CITY Newspaper, January 22, 2020

JAN. 22 2020, VOL. 49 NO. 19

CONVICTION NOTICE a landlor d’s v ict im f ights back and blazes a trail for tenants

Genny and Young Lion brew up sweet stout

Are pot and ROC pro hoops a slam dunk?

Joywave blasts off with ‘Possession’

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CANNABIS CULTURE, PAGE 5

MUSIC, PAGE 20

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How we can pay for high-speed rail

With 2019 ending as the second hottest year on record, and with the past five years as the five warmest on record, the need to reduce carbon emissions sharply is distressingly clear. One way to do so is to substitute high-speed rail, with its low-carbon footprint, for automobile, truck and domestic air travel, with their high, climate-destroying carbon emissions. Toward this end, Governor Andrew Cuomo has supported creating high-speed rail in the state.

A recent CITY Editor’s Notebook questioned where the estimated $15 billion needed for the rail would come from (“New York’s high-speed rail fail,” Editor’s Notebook, January 8). Let me count some of the ways: • We could use just a small portion of an estimated $649 billion in subsidies given to coal, oil, and gas companies in the U.S. every year.

• Reverse the Trump administration’s corporate tax cuts, which gave corporations $91 billion in tax breaks in 2018 and will give them $1.35 trillion over the next 10 years. Why continue these cuts when they were used not for the public good, but rather to enrich stockholders and corporate executives 2 CITY

through such schemes as stock buybacks, which hit a record $800 billion last year?

• Create new corporate tax laws that would prevent the nearly 100 corporations, including Amazon, Chevron, and E.G. Lilly from paying zero or even less than zero taxes, which the non-partisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found occurred in 2018.

• Use some of the $81 billion a year that the policy institute Securing America’s Future Energy calculates is spent on protecting oil companies around the world.

The Editor’s Notebook further points out that a 2009 high-speed rail evaluation of the 50 best city-to-city connections for the service ranked a connection between Rochester and New York City as 50th on its list. But remember, the list is of the best city pairs for high-speed rail, not all city pairs across the nation. Therefore, while the ROC-NYC connection received a score of 85.11 on this list of top contenders, it was separated by a mere four points from 11thplace Chicago-Columbus connection, which scored 89.42. In other words, 40 of top 50 city connections rated for high-speed rail were separated by a mere four or fewer rating points.

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necessity in the struggle to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the disastrous consequences of global warming. That’s why it is also an essential part of the Green New Deal plan to combat global warming and prevent a horrendous future for our children and grandchildren. To determine the necessity and affordability of highspeed rail, we must think beyond the mental barriers created by a corporatedominated economy and a corporate-constructed public budget.

GERALD COLES, ROCHESTER

Climate change needs constant media focus

There is insufficient reference to climate change in newspapers (not just CITY) and other news sources, despite the dire climate crisis we now confront. I know CITY (and WXXI) have had specific locally-relevant articles, but it’s time that climate change is given constant prominence in all news coverage. It needs to be recognized as the top priority issue, which does or will impact essentially all other issues that claim more attention.

The majority of thinking people do recognize that climate change is real,

although most of us are preoccupied with making ends meet, keeping our children healthy and happy, doing well in our profession, etc., and just hope for effective government action.

But our future will indeed be bleak if we go about our daily lives without changing our own modus operandi. I think that the media could contribute to the needed transformation by reporting and discussing more of the news in the context of climate change. Improved public recognition and understanding of the causes, problems, interactions, and possible solutions will promote needed pressure on governments and businesses.

It seems depressingly unlikely that any positive policy action will be take nationally by the current administration or Congress.

Thankfully, some states, counties, cities, and towns are forging ahead in various ways. Nonetheless, I believe that essentially all human activities must be rapidly and substantially modified so as to minimize or eliminate their carbon footprint and to repair damaged ecosystems. As a simple example, all new building construction and major renovations should be required to at least meet LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards, incorporate a maximum possible capacity of renewable energy generation, and eliminate natural gas service. It seems unconscionable that such basic steps have not already become universal.

The argument that these modifications “cost too much” is no longer a valid excuse, nor in many cases even true. Clearly this is one of innumerable targets ripe

for investigative journalism and that could make a major contribution to developing our community’s sustainable future.

I hope that all news media will embrace their critical role in the necessary transition of our world view.

ELLEN HENRY, PITTSFORD

Parcel 5 could be the “backbone” of city parks

I agree that Midtown Parcel 5 should become a permanent city park (“Why not a park at Parcel 5?” Feedback, January 15).

It should become part of the adjoining Midtown Commons at the south end, and together be designated a permanent city park. This should become a “spine” of the Center City parks of Martin Luther King Jr. Park at Manhattan Square, Washington Square Park, Cornerstone Park, Liberty Pole Green, St. Joseph’s Park, and Schiller Park.

Also, there should be another “spine” of riverfront parks consisting of the new Riverfront Walkway, the park along the Blue Cross Arena, Major Charles Carroll Plaza, and High Falls Terrace Park. The city should also acquire the privatelyowned Aqueduct Park and incorporate.

The park between the river and the arena should also benefit from renovations to the arena. A nice touch would be to paint its concrete pavers to honor U. S. military history and have a replica of one of the Art Deco eagles that was on Buffalo’s former Memorial Auditorium to complement the existing copper eagle with a broken chain in its beak in a planter there.

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK | COMMENTARY BY DAVID ANDREATTA

CITY’s comments are back Ten months ago, CITY disabled the comments function at the bottom of articles on its website after the platform became a disheartening, sucking, swirling eddy of insults.

For years prior to being dismantled, the comments section had simultaneously served as a marketplace of ideas, an exchange of information, and a self-moderated town hall. There were always trolls lurking among the opinions of well-intentioned readers, of course. But they didn’t dominate the discussion.

Until they did.

Trolling, defined as the act of posting incendiary or derogatory messages in online forums, usually anonymously, plays on humankind’s most primal instincts.

In his parable of the Ring of Gyges in the fourth century B.C., Plato told of a good and decent shepherd who, when imbued with the power of invisibility, seduced a queen, killed the king, and took over their kingdom. Plato argued that without accountability for our actions we would all behave badly.

In other words, anonymity brings out the worst in people. Morality, Plato theorized, stems from, or is at least reinforced by, full disclosure.

Anonymity in the internet age hasn’t overthrown a government (yet), but it did kill the CITY comments section. There was one troll who posted comments under a variety of pseudonyms, sometimes commenting under one fictitious name, then applauding himself under another like some sort of selfcongratulating Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

CITY prides itself as being the people’s paper, however, and is willing to give the comments section another chance. We view restoring the comments as a goodwill gesture to readers who enjoyed, and have told us, they missed the feature.

In recent days, CITY resurrected the commenting function with a new tool called Disqus. With Disqus, readers will be required to log in to the platform using one of four gateways — their Google email address, their Facebook account, their Twitter account, or their Disqus account — to be able to comment.

We are under no illusions this additional step will make anonymous comments obsolete. False or concealed identities on Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail abound.

Disguising oneself remains easy to do for anyone so inclined.

We do hope, though, that the new tool will mitigate the trolls. The Disqus platform allows users to “upvote” and “downvote” comments, much like in a Reddit forum, ensuring the most popular entries rise to the top of the thread. Users can also control

whether the comments in a thread are presented chronologically or by popularity, and block other users.

Many readers have already begun using the new comments function. And some of them are doing so under what appear to be pseudonyms.

All of the comments thus far have been civil, however. That’s what we’re really striving for here — a medium that encourages and elevates respectful debate.

Keep in mind, too, that most of CITY’s content is also posted on its social media channels, where readers are free, and encouraged, to comment.

No doubt there is some value in letting readers express opinions that may get them in trouble at work or offend friends and neighbors, without having to give their names. But comment forums drunk on anonymity have the tendency to slide into the equivalent of a barroom brawl and drown out the voices of sober and thoughtful readers who become less willing to speak up when the punching begins.

Let’s not go there this time.

Recently, a reader wrote to me asking why CITY insisted on printing the names of people who submitted letters-to-the-editor for its Feedback page.

“Is a point made or opinion held salient, irrespective of the name slapped at the bottom?” the reader asked. “Should that not be the yardstick employed, not who typed it up? If the actual identity of the author is germane to the content — no one wants an imposter writing in for a local politician or civil servant — an understandable exception can be made.”

CITY prints the names of its Feedback contributors for the same reason it encourages readers who post comments to use their real identities: Standing behind one’s opinions with one’s name is the best way to encourage open, robust, and, most importantly, civil discourse.

Thank you for reading and for sharing your thoughts.

David Andreatta is CITY’s editor. He can be reached at dandreatta@rochester-citynews.com. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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Homeless count set for Thursday

Approximately 100 volunteers will spread out across Monroe County on Thursday for an annual count of the area’s homeless population.

The 2020 Point in Time count will start at 5:30 p.m. and end the next day at 7:30 a.m. The volunteers will canvass streets, underpasses, alleyways, parks, encampments, parking lots, and other spots to locate unsheltered homeless people, read a news release from Partners Ending Homelessness, the coalition of Monroe County service providers that coordinates the count.

The canvassers will provide any homeless person they encounter with a backpack containing personal care items, and they’ll direct them to shelters and services.

Collins gets prison time

Chris Collins, a Republican who until his resignation last fall represented western New York in Congress, was sentenced to 26 months in prison for insider trading. The sentence fell short of the maximum five years for which prosecutors had asked.

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Judge Vernon Broderick, of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said that Collins betrayed his obligation to uphold the law, both as a member of Congress and as a director on the board of a drug company.

“You had a duty to meet, and you betrayed that duty,” the judge said.

Collins, 69, delivered a tearful apology before he was sentenced.

“People feel sorry for me. They shouldn’t,” he said. “I did what I did, and I violated my core values.”

Collins pleaded guilty last year. He was on the board of an Australian biotech company, Innate Immunotherapeutics, when he warned his son, Cameron, that the company’s multiple sclerosis drug failed clinical trials.

The news prompted his son to dump the stock and avoid hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.

Cameron was also charged, along with his father-in-law, to whom he had passed along the news. Both pleaded guilty and are scheduled to be sentenced this week.

Collins’s seat in the 27th Congressional District is currently vacant. A state lawyer said in open court recently that Governor Andrew Cuomo plans to call for a special election that will coincide with the April 28 presidential primary.

News BEER BUSINESS | BY GINO FANELLI

Genesee, Young Lion brew Valentine’s Day chocolate stout

A chocolate stout from Genesee Brewery. The Rochester brewery is teaming up with Young Lion Brewing Company in Canandaigua to create a limited-release chocolate stout for Valentine's Day 2020. PHOTO BY GINO FANELLI

Genesee brewmaster Dean Jones, one of the most decorated chocolate beer makers in the country, walked into Young Lion Brewery in Canandaigua the other day with a 50-pound sack of Ghirardelli cocoa powder and a plan.

The plan was for the two breweries — a Rochester icon in Genesee and a relative newcomer in Young Lion — to collaborate for the first time on a limited-release chocolate stout.

“I said, ‘I’ll bring the chocolate, you guys make a dry stout,’” Jones said. “Don’t even send me the recipe for the stout, that’s not what I’m going to do. If Phil’s got an idea, I’m going to roll with it.”

Phil is Young Lion head brewer Phil Platz, and his idea was to work with Jones, whose chocolate scotch ale took gold a couple of years ago at the prestigious World Beer Cup. Set for release around Valentine’s Day, their creation is based on one of Platz’s favorite beers, the Young

Lion Stout. Platz said he cut the alcohol from 7.5 to 6 percent for the chocolate version, but otherwise kept the recipe the same.

“It’s got hints of chocolate anyway from cacao nibs, so this collaboration just made sense, to just kick that chocolate up another step,” Platz said.

Young Lion opened in 2017 on Canandaigua Lake and is now one of the largest breweries in the region, with a 30-barrel brewhouse and capacity for up to 90-barrel batches.

The collaboration is expected to yield 60 barrels, or 14,880 pints, and will be distributed across the Finger Lakes and Western New York, according to the breweries.

“We’ve been talking about it for over a year,” Young Lion owner Jen Newman said. “I’m a huge Genesee fan, period.”

Gino Fanelli is a CITY staff writer. He can be reached at gfanelli@ rochester-citynews.com.

“I couldn’t believe it when we got a DM from the RazorSharks.

It was just like, what?!” Mary Kruger, founder and executive director of Rochester NORML said. “The amount of feedback we’re getting on social about this partnership happening is just people are blown away.”

CANNABIS CULTURE | BY GINO FANELLI

RazorSharks say pot and pro sports are a slam dunk Most of the people at the January meeting of the Rochester chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws were regulars — veterans who use cannabis as a treatment for post-traumatic stress and enthusiasts fighting for the right to light up a joint.

Then there were the four noticeably tall men giggling and wearing perpetual grins, who stuck out among the dozen or so attendees, and the woman with them.

They were members of the Rochester RazorSharks, a professional minor-league basketball team in the re-launched Premier Basketball League (PBL).

