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‘Twelve Angry Men’ in the post-truth era

As a high school English teacher, I live in a “post-truth” world.

Many teenagers have a particularly difficult time separating their heads from their hearts. They live in a world in which “facts” and “truth” do not necessarily intersect with the mysterious machinations of their emotional and intuitive selves.

Although usually well intentioned, many adolescents react viscerally to information, particularly when it concerns the people and issues that are closest to them.

In this way, they are not altogether different from the millions of citizens who in the past year have let emotional appeal outmaneuver scientific fact, economic reality, and historical veracity – and in so doing, voted to put up walls around themselves and their respective nations.

Most of my days are spent trying to negotiate students’ kneejerk responses and to force them to articulate their thoughts in a way that makes sense to others. And on most days, my classroom feels like the jury room that is the setting of Reginald Rose’s classic 1954 play, “Twelve Angry Men.” In that play, 12 denizens of New York City are gathered to decide if a young man is guilty of the murder of his father. At the beginning of their deliberations, the jury’s vote is nearly unanimous: all vote “guilty” save one juror, Number 8. He asks each of his fellow jurors to explain their thinking. A few of the jurors make salient points, but the majority do not; they, like Number 2, “just think he’s guilty.”

Over the subsequent 45 pages of the text, the jurors debate the fine points of the case. The discourse becomes (like the room itself) heated, contentious, and at times intensely personal. Each

time the jury re-votes, however, more of the jurors have changed to the “not guilty” camp. Eventually, at the end of Act II, all 12 jurors vote “not guilty” – some whole-heartedly and some more reluctantly.

Juror Number 8’s steady push eventually yields a unanimous verdict. Perhaps more importantly, Juror Number 8’s willingness to go out on a legal and social limb earns him the respect of his peers – and saves the life of the young man on trial.

Sometimes when I become mired in the muddy anecdotes of sexism, racism, homophobia, and general bigotry in the news and on social media, I find myself replaying the words of the eighth juror to the ninth: “He [Number 7] can’t hear you. He never will.”

The reality, however, is that Juror Number 7 and the others like him do eventually hear him.

In the end, Juror Number 8’s measured approach prevails.

He respectfully and confidently interrogates the beliefs of those around him, engaging them all in a way that pushes them far out of their comfort zones but much closer to the truth.

He listens and does not always talk; he poses questions instead of giving diatribes.

He never denigrates those with whom he disagrees. The deliberation process in the play is messy and cumbersome and takes bizarre tangents, but ultimately it works.

In an era of pronounced social division, in a time in our nation’s history in which people have become emboldened to spread messages of bigotry without considering scientific fact, economic reality, or historical veracity, I am empowered by Juror Number 8. In this time of misinformation and dangerous groupthink, we must all commit ourselves to rationality.

We must all be Juror Number 8.

REBEKA FERGUSSON-LUTZ

Stop thinking short-term

Pay me now or pay me later!

In their policies, the Trump administration and Congress continue to choose the latter. The

various tax reform plans all contain more tax cutting than tax reform, and most of that cutting benefits corporations and the wealthy.

Most economists believe that these tax cuts will add significantly to the national debt, possibly juicing the economy in the short run but hurting in the long run by making the US less competitive due to higher interest payments and rates.

Similarly, on climate change the administration is promoting oil and gas to help save a few jobs now, but it is conceding the clean-energy field of the future to other countries and is ensuring that the economic costs to the US of enhanced weather disasters will mushroom. At the recent UN climate talks in Bonn, the UK, Canada, and Mexico led a coalition of 50 countries pledging to end the use of coal, while the US continued to be the only country threatening to drop out of the Paris accord.

To truly help the economy and environment for the future, the US needs to enact a carbonfee-and-dividend plan such as the one proposed by Citizens Climate Lobby. Economic modeling has shown that this would significantly boost US jobs while reducing the negative health and environmental effects of climate change. There is hope in the form of the 60-member bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus in the House of Representatives.

It’s time for Congress to act to preserve our future.

PETER COLLINGE

Opting out of Sinclair

WHAM folks: Sorry, done watching Channel 13 news after all these years. The propaganda “Full Measure” segments are a joke. I know: not your choice but Sinclair’s. Like watching Fox. A recent one showing an “interview” with our president was a thinly veiled attempt to make him look presidential.

I love Don Alhart and Ginny Ryan, but I can’t participate with the sham of “Full Measure” and the stupid Sinclair “Updates.”

You’ve lost your rep.

ROGER JANEZIC

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GUEST COMMENTARY | BY GARY PUDUP

Can’t local Democrats be faithful to their ideals?

Just what is a Democrat? As its candidate for sheriff, the Monroe County Democratic Committee chose Todd Baxter, a conservative, Republican-turned-Democrat. Baxter defeated Republican incumbent Patrick O’Flynn. But some Democrats were outraged by the selection of Baxter, and one of them, Gary Pudup, ran a write-in campaign and has continued to speak out. In this guest commentary, he explains his views. (Mary Anna Towler’s Urban Journal returns next week.)

Congratulations to the Democrats nationwide for making a statement on November 7 rebuking the policies of President Trump.

The election of a transgender candidate, an outspoken gun-control candidate, and two governors are a ray of light on the edge of darkness.

Likewise, here in the home of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, progressive Democrats are celebrating the election of candidates in Henrietta and Pittsford, and of progress against the Republican juggernaut in Greece. The County Legislature is also one shade closer to blue. Yet there was a choice by local party leaders that raised concerns about what it means to be a Democrat.

Democrats everywhere are struggling to define themselves, seemingly unable to come up with anything better than being the “Better Deal.” They have yet to articulate a description of what it means to be a Democrat. Simply being against something is not a sustainable platform.

Yet stymied in their quest to be all things to all people, they are in danger of becoming nothing to everyone.

It has been said that there is no litmus test to define what it means to be a Democrat. The Greatest Generation, however, was led by Democrats who held onto power not only by being against Japanese imperialism and Nazi fascism, but also by being unwavering in their support of the Four Freedoms of FDR. The belief in the Four Freedoms of speech, of worship, from want, and from fear was the glue that held the Democrats and the nation together.

Eleanor Roosevelt expanded the Democratic platform to include the Four Basic Rights: the rights of equal education, of equal pay, to justice under the law, and to full access to the ballot. Everyone knew what it meant to be a Democrat.

There must be more to winning than simply rebuking Mr. Trump. Winning should move our shared values forward. Good people must agree at some point on a basic set of ideals, that no one should go bankrupt paying for health care for a spouse or child, that women should not have to constantly refight the battle for comprehensive health care, that immigrants should be celebrated and refugees welcome, that organized labor has done more for the well-being of the middle class than any tax break for the wealthy, that more guns are not the answer to gun violence, that every person has worth and dignity and something

Monroe Democratic Party critic Gary Pudup PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

to offer to our greater good, that government is not evil but a force for good, promoting the general welfare.

These are not litmus tests but shared values that push us beyond supporting a candidate merely for the sake of winning.

It is the responsibility of an organization’s leadership to establish a vision and clarify ideals. The local leadership did neither in putting a self-described “conservative who is a Democrat” at the top of its ticket. We need to stop and reflect on what it truly means to be a Democrat. Which is more important, our values or bragging rights?

The New Deal, the Great Society, and the fight for Civil Rights, Gay Rights, and Women’s Rights are part of the proud tradition of the Democratic Party.

Are we willing to be faithful to our ideals as the descendants of Douglass and Anthony and stand fast? Or will we be bystanders to history as we run anyone we think can win?

Anthony would never live to see the day women were enfranchised, yet she persisted.

So should we.

Democrats scoffed at White House Chief of Staff John Kelly for saying there should have been a compromise on the issue of slavery to avoid secession. Perhaps this is the test for Democrats today. The question we should be asking ourselves is: How much of our tradition are we willing to compromise to win one local seat? rochestercitynewspaper.com

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Democratic County Legislator Justin Wilcox is asking County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo and her administration to explain upcoming changes to retiree health benefits.

Some retirees are concerned about the impacts the switch could have, Wilcox says.

The administration sent 1,800 retirees a letter notifying them as of January 2018, the county would no longer offer the Medicare Advantage plan it managed, says county spokesperson Jesse Sleezer.

Instead, retirees over 65 will select an Advantage plan through the federal open enrollment process, which ends December 7. The county will also provide each Medicare-eligible retiree with $600 in an HRA to offset insurance or medical costs, Sleezer says.

Brayton Connard, the county’s human resources director, told WHEC the change would save the county approximately $600,000 a year. The county will no longer have to pay Excellus to administer the Medi-

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care Advantage plan it previously offered, Sleezer says.

In his letter, Wilcox asks the Dinolfo administration to clarify the changes and why they were made. He also asks for an explanation of why the plan wasn’t presented to legislators.

Penfield to buy golf course

The Penfield Town Board approved a $3.65 million bond to purchase the former Shadow Pines golf course from the Dolomite Group and its parent company, Oldcastle. The company put the property up for sale last year and marketed it for residential development, which town zoning would have allowed. Residents, who were concerned about the possible loss of green space and issues associated with residential development, such as traffic, pushed town officials to acquire the property.

Town officials intended to hold a public vote on the financing of the purchase, but Dolomite representatives wouldn’t agree to a closing date that left enough time for the process. Town residents can, however, initiate a public vote through a petition.

Liz McGriff and members of Take Back the Land stand outside of her home after she reoccupied it in May 2016.

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HOUSING | BY JEREMY MOULE

Housing trust gears up Liz McGriff’s fight to regain ownership of her Cedarwood Terrace house has stretched over five years, but soon that struggle could be over.

McGriff fell behind on her mortgage payments after she lost her job with the US Postal Service. The loan’s owner, MidFirst Bank, foreclosed on the property. But McGriff has managed to resist eviction with the help of the activist group Take Back the Land, as well as neighbors and other community members.

MidFirst offered to sell the property back to McGriff, first at a price above what she owed

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on the mortgage. The bank has since come in with a lower figure, and the fledgling City Roots Community Land Trust is stepping in to help McGriff raise $15,000 to buy the house and land.

(Fundraiser details are available at https://www.youcaring.com/ rootscommunitylandtrust-1016368.)

McGriff and trust volunteers are currently in talks with MidFirst, but they hope to wrap up the purchase in mid-December, says Ryan Acuff, a member of Take Back the Land, which helped found the nonprofit trust. City Roots is an effort to

invest in city neighborhoods without gentrifying them and displacing or pricing out existing residents.

“We think that this is a piece of the process of preserving and stabilizing affordable neighborhoods,” Acuff says.

If everything works out, McGriff’s house will be the first protected by City Roots. She’ll retain ownership of the structure but will transfer the ownership of the land to the trust, Acuff says.

“It would mean a lot,” McGriff says. She and her family would have an affordable way to stay in their home and the specter of eviction would be gone, she says.

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EDUCATION | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO

“We’re generally in favor of tax reform, but if you lose some of the incentives, it will make it harder for many people to get into a home of their own.”

[JAMES YOCKEL, GREATER ROCHESTER ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS]

TAX REFORM | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO

Republicans’ housing shakedown President Trump promised that an overhaul of the tax code would make it simpler for everyone to file their taxes and that it would mostly benefit the middle class.

But critics say the Republican tax plan that’s moved through the House and seems poised to pass the Senate is far from friendly to working and middle class Americans.

And that’s especially true when it comes to housing and homeownership in high-end real estate markets like New York City.

Properties in some of the Rochester region’s suburbs and in the Finger Lakes could also be adversely impacted by the Republican tax plan, says James Yockel, CEO of the Greater Rochester Association of Realtors.

“It’s a little narrow-minded to say that what happens in New York City won’t affect us,” says Yockel. “We’re generally in favor of tax reform, but if you lose some of the incentives, it will make it harder for many people to get into a home of their own.”

A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers paints a much grimmer picture. The study warns that if the Republican tax plan passes in its current form housing prices would fall about 10 percent nationwide.

The GOP plan targets the deduction for interest on mortgage debt, which is a huge

benefit when it comes to buying a home.

Right now, a home buyer can deduct the interest payments on mortgages up to $1 million, but Republicans propose dropping that ceiling to $500,000.

This may seem like it’s of little consequence to most Americans, since the median price of a home in the US is hovering at about $250,000. It’s even lower in the Rochester region: approximately $83,000. But the figure isn’t a thorough gauge of housing prices or affordability, particularly in the major metros. For instance, it would be a challenge to find a starter home for $250,000 in areas like New York City, Boston, or almost anywhere in California.

While critics’ claims that the Republican tax plan would turn the US into a nation of renters may be exaggerated, many economists warn that the plan poses other problems for the middle class. They note that the country is still recovering from one of the worst recessions in US history, for instance. And when the housing market slumps, sales of nearly every product and service homeowners need from carpeting to washers and dryers slump with it.

And many middle class Americans had to delay retirement because they lost

James Yockel, CEO of the Greater Rochester Association of Realtors. PHOTO PROVIDED

the equity in their homes. A proposed change to the capital gains provision could worsen the problem for some retirees. The government allows homeowners to exclude up to $250,000 from their taxable income ($500,000 for married taxpayers) from a sale of their primary residence, according to a recent Forbes article. Currently, home owners need to live in the home for two of the last five years, but the Republican plan pushes it to five out of the last eight years.

Search starts for Evans’ replacement The Rochester school board will have two new members in January 2018.

Natalie Sheppard won a seat on the board during the November elections. She’ll take over the seat held by Jose Cruz, who didn’t run for another term.

The school board has also started its search for candidates to replace longtime member Malik Evans, who was elected to City Council in November. He’s resigning effective December 31 and the board has 30 days after to pick his replacement.

At that point, if the board members don’t agree to who should fill Evans’ seat, board President Van White can make the appointment.

Whoever the board picks will have to run in the 2018 general election in order to keep the seat for the rest of Evans’ term, which runs through 2019.

Evans and Cruz will participate in discussions about the appointment because they are still serving on the board, White says.

But neither of them can vote on the appointment when the board meets on January 2, 2018.

Sheppard, however, will vote on the appointment, since she’ll be sworn in by that meeting.

The board is accepting applications for the appointment through Friday, December 8.

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Rochester’s changed.

Now it’s transit’s turn Greater Rochester’s public bus system is from another era, quite literally. It was originally designed when the city’s downtown was a hub of offices, jobs, shopping, and services, and the buses were meant to move people between that core and its surrounding neighborhoods.

That means it was designed before Marketplace, Greece Ridge, or Eastview Malls; before the proliferation of office parks and corporate campuses in outlying suburbs; and before the city’s population shrank by 100,000 people.

As Rochester’s suburbs boomed, the bus system – RTS – had to adapt. Officials were left with “an impossible choice,” say the folks at Reconnect Rochester, a transportation advocacy group.

They could expand service to the sprawling suburbs where the buses would reach fewer people, or they could maintain existing service for a decreasing urban population, says Reconnect Rochester.

RGRTA – the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, which runs RTS – tried to do both. The system left the urban riders who depend on the bus underserved and deterred others from using the service instead of their cars. Circuitous routes, the infrequency of bus arrivals, and long trip times are just some of the reasons.

But RGRTA leaders recently started a process – dubbed Reimagine RTS – that could upend the current approach and ultimately lead to a more effective system.

