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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

Barack Obama’s $400K: dimming hope for change It’s hard to focus on anything in national politics right now other than the Republicans’ attack on health care, but I can’t shake off my frustration with the former president.

Frustration and deep, deep disappointment.

I don’t know how I thought Barack Obama would spend the first year after leaving the White House. Certainly public speaking, on issues he cares deeply about, would be logical. But I sure never imagined this: Obama is being paid $400,000 for a single speech at a health-care conference sponsored by the investment banking firm Cantor Fitzgerald.

Media reports say the event is private, so you and I likely won’t learn what he says (unless somebody surreptitiously records it and posts it online). Who’ll be there to hear him? Cantor Fitzgerald, says the New York Times, “hopes to woo wealthy investors, mutual fund representatives, and hedge fund executives to the conference.”

The Cantor Fitzgerald folks aren’t paying Obama for his speaking ability. They’re not paying him because the firm’s leaders think he’ll say something newsworthy about health care. They’re not paying him out of the goodness of their hearts in order to educate the wealthy investors, mutual fund reps, and hedge fund execs who show up.

They’re paying Barack Obama just to be there. So the wealthy investors, mutual fund reps, and hedge fund execs can say they’ve heard him, have been part of an exclusive group in the very same room with him.

They’re paying him to burnish the image of Cantor Fitzgerald. To score points with those wealthy investors, mutual fund reps, and hedge fund execs.

To make money for Cantor Fitzgerald.

Barack Obama is selling his face, his presence, his aura, for $400,000 a pop.

And he’s worth $400,000 for one reason only: because the American people elected him president.

I am absolutely dismayed.

Some Obama supporters have argued that there’s nothing wrong with Obama accepting that kind of fee. Cantor Fitzgerald isn’t paying him in order to curry favors, those supporters say. It’s not trying to bribe him so he’ll support policies that’ll benefit them. He’s no longer in office, and he won’t be running for elected office in the future. So the money’s clean.

Balderdash. That’s not the problem.

First of all, there’s a point at which, morally, enough money is simply enough.

The Democratic Party desperately needs to change its message – and its heart. Barack Obama could have led that change.”

More is, well, obscene. And $400,000 for a single speech is obscene. (And yes, so is the $60 million that Penguin Random House is paying Barack and Michele Obama for a book deal.)

Perhaps just as serious: Obama has done a great disservice to his political party. The Democrats had been attracting not only young voters recently but also young people interested in being involved in politics.

Bernie Sanders had managed to reignite the young-voter enthusiasm that Obama had generated. Many of those voters stuck with the Democratic Party for the general election, despite their very grave concerns about Hillary Clinton.

Clinton had seemed too elitist, too removed from the concerns of ordinary people. Too tied to wealthy interests.

Republicans weren’t the only voters with those concerns, and Clinton’s closed-door speeches to Wall Street firms magnified the problem.

(Note that in the key states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, enough voters chose Green Party candidate Jill Stein that it cost Clinton the Electoral College vote.)

The Democratic Party desperately needs to change its message – and its heart. Barack Obama could have led that change. But his post-presidency deals make him look like a Clinton Democrat, not a Democrat of hope and change.

I know, I know: Why shouldn’t our first black president get to cash in like other former presidents? Why the higher standard for a black former president than for a white one?

But there’s no “higher standard.” It’s the same standard. The former presidents who cashed in on their voter-granted fame failed to meet it. Now Obama has, too. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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Police oversight and public safety

On “Support’s Growing for Police Oversight”: There is a balance in

policing that no one likes, and it is tilting further from the correct position. City residents have to decide where priorities lie.

Two facts I find irrefutable: 1) Heavy handed police tactics do reduce crime, and 2) No one likes the freedoms lost with the same heavy-handed tactics.

We have seen examples of violent areas, made nearly uninhabitable by crime, taken back by policies such as stop and frisk. No one like it when it happens to them, but it works.

I don’t like getting stopped.

Sometimes I think the police are being jerks with me, and sometimes I want them to go after those they are not going after. No one likes it when they are the target of police.

We think they should go after someone else.

To me, articles that favor additional police scrutiny ask the balance to shift further from what actually slows crime. City property values have declined and will continue to decline. Violence on city streets will increase, and more people will die.

It seems to me that if we are actually to save lives, we would understand the need to re-balance police control towards what may be inconvenient.

I think if people were sincere about wanting to save lives, they would use what works, even if that means arguing in court that you were targeted unfairly or someone didn’t arrest you nicely. Truly saving lives involves voluntary surrender of freedoms to restore order.

RICHARD HENDRICKS

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response to the inconvenience of getting pulled over or not being arrested “nicely.” The issue is that black and brown people are disproportionately targeted and brutalized by police for no reason and then suffer permanent physical injuries and psychological trauma.

Please read the report “The Case for an Independent Police Accountability System: Transforming the Civilian Review Process in Rochester, New York” (available online).

BARBARA LACKER-WARE

Lacker-Ware is co-author of “The Case for an Independent Police Accountability System: Transforming the Civilian Review Process in Rochester New York,” a recently released report on Rochester’s current civilian review process.

A recent episode of The Capitol Pressroom spoke with members of the Albany Citizens’ Police Review Board, which has been functioning very well and has been used by other cities as a model.

We could learn a lot from our neighbor down the Thruway.

ALEX KOROLESKI

Addressing ‘black poverty’

On our “Perspectives” discussion with Action for a Better Community CEO James Norman: Mr. Norman is

a good man. But unfortunately, for the past several years most socalled local black leaders (clergy, politicians, activists, and the like) haven’t been willing to address the “black poverty issue” from a grassroots and cultural perspective.

Black history has taught many inquirers that black leadership is most effective when it speaks specifically to an issue and offers spiritual (not religious) and cultural solutions. For some, it appears that many nonprofit organizations and city and county government officials have decided to make poverty the current trending social issue of this era. And in many cases, they make it sound as though poverty is a new issue. It come across as a “We must maintain the status quo at all costs.”

The most important change that local blacks living in poverty need is a change in their hearts and minds, and that demands ongoing introspection and a willingness to change from the inside out.

NEHAST KAWAIDA

Rusted Out

On Frank DeBlase’s Festival Guide article, “Rust Never Sleeps,” on the continuing local popularity of the band Rusted Root: While not a Rusted Root

News. Music. Life.

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fan, this seems a little harsh. I just don’t go then, but lots and lots of other people do go and have a great time. How can that be wrong? There is something for everyone out there.

Let ‘em enjoy it without judgment.

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Favorite line and reason I can’t stand this band: “singer Michael Glabicki intones with so much jiggly vibrato it sounds as if somebody dumped a bucket of ice down Tarzan’s pants.”

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Loved your essay. Reminds me of how Chuck Cuminale (RIP) used to write: honestly and with a bit of vinegar. I too can overlook whether or not they come again.

But I know I won’t be there to look at all that night.

BRUCE DIAMOND

Rochester has a love-hate affair with a bunch of different bands…. It’s only rock and roll!

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So all that cutting taxes actually achieves is another redistribution of wealth.

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[ NEWS FROM THE WEEK PAST ]

State sends flooding help

As the waters of Lake Ontario continued rising, Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for communities hit by flooding. The governor deployed 20 National Guard members and representatives of state agencies to help with flood control efforts. He also asked the International Joint Commission to allow more water through the Moses-Saunders Dam to help decrease levels; communities downstream from the dam, however, are also dealing with dangerous flooding.

Court rules against Aldi and City Hall

Aldi’s plans for a new store in the North Winton Village neighborhood were stalled when a state appeals court overturned the city’s approval of the 15,000-squarefoot development. A group of area residents who oppose the project filed a suit against Aldi and the city. The court sided with residents and determined that environmental concerns with the site, which has already been cleared of buildings, were not properly addressed.

Four more games in Hall of Fame

News

Whether or not they intentionally chose May 4 – arguably geek culture’s favorite day of the year – is up for debate, but The Strong National Museum of Play revealed the 2017 inductees into the World Video Game Hall of Fame last week. Based on votes by committee of game developers, educators, and journalists from the US, the UK, and Europe, this year’s inductees are “Donkey Kong,” “Street Fighter II,” Pokémon “Red” and “Green,” and “Halo: Combat Evolved.” The committee considered the games’ impact on culture and their significant effect on their genre and the industry.

Among the winners of the Game Dev Challenge: from left, RIT graduate Evan Anthony of New York City; Waseque Qazi of Buffalo; NYU student Neil Clarke; Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul; NYU students Janice Ho and Diana Nguyen; and RIT student Nathan Stevens. PHOTO BY KEVIN FULLER

BUSINESS | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

Challenge shows gaming’s potential

Warren wins Dems’ backing

According to unofficial committee vote totals, Mayor Lovely Warren gained enough support from individual Legislative District committees to win the Democratic Party’s designation for another term. But County Legislator and former Rochester Police Chief Jim Sheppard and former television reporter Rachel Barnhart have said they’ll challenge Warren in a Democratic primary in September.

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Several Rochester Institute of Technology students and graduates emerged as winners in a statewide digital game-development competition, the Game Dev Challenge.

The Challenge drew 40 entries; awards were announced Monday at a ceremony at the Strong National Museum of Play, hosted by RIT’s MAGIC Center. But the challenge and the awards ceremony illustrate something more: interest in game development as an important new industry is growing, in the state and in Rochester.

The state has designated RIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and

New York University as gaming hubs, and the Game Dev Challenge was part of that effort. And Rochester’s gaming industry was already showing strength.

Several local companies are producing games, animation, and related software.

RIT’s game development program ranks as one of the country’s best.

The University of Rochester also has gaming programs, and the Eastman School of Music is preparing to start a program for music scoring for digital games. The Strong museum, which has expanded its focus and collection over several years to include digital games, hosts the Video Game Hall of Fame.

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The Central Library is preparing to set aside two rooms for animation and game development – not for playing digital games but for creating them, says Heidi Zimmer-Meyer, president of the Rochester Downtown Development Corporation.

Gaming’s growth in Rochester may have been ad hoc in its early stages, and overlooked as a local industry, but that’s changing. RDDC recently brought together developers and representatives from institutions to discuss a “more intentional growth strategy” for the local industry, Zimmer-Meyer says.

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The village has the highest tax rate in Monroe County, in part because it has so much tax-exempt property.

Community choice aggregation is a way to save residents some money, even if those savings are not on their tax bills, the mayor says.

ENERGY | BY JEREMY MOULE

Brockport steps up on power program Local climate activists have been pressing governments across Monroe County, particularly the City of Rochester, to set up a program in which it buys electricity and sells it to residents. But the Village of Brockport, not the city, is the first community out of the gate.

Brockport hasn’t set up a community choice aggregation program (CCA) yet, but its village board has decided to pursue it. CCA is a state-approved approach in which one or more local governments buys electricity for its residents, typically as a way to reduce costs and secure power from cleaner sources, particularly renewables like wind, solar, and hydro.

The Brockport village board met last week and voted to send a model law to the village attorney and the village’s Code Review Committee.

Brockport’s interest in the CCA concept lies primarily in cost savings, says Mayor Margay Blackman. The village has the highest tax rate in Monroe County, in part because it has a large amount of tax-exempt property, much of it belonging to SUNY Brockport. Community choice aggregation is a way to save residents some money, even if those savings are not on their tax bills, Blackman says.

After the village attorney and Code Review Committee finish their critiques, the proposal will come back to the board, which will have to set a public hearing before it can adopt the legislation.

And even then, Brockport won’t be able to go it alone. Generally, CCA programs need 60,000 or more customers for them to be feasible, Blackman says.

Brockport will need to join with other communities to make community choice aggregation happen.

That’s how the state’s only operating CCA program is set up. Westchester Power is a consortium of 20 Westchester County communities, 14 of which get all of their power entirely from renewables. And the vast majority of households saw their power bills decrease in the first year.

Members of the Rochester People’s Climate Coalition have been speaking with officials in individual towns and villages, as well as the city, to try to build support for community choice aggregation.

The city, some villages, and some towns have expressed interest in the initiative and some are having committee discussions, while other have requested model legislation, Rochester People’s Climate Coalition member Sue Hughes-Smith says in an e-mail.

The Village of Brockport: Village officials are considering a unique program that could save residents money on their power bills.

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And the City of Rochester’s draft Climate Action Plan specifically mentions community choice aggregation as a possible way for the city to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

The draft plan targets emissions from both city government and private citizens’ energy consumption. It lists a variety of approaches for reducing carbon emissions, from encouraging biking and the use of mass transportation to electricity usage.

Brockport has taken the firmest step forward, which coalition members are pleased to see, Hughes-Smith says.

“We’re happy to lead the way to do that,” Blackman says.

WDKX DJ Tony Boler dies Rochester radio has lost a signature voice with the untimely passing of WDKX disc jockey Tony Boler. According to long-time friend and musician Jimmie Highsmith Jr., Boler died Monday morning in his sleep.

He was 63.

Boler was wildly popular on the air with his weekend “Memory Lane” show, playing old school soul and R&B, and with his “Quiet Storm” show on weeknights. Both shows were on WDKX where Boler had worked as an on-air personality since 1991.

“He was such an encyclopedia of music,” Highsmith says.

“And he loved The O’Jays. He called them the Mighty, Mighty, Mighty O’Jays.”

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren weighed in on the news, releasing a statement saying that she was heartbroken upon hearing the news of Boler’s passing. He was the DJ at her wedding.

Highsmith says the community has suffered a loss, and plans are under way for a tribute event to Boler, the man who many referred to affectionately as “Uncle Tony” and “Grandpa Tone.”

“He was the perfect example of a father and a gentleman,” Highsmith says. “And he was all about the love.”