The woman, Jennifer Moore, the team’s chief executive officer, had recently struck a sponsorship deal with the NORML chapter that is believed to be the first of its kind: In exchange for NORML paying the team $250, half the cost of the team’s smallest sponsorship package, the RazorSharks have agreed to promote the cannabis crusading organization’s advocacy efforts.

Under the agreement, players are free to indulge cannabis in all its forms without repercussions, and the team will actively use its platform to spur conversations about cannabis with the community.

The league leaves drug-testing up to individual teams, and the RazorSharks do not test players. “If I see one of them looks like they’re snorting coke, then we’ll have a talk,” Moore said. “But for THC? No.” Last month, RazorSharks players took part in NORML’s Communities and Cannabis event, a discussion on the future of legalizing recreational use of cannabis and its potential impact on Rochester. As the state’s legislative season gears up, RazorSharks members will travel to Albany with NORML as part of their lobbying efforts. Moore said she views the partnership in the vein of a social justice mission.

“Instead of burying our heads in the sand, why don’t we make a difference?” asked Moore, who bought the RazorSharks franchise with her husband Keith last August. “Why don’t we look at the War on Drugs, the disproportionate punishments, and use it as a platform?”

CHANGING PERCEPTIONS The marriage between NORML and the RazorSharks is anything but normal.

While attitudes and laws around cannabis are changing across the nation,

professional sports teams have been slow to catch on.

The National Football League, for instance, randomly tests 10 players per week, per team when the league is in season. Any player who tests positive for cannabis for the first time is required to enter a substance Rochester RazorSharks Hasiin "Peach" Dixon slam dunks. abuse program, then PHOTO PROVIDED fined increasingly with each subsequent Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Doc Ellis positive test until the sixth, when the throwing a no-hitter under the daze of player is banned for a year.

LSD. (Acid is still banned.)

National Basketball Association The National Hockey League is players are subject to four tests per considered the most progressive of the year. The league has a similar policy major sports leagues when it comes as the NFL for the first fail, followed to cannabis. Under its collective by a $25,000 fine, then a five game bargaining agreement with the players’ suspension for each ensuing fail. union, the league can only test a Major League Baseball made waves maximum of 60 players a season. The last month after announcing it was goal, league officials have said, is not to removing marijuana from the list of punish users of cannabis, but to identify banned substances — perhaps a fitting potential abusers and get them help. edict for a league whose fans will in

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POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD | BY DAVID ANDREATTA

City Council stands behind reformed ex-convict for Police Accountability Board When Miquel Powell learned last week that he was one of nine people the Rochester City Council would announce as appointees to the city’s new Police Accountability Board, the 38-year-old substance abuse counselor and father of three was beaming.

His selection to the panel was not something he, nor likely anyone who knew him in his troubled youth, could have imagined for him.

Then his past caught up with him.

A day after his name was announced, Powell’s selection was being questioned in light of the years he spent in prison for shooting a woman. His past surfaced like most things do nowadays — online — and prompted a robust debate about his fitness for the board.

“I had a feeling it might come out,” Powell said.

Like the other appointees, Powell had not been confirmed. Council was scheduled to vote on, and expected to approve all the appointees on Tuesday evening, after CITY went to press. He said, though, that he would not withdraw his name unless Council asked him to do so, and members showed no signs of making such a request.

Powell spoke by phone from his desk at Catholic Family Center, where he counsels people with drug and alcohol addictions.

“It’s nothing I hide,” he said of his past.

“I’m an open book.”

Even if he had wanted to, hiding his past might not have been possible.

A HIGH-PROFILE CRIME Powell’s crime was a high-profile case when it went to trial in February 2003.

The previous June, he fired a sawed-off shotgun through the front door of a house on Scio Street that doubled as an in-home day care, striking a woman inside. He was 21 at the time.

The woman, who was reportedly picking up her six-month-old son, was hit in the arm and hospitalized. Police said that had she not slammed the door as Powell approached, she might have been killed. Powell was charged with firstdegree assault.

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Powell ended up being shuttled from prison to prison. He did his first two years in Riverview Correctional Facility in St. Lawrence County, followed by three years in Gowanda Correctional Facility in Erie County, and, finally, a short stint in Cayuga Correctional Facility before being released on parole in July 2008.

State corrections records and newspaper archives list Powell’s first name as “Miguel,” with a “g,” and not as “Miquel,” with a “q,” which he goes by today. Powell explained that his given name is Miquel and that the police, and by extension, the criminal justice system, mistakenly used “Miguel.”

“During that time, I realized I just wanted something different,” Powell said. “I started educating myself and started looking at things differently. I wanted to live differently and give back to my community.”

THE ROAD TO REFORM Miquel Powell, who did prison time for shooting a woman in 2002, has been selected to sit on the new Police Accountability Board.

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at trial that his intended target was not the woman, but a man who had assaulted him on the street and had run inside the house for cover after Powell pursued him with the gun.

Powell was sentenced to seven years in prison, and spent the next five years behind bars. When he went away, he had a newborn son.

“I lived a street life,” Powell said, telling of how he had dropped out of East High School at 16, did time for low-level crimes, and gotten into drugs. “I wasn’t doing drugs. I was more of a drug dealer.”

He maintained he had no idea the house he fired upon doubled as a day care. He knew it as a drug house, he said. He recalled firing the gun and running away.

“I didn’t know I hit anyone until I got home and saw it on the news,” Powell said. “Then I saw the day care thing and said, ‘Oh my God.’ I knew it was serious and that I was going to have to face that.”

Two years after his release, Powell had made the dean’s list at Monroe Community College. He would go on to earn an associate’s degree and, later, a bachelor’s degree in social work from The College at Brockport-SUNY. He would become a state certified counselor and found the Reentry and Community Development Center on North Street, a facility that helps newlyreleased convicts readjust to civilian life.

He would also become a father two more times, to another son and a daughter.

And he would stay out of trouble.

The only brush he has had with the courts since his release involved a civil judgment for $1,500 he once owed a credit card company. Court records show he has since paid the debt.

His background, Powell said, makes him an ideal candidate for the Police Accountability Board. He said he disclosed his criminal history during the application process.

“Those experiences can help you on the PAB,” Powell said. “That was one of the things that a lot of supporters pushed for. They were aware of my street life and the interactions I had with police in those days. Being the activist I am and an educated man, I can help the board understand certain cases.”

The board, the legality of which is pending a challenge in state court from the police union, is to be an independent office of city government responsible for investigating allegations of police officer misconduct. It would have the power to issue subpoenas, impose discipline, and assess police practices and procedures.

The primary criticism of Powell’s appointment on social media networks was with what critics saw as his potential for having an ax to grind against police and being in a position to discipline them.

Some pointed to posts on his Facebook page from over the years that highlighted images of people of color who were allegedly beaten or killed by police without provocation and another that questioned whether police were “the good guys.”

Michael Mazzeo, president of the Rochester Police Locust Club, the police union, declined to comment directly on Powell, citing his organization’s pending litigation to overturn the law that created the board.

“No matter what the responsibilities or powers of this board or any other board which serves the city, we would only hope that those who applied did so for the sole purpose of working to improve our city and do so with integrity and commitment,” Mazzeo said.

'AMAZING YOUNG MAN' Powell was among 12 people recommended to the City Council by the Police Accountability Board Alliance, a grassroots organization credited with bringing the board to fruition and responsible for vetting candidates.

Council members selected four members from that pool and another four of their own. The ninth member was selected by the mayor. The news release announcing the selections read that 61 people had applied.

“I do think a PAB is needed and I wanted to be part of the start-up process,” Powell said. “The community interviewed me. I was selected to be on the board based on my credentials and there is no reason I shouldn’t be on the board, in my opinion.”

The day Powell’s background surfaced online, Council members called a news conference and reiterated their support for him. They confirmed they were aware of his criminal history during the application process and said they ran background checks on all the appointees.

“He was not selected because of his past,” Council President Loretta Scott said. “He was selected because he was an outstanding, outstanding applicant.”

Scott said no other appointees were found to have criminal histories.

Council member Willie Lightfoot called Powell “an amazing young man.”

“Of course, you know, we looked into everybody’s situation and we knew he had a past. That did not hinder him,” Lightfoot said. “We believe that his credentials and what he brought forth and how he’s changed his life since and the value he’s bringing to the community superseded anything.”

Powell recalled meeting his shooting victim by happenstance a couple months after his release in 2008. He said it was outside the Main Street Armory during an event he attended. He was not to have any contact with her at the time, he recalled, and said he was nervous when she approached him.

But they spoke, he said, and hugged.

He said she asked him for his phone number, which he gave her. He said he has not seen her since but believes she holds no animosity.

Messages left for the woman on what appeared to be a social media account belonging to her was not returned.

Attempts by CITY to reach her in person were successful.

“I regret the fact that an innocent person was shot and injured. But I don’t regret the overall scenario,” he said. “What I mean by that is I wound up having to do a lot of time, but if I didn’t do that time I wouldn’t be the man I am today.

“I regret that someone had to be injured to propel me to the life I have today. But I would have continued with the street life.”

David Andreatta is CITY’s editor. He can be reached at dandreatta@rochester-citynews.com. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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TENANTS’ PIONEER HOUSING | BY JEREMY MOULE

LINDA BARGER SAT IN BED IN HER SHERMAN STREET APARTMENT WITH HER MINIATURE DOG, BEAR, CURLED UP BY HER SIDE. There, over the intermittent hissing of the breathing tubes that feed her oxygen, she lamented the long list of problems with her place. The shoddily-repaired wall. The lack of lightbulbs in an overhead fixture she can’t reach.

But she kept coming back to the mice.

They were everywhere. She can hear them rooting through plastic bags in her closet.

They peek out from the crisper drawers in the fridge. As she spoke, a mouse, as if acting on cue, started scratching around inside the drop ceiling overhead, the tiles blotchy with water marks.

“I can’t get rid of them,” Barger said.

“They crawl out of my shoes, they go in my garbage. I mean, I’m petrified of ‘em...

Especially when I know I can’t run.”

Barger, 64, can’t just walk away from the apartment, even though her landlord has neglected it. She has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a serious condition that requires her to be on a constant supply of oxygen and to largely remain in bed.

So she turned to the courts, and in the process became a sort of pioneer for renters’ rights in Rochester.

Last week, she won what tenant advocates called a first-of-its-kind case in Rochester City Court in which a judge ordered Barger’s landlord, Baridi Viator, to repair her apartment and address the mouse and insect infestations. The judge,

Michael Lopez, imposed a deadline of February 10.

The notion that no landlord has ever been successfully sued for repairs in Rochester may sound implausible considering the state of many rental units in the city. But tenant advocates explained that the obstacle to such legal action isn’t a lack of inattentive landlords, rather a lack of means among tenants. Most tenants don’t have the resources to risk taking their cases to court.

“After the city comes out (and inspects) and nothing’s been remedied, this is essentially the last option for a tenant,” said Mike Furlano, a lawyer for the Legal Aid Society of Rochester, which represented Barger. “You can go to the landlord, landlord doesn’t do anything; go to the city, the city can’t do anything other than fining the landlord. There’s no option other than seeking a court order compelling the landlord to make repairs and to remedy all of the violations.”

The Legal Aid Society brought the lawsuit on Barger’s behalf as a test case “to show that there is jurisdiction in City Court for a case like this, that they have the power to make that order and then enforce it,” said Mark Muoio, the agency’s housing unit program director.

Lopez awarded Barger $4,800 in damages based on the $495 a month she pays for her space in her apartment house, as well as $4,500 in attorneys fees, a figure that will likely increase. He also barred Viator from collecting rent from Barger until he gets a certificate of occupancy for the building from the city. The certificate expired in 2017.

Barger’s lawyers, as well as local affordable housing advocates, see the decision as a big win. The decision, they said, could have far reaching implications, particularly empowering Rochester tenants to fight back against neglectful landlords.

Her case was the second recent victory for tenants. Earlier this month, state court officials announced the launch of a new housing section within City Court that allows tenants to bring small claims cases against landlords.

Linda Barger's apartment is crawling with mice. These droppings were behind her kitchen sink.

PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE

‘IF I COULD LEAVE, I WOULD’

Barger and the Legal Aid Society were not the first to try to get Viator to fix up the Sherman Street property, a 3,200 square-foot house near the intersection of Dewey Avenue and Emerson Street built in 1883.

City property records show the threeunit apartment house has 38 open code violations. Viator has been fined for some of them and for renting apartments without a certificate of occupancy.

The mouse infestation is just one code violation city inspectors identified. Another was the buckling ceiling and floors, which are as clearly visible as the water stains on the ceiling tiles throughout the unit. One tile appeared to be tinged with light green mold.

Also noted were plumbing, electrical, and exterior maintenance problems.

Outside the courtroom after the decision, Viator said he had tried to bring an exterminator to the apartment but couldn’t get access. He also said that Barger had been living in the apartment before his certificate of occupancy expired.

“If you don’t like this place for all these three years, why did she stay there?” Viator,

who represented himself, asked.