Reimagine RTS is an in-depth study of the system that will yield recommendations for near-future changes to the system, which

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Reconnect Rochester and RGRTA encourage anyone who uses the bus system or is interested in using public transit to take a survey submit input at www.myrts.com/Reimagine.

could include a redesign of the routes. Right now, the agency is gathering data on who uses the system and how they use it, as well as soliciting input from the community at large.

“We need to have a significant dialogue with the community: How do we support what the community wants with the resources we have,” says Bill Carpenter, RGRTA’s chief executive officer.

But the project wasn’t just spurred by the challenges facing RTS. Officials saw some opportunities, too. Young people, empty nesters, and seniors increasingly want more options for getting around without a car, and many are moving into urban areas looking for them, Carpenter says. (Although whether younger people truly want to live car-free lifestyles is currently a subject of great debate among researchers.)

In addition, over the past year or so, several new “mobility options,” as Carpenter calls them, have come online in the Rochester area: Uber and Lyft, the Zagster bike share, and the city-initiated van pool program. RGRTA wants to find the best way to tie those systems in with the buses, Carpenter says.

He uses the van pool, which RGRTA is taking over and expanding, as an example

of how that could work. Right now, two vans shuttle groups of 12 to 20 workers from their city neighborhoods to Del Lago casino in Seneca County and Pactiv Packaging in Canandaigua. The vans travel once daily to and from the workplaces, and each participant pays a monthly fee that’s cheaper than a monthly bus pass.

Van pools are far cheaper to operate than buses, and they provide workers a better experience, Carpenter says. So if a handful of people need to get to places such as LiDestri Foods in Fairport or Rochester Tech Park in Gates, it may make more sense to set up a van pool to those sites instead of running bus lines there.

“Just because a bus doesn’t go there doesn’t mean a person can’t get there,” Carpenter says.

Reconnect Rochester has pushed for a

bottom-up re-visioning of the local transit system since it was formed, says Mike Governale, the group’s president. And it’s praised RGRTA for opening up a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity to revamp the region’s transit.

The group surveyed its members and developed its own lengthy list of recommendations for RGRTA to consider.

Some of the items are simple, such as ensuring that bike racks are installed at well-used bus stops and providing information that event organizers can use in their promotional material to let people know which buses serve the site.

But Reconnect Rochester’s top recommendations center on increasing bus frequency and consistency, both on weekdays and weekend. The group says buses should arrive every 30 minutes at minimum and every 15 minutes at key stops during peak hours.

“Frequency of service is really what gives people the freedom to be able to plan their lives around transit,” Governale says. “It’s not necessarily about how far out the transit lines go and the coverage and other things.”

The group also recommends that RGRTA simplify routes so that they’re more direct and avoid confusing zig-zags, twists, and turns.

Routes should be designed so people can transfer between them at any point in the system, it says. And routes should be designed so people can travel from one section of the county to another without transferring at the downtown transit center, it says.

Governale acknowledges that some users may not agree with the recommendations. But RTS operates on a finite budget, and it’s been clear that it wants to plan around what it has, not additional funding that it may or may not be able to secure down the road, he says.

“It’s gotta be a balance,” Governale says.

“It’s just the reality of how our community’s been built and where the jobs have moved to and health services and things like that.

We can’t tilt the scale all to one end. There’s going to have to be a balance we strike between coverage and frequency.”

People with disabilities also have a big stake

in this process as well as a separate but parallel update to RTS’s paratransit plan. Under the Americans with Disability Act, RTS has to offer paratransit services anywhere it has bus routes.

Ericka Jones, a systems advocate at the Center for Disability Rights, says possible service cuts are one of the disability community’s primary concerns, as is the lack of service in the suburbs. She recently spoke with a woman from Greece who tried to book a ride to church on a Sunday but couldn’t, since RTS offers very limited paratransit service on weekends.

Many people with disabilities rely heavily on paratransit and the bus system in general to get to work, to go to the grocery store, and to meet friends, Jones says. Uber, Lyft, and taxis aren’t a viable option for them since none of those services reliably accommodate people who use wheelchairs, rigid or motorized ones especially.

“We need more service across the board,” Jones says. “The service is good; we just need more of it. We need more access to it.”

Rochester People’s Climate Coalition is also getting involved in the Reimagine RTS process. The group is focusing in on the transit system’s potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, says Heather O’Donnell, who’s on the leadership team of RPCC’s newly formed transportation group.

The group is pushing for transit officials to be more aggressive in adding electric buses to the RTS fleet, O’Donnell says.

But the transit system’s role in reducing carbon emissions, especially from the transportation sector, is much broader.

O’Donnell says an effective transit system allows people to go more places by foot or bike; RTS buses already have racks that allow people to take their bikes with them. It could also, over time, affect land-use decisions, she says.

RGRTA’s Carpenter echoes that last point.

If decision-makers and residents start thinking about buses and all the other “mobility options” now at their disposal, development may become less car-centered and start moving closer to transit corridors, he says.

“Any kind of improvement to the mass transit system will be good for the environment: getting more people in buses, less people in cars,” O’Donnell says. “But we also want to see that the improvements that are being made are environmentally conscious.”

RGRTA plans to keep gathering input on public transit priorities and what the goals of Reimagine RTS should be through the end of this year. By January, it plans to begin talking with the public about the types of transit service people want, including the types of vehicles – buses, vans, etc. – that might serve different routes and how the RTS service could tie into options such as ridesharing. The agency expects to present its consultant’s recommended route structures, again including the types of vehicles that would serve them, by the end of 2018.

From there, RGRTA will begin acting on the recommendations, whatever they may be. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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Small Works Show Rochester Art Club 1115 East Main St., Studio #437-439 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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Believe or Behave: 2 Day Holiday Sale at Cat Clay Cat Clay 1115 E Main St, Ste 242 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Blind Date With a Book Writers & Books 740 University Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Miracle on Main Street FUNgerford 1115 East Main St. 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM Nartcan: On the Subject of Addiction AXOM Gallery Exhibition Space 176 Anderson Ave., Suite #303 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM 27th Annual Members Exhibition Rochester Contemporary Art Center 137 East Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM About Books Richard Margolis Art + Architectural Photography 250 North Goodman St., 4th Floor #9 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Annual December Gala with Anderson Alley Artists Anderson Alley Artists 250 N. Goodman St. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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First Friday at the Hungerford The Hungerford 1115 East Main St. (at N. Goodman) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Inspire Photo Gallery Boxcar Donuts Coffee Shop 127 Railroad St. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Instant Gratification - A look at the Art and Fun of Polaroids RoCo Upstairs Gallery 137 East Ave., Upstairs 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Jacquie Germanow: Works Gallery 4 – 8 250 North Goodman St. #4-8 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Live Glassblowing and Local Handmade Gifts at the More Fire Holiday Sale More Fire Glass Studio 36 Field Street 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM Luann Pero: Visions of Places. Nature Photography Nu Movement 716 University Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Marking Matters in Time Gallery r 100 College Ave. 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM Metro Justice Alternative Fair Metro Justice 1115 East Main St., Suite 207A 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM New Work by Amber Odhner Gallery at the Art & Music Library 755 Library Rd 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Stars & Stripes Our House Gallery 783 South Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM StudioRAD's Holiday Artisan Bazaar StudioRAD 46 Mount Hope Ave 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM Take the Long Way Home Gallery Q 100 College Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Variations III, A History of the Idea of Progress, and Inbeneath Visual Studies Workshop Gallery 31 Prince St. 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

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Looking at the economy

Rochester Downtown Development Corporation and the Rochester Rotary Club will present “Vison Future” on Tuesday, December 12. Business and political leaders will discuss successes in 2017 and share their expectations for 2018.

The featured speakers are Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo; Mayor Lovely Warren; Uber senior policy manager Josh Gold; and Zagster sales consultant David Reed. Tickets: $45 for RDDC members; $60 for non-members.

The event will be held at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center, 123 East Main Street, with registration from 11:30 a.m. to noon, and the luncheon and program from noon

to 1:30 p.m. Reservation deadline: Friday, December 8. Reservations: 546-6920 or reservations@rrdc.org.

Peacemaking in the Crusades

Nazareth College will show the film “The Sultan and the Saint,” on Tuesday, December 5. The film is set in 1219 during the Crusades and tells the story of two men of deep faith: Francis, a Christian, and al-Kamil, ruler of the Muslim world.

Francis crosses enemy lines and meets with the sultan to try to persuade him to become a Christian. He isn’t successful, but the Christian and Muslim become friends and spend their lives trying to promote peace. The film will be shown at Nazareth’s Otto A. Shults Community Center Forum, at 7 p.m. No tickets are necessary.

Creating cheap and sustainable energy

The University of Rochester will present “Converting Water into Fuel: Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis,”

on Thursday, November 30.

Victor Batista, professor of chemistry at Yale University, will give a lecture on developing photocatalytic cells to produce hydrogen from water as an endless source of energy. The lecture will be held at UR’s Goergen Hall, at 5 p.m.

Rally for fair scheduling

Metro Justice will be holding “Fight for $15 Rally for Fair Scheduling” on Wednesday, December 6. The State Department of Labor, acting at the direction of Governor Andrew Cuomo, has proposed regulations that would require employers to give their workers at least a two week notice of their work schedule, pay for any shift lost within 72 hours, and extra pay for last minute changes to shift schedules. Many hourly workers support the fair scheduling regulations because they would help create stability in households with children or adults who require care. The rally will be held at Pittsford Plaza, at 4:30 p.m.

Dining & Nightlife Eat, drink, and be merry [ ROUND-UP ] BY MARY RICE

marinated chicken skewers with peanut sauce and grilled pineapple, stoutbraised short rib, and a ginger carrot cake roll with cream cheese frosting.

Each course will be paired with one of Southern Tier Brewing’s seasonal craft brews or a cocktail made from one of Southern Tier Distilling’s spirits. 50 State Street, Pittsford. 267-7500. Tickets $55 with tax and gratuity, available through Eventbrite.com (search “Label 7 Napa Eatery”).

With winter setting in, it’s only natural to want to crowd around the table for a warm, hearty repast. Happily, there’s no shortage of opportunities to gather for a good meal as the holidays approach. Restaurants all over Rochester this December are getting creative with special seasonal menus and dining events that will work for date night or a family function. So take a break from the cookiebaking and stocking-stuffing and let someone else do the cooking.

Sunday Supper with Hearth and Cellar at Lento Restaurant

Pultneyville Illumination Dinner at Owl House on the Lake

Rochester-area pop-up Hearth and Cellar will be hosted at Lento Restaurant at 6 p.m. on Sunday, December 3, serving a wintry fourcourse meal. The menu includes pumpkin latkes with cranberry-ginger sauce and whipped goat cheese, warm Brussels sprouts salad with dry-cured duck breast, braised beef with wine and garlic jus, and hazelnut pound cake with pear semifreddo. Vegetarian options are available and dietary restrictions can be accommodated with advance notice. The dinner will include local beers as well as free samples of wines from Wineworx, a local company that teaches home winemaking. Diners are also welcome to bring their own wine for an additional $10 fee. 240 North Goodman Street. 271-3470. Tickets $40 through Eventbrite.com (search “Hearth and Cellar”).

The Owl House’s newly-opened branch at Pultneyville will host a dinner following the village’s eighth annual Illumination event on Sunday, December 3. The dinner service, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., includes seasonal cocktails and modern comfort food dishes such as root vegetable gratin with crushed almonds and pepitas and bacon-wrapped meatloaf with mashed potatoes and fried Brussels sprouts.

Gluten-free and vegan options are available upon request. Acoustic duo Chris and Cordelia will perform.

The Pultneyville Illumination itself begins at 4 p.m. and features local homes decked with holiday lights. The free event includes a concert by the Lake Effect Community Chorale, followed by caroling, a bonfire, hot drinks, and Christmas cookies. 4135 Mill Street, Williamson. Call 360-2920 for reservations.

Entrees $15-$20.

Holiday Bash with Boxcar Donuts and the Great Blue Herons

For a more casual atmosphere, stop by Boxcar Donuts at 7 p.m. on Friday, December 15, for a holiday party with live music, food and drink specials, and decorations — including the ever-popular donut wall. The event will feature a special limited menu including 16 beers on draft, cocktails, and Boxcar specialties, like the classic chicken sandwich and Korean fried cauliflower. Live Music will be provided by Matt O’Brian and the Great Blue Herons, who are the drum and horn sections of Thunder Body. 127 Railroad Street, Suite #120. 270-5942. Entrees $8-$22.

Christmas Eve Brunch at Joe Bean Coffee Roasters

Dinner isn’t the only meal getting the holiday treatment. Joe Bean Coffee Roasters will be open for weekend brunch from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Christmas Eve with a special menu.

Included in the decadent lineup are gingered pear stuffed French toast with caramel sauce, sweet potato waffles with plum reduction, peppered potato hash with fried tofu, and savory scones with egg cream sauce. The bar is open until 4 p.m., if you feel like getting extra festive.

1344 University Avenue. 532-7942.

Entrees $7-$11.

Can’t get enough brunch? Joe Bean is also holding a Holiday Jazz Brunch on Saturday, December 16, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with singer and guitarist Katie Preston.

Southern Tier Beer and Spirits Dinner at Label 7 Napa Eatery and Bar

Pittsford’s Label 7 is teaming up with Southern Tier Brewing and Southern Tier Distilling for a winter dinner-and-drinks pairing on Thursday, December 14. Cocktail hour begins at 6 p.m., followed by a fourcourse meal of butternut squash soup,

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Photograph by Chip Thomas (aka jetsonorama).

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MCC's Mercer Gallery hosts exhibit of Indigenous visual activism to raise awareness about threats to the environment

[ ART REVIEW ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

This time last year, art therapist Lauren Jimerson and her teenaged son, Angel, traveled to North Dakota to stand against big oil with the Indigenous community at Standing Rock Reservation. They were two of many Seneca Nation members who expressed solidarity through their presence, protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, and helping feed the thousands of people gathered in the makeshift village camps. They brought Iroquois White Corn and squash, and Jimerson documented the scene with her photographs.

A year later, some of her images along with resistance poster art by other Indigenous artists are part of a show she’s curated that is currently on view at Mercer Gallery.

The show is sparse at the moment, but Jimerson and Kathy Farrell, MCC art professor and gallery director, plan to add more work to the walls throughout the run of the show. In addition to Jimerson’s photography, the show includes art by Arizona-based artist and clothing designer Jared Yazzie (Navajo); Arizona-based doctor and artist Chip Thomas (aka jetsonorama), who has worked with the Navajo Nation since 1987; Seneca artist Peter Jemison; Seneca-Cayuga artist Tom Huff; and Oklahoma-based artist and model Erica Pretty Eagle Moore (Osage, Otoe-Missouria, Pawnee, Sac and Fox, and Prairie Band Potawatomi).

Jimerson met Yazzie last year when he came to Rochester for Native American Heritage Month. She says she’s been a fan of his work for a while, and has followed his graphic design work and his clothing company, OxDx. Yazzie and Jimerson stayed in touch, and she asked him to be part of this show and put her in touch with other

artists, which led to the connection with Thomas and Moore. And Jemison is her uncle and creates environmentally- and socially-conscious art, so he was a natural match.