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TRANSPORTATION | BY JEREMY MOULE

Bike sharing heads toward a summer start It’s been a few months since Rochester officials announced they’d picked Massachusetts-based Zagster to set up and run a bike-share program in the city. The announcement was a big deal, and it was met with enthusiasm from plenty of cycling enthusiasts, urbanist types, downtown boosters, and regular folks.

The public has been waiting for news of a launch date ever since. And company and city representatives say they plan to have the system up and running sometime in July, probably later in the month. They’ve lined up sponsors for the bike stations – and they are hashing out where, exactly, each will be located.

In bike-share systems, racks holding several bikes are placed around the city, and using a smartphone app, riders check out a bike for a fee. They’re given a window of time – typically an hour to three hours, but that detail hasn’t been decided for Rochester yet – before they have to pay additional charges.

The bike comes with a Bluetoothconnected lock mounted to the frame, which the app releases. That setup means users can lock the bike up just about anywhere while they’re out and about.

People who have mobile phones, but not smartphones, can also use the system. They have to register, but they’ll get text messages with codes they can punch in to the onframe lock.

“We’re happy with the level of support we’ve received in the community thus far,” says Erik Frisch, transportation specialist for the City of Rochester. “And I think once people see the bikes out there and hopefully get a chance to ride them and experience what the system will be, that’s only going to increase the interest.”

The city solicited proposals for the bike share system last year and specified its interest in a phased program, starting with 250 bikes split between 25 stations. The stations were to be spread across downtown and some of the neighborhoods at its edge.

Zagster spokesperson Jon Terbush says the company is on track to provide exactly what the city specified. Each station is backed by a company or organization’s pledge of $9,000 a year for three years. And Zagster received “a considerable amount of commitment from the community” for sponsorships, Terbush says.

“We believe that a strong community builds strong bike share,” Terbush says. The company likes to see disparate organizations coming together around bike sharing and around making communities more vibrant, he says.

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Reconnect Rochester's president Mike Governale.

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agreements and details are still being finalized. But Frisch says the system’s sponsors include developers, health care organizations, financial organizations, and educational institutions.

The city is sponsoring a station at City Hall and recently received federal Highway Administration funding that will help fund other stations. Notably, the city and RTS are going to use the federal money – which requires a local match – to locate bike-share stations at high-priority bus stops. That approach would give riders a transportation option to ease the last leg of their trips.

For that matter, the bike-share system can mesh well with things such as carsharing services or ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft, which are also supposed to start up in July, says Mike Governale, president of transportation advocacy group Reconnect Rochester.

“It’s just another tool in my toolbox to get around,” Governale says.

Reconnect Rochester has so much faith

in the potential of bike sharing that it started its own public crowdfunding campaign to sponsor stations. It focused on securing stations for the Upper Falls and Marketview Heights neighborhoods, since the organization worried that other likely sponsors may not want to back stations in less-affluent neighborhoods, for which bikes would provide essential transportation.

The group raised enough money to sponsor one station, which will be located on Hudson Avenue. Reconnect Rochester’s plan is to get the station as close as possible to R Community Bikes, a nonprofit that

Zagster operates bike share systems for cities and university campuses across the country. This bike is from its fleet at Duke University. PROVIDED PHOTO

fixes up bikes and gives them to people in need, Governale says. It’s working with the Rochester Cycling Alliance to come up with a plan to raise money to cover the next two years of the sponsorship, he says.

A donor also gave Reconnect Rochester money to sponsor a station in the Corn Hill neighborhood. The group hopes that the station can be located near the Adams Street Recreation Center.

Governale says he’s eager for the system to get up and running so people get exposed to it, use it, and sign up for memberships. The latter, when combined with sponsorships, will help ensure the system’s long-term viability, he says.

The bike share system is the city’s biggest

cycling-oriented project this year, but it’s not the only one.

Frisch says he’s particularly excited to see the Inner Loop cycle track – the city’s first – reach completion. Cycle tracks, in rough terms, are scaled-down, bike-only streets that parallel roads. The Inner Loop track runs parallel to Howell Street between Monroe Avenue and Union Street, and then parallel to Union until it intersects University Avenue.

The path is already laid out, but it hasn’t been surfaced yet. It should be completed in August, Frisch says.

Another high-visibility project is happening along East Main Street between North Goodman Street and downtown. The city plans to reduce the number of driving lanes in that corridor and add bike lanes.

“That’s a pretty long stretch and one that’s been talked about for a long time,” Frisch says.

The city will also add bike lanes to several other roads. Brown Street, a oneway road west of downtown, will get the city’s first left-hand bike lane, Frisch says.

West Avenue, Ames Street, Browncroft Boulevard, and a few downtown blocks of South Clinton Avenue are also on the list, he says.

Two new bike boulevards are also on the city’s agenda. Bike Boulevards are routes that use less-traveled, bike-friendly side streets to parallel major routes that are often difficult for cyclists to use. They’re typically marked off for easy identification and have some minor traffic calming features.

One will follow Pershing and Lyceum from the Thomas P. Ryan Center and School 33 to Waring Road; it’ll bypass a tight section on North Goodman that passes by the Bausch + Lomb complex.

The other will connect the area around Ford, South Plymouth, and Exchange to the area around Campbell Street in the northwest, via Bartlett, Frost, Ames, and Colvin.

The city plans to add an additional 10 to 15 miles of bike boulevards in 2018, thanks to some funding it received through a Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council process, Frisch says.

Biking is obviously something the city is trying to encourage, he says. But making the streets safer for bikes and making people feel comfortable biking has other benefits, especially if it helps slow down speeding traffic.

Bike-friendly streets and neighborhoods are “comfortable places to be, period,” Frisch says.

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THE REAL HEALTH CARE FIX ENOUGH OF THE BANDAGE SOLUTIONS. IT’S TIME FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL. HEALTH CARE | BY MARK HARE

Believe it or not, says economist Robert H. Frank, President Trump and congressional Republicans, while flailing and failing in their efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, are actually proposing health care benefits that can best be delivered with a single payer, “Medicare for All” plan. They have good reasons to support single payer, Frank says, and he believes a change of heart is not at all far-fetched.

He’s also quite clear that the Affordable Care Act is not a failure, that its problems are fixable with the right level of subsidies. Either the fullyfunded ACA or the (preferred) Medicare for All model would deliver much better care to all Americans for a much lower cost than our present system. And that would still be true, he says, even if we fully compensated the insurance companies that would lose their businesses to a single-payer plan.

Frank, a professor of economics at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, is the author of several books, including “Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status,” “Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of Emotions,” and “Falling Behind: How Income Inequality Harms the Middle Class.”

For decades his writings and interviews in popular media such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, USA Today, and MSNBC have helped non-economists make sense of complex economic principles.

As a regular contributor to the Times’ business section for a decade, he has written about topics as varied as the many ways combatting climate change can grow the economy, the need for policies to reverse income inequality, the dangers of casino gambling, and why austerity won’t fix the economy.

He has been most passionate, perhaps, in his advocacy for a single-payer health care system – as the most effective way to cover everyone at the lowest possible cost. A decade ago, he wrote a scathing op-ed piece in the Times critical of President George W. Bush’s proposal to use tax cuts to make health insurance available to the uninsured.

The people most in need, Frank wrote, don’t make enough money to benefit from tax cuts and insurance companies do not want to sell individual policies to those who most need medical care.

In 2013, as a visiting scholar in Sweden, he met with health economists who, he wrote in the Times, are normally skeptical of big bureaucracies. “Yet none of them voiced the kinds of complaints about recalcitrant bureaucrats and runaway health costs that invariably surface in similar

conversations with American colleagues,” he wrote. “Little wonder. The Swedish system performs superbly, and my Swedish colleagues cited evidence of that fact with obvious pride.”

In a March Times column, he argued that Republicans have painted themselves into a corner, advancing a plan that would leave millions without insurance and drive premiums higher for many more. If they are serious about providing the health care benefits Trump promised during last year’s campaign, he wrote, single payer is the way to go.

CITY interviewed Frank by phone on April 20. What follows is an edited transcript of that conversation. continues on page 12

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CITY: We want to talk about your view that a Medicare For All plan might actually have some appeal for Republicans. But first let’s talk about the Affordable Care Act. I think it’s fair to say that if you favor universal health care, there are two paths you can choose from: a single payer, Medicare For All approach, or a highly regulated insurance market, which is the ACA approach – an individual mandate, subsidies for those who can’t afford insurance, a minimum package of benefits each policy must cover, no restrictions for pre-existing conditions, etc. Does the ACA just have too many moving parts for it to work as well as its supporters had hoped?

FRANK: There is a third approach you might want to mention, which is the one the British use: a National Health Service, where the workers are employees of the government.

But yes, I think the ACA is a complicated set of pieces hard to mesh properly. But sure, it can work.

The complex system we have is strictly an accident. It’s not a good system. That’s because there was a deeply entrenched, employerprovided health care system that developed primarily during World War II, when there were labor shortages and employers could not recruit the employees they needed because there were caps on wages, so they offered fringe benefits as an inducement to get new Robert Frank: A Medicare for All system is the most effective way to cover everyone at the lowest possible cost. PROVIDED PHOTO workers. They used things like health care, which was a benefit and not taxed.

By the time 60 or 70 percent of the population had insurance in that form, a move FRANK: Yes, exactly. But to do that FRANK: Yeah. People are worried if CITY: So if you did it right, you might to single payer would in effect take away an you would need to fund the program there will be enough for workers to do going actually get competition that could get you existing program that most people liked. So the more generously, and there was very strong forward. Robots are stealing jobs. And a lot where you want to get?

Obama administration decided the only way resistance to that. The irony is that if someone of jobs being eliminated are in the health FRANK: What’s true is that the people – to move forward was to build on top of that proposes Medicare for All, people say, well, care sector. Medical devices do a lot of the including the doctors – who work for those system. And I think the apparatus they built we would need to raise 10 percent of GDP monitoring people used to do. Radiologists providers are employees. They don’t get paid would have allowed for a transition to single in additional taxes. But what they leave out is cannot identify anomalies on X-rays nearly as extra if they order more tests or procedures, payer, but it would have taken a long time. that countries that have single payer pay about well as the bots. so they don’t have any incentive to run up the half what we do to provide medical services.

But there’s no end to how many jobs you bills for you.

CITY: So like all complex pieces of legislation, They get better results than we do. could create in health care if you wanted They collaborate. Their data handling is the ACA requires regular adjustments, because And so, yes, it would require raising extra people to be healthier. So if we’re getting very efficient. All the people who care about the original expectations or incentives aren’t taxes, but you would pay much less in private more productive in other domains, you could different organs in your body are talking to quite right. Could it be saved even now? payments. You’d come out way ahead on stimulate more employment in the health care each other. You don’t get people working to FRANK: Oh, of course. The Republicans balance. And nobody has explained why it’s sector and get something for it. cure one thing and making another thing in Congress absolutely refused to cooperate in worse to pay for things with taxes than it is to worse in the process. I think eventually we any way to patch some of the shortcomings. pay out of your pocket.

CITY: One reason you say Medicare for All would get where we need to be.

The main problem from the point of view of might be appealing to Republicans is that it recipients is that the subsidies are smaller than CITY: Let’s spend a minute on the way health would be cheaper. Why doesn’t competition CITY: So if you took this market-driven they ought to be for low-income people. care impacts our economy. It’s one-fifth of our in health insurance markets ever get us to approach, would that require more or less The people who see the worst situation GDP, but ACA opponents have always argued lower prices and universal coverage? government intervention to make it work? are those doing well enough not to qualify that the law is a jobs killer that would bankrupt FRANK: I think it would, in time. What FRANK: If you kept the ACA on the for Medicaid, but who are still close to the the government. This is a zero-sum approach: we know is that providers like the Cleveland books as it is, did some tweaks to get more lower part of the income distribution, so the every dollar you spend is down some black hole.

Clinic, the Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente providers to enter, keep on with the Medicaid subsidies they get are not quite enough, or the But wouldn’t universal coverage also create – the non-profit, broad-based clinics – seem expansion, gradually let people buy into deductibles are too big. hundreds of thousands or millions of jobs, to be delivering better care at lower costs Medicare when they are 50, we would get some of them well-paying jobs – held by than other forms of providers. I think in there without any radical change in the way CITY: And probably also there should be people who pay taxes, buy homes, purchase time, employers are going to want to switch we do business. higher subsidies to insurance companies so more consumer goods, eat at restaurants? The to providers like that, because they’ll get But don’t be cautious now, because the that the policies would not require such high multiplier effect alone almost justifies the more value by doing it. But they can only Republicans who are critical of the ACA – deductibles and co-pays? investment in health care, doesn’t it? expand so quickly. the things they want to keep [broad coverage 12 CITY MAY 3-9, 2017

for all, no ban on pre-existing conditions, keeping young people on their parents’ plans to age 26, etc.] are the parts of the program that are most closely in alignment with what single payer does.

We don’t know what the political climate will look like in 2018, but the hints we are getting is that the Trump administration seems totally adrift, getting less popular. The ability to pass anything is getting further out of their reach. It’s quite possible for me to imagine that candidates running on a platform that endorses single payer would have a huge leg up over opponents who don’t have a particular position.

CITY: Medical care in other countries is much cheaper than it is here, largely because the single payer negotiates prices. But would the same approach work here, where pharmaceutical companies, for example, say drug prices are high for breakthrough products because of the cost of R&D and the need to generate as much profit as possible before the patents expire?

They sell their products elsewhere for less because the single payers negotiate them down. So if they didn’t get the profits they say they need here, would they even bother developing new products?

FRANK: Those statements [by industry] are way over-played. The research that’s done by pharma is a lot of arms-race-style research.

