nymtmuseum.org.
Recreation [ WED., JANUARY 7 ] Roc Cirque presents Whirly Wendsday. 7 p.m. Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St. Join the fun at Rochester’s premier spin toy meet up. Hooping, poi, juggling, fire performances, and much more. Live DJ’s are playing during the session to help you stay moving. Extra hoops and poi are available 683-5734. facebook.com/ WhirlyWednesdays. [ FRI., JANUARY 9 ] Sati Virya Yoga with Lisa. 5:306:45 p.m. Nu Movement, 716 University Ave. $12. 704-2889. tinydancerdeuel@gmail.com. numvmnt.com/signup/sati-viyrayoga-with-lisa. The Woodpeckers Of Our Area. 7:30 a.m. Burroughs Audubon Nature Club, 301 Railroad Mills Rd. bancny.org. [ SAT., JANUARY 10 ] Free Guided Hike. 10 a.m.-noon. Ellison Park, Blossom Rd. Registration appreciated. 3408655. penfieldrec.org/. Genesee Valley Hiking Club. Check our online calendar for this week’s hike schedule or visit gvhchikes.org. 10 a.m. Moderate/ strenuous 5 mile hike. Meet at Whiting Road Park free. 2698974. gvhchikes.org.
Rochester Bicycling Club. Check our online calendar for this week’s ride schedule or visit. Rochesterbicyclingclub.org. [ SUN., JANUARY 11 ] Body Speak Yoga. 2-3:15 p.m Nu Movement, 716 University Ave. $13. 704-2889. hearyourbodyspeak@gmail.com. numvmnt.com/classes/. Genesee valley hiking club event. 2 p.m. durand park, kings highway 621 8794. gvhchikes.org. Winter Tour. 1 p.m. Mount Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mt. Hope Avenue $5. 461-3494. fomh.org/.
Special Events [ WED., JANUARY 7 ] Bay Knoll School Fundraising Dinner. 5:30-6:45 p.m. Bay Knoll Adventist Church, 2639 E Ridge Rd. $7-$25. n/a. bayknollchurch.org. Owl Moon. Every other day, 6 p.m. Genesee Country Village & Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford $8-$12, rsvp (585) 538-6822. gcv.org. Turning Points. 3:30-5 p.m. An information Center for families whose lives have been touched by Incarceration. Join us to share information, resources, and support Free. 328-0856. turningpoints4families@frontier. com. [ THU., JANUARY 8 ] Hamlin Libertarian Committee. Second Thursday of every month, 7-9 p.m. Hamlin Town Hall, 1658 Lake Rd. All are welcome to attend Free 802-4971. mglogowski08@yahoo.com. continues on page 25
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In the past, Hollywood usually reflected American anti-intellectualism by showing professors as unworldly, unmanly, possibly even impotent buffoons, which makes “A Beautiful Mind” of a decade or so ago something of an anomaly. Like that movie, however, the two most recent depictions of professors on the screen, though also based on fact, feature two brilliant scientists who, despite their success, suffer serious, even disabling afflictions — schizophrenia for John Nash in the
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American picture, ALS for Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” and now, apparently some form of high functioning autism for Alan Turing, the protagonist of “The Imitation Game.” “The Imitation Game” chronicles the heroic work of a team of experts — linguists, cryptographers, mathematicians, even a chess champion — in unraveling the secrets of the fiendishly successful German cypher machine, Enigma. Most of the action takes place at Bletchley Park, now famous as the headquarters of much of the secret war, including the efforts to break the German code. The time scheme also moves back and forth through various stages in the life of Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), showing his success as the leader of the code-breakers, his school days, and his arrest and conviction in 1951 for “gross indecency,” the term for a homosexual act, which then constituted a crime in England, consenting adults or not. Realizing that the team simply cannot decipher a machine-made code that changes every 18 hours, Turing decides to invent another machine to match the German
Benedict Cumberbatch in “The Imitation Game.” PHOTO COURTESY THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY
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device. Despite opposition from his colleagues and the blatant hostility of the commanding officer (Charles Dance), Turing designs and constructs the ancestor of the modern computer. With the accidental contribution of one of the women who monitor the intercepted German communications, he and his coworkers decipher the first messages, ordering a submarine attack on an Atlantic convoy. That solution to the problem, however, raises further moral and emotional issues. If the team reveals the planned attack and the Navy and the RAF respond, then the enemy will realize that British military intelligence has foiled Enigma; they obey a cruel calculus, arguing that the sacrifice of hundreds in the convoy means that millions will be saved in the future. The same calculus caused Winston Churchill to allow the devastating bombing of Coventry. Within the context of the war and the intelligence work, the picture focuses almost entirely on Turing’s life and personality. A remarkably gifted logician, mathematician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist, Alan Turing is also both arrogant and pathetic, offending his colleagues, his commanding officer, and virtually everyone he encounters. His obsessive dedication to his invention, his literal-minded approach to his colleagues, his apparent lack of affect, and even his intelligence suggest a textbook example of high-functioning autism. The pathos derives from the loneliness imposed by his sexual orientation; though briefly
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engaged to his colleague Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley), his only real love exists in memory. Several flashbacks show this sad, smart, lonely boy (Alex Lawther) bullied in the great English tradition at one of those elite academies the upper classes call public schools, in love with a classmate who dies young and after whom he names his marvelous machine. His arrest and its tragic consequence demonstrate the cruel folly of a now abolished law and the loss of one of the great minds of his time and place. With the professionalism of most English casts, the actors all carve out individual characters. Matthew Goode plays Hugh Alexander, the complete opposite to Turing, a handsome, sharply dressed ladies’ man, “a bit of a cad,” as Joan Clarke describes him, who dislikes Turing intensely (and for good reason) but respects his achievement. The best example of the cleverness and deviousness of British counter espionage is the slick and convincing Mark Strong, who plays Stewart Menzies, the head of MI6, manipulating almost everyone, including Turing himself. Given the assignment of playing an essentially cold, often quite unpleasant person with only minimal emotional variations, the very busy Cumberbatch — he’s all over the place these days — performs quite creditably. He manages a most difficult impersonation and even makes the audience care about him in ways they probably never expected, a fine piece of work in an interesting chapter of history.