“The show that I had imagined was very different,” Jimerson says. “I wanted a bunch of posters from all over,” but by the time she’d made contact with a range of artists, the timeline had about run out. So Jimerson and Farrell pivoted and refocused on the education aspect.

“It didn’t get as big as we’d dreamed it would; we were thinking 20 or more people would partake,” Farrell says, adding that she’d hoped the exhibit would be like the old mail-art shows, where the space would be filled floor-to-ceiling — which is still their goal by the end of the show’s run.

“I always think of this as a teaching space,” Farrell says. “Here at MCC, a lot of the students are so into their phones and everything but what’s really going on, so I thought it was time for a wake-up call for a lot of them.”

To fill out the space, they added a participation aspect. A table is set up with paper and markers so that students and visitors can make their own works on-site, and adhere them to the wall. The result is a modest collection of professional art and earnest doodles made in response to the shortsighted, environmentally damaging selfishness of various industries.

“We want to show people that there are ways of making change through artists’ viewpoints,” Farrell says.

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Artwork by Jared Yazzie.

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Next to an ever-growing display of these drawings is a series of articles about the legal complexities of and violations to the DAPL protest that the gallery’s student workers have posted. And at the gallery front desk there’s a pile of free buttons: one reads “There is No Planet B” and the other is a cartoonish picture that basically translates to “Don’t shit in the nest.”

A series of videos are being projected on the space’s back wall. Jimerson selected works that highlight environmental issues in Native America — particularly concerning the Sioux — which includes clips from “America Before Columbus” and “Dances With Wolves.”

Jimerson wants the show to not only respond to the Standing Rock encampment, but also all of the different environmental issues going on around the nation. By way of example, she cites the Apache resistance to the Arizona Copper Mine in Oak Flat, and the resistance to the building of an observatory on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano, which is sacred to Native Hawaiians. In 2015, there was a copper mine spill in Colorado’s Animus River that affected the Navajo people, Jimerson says.

“Standing Rock isn’t something that is brand new,” she says. “If you look at the history of the American Indian Movement, there’s always been this overarching resistance against things happening concerning the environment. It’s just that Standing Rock became this massive-scale resistance, and with social media involved, I think that’s something that made it even bigger and brought this higher awareness to it. But it’s something that’s been going on for a long time.”

The Haudenosaunee in particular, Peter Jemison says, have had numerous issues of different right-of-ways — powerlines, energy lines, and the NYS Thruway — that cross their territory and challenge the Canandaigua Treaty, which is the covenant between the Iroquois Confederacy and the United States Government.

“There are all of these continuing incursions into our territory that we’ve had to find ways to negotiate,” he says.

“Now we’re still in a bit of a stalemate with the New York State thruway authority.

It’s ongoing — you have these outside agencies that feel as though they have a permanent right-of-ways, and don’t acknowledge that they’re going across sovereign territory. And getting them to work with the Seneca Nation is always a little bit of a challenge.”

One of Jemison’s works in the exhibit is a large, stark drawing of Iroquois White Corn with the phrase “No GMO” on it.

“All of us, Haudenosaunee and others, are very concerned that we do not lose control of our heirloom corn,” he says.

“And we have real concerns about the efforts of companies like Monsanto to get ahold of corn raised by Native people — one of the prime examples is Guatemala — and them saying, ‘This isn’t your corn, it’s our corn.

It’s intermixed with our corn now, so it’s our corn, and you have to come to us if you want corn seed.’”

There’s a combination of wariness and a resolve for vigilance in his voice when he speaks about the tinkering with food. “We don’t know what they’ve been doing as far as what they consider to be making it more disease-resistant, but that still has a very limited lifetime, as to how long it will be disease-resistant,” he says. “And the unique thing about our corn is each of our kernels in unique. Corn is heirloom; it’s very old, and each kernel is unique. We don’t want anybody trying to take our corn and change it into something else.”

ART FOR SALE Through Mercer Gallery Jimerson is selling the posters as well as protest patches, and donating proceeds to Indigenous Environmental Network. “They’re doing work not only covering environmental issues, but they went to the climate meeting in Paris,” and are doing the work educating people about climate change and sustainable energies, she says.

HUDSON VALLEY EARTH FIRST ACTION CAMP:

December 1-4. Workshops, education about the Valley Lateral Pipeline protest and more. hudsonvalleyearthfirst@riseup.net to RSVP or as questions. hudsonvalleyearthfirst.org.

RESOURCES:

Indigenous Environmental Network: ienearth.org International Indigenous Youth Council: indigenousyouth.org Ganondagan & Seneca Art & Culture Center: ganondagan.org Book: “No Reservation: New York Contemporary Native American Art Movement” by David Martine (available online)

Jimerson has lived in the Rochester area for about 20 years, but she grew up on the

Cattaraugus Reservation. She first heard about the DAPL protest and occupation at the end of August last year and was following it, but at the time her life was too busy to allow a visit.

“Then things really kind of picked up in October, and a lot more people were moved to go and stand beside the people who were already there,” she says. “When I started to hear about things that were happening to the people there — being attacked by dogs, being maced — it brought up a lot of things for me personally. We’re looking at a history where our people have always been shot down, and it hit with a lot of Native people.”

When Jimerson was working on her graduate degree, she learned about historical trauma and the toll that it takes on a person. “I felt myself having symptoms, feeling that past trauma, and having anxiousness, and I would read other people online were having these feelings,” she says. “We’re kind of in this era where we’re trying to find our voices and speak out again” about the truth of what’s happened to Native peoples historically and what’s happening now.

Locally, the Canandaigua Treaty is commemorated every Veteran’s Day. The keynote speaker at last fall’s commemoration was Alex Hamer, who is a reporter for Indian Country Today Media Network.

After Hamer showed the audience his pictures of what it was like behind the front lines at Standing Rock — how it was a family-centered place — Jimerson made the decision to travel to the camp.

“I don’t really care too much to celebrate Thanksgiving; to me, it’s not a celebration,” she says. So she and Angel, who was then 18 years old, decided to go for three days. Her younger son wasn’t able to accompany them.

“I decided to ask my children because this was a movement that began with the young people out at Standing Rock,” she says.

A view of the Standing Rock encampment by Lauren Jimerson.

They drove to North Dakota in one straight shot, and arrived late at night on Thanksgiving. Someone greeted them at the entrance and stated the rules: “No weapons, no drugs, no alcohol, and we’re matriarchal.”

“When we pulled in we could smell tobacco burning, and sage, and all of these smells that are familiar to us when we go into our ceremonies,” she says. “Sometimes, because I live in an area where my ancestors lived — here in Victor, New York, or even the Rochester area, and part of my family came from a village in Canandaigua, so you know I kind of travel around this area where my ancestors lived their daily lives — I try to think about what it was like when we lived in villages. And at Standing Rock, I told them: ‘This is probably the closest to that feeling that we’ll ever have to the way our ancestors lived, because it was very community-driven. Everybody was just in that space together.”

Jimerson and her son fed the water protectors with food from home, which included 13 gallons of cooked squash puree, harvested from her garden; 10 gallons of Iroquois White Corn puree; and more than 20 pounds of White Corn flour.

They stayed at the Haudenosaunee camp, and were surprised to find one of Jimerson’s cousins and a few other people from her reservation were there, too. “I ran into people who I had not seen in years while I was at camp,” she says.

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Artwork by Peter Jemison.

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The cover photo to this CITY issue depicts Jimerson’s son standing at the camp near a tall, many-signed post, which has since been collected by the Smithsonian.

The post was originally a sign for the Haudenosaunee camp, but soon became a marker of how far people traveled to stand with Standing Rock. “People just kept writing on pieces of wood how far they came — people from Japan, people from Australia — and sometimes they’d write

how many miles they came to be there,” Jimerson says.

She estimates that when she was at Standing Rock there were as many as 10,000 people in attendance; this was just before the group of veterans were planning to come, which brought even more solidarity and greater numbers.

“They kind of got this thing stopped when the vets came through,” Farrell says of the pipeline. “The vets became the human wall. And then we changed presidents, and now they’re doing whatever they damned well please.”

In the year since Jimerson attended the camp, there have been several DAPL oil spills, and in early November, South Dakota’s Keystone pipeline leaked more than 200,000 gallons of oil.

“There’s a sense of irony with that happening — I feel like there’s just so much to be said about that,” Jimerson says. “And I see this reflected in a lot of Indigenous issues.

I think about the mascot issue. It’s like, when are we going to be taken seriously?”

Jimerson is still reaching out to artists and hopes that more work will be added to the exhibit through the run of the show; artists can connect with her to submit work through email: lajimerson@gmail.com.

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Upcoming [ JAM ]

Music

Victor Wooten Trio. Thursday, December 14. Anthology, 336 East Avenue. 8 p.m. $30-$50. anthologylive.com; victorwooten.com. [ HIP-HOP ]

Tyler, The Creator. Wednesday, February 21. Main

Street Armory, 900 East Main Street. 7 p.m. $39.50. mainstreetarmory.com; twitter.com/tylerthecreator. [ HILLBILLY BLUES ] Reverend Peyton. Thursday, May 3. German House Auditorium, 315 Gregory Street. 8 p.m. $20. historicgermanhouse.com; bigdamnband.com.

The Regrettes

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5 MONTAGE MUSIC HALL, 50 CHESTNUT STREET 7 P.M. | $15-$17 | THEMONTAGEMUSICHALL.COM; THEREGRETTES.COM [ ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ] The Regrettes’s video for its song “Seashore” features singer Lydia Night being burned at the stake like Joan of Arc while suggesting I go fuck myself. And that’s all it took, really — I’m in love with this band from Los Angeles. It’s straight-out-of-the-garage pop with a bite from punk rock teeth. It’s The Ramones tempered with The Shangri-Las. The music is lighthearted and fun with a throwback kick, but lyrically is where it all gets dark and acerbic. The band plays tight, bright, and outtasite. Prepare to meet your new favorite band. Playing with SWMRS, The Interrupters, and Lucky 33.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

Daddy Longleg’s Homegrown Revival FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 ABILENE BAR AND LOUNGE, 153 LIBERTY POLE WAY 6 P.M. | FREE | ABILENEBARANDLOUNGE.COM; FACEBOOK.COM/DADDYLONGLEGSHOMEGROWNREVIVAL [ ROOTS ] Thanks to Daddy Longleg’s Homegrown Revival, Cleveland is now the center of the world. These cats are rustbelt gumbo with every spice imaginable tossed in the pot, along with some gunpowder for added bang in the boogie. Just dig the band’s version of The Beatles’ “Come Together.”

— BY FRANK DE BLASE PHOTO BY CHADE KAMENSHINE

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[ WED., NOVEMBER 29 ]

[ ALBUM REVIEWS ]

Willow Bay

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Rochester Folkus. Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. 325-4370. downstairscabaret. com. 7-9 p.m. $10.

“Sit & Smile” Self-released willowbay.bandcamp.com

‘A City Sings for the Season’ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 STARDUST BALLROOM, 41 BACKUS STREET 3 P.M. | DONATIONS | 473-2234; ROSSINGS.ORG [ VOCAL/HOLIDAY ] This free concert is notable

for the sheer number of ensembles and artists set to perform: the Rochester Oratorio Society’s large chorus — as well as its touring chamber ensemble Resonanz — will be joined by Borinquen Dance Theatre, Hochstein Youth Singers, Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist Male Chorus, and ROCMusic Collaborative. In lieu of a ticket charge, donations in the form of cash, food, and personal care items will be accepted at the door to support Action for a Better Community. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

Larry Carlton TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5 FUNK ‘N WAFFLES, 204 NORTH WATER STREET 6 P.M. | $40-$79 | ROCHESTER.FUNKNWAFFLES.COM; LARRYCARLTON.COM [ JAZZ ] There’s smooth jazz and then there’s the music of Larry Carlton, who is just too good to be pigeonholed under that label. That’s Carlton you hear on Joni Mitchell’s “Court And Spark” album.

And that’s him playing the great guitar solo on Steely Dan’s “Kid Charlemagne.” And then there are his four Grammy Awards, including one for his catchy instrumental take on “Minute By Minute.” Along with his 13 albums with the Crusaders, and three dozen as a leader, Carlton has enhanced the music of Quincy Jones, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton, and many more. — BY RON NETSKY

Let’s see now: thickly chopped power chords; snotty vocals; clever songs; little or no excessive guitar noodling; accelerated tempo. Lemme guess, it’s the new Green Day. No? Then it’s the Foxboro Hot Tubs? No? This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but Rochester punkers Willow Bay’s “Sit & Smile” sounds exactly like Green Day. It’s uncanny. You’ve got to wonder: Was this on purpose? I can’t be the first one to hear this pervading influence.

It’s not as prevalent in the few videos the trio has up on YouTube, and there’s no denying Willow Bay’s talent and impish sense of fun. So I’m willing to take “Sit & Smile” as a fluke, a cosmic occurrence, and suggest they take a stab at The Ramones, The Heartbreakers, or The Dolls. Or they can just tell me to get bent.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

Spanish Guitar with Daniel King. Ox and Stone, 282

Alexander street. rochester ny.

287-6933. oxandstone.com.

6-9 p.m.

BLUES

Upward Groove. Temple Bar

and Grille, 109 East Ave. 2326000. templebarandgrille.com.

10 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Lucas Wong, piano. Nazareth College Wilmot Recital Hall, 4245 East Avenue. 389-2700. naz.edu. 7-8:30 p.m.

TRADITIONAL

Eastman Saxophone Project.

Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. esm. rochester.edu. 8 p.m.

REGGAE/JAM Thunder Body. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge. com. 8 p.m. $8.

Red Sky Lullaby “Algorithmic Soul” Self-released redskylullaby.com

Red Sky Lullaby’s new “Algorithmic Soul” is the soundtrack to lunar-bound, waking dreams in all of its narcotic splendor and ambience. Red Sky Lullaby is the one-man-mission of producer Stuart Kilbride, who paints an infinite expanse of colorful wonderment. It’s chill and mellow to the max. But before it becomes too liquid or languid, slices of saxophone, a lyric-less female voice, drums, and piano make the scene — or at least bubble up near the scene’s surface — to offer up passages of tangibility, edge, and dimension. There’s a bit of push and pull in order to not get too pretty. The shape and tones on this record shift quickly, but Kilbride doesn’t rush anything either. All four tracks are presented as movements, parts of the greater whole. Simply put: it is beautiful, swirling but not too epic electronica.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

METAL

Sastruga, Lackhesis. Bug Jar,

219 Monroe Ave. 8 p.m. Benefit show to help James & Samar Cardella stay in the US. $5-$10.

POP/ROCK

Skunk City. Funk ‘n Waffles,

204 N Water Street. 585-4480354. 9 p.m. $10.

[ THU., NOVEMBER 30 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Phatkats. 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Road.

5852470079. 5-8 p.m.

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Check with our dining writers for vetted grub.

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Music

JAZZ

Dorris Live. Joe Bean Coffee

Where did you learn to sing?

I went to School of the Arts before I went to School Without Walls and I was in a few musicals. Mostly I learned to sing by listening to other people; I got onto YouTube and picked up sounds that I liked and tried to do those by myself.

Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 585-448-0354. rochester.funknwaffles.com.

9 p.m. $10.