They’re all racing in parallel to develop drugs that do similar things that don’t violate each other’s patents to cure illnesses that are the most numerous in the population but aren’t necessarily the ones that matter most.

If you really want to spur additional research, you should not be cutting back funding for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Their discoveries are the basis for a lot of the drug development going on. We could spend a little bit more in that arena and make up for a lot of cutbacks in private pharma research.

CITY: In a single-payer system, what is the role of private insurers?

FRANK: Just look at Medicare.

Almost all the retirees buy some form of supplemental insurance. It’s not obvious that having private companies provide that insurance is the most efficient way to do it.

But if there were anything extra you could get by spending a lot extra on your coverage, some people would do it. So we’ll see private supplements, even if we were 100 percent Medicare for All. CITY: Still, a single-payer system would be a big hit to the insurance industry.

FRANK: I imagine that phasing it in gradually would help. Have the eligibility age for Medicare go down step by step. Let the insurance companies be on notice that they have to look for other things to sell insurance for. But in the end, if we made a policy

Countries that have single payer pay about half what we do to provide medical services.

They get better results than we do."

shift that put them out of business, I think it would be totally justified to give them compensation for that.

They went into those businesses in good faith. And just because it’s efficient to move to a different system doesn’t mean that we should feel free to put them at great cost with impunity. Buy them out.

People get angry when I propose that, but if you want to move to a single-payer system, most of the opposition that’s organized is going to come from those companies. And if they have the power to keep you from adopting single payer, then all right; whether or not you think they deserve a buyout, it’s the lesser of two evils.

CITY: I suspect most people are not very aware of that the ACA provides incentives and regulations to lower cost and emphasize wellness and preventive care – essentially using Medicare and Medicaid to nudge more people into primary care. Have those steps been working?

FRANK: There were lots of incentives for dealing with the chronically ill more effectively. A huge proportion of total expenditures are devoted to people who have chronic conditions, and they are not managed very effectively. So the ACA created lots of incentives to reduce readmission of patients in that category, and they’ve been quite successful.

CITY: What might it take to nudge Republicans toward Medicare For All?

FRANK: The easiest route would be for Trump himself to say, “Look, we’re going nowhere with this [repeal and replace] I promised voters a system that looks like, walks like, and quacks like a single-payer system. I’m going to call it Trumpcare and just do it. I’ll get the Democrats to go with me and enough Republicans will be scared to vote against me, and we’ll get it passed.” That’s how it could happen.

I don’t think Trump is on top of things to the extent that he could see clearly that it’s in his interest. Maybe there is somebody close to him who could persuade him. But I don’t expect Paul Ryan to lead the charge to do that. And probably no one else in the Republican caucus could do it either.

CITY: You’ve written about “loss aversion” [the fear of losing something important as a motivator] as an important element in the public’s view about health reform. How does that work?

FRANK: People won’t fight hard to get something anywhere near as hard as they will fight to keep that thing once they’ve got it.

It’s a ratio of about two to one when you’ve got ordinary goods. If you own a coffee mug, they have to pay you $12 to get you to part with it, whereas you only paid $6 to purchase it.

But when it comes to taking a risk with your health, if you’ve already been

exposed to a risk to your health, you’ll pay X to eliminate that risk. But they’ll have to give you 250 X to get you to volunteer to take that risk if you haven’t already done it.

It’s a very difficult to get people to give up things that really matter to them. And health care is squarely in that category.

CITY: A lot of people who say they hate Obamacare have policies that exist because of Obamacare, but they don’t know that.

How do you change their attitude?

FRANK: The Republicans have been bashing it for seven years, saying it’s an abomination, the worst thing that’s ever happened. And the Democrats haven’t been especially effective at combatting those criticisms.

And what we know is that the human brain has an algorithm hard-wired into it, and it’s that if we hear something over and over again, there must be something to it. A lot of people don’t have time to investigate every issue, so they just believe it.

The Republicans scored lots of easy points with that strategy. But now they’re like the dog that caught the car, and they don’t know what to do.

CITY: What about Republican theology?

About 55 million Americans are on Medicare. Another 70 million are on Medicaid. So that’s more than a third of all Americans who are enrolled in single-payer socialized medicine. And those people are generally happy with what they receive.

On the other hand, Republicans have preached for more than 30 years that government doesn’t work and can’t work to make people’s lives better – that the solution is less regulation and a free market.

How do you reconcile those realities?

FRANK: Ultimately you change that at the ballot box. In California 15 years ago, the situation was in many ways similar to the one we see now nationally. The Republicans had a big voice in state government. They were cutting budgets and cutting schools.

They were once the best public schools in the country, and they were getting ranked down with Alabama and Mississippi. The University of California was by far the best public system anywhere in the world, but it was being starved with budget cuts. The immigrant bashing was similar to what we’re seeing now at the national level.

And at some point the voters just tipped and said, “Enough.” Those voices aren’t in state government anymore. The budget’s back in balance. The UC system is getting funded. The roads are getting patched up.

They’re doing all sorts of infrastructure work they couldn’t do before.

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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.)

School board will meet on Geneseo

The Rochester school board will hold a special meeting on Thursday, May 11, to vote on the 2017-2018 budget for the district and on a plan for SUNY Geneseo to help manage School 19.

The proposed partnership between the board and SUNY Geneseo is similar to the one the board created with the University of Rochester for its management of East High School. The meeting will be held at the district’s central office, 131 West Broad Street, at 6 p.m.

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Council will present “The State of Health Care,” on Saturday, May 13.

Ted Brown, University of Rochester professor of history and public health sciences, and Bruce Popper, vice president of 1199 SEIU United Health Care Workers East, will discuss the status of the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration’s attack on the ACA, and alternatives like a single-payer health insurance program. The event will be held at NYSUT Hall, 30 North Union Street, from 10 a.m. to noon.

Focusing on downtown development

The Rochester Downtown Development Corporation will highlight some of downtown’s newest projects in its “Downtown Rising” breakfast program on Wednesday, May 31. The speakers: Morgan Management

CEO Bob Morgan, on Morgan’s Parcel 5 plan; Strong Museum president Steve Dubnik on Strong’s Inner Loop expansion; and RDDC vice president Laura Fox O’Sullivan, discussing the Downtown Kitchen Incubator.

Registration, 7:45 a.m.; breakfast and program, 8 to 9:30 a.m. Tickets: $35 for RDDC members, $45 for non-members.

Reservations: 546-6920 or reservations@rddc.org.

Dining & Nightlife The Tip Jar [ CHOW HOUND ] BY KATIE LIBBY

Once springtime hits, the Chow Hound tip jar overfloweth, so it’s time to make some room in there for the rest of the season.

Whether you’re looking for somewhere to take mom for Mother’s Day or just want to fill up the weekend calendar, we’ve got you covered.

New York Wine and Culinary Center’s Upstairs Bistro is open for the season, and has new hours. The bistro will be open Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and for brunch on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Just in time for the Lilac Festival, Black Button Distilling will release its Lilac Gin on Friday, May 12. This is a limited release, with just 4,000 bottles produced, and will be available for purchase starting at 11 a.m. at the Black Button Distilling Tasting Room (85 Railroad Street). If you’ve ever wanted to try making your own gin (bathtub not needed), Black Button will host a Craft Your Own Gin class on Saturday, May 13, at the distillery.

Two sessions: 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tickets are $50 and can be purchased at eventbrite.com (search for “Master Gin Crafting Class”).

The Cider Creek Brew Fest will take place on Saturday, May 13, at the cidery in Canisteo, New York (6459 Cunningham Creek Road). VIP hours start at 4 p.m. and general admission entry is at 5 p.m. More than 40 craft breweries and cideries will be represented, and there will be food trucks, live music, and a fireworks show to cap it all off.

VIP tickets are sold out, but you can still get general admission tickets for $40. Designated driver tickets are also available for $10. More information at cidercreekhardcider.com.

Low bridge, everybody down! Genesee Brewing will be transporting 12 giant fermentation tanks along the good old Erie Canal starting in Albany on May 12.

Genesee hopes that people will come out to watch the tanks pass by, raise a Genny, and post a pic on social media with the hashtag #TOASTTHETANKS. The tanks will pass through Utica on May 15, Syracuse on May 16, and end up in Rochester on May 18. More information can be found on the brewery’s Facebook page, facebook.com/ geneseebrewery.

Joe Bean Coffee Roasters (1344 University Avenue) starts its new monthly event, Saturday Night Family Meal, on May 13 from 6:30

p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The theme for May will be Foraged Fest, hosted by Emily Hessney, the founder of I Heart Roc. Menu highlights include wilted dandelion greens in anchovy and black pepper, and braised rabbit with fiddlehead fern, onion, and prunes. Tickets are $35 per person and $8 for table wine.

Reservations are required and can be made by emailing kturiano@joebeanroasters.com.

Mother’s Day and brunch go hand in hand,

so here are a few local places that will assist in making sure there is a mimosa in mom’s hand.

Lento (274 North Goodman Street) will be doing a Mother’s Day brunch from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 14.

Menu highlights include the Lento fish plate with house-smoked wild Alaskan salmon and spice-crusted tuna, served with dark rye bread, house-cultured cream cheese, and garnishes ($18), and the Croque “Mama,” a griddled house-smoked ham and Swiss cheese sandwich with Mornay sauce and a fried egg ($14). Call 271-3470 or visit lentorestaurant.com to make a reservation.

Amaya Indian Cuisine (1900 South Clinton Avenue) will hold a Mother’s Day buffet brunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Moms will receive a gift certificate to use at Amaya on future visits. Adults pay $19.95 and children under 12 eat for half price. Call 241-3223 or visit amayaindiancuisine.com to make a reservation.

Barry’s Old School Irish Pub (2 West Main Street, Webster) will also have a Mother’s Day buffet from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The buffet will feature homemade scones, corned beef hash, and pancakes with Guinness syrup. The price is $15 for adults and $7 for kids.

If dessert and wine is more of mom’s thing, Hedonist Artisan Chocolates (674 South Avenue) is hosting a free Mother’s Day Chocolate Pairing from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and it’s sampling a new Wildflower chocolate collection. Casa Larga (2287 Turk Hill Road) is holding a Mother’s Day Wine and Wine-Infused Cookie Pairing from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The winery has teamed up with Finger Lakes Cookie Company and will feature three wine-infused cookies and wine flight pairings. Tickets are $10 per person and $7 for mom.

Chow Hound is a food and restaurant news column. Do you have a tip? Send it to food@ rochester-citynews.com.

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Upcoming [ ELECTRONIC ] Esseks. Friday, June 2. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Avenue. 8 p.m. $16-$21. photocityimprov.com; esseks.com.

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Cherry Glazerr. Wednesday, July 26. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Avenue. 9 p.m. $10. bugjar.com; cherryglazerr.bandcamp.com.

[ INSTRUMENTAL ROCK ] Greg Howe. Wednesday, August 9. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Drive. 8 p.m. $20. lovincup.com; greghowe.com.

Rochester R&B Festival

FRIDAY, MAY 12 BLUE CROSS ARENA, 100 EXCHANGE BOULEVARD 8 P.M. | $47-$130 | 758-5300; BLUECROSSAREAN.COM [ R&B ] Keith Sweat, K-Ci & JoJo, Ginuwine, and 112

have been household names in R&B since the mid-90’s.

Each musician and group has been a hit-maker, charttopper, and award winner (plus K-Ci & JoJo, Ginuwine, and 112 have been nominated for Grammys). The four acts will perform as part of the Rochester R&B Festival, which should be a must for anyone who loves sexy, contemporary R&B (and if you don’t love 90’s R&B, you’ve already broken Tom Haverford’s “Oh No No’s List”). — BY JAKE CLAPP

“American Voices” FRIDAY, MAY 12 ASBURY FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 1050 EAST AVENUE 7:30 P.M. | $25 | 473-2234; ROSSINGS.ORG [ CLASSICAL ] The Rochester Oratorio Society, directed

by Eric Townell, ends its 71st season on Friday with a concert of choral music written entirely by Americans.

“American Voices” will feature “Four Motets” by the quintessential American composer Aaron Copland.

Other notable composers on the bill include Amy Beach (“Credo” from Mass in E-flat with soprano soloist Elena O’Connor) and the late Stephen Paulus (“Pilgrims’ Hymn”). The 140-plus singers of the Rochester Oratorio Society will be joined by The School of the Arts Concert Choir. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

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It’s the rapid deployment of all the instruments in this heady CD’s opening cut that expertly sets up “Chasing Ghosts.” The latest by Jerry Falzone & Liar’s Moon, “Chasing Ghosts” is a fine outing with a keen powerpop sensibility. Falzone stands like the king of the singer-songwriter mountain on this 12-song mound of sound with intentional tips of the hat to Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Beatles.

The songs on this record are worked up — but not over-worked — impressively within their structure, even with the copious talent found at Falzone’s disposal, so the aforementioned influences are a little clearer and a little more deliberate. You’ll still want to digest each track in the order they are served to catch hold of the artist’s narrative. The use of reverb throughout adds to the rock ‘n’ roll bigness, although the band doesn’t overdo that either; everything just cruises steady and sweet. The guitars flex throughout without stampeding the album’s mid-tempo drive and lush harmonious layers, bringing the stories to life. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

“Are You Experienced?” Celebration FRIDAY, MAY 12 ANTHOLOGY, 336 EAST AVENUE 8 P.M. | $15-$20 | ANTHOLOGYLIVE.COM [ ROCK ] Although there was a general mindset to blow doors

off of rock music in the late 1960’s, it was Jimi Hendrix’s “Are You Experienced?” in May 1967 that really turned things upside down. In his short career, Hendrix was considered by many the greatest guitar player ever — and we can only speculate and dream what could have been hadn’t he died in 1970. On Friday, virtually every guitar player of note — there’s already more than 35 musicians listed on this show — will play a celebration to the 50th anniversary of “Are You Experienced?” and the legacy of Hendrix. It should be quite an experience … enough to cure manic depression … if you can make it through the crosstown traffic … from your red house over yonder. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

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SATURDAY, MAY 13 MONTAGE MUSIC HALL, 50 CHESTNUT STREET 8 P.M. | $25-$28 | THEMONTAGEMUSICHALL.COM; WILLIENILE.COM [ ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ] Enduring rocker Willie Nile is the walking

Bar and Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000. templebarandgrille.com.