Master Taiwanese director Tsai Mingliang is infamous for his deliberate pacing and use of extremely long takes, frequently composed as master shots, in which little action occurs on screen. Perhaps understandably, this sort of technique has earned him as many admirers as it has detractors. He forces the audience to wait and observe, letting us interpret events for ourselves as he draws our attention toward stories of alienation, loss, and regret. The director — who announced his retirement at this year’s Venice International Film Festival, where “Stray Dogs” was awarded the Grand Jury Prize — makes films that can be a challenge, but prove immensely rewarding if you’re up to the task. “Stray Dogs” follows a single father (played by Tsai’s frequent star, Lee Kang-
sheng) and his two children, a son and a young girl, as they struggle to survive in modern day Taipei. The father works as a human billboard, advertising affordable rates for luxury apartments, while his children spend their days wandering the outskirts of the city, collecting free food samples from the supermarket when they’re hungry. The family comes together at the end of the day to spend their nights in an abandoned apartment building. There’s not much plot to speak of, the film functions as a melancholy portrayal of life amidst the ruins of poverty. Though it’s a demanding watch, the film is hardly a wallow in the misery of the underclass; the film is filled with moments of warmth and humor. Despite there being little money, the children seem to have a relatively happy life, even as the family’s situation weighs heavily on their father. The film is heavy with compassion for the people too often viewed as the refuse of society. Credit must be given to the remarkable performances from the actors, who must transition between emotions without benefit of cuts. The film’s final shots (one of which is a nearly 12-minute take) in particular have a staggering power. Tsai’s studied pacing and extended takes may sometimes test his audience’s patience, but they allow viewers the time to focus on the small details and the way that every faint flicker of emotion contains a cryptic beauty. Though “Actress” is billed as a documentary, director Robert Greene’s
A scene from “Stray Dogs.” PHOTO COURTESY THE CINEMA GUILD
fascinating, somewhat enigmatic portrait of actress Brandy Burre strikes a delicate balancing act as it allows reality to blur together with fiction. Burre, whose most well-known role was as a recurring character on the television series “The Wire,” stepped away from acting when she became pregnant, moving to the small Hudson Valley town of Beacon, New York,
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in order to raise a family with long-term boyfriend Tim Reinke. Asked to take on the role of stay-at-home mom; cooking, cleaning, and raising children, she played her part. But a dissatisfaction with her domestic life has grown throughout the years and as her relationship with Tim slowly disintegrates, she decides to take the first steps toward getting back into acting. It’s tough going — aware that aging is seen as a death sentence for a working actress, at one point Burre laments that the only parts left for her are as the “bitchy, over-the-hill girlfriend or wife.” At a point, it becomes clear that Greene is asking us to consider how we each play a role in our own lives; we each have a certain idea of ourselves which we balance with how we’d like to be viewed by those around us and by society as large. The reality is usually found somewhere in between. Greene demonstrates how the strains of being a parent and gender roles play their part as well. In its way, the film would make a good double feature with “Gone Girl,” which examined a similar concept through the lens of a mystery-thriller. There’s a moment early on that tips Greene’s hand slightly, when we hear Burre repeat a statement, giving a slightly different “performance” of the line the second time around. It’s a fleeting moment, but one that leaves us questioning the authenticity of everything we’re being shown. Greene alternates a natural, vérité style with more artful, expressionistic moments filled with slow-motion photography and bright, saturated color. In these sequences Burre is sometimes dressed as a perfect 1950’s housewife. Then the credits begin, starting with the title card “Starring Brandy Burre,” and it’s tempting to view the film as one big audition tape meant to highlight Burre’s talents. It seems that life has crafted a better acting reel than she could ever have asked for. NEW RESTORATION!
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Winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 2013 Venice Film Festival, Stray Dogs is audacious, rigorous, and hauntingly beautiful. Mere hints of unconventional plot feature Lee Kang-sheng, the director’s enigmatic mainstay since the early 1990s, as a downtrodden single father trying to provide for his two children on the streets of a nameless, hostile metropolis. The film is an epic mural of unyielding (and unspoken) solidarity and compassion among the stray dogs, stuck and forgotten in the bowels of global capitalism, (Jiao you, Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France 2013, 138 min., Mandarin w/ subtitles, DCP)
John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) is a conservator mourning his young daughter. Attempting to find respite in his work, Baxter takes a commission in Venice, where he begins to experience intense visions of her likeness. Adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s 1971 short story, the film is perhaps best known for its ambiguous and fatalistic conclusion. Critics have championed Anthony B. Richmond, whose spellbinding cinematography is rivaled only by the on-screen chemistry between Sutherland and costar Julie Christie. (Nicolas Roeg, UK 1973, 110 min., 35mm)
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Full film reviews available at rochestercitynewspaper.com. [ OPENING ] AWAKENINGS (1990): Robin Williams and Robert De Niro star in this film based on the true story one doctor’s efforts to test an experimental drug which may revive catatonic patients. Dryden (Fri, Jan 9, 8 p.m.) BABY FACE (1933): Barbara Stanwyck stars as a young woman who uses her sexual wiles to climb the social ladder in this glorious pre-code drama. Dryden (Wed, Jan 7, 8 p.m.) DON’T LOOK NOW (1973): A couple mourning the accidental death of their daughter are approached by two psychic sisters who offer to provide them with answers in this supernatural thriller starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. Dryden (Sat, Jan 10, 8 p.m.) HEAVY METAL (1981): A glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with a collection of dark fantasy stories in this cult-classic animated sci-fi anthology film. Little (Mon, Jan 9, 10 p.m.) INHERENT VICE (R): Paul Thomas Anderson directs this story about Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, in which a drugfueled detective investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend. Based on the Thomas Pynchon novel. Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Josh Brolin. Little, Pittsford JUMANJI (1995): Robin Williams stars in this adaptation of the popular Chris Van Allsburg picture book, about a magical jungle-themed board game. Starring Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, and Bonnie Hunt. Dryden (Sun, Jan 11, 2 p.m.) KEY LARGO (1948): A former GI visits his old friend’s hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, and Lauren Bacall. Dryden (Tue, Jan 13, 8 p.m.) SELMA (PG-13): This film focuses on Martin Luther King’s efforts to organize a crucial moments in civil rights history, the protests in Selma, Alabama. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Little, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster STRAY DOGS (2013): A single father and his two young children struggle survive in Taipei, when they cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life. Dryden (Thu, Jan 8, 8 p.m.) TAKEN 3 (R): Liam Neeson has gone and gotten his wife murdered, and now he must clear his name. Also, maybe somebody gets taken? Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster [ CONTINUING ] ANNIE (PG): In this updated take on the classic musical, Quvenzhane Wallis fills the role of the plucky orphan hero. With Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz and Rose Byrne. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster
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BIG EYES (PG-13): This drama from Tim Burton centers on the phenomenal success of painter Margaret Keane, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works. Starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz. Canandaigua, Culver, Henrietta BIG HERO 6 (PG): In this animated adventure film, a young prodigy invents an inflatable robot and teams up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes. Culver, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster BIRDMAN (R): This dark comedy from director Alejandro González Iñárritu follows the mental unraveling of a washed up A-list actor, famous for playing the titular superhero, as he prepares to mount a comeback by directing a Broadway play. Starring Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, and Zach Galifianakis. Pittsford EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS (PG13): Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton star in RIdley Scott’s epic retelling of the biblical story of Moses. With Sigourney Weaver, Aaron Paul, and Ben Kingsley. Culver, Eastview, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster FOXCATCHER (R): Based on the true story of Olympic Wrestling Champions Mark and Dave Schultz and their tragic relationship with paranoid schizophrenic John du Pont. Starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo. Tinseltown DEAR WHITE PEOPLE (R): The lives of four black students at an Ivy League college converge after controversy breaks out due to the ill-conceived theme of a campus Halloween party in this satirical comedy. Cinema THE GAMBLER (R): A literature professor with a gambling problem runs afoul of gangsters, in this crime-thriller starring Mark Wahlberg. Culver, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (PG-13): The epic third (and final) installment of the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 (R): The scheming friends of the first film are up to their old tricks, turning to illegal activities in an attempt to start their own business. Starring Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Chris Pine, and Christoph Waltz. Greece THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 (PG-13): The first part of the final chapter of the “Hunger Games” series sees Katniss Everdeen journey to the mysterious District 13 and join their war against the capitol. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster THE IMITATION GAME (PG13): The true Story of English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, who helped crack the Enigma code during World War II. Starring Benedict
Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Little, Pittsford, Tinseltown INTERSTELLAR (PG-13): Christopher Nolan directs this sci-fi epic, about a group of explorers sent to space to save humanity from an Earth deprived of resources. Starring Matthew Mcconaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Jessica Chastain. Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster THE INTERVIEW (R): Seth Rogen and James Franco star as American TV journalists tasked with assassinating North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in this comedy which you may have heard stirred up a bit of controversy. Brockport, Cinema INTO THE WOODS (PG): A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree in this adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s beloved musical. Starring Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick, Emily Blunt, Johnny Depp, and Chris Pine. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Little, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB (PG): When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry embarks on an epic quest to save the magic before it’s gone forever. Starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, and Ben Kingsley. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR (PG): Everyone’s favorite animated penguins join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it. Culver, Henrietta TOP FIVE (R): Chris Rock stars, writes, and directs this comedy about a comedian trying to make it as a serious actor when his reality-TV star fiancé talks him into broadcasting their wedding on TV. Culver, Henrietta, Webster UNBROKEN (PG-13): Directed by Angelina Jolie, this drama chronicles the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster WILD (R): Reese Witherspoon stars in the inspirational story of a woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail. Henrietta, Little, Pittsford, Tinseltown THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2 ANGEL OF DEATH (PG-13): Daniel Radcliffe is nowhere to be found in this horror sequel set 40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, as a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive and awaken the house’s supernatural resident. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster
FILM | “HEAVY METAL”
As part of its Mondo Movie Series, The Little Theatre will host a screening of the 1981 animated fantasy hit “Heavy Metal.” Based loosely on the American magazine of the same name, “Heavy Metal” is the classic tale of Good versus Evil in a series of shorts spanning several times and worlds, each connected to one another by the presence of the Loc-Nar, a glowing green orb that is the physical embodiment of all evil in the universe. Featuring animation that was groundbreaking for its time and a soundtrack jam-packed with classic rock and metal music, “Heavy Metal” delivers a unique viewing experience that’s well worth the ticket price. “Heavy Metal” will screen at The Little (240 East Avenue) on Friday, January 9, at 10 p.m. Tickets are $5, available online or at the box office. Visit thelittle.org for more information. — BY KURT NYE
Special Events Lincoln Tours. 1 & 3 p.m. Seward House Historic Museum, 33 South St., Auburn. 315-2521283. sewardhouse.org. Networking Thursdays. 6 p.m. Captain’s Attic, 37 Charlotte St. A Night for Business Professionals & Entrepreneurs 25+. $5 with business card; $7 without 546-8885. Captainsattic@yahoo.com. 5pointentertainment.com. Rock the Voter Bloc Party!. 5:30-8 p.m. Center for Disability Rights, 497 State St 5467510. dderusso@rcil.org. cdrnys.org/. [ SAT., JANUARY 10 ] Adoption Event. noon. Pet Adoption Network, 4261 Culver Rd. (585) 338-9175. info@petadoptionnetwork.org. petadoptionnetwork.org. Food: The Lost Connection. 1-2:30 p.m. Carlson MetroCenter YMCA, 444 E Main St. Focused on natural, at-home gardening and food preparation 263-4269. rochesterymca.org. JCC Annual Gala. 7 p.m. JCC Rochester, 1200 Edgewood Ave. Hors d’oeuvres, an open bar, dinner, dessert, an afterhours bar and entertainment. Call for pricing 461-2000 x210. jccrochester.org. Joy and Peace: A One Day Retreat Experience. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sufi Order of Rochester Center for Sufi Studies, 494 East Ave. Carriage House of AAUW $40-$50 sliding scale. 248-0427, Leave message. zaynab@frontiernet.net. sufiorderofrochester.org. RBA: Annual Winter Dinner Party. 6 p.m. Summerville Presbyterian Church, 4845 Saint Paul Blvd $5, reservations required 671-5244. office@summervillechurch.org. rochesterbirding.com.