How long did it take you to become proficient on ukulele?

POP/ROCK

It didn’t take too long; the ukulele is such a great instrument that you can just pick it up and start playing. I went pretty hard at it and felt comfortable after 6 or 8 months.

I watched Danielle Ate The Sandwich and Julia Nunes online and picked up things from them. My mom ended up getting me a ukulele for Christmas when I was in high school because of that.

Do you play any other instruments?

I also enjoy playing bass in Pleistocene. It’s new for me, but I’m learning.

What’s the difference for you between playing in a band and going solo?

Singer-songwriter Cammy Enaharo regularly performs solo, but is also a member of Pleistocene, Ben Morey and The Eyes, and Gold Koa. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH

Forever sunshine Cammy Enaharo WITH THE YOUNG COUPLES, TOTAL YUPPIES, AND LONG MOVERS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $7 | BUGJAR.COM; CAMMYENAHARO.BANDCAMP.COM [ INTERVIEW ] BY ROMAN DIVEZUR

Cammy Enaharo is easily filling a large role in Rochester’s indie music scene. The 25-year-old, ukulele-strumming, singer-songwriter performs solo acoustic shows on a regular basis and plays with several local bands, including Pleistocene and Ben Morey and The Eyes. She also recently got involved in a new project, Gold Koa, with Matt Battle and Kamara Robideau of Oh Manitou.

Enaharo performs with a maturity that’s beyond her years. Her voice has a rich, soulful tone that creates an emotional connection to whatever she’s singing, while her baritone ukulele adds a nice, warm touch, feeling like

sunshine coming through on a cloudy day.

CITY reached out to Enaharo — who has a concert with The Young Couples, Total Yuppies, and Long Movers at the Bug Jar on December 2 — by phone and posed a few questions to the troubadour. An edited transcript follows.

CITY: What are some songs you enjoyed listening to while growing up?

Cammy Enaharo: Growing up, my mom

played a lot of Lauryn Hill and also Diana Ross. I’m a huge fan of Regina Spektor — she’s one of my biggest influences — and there’s an artist named Lady Lamb, who I love.

What do you like most about Spektor’s music?

I love how relatable she is. She’s smart and funny, and besides having a beautiful voice and being so talented on the piano, I can visualize things and get really lost when I’m listening to Regina. I love her music so much that I have some of her lyrics tattooed on my arm from the song “Lady.”

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Roasters, 1344 University Ave. 532-7942. joebeanroasters. com. 8-10 p.m. $5.

Collaborating is incredible, and I feel like I’ve grown so much from being in Pleistocene with Katie Preston, Cam Dean, and Erick Perrine — the three of them are such good friends to me now. It’s nice when you have an idea to be able to bounce it off of someone else and they’re like, “That’s great, but what if we add this to it,” and I would have never have thought about doing that.

By collaborating with other people my confidence is coming up more. I’m learning how to be more assertive at shows. I’m very shy when performing by myself whereas with a group I feel like we’ve all created something together and it feels a little bit better than playing solo.

How have you seen your music progress since you started out?

When the music started at first, it was kind of goofy. I was just writing songs about friends and high school and nothing that was too personal.

And now I’m able to be more vulnerable and I feel more comfortable talking about my feelings and relationships with people.

My close relationships are very important to me. Growing up, my mom has always been very supportive and willing to talk about anything.

I’ve been able to open up to my mom and be vulnerable with her, through that I’ve been able to be vulnerable through music as well.

What are your songs about?

A lot of the songs are about being confused in life and not knowing exactly what you’re doing, but finding little things to appreciate and being able to laugh at yourself. Most of the themes are like, “It’s going to be okay overall.”

Do you have a sense of optimism?

I think so, for the most part.

What’s the most Rochester thing about you?

The most Rochester thing about me is that I went to School Without Walls. I had a supportive group of friends and teachers who let me roam the halls between classes in my socks to play my ukulele.

REGGAE/JAM

Root Shock, The Saplings.

Katie Preston and Friends. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7-9 p.m.

[ FRI., DECEMBER 1 ] BLUES

Bureau Cats Blues Band. Brue Coffee Co., 960 Genesee St. 697-0236. facebook.com/ bruecoffee/. 6:30-9 p.m. Show will benefit the South West Ecumenical Ministry food pantry. Pantry food donations encouraged.

Red, Fred and Weems. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org.

8-10 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Eastman Wind Orchestra/ Ensemble. Kodak Hall at

Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. 8 p.m. Work of Husa, Maslanka, Daugherty, Adams, Liptak, and Grantham.

REFORMATION 500. GVOC, PO Box 177. Fairport. 223-9006. gvoc.org. 7:30-9 p.m. Music from Heinrich Schütz, Michael Praetorius, and Bach. $12-$15.

RCORS: Stephen Tharp.. Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs St. 271-6513. thirdpresbyterian. org. 8 p.m. Rochester Celebrity Organ Recital Series. $12-$10.

JAZZ

Ryan Johnson Project. Joe Bean

Coffee Roasters, 1344 University Ave. 532-7942. joebeanroasters. com. 9-11 p.m. $5.

REGGAE/JAM Charly Black. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 585-4480354. rochester.funknwaffles. com. 10 p.m. $30.

POP/ROCK

The Casbah Sounds, Trevor Lake. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 8 p.m. $5.

Circa Survive, Thrice, Chon, Balance and Compusre. Main

Street Armory, 900 E. Main St. 232-3221. afterdarkpresents. com. 6 p.m. $30-$33.50.

Daddy Longleg’s. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge. com. 6 p.m.

Infrared Radiation Orchestra & Anonymous Willpower.

Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com.

8 p.m. $5.

The Fallen. 585 Rockin

Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Road.

5852470079.

8:30-11:30 p.m. $5.

[ SAT., DECEMBER 2 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK The Brothers Blue. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org.

8-10 p.m.

DiAnza Macool. Impact Theatre, 1180 Canandaigua St. 315-597-3553. impactdrama. com. 7:30-9:15 p.m. A Christmas concert and PHOTO PROVIDED performance celebrating the joy and hope of the season.

HIP-HOP | SCARFACE Mike Pullano. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford.

Scarface is probably your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper.

641-0340. viagirasole.com.

Nas has listed “Mr. Scarface is Back” (the Houston 7-10 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Brockport Symphony Orchestra’s Holiday Pops Concert. St. Luke’s Brockport,

14 State St. Brockport. 4028126. brockportsymphony. org. 4-5:30 p.m. Donations accepted.

Rochester Celebrity Organ Recital Series. St. Paul’s

Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Rd. 271-2240. stpaulsec.org. 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Master class with Stephen Tharp.

Women’s Chorus, Repertory Singers.. Kilbourn Hall, 26

Gibbs St. esm.rochester.edu. 8 p.m. Work of Schumann, Pook, Mathias, Bach, and Mozart.

emcee’s 1991 solo debut) as one of his favorite hip-hop albums; Killer Mike has called Scarface the greatest of all time; and Jay-Z in his book “Decoded” writes he’s “maybe the first truly great lyricist to come out of the South …

Scarface always feels like he’s rapping right in your ear, like the guy on the next bar stool unburdening himself of a story.” Scarface started as a cornerstone to the Geto Boys, and in the almost 30 years since the group’s 1989 “Grip It! On that Other Level,” Face has released six group albums and 11 solo albums — several of which are veritable classics — of honest, authentic, often hard, Southern hip-hop.

This is a true living legend.

Scarface will perform with a full backing band on Sunday, December 3, at the California Brew Haus, 402 West Ridge Road. 6 p.m. $25-$30. tecshows.com; facebook.com/facemobmusic.

— BY JAKE CLAPP

R&B/ SOUL

Cinnamon Jones & Eternal Soul. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge

Lane. Fairport. 585-315-3003. fairportbside.com. 8-11 p.m.

REGGAE/JAM

The Buddhahood. Butapub,

315 Gregory St. 585-5636241. facebook.com/ events/351578805255062/.

9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. $5.

POP/ROCK

Branded. 585 Rockin Burger

Bar, 250 Pixley Road. . 8:3011:30 p.m. $5.

CatNine. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. thefirehousesaloon.com. 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. $5.

Dave Berger. The Angry Goat Pub, 938 Clinton Ave. 4131125. 10 p.m.-1 a.m.

Harmonica Lewinski. Photo City Improv & Comedy Club, 543 Atlantic Ave. 288-9355. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Other acts: Electric Mess, Tex Railer’s Doomtown, and Trevor Lake. Followed by DJ El Destructo. $7.

Mike Powell & The Black River, Loaded Goat. Funk ‘n

Waffles, 204 N Water Street.

585-448-0354. rochester. funknwaffles.com. 9 p.m. $7.

Soul Roach. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com.

9 p.m. $10.

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POST-HARDCORE | THRICE

For a band on the precipice of entering its 20th year, Thrice still sounds as vital as ever. While the group of kids who wrote the blistering post-hardcore anthems found on 2002’s fantastic “The Illusion of Safety” and 2003’s major label follow-up, “The Artist in the Ambulance,” have done a lot of growing up over the past two decades, the sense of nuance and careful artistry found on Thrice’s later records has always been there — you just had to pay close attention.

Frontman Dustin Kensrue and company have been tactfully weaving existential drama and observant sociopolitical commentary into their records for long enough that they’ve made it look easy.

Thrice will play with Circa Survive, Chon, and Balance and Composure on Friday, December 1, at the Main Street Armory, 900 East Main Street. 6 p.m. $30. mainstreetarmory.com; thrice.net.

— BY ALEXANDER JONES rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 17

The Young Couples, Total Yuppies, Long Movers, Cammy Enaharo. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 8 p.m. $7.

[ SUN., DECEMBER 3 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Acoustic Brunch with Chris Bethmann. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 585-448-0354. rochester.funknwaffles.com. noon.

CLASSICAL

Bagatelles & Impromptus.

Downtown United Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh Street.

703-3990. .pegasusearlymusic. org. 4-6 p.m. Works from the 1820’s by Beethoven and Schubert. David Breitman, fortepiano. $25-$75.

[ MON., DECEMBER 4 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Happy Hour with Stormy Valle. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-8 p.m.

Watkins and the Rapiers. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m.

CLASSICAL

OSSIA New Music. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. esm. rochester.edu. 8 p.m.

SOUL | DANIELLE PONDER & THE TOMORROW PEOPLE

Danielle Ponder’s voice is a peerless blend of strength and smoothness. The charismatic singer and her band, The Tomorrow People, have long galvanized audiences with their infectious pop-R&B sound and dynamic message of love, understanding, and social justice. On Friday, Ponder and company will take it to the next level when they return to The Little Theatre with a multimedia event entitled “For the Love of Justice.” Not just another concert, Ponder will draw from her experience as both a public defender and musician to address issues of criminal justice, feminism, racial justice, and self-empowerment. The performance will be directed by Avis Reese, with videographers Adrian Elim and Ajani Jefferies providing poignant visuals. It’s all part of Ponder’s “Three Word Revolution,” and it’s safe to say the love will be unstoppable.

Danielle Ponder & The Tomorrow People will perform “For the Love of Justice” on Friday, December 1, at The Little’s Theater 1, 240 East Avenue. 8:30 p.m. $25-$30. thelittle.org; daniellepondermusic.com.

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

“Music To Warm Your Heart” Holiday Concert. Penfield High School, 25 High School Dr. Penfield. 872-0774. penfieldsymphony.org. 7:30-9 p.m. Performed by Penfield Symphony Orchestra. Works by Falla, Tchaikovsky, and Handel, and more. $15.

POP/ROCK

Members of Into The Now Acoustic. The Angry Goat Pub, 938 Clinton Ave. 413-1125.

7:30-10:30 p.m.

[ TUE., DECEMBER 5 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Spring Chickens. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m.

BLUES

Larry Carlton Quartet, Chet Catallo & The Cats. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street.

585-448-0354. rochester. funknwaffles.com. 6 p.m. $40-$45.

POP/ROCK

Mort & The People, Candy Isle, 33% Girl. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 8 p.m. $6-$8.

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PHOTO BY SAM PINOLA

PUNK | LMI

Lansdale, Pennsylvania’s LMI is tough to pin down stylistically, so please don’t take that big “PUNK” above this write-up too literally. LMI isn’t punk in the sense that they trade in three-chord anthems and bratty dispositions, but rather it has a youthful willingness to try just about anything under the heavy music sun. Its most recent record, 2017’s “Far Beyond Nothing,” is a violent ode to forward momentum, taking the dinosaur percussion of bands like Karp and Big Business and shooting it full of the signature hardcore energy of bands like Old Wounds and Angel Du$t.

LMI will play with TreadWater, The ILL, and Dogmath on Saturday, December 2, at The Vineyard Community Space, 836 South Clinton Avenue. 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. facebook.com/vineyardcommunityspace; lmiband.bandcamp.com.

— BY ALEXANDER JONES

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Arts & Performance Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. The Lobby Presents. Through Dec. 31. Opening reception Fri. Dec. 1, 8 p.m. Art by Flour Pail Kids, Black Cat Horror Memes, and Stormy Made. Live music followed by DJ CPT. Gallery r, 100 College Ave. Patricia Russotti: Marking Matters in Time. Through Jan. 21. Opening reception Fri., Dec. 1, 5-9 p.m. Photography and installation by Patricia Russotti. 585-256-3312. galleryr.rit.edu.

Paula Crawford Gallery, 11 Goodman Street North. Paula Crawford Gallery. Ongoing.

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Rochester Art Club, 1115 E. Main St. Studio 437-439.

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Art Museum of Rochester, 610 Monroe Ave. “Beast” Through Dec. 31. Paintings

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Davis Gallery at Houghton House, 1 King’s Lane. Geneva.

Thread Bare. Through Dec. 15.

Mixed media by Kate Kretz.

Davison Gallery, Cultural Life Center, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Dr. Angle of Repose. Through Dec. 16. Artwork by Colleen Buzzard. 594-6120. roberts.edu.

A Different Path Gallery, 27 Market St. Brockport.

Paper, Fabric and Sisters.

Through Nov. 30. Artwork from two sisters. 637-5494. differentpathgallery.com.

Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. From the Seeds of Cucumber Alley. Through Dec. 21. Celebrating 40 Years of Photography. A display photographs by volunteers and staff. 271-5920. rochesterarts. org.; Good Things.. Come in Small Packages. Through Dec. 21. An exhibit and sale dedicated to small, finely crafted ceramic art. 271-5183. rochesterarts.org. iGalleryKathyClem, Anderson Arts Building, 250 N. Goodman St. Destiny. Through Dec. 1. Multimedia installation

by Kathy Clem and Martha Schermerhorn. 764-5589. iGalleryKathyClem.com.

International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Iconic Women. Through Nov. 30.

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SPECIAL EVENT | ‘MIRACLE ON MAIN STREET’ December’s Hungerford Building event has become one of my favorite First Friday stops of the year (second only to its October “Haunted Hungerford” night). Local artists and makers open up their studios and embrace the season in unique, funky ways, and it’s easy to knock three or four names off your gift list — plus there’s a rumor that Saint Nick’s horned companion, Krampus, will be around.