Barger fielded a similar question the previous day from a CITY reporter as her lawyer snapped photos of broken windows, sagging ceilings, and mouse droppings to support her case.

“Believe me, if I could leave I would,” Barger said. “But I know I can’t and I’m not going to kill myself earlier just to make him happy. I’m on the last stage of COPD, I really can’t do nothing. I get out of breath.”

As he handed down his rulings, Lopez told Viator plainly that he needed to fix the many serious problems with Barger’s living quarters, which the judge laid out in detail within his final, signed repair order.

To help Viator meet the February 10 deadline, the judge set two specific dates when Viator could bring exterminators to the apartment. Barger was scheduled to be out of the apartment at doctor’s appointments on those dates.

“This is a consequence of not taking care of the property over the long term, Mr. Viator,” Lopez said.

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Wayne Russell, who is Linda Barger's brother, points out their landlord's attempt at fixing their front porch while Mike Furlano, an attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Rochester, photographs it. PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE

Addressing the court, Viator said the house was in foreclosure and expressed concern that if he could not collect rent and modify his mortgage he would lose the house. Monroe County records show that a bank did initiate foreclosure in 2017 but discontinued the process the following year. No active foreclosure case was apparent.

Lopez replied that if the house were to be taken away from Viator the court would address the matter at that time.

NO CASES IN 15 YEARS

The Legal Aid Society brought Barger’s case to get clarity around existing state laws.

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In 2005, Governor George Pataki signed sweeping legislation that brought upstate city courts in line with New York City courts in terms of landlord-tenant issues. The sponsor memo accompanying the bill explained, specifically, that the changes would give upstate city courts the ability to enforce housing code violations as part of existing landlord-tenant proceedings.

The changes came at the request of thenChief Judge Jonathan Lippman, who saw an opportunity for upstate city courts to take a more active role in housing matters.

Legal Aid Society attorneys believed the new law gave New York’s city courts the ability to, at the request of tenants, order landlords to repair housing code violations.

Several rooms in Linda Barger's apartment have water stains on the ceiling. PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE

With Barger’s case, they proved it.

Even though the law has been in place for almost 15 years, nobody in Rochester had tried to bring a case, Muoio said. City Court judges won’t be bound by Lopez’s decision in future cases, but the ruling will help attorneys build persuasive arguments in similar cases, he said.

Ryan Acuff, a housing activist and organizer with the Rochester City-Wide Tenant Union, cast the case as a huge victory for renters. It was a step toward providing renters with a clear process to compel their landlords to follow health and safety laws and meet basic living conditions.

“We’re not talking about people trying to take people to court to get luxuries,” Acuff said. “We’re talking about basic health

and safety conditions so people aren’t living with infestations and leaks and mold and collapsing ceilings, and without running water or without heat.”

Barger’s lawyer said she was pleased with the outcome, but that she worried Viator might ignore the court’s order. If Viator refuses to comply, however, the court can take additional steps to enforce its ruling, including jailing him.

A VICTORY, BUT NOT ENOUGH

The new housing section within City Court that was recently established allows tenants to bring small claims against landlords and to have a judge hear the case as soon as legally

permissible, usually 22 days after a claim is filed, state Supreme Court Justice Craig Doran, the region’s administrative judge, explained in announcing the section.

Small claims proceedings are important because they allow tenants to claw back rent money they have already paid for apartments that aren’t being maintained.

City Court Judge Stephen Miller will handle the proceedings and the section is to work closely with the city’s code enforcement office. In order to bring a claim in the section, tenants must show that they’ve been in touch with the city code enforcement office, that there is a documented violation, and that their efforts didn’t lead to fixes, Doran said.

The section’s first case was filed Friday by Pamela Owens Dade, president of the tenants’ association for the Manhattan Square and Savannah apartments in the East End. She and other residents of the apartment complex have previously complained of serious problems, from lack of heat to severe mold issues.

The small claims proceedings in the housing section are supposed to be expedited and simple. Still, some landlords, attorneys, elected officials, and advocates said a more comprehensive housing court codified in law is necessary to bring consistency to and speed along housing cases.

In the meantime, affordable housing advocates said they would like to see the process for court-ordered repairs streamlined.

Barger’s case was adjourned on several occasions before it was decided, for example.

City Council member Jackie Ortiz, who worked with Legal Aid Society’s Muoio to initiate the conversations that led to the new housing

Mike Furlano, an attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Rochester, photographs the damaged exterior of 445 Sherman Street. PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE

section, pointed out that the section is just a pilot program. There is no guarantee it would last if court administrations change, she said.

“For me, this lays the foundation and the groundwork and the process for when an official housing court is codified by New York state,” Ortiz said.

A formal housing court would likely assume the functions of the new housing section as well as the long-standing landlordtenant section. It would process small claims,

hear cases for repair orders, and handle evictions, among other functions.

Assembly member Harry Bronson and state Senator Joe Robach each introduced bills to create a Rochester housing court last legislative session, but the measures never made it to the floor for a vote. Ortiz hopes she can convince Bronson and Robach — or someone in the Senate’s Democratic majority — to introduce the legislation again this year.

Acuff isn’t wedded to having a housing

court in name. He’s most concerned about making sure tenants have access to effective, simple, and efficient processes that they can use to fight landlords who neglect their properties.

“For us, the key is tenants should have a clear process to bring their landlord to court as an individual and as a group and to get relief” such as repairs or monetary damages, Acuff said. The process should be “clear, simple, and fair.”

Jeremy Moule is CITY’s news editor. He can be reached at jmoule@rochester-citynews.com.

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Dining & Nightlife Yes, we canned Fairport cheers the beer can FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, TO SUNDAY, JANUARY 26 FACEBOOK.COM/FINDITINFAIRPORT14450 [ PREVIEW ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

If you google “birth of the beer can,” everyone’s favorite digital majordomo is going to bring you articles that place the vessel’s origin in Richmond, Virginia, when on January 24, 1935, Krueger Cream Ale went on sale for the first time “bottled” in metal. Back then the cans were flat-top, tab-less steel items that you had to crack into using the pointy end of a churchkey opener.

Also credited for the beer can’s origins is the American Can Company, which manufactured the first cans from its factories around the country, including one on Parce Avenue in Fairport. The suburban village is proud of its historic role in beer culture, and commemorates the invention each year with Beer Can Appreciation Weekend.

The can turns 85 this year, and you can toast its success at festivities that kick off on Friday, January 24, which is when Beer Can Appreciation Day is celebrated nationally, and continue through Sunday, January 26. It’s no secret that Rochester has a fairly crowded beer culture, and the wee village of Fairport itself is home to a handful of breweries. Those sites as well as local pubs and eateries will host a weekend-long crawl with beer tastings and other specials. Participating venues and businesses include Triphammer Bierwerks, Iron Smoke Whiskey, Fairport Village Inn, Feeling Healthy Store, RE/MAX Hometown Choice, B-Side, Mulconry’s, Donnelly’s Public House, Lulu’s Taqueria, FairPour Coffee Roasters, Red Bird Market, Skip’s Meat Market, and Fairport Brewing Co. Cheers!

Rebecca Rafferty is CITY’s arts & entertainment editor. She can be reached at becca@ rochester-citynews.com.

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The Poseidon includes shrimp, scallops, lobster, crab, calamari, and mussels sautéed with sun dried tomatoes, roasted red peppers, and artichoke hearts in a lemon garlic sauce, over a bed of Spanish rice PHOTOS BY JACOB WALSH

A Hellenistic adventure Kainos Restaurant 284 EXCHANGE BOULEVARD MONDAY, 4 TO 10 P.M; TUESDAY-THURSDAY, 11 A.M. TO 10.P.M; FRIDAY & SATURDAY, 11 A.M. TO 11 P.M.; SUNDAY, 9 A.M. TO 9 P.M. 319-3579; KAINOSRESTAURANT.COM [ REVIEW ] BY CHRIS THOMPSON

I lived in Cyprus for two years in my early 20s.

A quick side note: as I’ve had to explain multiple times to my family and friends, Cyprus is not in Greece. The southern part of the island is Greek speaking, and the people who live there have direct Hellenic roots, but Cyprus is its own country, independent of Greece.

Greek culture in Cyprus is prevalent, though. Generations of families build their houses next to each other, so that elders can help their progeny as they start their independent lives, and so that progeny can take care of their elders as the get closer to their final chapters.

The skies are deep blue all the time, untouched by smog, and uninterrupted by jagged metal and concrete skyscrapers. The sun seems to hang low and makes much of

the land arid, but it never feels too hot or dry anywhere. Millennia-old tapestries and sculptures are immortalized in elaborate replicas, ubiquitous in homes and businesses.

The aroma of Mediterranean Sea air wafts hundreds of meters inland from the shore.

A meal at a local restaurant is like entering mama’s kitchen, where you can see, hear, and smell her working magic with her ingredients, ready to give you immense portions of the freshest seafood, usually caught just hours before you entered the venue.

Cyprus was a good time. I got to revisit my old, temporary home when I visited Kainos Restaurant recently. Owner Jeff Scott’s goal of transporting patrons was accomplished; the mini-Mediterranean escape can serve as a nice respite from Rochester’s howling winter winds.

Located at Corn Hill Landing, Kainos offers authentic Greek fine dining with some American influence. The second you pass the vestibule, you can see how much effort Scott put into the décor, which he hand-picked in Greece. Two statues stand beside marble stairs, one of Poseidon and one Venus de Milo (I know Venus is Roman, not Greek, but her counterpart is Aphrodite, so calm

down). Upon climbing the stairs and passing two marble pillars, an illuminated wall-sized tapestry of Zeus adorns the far wall behind the marble bar. In some of the ceiling nooks are depictions of others deities from the pantheon.

To the right is a bar that serves Greek coffee and frappes, which are summer mainstays of mine when heading to the beach. Additionally, the food is sourced from Greece. Scott gets an order of seafood three times a week, so fresh that is smells like the Mediterranean. He visited the farm that supplies his olive oil. All of the wine is from Greece. The feta and other cheeses come in on pallets every week, ready for their service to our taste buds. The only exception is the gyro meat, which he gets from Astoria, Queens, AKA “little Greece.”

Instead of putting it on the vertical rotating skewer that most people are accustomed to seeing, Scott prepares the gyro meat by roasting it horizontally on a skewer over a flame, constantly taking the juices that fall from it and drizzling them on the meat so that is doesn’t dry out and keeps all of its flavor.

The menu yields a perfect depiction of Greek culinary life. The souvlakis and salads

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are made for those of us with healthy appetites, and the abundance of offered seafood dishes made me happy. I started with something I hadn’t had in over 15 years: the saganaki appetizer ($12). This is kefalograviera cheese sautéed in brandy and lemon, set ablaze before your eyes, and served with pita. The cheese of choice is a blend of kefalotyri and graviera cheeses, so it was a bit different from the saganaki I’ve had, made with just kefalotyri. It’s much better. Kefalotyri can be a little bit too salty, but the graviera smooths out and somewhat sweetens the flavor. Also there is nothing like watching someone set a platter on fire at your table.

I agonized over my main course choice, because I had perused the lunch menu the previous day, ready to order the Athena Blueberry Salad ($12). But I was there for dinner, and the Poseidon ($35) looked delicious. Scott was gracious enough to split the difference: I got a smaller version of the salad to sample, for journalistic purposes, as well as a full order of the Poseidon. The Athena Blueberry salad is a mix of arugula and spinach with grape tomatoes, pine nuts, sliced avocado, cucumbers, and blueberries, tossed with a house-made blueberry vinaigrette and topped with shaved Asiago cheese. This will be my summer staple. It was light and tangy and filling all at the same time.

All of Kainos’s dressings are made upon ordering; there isn’t a tub of blueberry dressing sitting stagnant in the kitchen. I could smell the freshly crushed blueberries as I poured the dressing over the greens.

The Poseidon is a mariner’s dream catch: shrimp, scallops, lobster, crab, calamari, and mussels sautéed with sun dried tomatoes, roasted red peppers, and artichoke hearts in a lemon garlic sauce, served on a bed of Spanish rice. What came out was a mountain of food. Every meat in my dish was tender, almost to the point of melting in my mouth. It takes great skill to cook a blend of shellfish like that to such perfection without one or two coming out a little bit rubbery, but every bite was Elysian.

Try as I might, I couldn’t finish it all. On a positive note, though, I had seafood for breakfast the next day! Food that fresh reheats quite well.

Chris Thompson is a freelance writer for CITY. Feedback on this article can be directed to becca@rochester-citynews.com.

Meanwhile, the minor-league North American Premier Basketball League, the successor to the PBL, was reportedly the first professional sports league to accept a sponsorship from a CBD company when it partnered in 2018 with Green Roads Athletics, a Florida-based outfit that manufactures cannabidiol products for athletes. The PBL folded in 2017 after 10 seasons but launched anew in 2020 with four teams, including the RazorSharks.

The RazorSharks, which also have a sponsorship from the CBD and hemp company Roc City Cannabis, approached NORML about forming a partnership, team and the organization representatives said.