Sustainable Saturday. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.4 p.m. Rochester Greenovation, 1199 East Main St. Free admission 288-7564. events@ rochestergreen.com. [ SUN., JANUARY 11 ] Brighton Winter Farmers’ Market. 1-4 p.m Brookside Community Center, 220 Idlewood Rd. 2698918. brightonfarmersmarket.org. Pittsford United Nursery School Open House. 1-3 p.m. Pittsford United Nursery School, 123 S Main St. 743-7781. punsregistrar@gmail.com. [ MON., JANUARY 12 ] Painting with a Purpose at Painting With A Twist. 7-9 p.m. Painting with a Twist, 1276 Fairport Rd . Fairport $35. 2783565. misswedemeyer@gmail. com. jlroch.org/. Thinkin’ & Drinkin’: The Bug Jar’s Trivia Night. 8:30-9:30 p.m. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 21+. Prizes: $20 / $10 / $5 bar tabs for the first, second, and third place teams. Doors at 7:30 p.m Free. bugjar.com. [ TUE., JANUARY 13 ] Birthday Party for Elvis. 7-10 p.m. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. Ft. Mark Gamsjager and The Lustre Kings. 244-1210. recordarchive.com. Free STD Screenings for Women ages 13+. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Trillium Health, 259 Monroe Ave. Free. 545-7200. trilliumhealthny.org.
Theater Judgement at Nuremberg. Jan. 8-17. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave Through Jan. 17. Thurs. Jan. 8 & 15 at 7:30 p. m., Jan. 9 & 16 at 7:30 p. m., Sat. Jan. 10 & 17 at 7:30 p. m., and Sun.
Jan. 11 at 2 p. m. Judgment at Nuremberg brings those trials to life $12-$20. muccc.org. Little Shop of Horrors. Jan. 13Feb. 14. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd Through Feb. 15. Previews: Tues. and Wed. Jan. 13 & 14, 7:30 p.m., Fri. Jan. 16 p.m., and Sat. Jan. 17, 2 p.m., Performances: Sun. Jan. 18, 2 & 7 p.m., Tues. Jan 20, 6 p.m., Fri. Jan. 23, 8 p.m., Sat. Jan. 24, 2 & 7 p.m., Sat. Jan. 25, 2 & 7 p.m., Tues. Jan. 27, Feb 3, 10, 7:30 p.m., Wed. Jan 21, 28, Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m. and Feb 11 , 2 & 7:30 p.m., Thur. Jan. 22, Feb. 5, 12, 7:30 p.m., Fri. Jan 23, 29, Feb. 5, 12, 7:30 p.m., Sat. Jan. 24, 31, Feb. 7, 14, 4 & 8:30 p.m. and Sun. Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 8, 2 &7 p.m. and Feb. 15, 2 p.m $25. 232-4382. gevatheatre.org. Pippin. Jan. 13-Nov. 18. Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. Through Jan. 18. Tues.-Thurs. Jan 13-15, 7:30 p.m., Fri. Jan. 16, 8 p.m., Sat. Jan. 17, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sun. Jan. 18, 1 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.Broadway’s high-flying, death-defying hit musical!. $32.50 - $72.50. 222-5000. rbtl.org.
Festivals [ SAT., JANUARY 10 ] Mystical Gateways Psychic Faire. 12-6 p.m. Mythic Treasures, 274 N Goodman St #B131 Free General Admission. Vendor fees vary. 266-8350. steffie@rochester. rr.com. mythictreasures.com.
Workshops [ WED., JANUARY 7 ] Divination Tool Time. 12-2:45 & 5-5:45 p.m. The Purple Door Soul Source, 3259 Winton Road S $5. 427-8110. purpledoorsoulsource.com. Five Ways to Flourish with Adult ADD/ADHD. 7:30 p.m. Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. $5-$6. 315-781-5483. thesmith.org. Free Mindercise Mindfulness Meditation Classes. 7-9 p.m Living Stress Free® Wellness Center, 131 Gregory Street First class free; subsequent classes $15. 451-1584. lsf@livingstressfree.org. LivingStressFree.org/. Knit Clique: Knitting/Crocheting Drop-In. noon. Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. Snacks are welcome free. 7845300. brightonlibrary.org. Open Weekly Group Meditation. 5:30 p.m. The TRU Center, 6 South Main St Pittsford This meditation group meets weekly on Wednesdays at 5:30-6:30pm. Renewal, deep relaxation and decompression in the ways you need most. $12, registration required 381-0190. tru@ trubynicole.com. trubynicole.com. Paint Blu Moon Chalice with Roc Paint Sip. 6:30 p.m. BLU Bar & Grill, 250 Pixley Rd. $25, preregistration required 764-1062. rocpaintsip.com/. Peace Meditation Circle. 7:15 p.m. Beyond Center for Yoga, 67 Main Street, 3rd floor, Brockport. An open, inclusive community to promote world peace by practicing meditation 690-9714 OR 637-3984. melanie@namastegirl.com OR gencool@rochester.rr.com. brockportyogapilates.com.