The Hungerford’s 2017 event, “Miracle on Main Street,” takes place Friday, December 1, and Saturday, December 2, with around 20 studios open, and several festive specials, like printing custom holiday cards at Type High Letterpress, a “worst festive food” contest at Cat Clay (plus mac & cheese on Saturday), and raffles for artwork. There will be a toy drive for the Pirate Toy Fund, and Nosferatu Studios is donating 25 percent of its sales to Puerto Rico recovery efforts. Also of note: GruntWerk is having a “Basement Grand Finale” on Friday, displaying work by Rachel Dow. Friday, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at The Hungerford Building, 1115 East Main Street. Free. facebook.com/fungerford.

— BY JAKE CLAPP

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Wendell Castle: Remastered. Through Dec. 31. The first to showcase the digitally crafted works of Wendell Castle. 276-8900. mag.rochester.edu.

Mercer Gallery at Monroe Communtiy College, 1000 E. Henrietta Rd. Indigenous Environmental Activism in Art. Through Dec. 14.

Showcases how Indigenous artists are raising awareness of environmental issues. 2922021. monroecc.edu.

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

Through Dec. 10. A display of watercolors by Pam LoCicero.

546-8400.

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Oxford Gallery, 267 Oxford St. Continuum. Through Dec. 2.

Artwork by Jean K. Stephens and Chris Baker.

Penfield Arts Center, 2131 Five Mile Line Rd. Tree Hugs.

Through Dec. 14. Through Pen and ink artist Kristina Hutch Matthews. 764-3493. penfieldartscenter@gmail.com. penfieldartscenter.com.

Tower Fine Arts Center, SUNY Brockport, 180 Holley St. Thinking About Drawing.

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by Jim Morris. Work that demonstrates ideas and processes related to drawing.

395-2787. brockport.edu.

Call for Artwork [ FRI., DECEMBER 1 ] 27th Annual Members Exhibition. 6-9 p.m.

Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. All media are welcome with maximum dimension of 36” x 36” $2. 461-2222. info@ rochestercontemporary.org. rochestercontemporary.org.

Call for Participants [ MON., DECEMBER 4 ] Sing with the Rochester Oratorio Society. 6:30-9 p.m Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Ave 473-2234. rossings.org.

Art Events [ WED., NOVEMBER 29 ] Artist Talk with Nando AlvarezPerez. 6-7 p.m. Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. An artist talk with Project Space AIR Nando Alvarez-Perez about his time in the studio and in the VSW collections 442-8676. vsw.org. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 29

Art the VSW arts community — not only as an audience, but active participants — all on a level playing field, regardless of their past artistic experiences.

What are your expectations for this “Variations III” performance?

Tara Merenda Nelson: It’s a great event

for kids. When I saw it at Somerville, it’s really uncanny how well children seem to understand. It’s very much related to the psychology of playing. It’s like a mix of concentration and imagination ... I think Cage’s philosophy in many ways is just that: to become aware of your own senses and your own listening, and understanding sound as a complex and meaningful aspect of our perceptual reality — and that’s a joyful thing.

What distinct opportunities does “Variations III” offer in terms of engaging with the audience that other artistic performances or installations may not?

Mitrano: A few dozen people committed

Circle diagrams representing specific participants’ performance of John Cage’s “Variations III,” to be presented at VSW on December 1. PHOTO PROVIDED

A Cage-y performance John Cage’s “Variations III” FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 VISUAL STUDIES WORKSHOP, 31 PRINCE STREET 7 P.M. | FREE | 442-8676; VSW.ORG [ PREVIEW ] BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

Twenty-five years after his passing, John Cage remains an enigmatic and largely misunderstood musical and artistic figure in the public consciousness. The trailblazing composer is often seen as a solitary, almost shamanic philosopher-artist, perhaps best known for his highly conceptual “silent” composition “4’ 33’’,” written for a single performer who never plays a note.

Visual Studies Workshop’s upcoming December 1 staging of the composer’s 1962 work “Variations III” reveals how active musical performance and collaboration were essential to Cage’s artistic identity. Tara Merenda Nelson, Curator of Moving Image Collections at VSW, first had the notion of presenting “Variations III” in Rochester before she moved here, when she was a visiting artist in 2014. After she witnessed a performance of

the work at Somerville Armory in Boston and subsequently saw VSW’s auditorium space, the idea lingered. “Three years later, it finally felt like the time has come,” Nelson says.

“Variations III” is not an improvisation.

Instead of musical notation, it contains a set of instructions, which include 42 circles. Each circle signifies a single physical, sonic, or visual event. In preparation for the performance, each participant dumped the circles on a blank piece of paper or on the ground. The frequency of overlaps with the other circles directly determined the number of variables each performance event will have, which can change throughout the event. All other particulars of the performance —the sound, actions, and additional elements — are determined solely by the participant ahead of time.

As part of Cage’s series of eight “Variations,” this third iteration depends on the concept of musical indeterminacy, in which either chance or the performer’s free will provide the outcome. These works, which were created between 1958 and 1967, are in many ways the offspring of Cage’s “Theatre Piece No. 1,” with its simultaneous performances of multiple artistic mediums by various participants. Also known as “The Event,” “Theatre Piece No. 1” was performed at North Carolina’s Black Mountain College in 1952 and is largely considered to be the

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first ever “Happening” in North America.

In advance of the performance on Friday, CITY interviewed Nelson and performance participant Ray Ray Mitrano — via phone and email, respectively — about Cage’s “Variations III,” its resonance with VSW, and what performers and audience members alike can expect. An edited, aggregate version of those interviews follows.

CITY Newspaper: VSW has a history of being conducive to performance art pieces and participatory art events. What about John Cage and “Variations III” make them so compatible with VSW and its artistic goals?

Ray Ray Mitrano: VSW aims to hub folks

from all walks of life to engage in creative approaches to their work, whether they’ve got a BA in biology, psychology, run a bakery, or run marathons for a living. The VSW MFA program, artist residencies, open-access collections, and community-use auditorium are always poised to be shaped by whomever utilizes them.

John Cage’s “Variations III” is an open-ended performance recipe for community engagement.

Any number of people doing any type of action within their specific number of events, changes, and pauses, which were determined by the chance operation of dropping circles on the ground by participants in the weeks preceding.

It has the potential to bring new people into

to engaging this work. Many are not fully aware what it entails. No one knows exactly what everyone is doing and how it will look, sound, feel, and maybe even taste? A high level of focus, timing, and execution will be underway amidst a very unknown, improvised, work as a whole.

It’s a perfect environment for humor, horror, tenderness, discomfort, and intrigue for an audience. No real lines are drawn for how someone happening upon this event should navigate it.

How has your participation as a performer affected how you view the relationship between you, the artist, and your audience?

Mitrano: I’m working audience interaction

into the logistics of my “score.” As someone who cultivates art concepts through social engagements and interactive meetings, I’m very excited for this to be happening at such a high level of participation locally. For others not used to embracing chance in their work, it may be scary at first, but ultimately I feel confident everyone will take away value from the experience in the end. It’s all about how we react to interruptions and the unexpected. Adapting our previous plans.

Realizing how even in your solo-work, we’re all working together.

What excites you most about this staging of “Variations III”?

Mitrano: These types of highly structured

frameworks for improvised chaos can become rich, powerful metaphors for democracy in action. Especially for the participants, who get to see how their actions engage with others around them all at once. We’re always working together.

Whether we take advantage of that is up to each individual.

[ FRI., DECEMBER 1 ] Dance With the Sugarplum Fairy. 10 a.m.-9 p.m International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Through Dec. 31. Ballet paintings by Marcella Gillenwater 264-1440. internationalartacquisitions.com.

First Friday Gallery Night GalleryQ. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. Gallery Q, 100 College Ave. First Friday: Holidays at the Gallery. 5-8 p.m. Paula Crawford Gallery, 11 Goodman Street North Featuring paintings, sculpture and original artisan holiday items 749-5329. pcrawford21@gmail. com. paulacrawfordart.com.

Anderson Arts First Fridays. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m Anderson Arts Building, 250 N. Goodman St. 201-910-1603. andersonartsbuilding@gmail. com. andersonalleyartists.com.

Gallery Show: Celebrations.

6:30-8:30 p.m. Unity Church of Greater Rochester, 55 Prince Street Featuring the work of Mike Gacek, Nancy Hicks, Liesl Gaesser, and Liz SantaMaria 473-0910. unityrochester.org.

Hungerford Open Studios. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

Hungerford Building, 1115 E. Main St. Enter Door #2 Free.

Inspire Photo Gallery. 6-9 p.m. Boxcar Donut Shop, 127 Railroad Street, #Suite 120 Features 15 local cancer survivors, caregivers, and anyone touched by cancer giving them the opportunity to share their story 363-1285.

John Cage: Variations III. 7-10 p.m. Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. 442-8676. vsw.org.

Comedy [ THU., NOVEMBER 30 ] Rich Vos. 7:30 p.m. Comedy at the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd Through Dec. 2 Thurs.-Sat., Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 2, 7:30 p.m.

Fri. & Sat. Dec. 1, 2, 10 p.m $12-$17. carlsoncomedy.com.

White Boyz in the Hood. 7:30 p.m. Comedy Club, 2235 Empire Blvd Webster Through Dec. 2 Thurs.-Sat., Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 2, 7:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat. Dec. 1, 2, 10 p.m $20-$25. [ TUE., DECEMBER 5 ] Backdraft II: Laughdraft. 8-11 p.m Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 902-2010. thefirehousesaloon.com.

Dance Events [ WED., NOVEMBER 29 ] Kizomba Dance Classes. 6:307:30 p.m Roc Kizomba Studios (Fedder Building), 1237 E Main Street $15-$50. 7381782. rochesterkizomba@ gmail.com. rockizomba.com. [ FRI., DECEMBER 1 ] Boyz Night out. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. thefirehousesaloon.com. [ MON., DECEMBER 4 ] International Folk Dance Club of Rochester. 7:30-10 p.m. JCC of Greater Rochester, 1200 Edgewood Avenue Located in JCC’s Dance Studio. Circle line couple dances from around the world. Beginners welcome

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THEATER | ‘SHE KILLS MONSTERS’ If you pay attention, you can learn a lot about yourself and other people while playing a role-playing tabletop game like Dungeons & Dragons. You can see how decisions are made in the moment, get a glimpse at the character other people want to project into the world, and grow a little closer with friends while working together to complete a mission. In the dramatic comedy “She Kills Monsters,” playwright Qui Nguyen explores those ideas — along with female and LGBTQ representation in gaming — in a heartfelt, fanciful way. Agnes, a high school teacher, finds a detailed Dungeons & Dragons playbook created by her younger sister, Tilly, who died in a car crash. To better understand her sister, Agnes takes on Tilly’s gaming persona and dives into D&D — with swordfights, monsters, and a little bit of gore on stage.

Directed by Geva Directing Fellow Alex Keegan, the College at Brockport’s Department of Theatre and Music Studies will stage “She Kills Monsters” on Friday, December 1, through Saturday, December 9. Tower Fine Arts Center, 180 Holley Street, Brockport. 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays; 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 7; and 2 p.m. on Sunday, December 3. $17 general admission; $12 seniors, alumni, faculty, and staff; $9 students. 3952787; fineartstix.brockport.edu.

— BY JAKE CLAPP

$7-$8. 315-926-5652. jccrochester.org.

Community Festivals

Theater

[ TUE., DECEMBER 5 ] Candlelight Night. 5-8 p.m. Pittsford Chamber of Commerce, One North Main Street . Pittsford Christmas trees lighting, live music, carolers, horse-drawn wagon rides, merchant specials, and more 310-2004. info@ pittsfordchamber.org.

A Christmas Carol. Through Dec. 24. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd Opens Nov. 30. Through Dec. 24.

No shows Monday and select Tuesdays; show times vary $12.50-$84.

A Christmas Carol: Retold. Sun., Dec. 3, 6-9 p.m. Rose Hill Mansion, 3373 New York 96A, Geneva $20. 315-789-5151. genevahistoricalsociety.com.

Meet Me in St. Louis. Dec. 1-17. Lyric Theater, 440 East Ave Through Dec. 17. Fri. & Sat. Dec. 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 7:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. Dec. 3, 9, 10, 17, 2 p.m $15-$23.50. the-lyric-theatre.ticketleap.com.

Occupant. Thu., Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave

By Edward Albee. Directed by Michael H. Arve $10.

Octavia. Nov. 30-Dec. 9.

Todd Theatre, University of Rochester, River Campus Through Dec. 9. Wed.-Sat. Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 7 p.m. Sun. Dec. 3, 2 p.m $15. rochester.edu/theater.

Kids Events [ FRI., DECEMBER 1 ] Pirate Toy Fund Event. 4-8:30 p.m. Penfield Sport and Fitness, 667 Panorama Trail West . Penfield 586-7777. bonnie@penfieldfitness.com. penfieldfitness.com. [ SAT., DECEMBER 2 ] Paw Patrol Live. Dec. 2-3, 10 a.m.-noon. Rochester Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. $19-$103. 222-5000. mail@rbtl.org. rbtl.org.

Polar Express Train Rides.

11:15 a.m.-6 p.m Medina Railroad Museum, 530 West Ave. An one-hour train ride.

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cookies, hot chocolate, and more $35-$50. 798-6106. medinarailroad.com.

Holiday

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Park Avenue Spirit of the Holidays Open House. Thu., Nov. 30, 5-9 p.m. Live music, horse-drawn wagon, merchant specials, and more 576-0042. park-avenue.org.

Holiday Bazaar. Sat., Dec. 2, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Charles Carroll School 46, 250 Newcastle Rd. 288-8008 Sat., Dec. 2, 10 a.m.-noon. Geneseo United Methodist Church, 4520 Genesee St. 243-3160. geneseomethodist.org.

Hometown Holidays Soup & Sandwich Luncheon. Sat., Dec. 2, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Big Springs Historical Society, 3095 Main Street . Caledonia Vendors, raffles, Santa, and more $8. 538-9880. bigspringshistoricalsociety@ gmail.com. bigspringsmuseum.org.

Hope Hall School’s Annual Woodworking Holiday Sale.

Sat., Dec. 2, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Hope Hall School, 1612 Buffalo Road 426-5824. christina.westmiller@hopehall. org. hopehall.org.

Party of Holidays Past. Fri., Dec. 1, 6-9 p.m. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. A benefit for the Rochester museum & Science Center $20. 697-1988. rmsc.org.

StudioRAD’s Holiday Artisan Bazaar. Fri., Dec. 1, 5-10 p.m.

StudioRAD, 46 Mount Hope Ave 469-8512. lisanudo@ studiorad.org. studiorad.org.

Wintercraft Open House & Holiday Sale. Sat., Dec. 2, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. 2441730. rochesterarts.org.

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FAMILY/HOLIDAY | ‘HOLLY TROLLEY’ RIDES The New York Museum of Transportation is using its vintage trolley railroad to celebrate the holiday season.

On Sundays, December 3, 10, and 17, the museum will offer “Holly Trolley” rides on its trolley railroad — the only one in New York State — with Santa and Mrs. Claus, hot chocolate, and cookies. The museum also has a steam locomotive, a fire engine, and model trains on display.

“Holly Trolley” rides, about two miles round-trip, take place every half-hour, between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., at the museum, 6393 East River Road, West Henrietta. $8 adults; $7 seniors 65 and over; $6 ages 3 to 12. 5331113; nymtmuseum.org.