At the NORML meeting, RazorSharks players said anti-marijuana laws perpetuated what they cast as a culture of hypocrisy that embraces alcohol and condemns cannabis.

“Last year I was playing with a Syracuse team, the Syracuse Stallions, and my coach actually told me to go out, drink beer and go to sleep, to gain deadweight,” said guard George Graham.

“I ended up gaining like 20 pounds.”

Likewise, many NORML members are critical of how normalized alcohol is in a society where recreational use of marijuana remains illegal.

“It’s a common theme almost everywhere in society,” said Mary Kruger, the founder and executive director of Rochester NORML. “It’s something embraced almost, it’s really, really normal to talk about and celebrate, but there’s also a lot of negative health effects of alcohol.”

Moore, the owner of the RazorSharks, said she has never used cannabis. But she said she gained an appreciation for how it was regarded in the public esteem in California, where recreational use is legal, while she was working as the vice president of another minor-league team, the San Diego Waves.

“We had worked for the RazorSharks for years before owning the team, and we saw the guys feeling, not necessarily ashamed, but it was like something they had to hide, or something they were ashamed of,” Moore said of using cannabis. “Versus going out to San Diego, where it was just not a big deal.”

RazorSharks guard Hasiin “Peach” Dixon is one such player. He said he felt like he had to hide his cannabis use on

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previous teams. His enthusiasm for pot comes with a simple, timeless explanation.

“Honestly, I just use it to chill out,” Dixon said. “It winds me down after a tough day of working out, or going through anything. It feels more comfortable just being able to say that, as a basketball player.”

Now at the helm of the team, Moore saw in the partnership with NORML an opportunity to educate the public, and the league’s players, about cannabis rather than turn a blind eye.

That decision didn’t come without some criticism.

“We’ve gotten some feedback like, ‘Oh, how could you have some players represent this, an illegal drug, and you’re going to put them in the schools?’” Moore said.

“If you don’t think in every city school kids aren’t already smoking weed, then the parents are ignorant.”

INCHING TOWARDS LEGALIZATION Last year, expectations of New York legalizing marijuana was high among the advocacy crowd. This year, anticipation is even higher.

Governor Andrew Cuomo vowed in his recent State of the State address to legalize recreational use of cannabis and was to release his budget proposal this week. As both Michigan and Illinois went live with retail recreational markets this

year, pressure is on Cuomo to keep his plans of being a pioneering cannabis state from going up in smoke.

So begins the ramp-up of the advocacy season for NORML. Earlier this month, the group participated in a state-wide virtual lobby day organized

by Empire State NORML, an event which had people from across New York dialing up lawmakers to urge legalization. Throughout the legislative season, Rochester NORML members will continue advocating, hosting community events, and traveling to Albany to petition lawmakers.

Here in Rochester, Kruger sees the next critical step as promoting community engagement. That’s where the RazorSharks, which played its first two home games this season at Edison Tech High School, come in.

Every partnership and member counts in the advocacy agenda, Kruger said, and relationships with groups like the RazorSharks can be key to reaching a more mainstream audience.

“I couldn’t believe it when we got a DM from the RazorSharks. It was just like, what?!” Kruger said. “The amount of feedback we’re getting on social about this partnership happening is just, people are blown away.”

Gino Fanelli is a CITY staff writer.

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Upcoming

Music

[ COUNTRY-FOLK ] Joe Pug Monday, February 17. Restaurant Good Luck.

50 Anderson Ave. $25-$30. 7 p.m. 340-6161. honestfolkpresents.com; joepugmusic.com. [ HIP-HOP ] MC Lyte Saturday, April 11. Anthology.

336 East Ave. $35-$50. Ages 21 and over. 6 p.m.

484-1964. anthologylive.com; mclytenow.com.

Eastman Opera Theatre SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, AT 7:30 P.M.; SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, AT 2 P.M. THURSDAY, JANUARY 30 TO SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, AT 7:30 P.M. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, AT 2 P.M. 804 ANNEX BLACKBOX THEATER EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 26 GIBBS STREET $26 | EASTMANTHEATRE.ORG

[ OPERA ] Eastman Opera Theatre knows how to present

Classical opera in a fresh light, if its production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” last season (pictured) is any indication.

Antonio Salieri’s “Prima la musica e poi le parole” (First the music and then the words”) and Mozart’s “Der Schauspieldirektor” (“The Impresario”) were premiered at the same 1786 competition in Vienna, and both works center around the casting of an opera and the comical tension that swirls around the process.

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

Aaron Lipp & Brian Williams SATURDAY, JANUARY 25 THREE HEADS BREWING, 186 ATLANTIC AVENUE 8 P.M. | $5 | THREEHEADSBREWING.COM; AARONLIPP.COM [ AMERICANA ] Multi-instrumentalist Aaron Lipp has

a consistent angle he uses to wrangle all he explores: It’s bluesy, and country-politan, and it’s aaalright. He’s played keyboards for Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad and Robert Randolph, been known to join The Wood Brothers on stage, and he’s knocked around town with The Slacktones. But it’s his work with upright bassist Brian Williams that’ll stop you in your tracks.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

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[ ALBUM REVIEWS ]

[ WED., JANUARY 22 ]

The Byways

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Grace Serene. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 6 p.m.

Nate Michaels. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 6 p.m.

‘Something to Prove’ Self-released bywaysroc.bandcamp.com

Julian Lynch FRIDAY, JANUARY 24 SMALL WORLD BOOKS, 425 NORTH STREET 8 P.M. | $10 SUGGESTED DONATION FACEBOOK.COM/SMALLWORLDBOOKS JULIANLYNCH.BANDCAMP.COM [ INDIE POP ] Julian Lynch is best known as the guitarist in the band Real Estate, while his formidable solo discography features lush chamber pop that might best be described as “syntheticorchestral.” Lynch’s Garfunkel-esque crooning injects a sense of calm into deceptively dense and busy arrangements. Lynch’s 2019 album “Rat’s Spit” is ambitious dream pop with lo-fi vibes that belie meticulous production. Rochester acts SkitZoluvHartd, Will Veeder, and 800 Volts will play in support.

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

Mike Melito Trio SATURDAY, JANUARY 25 VIA GIRASOLE WINE BAR, 3 SCHOEN PLACE, PITTSFORD 7 TO 10 P.M. | FREE WITH ONE DRINK MINIMUM RESERVATIONS SUGGESTED | VIAGIRASOLE.COM [ JAZZ ] From the popular to the obscure, Mike Melito knows jazz classics so well that he can step into any situation. So it’s not surprising that he’s been the drummer of choice when jazz luminaries like Benny Golson, James Moody, Barry Harris, Eric Alexander, and many more have come to town. Over the years, Melito has recorded four excellent albums as a leader, showcasing his own straight-ahead musical vision. At Via Girasole, he’ll be joined by guitarist Bob Sneider and Dino Losito on organ, playing standards and bebop tunes, with an emphasis on the music of Wes Montgomery.

— BY RON NETSKY

There’s a lot of “wanna” — actual and implied — on The Byways’ new EP “Something to Prove.” It’s acoustically based, and hits its stride immediately on tunes like “Man I Wanna Be.” It all circles back to the quartet’s principal songwriter and quarterback Alex Goettel, and the idealistic dreamscape he seems to envision.

You need to see them live, plugged or unplugged, to feel the band’s gentle versatility and sway. It’s indie rock, without too much preciousness or quirk — thanks in part to producer Dave Drago at 1809 Studios. It ain’t the blues, but you can feel it as each of the four cuts cut deep.

The Byways play with The Archive Ravens on Friday, January 24, 8 p.m. at Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Drive, Suite 101. $5. 292-9940. lovincup.com; bywaysroc.com.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

5Head ‘Superette’ Self-released facebook.com/5headmusic

It’s like trying to pick your favorite child when you’ve got only one life preserver. The children in this hypothetical exercise are the 13 tracks on 5Head’s new CD “Superette.” The problem here is that I can’t pick just one.

5Head is a SKA band, despite their rock ‘n’ roll leanings, and they fill up their repertoire with all the little subgenres that take the listener and throttle them. It’s a wild ride. They hit upon all the grooves, and don’t scrimp on speed or tone — especially in the vocal department, where singer Rob Reed has just a dusting of distorted energy. It’s perfect, from the rockin’ “Wrong” to the soul-sender “Raw Honey.”

This is a superb project, and it does the job of gettin’ your seat out of its seat and on its feet. Easily the band’s best work to date.

AMERICANA

Tyler Westcott & Friends.

Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m. Folkfaces, Sean McNamara.

JAZZ

Bill Tiberio Trio. 80W, 7 Lawrence St. 730-4046.

7 p.m.

JAM BAND

Collin Jones, Casey Bloom.

Temple Bar & Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000. 9 p.m.

DJ/ELECTRONIC

WAYO Wednesday: Fourth Birthday Blowout. 8 p.m.

Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. $5. bugjar.com.

[ THU., JANUARY 23 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Ayers Brothers Band. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 7 p.m.

Jeff Riales & Friends. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 2323230. 7:30 p.m. Steve Lyons. $5.

CLASSICAL

Eastman at Washington Square Lunchtime Concert.

First Universalist Church of Rochester, 150 Clinton Ave S. esm.rochester.edu/lunchtime.

12:15-12:45 p.m. Onyx Clarinet Quartet.

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Grandpa Presley Even as I celebrated what would have been Elvis Presley’s 85th birthday this past week at Record Archive, it was getting harder and harder to keep up his legacy amid the fried banana and peanut butter sandwiches, and virtually everything from his square movie catalogue (except “Pocket Full of Rainbows”).

But if you’re like me and Albany’s The Lustre Kings, you still indulge in the music, the voice, and even some of the stuff from Elvis’s “Hollywood” period. The Kings rocked the joint as the scent of peanut butter and bacon wafted out from the door.

And hey, here’s another way I put Elvis in perspective: He was a grandpa. Allow me to elucidate with a quick anecdote.

I was backstage at a Chris Isaak concert in Pittsburgh a while back. Elvis’s daughter, Lisa Marie, was opening the show. At one point she introduced her two young children, and I, slicker than snot, burst out with “Wow, your grandpa is Elvis.”

Tammi Savoy and Chris Casello rocked the

Abilene foundation a little looser than their debut there in autumn. I think you can blame that on the fact that the audience knew what to expect a little bit more, and weren’t wrapped up in “Holy shit, what’re they doing up there?” And man you just gotta hear Casello play the super-vibrato of The Viscounts’ “Harlem Nocturne.” The spirit of Grandpa Presley rocked among us.

Frank De Blase is CITY’s music writer. He can be reached at frank@rochester-citynews.com.

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KOPPS (left to right) — bassist Kyle O’Hara, vocalist-percussionist Patricia Patrón, and guitarist Travis Johansen — presents glossy pop music and videos that are loaded with irony. PHOTO PROVIDED

Pop plus KOPPS Y2K END OF THE WORLD DANCE PARTY WITH DJ CHREATH SATURDAY, JANUARY 25 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $10 | AGES 18 AND OVER UNDER 21 TICKETS ARE PRESALE RSVP ONLY BUGJAR.COM; KOPPSMUSIC.COM [ FEATURE ] BY FRANK DE BLASE

KOPPS is a three-pronged attack of technofection, but it’s not so sugary as to gum up the works in its live show, plethora of catchy singles, or the numerous music videos that capture the band’s intense visual irony.

The Rochester trio — lead vocalist and percussionist Patricia Patrón, bassist Kyle O’Hara, guitarist Travis Johansen — has been hard at work in the studio and spinning the odometer on jaunts to everywhere. The group continues to work with local producer Dan Armbruster of Joywave.

And yes, new music is pending.

KOPPS has plenty of material, for that matter. They’re just being frugal and keeping up with the times, in which LPs aren’t as in-demand as EPs, singles, and videos.

In actuality, KOPPS has enough material for a full-length if they ever want to go that route.

“But not the way people are doing it now,” Patrón says. “You don’t want to release too much; people listen to it for a day and then it’s over.”

So that’s delayed the release of some KOPPS material, and the band says it’s shifting into a phase where they are more in control. Some people, including ones in their camp, didn’t quite get it.

“I don’t think I’ll work with a producer that it makes no sense to work with again,” Patrón says. “We had a couple of producers in L.A. that were picked out by our team. I think they couldn’t get a grasp that we were songwriters, but they had total control.” Naturally, the songs didn’t amount to anything.

“Of course,” Patrón says. “Because they weren’t KOPPS songs. I don’t ever want to work with someone who doesn’t recognize our collaborative power. I hated working with other topliners.”

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Mike Kaupa Quartet. Little Café,

240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.

“We’re under new management and under new PR,” she says, “which has been helpful to us in putting out material more consistently. So we’ll have all this new material we’re going to package up and release this spring.”

KOPPS sees its music as pop, but not in its contemporary definition, which falls short.

KOPPS is more than pop. It’s pop plus.

“Historically, our music has been pretty genre-bending,” Patrón says. “I think over the years it’s become more digestible as being pop.