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Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 4544596. hochstein.org.

12:10-12:50 p.m. [ JAZZ ]

Big Band Dance Series: Nate Rawls Band . Robach

Community Center, 180 Beach Ave. 865-3320. oontariobeachentertainment. org. 6-9 p.m. $2.

Margaret Explosion . Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org.

7-9 p.m. [ METAL ] Avatar . The German House Theater, 315 Gregory St. 4426880. historicgermanhouse. com. $25.

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“The Isotopes Play Surf Music” isn’t just another Isotopes record. Well, it is … it just seems this Rochester surf band has finally hit its stride with all 16 tracks showing up with something catchy and truly Isotope-y.

It would seem The Isotopes have developed a signature sound at last.

The addition of horns delivers a nice punch to tunes like “Sexpionage.” And since there aren’t words, the titles give hints and context throughout. After you’ve read the titles — like “Jolly Rancheros,” “Nocturnal Transmission,” and “Pearl Harbor Necklace” — you’ll know what to think about as you shake a tail feather.

What sets the members of the ‘Topes apart on this record, or any other one of their recordings for that matter, is these guys aren’t purists, thankfully, and attack the music with guts akin to some of the players’ heavier backgrounds. There are hooks aplenty throughout “The Isotopes Play Surf Music,” and producer Doug White does an excellent job keeping the band on track. Just in time for the two weeks we call summer.

Willie Nile

example of pure rock ‘n’ roll. Black clad and cocksure, the man defines cool. But this New York City musician ain’t cliché; he’s classic. Since the early 1980’s, Nile has been churning out greasy denim and leather, three on the tree anthems that resonate all the way back to the cheap seats in stadiums as well as assorted gin joints and dives. Nile is taking a back seat of sorts this time around to pay tribute to his hero, Bob Dylan, on his latest album, “Positively Bob.” For an interview with Nile, check out rochestercitynewspaper.com on Thursday.

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Melanie shot to prominence after her 1969 Woodstock performance, which also inspired her hit "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)." PHOTO BY PAT SWAYNE

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When I reached Melanie by phone recently, she told me she’d always had that gravelly voice that would make her famous. The onename singer emerged from the Woodstock festival and captured the spirit of the 1960’s.

Growing up in New York City, she had eclectic musical taste. “I loved Billie Holiday when I was 12,” says Melanie, who plays at Lovin’ Cup on Tuesday. “It wasn’t so much the voice, it was the intention behind it.

Then I found Édith Piaf and I thought, that’s what I want to be. There was something so brave about her stance. She had that vibrato; I didn’t even know what it was called.”

But it wasn’t a straight line to her musical career. When Melanie was 16, her family moved from sophisticated New York City to small-town Elberon, New Jersey, and she didn’t fit in.

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says. “I loved drama, and I thought running away would be beautiful.” She liked the Del Shannon song “Runaway,” and “fanaticized what it would be like to run away,” she says.

“I was on the second floor and I tied the sheets to the bedpost, climbed out the window, and ran away in the most classic sense.”

In those days, Melanie says, you could save some money, make up a name (hers was Eve Dane) and fly to Los Angeles.

The trouble was, she didn’t have much of a plan once she got there. After a close call with some shady characters, she spent two weeks in a girl’s detention home. Finally, the authorities found her parents. Her father flew out and took her home.

Her breakthrough song came to her a few years later when she was attending acting school during the New York City blackout of 1965.

“Me and my friends passed out candles to old people,” Melanie says. “On the streets of New York there was this incredible comingtogether. There was a realization that ‘Hey — we’re all in this together,’ and that feeling just came over me.

“The next day I was on a bus, and there was a nut who was being ridiculous.

People were laughing and looking at each

other, fresh from sharing this frightening experience, and I kept thinking of this unity we could have. I pretty much wrote ‘Beautiful People’ on that bus.”

By 1969, Melanie had a manager and

producer, Peter Schekeryk, who later became her husband. That same year, she was recording in England when she had to return home to play what she thought would be a nice little concert: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair. She thought she would bring her mother and they could shop for crafts.

They tried driving to the festival but ran into so much traffic they couldn’t move.

They found a phone booth and were told to go to a nearby motel.

“In the lobby, I saw Janis Joplin surrounded by microphones, slugging Southern Comfort,” Melanie says. “Then Sly Stone walked by. I’m thinking, ‘I’ve got to get out of here. What am I doing here? I’ve got one guitar, I don’t have a group, and this is looking like it’s really important.’”

Just then, somebody said go to the helicopter, and no, she couldn’t bring her mom. As they approached Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, Melanie looked down.

“It didn’t even look like it could be people,” she says. “It was some kind of balloons or weird crops. I asked the pilot, and he said, ‘No, it’s people.’ I thought, ‘Oh my god.’ It was more people than I thought could ever be together. I became terrified. I developed this deep bronchial cough that lasted all day.

“Every once in a while they’d say, ‘You’re on next.’ Then I’d hear someone else singing so I knew it wasn’t me. Finally it started to rain, and I thought, ‘Thank god, it’s all going to be over now, people will go home.’ Just as I was in that reverie, they said, ‘You’re on next.’ The Incredible String Band didn’t want to play in the rain because they were afraid they’d be electrocuted, so they got me.

“I walked on to the stage. The terror was at a point where I had an out-of-body experience. I left my body. I watched myself get on the stage, and I watched myself sit, and then I joined myself again.

I was singing ‘Beautiful People’ because it was the only song anyone knew.”

During the previous set (Ravi Shankar’s), Wavy Gravy’s Hog Farmers had passed out thousands of candles. Melanie

PICK UP BORDER FROM 3-1-17 on stageBOTTOM just in time to AND got THE LOGO, TAGwitness a massive candleLINE, ADDRESS, INFO FROM lighting.

3-1-17 “I sang new songs.

I

sang for my life. After I finished, I jumped ICK UP up andIMAGES walked off the FROM 08-03-16 stage faster than any human being. I went on COPY UNDER THE FURNITURE that stage an unknown IMAGE: person; I walked off and 500,000 people knew who I was.” The experience also led to the best song of her career.

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When she wrote “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain),” Melanie

heard a gospel choir accompanying her. The Edwin Hawkins Singers were on her record label, but Hawkins said no. “‘We only do songs that have the lord in them,’” Melanie says of Hawkins’ response. “I said, ‘He’s in there, I just didn’t use the name.’”

Melanie and Schekeryk wouldn’t take no for an answer, and showed up at a Hawkins rehearsal.

“Peter said, ‘You’ve got to hear this,’” says Melanie. “I started singing. I can’t believe I had that kind of nerve.

But they started joining in on the chorus. I got goose bumps. Edwin Hawkins threw up his hands and said ‘Okay, Okay.’ When we recorded it nobody wanted to stop singing.

It’s eight minutes on the album.”

Melanie went on to have hits like “Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma” with its wonderful Parisian accordion (“That was my Édith Piaf!”) and the playfully suggestive “Brand New Key.” But, for baby boomers, she will always be indelibly linked to Woodstock and “Candles In The Rain.”

CLASSICAL | RPO PERFORMS “LA MER”

Few RPO guest conductors generate excitement quite like Fabien Gabel. The Quebec City Orchestra music director has become a Rochester favorite since his 2014 debut.

Gabel is especially adept at French repertoire, weaving a tapestry of evocative textures and heightened moods.

This Thursday and Saturday, the conductor will lead the orchestra in Claude Debussy’s “La mer” as well as Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2, with RPO concertmaster Juliana Athayde as soloist. The program also includes excerpts from Paul Dukas’s ballet “La Péri” and Bernard Herrmann’s score for the classic Alfred Hitchcock film “Vertigo.”

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[ CLASSICAL ]

Debussy’s La Mer . Kodak

Hall at Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. 454-2100. rpo. org. 7:30 p.m. Fabien Gabel, guest conductor; Juliana Athayde, violin. Works of Herrmann, Bartok, Dukas, and Debussy. $23-$99.

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12:15-12:45 p.m.

Smith . Johnny’s Pub & Grill,

1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. johnnysirishpub.com. 5 p.m. [ BLUES ]

Hanna and the Blue Hearts Quartet . Club 86, 86 Avenue E. Geneva. club86events. com. 7-10 p.m.

Teagan and the Tweeds .

Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 585-2925544. stickylipsbbq.com. 9 p.m.

[ JAZZ ]

The Djangoners . Little

[ CLASSICAL ]

Jim Nugent and Al Biles Jazz Duo . Via Girasole

Equality Now: Celebrating the New York State Centennial of Women’s Suffrage . Hochstein School

Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m.

Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place.

Pittsford. 641-0340. viagirasole.com. 7-10 p.m.

Serge and Friends . The Rabbit Room, 61 N. Main St. Honeoye Falls. 582-1830. thelowermill.com.

6:30-9:30 p.m.

of Music & Dance, 50 N. Plymouth Ave. 746-7482. telostrio.com. 7:30 p.m.

Celebrating the New York State Centennial of Women’s Suffrage. By Gwyneth

FRI., MAY 12 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]

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Walker. $15. [ JAZZ ]

Chris Ott: Solo Piano . The Argyle Grill at Eagle Vale Golf Club, 4344 Nine Mile Point Rd. Fairport. 3775200. eaglevale.com.

6-9 p.m.

Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo .

Charley Brown’s, 1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202. charleybrownspenfield.com.

Laura Dubin Duo . Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org.

8-10 p.m. [ TRADITIONAL ] Viva Ilatia . Minerva DeLand Auditorium, 140 Hulburt Rd. 490-4751. 7:30-9:15 p.m. $3-$20.

HIP-HOP | MIC LANNY [ R&B/ SOUL ] Quazi*Mojo . Brickwood Grill, 250 Monroe Ave. 7308230. brickwoodgrill.com.

7-9:30 p.m. [ REGGAE/JAM ] Bottle Train . JB’s Smokehouse, 211 Main Street. East Rochester. 4850983. jbsmokehouse.com.

9-11 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]

Fishbone Soup . Johnny’s

Pub & Grill, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. johnnysirishpub. com. 8:30 p.m.

Jan The Actress and Hotel Cadillac . Skylark Lounge, 40 South Union St. 2708106. theskylarklounge. com. 10-11:45 p.m.

Jimi Hendrix: The 50th Anniversary of Are You Experienced? . Anthology,

336 East Ave. 704-5955. anthologylive.com. 7 p.m.

Featured performers: Mikaela Davis, Danielle Ponder, Zahyia Rolle, Matt O’ Brien, Chris English, and more. $15-$20.

Shakin Bones . Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. thefirehousesaloon.com.

9 p.m.-1 a.m. $5.

SAT., MAY 13 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] Acoustic Brew . Johnny’s Pub & Grill, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. johnnysirishpub. com. 8 p.m.

Bill Staines . Rochester Christian Reformed Church, 2750 Atlantic Ave. Penfield. goldenlink.org. 7:30 p.m. $10-$22. [ CLASSICAL ]

Coming Together: Music Benefiting the ACLU/ NYCLU . First Universalist

Church of Rochester, 150 Clinton Ave S. 546-2826.

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Albany-based rapper Mic Lanny quit art school to pursue a career in low-blow rapping. And by that I mean rhyme after rhyme and jab after jab, this guy has some punchlines.

With comedic wordplay and a light-hearted perspective, Mic Lanny delivers with lyrical dexterity and an old-school feel, similar to that of the late, great Big L. You can even find him in his most recent music video, “Pizza Party,” donning a turtleneck, rapping with a mischievous puppet in a bowling alley. Catch this jokester performing with Giant Gorilla Dog Thing, We Stole the Show, and hometown hero Moses Rockwell.

Mic Lanny performs Wednesday, May 10, at the Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Avenue. 9 p.m. $5. bugjar.com; facebook. com/miclannymusic. — BY AMANDA FINTAK 4-5 p.m. $15.

Debussy’s La Mer . Kodak

Hall at Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. 454-2100. rpo. org. 8 p.m. Fabien Gabel, guest conductor; Juliana Athayde, violin. Works of Herrmann, Bartok, Dukas, and Debussy. $23-$99.

Presberg Ensembles Concert . Hochstein

Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 454-4596. hochstein.org. 2 p.m. [ COUNTRY ]

Custom Taylor Band Country Night . Nashvilles, 4853 W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta.

334-3030. nashvillesny.com.

9-11:45 p.m. $5.

Redeye Jacks . Flaherty’s Honeoye Falls, 60 W. Main St. Honeoye Falls. 4977010. flahertys.com. 9 p.m. [ JAZZ ]

Cousin Vinny . Salvatore’s

Pizzeria and Pub, 1217 Bay Rd. Webster. 585-671-9420.

8-11 p.m.

Don Potter . The Penthouse at One East Avenue, One East Avenue. 967-7909. penthouseroc.com. 7-11 p.m. $25-$30.

Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo .

Charley Brown’s, 1675

Penfield Rd. 385-9202. charleybrownspenfield.com.

Jimmie Highsmith Jr. . Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford. 641-0340. viagirasole.com.

7:30-9:30 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]

August Is Ours, KIRA, Woven In Hiatus . The

Historic German House Auditorium, 315 Gregory Street. 563-6241. historicgermanhouse.com. 7 p.m. $9-$12.