— BY JAKE CLAPP

Special Events [ FRI., DECEMBER 1 ] Alternative Fair 2017. 5-9 p.m. First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd Featuring fair trade, earth friendly, and locally produced goods that support a local economy and sustainable world 271-9070. rochesterunitarian.org.

Candlelight Christmas 2017.

10 a.m.-9 p.m. MorganManning House, 151 Main St., Brockport $3 donation.

637-3645.

Metro Justice Alternative Fair. 5-9 p.m. First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd $5.

397-3535. metrojustice.org.

ZooBrrrew. 5-8:30 p.m.

Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St $30-$35. 336-7200. senecaparkzoo.org. [ SAT., DECEMBER 2 ] Christmas in the Village. 127:30 p.m. Geneseo Community Main Street, 75 Main Street .

Geneseo $8.

A Handmade Holiday: Holiday Craft Show. 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

The Historic German House Auditorium, 315 Gregory Street More than 70 local artists and makers, offering handmade gifts and wares 355-9768. evan@peerless.events. handmadeholidayroc.com.

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THEATER | ‘OCCUPANT’ If you’re going to form a relationship with a writer, there’s a fair chance you can expect to be written about. Playwright Edward Albee and sculptor Louise Nevelson were good friends during her lifetime, and more than a decade after her death, he penned a portrait of the artist-as-a-ghost in his 2001 play, “Occupant.” Through a hypothetical interview of the deceased artist by an unnamed man, the story guides the audience through Nevelson’s iconic life, from childhood as a Russian Jewish immigrant to her eventual rise to fame in postwar American Abstract Expressionism.

MuCCC (142 Atlantic Avenue) will this week present “The Occupant,” directed by Michael J. Arve. and starring Meredith Carroll as Nevelson and Don Beecher as the interrogator.

Thursday through Saturday, November 30 through December 2, at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, December 3, at 2 p.m. $10. 271-2087; muccc.org.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

[ SUN., DECEMBER 3 ] Supporting our Refugee Neighbors. 1-4 p.m. Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave. A one-day event to collect new or gently used items for our refugee neighbors 2418621. jewishrochester.org. [ TUE., DECEMBER 5 ] Vinyl Bingo. 7-9 p.m. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane . Fairport 585315-3003. fairportbsidemusic@ gmail.com. fairportbside.com.

Culture Lectures [ MON., DECEMBER 4 ] Monday Lecture Series: December. 12-2:30 p.m. Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison St Presented by ​Dr. Jenny Lloyd, History Professor Emerita, The College at Brockport $15-$30. 2797490. susanbanthonyhouse.org. [ TUE., DECEMBER 5 ] Better Brains: 10 Steps for Reversing Memory Loss. 6:3011:30 p.m. Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. Lecture by Cory Lenherr, M.D 784-5300.

Why Study the Russian Revolution?. 7 p.m. SUNY Geneseo, Newton Hall 203, 1 College Circle Led by Joseph Kishore 272-3535. jyacono@ yeausa.org. iysse.com.

Literary Events [ SAT., DECEMBER 2 ] Book Release and Signing. 1-3 p.m. Before Your Quiet Eyes, 439 Monroe Ave. Nancy Avery Dafoe will be reading from her new book, “You Enter a Room�

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JAZZ CRUISES ANNOUNCED FOR 2018!

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If the winter doldrums have their claws in you, a bit of vibrant revelry might be the remedy. Ganondagan State Historic Site’s two-day Native American Winter Arts Weekend offers music, storytelling, opportunities to purchase visual art, activities for kids, a film screening, and a panel discussion.

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This year’s headliner performance is by Tuscarora singer-songwriter and musician Pura FÊ, who will perform soaring, soulful vocals interspersed with chants each day at 3 p.m.

On Sunday, December 3, the film “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the Worldâ€? — about the role Native Americans have played in shaping contemporary music — will be screened at 1 p.m., followed by a panel with by the film’s executive producer and co-creator Tim Johnson (Mohawk), and the film’s featured artist, Pura FĂŠ.

Ganondagan is located at 7000 County Road 41 (Boughton Hill Road) in Victor. Saturday, December 2, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, December 3, 1 to 4 p.m. Daily admission to the event is $5 per adult; $3 for seniors, students (ages 12+), and members; and free for ages 11 and younger. For more information and a full schedule of events, call 742-1690 or visit ganondagan.org/WinterArtsFestival. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

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NEW: 3 Hour Erie Canal Lock Cruise with The Bill Tiberio Trio - August 13 Three other, 2 hour cruises including: Smugtown Stompers on June 11 Jimmie Highsmith Jr. on July 9 The Blues Cruise returns with Hanna and The Blue Hearts on September 10!

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

Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dead and loving it “Coco”

(PG), DIRECTED BY LEE UNKRICH AND ADRIAN MOLINA NOW PLAYING

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

[ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

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Ever since Pixar released their first full-length feature, “Toy Story,” back in 1995, seeing any new offering from the studio has been a pleasure. Following that groundbreaking work was a run of films that was nearly unprecedented in terms of both critical and commercial success, and even if some of the magic has diminished in recent years, a new Pixar film is still cause for excitement. They’re

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

capable of delivering the best of what modern, mainstream animation can offer.

Pixar’s second release this year (following this summer’s “Cars 3,” which was, let’s say, on the lesser end of the studio’s output), “Coco” continues their tradition of excellence. It’s an enchanting tale steeped in Mexican culture and centered on the celebration of Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead) — a holiday intended to honor and remember relatives who have died.

Twelve-year-old Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez) longs to be a musician, but because of his family’s painful history with the profession (explained through a delightful prologue illustrated with bright papel picado banners), he’s strictly forbidden. Despite his family’s wishes, Miguel is determined, choosing to pursue his dream and follow in the footsteps of his hero, a beloved singer and movie star from the 1940’s named Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt).

But when Miguel’s grandmother learns that he plans to enter a talent show during the Día de los

A scene from Pixar’s “Coco.” PHOTO COURTESY WALT DISNEY PICTURES

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Muertos festivities, she destroys the boy’s guitar.

Left with no better option, Miguel decides to steal a guitar from de la Cruz’s tomb and enter the contest anyway. But as soon as he lays hands on the instrument, Miguel is suddenly whisked off to the Land of the Dead, unable to leave unless he’s able to get the blessing of his skeletal ancestors to return to the land of the living. If he can’t to do so before sunrise, he’ll be stuck in the Land of the Dead forever.

Along the way he meets up with Héctor (a charming Gael García Bernal), an affable, down-on-his-luck songwriter who hopes Miguel might bring his picture back with him to place on an ofrendas (an altar upon which families place pictures and mementos of their deceased loved ones to commemorate the lives). We learn that spirits disappear from the Land of the Dead when the last living person on earth forgets them, and Héctor is desperately afraid that his daughter is one the verge of forgetting him completely.

One of the best aspects of “Coco” is seeing characters whose stories don’t often get told on screen, and that extends to a voice cast made up mostly of Latin performers. Thankfully the film avoids the problem that plagued last year’s “Kubo and the Two Strings” which was a great film, but courted controversy by filling a Japanese tale with white voice actors.

“Coco” takes some time to get going, beginning with a story that seems to hit the familiar Pixar beats of following your dreams, staying true to yourself, and how sometimes

Tests of faith “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” (PG-13), DIRECTED BY DAN GILROY NOW PLAYING [ REVIEWS ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

parents just don’t understand. Miguel is from the same plucky mold as any number of animated protagonists, but as the film eases past the exposition and shifts to the Land of the Dead, things pick up considerably, and the story accumulates a touching emotional undercurrent.

This is a slightly darker tale for Pixar and, appropriately for a story about family, remembrance, loss, and (of course) death, codirectors Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina (who also co-wrote the script, with Matthew Aldrich) infuse the tale with a sweetly melancholy tone.

It’s also gorgeously animated, creating a vibrant, richly-detailed world. Seeing the film in 3D isn’t necessary, but the format does add an immersive feel, especially in the Land of the Dead settings.

I also loved the look of the folk art-inspired alebrijes, neon-colored spirit animals that help guide those in need.

Adding additional flavor is Michael Giacchino’s lovely score, which blends seamlessly with traditional Mexican ballads like “La Llorona” and new songs composed by the “Frozen” songwriting team, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.

Only time will tell if “Coco” will stand alongside Pixar’s most towering achievements like “Toy Story” or “Finding Nemo,” but it’s always a joy to watch. Honoring the culture, music, and traditions of Mexico, it’s also moving and lovinglycrafted story about honoring one’s roots, no matter where they might sprout from.

Dan Gilroy in 2014 burst into the scene with his directorial debut feature, “Nightcrawler,” making a big impression with the dark satire about local news and tabloid culture. Now the filmmaker returns with “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” another slippery morality tale built around a protagonist with questionable social skills. Part legal drama, part character study, and a bit of crime thriller, not all of the film works, but it’s never less than watchable thanks to an excellent lead performance from Denzel Washington.

Whereas the protagonist of “Nightcrawler” was an unscrupulous psychopath, Roman runs 180 degrees in the opposite direction, defined entirely by his decency and idealism. He’s a Los Angeles defense attorney who’s made a life of taking low-paying work, content knowing he’s doing good in the world.

But the sudden death of his partner forces the already struggling firm to close, leaving Roman without a job or a direction for the first time in his life.

Denzel Washington in “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” PHOTO COURTESY SONY PICTURES

With his 70’s-era afro and ill-fitting suits, Roman looks like a relic, the product of a time long since passed. He has an awkward demeanor and encyclopedic knowledge of the justice system — Washington has said in interviews he played the character as somewhere on the autism spectrum — and Roman struggles to find a new place for himself. He interviews with Maya (Carmen Ejogo), a young activist at a nonprofit civil rights group, and though he doesn’t land a job, she takes an interest in him, and they form a chaste friendship.

Roman’s eventually hired at highpriced firm run by slick criminal lawyer George Pierce (an understated Colin Farrell). At first he’s a bit at sea in the corporate atmosphere, but as he finds his way, Roman’s dearly held principles start to slip ever so slightly.

Gilroy is attempting to cover a lot of territory here, and pieces of it are interesting, but the filmmaker never quite finds a way to bring it all together into a satisfying whole. The film’s first half is strongest, before the film’s unwieldy narrative starts to meander through a few too many subplots for its own good, and Roman makes some decisions that don’t seem to add up based on what we know about him. The film might have been better served by Gilroy picking one or even two of his ideas and sticking with them rather than trying to cram everything in. The film lost about 12 minutes since it world premiered in Toronto this past September, but that hasn’t done much to streamline things.

But Roman is a compelling enough character, and Washington’s natural magnetism helps to carry us through. While Washington’s performance at first seems a collection of actorly tics, he eventually hits his groove, settling into the role and finding the deeper interior layers of the man. With such strong work at its center, it’s a shame the rest of the film doesn’t muster up the strength to support him.

“Novitiate” (R), DIRECTED BY MARGARET BETTS OPENS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1

Writer-director Margaret Betts “Novitiate” is a spiritual drama following 17-year-old Cathleen (Margaret Qualley, “The Nice Guys”) as she falls hopelessly, giddily in love. But it’s not a boy — or any other human — who’s captured her heart, it’s God. Much to the bewilderment of her entirely non-religious mother (a terrific Julianne Nicholson), Cathleen freely enters herself into the grueling training to become a “bride of Christ,” all but abandoning every aspect of her previous life. Joining the Order Of The Sisters Of Blessed Rose convent, she surrenders herself to the church’s intimidating Reverend Mother (Melissa Leo), who rules over her charges with an iron fist.

Cathleen’s entry into the covenant coincides with the reforms of Vatican II, which set out to take a hard look at the practices of the Roman Catholic Church and update it for a modern era. This changing ideology radically altered the role nuns played in the church, a shift which upends the Reverend Mother’s world, causing her behavior to spiral further into sadism.

Melissa Leo’s performance has garnered a lot of praise as “Novitiate” has made the festival rounds, and she certainly goes big with the role. Her work walks a fine line between compelling and being just too much, and I’m not convinced she always remains on the right side of that line. Thankfully, Qualley’s more subdued, but entirely wonderful, performance helps to balance out Leo’s scenery chewing.

Betts’s film admires the hard, selfless work the women do to prove their faith, even as it questions whether their sacrifices are worth surrendering their entirely human desire for intimacy.

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Handsome Harvard Street Hideaway 809 Harvard Street The ABC Streets Neighborhood at the eastern end of Park Avenue is a secluded enclave of early 20th century homes on smaller denser lots with grocery stores, boutique shops, and Cobbs Hills Park all within walking distance.

Harvard Street, which parallels the former Erie Canal bed, was once the site of the unique half-mile long horse racetrack known as the Rochester Speedway from 1903 to 1906. The straightaway stretched from Culver Road east into the Village of Brighton, until it was rapidly redeveloped into residential lots beginning in 1907. It was around 1913, when widow Sarah Bradstreet and her two daughters built this refined Colonial Revival residence as their new home.

A brick pathway leads to the formal entry porch with its arched hood, built-in benches and trelliswork that set the stage for the interior beyond. A multi-paned wood and glass front door leads to the foyer with its classically inspired staircase, plentiful molding, and hardwood floors that carry throughout the house. A broad opening to your left leads to the living room, which is enhanced by a projected window bay, broad Roman-brick wood-burning fireplace, and French doors that lead to a porch now enclosed as a cozy sunroom with a classic quarry tile floor.

Through another broad opening, the dining room is filled with light from a window bay and one of the many original windows. A large original butler’s pantry at the rear of the house connects the dining room to the kitchen

with its plentiful counter space. The kitchen provides access to the foyer with a small coat closet and to the basement.

The central hall of the second floor and the stair landing are lit by an intricate stained glass window. There are three bedrooms and a large shared bathroom that retains its original clawfoot tub. All of the bedrooms have generous closets, some lit by small windows, striking dark two-paneled doors with original hardware, and gleaming hardwood floors. The large sleeping porch overlooking the terraced backyard is shared by two of the bedrooms. An enclosed stair leads to the partially finished attic with a fourth bedroom.

The basement is well-lit and features recently updated mechanicals, including air-conditioning. A large brick rear patio and detached two car garage complete the property.

This 1,963 square foot home exudes understated elegance and possesses the design hallmarks of an architect. Its charm and irreplaceable original features have largely been retained and maintained. Contact realtor Carmen Lonardo with RE/MAX Realty Group at 585-233-4119 for more information and make it your home for $199,900.

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[ NOTICE ] GRAY-BLEIBERG INVESTMENTS VIII, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP filed an Application for Authority with the Department of State of NY on 10/19/2017. Jurisdiction: CA, and the date of its formation is 6/1/1991.

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The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of such process is: c/o Andrew Tickle, 793 S. Goodman St., Rochester, NY 14620 The address in its jurisdiction if required or the office address: 793 S. Goodman St., Rochester, NY 14620. A copy of the Arts. of Org. may be obtained from CA Secretary of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. The list of names and addresses of all general partners is available from the Secretary of State. The purpose of the LP is any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Groskin Group LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 8/14/2017. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 400 Oakdale Dr., Rochester, NY 14618. General Purpose [ NOTICE ] KAD Specialty Foods LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/18/2017. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 17 Lianne Dr., Rochester, NY 14626. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Kr Partners, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 9/27/17.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 90 State St #700-40 Albany, NY 12207 RA: S I Mahalakshmi Cheruvu 146 Greystone Ln #5 Rochester, NY 14618 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] LEGAL NOTICE CBETHNK CONSULTING, LLC notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on September 28, 2017.