Qigong for Health and Healing. 3-4:15 p.m Unity Church of Greater Rochester, 55 Prince Street $10-$40. 442-8141. [ THU., JANUARY 8 ] Abundance Theory. 6:30 p.m. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St 474-4116. booksetcofmacedonny.com. Crockpot Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. 7-8:30 p.m. Penfield Public Library, 1985 Baird Rd. Free, registration required 3408720. penfieldlibrary.org. Financial Literacy. 6-8 p.m. NeighborWorks Rochester, 570 South Ave $85-99. 325-4170. nwrochester.org. Foundation Class. Second Thursday of every month, 7:30 p.m. Sufi Order of Rochester Center for Sufi Studies, 494 East Ave. Carriage House of AAUW No charge. 2480427. hecca@frontiernet.net. sufiorderofrochester.org. Meditation. 7-8 p.m. Grow2bu, 595 Blossom Rd $15. 953-0503. grow2bu.com/. Rochester Makerspace Open Nights. 6-10 p.m. Rochester Makerspace, 850 St. Paul St. #23 Bring a project to work on or something to show others, help work on the space, or just get to know the venue Free. 210--0075. rochestermakerspace.org. [ FRI., JANUARY 9 ] Foodlink SNAP Clinic. Second Friday of every month, 10:30 a.m. Cameron Community Ministries, 48 Cameron St. SNAP Clinics are routine outreach dates at Foodlink’s partner agencies (i.e shelters, pantries and soup kitchens) in which community members can learn more about the USDA’s SNAP program. Interested community members can be prescreened for SNAP eligibility based off of the information they provide about their household, income, and living expenses Free. 328-3380. foodlinkny1@ gmail.com. Spirit Tutoring. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. The Purple Door Soul Source, 3259 Winton Road S $1/ minute, $5 minimum. 427-8110. purpledoorsoulsource.com. [ SAT., JANUARY 10 ] AARP Driver Safety Program. 10:10 a.m.-4:40 p.m. Irondequoit Library, Helen McGraw Branch, 2180 E. Ridge Rd $20-$25, registration required 336-6060. mcgrawbr@libraryweb.org. Bee Hive Assembly and Workshop. 1-3 p.m. Tinker Nature Park, 1525 Calkins Rd Bring your own tools and wood 820-6619. rochesterbeekeepers.com/. Canvassing Class. 1-4 p.m. Finger Lakes Boating Museum, 8231 Pleasant Valley Rd, Hammondsport $30. 607-5692222. flbm.org. Neighbor Next Door: Alzheimer’s Association. 10 a.m.-noon. Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport 637-1050. seymourlibraryweb.org. Prenatal Wellness Through Movement. 12:30-1:30 p.m Hochstein School of Music & Dance, 50 N. Plymouth Ave. $136. 454-4596. hochstein.org/. So You Want to Be Published?. 2 p.m. Books Etc., 78 W. Main St Macedon 474-4116. booksetcofmacedonny.com. Winter Garden Talk: Gardening in a Warmer World. 10-11:30
THEATER | “PIPPIN”
Medieval history met jazz hands in “Pippin,” one of the longest-running Broadway musicals of the 1970’s. Its success was partly due to Stephen Schwartz’s tuneful score, but even more to Bob Fosse’s high-powered staging and choreography (and to one of the first TV commercials to promote a Broadway show). The story line deals with the growing-up of the young prince Pippin, but this show has always been a signature Fosse production. That made reviving the show difficult, but director Diane Paulus found a new way to approach “Pippin” in 2013 and made the show a Broadway hit once again. That new way is through the circus, and a cast that spins, twirls, dances on trapezes, and much more. The touring company of “Pippin,” presented by RBTL, hits the Auditorium Theatre next Tuesday, and there will be “Magic to Do” in Rochester once more. “Pippin” will run Tuesday, January 13, through Sunday, January 18, at the Auditorium Theatre, 885 East Main Street. 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday; 8 p.m. on Friday; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday; and 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Sunday. $32.50$72.50. 222-5000; rbtl.org. — BY DAVID RAYMOND a.m. Monroe Branch Library, 809 Monroe Ave 428-8202. libraryweb.org. [ SUN., JANUARY 11 ] Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream. 12:45-5 p.m. Temple Sinai, 363 Penfield Road . Penfield Free. 3851155. zaynab@frontiernet.net. pachamama.org. Family Detectives Club. 1:151:45 p.m Central Library, Rundel Memorial Building, 115 South Ave. 428-8096. Spirituality and Philosophy. 1:30 p.m. Books Etc., 78 W. Main St Macedon 474-4116. booksetcofmacedonny.com. [ MON., JANUARY 12 ] Dialogue on a Course in Miracles. 3-4:30 p.m Unity Church of Greater Rochester, 55 Prince Street $40 for 5 sessions. 4428141. ushashah822@gmail.com. Rochester Sharing Economy Meetup. 6:30-8 p.m. SPoT Coffee, 200 East Ave. 613-4600. facebook.com/rocshare. [ TUE., JANUARY 13 ] Blues Harmonica Workshop. Jan. 13. $5, registration required before Jan. 10 education@ goldenlink.org. Buddhist Book Discussion Group. 7 p.m. Amitabha Foundation, 11 South Goodman St. By donation. 451-7039. NY@ amitabhafoundation.us. amitabhafoundation.us. Conversazione in Italiano. Second Tuesday of every month, 6 p.m.