Cage kings, Mulu Lizi, Pawner . Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 3193832. thefirehousesaloon. com. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. $5.

Cedryl Ballou & the Zydeco Trendsetters . Harmony House, 58 East Main St. Webster. 727-4119. rochesterzydeco.com.

8 p.m. $15-$18.

Greg Townson CD Release Party . Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

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9 p.m. $6.

Kire Najdovski Band . Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 585-2925544. stickylipsbbq.com.

9:30 p.m. With special guest Michelle Jimenez.

REDISCOVERY: A live Daft Punk Tribute . ButaPub, 315

Gregory Street. 563-6241. daftroc.com/. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. $7-$9.

Steve Monfront . Flaherty’s Webster, 1200 Bay Rd. Webster. 671-0816. flahertys.com. 9 p.m.

Woody Dodge . Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 2580400. thelittle.org.

8-10 p.m.

MON., MAY 15 [ COUNTRY ]

Jackson Cavalier and the Fevertones . Little Theatre

Café, 240 East Ave. 2580400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m. [ JAZZ ]

Flower City Jazz Society .

Radisson Hotel Rochester Airport, 175 Jefferson Rd. 585-458-3040. flowercityjazz.org. 6:30 p.m. $12.

The Rita Collective .

Irondequoit Public Library, 1290 Titus Ave. 336-6060. irondequoitlibrary.org. 7-8 p.m Irondequoit Public Library, 1290 Titus Ave. 336-6062. 7 p.m.

TUE., MAY 16 [ CLASSICAL ] Tuesday Pipes . Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 4543878. esm.rochester.edu.

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OPERA GUILD OF Rochester needs a volunteer to assist with newsletter publication, and event helpers for the annual recital and opera presentations.

For details see home page at operaguildofrochester.com.

SENECA PARK ZOO Society seeking volunteers and docents for ongoing involvement or special events. Roles available for all interests. Contact Volunteers@ senecazoo.org to learn more.

ROCHESTER AMERICORPS IS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS BENEFITS OF SERVICE: • Bi-weekly living allowance of $522 (estimated, pre-tax) • Education Award of $5,815 upon successful completion of the program • Student loan forbearance (on qualified, federally backed student loans) • Child care subsidy for legal dependents 12 and under • Individual health insurance • SNAP - Rochester AmeriCorps Income does not count when determining SNAP eligibility

FOOD SERVICE WORKERS NEEDED! Cashiers, Deli and Grill, Catering and Prep. Full time and Part Time. To appy, email: kgarnder@lessings. com.

Volunteers Contact Urban League Of Rochester today to become a mentor to the youth in our community! Email Haley Catalano at hcatalano@ulr.org to get started.

LIFESPAN’S OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM is looking for volunteers to advocate for individuals living in long-term care settings. Please contact, call 585.287.6378 or e-mail dfrink@lifespan-roch.org for more information

Can’t make the info session? Visit www.rochesteramericorps.org, call: 585-262-1778, or email: americorps@monroecc.edu for details.

Temporary Assignments for Carpenters

MATH TEACHER (Middle School) (7-12 Math Certification)

Friendship Central School For details please log on to: www.CABOCES.ORG “Regional Recruitment” “District Vacancies”

DEADLINE: 5/19/17 EOE

Strong Staffing, at The University of Rochester, has temporary positions immediately available for experienced Carpenters.

Duties include: • Constructs, repairs and maintains metal/wooden structures, including furniture, equipment, partitions and cabinets • Installs and repairs doors, and panic bars • Performs service calls including routine and preventative maintenance, and reconditioning work

Apply online at: www.rochester.edu/jobopp For Job Posting # 199537 Strong Staffing University of Rochester Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled

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For the 2017-2018 TERM

PAINTER POSITIONS The University of Rochester is currently looking for individuals to fill temporary painter positions.

Extensive commercial experience preferred with: • Repair/patching of Drywall • Primer and Finish coats • Working on scaffolds and tall ladders Apply online at: www.rochester.edu/jobopp For Job Posting # 199538 Strong Staffing EOE

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Legal Ads [ LEGAL NOTICE ] FLOWERWELL LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on April 12, 2017. NY office location: MONROE County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to THE LLC, 5825 REDMAN ROAD, BROCKPORT, NY 14420.

General purposes. [ LEGAL NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF B.Renewed LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NYS DOS on February 27, 2017. The DOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The office of the LLC and address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process shall be 2011 Hudson Ave apt 1, Rochester NY 14617, Monroe County. The purpose of this LLC is to engage in any business permitted under law. [ LEGAL NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: LEE CARROLL HOLDING COMPANY LLC (“LLC”).

Articles of Organization filed with NY Secretary of State (“SSNY”) on April 3, 2017. NY office location is Monroe County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to LLC at 5130 West Ridge Road, Spencerport, NY 14559.

Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] 1075 Clinton LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 4/3/17.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to POB 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] 402 Alexander Rochester LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 3/27/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to POB 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Agent Mobile LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 3/10/2017. Its office is located in Monroe County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 3 Skidmore Drive, Spencerport, New York 14559. The purpose of the Company is to provide Technical Repair, Support and Development Services in the areas of Computer Systems, Mobile Devices and Networking Systems for both Retail and Commercial Clients. [ NOTICE ]

To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com Burd Home Health, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on March 30, 2017. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 63 San Marie Drive, Rochester, NY 14622. The purpose of the company is home healthcare services. [ NOTICE ] Canterberry Gifts, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on March 21, 2017. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SS will mail a copy of any process to C/O Ralph J. Code, III, 145 Culver Road, Suite 100, Rochester, NY 14620. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Champlin Land Company, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/7/17. Cty: Orleans.

SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to John & Barbara Champlin, 11522 Portage Rd., Medina, NY 14103.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Cherry Rd Mini Storage LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 10/20/16. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process

against it may be served.

SS will mail a copy of any process to 903 ScottsvilleChili Rd., Scottsville, NY 14546. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Coconuts On The Beach, LLC. Filed 3/17/17 Office: Monroe co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to:376 Holmes Rd. Rochester, NY 14626 Purpose: all lawful [ NOTICE ] Crossway Living Partners, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/24/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to c/o Keith Chambery 39 Conmar Dr Rochester, NY 14609 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Domicello Enterprises, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/29/17. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 1395 Allen Rd., Penfield, NY 14526.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Douglas K. Tackley, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on May 5, 2017, with an effective date of formation of May 5, 2017. Its principal place of business is located 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 The LLC, 5969 Lake Road South, Brockport, New York 14420. 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.

GENSTEEL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 01/05/17 Office in Monroe Co. SSNY design.

Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 135 Corporate Woods Suite 300 Rochester, NY 14623.

Any lawful activity

[ NOTICE ]

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Driving Park 166 LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 4/25/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to POB 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose

GOOD DIGITAL LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on April 6, 2017. 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 86 Harper St. Rochester, NY 14607. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

[ NOTICE ] East Rochester Outdoor Creations, LLC. Filed 4/12/17 Office: Monroe co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 204 Bluff Dr. East Rochester, NY 14445 Purpose: all lawful [ NOTICE ] Eltlc LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 10/18/16. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 90 State St #70040 Albany, NY 12207 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Es 5351 LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 4/19/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to POB 30071 Rochester, NY 14626 General Purpose [ NOTICE ]

[ NOTICE ] Gryska Realty, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 2/23/17.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 1567 E Henrietta Rd Rochester, NY 14623 RA: Webber Law, PLLC 171 Rutgers Street Rochester, NY 14607 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Isource Solutions, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/27/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 26 Arvine Park Rochester, NY 14611 RA: Webber Law, PLLC 171 Rutgers St Rochester, NY 14607 General Purpose [ NOTICE ]

K-9 Haven, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/15/17. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 1606 Salt Rd., Penfield, NY 14526.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Kd Hardscapes, LLC. Filed 3/17/17 Office: Monroe co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 376 Holmes Rd. Rochester, NY 14626 Purpose: all lawful [ NOTICE ] Kristin Miller Browne DVM, PLLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/10/17.

Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 1748 Kennedy Rd., Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: Veterinary Medicine. [ NOTICE ] KRWhelehan LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on April 6, 2017. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SS will mail a copy of any process to 1005 Harvard St., Rochester, NY 14610.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Laslog, LLC, App. Of Auth. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/9/17. Cty:

Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 40 Black Watch Trl., Fairport, NY 14450. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Mortalis Brewing Company LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 1/5/17.

LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to: c/o Jason M. Kiefer, 30A Grove St., Pittsford, NY 14534. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Ultimate Grace, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 4/5/17. Office location: Monroe County.

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Michele Richards, 18 Heather Dr., Rochester, NY 14625.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the Supreme Court, Monroe County, on the 12th day of April, 2017 bearing Index Number 2017-3401 copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 39 W. Main Street, Rochester, New York, in room number 101 grants me the right, effective on the 12th day

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Legal Ads > page 31 of April, 2017, to assume the name of BERTRAM CELESTIN GAMORY. My present address is143 West Avenue, Rochester, NY; the date of my birth is February 4, 1961; the place of my birth is Brooklyn, New York; my present name is CELESTIN BERTRAM GAMORY, JR. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of BW 418, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 04/27/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at PO BOX 18005, ROCHESTER, NY 14618 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Chief Corner Construction LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 0301-2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 25 Traver Circle Rochester NY 14609. . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Upper Room Investment LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 0404-2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 25 Traver circle Rochester NY 14609 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 1369 Clifford Rd LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/20/17.

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 532 Plymouth Ave N . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 142 AND 146 UNIVERSE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/18/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 522 South Ave., Rochester, NY 14620.

Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 271 JP, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/28/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 286 Willow Ridge Trail, Rochester, NY 14626.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 631 MONROE AVENUE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/18/2017.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 522 South Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Abud Real Estate Group LLC. Art. Of Org. filed Secretary of State (SSNY) 04/29/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 1491 Ruth Circle, Wooster, OH 44691. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of BRRRR Strategy LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) March 22, 2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 87 Woodgreen Drive Pittsford NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful activities including leasing residential properties [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Chromium Development LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/17/16. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Adams Bell Adams, P.C., Ste. 600, 28 East Main St., Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Clouds Rest Research & Development, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/31/17.

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 14 Vantage Dr., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CNVL LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) November 28th 2016.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 513 E. RIDGE ROAD, Rochester NY

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14621 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CUTAIA TRUCKING, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/7/2017, 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 Frank Ciardi, Esq. 1 East Main Street, Suite 711, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Days Work Design LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) March 24 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 74 Ashland St Rochester NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of DERISA LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03/28/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 63 Cliffordale Park, Rochester, NY 14609.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of E.K. Property Management LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/20/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1920 Salt Rd., Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Eichenauer Group, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/31/17. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 35 Sylvan Knoll, Rush, NY 14543. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ElderWise, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) March 3, 2017.

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

whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 73 Boardman Street, Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ELLAX LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03/14/2017. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 67 Orchard Creek Cir Rochester NY 14612.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of FG Bowie Transport LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/8/17. Office location: Orleans County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Francis George Bowie, PO Box 192, 1140 N. Lyndonville Rd., Lyndonville, NY 14098, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of G. Kellogg & Co., LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) April 17, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 125 Douglas Road, Rochester NY 14610 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Great Outdoor Shop, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/16/20017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 486 Genesee Park Blvd Rochester, NY, 14619-2247. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Housing Advocacy Services LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/28/17. Office location: Monroe SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1 East Main St. Suite 400F Rochester NY 14614. Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of

JK Food Services, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 04/05/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 72 Tartarian Circle, Rochester NY 14612 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JR Smith Consulting LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/17/17. 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 554 Drumm Rd., Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Kettles Properties LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/18/17. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 78 Oxford St., Lower Apt., Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Law Office of Craig D. Carson PLLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/23/2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 95 Wyndshire Lane, Rochester, NY 14626.

Purpose: to practice law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Leon’s Quality Cuts, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/3/17.

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, 411 Chili Ave., Rochester, NY, 14611.

Reg. Agt. at such addr. upon whom proc. may be served is Leon Jones II. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Little’s Family Homes, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/25/17.

Office location: Livingston County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: PO Box 90655, Rochester,

NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MC 198 North LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 4/7/17.

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 McMaster and Sons LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/15/2017. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is the designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 647 C Preservation Trail, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan 3187 Chili Ave LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/31/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan 4181 Veterans Drive LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/31/17. 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 Paver Saver of WNY LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) March 7, 2017 Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at P.O Box 92016 Rochester NY 14692 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of PLS WOODEN CONCEPTS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y

of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/13/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 17 Courtright Ln., Rochester, NY 14624.

Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of PRAYANA, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/05/17. 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, 293 Eastham Ct Webster, NY, 14580. Purpose: Any lawful purpose [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Prota Productions, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) March 27, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 1200A Scottsville Rd, STE 490E-2, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Public Market Fish, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/29/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Rainwater Farms LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/24/17. 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 6525 Rush Lima Rd., Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sacred ACRE Properties, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/13/2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 206 Kirk Road, Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Legal Ads [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SENECA FARMS BIOCHAR, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/07/17. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 2040 Ridge Rd. East, Rochester, NY 14622. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SMC Express LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 03/06/2017.