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SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Law Office of Anthony DiNitto, 2250 West Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Medy LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/6/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 550 Latona Rd #D419 Rochester, NY 14626 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Name: CJC PIZZA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/17/2017.

Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O CJC PIZZA LLC, 45 Exchange Blvd., 6th Floor, Rochester, New York 14614. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE AND BRIEF STATEMENT OF NATURE OF ACTION CONSUMER CREDIT TRANSACTION SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. 2017004721 M&T Bank, Plaintiff, -against- ILONA D. MATTHEWS, individually and as heir-at-law to the Estate of HELEN D. MATTHEWS (deceased); LEON MATTHEWS, III, individually and as heirat-law to the Estate of HELEN D. MATTHEWS (deceased); VERITA MARY MATTHEWS, individually and as heir-at-law to the Estate of HELEN D. MATTHEWS (deceased); ALL UNKNOWN

HEIRS, DEVISEES AND PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF HELEN D. MATTHEWS AND ANY OF HER SUCCESSORS IN RIGHT, TITLE AND INTEREST; et al., Defendants. TO THE DEFENDANT(S): LEON MATTHEWS, III, individually and as heir-at-law to the Estate of HELEN D. MATTHEWS (deceased) and ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES AND PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF HELEN D. MATTHEWS AND ANY OF HER SUCCESSORS IN RIGHT, TITLE AND INTEREST, et al. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to serve upon plaintiff’s attorneys an answer to the complaint in this action within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if the Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof.

In case of your failure to answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. Trial is desired in the County of MONROE. The basis of venue designated above is that the real property, which is the subject matter of this action, is located in the County of MONROE, New York. NOTICE: YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of Hon. Daniel J. Doyle, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on the 18th day of October, 2017 in Rochester, New York and to be duly entered in the MONROE County Clerk’s Office, in Rochester, New York. The Nature of this action pertains to a note and mortgage held by Plaintiff on real property owned by the above

named defendants as specified in the complaint filed in this action. The above named defendants have failed to comply with the terms and provisions of the said mortgage and said instruments secured by said mortgage, by failing and omitting to pay the balance due and owing and the Plaintiff has commenced a foreclosure action. Plaintiff is seeking a judgment foreclosing its mortgage against the real property and premises which situates in the Town of Gates, County of Monroe and State of New York and is commonly known as 58 Cheshire Lane, Rochester, New York 14624 and all other relief as to the Court may seem just and equitable. DATED: October 27, 2017 SCHILLER, KNAPP, LEFKOWITZ & HERTZEL, LLP BY: WILLIAM B. SCHILLER, ESQ. Attorneys for Plaintiff 950 New Loudon Road Latham, New York 12110 Telephone: (518) 7869069 49775-1 [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that an alcohol beverage license,pending , has been applied for to consume beer & wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 319 EXCHANGE BLVD ROCHESTER, NY 14608 in Monroe County for on premises consumption. *ARTURO MARTINEZ DBA MI BARRIO BURRITO PLACE [ NOTICE ] Notice of Form. of YELLOW BULL, LLC (the “LLC”). Art. of Org. filed with Secretary of the State of NY (SSNY) on 11/16/17. 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, 195 Pearson Ln, Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of GDK Consulting LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 10/11/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 315 Westminster Road Rochester, New York 14607. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Lago Trucking, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY)10-06/17 Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 780 N. Clinton Ave, Rochester, NY 14605. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Autumn Winds LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/08/17. Office

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SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 116 Janes Road, Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Blue Collar CoWork, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/26/2017.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2548 Manitou Rd., Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Brighton Consulting Associates, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/30/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Brighton Property Management, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/30/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of CLOUD GRIFFIN HOLDINGS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/20/2012.

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: 45 Exchange Blvd., 3rd Fl., Rochester NY 14614.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION of Community Learning Systems LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/27/2017.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 113 Gregory Park, Rochester, NY 14620.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of CRAZY MO GUITAR LLC. Art.of Org. filed Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) 11/14/2017.

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

process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 80 Guinevere Dr., Rochester, NY 14626.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of DAJ V, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/15/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: David A. Julian, 1358 E. Ridge Road, Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of FAIRPORT CANAL, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/13/17.

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, 16 N. Main St., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of FLATIRON FARM, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/24/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 508 RUSH-HENRIETTA TL RD, W. HENRIETTA, NY 14586 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of HUMUS BELT LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/25/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 378 ROCKINGHAM ST, ROCHESTER, NY 14620 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JG AG & TURF, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/25/17. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 508 RUSH-HENRIETTA TL RD, W. HENRIETTA, NY 14586 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JPC Property Group LLC. Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/13/2017.

Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 51 Belltower Lane, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of JRB Properties, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y

of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/26/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2548 Manitou Rd., Rochester, NY 14624.

Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of KROEGER DRIVES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/18/17.

Office location: Orleans County. Princ. office of LLC: 249 Ingersoll St., Albion, NY 14411. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of LATTA HOME IMPROVEMENTS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/26/2017.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 2474 Latta Rd., Rochester NY 14612.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC).

Name: Spring Street Holdings LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on November 21, 2017. Office location, Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: P.O. Box 30278, Rochester NY 14603 Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of MCG Helping Hands LLC Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) February 21, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 325 South Union St. Spencerport NY 14559 Purpose: Any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of NAPWEST LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/2/17. 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, 186 Vineyard Drive, Rochester, NY 14616. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NOVAT SHORELINE LLC Articles of Organization filed with

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SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to NOVAT SHORELINE LLC, 8 NORTH MADISON PARK, ROCHESTER, NY 14608. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Ogden Heavy Equipment, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/26/2017.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o 4 Turner Dr., Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of River Fox, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/19/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 54 Valley View Dr., Brockport, NY 14420. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Rochester Kettle Corn LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/25/2017. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 36 Cranbrooke Dr Rochester NY 14622 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of RONSON TRUCKING LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/19/17.

Office location: Orleans County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co.,

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80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of SLAY BEAUTY BAR, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/6/2016.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 346 East Ridge Rd., Rochester, NY 14621. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of STONEWOOD PARK, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 11/14/2017. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2300 BUFFALO ROAD, Rochester, New York 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SWAN DIVE 289, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 11/14/2017. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 289 Alexander Street, Rochester, New York 14607. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Root Seller LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 08/02/17. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2361 Wait Corners Rd Panama, NY 14767 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of THORN STREET PROPERTIES LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 10/20/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 530 VOSBURG ROAD, WEBSTER, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of TL Properties, LLC, Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/3/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 292 Hamlin Center Road, Hilton, NY 14468. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Your Barber, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secy.

Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 7/24/2017. Office Location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 37 Faraday Street, Rochester, NY 14610. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NSRE Holdings, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/20/2017. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 3485 Big Ridge Rd., Spencerport, NY 14559.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Raz Vicerabin LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 10/19/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 178 Waverly Pl #2F New York, NY 10014 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Rochester Property Services LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 2/12/16.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 228 Miramar Rd Rochester, NY 14624 General Purpose

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ROXANNE A. LOWENGUTH, DDS, MS, PLLC (PLLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/12/17. PLLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SS shall mail a copy of any process to PLLC at 2401 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Value Management Solutions, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on October 12, 2017. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SS will mail a copy of any process to 145 Culver Rd., Suite 100, Rochester NY 14620. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Vibebin LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 10/3/17.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 379 Broadway #2A Brooklyn, NY 11211 General Purpose [ NOTICE } Notice of formation of Klein and Coh LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/09/17.

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: Alyssa Cohen, 110 Covington Rd, Rochester, NY 14617. Purpose: any lawful act [ Notice of Formation ] 17 Lockwood LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 11/8/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 417 Sundance Trail, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Bernard Birnbaum Companies - LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 8/22/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 2850 Clover Street, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Birnbaum Real Estate LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 7/19/17. Office location: Monroe County.

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process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 2850 Clover Street, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Hops and Hemp - LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 10/10/17. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 2850 Clover Street, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NOTICE OF FORMATION of Borderland Advisors LLC, Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on November 3rd, 2017. Office location: Ontario County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him is C/O the LLC, 66 Cobble Creek Rd. Victor, NY 14564. Term: perpetual.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity for which LLC’s may be organized under the NY LLC Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Rite Care Child Development Center L.L.C. filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on October 16, 2017. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 32 Yorktown Dr, Rochester, NY 14616. The purpose of the Company is daycare. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Venture 8, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 8/29/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 2850 Clover St., Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Whitney Hill Farm LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 10/17/17. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 2500 Whitney Road East, Fairport, NY 14550.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 337

UNIVERCITY LIVING, LLC ] The name of the Limited Liability Company is 337 UniverCity Living, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State on 10/16/07/2017. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. The New York Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of such process68 Meadow Cove Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. The LLC is organized to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is CP 671 Park Ave LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 11/3/17. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 135 Corporate Woods Ste 300 Rochester NY 14623.

The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is NP 671 Park Ave LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 11/7/17. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 135 Corporate Woods STE 300 Rochester NY 14623.

The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] 49 Bay Street, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 11/3/2017, with an effective date of formation of 11/3/2017. Its principal place of business is located in Monroe County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to 49 Bay St., Rochester, NY 14605. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Joseph R. Properties L.L.C. has filed articles of organization with the

New York Secretary of State on 10/11/2017, with an effective date of formation of 10/11/2017.

Its principal place of business is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to 100 Timarron Trail, Rochester, NY 14612.

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 TAG ALLIANCE, LLC ] Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 11/3/2017 Office Location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated Agent of LLC to whom process may be served.

SSNY may mail copy of process to 91 CLARDALE DRIVE, ROCHESTER, NY 14616. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE GARDENS AT FIELDSTONE 1-38.11 LLC ] The name of the Limited Liability Company is The Gardens at Fieldstone 1-38.11 LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State on 11/8/2017. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. The New York Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of such procesds to 2833 Ridge Road West, #26461, Rochester, NY 14626.

The LLC is organized to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WILBOS, LLC ] Wilbos, LLC (the “LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with NY Secretary of State (SSNY) 11/1/17. Office location: Monroe County, NY. Principal business location: 3 Fitzmot Glen, Pittsford, NY 14534.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 3 Fitzmot Glen, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ Notice of Service by Publication ] North Carolina, Mecklenburg County District Court Division 17-CvD-15980 Kathy Owens-Vs- Robert Hector Owens TO: Robert Hector Owens, Defendant TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the aboveentitled action, wherein the plaintiff is seeking an absolute divorce. YOU ARE required to make defense to such pleading

not later than January 11, 2018, exclusive of said date, and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the Court for summary judgment for the relief sought on or after the week of January 29, 2018. This November 13, 2017. John G. Walker,(State Bar ID # 4520), PO Box 472344, Charlotte, NC 28247 [ SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. E2017000218 TOWER DBW II TRUST 2012-2, SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO TOWER DBW II TRUST 2013-1, Plaintiff, v. The heirsat-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-ininterest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through LAWRENCE C. BUTTACH, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective wives, or widows of his, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to plaintiff; EDWARD T. LINDSAY II; ROCHESTER GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY; CITY OF ROCHESTER; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; TERESA R. APSEY, AS PRESUMPTIVE HEIRAT-LAW OF LAWRENCE C. BUTTACH and “JOHN DOE #2” THROUGH “JOHN DOE #100”, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in the above-entitled foreclosure action, and to serve a copy of your answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal service within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial.

The basis of venue is the location of the subject premises. Dated: November 15, 2017 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is

Legal Ads > page 40 served upon you by publication, pursuant to an Order of Honorable Daniel J. Doyle, a Justice of the Supreme Court, dated November 6, 2017, and filed with supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose tax liens encumbering the property known as 113 Frey Street, City of Rochester, New York and identified as tax account no.: 060.441-8 (the “Tax Parcel”).

The relief sought is the sale of the Tax Parcel at public auction in satisfaction of the tax liens. In case of your failure to appear, judgment may be taken against you in the sum of $5,996.76, together with interest, costs, disbursements and attorneys’ fees of this action, and directing the public sale of the Tax Parcel. PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP Anthony J. Iacchetta Attorneys for Plaintiff Tower DBW II Trust 2012-2, successor by merger to Tower DBW II Trust 2013-1 28 East Main Street Suite 1400 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone: (585) 238-2000 [ SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. 2017-6612 ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. David E. Carson, Deceased, and any persons who are heirs or distributees of David E. Carson, Deceased, and all persons who are widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be deceased, and their husbands, wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; ESL Federal Credit Union; B&L Wholesale Supply Inc.; North Star Capital Acquisition LLC; United States of America; People of the State of New York; “John Doe” and/or “Mary Roe”, Defendants.

Location of property to be foreclosed: 152 Daley Boulevard, Town of Irondequoit, Monroe County, New York TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State.

The United States of America, if designated

as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof.

In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Monroe County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises.

NOTICE: YOU MAY BE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a copy of the Answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the Answer with the Court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your property.

Speak to an attorney or go to the Court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the Summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: June 26, 2017 MATTHEW RYEN, ESQ. Lacy Katzen, LLP Attorney for Plaintiff Office and Post Office Address The Granite Building 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. 2017-5857 ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Lillian D. Snell, Deceased, and any persons who are heirs or distributees of Lillian D. Snell, Deceased, and all persons who are widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be deceased, and their husbands, wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; United States of America; People of the State of New York; “John Doe” and/or “Mary Roe”, Defendants. Location of property to be foreclosed: 211 LaVerne Drive, Town of Greece, Monroe County, New York TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within (30 days after completion of service where service is made in

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 any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60 days of service hereof.

In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. NOTICE: YOU MAY BE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a copy of the Answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the Answer with the Court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your property.

Speak to an attorney or go to the Court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the Summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: June 5, 2017 MATTHEW RYEN, ESQ. Lacy Katzen, LLP Attorney for Plaintiff Office and Post Office Address The Granite Building 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585 324-5767 NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION: The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held

by Plaintiff recorded in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office on November 17, 2008 in Liber 22083 of Mortgages, page 221 in the amount of $85,500.00. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, The plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action except for Lillian D. Snell. To the above named Defendants: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Daniel J. Doyle, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated October 24, 2017 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage.

The premises is described as follows: All that tract or parcel of land situate in the Town of Greece, County of Monroe and State of New York, in Lot #12 of the Second Division of Lots, Township 2, Short Range, being designated as Lot #54 on a map of Dewey Meadows Section 3 which map is filed in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 100 of Maps, Page 71. Said Lot #54 is situated on the east side of LaVerne Drive, is 70 feet front and rear and 111.97 feet deep, all as shown on said map. Tax

Acct. No.: 060.49-1-13 Property Address: 211 LaVerne Drive, Town of Greece, Monroe County, New York [ SUMMONS WITH NOTICE ] Index No. I2016014378 RJI No.: Assigned Judge:Hon. Daniel J. Doyle, J.S.C. SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE CITIZENS BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, -against- VEVILYN ANDREWS a/k/a VEVILYN GASSER, MICHAEL GASSER a/k/a MICHAEL D. GASSER, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK by and through the Commissioner of Taxation and Finance, THE CANANDAIGUA NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, and “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12”, the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiffs, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises described in the complaint, Defendants TO VEVILYN ANDREWS a/k/a VEVILYN GASSER and MICHAEL GASSER a/k/a MICHAEL D. GASSER: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to serve upon plaintiff’s attorneys an answer to the complaint in this action within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if the summons is not personally served upon you within the State of New York.