But there’s still some KOPPS elements to it.

Not every song is a KOPPS song. It has got to have something unique, even though the underpinnings are pop. That’s where we are musically. Even in our old stuff, there was a pop element to it. But the sounds we were making were a little bit more ‘alt,’ I would say.”

KOPPS brings the electronic thunder. It’s showbiz with plenty of fizz and bizz.

“We have a little bit of an edge,” Johansen says. “It can get gritty here and there. And that plays out in the live show, that grittiness. It’s very intense. The movements and choreography are very rock-inspired. Like breakdowns with more purposeful guitar, thicker bass that have that to meld with the vocal tracks.”

“All of these things play off of each other,” Patrón says of KOPPS’ multimedia attack. Grateful that the band began using choreography a few years ago, she says it will continue to be a fun component of its live show.

“It’s different to see instrumentalists doing it,” Patrón says. “I think I’ve come a long way vocally, being able to sing and do these crazy movements. It took years to develop that breath control. It’s so aerobic.”

“We do have a light show we bring with us when we can,” she says. “The lights, the dancing, the music are all perfectly in sync.”

Patrón isn’t too concerned that some listeners may not get what KOPPS is doing or what they’re about exactly. “I think everything we do has an ironic pop edge to it,” she says.

It’s difficult for the trio to digest pop that’s on the radio. “There’s no underlying humor or message to make you think,” Patrón says.

“There isn’t an underlying anything.”

“But, for instance…” She mentions KOPPS’ new single, “Oh Dang Dang.”

“You could listen to it one time through and think, ‘Ok, it’s about butts,’” she says. “When it’s really about being addicted to consumerism.

The humor behind what we’re doing, I think it should be polarizing: Either you like us or you don’t. I want people going insane or going, ‘This is fucking stupid.’”

Frank De Blase is CITY’s music writer. He can

POP/ROCK

Going the Distance. Three

Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 7 p.m. Cake tribute. $10.

Jim Lane & Edd Altavela.

Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 155 Pattonwood Dr. 342-6780.

6:30 p.m.

Teagan & The Tweeds. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 6 p.m.

Yippeekaiyay, Facility Men, Pomelo. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $5.

[ FRI., JANUARY 24 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK The Fog. Sager Beer Works, 46 Sager Dr Suite E. 245-3006.

7:30 p.m.

River Lynch. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003.

5-7 p.m.

Serendipity. Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603.

7 p.m.

BLUES

Big Bertha, Andy Smash & the Rust Belt Hotrods. The Spirit

Room, 139 State St. 397-7595.

9 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Faculty Artist Series: Masumi Per Rostad, viola. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000.

7:30 p.m. $10.

First Inversion: Soaring Spirit.

Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh St. 520-2003.

7:30 p.m. $5-$20 suggested.

Spotlight on Faculty: Vertex Saxophone Quartet. Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 454-4596. hochstein.org. 7 p.m. Winter Thoughts. $10.

COUNTRY

Claudia Hoyser. Fairport

Brewing Co., 1044 University Ave. 481-2237. 8 p.m.

JAZZ

Calabrese, Chwazik & Curry.

Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m.

Cousin Vinny. Salvatore’s Pizzeria & Pub, 1217 Bay Rd. Webster. 671-9420. 7:30 p.m. continues on page 18

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Vintage. Knucklehead Craft Brewing, 426 Ridge Rd. Webster.

347-6236. 5:30 p.m.

[ SAT., JANUARY 25 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Evan Meulemans. The Angry Goat Pub, 938 Clinton Ave. 413-1125. 9 p.m.

January Jamboree: The Cadleys, The Brothers Blue. Golden

PHOTO BY GERRY SYZMANSKI

CHORAL | FIRST INVERSION

Conductor and Eastman School of Music alumnus Lee Wright started the choral ensemble First Inversion in 2014 as a way to bridge the invisible divide in the local community between Eastman vocalists and singers who performed outside of the confines of the institution. In the years that have followed, First Inversion has gained recognition as an important Rochester performance group with a wide-ranging repertoire, from early music to contemporary classical compositions. In its January concert, entitled “Soaring Spirit,” the chorus demonstrates that versatility with a program that includes works by Baroque titan J.S. Bach, Romantic-era master Johannes Brahms, and renowned contemporary choral composer Eric Whitacre. First Inversion will be joined by cellist Adrienne Hyde, guitarist and theorbo player Warner Iveris, Christopher Petit on organ and harpsichord, and the Scivias Medieval Ensemble, directed by Heather Holmquest.

First Inversion performs Friday, January 24, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, January 26, at 4 p.m., at Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 North Fitzhugh Street. Suggested donation of $20 for adults, $5 for students. 520-2003. firstinversion.org.

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

continued from page 17 HIP-HOP/RAP

All-Local Hip-Hop Showcase.

Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 8 p.m. $15.

POP/ROCK

The Able Bodies, Super Rich Kids, Redbeard Samurai. Flour

City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745. 8:30 p.m. $8/$10.

Amy Collins. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210.

4-7 p.m.

Audibull. Pineapple Jack’s, 485 Spencerport Rd. Gates.

247-5225. 9 p.m.

Big Logic & The Truth Serum.

Roar, 621 Culver Rd. 434-1248.

7 p.m.

The Byways. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com.

8 p.m. $5.

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The Fallen. Nashvilles, 4853 W

Henrietta Rd. Henrietta.

334-3030. 9 p.m. $5.

False Positives, Cursed Idols.

Lux Lounge, 666 South Ave. lux666.com. 9 p.m. $5.

Hey Mabel. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. 8 p.m.

The Painted Birds, Sam Kaiser.

Temple Bar & Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000. 9 p.m.

Rover’s Holiday Hangover: AJR, Joywave, Sub Urban, Dreamers.

ROC Dome Arena, 2695 E Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 6 p.m. $38.

The Side Doors. Johnny’s Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990.

9 p.m. Doors tribute.

Swamp Kids. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 7 p.m. $10.

Vileman & the Excaliburs, Fran, Small Signals, The Boomhauers.

Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $5.

Link Folk Singing Society, 2750 Atlantic Ave. Penfield. 857-9265.

7:30 p.m. 5pm: Sing-around; 6pm: Chili supper ($5). $10-$22.

Mary Monroe & Nate Coffey.

B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane.

Fairport. 315-3003. 5-7 p.m.

Matt Seidel. Fairport Brewing Co., 99 S Main St. Fairport.

678-6728. 7 p.m.

Miller & the Other Sinners.

Fairport Brewing Co., 1044 University Ave. 481-2237.

8:30 p.m.

Sarah Eide, The Lonely Ones.

Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. 8 p.m. $5.

Spring Chickens. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.

Wooden Nickel. Sager Beer Works, 46 Sager Dr Suite E. 245-3006. 7:30 p.m.

AMERICANA

The Honey Smugglers.

Hollerhorn Distilling, 8443 Spirit Run. Naples. 531-2448. 8 p.m. $10/$15.

BLUES

Coupe De’ Villes. Johnny’s Pub,

Razin Kain. Sticky Lips, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544. 9 p.m.

Something Else. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745.

10 p.m. $5.

Y2K End of The World Dance Party: KOPPS, DJ Chreath. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $10.

[ SUN., JANUARY 26 ] CLASSICAL

If Music be the Food. Third

Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs St. 271-6513. 7:30 p.m.

Opera Guild of Rochester: Beat the Blahs. Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave. 385-6971.

1 p.m. “Cavalleria Rusticana” & “Pagliacci ,” introduced by Peter Dundas. Screening & docent talk series. $9/$10.

Royal Opera House Live: Coppelia. Little Theatre, 240 East

Ave. thelittle.org. noon. $18/$20.

CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL

Faculty Artist Series: Robert Morris, composer. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 3 p.m. $10.

POP/ROCK

Greg Maslyn. The Daily

Refresher, 293 Alexander St. 360-4627. 5-7 p.m.

[ MON., JANUARY 27 ]

1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990.

8:30 p.m.

Hanna PK. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080. 7 p.m.

Joe Beard & His Band. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 8 p.m.

BLUES

CLASSICAL

Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 7:30 p.m.

Faculty Artist Series: Eastman Virtuosi. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs

St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m. $10.

Davy Knowles. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080. 7 p.m. $25/$30.

CLASSICAL

Eastman Wind Orchestra, Eastman Wind Ensemble. Kodak

JAZZ

Bossa Nova Bradley Brothers.

COUNTRY

Paisley Fields & Mercy Bell.

Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 8 p.m.

Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.

METAL

Metal Monday. Photo City

DJ/ELECTRONIC

Signal>Noise: Fred P, Rob Morley, Jim Kempkes, JenOne, Joe Bucci. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047.

10 p.m. $15/$20.

POP/ROCK

ConArtist. Pineapple Jack’s,

485 Spencerport Rd. Gates.

247-5225. 9 p.m. $5.

Mr Mustard. Iron Smoke Distillery, 111 Parce Ave Suite 5b. Fairport. 8:30 p.m.

Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 9 p.m.

[ TUE., JANUARY 28 ] CLASSICAL

Faculty Artist Series: Jonathan Retzlaff, voice; Wilson Southerland, piano. Kilbourn

Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000.

7:30 p.m. $10.

Royal Opera House Live: Coppelia. Little Theatre, 240

East Ave. thelittle.org. 6 p.m. $18/$20.

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Music concert at the ROC Dome Arena in Henrietta, with the New York City indie band AJR, Sub Urban, and Dreamers.

The band has given up its studio behind the Bug Jar, but the guys — including keyboardist

(Clockwise from left) Joywave’s Paul Brenner, Benjamin Bailey, Joseph Morinelli, and Daniel Armbruster play electronic rock with a sensibility that borders on self-parody. PHOTO PROVIDED

Joywave: satirical and sci-fi [ COMMENTARY ] BY JEFF SPEVAK

It is helpful to think of the release of a new Joywave album as a biological function. “I just naturally produce one every several years,” lead singer and songwriter Daniel Armbruster says.

“I turn it in to the record company and then they decide if they want to release it. And they liked this one, so it’s going to be released.”

It’s kind of like a snake shedding its skin?

“It really does feel like that.”

Joywave sheds the new album, “Possession,” on March 13. It’s the band’s third full-length release, following 2015’s “How Do You Feel Now?” and 2017’s “Content.” But by now, if you’re paying attention, you should have heard five of the 12 tracks.

“Everybody binges everything, right?”

Armbruster says. “A new Netflix show comes out, you watch the whole series in one weekend.”

So the idea now is to slow things down.

Hand out the artistry by piecemeal. Allow the ravenous public to savor the musicians’ hard work.

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“The release of the album is the end of the album campaign, whereas it used to be the album release was step one, right?”

Armbruster says. “And then you worked singles from it along the way, over a year or two years afterwards.”

Yet these calculated album-release plans end up getting swamped by a tidal wave of singles, EPs, videos, and remixes, plus a social media presence that addresses all things Joywave. After the band announced its 2020 tour, a fan asked on Facebook why there is not a Pittsburgh date. “It’s in Cleveland,” Joywave replied.

If you think that’s funny, Joywave is always in on the joke. It’s 2016 album “SWISH” was actually a fake, consisting of nine remixes of the band’s 2015 single “Destruction.” Plus one new song, perhaps because Joywave felt guilty about playing a trick on its fans, and wanted to give them something new. Joywave may be a band of goofballs, but they’re also nice guys.

And before launching the new tour, which includes dates in Europe (the Munich show is in Berlin), Joywave has a Friday, January 24,

Benjamin Bailey, guitarist Joseph Morinelli, and drummer Paul Brenner — insist on living in Rochester, despite the weather. Armbruster even recently bought a house.

Joywave is a rock band that embraces bounding, life-affirming electronic beats — with a self-awareness that sometimes approaches self-parody.

“Growing up, we always hated the music videos where the band rocks really hard and the room starts shaking,” Armbruster says. “The idea of music videos is ridiculous to begin with, right?

You’re kind of miming the song. So why not make something fun?”

This idea, he says, is to “Make the whole thing into a giant mockery.”

The band’s onstage look — “As close to a cult as you can get,” Armbruster says – could be called mockery, otherworldly, or some kind of individual statement from satirical, forwardthinking sci-fi gentlemen.

Everything Joywave touches is multi-layered.

“Possession” samples the voice of astrophysicist Carl Sagan. Even the packaging of the vinyl – a gold disc – is borrowed from the gold records that Sagan compiled to accompany the Voyager probes into outer space in the late-1970s. Just in case the probes, many light years from now, were discovered by aliens — aliens, who might in turn wonder, “Who were these aliens?”

Joywave’s “Possession” would provide some answers. The five songs we’ve heard so far began with “Blastoff,” which Armbruster says addresses, “the stopping and starting of our lives...It really feels like a bubble when you’re on the road. You come back and our friends have had kids or changed jobs or things have changed in their lives. And you go, ‘Oh, every single day of mine was exactly the same.’”