Italian American Community Center, 150 Frank Dimino Way No fee involved. For more information on where the meetings will be, please contact Marjorie at 749-5346 594-8882. iaccrochester.org. Guinean Drum Class with Mohamed Diaby. 6 p.m. Bush Mango Drum & Dance, 34 Elton St. Instruments available for student use. For all levels $15 drop in fee. 820-9213. colleen@ bushmangodrumdance.org. bushmangodrumdance.org. Health Insurance Open House for Rochester’s Uninsured. 2-5 p.m. Threshold at the Community Place, 135 Parsells Ave Fidelis Care representatives will be on-site at Threshold at the Community Place, 145 Parsells Avenue, Rochester, every Tuesday from 2 – 5 PM to answer questions about health insurance options, and to help eligible residents apply to enroll in Fidelis Care programs. 1-888343-3547. fideliscare.org. Register for Insurance with a Healthcare Navigator. 2-5 p.m. Irondequoit Library, Helen McGraw Branch, 2180 E. Ridge Rd Registration required. 3366060. mcgrawbr@libraryweb.org.
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FIFERS&RUDIMENTAL DRUMMERS WANTED: C.A.Palmer Fife&Drum seeking new members for Sr. & JR. Revolutionary, 1812, & Civil War Music. Info. @ AncientDrummer1776@aol.com Palmyra, NY I NEED MORE Rock ‘n Roll in my life. Like to play early Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks, Monkees and Lovin’ Spoonful. I play bass. Craig at mooskamovers@aol.com INTERESTED In starting a chromatic harmonica club. Email your thoughts and ideas to john@ jpkelly.info KEYBOARDIST That knows the manipulation of their keyboards. Must have equipt. Avail-Evenings, Transport, Ear & Theory, One Band, us vocals and or other instr a plus. Bobby 585-328-4121
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Our column features some amazing housing stock. Some stand out from the crowd, while others remain hidden gems. In fact, Rochester can boast some of the best historic housing stock in the nation and our weekly column is a testament to that fact. 655 Beach Ave. in Charlotte is truly a hidden gem. This beautiful 1920s American Foursquare is somewhat overshadowed by its larger contemporary neighbors. Despite this, it retains remarkable charm and craftsmanship, reminiscent of Charlotte’s origins as a booming neighborhood and playground for the city’s residents.
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This two-story home has well maintained wood siding from the previous owners who called this home for over 40 years. Large overhanging eaves, a bracketed entrance portico, and mature landscaping with a deep setback from the road provide additional curb appeal.
butler’s pantry. The kitchen has the amenities and potential to be fully modernized with little alteration. Beyond the den, towards the rear of the house, is a wonderful library/study with built-in book shelving and intricate woodwork throughout, displaying the attention to detail only a true craftsman can provide. An elegant wood staircase or the servant’s stairs off the kitchen hallway takes you upstairs to four bedrooms including the master and a large full bathroom. The second floor hall includes unique built-in drawers perfect for storing linens. Other amenities include a full basement and attic, and a detached two-car garage. Outside is a shaded backyard with large trees perfect for kids or summertime lounging and plenty of garden space around the house for the green thumb.
Step through the portico and you’re immediately struck by the warmth of wood. In fact, elegant woodwork is a theme throughout this home. The bright roomy den boasts large windows with excellent views of both the neighborhood and of Lake Ontario. Additional features include a wood-burning fireplace with an intricate wood mantle. Off the den is a unique four season porch where you can enjoy the beauty of summer or the sublime of winter by the cozy warmth of a fireplace.
655 Beach Ave. has access to the lake via a public walk across the street where one can stroll to the sandy shores of Ontario Beach. It is located within walking distance of the heart of Charlotte, where you’ll find local favorites like Abbott’s and Mr. Dominic’s. This inspiring Foursquare is a generous 2,516 square feet, is listed at $160,000 and has a lot to offer. To view this wonderful home for yourself, contact Cheryl LaTray with LaTray Realty Group at (585) 730-8099 or email Clatray@ LaTrayRealty.com.
Continuing towards the rear of the house is a spacious dining room perfect for entertaining. It is connected to the kitchen by a large
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CARING FOR CAREGIVERS Lifespan is looking for volunteers to offer respite to caregivers whose loved ones have been diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer’s Disease. For details call Eve at 244-8400 FOSTER PARENTS WANTED! Monroe County is looking for adults age 21 and over to consider opening their homes to foster children. Call 334-9096 or visit www.MonroeFosterCare.org. Monroe County LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF ROCHESTER needs adult tutors to help adults who are waiting to improve their reading, writing, English speaking, or math skills. Call 473-3030, or check our website at www.literacyrochester. org MEALS ON WHEELS needs volunteers to deliver meals! • Delivering takes about an hour • Routes go out between 10:30 am and 12 pm Contact us at 7878326 or at www.vnsnet.com. NEW FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT GROUP. Volunteers needed for
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A Chattering Byrd, LLC, filed Articles of Organization with the SSNY on 8/6/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: PO Box 24571, Rochester, NY 14624. General Purposes [ NOTICE ] A4 ENTERPRISES LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 11/21/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Timothy Smith, 343 Moxon Dr., Rochester, NY 14612. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ] ALETHEIA ADVISORS LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 10/21/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Legalinc Corporate Services Inc., 90 State St., Ste. 700, Box 80, Albany, NY 12207. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ] America Real Estate Network LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) 8/1/14. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to Bultynck Resident Agents LLC 15985 Canal Rd. Clinton Township, MI 48038. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] BUELL ROAD PROPERTIES, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 11/20/14. 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, 308 Buell Rd., Rochester, NY 14624. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ] FOR OUR BOYS, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 11/4/14. 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, 90 N. Lincoln Rd., E. Rochester, NY 14445. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ]
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FTO DISTRIBUTORS, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on December 5, 2014. LLC’s office is in Monroe County. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 3349
Monroe Ave, Suite 290, Rochester NY 14618. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] GRACEFUL SOLUTIONS, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 10/29/14. 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, 11 Lakewood Dr., Rochester, NY 14616. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ] Home Comfort Property LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) 11/20/14. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to princ. address/ RA Michael Murphy 4340 Union St North Chili, NY 14514. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Long Short LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) 12/10/14. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to Corp Filings of New York 90 State St. #700 #40 Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] MGIF Properties, LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) 10/10/14. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to princ. address/RA Rose M. Maye 755 W. Main St. Rochester, NY 14611. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ]
NY Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1115 E Main St., Studio 211, Rochester, NY. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Dio Designs LLC. Art.of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/19/14. 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 2 Birchstone Hill Road, Rush, New York 14543. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Fetzner Plaza LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) October 6, 2014. 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 114 Boyd Drive, Rochester, NY 14616. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sunshine Music Studio LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/14/2014. 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 90 Canal Street, Suite 111, Rochester 14608. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ]
NORTH POINT ENTERPRISES, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 10/23/14. 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, Attn: Sean Maley, Mgr., 247 Gregory St., Rochester, NY 14620. General Purposes.