The United States, if designated a defendant on this action, may appear or answer within sixty (60) days of service. In case of your failure to answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. The basis of the venue designated is that the mortgaged property is located in Monroe County. Dated: October 27, 2017 COOPER ERVING & SAVAGE LLP Albany, New York BY:/s/Michael A. Kornstein Michael A. Kornstein, Esq. Attorneys for Plaintiff 39 North Pearl Street, 4th Floor Albany, New York 12207 (518) 449-3900 TO: VEVILYN ANDREWS a/k/a VEVILYN GASSER and MICHAEL GASSER a/k/a MICHAEL D. GASSER: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Daniel J. Doyle, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the 19th day of October, 2017, and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Office of the Clerk of Monroe County. This is an action for foreclosure of a mortgage made by Vevilyn Andrews a/k/a Vevilyn Gasser and Michael Gasser a/k/a Michael D. Gasser, to Citizens Bank, N.A. in the original amount of $64,000.00 with interest, dated November15, 2001,

recorded November 15, 2001, in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 15791 of Mortgages at Page 42. The relief sought is the foreclosure of the mortgage lien and the public sale of the mortgaged premises and in case of your failure to appear, judgment may be taken against you extinguishing any interest or judgment lien you may have in the mortgaged premises. The premises indexed in this action are described and commonly known as 225 Long Acre Road, City of Rochester, Monroe County, New York (Tax Map No. 091.3100001-004.000). A complete legal description is as follows: **See Schedule Annexed** Dated: Albany, New York COOPER ERVING & SAVAGE LLP October 27, 2017 BY:/s/Michael A. Kornstein Michael A. Kornstein, Esq. Attorneys for Plaintiff 39 North Pearl Street, 4th Floor Albany, New York 12207 (518) 449-3900 SCHEDULE A DESCRIPTION OF MORTGAGED PREMISES All that tract or parcel of land, situate in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, which in a certain subdivision map recorded in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Case A-3 of Maps and known as “Seneca Ridge Tract” is distinguished as Lot No 56, said lot fronts 43 fet on the south side of Long Acre Road as shown on said map. [ SUPPLEMENTAL CITATION ] SURROGATE’S COURT, MONROE COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent File No. 2015-1116/D TO: Terrance Brett-Cordell, whose whereabouts are unknown, if living, but if dead, his distributees, legal representatives, assigns, and all persons who by purchase or inheritance or otherwise, claim or claim to have an interest in the Estate of Irvin LaPaul Bennett, Jr. A petition having been duly filed by Elena F. Cariola, Esq., on behalf of Frank B. lacovangelo, Esq. Monroe County Public Administrator, who is domiciled at 10 Autumn Wood, Rochester, New York 14624, United States. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Monroe County, at Room 541, Hall of Justice, 99 Exchange Blvd., Rochester, New York, on December 14, 2017, at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why the account of Frank B. lacovangelo, Esq. Monroe County Public Administrator a copy of which has been served herewith, as Administrator, DBN of the estate of Irvin LaPaul Bennett, Jr., should not be judicially settled and fees and commissions be approved accordingly.

Dated, Attested and Sealed,November 3, 2017 Hon. John M Owens, Surrogate, Mark L. Annunziata Chief Clerk,

Frank B. Iacovangelo, Esq., Gallo & Iacovangelo, 585-454-7145, 180 180 Canal View Boulevard; Suite 100, Rochester, New York 14623 NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear.

If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you, and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney. [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Plaintiff designates MONROE as the place of trial situs of the real property Mortgaged Premises: 47 CHURCH HILL ROAD HENRIETTA, NY 14467 Section: 189.2 Block: 1 Lot: 16 INDEX NO. 20176910 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, Plaintiff, vs. ERNESTO ORTEGA, if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12, “the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff the persons or parties intended being the tenants occupants persons or corporations if any having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises described in the complaint, Defendants.

To the above-named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney 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) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; 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 OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHTTHE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $133,816.00 and interest, recorded on June 10, 2011 in Official Record Book 23701 at Page 464, of the Public Records of MONROE County, New York, covering premises known as 47 CHURCH HILL ROAD, HENRIETTA, NY 14467. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. MONROE County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the 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. Dated: November 1, 2017 Westbury, New York RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: DANIEL GREENBAUM, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 516280-7675 [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] Index No. 2017005701 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF MONROE JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, -vs- THE HEIRS AT LARGE OF DOREEN EWELL A/K/A DOREEN F. EWELL, deceased, and all persons who are husbands, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest of all of whom and whose names and places are unknown

to Plaintiff; LYNDA EWELL-LANSBERRY; KELLY ELLSMORE; JILL ST. JOHN; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants.

Mortgaged Premises: 91 POMONA DRIVE, GREECE NY 14616 A/K/A ROCHESTER NY 14616 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State.

The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. Your failure to appear or answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable.

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 to the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. That this action is being amended to include the Heirs at Large of Doreen Ewell a/k/a Doreen F. Ewell, as said individual is deceased, and Lynda Ewell-Lansberry, Kelly Ellsmore, and Jill St. John, as possible heirs to the Estate of Doreen Ewell a/k/a Doreen F. Ewell, deceased. That this action is also being amended to include United States of America and New York State Department of Taxation and Finance as necessary parties to this action. MONROE County is designated as

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Dated: August 7, 2017 Mark K. Broyles, Esq. FEIN SUCH & CRANE, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff Office and P.O. Address 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 232-7400 Section: 060.80 Block: 3 Lot: 2 NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of MONROE, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein.

TO THE DEFENDANT, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of HON. DANIEL J. DOYLE, Justice of the SUPREME Court of the State of New York, dated September 6, 2017 and filed along with the supporting papers in the MONROE County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a Mortgage.

ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Greece, County of Monroe and State of New York, being part of subdivision of lots, numbered two and three on Town Lot No. 57, said laid down and described on a map of “Pomona Gardens” made by Bryan and Corkhill, Surveyors, in August, 1924, and filed in Monroe County Clerk’s Office on August 21, 1924 in Liber 60 of Maps, page 6, and particularly described as follows: Being Lot No. 125, as the same is laid down on said map of Pomona Gardens and situate on the south side of Pomona Drive.

Mortgaged Premises: 91 Pomona Drive, Greece NY 14616 a/k/a Rochester NY 14616 Tax Map/Parcel ID No.: Section: 060.80 Block: 3 Lot: 2 of the TOWN of GREECE, NY 14616 [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Plaintiff designates MONROE as the place of trial situs of the real property Mortgaged Premises: 79 WESTCHESTER AVENUE ROCHESTER, NY 14609 Section: 107.39 Block: 2 Lot: 53 INDEX NO. 17-3199 U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, vs. NANCY L. JOZWIAK, AS ADMINISTRATOR AND AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT MOYER A/K/A ROBERT A. MOYER, JR.; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the

following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; SCOTT L. MOYER AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT MOYER A/K/A ROBERT A. MOYER, JR.; STEVEN P. MOYER AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT MOYER A/K/A ROBERT A. MOYER, JR.; JACK D. MOYER AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT MOYER A/K/A ROBERT A. MOYER, JR.; JAY A. MOYER AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT MOYER A/K/A ROBERT A. MOYER, JR., if living, and if she/ he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; BRIANNA HEAGNEY; JOHN DOE (REFUSED NAME), “JOHN DOE #3” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. To the

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 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 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) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; 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 OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $73,638.00 and interest, recorded on June 1, 2001, at Liber 15424 Page 0146, of the Public Records of MONROE County, New York, covering premises known as 79 WESTCHESTER AVENUE ROCHESTER, NY 14609. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. MONROE County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the 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. Dated: August 22, 2017 RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: Hedva D. Haviv, Esq. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Plaintiff designates MONROE as the place of trial situs of the real property INDEX NO. 2017-7889 U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

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Plaintiff Vs. RONALD CAVIGLIANO, if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; TOWN OF IRONDEQUOIT; ROBERT CAVIGLIANO; RALPH CAVIGLIANO JR, ‘’JOHN DOE #1’’ through ‘’JOHN DOE #12,’’ the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

To the above-named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney 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) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; 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 attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to

an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the 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. Dated: November 6, 2017 RAS Boriskin, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: HEDVA D. HAVIV, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 516280-7675 [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF MONROE –NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC,D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff, against SUSAN GUY, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF STANLEY C. LAMPERT, JR.; RONALD LAMPERT, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF STANLEY C. LAMPERT, JR., PATRICIA BULMER, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF STANLEY C. LAMPERT, JR.; UNKNOWN HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF STANLEY C. LAMPERT, JR., any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose name, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff, SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; and JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE #1 through #7, the last seven (7) names being fictitious and unknown to the Plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or parties, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the mortgaged premises described in the complaint, DefendantsIndex no. 17-6219.

Original filed with Clerk June 16, 2017 Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. The Basis of Venue is that the subject action is situated in Monroe County Premises: 52 New Gate Dr. Henrietta, NY 14467 TO THE ABOVENAMED 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); the United States of America may appear or answer within 60 days of service hereof; 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.. NOTICEYOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME – If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the 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. We are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Honorable Daniel J. Doyle dated October 20, 2017. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage and covering the premises known as 52 New Gate Dr., Henrietta, NY 14467 located at Section 176.15, Block 2, Lot 23 Pincus Law Group, PLLC, George J. Weissinger, Esq. Attorneys for Plaintiff 425 RXR Plaza Uniondale, NY 11556, 516 699-8902 [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS WITH NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No.2017-3196 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, -against-

ANDREW YOUNG AS HEIR AT LAW TO THE ESTATE OF LEO YOUNG A/K/A LEO H. YOUNG, BRIDGET HARRIGAN AS HEIR AT LAW TO THE ESTATE OF LEO YOUNG A/K/A LEO H. YOUNG, KELLEY MILLER AS HEIR AT LAW TO THE ESTATE OF LEO YOUNG A/K/A LEO H. YOUNG, MONROE COUNTY DIVISION OF SOCIAL SERVICES, THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW TO THE ESTATE OF LEO YOUNG A/K/A LEO H. YOUNG , WEGMANS FOOD MARKETS, INC., CITIBANK (SOUTH DAKOTA) NA AND SACOR FINANCIAL, INC. AS ASSIGNEE OF NATIONAL CREDIT ACCEPTANCE, INC., and “John Doe” and/or “Jane Doe” # 1-10 inclusive, the last ten names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises described in the complaint, Defendants.

Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial based on the location of the mortgaged premises in this action. We are attempting to collect a debt, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. 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 attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) or within (60) days after service of this summons if it is the United States of America; 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. To: KELLEY MILLER AS HEIR AT LAW TO THE ESTATE OF LEO YOUNG A/K/A LEO H. YOUNG The foregoing supplemental summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Daniel J. Doyle, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Monroe County, dated the 18 day of October, 2017 and duly entered in the office of the Clerk of the County of Monroe, State of New York. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect

your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT This is an action to foreclose a mortgage lien on the premises described herein.

The object of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $54,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the County Clerk of Monroe County on March 20, 1998 in Book 13687, Page 143, which mortgage was assigned to CitiMortgage, Inc. by assignment of mortgage dated November 19, 2012, which was recorded in the Office of the County Clerk of Monroe County on December 3, 2012 in Liber 1718, Page 682, which mortgage was further assigned to Federal National Mortgage Association by assignment of mortgage dated February 20, 2014, which was recorded in the Office of the County Clerk of Monroe County on February 27, 2014 in Book 1750, Page 580, which mortgage was modified by a Loan Modification Agreement dated August 14, 2003, to modify said mortgage to an amount of $55,912.51 (said Loan Modification Agreement is not in a recordable form and the taxes will be duly paid under 258(a) of New York State’s Tax Law), covering premises known as 203 ELECTRIC AVENUE, ROCHESTER, COUNTY OF MONROE, STATE OF NEW YORK 14613 (SECTION 090.580, BLOCK 1, LOT 2). The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above.

Premises situate lying and being in the City of Rochester, designated on a map the McKee Place as Lot 272 which map is filed in Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 9 of Maps at page 37. Said lot 272 fronts 40 feet on the south side of Electric Avenue, and is the same in width through and 119.5 feet deep. Dated: Roslyn Heights, New York DAVID A. GALLO & ASSOCIATES LLP Rosemarie A. Klie, Esq. Attorneys for Plaintiff 99 Powerhouse Road Roslyn Heights, NY 11374 (516) 277-6900 [ Talle Contracting, LLC ] Talle Contracting, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 4/20/17. Its office is located in Monroe County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to Terrell Prince 437 Columbia Ave Rochester New York 14611. The purpose of the Company is Any lawful purpose.

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Family Values Members of the Spann family of Comanche County, Oklahoma, keep running afoul of that state’s incest law, with the latest dust-up over the marriage of 26-year-old Misty Spann and her 43-yearold mother, Patricia, in March 2016. The two had been separated after Patricia lost custody of her young kids, but when they resumed contact a few years ago, Patricia told investigators, “they hit it off.” KFOR reported that Patricia also married one of her sons in 2008, but two years later that marriage was annulled. Another son reported to KSWO-TV that Patricia tried to start an inappropriate relationship with him, but he shut her down. In early November, Misty received a 10-year deferred sentence and will serve two years’ probation. Her mother/ex-wife (their union was annulled in October) will be sentenced in January.

Nerd Alerts Since Twitter announced that it would allow 280-character messages rather than its original 140, a whole new world has opened up for the game-addicted among us. Gizmodo reports that tweeters are using the expanded tweetspace to play board games such as chess, Connect Four, Shogi and Go. Games are even being customized; one tweet enthuses about “Marine biology twitter-chess. With a new marine biology fact every time a piece is moved, and a scientifically accurate death scene when a piece is taken.”

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A sharp-eyed Google Earth user from Leeds, England, searching for Longcross Studios in Surrey, came across a “Star Wars” fan’s dream: the Millennium Falcon, nestled inside a ring of stacked

shipping containers and covered with a tarp. Andi Durrant tweeted about his find on Nov. 8. The spaceship was used in filming “Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi” at Longcross; that movie is set for release Dec. 15.

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Local beekeeper John Gebuhr moved the bees to his garage, but he is pessimistic about their survival through the winter.

But Reilly’s friends and neighbors are thrilled: They’re getting honey for Christmas!

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[ LOVESCOPE ] BY EUGENIA LAST ARIES (March 21-April 19): Look for someone who challenges you intellectually.

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Someone from your past may try to weasel his or her way back into your life, but before you decide to settle for someone you’ve already experienced, consider who you were back then and who you are now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Confusion will set in if you are with one person but yearn to be with another.

Don’t get caught in a love triangle or a situation built on false feelings. Dismiss a bad situation if you want to end up with someone who shares your values and cherishes your heart. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 43

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