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 43 Quail Ln, Rochester, NY, 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Southview Management, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 6/16/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 112 Southview Ter., Rochester NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Starcade Games, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03/10/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 7014 13th Ave. Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of STATE BANK PROPERTIES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/27/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1000 State Rd., Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Western New York Exteriors, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 4/10/17. 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 1504 Scottsville Rd., Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Willow Glen Properties, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) March 10, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 497 Willow Glen Cir., Simi Valley, CA 93065.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Your Brows By Rachel LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/25/17. 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 Rachel Fayko, 76 San Gabriel Dr., Rochester, NY 14610.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of ZAREMSKI HOLDINGS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/24/2017.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 35 Rolling Meadows Way, Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation ofEDPASS LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03-06-17. 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 48D Lyellwood Pkwy, Rochester, NY 14606.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Brooks Hospitality, LLC. Fictitious Name in NY State: Flats Hospitality, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/7/17. Office location: Monroe County.

LLC formed in Minnesota (MN) on 4/5/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 10 Bank St., Ste. 560, White Plains, NY 10606. MN address of LLC: Christenson Corporation, 527

To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com Marquette Ave., Ste. 1915, Minneapolis, MN 55402.

Arts. of Org. filed with MN Secy. of State, 60 Empire Drive, Ste. 100, Saint Paul, MN 55103. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of HARRIS INSIGHTS AND ANALYTICS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/28/17. Office location: Monroe County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/21/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Parlec, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/14/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/29/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o C T Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. Address to be maintained in DE: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts of Org. filed with the Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Pamela S. Markle Distributing, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/5/17. Cty: Orleans.

SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 3594 Fruit Ave., Medina, NY 14103.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] PRSPCTV FUND LP Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/9/17. Office location: Monroe Co. LLP formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/22/16 SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LP Powder Mill Office Park 1151 Pittsford-Victor Rd 221 Pittsford, NY 14534.

DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St Wilmington DE 19801 Arts. Of Org. filed

with DE Secy. of State, PO Box 898 Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Reeg Properties LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 8/22/16. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SS will mail a copy of any process to 1101 Winona Blvd., Rochester, NY 14617. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Rochester City School District – Office of Adult and Career Education Service (OACES) is applying to become a candidate for accreditation with the Commission of the Council on Occupational Education.

Persons wishing to make comments should either write to the Executive Director of the Commission, Council on Occupational Education, 7840 Roswell Road, Bldg. 300, Suite 325, Atlanta, GA 30350, or submit comments on the Council’s website (www. council.org). Persons making comments must provide their names and mailing addresses. [ NOTICE ] ROCHESTER PUB POKER LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on April 13, 2017. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served, SSNY shall mail process to ROCHESTER PUB POKER LLC, 2 Tarrytown Drive, Rochester, NY 14624 General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Rps Home Renovations LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/8/16. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 54 Dalston Rd Rochester, NY 14616 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] RuCo Ventures LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on April 12, 2017. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SS will mail a copy of any process to 442 Brookwood Dr., Webster, NY 14580.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] SHEAR MADNESS OF GREECE LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/4/2017.

FORECLOSURE OF TAX LIENS BY THE CITY OF ROCHESTER STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF MONROE IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF TAX LIENS PURSUANT TO TITLE 4 OF PART E OF ARTICLE IX OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER.

LIST OF DELINQUENT TAXES AS OF JULY 1, 2016 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on April 19, 2017, the Corporation Counsel of the City of Rochester filed in the office of the Monroe County Clerk a list of parcels of property on which the City of Rochester holds a lien for taxes, assessments, fees or other charges which is at least one year old and which the City of Rochester intends to foreclose by an action in rem pursuant to Title 4 of Part E of Article IX of the Charter of the City of Rochester. A copy of that list was published on April 19, 2017.

The foreclosure list contains as to each such parcel: 1. The tax account number and address; 2. The name of the last known owner; 3. The amount of each tax lien, except for a $175.00 charge which has been added to each tax lien pursuant to Section 9-123(A)(3)of the City Charter but which is not reflected on the printed list.

A copy of the foreclosure list has been filed in the office of the City Treasurer and will remain open for public inspection up to and including September 29, 2017, which is the redemption deadline date.

Any person may on or before that date redeem any parcel on the foreclosure list by paying to the City Treasurer the amount of all delinquent taxes, assessments, fees and other charges stated on the foreclosure list, plus the $175.00 charge referred to above, plus accrued interest and late payment charges.

Any person having any interest in any parcel on the foreclosure list may, at any time up to the redemption deadline date, serve a verified notice of interest or an answer upon the Corporation Counsel setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his interest or any defense or objection to the foreclosure. The notice of interest or All persons having an interest in the real property described in answer must also be filed in the office of the Monroe County the foreclosure list are hereby notified that the filing of the list Clerk. Where a valid notice of interest is served, the parcel constitutes the commencement by the City of Rochester of an will be held for a foreclosure auction pursuant to Section action in the Supreme Court, Monroe County, to foreclose the 9-143 of the City Charter. tax liens therein described by an action in rem and that the list constitutes a notice of pendency of action and a complaint by Any person who fails to redeem or to serve a notice of interest or an answer by the redemption deadline date shall the City of Rochester against each parcel of land therein be barred thereafter from asserting his interest in the described to enforce the satisfaction of such tax liens. This pending foreclosure action, and judgment in foreclosure action is brought against the real property only. No personal judgment will be entered in this action for the delinquent taxes, may be granted without regard for, and in extinguishment of, the interest of any such person. assessments, fees or other charges.

BRIAN CURRAN Corporation Counsel Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 132 Greece Ridge Center Dr., Rochester, NY 14626, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Shuler Construction & Custom Cabinetry LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/4/17. Cty: Orleans.

SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 16771 Kenmore Rd., Kendall, NY 14476. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Ssf Realty, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 2/21/17.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Tarek Siala 23 Fair Oaks Dr East Rochester, NY 14445 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Stepmom Warrior, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/30/17. Office: Monroe

Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 3131 Peacock Circ Macedon, NY 14501 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Tech Music and Coin Trading Company LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on March 13, 2017. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to The Foti Law Firm P.C., 16 W. Main Street, Suite 236, Rochester NY, 14614. The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful act or activity within the purpose for which a limited liability company may be organized. [ NOTICE ] The Frugal Foot, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 3/13/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Leah Valvo 66 Long Branch Dr Henrietta, NY

14467 General Purpose> [ NOTICE ] Uttara Light LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 3/20/17.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 18 Cedarwood Circ Pittsford, NY 14534 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SM LOGISTICS LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/27/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 522 Burritt Road, Hilton NY 14468. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE } Notice of Formation of Company Worm LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/23/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 580 East Avenue, Brockport 14420.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] AOS Real Estate Holdings, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 4/12/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 330 Clay Road, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] JANDO Properties, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 1/18/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 3041 Mill St., Caledonia, NY 14423.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ]

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Legal Ads > page 33 MARK GUGGINO REAL ESTATE LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on April 17, 2017.

Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 5503 W. Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14586. The purpose of the company is real estate services. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: HAYWARD AVENUE ASSOCIATES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/26/2017. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: c/o HAYWARD AVENUE ASSOCIATES LLC, One East Main Street, 10th Floor, Rochester, New York 14614.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: LEROY 37-39 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/08/2016. Office Location: Monroe County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: LEROY 37-39 LLC, 336 Averill Avenue, Rochester, New York 14620.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: NIAGARA ROAD LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/08/2016. Office Location: Monroe County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: NIAGARA ROAD LLC, 336 Averill Avenue, Rochester, New York 14620. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Not. of Form of Beautiful Beginnings Family Life Center, LLC. The Art. of Org. were filed Sc’y State (SSNY) 4/21/17. Office location Monroe County.

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

copy to 395 Maple Street, Rochester, NY 14611.

Purpose ofLLC: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Virtuous Woman, Enterprises, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 3/20/2017. Its office is located in Monroe County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 363 Ellicott Street, P.O. Box 64828, Rochester, NY 14624. The purpose of the Company is Housing Development. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Walker D’Arcy, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 4/7/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 10 Mandalay Ridge, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Wright Appraisal Services, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on January 17, 2017. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 95 Allens Creek Rd, Bldg 1, Suite 314, Rochester, NY 14618. The purpose of the company is property appraisal. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] DestinationFLX, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on April 4, 2017, with an effective date of formation of April 4, 2017, 2017. Its principal place of business is located at 387 Kilbourn 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 The LLC, 387 Kilbourn Road, Rochester, New York 14618. 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.

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To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Notice is hereby given that Jarluk Enterprises 2, LLC a Limited Liability Company, filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State on March 22, 2017. The principal office is located in the County of Monroe, State of New York, and the Secretary of State was designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company is: P.O. Box 352, Pittsford, NY 14534. The purpose of the company is to engage in any lawful activity for which a company may be organized under §203 of the Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Notice is hereby given that Jarluk Enterprises 3, LLC a Limited Liability Company, filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State on March 22, 2017. The principal office is located in the County of Monroe, State of New York, and the Secretary of State was designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company is: P.O. Box 352, Pittsford, NY 14534. The purpose of the company is to engage in any lawful activity for which a company may be organized under §203 of the Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Notice is hereby given that Jarluk Enterprises 4, LLC a Limited Liability Company, filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State on March 22, 2017. The principal office is located in the County of Monroe, State of New York, and the Secretary of State was designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company is: P.O. Box 352, Pittsford, NY 14534. The purpose of the company is to engage in any lawful activity for which a company may be organized under §203 of the Limited Liability Company Law. [ Notice of Formation of MALCHO’S MARKETPENFIELD, LLC ] Arts. Of Org. filed with

Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on May 2, 2017.

Office location: Monroe Co., NY. Princ. Office of LLC: 2175 Penfield Road, Penfield, NY 14526. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Princ. Office of LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PLLC ] Kant Accounting, CPA, PLLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on March 24, 2017. Its principal place of business is located at 208 Bretlyn Circle, 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 The LLC, 208 Bretlyn Circle, Rochester, New York 14618. The purpose of the PLLC is to practice the profession of Certified Public Accountant. [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 2016-5510 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Iliana Justiniano d/b/a Iliana’s Family Day Care; First Niagara Bank, N.A.; Capital One Bank USA, N.A.; St. Pius X Federal Credit Union; Juan Justiniano; Amanda Crespo; Anthony Crespo, Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated April 17, 2017, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the Foreclosure Auction Area, Hall of Justice - Lower Level Atrium, 99 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, New York, in the County of Monroe on June 1, 2017 at 10:00 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 21 Remington Street, Rochester, NY 14621; Tax Account No. 106.311-52. 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: $27,068.77 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: May 2017 Daniel C. Fulmer, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ PROBATE CITATION ] File No. 2017-66 SURROGATE’S COURTONTARIO COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Julius Kobanck, Father of the Decedent, address unknown, if living, but if dead, his distributees, legal representatives, assigns and all persons who by purchase, inheritance or otherwise have an interest in the Estate of Marie E. Congdon, deceased, derived through Julius Kobank, whose addresses are unknown to the petitioner. Unknown Paternal Aunts, Uncles, Cousins or Distributees of Julius Kobanck, Father of the Decedent, whose addresses are unknown, if living, but if dead, their distributees, legal representatives, assigns and all persons who by purchase, inheritance or otherwise have an interest in the Estate of Marie E. Congdon, deceased, derived through Julius Kobank, whose addresses are unknown to the petitioner. Charles T. Noce, Esq., as Guardian ad Litem o/b/o Unknowns.

An Amended petition having been verified on 3/17 /1 7 and duly filed

by Elizabeth Lacey , who is domiciled at 4504 Mercer Place, Vestal, New York 13850 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Ontario County, at 1:30 o’clock in the after noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the Estate of Marie E. Congdon, lately domiciled at 56 Picture Book Park, West Bloomfield New York 14585 admitting to probate a Last Will and Testament dated December 16, 2016, as the Will of Marie E. Congdon deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to: Elizabeth Lacey, to serve without bond. Hon. Frederick G. Reed , Surrogate by: Elizabeth T. Simpson , Chief Clerk Dated, attested and sealed on May 2, 2017 Attorney for petitioner: Name: David L. Henehan Address: P.O. Box 190 Avon, New York 14414-0190 Tel. No. (585)

226-3311 [NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.]

P-5 (10/96) [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS WITH NOTICE ] INDEX NO.: 20146594. Date Filed: 04/12/17. MORTGAGED PREMISES: 35 FAYETTE STREET, SWEDEN, N.Y. 14420. SBL #: 069.45 – 1 – 7. Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial based on the location of the mortgaged premises is situate.

Plaintiff’s principal place of business is c/o PHH Mortgage Corporation One Mortgage Way, Mount Laurel, New Jersey 08054.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK: COUNTY OF MONROE HSBC BANK USA, N.A., Plaintiff, -against- UNKNOWN HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF ROBERT V. JONES, if living, and if dead, the respective heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignors, lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and their respective husbands, wives or widow, if any, and each and every person not specifically named who may be entitled to or claim to have any right, title or interest, in the property described in the verified complaint; all of whom and whose names and places of residence unknown, and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained by the Plaintiff ET AL, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer,

judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY.SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $97,465.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Monroe on April 13, 2012, in Book 24281 Page 381, covering premises known as 35 Fayette Street, Sweden, New York 14420, County of Monroe and State of New York – SBL #: 069.45 – 1 – 7. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

The Plaintiff also seeks a deficiency judgment against the Defendant and for any debt secured by said Mortgage which is not satisfied by the proceeds of the sale of said premises. TO the Defendant(s) UNKNOWN HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF ROBERT V. JONES, the foregoing Supplemental Summons with Notice is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Daniel J. Doyle, JSC of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated March 7, 2017. Dated: New Rochelle, NY March 31, 2017 MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, P.C. Sonia J. Baez, Esquire Attorneys for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot St., Ste. 210 New Rochelle, NY 10801 p. 914-636-8900 File # 15-312232 HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS

NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANK-NYS (1877-226-5697) or visit the department’s website at WWW.BANKING. STATE.NY.US. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. You have the right to stay in your home during the foreclosure process. You are not required to leave your home unless and until your property is sold at auction pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale. Regardless of whether you choose to remain in your home, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROPERTY and pay your taxes in accordance with state and local law.

FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services.

Fun

Enjoy vintage train rides and tastings from eight local breweries!

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[ LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION ON PAGE 30 ] [ NEWS OF THE WEIRD ] BY CHUCK SHEPHERD

Entrepreneurial Spirit

A San Francisco startup recently introduced a countertop gadget to squeeze fruit and vegetables for you so that your hands don’t get sore. However, the Juicero (a) requires that the fruit and veggies be pre-sliced in precise sections conveniently available for purchase from the Juicero company, (b) has, for some reason, a Wi-Fi connection, and (c) sells for $399. (Bonus: Creator Jeff Dunn originally priced it at $699, but had to discount it after brutal shopper feedback. Double Bonus: Venture capitalists actually invested $120 million to develop the Juicero, anticipating frenzied consumer love.)

Great Art!

Monument to Flossing: Russian artist Mariana Shumkova is certainly doing her part for oral hygiene, publicly unveiling her St. Petersburg statuette of a frightening, malformed head displaying actual extracted human teeth, misaligned and populating holes in the face that represent the mouth and eyes. She told Pravda in April that “only (something with) a strong emotional impact” would make people think about tooth care.

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Theater

Art Exhibits

The first class passengers toast to the voyage during the JCC CenterStage production of “Titanic the Musical.” PHOTO BY STEVE LEVINSON

Spoilers ahead “Titanic the Musical” REVIEWED SUNDAY, MAY 7 CONTINUES THROUGH SUNDAY, MAY 21 JCC CENTERSTAGE, 1200 EDGEWOOD AVENUE TICKETS START AT $27 | JCCROCHESTER.ORG

[ REVIEW ] BY LEAH STACY

The RMS Titanic, at the time the greatest ship that had ever set out across the Atlantic, collided with an iceberg on April 15, 1912. Within two hours and 40 minutes, the ocean liner sank and more than 1,500 people lost their lives in icy waters. If this feels like a spoiler, it is — and it’s safe to assume you already know this piece of history — but “Titanic the Musical” isn’t really about the ending anyway. Through May 21, the JCC CenterStage provides a unique take on an event that happened more than 100 years ago.

“Titanic the Musical” opened on Broadway in 1997 and won five Tony Awards, including for Best Musical. Although it seems odd that a musical with a predictable ending and weighty content would do so well, Maury Yeston (music and lyrics) and Peter Stone (book) have managed a thoughtful, even humorous retelling of the historic tragedy.

The original production of “Titanic the Musical” featured nearly 50 actors and an elaborate, three-level set, making it nearly impossible for community and regional theaters to produce their own versions. In 2012, former “Titanic” cast member Don Stephenson and choreographer Liza Gennaro 22 CITY MAY 10 - 16, 2017

developed a chamber version of the show with a stripped-down set concept and 20 actors who play multiple roles (the JCC production features 23 actors).

“Titanic the Musical” especially resonates because the characters are based on true stories and events from Titanic history. The hopeful, happy songs are bittersweet in light of what’s to come, and the vignettes between lovers and compatriots hold higher stakes. Because of this, it was important for co-directors Ralph Meranto and Esther Winter to showcase a cast capable of emotional and vocal range, which they achieved nicely. (The duo should also be applauded for co-directing a show that ran so seamlessly, not an easy feat for any production.)

Though all 23 cast members were strong, there were a few who created standout moments.

Alex Black (as Frederick Barrett and Benjamin Guggenheim) and Marc Cataldi (Harold Bride and Wallace Hartley) deliver a heartrending duet in “The Proposal / The Night Was Alive” as a third class stoker who’s in love with a girl back on shore and a misfit radio operator. John Connors (First Class Steward Henry Etches and Herbert J. Pitman) and Caitlin Ruddy (Alice Beane) provide comedic relief throughout the show.

Abby Rice (Kate McGowan) and Eric Schutt (Jim Farrell) have a winning chemistry as third class Irish immigrants who fall in love — Rice’s vocals on “Lady’s Maid” are among the best in the two-and-a-half-hour run. As the captain of the RMS Titanic, Steven Marsocci (Capt. Edward J. Smith) plays a genuine character who reflects honor, peer pressure, and later, regret. There’s not

a lot of choreography, but Meranto and Winter incorporate clever, well-placed movement into the staging to project the feel of a ship.

The set design by Eric Williamson and tech direction by Jerry Smith collaborate in a conceptual version of the ship, one that effectively allows for many scene changes throughout the run. Lighting design (by Toni Elderkin) and sound design (Bob Puff) are vital as well, contributing to the overall flawless technical side of a rather complicated production.

Costume designer Diane Spacher should be particularly applauded for the numerous and consistently grand outfits which cast members quickly changed between, and wigmaster Laura Fox accentuates several of the costumes with Gibson Girl headpieces.

The chamber version of “Titanic the Musical” places the orchestra onstage to blend with the ship’s aesthetic, and Conductor Casey Filiaci deftly guides the six-person ensemble through many musical numbers and incidental pieces.

Jerry Jones, a local Titanic historian who served as dramaturg and consultant on the JCC production, confirmed during Sunday’s talkback that the production takes some creative license, but has many factual links (including that of one couple, the Beanes, who survived and settled in Rochester; they’re buried in Mount Hope Cemetery).

“Titanic the Musical” is a show for history buffs and musical theater enthusiasts alike.

It’s a heartbreaking, poignant story told by an impressively talented cast – and a timely reminder to live fully in every moment.

[ OPENING ] GOART Seymour Place, 201 E Main St. Batavia. DREAM of America. Through Jul. 7.

Opening reception Tues. May 16, 6-8 p.m. A collection of photographs depicting the lives and sacrifices of Latino workers. 343-9313. goart. org.

Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Dan Neuberger. 271-2540. imagecityphotographygallery. com.

My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt. Hope Ave. Reflections on Peaceful Scenes. Through June 25. Paintings by Barb Horvath and Sylvia Ball. 5468439. episcopalseniorlife. org.

Orange Glory Café, 240 East Ave. Underpants and Overbites: A Diary Comic.

Through June. Opening reception Thurs. May 18, 6-8 p.m. Features autobiographical ink and watercolor comic prints

by Jackie Evangelisti. underpantsandoverbites. com.

Rochester Brainery, 176 Anderson Ave, F109.

Ascension: The Works of Brittany Williams. Art by Britney Williams. 730-7034. rochesterbrainery.com. [ CONTINUING ] ART EXHIBITS A Different Path Gallery, 27 Market St. Brockport. Sixth Annual Brockport Artists’ Guild Exhibition. Through June 2. Opening reception Fri. May 12, 7-9 p.m. 6375494. differentpathgallery. com/.

Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. Unforeseen Structures. Through May, 10. Work by Mitch Goldstein.

244-1730. rochesterarts.org.

Gallery 96, 604 PittsfordVictor Road. KAIROS. Through May 27. Meet the photographer Sat. May 13, 2-5 p.m. Photography

by Bruno Chalifour. thegallery96.com.

Gallery Q, 100 College Ave. TransAmericans. Through May 26. Photos by Errol Daniels. 244-8640.

Gallery r, 100 College Ave. DRAFT 14 Exhibition and Book Release. Through May 14. DRAFT features 22 artists from RIT, Syracuse, School of Visual Arts, SUNY Purchase, SUNY Plattsburgh and the University at Buffalo.

256-3312. galleryr.rit.edu.

George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. Richard Renaldi: Manhattan Sunday. Series consists of portraits, urban still lifes, and streetscapes.

271-3361. eastman.org.; Robert Cumming: The Secret Life of Objects. eastman.org.

Hungerford Building, 1115 E. Main St. “The Beauty of Line” Works in graphite, silverpoint and scratchboard

by Diane Bellenger, Katherine DeWitt Hess and Suzi Zefting-Kuhn. 2335645. .rochesterartclub.org.

Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. People and Places.

Through May 14.

Featuring photography from David Perlman and Jim Patton. 271-2540. imagecityphotographygallery. com.

Main Street Arts, 20 W. Main St., Clifton Springs.

Re-Emerging Artists: John Greene and Robert Marx. Through May 12.

Features paintings and drawings. 315-462-0210. mainstreetartsgallery.com.

My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt. Hope Ave. River Moments. Through May 14. An Artist’s View of the St. Lawrence River.

Watercolors, acrylics and oils

by Paul Taylor. 546-8400. episcopalseniorlife.org.

Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. It’s Not Funny. Through May 13. Brings together artists, designers, and collectives who use toys and humor to engage with serious subject matter. 461-2222. info@ rochestercontemporary.org. rochestercontemporary.org.

Schweinfurth Art Center, 205 Genesee St. Paradise.

Through May 21. Multichannel sound installation

by Douglas Quin and Lorne Covington. 315-255-1553. myartcenter.org.

University Gallery, James R. Booth Hall, RIT, 166 Lomb Memorial Dr. RIT MFA Industrial Design Exhibition.

Through May 20. Displaying work from thesis projects by fourteen MFA candidates.

475-2404.

Whitman Works Co., 1826 Penfield Road. Penfield.

Reflections, Sacred Landscapes. Through May 27. Paintings by Beverly Rafferty. 747-9999.

WhitmanWorks.com.

THEATER | ACTING IRISH THEATER FESTIVAL Rochester is hosting the 24th Annual Acting Irish International Theatre Festival at Geva Theatre’s Fielding Stage (75 Woodbury Boulevard). The festival began on Tuesday with a repeat of last month’s successful production of Brian Friel’s “Philadelphia, Here I Come!” The schedule continues as follows:

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Wed., May 10, 8 p.m.: “Monged” presented by the Tara Players of Winnipeg. Thurs., May 11, 8 p.m.: “For Better, For Worse” presented by the Gaelic Park Players of Chicago. Fri., May 12: “Outside Mullingar” presented by the Irish American Theater Company of Cincinnati, at 2 p.m.; and “Little Gem” presented by Milwaukee Irish Arts at 8 p.m. Sat., May 13: At 2 p.m., “Dirty Dusting” presented by Irish Theatre of Florida, Del Ray Beach; and at 8 p.m., “The Weir” presented by the Liffey Players Drama Society, Calgary.

Tickets for the Acting Irish international Theater Festival are $20 for individual performances, with a Festival Pass available for $100. For more info, call 232-4382 or visit gevatheatre.org. — BY DAVID RAYMOND

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Art Events [ SAT., MAY 13 ] Anderson Alley Artists Open Studios. Second Saturday of every month, 12-4 p.m Anderson Arts Building, 250 N. Goodman St. 201-9101603. andersonalleyartists. com.

Mother’s Day Studio Tour and Gallery Preview. May 13, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Rochester Folk Art Guild, 1445 Upper Hill Rd 554-3539. folkartguild. org.

Second Saturday as Hungerford. 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 469-8217.

Second Saturdays at Anderson’s. Second Saturday of every month, 12-4 p.m Anderson Arts Building, 250 N. Goodman St. andersonartsbuilding.org.

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ART | “REFLECTIONS ON PLACE & CULTURE” A new video installation on view at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Avenue), “Reflections on Place & Culture: Downey, Gower, Kluge,” features three short art videos that tackle the genre of documentary film and video through traditional and novel ways. Included in the exhibit are Juan Downey’s 1990 “Hard Times and Culture: Part One, Vienna ‘fin-de-siecle,’” an exploration of political and cultural upheaval in the Austrian city through the late-19th and early-20th centuries; Terence Gower’s 2004 “Ciudad Moderna,” which foregrounds the architecture of Mexico City and Acapulco as the stage of culture; and Alexander Kluge’s 1988 “Changing Time (Quickly),” a non-linear assessment of German historic events leading up to World War II using news headlines and imagery and classical music.

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“Reflections on Place & Culture” continues through June 18. MAG hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and until 9 p.m. on Thursdays and First Fridays.

Admission is $5-$15; free to members, children age 5 and younger, and University of Rochester faculty, staff, and students. Half price admission on Thursdays from 5 to 9 p.m.

For more info, call 276-8900 or visit mag.rochester.edu.

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[ TUE., MAY 16 ] Backdraft II: Laughdraft.

8-11 p.m Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 9022010. thefirehousesaloon. com.

Theater Death of a Salesman. Thu., May 11, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Fri., May 12, 8-10 p.m., Sat., May 13, 8-10 p.m. and Sun., May 14, 2-4 p.m.

Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St $28.50-$36.50.

454-1260. blackfriars.org.

Den Mother. May 11-13, 7 p.m. and Sun., May 14, 1 p.m. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave $15. 866-811-4111. lorimarra.com.

The Disciple. Fri., May 12, 7 p.m. St. John of Rochester Church, 8 Wickford Way .

Fairport 248-5993.

Listen to Your Mother: Rochester. Sat., May 13, 7:30 p.m. Lyric Theater, 440 East Ave 13 local women will share their very personal and true stories of motherhood-from the heartbreaking to the hysterical $18.50-$25. listentoyourmothershow. com/rochester.

Other Than Honorable.

Tuesdays-Sundays Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd Closes Sun. May 21 $25+. 232-4382. gevatheatre.org.

The Red Velvet Cake War. Fridays-Sundays Penfield Recreation Center, 1985 Baird Rd. Through May 13.

Fri. & Sat. May 12, 13, 8 p.m.

Presented by the Penfield Players $12-$15. 340-8655. penfieldplayers.org.

SPECIAL EVENT | GREATER ROCHESTER TEEN BOOK FESTIVAL Teens will get their chance to sift through best-selling young adult genre selections and meet award-winning authors during the Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival. The festival includes author presentations and opportunities to shop the available titles, get books signed, and connect with other readers over a mutual love of literature.