It was followed by “Like a Kennedy,” with its startling video, re-creating the John F. Kennedy assassination over and over and over. Each version of the crime, deliberately bloodless, is covered up by people wearing what looks like Hazmat suits. It’s a comment on the endless cycle of violence in this country, and poses a disturbing thought at the end: What if it had been Jackie Kennedy who was shot that day?

“Obsession” is, Armbruster says, “The need to focus on things to distract myself from others.” He cites his own obsessive-compulsive disorder tendencies. “I can’t get off of a negative thought, ever. I obsess over it. I run through a lot

of scenarios that are fictionalized, 10 levels down.

I will have that conversation and disagreement with that person in my head, and it hasn’t even happened. It may not exist at all.”

In his pre-Joywave days, Armbruster was playing in bands such as The Hoodies. Good bands, but not paying the bills.

“I would get out of work, sit on the couch and watch ‘The Colbert Report,’” he says. “And, ah, it was kind of the only thing that made me laugh in those days, when I was like, ‘What did I do wrong with my life? I really wanted this music thing to work out, and I’m just working part-time at Staples, and still living with my parents in my mid-20s.’”

At about that time, cyclist Lance Armstrong came out with his “Live Strong” wrist bracelets, in celebration of the fight against cancer. Stephen Colbert, who was then hosting “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central, had just broken his wrist. He jumped on the “Live Strong” bicycle with his own “Wrist Strong” bracelets, as a way of raising awareness for wrist injuries. Gently mocking celebrity causes.

“And the rules of it were,” Armbruster says, “if you met someone more famous than you, you had to give them the wristband, to raise the awareness, right? So it keeps moving up. As soon as you meet someone more famous than you, you have to give up your Wrist Strong bracelet.”

As a Colbert fan, Armbruster had acquired a Wrist Strong bracelet. And he kept it for years, until the right opportunity to wear it presented itself. That was in 2018, when Joywave played “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

“He came over and he shakes my hand, and he sees it and he goes, ‘No fucking way,’ because it was from 15 years ago,” Armbruster says. “So I was like, ‘You’re more famous than me.’ And he goes, ‘You’re right.’ So he takes it, he puts it on, and then when he holds our record on screen introducing us, he’s got the Wrist Strong bracelet, and he does a little dangle of it.”

Tickets ($39.99 through January 23, $49.99 on the day of the show) to the January 24 concert at 7 p.m. at the ROC Dome Arena, 2695 East Henrietta Road, Henrietta, are available at ticketmaster.com.

Jeff Spevak is WXXI’s Arts & Life editor and reporter. He can be reached at jspevak@wxxi.org.

ACROSS t H E UN I V ERSE is Jeff Spevak’s

weekly arts column. To read more, visit rochestercitynewspaper.com.

Arts & Performance Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Full Circle.

Reception Jan 31, 5-9pm.

Through Feb 23. 271-2540.

Nazareth College Arts Center Gallery, 4245 East Ave. Mixed Media National Exhibit.

Reception Jan 24, 5-7pm.

Through Mar 1. 389-2525.

Nazareth College Colacino Gallery, 4245 East Ave. Pat Groves Retrospective: Color & Light. Reception Jan 24, 5-7pm. Through Mar 1.

389-5073.

Roz Steiner Art Gallery, GCC, 1 College Rd. Joe Ziolkowski: WORKSHOP | ADULTING CLASS Messin’. Jan 23: Artist talk 12:30pm; Receptions 1pm & Stew is a dish that everyone craves this time of year, but it’s 5pm. Through Feb 13. genesee.edu/gallery. uniquely difficult to find on a takeout menu. Fortunately,

Call for Artists [ WED., JANUARY 22 ] Make Some Noise! Through May 1. Create Art 4 Good, 1115 E. Main St, Suite #203, Door #5 $10. 210-3161.

Request for Proposals: Temporary Public Art Installations on East Ave. Through Jan. 31.

Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. To commemorate major women’s rights anniversaries in 2020 461-2222.

Art Events [ WED., JANUARY 22 ] Reception: Life if a Journey.

4:30-6 p.m. Bridge Art Gallery, URMC, 300 Crittenden Blvd 275-3571. [ THU., JANUARY 23 ] Passion Projects: Lucienne Nicholson & Jeremy Tjhung.

7 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 2768900 $15.

Visions of a Distant Ecotopia: The Garden as Organic Collage.

5-7 p.m. My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt Hope Ave. Reception. [ FRI., JANUARY 24 ] Gallery Talk: R Roger Remington & Josh Owen. 6 p.m.

RIT City Art Space, 280 East Main St cityartspace.rit.edu.

Reception: Plein Air Painters Winter Exhibition. 6-8 p.m.

1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. 770-1960. [ SUN., JANUARY 26 ] Art Talk! Last Sunday of every month, 6:30 p.m. The Yards, 50-52 Public Market theyardsrochester.com.

Glass Works: Meet Composer Edie Hall. 2 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 2768900 w/ gallery admission. [ MON., JANUARY 27 ] Museum Mondays for Seniors: Butterfly Garden Experience. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. $10. 263-2700.

/ T H E AT E R

Genesee Country Village offers an opportunity to learn to make your own at this farm-to-table workshop in its “Adulting Class” series. Historic specialty cook Peggy Roll will teach attendees to create an old-fashioned beef stew with seasonal root vegetables, as well as buttermilk biscuits, using both antique and modern tools and technology.

Saturday, January 25, 1 to 3:30 p.m. Genesee Country Village & Museum Meeting Center, 1410 Flint Hill Road, Mumford.

Tickets $30, $27 for members. 538-6822; gcv.org.

— BY DECLAN RYAN

Comedy

Dance Events

[ THU., JANUARY 23 ] Tammy Pescatelli. 7:30 p.m.

Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $12-$20.

426-6339.

[ FRI., JANUARY 24 ] 50 Years of Garth Fagan Dance.

8 p.m. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St $30-$121.

[ FRI., JANUARY 24 ] Dixie’s Tupperware Party. 8 p.m. Lyric Theatre, 440 East Ave $30-$60. 667-0954.

Maddy Smith, Andrew Schiavone. 8 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $15. 426-6339.

Theater

[ SAT., JANUARY 25 ] A Night of LGBTQIA+ Allied Fun. 6 p.m. Out Alliance, 100 College Ave. $10/$20. 2448640.

Variety Mind Trip. 2 p.m.

Focus Theater, 390 South Ave, Suite C. John Wolfson, Ted Baumhauer, Howie Hypnotize: juggling, magic, hypnosis $8$20. 666-2647. [ SUN., JANUARY 26 ] Comedy Cocoon. 7 p.m. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. [ MON., JANUARY 27 ] 585 Viral Open Mic. 7:30 p.m.

Minq Lounge, 394 W Main St. $3/$5.

Comedy Open Mic. 8 p.m.

Boulder Coffee, 100 Alexander St. 454-7140.

Anastasia. Wed., Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m., Thu., Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Jan. 24, 8 p.m., Sat., Jan. 25, 2 & 8 p.m. and Sun., Jan. 26, 1 & 6:30 p.m. Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. $38$90. rbtl.org.

Assassins. Wed., Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m., Thu., Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Jan. 26, 2 p.m. Wadsworth Auditorium, 1 College Circle .

Geneseo $15. 245-5824.

Eastman Opera Theatre: Prima la musica e poi le parole, Der Schauspieldirektor. Thu., Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Jan. 26, 2:30 p.m. Opera Studio 804, Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs St. Evening preperformance lecture 6:30pm, Ray Wright Room (Room 120) $25-$35. 274-3000.

Hansel & Gretel. Fri., Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Jan. 26, 2 p.m.

Nazareth College Glazer Music Performance Center, 4245 East Ave Nazareth College Opera Workshop 389-2700. continues on page 23 rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 21

Theater

Toni DiBuono, Danny Vaccaro, and Stephen Caffrey in Geva’s production of “Slow Food.” PHOTO BY RON HEERKENS, JR. PHOTOGRAPHY

Marriage Story ‘Slow Food’ REVIEWED SATURDAY, JANUARY 18 CONTINUES THROUGH FEBRUARY 9 GEVA THEATRE CENTER WILSON STAGE, 75 WOODBURY BOULEVARD TICKETS START AT $25 | 232-4382 GEVATHEATRE.ORG [ REVIEW ] BY LEAH STACY

During the doldrums of a Rochester winter, it’s nice to have a comedic escape at the theater. That’s likely why Geva Theatre Center strategically places a feel-good show in the January slot of the season lineup each year. For the current season, it’s “Slow Food” by Wendy MacLeod, which runs through February 9 on the Wilson Stage.

The plot follows a middle-aged couple, Peter and Irene, on the first night of their anniversary trip to Palm Springs, California.

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a little Greek restaurant that is still serving dinner at 9 p.m. on a Sunday night. The only problem is, their server, Stephen, will do just about anything but serve them.

MacLeod’s work tends to center on ‘firstworld problems’ — usually white, middleaged, upper-class characters — Geva patrons may remember “Women in Jeopardy!” from several seasons ago, a sticky-sweet comedy about a group of middle-aged women who become unlikely crime-solvers. MacLeod’s plays always have witty dialogue and comedic elements aplenty, but fortunately, in “Slow Food” there’s a deeper dig on the psyche behind the simple concept of eating a meal at a restaurant with a partner.

Themes of hunger (both real and imagined), anger, mental health, fidelity, dependence, and manipulation come to the fore as a triangular power struggle between the characters takes place.

The show’s three characters are all familiar faces at Geva, and “Slow Food”

was completely cast by invitation. Stephen Caffrey (Peter) returns to Geva for the first time since 2015, when he played Mark Rothko in “Red.” Toni DiBuono (Irene) has been in several Geva productions, most recently last season as Diedre Blake in “The Humans” (opposite director Skip Greer).

And Danny Vaccaro (Stephen) was seen earlier this season in “La Cage aux Folles,” in which he played opposite Geva’s Artistic Director Mark Cuddy.

Greer, who excels with small castsize shows and heavy dialogue, guides the actors in a song-and-dance repartee that keeps the audience engaged and the laughs coming. Caffrey expertly toes the line between sensitive, ‘hangry’ husband and assertive, dominant businessman; while DiBuono embodies the caring, henpeck-ish wife who can be both maternal and childish. As the passiveaggressive, attention-starved server, Vaccaro is frustrating and hilarious, the

most stereotypical version of a hospitality industry lifer.

The set design by Robert Koharchik captures the shtick of mid-century modern Palm Springs tourist traps, while also providing realistic details like greasy tiles beyond the swinging doors to the kitchen.

Modern-day, casual costumes by Sarafina Bush are spotlighted throughout the dialogue and integral to each character’s identity, and lighting design by Derek Madonna provides a sense of waning daylight and the artificial warmth of restaurant fixtures.

At its core, “Slow Food” is really about human relationships, and the ways humans (mis)communicate with one another. The juxtaposition of the service industry with an average marriage is a brilliant one; as those are two of the most commonly frustrating arenas for communication.

But through the conversations between Peter and Irene as they are forced to slow down and begin discussing things like flirting, the annoying habits of the other, and the bonds that tie them after more than 20 years, “Slow Food” becomes a quiet ode to committed marriage. It’s beautiful, deceptively subtle — heard in lines like “I like being married to Irene, I want to be married to Irene,” from Peter, and Irene’s truly sincere support of Peter’s hard work for their family. It’s the kind of exchanges that may make audience members self-reflect a bit, but perhaps appreciate their partners more, and reminisce on similar times sitting across a table from their person.

In all, “Slow Food” is a lighthearted night out with a heartwarming storyline. For 90 minutes with no intermission, audiences can laugh along with (and relate to) Peter, Irene and Stephen’s antics onstage — the ideal cure for cabin fever.

Leah Stacy is a freelance writer for CITY. Feedback on this article can be directed to becca@rochester-citynews.com.

Theater Audition [ THU., JANUARY 23 ] Once. 4:30 p.m. Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd Registration: 232-1366 gevatheatre.org. [ SUN., JANUARY 26 ] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. 3:30-5 p.m. Artisan Church, 1235 South Clinton Ave. All ages theopenroadtheatre.org.

[ FRI., JANUARY 24 ] KinderZoo: Animal ABC’s.

11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Ages 3-5 $6/$8 plus admission. 336-7213.

PHOTO BY MIKE MARTINEZ

SPECIAL EVENT | ‘A LITTLE SECRET: SPEAKEASY SOIREE’

This month marks 100 years since the start of Prohibition, and the Rochester Cocktail Revival crew is throwing a party to celebrate the anniversary. Fortunately, this time around, revelers can enjoy their gin fizzes and sidecars in dapper attire without keeping watch for the fuzz or the Feds. Stay for the live jazz, DJ Chreath, and a mysterious special performance. Tickets include admission and three drinks.

Friday, January 24, 8 p.m. to midnight. Jackrabbit Club, 40 Anderson Avenue. $45. 21+ facebook.com/rochestercocktailrevival.

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Jennie Marie: Mama Medium.

Fri., Jan. 24, 6:30 p.m.

Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St $55. 454-1260.