Notice of formation of ASR PATZWALD, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/23/14. Office in Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 2521 W. Ridge Rd Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose
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Notice of Formation of Chibi Foods LLC Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/27/2014. 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 7 Whitmore St., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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Notice of Formation of Between the Notes Production, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/26/2014. Office location: 1115 E Main St., Studio 211, Rochester,
Notice of Formation of Clarisoft Technologies, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/26/14. 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: Bogdan Bucura, CEO, 640 Kreag Road, Ste. 301, Pittsford, NY 14535, the registered agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Clearfield Management, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/19/14. Office location: Monroe County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: The LLC, 28 Thomas Grove, Pittsford, NY 14534, principal business address. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Conservation Strategies Consulting LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/17/14. 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 960 Allens Creek Rd., Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Enso Consulting LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/1/2014. 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 366 Alexander St., Apt 4, Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Feel Up Records LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/30/2013. 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 7 Whitmore St., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Geneva Plaza Associates, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/21/14. 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 Glidedowan, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State
(SSNY) 12/16/14. 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 2117 Buffalo Rd., #142, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Grants4Good LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/12/14. 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 Margit Brazda Poirier, Manager, PO Box 114, Mendon, NY 14506. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Hibbs Services LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) Dec. 12, 2014. 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 642 Washington St., Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of HOUSE ‘O LAUNDRY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/15/14. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Pixley Industrial Pkwy., Rochester, NY 14624. 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. Per Cert. of Amendment filed with SSNY on 11/17/14, name changed to HOUSE O LAUNDRY, LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Indian Trails Apartments MM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/3/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016, the registered agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Ivy Bridge Extension, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/04/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.
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Notice of Formation of Makeway LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/02/2015. 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 72 Cascade Dr. Rochester, NY 14614. General Purposes.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Kelly Kester Photography, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/19/2013. 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 51 Cambria Rd, Rochester, NY 14617. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Kevmo Village Path, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/8/14. 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 Kleckner Consulting Services, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/9/2014. 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 55 Brentwood Lane Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MADONNA, M.D., OBGYN, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/9/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 7885 Hidden Oaks, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: practice the profession of medicine.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Matamanoa LLC. Art.of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/19/14. 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 7 Via Visca, Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Monroe Office Suites, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/20/14. 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 2740 Monroe Ave., Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan Genesee Street, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/3/14. 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 PBJ MOB LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/9/14. 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 PI Bar, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/10/14. 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 Preston Orthodontics, PLLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/1/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC 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: to practice the profession of Dentistry and Orthodontics. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Puff Palace LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) October 23, 2014. 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 579 Stone Road, Rochester, NY 14616. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of RDI NYC LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/18/2014. 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 Law Office of Anthony
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A. DiNitto, L.L.C., 2250 W. Ridge Rd., Suite 300, Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of RIDGEWOOD HOLDINGS NY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/14/2014. 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 Law Office of Anthony A. DiNitto, L.L.C., 2250 West Ridge Rd., Suite 300, Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Safety Reaction Team, LLC. Notice of Organization were filed with NYS Secretary of State (SSNY) on 08/05/2014. Office Location :Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC 5171 Dewey Ave Rochester,NY 14612:Purpose Any lawful business [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sky I Scrape, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/25/14. 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 5 Stemrose Lane, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Stoplight Properties LLC. Articles of Org. filed Sec’y of State on 09/25/2014. Office location Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 96 Empire Boulevard Rochester NY. The purpose of the Company is any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Tangible Surface Research, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/3/2014. 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 3 Cedarwood Drive, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: Programmable Surface Research and Development. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Upstate Renewable Diesel LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/18/10. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be
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served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 251 Farmington Rd., Rochester, NY 14609. Reg. Agt. at such addr. upon whom proc. may be served is John Vavalo. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Village Path Townhomes, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/8/14. 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 Wave tour LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/15/14. 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 1010 Genesee PK BLVD, Rochester, NY 14619 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of WHOLESALE FENCE AND RAILING LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/19/13. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 1739 Ridgeway Ave., Rochester, NY 14615. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Wilder Properties of Rochester, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 11/24/2014 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 c/o Lorenzo Napolitano, 1 East Main Street, Suite 711, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of JPM 2006-CIBC16 - 2160 ERIE ST LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/1/14. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. bus. addr.: 5221 N. O’Connor Blvd., Ste. 600, Irving, TX 75039. LLC formed in DE on 11/26/14. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served.
DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Neighborhood Practice Solutions, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/12/14. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in DE on 12/10/14. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP, 665 Main St., Suite 300, Buffalo, NY 14203. DE address of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of ORTHOMETRICS, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/19/14. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/20/13. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF MONROE WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, against LORENZO ZARAGOZA, LILIA ZARAGOZA, et al., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 9/24/2014 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, New York on 01/26/2015 at 10:00AM, premises known as 104-106 WEEGER STREET, Rochester, NY 14605 All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, SBL#: 106.323-19. Approximate amount of judgment $40,026.37 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 20134823. Seth A. Weinstein, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC, Attorney for Plaintiff, P.O. Box 540, Getzville, NY 14068 1122260
[ NOTICE ] OPEN ENERGY GROUP PROJECT MAPLE LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 11/24/14. 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, 510 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ] Pet Star Grooming LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) 08/19/14. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 2398 Monroe Ave. Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] R.A. Home Properties LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) 8/21/14. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 38 Winans St. Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] T.F.M. RENTALS, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 11/14/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Thomas F. Mayer, 8359 Ridge Rd. W., Brockport, NY 14420. General Purposes.
Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on 10/14/14. New York office location: Monroe County. Principal business location: 74 Newcroft Park, Rochester, NY. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: 74 Newcroft Park, Rochester, NY 14609. LLC is organized to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is Operation Brain Freeze (Cicero) LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on November 24, 2014. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 374 Bonnie Brae Ave, Rochester, NY 14618. The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ]
Move Tour LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on October 15, 2014, 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 serve and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 1010 Genesee Park Blvd., Rochester, NY 14619. The purpose of the Company is any lawful purpose.
JR FOUNDATION PROPERTIES, LLC (“LLC”), has filed Articles of Organization with the NY Secretary of State (“NYSS”) on November 6, 2014 pursuant to Section 203 of the NY Limited Liability Law. The office of the LLC shall be located in Monroe County, NY. The NYSS is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served, and the address to which the NYSS shall mail a copy of any process served on him against the LLC is 146 Garnsey Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be formed under the law.
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Notice of Formation of Litchfield Audits, LLC , Articles of Organization filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on November 14, 2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to principal business location: The LLC, 158 Five Points Road, Rush, NY 14543. Purpose: any lawful activity
Blue Lake Partners, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on December 19, 2014 with an effective date of formation of January 1, 2015. Its principal place of business is located at 459 Trailwood Court, Webster, New York in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to Richard K. Honeyman, 459 Trailwood Court, Webster, New York 14580. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New
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Legal Ads York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Compass NEWS Capital Partners IV, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on December 1, 2014 with an effective date of formation of December 1, 2014. Its principal place of business is located at 86 Mahogany Run, Pittsford, New York in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to Scott J. Catlin, 86 Mahogany Run, Pittsford, New York 14534. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Kingdom Now, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on December 16, 2014 with an effective date of formation of December 16, 2014. Its principal place of business is located at 267 Norman Road, Rochester, New York in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to Jonathan Welton, 267 Norman Road, Rochester, New York 14623. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Rochester Referral Realty, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on December 9, 2014 with an effective date of formation of December 9, 2014. Its principal place of business is located at 40A Grove St., Pittsford, New York in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to Thomas Schnorr, 40A Grove St, Pittsford, New York 14534. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF SALE ] SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF MONROE FIRST NIAGARA BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, -againstSusan Rayam, et al., Defendant(s). Pursuant to
a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated 10/23/2014 and entered thereafter. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Monroe County Office Building, 39 West Main Street, Rochester, New York on February 4, 2015 at 09:15AM, premises known as 230 Gatewood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14624. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Gates, County of Monroe and State of New York, SBL#: 119.10-2-45. Approximate amount of judgment is $93,568.81 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# I2014003959. Mary Elizabeth Feindt, Esq., Referee Schiller & Knapp, LLP 950 New Loudon Road Latham, NY 12110 Attorneys for Plaintiff 1120881 1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 01/28/2015 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 2014-3306 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Wanda Chealey, n/k/a Andrea Juan Allen; Charles Chealey, Jr.; People of the State of New York, Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated December 18, 2014, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the front vestibule of the Monroe County Office Building located at 39 West Main Street, Rochester, New York, County of Monroe on February 4, 2015 at 10:30 a.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 95 Rand Street, Rochester, NY 14615; Tax Account No. 090.33-1-42 described in Deed recorded in Liber 9134 of Deeds, page 277 lot size .09 acres. 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: $52,223.13 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: December 31, 2014 Donald White, 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. 2014-5807 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Irving Gordon, Deceased, and any persons who are heirs distributees of Irving Gordon, 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; United States of America; People of the State of New York, Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated November 25, 2014 and entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the lobby of the Monroe County Clerk’s Office located at 39 West Main Street, Rochester, New York, County of Monroe on January 28, 2015 at 10:30 a.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 Irondequoit, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 268 Scholfield Road, Rochester, NY 14617, Tax Account No. 076.18-1-16 described in Deed recorded in Liber 9938 of Deeds, page 221; lot size .15 acres. 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: $90,663.76 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: December 2014 Charles Genese, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] Index No. 2014-7060 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK MONROE COUNTY TOWER DBW II TRUST 2013-1, Plaintiff, vs. The heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-in-interest
and generally all persons having or claiming under by or through, WELDON E. LEARN A/K/A WELDON EARL LEARN, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective wives, or widows of his, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to plaintiff; JUDY A. BOGARDUS; JOHN WELDON LEARN; MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY; TOWN/VILLAGE OF EAST ROCHESTER and “JOHN DOE #1” THROUGH “JOHN DOE #100” Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the amended complaint in the aboveentitled foreclosure action, and to serve a copy of your answer on plaintiff’s attorney within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal service within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the subject premises. Dated: November 18, 2014 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an Order of Honorable Richard A. Dollinger, a Justice of the Supreme Court, dated December 4, 2014, and filed with supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a tax lien covering the properties known as 216 East Maple Avenue, Village of East Rochester, New York and identified as Tax Account No. 139.781-13 (the “Tax Parcel”). The relief sought is the sale of the Tax Parcel at public auction in satisfaction of the tax lien. In case of your failure to appear, judgment may be taken against you in the sum of $29,644.65, together with interest, costs, disbursements and attorneys’ fees of this action, and directing the public sale of the Tax Parcel. PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP Anthony J. Iacchetta Attorney for Plaintiff Tower DBW II Trust 2013-1 1400 First Federal Plaza Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 238-2000 aiacchetta@ phillipslytle.com
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