This year’s featured authors include Ellen Hopkins with the “Crank” trilogy; Zac Brewer, author of the series “The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”; David Levithan, author of “Two Boys Kissing”; and many others.

The Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival will take place Saturday, May 20, at Nazareth College (4245 East Avenue), from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free; more information can be found at teenbookfest.org. — BY KIARA ALFONSECA Titanic, the Musical.

Through May 21. JCC of Greater Rochester, 1200 Edgewood Avenue Through May 21. Sat. May 13, 20, 8 p.m. Sun. May 14, 21, and Sat. May 20, 2 p.m.

Thurs. May 11 & 18, 7 p.m $20-$29. 461-2000. jcccenterstage.org.

Votes for Women!.

Thursdays-Saturdays, 8-10 p.m Gallery 74, 215 Tremont St, Building 3, 3rd Floor Presented by the Kingfisher Theater in partnership with the

Susan B. Anthony House $15-$18. 454-9371. thekingfishertheater.org.

Festivals [ SAT., MAY 13 ] Mystical Gateways Psychic Faire. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.5 p.m Mythic Treasures, Village Gate Square 274 North Goodman Street Featuring readers, healers and vendors 266-8350. mythictreasures.com.

Film [ WED., MAY 10 ] 50/50: Rethinking the Past, Present, and Future of Women + Power. May 10, 6-8 p.m. Carlson Cowork, 60 Carlson St . [ SAT., MAY 13 ] Queer As Folk screening.

3-5:30 p.m. LGBTQ Resource Center, 100 College Avenue, #100 5852448640. jeffreym@ gayalliance.org. gayalliance. org.

Special Events [ WED., MAY 10 ] I Pass Gas: An event for the

bikecurious. May 10, 6-7 p.m. Ugly Duck Coffee, 89 Charlotte St. Hosted by Yellow Haus Bicycles. A How-to on going car-light or car-free.

Night at the Museum.

May 10, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. Features Offbeat Tours at RMSC $14. rmsc.org. [ FRI., MAY 12 ] Craft Beverage Fest 2017. May 12, 6-9 p.m.

Ravenwood Golf Club, 929 Lynaugh Rd Music performance by Key Dreamers $20-$25. victorchamber.com.

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Solera and Cheshire. May 12, 6-9 p.m. Solera Wine Bar, 647 South Ave. 2323070. facebook.com/ ambushrochester. [ SAT., MAY 13 ] Annual Rochester Dachshund Parade. May 13, 10 a.m. Washington Square Park, S. Clinton Avenue at Washington Square dachshundparade.com.

Henrietta Garden Club. May 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. GroMoore Farms, 2811 East Henrietta Rd. free. 8891547. henriettagardenclub. org. [ SUN., MAY 14 ] Mother’s Day Chocolate

Pairing. May 14, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Hedonist Artisan Chocolates, 674 South Ave 461-2815. hedonistchocolates.com.

Pink Ribbon Run & Walk on Mother’s Day. May 14, 9-11:30 a.m. Genesee Valley Park (Roundhouse Pavilion), 1000 E River Rd $25-$35.

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Lectures

[ TUE., MAY 16 ] Armchair Tour of Mt. Hope Cemetery. May 16, 6-8 p.m.

Ellwanger Garden, 625 Mt. Hope Ave. $15. 244-4558. landmarksociety.org.

Inside the Six-Day War: Myths and Facts. May 16, 7 p.m. JCC Hart

[ SUN., MAY 14 ] Bringing Education to Girls and Bringing Water in South Sudan. May 14, 9:45-10:45 a.m. Downtown United Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh Street 325-4000.

[ MON., MAY 15 ] Community College Pathways to Success. May 15, 7 p.m.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Rd A part of “Facing Poverty in Rochester 2017 Realities – Response – Reduction” Lecture by Dr. Anne Kress 261-5513. stpaulsec.org.

Theatre, 1200 Edgewood Ave. Lecture by Ralph Nurnberger 461-0490.

JewishRochester.org/ IsraelSeries.

Literary Events [ SAT., MAY 13 ] Stories ROC!. Second Saturday of every month, 6:30 p.m. Writers and Books, 740 University Ave $10. 473-2590. wab.org.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yondu (Michael Rooker) and Rocket Racoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper) share a moment in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.” PHOTO COURTESY WALT DISNEY PICTURES

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” (PG-13), DIRECTED BY JAMES GUNN NOW PLAYING

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A mostly standalone adventure, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” barely bothers to fit itself into the extended universe Marvel Studios has now spent 15 films creating, and that willingness to do as it pleases turns out to be the movie’s most appealing quality. Without the need to act as a bridge to future films, “Guardians” is free to spend its time world-building and further developing its roster of loveable characters. It’s the blockbuster equivalent of writer-director James Gunn doodling in the margins of this universe, and the scrawled creations he comes up with kick the summer movie season off on a spectacularly high note.

Picking up shortly after the first film, Star-Lord (played by Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), and Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper) are a seasoned team, working as guns for hire across the galaxy. (After sacrificing

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himself to protect his friends, Groot has been reborn as an irresistibly adorable baby — still voiced by Vin Diesel — so he’s not always a ton of help, but man, is he cute.)

The film’s plot gets going when their latest mission hits a snag, and the Guardians end up on the run from two separate groups: the Ravagers, led by their familiar foe, Yondu (Micheal Rooker); and the Sovereign, a race of snobby, golden beings whose queen (professional scenestealer Elizabeth Debicki) is enraged when Rocket steals a handful of her people’s precious MacGuffins. A second plotline finds Star-Lord sorting through his considerable daddy issues after finally meeting the father — the godlike Ego (Kurt Russell) — who abandoned him on Earth as a young boy.

The plot isn’t the real focus however, and the considerable downtime between giant action set pieces is devoted to the characters trading barbs and bonding over their feelings of insecurity and loneliness. Plus poop jokes. Gunn writes these characters so well that watching them sit around just talking is pure pleasure. The original “Guardians” melded an irreverent sense of humor with an earnest sweetness. Here, Gunn pushes things even further, doubling down on the goofy comedy while developing the first film’s familial themes and giving them surprising emotional weight.

Even with a giant cast to keep track of, the filmmaker finds moments to let every member of the ensemble shine. Bautista’s literal-minded Drax is comedy gold and finds fantastic chemistry with the film’s other major new character, an empath named Mantis (Pom Klementieff).

Gamora gets a larger arc this time, navigating her adversarial relationship with her adoptive sister, Nebula (Karen Gillan). But it’s Michael Rooker’s swaggering Yondu who emerges as the unexpected heart of the film.

Sure, not every joke lands, and the film can sometimes lean too heavily on its 1970’s rock soundtrack, but these are minor quibbles. The movie is a hell of a lot of fun, and I didn’t even mind when things eventually give way to the obligatory climactic, planet-destroying CGI battle.

It helps that even there Gunn finds ways to tie the action into the emotional arc of his story.

The next few months promise dozens of anonymously-directed blockbusters heavy on incident and action but sorely lacking any sense of personality. It may not reinvent the wheel, but “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” is practically bursting with wit, imagination, and excitement, and I’ll take that any day.

A scene from “My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea.” PHOTO COURTESY GKIDS

“My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea” (PG-13), DIRECTED BY DASH SHAW NOW PLAYING

Film Previews Full film reviews available at rochestercitynewspaper.com.

Written and directed by comic artist Dash Shaw, “My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea” is a trippy, sometimes surreal animated comedy that follows what happens when a high school misfit discovers an administrative cover up hiding the fact that his school is dangerously not up to code.

But no one heeds his warnings, and soon an earthquake sends the building toppling into the Pacific with the entire student body inside. As Dash (voiced by Jason Schwartzman) enlists his best friend, Assaf (Reggie Watts), and their editor at the school paper, Verti (Maya Rudolph), to navigate their way to safety, the film becomes part disaster movie spoof (the plot is basically a riff on “The Poseidon Adventure”) and part commentary on the anxiety-ridden high school experience.

Schwartzman, Rudolph, and Watts (along with fellow vocal performers Susan Sarandon and Lena Dunham) nail the material’s dry sense of humor, though I wished the script were more consistently funny. The film’s visual style, however, is unlike anything I’ve seen. Combining hand-drawn animation, painting, and computer-assisted imagery, it looks like what might happen if you dropped acid while flipping through your doodle-filled high school notebooks. The effect is both beautifully strange and strangely beautiful.

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[ OPENING ] BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961): Audrey Hepburn stars as a New York socialite who becomes interested in the aspiring writer who moves into her building. Dryden (Fri., May 12, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., May 14, 2 p.m.; Mon., May 15, 1:30 p.m.)

KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD (PG-13): Guy Ritchie directs this new interpretation of the legend of King Arthur.

Starring Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster LOGBOOK_SERBISTAN (2015): Director Zelimir Zilnik follows the trails of refugees who have ended up stranded in the Serbian hinterland, and holds a mirror to Europe’s restrictive immigration policy. Dryden (Tue., May 16, 7:30 p.m.)

MARIE ANTOINETTE (1938): The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens. Dryden (Wed., May 10, 7:30 p.m.)

RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1945): A fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway. Dryden (Thu., May 11, 7:30 p.m.)

SNATCHED (R): When her boyfriend dumps her before their exotic vacation, a woman persuades her ultra-cautious mother to travel with her to paradise, with disastrous results. Starring Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster THE VOID (R): Shortly after delivering a patient to an understaffed hospital, a police officer experiences strange and violent occurrences seemingly linked to a group of mysterious hooded figures. Little THE WALL (R): Two American Soldiers in Iraq are trapped by a lethal sniper, with only an unsteady wall between them.

Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena. Pittsford, Tinseltown

[ CONTINUING] BAAHUBALI 2 (NR): When the son of Bahubali learns about his heritage, he begins to look for answers as his story is juxtaposed with past events in the Mahishmati Kingdom.

Eastview, Tinseltown BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (PG): Disney’s live-action update of a tale as old as time, about a monstrous-looking prince and the young woman who falls in love with him. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster BORN IN CHINA (G): Disneynature’s new documentary journeying into the wilds of China to follow the stories of three different animal families. Eastview, Henrietta, Webster THE BOSS BABY (PG): The arrival of a new baby throws the lives of its family into upheaval, in this animated comedy featuring the voices of Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, and Lisa Kudrow.

Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster THE CIRCLE (PG-13): A woman lands a dream job at a powerful tech company, only to uncover a nefarious agenda that will affect the lives of her friends, family. and potentially all of humanity. Starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, and John Boyega. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster COLOSSAL (R): Anne Hathaway stars as a troubled woman who discovers that she shares a mysterious connection to a giant monster that’s demolishing South Korea.

Same old story, amiright?

With Jason Sudeikis and Dan Stevens. Little THE DINNER (R): Two brothers and their wives meet to discuss what to do about a crime their sons committed together, and soon the conversation reopens old wounds. With Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, and Rebecca Hall. Henrietta, Little, Pittsford THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS (PG13): In the eighth installment of the “Fast and Furious”

franchise, the crew faces their greatest test when it appears that Dom (Vin Diesel) has turned against them. With Charlize Theron, Dwayne Johnson, Kurt Russell, and Jason Statham.

Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster GET OUT (R): An AfricanAmerican man’s first visit to meet his white girlfriend’s family for the first time becomes a fight for survival in this horror-comedy from the mind of Jordan Peele.

Greece, Henrietta GIFTED (PG-13): A man raising his child prodigy niece is drawn into a custody battle with his mother. Starring Chris Evans, Jenny Slate, and Octavia Spencer. Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster GOING IN STYLE (PG-13): Desperate to pay the bills provide for their loved ones, three lifelong pals set out to rob the bank that absconded with their money. Starring Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and Alan Arkin. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 (PG-13): The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill’s true parentage.

Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, IMAX, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster HOW TO BE A LATIN LOVER (PG13): An aging Latin lover gets dumped by his sugar mama and must fend for himself in a harsh world. With Salma Hayek, Kristen Bell, Rob Lowe. Webster KONG: SKULL ISLAND (PG13): A team of explorers and soldiers travel to an uncharted island in the Pacific, unaware that they are crossing into the domain of monsters, including the mythic Kong. Culver, Eastview, Henrietta LOGAN (R): In the near future, an aging Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) finds his attempts to hide from the world upended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces. Culver

THE LOST CITY OF Z (PG-13): A true-life drama centering on British explorer Col. Percival Fawcett, who disappeared in the 1920s while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon. Pittsford MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA (PG13): An earthquake sends the school toppling into the Pacific in this satirical animated comedy. With the voices of Jason Schwartzman, Susan Sarandon, Lena Dunham, and Maya Rudolph. Little POWER RANGERS (PG-13): A group of high-school kids are infused with unique superpowers and harness their abilities in order to save the world. Culver A QUIET PASSION (PG-13): The story of American poet Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.

Little, Pittsford THE SHACK (PG-13): A grieving man receives a mysterious invitation to meet with God at a place called “The Shack.”

Based on the best-selling book, and starring Sam Worthington and Octavia Spencer. Culver SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE (PG): In this animated adventure, the Smurfs discover a map that may lead them to another lost Smurf village.

With the voices of Julia Roberts, Rainn Wilson, Mandy Patinkin, and Ellie Kemper.

Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Henrietta, Tinseltown THEIR FINEST (R): During World War II, a British film crew attempts to boost morale after the Blitz by making an inspirational propaganda film.

Little, Pittsford UNFORGETTABLE (R): A woman sets out to make life hell for her ex-husband’s new wife. Starring Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson. Culver A WOMAN, A PART (NR): An exhausted, workaholic actress abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, and returns to New York to reinvent herself. Little

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