The Last Five Years. Thu., Jan. 23, 8 p.m., Fri., Jan. 24, 8 p.m., Sat., Jan. 25, 8 p.m. and Sun., Jan. 26, 2 p.m. Geneva Community Center, 160 Carter Rd, Geneva $16/$18.

Newsies. Fri., Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Jan. 25, 2 p.m. and Sun., Jan. 26, 2 p.m. Hale Auditorium, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Dr $17-$23. roberts.edu/clc.

Slow Food. Wed., Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m., Thu., Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Jan. 24, 8 p.m., Sat., Jan. 25, 3 & 8 p.m., Sun., Jan. 26, 2 & 7 p.m. and Tue., Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m. Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd $25-$71. gevatheatre.org.

Three One-Act Plays: A Medical Man, The Hooligan, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern. Fri., Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Jan. 26, 2 p.m.

MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave OffMonroe Players muccc.org.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day [ WED., JANUARY 22 ] MLK Jr Commemoration. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Callahan Theater at Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave 389-2170.

Activism [ SAT., JANUARY 25 ] Food Not Bombs Sort/Cook/Serve Food. 3:30-6 p.m. St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality, 402 South Ave. 232-3262.

Sustainable Homes Rochester.

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Winton Branch Library, 611 N Winton Rd. 428-8204.

Global Day of Protest: No War in Iran Rally. Noon-1 p.m.

Main St. & South St (Rt 20A), Geneseo. gvcp.org.

Film Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave. “Making It Happen: Masters of Invention” Fri., Jan. 24, 7 p.m. $7 suggested donation. 563-2145.

Cinema Theater, 957 S. Clinton Ave. “The Last Waltz” Sun., Jan. 26, 3 p.m. $7. 271-1785.; RAFAS (Rochester Association of Film Arts & Sciences): “Shmoovies” Tue., Jan. 28, 7 p.m. $10. 271-1785.

Kids Events [ WED., JANUARY 22 ] Book & Beast. 11 a.m Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St 336-7200.

Wildlife Action Crew: Elephants & Poaching. 6-8 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Ages 13-18 $45/$50. 336-7213.

[ SAT., JANUARY 25 ] The Bubble Man. noon.

Cobblestone Arts Center, 1622 NY 332 $8. 398-0220. eries.

Elephant & Piggie. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. $16.

263-2700.

Sensory-Friendly Event with Walkaround Julia from Sesame Street. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Golisano Autism Center, 50 Science Parkway Reservations encouraged 685-8300.

TYKEs: A Winnie the Pooh Birthday Tail. 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. JCC Hart Theatre, 1200 Edgewood Ave. $18/$20.

461-2000. [ SUN., JANUARY 26 ] Super RPO! 2 p.m. Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. $20. hochstein.org. [ MON., JANUARY 27 ] Storytime Club. Winter Wonderland. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. w/ museum admission: $16. 263-2700. [ TUE., JANUARY 28 ] Teen Tuesdays. 2:30-4 p.m Penfield Public Library, 1985 Baird Rd. 340-8720.

Recreation [ WED., JANUARY 22 ] Outdoor Ice Skating. Through March 15. MLK Jr. Memorial Park, 1 Manhattan Sq. $2-$10. [ SAT., JANUARY 25 ] Edgerton Model Railroad Open House. 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Edgerton Community Center, 41 Backus St 428-6769.

Winter Sunset Walk. 5 p.m.

Sterling Nature Center, 15380 Jenzvold Rd Sterling (315) 947-6143.

Winter Walk. 10 a.m.

Highland Park, 171 Reservoir Ave. Meet at playground parking lot on Highland Ave highlandparkconservancy.org.

Winter Weekend Wild Walks. 11 a.m Feb 2, 1-3pm: Introduction to Snowshoeing. Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd. $7. rmsc.org. [ SUN., JANUARY 26 ] Nature Sundays. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Genesee Country Nature Center, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford $5 donation.

538-6822.

Trail Works Winter Hike. 2-4 p.m. Jim & Carol May’s Farm, 7304 Stoney Lonesome Rd Williamson Trail Works, Inc (315) 573-8170. trailworks.org.

Special Events [ FRI., JANUARY 24 ] Beer Can Appreciation Weekend. Village of Fairport, Packett’s Landing finditinfairport.com.

Puertorriqueños Unidos en la Distancia. 6 p.m. The Avalon, 470 State St. 250-3812. [ SAT., JANUARY 25 ] Broads Rochester Arm Wrestling League. 8 p.m. Skylark Lounge, 40 South Union St $5 donation benefits Planned Parenthood 270-8106.

Lectures [ WED., JANUARY 22 ] Listen to These Old Bones: Tales of Spirits from Rochester’s Past. 6 p.m.

Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. Author Patti Giglio 428-8350. [ SAT., JANUARY 25 ] Winter Walking Tour. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Mount Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mt Hope Ave. $10. fomh.org. [ SUN., JANUARY 26 ] Jim Memmott: Remarkable Rochesterians. 2:30 p.m.

St. John’s Brickstone Winter Garden, 1325 Elmwood Ave. 760-1300.

Sustainable Agriculture: Gaining Ground & Growing Tomorrow. 4 p.m. FLCC Auditorium, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr Canandaigua Author Forrest Pritchard; book signing 3:15pm $25. 393-0281. [ TUE., JANUARY 28 ] Travelogue: Find it in the Finger Lakes. 1 p.m. Fairport Library, 1 Village Landing 223-9091.

Tuesday Topics. 12:12-12:52 p.m Cultural Arts in Rochester.

Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. ffrpl.org.

Literary Events [ WED., JANUARY 22 ] Sonya Bilocerkowycz: On Our Way Home from the Revolution.

7 p.m. Writers & Books, 740 University Ave wab.org.

Storytellers Project: Trips & Travel. 7 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $8$12. 426-6339. [ THU., JANUARY 23 ] History Reading Salon. 7 p.m.

US Eugenics, 1870-1950.

Writers & Books, 740 University Ave wab.org.

Pure Kona Poetry Series. 7-9 p.m. Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603. [ TUE., JANUARY 28 ] The Threshing Floor: LGBTQ+ Writing Group. Last Tuesday of every month, 6-8 p.m. Writers & Books, 740 University Ave Hosted by Reilly Hirst & Gracen Lynch wab.org.

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Film

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in “Bad Boys for Life.” PHOTO COURTESY SONY PICTURES

Whatchagonna do?

“Bad Boys for Life” (R), DIRECTED BY ADIL EL ARBI AND BILALL FALLAH NOW PLAYING [ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

It’s been 25 years since Michael Bay’s first “Bad Boys” film, and 17 years since its sequel.

A series of over-the-top buddy-cop action extravaganzas, the franchise revolves around the exploits of Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett

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(played by Will Smith and Martin Lawrence), two wise-cracking Miami narcotics detectives whose talent for solving cases is matched only by their flagrant disregard for the law.

Bay’s “Bad Boys” films had something of a fascistic streak, with a celebration of police brutality, militarization, and misanthropic cruelty played for laughs.

Mike and Marcus regularly beat up their suspects, but we were assured it was OK, because we knew their targets were really bad guys (or at least had important information they wouldn’t give up

without the incentive of a few bruises and broken bones).

To be fair, there’s often a bit of this ideology baked into many action films of the “Bad Boys” variety, and I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve enjoyed plenty of those movies before. But the “Bad Boys” series has always sat rather uneasily with me, coming as they do wrapped in Bay’s gleefully adolescent and knowingly tasteless worldview.

Now comes “Bad Boys for Life,” the third installment and the first without Bay as a

director — though he maintains producer credit and even makes a cameo appearance. Belgian filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah take over directing duties, and they keep up Bay’s penchant for excessive destruction and mayhem while working to dial back the blatant racism, misogyny, and homophobia. Credit to the filmmakers for recognizing that those aspects of the series haven’t exactly aged well. Which is progress, I guess?

As a result, this one’s less nihilistic than “Bad Boys II,” which demolished good taste in a hail of gunfire and slow-motion explosions. It even attempts to earn some pathos as Mike and Marcus are forced to reckon with the demons of their past — facing a threat of their own creation.

That threat comes in the form of Miami drug cartel matriarch Isabel Aretas (Kate del Castillo) who’s violently escaped from a Mexican prison with the help of her ruthless son Armando (Jacob Scipio), and plans to get revenge on the people who wronged her.

Marcus has recently become a grandfather, and he finds himself ready to settle down and embrace retirement, and he expresses a desire to not put more violence into the world. This puts him at odds with his partner, who tells him he’s happy to keep chasing criminals until the day he dies.

I appreciated the filmmakers’ attempts to bring a relative maturity to these characters, but those efforts strike an uneasy balance with the leftover pieces from the previous films. With a story that still promotes police brutality and the increasing militarization of police forces, its light-heartedness grows more troubling once you dig beneath the surface.

An extended version of this review is online at rochestercitynewspaper.com.

Adam Lubitow is a freelance writer for CITY. Feedback on this article can be directed to becca@rochester-citynews.com.

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Legal Ads [ LEGAL NOTICE ] Notice of formation of a limited liability company (LLC). Name: PAK Leader Tools, LLC. Article of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on December 10, 2019 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 the LLC, 1685 Edgemere Dr., Rochester NY 14612.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose. [ LEGAL NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Family Nails Salon LLC. Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/02/19.

Office Location: Monroe County. Street Address of principal business location: c/o The Limited Liability Company, 500 South Union Street, Spencerport, NY 14559.

SSNY shall mail copy of process: c/o The Limited Liability Company, 500 South Union Street, Spencerport, NY 14559.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ LEGAL NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK – COUNTY OF MONROE INDEX # 2015/003939 FILED: 12/6/2019 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Plaintiff designates MONROE County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises are situated.

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR SASCO MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-WF2, Plaintiff, against ERNEST DOUGLAS A/K/A ERNEST DOUGLAS, SR., AS ADMINISTRATOR OF AND HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF LORETTA CRUMITY A/K/A BETHLY L. DOUGLAS and WILLIAM F. BEYERBACH, if either be living and if they be dead, the respective heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant(s) who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or inheritance, any right, title or interest in

or to the real property described in the Complaint, ERNEST L. DOUGLAS, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF LORETTA CRUMITY A/K/A BETHLY L. DOUGLAS, TYNISA MCCULLOGH, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF LORETTA CRUMITY A/K/A BETHLY L. DOUGLAS, MIDLAND FUNSING LLC, STONY CREEK APARTMENTS, GE MONEY BANK, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, and “JOHN DOE” and “JANE DOE”, the last two names being fictitious, said parties intended being tenants or occupants, if any, having or claiming an interest in, or lien upon the premises described in the complaint, Defendant(s). 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 plaintiff’s attorney(s) within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and 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 ATTORNEYS 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

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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 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 foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. J. Scott Odorisi, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Monroe County, granted on the 26th day of November, 2019, and filed with the Complaint and other papers in the office of the County Clerk of Monroe County. THE OBJECT of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by LORETTA CRUMITY to WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. recorded on February 17, 2006 in Book 20302, Page 660, MTG# M# CW 038499, in the Office of the Clerk of the County of MONROE, which was thereafter modified by agreement dated March 31, 2008 creating a new modified principal amount of $88,618.69, which was then assigned by assignment executed April 23, 2014 to U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR SASCO MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-WF2 and recorded on April 25, 2014, in Book 1753, Page 602, covering premises known as 4181 Mount Read Blvd, Greece, NY 14616 AKA 4181 Mount Read Blvd, Rochester, NY 14616 (Section 60.09, Block 6 and Lot 11). ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Greece, County of Monroe and State of New York. To the above named Defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. There is due and owing to plaintiff the sum of $76,883.10, with interest thereon at 5.73100% per annum adjusted from July 1, 2014. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt described above. UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT

THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/ CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State 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, there are government agencies, and nonprofit 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 New York State Department of Financial Services’ at 1-800-269-0990 or visit the Department’s website at http://www. dfs.ny.gov 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 property 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.

Aldridge Pite, LLP. Attorneys for the Plaintiff, Fifteen Piedmont Center, 3575 Piedmont Road, N.E., Suite 500, Atlanta, GA 30305 Our File 117527471B [ NOTICE ] 24 Prince Street, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 10/30/19. 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 2604 Elmwood Ave., #113, Rochester, NY 14618. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] 721 Cedarwood LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/5/19. 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 44 Field St Rear, Rochester, NY 14620.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Drenos LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 10/11/19.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 26 Brighton St Rochester, NY 14607 RA: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose

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East Henrietta Plaza LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/27/2019.

Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Law Office of Anthony A. Dinitto, LLC, 2250 West Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626.

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Little Button Craft LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 1/2/20. 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 658 South Ave., Rochester, NY 14620.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

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G And W Realty Group LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 8/9/16. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 114 Birr St Rochester, NY 14613 General Purpose

MGD Ventures, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/5/19. 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 64 Commercial St., Suite 401, Rochester, NY 14614. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 1343 Fairport Nine Mile Point Road, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/13/15.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1343 Fairport Nine Mile Road, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity.

[ NOTICE ] Gilletek LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/5/2019.

Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 707 Mendon Rd., Pittsford, NY 14534. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Greater Rochester Real Estate Council, LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/13/20.

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, 2170 Monroe Ave, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Ingerson Stone Homestead, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/9/2019. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Tina M. Schuth, 4317 Canal Rd., Spencerport, NY 14559. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Laine Recruiting, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 11/15/19. 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 10 Cali Ridge, Fairport, NY 14450. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

[ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of JLD Concepts LLC. Art. of Org. filed by Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/16/19.

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 316 Valley Road, Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the Supreme Court, Monroe County, on the 13th day of January, 2020, bearing Index Number E2019012012, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 39 West Main Street, Rochester, NY grants me the right to assume the name of Alexandria Damien Buel. The city and state of my present address are Rochester, NY; the month and year of my birth are August, 1997; the place of my birth is Desdunes, Haiti; my present name is Pierre-Line Dalcius.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 2775 Monroe LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/20.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION of 31BRICKS LLC. Arts. of Org. were filed with Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 1/3/2020.

Office in Monroe County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC 56 Nettlecreek Rd, Fairport , N Y 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 447 Long Pond LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/31/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 28 East Main St, Ste 1500, Rochester, NY 14614.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Form. of SMOOTH CHOICE, LLC (the “LLC”). Art. of Org. filed with Secretary of the State of NY (SSNY) on 12/10/19. Office location: 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, 516 Locust Ln, East Rochester, NY 14445. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 5707 East Lake Road, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/12/19.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1 Grove St, Ste 200, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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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, 511 West Ave, Rochester, NY 14611. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of AfriSino International LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on December 2, 2019.

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 552 Mendon Road, Pittsford NY 14534. Purpose: any legal activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ANCHOR SECURE, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/17/19. 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 58 WEST AVE., SPENCERPORT, NY 14559 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Brand 52 LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/23/19. 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 135 Brannon Lane Webster NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of BS POTTERY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/24/2019.

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, 369 Hampton Blvd, Rochester, NY 14612.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Clark Ridge Hill LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/3/2020; 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 Jennifer Circle, Rochester, New York 14606. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of COLLERAN CONSULTING LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 09/03/19.

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 4278 East Ave, Rochester NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CONNEXX LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/17/16. 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 120 Woodbine Ave Rochester, NY 14619. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of DIETRICH MANAGEMENT, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/26/19.

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, 45 White Village Dr., Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Digital Infrastructure, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 1/25/19.

The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 780 Ridge Rd, Ste. 4, Webster, NY 14580. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of E&A HOTEL, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/5/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated 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 process to: The LLC, 762 Brooks Avenue, Rochester, NY 14619. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Elizabeth C. Shannon, Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry, PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of State (the “NYSOS”) on 1/17/2020. The office of the PLLC is in Monroe County. The NYSOS is designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. The NYSOS shall mail a copy of such process to 2300 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14610. The PLLC is formed to practice the profession of nurse practitioner in psychiatry. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Ezekiel Properties LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/20/19.

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 99 Orchard Street Webster, NY 14580 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Fitz & Sons Properties, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/30/2019. 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 120 Woodbine Avenue Rochester NY 14619 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of FLX ONE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/12/2019. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 10 Rippingale Rd, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Forest Ink LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/21/2019.

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 471 N Goodman ST., Rochester, NY 14609.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Gallina Elmgrove LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/31/2019.

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, 1890 Winton Road South, Ste 100, Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Gianni Farms LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 12/31/19.

The office of the LLC is in Monroe County.

SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 149 Salt Road, Webster, NY 14580. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ICON PRODUCTIONS LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/06/2019. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 16 Colonist Lane Rochester NY 14624 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of JDR Distributing LLC (the “LLC”). The LLC was formerly known as Digital Creative Distributing, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 1/28/19. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 780 Ridge Rd, Ste. 4, Webster, NY 14580. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JLD ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/30/19.

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, 111 Colby St., Rochester, NY 14610. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JMG Income Tax & Business Services, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/3/2020.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3 N. Main St, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Kali Madison Designs LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1126-19. 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 239 High Street Ext, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of KeySpoke Software LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/14/2019. 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 620 Park Ave #328 Rochester NY 14607.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of KHVTO LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/28/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 40 Gainsborough Pl, W Henrietta, NY 14586.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Lucid Garden LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/29/2019.

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 1100 Pittsford Mendon Ctr Rd Honeoye Falls, NY 14472.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Mark M Hills Remodeling, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 1/25/19.

The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 780 Ridge Rd, Ste. 4, Webster, NY 14580. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of NATURE NEVER LIE LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/27/2019 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 15 Henry Street, Rochester Ny 14605 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Penson Properties LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/7/2020. 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 1881 East Ave, 2nd Floor, Rochester, New York 14610. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Premier Communities LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/13/2019. 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 105 West Ave, Fairport, NY 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Qu Yang Property Management LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY

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

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Ritual Clay Company LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) January 3 2020. 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 234 Mill Street Rochester, NY 14614 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of RK FARMS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/02/20. Office location: Orleans County. Princ. office of LLC: 12130 Alps Rd., Lyndonville, NY 14098. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of RR Street Grill, LLC. Art.of Org. filed Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) 12/9/2019.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 109 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ServerTech LLC Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/11/2019. 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 67 Branchwood Lane, Rochester NY 14618.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Seven 5 Realty LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1219-19 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 629

WHISPERING PINES CIRCLE ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, 14612.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sibley Mercantile OF MM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/17/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E 42nd St, 18th Fl, NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sibley Mercantile OZ LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/17/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E 42nd St, 18th Fl, NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sibley Redevelopment 2 of MM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/12/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E 42nd St, 18th Fl, NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sibley Redevelopment 2 OZ LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/12/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E 42nd St, 18th Fl, NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of SITO’S SWEETS, LLC. Art.of Org. filed Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) 12/9/2019.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 30 Rosemont Circle, Rochester, NY 14617.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of SK-NY Estates LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/17/19.

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 12 Boulder Brook Ct, Belle Mead, NJ 08502.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Twin Pillars Properties LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 01/07/20 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 69 Crossfield Road, Rochester, NY 14609.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Soulstainable Living LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Department of State on 09/20/2019.

Its office is located in Monroe County. The United States Corporation Agents, Inc. has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 734 Grand Avenue, Rochester NY 14609. The purpose of the Company is any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of THE CREW’S GRILL LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/31/2019. 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 13 Leah Ln North Chili, NY 14514. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of TOP SHELF HOCKEY TRAINING, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) November 8, 2019. Office location: Monroe County. 10 Falcon Trail, Pittsford, N.Y. 14534/ SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Office location. Purpose: any lawful activity

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of We Care Medical Transportation, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/07/19. 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 185 Hazelwood Terrace, Rochester, NY 14609 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION being held at Chester’s Self Storage 1037 Jay St. Rochester NY 14611 on Friday 02-07-2020, 9:00 am. The following customers’ accounts have become delinquent so their item (s) will be auctioned off to settle past due rents. NOTE: Owner reserves the right to bid at auction, reject any and all bids, Eddie Chapple unit 103 owes $228.00, Diamond Vanhorn unit 109 owes $228, Savanna Keyes unit 118 owes $179, Amanda Wagner Unit 132, $228, McCray Anthony unit 147 owes $153. Derrick Gunter unit 153 owes $288, Sehiqua Cromes unit 213 owes $144, Ayria Lawson, unit 340 owes $368, Kishann Nesmith unit 407 owes $144 [ NOTICE ] Notice of Public Auction being held at Chester’s Self Storage 600 W Broad St. Rochester NY

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 14608 on Friday, 0207-2020, 9:00 am. The following customers’ accounts have become delinquent so their item (s) will be auctioned off to settle past due rents.

NOTE: Owner reserves the right to bid at auction, reject any and all bids, Valerie Simpson Unit 64 owes $328, Bernadette Preson Unit 21 owes $316, Monstatia Walters Unit 74 owes $368, Johnny Bradely unit 05 owes $228, Devail Bryant unit 55 owes $200, Sheila Hardeman Unit 13 owes $172, Alesia Smith unit 43 owes $368, Slyvester Roberson Unit 09 owes $228, Antonee Williams unit 16 owes $228. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of 640 Fishers Road LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/24/19.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/19/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 2604 Elmwood Ave, Ste 352, Rochester, NY 14618.

DE address of LLC: 874 Walker Rd, Ste C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of AT Sweden NY II, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/27/19.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/23/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 28 Liberty St., NY, NY 10005, also the registered agent upon whom process may be

served. Address to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secy. of State, Po Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Nelnet Servicing, LLC. Authority filed with NYS Dept. of State 09/30/19, formed in NE 10/27/08. Princ. bus. addr.: 121 S. 13th Street, Ste 100, Lincoln, NE 68508. SSNY design agent of LLC & shall mail process to same address.

NE address of LLC: same address. Arts. of Org. filed with NE Secy of State, P.O. Box 94608, Lincoln, NE 685094608. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Rose & Associates LLC. Fictitious name in NY State: Rose Surgical Products LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/19/19. Office location: Monroe County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/26/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 401 Allens Creek Road, Rochester, NY 14618. DE address of LLC: The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Ruff Mutts Grooming, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/25/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 204 Paddy Hill Dr, Rochester, NY 14616. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Siyon Tax Service, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/22/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Suk Biswa, 1249 Latta Rd Apt 4, Rochester, NY 14612.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS IN TAX LIEN FORECLOSURE– SUPREME COURT

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OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF MONROE – TLF NATIONAL TAX LIEN TRUST 2017-1, Plaintiff, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BENNIE H. JOHNSON A/K/A BENNIE JOHNSON, Defendant. Index No. 4404/16. To the abovenamed Defendant –YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action within twenty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty days after service is completed if the 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. Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the county in which the property a lien upon which is being foreclosed is situated. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. J. Scott Odorisi, J.S.C., dated November 12, 2019, and entered on December 26, 2020. The object of this action is to foreclose a Tax Lien covering the premises located at Section 106.59, Block 2, Lot 4 on the Tax Map of MONROE County and also known as 329 Central Park, Rochester, New York.

Dated: January 8, 2020 BRONSTER, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff, TLF NATIONAL TAX LIEN TRUST 2017-1 By: Yan Borodanski 156 West 56th Street, Suite 1801 New York, New York 10019 (347) 246-4647 [ NOTICE ] Tokin Management, LLC. Authority filed SSNY on 11/25/2019 Monroe CO LLC formed Wyoming 10/18/2019 exists 30 N Gould St STE N. Sheridan, WY 82801 . SSNY design agent for process Et shall mail a copy of process to: 763 Linden Ave, Suite 2, Rochester, NY 14625 General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] TRACK ONE, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 5/6/2003. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. 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, 1800 Chase Square, Rochester, NY 14604.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

14625 Attn: Member.

Purpose: any and all lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ]

Rochester Patio and Landscape, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 1/8/20. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 2509 Manitou Road, Rochester, NY 14624.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Tree Of Life Counseling, Lcsw, PLLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/20/19.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 95 Allens Creek Rd Building 1 #250 Rochester, NY 14618 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Viticulture L.L.C. Arts of Org. filed SSNY 9/11/19.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Courtney Benson 1900 Empire Blvd #116 Webster, NY 14580 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Wraithmarked Creative, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/14/19. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 21 Goodway Dr Rochester, NY 14623 General Purpose [ Notice of Formation ] 45 Bellaqua, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 1/10/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 4545 E River Rd, Suite 100, West Henrietta, NY 14586.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NAME: Affronti, LLC (“PLLC”) filed Arts of Org with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 8, 2020.

Principal office: Monroe County, New York. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 130 D Linden Oaks, Rochester, NY 14625 Attn: Member. Purpose: practice of law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NAME: Affronti, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on December 9, 2019.

Principal office: Monroe County, New York. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 130 D Linden Oaks, Rochester, NY

[ Notice of Formation ]

[ Notice of Formation of FRUMUSA PERFORMANCE LLC ] Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on July 1, 2019. LLC location: Monroe Co., NY. Princ.

Office of LLC: 498 Manitou Beach Rd., Hilton, NY. 14468; 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 LLC ] 33-39 Ellicott St, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 12/10/2019 with an effective date of formation of 12/10/2019.

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 695 Howard Rd., Rochester, NY 14624. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 206 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] WBGL, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 12/9/2019 with an effective date of formation of 12/9/2019.

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 1755 Gloria Drive, Fairport, NY 14450. The purpose of the LLC is to engage

in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PIERSALL CONSULTING LLC ] Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 12/09/2019. Office in Monroe County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to PIERSALL CONSULTING LLC, C/O JEFFREY S. PIERSALL, 720 ADMIRALTY WAY, WEBSTER, NY 145803910. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF W GAMING SOUTH, LLC ] W Gaming South, LLC (the “LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with NY Secretary of State (SSNY) 1/9/20.

Office location: Monroe County, NY. Principal business location: 1265 Scottsville Rd, Rochester, NY 14624.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to CT Corporation System, 28 Liberty Street, NY, NY 10005 which is also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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